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### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Kate Lyons . Last week Matthew Ames made himself a cup of tea for the first time in more than two years. 'I didn’t pour boiling water on myself which was the main objective,' he said. The Brisbane father-of-four had all his limbs amputated in June 2012 after suffering from a severe case of toxic shock syndrome which almost claimed his life. Scroll down for video . Matthew Ames was 39 years old when he went to hospital with what he thought was a bad case of the flu. He had contracted Strep A, which resulted in toxic shock syndrome and led to all four of his limbs being amputated . His wife Diane was told that if Matthew was to stand any chance of survival, they would have to amputate all four of his limbs. She told them to proceed with the operation – the first of its kind at the hospital – and he survived. Now, Matthew, 41, is well on his way to another medical first _ becoming the world's first 'bionic man'. There was not enough left of his limbs for conventional prosthetics to work properly and so he has been fitted with steel implants into his bone, which protrude through his skin, and to which bionic hands will eventually be fitted. The process, called osseointegration, involves two surgeries on each limb. In the first, an implant is placed inside his bone which sits there for six months to allow the bone to grow around it. During the second stage, a bolt is fitted to the implant that protrudes through the skin. He is the first man to have undergone osseointegration of all four limbs and is currently six to 12 months away from having what he calls 'whizz bang bionics' fitted to the bolts, which include bionic hands that he can operate by flexing his biceps and triceps. In the meantime Matthew is building up his strength with short 'training arms', which he describes as 'chopsticks with weights on them,' and short legs he calls 'stubbies'. Matthew and his wife Diane have four children aged four to 10. Their youngest, Emily, was two when his limbs were amputated and does not remember a time when he had full arms and legs . Matthew has undergone multiple surgeries to implant roads into his bone, which protrude from his skin. They will eventually be fitted with bionic hands . Matthew and Diane, both 41, have four children – Luke, 10, Ben, 9, Will, 8, and Emily, 4 – and since being fitted with his new arms and legs he is happy to be able to do more things for and with them. 'There are some things that are a bit easier for me to do – I can turn a page of a book, it's a bit easier for me to help with their homework because I can kind of point to what I'm talking about, I can kind of cuddle them a little bit but they complain that my arms are a bit cold in winter, just some simple things, which is nice,' he told Daily Mail Australia. 'A couple of days ago I was instructing one of my sons how to tie a tie, I did it last year with my eldest son and trying to do it without pointing is very difficult, this time I could point to which bit he needed to do.' The prosthetics cost half a million dollars – $150,000 for each arm and $100,000 for each leg – and Matthew requires a new set every six years. 'Because my case if very complex, I need to get the most complex prosthetics,' he said. To fund the surgeries, the couple started a foundation, Renovating Matthew, and were overwhelmed with the response from the community, receiving enough donations to pay their medical costs for the next 10 years. 'We didn't expect anything near the response we've had. We're very lucky,' said Matthew. Matthew, a former energy and resource executive, said that the overwhelming response they had from the community – which included 65 local families joining a food roster to supply them with meals after his first diagnosis – was part of what inspired him and Diane to write a book. 'It was a pretty difficult decision to open up with that level of detail. But I think the experience we had with the community and the consistent feedback we got about how our story had helped others, we wanted to help other people,' he said. 'Out of something disastrous or something tragic, there's been some good that's come out of it and if we can share that with other people, if people take something positive from it, that would be great,' Diane told Daily Mail Australia. Matthew currently wears training arms and legs, which are training his joints to take pressure and weight, he is building up his strength so that he can be fitted with bionics . Matthew is the first person in the world to have all four of his limbs osseointegrated, a procedure that involves implanting a rod inside his bone to which bionics can be attached . The couple, who met at university and have been dating since they were 17 and draw great strength from one another. 'At the end of the day, no matter what happens, the door closes and the kids go to sleep and it's Di and I, so if that solid core wasn't there, it would just be almost impossible to get through,' said Matthew. 'And now I'm home a lot, if she didn't like me that'd be a bit of a problem.' Diane says she takes her lead from Matthew, whom she describes as more 'even-keeled' than herself. 'Before this all happened, I don't think I would've said I wasn't strong enough to go through this, but I would've said Matthew was strong enough. I've been surprised at where I do have the strength,' she said. 'We're a really good team, we've been together for so long... We're very lucky we found each other.' Matthew and Diane have released in the hope that sharing their story will help people and might help form a more inclusive society . Ultimately, Matthew says that surviving such hardship is about the choices people make. 'I could choose to be angry that the diagnosis wasn't picked up, I could choose to be angry with Diane for making the decision, but really thinking about it, what choice is going to be best for me and those people that I love?' he said. 'You can choose to focus on things I can’t do or things I can do. Complaining about stuff is not going to be helpful either – do something about it or shut up.' He would like to see Australians be more inclusive of those around them who struggle. He tells the story of a man he met at the gym who told him he liked seeing him around because it made him feel better about his own life. 'What they mean is: I feel good because your life's bad and my life's better than yours. I'd much prefer it if people looked at that person and said: "Whatever they've gone through that was difficult, they would have learnt something quite valuable to everybody else." And if they looked for that and [we]  learnt from each other we would have a much more inclusive society. 'Hopefully by telling our story, people can understand me and our lives and [can] look at someone and think: that person's got some fantastic gifts that people can learn from.' Will to Live by Matthew and Diane Ames with Kate Ames, published by Michael Joseph, rrp $29.99. Also available as an ebook. ### SUMMARY:

Matthew Ames had all four limbs amputated in June 2012 after contracting toxic shock syndrome . The Brisbane father-of-four has had rods implanted into the bones of all limbs and will soon have bionics fitted to them . He currently wears 'training arms' and 'stubbie' legs to strengthen his body . Matthew and Diane have released a book about their experience .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Simon Walters . and Glen Owen . Civil war erupted in the Tory Party last night after Boris Johnson accused George Osborne of lying about urging him to make a  Commons comeback. Supporters of the London Mayor claimed the Chancellor’s camp was engaging in a ‘dirty tricks plot’ to wreck his hopes of becoming Conservative leader – and boost Mr Osborne’s own ambitions for the job . The simmering ‘Boris versus George’ leadership feud burst into the open over reports that Mr Osborne had ‘delivered personally’ a message to Mr Johnson that David Cameron wants him to stand as a parliamentary candidate at the next Election. Future potential leadership rivals George Osborne, left, and Boris Johnson together in China last year . The aim was said to be to force  Mr Johnson to prove his loyalty by ‘pinning his political fate to that of the Prime Minister’. But it sparked a fierce backlash from Mr Johnson. A well-placed source says that, when he was told Mr Osborne had approached him about the matter, the Mayor exclaimed: ‘Bull****! There has been no such conversation. They are trying to tie me in.’ Mr Johnson believes the manoeuvre is a ploy to ensure he gets equal blame if the Tories lose power, and make it easier for Mr Osborne to beat him in a subsequent race to succeed Mr Cameron. There is a growing rift between the two men, now seen as the main candidates in the race to succeed Mr Cameron in the event of a Tory flop at the next Election. And the row is set to intensify as Mr Johnson will address Conservative Election candidates at a reception in the Commons tomorrow. Mr Johnson has made no secret of his desire to return to the Commons, but the timing of his return is seen as a crucial factor in determining whether he can win the Tory crown. Mr Johnson believes the manoeuvre is a ploy to tie his fortunes to David Cameron at the next election, complicating his leadership bid . The Mayor fears that if he stands at the next Election – or even before by contesting a by-election – and the Conservatives lose, he will be ‘tainted’, along with all others involved in the campaign. Instead, he intended to wait until after the Election and make a quick Commons return in a by-election – in time to throw his hat into the ring if Mr Cameron steps down. Until recently, Mr Johnson was seen as frontrunner in the Conservative leadership stakes. But Mr Osborne’s success with the economy has changed that and he is now seen as a serious contender. Tory MPs say arch political tactician Mr Osborne has built up a formidable covert leadership team, including potential leadership running mate Michael Gove, the Education Secretary. He could rely on support from close friend Mr Cameron, who has always regarded fellow Old Etonian Mr Johnson with suspicion. Mr Johnson’s allies say high-flying Business Minister Matthew Hancock, a protégé of Mr Osborne, is a key figure in behind-the-scenes  plotting – but he denies it. An ally of the Mayor said: ‘This is nothing to do with party loyalty and everything to do with Osborne and Cameron trying to destabilise Boris. ‘He saw it coming a mile off. They want to make sure that if the Tories lose, Boris gets as much flak as they do and can’t stand as leader as a “break with the failed Cameron-Osborne regime”. ‘Boris can play a full part in the Election campaign regardless of whether he stands in the General Election. This is a clumsy attempt to con him into doing it, with inevitable claims that he can’t wait for Cameron to fail, or falsely accuse him of disloyalty if he doesn’t stand.’ One of Boris’s admirers said: ‘If the Conservatives lose the Election, the Tory faithful will be begging Boris to come back as their saviour and he will be unbeatable. That is what worries Osborne.’ Another MP close to Mr Johnson claimed the Osborne-Gove camp were trying to trick Mr Johnson into leading the Tory campaign against UKIP’s Nigel Farage ‘because they know it would lose Boris votes in any Tory leadership contest .  .  . Boris isn’t daft’. Allies of Mr Osborne denied the Chancellor was plotting against Mr Johnson. ‘There is nothing in this,’ said one. ‘The Prime Minister has already said he wants Boris to be an MP. Someone is making mischief.’ An MP close to Mr Johnson claimed rivals were trying to trick Mr Johnson into leading the Tory campaign against UKIP's Nigel Farage because they know it would cost him popularity among eurosceptics . Mr Johnson’s friends say he has yet to decide when he will return to the Commons. His term as London Mayor runs until 2016 but, theoretically, there is nothing to stop him serving as Mayor and an MP simultaneously, as his Labour predecessor Ken Livingstone did for part of his two terms as Mayor. There is no doubt that the Boris charm offensive has already started. Returns to Commons after 2015 Election . ADVANTAGE: He stays above the fray if Tories lose – and bides his time if Cameron triumphs. DANGER: If Cameron quits, Boris must find a seat fast to enter the leadership race. Returns to Commons at 2015 Election . ADVANTAGE: Perfectly placed to throw his hat into the ring if Cameron flops. DANGER: If Tories lose, he is linked to the flop and ‘tainted’. If Cameron triumphs, Boris is stuck on the Commons sidelines. Returns to Commons before 2015 Election . ADVANTAGE: If Tory ratings fall and panicking MPs sack Cameron, Boris  can become PM. DANGER: Claims he had returned early to wield the knife would damage him. At tomorrow night’s ‘Parliamentary Candidates Evening’ he will have a chance to win over many of those set to become MPs after the 2015 Election. But one of those invited said: ‘It’s a bit confusing for us, because we see him as a potential rival for some of the best seats.’ The growing rivalry between Mr Johnson and Mr Osborne has led to the creation of two gangs of rival Tory MPs, the ‘Friends of Boris’ (FOBS) and the ‘Friends of George’ (FOGS), including Deputy Chief Whip Greg Hands and Tory MPs Harriett Baldwin and Nadhim Zahawi. FOGS make risqué jokes about Mr Johnson’s bumbling image and messy private life; FOBS counter by gossiping about why the Chancellor has adopted a new haircut – and whether the colour is natural. One FOB sarcastically complained: ‘Osborne is trying to make sure the proceeds of growth go straight into his leadership account’. The Osborne-Johnson rivalry spilled over last autumn when  both men travelled to China at the same time, and Boris’s team accused Osborne of trying to cut him out of key events. Nadine Dorries, one of the few Tory MPs to publicly back Boris, has likened him to a famous beer advert, saying, ‘Boris is our Heineken. He reaches parts of the electorate other politicians fail to reach.’ She added that any leadership contest would be ‘inconceivable’ without Mr Johnson. ### SUMMARY:

London Mayor has been seen as frontrunner in Tory leadership stakes . Johnson's supporters say Chancellor's camp engaged in 'dirty tricks plot' Move to ask Johnson to stand seen as ploy to tie his fortunes to Cameron . He will then get equal blame if the Tories are thrown out at the election .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: It was a second set visit for the Queen in two days after she met Antiques Roadshow experts, 24 hours after touring the Game of Thrones set in Belfast. While she refused to take a seat on the HBO drama's infamous Iron Throne, today the Queen was all smiles, eagerly picking up a minature bronze horse taken from the Royal Collection. She even confessed to watching the show, with the Duke of Edinburgh quizzing producers and presenter Fiona Bruce about when the episode starring them would air. Scroll down for video . That's more like it! The Queen inspects a bronze sculpture of 1863 Derby winner, a horse named Macaroni . The Queen turned from signing the visitors' book to add: 'If it is in . August then even better because we might have a chance to see it.' Among the pieces to find favour with the monarch was a small, bronze sculpture of a horse and jockey, believed to be of the 1863 Derby winner Macaroni. The history of the work by French artist Pierre Jules Mene, and the race, stirred interest after the experts revealed the Epsom winner took home the spoils after 32 false starts. 'It seems very incompetent doesn’t it,' commented the Queen, a racehorse owner who has had runners in the Derby herself. 'But quite interesting.' Just the thing! The Queen appeared more enamoured with the Antiques Roadshow than Game of Thrones . Gracious guest: The Queen took time to sign the visitor's book at Hillsborough Castle . Leaving his mark: Prince Philip was also keen to leave his signature in the guest book . Enjoying herself: The Queen appeared particularly enamoured with the bronze of Macaroni . With its . gentle experts and enthusiasm for all things historical, Antiques . Roadshow is far more in keeping with the Queen's personal taste than Game . of Thrones, although Buckingham Palace refused to confirm which of the . shows Her Majesty watches. The HBO . drama, which emerged from a set of fantasy novels by George R. R Martin, . is thought to be loosely based on the Wars of the Roses, which saw two . opposing dynasties battle it out for the throne of England. With York on one side and Lancaster on . the other, England was convulsed by a series of battles, dastardly plots . and pretenders lurking on the other side of the Channel until, with the . death of Richard III, Lancaster finally triumphed. Although the Queen is a descendant of the House of Lancaster - and is the current holder of both title and duchy - she appeared far more engaged when discussing antiques with the BBC One experts. Along with Macaroni's bronze, the royal couple were also shown a George IV library table, which is one of a pair kept at Hillsborough, an 18th century Chinese soup tureen and five figurines from a Meissen monkey orchestra - both of which are held in the National Museum of Northern Ireland. One of the more interesting pieces was a Wagga Wagga stick which was gifted to the Queen on her tour of Australia in 1954, although there was no explanation for how the Aboriginal fighting club ended up in Hillsborough. Greeting: The Queen was also introduced to Antiques Roadshow's presenter, Fiona Bruce . Interesting: The Queen with Antiques Roadshow experts Hilary Kay, Paul Atterbury and John Axford . Prince . Philip was particularly interested in the club but couldn't resist a . joke questioning the evidence linking the item to the royal collection. 'Where’s the evidence?' he quipped. 'The . story between then and now is mysterious,' riposted Antiques Roadshow's bric-à-brac expert, Paul Atterbury. 'I think that’s like a lot of . things that arrive here in the palace without any clear knowledge of how . or why. All the things here (on the table) are in the house for one . reason or another without the back story.' Take your fancy? The Queen was particularly keen on a silver christening cup that has a strong connection to the Royal Family . Mr Atterbury and fellow experts John Axford, a ceramics and Far East specialist, and Hilary Kay introduced the items and spent 10 minutes with the royals. Among the items shown by Ms Kay to the Queen was a christening cup that has a strong connection to the royal family. 'What was lovely about this is, this is a piece unlike the other objects as it has a direct family connection,' she said. 'She . loved the silver and she was very interested in the stories behind the . items - they were both interested in everything on the table.' One is not sitting there! The Queen chose to give the Iron Throne a wide berth during a visit to the HBO set . Nice to meet you: The Queen met Game of Thrones cast, among them Kit Harrington and Lena Headey . The . cup was gifted to the daughter of the chief engineer on a transatlantic . liner after she was born while Lord Granville, Governor of Northern . Ireland, and his wife, were travelling on the ship to America. On hearing the news Lady Granville, the Queen’s aunt, said she would send a gift for the new arrival, Rose. The . Queen was told how the young woman gifted the silver cup back to the . royal family, along with two . family photographs, to add to their collections. Afterwards, the Queen was flown by helicopter from Hillsborough to Coleraine in County Londonderry, where they are guests of honour at an event marking the work of the British Legion. The Queen ended her three day trip on a somber note as she lay a wreath as tribute to the Irish servicemen who died in the First World War. Her Majesty and Prince Phillip were guests of honour at the commemorative event in Coleraine to mark the centenary of the outbreak of conflict and those who lost their lives in the four years that followed. Servicemen from all over Ireland fought in the First World War, which ended three years before the island was partitioned. The Queen and Prince Philip laid a wreath as tribute to the fallen soldiers of Ireland in WW1 . Members of the Royal British Legion from both sides of the Irish border joined the Queen and Philip at the civic reception in the Town Hall. Despite a heavy downpour, the Queen and Philip were met by hundreds of well-wishers, hoping to steal a glimpse of the royal couple. There was a somber mood at Coleraine as the royal couple and well-wishers stood for a minutes silence . There was a nostalgic feel to the afternoon as re-enactors dressed in period costume for the memorial . The streets of Coleraine were . bursting with crowds waving Union Jacks and local shopkeepers and office . workers took a break to watch from the windows of their businesses. The . town created a nostalgic feel to the day with re-enactors dressed in . period costume and, after the solemnity of the wreath laying and . minute's silence, the Queen embarked on a walkabout to say greet some of . her adoring fans. The Queen wore a mournful expression at today's memorial . Despite a downpour of rain, hundreds of well-wishers came to catch a glimpse of the Queen and Philip . Flattered: The Queen was treated to pretty posies of flowers by many of the well-wishers . Royal wave: Despite the overcast weather the Queen seemed pleased to greet her public . ### SUMMARY:

The Queen was introduced to the BBC1 experts at Hillsborough Castle . Was shown a miniature bronze statuette of 1863 Derby winner Macaroni . Later asked producers when the show starring her would be on TV . Yesterday met the stars of HBO drama Game of Thrones in Belfast . Loosely based on Wars of the Roses, fought between York and Lancaster . Queen descends from winners, Lancaster, and owns the title and duchy .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Parents in Newtown, Connecticut, are reportedly being called in one by one to positively identify the bodies of children following Friday's tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Reuters deputy social media editor Matthew Keys tweeted the news on Friday around 11.30pm saying he heard it on WNBC. The bodies of the dead students are still being held inside the school, sources at the scene of the shooting told MailOnline. Scroll down for video . Tragic day: Connecticut State Police Officers stand outside the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company near Sandy Hook Elementary School . In mourning: Shocked mourners stand outside a vigil at the Saint Rose of Lima church in Newtown, Connecticut Friday night after a heavily-armed gunman opened fire on school children and staff . Grief: A young woman hugs another person outside of the vigil; 26 people, including 20 young schoolchildren, were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary . Prayers: Mourners pray and stand outside the overflow area of the vigil; the shooting happened only two weeks before Christmas . Residents of the small town Newtown came together this evening to express their grief this evening at a memorial service for the 20 children and six staff members gunned down today at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Approximately 1,000 mothers, fathers, children, and grandparents flocked to St Rose of Lima Catholic church, whose congregation lost six children at the hands of shooter Adam Lanza, 20. Parents held their children close, poignantly carrying them past a candlelit nativity scene as the church was filled to the rafters, with hundreds having to stand in the freezing cold to pay their respects to the tragic dead. Lighting candles: People pray at a makeshift shrine outside of the church . Craig Hoekenen arrived at St Rose of Lima church with his wife Tracy and their nine-year old boy C.J. and seven-year old Matthew who was at Sandy Hook School as the massacre unfolded. Speaking to MailOnline in front of the bright lights and flashing cameras of the world's media, little Matthew described how he had to walk over 'smashed glass and blood' as he was led to safety by policemen who told him to 'close his eyes'. 'We were doing our morning stretches, when we heard guns going off' said second grade student Matthew, who his mother described as 'scared out of his mind' by the traumatic experience. The schoolboy’s mother Tracy said that when she received the phone call informing her that her son's school had gone into lockdown she felt 'unable to breathe.' Those who knew families affected by the tragedy chose not to identify anyone involved, but it is thought that the children killed by Adam Lanza were from kindergarten and first grade. One entire kindergarten class remains unaccounted for. Looking in: As hundreds stand outside St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, which was filled to capacity, a couple embrace during a healing service held in for victims . Paying respects: Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, left, speaks to mourners at the service this evening . Unspeakable: Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said that 'evil visited this community today' Serious: Mourners listen to the service with grim, saddened faces . Looking in: A man who did not fit inside the packed church looks in through an open stained-glass window . 