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### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: In the village of Ricaurte, in northern Ecuador, close to the Colombian border, the Valencia family will this morning be crowding into the family farmhouse. Parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews and grandparents will all be there and all eyes will be fixed on the Boleyn Ground in east London. 'There's loads of them,' says Enner Valencia, now of West Ham but once of that parish. 'Loads! They all gather there to watch my games and they always call me afterwards. I think they transmit all their happiness to me.' The man dubbed Superman in his home country is not the first Ecuadorian to succeed in the Premier League — indeed, he could be facing his compatriot and namesake Antonio in West Ham's meeting with Manchester United. Enner arrived at the same time as Swansea's Jefferson Montero and he follows in the footsteps of Agustin Delgado and Ulises de la Cruz. West Ham striker Enner Valencia opens up about his family, hometown, the World Cup and life in London . Valencia joined West Ham last summer from Mexican side Pachuca for a reported £12 million fee . But he is the most celebrated. His rapid rise to global prominence has been extraordinary. Little more than a year ago he was still playing with Emelec in Ecuador before earning a move to CF Pachuca in Mexico in December 2013. He scored against England in an excellent display in a pre-World Cup friendly and added three more in the World Cup finals as Ecuador were narrowly eliminated in the first round. The 25-year-old moved to West Ham in the summer and last week was linked with a £15million move to Chelsea. Nowhere has this ascent been more positively received than in Ricaurte, though it was not always that way. He was the archetypal boy, chastised by his parents for the frequent occasions on which he would skip school to play football. 'I was always with a ball, or with a bottle, or with whatever we came across, always trying to get a game going,' he says. 'Loads of times I bunked off school to play. I told my parents I was going to school but I never got there. I went to play football. I've always been passionate about this game. My mum and dad were always telling me off about this. But my love for the game was stronger than that!' In other tasks, though, he was basically obedient. Coming from a rural family, he had farm chores to do, including milking the cows, and his father, Renberto, remembers he did his jobs dutifully. Enner Valencia poses with his large family in their home province of Esmeraldas . The Valencia family had a special TV feed to watch their golden boy score at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil . Football hotbeds do not come much hotter than Enner Valencia's home province of Esmeraldas. Esmeraldas is on the Colombian border which accounts for around three per cent of Ecuador's 15.2million population — yet this sweltering, poverty-stricken place boasted 10 members of the country's 23-man squad at last summer's World Cup. And that does not include team captain, Manchester United's Antonio Valencia, who was born in the Amazon but whose parents are from Esmeraldas. It is a remarkable production line which sees Esmeraldas stand apart. In a country where seven per cent of the population is of African descent, Ecuador's football team is almost 80 per cent black and Esmeraldas is the biggest Afro-Ecuadorian province. And until 2014 his had been a gentle rise. He left home to join Emelec, a team in the south of the country, at the age of 18 and rose through the ranks, winning the title in 2013 and being the top scorer in the Copa Sudamericana, the equivalent of the Champions League, a feat for which he earned his Superman sobriquet. Valencia was also the Mexican league's top scorer in his six months there. Suddenly he became the focus of a nation. During the World Cup, Ecuadorian TV was running live feeds from his family home to relay the atmosphere to the nation. His arrival at West Ham, along with Diafra Sakho, has propelled Sam Allardyce's team up the table, injecting frightening pace of which United will be wary this afternoon. It has also brought him to the attention of Champions League clubs. He almost missed his chance of the move to England after the World Cup, though. West Ham had contacted Pachucha in Mexico and fees were being agreed. The trouble was no one could track down Valencia, who was back in Ricaurte. 'I was with my family. I'd switched off the phone and wasn't taking any calls,' he says. 'In the end West Ham sent someone over because they had been calling over to Mexico to tell me to come and play in England.' London seems to suit him. He lives in Canary Wharf, in the same apartment block as goalkeeper Adrian. 'He has helped me a lot with the language, helped me at the club, helped me with getting used to being in England. He's always there to help with whatever I need.' However, Valencia is a keen learner. Unlike many foreign footballers new to England, he attends English classes every day. And what he likes most about London is the chance it gives him to assimilate. He can use the Tube or go out for a meal with his Ecuadorian wife, Sharon, without it being a major event. Valencia tussles with Liverpool midfielder Emre Can in the Premier League game at Anfield on January 31 . 'It's a lot easier over here compared to Mexico. If you go out in London, people know you and ask for a picture, but always politely. But in South America, in Mexico — no! They all crowd round and it's photo after photo. The culture is completely different.' Not that there is much time for socialising at present. Sharon gave birth to their daughter, Amelia, on Christmas Day, so nights are disrupted at present. He has a second daughter, Beira, who is three and lives in Ecuador. But fan culture is somewhat removed from his experiences in Latin America. He was well aware of the passionate reputation of West Ham fans — embarrassingly for the club he had seen the film Green Street, a fictionalised account of West Ham's hooligans. In real life the fans are somewhat more civil than their Latin American counterparts. 'It's completely different in Ecuador and Mexico. A lot tougher! You lose a game and you've got to be careful when you're leaving the stadium in case some nutter jumps out at you. Here, on the other hand, if you lose a game, the fans are still there asking if you'll sign a programme and that's something really nice about English football. They're a lot more friendly. The culture is completely different here.' Valencia scored three goals at the World Cup last year - two against Honduras and one against Switzerland . Having just settled into West Ham, he does not especially want to engage with the talk of Chelsea's interest. 'I found out about it from the social networks and from what my team-mates were saying,' he says. 'Nobody said anything definite to me. But if a team like Chelsea is interested in me, it's a big compliment. It makes me want to keep on getting better.' For now, though, there are more immediate challenges, such as the visit of Manchester United. His immersion into English culture has continued apace in recent days. 'I'm learning about the rivalries we've got here in West Ham,' he says. 'Some say the derby is against Tottenham, others say the matches against United are another kind of derby. So we've got to win it.' If they do, you can expect the celebrations at Upton Park to matched by the fiesta in Ricaurte. Valencia is ready and raring to go for West Ham ahead of the game with Manchester United on Sunday . Since his move to Upton Park, Valencia has managed four goals in 24 appearances in all competitions . Hull City's Curtis Davies challenges Valencia for the ball during the Premier League match in September . Register now to join the Final Season Ticket Waiting List at the Boleyn Ground, 2015-2016. Go to whufc.com for details. ### SUMMARY:

West Ham forward Enner Valencia talks about his huge family in Ecuador . Valencia is nicknamed 'Superman' in his home country . Esmeraldas, Valencia's home province, is a hotbed for football talent . He shot to super-stardom after an impressive World Cup . The Hammers shelled out £12 million to sign him from Pachuca . Valencia is enjoying his new London lifestyle .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Millions of people around the world are to be offered the chance of immortality on the moon. A multi-million pound scheme is hoping to fund a private lunar mission within the next decade, and for less than £64 ($100) each, members of the public will be invited to buy space on memory discs, and, for an undisclosed price, send a sample of their hair. These discs will act like time capsules for photos, videos and other files, and will be buried in a bore hole drilled into the lunar surface. Scroll down for video . A private mission plans to let people send time capsule 'discs' to the moon. It was devised by British engineer and financier David Iron. Called Lunar Mission One the crowd-funded spacecraft will fly to the lunar South Pole where there is constant sunlight (illustration shown) Four billion-year-old material extracted from the hole - which could be up to 330 feet (100 metres) deep - will then be studied for scientific purposes. The mission is called Lunar Mission One, and will involve sending a craft to the moon's South Pole - where there is constant sunlight. The vehicle will be delivered into space by a medium-lift rocket, such as SpaceX’s Falcon 9, before embarking on its journey to the moon. Once there, it will carry out a descent sequence to the lunar surface, with four engines ensuring it lands gently within a pre-determined landing site the size of a football stadium. On the surface it will drill to depths of up to 330 feet (100 metres), collecting samples every six inches (15cm) for analysis on board the spacecraft. It’s thought that the top 33 feet (10 metres) or so of rock will be a fine-grained deposit from constant bombardment of meteorites and smaller particles. Further down, though, the moon is thought to be made of rocks that fused together by pressure and heat from asteroid impacts long ago. Once on the moon the spacecraft will drill 100 metres (330 feet) down to collect samples for scientific analysis (illustrated). It will collect samples every six inches (15cm), which will be scooped up and placed in the spacecraft for scientific analysis to answer questions about the moon . Inside the hole (illustrated) will be placed archived data from the public on Earth. People can buy a space on the memory discs for £64 ($100). The team are seeking funding now and hope to launch in 2024 . Among the scientific questions hoping to be answered, Lunar Mission One wants to discover the true origins of the moon. And, at the bottom of the hole, astronauts will place the discs containing the archived data from the public back on Earth. British engineer and city financier David Iron, who came up with the plan said: 'People can put any information they like in the memory disc; it will be like a personal time capsule, a private archive. It could be a small message saying "hi, I'm Joe" or a whole family history. 'We have carried out research and been quite surprised how keen people are. School kids think the idea of having a bit of themselves on the moon is fantastic.' The samples of varying depths will be analysed on board the spacecraft inside special capsules (illustrated). It’s thought that the top 33 feet (10 metres) or so of rock will be a fine-grained deposit from constant bombardment of meteorites and smaller particles, while further down will be rock fused by heat . He added: 'Governments are finding it increasingly difficult to fund space exploration that is solely for the advancement of human knowledge and understanding as opposed to commercial return. 'The world class team of advisers and supporters we have assembled will address this issue and crucially anyone from around the world can get involved for as little as a few pounds.' Under the scheme, there will be hundreds of discs, each one about two inches (5cm) in diameter. The company plans to send a robot lander to the South Pole of the moon - an unexplored area. They will drill to a depth of at least 66 feet (20 metres) - 10 times deeper than has been drilled before - and potentially up to 330 feet (100 metres). The hole will be two inches (5cm) in diameter, and it will take the lander one hour to drill each six inches (15cm). Core samples will taken from each six inches. It will then study lunar rock from this depth that is 4.5 billion years old, and has remain untouched underground. It’s thought the top 33 feet (10 metres) or so of rock will be a fine-grained deposit from constant bombardment of meteorites and smaller particles. Further down, though, the moon is thought to be made of rocks that fused together by pressure and heat from asteroid impacts long ago. Among the scientific questions hoping to be answered, Lunar Mission One wants to discover the true origins of the moon. The spacecraft will be delivered into space by a medium-lift rocket such as SpaceX’s Falcon 9. It will carry out a staged descent sequent to the lunar surface. Four main engines will ensure it lands gently on the surface and keep it within a landing site the size of a football stadium. The spacecraft will be equipped not only with a drill, but also a jointed robotic arm to extract segments from its core, and other instruments to analyse core samples and monitor seismic activity.External solar cells will power the lander. People helping to fund the mission will be promised a small part of a disc on which to load information. An initial development phase has been launched via Kickstarter. Individuals making pledges through Kickstarter will become lifetime members of the Lunar Missions Club and given access to information and experiences related to the mission. They will also be offered the chance of seeing their name inscribed on the lunar lander that will carry the drill and memory discs to the moon. Various celebrities have endorsed the mission in a promotional video including Professor Brian Cox (pictured). ‘If we’re going to explore space, and I think we have to, then the moon is the obvious stepping stone,’ said Professor Cox. ‘It’s the easiest place to land and build a base.’ British engineer and David Iron, who came up with the plan (illustrated) said: 'We have carried out research and been quite surprised how keen people are. School kids think the idea of having a bit of themselves on the moon is fantastic' The spacecraft will be delivered into space by a medium-lift rocket such as SpaceX’s Falcon 9, pictured launching in July this year from Cape Canaveral in the US . The plan is to land on the lunar South Pole, a favoured spot for future moon bases because it receives constant sunshine. Rock drilled out of the lunar crust could be analysed in situ, using a package of scientific instruments, or left behind for human moon explorers in years to come. Mr Iron said business plan projections had shown that the global sale of memory disc space could raise enough to pay for the mission with money to spare. 'We're looking to make billions in revenue,' he said. 'It will be well in excess of the mission costs.' A commercial rocket such as the Falcon 9, from private space transport pioneers SpaceX, could be used to send the discs to the moon, confirmed Mr Iron. His team has taken advice from RAL Space, part of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, Oxfordshire, which contributed to Esa's recent comet probe, Philae. Philae hit the headlines by making a dramatic landing on a comet more than 300 million miles (480 million km) from Earth last week. Professor Richard Holdaway, director of RAL Space, said: 'Lunar Mission One is both ambitious and innovative, demonstrating an exciting way of enabling lunar exploration. Our experience in multiple and complex space missions will play a vital role in helping co-ordinate the project.' ### SUMMARY:

Private mission plans to let people send time capsule 'discs' to the moon . Information can be loaded on a memory card, along with a strand of hair . It was devised by British engineer and financier David Iron . Called Lunar Mission One the crowd-funded spacecraft will fly to the lunar South Pole where there is constant sunlight . There it will drill 100 metres down to collect samples for scientific analysis . Inside the hole will be placed archived data from the public on Earth . People can buy a space on the memory discs for £64 ($100) In a promotional video Professor Brian Cox said the moon was 'the 'obvious stepping stone' to explore space . The team are seeking funding now and hope to launch in 2024 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The elder Boston marathon Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a secret midnight service at an undisclosed location after a mystery benefactor came forward - ending weeks of controversy. According to federal officials the body was taken from the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlor and entombed under cover of darkness outside of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, where his remains have laid since last Friday. The burial location was approved by Ruslan Tsarni, the terror suspects outspoken uncle, who has been attempting to find a cemetery that would accept his nephew for burial. Scroll down for video . Tamerlan Tsarnaev has finally been buried at an undisclosed location outside of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts . 'As a result of our public appeal for help a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased,' said Worcester police in a statement this morning. 'His body is no longer in the city of Worcester and is now entombed.' The body was finally buried one day after Worcester Police Chief Gary Gemme pleaded for help in burying Tsarnaev - who was killed in a firefight with police on April 19th in Watertown, just outside of Boston. 'There is a need to do the right thing,' said Gemme said. 'We are not barbarians. We bury the dead.' The statement did not say where his body now rests . Peter Stefan, the director of the funeral home had previously expressed his strong desire to find a proper burial site for Tsarnaev despite protests outside the funeral home and the refusal of Cambridge to take his body for burial. Worcester police Sgt. Kerry Hazelsays a 'courageous and compassionate' individual came forth and helped to provide a burial spot for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev . (From left), Lisa Taurasi, Lucy Rodriguez and Luis Barbosa, all of Worcester, Mass., hold protest signs as they stand across the street from Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, Mass. on Sunday evening . Police keep watch outside Graham, Putnam, and Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester on Monday, where the body of killed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was kept . Ruslan Tsarni, (right), uncle of killed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, enters the Graham, Putnam, and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, in Worcester, on Sunday, May 5th . Ruslan Tsarni, (right), uncle of killed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, prepares to speak with reporters as funeral director and owner Peter Stefan, (left), stands nearby . Before today's announcement, a retired Vermont school teacher, Paul Keane had yesterday offered up his family's plot in Hamden, Connecticut. He intended the offer to be a tribute to his mother, who taught him to, 'love thine enemy.' Keane told reporters that he didn't withdraw the offer, even after he received hate-mail - but no one from Worcester contacted him. And the firm responsible for digging graves at the Mount Carmel Cemetery told the MailOnline that they have dug no fresh graves this week. And on Monday, the founder of the organization that built Colorado's largest mosque is offered to bury suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a Denver-area Muslim cemetery. Sheikh Abu-Omar Almubarac said he would pay for a traditional Muslim burial - no headstone, monument or casket - at a plot at a Muslim cemetery in Denver or Bennett. Almubarac refused to say which one out of concern for 'undue publicity.' He said he would bury Tsarnaev as long as his family can get the body to Denver. It is not known whether the family of Tsarnaev took him up on that offer. Fiona Gilley, (left), and her sister Nairi Melkonian, both of Worcester, hold signs urging compassion while they stand on the other side of the street from protestors in Worcester . Peter Stefan, funeral director and owner of Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors confirmed his funeral home will handle funeral arrangements for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev . Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst with the . Worcester police force said the body was no longer in Worcester and is . now entombed. She did not disclose where the body was taken. Tsarnaev’s body had been at the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors for a week. Meanwhile, . Tsarnaev’s widow continues to face questions from federal authorities . and has hired a criminal lawyer with experience defending terrorism . cases. Katherine Russell added New York lawyer Joshua Dratel to her legal team, her attorney Amato DeLuca said Wednesday. Dratel . has represented a number of terrorism suspects in federal courts and . military commissions, including Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainee David . Hicks, who attended an al-Qaida-linked training camp in Afghanistan. Dratel’s . 'unique, specialized experience' will help ensure that Russell 'can . assist in the ongoing investigation in the most constructive way . possible,' DeLuca said in a statement. He . said Russell, who has not been charged with any crime, will continue to . meet with investigators as 'part of a series of meetings over many . hours where she has answered questions.' Providence-based DeLuca and Miriam Weizenbaum have been representing Russell, who is from Rhode Island. They specialize in civil cases such as personal injury law. An FBI spokeswoman wouldn’t comment when asked Wednesday whether Russell is cooperating. DeLuca has said Russell had no reason to suspect her husband and his brother in the deadly April 15 bombing. Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen brothers from southern Russia and living in Massachusetts, are accused of planting two shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs near the marathon finish line, killing three people and injuring about 260. Dzhokhar, who was captured hiding in a tarp-covered boat outside a house in a Boston suburb, was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill. Their mother has said the charges against them are lies. In Washington, the first in a series of hearings was planned Thursday to review government’s initial response to the bombing, what information authorities received about the brothers before the bombings and whether they handled it correctly. Sheikh Abu Omar Almubarac, a prominent member of the Denver-area Muslim community offered to bury Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a Denver-area cemetery on Tuesday . The hearing on Capitol Hill comes less than three weeks after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s arrest. The FBI and CIA separately received vague warnings from Russia’s government in 2011 that Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother were religious militants. Russell, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s wife, had wanted his body turned over to his side of the family, which claimed it. Nineteen days after his death, cemeteries still refused to take his remains and government officials deflected questions about where he could be buried. On Wednesday, police in Worcester, west of Boston, pleaded for a resolution, saying they were spending tens of thousands of dollars to protect the funeral home where his body is being kept amid protests. 'We are not barbarians,' Police Chief Gary Gemme said. 'We bury the dead.' It is unknown if Katherine Russell, widow of Boston Marathon bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, (left), was at the burial - but Ruslan Tsarni (right) approved the site . An expert in U.S. burial law said the resistance to Tsarnaev’s burial is unprecedented in a country that has always found a way to put to rest its notorious killers, from Lee Harvey Oswald to Adam Lanza, who gunned down 20 children and six educators at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school last year. Peter Stefan, whose funeral home accepted Tsarnaev’s body last week, said Tuesday that none of the 120 offers of graves from the U.S. and Canada has worked out because officials in those cities and towns don’t want the body. ### SUMMARY:

Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in an undisclosed location outside the city of Worcester, Massachusetts . An anonymous individual came forward to offer assistance to bury Tsarnaev . The burial came one day after Worcester Police Chief Gary Gemme asked for assistance in burying the terrorist . He was killed in a firefight with police on April 19th in Watertown, outside Boston .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Vernon Kay looks ahead to Sunday’s showdown between the Miami Dolphins and the Oakland Raiders at Wembley. The game is the first of three NFL International Series contests being held in London this season. The International Series games are completely different from anything that NFL teams are used to. The Wembley atmosphere is something that surprises young players when they walk into the stadium. They think they are walking into an arena where the fans are inexperienced but, in fact, the Wembley fans are just as knowledgeable and more excited than American fans. The veterans who I have spoken to say it is not too dissimilar an atmosphere to the Super Bowl. As an event, the NFL at Wembley is phenomenal. I’m like a pig in muck because, after watching the Bears win the Super Bowl in 1985, I went to all the pre-season games that were called American Bowls. It didn’t really mean anything but we got to see Joe Montana and Dan Marino on the field for two minutes. After the London Monarchs and NFL Europe, we have now established Wembley as the home of American football in the UK. We have three games this season and I am hearing we will have five next year. After that, we can start to predict how many season tickets we will sell for an eight-game season. The Oakland Raiders landed in England on Monday and have been training at Pennyhill Park all week . The Raiders are searching for their first win of the season and fancy their their chances against the Dolphins . There is some talk that the NFL has set a date that there will be a team in London by 2022. I think that gives them enough time to survey, study, and try to judge how much interest there will be in the game. But I still think that it is too far away. Let’s try and take advantage of the momentum we have now. 3 – 40ft containers are shipped from the US for each Wembley game . 15 – the number of days it takes for the containers to travel from USA to England . 9,600 – bottles of Gatorade are used for each game, 400 cases . 8,000- weight in kilograms of gameday equipment used . 360 – the number of balls that are shipped to England for use . 5,787 – jerseys were sold during two International Series games last season . 3,831 – caps were also sold during two Wembley weekends in 2013 . There is no expense spared for the fan experience during Wembley week. To take over Regent Street on the Saturday before the game must cost a fortune -they spent £250,000 on banners alone last season. My first ever American Bowl was in 1986 or 1987 when I literally dragged my dad along to Wembley with my brother. But one thing I have noticed when I sit in the crowd for these International Series games is that it is dads dragging kids. There aren’t many kids at the Wembley games and we need to start encouraging them to come along. Both the Miami Dolphins and Oakland Raiders are struggling. It is a very similar situation to when we hosted the Minnesota Vikings against the Pittsburgh Steelers last season. Both teams weren’t doing very well and it turned out to be one of the best games we have had at Wembley. I am hoping that will be the same on Sunday. The Dolphins are one of the most supported teams in the UK so there will be plenty of their fans there. Ryan Tannehill has all the talent and will be looking to bounce back after a turbulent week with the Dolphins . Derek Carr is starting for the Raiders at Wembley with Matt Schaub remaining in the US for personal reasons . Miami vs Oakland, 6pm (Wembley) Carolina at Baltimore, 6pm . Green Bay at Chicago, 6pm . Buffalo at Houston, 6pm . Tennessee at Indianapolis, 6pm . Detroit at New York, 6pm . Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 6pm . Jacksonville at San Diego, 9.05pm . Atlanta at Minnesota, 9.25pm . Philadelphia at San Francisco, 9.25pm . New Orleans at Dallas, 1.30am . I think Miami’s issues lie with their offensive line. They are not strong at all and Mike Pouncey has injured his knee. He is a real loss for them. But they still have issues at quarterback, too. Ryan Tannehill has shown great promise but is still inconsistent. I played golf on Friday with Dick Anderson - a member of Miami’s 1972 undefeated team. He said that the problem the Dolphins have got is inconsistency and that they don’t have any real leaders to take them forward. For the Raiders, I don’t think Derek Carr at quarterback is a solution. But they have got that thing the Raiders have always lived and breathed on is that they bring in experienced and veteran players. I met Charles Woodson on Wednesday and he is really charismatic. He was saying it is really different for them to come over here and play football on foreign soil. The set up is different and it is a different experience for the guys, but they are trying to embrace it as, in Woodson’s words, “an opportunity to get that first W”. The Dolphins flew in on Friday and they will not have acclimatised as well as the Raiders. They practiced in 90-degree heat in Miami earlier in the week, but they are coming to Wembley where it will be overcast. I think the Raiders will win. I have got a feeling that everything that has gone wrong for them so far this season will come right on Sunday. Meeting Menelik . Menelik Watson and Vernon Kay chew the fat . I met Menelik Watson for the first time on Wednesday and he said he has got 30 or 40 family tickets for the game because a lot of them have never seen him play. Physically, he is massive. I put some pictures of us on Instagram, and he is an absolute monster. He enjoys American football because of the physical aspect of it. I watched him at practice as I wanted to see how he was getting on. He really stood up for himself. I was really surprised how good he was because, considering he hasn’t played a lot of football, technically he is quite good. He is quick and has fast hands, which is what you need as an offensive lineman and he just needs to learn the game. He is really proud to be representing Great Britain and is doing massive things. The process of player selection is quite elitist because if you don’t get into college then it is hard to get into the league. But there has to be a way for international players with the physical abilities and the right attributes to be American football players to get onto teams. Watson embraces Vince Wilfork after the Raiders sank to a narrow 16-9 defeat to the Patriots last week . Quarterback showdown . In the Sunday night game on Channel 4 between the New Orleans Saints and Dallas Cowboys, we have got two great quarterbacks with very different public opinions. Drew Brees has won a Super Bowl with the Saints and is a record breaker. It seems that whenever we see Brees play, he is always breaking records. It just shows what a good quarterback he is. The incomparable Drew Brees leaves the field after leading the New Orleans Saints to victory over the Vikings . Tony Romo's season has been plagued by turnovers as the inconsistent Cowboys bid to improve their fortunes . On the flip side, we have Tony Romo for the Cowboys. I was never a big Romo fan but this season I have started to feel a bit sorry for him. If you watch him, you can tell how frustrated he gets. Romo has got a brand new offensive line and it’s taking them some time to bed in. When I saw them against the 49ers they were very good against one of the strongest defenses in the league. But with Romo, it’s not his highlights that are under the magnifying glass, it is his mistakes and interceptions that everyone picks up on. Channel 4 will broadcast live coverage of the Miami Dolphins against the Oakland Raiders from Wembley Stadium on Sunday night as well as the New Orleans Saints against the Dallas Cowboys. Vernon Kay presents NFL: The American Football Show, Mondays at 11pm on Channel 4. ### SUMMARY:

Miami Dolphins take on Oakland Raiders at Wembley Stadium on Sunday . Contest is first of three International Series games this season in London . Raiders have lost first three games and Dolphins have just one win . Miami flew in late and have had less time to acclimatise than Oakland . Next season, I am hearing we will have five games in London . Oakland's Watson is very proud to represent Great Britain in the NFL .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The story of two British soldiers gunned down by German snipers on December 25, 1914 during the famous Christmas Day truce has been revealed for the first time since the exchange 100 years ago. While gestures of goodwill spread along the Western Front, the festivities stopped half-a-mile short of where Private Percy Huggins and Sergeant Tom Gregory were on duty in Rue De Bois, France. The historic ceasefire, which saw men from both sides exchange seasonal greetings and play games of football during the First World War, was shattered by the sound of a sniper's rifle. Private Percy Huggins, left, and Sergeant Tom Gregory, right, were both killed on Christmas Day by German snipers - the same day the famous 'Christmas truce' was declared along the Western Front . Pte Huggins, 23, from the Hertfordshire regiment's D Company, was on sentry duty at a forward listening post just 20 yards from the enemy when he was killed with a single bullet to the head. The shooting enraged his platoon Sergeant Gregory, who demanded he take his place and immediately set about scanning the frost-covered ground before taking the sniper out with a shot. Then as the experienced soldier continued scouring enemy lines he spotted another sniper - but the German marksmen had seen Sgt Gregory, 36, first and in a split-section action shot him dead. The two British men were among the 149 Commonwealth servicemen who lost their lives on December 25, 1914, although many of those died of previously-inflicted wounds. Their story has remained untold, overshadowed by tales of the peaceful Christmas morning shared from both sides of the trenches which has now been retold in a Christmas advert by Sainsburys this year. But their plight has now come to light after the family of Pte Huggins released his letters from the trenches to the Herts at War project, an exhibition to mark the centenary of the outbreak of war. This is the last letter Private Percy Huggins sent to his mother Agnes from the trenches in December 1914 . It was after his family released the letters as part of the centenary that the pair's story has been widely told . The letters prompted researcher Dan Hill to look into the military records and regimental diaries, revealing the full tragic tale. He said: 'There is no doubt that a truce of sorts took place in multiple points along the line of trenches forming in France and Belgium. 'These men did shake hands and exchange gifts and wished each other a Merry Christmas. 'Less than a mile to the north of the Rue De Bois, we know the men of the 1st North Staffordshire Regiment took part in a truce and one also seems to have taken place to the south as well. 'Many men used the pause in fighting as a time to collect and bury the dead that lay about in No Man's land. Gravestones for Private Huggins (left) and Sergeant Gregory (right) which stand in Le Touret, France . Le Touret cemetery in France where Huggins an Gregory are buried, after they were shot by German snipers . This is the original grave of Private Percy Huggins in France. He was stationed just miles from where the famous Christmas truce was being held on the Western Front . This map shows the area where the two soldiers were shot by snipers (circled). They were two of the 149 Commonwealth soldiers to die on Christmas Day . 'The truce probably bypassed the Hertfordshire Regiment because they were with the Guards Brigade who were incredibly professional and were highly unlikely to have fraternised. 'The story of Percy and Tom's tragic demise on that day serves to highlight that December 25, 1914, was just another day on the Western Front for some. 'To think that Mrs Huggins, Mrs Gregory and the mother of one German soldier enjoyed their Christmas at home unaware at that time of what had befallen their sons.' Sgt Gregory, from Watford and a father-of-seven, was a veteran of the Boer War and became a postman before he re-joined the army in 1914. Pte Huggins worked in his family's upholstery business before he joined the army (he is pictured outside) Pte Huggins pictured with his mother Agnes as a baby. His mother did not hear about his death until January . His wife had just given birth to their seventh child when he was killed and she named their daughter Lille after the place where he died. Pte Huggins, from Ware in Hertfordshire, worked in his family's upholstery business before he joined the Hertfordshire Regiment, one of the first Territorial Army units to be called up to the regular army in the First World War. In November 1914 the men joined up with the illustrious Guards Brigade and sailed to France and were soon in action at the first Battle of Ypres. They then left frontline duties for a month's rest before returning to the trenches on the evening of Christmas Eve. Soon afterwards Pte Huggins wrote his last, poignant letter home to his mother, Agnes, a widow bringing up seven children by herself back in England. He thanked her for sending him a Christmas pudding which he explained he would have to eat cold but was still very much looking forward to it. A newspaper reported the shocking news that the pair had been killed on Christmas Day, also nodding towards the 'Christmas Truce' of 1914 . Private Percy Huggin's obituary in a local newspaper notes that he had gone to France in November and was killed in action near Festubert on Christmas Day after being shot through the head by a sniper . Clearly missing his family, he wrote: 'I know you all must miss me and no doubt can to some extent realise what my feelings are for I cannot express them. 'I long for the day when this terrible conflict will be ended. You consider war a terrible thing but imagination cannot reach far enough for the horrors of warfare that can be seen on the battlefield are indescribable and I pray this may be the last war that will ever be.' He explained he was proud to serve his King and country, adding: 'I can only hope by the grace of God to acquit myself honourably and be permitted to return to all the dear ones in safety. An image of the Hertfordshire Battalion, which has been colourised for the HertsAtWar exhibition . Soldiers from the 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment, taken around August 1914, upon the outbreak of war . Pte Huggins and Sgt Gregory are not pictured but these soldiers were part of their battalion during the war . 'I have already asked, dear mum, that you will spend as happy a Xmas as possible and I will do the same.' Shortly before dawn on Christmas Day, Corporal Clifford Lane, of H Company Hertfordshire regiment, recalled how the Germans hoisted their lanterns above the trenches and called out to the British as a overture for a temporary truce. The British responded by shooting at the lights, putting an end to any prospect of a Christmas Day ceasefire - one that could have spared the lives of Pte Huggins and Sgt Gregory. But as the regiment ate a Christmas breakfast of bread and jam, cheese and a piece of cold bacon, Pte Huggins and Sgt Gregory had already been killed. It is thought the families of both soldiers received news of their deaths some time in early January and the two men were buried side by side at Le Touret Military Cemetery in Bethune, France. The Christmas truce, which became famous during the First World War, was a series of unofficial ceasefires spread along the Western Front. Known as Weihnachtsfrieden in German and Trêve de Noël in French, it lasted more than just Christmas Day itself, with soldiers from both sides crossing trenches to exchange greetings. In some parts, men ventured into No Man's Land on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to swap food and souvenirs they had received from home. There were also joint burial ceremonies while some men played games of football and other meetings ended with carol-singing. But the truce wasn't completely widespread with fighting continuing in some sectors and 149 soldiers from the Commonwealth were killed on Christmas Day alone. After festivities were over troops returned to fighting and in subsequent years, truces were not nearly as common - by 1916 they were no longer permitted at all. ### SUMMARY:

Ceasefire stopped short of where soldiers from Hertfordshire were on duty . Private Percy Huggins and Sergeant Tom Gregory were shot on Christmas . Their story has remained untold until family released letters from trenches . They were two of the 149 Commonwealth soldiers to die on Christmas Day .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: It may look like a model-makers dream, but this collection of components will travel at more than 1,000 mph when put together. This is how the Bloodhound Supersonic Car when broken down into its 3,500 components. It includes a state of the art Rolls-Royce EJ200 jet engine that is normally used in a Eurofighter Typhoon, Nammo hybrid rockets and its titanium skinned chassis. Scroll down for video showing what all the components are . Engineers will piece together 3,500 components to build the Bloodhound Supersonic Car ahead of its attempt to break the world land speed record and to be the first land vehicle to go faster than 1,000 mph (1,600km/h) The Rolls Royce jet engine generates 135,000 horsepower - the equivalent to 180 Formula 1 cars. It needs a 550bhp Supercharged Jaguar V8 engine to pump the fuel into the rocket. The team behind the Bloodhound SSC also revealed how they intend to slow it from 1,000mph (1,600km/h) to zero. After the car reaches its top speed, air brakes and parachutes slow it to 160mph (260km/h). Breaking to this speed is done at a constant 3G deceleration - equivalent to going from 60mph (95km/h) in a normal car to zero in just one second - for 20 seconds. At this speed the cars wheels are still spinning 10,000 times per minute. Attempts to use carbon rotors from a jet fighter in the form of car-like disc brakes shattered at speeds of just half this, so the team needed a new approach. Instead, they switched to steel rotors. In tests, these could withstand temperatures of up to 850°C (1,560°F), and be used again. The next step will be to test these brakes out at the full 10,000rpm that will be experienced. The carbon fibre and titanium chassis and canopy will be fitted together using 22,500 aerospace grade rivets, which are fixed by hand by the teams engineers. However, at £10 million the rocket-powered vehicle is probably a little out the price range of most model car enthusiasts. In 2016 driver RAF fighter pilot Andy Green will travel with the vehicle to the desert of the Hakskeen Pan in north west South Africa where they will attempt to break the 1,000mph (1,600km/h) barrier. Wing Commander Green currently holds the land speed record of 763mph (1,223km/h) in the Trust Supersonic Car. A spokesman for the Bloodhound project said they were confident of breaking this record and going faster than 1,000mph for the first time on land. The project has been seven years in the making and has been a dream of former RAF pilot Andy Green since he set the current record in 1997. The spokesman said: 'The Bloodhound Supersonic Car kit contains over 3,500 components, many custom-made. 'One hundred and ten man-years have been invested in the design, build and manufacture of the Bloodhound SSC which is on track to challenge the Land Speed Record later this year in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa.' During the record-chasing run in South Africa, Bloodhound (pictured) will cover 12 miles (19km) in two minutes, exerting an acceleration force of almost 2G, and peak deceleration force of 3G on the driver . Earlier this month the Bloodhound team's rocket partner Nammo carried out tests on the first of three large hybrid rocket motors that will be included in the vehicle. Initially Bloodhound will use one Nammo hybrid rocket in high speed testing scheduled for 2015 and a cluster of three rockets in its 1,000mph campaign in 2016. This is addition to main the main engine, which is normally found powering a Eurofighter Typhoon, weighs a tonne and produces 20,000lbs (90kN) - or nine tonnes of thrust. The two power plants together produce 135,000 thrust horse power, or the equivalent to 180 Formula 1 cars. Earlier this year, designers of the supersonic car revealed the vehicle’s futuristic cockpit. It has been made from five different types of carbon fibre weave, and two different resins. It has taken more than 10,000 hours to design and manufacture in total. Sandwiched between the layers of carbon fibre are three different thicknesses of aluminium honeycomb core, which provide additional strength. At its thickest point the material is made up of 13 layers, but measures just 0.9-inches (24mm) thick. Bloodhound will have to withstand extreme forces, including the risk of bird strike, during its record attempt . The components for Bloodhound include solid aluminium wheels for running over the desert surface (6), a 3D printed titanium steering wheel (18), the cockpit canopy (29), ice tanks (33) for cooling the V8 engine (15) carbon fibre fuel tanks (27), the Rolls-Royce EJ200 jet engine (14) and driver Andy Green (17) The cockpit structure weighs 441lbs (200kg) and bolts directly to the metallic rear chassis carrying the jet, rocket and racing car engine. It has to be strong as this front section will have to endure peak aerodynamic loads of up to three tonnes per square metre at 1,000mph (1,609kph), as well the considerable forces generated by the front wheels and suspension. It will also carry ballistic armour to protect Wing Commander Green should a stone be thrown up by the front wheels at very high speeds. Bloodhound will attempt to beat the World Land Speed Record set by the Thrust Supersonic Car in 1997 . The cockpit is positioned in front of three loud motors - the jet, a cluster of hybrid rockets and the racing car engine that drives the rocket’s oxidiser pump, which are expected to generate a noise level estimated at 140 decibels - the equivalent to a shotgun blast. Wing Commander Green will wear a specially made in-ear communications system to protect his hearing and to ensure that he can communicate with mission control. Mark Chapman, chief engineer behind Bloodhound: 'This is a fantastic moment in the project, it is great to see the car broken down into its main components. “It validates the many years of hard work by our team of motorsport and aerospace engineers.” The SSC stands for ‘SuperSonic Car’. The vehicle has four wheels and is powered by both the newly-fitted jet engine and a rocket. It is set to travel at 1,000mph (1,600km/h). The slender body, 44 feet (14 metres) long, keeps the entire vehicle aerodynamic. The pencil-shaped car (concept pictured) will be 44ft (13.4m) long and weigh 7.5 tonnes when completed . It weighs just over seven tonnes and the engines will produce more than 135,000 horsepower. That’s more than six times the power of all the cars on a Formula 1 starting grid put together. In the coming years the vehicle will begin test runs at lower speeds before attempting to set a new land speed record. The current land speed record stands at 763.035mph (1,227.985km/h), set by former RAF pilot Andy Green - who will also drive the Bloodhound - back in 1997 in the ThrustSSC. ### SUMMARY:

The Bloodhound SSC is designed to faster than 1,000mph (1,600km/h) Car will be 44ft (13.4m) long, 6ft (183cm) in diameter and weigh 7.5 tonnes . Engineers will use 22,500 aircraft rivets to piece the components together . Will use three of the hybrid rockets when it makes record attempt in 2016 along with EJ200 jet engine that normally powers a Eurofighter Typhoon . The record attempt is due to take place in 2016 in the South African desert .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Stevie Nicks was 27 when she became the ‘Queen Bee’ of the British-American rock band, Fleetwood Mac. Up until that time, writing songs and singing with her longtime sweetheart, Lindsay Buckingham, she hadn’t indulged in drugs. But that was all about to change. She quickly descended into drug hell and became addicted to cocaine, alcohol, Quaaludes to sleep, and cigarettes – until her system broke down and she started having nosebleeds, falls on stage, blackouts and near overdoses. She bought $1 million worth of cocaine and it burned a hole in her nose the size of a dime. Rumors spread that she had to have the drug blown up her derriere by an assistant. ‘There was no way to get off the white horse and I didn’t want to,' the now 66-year-old Nicks said. Scroll down for video . Besotted: Stevie Nicks has a two-year, off-and-on affair with married drummer Mick Fleetwood. Their passion was fueled by drugs and alcohol. Mick was still married to model Jenny Boyd at the time . Hot: Stevie and Nick made beautiful music together - both on and off the stage . She only slowed down her drug consumption when her doctor warned her she was risking permanent mental and physical damage as well as heading for a brain hemorrhage or an early grave. The group called for an intervention and saved her life by urging her to check in to the Betty Ford Center. Stevie got cleaned up from one drug and went into therapy, but for the next nine years she became dependent on another drug prescribed for anxiety that plunged her into years of depression and weight gain. ‘But I got through it, I was so lucky’, Zoe Howe quotes Nicks in her new book, Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumours, published by Omnibus Press, 5 February. Nicks fell madly in love with Mick Fleetwood two years after she joined Fleetwood Mac, while she was dating the Eagles' Don Henley in 1977. She called Mick one of her ‘great great loves’. Fleetwood, in his own biography, writes they secretly began seeing each other in Los Angeles while on a break from a tour, the clandestine nature of the meetings accelerating their passion. ‘I was in love with her, and she loved me, and it was not something passing in the night’. ‘It was a proper Hollywood affair on a par with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor’. But the complications with significant others and band-mates made it feel like ‘utter madness’. Mick was still married to model Jenny Boyd at the time. True love: Stevie still carries a torch for Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh. ‘There was nothing more important than Joe Walsh, not my music, not my songs, not anything,' she said. She wanted to marry Joe . But the greatest love in Nicks' life was keyboard player and guitarist Joe Walsh of the Eagles. She still carries a torch for the musician. But Walsh believed one of them would die from a drug overdose if they stayed together so he walked out the door. ‘There was no other man in the world for me. And it’s the same today’, Nicks confessed. Fleetwood Mac was ‘a fairytale on acid’ to Stevie Nicks, and Mick Fleetwood was like ‘an English king’ to her when they first met in Los Angeles. ‘I was awestruck. I still am to this day of Mick’s presence’. Endless days recording in the studio with Fleetwood, cocaine now became a daily indulgence for Nicks – as well as Courvoisier, Heineken beer, honey and hot tea and marijuana. She consumed so many drugs that weeks went by without sleep. Nicks wore a little gold and turquoise bottle inlaid with diamonds of coke around her neck so she would never be without the drug. While the guys did rails of coke, the girls daintily inhaled tiny spoonfuls of the drug. Crystal balls, knick knacks, dolls, gypsy chic chiffon dresses, shawls trinkets, feathers, lace, twirling on stage – and mountains of drugs defined her rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. They were the world’s most hedonistic band, the author writes. To avoid body searches by customs in Europe, they hired a private train to travel through Germany, and into France and Holland. The luxurious lounge car with its gold light fittings and velvet drapes had once belong to Hitler – including the elderly attendant who had once served the Fuhrer and was still on board. Nicks had an affair with Eagles' Don Henley (at right in 1973 and with Stevie years later), founding member of the group, drummer and singer. She was romanced by the Maseratis, the mansions, the destroyed hotels, the parties that defined the Eagles lifestyle . Musician Lindsey Buckingham was Stevie's first love. They both joined Fleetwood Mac together in 1975 . Every whim of the band members was met. While on tour, all Nicks wanted was the presidential suite at hotels. ‘We were elegant people and we wanted a place to sleep after the show that was beautiful’. Before falling into the arms of Mick and Joe Walsh, Nicks had an affair with Eagle Don Henley, founding member of the group, drummer and singer. She was romanced by the Maseratis, the mansions, the destroyed hotels, the parties that defined the Eagles lifestyle. She became pregnant with his child and chose to have an abortion. The affair was quickly over but she wrote a song, ‘Sara,’ for their unborn girl. With Eagle Joe Walsh, ‘it was love’. ‘We were busy being superstars, and everyone was doing way too many drugs. But I was so in love with him’, Nicks is quoted.as saying. Of all the men she had been involved with, Joe was the one man she wanted to marry. ‘There was nothing more important than Joe Walsh, not my music, not my songs, not anything’. ‘I remember days of misery waiting by the phone. Me in my house, with him saying ‘I’m going to visit you’. I would kick everyone out because I just wanted to be with him, and not a phone call. [I put up with it because] I was in love with him’. With all the drugs, ‘we were a couple on the way to hell’. ‘It took me a long, long time to get over it’. In her heyday Stevie was considered the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll. But even after Fleetwood Mac disbanded Stevie was a quadruple platinum solo artist . She was caught up in depression for nine years that resulted from long-term use of the tranquilizer, Klonopin prescribed for her anxiety while recovering from cocaine dependency. She supplemented the Klonopin with barbiturates. After having her breast implants removed in December 1976, she was diagnosed with Epstein-Barr, a viral infection that causes crippling fatigue. She underwent plastic surgery to change the proportion of her body after soaring up to 175 pounds on the drug. The drugs were killing her and she admitted herself to the Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital in Venice Beach. This detox was harder than kicking her cocaine addiction. Her last tour with Fleetwood Mac with in December 1990 until the group decided those were the best years of their lives. They mended old ills and jumped back out on tour late in 2014. In those intervening years, Nicks, put out quadruple platinum solo albums. ‘I believe there have been angels with me constantly through these last twenty years, or I wouldn't be alive’. Her one big regret however was not the drugs, not the affairs, but not stopping to have a baby. Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumours, published by Omnibus Press, is available on Amazon . ### SUMMARY:

Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks was so addicted to cocaine, alcohol and Quaaludes she blacked out and nearly overdosed repeatedly . She wore gold and turquoise bottle inlaid with diamonds around her neck so she was never without coke . To avoid body searches by customs in Europe, they hired Hitler's private rail car complete with the elderly attendant who served the Fuhrer . Things were 'hot and heavy' between married Mick Fleetwood and Stevie for two years . She also had an affair with Eagles' Don Henley but his bandmate Joe Walsh was the love of her life .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: One couple knows all too well the pain suffered by the parents of James Foley, the American photojournalist executed on camera last month by the Islamic State. Billy and Karen Vaughn also lost their son Aaron Carson Vaughn in 2011, when the SEAL Team Six soldier's Chinook helicopter was shot down over Afghanistan. Now the couple are calling on President Barack Obama to step down, citing his reaction to the Foley video and 'lack of leadership' in confronting ISIS. Scroll down for video . Time to resign: Karen and Billy Vaughn (pictured above) wrote a letter this week, condemning President Obama's actions following the release of the video depicting the execution of American journalist James Foley by ISIS. The couple lost their own son, soldier Aaron Carson Vaughn, in a 2011 helicopter crash in Afghanistan . Killed in action: SEAL Team Six soldier Aaron Carson Vaughn was one of seven commandos killed in the 2011 chopper crash, in addition to an Afghan translator and military dog. They were shot down by enemy combatants . On Monday, the Vaughns wrote a letter, calling out Mr Obama's decision to go golfing after holding an important press conference on the Foley video. 'As Commander-in-Chief, your actions - or lack thereof - Mr President, cost lives. 'As you bumble about in your golf cart, slapping on a happy face and fist-pounding your buddies, your cowardly lack of leadership has left a gaping hole — not only in America’s security — but the security of the entire globe. 'Your message has come across loud and clear, sir: You are not up to this job. You know it. We know it. The world knows it,' the Vaughns wrote in the letter published on World Tribune. The couple go on to directly ask Mr Obama to resign so that a man or woman 'of courage and substance' can take over and address the 'out-of-control thug fest' happening in Syria and Iraq, where ISIS is attempting to establish a caliphate. 'As you bumble about in your golf cart, slapping on a happy face and fist-pounding your buddies, your cowardly lack of leadership has left a gaping hole,' the Vaughns said of President Obama's decision to play a round after holding a press conference on the Foley tragedy . Vacation mode: President Obama was vacationing on Martha's Vineyard when the video was released by ISIS. He was photographed on the golf course at least two times after the video's release . 'It’s time for you to step down and allow a true leader to restore our honor and protect our sons and daughters... 'America has always been exceptional. And she will be again. You, Mr President, are a bump in the road,' they wrote. Billy Vaughn told MailOnline that  he has been displeased with the way President Obama has been acting at press conferences. 'I'd like to see him have some passion about anything going on in the world instead of just speaking in a monotone voice like he has a script that has been made up,' Mr Vaughn told MailOnline. Their only-son Aaron Carson Vaughn was killed in August 2011 when a Chinook helicopter was shot down in eastern Afghanistan. All 33 on board died in the crash, including Vaughn and several SEAL Team Six members. Vaughn and his fellow commandos were attempting to reinforce a group of Army Rangers after they ran into trouble during a raid to capture a senior Taliban leader. SEAL Team Six is best known as the group which carried out the execution of Osama Bin Laden in May 2011. After finally choosing to view the barbaric, on-camera beheading by ISIS of freelance war correspondent James Foley, I have been left with a level of rage known only to those of us who have sacrificed unspeakable offerings on the altar of world peace. My offering was my only son — Aaron Carson Vaughn. Aaron was a member of SEAL Team VI. He was killed in action when a CH47D Chinook, carrying thirty Americans and eight Afghans was shot down in the Tangi River Valley of Afghanistan on Aug. 6, 2011. Many times over the past three years, I have been asked what drove my son to choose his particular career. What made him want to be a Navy SEAL? My answer is simple. Aaron Vaughn was a man who possessed the courage to acknowledge evil. And evil, once truly acknowledged, demands response. Perhaps this is why so few are willing to look it in the eye. It is much simpler — much safer — to look the other way. That is, unless you are the leader of the Free World. As Commander-in-Chief, your actions — or lack thereof — Mr. President, cost lives. As you bumble about in your golf cart, slapping on a happy face and fist-pounding your buddies, your cowardly lack of leadership has left a gaping hole — not only in America’s security — but the security of the entire globe. Your message has come across loud and clear, sir: You are not up to this job. You know it. We know it. The world knows it. Please vacate the people’s house and allow a man or woman of courage and substance to seize the reigns of this out-of-control thug-fest and regain the balance we, America, have provided throughout our great history. Thanks to your “leadership” from whatever multi-million dollar vacation you happen to be on at any given moment, the world is in chaos. What’s been gained, you’ve lost. What’s been lost, you’ve decimated. You’ve demolished our ability to hold the trust of allies. You’ve made a mockery of the title “President.” And you’ve betrayed the nation for which my son and over 1.3 million others have sacrificed their very lives. But this should come as no surprise, since your wife uttered a vile statement on Feb. 18, 2008, during the primary campaign — one that speaks volumes of your true convictions. “For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country,” she said. I am sure my deceased son thanks you for that, Mrs. Obama. Oh, and you’re welcome. Never in my lifetime have I witnessed such despair and such growing fear that the world’s last best hope, America, has finally been dismantled. Perhaps the better word is transformed — fundamentally transformed. Come to think of it, it’s become difficult — if not impossible — to believe things haven’t gone exactly as you planned, Mr. President. Amazingly, in five short years, your administration has lurched from one disaster to another. You spearheaded the ambitious rush to end the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan — with no plan on how to do so effectively. Also, the release of “the Taliban five” in exchange for one American — without consulting Congress — is also on your shoulders. You have been at the helm during unprecedented national security leaks — including, but not limited to the outing of SEAL Team VI on the Bin laden raid, the outing of the Pakistani doctor who provided the intelligence for that raid, the outing of Afghanistan’s CIA station chief, and the outing of your personal “kill list” to make you look tough. In addition, 75 percent of American deaths in Afghanistan and 83 percent of Americans-wounded-in-action have occurred on your watch, according to icasualties.org. And now, we have this recent, heinous event: the beheading of an American citizen by a barbaric organization you foolishly referred to as “the JV team” in your statements to the New Yorker magazine in January. You, sir, are the JV team. It’s time for you to step down and allow a true leader to restore our honor and protect our sons and daughters. America has always been exceptional. And she will be again. You, Mr. President, are a bump in our road. Reprinted with family's permission . ### SUMMARY:

Billy and Karen Vaughn lost their only-son Aaron Carson Vaughn in 2011 . The SEAL Team Six member was one of 33 killed when a Chinook helicopter was gunned down in Afghanistan . On Monday, the Vaughns wrote a letter condemning President Barack Obama's actions following the release of the video depicting the execution of American journalist James Foley by Islamic State radicals . Mr and Mrs Vaughn criticized the president's decision to go golfing after he held a press conference on the Foley beheading .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Russian steel, Ukrainian maize, tea from India, palm oil from Malaysia -- myriad products are shipped through the Gulf emirates. Iran wants and needs them all. But in the last few months, the growing web of U.S. and European sanctions has begun to paralyze its ability to import and export key products. Multiple banking, shipping and trade sources tell CNN that Iran is struggling to import staples and export crude oil as its access to the global financial system is curbed. As a result, inflation is rising and shortages of basic products are growing. Take Iran's huge appetite for steel. Normally, it imports about 300,000 tons of steel products a month from Russia alone, mainly for infrastructure and construction. "Now it's zero. It really is that bad," said Katya Ourakova, who follows the Russian steel industry for Platts Steel Business Briefing. Ourakova says that Russia, the main exporter of steel to Iran, has been exploring ways to get round the financing problems. In December, she said, "Russian and Iranian trade envoys were discussing a ruble scheme, but so far nothing has been finalized." Most trade with Iran relies on letters of credit, and those are now routinely denied by banks anxious not to incur the wrath of the U.S. Treasury. A commercial source in Iran says one South Korean metals company canceled letters of credit following the latest sanctions by Europe and the United States. It is now considering barter: steel for chemicals. Imports of Ukrainian maize are also caught in the financing squeeze. Trade sources say thousands of tons are stuck in limbo between Ukrainian and Iranian ports, unloaded for lack of payment because Iranian importers cannot obtain letters of credit. Iran usually needs to import about 3.5 million tons of maize a year, according to figures from the International Grains Council, but commodity traders report a sharp drop in shipments. There is no shortage of money in Iran. Export revenues have been buoyed by high oil prices, according to the International Monetary Fund. And by Gulf standards, Iran has a diverse economy. The problem is financing, and the fear of being tainted by association with Iran's central bank or other financial entities. The scope of United States sanctions is sweeping. Those signed into law at the end of 2011 "require the President to block the property and interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of all Iranian financial institutions, including the Central Bank of Iran ('CBI'). It also aims to reduce Iranian oil revenues and discourage transactions with the CBI by providing for sanctions on foreign financial institutions that knowingly conduct or facilitate certain significant financial transactions with the CBI." Few want to touch Iranian crude . A source familiar with the U.S. sanctions strategy says banks have been made aware of the potential price of doing business with Iran -- even indirectly. In addition to the sanctions, the U.S. Treasury Department has named Iran as a center of money laundering. It's not just banks. International shipping companies are now much more reluctant to call at Iranian ports or unload Iranian oil. A European Union ban on imports of oil from Iran comes into effect in July, but the signing of new contracts was banned on January 23. In the U.S., legislation in Congress would ban from U.S. ports any ship that has called at an Iranian port in the preceding 180 days. One of the world's major operators, Moller-Maersk, has already suspended tanker deals with Iran. Intertanko, an organization representing many of the world's independent tanker owners, told CNN: "We are advising our members to comply with all sanctions at all times." The consortium Tankers International, which has 45 of the largest crude carriers in its pool, decided that in view of the EU measures and "other factors, including the inability of owners to maintain insurance cover while trading in Iran, Tankers International will no longer have any vessels ... trade to Iran." "Teekay Tankers strictly complies with all sanctions and is not calling at Iran," said Bruce Chan, CEO of Teekay, another major shipper. Picking up Iranian crude "is like getting leprosy," one shipping executive said. This month, at least two cargoes of Iranian crude were sitting at the Sidi Kerir terminal in Egypt, but no one wanted to handle them for fear of falling foul of European sanctions, according to the leading industry publication Platts. The International Energy Agency confirmed to CNN that in its latest Oil Market Report to clients, it has warned that "confusion over the likely implementation of U.S. and European financial sanctions is causing marine insurers and ship-owners to be doubly cautious over the provision of [insurance] cover and the routes sailed." Confusion over sanctions . Platts reports that Asian buyers of Iranian crude are struggling to find vessels willing to call at Iranian ports because of the lack of insurance cover, but it quotes industry sources as saying that Indian and Chinese owners "have no issues" with loading Iranian crude. Perhaps most damaging to the Iranian economy is the sharp decline in trade across the Gulf from Oman and Dubai. Banks in the Gulf emirates have begun to halt the financing of exports to Iran. About 8,000 Iranian-owned trading firms have a presence in Dubai, and the United Arab Emirates as a whole re-exported about $9 billion in goods to Iran in the first nine months of last year, according to figures from UAE authorities. But without letters of credit, that volume has fallen sharply in recent months. Imports of everything from machinery to rice are affected, even though sanctions don't apply directly to such products. Morteza Masoumzadeh, director of the Iranian Business Council based in Dubai, told CNN last month that traders were going out of business, starved of finance. They've also been hurt by the rapid depreciation of the Iranian rial, now valued at "17,000 rials when their calculations were based on 10,000 rials to the dollar," Masoumzadeh says. Pending U.S. legislation may further turn the screw. A bill that passed the U.S. Senate Banking Committee this month would ban any foreign bank from handling transactions by Iranian oil companies and would seek to block Iranian access to the system that enables international banking transactions. SWIFT action . That system is called SWIFT, or the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. Based in Belgium, it enables nearly 10,000 banks and financial institutions worldwide to do business. The bill would direct the U.S. Treasury to put pressure on the banks that own SWIFT to exclude Iranian entities. The Senate bill has to be reconciled with a similar measure that has passed the House of Representatives. The Iranian economy can withstand sanctions, economic analysts say. Iran had foreign exchange reserves of about $80 billion in 2009, according to the IMF, and does not carry huge debt. In addition, countries like China and India see an opportunity in continuing to trade with Iran. India plans to send a large trade delegation to Tehran later this month, insisting that it need only abide by U.N.-approved sanctions against Iran. In recent years, Iranian banks have successfully moved away from the dollar to finance trade and turned instead to the euro. Now, as sanctions multiply, that source is also drying up. Iranian businesses will need time to develop alternative trading mechanisms, such as barter agreements or settling contracts in currencies such as the South Korean won or Indian rupee. And the effect of sanctions could be enough to push the economy from modest growth (currently 2.5% according to the IMF) into recession, economic forecasters say. One example is the shortage of steel, which is forcing domestic prices higher in Iran and threatening the country's ambitious plans to build its own steel industry. "Iran wants to produce 45 million tons of crude steel by 2015 -- by building eight or nine plants. But they can't finish construction of these plants, which themselves demand a lot of steel to build," said Ourakova, the Russian steel industry specialist. Emily Smith, Leone Lakhani and Anna Lisa Stone contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

Iran is struggling to import staples and export crude oil, other key products . U.S. and European sanctions have led to inflation, price spike for items, shortages . International shipping companies are more reluctant to call at Iranian ports, unload Iranian oil . Iranian Business Council director: Traders starved of finance, hurt by rial's rapid fall .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- All eyes were on the opposition candidate as word of the election results spread. After tireless campaigning and vows of victory, what would he say to throngs of fired-up supporters? Would he snap, after months of keeping his cool as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sprinkled speeches with insults aimed at him? On the night after the election, Henrique Capriles Radonski was quick to concede after official results revealed he had lost by more than 10 percentage points. New Venezuelan VP seen as possible successor to Chavez . "To know how to win, you also must know how to lose," Capriles said. "The word of the people is sacred." His words, analysts say, reveal a strategy that could play a key role in how Venezuela's opposition evolves. "It was very magnanimous and, I think, very constructive," said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue. "I think that's a real model for Venezuela and for other countries." After any vote, the way the losing candidate responds can have an impact far beyond Election Day, said Barbara Kellerman, a lecturer on leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. "This is much more about the future than it is about the present," she said. 'The country is not waiting for my insults' On the campaign trail before masses of supporters, and in state television interviews broadcast nationwide, Chavez described Capriles as a "dirty swine" and a "fly" who was not worth chasing. He called him a "little Yankee" and assailed him as a member of the bourgeoisie. "He never acknowledged his name, just talked about the rich kid, and taunted him, as Chavez tends to do," Shifter said. "Capriles defended himself. But there wasn't the rhetorical back and forth, the tit for tat." From the outset, Capriles said he wanted to take a different tone. "They insult me, hey, I am not going to respond with an insult. The country is not waiting for my insults. The country expects my commitment," he said in a February interview with the Televen network. "The country expects me to offer them a future." Going head to head with Chavez was a tactic opposition politicians had unsuccessfully tried in the past, Shifter said. Chavez slams Venezuelan opposition after election victory . "He's such a master at it. If you start to criticize him, then he'll come back with more," Shifter said. "He's demonstrated over 14 years that he plays this game better than anybody ... (and) he emerges stronger than ever." Chavez still triumphed in Sunday's vote, Shifter said, but Capriles -- with more than 45% of votes -- came closer than any past presidential election opponent has come to defeating Chavez. "It obviously resonated with over 6 million Venezuelans," Shifter said. The opposition candidate was quick to reassure his supporters and stressed that he did not believe there was fraud at the polls. He compared the election to the way diehard fans feel when Venezuela's national soccer team loses. They are devastated, he said, but they don't stop going to the stadium. "Look, I am on my feet. I got up, as I am sure the great majority of Venezuelans got up today. You have to learn from every process. You have to reflect always on every contest," he said Tuesday. "This path that we started to build together, this path continues, not against anyone but in favor of a better future." Maintaining a unified front may prove difficult for the opposition coalition that backed Capriles, said Miguel Tinker Salas, a Latin American history professor at Pomona College in California. "The one thing that brought them together was the figure of Chavez," he said. Stephen Johnson, director of the Americas program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Capriles' reaction after Sunday's vote may help the opposition stick together. "Conceding quickly and doing so in an honorable way is helpful in maintaining civility on the opposition side," Johnson said, "and also in moving beyond the elections." A different approach . You don't have to look far, Shifter said, to see an example of an opposition candidate who took a different approach. After official results indicated he narrowly lost to Felipe Calderon in Mexico's 2006 presidential election, leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused authorities of fraud and never conceded. In the years that followed, Lopez Obrador referred to himself as "the legitimate president of Mexico" and continued campaigning around the country. His supporters protested nationwide. In Mexico City, they staged sit-ins and blockades. Memories of the upheaval stuck with many Mexicans. This year, when Lopez Obrador was once again a candidate, it didn't play well at the polls, Shifter said. "It didn't really help his image very much nationally. I think he may have done a lot better this time. I don't know whether he would have won," Shifter said, "but I think people remembered the way he acted in 2006, and that was a real liability for him." This year, election officials have repeatedly ruled that Enrique Pena Nieto won July's presidential vote. Lopez Obrador has not conceded. Looking toward the future . That's not the norm, Kellerman said. "The democratic tradition is to concede defeat graciously, so that whatever your future ... you are seen as a grown-up person who can accept this in the gracious spirit of an adult democracy," she said. In the United States, for example, candidates often bounce back after an election loss, she said. "We have a real tradition of people who've been defeated once coming back to win the next time over," she said, noting that Capriles could have a similar comeback in mind. Kellerman, who analyzes global leadership trends on her blog, "Lame Leaders/Fed Up Followers," described Chavez as a "bully" and said a nation's people tire of such tactics over time. "Eventually, the temper of the times is such that it's moving toward relatively greater levels of democracy and civility," Kellerman said, "and relatively lower levels of autocracy and bullying." Shifter said Capriles' post-election comments struck a "perfect pitch." Venezuela's political landscape will inevitably change at some point, he said. "Chavez is not going to last forever, and the concern is always that given the tremendous polarization in the country, and tremendous rancor, there's always the potential you can't rule out for some instability and some violence," he said. "The discourse that Capriles used during the campaign, but especially after he lost, is very helpful to reduce those tensions and to point to a path of reconciliation, which is what the country will need to heal." Even with the election results in, political uncertainty remains in Venezuela, with questions about Chavez's health lingering. Over the past year, the 58-year-old leader has been visibly weakened by cancer surgeries and treatment. He has kept secret the kind of cancer he has and his prognosis. In May, speculation intensified over who would succeed Chavez when he named 10 people to the highest circle of his advisers. But in July, he said he was cancer free. Since Sunday's vote, he has pledged to push forward with his socialist reforms in his next six-year term and "be a better president every day." That hasn't stopped speculation that the situation could be more dire than the president lets on. "Who knows how long it will be before the next presidential election, given the president's current health?" Johnson said. No matter when the next election is, Johnson said that "going forward, it remains to be seen" whether Capriles will be able to win more support and maintain the opposition's momentum. On Thursday, CNN affiliate Globovision reported that the opposition candidate filed paperwork to run in December's election for governor in the state of Miranda -- a post he held until February, when he resigned to run for president. He will face former Venezuelan Vice President Elias Jaua, who has been a key member of Chavez's inner circle. CNN's Jethro Mullen and Mariano Castillo contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

Henrique Capriles Radonski conceded quickly after Venezuela's election . "To know how to win, you must also know how to lose," he says . Analyst says Capriles' comments were "perfect pitch" Expert: A candidate's response after an election "is much more about the future"

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court can seem a distant, dusty place, far removed from what young people, especially, see as relevant in their lives. It's an institution closed to cameras, with justices issuing dense written opinions while working mostly from their private chambers. So how do you get high schoolers interested in the important judicial stakes that affect everyone? Attorney Josh Blackman has found a way, using digital technology to give students the power to pick high court winners and losers through an interactive hands-on nationwide competition. Through his FantasyScotus.org website, Blackman created a nationwide teaching tool involving 200 classes around the country, and growing. Using a fantasy league concept popular with sporting events, Blackman organized a web-based game where students analyze current high-profile cases, then predict the outcomes. Points are awarded, and winners get bragging rights, badges of honor and Internet recognition. "It's not dry history, these cases are live, they're new," Blackman told CNN. "The big thing is they haven't been decided. High school students in the past have been told to accept the law, but here they can participate and have a stake in the outcome, by making predictions." The 26-year-old Staten Island, New York, native created the lesson plans in his spare time, with the help of a few friends. He works as a law clerk for a federal judge in western Pennsylvania and hopes to be a law professor one day. The year-old project is an offshoot of a larger fantasy league he also created, targeted at adult court aficionados. Blackman explains he did all this initially as a hobby -- "almost as a joke" -- after a colleague dared him to test his skills at picking the winning side in several big Supreme Court cases in 2009. "People around the world play it and seemed to like the original version, but then teachers started calling me, saying they were using it as an educational tool. They said it was too hard to navigate," said Blackman. "So we modified things, making it easier to operate, using basic English and a simple points system." Through his nonprofit Harlan Institute -- named after the first Justice John Marshall Harlan -- Blackman also gathered a teacher advisory network, having volunteer lawyers appear via Skype to various classrooms. A recent "Teach-A-Thon" found him and other attorneys advising students on court prediction strategy in seven schools -- from Iowa, Michigan, Virginia and elsewhere, even Canada. Among the Supreme Court cases the students are predicting: whether states can ban "violent" video games from being sold to minors and the free speech rights of an angry anti-gay church group that protests loudly at the private funerals of military personnel killed in wars overseas. Rulings in those appeals are expected next spring. One attractive feature for cash-strapped schools is that the FantasyScotus project is free. Funding comes from private donations, combined with the relatively inexpensive operating costs. Technology also allows volunteer lawyers to advise students without having to leave their offices, through computer video linkups. In addition to enlisting teachers and lawyers, the project is working with iCivics, the education resource founded by retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "It's been blast, seeing young people connect with the law in a way I never had the opportunity to when I was a kid," Blackman said. "They're looking at the Constitution now not as this dead document, but something they can participate in, where they can try and make a difference." Technology is music to Scalia's ears . "It's a brave new world." So says Justice Antonin Scalia on the technological changes occurring in his court and in his own life. The 74-year-old jurist revealed his heavy use of an iPod media player and iPad portable tablet computer, for both work and pleasure. Speaking at a recent black-tie dinner sponsored by the conservative Federalist Society, Scalia said his musical tastes tend to opera and classical works, which he proudly noted he downloads himself. Many of his fellow benchmates shun technology, preferring to handwrite the first drafts of their opinions and communicate through formal hand-delivered paper messages. But the senior associate justice says he relies on his computer so much, he "can hardly write in longhand any more." And his iPad is filled with the reams of legal briefs he needs to read up on pending and current cases. He can now take his caseload anywhere he says, and does not have to "schlep the [written] briefs around." But Scalia told the audience another powerful communication device will not soon invade his courtroom: television. As he has said many times before, the justice worries that greater public access to the open sessions where the court conducts oral arguments would not necessarily be a good thing. "Familiarity breeds contempt," he said. "The fact that the court is somewhat removed is a good thing." C-SPAN and other broadcasters have long pushed to televise the court arguments, with support from several lawmakers. Only audio of the sessions is available, but those recordings are released days after they happen. The public, of course, can attend in person, but seating is limited and requires waiting in line. Scalia admits most of the cases are fairly boring, about such areas of law as bankruptcy and utility taxes. What he worries about are the hot-button cases like abortion and gay rights, where isolated comments by the justices aired by the media could be taken out of context. And one televised event you are not likely to see Scalia attend is the State of the Union, which he compared to "cheerleading sessions." As judges, the justices are not supposed to show any favoritism, so they sit there politely in their black robes. "I don't know at what point that happened, but it has happened, and now you go and sit there like bumps on a log while applause lines cause one half of the Congress to leap up while [the other] causes the other half to leap up," he said. "It is a juvenile spectacle. And I resent being called upon to give it dignity." Sitting in the Federalist Society event at a local Washington hotel was Scalia's conservative colleague Justice Samuel Alito. He came under some criticism after January's State of the Union for mouthing the words "not true" when President Obama slammed the court's ruling in a controversial campaign finance case. Alito later said he felt "like the proverbial potted plant" at such occasions and would not be attending in the near future. Scalia was more blunt: "You just sit there, looking stupid." For the generally verbose and animated jurist, sitting still for an hour or more at such a gathering may be an exercise he would just as soon avoid. And he does. Shooting with friends . So what does Scalia do in his free time? Take a field trip with the newest justice. He and Elena Kagan, both native New Yorkers, were seen recently at a suburban Washington gun range, according to legal sources. Scalia had invited Kagan, 50, for an afternoon of target practice soon after she joined the high court. The ideological opposites were spotted skeet shooting, with the more experienced Scalia offering tips on holding the shotgun for the apparent novice. Skeet involves firing at clay targets propelled into the air from various angles. Scalia is a member of the Fairfax Rod and Gun Club, but neither the company nor the court would comment officially on the excursion. Sources close to both justices say Scalia and Kagan have gotten along famously in their first few months together on the bench. The conservative Scalia, those sources say, has warmly embraced his new liberal colleague and fellow Harvard Law School alum. Scalia has been a longtime gun owner and hunter. As a high school student, he was a rifle team member. As he once recalled, "I used to travel on the subway from Queens to Manhattan with a rifle. Can you imagine doing that now in New York? I mean, 'There's a man with a gun!' " On a more serious note, Scalia drew criticism after going shotgun hunting in Louisiana with then Vice President Dick Cheney at a time when the court was considering an appeal over access to Cheney's internal records. Critics called it a conflict of interest and asked him to step down from the case, but he refused. To make things worse for the 2004 private trip, the hunting party didn't get many ducks. ### SUMMARY:

Attorney getting students interested in important cases that affect everyone . FantasyScotus.org is a teaching tool involving 200 classes around the country . In the game, students analyze current high-profile cases, then predict the outcomes . Among cases students are predicting: video game ban, anti-gay church group at funerals .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Los Angeles (CNN) -- The mother of Michael Jackson's two oldest children broke down in tears when she was asked to describe the impact of the singer's death on his daughter Paris. "Their father is dead," Debbie Rowe responded. "I almost lost my daughter! She is devastated. She tried to kill herself. She is devastated. She has no life. She doesn't feel she has a life anymore." Paris, 15, attempted suicide in early June and is still being treated in a facility for her emotional problems. Jurors sitting for a 70th day of testimony in the wrongful death trial of Jackson's last concert promoter have laughed loudly at times during the colorful testimony of Rowe, who alternated between tears and jokes. When she and Jackson divorced after their three-year marriage in 1999, the singer "got custody of the doctors," she joked Wednesday. Rowe returned to the witness stand Thursday for a second day of testimony in the small Los Angeles courtroom. She was ordered to testify about the singer's drug use by lawyers for AEG Live, the concert promoter being sued by Jackson's mother and three children. Wednesday's questioning by AEG Live lawyer Marvin Putnam centered on Jackson's use of prescription drugs -- to deal with pain from scalp surgery, and two times in Germany, where doctors used the surgical anesthetic propofol to treat his insomnia. Thursday's testimony, however, began with Rowe's description of Jackson's skin problems, which included vitiligo -- a condition in which his pigment disappeared, leaving large white spots on his face, hands and body. "Everyone says he bleached himself, but he didn't," Rowe said. Many of his visits to Dr. Arnold Klein, the Beverly Hills dermatologist where she worked for 18 years as a medical assistant, were to treat the condition, she testified. Jackson compared himself to the "Elephant Man," a 19th-century Englishman who became a circus sideshow curiosity because of severe disfigurements, she said. "He was worried that people would see the disease or the disfigurement before they would see him working sometimes," Rowe testified. He also suffered from discoid lupus, which made his skin tissue "mushy," especially on his scalp, she said. Jackson's scalp was severely burned during a pyrotechnics accident while he was filming a Pepsi commercial in 1984. MJ's insomnia struggle . Two German doctors treated Jackson's insomnia with propofol 12 years before he died from an overdose of the surgical anesthetic, Rowe testified Wednesday. Dr. Allen Metzger -- Jackson's general practitioner in the United States -- arranged for the German anesthesiologists to infuse the singer with propofol in a Munich hotel in July 1997 after sedatives failed to help him sleep between concerts, Rowe testified. "I think they tried it and it hadn't worked, and if he couldn't sleep, he couldn't perform," she testified. Jackson "was at the end of his rope; he didn't know what else to do." He "felt better" after eight hours of propofol-induced sleep and decided to get a second treatment after his second Munich show, she said. Metzger testified at the criminal trial of Dr. Conrad Murray that he was never involved in propofol treatments for Jackson and was not aware of the drug until much later. Rowe backed away from her previous statement during a deposition, in which she said doctors also gave Jackson propofol infusions in hotels in France during the HIStory tour, in the late 1990s. AEG Live contends that Jackson used propofol for years to treat his insomnia, including when Rowe was traveling with him in Europe in the 1990s. The coroner ruled Jackson died on June 25, 2009, from a propofol overdose administered by Murray, who is serving a prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter. AEG Live executives, who were promoting and producing Jackson's comeback concerts, had no way of knowing that Murray was infusing him with propofol each night for two months in the spring of 2009, AEG lawyer Marvin Putnam said in his opening statements 16 weeks ago. "Almost no one knew until after his death," Putnam said. "AEG Live certainly didn't know about it." The Jackson family's lawyers contend that the promoters ignored warning signs that Jackson's health was deteriorating in the two months before his death. Instead of getting him to another doctor who might have saved his life, they gave Murray the responsibility of getting Jackson to rehearsals, they argue. Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and three of her children contend AEG Live is liable in his death because it negligently hired, retained or supervised Murray. The company's agreement to pay Murray $150,000 a month put the doctor in a conflict of interest because he was in deep debt and could not risk losing the job by refusing Jackson's demands for propofol, their lawyers contend. AEG Live argues that while its executives negotiated with Murray to serve as Jackson's physician for the "This Is It" tour, it was Jackson who chose and controlled the doctor. "Getting a grip' on MJ's pain . Jackson underwent surgery in 1993 to repair burns suffered in the 1984 accident, including placement of a balloon under his scalp to stretch it over several months, Rowe testified. His doctors "couldn't get a grip of the pain" the procedure caused and two doctors "were having a pissing contest over who gave him the better drug," she said. "Michael had a very low pain tolerance, and his fear of pain was incredible," Rowe testified. "And I think that doctors took advantage of him that way." Rowe said many of the doctors who treated Jackson were "idiots," including the dermatologist she worked for from 1979 until she quit in 1996 before she married Jackson. "Michael respected doctors immensely, that they went to school, that they studied ... to do no harm," Rowe said. "Unfortunately, some of the doctors decided that when Michael was in pain or something that they would try to outbid on who could give him the better drug, and so he listened to those doctors." Metzger tailored a plan to help Jackson withdraw from dependence on demerol, a powerful painkiller given him because of the scalp pain, she said. That plan, however, was derailed when Jackson resumed traveling on his "Dangerous" tour, she said. After six weeks, when the tour reached Mexico City (in autumn 1993), Jackson was "a hot mess," she said. "He was depressed," she said. "He had taken something. I don't know what he had taken or who he had got it from." After a three-day argument with Jackson, Rowe said, she convinced him to end his tour early and enter a drug rehabilitation program. "You need to straighten up," she said she told Jackson. "You need to face whatever it is that is going on and we'll get through this." Jackson eventually announced publicly that he was entering a rehab program to deal with an addiction to prescription drugs. Rowe said Jackson's drug use was not a secret among people in the "Dangerous" tour production. AEG Live Co-CEO Paul Gongaware, who was the over the "This Is It" production when Jackson died, was also tour manager for the "Dangerous" tour. One revelation from Rowe was that a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon faked doing a procedure on Jackson on two occasions, although he told the singer he had done it. Jackson complained about painful scars in his nose and went to Dr. Steven Hoefflin to inject them with collagen, she said. "He put Michael out and didn't do anything but put tape on him as if he had treated him," Rowe testified. The doctor told her he did that because he could not find the scars Jackson thought were there. Thursday is the 70th day of testimony in the trial, which the judge told jurors would likely be given to them for deliberations in late September. ### SUMMARY:

NEW: "I almost lost my daughter!" Debbie Rowe testifies . Ex-wife describes Michael Jackson's skin problems, pains and drug use . "Everyone says he bleached himself, but he didn't," Debbie Rowe says . Doctors had "a pissing contest" over who could give Jackson "the better drug," she says .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Just weeks after the scandal about pictures of Britain's Prince Harry naked in Las Vegas, a magazine has sparked fresh controversy by publishing pictures of Prince William's wife, Catherine, topless while vacationing. The duchess of Cambridge is "upset" with the magazine -- a French publication called Closer, a royal source told CNN. Palace officials, threatening legal action, have blasted what they call a "grotesque" invasion of privacy. The grainy pictures appear to have been taken with a long camera lens while the couple was staying at a private chateau in Provence, in southern France. They were "hugely saddened to learn that a French publication and a photographer have invaded their privacy in such a grotesque and totally unjustifiable manner," a St. James's Palace spokesman said. These new privacy controversies have dredged up the royal family's often rocky relationship with the press and put a spotlight on how the palace deals with the media after the tragic death of William's mother, Diana, as she fled photographers in Paris 15 years ago. "The incident is reminiscent of the worst excesses of the press and paparazzi during the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, and all the more upsetting to The Duke and Duchess for being so," the palace spokesman said. "Their Royal Highnesses had every expectation of privacy in the remote house. It is unthinkable that anyone should take such photographs, let alone publish them." William, Catherine on high-stakes mission . St. James's Palace officials told CNN they "believe a red line has been crossed." The palace confirmed that the couple is taking legal action against the publishers of Closer. The pair remain focused on their Asian tour on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II, he added. William, who is second in line to the throne, and his wife are in Malaysia as they carry out a nine-day Southeast Asian tour of Commonwealth nations, which started in Singapore. The photographs cannot be accessed on Closer's website, which shows only the magazine's front cover with heavily blurred images. The photos are featured in the magazine's print copy, which is available in France. Read more about the duchess of Cambridge . The latest furor comes three weeks after the British royal family was caught up in a media furor over images of William's younger brother, Prince Harry, partying naked in his Las Vegas hotel room with a group of girls. Those photographs were widely circulated online but were published in only one UK tabloid, The Sun, after palace officials asked UK media not to run them. The Press Complaints Commission, the UK press watchdog, received about 3,800 complaints from the public but said it was inappropriate for it to take any action without a formal complaint from the palace. The Sun has made clear that it won't publish the pictures of Catherine, however. Editor Dominic Mohan tweeted: "The Sun has no intention of breaching the royal couple's privacy. The circumstances are very different to those relating to the photos of Prince Harry in Las Vegas." Laurence Pieau, editor-in-chief of Closer in France, posted several comments on Twitter late Thursday promoting the release of the topless pictures of Catherine. One said: "The world exclusive of #closer tomorrow is Kate Middleton as you have never seen her ... and as you will never see her again." Another read: "For kate middleton to have tan lines she would have to be wearing a swimsuit!" Interviewed by CNN affiliate BFM-TV on Friday, Pieau defended the decision to publish the photographs, saying, "We were just doing our job." The magazine was tipped off about the dates of the royal couple's visit to Provence and sent a photographer, she said. The pair were visible on a terrace from the road. Opinion: British privacy should start with British press . Pieau said that there had been no debate at the magazine over whether to publish the photos and that she believes they are not degrading, as "they are just like any other couple in love." She described the reaction to the pictures' publication as "disproportionate" and slammed the British press as "complete hypocrites," since photos of Harry naked were published by The Sun. Pieau said that there are additional photos that are even more revealing but that Closer is not publishing them for now. The magazine will wait to see if any complaint is made against it, she said. "I think that what these photos really highlight is the issue of the royal couple's security," she added. A string of negative comments from members of the public has already been posted on the French Closer magazine's Facebook page. One, written in French, said: "Your behavior is unacceptable, you're as bad as the English tabloids. You have gone too far with the photos of Kate topless and it will cost you a lot I hope. Shameful." It is not yet clear what form any legal action by William and Catherine against Closer magazine, run by an Italian business called Mondadori, might take. But British lawyer Charlotte Harris said the magazine's decision to publish was a clear breach of French legal codes and was out of line with current views on people's right to privacy. "The perception of the French was that they are less aggressive, that they have a culturally different opinion of where privacy laws should lie. Here they appear to have gone right over the other way," she said. French law provides for "draconian sanctions" to protect against this kind of behavior, she said, including orders to take magazines off shelves and the imposition of serious fines. But even if distribution of the images is contained, Harris said, the damage is done to the extent that very private information about the duchess has now become public knowledge. French magazine VSD was fined 2,000 euros ($2,580) last week after it published a photo of Valerie Trierweiler, partner of French President Francois Hollande, in a bikini on its front cover, BFM-TV reports. Trierweiler is also taking legal action against other French magazines that published images of her and Hollande in swimwear while on vacation, BFM-TV says. Singapore gives royal welcome to William, Kate . The latest royal controversy threatens to overshadow what has until now been a well-received tour in Asia, undertaken as part of diamond jubilee celebrations for the queen, William's grandmother. The duchess of Cambridge gave her first public speech in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Thursday, at a hospice for terminally ill children and adults. She is the patron of a charity supporting children's hospices in East Anglia, England. The royal couple will be in Malaysia until Sunday before heading to the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. The duchess was very conservatively dressed as she visited a mosque in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. There was also a security scare when a man lunged at Catherine and tried to give her a flower as she and William left a festival of Malaysian dancing in a park in the capital. A man was arrested over the incident, a palace source said. "The Duchess was getting into the car and the Duke was walking round to the other side of the car when an enthusiastic member of the public tried to give her a flower," he told CNN. "He was very close, right up against the car. He was arrested by local police officers. Royal protection officers were not involved, though they had noticed him in the crowd earlier on. The Duke and Duchess were not in any danger at all at any point." The French Closer magazine is run by a different company from the publication of the same name in the United Kingdom. Closer UK, published by Bauer Consumer Media, issued a statement distancing itself from the French magazine. "Closer magazine UK would like to make it clear that the two publications make entirely independent editorial decisions. In this respect the comments made by the editor of the French edition which have reported in the media today do not reflect the opinions of Closer magazine UK. "Closer magazine UK was not offered any pictures of this nature and certainly has no intention of publishing the photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge which have been published in France this morning." The British media is under close scrutiny after revelations of phone hacking and other abuses. The conclusions of an independent judge-led inquiry, which may recommend greater restrictions on media freedoms, are expected by the end of the year. More: What awaits William, Kate on the royal tour? CNN's Atika Shubert and Saskya Vandoorne contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

Lawyer says Closer magazine may face heavy sanctions over the photographs . William and Catherine are "hugely saddened" by the invasion of privacy, palace says . The topless photographs are grainy and appear to have been taken with a long lens . Closer magazine editor defends decision to publish: "We were just doing our job"

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- A search-and-rescue effort to find survivors of a monster tornado that pulverized a vast swath of the suburbs of Oklahoma City shifted Tuesday to one of recovery, officials said. No new survivors or bodies have been found since the early hours after the tornado carved a trail 17 miles long on Monday afternoon. "We feel like we have basically gone from rescue and searching to recovery," Glenn Lewis, the mayor of hard-hit Moore, told CNN's Anderson Cooper. Lewis said he didn't expect the death toll to climb any higher. At least 24 people, including nine children, were killed, according to the state medical examiner's office. "I think that will stand," Lewis said. Earlier reports of at least 51 deaths were erroneous, said Amy Elliot, chief administrative officer for the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In the chaotic aftermath of the tornado, Elliot said it appeared some of the dead were counted twice. Snapshot of courage after tornado levels school . 'One of the strongest storms' Damage assessments conducted Tuesday showed the tornado packed winds, at times, between 200 and 210 miles per hour, making it an EF5 -- the strongest category of tornadoes measured, the National Weather Service said Tuesday. Teams are still evaluating the destruction, and the rating released Tuesday is preliminary. So far, they've found that the tornado's width spanned 1.3 miles -- the length of more than 22 football fields lined up end-to-end. Given its breadth and power, it ranks among some of the strongest storms ever to strike the United States, CNN senior meteorologist Dave Hennen said. Hardest hit was Moore, Oklahoma -- a suburban town of about 56,000 and the site of eerily similar twisters in 1999 and again four years later. The scene -- block after block of flattened homes and businesses, the gutted remains of a hospital and hits on two elementary schools -- left even seasoned veterans of Oklahoma's infamous tornadoes reeling. The devastation was so complete, the mayor said city officials were racing to print new street signs to help guide rescuers and residents through a suddenly twisted and unfamiliar landscape. A search-and-rescue team was sent from nearby Tinker Air Force Base, which also provided search lights, vehicles and water trucks, while neighboring Texas sent an elite 80-member urban search team. The American Red Cross sent 25 emergency response vehicles. Rescue crews were expected to complete a search for victims by late Tuesday, Moore Fire Chief Gary Bird told CNN. "We will be through every damaged piece of property in this city at least three times," Bird told reporters. "And we hope to be done by dark tonight." More than 230 people were injured, according to authorities. The path of the storm . 'Can't believe this' Some residents of Moore returned home to piles of debris, hoping to find pictures or some memento. "You just wanna break down and cry," Steve Wilkerson told CNN, holding a laundry basket that contained the few, intact belongings he could find. "But you know, that's how it goes," Wilkerson said, his voice shaking. "You gotta be strong and keep going." Wilkerson has been through tornadoes before, but nothing like this one. "I still can't believe this is happening," he said. "You work 20 years, and then it's gone in 15 minutes." All that remained in some places were "sticks and bricks," Fallin told reporters, calling the storm one of the "most horrific storms and disasters that this state has ever faced." Police, firefighters, volunteers and nearly 180 National Guard troops joined forces Tuesday in searching the rubble and securing areas hit by the storm. The weather wasn't cooperating with their efforts: National Weather Service crews surveying the damage in Moore reported rain, half-inch hail and 45-mph winds over the debris field. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol asked motorists to steer clear of Interstate 35 near Moore to free up lanes for disaster response resources streaming into the area. And so many people were showing up to volunteer that authorities had to plead with would-be rescuers to stay away. Path of devastation . The tornado struck at 2:45 pm C.T. on Monday -- only 5 minutes after the first warnings went out, according to the National Weather Service. Moore residents had about 30 minutes before the massive storm entered the western part of the city, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said. Eerily similar tornado in 1999 . Among the many buildings struck by the storm were two schools: Plaza Towers and Briarwood elementaries. Of the nine children killed by the storm, authorities said seven died at Plaza Towers Elementary School where the tornado ripped the roof off and collapsed walls. Among the dead is 9-year-old Ja'Nae Hornsby, who was killed at Plaza Towers, her father told CNN's Anderson Cooper. About 75 students and staff members were hunkered down in Plaza Towers when the tornado struck, CNN affiliate KFOR reported. At one point, an estimated 24 children were missing from the school, but some later turned up at nearby churches. On Monday, a father of a third-grader still missing sat quietly on a stool outside. Tears cascaded from his face as he waited for any news. Even parents of survivors couldn't wrap their minds around the tragedy. "I'm speechless. How did this happen? Why did this happen?" Norma Bautista asked. "How do we explain this to the kids? ... In an instant, everything's gone." 'I love you,' teacher tells students . 'It's heartbreaking' James Dickens, a gas-and-oil pipeline worker, grabbed his hard had and joined other rescuers at Plaza Towers Elementary School. "I felt it was my duty to come help," he said Tuesday after a long night of searching. "As a father, it's humbling. It's heartbreaking to know that we've still got kids over there that's possibly alive, but we don't know." Track current severe weather . Moore, and the Oklahoma City region, are far too familiar with disaster. In 1995, 168 people died in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. In 1999 and then again in 2003, Moore took direct hits from tornadoes that took eerily similar paths to Monday's storm. The 1999 storm packed the strongest wind speeds in history, Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb said. "We're a tough state. This is a tough community," Lamb said. "There is hope. We always have hope. We always have faith." President Barack Obama, pledging whatever federal aid Oklahoma would need, praised teachers who protected their students. "If there is hope to hold on to -- not just in Oklahoma but around the country -- it's the knowledge that the good people there and in Oklahoma are better prepared for this type of storm than most," he said. "And what they can be certain of is that Americans from every corner of this country will be right there with them, opening our homes, our hearts, to those in need, because we're a nation that stands with our fellow citizens as long as it takes." 10 deadliest tornadoes on record . More trouble brewing . The storm system that spawned Monday's tornado and several other twisters Sunday isn't over yet. Southwest Arkansas and northeast Texas, including Dallas, are under the gun for severe weather Tuesday. Those areas could see large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes. A broader swath of the United States, from Texas to Indiana and up to Michigan, could see severe thunderstorms. "We could have a round 3," CNN meteorologist Ivan Cabrera said. "Hopefully, it won't be as bad." Severe weather 101 . CNN's Michael Pearson and Chelsea J. Carter wrote and reported from Atlanta, and Brian Todd reported from Moore. CNN's Greg Botelho, Catherine Shoichet, Holly Yan, Gary Tuchman, Pamela Brown, George Howell, Ed Payne contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

NEW: Mayor of Moore does not expect death toll beyond 24 . Ja'Nae Hornsby, 9, is among the children killed at the school, her father says . Authorities revise death toll downward to 24, including nine children . Crews going "board by board" in search for survivors, victims, official says .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Even by MIT standards, says Tom Leighton, Danny Lewin was special. "He was really exceptionally smart. MIT has a lot of really smart people, and Danny stood out even among that rarified environment," says Leighton, who was then one of Lewin's professors at the Massachusetts school's computer science laboratory. "He liked working on the hardest problems, as opposed to the easier ones, because they would make more of a difference." That kind of determination drove Lewin throughout his short life. He was an American who joined the Israeli army and served in an elite unit, though he could have avoided the military altogether. He was a mathematician who could have had a stellar academic career but decided to jump into business. Most importantly, in the late '90s he saw a solution to what was then called the "World Wide Wait" and, with his company Akamai Technologies -- co-founded with Leighton -- made the Web faster and more efficient. (Disclosure: CNN was an early Akamai client and remains one to this day.) Lewin died on September 11, 2001, at age 31. He was on American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center, and was almost certainly the first person killed in the attacks on that horrible day. His life is now the subject of a new biography, "No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet." If you've never heard of Lewin, you're not alone, says the book's author, Molly Knight Raskin. That was partly due to his low-profile life and business -- Akamai is an infrastructure company, and Lewin wasn't flashy with his instant dot-com millions -- and partly because his friends and family shied away from publicity. But she believes it's a life that deserves to be celebrated. Even at 31, she says, he'd already accomplished so much. There were so many different elements, she says -- his military service, his business leadership, his intellect, his savvy -- and she wanted to convey some of that energy to others. "It was about the way he lived," she says. "I felt like if he was motivating me as much, I felt like I could do the same for readers." 'Like lighting a fire' From the beginning, Lewin seemed destined for big things. Even as a child he was an accomplished violinist, performer and athlete. He loved computers, too, learning to program an Apple II his father brought home in 1979. He was 9. In 1984, his family decided to move to Israel, and Lewin grew up near Jerusalem. He often spent as much time weightlifting as on his schoolwork, the book notes; nevertheless he aced his classes while developing an enviable physique. The latter would serve him well when he joined the Israel Defense Forces and tried out for the Sayeret Matkal, the secretive unit known for the famed 1976 rescue raid on Uganda's Entebbe Airport. Israel was key to shaping Lewin's temperament, says Raskin. "Moving to Israel was like lighting a fire under (his) drive," she says. "He wanted to squeeze every last drop out of every minute out of every hour out of every day." The imprint of the country's intensity and its people's blunt manner were obvious to anyone who met him years later. Some Akamai colleagues found him abrasive, and Lewin -- who had a fondness for words -- joked about being "obstreperous." But he was also terrifically loyal, supportive of staff and worked as hard as anybody. "He was motivating, so if he did kick you in the butt and tell you to work harder, generally people responded very well to that," Leighton recalls. "People wanted to 'take the hill' if he was saying that's what we've got to do." It was enough to impress Leighton, the academic who says in the book that he would have been perfectly happy to spend the rest of his life solving proofs. What attracted him to enter the private sector was "a chance for us to make a difference in the real world," he says in a phone interview. "In the area where we worked, in algorithms and the theoretical side of computer science, often that work is good, deep work, but it doesn't change the world. It doesn't impact people directly," adds Leighton, now the CEO of Akamai. "With this work, we thought it would have relevance in the real world, and make the Internet be faster, more reliable, more secure. It was a chance that was pretty rare for us." 'His potential was limitless' You have to remember that the Web we use today -- with practically instantaneous results, broadband-fueled streaming video and at-your-fingertips devices -- was practically unimaginable when Akamai was founded in 1998. Back then, with dial-up access and overworked servers, a page load could be as interminable as the drip of molasses. And so Akamai -- the name comes from the Hawaiian for "smart" or "clever" -- was born. But even with its killer app, which lowered the possibility of crashing servers, there was no guarantee of success, even in the late-'90s dot-com era. Indeed, Akamai's first attempt at impressing the venture capitalists who fund such dreams, the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition, fell short. That only pushed Lewin to work harder. The company struck pay dirt on an unlikely day, March 11, 1999. That Thursday two events shook the Web: The opening of the NCAA men's basketball tournament and the first streaming of the trailer for "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace." While servers crashed all over the country, Akamai-supported machines handled the surge, and the company started taking off. The next two years were boom and bust -- for the Internet and for Akamai. In the aftermath of the company's October 1999 IPO, Lewin and Leighton were briefly paper billionaires. The stock scaled $300 a share. Then came the crash of 2000. Dozens of dot-com companies folded. By 2001, Akamai stock was selling for less than $5. Leighton says Lewin never lost his concentration. "We were both pretty focused on getting the job done, and that was true whether the stock was at 350 bucks or 50 cents," he says "It was positive reinforcement. If one of us got worried about a problem, the other would step in and say, here's how we're going to get past this one and here's why it's going to work out." 9/11 . Nevertheless, things were particularly grim on September 10, 2001. Leighton remembers a session stretching late into the evening in which the executives had to decide whom to lay off, including some friends and colleagues who had been with them almost since the beginning. The next morning Lewin had to fly from Boston to Los Angeles. "He probably barely got an hour of sleep before getting on board the next morning," Leighton remembers. Lewin was sitting in seat 9B. With his Israeli military training and understanding of Arabic, he may have figured out what was going on, perhaps even tried to stop it. According to flight attendants' calls relayed to authorities on the ground, the first passenger to be killed was seated in 9B. He was stabbed to death. Friends have always pondered the what-ifs. Lewin may have finished his Ph.D., something that always nagged at him. Friends thought he could have entered Israeli politics. Or he could have become a high-tech household name, like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. "Those who knew him feel like the world was robbed," says Raskin. "He was always searching for something greater." Leighton, who helped keep Akamai going in the dark days after Lewin's death, wonders as well. Akamai has since become a multibillion-dollar company active in cybersecurity. Perhaps Lewin would have gone that direction, using both his mathematical mind and his military training to fight terrorism. We'll never know. "I think he could have done whatever he decided he wanted to do," says Leighton. "I think his potential was limitless." ### SUMMARY:

Danny Lewin was a math genius who co-founded Akamai Technologies . Lewin's innovative algorithms allowed the Web to run faster, more efficiently . Lewin may have been first person to die in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks . He was likely stabbed to death on the first plane that struck the World Trade Center .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- In January, Bashar al-Assad sat down for a long interview with the Wall Street Journal. That was noteworthy in itself; the Syrian leader doesn't spend much time with the Western media. He was in confident mood -- saying that Syria would not succumb to the unrest then spreading in Tunisia and Egypt. That same month Vogue ran an effusive feature on Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, describing her as a "rose in the desert." But in his interview, al-Assad also recognized "anger and desperation" in the region and the need for reform in Syria, to "open up the society," as he put it. Change was needed, he said, but "if you do it just because of what happened in Tunisia and Egypt, then it is going to be a reaction, not an action; and as long as what you are doing is a reaction you are going to fail." Now, after 10 days of deadly protests in Syria, that "reaction" is well and truly under way. The government has responded with a mixture of aggression and appeasement. It has announced a substantial rise in wages for public employees, and has proposed ending the decades-long state of emergency and opening up Syria's cramped political space to other parties. The current Syrian constitution enshrines the leadership of the Baath Party, which both al-Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad, who died in 2000, have led. At the same time, security forces have swamped Daraa and other towns in the south; witnesses speak of a mysterious group of men dressed in black patrolling the streets of Latakia. Amnesty International reports widespread arrests of political activists. But the protests have continued, and one Facebook page following the unrest -- SyrianRevolution -- now has nearly 100,000 followers. The regime's carrot-and-stick approach may work in the short term but the widely respected International Crisis Group says President Assad has two starkly different options. "One involves an immediate and inevitably risky political initiative that might convince the Syrian people that the regime is willing to undertake dramatic change. The other entails escalating repression, which has every chance of leading to a bloody and ignominious end. " While it has tinkered with reform over the past 10 years, al-Assad's government is hamstrung by internal disagreement, endemic corruption and competing goals at home and in the region. That at least is the picture that emerges from analyzing the U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks. The cables acknowledge that al-Assad has allowed greater media freedom since he became president 11 years ago "with Al Jazeera, the local favorite, and al-Arabiya readily available via satellite." Local journalists spoke of shifting red lines, adding wryly that "it was much simpler under Hafez al-Assad; we always knew where the red lines were." Caution has been the watchword in other spheres, including a tentative "reset" of Syria's frosty relationship with the United States since President Barack Obama took office and a gradual reassertion of Syria's role in Lebanon. The younger al-Assad has blamed a rough neighborhood for slow progress at home. "We are not the only captain," he told the Wall Street Journal. "We were affected by the situation in Iraq or in Lebanon. There are many things that we wanted to do in 2005 we are planning to do in 2012." The cables shed light on how Syria has been run -- with powerful and often competing cliques dominating economic and political life, and intrigue trumping open debate. Part of the diplomatic traffic is devoted to the power of "regime financiers" like telecom magnate Rami Makhluf, al-Assad's cousin. A U.S. contact is quoted in a cable as saying "most Syrians viewed Rami in a negative light and his strong-arm business tactics had earned him many enemies." The same cable says corruption "was rife in Syrian government and society and had undermined the president's credibility with the Syrian people." There is also evidence of serious rifts within the security apparatus, with one cable from 2008 reporting that "Syrian Military Intelligence and General Intelligence Directorate officials are currently engaged in an internecine struggle to blame each other for the breach of security" that occurred in Damascus when Hezbollah's military commander, Imad Mughniyah, was killed by a car bomb. Several months later, a top adviser to al-Assad -- Gen. Mohammed Suleiman -- was shot dead at his vacation home on the Syrian coast. His killers have never been identified, although the Syrians blame Israel. Syria's long-term alliance with Iran and its sponsorship of the Hezbollah militia in neighboring Lebanon are also sensitive issues at home. Some reports from Daraa say protesters have raised their voices against both. Syrian officials quoted in U.S. cables say Hezbollah is a legitimate resistance movement and part of the overall Middle East peace process. In other words -- Syria's (and Iran's) insurance card against Israel. In 2009, the top U.S. diplomat in Damascus sharply criticized Syria's alleged delivery of ballistic missiles to Hezbollah. "Syria's actions have created a situation in which miscalculation or provocative behavior by Hezbollah could prove disastrous for Syria and the broader region," he wrote. Other cables suggest constant juggling by al-Assad as he tries to keep the alliance with Iran intact while not closing the door to negotiations with Israel. Fawaz Gerges at the London School of Economics says Syria is a critical regional player. "Instability in Syria means there will be instability in Lebanon, which is a divided country along sectarian lines." Iran, too, would be affected were Assad to go, he said: "Syria is a critical player that supports a non-Arab state. The West has tried to wean Syria off Iran but has failed." Barak Seener, a research fellow with the Royal United Services Institute in London, agrees that events in Syria could alter the Middle East landscape. "A liberal democratic Syria would be more susceptible to peace with Israel, irrespective of the status of the Golan Heights," he said. "In light of the opposition that removed Mubarak, it is questionable whether peace can be made with autocratic leaders that can be removed and not with liberal societies." Seener says the violence so far does not threaten the regime's existence but "will embolden the majority-Sunni population and Kurdish minority, who deeply resent the political dominance of the Alawi minority, to protest." Al-Assad is an Alawite. But so far, none of Syria's major cities has seen the sort of unrest witnessed in Daraa. Some Syria-watchers say al-Assad may even turn the crisis to his advantage by pushing through reform despite the hardliners and bureaucratic inertia. He may also benefit from a fractured opposition. Syrian analyst Murhaf Jouejati at George Washington University says that civil society has been stifled by decades of emergency rule. "The protesters are not organized. The opposition is fragmented," he said. "Civil society is not developed enough to be a counterweight to the state" even if intellectuals leading the opposition enjoy a certain amount of moral authority. Other analysts say the sudden announcement of extensive concessions smacks of panic, and that endemic corruption and high unemployment are beyond the government's capacity to fix. In addition, as the International Crisis Group notes, "as a result of events elsewhere in the region, a new awareness and audacity have materialized over the past several weeks in myriad forms of rebelliousness." Fear, if not gone, is no longer so pervasive. The International Crisis Group says much hinges on al-Assad, who is due to address the nation in the next couple of days. "He alone can prove that change is possible and already in the making, restore some sense of clarity and direction to a bewildered power apparatus and put forward a detailed framework for structural change," it says. As al-Assad also told the Wall Street Journal in January: "This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new." ### SUMMARY:

Despite concern, al-Assad forced to react to opposition . The regime's carrot-and-stick approach may work in the short term . In the long term, there is risk in any strategy, the International Crisis Group says . WikiLeaks cables show a government hamstrung by internal disagreement .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Steve Robson . PUBLISHED: . 14:35 EST, 16 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:02 EST, 16 April 2013 . David Edgerton, 23, has been jailed for nine years for the rape of a 14-year-old in North Wales last August . A judge has slammed police and prosecutors after a serial sex offender raped a 14-year-old girl just ten days after being freed on bail for another rape. David Edgerton, 23, of Connah's Quay, Flintshire, was jailed for nine years today after admitting dragging the schoolgirl into woods and attacking her last August. But judge Merfyn Hughes said the victim and her family are entitled to 'an explanation' after it emerged Edgerton was free on bail at the time, despite being arrested for the rape of a 42-year-old woman ten days earlier. Caernarfon Crown Court in North Wales also heard that Edgerton had a history of violent and sexual offences against females stretching back to 2009 including an attack on a 10-year-old girl. Judge Hughes said: 'In my judgement both the victims and their families are entitled to as . full an explanation of the matters which led to the defendant being at . liberty and able to commit some of the offences. 'I would suggest the . Crown Prosecution Service and police should offer to provide the . explanation in person if they so request it.' The court heard how in August last year Edgerton had initially attempted to abduct a 13-year-old girl in the village of Leeswood near Mold in Wales but he stopped when a friend arrived. A short time later he conned the 14-year-old victim into showing him the way to find a pub before dragging her into woods, threatening to kill her then raping her. During the horrific ordeal the terrified girl managed to send a message to her sister's Facebook page via her mobile phone saying 'help' and 'raping me'. Her family frantically set out to find her and the victim could hear them calling her name as she was being attacked. The victim's mother eventually found the girl after she escaped and got back to the road. 'It's impossible to avoid . the conclusion the psychological scars of what you did to her will . remain with her for the rest of her life,' he told Edgerton. At an earlier hearing, Edgerton was convicted by a jury of attempting to rape a 20-year-old woman in her bedroom at Connah's Quay, Flintshire, in June 2009. Sexual predator: David Edgerton had a history of offences against females stretching back to 2009 . At the time the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided not to charge him because the evidence available was insufficient to provide a realistic prospect of conviction. In December 2011, Edgerton was jailed for six months after grabbing a ten-year-old girl in Chester. The attack on the 14-year-old girl took place in Leeswood in North Wales . The victim had told Cheshire police at the time she knew Edgerton wanted to take her somewhere and 'do stuff'. But despite her evidence he was only charged with common assault. As part of the current proceedings, he was convicted of assault with intent to commit a sexual offence. Edgerton was also found guilty of raping a 42-year-old woman in Warrington in August last year. Judge Hughes remarked: 'The third time he commits a serious sexual offence and the police and CPS don't bring all the threads together and realise how dangerous he is.' The judge said the bail decision puzzled him. 'There's no explanation why the police and CPS couldn't have understood the danger this man presented. In the absence of a full explanation, which I have no doubt will be subject of a full inquiry, I find it difficult to express a view because I don't have all the information.' Last night Detective Chief Inspector Peter Shaw of Cheshire police said : 'A full review of the rationale and decision making surrounding the decision to grant Edgerton police bail has been conducted by the Cheshire Constabulary Professional Standards Department. 'In any criminal case, the decision to charge with an offence, and to give consideration to removing an individual's entitlement to bail is based upon the evidence pertaining to the offence for which the suspect has been arrested. 'The decision to charge for serious offences must be reviewed by the Crown Prosecution Service and only when the evidence is deemed strong enough will authorisation to charge be granted. Until this point, the suspect's entitlement to bail would remain and there is no ability to introduce further bad character evidence at this stage. Judge Merfyn Hughes QC: 'There's no explanation why the police and CPS couldn't have understood the danger this man presented.' 'The circumstances of Edgerton's arrest in Cheshire, in 2012, was the suspicion of the rape of a 42-year-old woman. These circumstances were quite different to that of the other offences of which he was suspected. 'Ensuring that offences of rape are dealt with in an effective, yet compassionate, manner is a priority for Cheshire Police. Rape and sexual assaults are amongst the most traumatic of crimes. We want victims to be assured that we are here to help. 'Anyone who has been subjected to this type of crime should feel confident that they will receive the support they need from the Dedicated Rape Unit and other support agencies we work alongside. Foremost, any victim of a crime such as this will be treated with the dignity and respect they deserve, and any allegations will be thoroughly investigated and with the needs of the victim as our main priority.' Justice: Sexual predator David Edgerton was finally jailed for nine years at Caernarfon Crown Court today . The CPS also defended its actions. Ed Beltrami, Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS Wales said: 'David Edgerton is a highly dangerous individual who is guilty of a string of horrific and violent offences. It is right that he has received a significant custodial sentence.' He added: 'Over the last few weeks I have reviewed the CPS involvement in this case so that I can be assured that we have acted in accordance with our obligations under the Code for Crown Prosecutors at all times. 'The CPS was first asked to provide advice to police on an allegation of attempted rape against . Ed Beltrami, Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS Wales, said: 'Some of the offences that individually . may have had weak evidence to support a realistic prospect of . conviction, became stronger cases when looked at together.' David Edgerton in 2009. At that time, a decision not to charge was taken on the grounds that the evidence available was insufficient to provide a realistic prospect of conviction. This was mainly because the victim was unable to identify the suspect with sufficient clarity. At that stage, this was the only allegation relating to Edgerton. 'In December 2011 Edgerton was successfully convicted of common assault on a child in Warrington. 'In August 2012 Edgerton raped a woman in Broughton, Cheshire. Police were still investigating this incident when Edgerton committed his terrible crimes in Leeswood less than two weeks later. The Broughton incident was not referred to the CPS by police until after Leeswood attacks had occurred. 'Once Cheshire police referred a file on the Broughton rape to the CPS, it was considered alongside the files on the Leeswood incidents. All matters were immediately dealt with holistically. 'Some of the offences that individually may have had weak evidence to support a realistic prospect of conviction, became stronger cases when looked at together. As a result, Edgerton was charged with all offences, including the attempted rape in 2009. A further charge of assault with intent to commit a sexual offence was added, in relation to the Warrington common assault. 'I am satisfied that the CPS considered all allegations against Edgerton in the correct manner, as soon as the evidential files relating to these horrific offences were passed to us. By doing so, the prosecuting authorities ensured that successful prosecution of all the offences was possible.' ### SUMMARY:

David Edgerton jailed for nine years at Caernarfon Crown Court today . Had history of attacks on females stretching back three years . Given bail following arrest for rape of 42-year-old in August last year . Ten days later dragged 14-year-old into woods and raped her . Judge: 'Victims and families entitled to an explanation from police and CPS'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Michael Zennie and Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 08:51 EST, 7 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:04 EST, 8 April 2013 . Promising: Anne Smedingoff, 25, was working to create opportunities for women in Afghanistan . A promising young diplomat from Chicago has been killed in a suicide bombing along with five other Americans in the deadliest day in the war in eight months. Anne Smedingoff, 25, is the first member of the Foreign Service killed in the 12-year-old War in Afghanistan. She is also the first American diplomat to die overseas since the consulate attacks in Benghazi, Libya, claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and Sean Smith. She had been working with schools and businesses to improve the lives of girls and women in the southern province of Zabul. 'It was a great adventure for her ... She loved it,' her father, Tom Smedinghoff, said. 'She was tailor-made for this job.' Smedingoff, a Johns Hopkins graduate, and the other Americans were on a mission to donate books to Afghan students on Saturday when their convoy was rammed by a suicide car bomber. Three Americans soldiers and a civilian Defense Department employee were killed along with Smedingoff. Four other diplomats were injured, one critically. The attack came when the Americans' convoy intersected with a convoy carrying the provincial governor. The governor was not injured, but an Afghan doctor was killed. An American civilian adviser to the Afghan military was also killed in a separate attack in the east of the country, bringing the death toll to six. It was the deadliest day for Americans since August 16 when seven soldiers died in a pair of attacks in Kandahar. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday railed against the 'cowardly' terrorists responsible for the attack. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Killed: Smedinghoff, seen here in body armor and a helmet among Afghan and American soldiers, was in a U.S. convoy when it was struck by a suicide car bomber . Afghan National Army soldiers rushing to the scene moments after a car bomb exploded in front the PRT, Provincial Reconstruction Team, in Qalat, Zabul province, southern Afghanistan . Tragic: Anne Smedinghoff worked in Venezuela before she volunteered for Afghanistan . At a news conference with Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, Kerry described Smedinghoff as 'a selfless, idealistic woman who woke up yesterday morning and set out to bring textbooks to school children, to bring them knowledge.' 'Anne and those with her,' Kerry said, 'were attacked by the Taliban terrorists who woke up that day not with a mission to educate or to help, but with a mission to destroy. A brave American was determined to brighten the light of learning through books, written in the native tongue of the students she had never met, whom she felt it incumbent to help.' The violence - hours after the U.S. military's top officer arrived for consultations with Afghan and U.S.-led coalition officials - illustrates the instability plaguing the nation as foreign forces work to pull nearly all their combat troops out of the country by the end of 2014. The attacks came just days after insurgents stormed a courthouse, killing more than 46 people in one of the deadliest attacks of the war, now in its 12th year. Smedinghoff's father Tom told the Chicago Tribune she had met Kerry when he visited Afghanistan last month. She has helped organize the Secretary of State's trip to the country last year, he said. He said his daughter died doing what she loved and believed in. The deadly day comes and American forces are preparing to pull out of Afghanistan . Passionate: Smedinghoff joined the Foreign Service out of college and was first posted in Venezuela. She later volunteered to go to Afghanistan . 'She was living in a compound that was heavily fortified and she was always trying to get out and do things for the population,' he said. He said family members would tease her about signing up for a less dangerous location, maybe London or Paris. 'She said, "What would I do in London or Paris? It would be so boring,"' her father recalled. He said she would spend her free time traveling as much as possible. Mr Smedinghoff said his daughter and her colleagues knew the assignments were dangerous, though she spent most of her time at the U.S. Embassy compound. Tragedy: Six American troops and civilians and an Afghan doctor were killed in attacks on Saturday in southern and eastern Afghanistan as the U.S. military's top officer began a weekend visit . Trips outside were in heavily armored convoys — as was Saturday's deadly outing. 'It's like a nightmare, you think will go away and it's not,' he said. 'We keep saying to ourselves, we're just so proud of her, we take consolation in the fact that she was doing what she loved.' She joined the State Department immediately after finishing college at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her first post was in Venezuela, . another nation where the U.S. is struggling diplomatically. When her . tour there ended, she volunteered to go to Afghanistan. 'She . tragically gave her young life working to give young Afghans the . opportunity to have a better future,' Kerry said in a statement. 'We . also honor the U.S. troops and Department of Defense civilian who lost . their lives, and the Afghan civilians who were killed today as they . worked to improve the nation they love.' Taliban . spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed responsibility for the attack in . Zabul and said the bomber was seeking to target either a coalition . convoy or the provincial governor . 'We were waiting for one of them,' Ahmadi said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. 'It was our good luck that both appeared at the same time.' Black smoke rises from the bombing scene, where the Taliban allegedly attacked a U.S. convoy leaving a hospital compound . The deaths bring the number of foreign military troops killed this year to 30, including 22 Americans. Provincial Governor Mohammad Ashraf Nasery, who survived the attack in Qalat, said the explosion occurred in front of a hospital and a coalition base housing a provincial reconstruction team, or PRT. International civilian and military workers at the PRT train Afghan government officials and help with local development projects. Nasery said the car bomb exploded as his convoy was passing the hospital. He said the doctor was killed, and two of his bodyguards and a student from the school were wounded. 'The governor's convoy was at the gate of the school at the same time the (coalition) convoy came out from the PRT,' said provincial police chief General Ghulam Sakhi Rooghlawanay. 'The suicide bomber blew himself up between the two convoys.' Nasery said he thought his convoy was the intended target. 'I'm safe and healthy,' he told the AP in a telephone interview. Adventure: Smedingoff's family said she traveled the world and joined the Foreign Service so that he could help people across the world . Insurgents have stepped up attacks around the country in recent weeks as Afghanistan enters what could be one of the most critical periods following the U.S. invasion in late 2001 that ousted the Taliban. The majority of U.S. and coalition forces are expected to begin a significant drawdown in the latter part of this year, leaving Afghan forces in charge of security across the country within months. Afghanistan also is gearing up for a presidential election next spring, and the Taliban have not yet accepted an offer to engage in peace talks in the Gulf state of Qatar. There currently are about 100,000 international troops in Afghanistan, including 66,000 from the United States. The U.S. troop total is scheduled to drop to about 32,000 by early next year, with the bulk of the decline occurring during the winter months. While there has been no final decision on the size of the post-2014 force, U.S. and NATO leaders say they are considering a range of between 8,000 and 12,000 - most of them trainers and advisers. ### SUMMARY:

Anne Smedingoff, of Chicago, died when a suicide car bomber hit her convoy in Zabul Province, Afghanistan . Smedingoff, a graduate of Johns Hopkins, was on her way to deliver books to a school . Three soldiers and a Defense Department employee were also killed . A sixth American died in a separate attack, making it the deadliest day since August .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Leon Watson, Helen Pow, Nina Golgowski and David Mccormack . PUBLISHED: . 12:55 EST, 2 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:28 EST, 3 May 2013 . Boston bombing victim Jeff Bauman Jr and Carlos Arredondo, the cowboy hat wearing hero who helped to save him have spoken out about the strong bond they have developed since that fateful day last month when they were both caught up in the unfolding tragedy. The photograph of Arredondo, 52, in a cowboy hat, rushing alongside Bauman, 27, and pinching closed a severed artery in one of his shattered legs has become one of the most iconic images of the tragedy encapsulating the day's heroism, suffering and humanity. Now a new image has emerged of the two, it was taken almost exactly a week after the Boston Marathon bombing and shows Arredondo visiting Bauman in his hospital bed at Boston Medical Center on April 22. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Strong bond: Jeff Bauman Jr., left, meets Carlos Arredondo for the first time since the Costa Rican immigrant helped save his life . It shows the emotional face-to-face between Buaman and the man that he credits with saving his life. 'When we first saw each other we . hugged each other and I gave him a kiss on the cheek because it was very . beautiful to see him doing very well,' Arredondo told WHDH. 'He was so happy to see me and he was so thankful. Tears were coming out of his eyes,' he said. Because . of the amount of pain Bauman has been in, their reunion waited a week to allow him extra time toward his recovery. Arrendondo wore a similar tan cowboy hat on his head, one he may be forever be remembered by after that now iconic photograph capturing the day's horrific events. '"You saved my life,"' Arredondo repeated Bauman's words to him which he described as 'very strong' to hear. Cowboy hero: Carlos . Arredondo, center, helps medical workers run Jeff Bauman . Jr. who lost his legs in the blast to ambulances . Jeff Bauman Jr. is currently in recovery at the Spaulding rehab center, he is responding well to treatment and is able to wheel himself around . 'I'm glad that I got to help him,' he added while saying that Bauman will go on to do great things for others. 'When Carlos picked me up and threw me into the wheelchair, then I was like, maybe I am gonna make it,' Bauman previously told WEEI of that desperate moment. 'Before that, no way. I thought I was done.' The two men have now meet several times at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston since that awful April afternoon. A strong bond has grown between them, with Arredondo saying Bauman is helping him to come to terms with what he saw that day. ‘It's constantly in my head, seeing . the people,’ Arredondo told the Wall Street Journal. ‘I'm at the spot of . the event, seeing the young man I helped, and the young lady who died . ... It's hard to sleep.’ ‘It's nice to have a friend, someone that age,’ he says. ‘I don't think this bond is going to end after the cameras go away.’ Improving: Hero Carlos Arredondo, wearing a similar cowboy hat, opened up about their second meeting on Monday at the Boston Medical Center and how much better his new friend is doing . Recovering: Bauman was visited by actor Bradley Cooper, seen left of him, and New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman right, in the days following the bombing . Pain and suffering are nothing new to the Costa Rican immigrant. The 52-year-old's eldest son, 20-year-old Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo of the U.S. Marine Corps died in action nine years ago. The father was dealt another devastating blow, . when his second son Brian, 24, committed suicide just before Christmas . 2011 as the final troops withdrew from the war which killed his brother. Brian had suffered with depression and battled drug addiction ever since Alexander's death. He has severed as an inspirational anti-war protester ever since. Now, he is urging those who were at the bombings to seek . psychological counseling early, before problems arise. Hero: A badly shaken Carlos Arredondo, who was at the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon when two explosives detonated . Arredondo has described how, as most . people ran for their lives when the explosions went off in Boston, he . vaulted a fence to get to spectators, many of whom had lost limbs, and . used his clothes and towels to stanch victims' bleeding. 'I jumped the fence after the first . explosions and all I saw was a puddle of blood and people with lost . limbs,' he told ABC News. 'I saw adults, much younger than myself -- . ladies, men, pretty much everyone was knocked out.' Mr Arredondo helped . Mr Bauman into a wheelchair that race medical staff had brought and . said he kept talking to the man so he wouldn't lose consciousness. 'I kept talking to him. I kept saying, . "Stay with me, stay with me,"' Mr Arredondo, who is a member of the Red . Cross disaster team, told Maine Today. A graphic photograph shows the hero seemingly pinching shut the femoral artery on one of Mr Bauman's part-severed legs using his hand as they rush him to ambulances. The day he learned his elder son had been killed, which also happened to be his 44th birthday, Mr Arredondo ​locked himself in a van with five gallons of gasoline and a propane torch and set the van on fire. Jeff Bauman Jr., 27, of Chelmsford, . Massachusetts, pictured left, before and right after, had been watching . his girlfriend compete in the race when the devastating blast went off . Bauman, pictured right, has been visited by Arredondo several times at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston . Peace . activist Carlos Arredondo's courageous effort to help the wounded after . the 2013 Boston Marathon explosion. He is ringed in this grab from . video footage . Brave: Seconds after the blast Mr Arredondo was pictured attending to victims . He survived, became a peace activist, and legally changed his name to Alexander Brian Arredondo in . tribute to his sons. In 2006 he became an American citizen. When . the bombs went off on April 15, Mr Arredondo and his wife Melida . Arredondo were in the VIP stands near the Boylston Street finish . line of the marathon. They . were waiting for the last of the National Guard runners, representing . Run for the Fallen Maine, an organization established to honor Marines . who have been killed since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. One of . those runners had dedicated the race to Mr Arredondo's son. 'There was blood on the floor, blood everywhere. Then what you saw was ribs, everywhere, I mean everywhere...' Mr Arredondo said afterwards. 'The device, the IED, went down and then it went up.' Mr Arredondo immediately sprinted into action after the bombs detonated, . and he can be seen in a series of photos and videos of the aftermath rushing to one of the two . bombing sites, then pulling debris and fencing away from the bloody . victims, clearing the way for emergency personnel to tend to their . wounds. Bauman, from Chelmsford, Massachusetts, had been watching his . girlfriend compete in the race when the devastating blast went off, . changing his life forever. Double tragedy: Marine Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo (left) was killed in Iraq in 2004. His brother Brian took his own life last month after struggling to deal with his elder brother's death . In his name: Carlos Arredondo holds a portrait of his son Alexander, who died during the conflict in Iraq, outside the White House in 2006 . ### SUMMARY:

A photo has emerged of the reunion between Boston bombing victim Jeff Bauman Jr and Carlos Arredondo rushed to help him . One of the iconic images of the bombing was a photo of Arredondo rescuing Bauman who lost both of his legs in the blast . A strong bond has emerged between the two men since the bombing . Arredondo says Bauman has helped him come to terms with what he saw that day .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Kelly Strange . PUBLISHED: . 08:10 EST, 29 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:25 EST, 29 May 2013 . A grieving mother is taking legal action after hospital staff branded her unborn son ‘lazy’ - when he actually suffering from a rare genetic condition that had paralysed his limbs. Lucy Copland, 27, was told by a sonographer that her baby did not move during scans simply because he was 'lazy'. But the distraught mother-of-three refused to accept that theory and demanded further tests - which finally revealed  her unborn son had a rare muscular and skeletal disorder that meant he could not move his arms or legs. He died just hours after birth several weeks later. Lucy Copland, 27, was concerned when her son was not kicking or moving during pregnancy. She repeatedly raised her concerns but was reassured by a sonographer that the baby was 'just a lazy boy'. Mrs Copland said: ‘It’s disgusting. They kept saying my baby was just a "lazy boy", when in fact he was seriously ill. The poor little mite wasn’t lazy. He couldn’t move because his limbs were fused solid. ‘I kept telling them something was wrong because I hadn’t felt any kicks at all, but they wouldn’t listen. As far as they were concerned he was just lazy and I was made to feel like a paranoid mum. ‘When we finally found out what was wrong with Alfie I felt devastated and let down that nobody had listened to me earlier. ‘I want justice for Alfie. No mother should go through that.’ Lucy was scanned 17 weeks into her pregnancy when she first raised concerns at Peterborough City Hospital last year. She explained: ‘I’d suffered a previous loss at 17 weeks so the scan was to offer assurance. 'They said I had a perfect little baby boy but I noticed he didn’t move at all during the scan and I thought it was odd.’ Lucy could not see movement when scans of baby Alfie (such as this one taken at 22 weeks) were carried out at hospital. It wasn't until 26 weeks in that doctors spotted a serious congenital disorder . At her 20-week scan became distressed again when she noticed the baby wasn't moving. ‘I kept asking why he wasn’t moving,' she recalled. 'He was like a statue on the screen. Alarm bells were ringing and I . started crying because I knew it wasn’t right. I became very . distressed. ‘That’s when the sonographer turned . around and told me not to worry because he was just a ‘lazy boy. I was . shocked. I knew that wasn’t right.’ Mrs Copland, from Crowland in Lincolnshire, . returned two weeks later for another scan where she again raised . concerns that her baby wasn't moving. She was once again assured he was . just 'lazy' and told to relax. ‘I couldn’t relax. I knew from my other pregnancies it wasn’t normal for him not to move at all and I begged someone to listen.' Lucy knew from previous pregnancies (from left to right her children Ellie-Mae, Rhys and Tayla) that it wasn't normal for babies not to move or kick. She said doctors dismissed her concerns and made her feel 'paranoid' But Mrs Copland said she was denied more scans. Over the following three weeks and five days she called the maternity unit 22 times, expressing concern that her baby still had not moved. ‘I felt like I was going mad. I knew something was wrong with my baby. It is not normal to get to 24 weeks pregnant and not feel your baby move,' said Ms Copland, who has three other children - Ellie-Mae,4, Rhys, 8, and Tayla, 6. ‘I was an emotional wreck and kept begging for another scan to look for movement, but I was told it would be of no benefit. ‘I even started to think perhaps I was paranoid.' Finally she was called in for another scan at 26 weeks and an emergency referral was made when medics agreed it was unusual that the tot still wasn’t moving. She was sent to experts at Nottingham Hospital the following day and it was quickly confirmed her son was suffering with severe birth abnormalities. Alfie was eventually diagnosed with fetal akinesia deformation sequence. He was delivered via C-section and died just hours later and before Lucy had regained consciousness. Her husband Ben (pictured) was forced to break the heartbreaking news to her . Mrs Copland said: ‘I’d been assured all along he was perfect whenever I had raised concerns,  but in fact he was so poorly every joint in his body was fused. 'That is why he had been so still. That is why I had not felt a movement or kick. He had never been lazy at all. Alfie died just five hours after birth . ‘I was utterly distraught and angry at the way I had been treated but my priority was my baby.’ She was advised to terminate the pregnancy when it was confirmed her son had the genetic condition Fetal akinesia deformation sequence. The condition causes the bones to fuse together and reduces lung function amongst other serious abnormalities. ‘It all happened so fast. If you’re told there is nothing wrong for that long and then suddenly advised to abort your baby your world collapses. ‘I refused because if there was a chance he could survive, no matter how disabled, then he deserved that.’ But tragically, just two weeks later, Mrs Copland s water’s went at 28 weeks and she was rushed into theatre for an emergency caesarian section on November 14th last year. Alfie lived for five hours but passed away before his mother woke from the operation. Her husband Ben, 27, cradled the newborn as he died and later had to break the heartbreaking news to his wife that he had died. She said: ‘I broke down when they brought him to me. I tried to dress him and his limbs were so rigid -  it was no wonder he had never moved or I had never felt a kick. I wanted to know how they could have missed it for so long. ‘I had repeatedly told them something was wrong with my baby. They should have listened. ‘ . Her son was buried next to the baby Lucy had lost at 17 weeks. She then set about seeking answers from the hospital. Peterborough City Hospital's general manager apologised for the blunder, saying that any comments made during Lucy's scan were intended to reassure her but that it was inappropriate that the sonographer suggested her baby was 'lazy' ‘I wanted to express what they had put me and my family through by ignoring my fears for so long.’ In a letter to the family, the general manager of the hospital explained the baby’s condition might have been missed because it only became noticeable in the later stages of pregnancy. Lucy is now looking for answers to the questions surrounding her pregnancy with Alfie . But Lucy disputes this: ‘I begged them to listen to me from 20 weeks but it was easier to dismiss me as paranoid.’ The letter from the general manager also apologised for this and said: ‘I apologise that you were made to feel that you were paranoid; this is unacceptable and the members of staff that you refer to in your letter have been seen … and their attitude and behaviour addressed.’ The letter went on : ‘Any comments made during the scan would have had the intention of reassurance. It was inappropriate that the sonographer suggested your baby was "lazy". This has been addressed with her.’ The hospital has also issued the following statement. Chris Wilkinson, director of care quality and chief nurse at Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: 'Firstly, the Trust would like to offer our most sincere condolences to the Copland family at this sad time. 'It is not appropriate to comment specifically about Lucy Copland’s experience, however the concerns of Mrs Copland were raised through the Trust’s formal complaints system. 'We have completed a full investigation followed by a meeting with the family to present our findings. 'The Trust will continue to offer its guidance to the family should they need any further advice.' ### SUMMARY:

Lucy Copland, 27, from Lincolnshire, was worried when she noticed her baby didn't move during scans carried out at 17-weeks and after . But sonographer dismissed her fears saying the baby was just a 'lazy boy' Over the next six weeks she asked 22 times for further scans and tests . Doctors eventually discovered the baby suffered with foetal akinesia deformation sequence, a condition characterised by fused bones . She was advised to terminate the pregnancy but refused and baby Alfie died just five hours after birth .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Harriet Arkell and James Rush . PUBLISHED: . 08:36 EST, 22 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:32 EST, 23 July 2013 . Two young women have died after apparently overdosing on substances after a weekend of drug-related tragedy which has left three families mourning young women. Jennifer Whiteley, 27, was rushed to hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning after taking a party drug but died after suffering a cardiac arrest at 5am. And a 29-year-old, named locally as mother-of-one Gemma Hurst, died in hospital in Newcastle yesterday morning having suffered a serious reaction to what police believe was an ecstasy tablet. The incident, which came on the same weekend as a teenager died in an Oxford park after allegedly taking ecstasy, brought the death toll by the drug to 13 this year, prompting police to warn of the dangers of taking drugs which may be stronger than expected or adulterated with poisonous substances. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Tragic: Gemma Hurst has died after suffering a serious reaction to what police believe was an ecstasy tablet . Investigation: Police guard the Newcastle home of Gemma Hurst, 29, who is believed to have died after taking ecstasy . The 27-year-old woman, from the Sale area, was rushed to hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning but died a short time later. Police are now investigating whether she had earlier taken the banned legal high Benzo Fury. Officers originally believed she may have taken ecstasy pills. They have not ruled out the class A drug but said they will not be able to confirm the cause of death until further toxicology tests have been carried out. It is understood Jennifer had taken the drugs with her partner at her home. It is thought both needed hospital treatment but Jennifer's partner later discharged himself. As part of the police probe some Benzo Fury powder had been recovered by officers. Detective Inspector Frank Morris said: 'Our thoughts go out to the family of this young woman following this tragedy. We will not be able to confirm the cause of this woman's death until we get toxicology results, and we are also working with HM Coroner. Response: Police and paramedics were alerted to a house in the east of Newcastle after concerns were reported about a woman inside . Scene: Officers inspecting Miss Hurst's home after she died in hospital after being taken ill at the weekend . 'However, we recovered a powder which is a "legal high" known as Benzo Fury, the legality of which is the subject of ongoing attention by the relevant authorities. Taking drugs can not only have dire consequences for the person taking them but also for their family and friends. 'Police officers do not want to make the house visit and inform them that they have lost a loved one. If you experience any adverse effects, please seek urgent medical assistance.' Benzo Fury, a mild stimulant that acts like amphetamines, is one of two legal highs which was banned for one-year by the government last month. 'Our thoughts go out to the family of this young woman following this tragedy' - Detective Inspector Frank Morris . The government's advisory council on the misuse of drugs will assess whether the ban on the two drugs should be made permanent. Home Office minister Jeremy Browne said it was being done to 'protect the public' and prevent 'misery'. In the incident in Newcastle, police and paramedics were alerted to a house in the east of the city after concerns were reported about a woman inside. The 29-year-old woman was taken to the city's Royal Victoria Infirmary after suffering a serious reaction to what police believe was an illegal substance. Today neighbours named her as Gemma Hurst, who is believed to have had a young son and who is said to have been hosting a party in memory of her brother Paul, who died five years ago. Friends posted tributes on Facebook today, with one from Shelley Marie Bias, saying: 'Seriously cannot believe it. All my love to Sheila and family. Gemma, you were a beautiful friend. You and Paul look after each other. Gone way too soon. RIP.' Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy, left, issued a warning about the danger of ecstasy after a weekend in which two people died having apparently taken types of the drug including 15-year-old Martha Fernback, pictured right . The young woman died in hospital in . the early hours of this morning and police have arrested two people in . connection with the incident. Officers seized a number of what are believed to be ecstasy tablets and . eight other men and women from the address were taken to hospital to be checked over before being arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of controlled drugs. A number of what are believed to be ecstasy tablets have been seized by police, who this afternoon bailed ten people pending further enquiries. Two people, a man aged 33 and a woman aged 23, have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of controlled drugs and are helping police with enquiries. The new tragedies come after three deaths in . Macclesfield, two in Bolton, two in Wigan, two in Buxton, Derbyshire, . and further fatalities in Salford and Warrington. Chief Constable Peter Fahy, of Greater Manchester Police, warned partygoers that criminal gangs were mixing the drugs with poisonous substances to make more money. The latest deaths mean 13 people have died this year from the drug, and have prompted a police warning about its dangers - they are particularly worried about super-strong 'pink ecstasy' (file image) He said: 'We have been concerned about deaths . due to drugs and overdoses and at the same time particularly concerned . that criminal gangs are mixing and adulterating drugs with poisonous . substances. 'People who take drugs need to be . extremely careful and if they have any information about who may be . producing this stuff they need to get in touch with us. 'It goes without . saying it’s being produced by criminal gangs and a lot of them are . reckless about what they put in there and are quite prepared to put in . all sorts of substances and mixing it just to make more money.' Further south, 15-year-old Martha Fernback died on Saturday after allegedly taking a super-strength 'pink ecstasy' tablet, also known as Dr Death or PMA. Martha, an only child, was found by a lake in Hinksey Park, south Oxford.  She was airlifted to the John Radcliffe hospital but pronounced dead soon afterwards. A 17-year-old boy who was arrested in connection with the investigation has been bailed until September 5. 'These drugs have become more available and they are a much dirtier form: they are highly potent and potentially lethal.' - Dr JS Bamrah, consultant psychiatrist . PMA is an ecstasy-style amphetamine which can be five times stronger than ecstasy and can kill by causing a potentially fatal increase in body temperature.  It can be an ingredient in ecstasy tablets. Last week, an inquest into the death of 19-year-old fitness instructor Travis Barber, from Salford, Greater Manchester, found he had died after overdosing on PMA. His mother Dr Louise Barber warned other drug users they were playing ‘Russian roulette with their lives’ by experimenting with the drug. Dr JS Bamrah, consultant psychiatrist at Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust, said the health service across the region had witnessed a spike in drug users falling ill after taking ecstasy, particularly PMA. He said: 'The problem is these drugs have become more available and they are a much dirtier form of the drug; they are highly potent and potentially lethal. 'What we are noticing is that users are becoming younger and younger. The drugs have a very strong stimulating effect and cause heart rates and temperatures to rise dramatically which can result in medical complications.' Sorry we are unable to accept comments for legal reasons. ### SUMMARY:

A 27-year-old woman died in Sale, and a 29-year-old died in Newcastle . Police believe Jennifer Whiteley died after taking party drug Benzo Fury . 29-year-old Gemma Hurst thought to have died after taking ecstasy . Officers say criminal gangs are mixing ecstasy with poisons which can kill . New form of ecstasy is PMA, aka 'pink ecstasy' which is super-strength . Martha Fernback, 15, also died on Saturday after allegedly taking PMA .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Rick Dewsbury and Associated Press Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 07:56 EST, 29 June 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 02:49 EST, 2 July 2012 . Endurance swimmer Penny Palfrey has had to end . her effort to become the first woman to swim unassisted from Cuba to the . Florida Keys because of an unusually strong and dangerous current. Andrea . Woodburn, one of the team members, says Palfrey halted her effort early . Sunday about 26 miles south of Key West and about three quarters of the way along. because of the changing conditions . Woodburn says she was in contact with Palfrey's boat and . was told the swimmer had gotten out of the water right around midnight . EDT. Woodburn says the British-born Australian is fine but gave no . further details. On track: British-Australian swimmer Penny Palfrey crossed the halfway mark Saturday as she pushed through the shark-infested waters in her 103 mile marathon swim between Cuba and Florida . Strike a pose: Palfrey, seen here slathered in sunblock, poses for pictures as she is flashed a thumbs up at the start of her bid to complete a record swim . Palfrey had been swimming steady and strong and . reported no physical complaints other than jellyfish stings earlier in . the day on the more than 100-mile swim, according to her support team . Earlier on Palfrey had crossed the . halfway mark on Saturday as she pushed through the shark-infested waters . in her 103-mile marathon swim between Cuba and Florida. Facing . jellyfish stings but otherwise encountering perfect conditions in her . attempt to become the first woman to swim unassisted the Cuba to Florida . route, the 49-year old grandmother seemed set to complete her task. A GPS tracking device on . Palfrey's support boat a few meters away from the swimmer showed she . reached the halfway point near midday, according to her website. Palfrey had been swimming steady and strong . and reported no physical complaints. She had finished 69 miles around 3 . p.m. Saturday, breaking her personal best when she swam 67 miles . between Little Cayman and Grand Cayman islands last year, according to . crew member Andrea Woodburn. Palfrey reapplied sunscreen and grease . to prevent chafing and said the water conditions had been excellent . other than the extreme heat. She even spotted a few hammerhead sharks . and dolphin pods. Crew members said she was barking orders at team . members accompanying her on kayaks and a catamaran as she kept up a . torrid pace in a battle that tested the limits of human endurance. Wish me luck: Penny Palfrey says goodbye before beginning her bid to complete a record swim from Cuba to Florida. She aims to be the first woman to swim the Straits of Florida without the aid of a shark cage . And away she goes: The 49-year-old grandmother dives in to start her epic swim to Florida . Earlier, at 8:38 a.m. EDT (1248 GMT), a . little over 25 hours into the swim, the 49-year-old grandmother was 48 . miles (77 kilometers) from her starting point at a marina in the Cuban . capital, Scott Woodburn, who is part of Palfrey's landing team in the . Florida Keys, told The Associated Press. She is 'alert and swimming physically . strong,' Woodburn said, adding that the bathwater-warm waters remained . calm. 'It couldn't be better for her.' The 20-year veteran of distance swimming is no stranger to jellyfish stings, which forced her to abort two past swims in Hawaii. The British-born, Australian swimmer . set off from Havana early Friday. A member of Palfrey's crew was . tweeting to fans, while a webpage updated her location every 10 minutes . or so based on data from a GPS device worn by the swimmer. Brave: Palfrey gives another interview before her attempt, against the backdrop of Havana's Hemingway Marina . Map: the treacherous route from Havana to Florida that Ms Palfrey will take for the 103 mile swim . The site . briefly went down overnight when it had to be reset, but was working . again early Saturday morning. As she endures a second day, Palfrey . will have to fight through physical and mental fatigue while fending off . dehydration, hypothermia and dangerous marine life. At her current . rate, it would take her a bit more than 56 hours to complete the swim, . slightly above her initial estimates. She would get to Florida Sunday . afternoon. If Palfrey succeeds, she'll go in the . record books as the first woman to swim the Straits without the aid of a . shark cage. Instead she's relying on equipment that surrounds her with . an electrical field to deter the predators. Her support team consisted . of more than a dozen navigators, handlers and medical personnel who were . escorting her on the 44-foot (13-meter) catamaran Sealuver. Support: Ms Palfrey (third left) with members of the crew that will follow her for the journey - estimated to take around 50 hours - and ensure she's safe from sharks . Australian Susie Maroney made the . crossing in 1997 at age 22, but with a shark cage. American Diana Nyad . made two unsuccessful cageless attempts last year on either side of her . 62nd birthday, but had to call them off due to a debilitating asthma . attack and painful Portuguese man o' war stings. She plans to try again . this summer. Palfrey began the swim in a regular . sporting swimsuit, but said Friday that she planned to put on a porous, . non-buoyant Lycra bodysuit that provides cover down to the wrists and . ankles whenever jellyfish may be a threat. 'Every single swim is individual. Each swim comes with its own challenges. This is a really big challenge, the Florida Straits, 103 miles,' the well-tanned, muscular Palfrey said. The swim was completed successfully in May 1997 by Australian Susan Maroney, who unlike Nyad and Palfrey, used a shark cage for protection. Maroney was 22 at the time, but Palfrey, who has three grown children and two grandchildren, dismissed the idea that her age could be an impediment. 'I think my track record speaks for itself,' she said. Cheerful: Ms Palfrey chats with TV crews about the swim which she is feeling confident about, despite the last person who attempted the journey failing three times . Last June, Palfrey captured the world . record for what are referred to as 'unassisted open ocean swims' by . swimming 67.25 miles (109 km) in the Cayman Islands, Cuba's fellow . Caribbean country. Ms Palfrey will have to contend with venomous jellyfish as well as the sharks that like to swim alongside people . Her resume contains a long list of . marathon swims, including twice across the English Channel, a round trip . in the Strait of Gibraltar and three swims around Manhattan Island. She decided to take on the Florida Straits after flying over on her way back from the record-breaking Cayman swim. 'We . flew from Grand Cayman island to Miami and out of my window on the . airplane I could see the Florida Straits. We flew over Cuba and I could . see Miami and it was such a beautiful sight,' she said. She started researching the straits when she got home and before long, she 'was already hooked.' As Nyad did, she will get liquids and food at regular intervals that she must take without touching the boat. There were reports that her crew killed several sharks that approached during her Cayman Island swim, but Palfrey said that was not true and would not happen on this swim. 'We don't kill sharks. We love the ocean. We like to preserve the ocean,' she said. Palfrey had planned to make her attempt a few days ago, but had to wait for Tropical Storm Debby to stop churning in the Gulf of Mexico off northwestern Florida. ### SUMMARY:

Marathon swim through shark-infested waters for 49-year-old . Halted her effort early . Sunday about 26 miles south of Key West . Last person to try the same treacherous route failed three times .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Sarah Griffiths . PUBLISHED: . 09:56 EST, 31 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:05 EST, 31 October 2013 . One man has taken on the role of protecting Earth from world-ending asteroids from his home observatory in Wales. While the sky-watching base might look more rural and less impressive then the vast shiny centres seen in Hollywood films, Jay Tate, 58, now has the UK’s only earthbound asteroid and comet tracking station. Every night he spends hours scouring the skies with a two-tonne telescope, monitoring large space rocks hurtling towards Earth and keeps a direct line to Nasa free for emergencies. Every night Jay Tate and his wife spend hours scouring the skies with a two-tonne telescope (pictured) to monitor large space rocks hurtling towards Earth. Mr Tate, who lives in Powys,Wales, keeps a direct line to NASA free for emergencies . Using a global list of known asteroids, Mr Tate observes their paths from his home observatory, which he shares with wife Anne in Knightood, Powys, Wales, while a series of robotic telescopes comb the sky for others. A former Royal Artillery Soldier, Mr Tate has survived on his army pension for 15 years after taking up the armageddon-preventing position. He paid for the expensive equipment, which he chose and installed so that he can track the space rocks, by using his own savings, money from his pension and donations from people backing the cause. He said: 'It’s not exactly a glamorous job, being an unknown protector, but someone has to do it and we are absolutely more than happy to step up. 'Of course it would be nice if we got paid for it, as an army pension doesn’t pay much these days, but until then will we just keep on going. Jay Tate, 58, now has the UK¿s only earthbound asteroid and comet tracking station and receives no funding for checking that asteroids are not on a collision path with Earth (illustrated) 'Since the country needs a centre like this and there is no one else to do it, we decided we would take it on. 'We have very good links with Nasa - they’re very much aware we’re the only eyes on the sky in Britain.' From their detached village home, Mr and Mrs Tate operate the International Spaceguard Centre, after Leicester’s National Space Centre cut its project earlier this year. After failing to secure a £360,000 grant to probe the solar system and beyond for asteroids, the undeterred pair continued to operate. Each morning they wake up, carry out any necessary maintenance and admin duties and conduct public tours for amateur astronomers and schoolchildren in the afternoon. Using a global list of known asteroids, Mr Tate (pictured) observes the paths of asteroids from his home observatory, which he shares with wife Anne in Knightood, Powys, Wales, while a series of robotic telescopes comb the sky for others . Kevin Yates, exhibition development manager at the National Space Centre said the Leicester-based centre operated the NEO Information Centre (NEOIC) for 10 years under contract from the UK government, which included daily monitoring of the risk from newly discovered asteroids and comets. 'We produced regular reports to Government on specific NEOs [near Earth objects] that rated above zero on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale and issued a monthly close approach report,' he told MailOnline. In 2012 the UK government took a decision to cease funding and the NEOIC at the National Space Centre closed. A spokesman for the UK Space Agency said: 'Even the very modest funds to support this activity could not be justified against a backdrop of reduced government funding and a growing emphasis on space for delivering growth to the economy.' Mr Yates said: 'We gave permission to Jay Tate at Spaceguard UK to use the name NEOIC.' But when the sun goes down the dedicated duo turn their attention skywards. Mr Tate said: 'Fortunately there are no known directly earthbound asteroids - that’s where we come in and help to identify if there are. 'We’re currently tracking a number that may eventually come close, while the telescopes will hunt for new ones. 'Everyone knows the sheer calamity of an asteroid striking the earth - from the extinction of dinosaurs to the 1,600 people injured during a small shower in Chelyabinsk, Russia, last year.' The Spaceguard Centre won the Europlanet Prize for public engagement and planetary science this year. They are currently in the process of . installing a 24inch six-and-a-half tonne Smitt camera wide-field . telescope so it can look for new hazards as well as track existing ones. The telescope is currently in storage, while the money is raised for a dome to house it. There . is currently no UK Government funding for the trailing of asteroids and . the couple are hoping to raise attention in the UK, rather than . pursuing help across the pond. Mr Tate said: 'In the UK there is absolutely no system set up; there is nobody to telephone. Pictured with his two-tonne telescope, Mr Tate said it is about time that the UK plays a part in the global asteroid-watching project. he said the country has no capability to spot smaller objects but an asteroid 50 metres across could obliterate an area the size of greater London . 'We deal directly with America and would have to do the same if we wanted to get the word out. 'The UK doesn’t play any part in the global project so it’s about time they did. 'We do not have the capability to spot smaller objects but something 50 metres across could completely take out an area the size of greater London. 'If something was heading towards us then a possible deflection mission could be mounted to stop it hitting the earth. 'But it would be up to the Americans as we couldn’t do anything about it here.' Mr Tate uses a global list of known asteroids to decide which ones to pay close attention to. His Spaceguard Centre won the Europlanet Prize for public engagement and planetary science this year as he and his wife show schoolchildren and amateur astronomers their ambitious project . However, the picture is not too bleak. A spokesman for the UK Space Agency told MailOnline that amateur astronomers such as Mr Tate are making 'significant discoveries.' He said that even school children are playing their part as students at Reading School have recently installed a new observatory, which is being used to search for asteroids, among other celestial objects. The school has been congratulated by Apollo 9 astronaut, Rusty Schweickart who spent over 10 days in space as a lunar pilot in 1969. He said: 'I am very pleased to hear of this development and its potential use for detecting and tracking Near Earth Objects (NEOs). Mr Tate, who is pictured here with a small telescope, said: 'We have very good links with NASA - they¿re very much aware we¿re the only eyes on the sky in Britain' 'This is an issue that my fellow astronauts and cosmonauts in the Association of Space Explorers consider of prime importance and we welcome the contribution that your facility might make.' However, while volunteers are monitoring potential threats to life on Earth, there are no plans for an 'official' UK asteroid detection facility. The UK Space Agency Spokesman said: 'The vast majority of UK funding for space is channeled through the European Space Agency (ESA). 'The European Space Agency does address NEOs on behalf on its Member States...as it recognises they are a global hazard, not unique to any country and that they require an international response.' This is partly so countries can share the cost and because any solutions to asteroids on a collision course to earth require cohesive global action, he explained. Speaking about Mr Tate's role, he said: 'I consider Jay a professional in the field and he has a unique and valuable contribution to make. 'Although he may not have followed the normal route, he is a gifted communicator, a very savvy operator and his previous academic engagement on the issue brought much-needed intellectual rigour to the problem when the nascent NEO programmes were being developed in the late 90's. He continues to act as a champion for the issue.' ### SUMMARY:

Jay Tate, 58, now has UK’s only earthbound asteroid and comet tracking station called the Spaceguard Centre, which is based in Powys, Wales . He and his wife spend hours scouring the skies with a two-tonne telescope to keep an eye on large space rocks hurtling towards Earth . The pensioner failed to secure a £360,000 grant to monitor the asteroids, but has carried on anyway and has good links with Nasa .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 17:21 EST, 12 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:39 EST, 12 June 2013 . Warren Buffett, the 82-year-old who in 2012 was named the world's third wealthiest person, has a right-hand woman: a 28-year-old Harvard graduate who some say is being groomed to take over from Buffett when he retires. Tracy Britt began working for Buffett in 2009 as a financial assistant, and in four short years has become a trusted confidante of the billionaire and chairwoman of four of his companies, which bring in $4 billion combined annually. In 2007, in a letter to shareholders, Buffett announced that he was looking for a younger successor, or perhaps successors, to run his investment business. Speculation is mounting that Britt is that successor. Climbing the ladder: Many insiders are speculating that 28-year-old Tracy Britt will succeed 82-year-old Warren Buffett when he retires . Like other Buffett lieutenants, Britt was plucked from relative obscurity to rise through the ranks of Berkshire Hathaway, the company of which Buffett is chairman, CEO and primary shareholder. Britt grew up in Manhattan. Manhattan, Kansas that is, where her parents ran Britt's Garden Acres, growing fruit, vegetables and flowers. It wasn't Wall Street, but this is where Britt honed her business skills and developed her work ethic. 'Every minute that I had to work on the farm, I hated it,' she told Harvard Magazine in 2007, describing being stuck on the phone with distributors during summer holidays. 'But it actually shaped my dedication, my work ethic, and the way I follow through on the commitments I have made,' she said. Britt went to Harvard and then on to Harvard Business School, against the advice of many around her. 'I . had to drown out a great deal of unsolicited advice saying that I . absolutely must work before going to business school. I was told again . and again that I didn’t have sufficient experience, I wasn’t prepared, . and I was downright crazy to think that anyone would hire me in the . investing field straight from business school,' wrote Britt on Lean In. Mentor: Since he hired Britt in 2009, Warren Buffett has gradually added responsibilities to her role, and now she 'takes care of all kinds of things that come up' Buffett told college students in Omaha last month . 'During one of my classes, we were assigned to write a hypothetical personal reflection for our 10-year reunion. Mine... included this sentence: My goal is to work with a great investor, who even more importantly is a wonderful teacher and mentor. After reading my thoughts, one of my classmates – an individual who worked for large investment firms for several years before business school – told me that I was naïve and as a direct admit, I wasn’t aware of what the real world was like and that after I worked a few years, I’d realize just how unrealistic my personal reflection was,' she continued. But Britt received the 'wonderful teacher and mentor' of her dreams, and according to the Washington Post, has an office next door to her boss's. She also helps with financial research and accompanies Buffett to meetings. In March after Berkshire and Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital announced they would buy ketchup maker H.J. Heinz & Co. for $23 billion, Buffett sent Britt to Brazil. According to the Washington Post, he wanted Britt to be familiar with 3G's operations. Over the rainbow: Kansas native Tracy Britt grew up working her parents farm before going to Harvard where she was president of Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business and founded the not-for-profit Smart Women Securities . 'She's got this wealth of information about what's going on at the Berkshire portfolio companies,' Sam Taylor, chief executive of Oriental Trading Co. told the Washington Post. 'She knows exactly what's going on and where Warren's head is at.' Buffett first met Britt when she and a fellow graduate founded Smart Woman Securities, a not-for-profit organization focused on investment education for undergraduate women in 2006. She contacted Buffett asking if he would meet with her members at his company's headquarters in Omaha, and amazingly, he agreed. Buffett has written about his belief that there should be more women in business, and has said that he believes women are key to America's prosperity. Off to see the wizard: Kansan Tracy Britt first met Warren Buffett when she contacted him to ask if she could bring a group of young women interested in investments to speak with him - and her audacious request paid off . 'The moment I emerged from my . mother's womb... my possibilities dwarfed those of my siblings, for I . was a boy! And my brainy, personable, and good-looking siblings were . not,' he wrote in Fortune magazine. 'So . my floor became my sisters' ceiling - and nobody thought much about . ripping up that pattern until a few decades ago. Now, thank heavens, the . structural barriers for women are falling.' During her undergraduate studies Britt served as president of Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business and continued to work on her parents' farm during summers. As a junior, she interned at 85 Broads in New York City, a global women's networking organization. There, she was taken under the wing of a woman who worked in the hedge-fund industry. Farm girl: Britt's formative years were spent working her parents' farm outside of Manhattan, Kansas, where she dealt with distributors on the phone during the summers . 'She provided me with the guidance necessary to navigate the industry, . as well as the insight and confidence to be successful in finance,' said . Britt in Harvard Magazine. 'In an industry dominated by males, it is hard to break in if . you don’t know somebody or aren’t the type of person to get out there . and push in.' The organization was impressed with Britt, too: Janet Hanson, the founder of 85 Broads, remembers Ms. Britt from her internship. 'She had some sort of internal guiding system that was propelling her forward,' Ms. Hanson told the Washington Post. 'She was on rocket fuel... this was a gal who was going to get what she wanted.' Business-minded: Britt says she always knew she wanted to be involved in investments and got a taste for business dealing with distributors on her parents' farm . Britt's next . meeting with Buffett was when she was fresh out of business school in 2009, when she . brought a bushel of sweet corn and fresh tomatoes from her parents' farm . to her meeting with the businessman. Following this meeting, she was made Buffett's financial . assistant and has gone from strength to strength. 'I intend to hire a younger . man or woman with the potential to manage a very large portfolio, who we . hope will succeed me as Berkshire's chief investment officer when the . need for someone to do that arises,' Buffett wrote in a letter to . shareholders in 2007. 'As part of the selection process, we may in fact take on several candidates.' In May, Buffett announced at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting that he knows who his successor is, but he declined to name the person or persons. But one thing is for sure: Tracy Britt is destined for great things - especially with a mentor like Buffett. 'Fellow males, get on board. The . closer that America comes to fully employing the talents of all its . citizens, the greater its output of goods and services will be,' he . wrote in Fortune magazine. 'We've . seen what can be accomplished when we use 50 per cent of our human . capacity. If you visualize what 100 per cent can do, you'll join me as . an unbridled optimist about America's future.' ### SUMMARY:

Tracy Britt, 28, is currently Warren Buffett's go-to girl with an office next to his, and chairwoman of four of his companies which bring in a combined $4 billion annually . Buffet, 82, hired Britt four years ago as his financial assistant and many are speculating she's being groomed to take over from him when he retires . Britt grew up on a farm in Kansas before attending Harvard Business School . Buffett has told shareholders that he's already chosen his successor - but won't divulge who it is yet .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Ross Slater . and Nick Craven . PUBLISHED: . 17:01 EST, 11 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 05:10 EST, 12 January 2014 . Seedy: The Rev Flowers poses in a photograph he posted on his Facebook page . Disgraced former Co-op Bank boss Rev Paul Flowers has resumed his depraved lifestyle of drugs and rent boys, despite facing fresh scrutiny by police and City regulators. Although he promised to seek help, the Methodist minister is still using the horse tranquilliser drug ketamine and booking male prostitutes. The new revelations come two months after The Mail on Sunday first exposed the former Co-op Bank chairman apparently buying cocaine and crystal meth. He was filmed counting out banknotes, allegedly to buy the drugs. Yet as he faces new probes into his . behaviour, little has changed in the sex- and drug-fuelled world of the . 63-year-old Methodist minister. Flowers . is due to be reinterviewed by detectives this week, as two City . regulators plan separate investigations into his professional conduct at . the time the Co-op Bank was brought to its knees. Yet . despite the renewed scrutiny. Only last Wednesday he asked a rent boy . to visit and promised in a taped telephone call: ‘I will have K . [ketamine] but that’s all. You get what you want.’ Rev Flowers had told friends that he spent four weeks in rehab before returning to his home on Christmas Eve. But . it wasn’t long before he was back to his old ways. On New Year’s Day, . he emailed an escort with the words: ‘Hi – happy new year!! You ok? Meet . sometime? Paul xxx’ The escort was a £400-a-night rent boy 40 years his junior who Flowers had met only once before, during an all-night drug-fuelled orgy at his Church-owned house in Bradford last October. When the younger man jokingly called him ‘Gramps’, Flowers replied: ‘Gramps!!! I’ll f*** you so hard for that!!!!!’. And as they try to arrange a time and place to meet, the former bank boss’s holiday diary proved packed: ‘Today [Thursday January 2] I am seeing Hairy Chris. Tomorrow I have to meet a friend at 11pm who’s coming back from London – to bring him over here for a couple of days.’ The ‘friend’ who Flowers took back to his house last weekend is a known ketamine user and the same man with whom he spoke of spending ‘12 hours in a ket hole’ in a text message on November 13. Back to his old tricks: Flowers at the drug user's house . Slinking off: The Methodist minister drives off after visiting his 'friend' in Manchester late on January 3 . The Mail on Sunday watched as the shamed minister arrived at the man’s house in the run-down Ancoats area of Manchester just before 11pm on Friday January 3 and drove him back to his Bradford home. The following Monday, he headed to Manchester again, this time to go house-hunting. And on Tuesday, he aborted a plan to see the escort he had been emailing but rang him in the early hours of Wednesday to make new arrangements. ‘Maybe you could come over tomorrow night later in the evening,’ he asked. At one point in the conversation, Flowers shows a distinct lack of concern when he hears the 23-year-old had overdosed on date-rape drug GHB [‘G’]. The rent-boy tells him ‘ I had a bit to much G last night. [A friend] had to ring an ambulance. Getting that blood gas thing is the worst ever.’ Flowers asks: ‘How long were you in?’ and after being told about five and a half hours, shows no surprise or alarm and goes on to discuss how he got some ‘good press’ that day over a Commons Select Committee hearing. When the escort told him he wanted to bring a friend along, Flowers grumpily replied: ‘How much have I got to pay for that, for God’s sake?’ Told it would be the ‘same as last time’, Flowers’ admitted he couldn’t remember what he paid before. He then attempted to negotiate down from £800, muttering: ‘That’s a lot of money’ before being told: ‘If that price is too high, we’ll sort something out.’ Later Flowers emailed over his concern that he didn’t want the other escort to be ‘off his trolley like last time’. Flowers was told: ‘Yeah, that’s fine, he won’t have ket,’ but three hours later, as they made their final preparations for the night, Flowers said: ‘I will have K but that’s all. You get what you want.’ On Tuesday, Flowers is due to answer police bail in Leeds over alleged conspiracy to supply class A drugs. Then he may discover whether he will face criminal charges. And last week the financial industry’s two main watchdogs announced they would be holding their own inquiries into goings on at the bank. The Prudential Regulatory Authority, . an arm of the Bank of England, and the Financial Conduct Authority will . both hold investigations into whether there was any failure or . wrongdoing at Co-op Bank. A . City source said it was ‘unthinkable’ that Flowers would not be called . to testify, although neither regulator would comment on their inquiries. In . November, Chancellor George Osborne announced a broad independent . inquiry into the whole Co-op Bank affair. But that investigation will . now have to wait until the two City watchdogs have completed their own . probes, which are set to take several months. Labour . leader Ed Miliband was drawn into the affair as he had held a private . meeting with Flowers in March 2013, a month before his bank lent Labour . £1.2 million. Flowers and Miliband had two other informal dinners and . three other meetings. Shadow . Chancellor Ed Balls’ office was also given a £50,000 donation from the . Co-op Group, but Mr Balls insisted he had never had any direct contact . with Flowers. Last week, the . Treasury Select Committee heard about the events leading up to the . Co-op Banks’s collapse. At that session, Clive Adamson, the man who . appointed Flowers as chairman in 2010, stood by his decision in the face . of outrage and incredulity from MPs. Mr Adamsons’s intransigence before the MPs delighted Flowers. ‘I’m . fine,’ he said in a phone call to the escort the next day, which the . MoS has heard. ‘Coping all right at the moment. I actually had some good . press today so it was all right for a change. Some people were saying . nice things about me in newspapers and on the BBC.’ However, . committee chairman Andrew Tyrie branded Flowers a ‘financial . illiterate’ following his embarrassing appearance before them last . October when he put the Co-op’s assets at £3 billion when the correct . answer was £47 billion. Crystal meth shame: How the Mail On Sunday broke the original story in November . The news of Flowers’ on-going depravity is sure to disappoint those who have tried to help him conquer his apparent addiction to hard drugs. When our story broke last November he issued a contrite apology admitting: ‘I did things that were stupid and wrong. I am sorry for this and I am seeking professional help.’ The following week, as his Methodist Church employers offered their support while also suspending him from his parish duties, he was caught telling a drug dealer to, ‘bring the boy Charlie’ as he arranged a rendezvous. A spokeswoman for the Church said she had no knowledge of the Church paying for Rev. Flowers to go into drugs rehab. She added: ‘He is still an office holder in the church and we will investigate thoroughly once any criminal processes have finished.’ The Co-op Bank almost collapsed last year due to a £1.5 billion shortfall in its capital reserves. Flowers’ solicitor Andy Hollas did not respond to The Mail on Sunday’s request for comments on the new developments last night. ### SUMMARY:

Exposed by MoS for using drugs and blamed for near collapse of Co-op . But here, embroiled in official inquiries and back with the police on Tuesday, we reveal shamed ex-bank boss visiting drug friend... ... and he's far from remorseful .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 16:38 EST, 23 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 16:54 EST, 23 January 2014 . Family and friends have paid their final respects to a Utah woman, her two children and her mother, less than a week after they were shot dead in a tragic murder suicide. Framed pictures and mementos of Kelly Boren, 32, her children, Joshua 'Jaden' and Haley, and her mother, Marie King, 55, lined the front of the Lindquist Mortuary Chapel in Layton, which was filled with people mourning the lives tragically cut short. Police say the four were murdered last Thursday by Kelly Boren's police officer husband, Josh Boren, 34, the father of her children, who then turned the gun on himself. Tears flowed during the emotional service, in which Jaden, 7, was remembered for his boisterous energy and loving hugs, and his sister Haley, 5, was thought of for her love of dress ups and ability to pose for the camera. Tragic: Family and friends have paid their final respects to Utah woman, Kelly Boren, her two children, Jaden and Haley, and her mother, Marie King, less than a week after they were shot dead in a tragic murder suicide. Seen is the third of four coffins . Service: Mourners pay their respects at the emotional funeral for the family at Lindquist's Memorial Park in Layton, Utah . Authorities still don't have a firm motive for the shocking act, though they have learned that the couple had recently separated after having marital problems. The service lasted more than an hour, and in a nearby overflow room, four coffins stood decorated with flowers, Deseret News reported. King's brother, Nigel McIntosh, described their family as close and one that enjoyed taking camping trips together as children. He recalled how his sister 'loved a night out,' and rebelled at school. 'She didn't like being told what to do,' he said with a laugh. McIntosh said in recent years she had become a 'very proud Nana,' regularly sharing pictures of her grandkids. Kelly Boren was remembered as a . kindhearted person who always took care of others, whether it was her . parents or her children, until the day she died. Tears: Nigel McIntosh, the brother of Marie King, speaks at the funeral for her, her daughter and her grandchildren as their coffins are adorned with flowers . Lives cut short: Family and friends cry while listening to speakers remember Kelly Boren, her young children and her mother, Marie King who were killed last Thursday by Kelly's husband, Josh Boren . When her mother was struck down with cancer at a young age, Kelly grew up quick, taking on the responsibility of caring for her. An aunt, Tracy Miller, recalled how Kelly loved planning family holidays, and a recent vacation to southern California over Christmas was their best ever, she said. 'She was so full of life and wanted to experience it all,' Miller recalled. Jaden's second-grade teacher told the congregation about the time the class took a field trip by train to Salt Lake City. 'To keep the train going, he and some boys decided to jog in place all the way to Salt Lake,' she said. Haley was remembered as being a 'sassy little treasure who could wrap men and boys around her finger,' Miller said. 'She was a girl's girl from the start. 'Both kids had their mom totally . wrapped around their fingers,' she said, sobbing. 'Kelly and the kids . had a remarkable bond. Kelly and the kids were such amazing, wonderful . people.' Cheryl King spoke of her stepdaughter's kind nature. Horror: Authorities believe Josh Boren killed his wife, Kelly and their two children, Jaden and Haley, and his mother-in-law before taking his own life. Friends have now said Kelly was going to file for divorce . Killed: Marie King, 55, pictured,Boren's mother-in-law, was found dead in a separate bedroom . 'We haven't even thought how we'll move forward,' she said. 'We'll figure it out as we go along.' She also thanked Josh Boren's family, who attended the funeral, for reaching out since the shooting. 'We can only imagine the depth of your sorrow,' she said. 'You are an incredible family and in our hearts.' A funeral service for Josh Boren was scheduled for today in Spanish Fork. The family were remembered after it was revealed Kelly Boren texted a friend to say she couldn't stand her husband's rage just hours before the tragedy. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Kelly feared her husband and told a friend she was about to file for divorce after ongoing problems in their marriage. One of her fitness workout partners, . RiRi Whiting, had helped persuade Kelly to separate from Josh a few . months before the killings. That day, Kelly . sent Whiting a text saying she had decided to get a divorce and . couldn't stand her husband's rage anymore, Whiting told the Tribune. Force: Colleagues went to check on Boren, pictured, when he failed to turn up to his police officer shift . Cute: The lives of Haley, left, and Jaden, right, Boren were tragically cut short . Whiting asked her what she meant and Kelly said she would explain later that night at the gym - but she never showed up. The separation was nothing new, another . friend, Stacy Archuleta said, explaining that in 2010, Josh had slept . on the couch for six months as Kelly considered divorcing him. Archuleta said 'many other people in our community knew of these problems, and none of us dared to go to anybody.' She added that Kelly had told her she was unhappy and felt unsafe, but urged her friend not to tell anyone in case it affected chances of reconciliation, the Tribune reported. 'I wish I would have said something back then,' Archuleta said. 'I was afraid I would upset her.' Police have said they were never . called to the home over the four years the family living in Spanish . Fork, but Kelly told her friends her husband was abusive. But the couple had been going to events together and had a counseling session planned for the week of their deaths. Horror: Jeff King, pictured, said two 'very compassionate' Davis County sheriffs rand his doorbell early Friday morning to give him the shocking news that his family had been murdered . Crime scene: Marie King was found dead in one upstairs bedroom. Kelly Boren, Josh Boren and their children were in another bedroom of the two story home, pictured . Earlier this week, Kelly's father spoke out about the murder-suicide, calling it 'unimaginable.' Jeff King said two Davis County sheriffs rang his doorbell to give him the shocking news. 'Police . show up at your door in the early hours and tell you your only child is . dead, your grandchildren are dead, your ex-wife is dead and the . son-in-law you trusted and counted on to look after your child is...' the Layton man said Monday. 'You look for understanding, and there is none,' King told Deseret News. 'You can't describe how you're feeling. ...They were my whole world.' Boren's colleagues became concerned at around 11 p.m. Thursday when the officer didn't show up for work as scheduled at 10 p.m. They went to check on him and spotted blood and shell casings on the carpet through the window of the family's home. After officers entered the house, they discovered 'a large quantity of blood on the stairway leading to the second floor of the residence.' Marie King was found dead in one upstairs bedroom. The bodies of Kelly Boren, Josh Boren and their children were in another. ### SUMMARY:

Framed pictures of Kelly Boren, 32, her children, Jaden and Haley, and her mother, Marie King, 55, lined a Layton, Utah, church Wednesday . The building was filled with people mourning the lives tragically cut short . Police say the four were murdered last Thursday by Kelly Boren's police officer husband, Josh Boren, 34, who then turned the gun on himself . Tears flowed during the emotional service, in which Jaden, 7, was remembered for his boisterous energy and loving hugs, and his sister Haley, 5, was remembered for being a girly girl . A funeral service for Josh Boren was scheduled for today in Spanish Fork .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Anthony Bond . Controversial: Russia's President Vladimir Putin has rejected criticism of the imprisonment of the female punk band Pussy Riot by claiming 'they would be at home doing housework' if they had not 'broken the law' Russia's President Vladimir Putin has rejected criticism of the imprisonment of the female punk band Pussy Riot by claiming 'they would be at home doing housework if they had not broken the law'. Speaking to a group of foreign Russian experts, Putin said the bands three members deserved their fate because they threatened the moral foundations of Russia. During the two-hour dinner, the president, now in his 13th . year running Russia, became animated only when asked about the band. According to The Independent, Putin said: 'Whether the sentence was too much or too little is not for me to . judge,' he said. 'That is a matter for the court.' He added: 'If they had not broken the law, they would now . be at home, doing the housework, or back at their jobs.' Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, were convicted of . ‘hooliganism motivated by religious hatred’ in August, after they burst . into a cathedral to protest against Vladmir Putin. They were sentenced to two years in jail for the stunt, a punishment that many in the West said was too harsh. A third convicted band member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was released on . appeal when a court suspended her sentence after her lawyer argued that . she had been pulled away from the cathedral's altar before the protest . song began. At yesterday's dinner Putin asked why Westerners who criticized Russia for sending . two of the young women to labor camps far from Moscow had not come out . in support of a jailed American who made an anti-Muslim hate film. 'Do . you want to support people with such views? If you do, then why do you . not support the guy who is sitting in prison for the film about the . Muslims?' the president shot back. This . was an apparent reference to 'The Innocence of Muslims', a hate . video that triggered violent protests across the Islamic world when it . was aired on the Internet. Jailed: Members of Pussy Riot sit in a glass-walled cage during a court hearing in Moscow earlier this year. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, right, Maria Alyokhina, centre, and Yekaterina Samutsevich left, are pictured . An . actress in the film has identified an Egyptian-born Californian, Mark . Basseley Youssef, as its author. Youssef is currently detained on . suspicion of violating his probation terms for a bank fraud conviction. 'We . have red lines beyond which starts the destruction of the moral . foundations of our society,' Putin went on. 'If people cross this line . they should be made responsible in line with the law.' He described Pussy Riot's protest as 'an act of group sex aimed at hurting religious feelings'. Putin's . comments came amid a wider clampdown on dissent in Russia, which has . included arrests of opposition leaders on criminal charges and tighter . controls on media. This . has led to fears that the political system, which is highly centralized . under the Kremlin, is becoming increasingly ossified and intolerant. Sent away: Alekhina and Tolokonnikova were transferred from a Moscow prison, pictured, to remote camps over the weekend . Putin's comments were made during a seven-course meal with the Valdai Club of foreign journalists . and academics at his Stalin-era residence in a wooded compound outside . Moscow. The Valdai . members were kept waiting in a separate room for an hour and a half for . the meeting, while Putin met a group of factory workers and teachers . from the Volga region to discuss religious cults. Putin spent most of his time carefully explaining how his country was trying to improve the business climate and diversify the economy away from its heavy dependence on oil and gas by promoting high-tech industries. The Kremlin chief said he had 'mixed feelings' about a $55 billion state-sponsored takeover of the country's number three private oil producer TNK-BP last week because it increased state-controlled Rosneft's domination of the energy sector. But Putin said he acted to help BP and put an end to 'fistfights' between the British oil major and its four Soviet-born oligarch partners. 'We tried not to get involved, but when BP managers came to me and the government and said we want to cooperate with Rosneft, we could not say no,' said Putin. Rosneft is run by a longtime close Putin ally, Igor Sechin, and the deal will give BP a stake of nearly 20 per cent. Outrage: Pussy Riot members clad in balaclavas stage their protest inside Christ The Saviour Cathedral in Moscow in February . Putin said he was implementing new laws and reforming the courts to reach a target of moving Russia up from its 112th place in the annual World Bank rankings for ease of doing business - below Pakistan - to a top 20 place by 2018. Putin deflected a question about the possible stagnation of the system by saying Russia was re-introducing direct elections for state governors, making it easier for political parties to register and allowing citizens to petition the state Duma (parliament) directly with proposals. Many of the same faces who worked with Putin when he was deputy mayor of St Petersburg in the early 1990s are still in senior positions in Moscow in the government and in state companies. But Putin said around two-thirds of the members of the government had been changed when he returned to the Kremlin earlier this year, swapping places with his protégé Dmitry Medvedev, who is now prime minister. 'I prefer to choose qualified, experienced people who have proved they can do well,' the president explained. He rejected suggestions that there were any disputes inside the government in the wake of the departure just over a year ago of long-time Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. Putin insisted that Russia would continue to give a high priority to growing its trade with its top business partner China, aiming to boost bilateral business to $100 billion a year from current levels of $83.5 billion. Beijing and Moscow were also keen to do as much trade as possible in their national currencies, he said, noting that the rouble was fully convertible and that it was a 'matter of time' until the yuan was, too. By contrast, he berated the European Union for its 'ridiculous' slowness in agreeing a visa-free regime for Russia and attacked Brussels for not taking him up on an offer of cooperation on a new satellite navigation system between the European Galileo system and Russia's GLONASS project. 'The EU has a visa-free regime with certain Latin American countries, and I don't think their crime levels are any less than ours,' he said. 'I don't understand this approach.' Locked up: Band member Maria Alyokhina smiles to her supporters as she is delivered to Khamovnichesky district court in Moscow, Russia . Putin also had a ready answer for a questioner who enquired how he would stop an exodus of talented, qualified young people to the West. It was entirely normal, he said, for young people to study and work in other countries where there was more money or a good education on offer. And what would the president want historians to highlight as the greatest achievement of his third term in the Kremlin? 'You know, I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work,' Putin said, before highlighting how the economy had doubled in size under his stewardship, average incomes had soared, gold reserves were the world's fourth biggest, the birth rate had increased - all what he termed 'modest, positive changes ... but not enough'. 'We need to create a democratic, effective system of governance so that people feel they are participating,' he said. 'We need to create an effective economy which is looking forward and to guarantee the country's security. I am sure we are capable of solving all these problems.' ### SUMMARY:

Putin said the bands three members deserved their fate because . they threatened the moral foundations of Russia . Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, have been sentenced to two years in jail after bursting . into a cathedral to protest against Putin . A third convicted band member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was released on . appeal . Putin also described Pussy Riot's protest as 'an act of group sex aimed at hurting religious feelings'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Harcharan Chandhoke . Seasoned cricket observers in England can be forgiven if they are scratching their heads and struggling to recognise many of the names in India’s touring party. Even us Indian fans barely know who some of the players are. This must be, by some distance, the most inexperienced Indian squad to have toured England for several decades. Only three of them have played Test cricket here before, and they now find themselves facing a full five-match series in England for the first time since 1959. Leaders: India coach Duncan Fletcher (left) and captain MS Dhoni in training ahead of the first Test . In fact the last occasion India played five Tests against anyone was back in 2002, when the grizzled old captain MS Dhoni was still three years away from his debut. It is a far cry from the collection of ‘galacticos’ – Tendulkar, Dravid, Laxman et al – who last toured here in 2011. That ageing team, which arrived as the world No 1, suffered the humiliation of a 4-0 whitewash that marked a violent end to the dominance of India’s golden generation. If even that star-studded side capitulated so horribly in English conditions, then some may ask what hope there is for the current crop? Including that tour three years ago, India have been defeated in all of their last four away Test series, losing 10 of the 12 matches played. Little wonder then that the media-averse coach Duncan Fletcher, in one of the few pronouncements he will make all summer, was keen to label his charges as youthful and inexperienced underdogs. But the wily old strategist, who has been allowed to continue developing a new generation of players despite the sequence of poor results, also raised the suggestion ‘they might fire from this series’ onwards. The new star: Virat Kohli typifies the loud and brash nature of the modern India . While he was careful not to mention it, he has no doubt taken huge encouragement from England’s own dreadful tally of losing six of their last seven Tests. In reality, this is a series between two rather weak sides that are still struggling to reinvent themselves after the sudden loss of several very fine players, whether through retirement, ill-health or ill-discipline. And the main cause of India’s torment three years ago – a disciplined and relentless bowling unit led by Jimmy Anderson at the peak of his powers – is looking nothing like the force it was back then. At the very least, there should be enough strength in India’s traditional virtue – its batting  – to avoid a repeat of the 2011 whitewash. Their first aim will be to avert defeat in the opening two Tests at Trent Bridge and Lord’s, where the bowling conditions are often very much to England’s liking. As the series goes on, and if we do indeed experience the long and hot summer tentatively promised by weather forecasters, then the pitches will become more like the dustbowls the Indians know back home. Legends: Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid (right) were the bedrock of India's fearsome batting line-up . The batting hopes will rest, in particular, on the shoulders of two men who may eventually go some distance towards emulating the great names they have succeeded. Cheteshwar Pujara, a classical technician who looks like he was born to play Test cricket, is the natural heir to Rahul Dravid in the No 3 slot. With a batting average close to 60 from his 19 Tests, he has scored centuries against all five nations he has faced, including an unbeaten double hundred against England. While Pujara is something of a throwback to a bygone era, the other key batsman – Virat Kohli – typifies the brash and loud nature of modern India. Like several of his colleagues, he was a multi-millionaire and domestic celebrity before he had even played a single Test match - purely on the back of some big hitting in ODIs and the IPL. Many traditionalists probably took quiet satisfaction when Kohli initially struggled in the longer and more difficult form of the great game. But despite his rather blingy outward appearance, he has a furious work ethic and his Test average is now in the high 40s and still rising. He is starting to become a worthy holder of the number four slot vacated by Sachin Tendulkar’s retirement. Born to play Test cricket: Cheteshwar Pujara is the natural heir to Dravid . There is also considerable talent elsewhere in the batting line-up, at least on the evidence of shorter forms of cricket, although it has yet to prove itself consistently in the five-day version. The openers Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan have shown genuine signs of promise, but they failed to post a single stand of 50 in their last eight attempts. The recall of veteran opener Gautam Gambhir, whose last international appearance was 18 months ago, indicates all is not right at the top of the Indian order. Lower down the order the stylish Rohit Sharma, who scored centuries in his first two Test innings, deserves to keep his place despite a subsequent dip in form. Ajinkya Rahane and the spinning all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja have also shown they can perform if handed the final batting slot. But to raise their ambitions and actually win a match or two, India will have to take 20 wickets. And it is here that the weaknesses in the squad really begin to show. In their warm-up matches they failed to make proper inroads into the batting line-up of not only Leicestershire but also a Derbyshire side placed second bottom in the second division that chose to field many 2nd XI players. The Indian pace attack, if it can be so called, will be led in the experience stakes by the shaggy-haired beanpole Ishant Sharma. He is accurate and generates good bounce but is yet to develop into a true match-winner and fulfil the huge promise he showed as a teenage debutant. The more likely source of wickets is Mohammed Shami, who has demonstrated in his six Tests that he has a precise radar and can move the ball – attributes suited to bowling in England. His new-ball partner Bhuvneshwar Kumar has similar qualities and also the useful knack of taking early wickets when there is plenty of swing in the air, but perhaps lacks the pace to do damage once the cherry has lost its shine. Spine of the team: India's Stuart Binny receives a back massage during the nets session . There is serious speed, however, in the form of Varun Aaron, who has regularly been clocked above 90mph. Nobody puts him in the shade: Kohli is India's main man with the bat . He can also trouble batsmen with movement if he lands the ball in the right place. The only problem is that he doesn’t do so very often. Much may depend on whether Fletcher – so familiar with English conditions – can get these and any other seamers he uses to capitalise on whatever help there is from the pitches and climate. It is difficult to forecast how much Fletcher will use the lead spinner, Ravichandran Ashwin, particularly in the opening matches. While often deadly at home, he failed to take a single wicket and conceded 108 runs in the sole away Test away he was selected for, in South Africa, in the last two years. The lack of penetration and experience among the bowlers means India may choose to adopt a cautious and realistic approach for much of the series rather than going for all-out attack. On their recent winter tours to South Africa and New Zealand, they got into several winning positions and competed until the end before ultimately losing both series 1-0. They will probably be pleased with their summer’s work if a similar pattern is repeated in England. But the victory of a similarly unheralded Sri Lanka team in the two-Test series last month shows there are rewards on offer for holding greater ambition and optimism. If they manage to weather the seamer-friendly conditions of the first two Tests and go into the final games with a fighting chance of a series victory, then India may yet prevail in what is likely to be a tight battle between two young sides still undergoing a process of transition. ### SUMMARY:

English fans will not be able to recognise some of India's players . Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid have been replaced by Kohli and Pujara . England's bowling attack aren't the force they were in 2011 whitewash . Captain MS Dhoni is the link between then and now for India . Sri Lanka's recent series win gives India hope . India coach Duncan Fletcher, formerly of England, will be key for tourists .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Sarah Griffiths . A baby elephant, who was found guarding the body of her dying mother, has been rescued and is now rebuilding her life in Kenya’s only elephant orphanage. Zongoloni spent her last moments in the wild with her mother, who lay critically injured from wounds inflicted by poachers hoping to steal her tusks. But two months later, the 'strong-willed' one-year-old calf has overcome her trauma and has found new friends in the keepers and other orphaned elephants at Kenya's Nairobi National Park. One-year-old Zongoloni has found new friends (pictured) in other orphaned elephants and keepers at Kenya's only elephant orphanage and is 'strongly willed' and a little greedy, as her rehabilitation begins . Zongoloni was rescued by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) as she cuddled her mother who lay dying from a gunshot wound to her leg. In September a gang of poachers shot at the animal and while a mobile veterinary unit tried to remove shattered bone and treat her wounds, they could not rule out the possibility of a bullet still being embedded within the bone and were worried about her future. Two weeks after the attack the large elephant collapsed and could not stand, leaving milk-dependent Zongoloni to guard her, even though the calf was scared and confused. Zongoloni spent her last moments with her mother who died from wounds inflicted by the poachers hoping to steal her tusks and was found grieving by a wildlife rescue team . Sadly, the Kenya Wildlife Service had to euthanise the mother who was in crippling pain from her wounds and after spending final moments with her mother, the calf was tranquilised and flown to Kenya’s only elephant orphanage, based in Nairobi National Park to recover with other young victims of the ivory trade. At the orphanage, Zongoloni now spends time with calves and keepers 24 hours a day, travelling with them as a group during the day, and sleeping alongside them within a stable at night. Keepers in Kenya told MailOnline that Zongoloni was initially understandingly very untrusting of them, given her experience with humans so far. Zongoloni was rescued by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) as she cuddled her mother who lay dying from a gunshot wound to her leg . On the right Zongoloni stands guard over her mother as she lies dying from a gunshot wound inflicted by ivory poachers and left, chases away any threats, even though she is only small and just one year old. Sadly her mother had to be euthanised to save her from any further suffering . Experts from the DWST tranquilised Zongoloni so they could fly her to the orphanage in Nairobi . However, she is slowly building bonds with the people who care for her that will last a lifetime. ‘In Zongoloni’s case, since her rescue she has been grieving for her lost family and during the day, chooses to spend some time alone,’ they said. ‘Like humans, elephants grieve for their loved ones just as acutely and so this is completely natural and a process that the orphanage has seen many times over. The daily routine of the orphanage and constant contact with the other orphans, including her friends Oltaiyoni and Lima Lima who she enjoys to walk with, provides respite from the grieving process and keepers hope that in the next few months it will gradually subside. Zongoloni’s keepers said she is a ‘very independent and strong willed little elephant’ Zongoloni's personality is emerging at the orphanage. Her keepers said: 'At the moment, she is very greedy for her milk feeds and dairy cubes from the Keepers and loves her hand-picked greens!' ‘For many orphans, losing their mother can prove too much to bear and many lack the will to survive through this loss, but Zongoloni’s strong spirit shows she has chosen the choice of “life” and she is a survivor - something that will aid her in years to come during the reintegration process,’ they said. ‘At the moment, she is very greedy for her milk feeds and dairy cubes from the Keepers and loves her hand-picked greens.’ While Zongoloni is still grieving her mother, her unique personality is emerging and the keepers said some of the orphans, like Kithaka are incredibly mischievous and ‘enjoy teasing visitors and engaging in lots of pushing bouts’. Zongoloni is one of the quieter elephants in the herd but she still plays in the mud bath and socialises with the other orphans. ‘Each orphan that reintegrates into the wild has their own traumatic story that they have overcome,’ the charity said. At the orphanage, Zongoloni is now spending time with calves and keepers 24 hours a day, travelling with them as a group during the day, and sleeping alongside them within their stable at night . ‘The young calves are hugely vulnerable and because of this it is vital the interaction between elephant and keeper is sustained.’ However, because elephants are so emotionally intelligent, keepers are alternated regularly to avoid an extra level of distress for an orphan if their chosen keeper is away. ‘In the past, we have sadly experienced the death of an orphan due to this separation, as young elephants are known to pass away due to a broken herd,’ the charity said. ‘The care and love provided from each Keeper is paramount to the survival of the orphans and we ensure our locally employed Keepers are with us for around 10 years to avoid added emotional distress for the orphans,’ it added. Bottle feeding is a relaxing time for the orphans and the keepers regularly hang large blankets when the elephants are feeding because it gives them an extra level of comfort as calves rest their trunk on the blanket as they would their wild mothers. Zongoloni is one of the quieter elephants in the herd but she still plays in the mud bath (pictured) and socialises with the other orphans . ‘It is our duty to protect these . vulnerable elephants, I will never stop being a Keeper’ said Goya . Golicha, a keeper at the orphanage. Zongoloni will be released into Tsavo Natural Park when she is ready, which might be when she is between eight and 10 years old. The . charity said it is difficult to predict the future of the orphans due . to the current poaching situation in Africa, but many of the elephants . revist the orphanage with their wild born calves to welcome new arrivals . and often when they have been injured by poachers or hidden illegal . snares. In a few years Zongoloni will join the older orphans at either Voi or Ithumba Reintegration Units to slowly become accustomed to a wild life among Tsavo’s famous herds to start her own family. She is one of 49 infant elephants rescued by the DSWT this year and her story shows the real cost of an ivory poaching crisis that kills a staggering 36,000 elephants across Africa every year. Elephants with calves and entire herds are slaughtered for their ivory, prized in the Far East in countries including China, for ornaments and figurines. Dame Daphne Sheldrick, founder of the DSWT said: ‘Individual personalities and family histories are lost each time an elephant is slaughtered for its ivory, with innocent milk-dependent calves like Zongoloni paying the price for man’s greed for ivory. ‘In these terrible times for Africa’s elephants, our anti-poaching teams and mobile vet units are on the front line against poaching everyday providing immediate aid and protection to wild elephants and rescuing those that are found orphaned.’ The DSWT charity is currently looking for people to 'foster' elephants for £30 a year. ### SUMMARY:

Zongoloni spent her last moments with her mother who died from wounds inflicted by the poachers hoping to steal her tusks . She was rescued by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) and now lives at Kenya’s only elephant orphanage, based in Nairobi National Park . While she is one of the quieter members of her new heard as she grieves her mother, the one-year-old calf enjoys mud baths and dairy treats .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: ISIS has released a slickly produced new video warning the United States of the carnage it wants to inflict in Iraq if President Obama deploys troops to the war-torn nation as he attempts to 'degrade and ultimately destroy' the terror group. Resembling a blockbuster movie trailer, the disturbing 52-second video entitled 'Flames of War' shows militants blowing up tanks in dramatic slow motion, wounded US soldiers apparently being executed and the White House in the sights of a shaky camera. It then shows a clip of the president from before the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq saying that combat troops will never return to the Middle Eastern nation, before the video ends with a text overlay that reads, 'Flames of War -- fighting has just begun ... Coming soon.' Scroll down for video . Threatening: The video is widely seen as a response to the Obama administration's decision to consider deploying troops to Iraq . The video's timing, released yesterday, suggests it was a direct response to General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told the Senate Armed Services Committee that fighting in Iraq may require the use of ground troops. The video was released by the al-Hayat Media Center, which has become known for its propaganda videos for ISIS which include high-production values, CGI explosions and slow motion footage. The video also appears to mock the United States by including an image of the infamous 'Mission Accomplished' banner that made an appearance on board USS Abraham Lincoln during George W. Bush's victory speech in 2003 following the US-led invasion of Iraq. President Bush's former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld also makes an appearance in the video, walking through Iraq during the occupation. Destruction: During the video ISIS soldiers are seen to unleash multiple and successful strikes on US troops and tanks in the Middle East . Blast: The video - which bears all the hallmarks of a highly produced Hollywood trailer shows the destruction of US military targets at the hands of ISIS . That image is then followed by a picture of the White House at night, filmed by a moving camera from what is presumably a car driving past. The movie is just the latest heavily edited video from ISIS, that has included gruesome footage of the beheadings of two American journalists and a British aid worker. General Dempsey told a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday that American troops might soon provide Iraqi forces with 'close combat advising' in the fight against the ISIS terror army. That clarification of the Pentagon's mission in the Middle East could mean that U.S. soldiers and Marines are embedded with Iraqi army units, helping them conduct warfare. Heavily armed: New York City police officers stand guard in Times Square on September 17, 2014 in New York City. A blog affiliated with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) mentioned Times Square as a target for bombing . Slow motion: ISIS militants are seen to heroically survive American attacks and retaliate with superior force in the video . Gen. Martin Dempsey, who chairs the military's joint chiefs of staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the American military is currently serving a purely advisory role. But in certain circumstances, he said, they might provide 'close combat advising.' Citing a hypothetically urgent mission focused on 'retaking Mosul' as anti-war protesters provided frequent interruptions, he said he could envision U.S. troops 'accompanying that mission.' Asked by New Hampshire Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte whether the president has ruled out the use of American ground forces in a combat role, Dempsey responded, 'Yes. But he has told me as well to come back to him on a case-by-case basis.' He said that if needed, he 'would go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of ground forces.' Mocking: The video attacks President George W. Bush's assertion in 2003 that the invasion of Iraq was completed . Ominous: The video shows a brief and shaky clip of a car driving past the White House filming it - clearly threatening the home of the US president . In his opening statement, he said that 'if we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific ISIL targets, I will recommend that to the president.' ISIL is an alternate name for ISIS. President Obama has maintained that American forces won't have a combat mission in Iraq. But Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe said Tuesday that he's not convinced the White House is true to its word. 'It will take an army to beat an army, but instead the President presented a limited counter-terrorism strategy,' Inhofe said during the hearing. 'His claim of "no boots on the ground" is an insult to the men and women in Iraq today who are serving in harm’s way. We already have boots on the ground in Irbil and in Baghdad and throughout Iraq.' Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey (right) said he might recommend inserting U.S. troops to 'accompany' Iraqis in combat situations, if airstrikes failed to neutralize ISIS . Protesters, from the far-left CODEPINK group, numbered at least 10 -- all of whom managed to get into the hearing room without a challenge from Capitol Police . Dempsey and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel faced multiple questions from lawmakers in the first high-stakes hearing examining Obama's expanded military campaign to counter the relentless terrorist threat from Middle East extremists. The U.S. military conducted strikes near Baghdad against ISIS, the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. ISIS has seized large swaths of Iraq and Syria. Obama is seeking congressional support to train and equip vetted Syrian moderates fighting both the Islamic militants and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Dempsey said the United States is prepared to strike Islamic targets in Syria. 'This will not look like "shock and awe" because that is not how ISIL is organized. But it will be persistent and sustainable,' Dempsey said, referring to the air bombardment at the start of the Iraq war in March 2003. Hagel seconded him. 'Because ISIL operates freely across the Iraqi-Syrian border, and maintains a safe haven in Syria, our actions will not be restrained by a border in name only,' he said. Doing Obama's bidding: Hagel, shown with the president after a Medal of Honor ceremony on Monday, is responsible for implementing his policies -- and taking blame if they fail or if 'mission creep' kicks in . Several lawmakers have their doubts about the United States being pulled into a larger war, with increasing numbers of American troops. The president has already dispatched more than 1,000 Americans three years after combat forces left Iraq. Many Republicans and Democrats have expressed reservations about the ability to identify moderates in a country awash with rebel formations and shifting alliances. The Islamic State grew out of the al-Qaeda movement, but the two are now fighting. In some instances, the moderate Free Syrian Army has teamed with al-Qaeda's local franchise, the Nusra Front. Hagel said the U.S. will monitor them closely to ensure that weapons don't fall into the wrong hands. 'There will always be risk in a program like this, but we believe that risk is justified by the imperative of destroying ISIL – and the necessity of having capable partners on the ground in Syria,' the defense secretary said. Anti-war protesters filled the front rows at the hearing, chanting 'No more war! No more war! No military solution!' at the start of the session and repeatedly interrupting testimony. 'War is not the answer!' one activist yelled as Hagel was introduced. Committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, snapped. 'Would you please now leave? I'm asking you to please leave. You're acting very warlike yourself,' Levin told them. Hagel said the involvement will not be 'an easy or brief effort. We are at war with ISIL, as we are with al-Qaeda.' ### SUMMARY:

ISIS release video threat to the United State on Tuesday entitled 'Flames of War' The 52-second clip resembles a Hollywood movie trailer and threatens US troops . Is the latest in a line of well-produced videos from ISIS and shows the apparent execution of US soldiers . Also features an eerie night-time drive past of the White House and finishes with the ominous words, 'Coming Soon' Is believed to be a response to American warnings that ground troops may be deployed to Iraq .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: As she walked down the aisle to marry Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie carried her beloved mother Marcheline Bertrand close to her heart. Wearing a locket featuring a picture of Marcheline, who died in January 2007 aged 56 after an eight-year battle with ovarian cancer, there was no way, friends say, Angelina could have not remembered her mom on this occasion. A source today told MailOnline how Angelina, 39, and Brad, 50, decided to marry at Château Mirava, the stunning French estate they bought in 2011, after Angelina made a promise to Marcheline to wed in France before her death. Scroll down for video . Adoring: Angelina Jolie - seen with her late mother Marcheline Bertrand in July 2001 - wore a locket with Marcheline's picture as she walked down the aisle to marry Brad Pitt last Saturday . By her side: Friends have told how Angelina promised her mother she would marry in France. The pair are pictured together at Los Angeles airport in 1998 . The source said: 'Angelina promised her mother before she died that she'd get married in France. They were so extremely close and this is Angie's way of honoring her.' Marcheline's father was of French Canadian descent, and her mother was of Dutch and German ancestry, with ancestors who had immigrated to the US in the mid-19th century. Despite her French roots, Marcheline was often wrongly labelled as a French actress, however,  as Angelina once said: 'My mom is as far from French Parisian as you can get. She grew up in a bowling alley that my grandparents owned.' Left devastated by her mother's death, Angelina said Marcheline was robbed her of the chance of being a grandmother which 'she was born to be'. It was Marcheline's passing that is believed to have prompted Angelina to make the courageous decision to have a preventive double mastectomy in February 2013, later revealing that her chances of developing breast cancer have now decreased from 87 percent to 5 percent. Marcheline,a fierce campaigner for cancer awareness, founded a charity called Give Love Give Life which spread awareness of the condition. She and her colleagues at the charity also successfully campaigned for Johanna’s Law to fund education into gynecological illnesses and got it signed into statute in the US. And mother-of-six Angelina credits Marcheline for having an 'elegance and strength for knowing what was right' that she has always tried to live up to. The dazzling brunette said: 'My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences. Everything was for her children.' While the designer of Angelina's gown is still unknown, E! News claims the star 'definitely wore something that once belonged' to Marcheline. 'It was a small locket with a photo of her mother inside it. She had a veil and Brad gasped when he lifted it because she looked so stunning', the site reported. Angelina and Marcheline were so close that the star has said that when she got older she considered her mom more like a ‘sister’ than a parent. Loving: Angelina Jolie, left, said her mother, center, didn't have the chances in life that she has had because she devoted her life to her and her brother, James, right . Nice find: The superstar couple leased the 35-bedroom property in 2008, before buying it for a reported $60 million in 2012. They married at the chapel on the property, pictured . The memory of Marcheline still can reduce Angelina to tears, as she said told CBS show 60 Minutes: 'I will never be as good a mother as she was. I will try my best, but I don't think I ever will be.' Choking back tears she added, 'She was the most generous, loving woman.' Marcheline married Angelina's father, the actor Jon Voight, in 1971 and had they had two children, Angelina and her brother James Haven, 40, an actor and film producer. The relationship was strained and they divorced in 1980 because he had an affair with an acting student which led to icy relations with Angelina that have only thawed in recent years. When Angelina's first biological child, Shiloh was born in Namibia May 2006 Angelina flew with her to see her mother in California as she was too sick to be there in person. It would be the last new arrival to the family that Marcheline would see before she died. Despite being a full-time mother, Marcheline was a producer and actress in her own right and had small roles in the movies ‘Lookin' to Get Out’ in 1982 and ‘The Man Who Loved Women’ in 1983. Even though Brad and Angelina's top-secret wedding last Saturday seemed to come out of the blue, a source told MailOnline that the timing of the wedding was 'not some happy accident', adding: 'It was deliberately chosen to commemorate milestone of 10th anniversary of filming of Mr and Mrs Smith. 'Brad and Angie also wanted to do it before frenetic pre-production and filming began for their new film.' And the source added that their son Maddox was 'particularly excited' and had been a 'powerful driver' for the two to marry. Man and wife: The Hollywood couple tied the knot in France on Saturday, August 23,  in the presence of their six children, a spokeswoman confirmed . There it glows: Angelina Jolie displays her wedding ring for the first time since marrying Brad Pitt . Back to work: The actress and director is on location in Malta ahead of production on By The Sea, in which she and new husband Brad Pitt will play a couple who become sexually obsessed with their neighbors . Done deal: Brad Pitt was more than happy to put his new wedding band on display as he attended a photocall in London on Thursday for his new film, Fury . The source claimed that Brad's ex-wife Jennifer Aniston had 'no idea' and was 'completely blindsided', neither did Angelina's first husband, actor Johnny Lee Miller, who is said to be 'relaxed' as they remain friends and he has re-married. Angelina walked down the aisle with her eldest sons Maddox, 13, and Pax, 10, on each arm. Her daughters Zahara, nine, and Vivienne, six, threw petals, and Shiloh, eight, and Knox, six, served as ring bearers. The boys all wore cream linen suits, just like Brad's, while the girls each wore a different dress of their choice. Brad's parents, Bill and Jane Pitt, were in attendance, along with the groom's younger brother, Doug Pitt, sister Julie Pitt and her two children. While Angelina's father was not invited and only found out about the wedding yesterday - along with the rest of the world. The whole family: Brad and Angelina's six children travelled with their parents to France on a private jet before the couple tied the knot on Saturday . Arrivals: The couple landed in Nice on Saturday for their wedding on the same day . The Californian judge who married the couple was also at the civil ceremony, which reportedly had in total 22 guests, the majority made up of Brad's family. Brad, who showed off his wedding ring in London yesterday as he promoted his upcoming World War II drama, Fury, is expected to join his new wife in Malta, where she is prepping for their first onscreen reunion since 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith. According to People, the film, By the Sea, which has been described as 'an intimate, character-driven' drama and was written by Angelina herself, is far from family-friendly. The Pitts will play a married couple in the south of France who become sexually obsessed with their neighbors. (One of the neighbors is played by French actress Mélanie Laurent, who costarred with Pitt in 2009's Inglourious Basterds.) 'I wrote something a few years ago for Brad and me,' Angelina said in May: 'Just for fun. Just an independent little art piece. Because we don't get to do those as much as we'd like. But it's something really small and experimental.' ### SUMMARY:

Jolie was devastated by the death of her beloved mom Marcheline Bertrand in 2007 . Marcheline had French Canadian heritage . The Pitts will now film By The Sea in Malta - a movie penned by Jolie - where they play a couple who become 'sexually obsessed' with their neighbors .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: No longer one of the most natural impulses known to humanity, parenting has become fraught with competitiveness, fads and sky-high levels of anxiety. And while it's a common belief that mother knows best, these latest trends and crazes being adopted by parents may make you think again. While some have already hit the UK, others are only just catching on – but all are set to influence how British parents behave in 2015. While you might not actually need to 'eat for two' the new trend of dieting in pregnancy is highly dangerous . One of the most worrying of the looming trends is the so-called 'Final Trimester Flat Belly Diet', spurred on by the increasing pressure new mothers feel to bounce back into their old size after giving birth. Mothers-to-be are refusing the extra 300 calories a day recommended by health professionals and dieting instead so they can get back into a bikini within six weeks. With online guides to slashing your final trimester calorie intake to as low as 1,200 a day, women are existing on green tea and low fat, low carb diets at the one time they should be eating well to nourish their baby. Women are also increasingly willing to work against their natural fertility or 'biological clocks', with more planning to have a baby over the age of 45 and an increase in 'sharenting'. The experience of giving birth is now often immortalised on film and in social media snaps - meaning increasing numbers of women are concern with how they look and even what they are wearing in labour . With one in five women now childless at 40, there's a growing trend for families to 'share' their kids with child-free friends. Encompassing the role of godparent, favourite aunt and babysitter, so-called 'sharenting' lets childless women enjoy the love and benefits of parenthood without the emotional upheaval or expense. But for those women who want their own baby, having offspring later in life looks set to become increasingly common. Poster girls include Oscar winning actress Halle Berry who had her second child at 47 and author Helen Fielding who gave birth to a son at 45 and a daughter at 48. And don't forget the dads – Paul McCartney had daughter Beatrice at 61, while Star Wars supremo George Lucas became a dad at 69. But not all the parenting trends set to hit UK shores are so serious in nature. More and more women, like Halle Berry (left) and Helen Fielding (right) are having children later in life . There is a rise in vanity in the delivery room, with expectant mothers planning fashionable birthing outfits (the most popular include bikini tops with frilled skirts on a string without the knickers), filming their labour and even undergoing full makeovers in the delivery suite. Some of the UK's top hospitals are allowing new mothers to have Botox and blow-dries immediately after birth. The controversial – and highly expensive - packages are only available to those in the know. Gender neutral parenting means no giving your child stereotypical toys . Already popular with celebrities and high flyers who want to look picture perfect post-partum, the trend is set to spread to others as the pressure to appear stunning after labour grows. The ultimate selfie, labour videos inspired by hit TV shows One Born Every Minute chart the stages of labour from the first contractions until the placenta is delivered. To be shared on your child's 18th birthday and online with friends for maximum impact. But the parenting fads don't stop at the maternity ward door. One craze becoming popular is that of  gender neutral parenting, where parents raise their children using only gender-neutral toys, clothes and terms in an effort to removed socialized gender steryotypes. This can become as extreme as refusing to tell the child what sex they are, or families who treat a child as girls one day and boys the next until they discover what 'suits' them. A particularly creepy trend heading over from America is that of 'reborn dolls' of your own children . Costing up to £5,000 each, this expensive trend allows parents to buy dolls made in the exact image of their own child as a newborn. The dolls creators say it's most popular with mothers who are just seeing their youngest child leave the nest,, so they can keep the 'little one' of the family little forever. On a similar thread is the fashion of printing out your child in 3D. As well as parents new love of uploading constant snaps to social media, the newest way to keep hold of happy family memories is to make models of your kids using a 3D printer. The mini-me models can be printed from any digital pic for around £60. With supermarkets now offering an in-store service, expect minifigs of your kids at every stage from newborn to 21st birthday to be one of the fastest growing trends next year. Then, once you have perfectly preserved your gender neutral child in numerous forms, you can begin living ,vicariously through them. Another trend is that of professional level sports for children. Forget egg and spoon races at the local sports day, activities for children are increasingly professional and competitive . Similar to the notorious Little League Baseball in America, leagues for child sports and mini marathons and triathalons for tots are growing. From the rise of competitive running clubs for under tens to buying £2,000 racing bikes for children, over active fathers are increasingly competing through their offspring. From buying £2,000 racing bikes for children, over active dads could be fuelling a health and body image crisis in young kids. The trends were collated by Stork TV, a new online chat show for mothers. Founder Siobhan Freegard, also founder of Netmums said: 'Raising kids can bring out the best – and the worst – in mums. While some of these trends may seem extreme, what was extreme ten years ago is now mainstream. 'The web means wacky ideas catch on fast and there is more pressure than ever before for parents to be perfect.' Mother Beck Laxton decided to bring up her son as gender neutral and spoke on ITV's This Morning to explain why she made this unusual choice and of her experiences in raising Sasha as neither boy or girl until he was five years old. Explaining the concept of being gender nuetral, Beck says: 'It's just not making assumptions about what your kids are going to do or enjoy based on whether they're boys or girls . 'I grew up with feminism so i grew up feeling equal rightswas still something we had to fight for . Beck Laxton made the decision to raise her son as gender neutral for his first five years . 'There are lots of things that girls like that I dont like to make it obvious to me that slotting me into a sterytype just because I'm female is silly.' Beck's decision to raise her son without the influence of gender stereotypes was made before his birth, and began in the delievery room. 'When he was born we asked the nurses not to say wheter Sacha was a boy or a girl and actually it wasnt the first thing we looked for . 'We just sat there holding the baby and didnt feel like we absolutely had to know urgently whether it was a boy or a girl. It didnt seem that important,' she explains. Beck does admit that the reaction of others was oftne confused: 'The midwives did think we were strange. they kept trooping in and out saying ' we do need something to put on our foms, we have got to fill in our forms.' Beck goes on to explain that even when they sent out an email to friends and family to announce the birth, they simply stated they had had a 'baby' and did not specify sex. Despite his unusual start in life, Beck insists Sacha, now eight-years-old, knows he is male. 'He's always know he was a boy. We didn't do it for very long,' she explains. 'We tried to give him lots of different toys. There were lots of dolls around and lots of cars around. At the moment he is only interested in lego. 'The whole point was for him to find his own feet without people saying "oh boys cant do that."' See the full interview on the This Morning website . ### SUMMARY:

Increasing number of fads being picked up by parents . 'Third trimester diet' sees women drastically cutting calories in pregnancy . 'Sharenting' lets childless women enjoy the benefits of parenthood . Top hospitals are now allowing new mums to have Botox and blow-dries immediately after birth . Another craze becoming popular is that of gender neutral parenting .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: This was the finest drive of Lewis Hamilton’s career in the greatest grand prix of the century. It was a privilege to be in Bahrain, where Hamilton and his fellow Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg duelled and duelled again, only inches from perdition at up to 200mph. The action behind them was hardly less compelling. The race rather made those who had criticised this year’s brand of Formula One as boring — not least Bernie Ecclestone and Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo — look as if they were speaking out of their exhaust pipes. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Rosberg: Fair play to Lewis but I'll be back in two weeks to win . Triumphant: Lewis Hamilton holds his trophy aloft after victory at the Bahrain Grand Prix . Merc magic: Hamilton and Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg embrace after their one-two finish in Bahrain . Victorious: Hamilton takes the chequered flag after keeping a dogged Rosberg at bay . Domination: Hamilton held off Rosberg, who started on pole, to win the Bahrain Grand Prix . CLICK HERE to relive this pulsating race lap-for-lap with Sportsmail's Phil Duncan and Jonathan McEvoy. The victor was Hamilton, taking his . second successive win and his 24th in all to equal Juan Manuel Fangio’s . career total. It was a race that all the laws of logic decreed he should . never have won. He started . second on the grid to Rosberg, having made a slip in qualifying, but . stayed tight around the first corner to take the lead and then held off . Rosberg’s counter-attack on the fourth turn. Rosberg did not give up. At the start of the 18th and 19th laps he tried to wriggle past Hamilton. The . lead changed hands, by my estimation, five times. Rosberg said on the . team radio: ‘What he did wasn’t on.’ It was heat-of-the-moment . exasperation rather than a serious complaint. Take off: The Mercedes of Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton lead the field at the start of the race . Bunch: The field shapes up for Turn 1 of the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir and Hamilton takes the lead . Head-to-head: The fierce battle between Rosberg and Hamilton began at the outset of the race . Fortune . favoured Rosberg when a spectacular shunt brought out the safety car. Esteban Gutierrez’s Sauber went into a 360 degree somersault when he was . flipped by Pastor Maldonado’s Lotus. The two Mercedes immediately came . in to be reshod. Hamilton had to change to the harder tyre, Rosberg . could use the softer. The . softer rubber is faster so, once the safety car peeled away with 10 laps . remaining, Rosberg would be able to pass his team-mate from a gap that . had been reduced to virtually nothing by the break in racing. So . the theory went. ‘I remember our first race in karting,’ said  Hamilton . afterwards. ‘Nico was leading all the way and I overtook him on the . last lap. I thought that would happen to me today.’ So . did we all. But, no, Hamilton produced his best ever defensive driving . in repelling the relentless attack from behind. They were crawling over . each other like  spiders. Rosberg would get in front but Hamilton — in a . now-you-see-me-now-you-don’t flash — squirmed back ahead. Neck and neck: Hamilton leads Rosberg as they challenge each other wheel-to-wheel . Watching the front: The Mercedes team watch their cars dominate the Bahrain race . Burn rubber: Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen breaks heavily ahead of Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo . Credit . here to Mercedes. Paddy Lowe, in the first serious test of his pit-wall . nerve since taking over as technical director, came on to both men. He . said: ‘This is Paddy.’ That made it clear it was the headmaster speaking and defiance would not be tolerated. ‘With 10 laps to race,’ he added, ‘let’s just make sure we bring both cars home.’ It was not an instruction to hold position, but an appeal for sense. Credit, too, to both Hamilton and Rosberg for possessing the serenity and skill to follow the appeal meticulously. The . best drive of Hamilton’s career, we have asserted. A case can be made . for Silverstone in 2008, when he dominated the wet conditions, . Senna-like, to win by more than a minute. Dig in the ribs: Hamilton and Rosberg exchange playful blows after the race . Come here, you: Fresh from battling on the track the pair went toe-to-toe in parc ferme, too . But . this was purer. Here, he was fighting a driver at the peak of his . career in an equal car on better tyres in a crucial battle in a . formative world championship rivalry. So intense was the racing that Rosberg got out of his car and rugby tackled Hamilton through sheer adrenaline. Moments . afterwards, his thoughts calmer, the German admitted: ‘I strongly . dislike losing to Lewis.’ So was this the best of grand prix of the . century? Hamilton’s title win in 2008 had a single epic moment of drama. Jenson . Button’s triumph in  Canada in 2011 was wet, mad and protracted. Mika . Hakkinen’s  victory over Michael Schumacher at Spa in 2000 produced an . overtaking move for the ages. But has any race contained more wheel-to-wheel action throughout the field? Not that I can recall. Force . India fought Force India, with Sergio Perez finally winning through to . take third after a joust with Nico Hulkenberg. Red Bull fought Red Bull, . with Daniel  Ricciardo passing world champion Sebastian Vettel for . fourth. Flipped: Sauber's Esteban Gutierrez crashes after being bumped by Lotus driver Pastor Maldonado . T-boned: Pastor Maldonado rams into Estaban Gutierrez on his way out of the pits leading to a spectacular flip . Over and out: Gutierrez's Sauber spins out of control before getting airborne . Lucky escape: Gutierrez goes over before his car comes to a stop of the track leading to a safety car . Podium: Sahara Force India's Sergio Perez celebrates his third place . Team game: Mercedes celebrated their second 1-2 finish in as many races - they lead the constructors' championship . Pure theatre: Rosberg (left) and Hamilton duel for the lead of the Bahrain Grand Prix . Time to celebrate: Hamilton with his winners' trophy . Williams fought Williams, with Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas going at each other hard. All . this was showcased breathtakingly under a necklace of lights in the . desert. The special bulbs made the car liveries vivid and . high-definition sharp. Even . the build-up to the race was febrile. Team principals walked in and out . of the adjoining offices of Ecclestone and Jean Todt, the FIA president. Ferrari . chief Di Montezemolo told a phalanx of TV cameras that the drivers were . being reduced to ‘taxi drivers’ because the new regulations placed an . emphasis on such boring matters as fuel consumption. Ecclestone was in . the same camp, as are Red Bull. Not . so Todt. Although he confirmed that the sport is looking  at ways to . amplify the engine noise in the next few weeks, he favours the new, . greener formula. As does the McLaren chairman Ron Dennis, who rounded on  Vettel’s recent remark that the new turbos sounded ‘s***’. Dennis, both of whose cars retired with clutch problems, said: ‘Being a world champion requires a dignified approach. ‘Putting aside the language for the moment, the sentiment is inappropriate.’ From rows to racing, it was the Formula One day that had everything under the stars. Champagne moment: Rosberg covers his team-mate in the fizzy stuff as they celebrate . What drama: The Bahrain Grand Prix was one of the finest Formula One races in recent times . ### SUMMARY:

Lewis Hamilton wins in Bahrain after fantastic duel with Nico Rosberg . Sergio Perez completes the podium with Force India . Jenson Button retires on his 250th appearance in Formula One . Action throughout the pack with three-times world champion Niki Lauda lauding it as one of the best races he has ever seen . Rosberg admits on the podium he 'strongly dislikes' finishing second to Hamilton .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: David Beckham burst into floods of tears as he played his final ever game as a professional footballer in Paris this evening. The 38-year-old was given the honour of captaining Paris St Germain during their final home game of the season against Brest and paid an emotional farewell as he brought the curtain down on a career spanning more than 20 years. With his wife Victoria and their four children Romeo, Brooklyn, Cruz and Harper, watching from the stand, Beckham was given a standing ovation by players and fans from both sides as he left the pitch to be substituted in the second half. Scroll down for videos . Tearful goodbye: A hugely emotional David Beckham wept as he left the pitch during his final game as a professional footballer in Paris in May . Heartbreak: Beckham hugs teammate Lucas before leaving the pitch at the Parc des Princes in Paris . Respect: Beckham was given a standing ovation by players from both sides and fans as he left the field . Farewell: The former England captain waves goodbye to fans after 20 years in the game . Afterparty: The celebrations began as Beckham was tossed in the air by his teammates after the game . A visibly upset Beckham was inconsolable as he left the field on 81 minutes. The game came to an impromptu halt as PSG players surrounded him and hugged the former England captain by one before he walked off. Addressing PSG fans after collecting a winners medal, Beckham said: 'I want to say thank you to everybody in Paris - to my team-mates, to the staff, to the fans. 'It's been very special to finish my career here. It could not have been any more special. 'I just feel that it's the right time [to retire]. I feel that I've achieved everything that I could in my career. I wanted to go out as a champion. I've finished my career in a team that has treated me like I've been here for 10 years. 'After 22 years of playing football I'm going to take a few months to enjoy time with my family.' Beckham had looked emotional before the game, waving to the crowds and blowing kisses to his fans during the warm up for his final match. As his name was read out over the stadium's speaker system, PSG fans gave out a huge cheer and continued to chant 'Stay David, Stay' throughout the match. Despite playing just 460 minutes of . football for PSG, the massively wealthy club wanted to honour Beckham . for the publicity he has brought them around the world - making him . captain for one night only. Celebration: Beckham lifts the Ligue 1 trophy with an England flag draped around his neck . Proud father: Beckham leads his sons Romeo and Cruz around the pitch in a lap of honour . Ending on a high: Beckham finished his career having won the league title with Paris St Germain . A born winner: The former England captain poses with his sons Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz as his retirement celebrations begin . Onto pastures new: Beckham walks away following the medal ceremony to start the next chapter in his life away from football . Before kick off, Beckham and his teammates wore t-shirts in tribute to the club's nutritionist Nick Broad who died in a car crash earlier this year. In his final outing, the midfielder enjoyed a fine game, spraying some of his trademark 50-yard passes around the pitch before assisting a goal from a corner as PSG went 3-0 up before half time. The team, who have already been crowned champions of Ligue 1, won the game 3-1. After the game Beckham was tossed in the air by his teammates in the centre of the pitch as the retirement celebrations began. 'We are proud to have him as our captain, even if it is for only one game,' said season ticket holder Jacques Declerc. 'Yes, it is unusual for somebody to . be honoured in this way after only being at the club for a few months, . but that's the nature of modern football.' Fond farewell: Victoria holds daughter Harper as they cheer on David Beckham during his final game in Paris . End of an era: Victoria and the couple's baby daughter Harper took pride of place in the stands as they watched David . Inconsolable: A visibly upset Beckham hugged his teammates one by one before leaving the pitch . Full time: Beckham hugs the PSG manager Carlo Ancelotti as his final game comes to a close . It was initially thought Beckham . would bow out in an away game next week, but he made it clear he wanted . to finish his career in Paris. Wearing a leather biker jacket and . leopard print heels, Victoria was pictured hopping into a waiting limousine with the rest . of the family earlier this evening. They were then driven to the Bristol . Hotel, where Beckham has been staying in a £17,000 a night suite . since joining PSG in February, before heading off for the ground. Beckham has paid tribute to his . former teams, his nationality, and his children by wearing a . personalised pair of Adidas Predator boots. Beckham, capped 115 times for England . and the man who helped London secure the 2012 Olympics, chose the . colours red, white and blue to represent the Union Jack, with the flag . embossed on the heel. As well as his children's names, the . boots are also emblazoned with the significant numbers from his playing . career with Manchester United, Real Madrid and LA Galaxy: 7, 23 and 32. Au revoir: Beckham gives the thumbs up to fans who chanted 'Stay David, Stay' during the match . Bowing out on top: Beckham celebrates with teammate Zlatan Ibrahimovic as he scores a third goal for PSG . Popular: Beckham's name elicited a huge cheer from the stadium when it was announced before kick off . Fan favourite: A PSG supporter holds up a sign in support of David Beckham during his last game . Kiss goodbye: An emotional David Beckham waves to the crowds ahead of his final game in Paris . Decorated: Paris Saint-Germain's title triumph added to David Beckham's impressive medal collection . Last outing: Beckham will wear these boots for the clash against Brest on Saturday night . Customised: The boots feature Becks' children's names and the numbers from his shirts over the year . Support: Victoria and their four children arrive at St Pancras station this evening to travel to Paris for David's final game . Announcing his retirement on . Thursday, Beckham said: 'I'm thankful to PSG for giving me the . opportunity to continue but I feel now is the right time to finish my . career, playing at the highest level. 'If you had told me as a young boy I . would have played for and won trophies with my boyhood club Manchester . United, proudly captained and played for my country over one hundred . times and lined up for some of the biggest clubs in the world, I would . have told you it was a fantasy. I'm fortunate to have realised those . dreams.' Despite such words, there have been some in France who have expressed anger as his short career with PSG. 'A funny photo, a red card and a tax . scam' was the Nouvel Observateur headline, referring to a picture of . Beckham falling over, to his sending off while playing for PSG against . Evian, and to allegations that he went out of his way to avoid paying . tax in Paris. PSG is ultimately owned by Qatar, the . oil rich Gulf state, and some feel that Beckham's move to France was . ultimately aimed at cementing business contacts with their . representatives. He did not score a single goal in Paris, and was mainly used as a substitute. Pride of Britain: Beckham won the MLS title twice during his time at Los Angeles Galaxy . King of Spain does an Italian job: Beckham left Real Madrid as a champion in 2007, while he also impressed during his time on loan at Milan (right) Successful career: David Beckham captained England and won the treble with Man Utd during a glittering 20-year career . Celebration: Beckham on an open top bus celebrates winning the French league with his PSG team-mates. It is the fourth country in which Beckham has won a league title - a record for a British player . ### SUMMARY:

Star weeps as he leaves the pitch in final ever game as a footballer . Captained Paris St Germain for match against Brest . Wife Victoria and their four children travelled from London to watch . Hugged almost every single player and applauded fans as he left field . Received standing ovation from players and fans on both sides .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Judy Finnigan faces calls to be sacked from Loose Women after just one appearance on the show. The veteran broadcaster sparked fury during her debut as a panellist when she suggested a convicted rapist footballer should be allowed to return to his club because the victim was 'drunk' and the rape was 'unpleasant' but 'not violent'. After a huge backlash about the remarks branded 'disgusting' and 'damaging', she was eventually forced to 'apologise unreservedly' for the offence she had caused. But despite the clamour for her to leave the show, ITV told MailOnline today that she is still due to appear on the show again next week. Scroll down for video . Left, Ched Evans was found guilty of rape in 2012 and is currently serving a five-year prison sentence and right, Judy Finnigan provoked outrage yesterday after suggesting he should be allowed back to his club, because the attack 'wasn't violent and the victim was drunk' Judy Finnigan, right, appeared with, left to right, Ruth Langsford, Coleen Nolan, Jane Moore, on Monday's show . A spokesperson for ITV's Loose Women said: 'She will be on the panel next week so that answers the question.' Her comments came during a discussion on the ITV lunchtime chat show yesterday about whether disgraced footballer Ched Evans should be allowed to return to Sheffield United. The former Wales international, 25, was jailed for five years in 2012 after raping a 19-year-old woman at a hotel near Rhyl, Denbighshire, but will be released from jail within days. So far his former club, which cancelled his contract, has refused to comment on whether he will be offered a new one. But on the show, Ms Finnigan said: 'He's served his time. The rape – and I am not, please, by any means minimising any kind of rape – but the rape was not violent. He didn't cause any bodily harm to the person. 'It was unpleasant, in a hotel room, I believe, and she was – she had far too much to drink. And you know, that is reprehensible, but he has been convicted and he has served his time. 'Now when he comes out, what are we supposed to do? Just actually refuse to let him do his job even though he has already been punished?' Speaking on her Loose Women debut, the veteran broadcaster was discussing allowing rapist Ched Evans to return to play for his former club Sheffield United . But before the programme had even finished, hundreds of viewers had taken to social media to express their outrage. Emma Togwell said: 'How disgusting is Judy finnigan she needs to be sacked.' A Twitter user called Dave said: 'Judy finnigan is a disgrace for her comments on Ched Evans. ITV should sack her immediately.' Steffi Rox ‏wrote: 'The only thing @loosewomen should do now is sack Judy Finnigan and never have her back on the show.' Evans' girlfriend Natasha Massey, pictured, said she will continue to stand by him when he is released . And another added: 'If ITV do not sack Judy Finnigan after her outrageous comments that the rape was 'not violent' and 'unpleasant' then the world is messed up.' Lucinda Hawksley said:  'Why does Judy Finnigan still have her job on Loose Women? @itv - she thinks rape isn't "bodily harm"??' But Evans’ girlfriend has also defended the convicted rapist, saying she knows he is innocent and that she will ‘continue to stand by him’. Speaking on ITV's This Morning today, Natasha Massey insisted she ‘knew he wasn’t capable of a crime like that’ and that the people ‘are reading a headline and not reading the facts’. She said: ‘I know Ched is innocent, I love him and I will continue to stand by him. I just want to get him home and live a normal life.' While presenter Phillip Schofield pointed out that Evans had been found guilty beyond reasonable doubt, sister Kylie said: ‘That’s shocking to us. I was in court every day and I have no idea how they came to that conclusion.’ Today, Katie Russell, of Rape Crisis England and Wales, said Miss Finnigan's comments could cause distress to many survivors of sexual violence. She said: 'Judy Finnegan's comments are really unfortunate and could potentially cause some hurt and distress to the many survivors of sexual violence who will inevitably have been watching Loose Women and who will read and hear her views reported. 'Whether intentionally or not, her words do imply that rape that involves extreme physical violence is more traumatic than rape that does not.' She added: 'All rape causes bodily harm and is a lot more than 'unpleasant' regardless of the circumstances in which it takes place. 'Rape is a terrifying experience that can and does have a wide ranging of long-term and even lifelong impacts for those who survive it.' Women's rights campaigner Jean Hatchet has set up a petition calling for Evans to be banned from football. She told the Daily Mail she was 'stunned' by the comments, adding: 'Drunk women don't cause rape. Rapists do. 'Evans had sex with a woman without her consent. That is a violent act. [Miss Finnigan] is guilty of such internalised misogyny that I don't think she was even aware of how hurtful and damaging her comments were.' Last night Miss Finnigan, 66, said: 'I absolutely wasn't suggesting that rape was anything other than an horrendous crime and, as I said on the programme, I was in no way attempting to minimise the terrible ordeal that any woman suffers as a result. 'The point I was attempting to raise as part of the debate was what should happen to someone after they have committed a crime and served their time? I apologise unreservedly for any offence that I may have caused as a result of the wording I used.' Broadcasting regulator Ofcom said it has received nine complaints about Ms Finnigan's comments. ITV said it had received no formal complaints. As they were: Ms Finnigan made her name as one half of Richard&Judy. The couple, who wed in 1986, worked together side by side for two decades . The South Yorkshire club has refused to comment on a possible return for Evans, who was capped 13 times for Wales before his conviction . A petition urging Sheffield United not to reinstate Ched Evans once he is released from prison has been signed by 141,173 people. So far the club, which signed Evans for £3million in 2009, has refused to say whether it will take him back. Women's rights campaigner Jean Hatchet set up the petition on the website Change.org, calling on the club's chairman Kevin McCabe and part-owner Prince Abdullah Bin Musa'ad Bin Abdul Aziz to make it clear that Evans – who still maintains his innocence – will not be welcome. In an open letter to the pair, she said: 'I'm sure he and his supporters are hoping he can quietly slip back into the position of privilege he held before. Unfortunately, he still hasn't acknowledged he is a rapist as determined by a judge and jury. He will be returning, if Sheffield Utd resign him, to a position where he has huge influence over young fans. 'They must not be given the message that rape is a trivial crime. Young boys and men have to be absolutely sure that … consent to sex is essential or the act is rape.' During the trial in 2012, Evans admitted having sex with the victim in a hotel room straight after his friend and former Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald, but denied rape. Evans' girlfriend Natasha Massey and Professional Footballers' Association chief Gordon Taylor have backed his return. Sheffield United did not respond to a request for comment yesterday. ### SUMMARY:

Judy Finnigan's comments on rape sparked outrage during debut on show . She was discussing convicted rapist Ched Evans' return to football . Said rape he committed was 'not violent and victim was drunk' Now the 66-year-old faces calls to be sacked after just one appearance . ITV spokesperson today confirmed she will appear on the show next week . TV host has since 'apologised unreservedly' for any offence caused . Evans, 25, was jailed for five years in 2012 after raping a 19-year-old woman . His girlfriend today said she will ‘continue to stand by him’

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel have conducted a series of counter-terrorism exercises in Brisbane in preparation for the G20 summit next month. Soldiers were tested by staged terrorism and hostage situations using tactical equipment, simulated ammunition and hand-held pyrotechnics at the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Academy on Tuesday. Defence have worked closely with state and federal agencies for 18 months to prepare for the summit, ADF commander for the G20 commitment Major General Stuart Smith said at the academy following the drills. Scroll down for video . Australian Defence Force personnel are seen during a counter-terrorism training drill in Brisbane on Tuesday . The drills were conducted at the Queensland Fire and Emergency services Academy ahead of the G20 summit . Soldiers were tested by staged terrorism and hostage situations using tactical equipment, simulated ammunition and hand-held pyrotechnics . Authorities are also preparing for non-terror-related disruption from protesters, as it has emerged Queensland police will formally ban two individuals from attending the G20 summit and track destructive protest groups during final preparations for the event. Much of the Brisbane CBD and South Bank area will become a restricted or declared zone from November 14, when a sophisticated security operation will be initiated to protect world leaders. It will involve 4500 Queensland police officers, 1500 interstate and New Zealand officers, Australian Federal Police and defence. More than 900 soldiers will be based in Brisbane for the event, with a further 1000 on call, however Maj Gen Smith said it would be up to the QPS or federal authorities to ask for assistance. 'It's really a background support that we're providing, only those niche search capabilities and counter-terrorism and air support that may be provided,' he said. Specialist soldiers and military dogs will be used to sweep conference venues, hotels and waterways . ADF commander for the G20 commitment, Major General Stuart Smith, said defence has worked closely with state and federal agencies for 18 months to prepare for the summit . 'So I surmise you won't see a great presence by the military.' Authorities have also announce plans to open a 24-hour court to deal with the expected mass arrests. The court, which will open on November 10, mirrors the approach of Toronto police during the 2010 summit, when 1100 people were arrested and dealt with in a specialised court. Specialist soldiers and military dogs would be used to sweep conference venues, hotels and waterways prior to the summit, he said. Brisbane residents have been warned to expect further rehearsals by defence aircraft as they prepare for the summit. Soldiers descended from military helicopters as part of the anti-terrorism training ahead of next month's G20 . More than 900 soldiers will be based in Brisbane for the event, with a further 1000 on call . Meanwhile, the number of known protest groups planning to attend the G20 has risen to 24. Police are eager to communicate with protest groups but would not tolerate destructive behaviour, Assistant Commissioner Katarina Carroll said. 'We know from these events around the world, they do attract an element of people who will come to create disorder,' Ms Carroll told reporters in Brisbane. 'We're quite aware of who those groups are and certainly we'll be keeping an eye on them as we lead into G20.' Much of the Brisbane CBD and South Bank area will become a restricted or declared zone from November 14 . The defence personnel wore full assault gear during the training exercises . The two banned individuals would be served with official documents under special G20 legislation 'in the next week or two', but Ms Carroll would not comment on their identity. As the summit draws nearer, speculation has mounted that international protest groups may be considering a presence in Brisbane. The 'Black Bloc' technique used by some violent, anonymous protesters at past G20 events was one of numerous tactics used by groups, Ms Carroll said. Police have information on Black Bloc protesters, but Ms Carroll refused to elaborate. Locally, a number of online anarchist groups have emerged and threatened to hold violent protests before the summit. Roads closures near the Brisbane Convention Centre, which will host the G20 Australia summit next month. Police planned a 24 hour special court in Brisbane for potential mass arrests from protests during the event . Protesters smash police vehicles in Toronto's during the G20 summit protests in 2010. Australian activist groups are planning violent demonstrations in their online campaigns . A shattered glass-plate window cascades down as violent anti G20 protesters loot stores in Toronto. Police have planned a 24 hour special court in Brisbane to handle potential mass arrests from the protests . One group, calling itself Plan B, says it opposes the G20 group of nations, who will meet on November 15-16 at Brisbane's Convention and Exhibition Centre. Anonymous anarchists have posted on their website: 'We are encouraging individuals and groups to take action which they see as effective and necessary given their circumstances. We do not see property destruction as an inherently violent act.' In a separate post, they wrote: 'While the p**s are helplessly patrolling the streets of Brisbane's CBD in their ridiculous armour with their intimidating vehicles, decentralised waves of creation and destruction will ebb and flow right across the country.' Other groups such as the Autonomous Action Radio, which broadcasts a weekly community radio show, has created posters which are on display across Brisbane depicting balaclava-clad protesters throwing objects and toppling over bins. Balaclava sporting protesters launch objects and toppling over bins in an Autonomous Action Radio poster on display across Brisbane . Protesters clash with police (in yellow) during a demonstration in Seoul for the G20 Summit, which is always met with large scale protests . The poster carries the accompanying message 'Smash the G20. For decentralised attacks on capital in mid-November: Capitalism is stumbling, let's make sure it falls. ' Another recently formed group is the Brisbane Street Medics, who say they are 'Street Medics serving the activist community in Brisbane, Australia,' on their official Facebook page. In addition to local factions, there are concerns that notorious international groups such as Black Bloc, thought to be responsible for the riot in the 2010 G20 summit in Toronto, are attempting to mobilise in Brisbane. Associate Professor Janet Ransley, who heads Griffith University's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, told Brisbane Times  'I think it would be naive to think that Black Bloc and some of those groups are not mobilising. Members of the Plan B group have posted online: 'While the pigs are helplessly patrolling the streets of Brisbane's CBD in their ridiculous armour with their intimidating vehicles, decentralised waves of creation and destruction will ebb and flow right across the country' The Brisbane Convention Centre, where the Group of 20 forum is planned for the 15-16 of November . 'I know there has been some chatter on social media about them trying to get a presence in Brisbane.' Ms Ransley said. Assistant Commissioner Katarina Carroll, who is responsible for the Queensland police's response to the G20 protests, says they will keep a close eye on all the groups involved. 'Our top priority at all times is to ensure that members of the Queensland community are safe. Our top priority at all times is to ensure that members of the Queensland community are safe,' Ms Carroll said. There are currently 21 planned protests to the event, but more clandestine are radical protests are expected to appear on the day. The 2010 G20 Toronto summit protests saw $750,000 worth of damage wreaked on the streets, including police cars being set ablaze and mass looting of stores. ### SUMMARY:

Defence personnel conducted counter-terrorism exercises in Brisbane . Soldiers tested by staged terrorism and hostage situations ahead of G20 . Drills carried out at the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Academy . Police have planned a 24-hour special court to deal with mass arrests . Authorities also preparing for non-terror-related disruption from protesters . Queensland police to formally ban two individuals from attending the G20 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The nuclear missiles hidden in plain view across the prairies of northwest North Dakota reveal one reason why trouble keeps finding the nuclear Air Force. The 'Big Sticks,' as some call the 60-foot (18-meter)-tall Minuteman 3 missiles, are just plain old. The Air Force asserts with pride that the missile system, more than 40 years old and designed during the Cold War to counter the now-defunct Soviet Union, is safe and secure. None has ever been used in combat or launched accidentally. But it also admits to fraying at the edges: time-worn command posts, corroded launch silos, failing support equipment and an emergency-response helicopter fleet so antiquated that a replacement was deemed 'critical' years ago. Scroll down for video . In plain view: An ICBM launch site located among fields in the countryside outside Minot, North Dakota. on the Minot Air Force Base . The Minuteman is no ordinary weapon. The business end of the missile can deliver mass destruction across the globe as quickly as you could have a pizza delivered to your doorstep. But even as the Minuteman has been updated over the years and remains ready for launch on short notice, the items that support it have grown old. That partly explains why missile corps morale has sagged and discipline has sometimes faltered, as revealed in a series of Associated Press reports documenting leadership, training, disciplinary and other problems in the ICBM force that has prompted worry at the highest levels of the Pentagon. Analysis: Master Sgt. Tad Wagner (left)  looks over an inert Minuteman 3 missile (left and right) in a training launch tube at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota . Deterrent: The Minuteman can deliver mass destruction across the globe . The airmen who operate, maintain and guard the Minuteman force at bases in North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming came to recognize a gap between the Air Force's claim that the nuclear mission is 'Job 1' and its willingness to invest in it. 'One of the reasons for the low morale is that the nuclear forces feel unimportant, and they are often treated as such, very openly,' says Michelle Spencer, a defense consultant in Alabama who led a nuclear forces study for the Air Force published in 2012. She said in an interview that the airmen - they're called Missileers - became disillusioned by an obvious but unacknowledged lack of interest in nuclear priorities among the most senior Air Force leaders. Spencer's study found that Air Force leaders were 'cynical about the nuclear mission, its future and its true - versus publicly stated - priority to the Air Force.' Several key leadership posts have since changed hands, and while Spencer says she sees important improvements, she's worried about the Air Force's commitment to getting the nuclear forces what they need. This is no surprise to those responsible for nuclear weapons policy. An independent advisory group, in a report to the Pentagon last year, minced no words. It said the Air Force must show a 'believable commitment' to modernizing the force. 'If the practice continues to be to demand that the troops compensate for manpower and skill shortfalls, operate in inferior facilities and perform with failing support equipment, there is high risk of failure' to meet the demands of the mission, it said. Robert Goldich, a former defense analyst at the Congressional Research Service, said the ICBM force for years got 'the short end of the stick' on personnel and resources. 'I honestly don't think it's much more complicated than that,' he said. 'When that happened, people lost sight of how incredibly rigorous you've got to be to ensure quality control when nuclear weapons are involved.' That may be changing. Air Force leaders are making a fresh push to fix things. When Deborah Lee James became Air Force secretary, its top civilian official, in December, she quickly made her way to each of the three ICBM bases and came away with a conviction that rhetoric was not matched by resources. Safety measures: Lt. Phil Parentrau opening the blast door leading to the underground control room at an ICBM launch control facility on the Minot Air Force Base . 'One thing I discovered is we didn't always put our money where our mouth is when it comes to saying this is the No. 1 mission,' James told reporters June 30 during a return visit to F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. James says the fixes will require money - and a lot more. They will take more people and a major attitude adjustment. 'I happen to think the top thing that really drives an airman is feeling like they're making a difference ... protecting America,' she said earlier in June. Missileers ought to feel that way, she said, but she is not convinced they do. 'And so, over time, we've got to change that around.' James said the Air Force will find $50 million in this year's budget to make urgent fixes, and will invest an additional $350 million in improvements over the coming five years. Even that, she said, is unlikely to be enough and more funds will be sought. Old: A Vietnam-era Huey helicopter taking off at Minot Air Force Base on June 25, the aircraft being one in a fleet of seven aging helicopters used to support the 150 Minuteman missiles carrying nuclear warheads . Her words are resonating with some, including Maj. Steve Gorman, a maintenance operations squadron commander at Minot. He already is seeing signs of change. He points to a recent decision to add 13 new maintenance positions here. 'That's a huge thing for us,' Gorman said. Since its initial deployment in 1970, the Minuteman 3 missile itself has been upgraded in all its main components. But much of the rest of the system that keeps the weapon viable and secure has fallen on hard times. One example is the Huey helicopter fleet, which escorts road convoys that move Minuteman missiles, warheads and other key components. It also moves armed security forces into the missile fields in an emergency, even though it's too slow, too small, too vulnerable to attack and cannot fly sufficient distances. Perimeter: Captain Robby Modad closes the gate at an ICBM launch control facility on the Minot Air Force Base . Remote: An ICBM launch control facility stands at the end of a weathered driveway in the countryside outside Minot . It's also old - Vietnam War old. The seven Hueys flown daily at Minot were built in 1969. The yearly cost of keeping them running has more than doubled over the past four years, according to Air Force statistics - from $12.9 million in 2010 to $27.8 million last year. 'Obviously we need a new helicopter, based on the mission,' said Maj. Gen. Jack Weinstein, who as commander of 20th Air Force is responsible for the operation, maintenance and security of the full fleet of Minuteman missiles. That's what the Air Force has been saying since at least 2006. A 2008 Air Force study cited a 'critical need' to replace the Hueys 'to mitigate missile field security vulnerabilities' and said this need had been identified two years earlier. Hot seat: A patch on the commander's chair in the underground control room where a pair of missile launch officers man a 24-hour shift at an ICBM launch control facility near Minot . In an Associated Press interview June 25 while visiting Minot, Weinstein said he was trying to persuade his superiors to buy a new fleet of more capable helicopters, but he said it was unclear whether that would happen before 2020. Weinstein is more optimistic about other opportunities to fix his missile corps. He is implementing a 'force improvement program' that was developed from hundreds of recommendations by rank-and-file ICBM force members. It is intended to begin erasing the perception that the nuclear mission is not a top priority, and to give the nuclear missile corps more people, money, equipment, training, educational opportunities and financial incentives. Lt. Col. Brian Young, deputy commander of the 91st Maintenance Group at Minot, said he senses a turning point as top brass reach out to enlisted airmen and non-commissioned officers to solicit ideas about how to fix the force. 'This feels completely different than any initiative I've been associated with in my 22 years' in the Air Force, he said. ### SUMMARY:

The Air Force asserts with pride that the missile system is safe and secure . It also admits to time-worn command posts and corroded launch silos . The helicopters used to protect nuclear bases date back to the Vietnam war . Low morale in the ICBM force has prompted worry at the highest levels .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: There are houses for cold climates, designed to keep in the heat, and there are homes for hot climates, built to allow air to sweep through and keep its owners cool - but never did the two meet, until now. A pair of London architects has designed an incredible 'folding' house that shapeshifts into eight different configurations and automatically adapts to the changing seasons. Called D*Dynamic, the structure was inspired by the work of an early 20th Century mathematician who discovered a way to dissect a square and rearrange its parts into an equilateral triangle. Scroll down for video . Called D*Dynamic, the structure (pictured) was inspired by the work of an early 20th Century mathematician who discovered a way to dissect a square and rearrange its parts into an equilateral triangle. The 'folding' house shapeshifts into eight different configurations that automatically adapt to the changing seasons . For example, in the summer, bedroom one faces east and tracks the sunrise using a series of sensors. As the owner wakes up, the house automatically rotates to ensure they are constantly bathed in sunlight, while the house generates energy through its solar panels. In winter, the house is in a square formation, with small windows and high thermal mass, which the designers describe as 'literally hugging itself.' As the seasons change and climate warms, the house opens up, 'like a flower' to allow light and air to penetrate the inside of the building creating panoramic views of the surroundings. The house is the brainchild of architects David Grunberg and Daniel Woolfson, who launched the D*Haus company to develop the concept. The architects said the house will cost £2 million ($3.1 million), but if they are able to produce in in bulk, this could drop the price to £800,000 ($1.2 million). 'D*Dynamic literally unfolds itself,' said the designers. 'The internal walls become external walls, doors become windows and windows become doors. 'A house like this has never been done before in the history of architecture and we believe that creating buildings that can adapt and change is a much more sustainable way of living.' As the owner wakes up, the house automatically rotates to make sure they are constantly in sunlight, while the house generates energy through its solar panels. During winter, the house is in a square formation, with small windows and high thermal mass, which the designers describe as 'literally hugging itself'. Swipe the yellow bar above to see the house transform . The layout consists of two bedrooms, an open-plan living room and a bathroom, but it can be adapted to suit the needs of different living situations. Aside from moving to provide more light, or expand the view, the house is also designed to save money on heating, and prevent energy waste . The largest part of the house would remain stationary with solid foundations, and this is the plumbing, electrics and services would be built. Each of the component parts of house would be sealed from the elements to keep the internal spaces weatherproof, and when the modules link together a sealed connection similar to a car door would allow transition from one space to another. Mr Woolfson told MaiIOnline the team is currently working on a design for the first D*Haus in Cambridgeshire, and is hoping to submit planning permission early next year. The layout consists of two bedrooms, an open-plan living room and a bathroom, but it can be adapted to suit the needs of different living situations. Aside from moving to provide more light, or expand the view, the house is also designed to save money on heating, and prevent energy waste. As the designers explained: 'Solar radiation from the sun can have a significant impact on a buildings performance. 'Whilst often a source of overheating due to inadequate controls, with thoughtful design it can provide a cheap and abundant source of energy in your building. The design of the moving house was inspired by the work of English mathematician Henry Dudeney. In 1908, Mr Dudeney worked out how to turn a square into an equilateral triangle. Called the Haberdasher's Puzzle, each of the pieces are hinged and form a chain that can be transformed into the square, or the original triangle (GIF pictured right). Mr Dudeney specialised in logic puzzles and mathematical games, and regularly submitted puzzles to newspaper and magazines under the pseudonym 'Sphinx'. Dudeney revealed a model of the solution, made of mahogany with brass hinges, at a meeting of the Royal Society on May 17, 1905. He also published the first known crossnumber puzzle in 1926 and has been credited with inventing verbal arithmetic and discovering new applications of digital roots. The designers said: '[The Haberdasher's Puzzle concept] alone is fascinating and the possibilities are endless when applying the formula to world of architecture and design.' Based on this design, in the summer, bedroom one of the D*Dynamic house faces east and watches the sun rise as its owner wakes up. It can then rotate so that the user is constantly in sunlight, while the house generates energy through its solar panels. During winter, the house is in a square formation, with small windows and high thermal mass, which the designers describe as 'literally hugging itself.' As the seasons change and climate warms, the house opens up, 'like a flower opens up' to allow light and air to penetrate the inside of the building creating panoramic views of the surroundings. The internal walls become external walls, doors become windows and windows become doors. 'This energy can be utilised to heat spaces in winter, provide hot water, and even generate ventilation for cooling in summer.' 'Conceived for the harsh, climatic extremes from 'Lapland to Cape Horn and Aleutians to Auckland' The D*Haus concept can respond dynamically to its environment by controlled adaptation to seasonal, meteorological and astronomical conditions,' continued Mr Grunberg and Mr Woolfson. 'The flexibility of the D*Haus allows adaptation from winter to summer, and day to night by literally moving inside itself. 'The thick heavy external walls unfold into internal walls allowing glass internal walls to become facades. Doors become windows and vice versa.' The shape-shifting home was first conceived as part of Mr Grunberg's graduation project, for which he designed a house that could withstand the extreme sub-Arctic temperatures in Lap Land. The pair's design is based on the work of English author and mathematician Henry Dudeney, a leading puzzle creator. In 1903 Dudeney invented a way to cut an equilateral triangle into four pieces that could be rearranged into a square, a conundrum he dubbed the Haberdasher's Puzzle. The architects said the house (pictured) will cost £2 million ($3.1 million), but if they are able to produce in in bulk, this could drop the price to £800,000 ($1.2 million). They said: 'A house like this has never been done before in the history of architecture and we believe that creating buildings that can adapt and change is a much more sustainable way of living' In the puzzle, each of the pieces are hinged and form a chain that can be transformed into the square, or the original triangle. Mr Dudeney specialised in logic puzzles and mathematical games, and regularly submitted puzzles to newspaper and magazines under the pseudonym 'Sphinx'. In a release, D*Haus described their house concept, as 'a product of an applied mathematical realisation'. 'The D*Haus Company is set to cause a revolution in architecture and design by transforming Dudeney’s idea from the conceptual, to the physical,' the release adds. 'Inspired by Dudeney’s logic puzzle, each D*Haus dwelling is capable of adapting to changing patterns of living in the future. 'D*Haus is continuing the journey that Dudeney began by breathing new life into a century-old concept; not only to define a space, but a lifestyle.' ### SUMMARY:

The D*Haus Architect concept 'metamorphosizes' into eight different configurations based around a series of hinges . It responds to seasonal conditions automatically, or can be moved using hydraulics and rails controlled by a handle . The shapeshiting design is based on the Haberdasher's Puzzle, designed by mathematician Henry Dudeney in 1908 . Called D*Dynamic, throughout the year internal walls become external, and doors become windows . Architects said the house will cost £2 million, but if they are able to produce it in bulk, this will drop to £800,000 . Mr Woolfson told MaiIOnline the team is currently working on a design for the first D*Haus in Cambridgeshire . The designers are hoping to submit planning permission for the building early next year .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Former Kings Cross stripper and police trainee Kim Hollingsworth, who was this week found guilty of animal neglect, says she is the victim of a vicious Facebook hate campaign that has forced her to go into hiding under an assumed name. Ms Hollingsworth told Daily Mail Australia she has vengeful enemies who wrongly accused her of cruelty to animals. On Wednesday, a magistrate ordered Ms Hollingsworth pay more than $100,000 in costs after convicting her of charges including starving horses on properties at Brownlow Hill and Mulgoa, west of Sydney, late last year. Scroll down for video . Former policewoman and Kings Cross stripper Kim Hollingsworth has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 in vet costs after she was convicted of starving her horses . Ms Hollingsworth was dismissed as a NSW Police trainee in 1995 after failing to reveal her past as a stripper in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross . The one-time police trainee, whose earlier short careers as a Kings Cross stripper were portrayed in the television series Underbelly: The Golden Mile, maintained she had done nothing wrong and would appeal against the convictions. She says she is the victim of a Facebook-led hate campaign which at one stage had more than 3000 followers and which has caused her to fear for her life. 'I'm now hiding under an assumed name somewhere in Sydney,' she said. Ms Hollingsworth said she had never been cruel to animals and pictures showing emaciated horses in her care did not prove she had neglected animals. 'Any horse I save comes in looking like s....,' she said. The 48-year-old faced 14 charges of animal neglect against four horses at properties at Brownlow Hill and Mulgoa in Sydney in late 2013 . Ms Hollingsworth, who was portrayed in the popular television series Underbelly: The Golden Mile, was forced to surrender five horses to the RSPCA . The 48-year-old said one of the horses she was convicted of failing to properly feed, a bay gelding called Ghrib, was 29 years old, was missing teeth, and 'came to me in the most emaciated condition I'd ever seen in my life'. Ms Hollingsworth was forced to surrender five horses to the RSPCA and ordered to pay $67,609 for vet costs and $46,768 for professional costs at Penrith Local Court. The charges included failing to provide proper and sufficient food and failure to provide veterinary treatment to four horses in three separate matters. Ms Hollingsworth pleaded not guilty. 'In one month I had the vet out to six different horses,' she said. 'So it's not like I was trying to avoid vet bills.' RSPCA inspectors responded to a complaint regarding horses at a Brownlow Hill property, in Sydney's south-west, in August 2013. They found a grey pony mare in an emaciated body condition and Ms Hollingsworth was issued with written directions to have the horse seen to by a veterinarian. That pony, Sadie, was aged about 35, Ms Hollingsworth said, and she had been looking after her for six to eight weeks. Sadie had an undetected eye condition and no teeth. 'She would just stand there and not eat,' she said. 'Obviously (the short time) in my hands it was not enough for her to gain significant weight.' 'I did my best with her. As far as I was concerned, I was following the vet's instructions.' A month later, she was issued further directions to provide veterinary treatment and proper and sufficient food to Sadie and Ghrib. She was ordered to pay $67,609 for vet costs and $46,768 for professional costs at Penrith Local Court . The charges she faced included failing to provide proper and sufficient food and failure to provide veterinary treatment to four horses in three separate matters . However, Ms Hollingsworth said Ghrib was missing teeth, had been 'very problematic' and fluctuated widely in weight. 'There's a million reasons why a horse doesn't gain weight,' she said. On October 31, the RSPCA were called again to the property where they claimed Sadie was in need of urgent treatment. Sadie and Ghrib were taken into care after being found to have dental issues. Sadie is the horse Ms Hollingsworth said has no teeth. On November 5, the RSPCA was called to a Mulgoa property, near Penrith in Sydney's west, in a separate matter after concerns were raised over the emaciated condition of a brumby mare. The animal was seized and was found to have lice and worms. Ms Hollingsworth said that horse had been resistant to worming and lice treatment had not worked. At the time, bushfires in the area had sometimes prevented her from visiting the animals every day. 'I drove through flames to get to those horses,' she said. Later in November, RSPCA inspectors were called to the Mulgoa property again to look at a chestnut brumby mare and foal. RSPCA inspectors were called to a Brownlow Hill property, in Sydney's south-west, in August 2013 where they found this grey mare pony in an emaciated body condition . 'I paid the vet to come and see her and followed his expert advice to just keep feeding her,' Ms Hollingsworth said. 'She was actually over fed.' The mare was in an emaciated condition, the court heard. Both horses were seized and a vet determined the mare was suffering from lice and worms. Ms Hollingsworth said: 'Lice can be very hard to get rid of. Horses can reinfect each other.' Ms Hollingsworth said it was difficult to maintain weight on brumbies. 'Brumbies have this way of just plummeting very quickly,' she said. This is the second time Ms Hollingsworth has been convicted of offences under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act for similar charges. She has also beaten another set of charges, will appeal against this week's decision and has one more set of charges to defend in court next month. 'Every case I lose will go to the Supreme Court because I've got nothing to lose,' she said. 'It's not the money. It's all about the horses' lives. They would all be dead if it were not for me.' Ms Hollingsworth told Daily Mail Australia she had been the subject of a Facebook hate campaign. Two of the women she alleges to be campaigning against her have taken out apprehended violence orders against Ms Hollingsworth. She, in turn, is applying for orders against them. 'They're just jealous,' she said. 'I was saving horse after horse. I've never said no to a horse in my life. I think I just got too big for my boots in their eyes. I was saving too many horses.' Horses in Ms Hillingsworth's care were also found to have lice and worms on various occassions . Penrith Local Court awarded custody of the horses to the RSPCA this week . This is the second time Ms Hollingsworth has been convicted of offences under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act for similar charges . Ms Hollingsworth was dismissed as a NSW Police trainee in 1995 after failing to reveal her past as a prostitute and stripper in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross. Her story became part of the TV series based on John Ibrahim in Underbelly: The Golden Mile. She was recruited as an undercover detective to act as an informant for the Wood royal commission into police corruption in the lates 1980s and early 1990s. Those experiences led her to being diagnosed with post traumatic stress syndrome. Ms Hollingsworth said it was only due to what she had been through during those years that she had not thrown herself under a train. 'This has traumatised me more than the police force thing,' she said. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article. ### SUMMARY:

Kim Hollingsworth says she is the victim of a Facebook hate campaign . The former stripper and police recruit is in hiding under an assumed name . Convicted of animal neglect against four horses at two Sydney properties . The 48-year-old was ordered to pay $67,609 for vet costs and $46,768 for professional costs in court this week . Ms Hollingsworth says she will appeal against the convictions . Reveals she is facing further charges relating to 16 other horses . Ms Hollingsworth's time as a stripper and police informant was portrayed in the TV series Underbelly: The Golden Mile .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Two weeks’ worth of rain is expected to soak the country in just one hour today as a flaming June turns into a summer washout. A string of flood alerts have been issued with thunderstorms predicted to bring torrential downpours. More than an inch of rain is likely to fall in some areas. Despite the deluge, temperatures are predicted to stay high, with a maximum of 24C (75F) in London and the South, with high humidity making it feel even hotter. Despite bright sunshine across the country today, the UK faces a summer soaking tomorrow and severe weather warnings have been issued amid fears of flooding. Two-year-old twins Katie and Jessica Bland made the most of the sunshine with friend Corey, one, on South Shields beach today . Temperatures could reach 25C today ahead of the heavy rain which will hit first thing tomorrow morning. Pictured: Horses enjoy the sunshine in a buttercup field in Biggin Hill, Kent . The Met Office said widespread thundery rain is expected to start falling early tomorrow morning, with showers unlikely to ease off until later in the evening . Temperatures were expected to reach up to 25C in London today, where dozens of people took to Green Park to catch a few rays . The Met Office said thundery rain is expected to start falling across Britain early tomorrow morning, with showers unlikely to ease off until the evening. However, many people took to London's parks today to enjoy the calm before the storm . Some places could see between 20mm and 30mm of rain fall in an hour tomorrow, which is almost half of the UK monthly average for the whole of June. It comes as people across the country enjoyed temperatures of up to 25C today . Many towns and cities across Britain have already suffered a soggy first half of 2014, with experts recording Reading, Berkshire, as having the wettest first five months of any year on record. Pictured: Londoners enjoyed the sunshine in Green Park this afternoon . The storms will hit southern England first and spread northwards, reaching Scotland and Northern Ireland by the afternoon. Met Office spokesman Dan Williams said people should prepare for ‘pretty heavy’ rainstorms. He . added: ‘We are looking at the potential for some localised  flooding . because we could see  so much rain fall in a short space  of time that . it can’t drain away  fast enough.’ Reading . University flooding expert Dr Hannah Cloke said: ‘We could see flash . floods in some parts of Britain if rainfall this weekend is as intense . as has been predicted. ‘The . problem is likely to be exacerbated in areas where the ground is still . wet from the winter floods, particularly in catchments with high . groundwater levels and where rivers are still high following Britain’s . wettest winter ever. But when it rains very heavily, almost anywhere . could be at risk. ‘Extremely . intense bursts of rain can mean that the soil is simply unable to soak . up the water  fast enough, so excess water  runs off and causes floods . in all sorts of unexpected places.’ Meteogroup forecaster John Lee said . the ‘heavy, thundery rain’ would spread up from the south today. Rowan Storey and sisters Sarah and Bonnie Carruth celebrated the end of their summer exams by having some fun on the beach in the sunshine at South Shields . The Met Office said the mercury could rise as high as 25C today and tomorrow in London and the South East - not far short of the warmest temperature of the year so far . Tomorrow's downpours will ease by Sunday when there will be some 'good, dry and bright spells', particularly in southern and eastern parts of the country. Pictured: Amber and Alisha enjoy the sunshine at South Shields with two-year-old Teddy today ahead of the rain . Weather warnings for rain are already in place across most parts of the country including the north of England, the south west, south east, midlands, London, Scotland and Northern Ireland but it didn't stop some people, including Michelle Bayes and Margaret Bloodworth, from enjoying the sun at South Shields beach . Yellow 'be aware' weather warnings are in place for much of the United Kingdom tomorrow as forecasters warn a fortnight's of rain could fall within one hour . ‘Even . though we are expecting pretty much everywhere to see some rain, . potentially parts of  the Midlands and northern  England will get the . heaviest blasts,’ he added. Some . places could see between 0.8in (20mm) and 1.2in (30mm) of rain fall in . an hour – almost half of the UK monthly average for the whole of June of . 2.9in (73.4mm).The Met Office has issued yellow ‘be aware’ warnings for . rain across almost all of England and Wales, and parts of Scotland and . Northern Ireland. The Environment Agency has issued nine flood alerts. An . EA spokesman said: ‘Heavy rain with isolated torrential downpours may . bring some river and surface water flooding on Saturday across all of . England, except for Devon and Cornwall, and all of Wales, except for . Pembrokeshire.’ This turbulent weather is caused by warm, humid air from Europe hitting cooler air over the UK. The predicted deluge is down to warm, humid air moving in from Europe which creates a risk of downpours when it mixes with cooler air over the UK. Pictured: Early morning swimmers enjoy the warm weather today at Peterborough Lido, Cambridgeshire . Despite warm weather in many parts of the country today, including at Peterborough Lido, Cambridgeshire (pictured), next week is likely to be 'slightly unsettled' with some dry and bright conditions along with light showers . In Cornwall, kayakers out for a paddle had an unexpected surprise when a pod of dolphins came within feet of them as they travelled along the Fowey River . Dolphins are regular visitors to the River Fowey but Karen Wells-West, who runs Encounter Cornwall with her partner David Johns, said it was incredible to see so many . Karen Wells-West said the pod of dolphins spotted in the River Fowey, Cornwall, today were very special. She said: 'It is unusual to see them that far up the river. They were just playing around the boats. It was very special' In recent months, dolphins, basking sharks and barrel jellyfish have been spotted in huge numbers around the Cornish coast . Racegoers study the form in the bright sunshine at Epsom racecourse today where temperatures are expected to reach up to 25C . Some places could see between 20mm and 30mm of rain fall within an hour tomorrow morning but that didn't stop racegoers enjoying their day out at the Epsom Derby in Surrey today (pictured) The 'Pimm's bar bus' was popular at the Epsom Derby in Surrey today as racegoers quenched their thirst in the warm sunshine . Anyone for a Pimm's? Racegoers queue up to get their hands on a summer tipple as the Epsom Derby gets underway in Surrey . Entertainers performed to the crowds at the Investec Ladies Day at Epsom Downs Racecourse in Surrey today. Racegoers are set to enjoy a fine day of racing before heavy rain sets in overnight . Mr . Williams added: ‘It is going to be one of those warm but humid days . where you could see some bright spells but also some heavy showers as . well.’ He said the . downpours will ease by Sunday when there will be some ‘good, dry and . bright spells’, particularly in southern and eastern parts of the . country and only a risk of light rain in some areas. However, yet more rain is expected across the country on Monday, although it will be brighter between the heavy showers. This is set to continue into next week, with some dry and bright conditions along with light showers, he added. This year has already seen record bad weather, with the wettest winter in more than 100 years in January and February. Unsurprisingly, . scientists in Reading have recorded the wettest first five months of . the year since  records began in 1908, when a total of 18inches (457mm) of rain fell on the Berkshire town between January and May this year. ### SUMMARY:

Weather warnings and flood alerts issued across UK as forecasters warn a fortnight's worth of rain will fall tomorrow . Temperatures across Britain could reach as high as 25C today but weather will take a turn for the worse overnight . Environment Agency issues 104 flood alerts across the country ahead of thundery rain which will hit early tomorrow .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Hot Stuff singer Donna Summer died this morning aged 63 after a battle with cancer, her family has confirmed. The Boston-born star, known as the Queen of Disco, passed away in Florida. The Seventies icon was battling lung cancer, TMZ is reporting, with sources telling the website Donna believed she contracted the illness by inhaling toxic particles after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York. Her family released a statement, saying Summer died on Thursday morning and that they 'are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy'. Scroll to see video of iconic songs and one of Donna's last performances... Queen of Disco: Donna Summer, pictured in 1979, has passed away aged 63 . It went on: 'Words truly can't express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time.' She had been living in Englewood, Florida, with her husband Bruce Sudano. The singer will be remembered at a public memorial in Nashville, Tennessee next Wednesday. Sources told TMZ she had attempted to keep the extent of her illness from fans and was recently trying to finish up her latest album. According to Entertainment Tonight, she was diagnosed with cancer 10 months ago and only told her husband and three children. Secret battle: This is the last picture taken of Summer in public, pictured in October last year just seven months before her death performing in Las Vegas . Hit maker: Summer is know for her popular 70s tracks including Hot Stuff and Bad Girls . ET also reports she will be laid to rest in Nashville on Monday following her funeral. Summers, real name LaDonna Gaines, is best know for her string of 70s hits, including I Feel Love, Last Dance and Bad Girls. She was a five-time Grammy Award winner and the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the US Billboard chart. Diva: Summer seen on stage during performances from her heyday in the Seventies . Seventies crew: Donna takes the stage with Tom Jones, left, and Dolly Parton in 1977 on the Mac Davis: Sounds Like Home  show . She was also the first female artist with four No. 1 singles in a 13-month period, according to the Rock Hall of Fame, where she was a nominee this year. Dionne Warwick: 'My heart goes out to her husband and her children. Prayers will be said to keep them strong.' Billy Ray Cyrus: "R I P #Donna Summer LEGEND!!! Your music will live forever.' Gloria Estefan: 'Few singers have impacted music & the world like Donna Summer! It's the end of an era... Peace & prayers 2 all who loved her. I will miss her!' La Toya Jackson: 'My condolence to #Donna Summer's family & love ones. She will be terribly missed. She was truly the #Disco Queen!' Timbaland (music producer): 'This cant be tru. i cant believe this RIP Donna Summer. at a lost 4words.' Russell Simmons: 'RIP Donna Summer' Ellen DeGeneres: 'I'm so sad about the news that Donna Summer died this morning. I was a big fan. I even used one of her songs in my show that airs today.' Quincy Jones: 'Rest in Peace dead Donna Summer. Your voice was the heartbeat and soundtrack of a decade.' Ricky Martin: 'RIP Donna Summer :0(' Summer came to prominence just as disco was burgeoning, and came to define the era with a string of No. 1 hits and her beauty queen looks. Disco became as much defined by her sultry, sexual vocals - her bedroom moans and sighs - as the relentless, pulsing rhythms of the music itself. Summers married actor Helmuth Sommer in 1973 before giving birth to the couple's daughter Mimi later that year. Although the marriage crumbled in 1975, she kept an altered version of her ex's surname to use as her stage name. She married Brooklyn Dreams musician Bruce Sudano in 1980 and the couple went on to have two daughters, Brooklyn, born in 1981 and Amanda the following year. In 1994, the family moved from Los Angeles to Nashville where Donna took time out from showbusiness to focus on painting but had recently returned to the recording studio. As well has staggering career highs, Summer also endured personal lows. She suffered serious depression in the wake of September 11 terrorist attacks in New York. 'I was really freaked out by the horrific experiences of that day,' Summer, who was at her Manhattan apartment during the 2001 attacks, once said. 'I couldn't go out, I didn't want to talk to anybody. I had to keep the blinds down and stay in my bedroom.' Friends eventually intervened and the born-again Christian also found strength in her faith. Paying their respects: Fans lays flowers on Donna Summer's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . Remembered: Candles and a record by the late singer surround her star . 'I went to church, and light came back into my soul,' she said in 2008. 'That heaviness was gone.' Love to Love You Baby, with its erotic moans, was her first hit and one of the most scandalous songs of the polyester-and-platform-heel era. Unlike some other stars of disco who faded as the music became less popular, Summer was able to grow beyond it and later segued to a pop-rock sound. Family: Summer with her husband Bruce Sudano and their daughter Brooklyn in 2003. The couple also had another daughter together, Amanda. She had a daughter, Mimi, from a previous marriage . Legacy: Brooklyn with sister Amanda Sudanao in 2010 and, right, Donna in the early 70s with her then-husband Helmut Sommer, from whom she took a version of her later name Summer, and their daughter Mimi . She had one of her biggest hits in the 1980s with She Works Hard For The Money, which became another anthem, this time for women's rights. Dancing Queen: Shaking some moves at the famous Studio 54 nightclub in New York in the Seventies . Soon after, Summer became a born-again Christian and faced controversy when she was accused of making anti-gay comments in relation to the AIDS epidemic. Summer denied making the comments, but was the target of a boycott. Still, even as disco went out of fashion she remained a fixture in dance clubs, endlessly sampled and remixed into contemporary dance hits. Summer, real name LaDonna Adrian Gaines, was born in 1948 in Boston. She was raised on gospel music and became the soloist in her church choir by age 10. Love to Love You Baby was her U.S. chart debut and the first of 19 No. 1 dance hits between 1975 and 2008 - second only to Madonna. During the disco era she burned up the charts: She was the only artist to have three consecutive double-LPs hit No. 1, Live and More, `Bad Girls and On the Radio. She was never comfortable with the 'Disco Queen' label. Musically, she began to change in 1979 with Hot Stuff, which had a tough, rock `n' roll beat. Her diverse sound helped her earn Grammy Awards in the dance, rock, R&B and inspirational categories. Dionne Warwick said in a statement that she was sad to lose a great performer and 'dear friend'. 'My heart goes out to her husband and her children,' Warwick said. 'Prayers will be said to keep them strong.' Summer released her last album, Crayons, in 2008. It was her first full studio album in 17 years. She also performed on American Idol that year with its top female contestants. Accolade: Posing in 1979 with the three awards she bagged at the Amerian Music Awards in Los Angeles and, right, performing later that year at the Universal Amphitheatre, also in LA . Passing of a legend: Donna's family say they are celebrating her fantastic legacy in the wake of her death, pictured here in Florida in 2008 . The best of Donna Summer on MUZU.TV. ### SUMMARY:

Seventies icon understood to have battled lung cancer - 'diagnosed 10 months ago' 'Singer believed she contracted illness by inhaling toxic particles after  9/11 attacks' Only told husband and three children of her diagnosis . Will be laid to rest in Nashville following funeral on Monday . Family statement:  'Celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu is trailing her Republican challenger by a giant 16-point margin in a runoff for one of Louisiana's two U.S. Senate seats, according to poll results obtained by MailOnline. The survey, commissioned by GOP Rep. Bill Cassidy's campaign, was leaked to media in order to fire a shot over the senator's bow and send a signal to energy lobbyists that her ship is taking on water. It suggests that Democrats' worst fears have been realized even though Landrieu edged Casssidy by 1 percentage point on Election Day. SCROLL DOWN TO READ THE FULL POLL . GOP Rep. Bill Cassidy's campaign commissions polls daily, and the latest results show him in a commanding position over Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu . Cassidy, a medical doctor, finished a close second on Election Day but appears to have a clear advantage going into the Dec. 6 runoff; Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says if he wins he'll get a seat on the Energy Committee – undercutting Mary Landrieu's strength in an oil-and-gas-heavy state . A second Republican candidate, Rob Maness, won 14 per cent of the vote on Nov. 4, enough to deny them both the 50-percent showing required to avoid a December 6 runoff. Now Maness has endorsed Cassidy, helping him erase his 1-point deficit with Landrieu and adding far more. Cassidy is 'trying to shut K Street down for Mary' by selectively releasing the polling data, a source close to his campaign in Louisiana told MailOnline. 'The energy folks, the lobbyists, keep trying to say she has a chance to win. That's why it was leaked.' Landrieu has lined up for what Republican Capitol Hill aides are calling the 'Hail Mary XL,' a legislative strategy to save her Senate seat by winning a vote to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring 700,000 barrels of oil daily from the Canadian province of Alberta to the Gulf coast. She may get her chance on Tuesday if she can find 14 other Democrats in the lame-duck Senate to join her in backing the project's construction. All 45 Republicans have already signed on. As of Thursday one whip count shared with MailOnline found that she was just two votes short, giving her a 58 of the 60 votes she will need to override Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's objections and force a roll call. Republicans have fired back by making Cassidy the public face of the House bill. And Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Kentuckian who will be the Senate's majority leader in January, vowed to give him a seat on the Energy Committee if he wins. Landrieu's re-election campaign has rested squarely on the question of whether she has enough clout as the committee's current chairwoman to pump new blood into Louisiana's sprawling energy infrastructure – including the 16 oil refineries operating there. She will lose her chairmanship weeks from now regardless of what happens since Republicans will come back in January with a sizable Senate majority. The GOP campaign source hinted that if Landrieu were to mount a comeback, it would require super PAC funding from the energy industry's deep pockets. A 16-point deficit, he said, might be enough to convince them to hang her out to dry. 'And down here,' the source added, 'we have to convince people that it's not in the bag.' Landrieu now lacks the support of any out-of-state PACs, including the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Since the outcome no longer affects which party will control the Senate – the GOP will have either a four- or five-seat edge – the DSCC is saving its money for another day. Landrieu, the outgoing chair of the Senate Energy Committee, is trying to engineer a last-minute vote on the Keystone XL oil pipeline as a 'Hail Mary' play to save her re-election bid . Landrieu communications director Fabien Levy told MailOnline that the GOP's glasses are rose-colored past the point of credibility. But he wouldn't share any of the Democrat's own internal poll numbers. 'What our numbers show is that Mary Landrieu is in a good position to win big on Dec. 6, just as she's won all of her other close races,' Levy said in a phone interview. He took issue with the automated nature of the Magellan Strategies poll, which asked respondents to answer questions by pushing telephone buttons instead of talking with a pollster. Magellan principal Jon Diez confirmed via email that his firm ran a 'push-button' poll for Cassidy's team. Diez's resulting memo discloses that 1,917 people provided answers, and assigns a 2.2 per cent margin of error to the result. Levy said that in the Landrieu campaign, 'we don't do automated' polls – only more traditional surveys. Diez countered with the email equivalent of a shoulder-shrug. 'As with live surveys, there is no way to guarantee that each respondent is honest in their responses,' he said. Diez also explained that his sample is balanced for race and other demographic features when phone numbers are culled from public voting records. 'Her campaign is running on fumes,' Diez said in an email of Landrieu's re-election efforts. 'She voted 97% of the time with a president and a party who 62% of the voters [in Louisiana] disapprove of. It is what it is.' Levy also objected to a series of set-up questions asked immediately before respondents were asked to choose a future senator. A recorded message asked Louisianans to decide which of four issues should be 'the top priority' for the next Congress. The only issues on the list were repealing Obamacare, protecting the U.S. from terrorists, ramping up border security and 'addressing the illegal immigration problem,' and shrinking the size of government. Cassidy lost on Election Day but looks to be leading in the runoff since the other Republican in the race is supporting him . Reputation on the line: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton posted a disappointing record on Election Day, with losses raining down on six of the nine Senate candidates she stumped for; a Landrieu win could diminish the feeling that her star is on the wane just as the 2016 presidential season gets ready to kick off . Levy called those 'push-poll questions' that might cause Democrats to hang up before the crucial questions were asked. He also noted that the Keystone XL pipeline didn't make the cut. 'He's pretending it's important now, but where has he been on the pipeline?' he asked. One of the run-off contest's most comical features has been the tit-for-tat skirmishes over the number of times Landrieu and Cassidy will debate. 'We challenged him to six debates ... one for every year he wants to serve in the Senate,' Levy said of the Landrieu campaign's symbolic challenge. 'He only agreed to one.' In 2002, the last time Landrieu faced a runoff election, she debated her opponent four times in the weeks following Election Day. On Tuesday in Shreveport, Cassidy turned the Democrats' challenge on its head. 'She wants to have 6 debates, as if 6 has some significance,' he told KTBS-TV3. 'Why not have 97 debates  – one for every percent that she supports Barack Obama? Or 716 for the $716 billion that Obamacare took out of Medicare?' Bloomberg News reported Wednesday that Cassidy's campaign operation has several advantages in addition to poll numbers. About 96 per cent of all the TV ads running in all six major media markets there support him. Cassidy Landrieu NOV 14 2014 Poll Memo uploaded by MailOnline . ### SUMMARY:

Poll commissioned by GOP candidate's campaign shows massive advantage leading up to Dec. 6 runoff . Win by GOP Rep. Bill Cassidy would bring total Republican pickup to a whopping 10 seats . Landrieu is hoping a long-awaited vote on the Keystone XL pipeline will improve her fortunes . Poll was leaked in Washington to send a message to energy lobbyists who think she can prevail . Survey is an 'automated' phone poll that Landrieu's campaign considers less credible than traditional surveys conducted by voice . 'Her campaign is running on fumes,' the pollster told MailOnline .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The father whose fateful decision to allow his 9-year-old daughter try out a powerful Uzi sub-machine gun led to her killing her instructor is an investment fund manager, MailOnline can reveal. Alex Gen MacLachlan is an Ivy League-educated banker who manages a fund worth $1.5bn. He and his wife Alison have made no public comment on the tragedy beyond to say through their lawyer that they are 'devastated' by the accident at the Arizona firing range which killed instructor Charles Vacca. A female relative of MacLachlan living in New Jersey confirmed to MailOnline that Alex's daughter had been involved in the shooting. 'But I can't say anything about it,' she added. 'It's just terrible.' Scroll down for video . Tragedy: Alex MacLachlan, (left, pictured with his sister, Elizabeth) fired the gun first before letting his daughter take hold of the Uzi. MacLachlan is a fund manager with a firm in New Jersey and oversees $1.5bn . 'All right, full auto': MacLachlan's wife, Alison, filmed the moment their daughter shot dead instructor Charles Vacca and handed it over to police. The family said in a statement that they were praying for Vacca's family . He has not returned to work at Dixon's Global Resource Masters Fund since the August 25 accident. The family hasn't yet returned to their home in Weehawken, New Jersey just across the Hudson River from New York City either. A neighbor on the busy street where the MacLachlans live described the family as 'quiet and very nice,' adding 'it's all so terrible. That girl's just a baby.' MacLachlan, 43, is a high-flyer in the financial world. After graduating from Cornell University and getting a masters at Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, he spent most of his career in Australia where he also worked for UBS. It is believed his wife is Australian and that his daughter was born there before the family returned to the United States last year. Neighbours at the upscale Sydney suburb where they lived described them as a 'gorgeous, happy family', adding the couple had two other children, an older boy and a girl of high school age. MacLachlan has hired lawyer Kevin Walsh - who has been named as one of the 'Best Lawyers in America' since 2012 - to represent him. Walsh, a former federal prosecutor, did not return MailOnline's repeated calls. He earlier issued a statement saying the MacLachlan family was 'devastated', by the death of Vacca, 39, saying family members 'prayed day and night' that he would 'survive his injury'. Walsh said the MacLachlans 'continue to pray' for Vacca's family 'during this terribly difficult time'. Alex and Alison MacLachlan and their three children were vacationing in Las Vegas and took a 60-mile shuttle across the Arizona border to the Last Stop resort in White Hills for some weapon practice on August 25. They went for an early morning monster truck ride before going to Last Stop's Burgers and Bullets shooting range. According to Mohave County Sheriff's Department, Alex was first to fire the Mini Uzi 9mm before allowing his little girl to have a go. Video shows Vacca telling the pony-tailed girl, who was wearing a gray t-shirt, pink shorts and sneakers, how to shoot the gun. High flier: MacLachlan's profile on his firm's page. He graduated from Cornell University and got a Masters degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania . Past: The Maclachlans moved from this luxurious house in an upscale suburb of Sydney last year as Alex had spent a large portion of his career there. Neighbours said they were a 'happy, gorgeous' family . The cellphone video, taken by the girl's mother and released by the sheriff's department, shows the instructor, wearing sunglasses, a black t-shirt, camouflage pants and dark gloves, tapping the back of the girl's left knee to put her into a correct shooting stance. He then let her fire one shot as he braced her right elbow with his gloved right hand and placed his left hand in the small of her back. Vacca then turned the weapon on to automatic fire and that is when things went tragically wrong. He then says 'all right, full auto' and the video shows the slightly-built pre-teen lose control of the weapon which curls upward and to her left where her instructor is standing. The video cuts out before the shot to the head that kills Vacca. The girl's parents did not initially realize what had happened as they rushed to their daughter, who had dropped the gun complaining that the recoil had hurt her shoulder. Range workers went to the aid of Vacca, but nothing could be done to save him. A 911 call timed at 10.02 am recorded a fellow worker urging him: 'Breathe, breathe, breathe, Charlie. Breathe.' While another says 'I don't think he's gonna make it.' A 911 dispatcher asks a caller: 'Is he breathing?' The desperate man replies: 'Yes he is, he's having convulsions. You need to send EMS right away.' In a second 911 call a few minutes later, a man at the range asks the dispatcher: 'Where the f..k is the helicopter?' Vacca was eventually stabilized at the scene and airlifted by helicopter to University Medical Center in Las Vegas where he was pronounced dead soon after arrival. Authorities are not pressing charges in the death. According to police reports, Alex and Alison MacLachlan refused to allow investigators to interview their children because they were 'going through a lot'. Police at the scene were instructed to collect the waivers signed by the parents allowing the girl to shoot the Uzi but were told by range staff that they had 'blown away' after the shooting. The MacLachlans have not said whether they are considering a civil suit against the shooting range owners. Alex MacLachlan works for the US arm of Dixon Advisory, based in Sydney, Australia. His 10th floor office in Jersey City, New Jersey, has sweeping views of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty across the Hudson River. Desperate: A 911 call recorded Vacca's  fellow worker urging him: 'Breathe, breathe, breathe, Charlie. Breathe' Investigation: Alex and Alison MacLachlan refused to allow investigators to interview their children because they were 'going through a lot', according to police reports . 'Alex conceived the idea of establishing a business to acquire and manage homes in urban areas experiencing strong growth and gentrification in 2008,' according to the website of his employers, Dixon USA. 'Between 2008 and 2010, Alex researched and developed the investment thesis and business model for what would become Dixon USA, and in late 2010, Dixon USA was launched. Today, Dixon USA manages a portfolio of over $300 million and is the only real estate investment trust focused on New York metropolitan area single-family homes.' A woman who answered the phone on Wednesday said MacLachlan had not been at work all week but referred other questions to MacLachlan's assistant, who refused to comment. According to the company's website, 'from funds under management of under $100 million at the time of his start, Alex has grown the Funds Management division to over $1.5 billion of funds under management today.' The Dixon website adds: 'In addition to his role as CEO of Funds Management, he now also leads the strategy and growth of Dixon USA, a leading provider of urban single-family home rentals in the New York metropolitan area. 'During his tenure in investment banking, Alex worked on more than $100 billion in mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions, advising some of the world’s leading companies,' the Dixon website says. ### SUMMARY:

Ivy League-educated Alex MacLachlan, 43, of Weehawken, New Jersey, manages a fund worth $1.5bn . His daughter, nine, accidentally shot dead instructor Charles Vacca when she was firing an Uzi at Arizona gun range . MacLachlan and his wife, Alison, who have two older children, have issued statement saying they are 'devastated' and are praying for Vacca's family . Family, who moved from Australia last year, were described by former neighbors as 'gorgeous' and 'happy'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The Muslim ex-husband of American woman Nicole Lynn Mansfield, shot dead in Syria for supposedly fighting with rebel forces, is a religious hardliner who may have indoctrinated her into his beliefs. Ayman Mohammed Bafil, from Saudi Arabia, hates the freedoms that people have in the U.S. and thinks anyone who does not believe in Islam is ‘going to hell’. A close family friend said that he has medieval beliefs and sees women as only being fit for cooking, raising children and having sex. Marriage: Nicole Lynn Mansfield was converted to Islam by ex-husband Ayman Mohammed Bafil (pictured) according to a friend . Covert mission: Nicole Lynn Mansfield, pictured with her daugher Triana, died in Syria last week after taking part in rebel activities against the government . The friend fears that he could have . controlled Nicole Lynn Mansfield, killed by government forces in Syria . last Sunday. The claims, made exclusively to . MailOnline, give an insight into the man Nicole’s family . believe could have set her on the course which resulted in her death. MailOnline has also obtained the . first picture of Bafil, who now lives in Saudi Arabia with his third . wife, an American Muslim convert like Nicole. The photo, reportedly taken in 2007, shows a man in traditional Saudi dress with a slim face and youthful appearance. Nicole, 33, and two other Westerners . were shot dead in Idlib province in northern Syria, making her the first . American to be killed in the country’s civil war. State media reported that she was . fighting with an al Qaeda-affiliated group and that she threw grenades . at government soldiers when caught in an ambush. Other reports suggested she was setting up an observation post when she was shot. Her . family, including her 18-year-old daughter Triana Jones, who all live . in Flint, Michigan, are baffled as to how an apparently harmless woman . could have ended up in such a situation. Nicole Lynn Mansfield was shot dead by Syrian government forces along with two other Westerners - reportedly both British - The 33-year-old is from Flint, Michigan and converted to Islam several years ago following marriage to an Arab man . Gunned Down: Syrian state television showed the vehicle the woman was traveling in with a British man that appeared to be riddled with bullets . The . turning point in her life appears to have been five years ago when she . met Bafil and converted to Islam, though it is not clear if he . introduced her to the religion or if she was already interested in . becoming a Muslim. Now . MailOnline can reveal his full story for the first time - and how he has . been married three times in his quest to find the perfect housewife. Bafil, . 32, wed his first wife in Saudi Arabia in 2002 under an arranged . marriage to a Saudi woman. Both were from strict Sunni Muslim families. They . moved to Eugene, Oregon in 2006 so he could study English and then . engineering with a grant from the Saudi government which covered his . tuition fees, accommodation and living expenses. However his wife soon grew unhappy and rebelled at how she was treated. In 2007 they split up and later divorced. The friend said: ‘He carried on as if they were still in Saudi Arabia. He is very religious and didn’t allow her to get cable or to play music. ‘He did not let her drive - even in America - and the only way she could was by stealing his car when he didn’t know. ‘He hated Christianity and people who were not in the same religion as him. ‘His wife was supposed to wear the full burka. He thought a woman should be at home, cooking, watching the kids and there for sex. That’s what a woman is in his eyes.’ Bafil and his first wife have two children, a girl aged nine and a five-year-old boy. They went through a bitter court battle which ended with her being granted custody but he is allowed visitation rights when he returns to the U.S. He does so once or twice a year even though he reportedly detests America. The friend said: ‘He is completely against America. He thinks there’s too much freedom here. He thinks young people who have sex are like animals and he doesn’t like drinking. ‘The bottom line is that he thinks they (Americans) will burn in hell’. In July 2010, Bafil married Nicole in Flint having met her on the Internet but their marriage lasted just over a year. They divorced in August 2011. Her relatives have told MailOnline that it was a ‘deal’ under which he would get a green card and paid her cash and gave her a van in exchange. Daughter: Triana Lynn Mansfield, right, took to Facebook on Friday to blame the Syrian government for her mother's death while denying her accused ties to terrorism . But for Nicole at least it seems that there was definitely a commitment of some kind, regardless of her motives. The friend said: ‘She came to visit him every weekend and do the wife thing and cook and clean for him. ‘Then she would go back home and carry on her life. She paid for everything and just wanted to be there for him. ‘She would be a housewife for him, basically’. It is not clear if Nicole was already a Muslim before she met Bafil or if he persuaded her to convert, although in Islam converting a non-believer is seen as extremely praiseworthy. Regardless of which, it is likely that he brought her round to his militant viewpoint during their time together. The friend said that he was ‘capable of putting ideas into her head’ and that he was supportive of Muslims who had taken part in jihad against the Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s with the backing of the Saudi government. The friend said: ‘He is capable of doing anything. He is manipulative and two-faced.' By October 2011, Bafil moved onto wife number three and wed Muslim convert Theresa Rutgers, who was 33 at the time and living in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Defense: Nicole's daughter Triana Lynn Mansfield took to Facebook today to defend her mother, pictured, claiming she was a 'regular American woman who was misguided by the people' The pair are now living in Saudi Arabia where he works as an engineer for Saudi Airlines and she is a stay-at-home mother. She has told friends she is extremely happy and loves her new life. During a phone conversation, Theresa, who was not aware that Nicole had died, said: ‘That’s awful news. I’m so sorry. ‘Ayman never has a bad thing to say about her. I knew they were married but it was not a bitter divorce.' MailOnline has not received a comment from Ayman Mohammed Bafil. Among those who have defended Nicole's actions have been her daughter Triana who has given a tearful interview in which she said that her mother was ‘lied to’ by whoever persuaded her to go to Syria. She claimed that her mother could not have afforded her plane ticket and that she told her last week that she wouldn't be home for a few weeks because someone stole her ID. That same ID, her Michigan state driver’s licence, was later flashed on TV screens when she was killed. Nicole’s father Greg Mansfield revealed that he contacted the FBI five years ago when Nicole traveled to Dubai and asked them to take away her passport. He has said that he ‘knew something wasn’t right’ and that if they had followed his instructions she would still be alive. Nicole’s family now want her body returned to the U.S. so they can give her a Christian burial and bury her in a plot next to her grandfather. Today the Sunday Telegraph reported the group that Nicole was fighting with is called Ahrar al-Sham, translated as ‘Free Men of Syria’, which controls a large area in the north of the country. A rebel fighter who declined to give his name said that Nicole was not a terrorist and that she was helping to plan operations against government forces and nurse wounded fighters. He said: ‘The American sister, Nicole, is a brilliant woman. ‘She was an instructor for our movement. She gave training to other women who wanted help. ‘When she died, she was on a mission planning and studying the military geography of an army base. ### SUMMARY:

Ayman Mohammed Bafil was married to Nicole Lynn Mansfield for little over a year . Bafil believes all non-Muslims are 'going to hell', a friend said . Mansfield, 33, of Flint, Michigan, was accused of working with an al-Qaeda rebel affiliate in war-torn Syria following her death last week .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: After years of speculation and rare case reports, a study suggests that stimulant medication -- mostly used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- may have played a role in a handful of cases of sudden, unexplained death in children and adolescents. Untreated ADHD can lead to poor school performance and increase adolescents' risk for harmful behavior. The study authors stress, however, that parents and doctors should not refrain from treating children with ADHD just because of these results. "The association is significant in that it's real, but that doesn't mean it's not a very low risk," says lead author Madelyn S. Gould, Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry and public health at Columbia University, in New York. "There probably does need to be more careful monitoring, but the bottom line is that parents should not take their children off stimulant medication they're currently on and should not be scared to have their child go on a stimulant if that's what they and their doctors decide is the best thing for their child." The study, published this week in the American Journal of Psychiatry, is the first to suggest that the stimulants may pose a risk -- albeit remote -- in children without underlying heart problems. About 2.5 million children in the United States take such medications. Stimulants linked to 1.8 percent of unexplained deaths . Gould and her colleagues compared medical records and parent interviews of children and adolescents who had died between the years of 1985 and 1996, including 564 who had died from an unexplained heart-rate abnormality or other causes, and 564 who died as passengers in motor vehicle accidents. They excluded cases with other known possible causes of death, such as asthma or congenital heart diseases. Of all the unexplained cases, the researchers found that 10 children, or 1.8 percent of the group, had had stimulant medication prescribed. This compared with only two cases of stimulant use, or 0.4 percent, among healthy children who had died in motor vehicle accidents -- a group used to represent a general population of healthy children and adolescents. Health.com: Treatment options for ADHD at any age . In all 10 cases, the children were taking methylphenidate, the active ingredient in Ritalin and Concerta. A similar drug, Adderall, is composed of mixed amphetamine salts and was not included in the study results because it was first approved in 1996. However, the Food and Drug Administration in 2006 asked the manufacturers of stimulants, including Adderall, to add a warning to their label saying the medications should not be used in children with structural heart abnormalities or other heart problems. At the time, the FDA advisory panel rejected a more stringent black-box warning about the possible risk of sudden unexplained death. Strattera, another medication approved for ADHD in children, is not a stimulant medication. A spokesperson for McNeil Pediatrics, which distributes and markets Concerta, says the company welcomes any data that add to the body of knowledge in this therapeutic area, but did not make a specific comment on the new study. Michael Billings, a spokesperson for Novartis, the manufacturer of Ritalin, notes that the drug has been used for more than 50 years and is the most studied ADHD medication. Health.com: Secrets to a stress-free home . "For all of its products, Novartis reviews its global safety and efficacy through post-marketing surveillance and consistently reports new information to health authorities on an ongoing basis," says Billings. "Review of Novartis safety data has failed to detect an increased risk in sudden cardiac death associated with methylphenidate use." Not a watershed moment, researchers say . Gould says it's important to report this association, but she is also concerned about the results being misinterpreted. "We're very sensitive to not wanting this to be some watershed moment where stimulant medications start to get used less and get used inappropriately," she explains. In an editorial accompanying the article, Benedetto Vitiello, M.D., and Kenneth Towbin, M.D., of the National Institute of Mental Health, agree with Gould's concerns. Health.com: The Top 5 cholesterol myths . They write that the study findings "should underscore that stimulant medications are not innocuous and that their therapeutic use requires careful diagnostic assessment, diligent safety screening, and ongoing monitoring. "However, it is equally clear that sudden, unexplained death is a rare event, this is only the first such study, it relies on small numbers, and it is not possible to quantify the risk beyond estimating that it is very small." Indeed, since a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial isn't ethically possible in this situation, it is hard to conduct a study that's not without flaws. Although the researchers are confident that the results are not due to any underlying factors -- children with ADHD often have asthma and heart conditions also linked with sudden death, and so these cases were eliminated from the analysis --"one can never be 100 percent sure that there aren't other unknown or undiagnosed issues," says Gould. Health.com: Slideshow: Celebrities with ADHD . James Perrin, M.D., a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, says the study isn't surprising "nor particularly convincing." He says the research is flawed because, among other problems, it may have underestimated the number of children who were taking stimulants. The rate of stimulant use, particularly in the accident-related deaths, was lower than expected, he says. "The study adds very little to what we already know, i.e., that some children who receive stimulants experience sudden unexpected death," says Dr. Perrin, who was not involved in the study. "The current study should not change the use of any medications or treatments." More research, careful monitoring is needed . Stimulant medications currently contain a warning targeted to specific high-risk children, including those with structural heart defects, cardiomyopathy, or heart-rhythm disturbances. The medication labels also warn that stimulants may raise blood pressure and heart rate, and have been linked with stroke and heart attack in adults. When deciding whether to put a child on stimulant medications, both clinicians and parents should weigh the seriousness of the situation, says Gould. The benefits may not outweigh the risk in cases in which attention problems may be keeping a B-student from becoming an A-student, she explains. Health.com: Yoga moves to beat ease stress, insomnia, and pain . But with more serious cases, the choice should be clearer. Untreated ADHD can be harmful in itself, leading to poor performance in school and increasing adolescents' risk for harmful behavior such as reckless driving, unsafe sexual practices, and substance abuse. "I have two boys, now grown, so I can certainly relate to parents facing these decisions," Gould says. "If my child was having problems to the extent that a neurologist or psychiatrist was recommending medication, I would want the medication -- although, even though we didn't discuss this specifically in the study, I would want my child to have an EKG." In 2008, the American Heart Association recommended that doctors consider routine electrocardiograms before starting children with ADHD on stimulants or other psychotropic medications, but underscored the need for future research. An EKG may help to detect cardiac abnormalities that would increase a child's vulnerability to sudden heart problems. Parents considering stimulant medication for their children should also provide their doctor with a detailed family history, including any heart problems or sudden deaths of close family members. Future research should focus on new ways to detect which children are most at risk for sudden death when taking stimulants, says Gould, since not all cases seem to be detectable with routine screenings. Until then, a thorough examination and careful monitoring is the best way to reduce a child's danger. The study was funded by a grant from the NIMH and a contract with the FDA. Enter to win a monthly Room Makeover Giveaway from MyHomeIdeas.com . Copyright Health Magazine 2009 . ### SUMMARY:

Study: Stimulant meds, often used in ADHD, may have role in kids' deaths . Authors warn parents not to stop treating kids with ADHD; risk is low . Stimulant meds currently contain a warning targeted to specific high-risk children . About 2.5 million U.S. children take such medications .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- A fan recently summed up his feelings about NFL arenas in a blog post: Religions have their churches, and sports teams have their stadiums. As the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers leave their fans' places of Sunday worship to face off in the Super Bowl, one of the world's top sports arena architects shared a story that illustrates why some facilities are better than others. Rewind to 1998, when James Poulson and five top colleagues from the architectural firm now known as Aecom Ellerbe Becket were camping out in the office suite of Microsoft co-founder and Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen. The pressure was on Poulson's self-described "SWAT team" to design a new stadium with built-in advantages for the home squad -- a stadium that would act as the Seahawks' virtual 12th man. "The whole concept was to create a place at one end of the field for the real crazies who like to paint themselves blue and green," Poulson recalls. "The stands would be made of steel -- so when you stomp your feet, it made noise." But the area also needed to have a great view that wasn't blocked by the giant video scoreboard. During a "pretty intensive roll-up-your-sleeves work-all-night atmosphere," crude models were built, handmade sketches were pinned to the office walls, and eventually, the presentation was ready for Allen. "We brought in this model with little blue lights built into it, and we turned off the room lights and turned on the blue lights in the model," Poulson said. "Paul was like a little kid with a new toy. He was so excited with the potential of something like that." Looking straight at Poulson, Allen asked, "Where has this been done before?" Nowhere, Poulson told him. "Great, we're going to do it." Infrastructural adversary . From there began Qwest Field's reputation as an infrastructural adversary for any visiting NFL team. Not only was the end zone noisy, the entire stadium seemed to amplify the crowd noise and focus it onto the field. Now the arena is among the top delay-of-game venues in the league -- much to the chagrin of Seahawks opponents. More ideas flowed onto the blueprints. The stadium was positioned so that Seattle's infamous horizontal rain would pelt the opponents' sideline area -- but not the home team's sideline."It was a calculated risk," Poulson admitted. "We knew where the rain was coming from, and we knew which way the stadium had to be oriented for percentage angles." A recent report in Discovery News suggested that foot-stomping fans at Qwest might actually create their own mini-earthquakes. Poulson explained, "We don't recruit players, and we don't build teams, and we don't coach. We try to create an environment that's conducive to spectacular athletic performance." Welcome to the era of the NFL super stadium: a high-tech sports sanctuary designed to win more games, make more money and please more fans. "The buildings aren't always getting bigger, but they are getting smarter," says Christopher Lamberth, of 360 Architecture. It's a time when rabid football followers name their pets after their favorite arenas, like Heinz. It's a world where PETA praises animal-friendly NFL stadiums, such as the Packers' newly renovated Lambeau Field for its "hearty, meat-free fare." It's also when fans aren't satisfied by simply sitting in the stands and watching a game on the field. They can do that at home, Lamberth said. But what they'll never replicate with at-home viewing is the vibe of actually being where the game is. So now, the idea is to combine the best of both worlds: at home and at the field. "You can go sit in the upper deck and still have a good time," Lamberth said. "You can watch from a concession-area monitor. Or if you want to tailgate it in the parking lot and watch it on satellite, that's great, too." Either way, fans come away with a game-day experience. Stadiums are reflecting this attitude by bringing to the field more of the comforts and gadgets of home -- luxury boxes, multiscreen video and top-notch concessions. Design trends follow with wider stadium concourses and large, open plazas surrounding the arenas. Tailgating on steroids . This weekend's Super Bowl has embraced the idea as a way to boost attendance toward the 100,000 mark. Tickets: $200 a head. Experiencing the vibe of the Super Bowl parking lot: priceless. At Lambeau, where Wisconsin's brutal cold often provides a home field advantage, the stadium has sponsored its own sort of tailgate-party-on-steroids called The Tailgate Tundra Zone. Up to 4,000 partying Cheeseheads take over a couple hundred parking spots with the team's blessing. With about 84,000 fans on a waiting list for season tickets, the Tundra Zone is the next best thing to being inside a stadium that has sold out its past 290 games. Getting intimate at Heinz Field . In Pittsburgh, cold winds off the Ohio River blast into the open end of Heinz Field, creating a home field advantage for visiting teams' inexperienced kickers. The arena is considering adding 4,000 seats, and plans are under way to connect Heinz to downtown with a light-rail line. Heinz and many of the league's other newer or newly renovated stadiums offer "intimate" settings. Fewer seats are in the end zone, and more seats are closer to the field. Spectators have a more direct line of sight to the action. And then, of course, there's the amazing 21st century technology. At the home of the Arizona Cardinals, the 19 million-pound field turf rolls from inside the stadium to the outside, so the grass can bask in the Phoenix sunshine. Cowboys Stadium's retractable roof is touted as the largest of its kind in the world. It opens or closes in just 12 minutes. Media technology is built into the backbone of the NFL's New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey. Opened in 2010, the home to New York's Jets and Giants boasts four huge HD video scoreboards -- one for each corner of the field. Most stadiums have two -- one in each end zone. For Jets games, ticket holders have access to a new hand-held sports video device called FanVision, which feeds detailed game stats and shows replays from several exclusive camera angles that fans wouldn't see anywhere else. Also, concession technology at Meadowlands speeds up purchases and shortens lines. Stadium operators can track sales data in real time. Faster than you can spell 'Roethlisberger' Meadowlands' Wi-Fi capacity is huge, said William Squires, an ex-Giants vice president who consults for the new stadium. "You have fans trying to upload photos or video, and some of these stadiums just can't handle it," he said. "But we think we're ahead of the times when it comes to that. Our wireless abilities are pretty much off the charts." Fans of the sci-fi film "Blade Runner" recall the giant video walls emblazoned on skyscrapers of the future. In the real world, stadium designers are moving in this direction. American Airlines Arena, which is home to the NBA's Miami Heat, was one of the first sports facilities to use MediaMesh technology that turns building facades into giant video screens. Look for this trend to continue and intensify. Video projected on the building will reveal upcoming games or live broadcasts of the games being played inside. Or, the video facades could offset expensive ticket prices with paid advertising. For future facilities, designers are looking at other ways to transform sports arenas. Organizers of London's 2012 Olympics are interested in venues that can easily transform seating and field configurations from one sport to another. In Qatar, site of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, proposed stadiums include detachable upper tiers. Designers are asking themselves, "How can we expand or adapt seating capacity?" Lamberth said. "The flexibility to host various events is the transformable." ### SUMMARY:

Super Bowl stadium boosts attendance by selling tickets for the parking lot . Newer NFL facilities boast smarter designs, more technology . Packers' Lambeau Field embraces "tailgating on steroids" Stadium architect reveals secrets of home-field advantage .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- A vast winter storm on Tuesday blasted much of the nation with nearly horizontal blowing snow, cloaking trees and power lines with ice up to an inch thick, forcing airports to close and complicating the travel plans of fans headed to this weekend's Super Bowl in Texas. A mix of blizzard, ice, hard freeze and high wind warnings sprang up across most of the Lower 48 states as the system pressed eastward, from New Mexico to Maine. Forecasters said as many as 100 million people in the United States would feel its effects. Blizzard warnings were up late Tuesday in eight states -- from eastern Kansas to western Ohio. The mass of frigid precipitation, in its relentless northeasterly march, formed an arc that was centered in the Great Lakes region and stretched from northeastern Kansas in the west to the edge of Chesapeake Bay in the east. The stem of the storm brought needed rain to much of the Southeast, but unwelcome ice and hard freeze warnings in other places, as far south as Corpus Christi, Texas. Parts of the Florida Panhandle, southwestern Georgia and southeastern Alabama were under a tornado watch. High-wind warnings were posted in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia, with gusts of 55 mph forecast in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The National Weather Service forecasts and advisories through Wednesday night read like the Abominable Snow Monster's Christmas list: Up to 14 inches of snow in South Bend, Indiana, with winds up to 30 mph; Up 13 inches of snow and a low of 12 below zero in Ottumwa, Iowa; as much as 13 inches of new snow in Berlin, New Hampshire, by Wednesday night; hard freeze warnings in Houston and Galveston, Texas. In Chicago, part of a fiberboard roof panel behind home plate at Wrigley Field, home of the baseball Cubs, broke away in the high wind, the ball club said. Police roped off nearby streets and sidewalks as a precaution, the club said. Drifting and blowing snow closed parts of interstate highways in Oklahoma and Missouri, while police in St. Louis stopped patrolling in advance of the worst of a storm that was expected to leave as much as 30 inches of snow in parts of Missouri and Illinois, and up to an inch of ice in places. "Do not travel! Stay inside!" the National Weather Service warned. "Strong winds and blinding snow will make travel nearly impossible. This is a life-threatening storm." Ice is the larger threat in a band that extended from south of St. Louis to western Connecticut and parts of New Jersey. In those regions, more than an inch of ice could accumulate, downing trees and power lines. All of western Maryland was under a freezing rain advisory. An ice storm warning covered 29 counties in central and southern Indiana. In the city of Greenwood, a command center was set up to deal with downed trees and other hazards that might impede first responders during emergencies. By Tuesday evening, a quarter-inch of ice had accumulated on trees in the area, with at least a half-inch expected, Fire Chief James Sipes told CNN affiliate WAVE of Louisville, Kentucky. "The last time we had an event of this nature was in 1988," Sipes said, "and it caused substantial damage." The nasty weather is even threatening festivities surrounding the Super Bowl, set for Sunday in Dallas. Icy conditions forced Dallas-Fort Worth Airport to temporarily close Tuesday morning. The airport reopened after a two-hour closure with one runway in operation, airport officials told CNN. Nearby Love Field was also forced to close and was expected to reopen by 2 p.m. (3 p.m. ET). "We had thunderstorms, we had rain, we had freezing rain, ice pellets, sleet -- the only thing we didn't have was hail and sunshine," said Ed Martelle, the spokesman for AMR Corp., which owns American Airlines. In Illinois, all major thoroughfares from I-70 and further north were covered with -- or had patches of -- ice and snow, according to the state Department of Transportation. In Missouri, whiteout conditions forced the closure of I-70 through the middle part of the state. "This is not a good time to be on the road," Missouri highway department official Don Hillis said. "Almost all of the state is covered with snow and some areas are receiving ice, making some roads impassable." The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety reported that westbound Interstate 40 in Seminole and Okfuskee counties was closed Tuesday afternoon with 4-foot snow drifts. The department said some arterial roads and all secondary routes in parts of eastern Oklahoma were nearly impassable. The Will Rogers Turnpike, I-44 in northeast Oklahoma, also was closed, and the National Guard was rescuing people trapped in their cars, the department said. Tow trucks were running as much three hours behind in some parts of the state, it said. In Tulsa, even police cars and ambulances got stuck in the snow. The snowfall also collapsed part of a roof at the Hard Rock Casino Tulsa, according to Amanda Clinton, a spokeswoman for the Cherokee Nation, which owns the casino. No one was injured. Those who ventured out did so against the advice of government and emergency officials, who urged people to stay off the roads and inside, and prepare for the worst. Up to 16 inches of snow are expected in parts of Michigan, with winds up to 40 mph causing significant drifts, according to CNN affiliate WILX in Lansing. Winds were gusting at 33 mph at Detroit City Airport Tuesday night, with the temperature at 17 degrees. Michigan's emergency management department has posted an advisory for residents to "have essential supplies ready to stay safe at home, at work and in their vehicles." As the storm approached, governments vowed they would be ready for what was being described as a storm of historic proportions. Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma and Kansas declared states of emergency so they could bring extra resources to bear. Missouri mobilized 600 National Guard troops to help cope with the storm. Illinois put 500 troops on notice that they might be needed as the storm intensifies. Iowa also activated some guard members. Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe also declared a state of emergency and activated National Guard troops to help move supplies to the northwestern portion of the state, where power outages are expected as snow, ice and high winds move in. Warming centers set up by the Salvation Army were running and busy in Fayetteville and Bentonville, according to CNN affiliate KFTA. "We are known for wild weather swings in Arkansas, but to have snow, ice and severe thunderstorms in the same day is rare," Beebe said. In Chicago, where snowfall of 15 inches or more happens but once every two decades, according to the National Weather Service, officials outfitted 120 garbage trucks with plows to supplement the city's usual fleet of 274 trucks, said Jose A. Santiago, executive director of the city's Office of Emergency Management. The White House press office issued a statement saying President Barack Obama had told the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be prepared to help state and local governments with widespread power outages and other issues arising from the storm. Thousands of flights were canceled Tuesday. Airports in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, were effectively closed. United, Continental and American Airlines announced that flights were suspended after 5 p.m. (6 p.m. ET) out of Chicago O'Hare International Airport and that flights scheduled for Wednesday also have been suspended. Delta Air Lines said more than 1,350 flights, most of them to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, were canceled on Tuesday, and 800 Wednesday flights had also been canceled. JetBlue scrubbed 371 Tuesday flights and 794 total. US Airways canceled 687 flights. Plummeting temperatures were expected to filter in behind the system, dropping to below zero in the upper Plains states over the next few days. Parts of the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma also will experience some of the coldest air this season, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said. ### SUMMARY:

NEW: Frigid precipitation stretches from Plains to Eastern Seaboard . NEW: Most of the Lower 48 states affected by severe weather advisories . NEW: Tornado watches up in Florida Panhandle, south Georgia and Alabama . NEW: Section of roof blows away at Chicago's Wrigley Field .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Connectivity was the name of the game at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, held last week in Las Vegas -- especially when it came to health-related products. From cloud-connected scales to music-connected sex toys, these gadgets rose above the rest as those that might really help you keep your New Year's resolutions. Sleep soundly . A small, lightweight band users wear on their heads during sleep, the Zeo Sleep System measures brain waves while you're in dreamland, and will sync via Bluetooth with your smart device. Zeo's free app plots out how many hours of quality snooze time you're getting each night. Great feedback for our highly caffeinated, tech-obsessed society, it also plots out sleep quality based on behaviors you input. How much did those three glasses of vino affect your sleep? How about that late night fast-food run, or actual run? Zeo gives you concrete tips for improving your sleep routine based on your habits, and will even wake you up at the optimum time in your sleep cycle. The Zeo is available for a one-time purchase price of $99. (No monthly subscription required.) Body bands . A bevy of body bands made a splash at CES this year, among them the BodyMedia Fit and the Basis Band. BodyMedia's Fit monitoring system consists of a small electric band the user wears on his or her arm, that works in conjunction with a software interface that's available on your smartphone or online. Users input their daily calorie intake, and the device monitors calories burned. The band uses sweat sensors, an accelerometer and skin temperature monitors to figure out how much exercise you're doing, and for how long. It compares that to your food intake to give a picture of your daily health. The accelerometer knows when you're lying on your back for hours at a time (presumably sleeping), and adds that to your fitness picture as well. The Fit CORE is available for $149, but requires plugging in to synch your data. The new Fit LINK is Bluetooth-enabled for wireless synching, and is available for $179. Both products require a $6.95 monthly subscription to BodyMedia's online dashboard. Similar to the BodyMedia's Fit, the Basis Band adds real-time heart rate monitoring to the mix by using a optical engine that "looks through the skin to see actual blood flow," similar to the technology used in pulse oximeters (those little things they put on your finger at the doctor's office.) The Basis Band is also worn on the wrist rather than on the arm, and looks more like a trendy watch than a fitness monitor. The Basis is available for pre-order, shipping sometime this quarter; and will be $199. The price includes lifetime access to the cloud service and online interface -- no monthly subscription required. Smart medical devices . Smart medical devices abounded on the expo floor this year. The Withings Wi-fi Body Scale, a sleek device that looks like an iPhone you can step on, connects with your iPhone, or other iOS or Android-capable phone. The scale measures your weight, lean and fat mass and calculates your BMI almost instantaneously. To keep things simple (and less depressing), the display only shows your weight -- the rest of the information floats up to the cloud, and is available on your smartphone. The free app interface also lets you invite friends, family members or your doctor to view your progress; and it will keep track of data for up to eight users. The Withings Wi-fi Scale is available for $159, which includes lifetime access to the web and phone service. Unfortunately, just because this scale is cloud-connected, doesn't mean you're going to be any lighter. Withings also had another smart medical device: the iPhone Blood Pressure Cuff. Wrap it around your arm and then plug this bad boy into your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. A small compressor in the device inflates the cuff, using power from your device. Once the reading is complete, the information is logged in a free app, and is available to send to your doctor for analysis and tracking. The cuff is available for $129 with no recurring monthly fees. California-based iHealth Labs also brought a Wi-Fi scale and blood pressure cuff to the table; but a third product really caught our attention: the Smart GlucoMeter. As more of the connected generation starts dealing with diabetes, this high-tech tool may encourage diabetics to check their blood sugar more often. The device is simple: Plug a pack-of-gum-sized accessory into the bottom of your Apple device, insert a test strip, prick your finger (unfortunately, they haven't been able to eliminate that step). Put a drop of blood on the strip. Within a few seconds, the device measures your blood sugar, and catalogs it for you and your doctor to track. The GlucoMeter is pending approval with the FDA, and should be available in the latter half of 2012. The price has not yet been set. Health apps . Just as cool as some of the hardware at CES was the software. "Gamification" of health was a popular phrase on the show floor, and several companies weighed in with entries to that category. Among the coolest were ... UnitedHealth Group's OptumizeMe is a social fitness app that lets you challenge friends and family to get healthy. The app allows users to make their own health challenges or select from a list of popular challenges. Among them: competitions to see who can walk the most steps in a day, who can be the first to run 100 miles, and who can eat their daily servings of fruits and veggies. The app allows you to add a prize for the top dog and share your results on social networking sites with friends. OptumizeMe is a free app, and it allows you to sync fitness information with your employer's benefits plan if your company has United Healthcare coverage. (TimeWarner, CNN's parent company, is a member of United Healthcare insurance coverage.) This app isn't a new entry into the category, but a much improved one. Lose It! is a weight-loss management tool that allows users to keep track of food and exercise on the go. The app has a catalog of thousands of the most popular foods, and all of the nutrition information for each of them. Popular new additions to the app include bar-code scanning of your favorite prepackaged food items, the ability to create and share custom foods and recipes with your friends, and a FourSquare-like badge-earning system, that rewards users' daily entries, weight loss milestones, and sharing activities. Lose It! is a free app, and will integrate data from many of the connected medical devices listed above into your health picture. The cool stuff . There are a few other notable additions to the list, though they only sort of qualify as health devices. The 4Moms Origami Stroller is so cool, it might make you want a baby! This "iPhone of baby strollers" both collapses and rebuilds itself at the touch of a button, using on-board motors that are charged when the user pushes the stroller. It also features daytime-running lights, a cupholder, and a smartphone-charging pouch (using the same charge-as-you-push technology). An onboard LCD screen monitors the weather, battery level and whether or not your child is in the seat -- critical info if you're considering pushing the "fold" button. But rest assured, the device isn't as scatter-brained as new moms tend to be, and won't fold if your bambino is inside. The origami is available for $849. The Nest Thermostat gives some much needed love to the oft-neglected category of home heating and cooling interfaces. This $249 piece of wall art automatically learns your temperature preferences, and your comings and goings to make sure your house is cool when you want it to be. Users can also control the Wi-Fi connected device remotely via smartphone; and special plastic technology enables it to pick up the color of the wall it's on to blend in with your decor. And for those of you whose New Year's resolutions included having more, uh, fun in the bedroom, the OhMiBod musical vibrators use an audio-enabled microchips to vibrate to the beat of your favorite music. The line features personal-use and partner-friendly devices; even a wearable model to take with you to the clubs. This product was a little difficult to test on the show floor, though. ### SUMMARY:

Zeo Sleep System gives you concrete tips for improving your sleep routine . Withings Wi-fi Body Scale connects with your iPhone or Android-capable phone . OptumizeMe is an app that lets you challenge friends and family to get healthy .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs succumbed to cancer in his California home a year ago today, the world rushed to eulogize him in glowing terms: Genius. Visionary. A modern-day Thomas Edison. Obituaries and video clips focused on how he led a mobile-computing revolution, upended the music industry with iTunes and, at Pixar, changed the way movies are made. Pundits marveled at his brilliance in creating a mystique about Apple products and knowing which unborn electronic gadgets consumers would most desire. Fans lit candles outside Apple stores around the world, and more than a million people left thanks or tributes to Jobs on Apple's website. 10 things Steve Jobs taught us . But in the 12 months since, as high-profile books have probed Jobs' life and career, that reputation has evolved somewhat. Nobody has questioned Jobs' seismic impact on computing and our communication culture. But as writers have documented Jobs' often callous, controlling personality, a fuller portrait of the mercurial Apple CEO has emerged. "Everyone knows that Steve had his 'rough' side. That's partially because he really did have a rough side and partially because the rough Steve was a better news story than the human Steve," said Ken Segall, author of "Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success." "Since Apple is the most-watched company on Earth, there are a ton of writers always looking for the new angle," Segall added. "After all the glowing tributes to Steve ran their course, it's not surprising that the more negative articles would start to pop up." 10 great quotes from Steve Jobs . The book . Nineteen days after Jobs' death, Walter Isaacson's much-awaited biography of the Apple leader hit stores and immediately became the top-selling book in the country. In "Steve Jobs," Isaacson crafted a compelling narrative of how Jobs' co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak, got pushed out of the struggling company a decade later and then returned in the late 1990s to begin one of the most triumphant second acts in the annals of American business. But he also spent many pages chronicling the arrogant, cruel behavior of a complicated figure who could inspire people one minute and demean them the next. According to the book, Jobs would often berate employees whose work he didn't like. He was notoriously difficult to please and viewed people and products in black and white terms. They were either brilliant or "sh-t." As a young man Jobs abandoned his pregnant girlfriend and was later a cold, distant father to his daughter, Lisa. And in one especially callous episode, Jobs refused to give founding stock options to one of Apple's earliest employees, even after a fellow employee intervened and offered to match whatever Jobs was willing to spare. "What Isaacson's book did was puncture a hole in the image the rest of the world had of Steve Jobs," said Adam Lashinsky, a senior editor at Fortune and author of "Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired -- and Secretive -- Company Really Works." Thanks to Isaacson, "the population at large has gotten a much fuller picture of who he really was," Lashinsky added. "I don't think that really changes anyone's opinion of his accomplishments. It just may change their opinion of him." The Isaacson book, and other accounts of Jobs' life and work, have reinforced parallel images of the late executive as an ingenious innovator but a demanding, unpleasant person. "His stature is greater than ever. No one denies his brilliance and his legacy," said Leander Kahney, editor and publisher of Cult of Mac and author of "Inside Steve's Brain," a book about Jobs. "However, his personality, his methods, have been thrown into a harsh new light by Isaacson's biography," Kahney told CNN. "Everyone knew he was a taskmaster, but his cruelty -- his relentless, humorless pursuit of corporate perfection -- wasn't so widely acknowledged. It's certainly put some people off. Some see his life as a warning. It's a lesson in how not to devote your life to your work." This dichotomy was reinforced in July when Wired magazine published a cover story, "Do you really want to be like Steve Jobs?" and a cover image of Jobs wearing both a halo and devil horns. The article argued that Jobs' example has created two camps of people: those who want to emulate his ruthless, idiosyncratic business style, and those who are turned off by his failings as a father and a human. "Indeed, his life story has emerged as an odd sort of holy scripture for entrepreneurs, a gospel and an anti-gospel at the same time," said the article, by Ben Austen. "To some, Jobs' life has revealed the importance of sticking firmly to one's vision and goals, no matter the psychic toll on employees or business associates. To others, Jobs serves as a cautionary tale, a man who changed the world but at the price of alienating almost everyone around him." Did Apple's fanboy fever peak with Steve Jobs? Apple since Steve . Some observers say that Apple's mighty financial performance over the past year, its stock price is almost $300 higher now than it was when Jobs died and Apple is now the world's most valuable company, diminishes Jobs' legacy. If he was so crucial to the company, why are they doing better without him? Others say Apple's ongoing success cements Jobs' business reputation because the company is being run by a team that he handpicked and is still releasing products, most notably the third-generation iPad and the iPhone 5, that he helped design. (And Apple's product launches aren't as interesting anymore.) "It's hard to argue that Apple's great financial performance in the last year diminishes Steve's importance at all. It's safe to say that everything we've seen so far has had Steve's mark on it," Segall said. "From this point forward, not as much. The next year or two should be interesting times for Apple watchers, as Steve's direct influence slips further into the past." Then there's the issue of the much-maligned new Apple maps, which replaced Google Maps as the default mapping system on iOS 6, Apple's new mobile operating system. Apple CEO Tim Cook issued a rare public apology last month for the maps, which have misplaced or mislabeled multiple streets and landmarks. Who is the next Steve Jobs? A few pundits grumbled that Jobs the perfectionist, with his obsessive attention to detail, never would have allowed Apple to release such a flawed product. Others pointed out that Jobs presided over such Apple flops as MobileMe, a subscription service for owners of Apple products, and Ping, a social network centered around music. Segall doesn't think the maps fiasco will have much impact on Jobs' legacy either way. "I don't think anyone can conclude that Steve would have made a different decision about releasing Apple Maps," he said in an e-mail to CNN. "But I also don't think Steve would have been as apologetic as Tim Cook was in his open letter. I imagine he would have done something similar to what he did when dealing with the backlash against Apple's ban on Flash. Of course there is a big difference here, in that Flash had a lot of enemies and Google Maps has a lot of fans." Your thoughts on the next Steve Jobs . In the long term, however, Apple's fluctuating stock price and flaps over maps probably won't do much to change consumers' opinions of the man who birthed their beloved phones and tablets. And if Steve Jobs is remembered decades from now, it'll likely be as the man who invented the iPod, iPhone and iPad, not as the executive who was sometimes a tyrant. Does anybody really care whether Alexander Graham Bell was cranky? "Among Apple employees, I'd say his reputation hasn't changed one bit. If anything, it's probably grown because they've realized how central his contributions were," Lashinsky said. "History tends to forgive people's foibles and recognize their accomplishments. When Jobs died, he was compared to Edison and Henry Ford and to Disney. I don't know what his place will be in history 30, 40, 50 years from now. And one year is certainly not enough time (to judge)." How Apple has changed under Tim Cook . ### SUMMARY:

Apple co-founder died a year ago from cancer . The initial rush to declare him a brilliant visionary have evolved . High-profile books have documented Jobs' callous, controlling personality .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Soaring down highway 307 from the Cancun airport to the Riviera Maya is like peeling away stress palm tree by palm tree. Because I couldn't decide between paying homage to the Wind God at Tulum's circa-1200 AD Maya ruins or sinking into a Jacuzzi with a view of the Caribbean, I decided to have it all: I toured -- and ranked the pros and cons of -- eight of the region's all-inclusive resorts, each offering its own unique south-of-the-border vacation. The minimalist resort: Bel Air Collection . Spanning 14 very green acres, this resort is a buffet-free, a la carte-only zone in the low season. Only nine villas were built on the property, adding to the secluded, boutique-resort feel. Snorkeling, kayaking and biking are free here, as is doing absolutely nothing: a white hammock hangs from each room's terrace. With five cenotes onsite, you can have a romantic dinner right in the middle of a green cenote for a fee of $75 and up. Pro: Each room has a double Jacuzzi, and rustic shell patterns crafted from pebbles pop up every few feet on the stone floors. Con: The beach is small and rocky, but the resort provides a shuttle that brings you to a beach five minutes away, where drinks and light bites like ceviche await. (belairxpuha.com, from $75 per person per night) Budget Travel: 9 most colorful beaches in the world . The party resort: Riu Mexico . You know you're in for a raucous time when there are "liquor drips" (free tequila!) affixed to your hotel room's wall. The razzle-dazzle quotient is high here, from the opulent lobby to the cocktails at Bar Cubano. Reserve a table at Krystal fusion restaurant for the excellent tuna tataki. Pro: Beach access at this resort is vast and beautiful. Con: The evening entertainment is extremely loud if your room is toward the front of the resort. Even with the sliding doors closed, you could be subjected to an ear-splitting Mamma Mia! revue. (riu.com, from $99 per person per night) Budget Travel: 10 great budget destinations for 2014 . The romantic resort: Ocean Maya Royale . Sherbet-orange and raspberry-hued villas dot this lush adults-only property, a popular destination for weddings and honeymoons. The brand-new Fresco Bar, housed in a palapa, mixes up tropical juices with fruits and veggies like mango, papaya, kiwi and cactus. On weekends, guests can attend candle-lit pool parties. Pro: The "Romance Suite" includes a bottle of wine, a terrace or balcony, Jacuzzi and concierge service at the resort's spa and restaurants. Con: You have to pay extra for top-shelf liquor and access to a private beach area. (hoteloceanmaya.net/en, from $79 per person per night) 7 deluxe ways to embrace winter . The megaresort: Iberostar Paraiso Beach . Bring the kids here, one of Iberostar's five sprawling resorts with multiple pools. Swans and flamingos roam the property and small children will go especially nuts for riding the resort's working old-fashioned carousel, faux boulders, a lazy river and elaborate outdoor kids' play areas. By night, grownups can sip adult beverages and dance in the downright bizarre Star Wars-themed Galaxy Nightclub. Pro: A chain resort of this magnitude probably won't throw you any curveballs. If a quintessential tourist vacation appeals to you, this is your spot. Con: Some upscale restaurants and several pool areas aren't accessible to guests staying in the less expensive Iberostar hotels, including this one. It can be difficult to discern which areas are off-limits. (iberostar.com, from $95 per person per night) 8 elegant U.S. mansion hotels . The modern resort: Oasis Tulum . An infinity pool and a swim-up sushi bar add to the sleek feel of this resort's recently renovated exterior. Even the buffet offers gorgeous sea views through full-length plate glass windows. Two resorts exist here: the Oasis Tulum and the slightly more expensive Grand Oasis Tulum. The higher-end restaurants and bars (including a new wine bar), some of the pools, and a VIP roof bar with panoramic ocean views and private outdoor Jacuzzi tubs are reserved for Grand Oasis guests. An upgrade will run you about $5 more per person per day. Pro: Each room has either a terrace or a balcony. If you'd like to tool around town on your own, you can rent a SmartCar, insurance included, for $45 per day. Con: The buffet food isn't anything special, nor are the rooms, which have chintzy red bedspreads and dated bathrooms. (oasistulumresort.com, from $71 per person per night) The spa resort: Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya . To say the Spa Grand Sirenis is tech-forward is an understatement. Innovative services such as chromo-therapy, saltwater flotariums that mimic the density of the Dead Sea, aromatherapy showers and cocoa-and-caffeine wraps can be purchased individually -- or buy a Spa Pass ($25) to use the blue-tiled hot and cold hydro-therapy pools. Then sip complimentary orange, pineapple, grapefruit and green juices. Pro: Three vast beaches rim the property, and three adults-only pools ensure a slice of tranquility. Ask about perks like the free yoga classes and an hour of free snorkeling and kayaking each day. Con: There are roped-off areas for VIP "premium travelers." (sirenishotels.com, from $84 per person per night) 7 secret Caribbean islands . The family-friendly resort: Sandos Playacar . Quirky American perks like a cupcake shop, a creperie, a bagel shop right on the beach that offers 20-plus varieties and a teens club with a ping-pong table, pool table and foosball make the large Sandos Playacar resort a good option for both kids and adults who want a large-resort feel with the comforts of home. The adults-only Select Club section, on one side of the resort, is separate from the families on the other. Pro: Like other Sandos resorts, this one is eco conscious: The trash is sorted and the organic matter composted. Con: Aside from the expansive beach, the resort can feel like it's in the States rather than Mexico. (sandos.com, from $94 per person per night) Budget Travel: The ultimate (affordable!) tropical vacation . The eco resort: Sandos Caracol . Swim in a cenote -- or just do yoga next to it -- at a resort that prides itself on environment-focused features like a windmill; animal habitats for deer, donkeys and monkeys; gluten-free menu options; and trails you can bike for free. Tours point out flora and fauna including rubber trees, mangroves, peacocks and macaques -- and you'll take a dramatic walk across the resort's suspension bridge! Kid-friendly activities include an indoor jungle gym and a kids' nightclub. (Adults-only facilities are ideal for couples.) Order excellent fajitas and chilaquiles a la carte from La Jungla restaurant. Pro: The 80-minute massage incorporates props like giant mollusk seashells, cinnamon cream and long feathers. Con: Rooms are spare, but each has its own whirlpool tub and modern bathroom. (sandos.com, from $75 per person per night) Get the best travel deals and tips emailed to you FREE - CLICK HERE! Copyright © 2011 Newsweek Budget Travel, Inc., all rights reserved. ### SUMMARY:

Soak up Mexico's Riviera Maya for less than $100 per person a night . The Riu Mexico has a party atmosphere with "liquor drips" in the rooms . Iberostar Paraiso Beach has plenty of kid-friendly attractions .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Lori Raines and her mother were hunting for deals at post-Christmas sales in 2009 when Raines' left leg involuntarily turned inward and an excruciating pain shot through it. At first, she thought the pain was the result of a 2005 operation to fix a herniated disc in her lower back. It wasn't. As a massage therapist, yoga instructor, aspiring artist and mother, she could not afford to lose mobility. But within a couple of days, Raines was practically bedridden. She began taking a number of medicines and steroids that changed her personality, caused friends to abandon her and destroyed her marriage. But nothing stopped the pain or involuntary movement in her leg. "I lost everything," she says. Finally, eight months and about 30 doctors' opinions later, she was diagnosed with dystonia, a little-known but the third most common movement disorder. "If you have something invisible going on, then it's all subjective," the 41-year-old says. "Dystonia doesn't show up on MRIs and it doesn't show up on tests." Raines hasn't been able to work, slowly watching dystonia spread from her legs to her arms to her neck. Forced to get around on crutches or in a power chair, the former dancer is mostly confined to her Hendersonville, North Carolina, home. "You don't die from dystonia," she says. "But you want to. It's sort of like a life sentence, as opposed to a death sentence." Dystonia is often cloaked in mystery and can take years to diagnose. In most cases, dystonia's cause is unknown, and there is no cure. Patients and medical professionals agree dystonia awareness lags far behind other movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. Dystonia is "characterized by sustained or intermittent muscle contractions causing abnormal, often repetitive, movements, postures, or both," according to the article "Phenomenology and classification of dystonia: A consensus update," published this year by an international panel of dystonia researchers. Dystonia can be divided into primary and secondary types, says Dr. H.A. Jinnah, director of the Dystonia Coalition and professor in the department of neurology, pediatrics and human genetics at Emory University. It is difficult to quantify exactly how many people suffer from it. Under the National Institutes of Health guidelines, Jinnah says pure or primary dystonia is identified as a rare disorder, but mixed or secondary dystonia occurs frequently. Combining the two classifications makes dystonia a common disorder, he says, "because we would have to include cerebral palsy, Parkinson's disease and a whole load of others." There are two common treatments for dystonia; neurotoxin injections, such as Botox, and deep brain stimulation, which requires an operation to place a neurostimulator in the brain. The stimulator sends electrical currents to parts of the brain that control muscle movement. Certain forms of dystonia have been linked to genetics, environmental or brain damage. But scientists are still trying to determine exactly what causes the disorder. "What all of us would like, and most especially our patients, is a medication so that they don't have to get injections or brain surgery," Jinnah says. "That requires that we know something about the cause." Cervical dystonia, which causes the neck and sometimes the shoulders to contract involuntarily into uncomfortable positions, is the most common form. Cris Rogers, 46, says he believes he developed cervical dystonia due to birth complications. He didn't begin experiencing symptoms until his teens and wasn't properly diagnosed until he was 36. "Even world-class orthopedists missed this diagnosis by a country mile," he says. Rogers calls having cervical dystonia a "gift" compared with other forms out there. He is able to treat it with quarterly Botox injections. "There is an emotional aspect to dystonia that people don't get," he says. "You feel hopeless." Yet there is no guarantee the Botox will always be an effective treatment. "If you have relief and the symptoms return, that is a level of pain that is hard to describe," he says. "Because you know what it is like to feel good." Rogers is a member of the Facebook page Neuronauts, a closed dystonia support group with about 650 members that Raines created in 2012. Raines says she encouraged the Neuronauts to post their stories on CNN's iReport in honor of Dystonia Awareness Month. "We are isolated as a whole," she says of the group and people who suffer from dystonia. "We have no support. We have no money. We're just trying to keep ourselves alive." Michele Weber, a mother of two who has a Ph.D. in political science, is also a Neuronauts member. Like Raines, she has multiple forms of dystonia that affect her neck, limbs and facial muscles. She began experiencing symptoms as a child and started seeking medical opinions in her 20s. But Weber says she wasn't diagnosed until her 40s. "(Dystonia) is devastating to people socially and economically," the 47-year-old says. "We're not the glamour illness. We don't have the celebrity spokesman." Weber's peers are often shocked to hear she works as a financial adviser, an "assumption" that her visible symptoms are indicative of "lesser intelligence," she says. She bucks her natural tendency to keep personal issues private because she believes raising awareness is key to advancing treatment and a cure. "Until I know that everybody is diagnosed or have adequate treatments, I'll keep being a big mouth about this," she says. Like Rogers, Weber considers herself fortunate because she has her husband's support and quality care from a doctor she trusts. Her symptoms constantly limit basic abilities such as using her hands and legs. "I am disabled -- no more, no less," she says. "All of our abilities are temporary." All three agree that the medical community's lack of understanding of dystonia contributes to the public's lack of awareness. Dystonia's wide variety of forms has caused a lag in research and treatment, says Dr. Mahlon DeLong, medical director of the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation and professor of neurology at Emory. "There was a period of time in the '50s, '60s and '70s when physicians thought this could be psychogenic," he says, meaning it originated in the mind. "It was a very unfortunate time." DeLong says that the medical community now understands dystonia's symptoms are not psychological and that the recent discovery of new genes creates opportunities for advancements in treatment -- and may lead eventually to finding a cure. "We're beginning to understand the molecular disturbances in the brain," he says. Identifying the genes that may be involved in dystonia will allow researchers to learn about their different mutations, Jinnah says. These findings will then enable scientists to understand better how the mutations alter patients' biochemistry and how the mutations affect the brain's normal neurological functions. But DeLong also says that not all forms of dystonia are genetic and so gene mapping is not necessarily a Rosetta stone for grasping dystonia. "I think we're on the edge of discovery and better therapy," DeLong says. "Some of the new approaches that are coming out will prove very affective for dystonia." More funding and research cannot come soon enough for Raines, who says her pain is constantly fluctuating between a four and an eight on a scale of 10. She can still drive short distances, getting out about three times a week to go grocery shopping and take her son to school. In August, she will enter her first art show since being diagnosed with dystonia. But she devotes the rest of her time to supporting and encouraging fellow Neuronauts. She says people diagnosed with dystonia need to vocalize what they are going through. "My background is all about expressiveness and being creative," she says. "The more you can express yourself, the more healthy you are on a cellular level." ### SUMMARY:

Dystonia is often cloaked in mystery and difficult to diagnose . Though it's the third most common movement disorder, few people understand it . Dystonia's cause is mostly unknown, and there is no cure for it . "You don't die from dystonia," one woman says, "but you want to"

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson perhaps put it best. He said Ferguson, Missouri, was unknown to most of the world before August 9. That's the day Darren Wilson, a white police officer, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen. The shooting prompted protests in the suburb of St. Louis, making it a flash point in the debate over race and policing in America. Suddenly, Ferguson had a place on the map. "It has become a conversation throughout the world," said Johnson. Complete coverage of the events in Ferguson . Here's a look at key moments from that conversation: . AUGUST 9: THE SHOOTING . There are conflicting accounts as to exactly what happened the day of the shooting. Certain facts of the case, however, are clear: Wilson shot and killed Brown on August 9. The teen was unarmed. ONGOING: THE PROTESTS AND RESPONSE . Brown's death sent immediate shock waves through the community of Ferguson. Protests began the same day, and grew as time passed and news of the shooting spread. The vast majority of demonstrations were peaceful. However, there were pockets of looting and violence, which prompted a forceful -- protesters say excessive -- response from law enforcement. Authorities, who drove armored vehicles and wore military gear, were roundly criticized by members of the media, other law enforcement officials and demonstrators for escalating the violence, rather than tempering it. AUGUST 14: THE SHIFT IN SECURITY . In a bid to turn the tide, Gov. Jay Nixon put the Missouri Highway Patrol, and specifically Johnson, in charge of security. Nixon said he decided to tap state troopers because "at this particular point, the attitudes weren't improving, and the blocks towards expression appeared to be a flash point." Ferguson has looked "more like a war zone, and it's not acceptable," the governor said. Johnson promised to take a different, more inclusive approach. He walked with protesters and was initially welcomed with open arms. Some of that good will soured after security forces under his command lobbed tear gas and stun grenades at rowdy protesters, who tossed rocks and Molotov cocktails at them. AUGUST 15: THE RELEASE OF SURVEILLANCE VIDEO AND THE OFFICER'S NAME . At the start, one of the protesters' main demands was that the name of the officer involved in the shooting be made public. Police eventually identified Wilson as the officer responsible. They did so the same day they released surveillance video of Brown at Ferguson Market and Liquor store. Minutes before the teen was shot, police said, a man fitting Brown's description allegedly stole cigars and roughed up a store clerk as cameras recorded. Release of the video angered some, who said police were using it to distract from Brown's killing and paint him in a negative light. Authorities have said Wilson stopped Brown not because of the theft, but because Brown and a friend were "walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic." AUGUST 15: THE OFFICER'S REPORTED ACCOUNT . The officer who killed Brown said the teenager rushed at him full speed in the moments before the shooting, according to an account phoned in to a St. Louis radio station and confirmed by a source with detailed knowledge of the investigation. According to the version on KFTK, phoned in by a woman who identified herself as "Josie," the altercation began after Wilson rolled down his window to tell Brown and a friend to stop walking in the street. When Wilson tried to get out of his cruiser, Brown first tried to push the officer back into the car, then punched him in the face and grabbed for his gun before breaking free after the gun went off once, the caller said. Wilson pursued Brown and his friend, ordering them to freeze, according to the account. When they turned around, Brown began taunting Wilson, saying he would not arrest them, then ran at the officer at full speed, the caller said. Wilson then began shooting. The final shot was to Brown's forehead, and the teenager fell two or three feet in front of Wilson, said the caller, who identified herself as the officer's friend. AUGUST 20: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S VISIT TO FERGUSON . Federal officials are conducting two civil rights investigations, one into Brown's killing and the other into the local police department's overall track record with minorities. The most high-profile figure in President Barack Obama's administration to visit Ferguson, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, stressed that the federal government is on the case and listening -- both to protesters calling for Wilson's arrest and for an end to what they describe as a heavy-handed police response, and to residents and law enforcement officers challenged with looting and violence from some in the crowd. "The people of Ferguson can have confidence in the federal agents, investigators and prosecutors who are leading the process," Holder said. "Our investigation will be fair, it will be thorough and it will be independent." "On a personal note," the African-American father of a teenage son told reporters, "I've seen a lot in my time as attorney general, but few things have affected me as greatly as my visit to Ferguson." SEPTEMBER 25: THE FERGUSON POLICE CHIEF'S APOLOGY . Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson issued a video apology to Brown's parents, as well as to any peaceful protesters who felt he didn't do "enough to protect their constitutional right to protest." Specifically, he apologized that it took investigating officers four hours to remove Brown's body from the street after Wilson shot him. "I'm truly sorry for the loss of your son. I'm also sorry that it took so long to remove Michael from the street," he said. Later, Jackson said he had no intention of stepping down, despite many calls to do so, telling CNN, "this is mine, and I'm taking ownership of it." OCTOBER 21: THE AUTOPSY . Brown's gunshot wounds included a shot in the hand at close range, his official autopsy shows, according to an analysis reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper. A county official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN the autopsy document that the Post-Dispatch used to do its report is authentic. The detail could lend credence to Wilson's account that he and the unarmed African-American teenager scuffled at his patrol car before Brown was shot and killed. A private autopsy conducted for the Brown family showed the teen had been shot at least six times, including twice in the head. The official autopsy, as published by the Post-Dispatch, said Brown suffered six gunshot entrance wounds. INTERMITTENT: THE LEAKS IN THE CASE . Many details about the investigation have been leaked to the media and some, including Attorney General Holder, have accused the leakers of being selective. In addition to the autopsy information, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published accounts of testimony presented to a St. Louis County grand jury. The Washington Post, meanwhile, reported that at least six black witnesses gave testimony that supported Wilson's side of the story. The New York Times said it received information from a federal source. Holder has called the leaks "inappropriate and troubling" because both the federal investigation and the grand jury proceedings are ongoing, according to a Justice official. ONGOING: THE GRAND JURY . Although the grand jury has until January to issue its ruling, the prosecutor's office has said a decision could come as early as mid-November. Whether or not it decides to indict Wilson, authorities have said they are planning for protests and possible violence. Police from various departments will operate as a unified command. The National Guard will be available as necessary. Law enforcement is prepared to extend shifts and limit leave, and additional resources have been distributed, Gov. Nixon has said. "These measures are not being taken because we are convinced that violence will occur, but because we have a responsibility to prepare for any contingency," said the governor. He added: "This is America. People have a right to express their views and grievances, but they do not have the right to put their fellow citizens or their property at risk." CNN's Michael Pearson, Steve Almasy, Eliott C. McLaughlin, Holly Yan and Evan Perez contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

Michael Brown, a black teen, was shot August 9 by a white police officer . His death sparked protests in the St. Louis suburb and beyond . A grand jury is weighing whether to indict the officer . Federal officials are conducting two civil rights investigations .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Daily Mail Reporter . Last updated at 10:59 AM on 6th August 2011 . Just two weeks after the end of its historic shuttle programme, Nasa will today launch a solar-powered spacecraft on a mission to Jupiter. The robotic explorer Juno is set to become . the most distant probe ever powered by the sun. The windmill-shaped craft is equipped with three tractor-trailer-size solar panels for its two . billion-mile journey into the outer solar system. It will blast-off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 11.34am local time (4.34pm BST) aboard an unmanned Atlas V rocket. Scroll down for video . Eve of lift-off: An Atlas V rocket with Nasa's Juno spacecraft payload sits on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida last night. The robotic explorer is set to become the most distant probe ever powered by the sun . After the landing of shuttle Atlantis prompted waves of nostalgia around the world, the demise of that Nasa programme is giving extra oomph to the $1.1billion voyage to the . largest and probably oldest planet in the solar system. It will take Juno five years to reach its target, five times farther from the sun than Earth. No spacecraft has ever ventured so far, powered by solar wings. Europe's solar-powered, comet-chasing Rosetta probe made it as far as the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Each of Juno's three wings is 29ft long and 9ft wide, necessary given that Jupiter receives 25 times less sunlight than Earth. The panels - folded for launch - emanate from the spacecraft much like the blades of a windmill. At Jupiter, nearly 500million miles from the sun, Juno's panels will provide 400 watts of power. In orbit around Earth, these panels would generate 35 times as much power. It is the first . of three high-profile astronomy missions coming up for Nasa in the next . four months. Jupiter - a planet several Nasa . spacecraft have studied before - is so vast it could hold everything . else in the solar system, minus the sun. Scientists hope to learn more . about planetary origins through Juno's exploration of the giant . gas-filled planet, a body far different from rocky Earth and Mars. Jim Gree, Nasa's director of planetary science, said: 'Look . at it this way - it is a new era. 'Humans plan to go beyond low-Earth orbit. When we do . that, it's not like Star Trek. It's not "go where no man has gone . before".' Plunging deeper into space will require robotic scouts first, he said. Scott Bolton, a Southwest . Research Institute astrophysicist and Juno's principal . investigator, said it's also important for people to realise that 'Nasa's not . going out of business.' 'If we're going to . learn who we are and where we came from, and how Earth works, we've . got to keep doing these science missions, not just Juno,' he said. Environmentally-friendly: The windmill-shaped craft is equipped with three tractor-trailer-size solar panels for its two billion-mile journey into the outer solar system . How it will look: Each of Juno's three wings is 29ft long and 9ft wide. The panels - folded for launch - are here seen emanating from the spacecraft much like the blades of a windmill . Nasa's . long-range blueprint would have astronauts reach an asteroid by 2025 . and Earth's next-door neighbour Mars a decade later, although there's . still uncertainty surrounding the rockets needed for the job. A Juno . success would be a good sign for future solar-powered missions of all . types. Jupiter may be just two planets over, but it's far enough away to be considered the outer solar system. It . will take Juno five years to reach its target, five times farther from . the sun than Earth. No spacecraft has ever ventured so far, powered by . solar wings. Europe's solar-powered, comet-chasing Rosetta probe made it . as far as the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The . choice of solar was a practical one, Mr Bolton said. No plutonium-powered . generators were available to him and his San Antonio-based team nearly a . decade ago, so they opted for solar panels rather than develop a new . nuclear source. They wanted to avoid ballooning costs and possible . delays connected with developing new technologies. He said: 'It's nice to be green, but it wasn't because we were afraid of the plutonium.' Long journey ahead: It will take Juno five years to reach its target, five times farther from the sun than Earth . Passengers: Three Lego figurines representing the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno and Galileo Galilei will travel aboard the Juno spacecraft on its journey to Jupiter . Indeed, . Nasa's six-wheeled, Jeep-size Mars rover named Curiosity, due to launch . in late November, will be powered by more than 10lbs of plutonium. Despite safety efforts, there's always the question of public safety if . an explosion occurred. Nasa's Grail mission - twin spacecraft to be launched next month to Earth's moon - employs solar panels. Eight . robotic craft have already flown to or near Jupiter and its many moons, . as far back as the 1970s - Nasa's Voyagers and Pioneers, Galileo, . Ulysses, Cassini and, most recently in 2007, the Pluto-bound New . Horizons. Juno - named after the . cloud-piercing wife of Jupiter, the Roman god - will go into an . oval-shaped orbit around Jupiter's poles in July 2016, after travelling . 1.74billion miles. The craft will fly within . 3,100miles of the dense cloud tops, closer than any previous . spacecraft. Any closer, and Juno would feel the tug of the planet's . atmosphere, which in turn would alter the spacecraft's orbiting path and . hamper its gravity experiment. The spinning . spacecraft will circle the planet for at least a year, beaming back data . that should help explain the composition of its mysterious insides. Each orbit will last 11 days, for a total of 33 orbits covering 348million miles. Nine instruments are on board, including JunoCam, a wide-angle colour camera, which will beam back images. Destination: Jupiter as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2007 . Juno's . most sensitive electronics are inside a titanium vault to protect . against the incredibly harsh radiation surrounding the planet. The . radiation exposure will worsen toward the end of the mission. 'We're . basically an armoured tank going to Jupiter, Mr Bolton said. Scientists . believe Jupiter was formed from most of the leftovers of the sun's . creation. That's why it is so intriguing - by identifying the planet's . contents, besides hydrogen and helium, astronomers can better explain . how the solar system came to be. Mr Bolton said: 'We want to . know that ingredient list [for Jupiter]. What we're really . after is discovering the recipe for making planets.' For . these answers, Juno will study Jupiter's gravity and magnetic fields, . and turbulent, cloud-socked atmosphere, which can spawn 300mph wind and . hurricanes double the size of Earth. The experiments will investigate . the abundance of water, and oxygen, in Jupiter's atmosphere and help . determine whether the planet's core is solid or gaseous. Once . its work is done in 2017, Juno will make a kamikaze dive into Jupiter. Nasa doesn't want the spacecraft hanging around and crashing into Europa . or other moons, possibly contaminating them for future generations of . explorers. ### SUMMARY:

Juno to blast-off from Cape Canaveral at 11.34am local time (4.34pm BST) It will go into orbit around Jupiter in July 2016, after travelling 1.74bn miles . Once . its work is done in 2017, it will make a kamikaze dive into Jupiter .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Leon Watson . Last updated at 5:58 PM on 10th February 2012 . A Nazi surgical equipment set owned by an SS commandant and war criminal has been withdrawn from a sale today after phone and e-mail threats. The wooden box of tools . belonged to Anton Burger, a major in the SS who worked at the . Theresienstadt concentration camp between July 1943 and February 1944, . where 140,000 Jews were held  -  and 33,000 of them died. The set had been due to go under the hammer at Villa Hall Auctions in Bude, Cornwall, tomorrow. The wooden box of tools belonged to Anton Burger, a major in the SS who oversaw the Theresienstadt concentration camp between July 1943 and February 1944 . Disturbingly, given the contents of the box, there is no evidence that Sturmbannfuhrer Burger ever received medical training. A separate layer above the forked hooks reveals a sinister set of scissors . The case is marked 'instrumente gemischte', German for 'mixed instruments'. This has led to the theory it may have been part of the deception to fool the Red Cross into thinking it was for musical instruments . Austrian-born Burger was sentenced to death after the war but fled and lived under an assumed name, eventually dying in Germany in 1991 at the age of 80 . The police said the messages prompted . safety concerns for staff and there will be a police presence at the . auction even though the controversial lot has been withdrawn. The set contains instruments that would have been used in amputations including a saw and scalpels. It belonged to a late Jewish man whose . wife is the current owner. The man's own parents survived the camp . where they were held and married. Grace Cloke, partner at the Bude . auction house, said: 'We've had phone calls and e mails which were not . of a particular nice nature. 'Some were pretty threatening and the . police were concerned that an activist group might turn up. Some of the . contact was from people who had lost family members during the war and . were not happy with the auction. 'But there were a few that were really unpleasant. One said "I hope you die of cancer". 'It's shame as our vendor was going to . donate the money to the War Child charity. None of us felt particularly . comfortable about the sale but the money was going to a good cause.' The set had a guide price of £2,000 and it had been hoped a museum would have bought it. News of the sale provoked outrage in . the Jewish community. Jon Benjamin, chief executive of the Board of . Deputies, the main representative body of British Jews, said that 'to . seek to profit from such ghoulish objects is deeply troubling'. Other . Jewish groups, including the Anne Frank Trust and Holocaust Educational . Trust, said that the collection should be placed in an educational . context, such as a museum. Theresienstadt was used as a . propaganda tool during the Second World War, with the Germans trying to . fool the world that it was a 'paradise camp'. Theresienstadt, near what is now the town of Terezin in the Czech Republic, acted as a ghetto for 140,000 Jews, with 33,000 dying there during the war and 88,000 taken from it to extermination camps such as Auschwitz and murdered . Gillian . Walnes, executive director of the Anne Frank Trust UK . 'Inexplicably there are those who . have a grotesque fascination with Nazi memorabilia and instruments used to . inflict suffering on innocent adults and children. 'I . therefore hope that this item will be acquired by a respected museum or . academic institution that will use it for educational purposes.' Jon Benjamin, chief executive of the Board of Deputies . 'There . is understandably a continuing fascination with this tragic part of our recent . history, and along with the countless books and films on the subject, from time . to time artefacts emerge that testify to the horrors of the Holocaust. 'These things serve to remind us of the terrible events that happened, and . incontrovertibly show the claims of Holocaust deniers for the lies that they . are. 'However, to seek to profit from such ghoulish objects, and to risk . that they might fall into the hands of admirers of the Nazis, is deeply . troubling. A more fitting home would be in a museum or suitable historical . archive somewhere.' Karen Pollock, chief executive . of the Holocaust Educational Trust . 'Wherever possible we believe . Holocaust-era items should be presented in an educational context, so that as . many people as possible can learn about what took place during that appalling . time.' They even made a film showing happy . workers shoeing horses and making handbags, while children played . football or ate sandwiches to add to the deception. Burger played a key role in covering . up the true horrors of the camp during stage-managed visits by the Red . Cross - which were used to . help conceal the sickening purpose behind it and other camps from the . watching . world. Disturbingly, given the contents of the . box, there is no evidence that Sturmbannfuhrer Burger ever received medical training. The mostly monogrammed equipment was put up for sale by an anonymous . seller. Before the withdrawal, Ms Cloke explained that the husband of the vendor . was Jewish, and his parents met and married at a concentration camp in Austria. Ms Cloke said: 'This set was always in . their home while they were married. 'He wouldn't talk about his history but he . used to spend a lot of time researching the Second World War.' The vendor's husband passed away . some years ago and she lost contact with his family so she still does not know . how he came to own the instruments. Ms Cloke added: 'The father [of the vendor's husband] used to deal during the war in the black market so we don't . know whether they were in the camp and were able to take it or whether it came . through the black market somehow,' she said. 'It is something we are never going . to know.' The camp, near what is now the town of . Terezin in the Czech Republic, acted as a ghetto for 140,000 Jews, with 33,000 . dying there during the war and 88,000 taken from it to extermination camps such as . Auschwitz and murdered. Just 1,900 were still alive when the . ghetto was liberated by Soviet troops on May 7, 1945. Burger was ordered by SS leader Heinrich . Himmler and Adolf Eichmann, the orchestrator of the mass movement of Jews to camps . in Eastern Europe, to change the appearance of Theresienstadt to fool Red Cross . members who had requested access to a Nazi concentration camp. Many inmates were temporarily removed from . the overcrowded camp and cosmetic changes made to fool the inspectors. James Kendling from Villa Hall Auctions holds the macabre box, which was expected to fetch £2,000-£4,000 . Fake shops and cafes were erected to give the . false impression that inmates had a life of relative comfort. The Red Cross representatives seemed to . fall for the deception and the Nazis went on to make a propaganda film at the . camp. The fact that the wooden instrument case . is marked 'instrumente gemischte', German for 'mixed . instruments', has led to the theory that this may have been made as part . of the deception, to suggest it was for musical instruments. A man lights a candle at an oven used during WWII to burn human corpses as members of Czech Jewish community observe Holocaust Remembrance Day in the former Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt . 'Anton Burger was charged with . changing the appearance of the camp, and a lot of the Jews there were musical . so it is possible it was made to look like a musical instrument case,' Ms . Cloke said. Austrian-born Burger was sentenced to . death after the war but fled and lived under an assumed name, eventually dying . in Germany in 1991 at the age of 80. It was only three years after his death, . in 1994, that anyone found out who the dead man really was. Museums and other institutions showed an interest in the sale and Ms Cloke said they hoped . it would go to an organisation that would be able to use it in a positive, . educational setting. ### SUMMARY:

Box was property of SS major Anton Burger, who ran concentration camp . Auctioneers threatened if sale went ahead . One letter said: 'I hope you die of cancer' Cash from the sale would have gone to a war charity .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Laurie Whitwell . UPDATED: . 14:38 EST, 4 November 2011 . The man charged with stabbing 14-year-old Kelli O'Laughlin to death when she interrupted a burglary in her suburban home sent taunting text messages to her mother from the girl's stolen cell phone, it has emerged. John L. Wilson Junior was today in court charged with first-degree murder and residential burglary. He was denied bail by a judge. Kelli's funeral took place just a few miles away at St. John of the Cross Church in Western Springs, Chicago at around the same time, with mourners lining the road as her coffin passed by. It was also revealed today that a local police officer stopped Wilson Jr, who was out on parole for armed robbery when the killing took place, on the night of the murder but had no cause to arrest him. Scroll down for video . Murder: John L Wilson Junior, 38, right, is in court today charged with the first-degree murder of 14-year-old Kelli O'Laughlin, left, in her suburban Chicago home . Leafy: Wilson Jr allegedly sent taunting text messages to Kelli's mother from the girl's cell phone after the killing at their $500,000 house, pictured . Homicide: Kelli O'Laughlin,was remembered by school friends as a happy, fun girl who always wore a smile . The 38-year-old, whose last known address is on South Lafayette Avenue in Chicago, was taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon, six days after the killing at the O'Laughlin's $500,000 family home in Indian Head Park. Today Judge Peter A. Felice ordered Wilson Jr, who has spent 17 years of the last two decades behind bars, be held without bond during an appearance at the Cook County courthouse in Bridgeview. Wilson Jr was dressed in a grey sweatshirt that covered his arm tattoos and said nothing during the hearing, in front of a packed courthouse, the Chicago Sun Times reported. Those in attendance were told how last Thursday Wilson Jr entered the O'Laughlin's leafy neighbourhood and broke a dining room window of their $500,000 home with a rock wrapped in a red knit cap. When popular Lyons Township High School freshman Kelli arrived home around 3.40pm, 'she was confronted by John Wilson,' Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said at a news conference. Wilson Jr grabbed an eight inch carving knife from a butcher's block and stabbed Kelli in the neck, back and chest, before dragging her dead body from the family room into the kitchen, Ms Alvarez said, accordingh to the Chicago Tribune. He then ransacked the home and fled with a bowl of coins, an iPod Touch and Kelli's phone. The knife was found in large pool of blood in the family. She was discovered by her mother Brenda at around 5.30pm. In the hours after the murder, Wilson Jr used the phone to send 'taunting and disturbing' messages to Kelli's mother. 'There are no words to describe how horrific it is,' Ms Alvarez said. She would not reveal the exact nature of the taunts. Homicide: High school freshman Kelli was stabbed to . death after coming home from school last Thursday to encounter a burglary. Detectives believe Wilson Jr is this man, drawn in a police sketch . Stabbing: Miss O'Laughlin, pictured, was found by her mother Brenda in their home at about 5.30pm on Thursday . Sledging: Brenda O'Laughlin's Facebook page has this profile picture. She found her daughter dead . Assistant State’s Attorney Peter Troy said the messages to Kelli's mother Brenda came within hours of her daughter's murder. He said: 'A horrific crime was committed here, and then to have the mother of the victim subject to taunts by the person who did it ... I can’t describe it.' 'To me that doesn't sound like a . random burglary,' Marie Raleigh told Fox News Chicago. ' I'm a little . bit concerned that someone could be so vicious and cruel as to do that . to the family of this victim. Kelli didn't deserve that and neither did . her family.' 'The United States Secret Service was able to track the defendant’s cellphone and Kelli’s cellphone,' Mr Troy said, according to the Chicago Tribune. 'The agents learned these two phones travelled in tandem with one another throughout the city of Chicago.' Wilson Jr was located Wednesday on the South Side. When found, he had his phone but not Kelli's, the Chicago Tribune reported. DNA recovered from the knit cap matched Wilson Jr, Alvarez said. Three witnesses identified Wilson in a line-up, she said. Wilson Jr has an extensive history of criminal violence, including a combined nine years spent in prison for carjacking in 1993 and aggravated battery in 2001. His most recently received an 11-year sentence for robbert. He was taken into custody in August 2002 and paroled on November 16, 2010, the Chicago Tribune reported. It has . been revealed that at around 8pm on the night of the killing, a Willow . Springs police officer responding to another disturbance near the . O'Laughlin home stopped Wilson Jr. Tributes: More than 1,000 people have contributed to Facebook groups, with one suggesting students at her school wear black on Monday in remembrance . Kelli's funeral will take place in Western Springs, Chicago this morning . Plans: Kelli had spoken of growing up in that day's Spanish class, friends said . Suburban home: Kelli was discovered by her mother in the 6300 block of Keokuk Road, Indian head Park, a suburb of Chicago . He . said he was walking in the area because his car had broken down and he . needed a cab, leaving the officer no cause to arrest him. That . officer was then off work for several days, Fox News Chicago reported, . and only saw the composite sketch of the suspect when he returned to . service recently. He . reportedly identified Wilson Jr as the man in the drawing, which depicts . a black man, 5'8" to 5'9" inches tall, with a medium build. He was was . seen in the area at the time wearing a dark, hooded sweatshirt and had a . backpack. Police then . traced the driver of the cab the suspect got into after being stopped by . the officer at a 7-11 in Willow Springs, for miles from the murder . scene. Investigators arranged for a line-up, in which Wilson Jr was positively identified, Fox News Chicago reported. The . unsuspecting taxi-driver took the suspect to Midway airport where the . man paid for his fare with coins. These were not the special gold coins . taken from the victim's home however. Authorities . spoke positively about the investigation in a press conference on . Thursday night. Sheriff Tom Dart said the case had been presented to the . state's attorney's office. 'We . feel very confident about the case and the individual in custody,' Sheriff Dart said. Indian Head Park Police Chief Frank Alonzo said: 'I . think we can rest a little bit easier tonight.' Last . week, another man was questioned in connection with the murder. That . man had been charged in September with another burglary in the area but . was later released, the Chicago Tribune reported. He . was not charged over Kelli's killing but the original burglary charge . was reinstated and he is now in Cook County Jail, the Chicago Tribue . reported. The murder shook . Indian Head Park, a leafy community of roughly 3,800, and numerous online . tribute groups attracting thousands have been set up. A memorial fund has also been started. Kelli's . father, John O'Laughlin, said on Wednesday that family members have . been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support they have received. WATCH THE VIDEOS HERE . Man Charged in Indian Head Park Teen’s Stabbing Death: MyFoxCHICAGO.com . ### SUMMARY:

Kelli O'Laughlin found dead by her mother in $500,000 Chicago house . John L. Wilson Jr, charged with her murder, is in court today . Local officer stopped suspect on night of murder but did not arrest him . Kelli's funeral in Western Springs, Chicago, to take place this morning . There had been a spate of burglaries on expensive houses in the area .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Sara Nathan and Helen Pow . PUBLISHED: . 12:19 EST, 5 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 13:16 EST, 5 December 2012 . It seems the search for a new buddy for Today show host Matt Lauer is over - and the object of his 'bromance' is the 9am Hour's Willie Geist. As MailOnline revealed, NBC chiefs were looking for a male pal for the long-time anchor in a desperate bid to increase ratings. And the ailing morning program introduced the budding love affair today, with a bizarre four-minute segment dedicated to Geist swatting Lauer's bottom backstage. The show got Rossen Reports' Jeff . Rossen on the case, who declared: 'This kind of behavior happens all the . times between guys on football fields and huddles, but is it really . appropriate for the workplace?' SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Odd: The Today Show aired a four-minute segment about Willie Geist, pictured left, swatting Matt Lauer, right, on the behind . He then studied surveillance footage of Geist caught in the act - from two angles. On the tape, the 9am Hour co-host is seen tapping Lauer on the derriere with a wad of papers. The pair then shake hands before Lauer reciprocates the butt-slap using his hand. In the 8.11am segment, Rossen interviewed both parties, with Lauer claiming the 'abandonment' he's felt since the incident was tough to deal with. 'Since it happened, he hasn't called, he hasn't written. Nothing,' Lauer said in the tongue-in-cheek report. The footage was shown several more times before the segment ended and both Geist and Lauer discussed the incident on the couch with Rossen and co-anchor Susannah Guthrie. Lauer has been left without a buddy beyond Al Roker since the departure of his best friend Bryant Gumbel from the Today show, which has prompted NBC chiefs to scout for a new buddy in a bid to boost ratings. 'Bromance': NBC chiefs last week revealed they wanted a new buddy for Lauer to boost ratings . Hit back: Lauer reciprocated the butt-slap as shown on this surveillance footage, pictured . The executives told MailOnline last week that they wanted to hark back to the chemistry Lauer, 54, found with Gumbel, 64, who left the show after 15 years as co-host in January 1997. They also were keen to rival the 'bromance' between Josh Elliot and Sam Champion on ABC's Good Morning America, which continues to outdo Today in the ratings stakes. Ahead of the arrival of Today's new executives Alexandra Wallace and Don Nash, a source told MailOnline: 'If you look at Josh Elliott and Sam Champion on Good Morning America, they are really great friends and that shines through on air - not since Matt and Bryant have we seen chemistry like this on morning TV.' There is no love lost between Lauer and Today's other senior male presenter Al Roker - who is close friends . with Ann Curry. All smiles: Matt Lauer and Willie Geist, pictured second from right and right, are having a 'bromance' Frosty: Matt Lauer and his wife Annette at the UNICEF Snowflake Ball at Cipriani 42nd Street in Manhattan last week . Ann, . 56, was unceremoniously axed in June after just a year as Today's . co-host, a move that has been blamed on Lauer, who last night made a . rare public appearance with his wife Annette at UNICEF's Snowflake Ball . in Manhattan. A senior TV source denied recent rumours that Lauer - who is on a staggering $25 million-a-year-deal - would be axed after Good Morning America took over Today's top spot in the ratings. The source, close to the Today show, said: 'Matt is on a huge deal, he's hugely important to NBC - he's not going anywhere.' Another source added: 'There is no chance in hell that Matt's getting fired. 'Of course, there are huge issues at Today and the big problem will be when the affiliates who pay all the money to air Today start complaining about ratings - they're never afraid to call a spade a spade. 'Every ratings point is worth millions in advertising revenue and Today knows it's not going to win its spot back overnight. 'We're waiting to see if Don Nash can do something bold. The consensus in the corridors at NBC is that Today desperately needs the right team. Best friends: Matt Lauer and former Today co-host Bryant Gumbel . Veteran: Bryant Gumbel and his wife Hilary Quinlan joined Matt and Annette Lauer at the Snowflake Ball last week . 'They need chemistry and the anchors need people to play with. 'Viewers like to see the presenters connecting, it's all about connectibility and there's no-one for Matt to banter with.' 'And when push comes to shove, viewers know nothing about Matt. Savannah Guthrie is super smart, but again, viewers know nothing about her. 'On GMA, people know that Sam's getting married, Josh talks all the time about his daughter, they're going through Robin Roberts' illness with her and Lara just doesn't stop talking! 'In effect, Today needs to find its 'secret sauce'. NBC chiefs are already trying out new talent on air. Geist has been moved to the 9am slot and is proving popular as a stand-in for Lauer, while other presenters are being trialled. Viewership for Good Morning America is . up three per cent so far this season, according to Nielsen ratings. Chemistry: GMA's Josh Elliott and Sam Champion on air together recently . Today is down . about 15 per cent. GMA has been averaging around 5.5 million viewers a show, while Today is averaging 5.3 million. Earlier this month, NBC announced Today's long-time executive producer Jim Bell - a good friend of Lauer - was being replaced by veteran news executives to take over the troubled morning programme. Nash, 47, a 23-year veteran of the show, is taking over as executive producer, and will be responsible for all four hours of Today. He started on Tuesday, and will report to Alexandra Wallace, who was promoted to the newly created role of executive in charge of the Today show. Wallace, 47, will continue as executive producer of NBC's prime time news programme, Rock Center with Brian Williams, which is also struggling and faces the axe, according to TV insiders. What's up Al: Today stars Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer share a joke with Scarlett Johansson last week - but Al Roker doesn't look so happy . Bryant Gumbel, who co-hosted Today alongside Katie Couric, acknowledged that he is 'best friends' with Lauer as he spoke out following Ann Curry's departure. He spoke out in Lauer's defence as he told the LA Times: 'I’m surprised and disappointed at this idea that Ann was a martyr, that she was thrown under the bus. 'I don’t know why she’s being portrayed as a modern-day Joan of Arc. In every job, in every walk of life, people are hired to do a job, and if they don't do it well they are relieved of that job.' The outspoken star added: 'It’s a big-boy business, and when things don’t work out, people are asked to leave. It’s happened to me; it’s happened to almost everyone in this business,; . Gumbel said he doesn’t watch Today, in keeping with a practice he began during his own run between 1982 and 1997, adding: 'I’m not a TV watcher and I’m not a morning-show watcher.' As for Savannah Guthrie, Gumbel added: 'Matt tells me she's a good person, and I believe him.' Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy . ### SUMMARY:

TV execs said last week they want to rival the chemistry GMA has found . Believe a new buddy for Lauer would help increase ratings . Dedicated a full segment just after 8am on Wednesday to video of Geist swatting Lauer with a wad of papers . Geist, a 9am Hour co-host, was brought in early to discuss the 'incident'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Bob Smyth . PUBLISHED: . 15:19 EST, 12 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:06 EST, 13 January 2013 . A convicted murderer has protested his innocence in an unprecedented YouTube video filmed behind bars. Luke Mitchell, 24, is serving a life sentence in a Scottish prison for the brutal murder of his teenage girlfriend Jodi Jones. But now, in a landmark move, prison authorities have given permission for footage shot in jail to be made public. Scroll down for video . Unprecedented: Convicted murderer Luke Mitchell is pictured in prison denying killing his girlfriend Jodi Jones while hooked up to a lie detector in a YouTube video . Protesting his innocence: Mitchell - who is serving a life sentence for the killing of Jodi Jones who was found dead near her home in Easthouse, Dalkeith, Midlothian, in June 2003 - has always being involved in her murder . The dramatic video clip - which is today being broadcast on the internet - shows Mitchell denying his involvement in Jodi’s murder while wired up to a lie detector machine. The extraordinary move is believed to be the first time a convicted criminal has ever been seen taking - and passing - a polygraph test while in prison. Mitchell, who has consistently denied killing 14-year-old Jodi, hopes that releasing the clip onto the internet will persuade the public that he is the victim of a miscarriage of justice. Found guilty: Mitchell was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend Jodi Jones by a jury in 2005 . At the end of last week, he told his mother: 'I want the world to see that I actually went through this process and it backed what I have always said - that I didn’t kill Jodi.' As revealed in the Scottish Mail on Sunday, Mitchell passed a lie detector test carried out by an independent expert in a prison visiting room last April. As is normal practice, the test was filmed. Campaigners backing Mitchell applied to the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to use the footage to help clear his name. Permission from the SPS was required because the clip was filmed within prison grounds. And last week the governor of Shotts Prison, the top-security jail where Mitchell is being held, gave the go-ahead. The footage shows Mitchell dressed in a standard prison-issue blue tee-shirt being asked a series of questions - including three key questions related directly to the murder. Mitchell, jailed for a minimum of 20 years in January 2005, was shown to be telling the truth when he denied being involved. The convicted killer was interviewed by experienced polygraph examiner Terry Mullins,  secretary of the British Polygraph Association, who has carried out a string of lie tests in English prisons although  the examination of Mitchell has been his only work in a jail north of the border. The release of the video is the first time footage of one of his prison tests has been shown publicly. Mitchell’s mother Corinne said her son was delighted that the public can now watch him passing the test. Ongoing battle: Luke Mitchell, pictured on Sky News shortly after the discovery of Jodi Jones' body, has always maintained his innocence and repeatedly asked for polygraph tests . Family support: Luke Mitchell with his mother Corinne, 53, has always stood by her son . Murdered schoolgirl: Mitchell was ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years for the murder of his 14-year-old girlfriend Jodi Jones, pictured . Mrs Mitchell, 53, who visited him on Thursday, said: 'He says he has never had anything to hide so he didn’t hesitate when he had the chance to take it. In fact, he had asked for a polygraph since day one. 'Luke told me he believes the test is a crucial indication of his innocence to go along with other issues, such as the lack of forensic evidence linking him to the crime.' Mrs Mitchell has also passed a lie test, backing her claim that she was with the convicted killer at their home at the time of the murder. Missing: Jodi Jones was found murdered in June 2003 near her home in Dalkeith . During his polygraph examination, the camera focuses on Mitchell, who tries to remain still throughout as any movement can affect the monitoring process. On the advice of the examiner, he keeps his eyes closed throughout. Mr Mullins is heard putting a series of questions to Mitchell three times, changing the order on each occasion. Answering the three questions directly relating to the murder, Mitchell clearly says “No” when asked: “Were you present when Jodi was stabbed?” In answer to the question: 'Did you stab Jodi on June 30, 2003?', Mitchell responds: 'No' in a strong voice. He speaks more quietly as he repeats: 'No' when asked: 'Did you know for certain where Jodi’s body would be found?' The question was asked in light of evidence in court that Mitchell led searchers to Jodi’s body because he knew where it was. He has always claimed his dog alerted him to the gruesome discovery. After the tests were carried out last year, Mr Mullins concluded that Mitchell had been telling the truth. He said: ‘I’m certain of the test result. It’s absolute. I can’t believe Luke Mitchell was convicted on the evidence that was available.’ He said Mitchell appeared confident but slightly nervous as he arrived to undertake the test process, which took nearly two-and-a-half hours. Mr Mullins explained: ‘Most people are nervous because of the unfamiliar technology rather than the fear of failing. Luke Mitchell's mother Corinne Mitchell at Edinburgh High Court when he was found guilty of murder, left in 2005, and after he was refused leave to appeal his conviction to UK's highest court, pictured right in 2011 . Results: The test found that Mitchell was telling the truth when he said he had no involvement in the murder of Jodi Jones . 'I spoke to him at length about what happened on the day of the murder, from before leaving school, and up to the next day. 'He got very upset when he began recalling the moment when he found Jodi’s body. During the test I asked him to close his eyes so he could concentrate and not be distracted by the prison officers who were observing through the glass walls of the meeting room. 'At the end I asked him how he thought he’d got on. He confidently said: “I’ve passed”. He was right.’ Young: Luke Mitchell was just 14 when his girlfriend was murdered near their homes in Midlothian . Mitchell was just 14 when Jodi was brutally murdered near their homes in Midlothian after she had gone out to meet him. He was 16 when he was found guilty after a marathon trial that culminated in 2005. Jodi was found behind a wall beside a lonely path near her home in Easthouses. She had suffered a slashed throat and post-mortem cuts to her eyelids, right cheek, left breast, abdomen and right forearm. There was also a penetrating wound to her mouth and her hands had been tied. Mitchell has always insisted he wasn’t guilty of the horrific slaying but failed to have his conviction quashed on appeal. His case is currently being examined by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice and can recommend a fresh appeal. Polygraph tests are inadmissible in Scottish courts but the report on Mitchell’s test was included in his submission to the SCCRC. Criminologist Dr Sandra Lean, who has spearheaded the campaign to free Mitchell along with his mother, said the lie test provided important evidence. 'The polygraph result in Luke’s case reinforces what the other evidence has been telling us all along – there is not a scrap of evidence that Luke Mitchell murdered Jodi Jones,' she insisted. She criticised Mitchell’s prosecution, insisting: 'The case against him was "purely circumstantial" – bits and pieces cobbled together to try to make a justifiable case. 'Yet the real evidence shows the prosecution case to be untenable,' she claimed. A Scottish Prison Service spokesman confirmed: 'The SPS had no objection to the release of the footage, with the consent of Mr Mitchell.' ### SUMMARY:

Jodi Jones, 14, was found dead in woods near her Midlothian home in 2003 . Luke Mitchell, also 14 when Jodi died, was found guilty of her murder in 2005 . Mitchell - who is serving life in prison - has always maintained he is innocent . YouTube video shows Mitchell denying murder in lie detector test in prison .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Sam Greenhill and Liz Thomas . PUBLISHED: . 03:47 EST, 12 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 07:13 EST, 13 October 2012 . The police investigation into Jimmy Savile’s abuse of young girls has tripled in scale to 340 separate lines of inquiry, Scotland Yard revealed last night. There are now 40 potential victims and 15 police forces investigating the paedophile BBC presenter’s reign of child abuse. It prompted the BBC’s Director General to issue his second grovelling apology of the week – and announce a total of three independent inquiries. Apology: The director-general of the BBC George Entwistle today issued a 'profound and heartfelt apology' to Jimmy Savile's victims as he announced two independent inquiry's would be launched . Investigation: Scotland Yard is now pursuing 340 lines of inquiry in the Jimmy Savile abuse case involving 40 potential victims, the force revealed tonight . George Entwistle offered a ‘profound and heartfelt apology on behalf of the BBC to every victim’. He added: ‘I have made clear my revulsion at the thought that these criminal assaults were carried out by someone employed by the BBC and that some may have happened on BBC premises as well as, we now discover, in hospitals and other institutions.’ Celebrities and former BBC staff potentially face arrest for alleged sex offences as police hunt accomplices of Savile’s four decades of attacks. He is alleged to have raped and molested children as young as ten. As well as the BBC, three NHS hospitals, a former children’s home in  Jersey and a now-defunct school in Surrey are accused of giving him free rein to attack children. Some victims have named people ‘around Savile’ as being complicit in his abuse. Mr Entwistle revealed that police warned him last week they would  pursue ‘live active criminal investigations’ against suspects. With more and more victims coming forward, the size of the police investigation has tripled from the 120 lines of inquiry being examined on Tuesday. An old friend of Jimmy Savile, who worked with him to raise funds for Stoke Mandeville Hospital in the 1970s, said she was saddened by allegations of sexual abuse against him but never saw him do anything 'inappropriate'. Sylvia Nicol told Daybreak: 'I am very sad, I don’t like it, it takes away 40 years of very happy, very good memories. 'Knowledge of all the good Jimmy did, because from the time he came to Stoke Mandeville I only saw him do good.' But Caroline Moore has claimed she was assaulted by Savile at the age of 13 while being treated for spinal injuries at the Buckinghamshire hospital in 1971. Nurses at the hospital are also understood to have dreaded Savile’s visits because of his behaviour and would tell children to stay in bed and pretend to be asleep when he came round.Of that, he said: 'It will examine whether that culture and those practices allowed him or others to carry out the sexual abuse of children. Scotland Yard said: ‘We would once again praise the courage of and thank everyone who has come forward. ‘We have officially recorded 12 allegations of sexual offences but expect this number to grow.’ Outlining the three BBC inquiries, . each to be run by an outsider, Mr Entwistle said one would look into . what happened to a Newsnight report into Savile and examine if there . were any ‘failings’ by management over the decision to cancel it. He . insisted he knew of the abuse allegations only when reports appeared in . the Press. The second will look into the ‘culture . and practices of the BBC’ to establish if they enabled Savile to . sexually abuse children at the corporation. The third will be a broad assessment . of the BBC’s harassment procedures, following allegations by stars such . as Liz Kershaw and Sandi Toksvig that they were groped and suffered . inappropriate behaviour at the hands of male colleagues. The BBC will name who will run the inquiries next week, but non-executive director Dame Fiona Reynolds will chair all three. ‘The BBC will not avoid confronting the events of its past,’ Mr Entwistle pledged. ‘Jimmy Savile’s victims have faced . years of pain. We owe it to them – and to our audiences – to understand . how this could have happened, and to make sure that we do everything so . that nothing like this could ever happen again.’ He added: ‘Despite our efforts to make . clear our belief the decision to drop the Newsnight investigation was . taken properly for sound editorial reasons, people have continued to . speculate. This is damaging to the BBC and is a cloud of suspicion which . cannot be allowed to continue.’ Victim: Caroline Moore claims she was a wheelchair-bound 13-year-old recovering from an operation to fuse her spine when Savile abused her during a hospital visit . Sick: Claims have also emerged that Savile, seen outside the cafe at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, groped young patients at the infirmary. Jimmy Savile penned part of a book warning children about strangers. The . late DJ wrote the introduction to Benjamin Rabbit and the Stranger . Danger, which was published in 1985. The book, which is subtitled 'what a . child needs to know about strangers,' is currently 'unavailable' on . Amazon. However, one copy is selling on eBay for £14.99 . Asked if he would quit, or order . sackings, if the inquiries uncovered wrongdoing, he said he did not want . to pre-judge them, adding: ‘The watch words are accountability, . transparency and honesty.’ The developments came after a TV . director who reported Savile to BBC bosses decades ago – when he caught . the star having sex with a 15- or 16-year-old girl in his dressing room – . revealed he was ignored. David Nicolson, 67, who had been a . director on Jim’ll Fix It, said he made several attempts to expose . Savile to the BBC, but was told: ‘That’s Jimmy’ and ‘that’s the way it . goes’. On Mr Nicolson’s claims, a BBC . spokesman said: ‘We have been disturbed to hear these allegations. All . staff past and present who have any information relating to allegations . of this kind should raise them with the BBC’s internal investigations . unit or the police.’ Grant Shapps, the Conservative Party . chairman, told BBC1’s Question Time it ‘seems unimaginable’ people at . the BBC were unaware of the child abuse allegations. Savile also . allegedly molested vulnerable children at Leeds General Infirmary, . including a brain-damaged girl, as well as Stoke Mandeville Hospital and . Broadmoor Hospital. In contrast to the BBC’s contrition, none of the NHS hospitals where Savile allegedly abused children has said sorry. Among the latest allegations,  it was . claimed yesterday Savile was banned from visiting a council-run . children’s home in the Seventies after he molested a 12-year-old girl. A . woman said he was told to leave the home in Leeds after staff found him . in a bedroom with the girl. And former Radio 1 researcher Richard . Pearson told Channel 4 News that when he met Savile once, he said he . ‘had just had 14-year-old girls’ in his trailer. ### SUMMARY:

George Entwistle also announced two independent inquiry's into the 'culture and practices' of the BBC and the abandoned Newsnight investigation . Detectives say 12 allegations of sexual offences have been officially recorded but this number is increasing . Scotland Yard is in contact with 14 other forces as the number of allegations against the . late television presenter continues to rise . It also emerged that a TV . director told the BBC he saw Jimmy Savile having sex with an 'very, very . young'  girl in his dressing room but was ignored . David Nicolson was told by BBC bosses: 'That's the way it is' and 'That's Jimmy' Claims 'everyone' from junior staff to top bosses knew about abuse . BBC director-general George Entwistle . asks senior colleague to answer journalists' questions about dropping Newsnight documentary . TV actress Julie Fernandez, who starred in The Office, she was groped by Savile when 14 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Jill Reilly . PUBLISHED: . 03:20 EST, 31 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:49 EST, 31 May 2013 . A female soldier has revealed how she was raped by a sergeant at a Japanese Marine base after he spiked her drink. Stacey Thompson, 32, who has decided to go public with the story after 14 years, reported the heinous crime to her superiors, but was shocked by their reaction. The man was allowed to leave the Marine Corps and Thomspon, who was 19 at the time, was kicked out after a separate . investigation for drug use stemming from that night. Going public: Stacey Thompson has revealed how she was raped by her sergeant at a Japanese Marine base after he spiked her drinks 14 years go . Now, 14 years later, she has decided to . speak out again, emboldened by the mounting pressure on the Pentagon to . resolve its growing sexual assault epidemic. Thompson is among the scores of service members who have lived in silence for decades and are now stepping forward to fight for an overhaul of the military's justice system and demand their own cases be re-examined. Speaking out: The 19-year-old lance corporal was not afraid to report the crime but paid heavily for doing so . 'To see that what happened to me 14 years ago is still continuing to happen now, for me that was a big reason why I felt the need to come forward,' she said. 'I can finally say I have the strength.' Thompson had just been stationed at . Marine base in Japan when she said her sergeant laced her drinks with . drugs, raped her in his barracks and then dumped her onto a street . outside a nightclub at 4 a.m. The 19-year-old lance corporal was not afraid to report the crime but paid heavily for doing so. The investigator called her a liar, . and military authorities checked her hands for needle pricks after . accusing her of using drugs. She said she never used drugs. She was reassigned to another unit, . removed from her job and told to report to an office, where she had . nothing to do for months, before she was kicked out. She continues to suffer from her . other-than-honorable discharge, which stripped her of her benefits and . she believes has led to her missing out on Defense Department jobs. 'I felt the Marine Corps re-victimized me again after getting raped,' said the 32-year-old mother of three. Thompson said she shut down after getting out, refusing to talk about her rape. She was afraid of men, especially Marines. To this day, she keeps her dog nearby . when she showers and sleeps with lights on in her house, even when her . combat Marine husband is home. 'That fear is still with me 14 years later,' she said. Retaliation: A Pentagon report released earlier this month found 62 percent of sexual assault victims in the military who reported being attacked say they faced some kind of retaliation afterward . But the fight is there too. Thompson . requested her records in December. She said they showed the drug use . allegations against her came from her perpetrator's friends. Retaliation is part of a military-wide pattern that has prevented countless cases from being reported and investigated, exacerbating the epidemic, according to victims' advocates. A Pentagon report released earlier this month found 62 percent of sexual assault victims in the military who reported being attacked say they faced some kind of retaliation afterward. 'It's an ongoing problem that is not getting better, it's getting worse, as the latest statistics out of the Pentagon show,' said Brian Purschia, spokesman for Protect Our Defenders, which has been helping Thompson. 'Unfortunately commanders are conflicted: When a sexual assault occurs on their watch, it reflects poorly on them and that's why it's shoved under the rug. The perpetrators frequently out rank the victims, which is also why there is this bias. They're going to trust people they've known - not an 18 or 19-year-old just new to the service.' 'It's an ongoing problem that is not . getting better, it's getting worse, as the latest statistics out of the . Pentagon show' Brian Purschia, spokesman for Protect Our . Defenders . Thompson said military culture will not change until the system changes. She will speak Friday at a news conference in Los Angeles with Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., to show her support for her bipartisan bill that would put the cases in the hands of military trained prosecutors. Service members now must report any crimes to the chain of command, even when their superiors have been involved. 'Too many survivors of military sexual assault are afraid to report these crimes because they fear retaliation, and they don't believe they will get justice,' Boxer said. 'They deserve a system that encourages victims to come forward knowing that the perpetrators will be brought to justice.' Thompson is now appealing her case to the Department of Veterans Affairs and is seeking compensation related to military sexual trauma. After that, she plans to also appeal her discharge status to get it upgraded to honorable. Several service members have filed lawsuits in the past two years, alleging retaliation after they reported being raped. Among them was another former Marine, Elle Helmer, who said in her lawsuit that after reporting her sexual assault in 2006, the military investigated her for public intoxication and unbecoming conduct. She left the military soon after. 'God's will:' Former US Army Sgt. Rebekah Havrilla testified that she was raped by another service member while serving in Afghanistan. When she sought counseling from an Army chaplain, she said, 'he told me that the rape was God's will' Silenced: Brian Lewis (left) said he was raped . in 2000 while he served in the Navy by a non-commissioned officer who . outranked him. His commanders ordered him not to report the crime. Anu . Bhagwati (right) a former Marine officer, said one in three convicted . offenders remain in the service . Marine Corps and Navy officials declined to comment, saying they do not discuss specific cases. The Marine Corps has said it takes sexual assault allegations seriously and continues to improve in responding to and preventing rapes within the ranks. All branches have been implementing sexual assault prevention programs in the past year. The extent of the assaults came to light when the Pentagon released a report earlier this month estimating that as many as 26,000 military members may have been sexually assaulted last year and that thousands of victims are unwilling to come forward despite new oversight and assistance programs. That figure is an increase over the 19,000 estimated assaults in 2011. Only 3,374 of these crimes were reported, resulting in just 238 convictions. The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing next week on legislation to combat military sexual assault, including the bill sponsored by Boxer and other lawmakers. Earlier this year Rebekah Havrilla, a former Army . sergeant, told a Senate panel on Wednesday that she encountered a . 'broken' military criminal justice system after she was raped by another . service member while serving in Afghanistan. When . she sought counseling from an Army chaplain, 'he told me that the rape . was God's will and that God was trying to get my attention so that I . would go back to church,' she said. There were nearly 800 reports of sexual assault cases in the Air Force last year, ranging from inappropriate touching to rape. That is a nearly 30 per cent increase from 2011, when 614 cases were reported. Many . of those cases stem from a single base near San Antonio where dozens of . young female recruits and airmen were victimized by their instructors. An . inquiry into Lackland Air Force Base found that 32 military training . instructors allegedly engaged in inappropriate or coercive sexual . relationships with 59 recruits and airmen at Lackland, according to the . Air Force. Six instructors . have been convicted in courts-martial on charges ranging from adultery, . rape and conducting unprofessional relationships. Nine more instructors . are awaiting courts-martial. Two more received nonjudicial punishments. Fifteen 15 instructors remain under investigation. ### SUMMARY:

Stacey Thompson was 19 when she raped after being stationed in Japan . The man was allowed to leave the Marine Corps after she reported it . But she was made the center of a drug investigation and kicked out .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Rebecca Camber, Jaya Narain and Colin Fernandez . UPDATED: . 02:11 EST, 26 July 2011 . An arrogant smile on his lips, mass murderer Anders Breivik shows not a shred of remorse as he leaves court. Dressed in a red polo shirt and sweater, the 32-year-old assassin sat calmly in a police vehicle yesterday after admitting killing at least 76 people – but denying criminal responsibility. A prosecutor said he seemed ‘completely unaffected’ by what he had done. Arrogant: Anders Breivik leaves court in an armoured car yesterday, showing not a shred of remorse for his actions that left at least 76 people dead . Police presence: Breivik was escorted by a number of officers as he was driven to the courthouse . Justification: Breivik told the court he had carried out mass slaughter to send a 'strong signal' to people . The Norwegian fanatic has been in close contact with hundreds of British right-wing extremists for two years, it emerged last night. He chatted about ‘tactics’ on social networking sites with hundreds of members of the English Defence League (EDL) and the British National Party (BNP) and attended demonstrations and meetings here. The revelations came as: . Senior MPs demanded an inquiry into the killer’s links with Britain after it was claimed that he met extremists in London as recently as last year, as well as attending EDL rallies in London and Newcastle. Anti-extremist campaign groups and think tanks called on the Government to classify EDL as a far-Right organisation. Escort: A pair of armoured cars carrying Breivik drives through Oslo on the way to yesterday's court hearing . Outriders: Breivik arrived at the court without incident despite fears of a possible revenge attack . No entry: The doors of the courthouse in Oslo stand closed as journalists and members of the public crowd outside . The Prime Minister, who discussed the massacre with security chiefs at a National Security Council meeting, said the killer’s links to groups in Britain were being taken ‘extremely seriously’. He said: ‘We are still investigating these claims, so I don’t want to give out partial information. We want to get to the bottom of this before making public announcements. But we take these things extremely seriously.’ Mr Cameron, who was at the Norwegian Embassy in London to sign a book of condolence, went on: ‘Everyone in Britain shares in the sorrow and the anger at the despicable killing that took place on Friday. Britain and Norway have been good allies and neighbours in very dark days before. ‘We know that the resilience and the courage and the decency of our Norwegian friends will overcome this evil.’ David Cameron signed a book of condolence for the victims of the attacks at the Norwegian Embassy yesterday, before confirming the the killer's links to groups in Britain were being taken 'extremely seriously' He added: ‘After such a dreadful event the British Government must of course review our own security at home.’ Thousands gathered in the centre of Oslo at noon to observe a minute’s silence for those who lost their lives in Friday’s massacre. Statements: Judge Kim Heger said Breivik had told him at the hearing there were two more cells in his organisation and that he wanted to save Europe from a Muslim takeover . Immediately afterwards many made their way to the city’s court to await Breivik’s arrival. While a few jeered as the heavily armed police convoy arrived, most simply stood and stared at the building housing the country’s most vilified individual. The hearing was closed, denying Breivik the opportunity to make a public statement in front of the world’s media. Later the judge said that Breivik had alluded to ‘two other cells’ in his network – a claim he also made in a ‘manifesto’ published hours before the twin assaults. But he also maintained he had been acting alone. Police in Oslo said they would now probe the ‘two cells’ claims by Breivik. Judge Kim Heger said that Breivik had told him that he wanted to save Europe from a Muslim takeover. He said his bombing and shooting rampage was intended to send a ‘strong signal to the people’ and deter future recruitment to the Norwegian Labour Party, which he blamed for allowing ‘mass imports of Muslims’. The judge said: ‘Even though the accused has acknowledged the facts of the case, he has not pleaded criminal responsibility. ‘The accused has made statements that require further investigation, including that “there are two more cells in our organisation”.’ Breivik was remanded in solitary confinement for eight weeks with a ban on letters, access to media and visitors. The Foreign Secretary William Hague confirmed that a senior officer from Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command is liaising with police in Norway. United in grief: Thousands of people hold aloft flowers as they take part in this 'rose march' in honour of the victims in Oslo . Solemn affair: (from left) Princess Martha Louise, crownprince Haakon, crownprincess Mette-Marit, former Norway's Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and the chairman of the Labour Youth Movement (AUF), Eskil Pedersen, take part in the march . Growing tributes: Thousands of flowers have been left outside in cathedral square in Oslo to mark the deaths . Breivik has claimed he was recruited by two English Right-wing extremists at a UK meeting in 2002 attended by seven others. In a rambling 1,500-page manifesto posted on the internet shortly before his attacks, Breivik praised the EDL. He wrote: ‘I used to have more than 600 EDL members as Facebook friends and have spoken with tens of EDL members and leaders. ‘In fact I was one of the individuals who supplied them with processed ideological material (including rhetorical strategies) in the very beginning.’ Victims: Trond Berntsen (left), the step-brother of the Crown Princess of Norway, was a security guard at the event. Tore Eikeland, 21, was described as one of Norway's most promising young politicians . Missing: (left to right) Hanne Kristine Fridtun, Jamil Rafal Yasin and Tarald Mjelde have not been seen since the shooting on Friday. A source within the EDL said last . night: ‘I know people within the English Defence League who claim Anders . Breivik was at some of those meetings. ‘Also, . people who he knows have been over to the UK many times and are very . active within the EDL circles in London. There are definite connections . between this man and the UK.’ Matthew . Collins, spokesman for the anti-fascist organisation Searchlight, told . the Daily Mail: ‘EDL was his inspiration, ideologically and . politically.’ Breivik also referred to the BNP 23 times in his 1,500-page manifesto. The . English Defence League, which has risen to prominence over the last two . years with its anti-Islamic protests, has denied ‘any official contact’ with the killer. Nothing suspicious: The purchase of fertiliser by Breivik was flagged by security services but considered not relevant as they believed it was for use on his farm . Conservative . Patrick Mercer, former chairman of the Commons counter-terrorism . subcommittee, said authorities should investigate the risk of a plot in . Britain. It emerged that . Breivik had been on a Norwegian security watchlist since March after his . name was linked to the purchase of chemicals from a Polish supplier. However, . the head of Norway’s police intelligence agency said this was a . ‘superfluous archive’ and they had not followed it up because he had . only bought £11 worth of the chemicals. ### SUMMARY:

Anders Breivik admits killing 76 - but denies criminal responsibility . Killer chatted with members of BNP and EDL on social networking sites . David Cameron says links to these groups will be taken 'extremely seriously' Breivik alludes to two other cells during court appearance in Oslo . Claims he was on Norwegian Secret Service watchlist since March . David Cameron ordered new checks on British far-Right groups; . The killer claimed there are two more terror cells ‘in our organisation’; . He described the massacre as a ‘marketing’ ploy to promote his warped manifesto; . Breivik’s horrified father said he wished his son had taken his own life instead of killing innocent children; . The death toll from his bomb blast in Oslo and his island shooting spree was revised to 76; . It emerged Breivik had been on a Norwegian security watchlist since March but was not followed up.

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Shona Sibary . PUBLISHED: . 16:33 EST, 1 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:33 EST, 1 May 2013 . The other day I was playing with my three-year-old daughter, Dolly. She’s obsessed with the story of Snow White and keeps sticking a mirror in front of my face and inquiring: ‘Who is the fairest of them all?’ The answer must always, of course, be her. I once ventured away from this party line and dared to say: ‘Dolly, your beauty is true, but Mummy’s face is quite nice, too.’ And she looked at me, utterly horrified, and said: ‘No it’s not. Your eyes are wonky and your nose has a big bump on it.’ She was right, of course. Children are nothing if not honest. But here’s the thing. It didn’t matter. I still pulled her to me — this wonderfully zany little girl who constantly tells me she loves me to the moon and back — and I felt so happy my heart could burst. A perfect life: Shona with her children (from left) Dolly, Monty, Annie and Flo, wonders if things would have been different if she was born beautiful . So what if I have a face that might crack a mirror? Why on earth would I care? I may be somewhat lacking in the looks department, but I am happier and more successful than most women I know. I was reminded of this rather satisfying fact this week when actress Olivia Colman, who won huge acclaim for her role as DS Ellie Miller in the brilliant ITV drama, Broadchurch, admitted she felt fortunate she was not a ‘conventional’ beauty. She went on to say that there are fewer parts available for prettier actresses — suggesting she attributes her well-deserved success to the fact that she isn’t a looker. It’s a searingly honest thing to say and I, for one, whole-heartedly agree — not with the fact Olivia Colman is ugly (actually, I think she has a rather lovely face), but that being plain can often play hugely to a woman’s advantage. I have written before about coming to terms with the fact I’ll never be beautiful. It has taken me years to accept that, unlike my fellow Daily Mail writer Samantha Brick, men never fall over themselves to open doors for me or, indeed, proffer free bottles of champagne on aeroplanes. But, cruel fate that it is, I have four amazing children — and Samantha, like so many other attractive women, yearns to have a baby. I’m sure, given the choice of a pretty face or a warm bundle in her arms and a face like mine, she’d go for the latter. Who is better off? Shona believes childless, self-confessed 'most beautiful woman in the world' Samantha Brick, right, would swap her face for a baby . Of course, I’m not suggesting that any woman can help how they look or, indeed, should suffer because of it. But in an age when so much emphasis is placed on physical perfection, it’s a relief when someone like Olivia Colman admits that being plain can be a blessing for a woman. Because I firmly believe that’s how it has worked out for me. Indeed, I am convinced that if I had been blessed with the looks of Brigitte Bardot, life wouldn’t have panned out in quite the wonderful way it has. Today, I look in the mirror and while the reflection staring back at me is unremarkable, looking this way has given me the strength, determination and force of character to get out there and prove myself in other ways. And prove myself I have. Compare my story with that of my two close friends from school — both stunning girls whom I spent years feeling desperately inadequate standing next to. I used to be convinced they were guaranteed a glittering future, with the promise of a handsome husband, children and whatever else they wanted the world to conjure up before the altar of their exquisite beauty. 'One kind reader even suggested that . next time I have something published I might be a little more . public-spirited and place a bag over my head. Do I care?' We hooked up recently at a reunion. They have both kept their looks — indeed it was still hard, a quarter of a century on, to quash that same feeling of inferiority when they walked into the room. But a few glasses of wine later, it materialised that one remains single, having never found a man to meet her exacting standards, and the other did get married — to someone equally gorgeous — but he turned out to be gay and left her for a man. I’m not being smug when I say they oohed and aahed over photographs of my four children — Flo, Annie, Monty and Dolly. Well, maybe I am a little bit. But they were doing absolutely nothing to disguise the fact that, in their opinion, my life was pretty near perfect. And, actually, I couldn’t help but agree. The reason for this is simple. Once I accepted what my limitations were on the looks front, I then set about making up for them in other ways. Unlike prettier girls I knew, I didn’t make my prospective boyfriends jump through a series of inexplicable hoops before deciding to date them. If they wanted to take me to an all-you-can-eat Tex-Mex buffet instead of a fancy French restaurant then — hey — who was I to complain? Bring on the chicken wings! If one boyfriend turned out to have an unfortunately hairy back, I didn’t — as one girlfriend admitted to doing — dump him instantly with a shudder of disgust. I simply felt relieved that the pressure was off to shave my own legs every single day. Happy with her looks: Actress Olivia Colman said being plain has its advantages . When I eventually met Keith at the age of 22, I felt unbelievably grateful that he was interested in me. I didn’t think there was a more interesting, good-looking or richer man out there — I was just relieved that any man at all wanted to hang out with a woman who looked like me. So what that he didn’t always know the right thing to say at social occasions or choose the appropriate attire for a family wedding? I fell in love with him because of his personality — and he, because of mine. I can remember sensing from certain quarters — friends and, indeed, my own parents — a feeling that I could do better. Well, guess what? Those friends are still single, my parents are now divorced and 14 years on Keith and I remain soulmates. But, for me, the benefits of being plain haven’t stopped there. Over the past couple of years I have been photographed frequently to accompany features I have written. It’s not my choice — it’s simply part of the job. But what has surprised me has been the extreme reaction from complete strangers who seem to feel the urge to constantly comment on how cross-eyed and ugly I am. They could, instead, remark on my writing ability or disagree with my opinion. The fact that they don’t only leaves me to assume that I am pretty good at my job — hooray! Admittedly, I’ve had to develop a fairly thick skin. It can be a little unsettling to be constantly told that my photograph is putting people off their breakfast. One kind reader even suggested that next time I have something published I might be a little more public-spirited and place a bag over my head. Do I care? Well, the TV offers keep flooding in and I’m still being commissioned, which just goes to show that Oscar Wilde was right — the only thing worse than being talked about is, well, not being talked about. And thanks to my looks there doesn’t seem to be any real danger of that happening any time soon.There is also something quite liberating — having hit my early 40s — about no longer fretting over my appearance. I’m not husband-hunting or looking for a date. The only people who see me every day are my family, the postman and other mothers. None of them care if I am made up to the nines or wearing kitten heels. Quite simply, I don’t feel the need to validate my worth as a woman by turning heads in the street or being complimented on my face. All I need to do is take a long look at my career, my family and the many positive letters I receive from other people who feel supported through what I write. I agree with Olivia Colman. Being a plain Jane has made my life a dream. ### SUMMARY:

Our writer agrees with Olivia Colman that being plain can be an advantage . Shona points out she has four children while prettier friends have none . Being 'ugly' has given her determination and strength of character . She's happily married as she and husband went for personality, not looks .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Emma Innes . PUBLISHED: . 10:38 EST, 26 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:11 EST, 26 September 2013 . Jared McDowall died when he was two-days-old at St Michael's Hospital in Bristol. His mother, Natasha, had expressed concerns about his reluctance to feel and his abnormal crying . A woman claims midwives treated her as an ‘anxious new mum’ just hours before her newborn son died in hospital. Jared McDowall died at St Michael’s Hospital in Bristol on January 17 last year, two days after he was born by emergency Caesarean section. Avon Coroner’s Court heard his mother, Natasha, mentioned to hospital staff that her son was reluctant to feed and was crying unusually. Mrs McDowall, of Longwell Green, Bristol, said she was ‘sick with worry’ over her son’s condition, but midwives simply dismissed her concerns as ‘paranoia’. Just hours later, Mrs McDowall discovered her son, who weighed six pounds, floppy and lifeless in his cot. Resuscitation attempts were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at 2.45am. An inquest into Jared’s death heard a root cause analysis investigation (RCA) found four failures in his care, including failures to recognise poor feeding and unusual crying. The hearing was told it was not possible to ascertain an exact cause of death, but Jared could have suffered from hypoglycaemia - low blood sugar - which may have triggered his loss of consciousness. Avon Coroner Maria Voisin, who reached a narrative conclusion, is writing a report referencing ways to improve care at St Michael’s Hospital raised during the inquest. ‘It is of note that the recorded observations were generally normal and staff did not have concerns about Jared’s progress,’ she said. ‘The parents did have concerns about his feeding and his crying and raised these with staff. ‘The staff said his level of feeding was typical for normal babies and not of concern to them. ‘In . relation to his crying, they did not believe it caused any concern and . were reassured when his observations came back as normal.’ Ms . Voisin said she considered reaching a conclusion of neglect but heard . no evidence of ‘gross failures’ in Jared’s care by hospital staff. She . will now write a report to the hospital following comments by Dr David . Harding, who made a number of recommendations to the inquest. These included a graph showing birth . weight and gestation, better synthesis between doctors and midwives and . education packs for hypoglycaemia. Natasha and Shaun McDowall say they were treated like 'anxious new parents' when they expressed their concerns about Jared to midwives . The inquest was told Jared was born weighing 2.7kg - 200g under the ‘low birth weight’ of 2.5kg - by Caesarean section at St Michael’s Hospital at 2.57am on January 15 2012. He appeared to be doing well for the first 24 hours, but the following morning, Mrs McDowall noticed he was crying in a ‘jerky way’ and was reluctant to feed. Mrs McDowall told the inquest she reported her concerns to midwife Natasha Bridge but was made to feel like an ‘anxious new mum’ and was reassured that her son was fine. ‘I was sick with worry and felt I was being treated as a paranoid mother,’ she said. ‘At the time I felt I was being brushed off.’ Both Jared and Mrs McDowall were examined through the day but all observations returned as normal, with a second midwife also reassuring the family. But in the early hours of the . following morning, Mrs McDowall discovered Jared ‘floppy and lifeless’ in his cot and rushed him to the midwife station for help. ‘I repeated that he was ill all day and none of them had listened to me,’ she said. ‘The alarm sounded and a lot of medical staff came rushing to Jared’s aid.’ An inquest into Jared's death heard that the cause of his death could not be formally established but that he could have had low blood sugar. Mr and Mrs McDowall are pictured arriving at the inquest . Resuscitation efforts did not succeed and Jared was pronounced dead at 2.45am. Pathologist Dr Craig Platt said post-mortem tests showed Jared had high insulin levels but could not ascertain his glucose levels before resuscitation, meaning it was impossible to say whether he was hypoglycaemic. He said the cause of death was ‘unexpected death of a neonate’ but that Jared’s raised insulin levels, low birth weight, a pulmonary haemorrhage and abnormalities in his pancreas - which could suggest a problem regulating insulin levels - should also be recorded. Mrs McDowall told the inquest: ‘I feel completely let down by the medical professionals at St Michael’s Hospital, particularly the midwifery team who failed to listen to my concerns.’ Midwife Natasha Bridge, who qualified six months earlier, said there were ‘no warning triggers’ to refer Jared to a different ward or care team. Experienced colleagues agreed with her observations and said Jared appeared healthy, with his feeding chart similar to other newborns. But Jared had four feeds in a 24 hour . period - one breast feed and three 10ml servings of formula - two fewer . than recommended, the inquest was told. Staff also considered his cry to be ‘unusual’ but not ‘abnormal’, which would have been noted on medical charts. Mrs McDowall told the inquest: 'I feel completely let down by the medical professionals at St Michael's Hospital (pictured), particularly the midwifery team who failed to listen to my concerns' Sarah Windfeld, head of midwifery at the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, said charts now featured ‘unusual crying’ as a result of Jared’s death. Observations had also been increased, there was more supervision, extra training and support had been offered to staff and clearer ways to escalate concerns introduced, she added. Speaking after the inquest, Jared’s parents Natasha, 37, who works in HR, and Shaun, 43, an IT consultant, said they had suffered with depression after his death. Mrs McDowall said: ‘We were absolutely disgusted at the care Jared and I were given and it has been very hard to relive the events during the inquest. ‘Shaun and I knew something was seriously wrong with Jared and I was becoming more and more concerned because he wouldn’t feed, but the midwives made me feel like I was overreacting and that I was wasting their time. Jared was born by emergency Caesarean section at St Michael's Hospital at 2.57am on January 15 2012. He weighed just 6lbs (picture is posed by models) ‘Jared was our first baby and we were so excited to bring him back to our family home but we never got chance to do this. His death still affects us every day and I’m not sure we’ll ever come to terms with it. ‘To be honest, what happened made us lose all faith in maternity services and we were terrified the same thing would happen again if I became pregnant. ‘We just hope that Jared’s death was not in vain and that improvements are made in observational charts and training to ensure no other family has to go through the same ordeal. ‘Nothing can bring Jared back but seeing improvements in maternity services might help us to begin the process of accepting what happened.’ Mr and Mrs McDowall have instructed medical law experts at Irwin Mitchell to investigate Jared’s death. Julie Lewis, a partner at Irwin Mitchell’s Bristol office, who represents the family, said: ‘We will now continue to work on behalf of Natasha and Shaun in liaising with the Trust to secure an admission of responsibility which we hope will help them to begin to come to terms with what happened and begin to rebuild their lives.’ ### SUMMARY:

Jared McDowall was born at St Michael's Hospital in Bristol . Mother, Natasha, was concerned about his feeding and abnormal crying . She says midwives treated her like an 'anxious new mother' On January 17, 2012, she found Jared floppy and lifeless in his cot . Medics attempted to resuscitate him but they were not successful . An inquest was told the exact cause of his death could not be established but he could have had low blood sugar .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Ellie Zolfagharifard . PUBLISHED: . 06:11 EST, 19 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:14 EST, 1 October 2013 . One of the most eagerly-anticipated video game releases has exceeded worldwide sales of £500 million ($800 million), its publisher has announced. Grand Theft Auto V delivered the highest first day retail sales of any title sold by Take-Two Interactive Software, the parent company of the game's developer Rockstar. Stores across the UK opened their doors at midnight on Tuesday for the special launch of the game, which reportedly cost around £170 million ($275 million) to make and market - more than films such as Avatar. Around a quarter of the poll participants who owned gaming devices said they were likely to buy Grand Theft Auto V, pictured, when the new consoles come out. While 22 per cent said they would pick up a copy of Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Ghosts game . Online retailer Amazon sold out of the game on pre-orders alone. Experts estimate it could generate £1 billion during its first year on sale, with gamers predicted to snap up some 25 million copies - breaking current records. The Grand Theft Auto series has accumulated sales of 135 million copies since its 1997 debut. GTA IV has reportedly sold more than 25 million copies since its 2008 release. The gaming site IGN.com polled 10,995 readers to ask whether they would take time off work on Tuesday when the GTA V goes on sale. According to its findings, 5,059 readers - around 46 per cent - said they booked the day off as holiday. Another 2,012 (19 per cent) said they would phone in claiming to be unwell while 35 per cent said they would wait to get their hands on the game. Awfully popular: One day after its release, Grand Theft Auto V had made a record $800 million in sales . Zohair Ali from London, pictured, was the first in the queue to pick up a copy of Grand Theft Auto V at the flagship Game store in Westfield Stratford City in London. Gaming site IGN.com discovered that 46 per cent of fans said they booked the day off as holiday to get their hands on the game . Game makers Rockstar North have called one of the city’s 'druggie hipster' districts Hawick after the mill town about 40 miles south of their Edinburgh head quarters. A Hawick councillor yesterday branded the use of the town’s name in GTA V as 'disgusting'. Local councillor David Paterson said he feared it could 'destroy the reputation' of Hawick. 'Why did they pick on Hawick?' he asked. 'It is a lovely town. 'It is perceptions, it is how people will perceive the town. 'They might perceive Hawick in a bad light and Hawick is a lovely place - a lot of people are very, very proud of Hawick.' Fans burst into the Stratford, east . London, branch of GAME - one of the chain's 300 stores which opened at . midnight - following a countdown. They . were led in by Londoner Zohair Ali, the first in the queue to pick up a . copy at the flagship shop at Westfield Stratford City. Mr Ali punched the air in delight while other gamers rushed to the tills to buy their copies. ‘I'm really excited now that I've got it in my hands,’ one fan said. ‘Being one of the biggest games of the year, it's going to be one of them I'm on for a long time.’ Kevin McFeely, from GAME, said the company opened as many branches as it ‘physically could’ on launch night. ‘Our customers really want to get their hands on this game,’ he said. ‘People are just really excited in terms of the things that they can do on GTA that they could never do before.’ One GAME staff member described scenes inside the crowded shop as ‘chaos’. A similar hype was evident online, where GTA players posted images of themselves with the new game. User Daniel Son wrote: ‘Got my copy of GTA! Ready to load up this bad boy.’ Dave Callan added: ‘GTA is going to make holidays to LA feel fairly mundane.’ Another user wrote: ‘I've waited patiently for five years but these past few hours have gone by very slowly. Soon I will have GTA in my hands.’ Ishaq Siddiqi, market strategist at financial spread betting firm ETX Capital, described GTA as a ‘British success story’. ‘The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Cadbury's, Rolls-Royce... the list of some of the greatest British exports goes on and on,’ he said. Rockstar released Grand Theft Auto V worldwide on Tuesday. This billboard is on the side of the Figueroa Hotel in Los Angeles . ‘But not many believed a sandbox violent crime thriller video game series, Grand Theft Auto by RockStar Games, would become one of the latest entrants on that list.’ He predicted GTA V would follow the same blockbuster success of its predecessors in the series. ‘Like it or not, GTA is a British success story as it has catapulted British game developers into the spotlight over the past decade,’ he said. ‘It's also induced the growth of start-up game development companies in the UK who are looking to mimic the success of Rockstar.’ MailOnline's gaming expert Talal Musa awarded the game five stars: 'This is clearly a well-thought-out and intelligent title - a far cry from the meaningless violence many wrongly (and unfairly) infer from its 'Grand Theft Auto' label.'The visuals excel in both art design and graphical fidelity. From deep-sea diving to dog fighting in the skies, every inch of GTA V's world has been given equal, immaculate care and attention.'Every excursion is a surprise, and coupled with an improved check-pointing mechanism - you're now no longer punished for attempting missions in different ways.'Cars all 'feel' different, and have lost the wayward steering that plagued the last game.Missions no longer stick to the oft rigid GTA formula of driving somewhere and shooting something.'Stuff Magazine's Guy Cocker wrote: 'Grand Theft Auto V aims ridiculously high and despite those ethical missteps manages to deliver on all of its towering ambitions.'It’s a game that pushes the boundaries not only of what’s possible in open world games, but what’s possible on the current generation of consoles.'In GTA V, the incredibly detailed world, compelling characters and varied missions combine to create an experience that will live on in your memory long after you've finished playing.' 'Every excursion is a surprise, and coupled with an improved check-pointing mechanism - you're now no longer punished for attempting missions in different ways,' said MailOnline's Talal Musa . The Metro's David Jenkins added: 'A staggering technical achievement that is matched only by the depth and ambition of its gameplay – this is not only the best-looking GTA ever but by far the most fun to play. 'Impossibly good visuals, in terms of scope and attention to detail. Excellent and varied mission design. Great car handling and much improved gunplay.Yet wasn't entirely positive: 'The story is as vague and meandering as usual, with not a single virtuous character in the whole cast. Gunplay could still be better and helicopters are a pain.'Keza MacDonald, games editor at IGN.com, said: 'Grand Theft Auto V is not only a preposterously enjoyable video game, but also an intelligent and sharp-tongued satire of contemporary America,' she added.'It represents a refinement of everything that GTA IV brought to the table five years ago. It's technically more accomplished in every conceivable way, but it's also tremendously ambitious in its own right.'No other world in video games comes close to this in size or scope, and there is sharp intelligence behind its sense of humour and gift for mayhem. It tells a compelling, unpredictable, and provocative story without ever letting it get in the way of your own self-directed adventures through San Andreas.' ### SUMMARY:

This is highest first day sales of any title sold by group Take-Two Interactive . Experts estimate it could generate £1 billion during its first year on sale . It is thought 46 per cent of buyers took Tuesday off as holiday to play game .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Hannah Roberts, Jill Reilly and Becky Evans . PUBLISHED: . 15:37 EST, 17 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:06 EST, 17 October 2013 . The family of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, pictured in 1996, say Italian authorities are refusing to say where his body is . The family of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, whose funeral was stopped because of angry protests, said today they do not know where his body is. Family lawyer Paolo Giachini said he and the former SS captain's family lost track of Priebke's casket on Tuesday night, when they tried to hold a funeral Mass for him in a church compound in Albano Laziale, south of Rome. At a certain point, he told Sky TG24, a group of about 30 people entered the compound and took the casket out following protests between Priebke's right-wing supporters and anti-fascist demonstrators. Italian state radio said the casket was taken to a nearby military base. But . Giachini said he had not been able to establish who has the body or . where it is, and Italian officials have refused to divulge information . about it. 'It's . unheard of that a casket can be made to disappear in this country, taken . from those who had custody of it in a private place - a place of . worship - and taking it by force without any order, any notification,' Giachini said. 'We want clarity.' Priebke . died on Friday, aged 100, where he was serving a life term for the 1944 . massacre of 335 civilians at the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome. It was one of the worst atrocities in German-occupied Italy during World War II. His death sparked waves of outrage in Italy's Jewish community as he never repented for his actions during the war. In a final statement issued by his lawyer upon his death, Priebke denied that Jews were gassed in Nazi death camps. Scroll down for video . The coffin of Priebke was taken to a military airport near Rome after the funeral was halted . Transferred: The van with Erich Priebke's coffin leaves from the town for the airport . In . a separate video statement released by Giachini on Thursday, Priebke . also defended his actions at the Ardeatine Caves, saying the orders to . shoot the civilians came from Adolf Hitler himself and that members of . his SS unit were told they would be shot if they did not obey. Giachini . said he had been in touch with the German embassy for possible burial . in Priebke's native land, once the body is located. The mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino, told state television RAI earlier this week: 'I . know that people are considering what decisions to take and I don't . rule out contacts between our government and the government of Germany.' Marino . said the body had been brought to the military airport at Pratica di . Mare from the town of Albano Laziale, where clashes between angry . residents and neo-Nazi visitors prevented the funeral going ahead. A fringe . right-wing group, the Catholic Society of St Pius (SSPX), had organised . the funeral despite local protests. Undecided: The Pratica di Mare military airport, near Rome, where the coffin of the German war criminal Erich Priebke has been taken . Anger: People protest as the car with the body of Erich Priebke arrives at the church of Lefebvriani . Violence: Locals and anti-fascist protesters show their disgust as the car with the body of Erich Priebke arrives at the church in Albano Laziale, Italy . Anger: Hundreds of people shouted 'murderer' and 'executioner' jeered the coffin of Priebke as it arrived for a funeral Mass in the Roman suburb . The arch-traditionalist SSPX is at . odds with mainstream Catholic teaching and has strained relations with . the Vatican. Rome daily Il . Messaggero quoted Priebke's lawyer Paolo Giachini as saying he had . ordered the suspension of the funeral after the neo-Nazis attempted to . join the service in defiance of an agreement that the ceremony would be . private. Demonstrators outside the . church landed kicks and punches on the hearse and set upon the priest . until he was rescued by riot police. Several . dozen skinheads and right-wing extremists dressed in camouflage clothes . and combat boots came to pay their last respects to a man who had . become an icon for the far right. Several . gave fascist salutes, prompting a crowd that included relatives of . victims,  anti-fascist protesters and Jewish survival groups to surge . forward chanting ‘Executioner’ and ‘Murderer!’ Protesters . and right wingers clashed, landing punches and throwing bottles, until . armed police in full riot gear stepped in, launching tear gas. The residents of Albano Laziale had turned out in force to oppose the funeral. Doctor . Ugo Piccarreta said: ‘It’s a national disgrace. The wounds that Priebke . has left in the hearts of the Italian population mean that he cannot be . compared to any other criminal. He doesn’t even deserve to transit . through this town. ‘I don’t understand how the church can pardon him – he never even repented. ‘ . Justice served: The former SS captain at his 1996 conviction . Local . resident Giuliana Uccino said: ‘We are afraid that our town will become . a symbol or even a place of pilgrimage for neo fascists.’ ‘This is not a fascist town. Priebke is not welcome here and not welcome in Italy.' Priebke was in . charge of SS troops in March 1944 who executed civilians in the . Ardeatine Caves in retaliation for the killings of 33 German soldiers by . a partisan group. Adolf . Hitler had ordered German occupation forces to respond by executing 10 . Italians for every German killed. The victims were rounded up from . jails, streets and homes. Priebke . was deported from Argentina to Italy after he was interviewed on U.S. television and admitted his role in the massacre, which he said had been . conducted against 'terrorists'. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in Italy in 1998. A row has raged for days over the officer's last burial place after because authorities fear the grave could become a site of pilgrimage for his neo-Nazi fanbase . Fascist followers: Italian King Victor Emanuel III, (right) Adolf Hitler (centre) and Benito Mussolini (left) A row has raged for days over the . officer's last burial place after because authorities fear the grave . could become a site of pilgrimage for his neo-Nazi fanbase. Both . his birth town of Hennigsdord, in Germany and his adopted homeland of . Argentina have made it clear that his remains are not welcome. The Jewish Community in Rome threatened renewed protests if Priebke is permitted a tomb in the Italian capital. ‘It would be like killing those victims a second time,’ said Riccardo Pacifici, the Jewish organisation's president. After the war Priebke had fled justice, making a home in San Carlos de Bariloche, a small town at the foot of the Andes. He . managed to escape the Nuremberg Trials and although the Israeli secret . services hunted him for years, he remained at large until 1994, until an . American journalist tracked him down. A . year later he was extradited to Italy and convicted of mass murder. But . because of his age he was allowed to serve his sentence under house . arrest with permission later granted for him to leave the house to go . shopping, go to Mass and to the pharmacy. In . the run up to his 100th birthday in July, Holocaust survivor groups . argued that he should be prevented from celebrating. Violence ensued . when protesters clashed with a neo-Nazi supporter who had travelled from . Germany to bring him a bottle of champagne. ### SUMMARY:

Priebke's family say they cannot establish where the Nazi's body is . Lawyer Paolo Giachini say officials refused to divulge information . about it . Funeral halted when protesters and Nazi supporters clashed outside . Priebke was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1944 . massacre of 335 civilians at the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Bel Mooney . PUBLISHED: . 18:01 EST, 20 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:46 EST, 21 March 2013 . This week we once again received the unequivocal message that the Government doesn't value stay-at-home mums. According to the Treasury, mothers who look after their children full-time do not need as much financial help as those who work. These insultingly warped priorities emerged as the Coalition declared its intention to give working mothers tax breaks worth thousands to cover the costs of paying someone else to look after their children. Families where only one parent works won't get a penny. The message is loud and clear: mothers who go back to the workplace are valued more than those who do not. Scroll down for video . The new Budget favours mothers who go to work over those who choose to care for their children full-time . Yet in the first three years of life, a baby's developing brain doubles in size. Every tickle, every warm chuckle, every waggle of a toy is a mini-explosion of brain-power, joy and love that impacts on what happens in later years. Make no mistake: mothers and fathers are (in the words of the experts) 'growing their babies' brains'. Children's minister Elizabeth Truss has denied this new childcare plan is trying to force women back to work. But in her recent pronouncements I have searched in vain for an awareness of the fundamental needs of tiny children. It's all about market forces, parents' needs and, well, getting more mothers back to work. What's more, Truss's recent policy document More Great Childcare (who came up with such a clunky title?) proposes to reduce staff-to-child ratios in nurseries and at childminders, which means that staff will have less time to engage with each child. Already those who care most about young children (the National Children's Bureau, for example) are in revolt. When will policymakers talk about mothering? Or acknowledge that the uniquely close relationship between a mother and her baby is vital? Getting mothers back to work has been an obsession of politicians (especially Labour) for decades. I consider myself a feminist and understand the urge (as well as the economic need) to work. But I believe we also need to ask a truly radical question: whether 'outsourcing' mothering is the best way to create a healthy society. George Osborne's new budget, left, penalises mothers who stay at home, right . Children under three have to be spoken for since they can't speak for themselves. This may seem obvious, but the message has just been drummed into my head at the 20th anniversary conference of a small charity called What About The Children? Its motto is 'Raising awareness about the never-changing emotional needs of under-threes in our ever-changing society'. We can accumulate technology and work ever harder to pay for it. We can shift our expectations of what constitutes happiness and success. But do babies and toddlers change? No. What they require from those closest to them is what they have needed for centuries: to be paid attention to and to feel secure. Parents may work all hours to give themselves and their children a good lifestyle, but what their babies need is consistent love. Already I can hear cries of protest. I'll be accused of not understanding that poorer mothers need to work and women with careers are usually desperate to return to the workplace after maternity leave - and what's wrong with that? It will also be pointed out that children from chaotic backgrounds are better off in nurseries. While that's true, it's also a key argument against Elizabeth Truss's plan to reduce staff-to-child ratios. Parents may work all hours to give themselves and their children a good lifestyle, but what their babies need is consistent love . I also know that stay-at-home dads can be just as good as mums, and that if grandparents take on childcare, then all the better. There are no rules for family life; people muddle along and the concept of being a 'good enough' parent is wonderfully liberating.  But that doesn't mean we shouldn't think about what babies need. The lectures I heard at the What About The Children? conference left me in no doubt that new mothers should think very carefully about their choices. Successive governments have brainwashed women that being a stay-at-home mum is somehow letting the side down. Let others debate the blunt economics of childcare - what really matters is how babies develop secure relationships and why that benefits us all. Twenty years ago, distinguished teacher and psychotherapist Doreen Goodman started What About The Children? in response to the horrific murder of Jamie Bulger. She expressed the view that the little boy's young killers were victims, too, because children who have their emotional needs met early in life are unlikely to become murderers. She argued strongly that children should be cared for primarily by a consistent mother figure for the first three years. To understand the relationship between mother and baby, scientists have looked at the behaviour of the mother and the ways in which the baby responds . The great psychologist and psychiatrist John Bowlby was saying the same thing in the Fifties. His vast experience and fieldwork led him to develop attachment theory: the idea that infants need to experience a warm and continuous relationship with their mother (or permanent mother substitute) in order to thrive. He was attacked by feminists and ostracised by psychoanalysts for saying what now seems obvious: that the formation of an ongoing relationship with a child is a vital part of parenting. His work is underpinned by a vast amount of research. To understand the relationship between mother and baby, scientists have looked at the behaviour of the mother and the ways in which the baby responds. Elizabeth Truss with one of her children . Their work highlights the potential dangers of over-reliance on nursery care for under-threes and shows a baby's brain grows new structures in response to the love and caring firmness given during its first two years of life. If you want to see a fascinating example of this in practice, go to YouTube and type 'Dr Edward Tronick + Still Face Experiment' into the search box. It shows what happens when an attentive mum ceases to respond to her baby. It is a powerful warning of what can happen if an adult in charge of a baby doesn't really bother. You can see and hear the child's stress level rise within seconds. I learned much about babies' separation anxiety and stress at the What About The Children? conference - and wish Elizabeth Truss had been there, too. She'd have heard Professor Sir Denis Pereira Grey (former president of the Royal College of Practitioners), early years expert Dr Carole Ulanowsky, consultant child psychotherapist Robin Balbernie and professor of social work and psychology David Howe talk about how growing problems in society, such as depression, can be due to poor child/carer relationships and stress in the first three years. John Carnochan, a senior Scottish policeman and world-famous expert on violence, linked the terrible things he's dealt with all his professional life to the inadequate care babies get. Questioning our attitudes as a society, he seemed to think too many parents treat their children as accessories. Is that true, I wonder? I cite those distinguished names to show this is a matter of importance and urgency. High levels of group care before the age of two have been associated with increased anti-social behaviour. A recent study found young children cared for by their mothers did significantly better in developmental tests than those in any other sort of care. Of course, I'm not blaming any woman who wants to go back to work, but one of the most gloomy experiences I've ever had was visiting an expensive day nursery in the City of London. Rows of cots contained babies whose high-flying mothers were at work, often from 7am to 7pm. It wasn't quite as terrible as the two crowded orphanages I went to in Romania in 1990. But, let's be honest, in both places the babies were 'parked'. They were taken care of without being cared for. Why is the Government so desperate to make this the norm? The staff had no instinct (even if they had the time) to blow loving raspberries on tums. Or to help the babies of strangers to make sense of their own, individual precious place in the world. Sorry, David Cameron, but even you must be able to see that's far from a good thing. ### SUMMARY:

Coalition has chosen to give working mothers tax breaks . Children's minister Elizabeth Truss denies trying to force mothers to work .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Helen Collis . PUBLISHED: . 11:27 EST, 6 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 15:02 EST, 6 September 2013 . Attempting to reach an agreement on the key issue at the G20 summit - military intervention in Syria - looked futile this afternoon as leaders wrapped up with closing speeches. Russian president Vladimir Putin said strikes against Syria would be 'counter productive' and disrupt the world economy. While David Cameron warned the international community that it cannot 'contract out' its morality by allowing Russia to block intervention in crises such as that engulfing Syria. Happy families: The world's leaders pose for a 'family photo' at the G20 summit in St Petersburg where opinion remains deeply divided over intervention in Syria . Opinion is deeply divided among the G20 nations, which met at St Petersburg, Russia, on the critical issue of Syria and what role the international community should play. President Putin, a belligerent ally of Syrian tyrant Bashar Assad, has been revelling in British MPs' rejection last week of UK participation in US-led military action. He said in a press conference after his final speech that more countries at the summit opposed military intervention in Syria than supported it. He said only the US, France, Saudi Arabia, Canada and Turkey backed the use of force against the Assad regime. US President Barack Obama (R) talks with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff (C) as Mexicos President Enrique Pena Nieto looks on before the 'family photo' is taken . World leaders at the G20 summit on Friday failed to bridge their bitter divisions over US plans for military action against the Syrian regime . While David Cameron has flown the flag for military intervention, Putin reminded reporters that the British parliament had rejected the idea. Of Germany, he said the Chancellor was 'cautious' and 'is not going to participate any military action'. Putin claimed the public opinion in those countries backing strikes was against such a move. Of those opposing military action he said: 'Who was condemning and opposing that way of action? Russia, India, China, Indonesia, Argentinian, Brazil, South Africa, Italy. And also the secretary general of the UN voiced his protest against military intervention. And let's not forget the address by the Pope, who directly voiced the inadmissibility of military intervention.' Russian president Vladimir Putin said strikes against Syria would be 'counter productive' and disrupt the world economy. 'We stuck to our guns,' Putin said according to a live translation. Host: Russia's President Vladimir Putin has hinted that he would be prepared to help Syria should Obama push U.S. military intervention . Stance: Russia's President Vladimir Putin (2L) has said military intervention would be 'counter productive' and 'disrupt the world economy' David Cameron, meanwhile, continued to advocate for military intervention and criticised the decision-making process of the UN Security Council. The Prime Minister insisted military action had to be possible without an endorsement from the UNSC. He said:'If we are saying there can only be a response if the UN security council votes positively, we are in fact contracting out our foreign policy, our morality to the potential of a Russian veto. 'That is a very misguided approach. That was what was frustrating in some ways about the debate last night. Some of the participants were saying this has to be decided by the UN security council, knowing that they sat on the security council and could veto any decision.' All smiles: While the leaders laughed in unison for the G20 'family photo' they were unable to reach consensus on the critical matter of Syria . Mr Cameron said he believed there was a case for taking action to prevent a humanitarian emergency. He added: 'We should have learned from some of the genocides in our world that there is an imperative for a line to be drawn.' Taking to the stage this afternoon, US president Barack Obama, told reporters he was 'listening to all ideas' on Syrian foreign policy, but said: 'So far we have not seen any ideas emerge that as a practical matter that would be capable of of doing the job.' The president refused to be drawn on whether the US would strike Syria without approval from Congress - a position UK is now in. Obama dodged the question, saying: 'You're not going to get a direct response.' Earlier in the day President Obama held a surprise meeting with the Russian President. Putin said the discussion focused on Syria during the 20 to 30 minutes and that while the two leaders disagreed he said the meeting was 'substantial and constructive'. The meeting came Friday as Obama sought to build international backing for military action. But three days after he left Washington, it's unclear whether the global coalition the president has been seeking is any closer to becoming a reality. Putting up stiff resistance to Obama's appeals, Russia on Friday warned the United States and its allies against striking any chemical weapon storage facilities in Syria. The Russian foreign ministry said such targeting could release toxic chemicals and give militants or terrorist access to chemical weapons. 'This is a step toward proliferation of chemical weapons not only across the Syrian territory but beyond its borders,' the Russian statement said. Moreover, China remained a firm no. The . European Union is skeptical about whether any military action can be . effective. Even Pope Francis weighed in, urging leaders gathered here to . abandon what he called a 'futile mission'. Angela Merkel looks distracted as the G20 leaders wave fr the camera . World leaders look no closer to agreeing on international military intervention to stop the conflict in Syria . Still, Obama was undeterred. He and French President Francois Hollande, the US's strongest ally on Syria and a vocal advocate for a military intervention, met on the sidelines of the summit about attracting European support for action. 'It's clear that there are many countries that agree with us that international norms must be upheld,' Obama said. Holland told reporters invited into their meeting that they came to summit 'wanting as large a coalition as possible,' but without saying whether they picked up more support for military intervention. 'To do nothing would mean impunity,' Hollande said. 'We must take our responsibility' and act. As the president pressed his case on the world stage, he was dispatching his UN ambassador, Samantha Power, to a Washington think tank to argue that the global community cannot afford the precedent of letting chemical weapons use go unpunished. Illustrating the risks associated with a strike, however, the State Department on Friday ordered nonessential US diplomats to leave Lebanon, a step under consideration since Obama said he was contemplating military action against the Syrian regime last week. The travel warning said it had instructed nonessential staffers to leave Beirut and urged private American citizens to depart Lebanon. In Syria, conflict raged today as people were pictured fleeing flames and caused by a bomb hit Binnish town, Idlib province, Syria . Devastation: A video, obtained from the Shaam News Network, showed the devastation and destruction in the immediate aftermath of the bomb . The video, authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, showed smoke rising from further bombardments and clashes between Free Syrian army fighters and government forces in Binnish, Idlib province . Yet even as Obama sought the global buy-in that could legitimise a potential strike, his aides were careful to temper expectations that the world community could speak with one voice. Obama's deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, said the president wasn't asking his peers to pledge their own militaries to a US-led strike, but simply to say they agree a military response is warranted. 'We don't expect every country here to agree with that position,' Rhodes said Friday at the Group of 20 economic summit, where Obama was huddling with foreign leaders. Standing on Russian soil, Rhodes suggested the US had given up hope that Russia - a stalwart Syria ally - could be coerced into changing its position. 'We don't expect to have Russian cooperation,' he said. ### SUMMARY:

Putin says Syria military intervention would be 'counter-productive' Russian president says majority of G20 leaders oppose forceful action . Cameron advocates military action; Putin reminds he's not backed by parliament . President Barack Obama says he's not heard any other credible strategies . Francois Hollande is US's strongest ally, met Obama on summit sidelines . Cameron says military action should not need UNSC endorsement . Obama would not be drawn on whether action would be taken without Congressional approval .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Daily Mail Reporter . He celebrated the birth of his son late last year with his wife, 51-years his junior, and now former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards has decided to run for election to US Congress at the age of 86. Edwards, a Democrat and four-term Louisiana governor, who served an eight-year prison term on racketeering charges, launched his candidacy for a seat currently held by Republican Bill Cassidy, who is running for the U.S. Senate. 'I've given a great deal of thought to this ... and I acknowledge that there are good reasons why I should not run ... but there are better reasons why I should,' Edwards told reporters at the press club in Baton Rouge, part of the district he is seeking to represent. 'I haven't had this much attention since the trial,' he quipped. Happy family: Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, 86, his wife Trina Scott, 35, and their baby Eli attend a luncheon where Edwards announced his run for congress in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on March 17, 2014 . Edwards was accompanied by his wife Trina, who is more than half-a-century his junior and their baby, Eli Wallace , who was being looked after by Edwards' two adult daughters from his first marriage. Running again: Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, 86, walks with his wife Trina Scott Edwards, 35, and his son Eli Edwards before announcing his run for U.S. Congress this morning in Baton Rouge, Lousiana . Edwards served two terms as governor in the 1970s and was re-elected in 1983. He then managed a comeback for a fourth term in 1991. It was during that term that he came under federal scrutiny in connection with the state's licensing of riverboat casinos and was convicted by a jury on charges of racketeering. Despite the convictions, the colorful politician still has strong support in the state. Edwards, his wife and his daughters - both of whom are older than Trina - were the stars of a short-lived reality television show called 'The Governor's Wife'. A felony conviction arising from the licensing of riverboat casinos in his fourth term led to eight years in prison. His announcement Monday came during a Press Club luncheon at a Baton Rouge casino. Edwards was the dominant figure in Louisiana politics for much of the late 20th century despite a series of scandals that resulted in numerous investigations and four federal trials, one of which resulted in conviction. He retired from politics in 1996, before it became clear that he was again under investigation in the case that would result in his imprisonment. Before and after his prison term, he defended himself as a victim of an unfair federal judge in Baton Rouge, perjured testimony by former friends who had sought casino licenses and an overzealous federal government. Fit as a fiddle: Edwin Edwards, 86, spent eight years in prison following a felony conviction arising from the licensing of riverboat casinos in his fourth term as Governor . Formidable team: Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, 86, walks with his wife Trina Scott Edwards (2R) and his son Eli Edwards this morning - Edwards' family are the stars of their own A&E show . Father: Edwin Edwards, his wife Trina Scott and their baby Eli  attend the luncheon where he ended months of speculation and announced his run for the US Congress . Federal prosecutors have denied all of those accusations. Indeed, the political firebrand had his own reality show air on A&E which featured the quirky relationship between former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards and his 35-year-old wife Trina Scott. The show's run ended after eight episodes. The 51-year age gap is not the strangest part in the Edward’s unusual love story. The pair actually met while Edwards was serving time on racketeering charges. The show featured the drama of the blended family and showcased how Edwards is picking up the pieces from the political shenanigans that landed him in prison. Known for his charisma in politics, Edwards was sentenced to prison on racketeering charges in 2001. He was in jail from 2002 to January 2011 for his role in a bribery and extortion scheme to rig riverboat casino licenses during his fourth term in the early 1990s. Parents: Trina Edwards, his third wife, gave birth to their child, Eli Wallace Edwards, last August . After prison: Edwards regained the public eye soon after leaving jail in 2011, marrying a woman five decades his junior and starring with her in a short-lived reality TV series . Husband and wife: Edwin Edwards, (left), poses with wife Trina Scott Edwards, (right), for photo, before speaking at the Baton Rouge Press Club, Monday, March 17, 2014, in Baton Rouge . Trina, who was in school at the time, picked up a copy of Leo Honeycutt’s biography of the former governor and became fascinated with her future husband’s story. She began writing to Edwin who then arranged for her to visit him in prison. Edwards explained how they met in an interview with Fox411. 'I was in the last year of my prison term…and after she read the book, she became interested in my career and asked to visit me. And I arranged for her to visit me and after that we got to know each other well and she came to visit me every visiting day thereafter. 'And that’s an unusual story for a man my age and a beautiful young woman her age,' Edwards continued. 'But thank goodness it happened. They sent me to prison for life, look what I came back, a good-looking wife.' Father and son: Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, 86, walks with Eli Edwards before announcing his run for U.S. Congress . Both Trina and Edwin admit their story is 'unique,' but insist their relationship works for them. 'My husband is an amazing husband,' Trina Edwards said. 'He’s a wonderful father. Our marriage is better than most people’s marriage when they’re the same age.' 'I don’t know how it happened or why it happened but I absolutely fell in love with him,' Trina said. 'And besides that, he doesn’t have as much money as most people think. So I’d be a pretty poor gold digger if that’s what I was in for.' The show was billed as featuring the interesting dynamic between Edwards' other children. Short lived: Prison pen pals turned lovers, Edwin and Trina Edwards starred in a short-lived A&E reality show show The Governors Wife . Happy . couple: The Governor's Wife will follow the lives of ex-Louisiana . Governor Edwin Edwards, 86, and his wife Trina Scott Edwards, 35 . Characters: The reality show featured Mr. Edwards. His daughters (center) Anna and Victoria are prominent along with Trina's two teenage boys (right) He has four children by his first wife Elaine. Two of his daughters Anna and Victoria (who are now in their 60s), will appear on the show. Anna is a 63-year-old, four-time divorcee, and Victoria is described as 'a hardened 60-year-old ex-showgirl.' Scott also has two teenage boys, Trevor and Logan, from a previous marriage who will also be included in the reality program. 'People are going to be surprised at how normal in most respects our lives are,' the former Governor said before the show launched. 'And given, in spite of the fact that there’s this great difference in our age, the fact that I have 4 children over 55-years-old and now a 3-month-old baby and she’s got two teenage boys. A situation that the average person, not knowing or having been with us would raise his or her eyebrows and say that’s never going to work but believe me it has worked and I’m very proud of it.' ### SUMMARY:

Former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards says he will run for US Congress at the age of 86 . Made the announcement this morning in Baton Rouge, accompanied by his wife, Trina, 35 and son Eli Wallace . Was jailed for eight years in 2002 and is barred from holding gubernatorial office for 15-years . However he is not barred from seeking election to Congress . Featured in a short-lived reality series called 'The Governor's Wife' Starred alongside Trina his two daughters, Anna and Victoria who are in their 60s from his first marriage . Also starred his two teenage boys Trevor and Logan from his second marriage .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Emma Innes . A five-year-old with a rare condition has never had a birthday party or been on holiday - because the excitement could kill her. Neve Dandy suffers from such a severe form of epilepsy that even a gust of wind or a fit of giggles could trigger a life-threatening seizure. Her parents say they are living with a ‘ticking time bomb’ because they never know when too much excitement or over exertion could induce a fit. Neve Dandy (pictured with her mother, Rebecca), five, has a rare and severe form of epilepsy which means something as simple as a giggling fit could trigger a life-threatening seizure . Neve rarely attends play dates and can never go swimming with her brother because the risk of over-excitement and infection is too high. Neve’s condition, called Dravet syndrome, has seen her have seizures lasting up to one-and-a-half-hours and up to 200 electric shock type fits a day. She is also at high risk of SUDEP (sudden unexplained death in epilepsy) and sleeps with a monitor that warns her parents when her heart rate or oxygen levels change. Her mother, Rebecca, said: ‘Neve is probably the happiest little girl you will ever come across. She is always smiling and giggling. ‘But it can feel like you are looking after a ticking time bomb as caring for a child with Dravet is very stressful. ‘You never know when the next life-threatening seizure will come, or if a little one will turn into a big one. I feel incredibly grateful every morning when she wakes up and says hello. Neve's condition is controlled by a special diet which sees her having to be given syringes full of oil and water . Bright light and wind can also trigger Neve's seizures so she has to wear sunglasses when she goes out and she has to stay inside when it is windy . ‘We really do have to put a limit on excitement. And even a common virus could lead to a increase in her temperature, which can cause a seizure. ‘It’s quite sad really, always having to tell your child, “don’t laugh too much” or “don’t giggle too much” and telling our son not to make her laugh. It’s really tough.’ Mrs Dandy, and her husband Graham, 40, first noticed something was wrong with Neve when she was just four months old. Dravet Syndrome is a rare and catastrophic form of epilepsy that begins in infancy. Children with Dravets tend to have normal development as babies but development starts to plateau when they are in their second year of life. Individuals with Dravet syndrome face a higher incidence of sudden unexplained death in epilepsy patients (SUDEP). They often also experience other conditions including developmental delays, sleeping difficulties, chronic infections and difficulty feeding. There is currently no cure and treatment options are limited - they mainly involve using anti-epilepsy drugs to treat the seizures. Little is known about the long term prognosis of people with Dravet Syndrome. As they attended a christening she began to shake in her father’s arms, and when it finally stopped after 25 minutes, she was rushed to hospital. Neve spent a week in hospital where doctors tested her for a number of different conditions, including meningitis. But the baffled medics were unable to come up with any explanations, and Neve suffered dozens of other fits before they finally gave her the diagnosis when she was 18 months old. Dravet syndrome is a rare form epilepsy, with figures suggesting that of every 500 children diagnosed with epilepsy, only two are likely to have the condition. As it affects many different parts of the brain, there are a number of different triggers for seizures, as opposed to other epilepsies that might only affect one site. Sufferers can therefore not undergo brain surgery. A slight change in body temperature due to illness can cause seizures as can overexcitement and overexertion. Neve also has photosensitive epilepsy so anything that can give a strobe effect, such as screens, light through leaves or through a net, can cause a seizure. Sufferers never grow out of Dravet syndrome and most will need care their entire lives. Many also may be on the autism spectrum and be developmentally delayed - often having mobility issues, behavioural problems and difficulty sleeping. Mrs Dandy, from Windsor, Berkshire, said: ‘Dravet syndrome affects every aspect of Neve’s life, but still she smiles. ‘She is very environmentally sensitive, the wind causes seizures so if it is a windy day she can’t go outside. She has to wear sunglasses whenever she is outside too. Neve had her first seizure when she was four months old but was not diagnosed until she was 18 months old . Neve is unlikely ever to grow out of her epilepsy and her parents say she is like a 'ticking time bomb' ‘She can’t control her body temperature, so I can’t put her in tights for example. She doesn’t tend to go outside over the winter at all. In the summer the heat is even more of a risk. ‘We went through a stage where time on the trampoline would cause seizures or the sunlight through leaves.’ Mr and Mrs Dandy have to be particularly careful when she is around other children or doing fun activities. ‘We are always very careful about germs as even common childhood illnesses can lead to severe seizures. We don’t take her to public swimming baths or soft play centres for this reason,’ said Mrs Dandy. ‘When we do take her swimming somewhere private she goes in for 10 minutes and then it’s out again because she loves it so much that she gets overexcited.’ But the schoolgirl - who was taught at home for two years to avoid infection from other children - is finally getting a taste of normal life, thanks to a special diet. Mrs Dandy said: 'You never know when the next life-threatening seizure will come, or if a little one will turn into a big one. I feel incredibly grateful every morning when she wakes up and says hello' The eating plan has helped keep her seizures under control. Neve was in and out of hospital and had four stays in intensive care over 18 months until she started on the ketogenic diet. The diet alters the body’s chemistry by convincing it that it is starving and is formulated to sustain the state of ketosis within the body. Forcing the body into a state of ketosis causes a build-up of ketones which in turn act as a kind of sedative, preventing the sudden disturbances in the electrical functioning of the brain that lead to seizure activity. Full time carer Mrs Dandy added: ‘It has been absolutely brilliant. Neve only had to be rushed to hospital once in the last two years, whereas we went more than 60 times in the first three years. ‘She still has seizures every day but they are small and she copes with them. We haven’t had any bigger ones since February and prior to that we hadn’t had one for nearly two years. Mrs Dandy says that despite Neve's special diet she still has seizures every day . ‘Day to day the diet means I weigh every gram of every bit of food that goes into Neve’s mouth. ‘About 75 per cent of what she eats is fat in the form of healthy oils, and we make the rest up with protein, fruits and vegetables - but we even have to give her syringes full of oil. ‘As a result of the diet we’ve managed to wean her off some of her anti-epilepsy drugs, it’s been amazing to get to know our little girl without all the medications and the side effects that they cause.’ ‘Caring for a child with Dravet syndrome can be a very lonely and isolating experience because you have to spend so much time at home keeping your child safe,’ she continues, ‘we have a wonderfully supportive charity, Dravet Syndrome UK and I really don’t know what I would have done without all the practical and emotional support from other parents who are going through the same experience.’ ### SUMMARY:

Neve Dandy has a rare and severe form of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome . Something as simple as a giggling fit can trigger a life-threatening seizure . An increase in her body temperature can also cause a seizure . As a result, she has to be protected from childhood illnesses . This means she cannot go swimming or to play centres .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Associated Press . and Helen Pow . The United States is flying 'manned' intelligence missions over Nigeria in an effort to locate from the sky more than 200 abducted schoolgirls, a senior U.S. official said Monday. Washington . has also shared 'commercial satellite imagery' with the Nigerian . authorities in the hunt for the missing teenagers, the senior . administration official said, asking to remain anonymous. Officials have given their permission for the U.S. missions to take place. The . news comes after a chilling new video was . released by the extremist group Boko Harem, who have apparently forced . the Christian teens to convert to Islam. Scroll down for video . Misisons: U.S. 'manned' missions are flying over Nigeria in an effort to spot the girls, pictured in video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, released Monday . Where are they: The kidnapped schoolgirls are seen at an unknown location in this still image taken from the undated video . Under the guns of their captors, dozens of barefoot girls sat huddled together wearing gray Muslim veils as they chanted Quranic verses in Arabic. 'I swear to almighty Allah, you will not see them again until you release our brothers that you have captured,' the leader of the terrorist network threatened, an assault rifle slung across his chest. The video released by the group Monday offered the first public glimpse of what it claimed were some of the nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped a month ago. The girls' plight has spurred a global movement to secure their freedom. It is not known how many suspected Boko Haram members are detained by security forces. Hundreds were killed last month when leader Abubakar Shekau's fighters stormed the military's main northeastern barracks in Maiduguri, the terror group's birthplace and the headquarters of a year-old military state of emergency to put down the 5-year-old Islamic uprising. In the video, two of the girls were singled out for questioning. 'Why have you become a Muslim?' one girl, who looked to be in her early teens, was asked. Leader: The group's leader Abubakar Shekau, pictured int he latest video, speaks to the camera . Words of terror: 'I swear to almighty Allah, you will not see them again until you release our brothers that you have captured,' the leader of the terrorist network threatened, an assault rifle slung across his chest . 'The reason why I became a Muslim is . because the path we are on is not the right path,' the girl said, . nervously shifting her body from side to side, her eyes darting back and . forth. 'We should enter the right path so that Allah will be happy with us,' added the girl, who said her name had been changed to Halima because she had converted from Christianity to Islam. Like the other girls, she wore a bulky gray hijab that covered her body from head to toe, revealing only her face. A second girl, who appeared to be in her mid-teens, was asked if she or any of the others had been mistreated. No, she said, adding that they had experienced nothing 'except righteousness.' As the girls chanted Islamic verses, some clasped their hands together in what appeared to be the Christian style of prayer before quickly turning their palms upward, as Muslim worshippers do. The girls' families have said most of those seized April 15 from a school in the northeastern town of Chibok are Christians. It was impossible to fully authenticate the video, though parents were trying to turn on a generator in Chibok, hoping to watch the video and identify their daughters, said a town leader, Pogu Bitrus. 'There's an atmosphere of hope - hope that these girls are alive, whether they have been forced to convert to Islam or not,' he told The Associated Press by telephone. 'We want to be able to say, "These are our girls."' Governments working together: Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, Nigeria's top military spokesman, left, Director General, National Orientation Agency, Mike Omeri, center, Frank Mba National police spokesman, right, attend a press conference on the abducted school girls in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday. The government has allowed the U.S. to fly missions over the country . Social media: The Western world is attempting to fight the terrorists with a hashtag . The video showed about 100 girls, indicating they may have been broken up into smaller groups as some reports have indicated. Fifty-three girls managed to escape and 276 remain missing, police say. Bitrus said vegetation in the video . looked like the Sambisa Forest, some 20 miles from Chibok, where the . girls were believed to have been spirited away. In . Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney said U.S. intelligence . experts were 'combing over every detail' of the latest recording. He . said administration officials have seen the video and 'have no reason to . question its authenticity.' A Nigerian government statement said it was reviewing the video and would 'continue to explore all options for the release and safe return of our girls back to their homes.' In a video last week, Shekau threatened to sell the girls into slavery. It arrived amid unverified reports that Christians among the students had been forced to convert to Islam and that some were taken to neighboring Cameroon and Chad, where they were forced to marry their abductors. Boko Haram means 'Western education is sinful.' The latest video, obtained by The Associated Press, came through channels that have provided previous messages from Shekau, who spoke in the video in the Hausa language of northern Nigeria. Rally: Christian groups carry placards as they take part in a demonstration to press for the release of missing Chibok school girls in Lagos on Monday . Protest: Lagos was calling for action . Wearing camouflage fatigues, he clutched . an assault rifle in the footage, which was imprinted with the Boko . Haram insignia - a Quran resting on two crossed assault rifles - and . below a black jihadi flag. The United States put a $7 million ransom on Shekau last year. The . mass abductions and failure of Nigeria's government and military to . rescue the girls has aroused outrage at home and abroad. Last week, . Nigeria belatedly accepted offers of help from the United States, . Britain and other nations. President . Goodluck Jonathan's acceptance Sunday of help from Israel, which plans . to send a counter-terrorism team, has angered some Muslims. A leading Islamic scholar, Ahmed Mahmud-Gumi, warned in a statement that accepting help from Israel would 'turn Nigeria into another global arena and battlefield for the filthy neocolonial squabbles by interest groups.' On Saturday he said allowing Western soldiers onto Nigerian soil could make the country a new magnet for foreign Islamic militants who want to confront the United States and others. The foreign help does not involve boots on the ground but rather experts in intelligence gathering, counter-terrorism and hostage negotiations. A map showing the Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria over the past month . The U.S. team consists of some 30 people drawn from the State and Defense departments, the White House said Monday. Among them are five State Department officials, two strategic communications experts, a civil security expert and a regional medical support officer. Four FBI officials with expertise in safe recovery, negotiations and preventing future kidnappings are also part of the group. The Pentagon said 16 Defense Department personnel were on the team, including planners and advisers who were already in Nigeria and have been redirected to assist the government. French President Francois Hollande invited Jonathan and leaders from neighboring Benin, Chad, Cameroon and Niger, as well as representatives of Britain, the EU and the United States, to a summit on Saturday to focus on Boko Haram, terrorism and insecurity in West Africa. A French official said Jonathan had agreed to attend. He spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the gathering have not been finalized. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Said Djinnit, his special representative for West Africa, is in Abuja for meetings with the president and other officials on how the United Nations and its member states can help. ### SUMMARY:

Washington has also shared 'commercial satellite imagery' with Nigeria in the hunt for the missing teenagers, a senior official said . The news of the missions comes after a chilling new video was released by the extremist group Boko Harem Monday . The girls are seen in the video wearing tradition Muslim dress after they were apparently forced to convert from Christianity to Islam .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Bianca London . David Cameron may have lost over 100 seats to Ukip in the local elections but Samantha didn't let her husband's news dampen her evening plans. The Prime Minister's wife headed out to ultra-fashionable celebrity hotspot The Chiltern Firehouse for dinner and drinks last night. Looking stylish, as always, the 43-year-old showed off her tanned legs in a black dress, which she accessorised with a leopard-print belt, black court shoes and black clutch bag. Where's your husband? Samantha Cameron enjoys an evening at the trendy Chiltern Firehouse while her husband's conservative party took a battering in last night's local elections . Other famous faces at the Marylebone restaurant this week included socialites Zara Martin and Tamara Beckwith, as well as actress Kate Hudson and her boyfriend, Muse singer Matt Bellamy. The Firehouse has become a second home for the A-listers. Tom . Parker-Bowles aptly described the venue as 'hotter than the surface of . the Sun where even God would have to wait for a table'. Last week saw the hotspot welcome David Beckham, the One Direction boys, Lindsay Lohan, . Nigella Lawson, Cara Delevingne, Rita Ora and Kirsten Dunst (and just about every other celebrity you can think of). Happier than her husband! Samantha was looking cheerful as she left the trendy restaurant in a stylish black dress . On-trend: The Firehouse has become a second home for the A-listers and it seems that Samantha got dressed up for the occasion . Radiant: Looking stylish, as always, the 43-year-old showed off her tanned legs in a black dress . Chiltern . Firehouse is part of a group owned by renowned hotelier André Balazs, the man behind . celebrity favourites including The Mercer in Soho, . New York, Chateau Marmont in Hollywood and Sunset Beach in Shelter . Island. Housed within what was one of the first purpose-built fire stations in . London, in . London's Marylebone, the building was designed in a Tudor, . Neo-Gothic style by Robert Pearsall. The Grade . II listed Victorian . building was built in 1889, and is regarded as one of the . finest surviving examples of the Gothic architectural style used during . the pre-war period. Hot new haunt: Chiltern Firehouse is part of the group owned by renowned hotelier André Balazs' collection of bespoke luxury hotels . She won't let it dampen her fun! The Tories, Labour and Lib Dems all saw their grip on local authorities eroded as dozens of seats fell to Ukip in local elections in England-  but Samantha appeared in good spirits . It . closed in 2005 and André Balazs discovered the building around five . years ago with friend and London property developer Harry Handelsman. He revamped it with the help of Paris-based Studio KO and it now comes complete with high ceilings, sleek tiles and a bustling open kitchen. The . kitchen . is headed up by Michelin-starred chef Nuno Mendes, formerley . of Viajante in Bethnal Green. Dale . Osborne also rustles . up his culinary magic there, alongside chefs from The Wolseley, . Corinthia Hotel, and The Ritz. Look who else stopped by! Kate Hudson and Matt Bellamy were also at the Chiltern Firehouse this week . Famous faces: Sociailtes Tamara Beckwith, left, and Zara Martin, right, were also at the hot new hang-out . The menu offers starters such as sea trout crudo, yellow mole, coriander (£11) and steak . tartare, pine nuts, chipotle and Firehouse hot sauce (£12), while main . courses include blackened salmon, sea kale, crispy skin and trout roe . (£24) and pan-roasted chicken, charred leek heart, mustard tops (£26). Earlier in the day Samantha arrived at a London . polling station to show her support for the Prime Minister. Despite . early opinion polls suggesting the Conservatives would fall into third . place, the Camerons looked calm and casual, and held hands as they were . photographed by press. Samantha dressed in a rose-gold metallic . box cut top from Topshop, navy tailored trousers and matching suede . shoes from L.K Bennett. Stylish: Earlier in the day Samantha arrived at a London polling station to show her support for the prime minister in a chic outfit . Supportive: Samantha dressed in a rose gold metallic box cut top from Topshop, navy tailored trousers and matching suede shoes from L.K Bennett . A surge in . support for Ukip has cost all the mainstream parties seats and control . of councils, as Nigel Farage's People's Army marches into town halls . across the country. The . Tories, Labour and Lib Dems all saw their grip on local authorities . eroded as dozens of seats fell to Ukip in local elections in England. With . half of council results declared, Ukip had smashed through more than . 100 gains, with the Tories losing 132 and Labour gaining 151. Labour has . gained control of five councils, with Conservatives losing nine and the . Lib Dems two. Ukip gains cost the Tories control of Basildon, Castle . Point and Southend and David Cameron saw his party ousted from . Hammersmith and Fulham, a flagship authority in the capital. The Tories . were also defeated by Labour in Croydon. They like it too! Gary Linker and his wife Danielle dined at the Firehouse on May 20 . Endless celebrities: Michelle Mone, left, and Elton John and David Furnish stopped by on May 19 . It's got Becks appeal! The Chiltern Firehouse, . which is touted as the hottest celebrity eatery, hosted David Beckham . and his friends last week, oh - and domestic goddess Nigella Lawson . took a night off cooking to dine there, too . Hot young things: Rita Ora, right, and Cara . Delevingne love the venue. Rita is no stranger to the Firehouse and . has practically set up camp there. The singer has popped by almost every . day since its opening . Who knew they were friends? Breaking Bad star . Aaron Paul and Ellie Goulding were seen arriving together at the . Chiltern Firehouse . The comfy, modern interior of the Chiltern . Firehouse. Diners sit in close quarters and are able to watch the . bustling open kitchen at work...if they can take their eyes off the . revolving celeb doors that is . MAY 10: The new Primrose Hill set - designer . Henry Holland and Miquita Oliver, left, joined Nick Grimshaw, centre, . and Daisy Lowe, right, for a night out together at the hip haunt . Starters . The steak tartare . Sea trout crudo, yellow mole, corrainder, £11 . Steak tartare, pine nuts, chipotle and Firehouse hot sauce, £12 . Barley and Oat Risotto, £11 . Mains . Blackened salmon, sea kale, crispy skin and trout roe, £24 . Pan roasted chicken, charred leek heart, mustard tops, £26 . Wood grilled ribeye, chimichurri, onion rings and spinach, £36 . MAY 10: Endless celebrities, including visits . from the likes of Lady Victoria Hervey, left, and Topshop heiress Chloe . Green, right . MAY 9: Family outing for Formula1 billionaire Bernie . Ecclestone's daughter Tamara and her husband Jay Rutland, left, joined . sister Petra, right, at the Chiltern Firehouse . AGAIN?! Rita Ora paid another visit to her new . favourite eatery before her gig at GAY last week, while Tony and Cherie . Blair stopped by the Chiltern Firehouse, too . ### SUMMARY:

Prime Minister's wife, 43, dined at celebrity haunt last night . Ukip gains cost David Cameron's Tory party control of Basildon, Castle Point and Southend . Samantha looked stylish in a black dress with leopard-print belt . David Beckham, Rita Ora and Tony Blair all dined there before .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Ted Thornhill . Content: Sue Bramley insists she's happy at her home, despite it being the scene of a murder . A mother . whose back garden once contained the bodies of a murdered couple has . spoken of her profound shock at the discovery of their remains, saying . that she 'went to pieces'. Sue . Bramley and her 15-year-old daughter live at a property in Mansfield . where Susan and Christopher Edwards shot and killed William and Patricia . Wycherley – Susan’s parents – in 1998 and buried the bodies under the . lawn. They remained a macabre secret until 2013, with Ms Bramley a resident since 2006. Ms Bramley described how she was horrified when Nottinghamshire detectives phoned her at work in October last year and told her about their grim discovery - of remains buried three feet beneath her lawn. She said: ‘It was terrible. I went to pieces. I came home and all these people arrived in white suits. I've lost track of what happened, I was so emotional.’ But although the unearthing of the remains proved a huge shock to Ms Bramley, she insists she’ll be perfectly happy to stay at the house. She told the BBC: ‘A lot of people have said, “How can you possibly still live there?”’ ‘But I love our home. We have got a great garden and we have had a lot of happy times here. ‘I have lived here all this time and the Wycherleys have not done me any harm. They are not going to do my any harm now. I am going to stay.’ Ms Bramley said she ‘never really thought anything’ of the area in her garden where grass would not grow, where it would later emerge the Wycherleys had been buried. ‘We used to have birthday parties in the garden, which my young nieces and nephews used to come to and they used to dig in that area. My nephew would bury his cars and my niece would have to dig to find them and I just think, “how close, how close”.’ Ms Bramley spoke out as the Edwards, who successfully hid their crime for 16 years, were sentenced to life in prison for the murders and unlawful burials of William, 85 and 63-year-old Patricia. For years, Susan, 56, and Christopher, 57, kept claiming the Wycherleys' benefits, stealing £245,000 from them, and conning friends and relatives that they were still alive. The Edwards, who were found guilty of murder last week, have to serve a minimum of 25 years behind bars, a judge at Nottingham Crown Court ruled. Sentencing the pair, Mrs Justice Kathryn Thirlwall said the Edwards had created ‘an elaborate charade’ which ran for 15 years to deceive family and neighbours as to what had happened to the Wycherleys. Scroll down for video . Grisly: Sue Bramley and her daughter live at a property in Mansfield where Susan and Christopher Edwards shot and killed William and Patricia Wycherley – Susan’s parents – in 1998 . Shocking: Ms Bramley said that she went to pieces when the bodies of William and Patricia Wycherley were dug up at the house she rents in 2013 . She said the facts of the case were ‘so serious and your culpability so high’ that she had no choice but impose minimum terms of 25 years each, for each of the two murders, to run concurrently. The court heard that the debt-ridden couple shot their victims at their home in Mansfield on the May bank holiday, with the couple then buried in a metre-deep hole in their own back garden. For the next 15 years, the couple kept up the elaborate hoax that Mr Wycherley, 85, and his 63-year-old wife were alive. The debt-ridden pair made it appear as though the ‘reclusive’ Wycherleys were still alive and had simply moved away, faking their signatures on official documents, and sending Christmas cards and letters apparently from them to family members. As a result, they were able to rake in almost £250,000 in pensions, credit, and the sale of the Wycherley’s home - much of which celebrity-obsessed Susan, who also felt her parents had ‘swindled’ her out of a £10,000 inheritance in the 1970s, spent on correspondence signed by her favourite stars. The 56-year-old was fixated with powerful older men - including Hollywood actors Gerard Depardieu and Gary Cooper, legendary football manager Bill Shankly, entertainer Frank Sinatra, and political giants Winston Churchill and General Charles De Gaulle. Behind bars: Susan and Christopher Edwards have been sentenced to life in prison . Evidence: Police believe this Second World War Commando Colt .38 calibre revolver was used in the murders in Nottinghamshire in 1998 . Their elaborate plot did not begin to unravel until 2012 when the Centenarian Department of the Department of Work and Pensions wrote to Mr Wycherley, who would have been approaching his 100th birthday, and asked for a face-to-face meeting. The Edwards panicked and fled their council home in Dagenham, East London, to Lille in northern France, renting a flat which they paid for in cash. Christopher Edwards, who could speak fluent French, attempted to find work but was unsuccessful. Revelations: The judge accepted accusations from Mrs Edwards that her father, William Wycherley (pictured) had abused her . By October last year, they were fast running out of cash. In desperation, Christopher, 57, called his stepmother, Elizabeth Edwards, back in the UK to ask for money – then told her the stunning revelation that the Wycherleys were buried in their garden. He also gave her the version of events that Elizabeth Edwards should stick to during their police interviews and trial - but she called the police as soon as the conversation finished. Stunned detectives then made the grim discovery of the Wycherley’s remains and contacted Christopher Edwards using phone numbers and an email address he had given his stepmother. He eventually replied and arranged to return to the UK, and the couple were arrested at St Pancras International railway station a month after the Wycherleys were unearthed. The only possessions the Edwards, who had just one Euro left to their name, brought back was a suitcase full of celebrity memorabilia. Included were five items of correspondence signed by the 1950s film star Gary Cooper, which Susan had splashed out more than £14,000 on during 2009 and 2011. It was a sign of Susan’s obsession with celebrities, a fascination which the court heard even extended to writing hundreds letters to herself posing as the French actor Gerard Depardieu. The fake 14-year correspondence, between 1992 and 2006, even deceived her own husband, with Susan acquiring a machine to make it seem as though the letters had a French postmark. Despite stealing hundreds of thousands of pounds owed to the Wycherleys, including selling their home complete with its macabre secret for £66,000 in 2005, the Edwards remain deep in debt, owing around £160,000 to creditors. Sentencing the couple on Monday, Mrs Justice Thirlwall described the killings as ‘shocking crimes’. She told the ‘self-contained couple’ that so far as they were concerned ‘only the two of you mattered’. The judge told Susan Edwards, who sat staring intently from the dock wearing a patterned grey cardigan and glasses, that she was ‘an accomplished liar and a fantasist’. Mrs Justice Thirlwall accepted ‘on balance’ that she had told the truth about being sexually abused by Mr Wycherley as a child and that had formed the basis of the hatred she felt for her father. ‘That background may explain why you hated him, which you did, and why you have no remorse about killing him,’ she said. The judge said she did not believe Mrs Wycherley had ever known of that abuse, as had been claimed in court as being the motive for killing her. ### SUMMARY:

Sue Bramley lives at a house that was the scene of a double murder . Susan and Christopher Edwards shot her parents at the Mansfield property . Their horrific crime remained a secret from 1998 until 2013 . The bodies of the couple were buried in a shallow grave in the garden . Ms Bramley says she's staying because she loves her home, despite its past .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: TACKLE KEOWN SPECIAL: What it was like to be Invincible . When Arsenal were Invincible - a recollection of an unbeatable team . It's 10 years since Arsenal's spectacular unbeaten 49 matches in the Premier League came to a close and when Graham Poll, who was at the top of his game for over 25 years, took charge of high profile fixtures across the globe. Having seen many of the world's finest players in action, former referee Graham Poll was lucky enough to officiate during the era when Arsene Wenger guided the Arsenal 'Invincibles'. Here's his take on members of that record breaking run... Graham Poll referees a fiesty clash between Arsenal and Manchester United during the 'Invincibles' era . Having refereed six of 'The Invincibles' 49-match unbeaten run, including the last one they won, I got to know how close the team worked and it was that incredible team spirit and total belief in one another that enabled their fine run. Poll, having a word with keeper Jens Lehmann, knew the opposition would play on the German's temperament . JENS LEHMANN . Whenever you refereed Arsenal against Bolton you knew it would be a battle. Sam Allardyce played on the big German's fragile temperament and put Kevin Nolan on him, literally, at set pieces. In December 2003 I was aware of the ill feeling between the two sides when Nolan kept chipping away at me telling me that I shouldn't give Arsenal anything as he knew they didn't like me. Fortunately I ignored his advice when pulling him up for treading on Lehmann's toes at a corner. Penalising that kept Lehmann in the right mood. Defender Sol Campbell, celebrating a goal for the Gunners, made Poll doubt his own decision during a match . SOL CAMPBELL . Campbell was a very level headed footballer who said very little to me or any referees. I must have really tested this when giving a penalty against him for a foul on Alan Shearer late into a game Arsenal were already losing 2-1. Campbell just looked at me astonished and shook his head. That had more effect on me than him screaming in my face. I knew I'd got the decision wrong. Left back Ashley Cole was an integral part of Arsenal's rock solid defence but was never short of a word . ASHLEY COLE . Cole was perhaps the opposite of Campbell; never slow to tell you how you'd made a mistake or how bad you were. His comments were usually laced with abuse but issued in such a way that left you wondering if he meant to offend or was just not very bright. Dutchman Dennis Bergkamp, celebrating for the Gunners, was a pain to referee says Poll . DENNIS BERGKAMP . An absolute genius on the ball but the Dutchman could be a real pain for referees. A couple of seasons earlier I remember calling then skipper Tony Adams to me and asking him to help me shut Bergkamp up. 'Just book him, we think he's a pain as well,' Adams advised me with a smile. Robert Pires, who scored four times in Poll's six 'Invincibles' games, asked the referee to call him Bobby . ROBERT PIRES . A French gentleman who was polite, calm and friendly to deal with, telling me to 'Call me Bobby'. Pires scored four times in those six games, the goal at the Reebok was an absolute cracker. It was the French connection, with Arsene Wenger's influence, which led to an embarrassing incident for me. In Cesc Fabregas' first season he was down injured and I approached him to ask, 'Ca va?' Fabregas replied, 'I'm fine and SPANISH!' Poll says Gilberto Silva was a gifted player but was left frustrated when he missed a penalty at Old Trafford . GILBERTO SILVA . Another gifted player who was never in the face of referees but disappointed me in one game when he failed to convert a penalty at Old Trafford. Referees are accused of not giving penalties to away teams at Manchester United so when we do you could at least score. Highly influential winger Freddie Ljungberg knew exactly how to wind up the opposition, according to Poll . FREDDIE LJUNGBERG . Another gifted wide player who had the ability to get under the skin of opponents by winding them up. I remember sending Mikael Silvestre off when playing for Manchester United at Highbury after being tormented by Ljungberg time and again, he resorted to butting the Swede. Alex Ferguson was livid and as Silvestre approached him leaving the field demanded to know what he was supposed to have done. 'Sorry boss, he p***** me off so I nutted him' came the honest appraisal. Ljungberg's job was done. Arsenal legend Thierry Henry (right) was the best centre forward to play in the Premier League says Poll . THIERRY HENRY . The best centre forward ever to play in the Premier League, perhaps down to his speed of thought as much as his pace over the turf. I remember allowing the Frenchman to take a quick free-kick against Chelsea which went straight into the unguarded corner of the net – he saw the opportunity and asked permission which I gave him. Two years later I made him wait for the wall to go back at Wigan and after I blew my whistle he just lifted the all up and over the wall and bent it into the top left corner for a wonderful goal. Nothing seemed beyond him except recognising referees! After one defeat at Highbury, Henry went absolutely ballistic trying to get to me to blame me for the defeat. 'You cost us in the Cup final and now tonight it's enough!' Unfortunately I never refereed Arsenal in a Cup final so clearly players are guilty of mistaken identity as well as referees. Former Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira was part of the tunnel clash with Roy Keane, which Poll oversaw . PATRICK VIEIRA . The hard man of the team but a real Jekyll and Hyde character; tough as nails on the pitch, considered and polite off it. There was of course the infamous tunnel clash with Roy Keane which I oversaw which stands out but by then we had established a mutually respectful relationship. Building that was difficult as Vieira's combative tackling was always going to cause issues with referees and I sent him off twice, both for second yellow cards. Some players adjusted their style when on a yellow but not Vieira. He knew one way and that was uncompromising and hard. Two off field incidents spring to mind; the day after the tunnel incident I bumped into Vieira in the British Airways lounge at Heathrow. We chatted for a few minutes about the previous evening's game and Vieira said he felt they lost the game by winding-up United and Keane in particular. I then refereed Vieira in a Champions League game in Turin when he was at Juventus and he took the time and trouble to pop into my dressing room after the game to thank us and tell us how much he missed English refereeing – interesting given his style of play. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, still at the helm in north London, won his third Premier League title in 2004 . ARSENE WENGER . Tactically superb but temperamental. Wenger often used the tactic of planting a seed of doubt in a referee's mind at half-time when throwing a comment at you in the tunnel about what you were failing to see. Hard as you would try you found yourself looking for that early in the second-half so the tactic worked. My most stark memory was after a League Cup semi-final defeat in which I cautioned lots and dismissed Vieira, Wenger made it clear how disappointed he was with my officiating. I offered to visit him at the training ground and go through the DVD with him and the team to help them see why I had done what I had. He declined saying that he didn't want his team to change their approach by considering a referee's decisions. His conviction was absolute and his belief unwavering then as it is now – hence why he has seen so many red cards for his players. ### SUMMARY:

It's the 10-year anniversary of Arsenal's final win in their unbeaten run . The Gunners went 49 league games undefeated between 2003 and 2004 . The 49 matches included Arsenal's 2003-04 'Invincibles' campaign . Former referee Graham Poll took charge of six of the 49 matches .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Dressed in drab red jumpers, two children climb to the top of a rubbish heap a dozen times taller than them. The shocking scene is typical of Buenos Aires' Matanza-Riachuelo river basin, one of the ten most polluted places in the world. A list of ten filthy sites, from Russia to Indonesia to Ghana, has been amassed by the global environmental group The Blacksmith Institute - which says 200 million people are endangered daily in the top ten places alone. 1: Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin, Buenos Aires. It is just 37 miles long but its banks are packed with 15,000 industries spewing chemicals like zinc, lead, copper, nickel and chromium into the filthy water . Filthy: Some parts of the river basin look normal, but 60% of its homes are deemed unfit for human habitation. Residents suffer diarrhoea, breathing difficulties and cancer as there are few sources of safe drinking water . Some governments are working to make life better but in others, the damage has already been done. On the list is the former Soviet nuclear plant Chernobyl, which suffered a massive meltdown in 1986 in what is widely known as the worst nuclear disaster in history. Others, though, few people have heard of. Deep in the wastes of Siberia is the industrial city of Norislk. Founded by Stalin in 1935 to provide forced labour for the gulags, it was for decades the largest heavy metals mine in the world. It has leaked millions of tons of copper oxide, nickel oxide and sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, causing lung diseases and cancers of the digestive tract. The report - which says six of the sites are new to the list since it was last compiled in 2006 - said symptoms of people suffering from pollution include organ damage, diahrroea, eye damage, vomiting, lung diseases, cancers and premature birth. 2: Norilsk, Siberia. Once the largest heavy metals smelting complex in the world, Stalin built it and forced gulag prisoners to work there. Life expectancy for factory workers is 10 years below the Russian average . Smog: High levels of copper and nickel have been found in the soil 'nearly everywhere' within 40 miles of Norilsk, Russia, where 130,000 people live. Children get sick one and a half times more often than those nearby . Ominous: Norilsk, Russia, pictured in 1993. Two million tons of sulphur dioxide pour into the air every year . The lack of good medical care in poorer countries means they are particularly vulnerable - explaining, in part, why many of the worst places are in what was traditionally called the Third World. The report said: 'The shortage of adequate resources in many low-and middle-income countries increases the severity of health impacts from toxic pollution while simultaneously marginalizing those who need help the most. 'An objective of the work of Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland and one goal of this report is to enhance understanding and funding for this crucial area of public health.' 3: Citarum River Basin, Indonesia. Some nine million people live along its banks and it provides 80% of Jakarta's drinking water - but scientists have found lead at more than 1,000 times the recommended level . Horrifying: But the report said the Indonesian government is trying to solve the river's huge health risks . The most densely-populated area, Indonesia's Citarum River Basin, is home to some nine million people but also countless factories and industrial sites. Despite providing 80% of Jakarta's drinking water it has lead at more than 1,000 times the recommended level and manganese at four times the recommended level. Meanwhile Hazaribagh in Bangladesh has a more unexpected source of pollution - it is teeming with almost 300 tanneries to make leather. Toxic world: Eight of the ten most polluted places named in a report by the Blacksmith Institute . 4: Kabwe, Zambia's second-biggest city, once held one of the world's largest lead mines. Children have up to ten times the recommended level of lead in their blood. The government did not tackle the problem for 90 years . The process of making leather uses dangerous amounts of the chemical hexavalent chromium, which was made famous as a water pollutant in the Hollywood film Erin Brockovich. The chemical causes cancer and is almost universally banned throughout Europe, but it is among the 22,000 cubic litres of toxic waste dumped into Hazaribagh's water supply every day. Tannery workers' homes are built next to contaminated streams, ponds and canals and they suffer horrifying symptoms including skin rashes, acid burns, dizziness and nausea. 5: Hazaribagh, Bangladesh, is home to 270 tanneries for making leather - which together dump 22,000 cubic litres of toxic waste every day including the cancer-causing chemical hexavalent chromium . Dangerous: Hexavalent chromium was made famous by the film Erin Brockovich, which documented the story of an American junior lawyer and single mother who campaigned to expose water pollution . In Kalimantan, Indonesia, a long history of gold mining is to blame. The process uses large quantities of the toxic chemical mercury - causing decades of health problems for its residents. The Western world has a big part to play in the levels of pollution in these countries, the report said. Dr Jack Caravanos, assistant director of research at the Blacksmith Institute, told the Earth Island Journal: '[In the United States,] your whole body is covered with products whose fundamental chemical ingredients have likely come from other countries. The contamination stayed in those countries.' 6: Kalimantan, Indonesia, is a world centre of gold mining - which uses the dangerous chemical mercury and releases 1,000 tons of it a year. Pictured: A coal mine in East Kalimantan province . People in Kalimantan eat fish containing up to double the recommended levels of mercury . 7: Pripyat, Ukraine, played host to the massive meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in 1986. It is deserted, a ghost town which has become an eerie haunt only for investigators and photographers of its crumbling homes . Toxic: The Chernobyl nuclear reactor 26 years after the meltdown which killed thousands. It is now cased in concrete, but there are still dangerous levels of radioactive particles in the soil for miles around . The report said several governments, especially in Indonesia, are doing their best to tackle the problems. Others have been taken off the 'worst ten' list since 2006, including sites in Peru, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, India and Azerbaijan. But the report admits there will inevitably be pollution scandals waiting to be uncovered. It said: 'These listings, as explicitly acknowledged in the reports, were based on limited information and data. 'This was only to be expected, since pollution by its nature shuns the spotlight.' To find out more visit worstpolluted.org. 8: The Niger River Delta, Nigeria, is home to some of the world's biggest petrochemical plants and saw almost 7,000 spills from 1976 to 2001 where the oil was never recovered. A quarter of children are starving . Toxic: The Niger delta is also home to crime - pictured is a boat which was burned by authorities after being loaded with stolen oil. An average of 240,000 barrels of crude oil are spilt every year in the area . 9: Dzershinsk, Russia, a Soviet industrial city where 300,000 tons of chemical waste were put into unsafe forms of landfill - many of them seeping into groundwater. Three of the worst ten are in former Soviet states . Entry prohibited! A sign warns people away from the Sibur-Neftekhim sludge reservoir near Dzershinsk . 10: The Agbogbloshie Dumpsite in Accra, Ghana, is where many western computers end up without the resources to process them properly. Styrofoam packaging and rubber-sheathed cables are all burned . ### SUMMARY:

Horrifying list compiled by environmental body The Blacksmith Institute . Sites include mines, factories, landfills and the Chernobyl nuclear plant . The top ten alone put more than 200 million people in danger every day .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The NFL says its investigation into whether the New England Patriots used under-inflated footballs in the AFC championship game is ongoing after a report Tuesday night claimed the league found 11 balls were not properly inflated. Troy Vincent, the NFL's executive vice president for football operations, told The Associated Press that the 'investigation is currently underway and we're still awaiting findings.' Vincent was responding to an ESPN report that cited anonymous league sources saying 11 of the Patriots' 12 allotted game footballs were under-inflated by 2 pounds. Scroll down for videos . Big moment: Indianapolis Colts linebacker D'Qwell Jackson's interception against the New England Patriots (pictured) reportedly caused the Colts to first look into what is being called 'Deflategate' Official probe: A referee checks a ball during the AFC Championship game on Sunday night . Patriots spokesman Stacey James told ESPN: 'We have been in complete cooperation with the league and will continue to do so.' Vincent said earlier Tuesday he expected the probe to be concluded by the end of the week. The last thing the NFL wants after a difficult season off the field is a potential cheating scandal that disrupts Super Bowl week. New England faces the Seattle Seahawks on February 1 in Glendale, Arizona. In 2007, a New England Patriots assistant was caught filming New York Jets coaches as they gave signals on defensive plays. The revelation resulted in a massive NFL investigation that found the Patriots guilty of cheating. The scandal was dubbed 'Spygate.' Head coach Bill Belichick admitted to taping opposing coaches' signals dating back to 2000 - his entire tenure with the Patriots. He claimed that he believed the practice was allowed within the rules of the NFL, as long as the tape was reviewed after the game. The NFL levied a $500,000 fine against Belichick, the heftiest in the league's history. The team was also fined $250,000 and stripped of their first-round pick in the 2008 draft. The Patriots, who beat Indianapolis 45-7 for the AFC title, said they were cooperating with the league, and a Seahawks spokesman said the team would defer to the league on the matter . The NFL began looking into the issue not only because doctoring the footballs could provide a competitive advantage, but because it would compromise the integrity of the game. Deflating a football can change the way it's gripped by a player or the way it travels through the air. Under NFL rules, each team provides balls each game for use when its offense is on the field. The balls are inspected before the game by the officiating crew, then handled during the game by personnel provided by the home team. The Colts reached out to the NFL after a team staff member had concerns regarding a football intercepted by Colts player D'Qqwell Jackson, according to Newsday. The Patriots have been brushing off and even finding humor in questions about whether they used under-inflated footballs in the game that put them in the Super Bowl. Referee Walt Anderson was spotted replacing a ball at the start of the third quarter, returning it to the sidelines, although it was not confirmed whether this was linked to the inflation issue. The investigation has been referred to as 'Deflategate' online and by numerous news outlets. Jackson's interception took place in the second quarter and the Colts first noticed something unusual afterward, Newsday reported. The news outlet referred to an individual familiar with background. A Colts equipment staff member was handed the ball by Jackson and noticed that it seemed under-inflated, Newsday reported. Colts coach Chuck Pagano was informed by the staff member, according to the report. Ryan Grigson, the Colts general manager, was alerted before he reached out to NFL director of football operations Mike Kensil, who in turn spoke to on-field officials during the AFC championship game's halftime, according to the Newsday report. Social media responses were quick late Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning. '11 of 12 balls under-inflated can anyone spell cheating!!! (hash)Just Saying' was the tweet from Hall of Fame receiver Jerry Rice. Caught: Referee Walt Anderson reaches down for a ball at the start of the third quarter . Benched: He replaces it with another ball before returning the initial ball to the sidelines . Win: New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady are seen embracing after winning on Sunday against the Colts. The Patriots are now going into the Super Bowl against the Seattle Seahawks . 'So we get to play the game again or nah? ??' tweeted Colts cornerback Darius Butler. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said on ESPN radio in Milwaukee that he didn't like how referees who inspected balls before games take air out of the game balls. 'I have a major problem with the way it goes down, to be honest with you,' Rodgers said. 'The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.' Rodgers said referees have a set range in which they 'like to set game balls,' and that he always liked the higher end of the range because of his grip. 'I just have a hard time throwing a flat football,' Rodgers said. He thought a slight majority of quarterbacks like footballs on the flatter side. 'My belief is that there should be a minimum air-pressure requirement but not a maximum,' Rodgers said. 'There's no advantage, in my opinion. We're not kicking the football. There's no advantage in having a pumped-up football.' Patriots quarterback Tom Brady told WEEI, 'I think I’ve heard it all at this point. That’s the least of my worries. I don’t even respond to stuff like this.' Inquiry: Belichick has said he wasn't aware there was an issue until Monday morning and promised to 'cooperate fully with whatever the league wants us to, whatever questions they ask' Explanation? New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowksi tweeted this photo of himself spiking the ball with the words: 'WARNING GRONKING MAY CAUSE DEFLATION' Flat: Balls for the Superbowl next month wait to be laced and pumped up at the Wilson Sporting Goods Co. in Ada, Ohio . And tight end Rob Gronkowski tweeted a photo of himself spiking the ball with the words: 'WARNING GRONKING MAY CAUSE DEFLATION.' Belichick on Tuesday deferred questions about the investigation, saying reporters should ask league officials. NFL officials declined comment except to say the investigation was still pending. Belichick earlier said he wasn't aware there was an issue until Monday morning and promised to 'cooperate fully with whatever the league wants us to, whatever questions they ask.' Belichick, of course, was fined $500,000 in 2007 for having an assistant spy on the New York Jets' defensive signals. The NFL's investigation was first reported by WTHR. Special teams captain Matthew Slater said the Patriots 'try to do things the right way. We work hard at our jobs, our professions, to be successful and it's unfortunate that things like this come up, but that's life, that's the world we live in.' Colts coach Chuck Pagano said he did not notice issues with the football and didn't specify when asked whether the Colts had reported the issue to officials. 'We talk just like they talk to officials (before the game),' he said. 'We have an opportunity to talk to the officials about a lot of things.' Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman said the balls didn't feel different than usual. And defensive tackle Vince Wilfork seemed amused by the matter and didn't shed any light on it. 'I don't know anything about that,' he said. "I don't touch footballs. I tackle people.' ### SUMMARY:

The NFL has said it is reviewing whether the New England Patriots manipulated footballs during their 45-7 home win over the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC championship game Sunday night . Colts linebacker D'Qwell Jackson's interception reportedly caused the Colts to look into what is being called 'Deflategate' A Colts equipment staff member was handed the ball by Jackson and noticed it seemed under-inflated, according to one report . Both Colts coach Chuck Pagano and general manager Ryan Grigson were reportedly notified . Grigson reached out to NFL director of football operations Mike Kensil who spoke to on-field officials, according to the the report .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Delegates for a private conference of top politicians and businesspeople from around the world have started to arrive at a luxury country hotel. Several cars with blacked-out windows entered the gates of the Grove Hotel, near Watford, in Hertfordshire, this morning for the secretive meeting of the Bilderberg Group. It is thought billionaire executives from multinational companies such as Amazon and Google, high-ranking political figures including Chancellor George Osborne, and even members of royal families are among the 130 or so attendees. Famous for being shrouded in secrecy, the Bilderberg conference is taking place in Britain for the first time since 1998 and conspiracy theorists believe this is where leaders plot world domination. The huge police operation drafted in to . monitor the four-day event, which has previously attracted mass . demonstrations, could cost the British taxpayer as much as £2million or . more, it has been claimed. Scroll down for videos and a full Bilderberg Conference guest list . On guard: Police patrol the grounds of The Grove hotel which is hosting the annual Bilderberg conference . Demonstration: Protesters stand behind a security barrier in the grounds of the Grove Hotel. Conspiracy theorists believe the conference is where business leaders plot world domination . Cloaked: Famous for being shrouded in secrecy, the Bilderberg conference is taking place in Britain for the first time since 1998 and conspiracy theorists believe this is where leaders plot world domination . Incognito: Several cars with blacked-out windows entered the gates of the Grove Hotel, near Watford, in Hertfordshire, this morning for the secretive meeting of the Bilderberg Group . Watford town mayor Dorothy Thornhill . said: 'I think it's outrageous that the local taxpayer has to pick up . the tab for ostensibly a private meeting of trillionaires, probably the . most wealthy people in the world. 'Hertfordshire Constabulary have . suddenly got this unexpected budget strain dumped on them at literally a . month's notice. It's not on.' Hertfordshire Police has not revealed details of the bill, but they are in talks with the Home . Office about a grant for 'unexpected or exceptional costs'. This is only approved if expenditure . threatens a force's budget, which would need to be more than one per . cent of its overall spend - or about £1.8million, according to the Daily . Telegraph. Hertfordshire Police said the . Bilderberg Group has agreed to contribute some of the cost of security, . but taxpayers will have to cover the rest. A spokesman added: 'We will also be seeking funding from other sources to help cover the costs of policing and are in discussion with the Home Office about other funding sources.' Ring of steel: Police officers man a road block as delegates arrived for the four-day meeting . Alert: Police on horseback patrol the area around the hotel as delegates arrive for the conference . Ring of steel: Three police officers man a gate on the outskirts of the hotel . 'Outrageous': The huge police operation drafted in to monitor the four-day event, which has previously attracted mass demonstrations, could cost the British taxpayer as much as £2million or more, it has been claimed . Amid tight security, members of the . press and a handful of protesters gathered in a fenced-off area just . inside the grounds of the hotel today, but around half a mile from the . redbrick hotel. As delegates arrived for the four-day meeting from around 10.30am, protesters heckled their cars, shouting 'scum', 'pay your taxes' and 'shame on you' as they disappeared down the driveway. The demonstrators, who gathered in the sunshine to wave anti-capitalist placards, play guitars and listen to speeches, were searched for alcohol and drugs as they entered the site. Michael Meacher, the Labour MP, called the delegates the 'real top brass of Western finance capitalism'. He . said he believed Osborne would be attending for the sixth time this . year, and named the meeting's 'steering committee' as Henri de Castries, . the chairman of Axa, Peter Thiel, 'a billionaire venture capitalist', . Thomas Enders from EADS, the defence manufacturing company, and Peter . Sutherland, the chairman of Goldman Sachs. Protest: A poster adorns the security barrier of the protester encampment outside The Grove hotel, which is hosting the annual Bilderberg conference . Making their views known: American radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones (left), speaks to the media, while protester Steve Jolly (right), from the organisation No CCTV wears a cardboard replica of a security camera on his head in the protester encampment outside The Grove hotel . Campaigners: Amid tight security, members of the press and a handful of protesters gathered in a fenced-off area just inside the grounds of the hotel, but around half a mile from the redbrick hotel . Speaking in the pen near the hotel . gates, he said: 'They are the leaders of the biggest banks, the biggest . multinational companies, people from the UN institutions like the World . Bank, World Trade Organisation, several EU commissioners and several . politicians from the US, Canada, the UK and the EU. 'These are people who are all in the most dominant positions in the governance of Western capitalism. 'They . only meet in order to concert their plans about the future of . capitalism over the immediate future period - the next year or two. 'My objection is that it's being done in utter secrecy with the police keeping everyone else out.' 'Real top brass': It is thought billionaire executives from multinational companies, high-ranking political figures and even members of royal families are among the 130 or so attendees . Keeping watch: The traditionally secretive conference, which has taken place since 1954, is expected to be attended by politicians, bank bosses, businessman and European royalty . Tight security: Police officers stand guard on the roads surrounding The Grove hotel near Watford, which is hosting the annual Bilderberg conference of top politicians and businesspeople from around the world . The politician said although he has . no problem with powerful people meeting in private, the numbers at the . Bilderberg meeting means they should be held accountable. 'When . 130 of the leaders from all across the West get together, and many of . these are billionaires, they are people who are immensely wealthy and . immensely powerful,' he said. 'And . when they all get together, it's not just to have a chat about the . latest problem, it is to concert plans for the future of capitalism in . the West. On the guest list: Among those attending the conference will be Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls (left) and Conservative MP Kenneth Clarke (right) Delegates: Christine Lagarde (left), managing director of the International Monetary Fund, and former Labour MP Peter Mandelson (right), who is now chairman of Global Counsel, will also be taking part in the event . Also attending is Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt . 'That is on a very different scale.' Chancellor . George Osborne and his Labour counterpart Ed Balls will be there along . with Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt of Google. They are among the 140 people, . including only 14 women - who will this week discuss topics such as . ‘cyber warfare’ and ‘jobs, entitlement and debt’. Delegates never reveal exactly what is discussed, but it will involve the key issues these leaders believe the world faces. Alex Jones, the U.S. television personality and Bilderberg researcher, said: 'It is very, very sinister. 'Not everybody who goes to Bilderberg, from my research, is a scoundrel or a villain. 'But there are definitely villains who are there who are basically trying to organise government and business.' Judd Charlton, a ventriloquist from Camden in north London, said: 'We are basically here to bring down the parasites who are drug dealers and bank collapses who seem to want to destroy this world.' ### SUMMARY:

Attendees thought to include politicians, top business executives and royalty . Delegates were heckled by protesters as they arrived for four-day meeting . MP Michael Meacher describes delegates as the 'real top brass of Western finance capitalism' Massive police operation could cost British taxpayer around £2million . Conspiracy theorists claim leaders use event to plot world domination . Bilderberg researcher: 'There are villains there who are basically trying to organise government' Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Eric Schmidt of Google will both be attending . List of 140 politicians, academics and businessmen only includes 14 women .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Plumbers doing maintenance work accidentally started the fire which ripped through a 400-unit luxury New Jersey apartment complex and left more than 1,000 people homeless, officials have claimed. The blaze at The Avalon at Edgewater, a complex overlooking the Hudson River and across from New York City, was under control but still smoldering Thursday, more than a day after it began on the first floor. At a news conference with Governor Chris Christie, Edgewater Police Chief William Skidmore said plumbers inadvertently started the fire inside a wall. He called the cause of the fire 'totally accidental.' 'A plumbing repair ignited a fire in the wall which then spread through the building,' he said. 'It was accidental, there was nothing suspicious about it, and we have complete verification and there's no doubt about it. It was just a tragic accident.' Authorities said everyone in the four-story building—where a two-bedroom with views of Manhattan would set you back around $3,000 per month—was able to flee to safety. The fire gutted 240 of the 408 units. Scroll down for video . Blaze: Part of the New York City skyline peers through smoke rising at an apartment complex the morning after flames engulfed the building in Edgewater, New Jersey . Homeless: Over 1,000 residents are now effectively homeless following the blaze, which broke out in the city with sweeping Manhattan views around 4;30opm Wednesday . Gutted: Firefighters continued to douse the smoldering ashes as the sun rose early Thursday morning. The fire gutted 240 of the 408 units . Desperate: Everyone escaped to safety from the 400-unit building but now many residents must scramble to find new homes . State of emergency: Edgewater Mayor Michael McPartland declared a local state of emergency. He said schools would be closed on Thursday and access to roads would be restricted until further notice. Fire Chief Thomas Jacobson described how the building's sprinklers were working, but the lightweight, wooden structure fuelled the flames and made fighting the fire difficult . Two civilians and two firefighters sustained minor injuries. Christie called the job done by first responders 'extraordinary' and called the lack of fatalities 'an enormous blessing.' Before speaking, Christie met with town officials, including the mayor and fire and police chiefs in the auditorium of the Edgewater Community Center, where the Red Cross and others had set up tables where displaced residents could get help finding apartments, medicine and other services. 'We'll be here to help,' Christie told one woman as he took a tour shortly after. 'I'm sorry for your loss.' A GoFundMe page has not been set up for the residents who have been displaced by the fire. Mayor Michael McPartland said he watched as firefighters pulled three people out of the burning structure, then saw others go back in and rescue a woman 'while the facade was coming down virtually on top of them.' Fire Chief Thomas Jacobson described how the building's sprinklers were working, but the lightweight, wooden structure fueled the flames and made fighting the fire difficult. 'It's very difficult because once it's in the walls and floors, we're chasing it,' Jacobson said. Engulfed in flames: A fire broke out at an Edgewater, New Jersey, apartment complex Wednesday night, sending flames sky high and creating smoke visible across the Hudson River in Manhattan . Battling the blaze: Firefighters stand on a ladder while hosing water onto the Avalon at Edgewater apartment complex Wednesday night . The building complied with construction and fire codes, the fire chief said, but he added: 'If it was made out of cinder block and concrete, we wouldn't have this problem.' Hampered by winds and frigid temperatures, firefighters battled the huge fire Wednesday night at the Avalon apartment complex, home to New York Yankees announcer John Sterling and a thousand others. The enormous fire sent flames sky high and left smoke still visible from Manhattan in the early hours of Thursday. Residents in parts of New York City could not only see the thick smoke coming from across the Hudson, but they could smell it, as well. Residents were ordered to evacuate and many were sheltered at a nearby school. As the fire continued to rage, hundreds who lived at the complex wondered what would be left of their homes. By morning, the true extent of the disaster was revealed as smoke billowed from the once gleaming complex's ashes. 'I was wondering what I was going to do for clothes,' Sterling said in an interview with the New York Daily News. 'But then I started thinking about all the stuff, all the memories, whether it be music, books, and a lot of other stuff. 'You know I was planning on moving to a new apartment complex and felt I was going to throw a lot of that stuff out. Now I hope I haven't lost it.' The Yankees personality is staying at a hotel, the Daily News reported. Hopeless: Authorities have not yet determined the cause of the fire that broke out around 4:30pm. The building is home to New York Yankees announcer John Sterling . Smoke signals: Above, smoke billows from the multi-alarm fire burning in Edgewater as seen from the New York City side of the Hudson River . 'I don't know what to expect. Now, I have nowhere to go. And I need a toothbrush,' Sterling told the paper. Plumes of thick, black smoke issued from the blaze and residents in Manhattan and the rest of New Jersey were still overcome with the smell of the fire on Thursday morning. Edgewater Mayor Michael McPartland declared a local state of emergency, according to NJ.com. He said schools would be closed on Thursday and access to roads would be restricted until further notice. 160 people are being sheltered at a local community center but he said he was just relieved there had been no loss of life. 'To have no loss of life and so many people displaced, we actually feel fortunate and thankful,' he said. 'Everyone got out…You can always rebuild.' Hours after the fire started, the entire building was engulfed in flames, The Bergen Record reported. Hamza Abdul told the newspaper he was at work when a colleague called to tell him about the fire so he rushed home. Out of control: Smoke is seeing blowing west against a backdrop of the Hudson River and George Washington Bridge, which connects New Jersey to Upper Manhattan . Destruction: No injuries have been reported in the blaze that broke out across the river from New York City . Scene: Firefighters work at the multi-alarm fire at an Edgewater apartment building, as the light is illuminated by the flames . Resident: New York Yankees announcer John Sterling, pictured, is one of the residents who live at The Avalon of Edgewater . 'I can't believe it,' he said. 'It's all ashes now.' He told the newspaper he planned to stay at a friend's house. Authorities cordoned off some streets around the burning building, but no major traffic problems were reported. More than 14 years ago, a fire started at the same location where a five-story condominium complex was under construction and destroyed nine homes and damaged several others. The August 30 2000, fire forced the evacuation of dozens of nearby residents, including patients at a nearby nursing home. The cause was never determined, although investigators ruled out arson. In a civil lawsuit, a jury found that negligence by the developer of the Avalon River Mews contributed to the 2000 blaze. AvalonBay Communities, a Virginia-based developer, was managing the construction of the $75 million complex at the site of the former Alcoa factory. Amazed: Authorities cordoned off some streets around the burning building, but no major traffic problems were reported. Not a first: More than 14 years ago, a fire started at the same location where a five-story condominium complex was under construction and destroyed nine homes and damaged several others. The cause was never determined, although investigators ruled out arson. ### SUMMARY:

Blaze at The Avalon at Edgewater Complex overlooking the Hudson River began on Wednesday . Police Chief William Skidmore said workers doing plumbing work inadvertently started the fire inside a wall . During a news conference with Governer Chris Christie, he insisted that the cause of the fire was 'totally accidental' Authorities said everyone in the four-story building was able to get out safely. The fire gutted 240 of the 408 units .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: More than 9,000 flights in and out of East Coast airports have been canceled or delayed as a major snowstorm packing up to three feet of snow barrels down on the region. Practically nothing is set to take off or land in New York, Boston and Philadelphia until at least Tuesday evening with the disruption expected to spill into Wednesday. By Monday evening, about 7,000 U.S. flights through Tuesday had already been scrubbed and 1,700 had been delayed, according to tracking service FlightAware.com. Most were to or from a band running from Washington through New York to Boston. A ground stop had been ordered on incoming flights had been ordered on Monday afternoon at La Guardia and Newark airports and is expected to continue for at least 24 hours. Scroll down for video . A woman sleeps next to baggage at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Monday as thousands of flights were grounded ahead of the oncoming storm . A man de-ices a plane during a light snow at a gate at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Monday as more than 6,000 flights were canceled . Karen Barker, center right, and her daughter, Grace Barker, 13, wait in line to see if they will be able to board a rescheduled flight to Texas at LaGuardia Airport in New York . Travel misery: A woman sleeps on top of her luggage at LaGuardia Airport amid news that thousands of travelers had been stranded with canceled flights . An Air Canada plane sits on the tarmac at La Guardia Airport in New York as the snow continues to fall . UNITED AIRLINES . Will not fly Tuesday in New York, Boston or Philadelphia. Spokeswoman Mary Ryan said the airline would limit operations at Newark, New Jersey, and New York's LaGuardia and Kennedy airports on Monday night and cancel all Tuesday flights at those airports. Callers were also experiencing long times on hold because of the heavy volume. AMERICAN AIRLINES . Plans to suspend operations late Monday afternoon at LaGuardia, Kennedy, Newark, Boston and Philadelphia and run a 'very limited' schedule in the Northeast on Tuesday, said spokeswoman Andrea Huguely. DELTA AIR LINES . Has already canceled 960 flights scheduled for Tuesday and expects to shut down at Boston's Logan Airport and offer limited flights at LaGuardia and Kennedy airports, said spokesman Morgan Durrant. Durrant said Delta might cancel some flights Wednesday morning. SOUTHWEST . Has already canceled nearly 50 Wednesday flights, said spokesman Brad Hawkins. Boston's Logan Airport said there would be no flights after 7pm on Monday, and the shutdown could last until late Wednesday. Some of those who had landed at JFK reported being stuck on the tarmac for up to four hours. Only one airport at the international hub was left open as officials tried to clear away the snow. United Airlines canceled all flights in Boston, New York and Philadelphia. JetBlue, whose flights are largely in the Northeast, has already canceled about a third of its entire schedule. About half of all flights out of New York's LaGuardia Airport were called off on Monday, and about 60 per cent of flights heading into the airport were scratched. Problems in the Northeast are rippling outward across the country. In West Palm Beach, Florida, where temperatures are expected to be in the 70s on Monday, about 30 per cent of all flights have been canceled. Fort Lauderdale and Orlando are also reporting major cancellations. Most major airlines are allowing customers whose flights are canceled in the next few days to book new flights without paying a penalty. Customers ticketed on flights to dozens of Eastern airports are generally eligible for the allowance, though specific terms vary by airline. The National Weather Service predicts 2 to 3 feet of snow for a 250-mile stretch of the Northeast, including the New York and Boston areas. Philadelphia should get 14 to 18 inches. Going nowhere: The brutal storm bearing down on the Northeast is seen on a satellite image on Monday afternoon . A flight takes off from Logan International Airport in Boston ahead of a massive storm expected to hit the region later Monday with 24 inches of snow expected . Chaos: The tarmac at JFK where more than 100 departing flights had already been canceled on Monday morning . Snow predictions as of Monday afternoon revealed that several feet was going to blanket the Northeast along with high winds which would create 'life-threatening' whiteout conditions . Brandon Bybee, left, and Cory McKenrick, second from left, talk with a ticket agent to try and move up their flight to Illinois in order to beat an expected snow storm hitting the Northeast . A crew member de-ices a Frontier Airlines plane at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Customers whose flights were canceled were being allowed to rebook without fees at some major airlines . A departures board at La Guardia airport is grim reading for some passengers as the cancellations increase . Customers ticketed on flights to dozens of Eastern airports are generally eligible for the allowance, though specific terms vary by airline. The National Weather Service predicts two to three feet of snow for a 250-mile stretch of the Northeast, including the New York and Boston areas. Philadelphia should get 14 to 18 inches. The National Weather Service said the nor'easter would bring heavy snow, powerful winds and widespread coastal flooding starting on Monday and through Tuesday. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and state Governor Andrew Cuomo urged commuters to get out of the path of the oncoming storm - which will set in from noon on Monday - before as much as 24 inches of snow coat city streets. Earlier on Monday dozens of flights were canceled ahead of the weather in the Washington-Baltimore region. Reagan National Airport was the most affected of the region's three major airports, with about 120 canceled incoming and outgoing flights, according to the flight tracking service FlightAware. At Dulles International Airport, nearly 40 incoming and outgoing flights were canceled, and Baltimore's airport had 45 canceled outgoing and incoming flights. Airlines cancel flights before storms arrive to prevent passengers from driving to the airport and getting stranded in the terminal. Airlines also want to avoid having their planes stuck at snowed-in airports. Most major U.S. carriers said they would allow passengers ticketed to, from or through the Northeast on Monday or Tuesday to change their plans without getting hit by a reservation-changing fee, typically $200. But stranded travelers could still have extra costs. When weather causes delays, airlines have no legal obligation to find a hotel room or provide meals for stranded travelers, 'although they might do so as a courtesy,' said George Hobica, founder of the travel website airfarewatchdog.com. He advised travelers to check the terms of the credit card they used to book the trip - some include coverage for hotels and meals when flights are canceled due to weather. A girl watches activity on the tarmac at La Guardia on Monday. In all, airlines canceled more than 2,680 flights at airports across the Northeast . Deserted: An abnormally quiet Newark Airport in New Jersey on Monday morning as hundreds of arriving and departing flights had already been canceled . Batten down the hatches! The National Weather Service predicted two to three feet of snow for a 250-mile stretch of the Northeast, including the New York and Boston areas, leading to widespread flight cancellations . Chaos: A 'Misery Map' from FlightAware.com shows all the delayed flights from major airports in red . ### SUMMARY:

More than 9,000 flights have been affected by the blizzards so far . Nearly 300 flights have already been cancelled on Wednesday . Practically nothing would take off or land in New York, Boston and Philadelphia through until Tuesday . United Airlines canceled all flights in Boston, New York and Philadelphia . The storm was expected to worsen from around 8-9pm on Monday with residents being warned to shelter in place . Ground stop on all incoming flights to Newark and La Guardia airports . Boston's Logan Airport said there would be no flights after 7pm on Monday, and the shutdown could last until late Wednesday .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Freddy, Sina, Finn, Morta Boy, Tinkerbell, Silly Billy, Annie, Gregory, Mama, Barbie, Kim, Pappa, Don, Derrik, Tess and Long Grass, who's always outside – these are just a handful of Gloria Morales' 30-odd dogs. The Chilean-born migrant who moved to the remote Aboriginal community of Yuendumu in Central Australia 10 years ago, is one of the 85 women that feature in photographer David Darcy's new book, A Girl's Best Friend. The 42-year-old photographer from the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, whose favourite sight is the face of dog hanging out of a car window, told Daily Mail Australia that he spent half a year travelling around the country to document the stories and happy moments between women and their dogs for his new book. Scroll down for video . Gloria Morales currently lives with about 32 dogs in her outback home in the remote Aboriginal community of Yuendumu in Central Australia . The Chilean-born migrant has dedicated her life to saving the seven hundred or so stray dogs in the area by implementing health programs and educating locals on how best to deal with the problem while maintaining respect for the animals . 'There are about 85 women in the book from all walks of life - some of them are living on the streets, some of them are millionaires and celebrities as well,' he said. Amongst them is Christine, from Alice Springs, who adopted her dog Bill after finding him abandoned and stranded in the flood waters following Hurricane Katrina in the United States. 'He was using this car as like an island, but because of the heat at the time, all his feet had become blistered from the roof and Christine found him over there and brought him all the way back to Australia,' Mr Darcy said. Meanwhile Linda, who lives in Penrith with her beagle, Sam, spent over $50,000 to save her dog's life from numerous health conditions including lymphoma and epilepsy. She’s one of the 85 women and their dogs, from all walks of life, whose stories feature in photographer David Darcy's new book, A Girl's Best Friend . Christine, from Alice Springs, adopted Bill after finding him abandoned and stranded on the roof of a car with blistered feet amongst the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina, bringing him back with her from the US . But it's Gloria, with her Land Cruiser over-flowing with canines, that has dedicated her whole life to saving the seven hundred or so stray dogs in her local community. She has dedicated her time to implementing health programs and educating locals on how best to deal with the strays, while maintaining respect for the animals. 'Ten years ago I arrived here in Yuendumu to work as the assistant art manager, and I discovered that the dogs in the community were in really bad condition. There was no vet coming here, no animal welfare people,' Gloria told Darcey. 'Most people in the community didn't realise that if you had a sick dog, you could do something about it—like if you take medication for yourself you're going to get better. If you do it for the dogs, they are going to get better also.' Linda, who lives in Penrith with her Beagle Sam, spent over $50,000 to save her dog's life from numerous health conditions including lymphoma and epilepsy . Camille adopted Bella when she was still a veterinary student. 'Bella's been diagnosed with a terminal illness that Camille can't fix; she's learnt all the skills in the world but she can’t save this dog from her heart condition,' Mr Darcy said . Gloria began by feeding the dogs with her own money and eventually, after holding talks with the local council, managed to arrange for a vet to come out to the remote town to help manage simple health problems like ticks, start a temporary sterilisation solution and offer the option of euthanasia. 'Many of the dogs were unwanted, but it was very difficult for the people to say that because the police would come round and shoot the unwanted dogs,' Gloria said. 'The locals didn't want to see the dogs shot, so the vet showed them how she could put them to sleep in a very comfortable manner, without any screaming, fighting or bloodshed. Margaret and her greyhound Gertie on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula – Gertie saved Margaret from an intruder entering her home . Karen is the president of the Shenton Park Dogs' Refuge Home in Perth. She credits her beautiful Pitbull Homer (right) as the instigation for getting involved in the shelter in the first place . 'When the community saw this option they surrendered 174 dogs for euthanasia. It was very sad, but it was also amazing because these people were being educated and were able to manage an animal health problem for the first time.' Gloria was also responsible for the adoption of over 250 dogs that were sent out to various new homes across the country through the Desert Dogs program. 'When I arrived here, people told me that these Aboriginals don't care about the dogs. That was bulls***!' Gloria said. She recalled unforgettable moments of compassion from the locals, including one family who waited until their dog was under anaesthetic and unable to hear them during its sterilisation, before admitting they didn't want to keep him. Three-legged Lester, the jack russell cross fox terrier, was lucky enough to find a home with former athlete Giaan after having his leg amputated following an accident with a bike . Hannah met Axel after moving from Sydney’s northern beaches to Alice Springs, where she turned her life around by beginning work on a camel farm and forming a relationship with a camel stockman . 'That showed me that they really did respect the dogs, because they didn't want the dog to know it wasn't wanted,' Gloria said. She also remembered an Aboriginal family that had dug a specific grave for their dog, which had passed away, so that his head would be pointing towards his home, and held hands to pray following his burial. But it's her own dog family that makes Gloria love her life. 'Over the ten years I've been here, I've probably had more than 1000 dogs living here. At the moment I have 32 dogs. They are all different and they all have their quirky behaviours.' David Darcy and his own loved pets: A Girl's Best Friend is the photographer’s fifth book entirely dedicated to dogs . 'People always ask if I have a favourite, but I love them all. Some people might look at me and think I'm crazy, because the situation might look overwhelming…, but the other day I was thinking just how lucky I am to have all these dogs. I really love my life.' One of the most memorable characters Mr Darcy met on his travels, was Camille and her dog Bella. The duo met while Camille was a vet student, practising operations on dogs that had to be euthanised. But the bond between Camille and Bella became too strong, and the student felt compelled to save her life and adopt her. Years later, with the growth of her own veterinary business, Camille is coming to terms with letting Bella go. 'She's been diagnosed with a terminal illness that Camille can't fix; she's learnt all the skills in the world, but she can't save this dog from her heart condition,' Mr Darcy said of the heart-wrenching duo. 'For me it's about those little moments – I see a lot of photos of dogs that are staged, but if you are a dog lover, you know and understand them and that little moment of interaction, when the dog is doing something beautiful and you get joy from it, that gives me a great happiness. A Girl's Best Friend by David Darcy (Murdoch Books) $29.99, is available now. ### SUMMARY:

A Girl's Best Friend, by photographer David Darcy, documents the stories of 85 entirely different Australian women - from millionaires to the homeless - and their beloved dogs . Amongst them Chilean-born migrant Gloria Morales, who has saved the lives of hundreds of stray canines in the Aboriginal community of Yuendumu in Central Australia . She has lived with over 1000 dogs since moving to the remote town, where she has implemented health programs, adoption websites and educated locals about how to care for the stray animals . Christine, from Alice Springs, adopted her dog Bill after finding him abandoned and stranded on the roof of a car amongst the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina, bringing him home with her from the United States .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: New York (CNN) -- When Republican presidential candidate and tea party favorite Michele Bachmann was recently asked by Fox News' Chris Wallace if she was "a flake," the moment seemed like déjà vu all over again for some women active in politics. Bachmann's response -- she was "insulted" -- was stern, but it pointed to a larger bias many women perceive in presidential politics. "Nobody in the GOP establishment is going to hand anything to Bachmann or (Sarah) Palin -- just like (Democrats) did not for Hillary (Clinton)," said Amy Siskind, who supported Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid. "And it takes a certain type of leader to go out there and have the courage and the guts to say 'I'm running (for president)' and I admire Bachmann for that." After Clinton's failed Oval Office bid, Siskind and a small group of women who had supported Clinton decided the best way to break the glass ceiling in presidential politics was to put ideology and partisanship aside and support any woman seeking a top political office -- including Bachmann and Palin, two darlings of the tea party movement known for their conservative views on economic and social issues. But some Democratic leaders dismissed the idea, arguing the electorate is more sophisticated. "Women don't support women candidates simply because of their status as women, simply because of their gender," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, head of the Democratic National Committee. Siskind, who has voted Democrat in the past, helped found The New Agenda, a nonpartisan women's advocacy group that united many women who were disappointed after Clinton's defeat. "We decided that in order to take women forward," said Siskind, "we would have to be a voice for all women -- so put political party and the issue of abortion aside because those were the two issues that were dividing women in half." "So, for us it was a business model: How can you have a women's movement that excludes half the women?" added Siskind. In the 2008 general election, women voted overwhelmingly for Democrat Barack Obama for president, picking him 56% to 43% over Republican John McCain, according to CNN exit polls. Going hard after Democrats . Before the new group even got formally off the ground in mid-2008, its nucleus of Hillary Clinton supporters was courted by John McCain's campaign, according to Siskind. "McCain sent (former California Republican senatorial candidate) Carly Fiorina to my home," said Siskind, who used to trade distressed debt on Wall Street, "to meet with a lot of the women that then became The New Agenda to say: What would you want to get McCain's support?" "One of the things we asked for was to have a woman on the ticket," said Siskind, "and Sarah Palin actually was on our short list (of six women). We did research and learned about her." When then-Alaska Gov. Palin burst onto the national political stage soon after Clinton formally ended her presidential aspirations, Siskind and Lara Brown, another 2008 Clinton supporter, saw how Palin was falling victim to sexist treatment just as Clinton had. Brown is an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University whose research has focused on candidates for the presidency. She described Palin in 2008 as "a completely different candidate (from Clinton)" who got "a completely different sexist barrage of commentary." What was behind the treatment of both Clinton and Palin that at least some political observers viewed as sexist or misogynistic? "The system that's the problem here, the system that's the barrier is, broadly, patriarchy," said Caroline Heldman, an associate professor at Occidental College. "But, more specifically, when women run for public office, the press is more likely to talk about their dress and appearance, more likely to challenge their competency, more likely to talk about them in kind of 'first woman' terms or like they're oddities or benchwarmers instead of actual candidates." Heldman noticed that both Clinton and Palin tried to project a public image during the 2008 race that was simultaneously masculine enough to justify being selected as the next president or vice president and feminine enough to satisfy traditional gender roles. "(Clinton) wore pants suits with pearls. ... She was properly masculine and properly feminine," said Heldman. "(Clinton) did this performance and it didn't quite work. And then Palin is doing this performance where she is taking the line between masculine and feminine and she takes a wide stance. She's hyper-masculine . . . and then she's also hyper-feminine. ... She was still beaten up. (Palin) provided kind of a different brand or approach than Hillary Clinton and it didn't matter." Bachmann facing same stigma? Years after Clinton and Palin sought the White House, Bachmann is already starting to encounter some of the same challenges as a female candidate. "It's already started with Bachmann," Heldman said, referencing treatment by the media that she considers sexist. "The Chris Wallace question was insulting," said Bachmann campaign spokeswoman Alice Stewart. "Congresswoman Bachmann is a serious candidate. She's an extremely intelligent person. She's successful in her personal life. ... Professionally, she has been a successful tax attorney, been a successful member in state politics, and a successful member of Congress. She's a serious, very credible candidate for the president of the United States. (Wallace) apologized, she accepted the apology and we've put that behind us." But Amy Kremer, chairman of the Tea Party Express, was less diplomatic. "I certainly couldn't have seen Chris Wallace asking Mitt Romney or Rick Perry or Tim Pawlenty or one of them, 'Are you a flake?' " said Kremer. After a breakout performance at the recent CNN Republican debate in New Hampshire, Bachmann has been steadily rising in the polls, particularly with conservative likely GOP caucusgoers in all-important Iowa. The woman who had been brushed aside for a leadership role in the House Republican Caucus after the 2010 midterms now leads in three recent polls, ahead of all the men and in particular, Mitt Romney, who has been called the front-runner by many. Making too much of nothing . Have the candidacies of Clinton, Palin and now Bachmann ignited a spark among women across the political spectrum that national Democrats and the Obama re-election campaign should be worried about? No, said the Democratic National Committee. "There was a lot made of Sarah Palin being chosen by John McCain and of there being a woman on (the Republican) ticket for the first time in the last election and how attractive that might be especially to Hillary Clinton supporters after the primary ended," said DNC chair Wasserman-Schultz. "I thought that was not credible at the time and said so and it turned out not to be credible." Wasserman-Schultz said women vote on the issues that matter to them and select the candidate who champions those issues. She pointed out that President Obama has signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, fought for passage of health care legislation that benefits women, has a number of women in his administration and has appointed two women to the U.S. Supreme Court. By contrast, the DNC head said that none of the contenders in the current GOP presidential field has Obama's track record when it comes to supporting women and working families and championing equal rights for women, both reproductive rights and rights in the workplace. Should Palin choose to run for president in this cycle, Wasserman-Schultz predicted that female voters will reject Palin just as they did in 2008. That same fate, she added, will befall Bachmann should she win the GOP nomination. No matter how Bachmann ultimately fares, her candidacy -- like Palin's before her -- seems to be energizing conservative women in particular. Teri Christoph is a co-founder of Smart Girl Politics Action, a group dedicated to getting more conservative women involved in politics and running for office. Christoph said the rise of conservative women on the national political scene in the past few years "was just the beginning." "I think we'll learn a lot (by) having Michele Bachmann run (for president) about what kind of things conservative women need to be prepared for if they're going to enter the national spotlight," said Christoph. ### SUMMARY:

Former Hillary Clinton supporters now impressed by Republican women . Bachmann, Palin seen as best way to break the glass ceiling in presidential politics . Democrats dismiss interest, pointing to Palin's defeat in 2008 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- On December 11, 1997, the world agreed that climate change needed to be tackled. The grandly named United Nations Framework on Climate Change adopted the Kyoto Protocol on that day, and it was eventually ratified by 191 countries. Now it's about to expire with a whimper. Of the major industrial powers, only the European Union is prepared to continue adhering to the Kyoto pact's provisions on cutting greenhouse gases into 2013. Canada, Russia and Japan have already said they won't. The United States never ratified the agreement. So attention is turning to devising a "Kyoto 2.0." CNN Special: Five cities fighting for climate survival . This week, nearly 200 delegations have gathered in Qatar to plan for a new international climate pact that would come into effect in 2020. But there are huge disagreements between developed and developing countries over sharing the burden. The Kyoto agreement envisaged binding cuts in emissions by the industrialized world -- but not by rapidly industrializing countries like China and India. They are now the largest and third-largest generator of carbon emissions, respectively, and developing countries account for more than half the world's emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. Read more: How wasted food is destroying the environment . The global economic slowdown has helped curb emissions in the developed world. But China and the United States were together responsible for more than 40% of emissions in 2009. U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide have risen by 10.5% since 1990. And China is heavily reliant on coal -- the most carbon-intensive of fossil fuels -- to drive its economic growth. The stakes for the environmental health of the globe and its citizens have gotten a lot higher in the last 15 years, amid widespread crop failures in the Northern Hemisphere, changing weather patterns, acidifying oceans and a record ice melt in the Arctic Ocean. Right now, a Russian tanker carrying liquefied natural gas is steaming through the Arctic on its way to Japan -- the first such vessel ever to take the route, thanks to thinner ice cover. Read more: Images from space track relentless spread of humanity . The last decade has seen nine of the hottest years on record. And in a new report, the World Bank cites the "nearly unanimous" prediction by scientists that the globe will warm by as much as 4 degrees Celsius this century. It expects the consequences to include "the inundation of coastal cities; increasing risks for food production potentially leading to higher malnutrition rates; many dry regions becoming dryer, wet regions wetter." "Recent extreme heat waves such as in Russia in 2010 are likely to become the new normal. ... Tropical South America, central Africa, and all tropical islands in the Pacific are likely to regularly experience heat waves of unprecedented magnitude and duration," according to the World Bank study. The World Meteorological Organization, a U.N. agency, reported last week that global carbon dioxide emissions had risen by 50% since 1990. There's fresh evidence that they are still rising, and an overwhelming majority of climate scientists say the warming of the planet is accelerating, with consequences we can't predict. Scientists describe this as the "cascade of uncertainties." Read more: Arab youth offers hope for Doha climate talks . The WMO calculates that the volume of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has now reached 390.9 parts per million, roughly 40% higher than the level before the Industrial Revolution. 375 billion tons of carbon have been released into the atmosphere since 1750. About half has been absorbed by the oceans and the Earth's biosphere; the rest will remain in the atmosphere for centuries, gradually cooking the planet. Read more: Greenhouse gases reached record highs in 2011, says U.N. study . The latest data from the WMO also shows that emissions of nitrous oxide are 20% higher than in the preindustrial era, and are accelerating. That's a cause for concern because nitrous oxide is much more "toxic" that carbon dioxide; its impact on the climate is about 300 times greater. About 40% of the nitrous oxide emitted is from human activity, according to WMO estimates. There are glimmers of renewed interest in climate change. President Barack Obama, in his victory speech on the night of the election, said he wanted to "pass on a country that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet." The European Union has already cut in its emissions by one-fifth, compared with 1990, and is considering extending that to 30% by 2020. A U.N. program is encouraging small-scale projects that address warming at the local level. One such project is in the sprawling Indian city of Ahmedabad, where a fleet of buses running on compressed natural gas is reducing air pollution. In a city of 7 million, one-fifth of commuters have jumped off their motorcycles and scooters and onto the buses. Read more: Chasing down the world's vanishing glaciers . But there is already widespread doubt that at the global level, aspirations will be matched by deeds. Three years ago, at the abortive climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, rich countries promised the poor they would raise $100 billion by 2020 to help them cope with climate change. Budget pressures in developed countries make that target look very distant now. Nongovernmental organizations like Oxfam are lobbying for new taxes on the aviation and shipping industries to help raise the money. They contrast the rapid recovery in the U.S. from the effects of Hurricane Sandy with the disastrous consequences from the same storm for Haiti, where up to 2 million people may face malnutrition after crops were washed away. The notion of shared sacrifice is not one familiar to climate talks. China never tires of pointing out that while it is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, its emissions per capita are still far lower than those of the U.S. But that may not be for long: Last year alone, they rose 9%. The danger, according to multiple scientific studies, is that without a redoubling of efforts to curb emissions, the goal enshrined in Kyoto, Japan, of restraining warming to 2 degrees Celsius this century, compared with the preindustrial era, will soon be unattainable. Right now, the goal of limiting warming to 2 degrees by 2100 seems like a pipe dream. If emissions continue their current path, the target will be breached within two decades. Read more: Raising a stink about global sanitation . The European Environment Agency says the average temperature on the continent in the last decade was already 1.3 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial level. The vast majority of glaciers in Europe are retreating; river flows are decreasing throughout Southern and Eastern Europe. "By the late 21st century, European plant species are projected to shift several hundred kilometers to the north, forests are likely to contract in the south and expand in the north, and about half of the mountain plant species may face extinction," the EEA says. Farmers in the U.S. Midwest have just endured the worst drought in 50 years; the bread baskets of Ukraine and Russia have similarly shriveled in the face of intense heat. Technologies exist that will allow humanity to make a rapid dent on emissions. Renewable energy accounts for double the amount of power it did just six years ago. Carbon sinks deep underground can capture and store emissions from gas flaring. Better vehicle emissions standards, reforestation and a developed carbon trading market would all help. There are all sorts of green gestures at the 18th meeting of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change in Qatar, one of the world's highest emitters of carbon dioxide per capita. Examples are "paperless" documentation and buses run on natural gas to ferry delegates to the conference center, which is partly powered by solar panels. But the political will required of 194 delegations to bring the world closer to a new climate pact is yet to be tested. ### SUMMARY:

Nearly 200 delegations have gathered in Qatar to plan for a new international climate pact . Developed, developing countries disagree over how to share burden of cutting emissions . Earth is seeing crop failures, new weather patterns, record ice melt, acidifying oceans . There's doubt that at the global level, emissions-cutting goals will be matched by deeds .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: USS George Washington, East China Sea (CNN) -- By his own admission, one of the U.S Navy's top commanders says his Pacific fleet "gets all the best stuff" when it comes to state-of-the-art weaponry -- an undeniable reflection of President Barack Obama's so-called pivot towards Asia. The flagship of its 7th fleet, the Nimitz-class USS George Washington aircraft carrier boasts a formidable arsenal; from the latest FA-18 fighter jets, to anti-submarine helicopters and early-warning surveillance aircraft. Add to this the fleet's numerous missile destroyers, cruisers and submarines and the statement of intent is clear to see -- Washington is serious about its role in the region. "It's a long-term effort for us here," Fleet commander Vice Admiral Robert L. Thomas, told CNN aboard the giant vessel amid the muffled roar of jet engines from the flight deck directly above. "From a policy perspective it's a shift in balance of not only our resources but our thinking across diplomatic, information, economic and military lines to the Pacific. "But I would offer that the 7th Fleet never left -- we've been a strong presence here for the past 70 years. We're slowly shifting from a 50/50 mix in the United States Navy to a 40% Atlantic, 60% Pacific mix," he added, referring to the gradual swing away from traditional areas of operation in the West. 'Most advanced' weapons . "From a military point of view -- my narrow swim lane of responsibility -- we measure our presence in two ways: capability and capacity. The capacity is coming -- more numbers over time -- but it's the capability that's leading the charge here. "I get the preponderance of Virginia-class warships. I get the front-line submarine deployments out here. The carrier air wing that operates from the George Washington is the most advanced in the U.S. Navy -- and our task force commanders out here get the full support of the 'home office' in Washington." In the past few days, these hugely expensive military "assets" have been deployed on a high-profile combat exercise with an armada of ships from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) off the island of Okinawa, playing out a series of scenarios including the defense of Japan and the response to a regional crisis -- timely given China's increasingly assertive behavior in the region. China looms over U.S.-Japan drills . At the same time, China's own military development has been emphasized by the first deployment of its own aircraft carrier -- The Liaoning. While most analysts would point to it being decades behind its American counterparts technologically -- it's actually a refitted Soviet-era vessel purchased from the Ukraine in the 1990s -- its very existence is emblematic of Beijing's growing ambitions. Diverse security threats . Yet beyond the waters of the East China Sea, the threats to global stability in recent years have become far more complex and diverse and less likely to be played out on traditional battlegrounds where huge armies or navies face off against each other. The threat has become more asymmetric and complex in nature, with unseen enemies striking in less predictable but equally damaging ways -- something Thomas concedes -- prompting inevitable questions about whether these huge fleets are a worthwhile investment and relevant in this new security landscape. "The maritime domain in general has got more complex, with the undersea domain a huge part of that with more sophisticated submarines and the emergence of long-endurance, unmanned or remotely operated vehicles," he said. "You see it just in oceanographic capabilities. Frankly the way countries globally are using technology in the undersea domain is going to make it a very interesting operational space. So the traditional 'hey I've got a submarine and I get to play here,' mindset I think is naïve. You're going to have to bring a lot more capability into that operating space to ensure you stay dominant -- economically as well as militarily. "As to the asymmetric threats, the one thing that cannot be counted out is the ability of terrorists to use the maritime domain. It's not just in close, such as we saw when the USS Cole was attacked (in port in Yemen in 200), all of a sudden it's threats to commercial shipping and 'choke' points. "Major commercial carriers such as Maersk all have immediate response actions already in place in case the Singapore Strait is cut off or they can't use a port due to a weapon of mass destruction." He said this was a major "economic game changer" when you consider the cost of shutting down major waterways or ports due to terrorist threats. "So a lot more thinking has to be done" about how to counter these kind of challenges, he added. The nature of the joint exercises with Japanese forces -- known as AnnualEx 2013 and involving more than 23 ships and 20,000 servicemen and women -- in part acknowledges this, he said, with the fleet deployed on a variety of "graduate level" missions, from anti-submarine warfare, to defending against hostile incursions against territory. Awesome power . Standing on the flight deck of the USS George Washington, the noise of combat jets as they take off and land just meters away generates an incredible vibration that almost lifts you from your feet -- awesome power that is very difficult not to be impressed by whether you're a journalist or a foreign power. But Thomas seems anything but a man on the verge of using this immense force in anger -- especially against any perceived Chinese threat. U.S. 'advising' airlines to 'comply' over disputed zone . He said the China's People's Liberation Army Navy was becoming a highly professional organization and improving the way they operate and communicate -- and far from being one prone to making rash moves. "I can tell just by our bridge-to-bridge communications that they're getting better at it. They've got a three-ship surface action group coming back from South America. They've been operating in the Gulf of Aden doing counter-piracy operations. And they're operating here in the Western Pacific all at the same time. Two years ago it was a big deal if they were able to conduct an exercise in the Philippines Sea for a week, now it's routine." From carrier to 'lily pad' Thomas was also keen to expand on the U.S. Navy's diversity of operations, most notably their recent humanitarian mission in the Philippines after Super Typhoon Haiyan had flattened much of the eastern parts of the country. Within 48 hours, the carrier and nine other surface vessels had left Hong Kong and arrived in the Philippines Sea to begin carrying our relief operations. Combat aircraft were deliberately flown off the carrier to make room for more helicopters able to deliver badly needed assistance to areas made inaccessible by the typhoon and the subsequent storm surge. Thomas said in many cases, the U.S. Seahawk helicopters were "first responders" able to relay back previously unknown information about local conditions and the extent of the disaster. "We transitioned (the carrier) into a vertical lift lily pad for the delivery of food and water supplies," he said. Critics may point to this being an example of Washington adopting a "soft power" approach politically in the region at a time when its influence is being challenged by China, though there was little doubting the pride expressed by many of the carrier's highly-trained and motivated crew in performing such a role in the Leyte Gulf. Relief effort boosts U.S. soft power in Asia region . But does serving as a deterrent or performing aid missions with hugely expensive weapons of war justify the vast cost of maintaining such an arsenal? The use of unmanned drones in other theaters illustrates that massed armies with boots on the ground, tanks and artillery are not necessarily the most effective way of dealing with terrorism or insurgencies with a minimal cost in terms of deaths to combatants. With military expansion seemingly inextricably linked to economic progress, and the exponential growth of armed forces fueled by territorial disputes in the Asia-Pacific region, the large-scale presence of this carrier strike group seems unlikely to change, though the scope of its missions will adapt to meet the increasing diversity of challenges -- both hard and soft. Beijing's choice: Control or stability? ### SUMMARY:

U.S. 7th Fleet commander says his fleet gets the preponderance of the latest weapons . Vice Admiral Robert L. Thomas says Asia region is now the most important strategically . The carrier strike group has been conducting exercises with Japan amid tension with China . Thomas concedes threat to security no longer about vast opposing armies and navies .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- A new search warrant was issued Monday for the apartment of Jesse Matthew, who police believe was the last person to see Hannah Graham before her disappearance. The Charlottesville Police Department has also issued a wanted poster for the 32-year-old Matthew, saying he is wanted for two counts of reckless driving. At the bottom of the poster, however, it says police would like to speak with Matthew regarding Graham's disappearance. The poster raised many questions -- chief among them: Do police believe Matthew is a suspect? -- but mystery has been an undercurrent of Graham's disappearance since she went missing nine days ago. Many questions remain unanswered, but here is what CNN knows and doesn't know so far: . What we know . Who is Graham? She's a second-year University of Virginia straight-A student, her parents say. "Hannah is beyond precious to us," John and Susan Graham said in a statement released shortly after her disappearance. "We are truly devastated by her disappearance. It's totally out of character for us not to have heard from her, and we fear foul play." Holding a stuffed bunny named BB, his daughter's favorite plush toy and "guardian angel," John Graham pleaded this weekend that someone come forward with information on his daughter, who he said loved helping people. "Last spring break, instead of hanging around on the beach, she spent a week in Tuscaloosa rebuilding houses," her father said. The 18-year-old Northern Virginia native is 5-feet-11 inches tall with a skinny build and has light brown hair, blue eyes and freckles. She was last seen September 13 wearing a black crop top, according to a UVA news release. Where was she before her disappearance? On the evening of September 12, she was seen at a party before friends saw her at an apartment complex a couple blocks away from the party. That was shortly before midnight, according to a timeline compiled by CNN affiliate WVIR. About 12:45 a.m. on September 13, a surveillance camera caught her outside of a pub, about three-quarters of a mile from the apartment complex. A doorman turned her away at the pub, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo said Sunday. Ten minutes later, she is seen running past a gas station -- no one appears to be pursuing her -- and witnesses say they saw her five minutes later roughly four blocks from the gas station, WVIR reported. She was at a restaurant in an area known as Downtown Mall, witnesses said. The surveillance camera at an Italian cafe captured her walking along the mall about 1:06 a.m. The camera at a jewelry store recorded her passing two minutes later, WVIR reported. At 1:20 a.m. she texted her friends to say was lost and trying to find a party, WVIR reported. She and a man were seen having drinks at a bar between 1:30 and 2 a.m., WVIR reports. Police believe she may have been under the influence of alcohol, Longo said, and may have been vulnerable or unable to defend herself. What are police doing to find her? Longo has released the name of the man police believe was having drinks with Graham. "I believe Jesse Matthew was the last person she was seen with before she vanished off the face of the Earth," the police chief said Sunday. "We want to talk to him." Anyone who saw Matthew's burnt orange 1998 Chrysler coupe that night should call the police tip line at 434-295-3851, Longo said. Police had previously said they were looking for a man who did not fit Matthew's description, but rather, was a black male in his 20s or 30s with a shaved head and goatee. Matthew has dreadlocks. "I hope and pray that we might have an opportunity to talk to Jesse Matthew again because I think he can help up find Hannah Graham," the police chief said. They've interviewed 50 people and received more than 100 tips in the case, police said. This weekend, more than 1,200 volunteers and Virginia Department of Emergency Management officials spent the weekend searching for clues that would lead them to Hannah, CNN affiliate WTVR reported. As time passes, the search area grows, investigators say. The city of Charlottesville, UVA and the local community have contributed $50,000 to a reward for "information leading to the cause" of Graham's disappearance. What we don't know . Was she abducted? Though investigators have tracked down several surveillance videos, it's not clear where she's going or whether she's in trouble, Longo said. In addition to Monday's search warrant, authorities previously searched Matthew's apartment and car but have declined to say what -- if anything -- was found. Hours later, police said they had no reason to arrest Matthew. "Is he in custody? No," Longo said. "Was there probable cause to arrest him? No." At another press conference on Sunday, Longo said he was hopeful that the crime lab analysis of evidence collected would yield new leads. Graham and Matthew were seen leaving a bar together, and Matthew drove away in his Chrysler coupe that was parked near the bar, and police told WVIR they have "every reason to believe" Graham was in the car, too. "People saw Hannah and people saw him, and people saw them together," Longo said. Asked Monday whether he believes foul play was involved, the police chief did not mince words. "There's no other way to look at it quite frankly at this point. There's just no other explanation but for that. I wish we knew more," he told CNN. Where is Matthew? Police have obtained an arrest warrant for Matthew on suspicion of reckless driving. While authorities were tracking his movement, they saw him get into a car and drive so fast and so dangerously that police were forced to back off, Longo said. Though he faces no charges in connection with Graham's disappearance, there is a warrant for his arrest. Matthew willingly went to a police station this weekend, along with several family members, walking through the front door and asking for a lawyer, the police chief said. Matthew and the lawyer spoke and then left, Longo said, giving detectives no clearer picture of what may have happened the day Graham disappeared. Police executed a new search warrant at his home Monday, and Matthew's landlord told WVIR that police took two items. She also told WVIR that she hadn't seen Matthew since Thursday, and two of his roommates had moved out. The University of Virginia Medical Center confirmed to WVIR that Matthew has worked there since August 12. Are there links to other cases? The short answer is no. However, the Route 29 corridor where Graham disappeared has a peculiar history. According to WTVR, Graham is the fourth woman to disappear from the area since 2009. Morgan Harrington of Charlottesville, Alexis Murphy of Lovingston and Samantha Clarke of Orange also went missing there. All the women were between 17 and 20 years old, WVIR reported. In July, Randy Taylor, 43, was sentenced to two life terms for Murphy's 2013 abduction and murder although her body was never found, WVIR reported. Clarke's mother is still looking for answers more than four years after her 19-year-old's disappearance. Harrington, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student, went missing after attending a Metallica concert in Charlottesville in October 2009. Her remains were found on a farm months later. Police have yet to track down her killer, and her family has long said they suspect there could be other victims. The T-shirt Harrington was wearing when she disappeared was found near where Graham disappeared. "Certainly the question has arisen. It's certainly a legitimate question," Longo told reporters this month. Harrington's mother told WTVR the Route 29 has an "infamous reputation." "I don't know. Either there is a commonality or a crime spree," Harrington told WTVR. "We have long passed a critical mass that needs looking at. If you look at the map of missing and abducted along Route 29 -- it's not a normal pattern." CNN's Dana Ford, Catherine Shoichet, Chelsea J. Carter and Eric Fiegel contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

Charlottesville, Virginia, police issue search warrant, wanted poster for Jesse Matthew . Videos provide a timeline of Hannah Graham's movements on night she vanished . She disappeared September 13; police believe Matthew was last person to see her . Area where Graham disappeared has history of missing girls and women .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: President Barack Obama on Friday announced that virtually all U.S. troops will come home from Iraq by the end of the year -- at which point he can declare an end to America's long and costly war in that Middle Eastern nation. "After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over," Obama said. "The coming months will be a season of homecomings. Our troops in Iraq will definitely be home for the holidays." Of the 39,000 troops in Iraq, about 150, a negligible force, will remain to assist in arms sales, a U.S. official told CNN. The rest will be out of Iraq by December 31. The president said he was making good on his 2008 campaign pledge to end a war that has divided the nation since it began in 2003 and claimed more than 4,400 American lives.The announcement also came after talks that might have allowed a continued major military presence broke down amid disputes about whether U.S. troops would be immune to prosecution by Iraqi authorities. Obama spoke with Iraqi President Nuri al-Maliki in a video conference Friday, after which he said both nations were comfortable with the decision on how to move forward. The new partnership with Iraq will be "strong and enduring," Obama said. "The last American soldier will cross the border out of Iraq with their head held high, proud of their success and knowing that the American people stand united in our support for our troops," Obama said. According to a statement from the Iraqi prime minister's office, al-Maliki and Obama "shared the same point of view on the need to start a new phase of strategic relations." That includes agreeing to a high-level meeting within two weeks. Beyond the human cost, the price tag for U.S. military activity in Iraq has been steep as well. A report from the non-partisan, government-funded Congressional Research Service found that the Defense Department spent nearly $757 billion for military operations in Iraq over the past decade, $50 billion higher than the estimate released by the Pentagon. Another $41 billion for Iraq was spent on State Department and USAID initiatives, plus $6 billion for troops' health expenses, the CRS report stated. Paul Rieckhoff -- an ex-Army soldier who heads the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, the first and largest such organization for these veterans, according to its website -- cheered Friday's announcement as "really good news for the troops serving overseas." "It's a really poignant time, especially for the veterans community," Rieckhoff told CNN. "Many of us gave large parts of our lives, some gave all in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn." While Democrats largely applauded Friday's announcement, some Republicans disagreed with the president. Sen. John McCain called it a "consequential failure" for the Obama administration, which he said wasn't focused on succeeding in Iraq, and Iraq's government. "Today marks a harmful and sad setback for the United States in the world," said McCain, an Arizona Republican who faced off against Obama in the 2008 presidential election. "This decision will be viewed as a strategic victory for our enemies in the Middle East, especially the Iranian regime, which has worked relentlessly to ensure a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq." Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough dismissed the notion that Friday's decision would affect Iran, which he claimed already is "weaker and more isolated" due to U.S. and allied efforts unrelated to Iraq. "We don't need to try to exercise our influence on those matters through Iraq," McDonough told reporters Friday. "We're obviously concerned about Iran's willingness to live up to its obligations ... but we don't have concerns about our ability to make sure that the Iraqis can exercise the kind of sovereignty that they want." Another U.S. official -- who is not authorized to speak for attribution -- acknowledged that "the Iranians have been trying to gain influence in Iraq for some time," but stressed that "Iranian influence in Iraq has limits." The official said the Iraq "will not roll over" to Iran, with whom it has a long history of border disputes including a bloody eight-year war in the 1980s. The current Status of Force Agreement had called for U.S. troops to leave by the end of 2011. But lengthy negotiations in recent months had led some to expect that American troops -- roughly 40,000 of which are in Iraq -- would remain there into next year. These talks, however, broke down over the prickly issue of legal immunity for U.S. troops in Iraq, a senior U.S. military official with direct knowledge of the discussions told CNN this month. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other top brass have repeatedly said any deal to keep U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the withdrawal deadline would require a guarantee of legal protection for American soldiers. But the Iraqis refused to agree to that, opening up the prospect of Americans being tried in Iraqi courts and subjected to Iraqi punishment. The negotiations were strained following WikiLeaks' release of a diplomatic cable that alleged Iraqi civilians, including children, were killed in a 2006 raid by American troops rather than in an airstrike as the U.S. military initially reported. U.S. troops have already started the drawdown. For instance, a brigade from Fort Bliss, Texas, that was originally scheduled to be among the last to leave Iraq was being pulled out of the country months ahead of its planned departure, military officials told CNN last week. Besides withdrawing more units, others will not head overseas as planned. That includes about 775 Georgia-based soldiers from the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, which announced Friday it will not deploy to Iraq in December as previously scheduled. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, has said that Iraq wouldn't be able to defend its borders if U.S. troops pulled out and also questioned Iraqi forces ability to defend its airspace. But Panetta, en route to Indonesia, said history shows that Iraq will be ready. "We've taken out now about 100,000 troops and yet the level of violence has remained relatively low," the defense secretary said. "And I think that's a reflection of the fact that the Iraqis have developed a very important capability here to be able to respond to security threats within their own country." Regardless, officials insisted that the drastic pullback of troops does not mean an end to the U.S. government's presence in Iraq. State Department spokesman Mark Toner described Friday's development as the start of "a new chapter in our relationship" with Iraq -- while acknowledging the challenges of the change. "You can't flip a switch and go from a military operation to a civilian operation; there has to be a transition and we're working on that transition," he said. "But we believe we're ready." Toner also noted substantial improvements in the capabilities of the Iraqis, even as he admitted the continued importance of addressing "security needs" of the hundreds of nonmilitary U.S. personnel who will remain there. That includes about 1,700 diplomats, law enforcement officers and various economic, agriculture and other professionals and experts who will be in Iraq into 2012, according to the State Department. In addition, 5,000 security contractors will protect the U.S. diplomats and another 4,500 contractors will serve other roles, such as helping provide food and medical services, until they can be done locally. Toner said the U.S. and Iraqi governments are still talking about security and other matters, though he stressed any such discussions should not change the basic decision announced Friday. "We continue to talk about the post-December 31 arrangement (and) security relationship," Toner said. "At the same time, we are very committed to meeting the December 31 deadline." Panetta, too, did not rule out the possibility that U.S. forces would head to Iraq to train forces there. "As we ... look at developing this normal relationship, a lot of it is going to depend on what they want, what their needs are and how we can best meet them," he said. ### SUMMARY:

U.S. defense chief says Iraqi forces are capable . A U.S. official says Iraq "will not roll over" to Iranians trying to exert their influence . Iraq's prime minister says he and Obama both want to "start a new phase" in relations . Almost all U.S. troops will be home by the end of December, according to Obama .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: North Korea's plans for a new nuclear test, like most things that happen inside the reclusive state, are shrouded in mystery. But that's not stopping analysts and officials from making some informed guesses about what's going on. Why is North Korea planning to conduct a nuclear test? The North says the "higher level" test is part of its military deterrent in its confrontation with the United States, which it describes as "the sworn enemy of the Korean people." Its declaration that it would carry out the test came just two days after the United Nations Security Council voted in favor of imposing broader sanctions on the regime in response to Pyongyang's long-range rocket launch in December that was widely viewed as a test of ballistic missile technology. The pattern of events is similar to the lead-up to the previous nuclear tests North Korea carried out in 2006 and 2009. Kim Jong Un appears likely to shrug off pressure from most of the international community, including North Korea's main ally, China, and go ahead with a third test. "Neither the prospect of stronger sanctions, nor the growing discontent of Russia and China with his behavior, appears to deter North Korea's young leader," George Lopez, professor of peace studies at the Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, wrote in an opinion article this week for CNN. Under the North's power-driven ideology of songun, or "military first," the punishment meted out last month by the U.N. Security Council requires a strong response, according to Daniel Pinkston, senior analyst for the International Crisis Group covering Northeast Asia. North Korea "sees international law, international institutions, collective security, arms control and any other cooperative arrangement as undesirable and as schemes to undermine their national security," Pinkston said in a recent blog post. A new test will also give North Korea a chance to underscore advances in its nuclear program, potentially moving it closer to a nuclear weapon that it can mount on a long-range missile. "To make its nuclear arsenal more menacing and provide the deterrent power Pyongyang's vitriolic pronouncements are aimed to achieve, North Korea must demonstrate that it can deliver the weapons on missiles at a distance," Siegfried Hecker, a Stanford University professor who has visited North Korean nuclear facilities, wrote in an article for Foreign Policy this week. When is it likely to happen? Given that North Korea is one of the most isolated, secretive regimes on the planet, one that views much of the rest of the world with suspicion, getting a clear idea of what exactly it plans to do when is often far from straightforward. Its announcement last month that it would go ahead with a nuclear test didn't provide a time-frame, so analysts and government officials around the globe are interpreting satellite images of the test zone and parsing the language in state media reports for clues. Most of them agree that North Korea is technically ready and could carry out a test at any time. The question is when the top leaders in Pyongyang will give the political green light to go ahead with a move that is likely to further sour relations with the country's Asian neighbors and the United States. "I think by their political calculations, this is where they're going to have, so to say, the most bang for the buck and make it most effective for what they want to try to accomplish," said Philip Yun, executive director of the Ploughshares Fund, a U.S.-based foundation that seeks to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. Yun said this week that North Korea's recent statements suggest a test is "imminent." North Korea on Google Maps: Monuments, nuclear complex, gulags . How will other countries know if it has happened? The test is expected to take place underground at the North's Punggye-ri nuclear facility, and the first indications that a test has taken place are likely to show up on earthquake-monitoring equipment. The area around Punggye-ri has little or no history of earthquakes or natural seismic hazards, according to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maps. But the previous test, in 2009, registered as a seismic event with a magnitude between 4 and 5. Besides earthquake-monitoring organizations like the USGS, the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna, has a network of seismic, sonar and radiation instruments designed to pick up nuclear tests. It also has sensors that can detect gases that may leak into the atmosphere from the explosion. But determining the sophistication of the nuclear device, and what kind of material -- plutonium or uranium -- was used, will be considerably more difficult, experts say. At some point, North Korea is likely to announce that the explosion has taken place. "Pyongyang will almost certainly claim that the test was successful and will tout its sophistication. It will be difficult to distinguish truth from propaganda, but experience shows there is often a nugget of truth in North Korea's claims," Stanford's Hecker says. South Koreans cast wary eyes to the North . What stage will North Korea's nuclear weapons program be at following a new test? With hard facts about the test so scarce, analysts are busy theorizing what exactly North Korea means when it says the test will be of a "higher level." There is a widespread expectation that it will involve the use of highly enriched uranium, whereas the country's two previous tests are understood to have involved plutonium-based devices. "A successful uranium test indicates that Pyongyang has advanced centrifuge technologies and related support systems," Notre Dame's Lopez said. "It means that North Korea, if left unchecked, can both produce and export such material." In an article for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists last year, Hecker and another analyst, Frank Pabian, speculated that North Korea could test two devices at the same time, one using plutonium and the other uranium. "Two detonations will yield much more technical information than one, and they will be no more damaging politically than if North Korea conducted a single test," they wrote. Some observers have even suggested that Pyongyang could make an early attempt at testing a thermonuclear device, which uses nuclear fusion to create a more powerful explosion. But others say they don't believe the North has that ability within its grasp yet. In any case, the test is expected to take North Korea closer to having a nuclear weapon it can direct at its enemies. But actually achieving that goal still remains a longer-term effort, according to Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund. "I still think we're years away from North Korea having a capability to deliver a nuclear warhead on a missile even to a country as close as Japan or South Korea," Cirincione said recently. "And they're even further away from having a long-range missile that could hit the United States." What are the consequences likely to be? The region is already braced for the test to take place, and countries like the United States, South Korea and Japan are already preparing their response. John Kerry, the new U.S. Secretary of State, spoke to his counterparts in Tokyo and Seoul by phone on Sunday, and all of three of them agreed that the North must understand "that it will face significant consequences from the international community if it continues its provocative behavior," according to a summary of the calls from the U.S. State Department . A push for fresh condemnation and sanctions from the U.N. Security Council is likely, but whether or not the new measures have much bite depends on China. In the event of a new nuclear test, Beijing is likely "reduce its assistance to North Korea," the the state-run Chinese newspaper Global Times said in an editorial last month. But it added that "if the U.S., Japan and South Korea promote extreme U.N. sanctions on North Korea, China will resolutely stop them and force them to amend these draft resolutions." Fundamentally, analysts say, a new test won't upend the geopolitical situation in Northeast Asia. But it will seriously harm the chances of any meaningful dialog between Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington in the near future. "It will signal that the new regime, like its predecessors, has chosen bombs over electricity" for its impoverished population, Hecker wrote. Another test also increases concerns about where North Korea's nuclear material will end up in the long term, either because it decides to sell it or in the event of a collapse of the regime, according to Yun of the Ploughshares Fund. "That's something that we really have to be concerned about," he said. ### SUMMARY:

North Korea has vowed to carry out a "higher level" test . Experts and officials say it could take place at any time . Opinions vary on exactly what kind of test it may carry out . Another nuclear test is likely to further strain relations in East Asia .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Hannah Roberts . UPDATED: . 10:07 EST, 19 November 2011 . Six months after the disappearance of Timmothy Pitzen, police are hoping that a detailed analysis of his mother’s SUV will help lead them to the boy. Police released some results on Friday of a forensic analysis of the grass, dirt and debris that had accumulated on Amy Fry-Pitzen’s 2004 Ford Expedition. They are also hoping that surveillance videos and details about where Amy may have travelled that were released Friday will help jog a memory. Enduring mystery: Illinois schoolboy Timmothy Pitzen disappeared when his mother killed herself in a roadside motel room . On May 11, Amy took her only son out . of school and, without telling any family members, she and Timmothy went . on a three-day, 500-mile road trip, stopping at zoos and water parks in . northern Illinois and Wisconsin. On the third day, Amy finally called . family to report she was fine. The next morning, police found her body . in a Rockford motel. Police announced on Friday that the . lab has determined that plant material on the SUV indicate it was . stopped for a time on a wide gravel shoulder or a gravel road. Near the gravel area where the vehicle stopped, the SUV was backed into a grassy field, the beaconnews.suntimes.com reports. The lab results have given police a clearer indication of where Timmothy may have been dropped off. A few weeks ago, six months after the Illinois schoolboy disappeared when his mother killed herself in a roadside motel room, his grandmother Alana Anderson and father Jim Pitzen marked what would have been his seventh birthday by planting a 7-year-old blue spruce tree in the back garden. Anderson told the Chicago Tribune: 'I bought him a birthday card and cut out pictures of the things I would have bought for him,' 'A lighted skateboard. A remote-control helicopter.' The lively schoolboy vanished on May 11, when Fry-Pitzen, picked him up from his Aurora elementary school. In what were to be her final days mother . and son went to the zoo and a water park, one in the far north east Illinois, . the other in Wisconsin, before travelling west back into Illinois. Gone: Six months after the Illinois schoolboy disappeared his grandmother and father marked what would have been his seventh birthday by planting a 7-year-old blue spruce tree in the back garden . Fry Pitzen eventually checked into a motel near Rockford, northern Illinois alone and slit her wrists, leaving a suicide note and several letters in the post. In the notes to her husband, her mother and a close friend, she said her son was safe, and with people who loved him, but she did not say who she had left him with. According to Anderson, one of the notes warns, 'You will never find Timmothy'. And despite a massive search operation investigators have not been able to track down the missing child. Clue? One of the new surveillance clips show Timmothy and his mother walking to an elevator at the Key Lime Cove resort in Gurnee around 3:15 pm May 11, shortly after they checked in . Three . months ago police revealed that they found ‘a concerning amount’  of . the child’s blood in the backseat of his mother’s 2004 Ford Expedition . SUV. The clothes Fry-Pitzen was wearing when captured on surveillance video have never been found. This . includes the clothing she was wearing when she and her son checked out . of the Wisconsin Dells resorts, hours before she checked in alone to the . hotel room where her body was found. But the family continues to believe that Timmothy is alive. The blood may have come from a nose bleed Timmothy had about a year ago, they say. New lead? Fry Pitzen is shown here entering and leaving Sullivan Foods in Winnebago, Illinois around 8 pm May 13, not long before she killed herself. And testing of the knife Fry Pitzen used to kill herself revealed no traces of her son's DNA. 'I just try to do one day at a time,' Jim Pitzen told the Chicago Tribune. 'I hope whoever has Tim understands that he's not theirs and he needs to come home to his family.' The family’s steadfast belief that Timothy is alive is based on two things. Fry-Pitzen cared for her son deeply and showed her affection often. The 43-year-old had periodically . battled depression, but, her mother insisted, 'was not a crazy . person. She absolutely never acted bizarrely.' Missing: Timmothy, from Illinois, has not been seen since his mother killed herself in a hotel room in May . And she methodically planned her . suicide, leading Anderson and Pitzen to conclude that she'd made . similarly comprehensive plans for her son's upbringing. The . mother-of-one had helped Anderson, a retired emergency room nurse, . paint her house and clear up her backyard in recent months, asking, 'Is . there anything else I need to do for you?' She had also given her mother some antique furniture of hers that Anderson had long coveted. Toll . records reveal she made unexplained trips, in February and March, to . the area where the pair were last known to have been travelling, and to . which she had no prior connection. With . the holidays approaching, Anderson, who lives on her own, says she . misses her grandson, who would sleep at her home every other weekend. Carefree: Timmothy Pitzen is seen playing in his pyjamas before he went missing . For now she is just 'trying to put the pieces of my life together. They're just not that many of them left anymore.' 'It's . been rough,' Anderson told the Tribune. 'I think the first couple of months you're . in such shock, you're almost numb and it doesn't quite sink in. But now … . I don't expect it to be a whole lot better anytime soon.' She started a journal about a week after Timmothy vanished, in which she writes 'cute, little stories about him so he'll know what he . was like, how I felt about him; how hard we looked for him; the places . we went and things we did together.' Jim Pitzen has lost his job in . manufacturing since his son’s disappearance, but tries to keep occupied . to distract himself from his loss, and his questions. CCTV: There has been no sign of the vanished boy whose picture has been plastered on missing posters across the Midwest of the U.S. and on websites . Surveillance: These are the last images of six-year-old Timmothy Pitzen before he vanished and his mother later booked into a motel in Illinois and killed herself . Suicide: The boy's mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, 43, killed herself . He is still angry with his wife, the Tribune reported. He said: 'I think about her all the time.' 'I just wonder what she did with our son and why she wanted . him to be with someone else.' Police are expected to release new video of Timmothy today, hoping that new leads may emerge. Forensic investigators have been working to try to identify tall grass or weeds found on the underside of the SUV to link the materials to a more specific area. After Timothy's disappearance . officers searched a remote area about 100 miles west of Chicago, where . cellphone records indicated Fry-Pitzen and Timmothy were last together. Meanwhile, mindful of time passing, the . loving grandmother has started to throw away some of her grandson's . things, disposing of clothes that no longer would fit, and toys that he had . outgrown. To remind her of Timmothy, she is holding on to his favorites: some cars and truck, a much-loved book, . 'Diary of a Worm,' and even a plastic spoon he used the . last time they visited Dairy Queen. She said: 'He's out there. And I think when he's old enough, he'll find us.' Road trip: Amy and Timmothy Pitzen were heading for the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells, but the mother-of-one committed suicide at a hotel in Rockford, Illinois . ### SUMMARY:

Timmothy Pitzen disappeared in May when his mother killed herself in a roadside motel room . Amy Fry Pitzen left suicide notes saying Timmothy was with people who loved him, but that he would never be found . Police have searched remote areas for a body after boy's blood was found in his mother's car but have found nothing . Anguished father and grandmother still believe Illinois schoolboy is alive but may have been taken abroad .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Jamie Mcginnes . PUBLISHED: . 06:29 EST, 1 June 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 07:04 EST, 1 June 2012 . Cyberbullied: Giant Georgia Davis, 19, was forced to delete her Facebook page after she was targeted by internet trolls . Britain’s fattest teenager is being tormented by sick internet trolls who say they wish she was dead as she is treated in hospital. Georgia Davis, 19, was yesterday forced to delete her Facebook page after she was targeted by cyberbullies who taunted her for weighing 63 stone. Friends say she is upset after being bombarded with sick jokes and cruel remarks since being rushed to hospital for complications brought on by obesity. Miss Davis - who spent hours on Facebook while housebound due to her size - was yesterday stable in hospital as doctors tried to treat her obesity. As well as having her personal account abused the teenager also had to contend with one troll creating a new Facebook page called RIP Georgia Davis - which has since been taken down. The page said: 'You are just a big lazy girl who loves cake - you are a fat waste of space and I hope you die soon. 'You fat blob, you are adding millions of pounds to the tax payers bill. If I had my way I would wipe that fat grin off your face by making you pay us back.' Another anonymous commenter said: 'Why don’t you just stop eating so much you fat fool. The rise in popularity of social networking sites has been accompanied by a worrying increase in computer screen harassers known as 'trolls'. They are people who post deliberately sick and inflammatory messages on web pages and forums to provoke anger and upset. Sean Duffy, 26, from Reading, Berkshire, who targeted dead teenagers and cruelly . mocked their deaths was banned from social networking sites in March. He admitted defacing a tribute site set up to remember schoolgirl Sophie Taylor, 16, who was shot accidentally by her boyfriend. Duffy was sentenced to a community payback order with supervision for two years and told to do 300 hours of unpaid work. People in the public eye have also been targeted by trolls. Comedian Dom Joly called the police after a Twitter account was set up by somebody writing abusive messages about his two children. And student Liam Stacey, 21, who mocked footballer Fabrice Muamba on Twitter after he collapsed during a match, was jailed for 56 days for inciting racial hatred. 'You are just a big lazy girl who loves cake - you are a fat waste of space and I hope you die soon.' Miss Davis had to be cut free from her home in Aberdare, South Wales, in a rescue operation after she became too heavy to leave her bedroom. Around 40 people were tasked with taking down two walls and building a ramp so she could be stretchered to nearby Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil. She was yesterday described as stable in hospital as doctors put her on a strict diet to tackle her health problems - including diabetes, kidney failure, spinal and skin problems. But as she lay in bed recovering, trolls set up the fake Facebook tribute page. It was reported to the site by her friends and has now been removed. One message on it read: '63-stone teen dies in hospital - as she hears McDonalds are banning her.' And cyberbullies also took to the networking site Twitter to post vile jokes about her weight. One said: 'Georgia Davis was asked what was her favourite instrument in school? 'She said the dinner bell.' Another wrote: 'Georgia Davis says she was depressed as she has just lost her boyfriend - Has she tried looking in the folds of her skin to see if he’s there?' Miss Davis closed down her Facebook page in an attempt to escape her tormentors - eventhough it was one of the main ways she kept in touch with friends. Major operation: It took 40 people to rescue Miss Davis from her home after she fell ill . One friend close to Miss Davis said: 'It’s an absolute disgrace how people are treating a girl they don’t even know with such disrespect. 'She turned to the internet for support and she gets sick comments like this sent her way. 'She has closed her own Facebook page now and is very upset. Friends: Jade Tarrant (left) lived with Georgia Davis (right), but Miss Davis put on weight again after moving back in with her parents . 'I just want her to be able to focus on getting healthy and in better shape, she doesn’t need mockery like this.' Miss Davis moved in with friend Jade Tarrant but put on weight after she returned home to care for her sick step-father. Miss Tarrant revealed earlier this week how Miss Davis's weight went from 18 stone to 63 stone as she returned to her bad habit of eating junk food. Miss Tarrant, 19, said: 'I always knew it was going to get this bad if she went home again. 'She’d come to live with me because of all the stress. Being with the mum and her step-dad got so stressful. 'She just wanted a break - she wanted some girly time. 'She would have lost weight if she stayed with me because I like my salads and I could have got her on it. 'But she missed her mum and step-dad. She ended up going back and putting her own health at risk.' Miss Davis moved out of their shared home in Aberdare to move back into her parents' home three miles away after her step-father was diagnosed with lung cancer. She tried to be good daughter as her mother struggled with osteoporosis, Miss Tarrant said. But the stress led to her returning to a diet of cakes, chips, burgers and chocolate, washed down by sugary fizzy drinks. Miss Tarrant added: 'If she’d stayed with me her life would have been good, she would have been happy and not had a so many problems on her mind. 'It was the strain of caring for her ill parents which made her eat - it was eating as a way of coping.' She thinks the world of her mum, she loves her and she loves her step-dad - she’s been through a lot. 'I like my salads and I could have got her on it': Jade Tarrant said she could have helped Miss Davis lose weight again . 'Her mum’s osteoporosis and her step-dad’s lung problems had a large impact on her. 'It went wrong when she moved back in with them, she was under a lot of stress and it put her back on the same spot. 'She went back to eating fatty foods and having huge portions every time we went out for a meal.' Miss Davis eventually stopped venturing outside altogether and, by the time a 40-man emergency team cut her free, she had not left the house for about eight months. The teenager is being treated for a range of obesity-related problems at hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. She is suffering from complications including diabetes and kidney failure, as well as problems with her spine, joints and skin. Doctors and obesity experts have put her on a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet to help her lose weight. Jade, who is currently pregnant with her first child, said: 'When I saw the situation I was in shock. I broke down and started crying. 'I didn’t even realise it was her, It didn’t look like her, she looked so unhappy. 'I had a fear inside me that something would happen one day but never expected this. 'I really want Georgia to get well and get out of hospital so she can come and see me and my baby.' A hospital spokesman said: 'Georgia is still undergoing investigations and receiving treatment from a range of health professionals. 'We are pleased to advise that her clinical condition is stable.' Scaffolding: The upstairs front wall of Miss Davis's home had to be demolished to free the teenager . ### SUMMARY:

Georgia Davis, 19, has deleted her Facebook page after she was singled out by cyberbullies taunting her for weighing 63 stone . Sick page set up on the social networking site called RIP Georgia Davis . One of the cruel jibes said: 'You are just a big lazy girl who loves cake - you are a fat waste of space and I hope you die soon' She had to be rescued from her home in Wales after her weight increased . Miss Davis said to be 'stable' in hospital, where she is being treated for a range of obesity-related problems .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Emma Reynolds . PUBLISHED: . 03:45 EST, 26 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 08:42 EST, 26 November 2012 . Homeowners were today trying to repair the damage to their homes after a £1.7milllion flood defence system failed during torrential rain this weekend. Families in Kempsey, Worcestershire, had not taken action to protect their homes because they believed they were protected by the state of the art pumps - and had even staged a party to celebrate the installation. In fact, the devastation was worse than it had ever been in floods before the system was installed. Villagers branded the failure of the new system 'unacceptable' and said somebody had to take responsibility for the devastation. Evacuated: Resident Dan Corns said it was 'unacceptable' that the pumps had failed, leaving his and other homes under four feet of water . About 30 houses in the village were evacuated in the early hours of Sunday morning after they began filling up with water. A further 60 caravans were flooded during the deluge, with up to two feet of  water in some places. The terrifying night came as parts of Britain . experienced their worst floods for 70 years, breaching more than 800 homes . and leaving 10,000 still at risk. Resident Dan Corns said: 'More than £1m was spent on [the defences] and somebody's got to take responsibility. 'It is unacceptable the pumps failed. 'Literally . within 10 minutes it was rising at a rate of knots. The water has . damaged all of my furniture - we had such little time.' Stained: Homeowners evacuated by boat were today inspecting the damage and cleaning up . Dan Spires showed TV cameras the damage . to his home, admitting that he had not prepared for flooding because he . believed the Government-backed system would protect them. 'Because of the flood defences we didn't expect it to happen, so we hadn't moved everything upstairs, that's the bottom line,' he told BBC News. 'We weren't prepared for this. If the flood defences weren't in, we'd have moved everything because of the warnings that were all over the news.' The defence system was completed in July, after almost 12 months of work, which included the building of a 180m (590ft) earth embankment to protect the village from the River Severn. Sluice gates would close if the Severn flooded, while pumps were intended to remove water from Hatfield Brook to the other side of the embankment. The Environment Agency confirmed that the pumps failed at about 5am on Sunday morning. They were paid for out of the public purse and with £5,000 raised by villagers themselves. Wrecked: Dan Spires's possessions were ruined after his home filled with water during the deluge this weekend . Shocked: Mr Spires said he had not prepared for flooding or moved furniture upstairs because he thought the defences would protect his house . Extreme: Villagers said that despite the pumps being in place, the flooding was even worse than in 2007, when the river rose to half a metre higher . Resident Michael Gill said the water rose far quicker than in the floods of 2007. Mr Gill said: 'The pumps failed on this occasion and made the flood risk much worse and six or seven houses have been very badly damaged.' Toby Kempton, station commander of the fire service, said several residents who had been rescued were 'distressed and confused'. Kempsey councillor David Harrison said the impact of the heavy rain was worse than it would have been without the water pumps. 'Disappointment': The Environment Agency has visited houses to manually pump out floodwater, but said 30,000 houses had been successfully protected across Britain . 'I was woken up at 5.15am to get down there after the water rose about four feet in half an hour,' he told MailOnline. 'A mobile phone network had gone down and it was chaos. 'About 20 houses were underwater, one of the pubs and the sewage pumping station, so nothing was working. 'The people evacuated by boat included a baby of less than two days old and a 90-year-old and an 87-year-old. Excitement: Homeowners who had put £5,000 of their own money into the Government-backed scheme were delighted when the flood defences were completed in July . 'Residents went around waking other people up. There were fire trucks, fire boats, the police and West Midlands search and rescue arrived later.' He said no one had expected the pumps to fail. 'When you go to a garage and buy a new car, you expect it to work,' he said. 'This is the system's third flood. In July they were worked manually because they weren't quite finished and the second flood was about a month ago, when they worked automatically and worked fine. 'The pumps had been working fine since . Wednesday, but one didn't kick in, and because the gate was closed, . Hatfield Brook ended up higher than the Severn. 'The Environment Agency noticed that one of the pumps wasn't working at about 3am. 'They are looking into how it happened. Up until 2008, Kempsey homes had been flooded 23 times in 30 years, but the EA claimed the project has reduced the risk of flooded homes to a one in 100 chance in any one year. Yet villagers say the damage is worse than the last time they were flooded, in 2007, when the river level was half a metre higher than this time. The fire service said 60 caravans had also flooded in Kempsey. An EA spokesman told MailOnline: 'There are two pumps, one worked and protected up to 80 homes, while the other failed because of an electrical problem. 'It meant that the village was not protected. 'We were on site straight away and had it working within two hours. 'We are investigating what happened and working with local residents. We've been pumping water out of their houses. 'We are disappointed and our hearts go out to those affected. 'Our systems protected more than 30,000 houses and are all working as they should. We have teams routinely checking them and we are shoring up systems that are rising more than expected after five days of persistent rain.' Environment minister Richard Benyon said the Government will be spending £2.17bn 'which will see more flood schemes going ahead'. This morning, however, he told ITV's Daybreak that he was frustrated about flood defence failures. High hopes: One of the two water pumps failed because of an electrical fault, leaving water levels in Kempsey evbn higher than those of the River Severn . He said: 'It is slightly frustrating. I feel really sorry for the people of Kempsey, who were flooded because the pumps didn’t turn on. They must feel really let down this morning and we want to get to the bottom of what happened there. 'But I think at about 10pm last night, the figure of 26,000 homes didn’t flood in the last 48 hours because of flood defences which have been constructed over recent years, and that is a positive story.' Meanwhile, the EA admitted that flood defences at Polperro in Cornwall were 'overtopped' by 'unprecedented' levels of floodwater. A spokesman said the river went from being below flood alert levels to a severe flood warning in the space of two hours. Alan Crockford, a pub landlord in the village, said there had been warnings but 'nobody knew it would get this bad'. He said: 'I was actually in my house and I heard a roar, and just looked outside the window and that was the first bit of water that just, just came down the hill, like a river running straight down the road. 'We were given warnings from Floodline, and they just said, like, to take care; we were never given any firm warning that you had to evacuate and no-one knew to expect it this bad.' VIDEO: Watch minister Richard Benyon talk about the floods on Daybreak... ### SUMMARY:

Distressed families said they were unprepared for flooding because they had been told the pumps would protect them . Valued possessions were washed away and villagers evacuated . A baby and a 90-year-old were rescued from their houses by boat . Water rose four feet in just half an hour after electrical fault . Parts of Britain experienced worst floods in 70 years .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Steve Nolan . PUBLISHED: . 07:55 EST, 27 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:40 EST, 27 January 2013 . Fresh footage of the nightmare faced by drivers stranded during heavy snowfall has emerged as one of the UK's busiest motorways ground to a halt during a blizzard in the early hours of Saturday morning. Some drivers were stuck for as long as eight hours on the M6 between junctions 25 and 27 between Wigan and Chorley in Lancashire after a sudden deluge of snow. But as the footage shows, not everyone was willing to sit tight and wait for driving conditions to improve. Scroll down for video . In a hurry: While most motorists took the sensible option of sitting out the snow until driving conditions improved, some motorists, including the driver of this lorry, left, decided to speed through four inches of snow on the hard shoulder of the M6 . Impatient: The lorry is pictured flying up the hard shoulder spraying waiting cars with snow . Following suit: Seeing the progress made by the lorry, a white van follows suit flying up the hard shoulder of the M6 . Reckless: It's not just the hard shoulder that drivers are using to get ahead, a white van drives up the snow covered fast lane on the M6 on Friday night . Treacherous: A huge tailback of traffic pictured stranded on the M6 motorway late on Friday night after heavy snowfall . Chaos: The M6 motorway was blocked in both directions between junctions 25 and 27 in Lancashire when a sudden burst of more than a foot of snow brought drivers to a standstill around 8.30pm, the Highways Agency said . Jackknifed: A lorry is stranded in heavy snow on the M6 in the early hours of Saturday morning . The footage shows several drivers, including one in a heavy haulage vehicle flying down the hard shoulder of the M6 trying to beat the giant tailbacks. The motorway ground to a halt at around 8.30pm on Friday night after light sleet turned into a heavy snow drift which brought more than a foot of snow. Some drivers helped other motorists, while others took the time to have friendly snowball fights or build snowmen on the carriageway. But as the footage shows other people were a little bit more desperate to get to their final destination. Eye witnesses reported that a number of vehicles tried to drive around the blocked traffic using the hard shoulder but ended up crashing in the bad weather causing further tailbacks. Other drivers said that some drivers were so desperate to move that their cars were sliding from side to side, colliding with other vehicles. Bizarre: MP David Morris tweeted this picture of a snowman built on top of a car on the M6 during blizzard-like conditions on Friday night . Chief Inspector Mike Adamson said: 'We realised at about 11pm (on Friday night) that this was going to be a major incident. 'Some of the drivers and passengers have been stuck for hours - it has been a very difficult night for them. 'We have set up a command centre at Charnock Services, where officers have collected hot drinks and taken them to those who are stuck.' Mountain rescue workers walked along the four-mile stretch of the M6 in Lancashire overnight to check on the condition of drivers. A diabetic man was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital, while an ambulance taking a female patient to Royal Preston Hospital had to be dug out of the snow by Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue team. Phil O'Brien, team leader of Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue, said: 'It was potentially a very serious situation. The Highways Agency managed to get people moving at about 4.30 to 5am. 'There were hundreds of cars stuck but most people seemed in good spirits.' But while some drivers lightheartedly entertained themselves with snowball fights and building snowmen, one woman who got stuck on the M6 travelling home to Bootle from Wigan described the it as the 'scariest experience' she had had in 26 years of driving. Louise Jones, who spent five hours on the motorway making the 20 mile trip home, told ITV: 'We did not move at all, three lanes of cars were totally gridlocked. For the first three hours we left the engine running to keep warm, then turned it off and every car we could see was just sitting in the darkness, it was really eerie how silent it was. 'Eventually a snow plough drove along the hard shoulder at about 1am, then we saw nothing moving until a police car at 1.40am. Too dangerous: A car is left abandoned on a slip road beside junction 25 of the M6 in Lancashire . Abandoned: The driver of this car decided it was too dangerous to continue trying to drive and abandoned their car next to a slip road on the M6 . 'It really was horrendous. I can't understand why it took so long to clear enough space to direct traffic through. It was a total farce.' Lancashire Police also worked with Lancashire Mountain Rescue teams, the Highways Agency and neighbouring force Greater Manchester Police to clear roads and provide welfare assistance to those who were stranded. The Highway Agency worked throughout the night to clear the routes with snow ploughs. Kevin Collister, who was stuck on the motorway just past the M58 junction heading northbound, told Sky News: 'There is absolutely no movement whatsoever on my side of the carriageway, all the snow is squashed down into ice and there are wagons trying to move and sliding sideways.' He described how his 45 minute journey ended up taking right hours and claimed there were no emergency services in sight. He told the TV station: 'It was very heavy snow and absolute chaos. It was absolutely freezing. 'We saw one Highways Agency car drive past us and that was all. On the move: The M6 was moving again yesterday morning after some drivers were stranded for as long as eight hours overnight on Friday . Scene: The M6 was closed between junction 25 and 27 . 'It was only good Samaritans like us who went around to check on other drivers and make sure they were okay.' 'Everyone knew we were going to be there for a few hours so we all just made the best of it. People were having snowball fights over the central reservation and building snowmen to pass the time. 'I eventually got home at 6am this morning so was stuck for about ten hours.' Another person claimed a burger van stranded on the M6 started serving food to other drivers stuck on the M6. Paul Kingston tweeted: 'Motorists caught in M6 #uksnow storm in Lancs last night were saved from hunger, after stranded burger van opens up shop on carriageway.' Conservative MP for Morecambe & Lunesdale David Morris, who was stuck on the southbound carriageway, reported surreal scenes but a camaraderie among the drivers stuck in the snow. Deluge: It wasn't just the M6 that was affected by heavy snow. Pictured here is the B6479 in Horton, Ribblehead, North Yorkshire . Work cut out: A tractor with a snow plough attempts to clear some of the snow off the B6255 in Ribblehead, north Yorkshire . All white: Selside North Yorkshire, pictured in heavy snow on Friday . He told Mail Online: 'The snow just came out of nowhere -'I've never seen anything like it in my life. 'I set off around 8pm to go and pick up my son from Manchester and there was a little bit of sleet . 'But when I got on the M6 it just came down really suddenly. I'd already seen several gritters on the road but there was so much snow in such a short space of time there was little they could do. 'The traffic ground to a halt as the snow got heavier and we just started to get snowed in. 'The emergency services were fantastic and the Mountain Rescue Service and police were driving up and down the hard shoulder checking on people while they worked on getting the traffic flowing again. 'A few people have asked me if I don't think the gritters should have done a better a job but I don't think there's more they could have done. There was so much snow that the grit had little impact.' VIDEO  Saturday snow scene on M6 captured by trapped motorist . VIDEO    Stranded MP David Morris talks on camera from the snow-bound M6 . ### SUMMARY:

The M6 motorway was closed in Lancashire on Friday night . Heavy snowfall made the road impassible for drivers . Some motorists were stuck for up to eight hours . Many had snowball fights or built snowmen on the road . Others weren't so patient as new footage shows cars attempting to use the hard shoulder .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Martyn Ziegler, Press Association . PUBLISHED: . 08:52 EST, 14 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 09:49 EST, 14 December 2012 . The Professional Footballers' Association have slated the 'inadequate' fine imposed by UEFA on Serbia for racist abuse and violence towards England Under 21 players. UEFA's independent control and disciplinary panel fined the Serbian FA just £65,000 - a remarkable £15,000 less than Denmark striker Nicklas Bendtner was forced to pay for showing branded boxers as part of a goal celebration - for their part in the ugly post-match scenes. In a statement issued today, the PFA said they were looking to UEFA to send a strong message to the football community that racism would not be tolerated in the game, but were left disappointed by the sanctions. Abuse: Danny Rose claimed to have been subjected to monkey chants . Anger: Rose reacts to the racist taunts . The statement said: 'The PFA has . expressed its dismay at the totally inadequate fine levied by UEFA . against the Serbian FA after the disgraceful scenes of racism and . violence during the recent Under 21 match with England. 'Everybody has been looking to the . Confederation to send out a strong message as a deterrent to ensure that . behaviour such as this is eradicated from our game.  Unfortunately once . more a disappointing penalty has been imposed.' Chief executive Gordon Taylor was . outraged by the perceived leniency of the panel's decision, and expressed his disappointment that England . players Tom Ince and Steven Caulker were banned for their part. Caulker was banned for two games, and Ince is set to miss one match through suspension. He said: 'This is a totally inadequate fine which sends a very poor message out . to the football world.  I intend to write to Michel Platini expressing . our dissatisfaction and calling for stronger action.  In addition, we . will strongly support the FA in their appeal against the decision to . charge Steven Caulker and Thomas Ince. Platini is considering an appeal to increase the one-match spectator ban and 80,000 euro fine imposed on Serbia. Too lenient? Michel Platini could lodge an appeal . UEFA itself can appeal to increase . the severity of the punishment. UEFA sources said Platini has taken note . of the sanction and will make a final decision once he has read the . full file on his return from Japan next week. The European body’s prosecuting inspector had proposed more 'drastic' measures, the Serbian federation has admitted. The PFA are not alone in their incredulity after the relatively lax punishment. Liverpool manager Brandan Rodgers today said: 'I saw it yesterday and felt for all the England players and staff who were there. It is bitterly disappointing to say the least. 'The sanction is not too dissimilar to someone showing a sponsor on a pair of pants. I thought it was poor really. But it is up to them.' West Ham manager Sam Allardyce added: 'To see the English players punished as well is a little difficult to take. Everybody was looking to see what UEFA might do and I think what they have done is try to just get this one over with as quick as they can and not dealt with it severely enough. Saying his piece: Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers expressed his disappointment at UEFA's decision . 'We should ask UEFA, what are your policies on racism? Let’s get those policies and see if they are good enough to deal with racism. If I was Nicklas Bendtner I’d ask for my fine back.' QPR defender Anton Ferdinand, the . target of racial abuse by John Terry last year, also contrasted the sanction . against Serbia with the 100,000 euro and one-match ban handed to former . Arsenal striker Bendtner for displaying a betting firm’s logo on . his underpants during Euro 2012. Ferdinand tweeted: 'Wow UEFA ain’t serious with their punishment... So showin a sponsor is worst than racism and fighting!' His brother Rio added: 'Uefa are not . serious at all on racism. Fines do not work at all. They have zero . impact on federations/clubs/fans/players #fact. 'Uefa need to talk to this . generation.....they don’t seem to be up to date on this issue?? Harsh . punishments needed as a deterrent #simple.' The Football Association also . criticised the sanction and will appeal against two-match and one-match . bans for Steven Caulker and Tom Ince respectively. Ugly: The end of England U21's win over Serbia was marred by clashes . Flashpoint: England striker Marvin Sordell in the tunnel . FA general secretary Alex Horne said: . “We are disappointed with the sanctions levied by UEFA with regards to . the racist behaviour displayed towards England’s players. 'Let’s be clear, racism is . unacceptable in any form, and should play no part in football. The . scenes were deplorable and we do not believe the sanction sends a strong . enough message.' The FA reported the racist abuse to UEFA plus a number of other incidents. Full-back Danny Rose, who was . dismissed after the final whistle for kicking the ball away in anger, . complained he had been subjected to monkey chants throughout the match . and as he left the pitch. Serbian FA secretary general Zoran . Lakovic appeared to suggest that the UEFA official prosecuting the . charges had also demanded tougher action. Lakovic said in a statement: 'If we . take into account what the drastic proposed penalty by the disciplinary . inspector Jean-Samuel Leube we have not been hit so hard. That's pants: Denmark's striker Nicklas Bendtner was fined £80,000 for showing bookmakers' logo . 'I believe that this is a final . warning to all of us who work in Serbian football, including coaches and . players and fans, because for even the smallest mistake UEFA can now . impose the most rigorous punishment.' Lord Herman Ouseley, chairman of Kick . It Out, slammed the sanction as “a paltry slap on the wrist”, adding: . 'Again we haven’t seen decisive action from UEFA.' Piara Powar, executive director of . European anti-discrimination body FARE, said UEFA had failed to display . the necessary leadership. Powar said: 'The original offences warranted a more severe collective punishment than a ban on spectators for one match. 'This is a moment in which leadership . to challenge discrimination is needed from all authorities. This . sanction falls short of that objective.' Serbia and the FA have three days in . which to lodge an appeal - while UEFA themselves can also appeal against . the control and disciplinary body if they too think the independent . commission has been too lenient. Shocking: Rose was distressed after the ugly scenes marred the match . The punishments as they stand . ### SUMMARY:

UEFA's independent control and disciplinary board fine Serbian FA £15,000 less than Nicklas Bendtner for showing branded boxers in goal celebration . President Michel Platini may appeal board's decision . Premier League managers also express disappointment at Tom Ince and Steven Caulker suspensions . The Serbia Under 21 nation team ordered to play their next UEFA competition home match behind closed doors. The Football Association of Serbia was fined 80,000 euro. Serbia . fitness coach Andreja Milunovic was suspended from all football-related . activities for two years, the second of which is suspended for a . probationary period of three years. Serbia . assistant coach Predrag Katic was suspended from all football-related . activities for two years, the final six months of which are suspended . for a probationary period of three years. Serbia's Goran Causic suspended for four UEFA national team competition matches. Serbia's Ognjen Mudrinski suspended for three UEFA national team competition matches. Serbia's  Filip Malbasic was suspended for three UEFA national team competition matches. Serbia's Nikola Ninkovic was suspended for two UEFA national team competition matches. The disciplinary proceedings opened against Serbia player Aleksandar Pantic were dismissed. The FA has received a warning for improper conduct by its team (more than five cautions). England's Steven Caulker suspended for two UEFA national team competition matches. England's Thomas Ince suspended for one UEFA national team competition match.