'I was working at home when a police officer friend phoned me,' said Billy Alvares, who attended the service with his daughter Cynthia, a third grader at the school. 'Evil visited this community today... each parent, each sibling, each member of the family has to understand that Connecticut - we're all in this together. We'll do whatever we can to overcome this event.' -Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy . ‘He told me that a shooting had occurred at the school and then my phone rang with the automatic lock-down call that parents receive. I can't tell you or describe to you the feeling of knowing that my daughter was in danger and when I was reunited with her I was so shaken up. 'I am fortunate but others are not. Who would ever do such a thing as this?' St Rose of Lima has space for 500 people but the church overfilled as Monsenior Weiss led a congregation including Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy in mourning. 'Evil visited this community today and it's too early to speak of recovery, but each parent, each sibling, each member of the family has to understand that Connecticut,' Malloy said. 'We're all in this together. We'll do whatever we can to overcome this event. ‘We lit 26-candles today to remember the victims of the shooting,' Serif Weiss said after the service.'We say that but we must acknowledge that 28 people died today including the shooter. A lot of parents lost their hearts today but I detected no anger today from them. We must hope a good resolution comes from this.' Remembering: Twenty white balloons have been tied to the sign for the Sandy Hook Elementary School . Grim: Mourners gather inside the St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church . In prayer: Mourners join hands after entering the church . Paul Wishneski, 41, and his wife Mary Kay said that they thanked God that their daughter Emma . Murderer: Adam Lanza, a troubled 20-year-old loner with a history of autistic behavior, is the monster behind a horrific shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 people, including 20 children, dead . was off school today with a sprained ankle. The eight year-old is in the third grade at sandy hook school and her parents were alerted to the horrific attack unfolding as they received the automated call from the school authorities. "We went to code red,' we just looked at each other and said 'oh my God'  said Paul. 'We assumed it was the high school that had been attacked but we live down the road from the school and realized it was the kids who were at risk.' 'This is such a close community, I got married at this church, my sister and brother got married at this church.'We know two of the families who lost their son in the attack. We had dinner with them last week.'Their boys were six or seven, it is a tragedy.' Father Petrucci was the chaplain at the Danbury Hospital when three victims of the shooting, one woman and two children arrived. 'The two children sadly died, but I was not involved with them at any point,' said the 65-year-old priest. Lingering: After the vigil, many remained in the church to pray or meditate . 'The woman, who I will not name is doing well, but was shot but not seriously.' As the service ended, the congregation slowly filed out to pray at the feet of a statue of the Virgin Mary outside the church.' Hours after the prayer vigil at St Rose of Lima Church and as midnight approached, dozens of mourners lingered, bowing their heads in silent prayer or staring straight ahead, their eyes welling up with tears. There was complete silence except for the opening and closing of the church doors, as more people found their way in. Some were alone. Others took solace with a spouse, child or parent. ### SUMMARY:

It has been reported that parents in . Newtown, Connecticut, are being called in to positively identify the . bodies of children one by one . Mourners flocked to St Rose of Lima Catholic Church for moving vigil honoring the 26 victims killed today in quiet New England town . Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said that 'evil visited this community' but offered words of encouragement, saying 'we'll do whatever we can to overcome this event' Twenty school-aged children were killed and six adults; shooter Adam Lanza, 20, also killed himself .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: If someone suggested you spent a well-earned holiday in a garden shed, you'd perhaps politely decline. But now more and more people are opting to spend their precious time off in £2,000 a week luxury 'boltholes' - which are strikingly similar to the humble garden shed. Hundreds of the boltholes have been built in some of the country's most rural areas to cater for the rise in people staying in the UK for their holidays - known as 'staycationers'. Scroll down for video . Little luxury: A garage in remote Shropshire that has been transformed by its owner from run-down garage into a romantic hideaway, earning thousands of pounds a week . Retreat: Spectacular views from the window of one bolthole - called the Boat house in Downderry, Cornwall . Many of the charming rooms, some just a . few metres wide, are being rented to for up to £2,000 a week and some . are bringing in as much as in £100,000 annually. A specialist website that handles the converted timber shacks says it is struggling to keep up with demand, - with most of the quaint holiday homes now let-out for most of the year. The site, Unique Home Stays, lists 37 two-man boltholes, around half of which are located in the popular tourist areas of Cornwall and Devon. Others are dotted around Britain in picturesque areas such as the Peak District, Shropshire, the Isle of Wight and the Scottish Highlands. Claire Ray, spokeswoman for the company, said today: 'We have special properties of all sizes but the ones that do the best are the sleeps-two boltholes. Quite the holiday home! A bolthole in Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, transformed into a fabulous holiday destination with panoramic sea views . Sea view: A panoramic view from inside The Edge holiday home . 'People are tripping over themselves to book them. 'These romantic boltholes come from the most unlikely of beginnings, from run-down sheds to old beach huts. 'They are turned into luxury hideaways and they are proving a real hit because they offer couples privacy, seclusion, luxury and romance in unique settings.' What started out as a showroom for her interior design company ended up becoming a real money maker for mother-of-two Kerrie Griffin-Rogers. She spent just £10,000 turning a roofless, disused garage at her house in Shropshire into a £3,200 a month retreat. The 46-year-old had found herself struggling to pay the bills and her large mortgage. Idyll: Mrs Griffin-Rogers outside her renovated bolthole in Shropshire - which earns her £3,200 a month . But now the income from the renovated garage, called Turtledove Hideaway in Shropshire, pays the £300,000 mortgage on her 136-acre estate - and more. Speaking outside the bolthole, Mrs Griffin-Rogers said: 'I was using the garage to store products for my interior design company but it didn’t have a roof and birds were making a mess in there. 'I decided to renovate the garage and use it to show off my products. 'I did most of the work myself and didn’t skimp on anything - it is all the best you can get. Neutral decor: Inside the luxurious holiday let - which cost £10,000 to transform . 'The house was featured in a few magazines and they suggested I looked into letting it out through Unique Home Stays. 'It went onto their site in the middle of May and the first booking came in five days later. 'Bookings have been coming in thick and fast since then. 'Each month I’m getting about £3,200 just from letting out the hideaway which is double my mortgage.' It cost Adam Wooler just £6,500 to buy a ramshackle timber shed perched on the top of a 300ft cliff overlooking Whitsand Bay in Cornwall. Adam bought the derelict shack while at university 25 years ago, and it remained unused for long after. But now he and wife Katherine have invested £100,000 into turning it into a luxury, cosy bolthole that has a kitchen, lounge, bedroom, shower room and sun terrace. Before: The Edge stood as a ramshackle blue shed for 25 years before its transformation . The chalet, called The Edge, is booked up until the end of summer and costs up to £1,500 to hire for a week, pictured in its current glory below. Mr Wooler, 47, who runs a marine services business, said: 'I worked as a lifeguard on the beach below and bought the leasehold for the chalet for £6,500. 'I just bought it to live in it while I was at Plymouth University. 'It was nothing more than an wooden shack on a cliff with one room and an outside loo. It was three metres by two metres and nothing more than a shed. Out to sea: The property looks completely different after its £100,000 renovation . 'I lived in it for 18 months and nearly got blown away with it a few times. 'I left it as it was for 25 years and couldn’t really afford to do anything with it. 'It has only been the last 18 months that we managed to get the funding and planning permission in place that we could really do something with it. 'We are delighted with how it has turned out and has been designed to make the most of the views. It is really romantic getaway. 'People are happy to pay the rental price for it because of the views and the high standard finish.' Former TV producer Jan Bright, right, spent £150,000 doing up three decrepit 600-year-old barns on her Cornish farm - and now rakes in £81,000 a year in revenue. Mrs Bright, 61, was among the first to list a property with Unique Home Stays after buying the 2.5 acre Grade II listed Drym Farm near St Ives in 2002. Her three renovated eco-homes - Quillet Cottage, the Apple Store and Lofty - all pictured after and before renovation below, cost up to £900 a week to rent. She is now planning the renovation of two more barns on the site which would take her income from the lettings to £135,000. Mrs Bright said: 'I bought the farm with the pure intention to renovate the barns. 'They were beautiful stone buildings but they were totally derelict. Transformed: Jan Bright's collection of three outbuildings on her Cornish farm that are popular with couples . Before: The outbuildings, pictured before work began, were once dilapidated and unused . 'I was adamant I wanted them to retain their rustic charm and still look like 600-year-old barns. 'It took a lot of work, made harder because the buildings are listed, but it was worth every second. 'Each cottage brings in around £27,000 a year. I’m delighted and my accountant is too.' ### SUMMARY:

Many homeowners turning disused sheds into luxury holiday lets - and earning themselves up to £100,000 a year . People 'tripping over themselves to book them,' said one letting website . Rise of the quirky 'bolthole' to cater for 'staycationers' - people who opt to explore the UK rather than going abroad for their holidays .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: 'A lot in common': John Cleese with fourth wife Jennifer (left) and 30-year-old daughter Camilla . By her own admission, she and her father don’t always see eye-to-eye when it comes to her work. And when John Cleese’s daughter Camilla unveiled her latest stand-up show, it wasn’t difficult to see why. The 30-year-old comic devoted almost half of her set to making jokes at the expense of her 74-year-old father – and his wives. As well as describing the Monty Python star’s current wife Jennifer Wade, 42, as ‘a child’ and his ‘soul mate du jour’, Miss Cleese referred to his third wife, Alyce Faye Eichelberger, as ‘Lucifer’, or the devil. She also likened her family to tumbleweed ‘rolling along picking up dirt and debris’. Miss Cleese – whose mother is the late American artist Barbara Trentham, her father’s second wife – told a sold-out crowd at Edinburgh Fringe Festival: ‘I’m still single and it’s weird because my parents set an amazing example. ‘They’ve been married for almost 42 years – to seven different people. Not at the same time, we’re not Mormon or anything like that, not even close. ‘If most people have a family tree, we have a family tumbleweed, it just keeps rolling along picking up dirt and debris, nobody knows how they are related to anyone else, we just know not to f*** each other, because we’re not Mormon.’ The 6ft 1in comedienne then turned her attention to Miss Wade, who became Cleese’s fourth wife two years ago, saying:  ‘Recently I got a surprise, we got a new child in the family, it’s pretty cool, my new step-mum. 'Soul mate du jour': Miss Cleese described her father's current wife Jennifer (left), 42, as 'a child' ‘My dad, about two years ago, married . lucky number four, his soulmate du jour. She’s great, we actually have a . lot in common – we’re both six foot, blonde and inappropriately aged to . be married to my dad. But she’s really nice and I’m not, so that’s . different.’ Miss Cleese saved some particularly barbed jibes for Miss Eichelberger, 69, who she dubbed ‘Lucy … fer’ – leaving the audience in no doubt that she was making a reference to Lucifer, or Satan. Miss Eichelberger’s £12million settlement in her 2008 divorce from Cleese forced the comedian to come out of retirement and launch his Alimony Tour, and Miss Cleese has previously accused her of driving a wedge between her and her father during their marriage. While Miss Cleese couched her jokes about Miss Wade in some compliments, no such courtesy was reserved for Miss Eichelberger during the 11-minute set on Wednesday night. Criticism: Miss Cleese referred to his third wife, Alyce Faye Eichelberger (left), as 'Lucifer', or the devil . On screen: Miss Cleese's father has had four wives - including Fawlty Towers actress Connie Booth (pictured) She said: ‘Because [Miss Wade] is now officially a Cleese, I call her the worst possible thing a 30-year old-woman can call a woman in her early 40s in public: mum. Daughter: Miss Cleese likened her family to tumbleweed 'rolling along picking up dirt and debris' ‘She is so much cooler than the last one. Her name was Lucy … fer. She was a treat. ‘She had two sons who were both horrible people and they were up in Texas, it’s weird,  we have nothing in common,  we were related I guess but not any more. ‘One of them, Martin, he’s colour blind, he can’t see colour at all, don’t get me wrong, he’s super racist. He’s just red-green colour blind, I guess he just sees shades of grey, so to him, Christmas is just one big f*** you. ‘So, a few years ago for Christmas I gave him a Rubik’s cube, now he thinks he’s like  world champion, he tells everyone that. ‘I guess it just p***** me off because my parents have always said he was the gifted one and it’s messed up because if you think about it people say a child is a gift, right? So, technically, all children are gifted, even me.’ The comedienne – she is a regular on the US stand-up circuit but this is her first UK show – has collaborated with her father on several occasions, co-writing a stage version of his hit 1988 film A Fish Called Wanda and also his 2011 Alimony Tour. However, her deeply personal new material might explain why, in a recent interview, she revealed that her stand-up is the ‘one thing [she and her father] don’t always see eye-to-eye on’. Miss Cleese has previously discussed . how she was a ‘nightmare’ teenager, falling from  being a top student . and champion show jumper to being a homeless addict. It . took ‘five-ish’ trips to rehab and a tough-love approach from her . parents – Cleese cut off all support and contact from his daughter – . before she finally gave up alcohol and rebuilt her life. Although Miss Cleese was born in the UK, she has spent much for her life in America and currently lives in Los Angeles. Her . latest show, American … ish, consists of four US-based comedians . performing short sets. It runs every night at the festival until next . Wednesday. She made a . tentative start to her comedy career, aware that she was receiving more . scrutiny than her peers because of her father. Family: Miss Cleese's mother is the late Barbara Trentham, her father's second wife (pictured together in 1986) Working together: Miss Cleese has collaborated with her father on several occasions, co-writing a stage version of his hit 1988 film A Fish Called Wanda (pictured) But things are speeding up and she is due to begin shooting a film, Bachelorette Weekend, later this year. 'I'm still single and it’s weird because my parents set an amazing example. They’ve been married for almost 42 years – to seven different people' Camilla Cleese . Her father has had four wives – Fawlty Towers actress Connie Booth, then Miss Trentham, Miss Eichelberger and now Miss Wade . Miss Cleese’s mother Miss Trentham had three husbands. Before Cleese, she married Giles Trentham, a fellow student at Oxford University, and retained his name after their divorce in 1970. Her marriage to Cleese broke down in 1990, and she later tied the knot again with barrister George Covington. Miss Cleese has one biological sibling, her half-sister Cynthia Cleese, 43, from Cleese’s marriage to Miss Booth. ### SUMMARY:

Camilla Cleese, 30, makes jokes at expense of father at Edinburgh Fringe . Describes his current wife Jennifer as 'a child' and his 'soul mate du jour' Refers to his third wife, Alyce Faye Eichelberger, as 'Lucifer', or the devil . Likens her family to tumbleweed 'rolling along picking up dirt and debris' Miss Cleese's mother is father's second wife, the late Barbara Trentham .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: A mother risked her own health for that of her unborn son when she delayed having chemotherapy until he was born. Justine Colbeck, 36, was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was just 31 weeks pregnant. She decided to delay chemotherapy treatment to give her baby boy the best chance of being born healthy. Sebastian, now nine months old, was born on Christmas Eve last year and Mrs Colbeck started her treatment for breast cancer just ten days later. Justine Colbeck, 36, was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was just 31 weeks pregnant but decided to delay chemotherapy treatment until after her son Sebastian, now nine months old, was born . Mrs Colbeck was able to breast feed Sebastian for ten days before starting chemotherapy treatment . After undergoing chemotherapy, radiotherapy and a mastectomy, she is now on the road to recovery. Mrs Colbeck, from Garstang, Lancashire, said she does not regret delaying her treatment. She said: 'It wasn't a difficult decision - our baby had to come first. 'The cancer could have spread because we'd delayed the treatment. Sitting in the waiting room to find out with my ten day old baby was the most terrifying moment of my life. 'If I'd had treatment during my pregnancy then every time Sebastian got sick I would be questioning if it was my fault. 'I couldn't have lived with that.' Mrs Colbeck and husband Logan, 35, found out they were expecting a baby in June last year. They had always wanted a little brother or sister for their six-year-old son Zachary, but after five years, the pregnancy came as a surprise. Mrs Colbeck, a dentist, said: 'Sebastian was a very wanted baby, but I was working full time and having another baby had just gone to the back of my mind. 'We were delighted when we found out. 'My boobs got a lot bigger and both were lumpy during my pregnancies - it was the way I knew I was pregnant in the first place - but as I got further into this one I realised one of them was getting smaller. 'I knew something wasn't right, so I made an appointment with the midwife. 'I was very lucky she took me seriously. I have since heard stories of other women my age being fobbed off because they are "too young for breast cancer". Sebastian was born on Christmas eve, and his parents were delighted that Zachary, six, had a little brother . Breast cancer during pregnancy is very rare, occurring in about 1 in 3,000 pregnancies. Most women are between 32 and 38 years old when they are diagnosed. During pregnancy, a woman's breasts change in readiness for breastfeeding, with the breast tissue becoming more dense. This can make it more difficult to find changes in the breast that are due to cancer, such as a lump. In fact, research shows that during pregnancy, there is often a delay in diagnosis in women who get breast symptoms. Of those women diagnosed with cancer, most are able to carry on with their pregnancy. Rarely, some may need to think about whether to end the pregnancy (termination). But usually this is only necessary if chemotherapy is needed and the woman is less than 14 weeks pregnant. Usually it is possible to delay chemotherapy treatment until after the 14 week stage. Source: Cancer Research UK . Following an examination by her midwife and her GP, Mrs Colbeck was urgently referred to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. Further tests over the next two weeks confirmed her worst fears - that she had breast cancer. She said: 'It didn't come as a shock to me because of my medical background. By the time I was seen by the breast unit, the nipple was already being pulled to one side and the skin under my nipple was puckered due to the spreading cancer. 'I hadn't told Logan at that point because I didn't want to worry him when I had no proof, but when I did he was incredible. 'He came straight to the next appointment with me, where we were told about treatment.' Mr and Mrs Colbeck then faced the agonising decision of whether to start her chemotherapy straight away or delay it until after Sebastian was born, risking that the cancer would spread further. Mrs Colbeck said: 'There was an option for me to start chemotherapy straight away, with a reduced-strength drug, given weekly instead of once every three weeks. 'But I was already 33 weeks pregnant and it wasn't certain that I would see out the course before giving birth. 'There was also little evidence of what the drugs could do to my baby in the long term and it would have meant I couldn't breastfeed him when he was born. 'I had breastfed my first son until he was nine months old. I loved it and felt it gave the best of starts for the baby. 'Logan and I discussed it and we decided we needed to put him first.' In the end, Mrs Colbeck was induced three weeks early and Sebastian was born on Christmas Eve, weighing 5lb 8oz. She she said she tried to keep Christmas as normal as possible for Zachary and opened presents in the hospital as a family. Mrs Colbeck is now at home enjoying time with her two boys Zachary, six and Sebastian, nine months old at their family home in Garstang, Lancashire . She was then able to breastfeed Sebastian for 10 days before she started chemotherapy on January 3 this year. She said: 'I was worrying about making the switch, but because it was just 10 days, Sebastian did it no problem. 'With all the "breast is best" publicity I was worried about him, but I needn't have. He has grown into a perfectly healthy little baby.' She endured six rounds of chemotherapy at full strength, but then developed an infection which delayed her mastectomy until June. Seven weeks after the surgery she started radiotherapy, which finished three weeks ago. She now must have a chemotherapy injection every three weeks until March, and after that will take tablets for the next 10 years to help prevent the cancer coming back. Mrs Colbeck said: 'I don't regret the decision for a second. 'I could never have forgiven myself if I'd had the treatment while pregnant and something had happened to Sebastian.' Mrs Colbeck and husband Logan, 35, a strategic manger were 'delighted' when they discovered she was pregnant with her second child as it came as a surprise . Her husband, a strategic manager, has now carried out a charity swim for Cancer Care and they are hoping to raise money for the oncology unit at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. He said: 'I never thought that I would be 34 years old and being told my wife has cancer. 'My main worry was the boys. To not have their mum around from an early age would have been devastating. 'We worked through the problem together and decided to get the baby here first. 'Spending Christmas in hospital was different, but we made it work. 'We couldn't have asked for more from Justine's treatment. '[The local charity] Cancer Care were also there for us the whole time. They had chats with the whole family to make sure everyone was okay. 'The swim raised around £1,300 and we are now looking to do something for the oncology unit.' ### SUMMARY:

Justine Colbeck, 36, was 'delighted' to find out she was pregnant . But was then diagnosed with breast cancer at just 31 weeks . Decided to delay chemotherapy treatment until her baby was born . Sebastian, now nine months, was born healthy on Christmas Eve . Mrs Colbeck breastfed for ten days before starting chemotherapy . Also had to undergo a mastectomy and radiotherapy . Is still having treatment but 'is on the road to recovery'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Found: Michael Brutsch, 49, has been unmasked as the Reddit's biggest, most controversial troll . The internet troll behind a disgusting online message board where users post sexual photographs of unsuspecting teenage girls has been revealed as a cat-loving grandfather from Texas. Michael Brutsch, who uses the Reddit name 'Violentacrez', was the main moderator for the social network's 'Creepshot' forum which sparked outrage last month for encouraging the vile pictures. Now, after years posting offensive messages across the internet and earning the moniker of the 'biggest troll on the web', Brutsch has been found working as a computer programmer for a financial services company in Arlington, Texas by Gawker. The 49-year-old lives with his wife, who suffers from diabetes and is also an avid Reddit user, a son, two dogs and seven cats. Brutsch, who has a granddaughter, also has a son in the Marines, according to social networking sites. 'My wife is disabled,' he pleaded with the reporter. 'I got a home and a . mortgage, and if this hits the fan, I believe this will affect . negatively on my employment. 'I do my job, go home watch TV, . and go on the internet. I just like riling people up in my spare time.' But, even though he has become a massive internet troll after setting up a number of sickening Reddit forums, including 'Rapebait', 'incest' and 'misogyny', he refused to apologise. 'I would stand by exactly what I've done,' he added. Unmasked: At odds with his controversial life online, Brutsch is a married computer programmer for a financial services firm who lives with his wife, Tori, and their pets in Arlington, Texas . As Gawker reveals, Violentacrez has long been one of the driving forces of Reddit, a website where users submit content and vote for or against it to determine its position on the front page. On the website, he was also behind the sickening trend 'Jailbait', where users submitted sexualised images of scantily-clad underage girls. The users deleted photos of girls older than 16. It generated millions of page views . each month but, unsurprisingly, also sparked outrage and was eventually . pulled after Anderson Cooper lambasted Reddit for hosting it. Brutsch . has long argued that he is not a pedophile and would remove any child . porn that was posted, and was merely maintaining free speech on the . website. He told Gawker that, while at home with . his wife, the two would lie in bed together with their laptops, both on . Reddit, him posting porn as she posted cute animal videos. Reddit has not only condoned his vile . posts but encouraged and facilitated them, aware that their . controversial spin will drive more traffic to the website, which . launched in 2006. Sick trend: One Reddit forum set up by Brutsch is 'Creepshot' where users upload sexualised images of unsuspecting young girls. Here, a shot of a schoolgirl reportedly taken at a school . He was close with the employees, he . told Gawker, and was even given a 'pimp hat' as a thank you for his . contributions to the site, which now receives more than three billion hits a . month. Reddit has been an established and popular name on the Internet over the last five years. It is a social news website where users submit content and vote for or against it to determine its position on the front page. Users can discuss any subject, and the site is regularly used by celebrities for interviews, including Barack Obama, who recently took part in an 'ask me anything' debate. It is celebrated for its wide-range of topics, diverse users and freedom of speech which, as in the case of Brutsch, can make way for controversial topics. Some of the 'subreddits' he has been linked with include 'Rapebait', 'incest' and 'misogyny', on which users would post pictures and discuss them in detail. In 2011, he was behind 'jailbait', a group for sexually suggestive pictures of underage girls taken from pages like Facebook. Images of girls who looked over 16 were removed from the subreddit. After it was blasted on Anderson Cooper 360, the group was banned. Since 2006, Reddit has been owned by Condé Nast publishers, which also owns GQ, the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Before Jailbait was to be closed, the general manager, Erik Martin, contacted him directly to warn him, Brutsch claimed. 'Want . to give you a heads up,' Martin wrote. 'We're making a policy change . regarding jailbait type content. Don't really have a choice.' This blasé - and often encouraging - . attitude towards trolling and offensive, invasive images raise questions . over Reddit's social and moral responsibilities. They even used Brutsch as a volunteer . moderator, trusting this man with extremely questionable tastes over . what would be appropriate to appear across the website. The revelation of his identity comes weeks after campaigners fought to close his 'Creepshots' forum. It . features images of ordinary women on the street, in the gym or even at . school who are caught unawares by stealthy 'creeps' with cameras. Most . shots focus on the buttocks or breasts of non-consenting women going . about their daily lives - and users admit that 'at least 40 percent' of . the images are of underage girls. In one alarming thread, a prolific poster appears to be a teacher, posting images of his unsuspecting female students. The user, 'Weagleweaglewde', while . posting numerous 'upskirt' images of girls in a classroom setting, . claims in at least two posts that he is a teacher at a high school. The response to the 'creep shots' forum - known as a subreddit - has been outrage and a campaign to remove . the site has sprung up from other corners of Reddit. Unabashed: The Creep Shots admittedly has photos of large numbers of underage girls . In a sub-forum called 16F - shorthand for Female, 16 - user Weagleweaglewde comments on a girl's appearance, again claiming to be a teacher at a high school . Blasé: Despite some his sickening posts and fears he could lose his job, Brutsch stands by what he's done . One furious user wrote: 'What's particularly disturbing about the voyeur subreddits is that individuals are having their perverse, invasive, and illegal behavior validated and encouraged by many others. 'Students should be able to attend class without having their privacy violated by fellow students and trusted authority figures like teachers. 'Girls should be able to go to school without worrying that sexually suggestive images of them are being uploaded to popular websites like Reddit for thousands to view and ogle.' One user went as far as to offer tips for getting 'creep shots'. 'Don't . be nervous,' the advice reads. 'If you are, you'll stand out. Don't . hover too much, get your shot and move on if you can. You'll look less . like a creep if you have photos of things other than just hot chicks' a**es.' ### SUMMARY:

Reddit message board 'CreepShots' came under fire for photos of women taken without their permission; around 40 per cent were underage . User who moderated board now identified as Michael Brutsch, 49 . Branded 'the biggest troll on the web' for offensive posts . Revealed as computer programmer and married military father . Brutsch: 'I stand by exactly what I've done'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Fred lit the fuse for another Brazilian victory as the World Cup hosts signed off preparations with a sturdy but certainly not spectacular 1-0 win over Serbia in Sao Paulo. Six days away from opening the World Cup on the other side of the city against Croatia, Luis Felipe Scolari's side endured a frustrating first-half that ended with the crowd on their backs. But a much improved showing after the break - with Chelsea's Willian shining after replacing the unimpressive Oscar - saw them narrowly home. To the rescue: Fred scored the only goal of the game in Brazil's final warm-up before the World Cup . Fred flicked the ball home in the 58h minute to open the scoring at Morumbi Stadium . Helpless: Branislav Ivanovic watches on but can't prevent the Brazilian forward from scoring . Brazil: Julio Cesar, Dani Alves (Maicon 71), Luiz, Thiago Silva, Marcelo (Maxwell 74), Gustavo, Paulinho (Fernandinho 64), Oscar (Willian 46), Hulk, Fred (Jo 75), Neymar. Subs Not Used: Jefferson, Dante, Henrique, Ramires, Hernanes, Bernard, Victor. Goals: Fred 58. Serbia: Stojkovic (Lukac 88), Basta (Tomovic 86), Ivanovic, Aleksandar Mitrovic, Kolarov, Dusko Tosic, Matic, Jojic, Tadic (Zoran Tosic 69), Petrovic (Mrdja 86), Markovic (Gudelj 81). Subs Not Used: Pejcinovic, Djuricic, Stefan Mitrovic, Ljajic, Bisevac, Vulicevic, Lazovic, Brkic. Booked: Petrovic, Matic. Att: 67,042 . Ref: Enrique Caceres (Paraguay). On a sodden Sao Paulo afternoon when a . subway strike crippled the metropolis of 20 million people, World Cup . cheer wasn't exactly flowing freely on the streets. But at Morumbi, the . 67,042 packed into the home of Sao Paulo FC formed a yellow wall of . noise to welcome their front-liners, six days before they begin their . quest for history. One of . the few criticisms of Scolari is that he can be loyal to a fault but . with this staring XI - the very definition of tried and trusted - it is . hard to criticise. Sculpted during last summer's barnstorming run to the . Confederations Cup title, Scolari could have named it for the opener a . full year out. The wonder is that the 2002 World Cup winning coach, who . has always had a lucky streak, has made it to six days out without a . single injury concern over any of his starters. Being . able to reunite Thiago Silva and David Luiz at the heart of the . defence, after the skipper missed Tuesday's romp against Panama, would . have been a relief too. Scolari's Brazil have never lost under the . pairing, winning ten of the previous 12 and keeping six clean sheets. On the move: Neymar (right) fights for the ball with Serbia's Dusan Basta . Challenge: Brazilian forward Neymar is closed down by Chelsea's Ivanovic . But . vital as captain Silva may be to the cause there was no doubting who . the near full house were here to see. Neymar left his home of Sao Paulo . after the Confederations Cup to try to do in Europe what he had done . here for five years previously with Santos - electrify. If his first . season at Barcelona only featured glimpses of that talent, his adoring . masses here didn't care. From . his first touch, the roars rolled around Morumbi's bowl. It took just . five minutes for him to make a first opponent look silly, Milos Jojic . hacking him down after being outfoxed. There . were to be only intermittent moments like that in the opening period as . the World Cup hosts struggled to find the rhythm and incision that . carved Panama to pieces. It was left to Manchester City's Aleksandar . Kolarov who fired the game's first shot in anger wide of Julio Cesar's . post 11 minutes in. Physical: Hulk (left) is brushed off by former Manchester United winger Zoran Tosic . Tactics: Brazil's coach Luiz Felipe Scolari gives instructions to Real Madrid left back Marcelo . Another . of the visitors' Premier League contingent, the giant Nemanja Matic, was . making his presence felt in midfield and when the Chelsea man crossed . for Aleksandar Mitrovic soon after the half hour, the lone frontman . should have done better instead of flashed his header wide. Save . for a nice turn and shot from Fred at the other end and and a David . Luiz free-kick that sailed high into the Sao Paulo sky, there was little . to cheer for a crowd that are notoriously fickle. The jeers that rung . around the arena at Enrike Kaseres' half-time whistle left Scolari's . crew in little doubt that six days before they face Croatia in the same . city, this was not good enough. Two . days after the birth of a baby daughter, the out of sorts Oscar was . withdrawn at the inter Willian on the other hand is a man in form, well . out of national team contention just 12 months ago, he now finds himself . the go-to guy off the bench. And he immediately added some much needed . spark to proceedings. The crowd were still not convinced though, . bizarrely chanting the name of Sao Paulo FC striker Luis Fabiano - long . since out of national team reckoning. Partisan: Brazilian fans in Sao Paulo cheer their team's last game before the World Cup . Passionate: The Sao Paulo crowd booed their team off at half-time after an uninspiring first period . Maybe . that was the spur for current No.9 though as less than five minutes . later it was Fred who finally broke the deadlock. Thiago Silva angled a . ball to the edge of the box where the Fuminense man outmuscled Branislav . Ivanovic and Dusko Tosic, controlled and in spite of losing his footing . and fired into the far corner. It . was a goal that was all down to strength and endeavour, what the . sometimes criticised frontman is all about. It was also the cue for a . festa in the stands, Mexican waves and chants ringing around the place . in the last half hour. Message: Serbia players held up a banner as the two teams lined up before the game . Jojic . almost broke up the party on 69 minutes but missed a great opening with . a poor header and Lazar Markovic tamely shot at Julio Cesar soon after. At the other end Hulk had a . second wrongly disallowed for offside after a superb through ball by . Neymar but it did little to delate the atmosphere. The biggest roar of . the night went up on 80 minutes as Neymar was withdrawn. It . might not have been a vintage night from him and it may not have been a . vintage night from his team but Brazil still got it done. They will . return here on Thursday with momentum. The world have been warned. ### SUMMARY:

Fred's second-half goal gives hosts the win despite a poor opening 45 . Chelsea's Willian shone after replacing the unimpressive Oscar . Luiz Felipe Scolari's side begin their World Cup campaign in six days .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: After missing yesterday's engagements due to a sinus problem, the Duchess of Cornwall pulled out all the stops to look her very best as she and Prince Charles continued their royal tour of Mexico. But Camilla was left blushing for all the wrong reasons when she turned up in a stunning creme ensemble - which was almost identical to her host's outfit. Standing beside Gretta Salinas de Medina, the First Lady of Monterrey, the pair looked the mirror image of one another, as they made their way around the industrial city in northern Mexico. The duo wore a matching string of pearls and discreet pearl-coloured earrings to complete their outfits. Scroll down for video . Standing beside Gretta Salinas de Medina, the First Lady of Monterrey (pictured with Camilla), the pair looked the mirror image of one another . Camilla was left blushing for all the wrong reasons when she turned up in an almost identical outfit to her host . The Duchess and First Lady board a London bus during the visit to the northern city, before Camilla quipped 'are we going to zoo?' The duo wore a matching string of pearls and discreet pearl-coloured earrings to complete their outfits . Ms Salinas - the wife of the governor of the local state of Nuevo Leon, Rodrigo Medina - even had her remembrance poppies fitted onto her blazer in the same position as Camilla. The outfit faux pas took place on the final day of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall's trip to Mexico. For her last day, the duchess left her chauffeur driven car behind - and hopped onto a London bus. Camilla boarded the red routemaster during the visit to the northern city, before quipping 'are we going to zoo?' Seeing a London bus under grey skies after a downpour, the duchess probably felt the city was a home from home. The number 7 bus - emblazoned with the route London to Monterrey - took her a short distance across Fundidora Park, built on the site of industrial works and now home to a museum showcasing the heavy industry of the area. They stepped off at a canal in the park and took a pleasure cruise around a series of waterways which featured cultural performances of dances and musicians along its route. At one point when they hit choppy waters Camilla pulled a face as if a little concerned. The routemaster was restored to its former glory by plastic surgeon Angel Tobar, 50, who bought it for his artist wife Marissa, 49, to use as a mobile gallery. The outfit faux pas took place during the last day of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall's trip to Mexico when Camilla boarded a red routemaster bus . He said: 'This is the first time the bus has been used and it was used to take Camilla on a trip - so that's a nice way to begin.' Camilla sat on a makeshift seat in the bus built in 1948, as all the rest had been removed to make the routemaster into a mobile gallery. Mr Tobar bought and restored the London bus for around 125,000 US dollars (£100,000) just over three years ago and spent the last two having it rebuilt. He said: 'My wife found it on the internet it was in Arizona, it was taken from London in the late 1960s and it was originally owned by the man who bought London bridge. 'He didn't want it any more and sold it to someone else and that person sold it to us.' The Duchess of Cornwall also took a guided tour via canal boat with her host . The duchess waved enthusiastically to those waiting to catch a glimpse of the royal visitor . But she appeared to find parts of the trip somewhat unnerving, as shown by her concerned expression . When Camilla first arrived with Charles at the industrial museum they were greeted by a group of performers, Ballet Folkloric Monterrey, who wore traditional costumes from the state - Stetson hats and tasselled jackets for the men and long flowing skirts for the women. Inside a former steel foundry the royal couple saw displays showcasing local produce, dishes and crafts, from ornately decorated saddles to a traditional breakfast meal of eggs, dried beef, and onion. The Governor of the local state of Nuevo Leon welcomed the prince and duchess in a speech and Charles spoke a few words in Spanish in return: 'Thank you for your kind welcome, Governor. My wife and I are delighted to be here in Nuevo Leon for the first time, on the final day of our visit to Mexico.' The pair watched the Ballet Folkloric Monterrey at the Parque Fundidora in Monterrey . The matching women were joined by the Prince of Wales to view a market exhibition . The market showed regional culinary traditions - which Prince Charles appeared to enjoy getting stuck into . As Charles and Camilla's four-day tour of Mexico came to a close, Duncan Taylor, Britain's Ambassador to Mexico, said the royal couple had been well received. He said: 'The crowds of people we saw in all the regions we visited prove that there is real affection for their royal highnesses here in Mexico. 'They have visited iconic places that represent the rich diversity of this country but they have also taken so much time to meet members of the community. 'I am confident that this royal visit will give a significant boost to the relationship between our countries. A historical relationship that has been characterised by mutual respect, co-operation and friendship.' The royal couple went on to meet local children, who waved Union Jack flags excitedly . Duncan Taylor, Britain's Ambassador to Mexico, said the royal couple had been well received in the country . No doubt their lasting impression had something to do with the Prince of Wales showing off his fancy footwork a day earlier, when he delighted groups of locals with a spot of traditional dancing. Charles didn't have to be asked twice when the performers asked him to join them during a visit to the picturesque coastal town of Campeche on Mexico's Caribbean coast. Twirling a handkerchief above his head and copying the men and women around him, a beaming Prince of Wales deftly tapped his feet to the music as he took part in the dance, known locally as a Sarao Campechano. The Prince of Wales had the Mexican town of Campeche in a spin when he showed off his fancy footwork and joined locals for a dance . The Prince tapped his feet to the music as he took part in the dance, known locally as a Sarao Campechano . Charles' close encounter with Mr Zamorano and his troupe of dancers came as he visited Campeche's main town square, where he was scheduled to tour a number of craft stalls while meeting local dignitaries. The large crowds waiting to see Charles were being entertained by the dance troupe, who were dressed in traditional costumes, when the royal arrived and joined in the dance. Delighted, the crowd roared their approval before the Prince gave one final twirl and moved on, looking thrilled but more than a little relieved. The Duchess of Cornwall had been unable to who was forced to cancel her engagements on the penultimate day of the couple's Mexican tour because of a sinus problem. Clearly unhappy to be without her, Prince Charles offered a brief comment on the health of his, pointing to his ear and saying: 'Sinus, such bad luck'. Charles laughed as he performed the movements and looked a little relieved when the dance came to an end . Charles earned the praise of dancer Carlos Javier Zamorano, 20, who joined in to help the Prince along . ### SUMMARY:

Camilla wore same outfit as First Lady of Monterrey Gretta Salinas de Medina . Pair donned identical pearls, matching earrings and similar fitted blazers . Faux pas took place during final day of royal couple's visit to Mexico . Camilla boarded red routemaster and took a guided tour on canal boat .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: There will come a time, in a 100 years from now, when England supporters will cast their eyes over Wayne Rooney’s records and wonder what all the fuss was about. Injury-permitting the England forward is on course to break Peter Shilton’s record of 125 caps some time in 2017 (at the very latest). In the new year, when England’s head coach Roy Hodgson picks up again, Rooney will pass Sir Bobby Charlton’s goalscoring record before we are done with 2015. So what more do we want from Rooney? VIDEO Scroll down to watch Neil Ashton and Charles Sale on Scotland 1-3 England . Wayne Rooney and Roy Hodgson depart Glasgow Airport on Tuesday night after England's fine win . Rooney's double means he is three goals behind Sir Bobby Charlton's all-time England record . Rooney celebrates his first goal with Chris Smalling, Danny Welbeck and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain . The great Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who has played 101 times for his country and scored 51, is idolised and cherished by the good folk of Sweden. Zlatan, unlike Rooney, has previously refused to play for Sweden over a disciplinary issue and also retired, briefly, from international football in October 2009. It did him no harm. Rooney’s record of 46 goals in 101 international appearances is similar to the Swedish forward and yet our country remains divided about his contribution to the English game. His performance in Scotland, where he scored twice in a 3-1 victory over Gordon Strachan’s team at Celtic Park, was masterful. There is a maturity about his game. At 29, with the captain’s armband strapped to his left bicep, he has taken it upon himself to draw the best out of England’s emerging young players. Rooney nods in the first of his double against Scotland to move into third on England's all-time scorers chart . The England captain sweeps in his second of the night and his side's third to seal victory . ‘Sometimes results don’t go the way we want them to and people see it as if we don’t want to play four the country, but that’s far from the truth,’ he claimed. ‘We love coming to Scotland, we love playing for England. You have seen what it means to us and we are like that in every game.’ Rooney has had his moments, but if we are to make comparisons then Ibrahimovc has a rap sheet, all documented in his brilliant autobiography I Am Zlatan, that puts the England forward to shame. Ibrahimovic is no angel. He has never scored a goal at a World Cup, either, but Ibrahimovic’s acolytes always gloss over that because Sweden is Sweden, right? Rooney operates under different pressures with England and his detractors will always reference his disappointing record (one goal, in a 2-1 defeat against Uruguay in Sao Paulo at the 2014 World Cup) on the biggest stage of all. Rooney runs away in celebration as he prepares to launch himself into a cartwheel . The forward cannot hide his delight as he wheels away in front of the travelling England support . Rooney became England's youngest ever player when coming on in a 3-1 loss to Australia in 2003 . If bringing home the Golden Boot from a World Cup really is the be-all-and-end-all about a player’s place in the game’s Hall of Fame, then we are duty bound to look back at the last few tournaments. Since Rooney was born in Croxteth in 1985 there is only one striker in the game who has won as many league titles as Rooney during his career. That man was Hristo Stoichkov with Barcelona (5). Whether or not you like Rooney, respect him or otherwise, there are few Golden Boot winners who have done it consistently for club and country since they made their international debuts. The much-admired Gary Lineker, who scored six times during England’s run to the World Cup quarter-final at Mexico 86, never won a league title. After scoring 48 times for England, he enjoys legendary status. Rooney acknowledges the crowd before England's Euro 2016 qualifier against Slovenia, his 100th cap . Rooney is edging closer to the England record of Charlton (left), here scoring against Portugal in 1966 . At Italia 90 we fell in love with the Italian forward Toto Schillachi. He scored five at the tournament but never won a league title. Russian forward Oleg Salenko, who scored six at the 1994 World Cup in the USA, won a league title with Dinamo Kiev. Davor Suker, leading scorer at the 1998 World Cup, won one league title with Real Madrid. The Brazilian Ronaldo, who scored eight in 2002, won just one league title in Europe, with Real Madrid. Miroslav Klose, who scored five for Germany at the 2006 World Cup, won two league titles with Bayern Munich. Injury permitting, Rooney is on course to beat Peter Shilton's 125-cap record for England . Rooney's career has not always been simple, but he has five Premier League titles with Manchester United . Salvatore ‘Toto’ Schillaci was top scorer at Italia 90, yet he never won a title . Thomas Muller, top scorer in South Africa, has three DFB titles with Bayern Munich and will win countless more. James Rodriguez (Brazil 2014) won three league titles with Porto. Some of the other issues, judging by the consistent reaction to Rooney on social media, is that the forward happens to play his club football with Manchester United. It is there that Rooney has scored 219 goals in 450 appearances for since joining United just weeks after he announced himself to international football at Euro 2004. Gary Lineker nets the second of his three goals against Poland - he was top scorer at the 1986 World Cup . Hristo Stoichkov (left) joined Oleg Salenko, who hit five goals against Cameroon, as top scorer in 1994 . Davor Suker scores one of his six goals in the 1998 World Cup during the semi-final against France . He is third on the list of all-time leading scorers, just 18 behind Denis Law and 30 short of equalling Sir Bobby Charlton. ‘I can’t speak for him but if you ask me the records should be very important,’ claimed Hodgson after England had recorded their sixth successive victory in Scotland. ‘It must be nice for him to think he’ll see his name at the top of the list and a record number of caps is in sight too.’ After more than ten years at the top for club and country, it is time Rooney is given the credit he deserves. Germany legend Miroslav Klose is the top World Cup goalscorer ever with 16 goals . Before the tournament in Brazil, Ronaldo was the World Cup's top scorer - he hit 62 goals in total for Brazil . Rooney scored his one and only World Cup goal in the 2-1 defeat by Uruguay in Sao Paulo in the summer . But, not for the first time, the tournament ended in dejection for both the United man and England . VIDEO Hodgson praises attack as Rooney approaches record . ### SUMMARY:

Wayne Rooney scored twice in England's 3-1 win vs Scotland on Tuesday . Rooney's international record reads: 46 goals in 101 caps . The 29-year-old has scored once at a World Cup - vs Uruguay in summer . Rooney's club record outshines his international achievements - including five Premier League titles and one Champions League medal .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Scrapped: Lib Dem health minister Norman Lamb will announce the end of the Liverpool Care Pathway today . Ministers decided to scrap the Liverpool Care Pathway after a damning inquiry found frail and vulnerable patients were so dehydrated they were desperately sucking on wet sponges. A shocking catalogue of abuse found that some relatives were forced to give their loved ones water secretly when the nurse was out of the room – because medical staff had forbidden it. The review by Baroness Neuberger, extracts from which have been seen by the Daily Mail, found examples of patients being so heavily drugged that they could ‘never communicate again’, meaning their grief-stricken families never got to say goodbye. And some claimed their relatives had been given a ‘chemical cosh’ cocktail of drugs, with the express intent of hastening their deaths from dehydration. As the Mail reported on Saturday, Lib Dem health minister Norman Lamb will announce today that the controversial pathway, under which life-saving treatment is removed if a person is deemed close to death, will be scrapped within 12 months. Every year, 130,000 patients have been placed on the pathway, which usually involves heavy sedation with morphine or similar drugs. The Mail has been leading a campaign against it, highlighting examples of doctors putting patients on the pathway without asking for consent. We also revealed how some hospitals were being paid six-figure ‘bribes’ to meet targets about the numbers of patients on the LCP – leading to fears that doctors were put under pressure to use the pathway. Following our revelations, Mr Lamb asked Baroness Neuberger to carry out a review into the controversial pathway – in the face of opposition from the medical establishment. The report, More Care – Less Pathway, says that although the LCP was working well in many places, there were too many examples of abuse for it to continue. It will be replaced with more individualised care packages, and all incentive payments to hospitals will be scrapped. Damning: Baroness Neuberger carried out a review into how the LCP was implemented . Under the pathway, nurses use wet sponges to moisten the mouths of dying patients after food and drink is withdrawn. The fact that some patients were seen sucking on the sponges indicates that they were very uncomfortable and were desperate for water – and perhaps not as close to inevitable death as thought. It raises uncomfortable memories of Mid Staffs hospital, where a patient on an understaffed A&E was so dehydrated he was forced to drink from a vase. The report concludes that in too many cases, the LCP is used as a ‘tick-box exercise’ rather than looking at what the dying patients actually need. ‘Some (people) talked about . their relatives sucking on the sponges that they had been given to wet . the patient’s mouth in an attempt to get fluid, when fluids had been . deliberately withheld.’ - Report by Baroness Neuberger into the Liverpool Care Pathway . ‘Where care is already poor, the pathway is sometimes used as a tick-box exercise, and good care for the dying patient or their relatives or cares may be absent,’ the report says. ‘Whether true or not, many families suspected that deaths had been hastened by over-prescription of strong painkilling drugs or sedatives.’ Baroness Neuberger spoke to dozens of people about the care their loved ones had received during their final hours. Some reported ‘disobeying instructions from medical staff to withhold fluids’ – instead secretly giving them water when the nurse had left the room. The report says: ‘Some talked about their relatives sucking on the sponges that they had been given to wet the patient’s mouth in an attempt to get fluid, when fluids had been deliberately withheld.’ It finds that in many cases, opiates were given in too strong a dose, making the patient ‘too drowsy and confused to be able to communicate and ask for water’. And it adds: ‘There was a feeling that the drugs had been used as a “chemical cosh” that reduced people’s desire to accept food or drink. ‘There have been too many coming . forward to the review panel to say they left their loved one in a calm . and peaceful state, able to communicate, for a short time, or with a . doctor or a nurse for a check-up only to return and find a syringe . driver had been put in place and their loved one was never able to . communicate again. ‘One family was left with the impression that their relative had been overmedicated so that he would die from dehydration.’ The Daily Mail has led the way in exposing shocking cases of abuse of vulnerable people on the Liverpool Care Pathway. Here are some of the chilling examples: . OLIVE GOOM, 85 . Olive Goom died alone aged 85 after hospital staff failed to tell her family she was being put on the pathway . Olive Goom, 85, died alone at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital after doctors failed to tell relatives they were ending her life. Staff reassured relatives on the phone just hours before her death in February 2011 that there was no urgent need to visit – even though doctors had already removed tubes providing vital food and fluids. Her family discovered that she had died only when her niece, Marion Hebbourne, went to visit her and found she was already being prepared for the mortuary. THOMAS JAMES, 90 . Thomas James died on the LCP at home after he was given sedatives . The family of former soldier Thomas James said he was put on the pathway at his home without consulting them. The 90-year-old, who lived near Braintree in Essex, had cancer but insisted he was not ready to die until after his granddaughter’s wedding. But his family said he died at home in October last year after he was given sedatives by a district nurse. The next day they were unable to wake him to give him food or drink and he fell into a diabetic coma. ANDY FLANAGAN, 48 . Andy Flanagan was 'rescued' from the care pathway and lived for another five weeks . Andy Flanagan, 48, was said to be severely brain damaged and close to death after a cardiac arrest. His family gathered at his bedside last June to say their goodbyes at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, after it withdrew fluids and said it was going to let him ‘slip away’. But when Mr Flanagan’s sister, who is a nurse, gently moved him to change his bloodstained sheets, he started to murmur words. Every ten minutes relatives gave him drops of water before doctors eventually agreed to put him back on a drip. He was able to return home, lived for another month and was able to say farewell to his loved ones. His sisters called the LCP a ‘licence to kill’. Announcing the decision to scrap the LCP in the Mail on Saturday, Mr Lamb said any replacement will definitely not be called a ‘pathway’. ‘I took the decision to launch this review because concerns were raised with me about how patients were being cared for and how families were being treated during this difficult and sensitive time,’ he said. ‘We need a whole new system of better end of life care tailored to the needs of individual patients and involving their families.’ It emerged late last year that as many as 60,000 of the patients placed on the scheme were never asked for their consent, or their families were not asked. Many found out by accident, and others recovered fully after relatives found out and got their loved ones taken off the pathway. Any new system will ensure that patients and relatives are properly consulted. ### SUMMARY:

Review of Liverpool Care Pathway by Baroness Neuberger was damning . Minister Norman Lamb will announce it will be axed within 12 months .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Eric Cantona's latest role sees the former Manchester United forward play a character called The Stallion in a film based around an orgy. The 48-year-old, whipped in one scene by a dominatrix played by actress Beatrice Dalle, returns to the big screen in You And The Night, a French film loaded with sexual content. Cantona, who took to acting 17 years ago after a career in football, sees no risk in his latest movie, though, and the former France international says he relishes playing 'very, very bad' characters. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Eric Cantona star in the trailer for You And The Night . Eric Cantona stars in new French film You And The Night and the former footballer's name is The Stallion . Former footballer Cantona strips down to his briefs during the French provocative film You And The Night . Former Manchester United forward Cantona, or The Stallion in You And The Night, gets blindfolded in the film . The Liverpool striker has admitted he may become an actor after football, too! 'I loved drama class at school,' says Sturridge. 'I never took it seriously as I was playing football. But maybe when I retire, I'll have a dabble.' 'I don't see risks. It's a risk for why? I don't do cinema to play Nero every time... I like acting,' Cantona told Metro. 'I like cinema because we can play any kind of character. I don't want to play only the good ones. I like to play the bad ones sometimes. Very, very bad ones! 'For this one, yes, it's very special but it's so wonderful, so it's not risky for me. It's a great opportunity for me.' The trailer for You And The Night ends with Cantona, once nicknamed 'King Eric' at Old Trafford but 'The Stud' on the film's poster, undoing his belt as the ex-footballer says in French: 'Be warned, it's in sleep mode.' Cantona played for Manchester United between 1992 and 1997 but became an actor at the age of 30 . Cantona infamously lunges at a Crystal Palace fan during Manchester United's Premier League match in 1995 . Cantona enjoys 'very bad' characters and was one on the pitch when he karate-kicked a Crystal Palace fan . Born: France, May 24 1996 (age 48) Playing position: Forward . 1983-1988: Auxerre (82 lg apps, 23 gls) 1985-1986: Martigues (loan) (15, 4) 1988-1991: Marseille (40, 13) 1989-1989: Bordeaux (loan) (11, 6) 1989-1990: Montpellier (loan) (33, 10) 1991-1991: Nimes (17, 2) 1992-1992: Leeds United (28, 9) 1992-1997: Manchester United (143, 64) Cantona, who admits he would prefer to go by 'God Eric' these days, started his acting career in 1995 film, Le Bonheur (...est dans le Pre). It took off from there for the forward, whose latest role can be considered as controversial as his time on the pitch, where he once kung-fu kicked Crystal Palace fan Matthew Simmons in the crowd for berating him during a game. Perhaps Cantona's most famous quip arrived during a press conference after winning an appeal against a two-week prison sentence for sinking his studs into that very football supporter in 1995. 