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Chris Hastings . PUBLISHED: . 15:58 EST, 11 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 19:13 EST, 11 May 2013 . A set of portraits drawn by one of the key figures in the Profumo Affair has been discovered – 50 years after they were ‘disposed of’. The pictures were drawn by Stephen Ward, the ‘fixer’ in the 1960s scandal who was accused of introducing Minister of War John Profumo to showgirl Christine Keeler. The pair enjoyed an illicit affair but after Keeler was subsequently discovered to be sleeping with  Russian naval attaché Yevgeny Ivanov, Profumo was forced to resign from the Cabinet and Ward was prosecuted for living off the immoral earnings of prostitution. Portraits: Christine Keeler has identified the picture on the left as a portrait of her. The right portrait is said to be of Mandy Rice-Davies. The pictures were drawn by Stephen Ward, the ‘fixer’ in the 1960s scandal . Leaving court: Christine Keeler (right) with Mandy Rice-Davies (left) leaving the Old Bailey when Stephen Ward was on trial facing vice charges . Lawyers acting for Ward, who committed suicide in 1963 while on trial, considered the portraits sensitive and gave orders for them to be removed from public view. But the artworks, which are reproduced today for the very first time, survived because the clerk of the now-defunct law firm M. A. Jacobs & Sons secretly gave them to one of his best friends for safe keeping. The distinctive pencil, chalk and charcoal sketches include portraits of 14 sitters, including Keeler  and Ivanov. Keeler, who has studied the portraits on behalf of The Mail on Sunday, last night identified a picture of a young woman with her hair in a bun as a portrait of her. Other sitters are believed to include Profumo and Mandy Rice-Davies, a friend of both Ward and Keeler who had a string of affairs with high-profile figures of the day. Ward, who met many of his portrait subjects through his work as a high society osteopath, was instrumental in introducing some of the key players in the controversy to each other and was at the infamous party at Lord Astor’s Cliveden estate where Keeler, who was just 19 at the time, met Profumo. All smiles: Stephen Ward with Christine Keeler in 1963 (left) and one of his drawings, featuring a mystery model (right) Scandal: Mr Ward, the ‘fixer’ in the 1960s scandal, was accused of introducing Minister of War John Profumo (left) to showgirl Christine Keeler (right) A besotted Profumo, who was then married to actress Valerie Hobson, had no idea Keeler was also sleeping with Ivanov. Ward, who prior to the scandal had been one of the best connected people in London and counted Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, Harold Macmillan and Sophia Loren among his friends, quickly became the scapegoat for the affair. He took an overdose on the day before his trial ended. He was still in a coma on July 31 when the  jury found him guilty and he died on August 3, 1963. It is believed the portraits may have been destined for an exhibition at the now-defunct Museum Street Galleries in London’s West End. Artist: Lawyers acting for Ward (pictured), who committed suicide in 1963 while on trial, considered the portraits sensitive and gave orders for them to be removed from public view . At the time of his trial, Ward was represented by flamboyant celebrity lawyer David Jacobs. It is believed that Jacobs ordered his clerk Eddie Marks to get rid of the portraits. But Marks instead decided to give the works to his friend George Olaf Spanswick, an avid art collector. Spanswick died  in 1988 but his family held on to  the sketches. His daughter Carolyn Bartlett said: ‘Eddie decided to get rid of the sketches but did it in his own way. He knew my father would look after them.’ Stephen Dorril, who wrote the book Honeytrap about the Profumo Affair, said: ‘It is quite likely these pictures were among those which were to be shown at the Museum Street Galleries exhibition.’ By Walter Harris . Talented: Stephen Ward's illustrations had attracted the attention of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who gave unique permission for Ward to draw MPs in session in the Commons . On a spring evening in 1960, I went to dinner at a small nightclub called The Paint Box in Foley Street, one of a tangle of narrow thoroughfares between Broadcasting House and Great Titchfield Street in London. The club had a semi-circular stage, around the perimeter of which hung a red curtain. In front of the stage were half a dozen easels, with paper and crayons. The curtain would draw back to reveal a nude sitter in a chair. The club was managed by a tiny model, Adele de Havilland, who tried to increase her height with  a beehive hairdo and stiletto heels. On this particular evening, there was only one man sitting at an easel, whose portrait of the model was remarkably accurate. I commented on it to Adele. ‘Oh, that’s Stephen Ward; he’s getting quite well known as an artist. Would you like to meet him?’ ‘Yes please.’ She fetched him and, after the introduction, left us to sit down over a drink. Ward had hair brushed straight back, a soft voice and great charm. His talent as an osteopath had brought him patients from the upper reaches of society. His illustrations had attracted the attention of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who as a consequence gave unique permission for Ward to draw MPs in session in the Commons. Ward and I had dinner and became friends, often meeting for coffee. When a distinguished journalist of the day, Brian Inglis, needed an osteopath to review a chapter of a new book on homeopathy he was writing, I suggested Stephen Ward. ‘I’ve never heard of him, but do bring him round for lunch.’ The three of us had an omelette and a flagon of burgundy, and Stephen took away the chapter for checking. Not long afterwards, he invited me to the first night of an exhibition of his drawings at the Leggatt Brothers’ Gallery in Jermyn Street, mounted as a reward after he healed the neck  of one of the brothers which had been broken in a riding accident. Among the sitters attending the exhibition I remember Robert Boothby, who had had a prolonged affair with Lady Dorothy Macmillan, the Prime Minister’s wife; Duncan Sandys, Churchill’s son-in-law and Secretary of State for Defence; and the Conservative MP for Lewes, Major Tufton Beamish. All of them greeted Ward as a friend, the aloof Sandys putting an arm round him. Affair: John Profumo, the newly-appointed Secretary of State for War at the War Office before the scandal of his affair with call-girl Christine Keeler . Then the Profumo Affair hit the headlines, and they, together with the rest of Ward’s society ‘friends’, were gone, the shelves in his consultancy empty of invitations. Inglis, Ward and I had one more lunch together, at a restaurant in Manchester Square. It was obvious that ‘Bovine’ Henry Brooke, the Home Secretary, was intent on framing Stephen Ward as a pimp and a Russian spy. ‘Stephen, what really happened? I’ll guarantee you any organ of communication – the BBC, The Times, the Sunday Despatch – to put your side of the case.’ Ward, however, had become a fantasist. ‘Dear boy, England’s a brothel and Macmillan’s the madame. I’m acting as liaison between Macmillan, Kennedy and Khrushchev in the cause of peace.’ He chuckled; Inglis shrugged in despair. There was now no way to cleanse the smears, no way to win back any social status and no way to deflect the inevitable. Three days after our final lunch, Ward was arrested, and six weeks later died by his own hand. ### SUMMARY:

Sketches include portraits of 14 sitters, including showgirl Christine Keeler . Images drawn by Stephen Ward, the 'fixer' in the 1960s scandal . His lawyers ordered for them to be removed from public view . But a clerk of the law firm secretly gave them to a friend for safe keeping .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 09:04 EST, 2 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:23 EST, 2 July 2013 . Moving house is the perfect time to get rid of some unwanted clutter. But this particular move is no ordinary downsize – and the local car boot sale might not make the grade. Because the aristocratic Cunliffe-Copeland family, who have owned  Trelissick House in Cornwall for  generations, are expected to raise  more than £3million selling off their heirlooms at auction. Sale: A few of the items being auctioned off from the Trelissick House stately home near Truro in Cornwall which are expected to raise more than three million pounds . The 18th-century property was left to the National Trust 58 years ago  provided that members of the family could carry on living in the manor. But the current incumbent, William Copeland, has decided to buy a normal-sized home for his young family and will not have enough room for hundreds of the antiques. He has decided to host a garden sale with a difference – a two-day auction of ornaments, paintings, furniture, jewellery, silverware, books, rugs and wine – which will be held in the grounds later this month. The contents of Trelissick House in Cornwall could raise around £3m at the ultimate garden sale later this month . William and Jennifer Copeland, left, are selling the treasures before they move their family to a smaller home . There is no reserve on many of the . items, which means almost everything will be sold off, even if the bids . fail to hit the expected price. For years the Cunliffe-Copelands have filled Trelissick House with treasures picked up on their travels around the globe. Leonard Cunliffe, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England, began the collection in the late 19th century. Mr Copeland said: ‘My . great-grandfather had very fine tastes and collected many works of art . from his travels in Europe and further afield. This picture was painted by famous equine artist John Frederic Herring, a former groom to the Copeland family . Lots up for sale include the Qianlong vase, worth £100,000, left, and a pair of model lions worth £10,000, right . ‘We have been guardians of these fine . works for a number of years and now that we are moving locally it is . time to pass them on for others to enjoy.’ The most expensive item for sale is an 18th-century Chinese Imperial vase which is now worth £100,000. A mahogany desk is valued at £30,000 while a pair of 18th century walnut side tables are also tipped to make £30,000. Mr Copeland’s grandmother, Ida, was a Conservative MP and her George III mahogany writing desk is expected to bring in £15,000. Ancestral home: Treslissick House has been lived in by the same family for a century and has 25 rooms . Stunning views: The house and grounds, which are owned by the National Trust, overlook the Fal estuary . An ornate Victorian silver candelabra . has an estimated price tag of £7,000 while a ten-piece silver dessert . service from the same period is valued at £25,000. And for any wine connoisseurs there . are 11 bottles of 1990 Chateau Palmer red wine at £1,200, three bottles . of a single malt whisky from 1935 for £1,200 and two bottles of a 1906 . St Lheurine Petite Champagne Cognac priced at an eye-watering £1,500. Roger Tappin from auctioneers . Bonhams, which is organising  the sale, said: ‘It is a stunning . property with some wonderful items inside. Richard Hird from Bonhams marks up the extensive collecton of Spode and Copeland ceramics ahead of the sale . Portraits of previous Trelissick residents WFM Copeland, left, and Richard Pirie Copeland, right, are for sale . These intricately-decorated Spode beaded vases date back to 1817 and are said to be worth an estimated £4,000 . Up for sale are portraits of William Taylor Copeland, left, and Evelyn Copeland dressed as a shepherdess . ‘Although the National Trust own the house and estate, the Copeland family live in the house and own the contents. ‘William Copeland has decided that the time has come to downsize and own a more normal-sized family home in Cornwall. ‘Of course they can’t take the contents with them. ‘So they have now decided to sell it all and give other people the chance to buy a piece of their family history.’ Stacks of pictures and the Copeland family plaque are among lots up for sale on July 23 and 24 at Trelissick . Jenny and Willian Copeland are moving to a smaller house nearby - the last of five generations at Trelissick House . The heirlooms being sold have been collected by five generations of the Cunliffe-Copeland family at Trelissick . He added: ‘The items are typical of what you would expect to find in a historic country house. ‘People like to go to garden  sales . and get a glimpse into  other people’s lives. To not only  get an . insight into life inside a stately home like Trelissick  but also to . have the chance to  buy something from it is quite something.’ Mr Tappin explained that English country house sales used to be a common occurrence in the 1950s and 60s, but are now very rare. Stately home: Trelissick House has been lived in by five generations of the same family . The entire contents of the house is for sale, from furniture and paintings to the contents of the (valuable) cellar . A vast array of Spode and Copeland ceramics will be auctioned in the two-day sale later this month . The dining table and chairs are up for sale with the rest of the dining room furniture at the Cornish mansion . This 1826 dinner service has an estimated value of £12,000 - just don't put it in the dishwasher . The elegant grey sitting room at Trelissick House has oil paintings and decorative plates that are for sale . ‘You could have two or three of these sales a year per auction house back in the 1960s,’ he said. ‘After the war, a lot of these . estates fell into disrepair and the owners didn’t have the funds to do . the work. So they were sold off with everything in it. ‘Stately homes in private ownership like Trelissick are becoming scarcer and these sales now are as rare as hen’s teeth.’ The Cunliffe-Copeland family have lived at Trelissick since 1913 . Leonard Daneham Cunliffe was deputy governor of the Bank of England, co-founder of the merchant bank Cunliffe Brothers and director of the Hudson Bay Company. When he died in 1937, he bequeathed much of his antiques collection to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. But he left his country house estate - Trelissick, in Cornwall - to his stepdaughter, Ida Copeland. Ida was the daughter of Count Camillo Fenzi, a Tuscan senator, but her father died and her mother married Leonard Cunliffe and she moved to Cornwall. Ida married Ronald Copeland, the president of Copeland and Spode, a successful ceramics company in Stoke-on-Trent. In 1931, she stood successfully against Sir Oswald Mosley and became Conservative MP for Stoke. In 1955, much of the estate was donated to the National Trust in 1955 by Mrs Copeland, William Copeland's grandmother. This year, the last generation of the family will move out when William and Jennifer Copeland take their family to live in a smaller house nearby. ### SUMMARY:

Treasures of Trelissick House in Cornwall were collected over generations . The Cunliffe-Copeland family have lived at 12-bedroom mansion since 1913 . William and Jennifer Copeland now want to move to a smaller house . Heirlooms include £100,000 Chinese vase, £30,000 desk and £1,500 Cognac .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Ap Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 22:12 EST, 18 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:55 EST, 19 July 2013 . As most of the country sees the hottest days yet this summer, people - and animals - of all stripes do whatever they can to keep things cool. Thankfully, there are cooler temperatures in sight for the Midwest, so creatures like the Brookfield, Illinois zoo's African lion will no longer have to take their meals in the form of frozen meat pops. The Northeast, also in the grip of a heat wave that just won't quit, will chill out by the weekend as cooler air moves in from Canada and gives man and beast a much needed break. Scroll down for video . Chilling: With temperatures in the 90s, 7-year-old African lion Isis is given a meat pop at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois to help her stay cool . Braying for relief: A race horse cools off after training at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield, Illinois Thursday as temperatures hit the 90s there as in much of the country, though relief is likely on the way this weekend . Grrreat idea: A sloth bear cub at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois finds relief in the form of a frozen treat Thursday . But with relief may come some new threatening weather as severe thunderstorms could accompany the falling temperatures. As things finally cool off late Saturday, isolated but powerful thunderstorms could drench the already reeling Northeast. Until then, the New York region has another day in the 90s to look forward to. Look for sweet relief on Sunday, when the mercury isn’t predicted to rise above 90 for the first time in a week. The largest heat wave of the summer has stagnated over large regions, bringing sizzling temperatures and little hope of relief without rain, a growing possibility for some hard-hit areas as the weekend approaches. Splashing into home: Mackay Lynch gets wet at SUNY Orange Baseball camp in Middletown, New york Thursday . Sweltering: A polar bear beats the heat at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois on Thursday. The week-long heat wave gripping much of the U.S. is likely to end by this weekend . Too cute: 15-month-old Eleanor Schiller cools off in an inflatable pool Thursday, July 18, 2013, in Brainerd, Minnesota . Splish splash: Deondria Harris of Milwaukee smiles as water is dumped on her head at the Splash Pad in Regner Park in West Bend, Wisconsin on Thursday evening . Cut to the chase: A woman in Harlem, New York gets right to the point in an effort to stay hydrated in the 90-plus degree heat that will linger in the Northeast through Saturday . Becky Stap of Pine Bush, New York sprays herself with a hose after using water from the hose to cool off a cow at the Orange County 4-H Showcase at Bergin Farm in Slate Hill, New York on Thursday . Shocker: Tillman Churchman of Horicon reacts as a bucket of water is dumped over his head at the Splash Pad in Regner Park in West Bend, Wisconsin on Thursday. The Midwest can finally expect relief by Saturday . Most states in the U.S. had at least one region where the temperature hit 90 degrees Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service, though the worst heat was in the Midwest to Northeast. Humid air just made it all feel worse, with heat indexes in some places over 100. It was hot enough to buckle highway pavement in several states. Firefighters in Indianapolis evacuated 300 people from a senior living community after a power outage knocked out the air conditioning. The state of Illinois opened cooling centers. The Environmental Protection Agency said the heat was contributing to air pollution in New England. Finally: The dome of heat choking the Midwest and Northeast will likely be pushed out by cooler air from Canada starting Saturday . With a price: As temperatures fall, serious thunderstorms could strike much of the South and Northeast by Saturday . Working hard: Vendor Robert Llambelis tries to keep cool on Thursday near Brooklyn's Barclays Center. The area should see relief by Sunday at the latest . Sonja Mason of St. Paul stands beneath one of the water falls at Upper Landing Park in an effort to stay cool. The Midwest will start to see relief from the week-long heat wave Friday . Staying positive: Friends Grace Greenwood and Alex Place, both of Arlington, Virginia, leap into a water sprinkler for a 'high ten' during the heat wave at the Washington Monument in Washington, DC on Thursday . Too hot: Amalio Medina sits in front of his un-air conditioned shop in the midday heat, Thursday, July 18, 2013, in Philadelphia . Officials are blaming hot weather for at least one death. A 78-year-old Alzheimer's patient died of heat exhaustion after wandering away from his northern Kentucky home Tuesday in temperatures that rose to 93 degrees. In New York City, where it was 96 degrees, sidewalk food vendor Ahmad Qayumi said that by 11 a.m., the cramped space inside his steel-walled cart got so hot that he had to turn off his grill and coffee machine. ‘It was just too hot. I couldn't breathe,’ he said, turning away a customer who asked for a hamburger. ‘Just cold drinks,’ he said. Two young men wade near the base of the fast-falling Minnehaha Falls, Thursday, July 18, 2013 in Minneapolis where temperatures hovered near the mid-90's amid a continuing heat wave . Waiting it out: A woman fans herself with a magazine in the subway below Brooklyn, New York's Barclays Center Thursday as temperatures soared Thursday . All ages: Maria Guevara, 66, stands under a fountain as water hits her during a warm day caused by a heat wave, Thursday, July 18, 2013, in Union City, New Jersey . Amid the heat, officials in . Washington D.C.'s Maryland suburbs worked to keep a failing water main . from cutting off hundreds of thousands of people, just when they needed . it most. People in Prince George's County were asked not to run their . faucets, water their lawns or flush toilets to keep the water system . from emptying during emergency repairs. Firefighters . in southern California faced brutally hot — but dangerously dry — . conditions as they battled a wildfire outside Palm Springs that had . already consumed seven homes. New . Mexico and parts of Texas turned out to be rare outposts of cool air . Wednesday — but not without trouble of their own: heavy rains prompted . flood watches and warnings in some areas. More than five inches of rain . fell in 24 hours in Plainview, north of Lubbock, according to the . National Weather Service. Javier Soler, 20, of West New York, New Jersey flips his head back as water from a fountain runs off his hair during a heat wave, Thursday, July 18, 2013, in Union City, New Jersey . Double duty: Salesman Hyper Rosado cools off in between customers during the afternoon heat at Appliances R Us, Thursday in Philadelphia . Hussein Hayari, owner of Appliances R Us in Philadelphia. An excessive heat warning was again in effect for the Philadelphia region with highs in the high-90s . At the World Trade Center reconstruction site in New York City, workers building a rail hub dripped under their hardhats, thick gloves and heavy-duty boots. Some wore towels around their necks to wipe away the sweat. ‘We're drinking a lot of water, down under by the tracks, in and out of the sun all day — very hot,’ said carpenter Elizabeth Fontanez, of the Bronx, who labored with 20 pounds of tools and safety equipment strapped to her waist. Since the heat wave began, she said she has been changing shirts several times during her shifts. ### SUMMARY:

Animals and man do what they can to chill out as a week-long heat wave continues to grip Northeast and Midwest . Cooler air from Canada to move in by Saturday and end heat wave . Severe Thunderstorms could come quickly follow .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 10:14 EST, 7 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:19 EST, 7 August 2013 . In 1981 William Dillon was a happy-go-lucky 21-year-old man who had everything to live for. A supremely talented high school baseball player, he had just been selected for a final trial with the Detroit Tigers who appeared desperate to have him sign a contract. And William, known to his friends as Billy, could well have become as star - a powerful 6ft 4ins, he could throw 90mph with ease. Curveballs, sliders even the new and tricky split-finger fastball, he could do it all. Free: William Dillon who served 27 years in prison after being framed for the gruesome murder of man in 1981 . But in a shocking miscarriage of justice, the only ball William would get to play for the next 27 years would be behind prison walls, as detailed in an sbnation.com feature. On December 4, 1981, a jury found William Dillon guilty of the murder of 40-year-old James Dvorak, an openly gay construction supervisor, who was found beaten to death in Canova Beach Park, Florida. Dvorak was found at a place known locally as 'Queer Pier', a popular pick-up spot for gay men. His face had been smashed in and his lips ripped off. To the jury who sent him down, the evidence against William would have been more than compelling. There was the testimony of a 56-year-old gay man called John Parker who claimed to have been in the Canova Beach Park car lot when a blood-splattered William emerged from the woods. Parker said he had paid William $20 for oral sex and that the next day he had found Wiliam's bloody t-shirt in the back of his pick-up truck with the words 'surf -it' on the front. William's then girlfriend Dona Parish testified she had found William on the night of the murder standing next to the dead body, bloody and shirtless. And then there was dog-handler John Preston, whose amazing sniffer dog had managed to trace William's scent all the way from the courthouse to the scene of the crime. In addition, a man who William had shared a cell with while awaiting trial in jail claimed William had confessed to the murder and had even demonstrated how he had killed Dvorak. For the young William sitting in the dock it must have been a living nightmare. If truth be told he was no angel. He was known to be openly homophobic, although in 1981 as a young straight man it would be more unusual if he wasn't. Dillon, performed an emotional rendition of the National Anthem before a match at the Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla. last year . He liked a drink and smoked marijuana, and by some accounts used to crash parties to steal booze and drugs. As he heard the evidence against him he mouthed off in court on more than one occasion and had to be repeatedly told to quieten down by the judge. Knowing he was innocent, William had never arranged for a lawyer to be present at the initial interviews and right up until the last moment he felt sure justice would prevail. In fact all the evidence against him was a sham. Just 12 days after the trial, the girlfriend Donna Parish retracted her entire story and admitted she had been having sex with a police Sergeant investigating the case. She said a member of the Brevard County Sheriff's Office had told her she would 'rot in jail' if she didn't testify against William. Despite this the judge refused to hold a retrial saying there was still enough evidence to convict William without her testimony. But John Preston, whose amazing sniffer dog had seemingly manged to track William's scent so spectacularly was later exposed as a conman. When his dogs were subjected to independent tests they failed and his tracking dog trainer's certificate was found to be a forgery. He had apparently been fed information by the Sheriff's Department so he could repeatedly pick out William as the offender. And John Parker - who had identified William as the man he had given a lift to after emerging blood-splattered from the woods - had originally given a description that bore no resemblance at all to William. While Parker told police the man had a short curly hair and a thin mustache, William was clean shaven with long shaggy hair. John Chapman, the man who claimed William had confessed to him while awaiting trial, later admitted he'd lied to avoid charges being brought against him and that a sheriff's agent had told him exactly what to say. But in December 1981 William was sent to Florida State Prison, home to some of the country's most violent offenders. On his first night he was attacked by five men who took turns in raping him. After that he was raped on a regular basis. Governor Rick Scott signs a bill for Dillon's wrongful conviction as the 52-year-old, left, looks on . He was put on laundry duty with Ted Bundy, the serial rapist and murderer. It would have been a terrible experience for any man, but for someone who knew he was innocent, it must have been unbearable. His only release was learning the guitar and playing prison softball, at which he excelled. As the years passed he continued to play, even after his knees gave way and he had to drag himself from base to base. In . many U.S. prisons, if you don't play softball, chances you bet on it . and as William gained a reputation for fielding winning teams it meant . he earned protection from the prison's big men. In 1996 Wilton Dedge, a man who had . been convicted of raping a woman at knifepoint applied for evidence in . his case to undergo the then brand new DNA testing. In 2001 the tests proved he had not committed the crime and in 2004 he was finally released. The following year William, who had by then spent 24 years behind bars, applied for DNA testing in his own trial. The . incriminating yellow T-shirt discovered in the back of John Parker's . pick-up truck was found to have none of William's DNA on it. The traces . of blood were from the victim James Dvorak and another man. Billy Dillon spent 27 years behind bars until DNA evidence proved his innocence . Despite . this the state still rejected calls for a new trial based on DNA . evidence and instead scheduled a evidentiary hearing for 2009. But . William was released, albeit on a $100,000 bond, and on November 18 . 2008 he took his first steps of freedom in well over a quarter of a . century. In a detailed and . fascinating interview with writer Brandon Sneed, William recalled: 'The . feeling is something you only reach a few times in your life. 'It's a man in the desert who finally finds water.' Just a few weeks after the evidentiary hearing the state filed a nole prosequi meaning they had decided to dismiss all charges. A few years later in 2012 William was granted a full pardon by Florida Governor Rick Scott. After he was cleared the Brevard County Sheriff's Office reopened the Dvorak case. Eventually a man named Phil Huff, who was 17 at the time came forward. He said that for years he had been desperate to confess and that on the night of Dvorak's death he had been hanging out on the beach, drinking and smoking marijuana with three other men Daryl Novak, Eric Novak and James Johnstone. According to Huff, Dvorak had approached the group and they had started chatting. He had a beer and a few drags on one of the joints being passed around. Dvorak and Johnstone then wandered off. After a while the other members of the group went looking for them. When they were discovered the couple having sex in the woods, Johnstone pretended he was being attacked and started punching Dvorak. The Novak brothers joined in the attack. At one point Dvorak managed to get up and run away but the according to Huff, the Novaks chased him down the beach and continued the beating until Dvorak was still. When fresh DNA tests were carried out on the shirt, the James Johnstone was found to match. ### SUMMARY:

William 'Billy' Dillon looked set to be signed by the Detroit Tigers in 1981 . But he was framed for the gruesome murder of a gay man on a Florida beach . It was not until 2008 that he was freed after DNA tests proved his innocence .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 14:24 EST, 16 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:48 EST, 17 September 2013 . This incredible photo shows radio signals glowing blue from the spacecraft Voyager 1 nearly 12 billion miles away. Scientists can't actually see the spacecraft but they can detect its radio light. They used the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) a network of powerful radio telescopes to pick up the signal which looks like a blue speck. It is believed this image was taken on February 21 this year. Suzanne Dodd, Voyager's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said: 'This image represents the Voyager radio signal as seen by the world's most sensitive ground-based telescope. Outer space: The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a network of radio telescopes operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, spotted the signal of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft from 11.5 billion miles away . 'It's just a speck in amongst a sea of darkness.' Earlier today a sound recording was sent back to Earth from the spacecraft as it crossed a new frontier becoming the first spacecraft to ever leave the solar system. The rising tones NASA observed are made by the vibration of dense plasma or ionised gas and were captured by the probe's plasma wave instrument. Speaking in a news conference, Don Gurnett, principle investigator for the Voyager plasma wave investigation, said: 'When you hear this recording, please recognise that this is an historic event. It's the first time that we've ever made a recording of sounds in interstellar space.' Scroll down for video . Somewhere out there: Voyager 1 spacecraft barreling through space. The space agency announced today that Voyager 1 has become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space, or the space between stars . Voyager 1's current mission, along with Voyager 2, is to explore the outermost edge of the Sun's domain and beyond . NASA officials added: 'There were two times the instrument heard these vibrations: October to November 2012 and April to May 2013. 'Scientists noticed that each occurrence involved a rising tone. The dashed line indicates that the rising tones follow the same slope. This means a continuously increasing density.' A team still stays in contact with the two Voyager spacecraft every day but Voyager 1's extreme distance, currently around 12 billion miles from Earth, means a message takes 17 hours to reach us. Thirty-six years after it was . launched from Earth on a tour of the outer planets, the . plutonium-powered probe is more than 11 1/2 billion miles from the sun, . cruising through what scientists call interstellar space — the vast, . cold emptiness between the stars, the space agency said. Voyager 1 actually made its exit more . than a year ago, according to NASA. But it's not as if there's a dotted . boundary line out there or a signpost, and it was not until recently . that the space agency had the evidence to convince it of what an outside . research team had claimed last month: that the spacecraft had finally . plowed through the hot plasma bubble surrounding the planets and escaped . the sun's influence. While some scientists said they remain unconvinced, NASA celebrated. 'It's a milestone and the beginning . of a new journey,' said mission chief scientist Ed Stone at NASA's Jet . Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Voyager 1 will now study exotic . particles and other phenomena in a never-before-explored part of the . universe and radio the data back to Earth, where the Voyager team awaits . the starship's discoveries. The interstellar ambassador also . carries a gold-plated disc containing multicultural greetings, songs and . photos, just in case it bumps into an intelligent species. This artist's concept shows NASA's two Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath, the outer shell of the bubble of charged particles around our sun . It is 36 years since the twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft were launched and the pair continue to explore where . nothing from Earth has flown before. Their primary mission was the exploration of Jupiter and Saturn. After . making a string of discoveries there -- such as active volcanoes on . Jupiter's moon Io and intricacies of Saturn's rings -- the mission was . extended. Voyager 2 went on to explore Uranus and Neptune, and is still the only spacecraft to have visited those outer planets. The . current mission for both spacecraft, the Voyager Interstellar Mission, . is to explore the outermost edge of the Sun's domain and beyond. Voyager 1's odyssey began in 1977 . when the spacecraft and its twin, Voyager 2, were launched on a tour of . the gas giant planets of the solar system. After beaming back dazzling . postcard views of Jupiter's giant red spot and Saturn's shimmering . rings, Voyager 2 hopscotched to Uranus and Neptune. Meanwhile, Voyager 1 . used Saturn as a gravitational slingshot to power itself past Pluto. Voyager 1, which is about the size of . a subcompact car, carries instruments that study magnetic fields, . cosmic rays and solar wind. Last year, scientists monitoring . Voyager 1 noticed strange happenings that suggested the spacecraft had . broken through: Charged particles streaming from the sun suddenly . vanished. At the same time, there was a spike in galactic cosmic rays . bursting in from the outside. Since there was no detectable change . in the direction of the magnetic field lines, the team assumed the . far-flung craft was still in the heliosphere, or the vast bubble of . charged particles around the sun . Voyager is bathed in solar wind from the southern hemisphere flowing northward . The Voyager team patiently waited for . a change in magnetic field direction — thought to be the telltale sign . of a cosmic border crossing. But in the meantime, a chance solar . eruption caused the space around Voyager 1 to echo like a bell last . spring and provided the scientists with the data they needed, convincing . them the boundary had been crossed in August of last year. 'It took us 10 seconds to realize we . were in interstellar space,' said Don Gurnett, a Voyager scientist at . the University of Iowa who led the new research, published online in the . journal Science. The new observations are fascinating, . but 'it's premature to judge,' said Lennard Fisk, a space science . professor at the University of Michigan and former NASA associate . administrator who was not part of the team. 'Can we wait a little while . longer? Maybe this picture will clear up the farther we go.' Voyager 1 is capable of returning scientific data from a full range of instruments, with adequate electrical power and attitude control propellant to keep operating until 2020. What bothers Fisk is the absence of a change in magnetic field direction. Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan . McDowell was more blunt: 'I'm actually not going to believe it for . another year or two until it's been solidly outside for a while.' While Voyager 1 may have left the . solar system as most people understand it, it still has thousands of . years to go before bidding adieu to the last icy bodies that make up our . neighborhood. Voyager 2 trails behind at 9 1/2 . billion miles from the sun. It may take another three years before . Voyager 2 joins its twin on the other side. Eventually, the Voyagers . will run out of nuclear fuel and will have to power down their . instruments, perhaps by 2025. This artist's impression shows how plasma flows around NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft as it gets close to entering interstellar space . ### SUMMARY:

Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and has now left our solar system . Scientists can't see the spacecraft but they can detect its radio light . Powerful radio telescopes picked up the signal which looks like a blue speck . Scientists claim Voyager 1 entered interstellar space more than a year ago . Study claims Voyager 1 left heliosphere around August 25, 2012 . Voyager 1 is now the first mission to explore interstellar space .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Lizzie Parry . PUBLISHED: . 08:46 EST, 24 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:58 EST, 24 December 2013 . An independent report which found there was evidence that Portsmouth MP Mike Hancock 'made unwelcome sexual advances' towards a vulnerable female constituent, has been branded 'one-sided' by the former Lib Dem. The report, seen by the Guardian, found there was 'prima facie evidence' the backbencher, who resigned from the party over the allegations, had made the 'sexual approaches'. The MP was arrested in 2010 in . connection with the allegations but Hampshire police decided there was . not enough evidence to mount a criminal case. Portsmouth South MP Mike Hancock has today claimed an independent report which claims there is evidence he sexually assaulted a 'vulnerable' constituent is one-sided as his accuser sues him in the High Court . He was accused of making repeated sexual advances towards the woman, who had contacted him for help in dealing with her 'noisy neighbours'. It is alleged that Mr Hancock sexually assaulted the woman despite knowing she suffered mental health problems and had been sexually abused as a child. His accuser is taking civil action, suing Mr Hancock through the High Court. But the MP has vowed to clear his name, vehemently denying the allegations. Portsmouth City Council instructed Nigel Pascoe QC, a leading barrister specialising in sexual crime cases, to interview the alleged victim after the council said it received a standards complaint against the Fratton councillor. In June Mr Hancock, 67, stood down from the Lib Dems after a meeting with the party’s chief whip, Alistair Carmichael. In . an exchange of letters, the MP wrote: ‘I have decided to temporarily . withdraw from the parliamentary party in the Commons until the civil . court case against me has been concluded. He added that he would ‘vigorously defend my position and that I completely refute the allegations made against me’. But in August, Mr Pascoe's report, seen by Rajeev Sajal and Daniel Foggo at the Guardian, concluded there is evidence of sexual approaches made by the MP. The inquiry goes on to conclude that Mr Hancock was aware of the woman's mental health problems. The Guardian reported Mr Pascoe said in the 49-page report: 'I consider that the prima facie evidence of his unwelcome sexual approaches remains unquestionably a very serious matter in the light of the position which he holds and his knowledge from the beginning of the vulnerability of (the alleged victim).' The MP stepped down from the Lib Dem party in June vowing to clear his name in the High Court . The report is based on Mr Pascoe's investigation of a seven-month period from November 2009, the Guardian said. The leading barrister also looked into text messages sent by Mr Hancock to the alleged victim. In the messages, the MP refers to his accuser as 'my princess', and tells her she is 'special and sexy' to him. The woman, who was 35 at the time, claimed Mr Hancock touched her breast, exposed himself to her and kissed her without consent. It is also alleged the MP took the woman's son, aged 12 at the time, to parliament for dinner, bought her a teddy bear named Mike and sent her numerous text messages. The report was compiled following two interviews with the alleged victim, and Mr Pascoe's examination of her mental health history, The Guardian said. It says the woman is 'convincing and truthful' but also 'angry and hurt' by what she claimed had happened. 'Making full allowances for the . disclosed mental history of [the alleged victim], I have no doubt that . she has provided before me compelling prima facie evidence of serious . and unwelcome sexual behaviour carried out towards her by Mr Hancock. 'I am of the clear view that her account is credible and merits both compassion and respect,' he wrote in the report. 'I . found [the alleged victim] to be a straightforward and vulnerable . person, angry and hurt by what she said had happened to her… Indeed, at . no point did I form the view that she lied to me,' he said. Mr Pascoe added Mr Hancock had shown kindness towards the woman, which had not been reflected in the media. He said: 'There is . clear evidence that he sought to help her wholly properly as her local . councillor in a detailed way which was commendable.'. Mr Pascoe says he did approach Mr Hancock but sources close to the council told The Guardian the MP declined to meet the barrister. A spokesman for Mr Hancock today accused the report of being 'one-sided' adding the MP looks forward to the case coming before the High Court so he can 'strongly and utterly refute' the accusations made. The spokesman said: 'These matters have twice been looked at by the police, first in 2010, and in conjunction with the CPS, they have found that there is no case for Mr Hancock to answer and have taken no further action. When a person complains to police they are the victim of a sexual offence, they are immediately granted anonymity for life. The Sexual Offences Act, 2003, includes  numerous crimes including: . Those convicted of a sexual offence will be forced to sign the Sexual Offenders Register for a length of time dictated by the sentencing Judge. Once a police force has gathered the evidence, they present their findings to the Crown Prosecution Service. It is the CPS who review the evidence and determine whether there is enough evidence to bring a case to court. Where they decide the evidence is insufficient, the case is dropped. But the alleged victim is entitled to take civil action, suing the alleged perpetrator for damages. In criminal proceedings the prosecution has to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty. But in civil court the UK standard is only to prove guilt on the basis of a balance of probability. 'Mike Hancock looks forward to the civil case coming to court so that he can bring forward evidence to strongly and utterly refute the allegations made. 'The independent legal advice to Portsmouth City Council noted that the High Court was a better place to establish matters of fact - not least because it could take evidence under oath which the council cannot. 'Mike Hancock asked to meet with the council's independent investigator to explain this and this was denied him despite the city council's solicitor asking the investigator to meet Mr Hancock. 'He therefore believes the report which he has not seen is likely to be one-sided. 'The most suitable place to settle a civil case is in court and not in the newspapers. 'As this is an on-going legal case, it not appropriate for Mike to give a running commentary. 'In the meantime he will continue to work hard to serve his constituents as an MP and councillor.' Following the completion of the report in August, police officers re-examined the claims made but announced in November that they required more evidence and dropped the case. A spokesman for Portsmouth City Council, told MailOnline their inquiry into the allegations have been suspended until the conclusion of the civil case. The council's solicitor, Michael Lawther, said: 'The council's procedure for dealing with complaints against councillors makes no provision for a copy of a report to be provided to a complainant or to be published. 'We have therefore been unable to release it. We anticipate that we will be reviewing our procedure once the investigation of this complaint is over. 'After legal advice, the council sub-committee running the investigation decided on November 15 that it could be unsafe to deal with the complaint using our internal disciplinary process when the same allegations were due to be tested in the High Court. 'It therefore postponed the process until the High Court action was concluded. 'It felt there was a risk of inconsistency between a decision the council could reach and one which the High Court might reach. 'In deciding to postpone, it also considered the greater suitability of the High Court for determining contested issues of fact, including its ability to compel the attendance of witnesses, and provision for cross-examination while on oath.' ### SUMMARY:

Report ordered by Portsmouth City Council finds evidence MP Mike Hancock made 'made unwelcome sexual advances' towards a constituent . MP was arrested in 2010 in connection with the allegations but the police decided there was not enough evidence to mount a criminal case . He is accused of making 'sexual advances' towards the woman who contacted him for help in dealing with her 'noisy neighbours' The alleged victim is taking civil action suing Mr Hancock at the High Court . MP said report is 'one-sided' and vehemently denies the allegations .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Chris Brooke . and James Rush . PUBLISHED: . 12:25 EST, 13 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 12:21 EST, 14 February 2014 . Anwar Rosser has been told he will never be released from prison after he admitted the 'savage' and 'sadistic' murder of a 'happy and bubbly' four-year-old boy . The mother of a four-year-old boy savagely murdered by a friend who was allowed to sleep on her sofa has said she feels 'so much guilt' over letting the 'monster' stay with them. Sharon Smith and her partner Guy Earwaker had thought psychopath Anwar Daniel Rosser was a harmless neighbour and allowed him to stay at their house when he asked after turning up after a night out. In the early hours, the 33-year-old sneaked upstairs armed with four knives and stabbed Riley Turner to death. He then crept into another bedroom where the boy’s mother and her partner were sleeping and curled up to sleep on the floor. In a victim impact statement read in court Miss Smith said: ‘I wish I had told the monster no that night when he asked if he could sleep. He said people were outside his house and were going to beat him up and I believed him. I didn’t want him to get beaten up, but all along he had a knife in his pocket, plotting to hurt one of us, or all of us. ‘I feel so much guilt that my poor son had to go through such horrific things because my kind heart didn’t want to let that monster get beaten up. Now my kind heart cost me my son’s life. ‘I don’t feel like ever being nice to people at all except my family. The guilt eats me away every day. What he’s done is unforgivable, he’s ruined our lives.' In the morning, following the attack, the mother-of-three, 26, was shocked to find Rosser curled up in a ball on the floor next to her, and ordered him to leave. Moments later her partner, Guy Earwaker, noticed Riley’s light on and went to check his room – only to find it covered in blood and the boy semi-naked and dead on the bed with his throat cut. Riley had been strangled, repeatedly stabbed and attacked in a sexual manner. Chillingly, Rosser had waited downstairs to hear the anguished screams. He escaped, but was arrested later by police. Riley Turner was stabbed 30 times as he slept in his own bed after the boy's mother and her boyfriend allowed Rosser to stay at their house . Riley's mother Sharon Smith, pictured third from left. Also pictured are Riley's grandfather 'Tommy' (left), grandmother Sharon Smith (second left) and Detective Sergeant Jan Sullivan (right) at court for the sentencing of Anwar Rosser . Yesterday Rosser, a former soldier with a history of being violent when drunk, admitted murder at Bradford Crown Court. Experts agreed he was not mad but was a psychopath who could commit more ‘acts of sadistic homicide’. Mr Justice Coulson branded him an ‘exceptionally dangerous man’ who had shown ‘appalling savagery’. He jailed Rosser for life and there were emotional scenes in the public gallery as the judged ordered he remain behind bars ‘for the rest of his natural life’. Victim impact statements read in court showed how the family’s life has been devastated.Miss Smith described Rosser as a ‘sick monster’ and said she had been frightened to go outside since the murder. ‘I get in a panic when a man walks past. I don’t trust men at all.’ Riley was described as an 'extremely happy, active and popular little boy who was particularly close to his twin brother' She said Riley was a ‘happy, bubbly, caring and loving’ child and she was enduring a ‘bad nightmare’ without him. ‘This monster has hurt us so much, we will never ever recover from this.’ Riley’s identical twin brother Mackenzie regularly asks why he can’t ‘go to the sky’ to play with his brother. The court heard Rosser had gone to the family’s house after spending the evening in a local pub. He asked to stay overnight – telling the couple he feared people he owed money to were waiting for him to return home and would beat him up. Miss Smith and other relatives left the court when prosecutor Paul Greaney, QC, detailed the horrific nature of the ‘sadistic’ murder, which had a ‘strong sexual component’. The court heard that Miss Smith and Mr Earwaker, 23, had been friends with Rosser for a few months, and had shown ‘considerable kindness’ by helping the part-time chef to furnish his nearby flat. There had never been an argument between them. Rosser had turned up at Riley’s family home in Keighley, West Yorkshire, on January 19 last year after spending the evening drinking. He was described as ‘intoxicated’ but in control, the court heard. Riley, Mackenzie and 18-month-old brother Tyler were asleep in separate rooms upstairs when the couple went to bed, leaving Rosser to sleep on the sofa. On the day before Riley's death, Rosser - who lived opposite the family - had been drinking at a nearby pub, where he 'drank a good deal', the court heard . Riley's mother woke up at around 4.30am to find Rosser curled in a ball next to her bed . Rosser was holding a brown-handled knife when he was find - a weapon he stole from a pub he had been drinking at . Speaking after the sentencing, . Detective Superintendent Mark Ridley, Senior Investigating Officer, . said: 'This has been an incredibly horrifying and tragic case which has . had a profound effect on all those involved in the investigation. 'Riley was a very much loved son, grandson and brother who will be deeply missed by his family and friends. 'Rosser . abused the kindness and compassion shown to him by Riley’s family, when . they allowed him to stay in the safety of their own home. 'He . has shown no remorse or compassion for the pain suffered by Riley’s . family by offering an explanation for his savage and gratuitous actions. 'The . death of Riley in such circumstances provides a clear indication that . Rosser presents a significant danger to all those who may come into . contact with him, which is reflected in the (whole life) sentence . imposed upon him today. 'Today brings to an end what has been a very sad and disturbing case.' At 4am, Miss Smith woke up ‘scared’ to see Rosser next to her. He apologised for upsetting her, asked for tobacco and left the room. Moments later Mr Earwaker walked into an unimaginable scene of horror in Riley’s bedroom. ‘He entered the room and then returned to his own bedroom in a panic,’ said Mr Greaney. He was ‘unable to speak’ out of trauma and the mother then saw for herself what had happened. After being taken to a police station later that morning, Rosser said: ‘I know I’ve done summat, but I don’t know what.’ The court heard that Rosser had been adopted at five by a professional couple and given a loving upbringing. But despite a stable home life, he was in trouble from an early age, starting fires and bullying other children. At 16, he carried out a similarly chilling and motiveless attack on an ‘innocent, sleeping victim’ when he smashed a trophy on to the head of another 16-year-old who was ‘crashed out in a bedroom’ during a house party. Rosser joined the Army but was discharged without seeing active service because of aggressive drunken behaviour. He became an alcoholic and was in regular trouble for ‘drink-induced anger’. Rosser was even arrested on a hospital ward, where his mental health was being assessed, because he was threatening staff. Outside court, Detective Superintendent Mark Ridley said Rosser ‘abused the kindness and compassion shown to him by Riley’s family’ and he has ‘offered no explanation for his savage and gratuitous actions’. ### SUMMARY:

Anwar Rosser given whole-life tariff for murder of Riley Turner, four . Former soldier stabbed child 30 times as he slept in his own bed . Rosser allowed to stay at house after Riley's mother 'took pity on him'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . James Chapman . Business Secretary Vince Cable tonight attacked the 'utterly reprehensible' behaviour of his close friend Lord Oakeshot - after it emerged he had paid for a poll that showed Nick Clegg was doomed to election defeat. Mr Cable said his friend's bid to topple the Deputy Prime Minister in the wake of the party's European and local elections disaster was 'totally inexcusable'. The Lib Dem Cabinet Minister's decision to name Lord Oakeshott as the source of the damning research came as Mr Clegg was left pleading with his party not to sack him.Mr Cable tonight insisted there was 'no leadership issue' as far as he was concerned. Scroll down for video . Vince Cable moved to distance himself from his friend Lord Oakeshott tonight after confirming that he was behind a damaging poll on the Deputy PM's leadership . Lord Matthew Oakeshott (pictured) is a close friend of Business Secretary Vince Cable. The pair go on holidays together, but Mr Cable . insisted the Lib Dem peer was not his spokesman . Nick Clegg faced growing criticism over his leadership today following last week's disastrous showing at the European and local elections . The dramatic development came after pollsters ICM released the new survey revealing that Mr Clegg could lose his own seat at the general election. It showed that if an election was held now, Mr Clegg would finish third in his constituency - behind Labour and the Tories. More than half of Mr Clegg's constituents thought he was doing a bad or 'very bad' job as Deputy Prime Minister - while around 45% said he was a bad local MP. Meanwhile, almost one in three voters in Sheffield Hallam did not even know Mr Clegg was their MP, the poll found. The poll sparked fury among Mr Clegg's allies who suspected Lord Oakeshott had commissioned the study to topple the Deputy Prime Minister and replace him with Mr Cable. But the Business Secretary released a statement tonight denying that Lord Oakeshott spoke for him. He said: 'Lord Oakeshott's actions are totally inexcusable and unacceptable. I have made it very clear repeatedly that he does not speak or act for me. 'Commissioning and publishing polls without the consent of the Member of Parliament, as in the case of Sheffield Hallam, is utterly reprehensible. 'There are undoubtedly raw feelings in the wake of poor local and European election results. We need to respond in a measured way. 'Public speculation about the leadership is an unwelcome distraction and as I made absolutely clear yesterday there is no leadership issue as far as I'm concerned.' The Deputy Prime Minister appeared more relaxed and happy than yesterday as he played pool with 16 and 17-year-olds at a training centre at St Andrew's Youth Club, in central London this morning . Mr Cable's bombshell statement came after Mr Clegg pleaded with Lib Dem MPs not to 'lose their nerve' and get rid of . him. The . Deputy Prime Minister admitted he had lost the argument over Europe and . immigration with Nigel Farage, in the wake of last week's disastrous . European and local election results. But . the Lib Dem leader insisted he would not quit. He said he wanted to . 'finish the job' and dismissed calls to dissolve the coalition or shift . the party's approach to Europe. Asked . this morning if he was prepared to stand down, Mr Clegg said: 'Look, I . think if I felt or indeed if the whole party felt that changing . strategy, changing leaders, pulling out of the coalition, which is what a . number of these individuals advocate, would deal with the challenge . which the party faces, because of course we face challenges - that's . obviously daft to suggest otherwise - then I wouldn't hesitate to . advocate it. 'But . I think it's so important that particularly at a time when our big . judgments as a party over the last few years, difficult years they've . been politically, are now being vindicated in terms of delivering the . economic recovery that we came to this Government to deliver, delivering . all the things that we've been campaigning on for years. 'I . think that's not the time to start turning inwards when we of course as . a party, as a campaigning party should be talking to the British people . about what we want to do in the future.' Asked later what he would do to win back voters, Mr Clegg reaffirmed his commitment to the Coalition and said it was the 'wrong time to lose our nerve'. He said: 'I don't think pulling out of the Coalition is the answer. We said back in 2010 very, very clearly that we were making a five-year commitment. 'We knew it was going to be tough, not only tough of course entering into a coalition in the first place, but also doing the very downright difficult and controversial things that we needed to do to fix the economy. 'But I think a year out before a general election, exactly at the point, as I say, when those big judgments are proving their worth, would be the wrong time to lose our nerve.' He added: 'I think it's very important that we see that through because otherwise, of course, a lot of people will conclude that somehow the Liberal Democrats are only comfortable in opposition.' Mr Clegg was bombarded with questions from reporters when leaving his home in South London this morning . Asked if he had lost the argument on Europe, Mr Clegg said: 'I totally accept, of course, the verdict of voters last week that we did not win the case that I was putting and my party was putting.' But he added: 'The argument has now started and I hope and believe over time it will be won.' Mr Clegg received support from unlikely sources yesterday - as Tony Blair and David Cameron threw their weight behind him. This morning Downing Street made clear Mr Cameron wanted the Deputy PM to stay on. Meanwhile, former PM Tony Blair said he admired the 'leadership and courage' the Lib Dem leader had shown in power. The backing came with Mr Clegg under intense pressure after his party lost hundreds of councillors and 11 of its 12 MEPs. He has received public support from senior Lib Dem colleagues, but a number of MPs and activists have broken cover to warn he is 'toxic' for voters and must go. A spokeswoman for the Prime Minister was repeatedly asked about Mr Clegg's position at a briefing for journalists this morning. She said: 'This is a strong coalition that is pursuing its long term economic plan.' Pressed on whether that meant Mr Cameron wanted his deputy to remain in place, the spokeswoman replied: "I think I have said that... 'I've been clear the PM is intent on working with the coalition, with the Deputy Prime Minister to secure the economic recovery and to keep improving the situation for Britain's hard-working families. 'He's focused on working with the Deputy Prime Minister as part of the coalition to deliver on the Government's plans.' Nigel Farage was congratulated during a meeting of the leaders of European Parliament political groups in Brussels today . Quizzed on whether Mr Cameron could work with anyone else if Mr Clegg was overthrown, the spokeswoman said: 'I have not seen anything from either the PM or Deputy PM to suggest that is happening, and they are very much focused on working together and continuing with the achievements that the coalition has made.' Mr Blair told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that he did not think the Lib Dems' decision to campaign in the European election as the 'party of in' had been their main problem. He said: 'To be fair to Nick Clegg - and I don't want to damage him by saying this - I think over the past few years he has shown quite a lot of leadership and courage. 'The problem they have is nothing to do with Europe. The problem they have is very simple. They fought the 2010 election on a platform significantly to the left of Labour and then ended up in a Conservative Government with a platform significantly to the right of Labour. There's not really a cure for that.' ### SUMMARY:

Cable's friend Lord Oakeshott commissioned damning research on Clegg . The results were leaked to the press designed to damage the Deputy PM . At first it was not confirmed who paid for poll but Cable has revealed source . Business Secretary has attacked his friend friend's behaviour . Clegg left pleading with party not to sack him in wake of election disaster . Says a year away from the General Election is wrong time to change leader . Admits he lost battle against Nigel Farage - but vows not to change course . Comes amid growing anger in party over his leadership .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Four men have been jailed for a Match.com dating scam which saw vulnerable single women duped out of £220,000. Monty Emu, Emmanuel Oko, Chukwuka Ugwu and Adewunmi Nusi were sentenced at Winchester Crown Court today after using fake profiles to con women out of their life savings. They posed as middle-aged men under the names James Richards and Melvyn Binion to develop a relationship and then start asking for cash. Scroll down for video . Monty Emu (left) and Emmanuel Oko (right) were handed prison sentences at Winchester Crown Court today . Chukwuka Ugwu (left) and Adewunmi Nusi (right) were also sent to jail after the scam, which duped 14 women . A total of 14 women fell for the scam after they were fed gushing messages that claimed the father of the man – ‘a widower’ – had died and left £1.5million in his will. But the bachelor said he would need £700 to go to India to access the money, funded by the victims, and then would say he had hit problems on the trip and beg for more money to release inheritance. The cash was paid into bank accounts and transferred to others before it was withdrawn around Portsmouth, Hampshire. Divorcee Suzanne Hardman, 56, lost a staggering £174,000 after being pursued by a man she believed to be 48-year-old Mr Richards. Mrs Hardman, from Basingstoke, Hampshire, said in a victim impact statement read to the court the ordeal made her feel 'sick to her stomach', robbed her of all self-respect and left her unable to eat or sleep. Suzanne Hardman, who was conned out of £174,000 after she was duped on the dating website . The court heard the scam 'constantly plays' on her mind and she has had to take time off work through stress. The statement said: ‘I felt very vulnerable, sick to my stomach and ashamed. ‘I felt no one could ever get to me in this way and have lost self-respect because of it. ‘I feel that it is my fault. I was the one caught up in this and feel it was my own undoing. ‘Looking back I ask myself why I did not realise what was going on and warn others about the dangers of online dating. ‘I have tried to put the incident to the back of my mind but cannot. ‘One of the worst things is that through this I have never seen or heard this “James”.’ Another victim was Michelle Sparham, who gave away money saved to help her son through university, today told the packed court her life was wrecked after she was approached by Mr Binion. She described herself becoming a 'selective mute' who struggles to talk to adults and even refused to go into hospital after being diagnosed with pleurisy and pneumonia last October. She said she tried to throw herself into work, clocking up 14 hour days in a bid to prove herself. Fighting back tears in the witness box today, Mrs Sparham said: ‘I no longer trust any adults, male or female. ‘I just do not believe what they tell me and do not pick out the positive or good people are telling me. Suzanne Hardman said the ordeal made her feel 'sick to her stomach' and robbed her of all her self-respect . The picture of 'James Richards' on the fake profile, which shows a man with hazel eyes and dark hair . ‘Before this incident I was a trusting person and this organisation has affected my daily life. ‘Now I tend not to trust anyone and this can make my life very confusing and hard work.’ She added: ‘For about 12 years I was a marathon runner and weighed about 10 and a half stone but since this I have gained weight. ‘Since this deceit against me I do not believe I deserve anything good and feel the need to constantly punish myself.’ Sylvia Choi, another of the group’s duped women, said she ‘hit rock bottom’, did not want to leave the house, suffered nightmares and was too scared to answer the phone. One message sent to the women from the fake profile read: ‘You make me feel important, you make me feel safe and wanted, something I have not felt for a very long time. The group targeted the women through dating site Match.com were they developed a relationship before asking for cash . ‘I knew our friendship would grow from the first time we spoke but neither one of us could have begun to imagine the love thundering into our hearts that only we can understand. ‘You are my soulmate, my best friend, my life, my inspiration - my everything.’ Sentencing at Winchester Crown Court today, Judge Susan Evans said the 'large scale' scam had an enormous effect on the 'lonely and emotionally vulnerable' victims. She said: ‘This was a sophisticated conspiracy to defraud. It played upon the trusting, the lonely and the emotionally vulnerable. ‘The amount of planning involved in this scam was substantial and would have required a number of people. ‘Fake profiles had to be set up - they had to be convincing, they had to be detailed, listing things like their religion and what they were looking for in a partner. ‘A fake passport was set up for James Richards and legal looking documents were created. ‘Someone had to write all those emails - some were repeats but some had to be “fact specific”, and a number of people must also have been involved in phone calls with the victims. This email reveals how the women were bombarded with messages where 'James' declared his love for them but also mentioned problems that would be solved by their cash . A fake passport for 'James Richards' - the name used to swindle cash from 14 vulnerable women . ‘The characters had to be played by individual people on the telephone and they had to keep track of the plot so the calls made sense to the victim and were believable. ‘They were orchestrated, detailed and plainly rehearsed to perfection. ‘This was a large scale fraud and a very unpleasant one. ‘The distressed victims speak of depression, sleepless nights, loss of confidence, an inability to trust others and feelings of humiliation, embarrassment and shame. ‘Some of those targeted were utterly taken in. Adewunmu Nusi who was today sentenced to 18-months in prison . ‘That is unsurprising. They believed themselves to be in a relationship with these people and the hurt and distress you caused them was enormous. ‘As many of them say, it is not even about the money, it is about the emotional hurt that you caused them. ‘Some of them lost substantial amounts of money they could ill afford to lose. ‘For Mrs Hardman it was her life savings and for another it was the money she saved for her son to go to university.’ Detective Constable Darrin Carey, from Hampshire Police, said the 'devious' group constructed a 'web of lies' to exploit the emotionally vulnerable. DC Carey added the case should act as a warning to con artists that they will be caught, and thanked victims for their 'courage' in reporting their 'distressing' ordeals. The Crown Prosecution Service has applied for all assets from the crimes to be confiscated. Oko, 29, from Southsea, Hampshire was given eight years in prison for the fraud charge and four years for money laundering, to be served concurrently. Emu, 28, from Southsea, Hampshire, was handed three years and six months, and Ugwu, 28, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, was sentenced to 46 weeks in prison. They attended the University of Portsmouth at the time of the scam. Fashion designer Nusi, 37, from Hermitage in Berkshire, who has previous convictions for alcohol and driving offences, received an 18 month jail term. Two others - Brooke Boston, 29, of Southsea, Hampshire, was cleared of charges of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering and Eberechi Ekpo, 26, also of Southsea was also cleared of money laundering and fraud by false representation part way through the trial. ### SUMMARY:

Four men sentenced to 13 years in prison at Winchester Crown Court . The group had been using fake profiles on dating site to con women . They posed as middle-aged men - James Richards and Melvyn Binion . 14 women fell for scam that the man's father had died and he needed cash . Suzanne Hardman, 56, lost £174,000 to man she thought was Mr Richards .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Alan Irvine had to endure a barrage of abuse from his own supporters as he headed down the tunnel at the end of what may prove to be his last game as head coach of West Bromwich Albion. Irvine’s seventh defeat in nine Premier League games was inflicted by two second-half goals from Stoke striker Mame Diouf. Both were deflected, which perhaps sums up the Scot’s luck at present, and time will tell if chairman Jeremy Peace’s notoriously itchy trigger finger holds off long enough for him to stay in charge for the trip to West Ham on New Year’s Day. Afterwards, Irvine insisted that he is still capable of turning the club’s fortunes around but admitted that the decision is out of his hands. Senegalese forward Mame Biram Diouf scores the opening goal of the game between Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion . Diouf tumbles to the ground in celebration while strike partner Peter Crouch runs over to join him . Diouf adds his, and Stoke's, second goal of the afternoon to effectively end the contest at the Britannia Stadium . Marko Arnautovic (left), Bojan Krkic (centre) and Crouch (back right) gather round to congratulate their team-mate after his goal . STOKE CITY (4-2-3-1): Begovic 6.5; Cameron 6, Shawcross 6.5, Muniesa 6, Pieters 6.5; Nzonzi 7, Whelan 6.5 (Wilson 85); Arnautovic 6, Bojan 7 (Adam 78), Diouf 7.5; Crouch 5.5 (Walters 63, 6). Subs not used: Butland, Huth, Assaidi, Shenton. Scorer: Diouf (51, 66) WEST BROM (4-2-3-1): Foster 6; Wisdom 6, McAuley 5.5, Lescott 6.5, Baird 6; Morrison 6 (Varela 63, 6), Brunt 6.5; Dorrans 5.5 (Mulumbu 79), Gardner 7, Sessesgnon 6.5 (Berahino 63, 5.5); Ideye 5. Subs not used: Yacob, Myhill, Gamboa, Dawson. Booked: Baird, Brunt . Referee: Roger East 7 . Star man: Mame Biram Diouf . Att: 27,070 . CLICK HERE to visit out MATCH ZONE feature for stats, heat maps, goals (above) and more. ‘I believe that I am,’ he said. ‘I think the players believe we all are as well, but obviously other people will make decisions as far as that’s concerned. I’m not in control of that. ‘I want to carry on, I want to still do this job and see it turning around. That’s not going to change. We’re all in this together. ‘It’s not really about me, I’m more concerned about the players and the team. I’ ve got to get on with it, there’s no other choice is there? It’s one of those situations where I try to make changes to see if I can help things. You hope they work. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t.’ Nearly 3,000 Albion fans made the trip to the Britannia Stadium for this Midlands derby and stayed largely supportive of Irvine until the 63rd minute when he replaced Stephane Sessegnon and James Morrison with Saido Berahino and Silvestre Varela. Irvine later defended the decision by pointing out that both Sessegnon and Morrison have been carrying injuries, but it was met with a chorus of ‘You don’ t know what you’re doing’. When Diouf claimed a fortuitous second goal for Stoke three minutes later, the travelling fans were in open revolt. They hurled abuse at Irvine as he walked past them en route to the dressing-rooms at the end. ‘I don’t know if they would have wanted me to acknowledge them,’ added Irvine. ‘What do you do in those circumstances? ‘I can understand. People are frustrated, I’m frustrated, and so are the players. I can understand them expressing that, it’s the nature of the job. Former Manchester City and Everton defender Joleon Lescott looks dejected after Diouf scores his second goal . Stoke City's in-form forward Bojan passes the ball while being tracked by West Bromwich Albion's James Morrison . Andre Wisdom, on loan at the Baggies from Liverpool, tussles for the ball with former Manchester United striker Diouf . Former Barcelona defender Marc Muniesa protects the ball from West Brom forward Brown Ideye during their Premier League clash . Midfielders Glenn Whelan and Craig Gardner battle for the ball during their match at the Britannia Stadium . ‘If anyone is going to take it then I’m the person. I’m there to be shot at. I stand out there and take it. I’m prepared to take the criticism.’ West Brom had actually played the neater football for a much of a first half short on clear-cut chances. But it was Stoke who made the breakthrough six minutes after the restart with a goal that must have felt like a dagger to the heart for Irvine. Bojan Krkic had possession in midfield and sprayed the ball wide to Erik Pieters who had made an overlapping run on the left. The Dutchman pulled it back to Diouf who took Chris Brunt and Gareth McAuley out of the game by switching the ball from his left foot to his right, and then beat Ben Foster with a low shot that took a slight deflection off Joleon Lescott. West Brom nearly equalised when Asmir Begovic parried Craig Gardner’s close-range effort and McAuley scrambled the loose ball against the post. Within seconds, the game – and possibly Irvine’s future – had been decided. Again Bojan was involved, cutting inside from the left and laying a pass off for Marko Arnautovic. The Austrian tried his luck with a fierce effort from 25 yards and it took a bizarre double deflection off Diouf before rolling inside the post with Foster helpless to keep it out. It secured Stoke’s first back-to-back wins in the league this season as Mark Hughes’s side moved up to 11th place. Aside from a hamstring problem that forced Bojan off towards the end, the only blemish for Stoke was that Diouf will shortly be leaving on international duty with Senegal at the Africa Cup of Nations. ‘We’re going to miss him but hopefully they’ll get knocked out pretty quickly and he won’t miss too many games,’ joked Hughes. Irvine, for one, will struggle to see the funny side. Scotland international Morrison hurdles a slide tackle from Stoke's Whelan on Sunday afternoon . Bojan may not have been among the goals against West Brom but as his heat map (above) shows he was heavily involved in build up play . Stoke City boss Mark Hughes (left) has enjoyed more success than his West Brom counterpart Alan Irvine (right) this season . Veteran defender Gareth McAuley clears the ball while closed down by La Masia graduate Bojan . Baggies boss Irvine has his head in his hands after his side concede the second goal of the afternoon . Ideye escapes the attention of Stoke's Spanish defender Muniesa during the Premier League match on Sunday . Gardner tries to pass to a West Brom team-mate while being closed down by Muniesa and Geoff Cameron . Former Liverpool and Tottenham forward Crouch towers over McAuley as he controls an aerial ball . Summer signing Bojan looks to the sky after missing a chance to extend Stoke's lead against West Brom . McAuley of West Brom uses his strength to ease Bojan off the ball during their clash in Staffordshire . A view from ground level at the Britannia Stadium on Sunday afternoon for Stoke City's win against the Baggies . ### SUMMARY:

Mame Biram Diouf opened the scoring for Stoke City during the Premier League clash . Erik Pieters provided the assist for the goal at the Britannia Stadium . Former Manchester United striker Diouf then added a second for Stoke with 25 minutes to go . Result means Mark Hughes' side have now won back-to-back league games for the first time this season . But Alan Irvine's West Brom have lost their last three Premier League games .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Online attack: Connor Brown accused the victim of being a 'money grabbing little tramp' A teammate of the footballer jailed last week for raping a teenager has been suspended by his club after he branded the victim a 'money grabbing little tramp'. Soon after Sheffield United striker Ched Evans was convicted, reserve player Connor Brown posted Twitter messages about the case, including a personal attack on the woman. The club said it has launched an investigation into the 19-year-old's social network posts, which were passed on to North Wales Police by a leading rape charity. A club statement read: 'Sheffield United Football Club have suspended reserve team player Connor Brown with immediate effect pending an internal investigation into comments apparently posted on his personal Twitter account. 'There will be no further comment from the club during the process of the investigation which it hopes to conclude swiftly.' The suspension follows a storm that erupted as the victim was named on the social networking website. Police promised a ‘robust’ investigation after the girl was identified and abused on the internet within hours of Wales international Evans being found guilty of the attack. Her name was being circulated so widely that it is understood to have been one of the top ‘trending’, or most used, words on the Twitter site over the weekend. The victim was last night said by her family to have been ‘traumatised’ by the loss of her anonymity and the Attorney General has warned that those who published her name could face prosecution. Standing by her man: Ched Evans, left, is being supported by his girlfriend Natasha Massey, 24, despite him being convicted of raping a teenager . Sheffield United player Evans, 23, was sentenced to five years in jail on Friday for raping the 19-year-old in a hotel after a night out in Rhyl, North Wales last May. He admitted having sex with the victim but she told police she had no memory of the incident and believed her drinks had been spiked. Evans’s friend, the Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald, 23, also admitted having sex with the victim but was found not guilty of the same charge. Despite his conviction he was this week named in the Professional Footballer Association League One Team of the Year. Organisers defended the decision to include him in the award as a 'footballing judgement' and not a moral one. Soon after Evans was convicted, his teammate Brown took to Twitter to post comments about the case and the victim. Trial: The victim's name was circulated within hours of the jury returning its verdict. Clayton McDonald, 23, left, was cleared of rape while Ched Evans, right, was convicted of rape and sentenced to five years in jail . A number of supporters joined in, with one writing: ‘Birds that **** footballers then accuse them of rape are complete compensation-grabbing ***s. They need shooting.’ Personal abuse against the victim on the internet soon escalated into messages in which she was named. Jonathan Cox from Sheffield published her name, saying she ‘isn’t a victim she’s a whore’. Joshua Laughton, also from Sheffield, tweeted the name of the victim before sharing another user’s message saying ‘she’s got a massive reputation in Rhyl for doing similar things’. Both Cox and Laughton have since removed their messages from Twitter. Rape victims are granted lifelong anonymity by the courts and publishing a name is a criminal offence punishable by a fine of up to £5,000. North Wales Police have described the comments on Twitter as ‘profoundly disturbing’ and say they contribute to the young woman’s ‘continued trauma’.Last night her family revealed she was ‘traumatised, shocked and deeply upset’ at being identified by Twitter users. Tirade: Connor Brown took to his Twitter to comment on the verdict and the victim . The most high-profile leak on Twitter was the naming of footballer Ryan Giggs as he tried to protect his identity. Giggs, 38, took out an injunction last April to prevent the media from reporting allegations that he had an extra-marital affair with former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas and allegations that she had blackmailed him. The Manchester United star was the subject of so much speculation on Twitter that eventually Lib Dem MP John Hemming 'outed' him in the House of Commons. Her mother said: ‘Putting her name  on Twitter is just another horrendous ordeal for her and we have been assured the police are going to come down like a ton of bricks on these people.’ The teenager is understood to have had counselling following the rape. Evans has been the top scorer for Sheffield United this season, scoring 29 League goals, and he was named in the Professional Footballers’ Association League One team of the year on Sunday. Voting took place before his conviction. The sister of the victim believes she has been abused because of Evans’s popularity as a footballer. She said: ‘People are only doing it because he is a footballer, I think it is absolutely disgusting and the whole family are shocked.’ While newspapers and television broadcasters follow court anonymity rulings, they are often ignored on the internet and postings are usually difficult to remove once they have been published. Labour MP Louise Ellman said: ‘The naming of any rape victim should be condemned, anonymity is crucial and this case should be pursued by the authorities.’ North Wales Police have begun collecting evidence. Detective Chief Inspector Steve Williams said: ‘As and when criminal offences are identified on such websites they will be dealt with robustly and the offenders will be brought to justice.’ A spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office said: ‘Rape victims have lifetime anonymity and the publication of a rape victim’s name is a criminal offence.’ When confronted about his Twitter message Cox, 20, said:  ‘What Ched Evans did was totally unacceptable but there are thousands of people tweeting about it, not just me. ‘I didn’t think about the content before passing it on. I didn’t even know if it was the girl involved or not.’ Sheffield United yesterday announced an internal probe into the tweets from Brown. Jailed footballer Ched Evans is being supported by his girlfriend and her wealthy family despite being convicted of raping a teenager. Natasha Massey, 24, lives with her  parents in a £1.5million property in  Alderley Edge, Cheshire, close to the homes of Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand and Patrice Evra. Her father Karl Massey is a director  of 11 companies, including prestigious jewellers Cottrills in nearby Wilmslow, which is popular with the privileged ‘Cheshire set’. Support: Natasha Massey, pictured right, is understood to have told her friends that she will stand by her boyfriend Ched Evans and that she is still ‘deeply in love’ with him . Evans and Miss Massey, who have been dating for two years, have been photographed with a rare 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Spyder in a promotion for the jewellers. They were also pictured together at  a Cottrills ‘Rolex dinner’, described as  an ‘evening of fine dining, fine wines and a tasting of the very rarest Dom Perignon vintages’. Miss Massey is understood to have told her friends that she will stand by her boyfriend and that she is still ‘deeply in love’ with him. In tatters: The career of Sheffield United's Welsh striker Ched Evans, left, is now in ruins following his conviction for rape . Her mother Susan has also expressed her support for the Sheffield United striker who was sentenced to five years in jail on Friday. On the day he was sentenced she tweeted: ‘Absolutely devastated! My love goes to Tash and Ched! He is INNOCENT.’ Natasha’s sister Imogen, 19, tweeted: ‘I’m in shock! He’s innocent! This can’t happen!’ There was no answer at the Massey home when the Daily Mail called last night. The detached mansion, which sits in acres of gardens, had a BMW, a Jaguar and two motorcycles on the drive. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article. ### SUMMARY:

Jailed star is included in PFA League One Team of the Year . Identity of victim, 19, 'discussed online by Twitter users' Club launches investigation into team-mate Connor Brown, 19, who called victim a 'money-grabbing little tramp' on Twitter . Rape charities call for anonymity laws to be toughened up against new technologies .