'When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea,' he said, as poetic as it was infamous. Liverpool and England striker Daniel Sturridge is the latest to admit he fancies taking to acting once his football career comes to an end, but Cantona insists it's a difficult skill to master. 'It takes a few times for people to accept that somebody who has come from one world can do something else,' admits Cantona. Cantona takes to his latest role in You And The Night and this poster describes the actor as 'The Stud' Cantona is portrayed as The Stallion in this French poster for his latest film, You And The Night . Eric Cantona during filming as the former Manchester United forward takes to his latest controversial role . David Beckham - Golden Balls has appeared in all three Goal movies. Pele - The Brazilian legend has featured in Escape to Victory and A Minor Miracle. Vinnie Jones -  Football's hard man has featured in Mean Machine and X-Men: The Last Stand. 'Especially when you come from something like football, which is very popular, so people have a strong image of you - and it's difficult for them to accept that they like you or they hate you, or whatever.' Gary Neville and his brother Phil are prime examples of former United footballers that traditionally joined the punditry team. Cantona, though, in his 60 seconds interview with Metro, believes cracking Hollywood is more difficult than analysing football in a studio. 'It's easier to see a former footballer commentating, speaking about football,' he says. 'Everybody accepts it. But if you go in the opposite way...' Cantona, told in the You And The Night trailer that he has a 'treasure in his trousers', plays another 'bad guy' role in his newest film and western The Salvation. Like Sportsmail's Manchester United Facebook page by clicking here! Cantona during his Manchester United days at Loftus Road against Queens Park Rangers . Contona wins a header and scores as he plays in the Manchester derby for United against City . The Salvation (2014) Délit de fuite (TV Movie, 2013) You and the Night (2013) Hip Moves (2012) Porn in the Hood (2012) Etreinte (Short film, 2011) De force (2011) Switch (2011) Together Is Too Much (2010) La liste (TV Movie, 2009) Looking for Eric (2009) French Film (2008) Jack Says (2008) 1995-2008 are continued in the next box . Papillon noir (TV Movie, 2008) The Second Wind (2007) Lisa et le pilote d'avion (2006) Une belle histoire (2005) La vie est à nous! (2005) The Car Keys (2003) The Over-Eater (2003) The High Life (2001) The Children of the Marshland (1999) Mookie (1998) Elizabeth (1998) Question d'honneur (Short film, 1997) Eleven Men Against Eleven (TV Movie, 1995) Le Bonheur (...est dans le Pre) (1995) ### SUMMARY:

Eric Cantona plays The Stallion in new French film You and the Night and former Manchester United forward is whipped by a dominatrix . The trailer for You And The Night ends with Cantona undoing his belt as the ex-footballer says in French: 'Be warned, it's in sleep mode' Cantona relishes his role in the controversial film: 'I don't want to play only the good ones. I like to play the bad ones sometimes. Very, very bad ones!'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Republican lawmakers have questioned President Barack Obama's strategy in Iraq warning that the failure to annihilate Islamic extremists now could lead to future attacks on U.S. soil. 'If he does not go on the offensive against ISIS, ISIL, whatever you want guys want to call it, they are coming here,' South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Fox News Sunday. 'And if we do get attacked, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.' 'This is turning into, as we had predicted for a long time, a regional . conflict which does pose a threat to the security of the United States . of America,' Arizona Sen. John McCain told CNN. 'What a weak leader,' New York Rep. Peter King said on Meet the Press, adding: 'We're gonna attack this, but we're not gonna do this, we're not gonna do that. Can you imagine Winston Churchill or Franklin Roosevelt or Harry Truman [acting like that]?' President Barack Obama selects a club while golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club, in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha's Vineyard on Sunday. The president spend his weekend golfing as the humanitarian crisis in Iraq raged on . Graham accused Obama of not taking seriously the threat the country faces from ISIS in Syria and Iraq. 'When I look at the map,' he said, 'I think of the United States. I think of an American city in flames because of the terrorists' ability to operate in Syria and Iraq. 'Mr. President, if you don't adjust your strategy, these people are coming here,' Graham said. 'What is your strategy to stop these people from attacking the homeland? They have expressed a desire to do so,' he pointed out. As of Monday morning the U.S. had launched more than a half dozen airstrikes on Islamic militants camped outside of Erbil, the capitol of Kurdistan. It also emerged overnight that the CIA was arming Kurdish forces fighting ISIS. In a statement on Saturday President Obama said his administration would 'continue to pursue a broader . strategy in Iraq' to protect Americans stationed there from violence and the Iraqi people from mass murder. 'If these terrorists threaten our facilities or our personnel, we will take action to protect our people,' he said. But McCain said that America's long-term plan in Iraq cannot be made up of reactionary strikes. 'That's not a strategy. That's not a policy. That is simply a very . narrow and focused approach to a problem which is metastasizing as we . speak,' he said. If he were Commander in Chief, McCain said he would be arming Syrian rebels and proving as much military assistance to the Kurds as possible. The 2008 Republican presidential nominee said he also would have left some American troops in Iraq as well, instead of completely withdrawing them in 2011 like Obama. The resulting situation he said, is 'that there's no leadership' in the Middle East, he said, and 'we are paying a price . for it.' Obama's strategy in Iraq 'is clearly very, very ineffective, to say the least,' McCain said. King similarly said that Obama's decision to leave Iraq was a fatal mistake. 'The president, he started this. He started this downfall [of Iraq] in 2011 with direct withdraw of American troops,' King said. 'This president talks about ending the war in Iraq, all he ended was American influence in Iraq. And that's a failure, and it's on his hands.' An Iraqi official said on Sunday that ISIS had killed at least 500 followers of the Yazidi religion in the last week, including 40 children, some of whom were buried alive. The total number of Iraqis executed by ISIS since it began it's rampage is unknown. Volunteers from Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take up their position as they fight against the militants from the Islamic State in northern Iraq on Sunday. The U.S. military attacked Islamic State targets throughout the weekend to aid Kurdish fighters, but Republican lawmakers say the Obama administration needs to doing more to help the Iraqis destroy ISIS . Yazidi refugees from Iraq are pictured here on Saturday at a temporary camp in Nerwan in south-eastern Turkey. The site is currently home to around 350 Yazidis escaping violence by ISIS militants . President Obama hit back at critics on Saturday claiming that the humanitarian crisis in Iraq could have been avoided if he had left a residual force in Iraq two and a half years ago. 'That . entire analysis is bogus and wrong but it gets frequently peddled around . here by folks who oftentimes are trying to defend previous policies . that they themselves made,' he said. Obama explained that he did not sign an agreement with the Iraqi government to allow U.S. troops to remain in the country because they wouldn't have received the necessary legal protections. 'The . only difference would be we’d have a bunch of troops on the ground that . would be vulnerable,' Obama said. 'And however many troops we had, . we would have to now be reinforcing, I’d have to be protecting them, . and we’d have a much bigger job. 'And . probably, we would end up having to go up again in terms of the number . of grounds troops to make sure that those forces were not vulnerable.' The president placed the blame for the current situation on the Iraqi government, saying that had it not 'alienated' the Sunni population in the country, the Islamic militants wouldn't . have been so successful at destroying the country. Obama has repeatedly said that until a new, more inclusive government forms in Iraq, he would not aid the country militarily - a strategy King said threatened the United States' security. 'We can't 'sit back and let ISIS attack the United States' because Iraqi officials didn't do their job, he said. Minutes after his remarks on Saturday about the state of affairs in Iraq, President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughter Malia flew to the secluded Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard for a two week vacation. By the time the U.S. made four more airstrikes in Iraq that afternoon, President Obama was on the golf course, leading Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to dub him the 'absentee . President'. 'I . think the president should actually stand up and do his job as . commander in chief, should spend less time on the golf course and more . time doing the job to which he was elected,' Cruz told attendees of the Iowa State Fair. 'I . am glad the president is finally demonstrating some leadership, taking . the threat from ISIS seriously, but unfortunately, he’s following the . pattern that has characterized his foreign policy from the beginning of . this tenure which he has laid out no clearly defined objective that . we’re trying to accomplish that is key to defending U.S. national . security,' Cruz said. He went on to accuse Obama of 'not providing that leadership.' The president is scheduled to appear at a Democratic Party fundraiser today in Martha's Vineyard before taking the rest of the week off to play golf and spend time with his family. Next Sunday he'll return to Washington for two days to attend what the White House would only describe as 'meetings,' but he'll then head back to Massachusetts for five more days of vacation. ### SUMMARY:

Obama's strategy in Iraq 'is clearly very, very ineffective, to say the . least,' Sen. John McCain told CNN . 'What a weak leader,' Rep. Peter King said . 'What is your strategy to stop these people from attacking the homeland?' demanded Sen. Lindsey Graham . Obama is currently on vacation at Martha's Vineyard and won't return to Washington until Sunday .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: A Boeing 777 plane missing feared crashed off the coast of Vietnam was involved in an accident in 2012. The missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft is believed to be the same that crashed into the tail of another plane at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai. The accident happened in August 2012 and broke the wing of the Boeing 777-200 passenger jet. Damaged: The Boeing 777 plane, believed to be the same aircraft that is missing off the coast of Vietnam, was damaged when it collided with another plan while taxiing at Shanghai's Pudong airport in August 2012 . While taxiing at Shanghai's Pudong airport, its wingtip hit the tail of another aircraft. According to an independent accident-tracking site, the damage suffered by the Boeing 777 was 'substantial'. The report filed on the Aviation Safety Network listed the incident, stating: 'A taxiing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 passenger plane contacted the tail of a China Eastern Airlines A340 plane, waiting on the taxiway at Pudong International Airport. no one was injured.'The tip of the wing of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was broken off and hung on the tail of the China Eastern Airbus 340-600, according to pictures posted by passengers on the Internet.' Flight MH307 disappeared off the coast of Vietnam late yesterday when the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers. The Malaysian Airline passenger jet took off from Kuala Lumpur airport at 12.21am local time (4.21pm GMT) bound for Beijing where it was expected to land at 6.30am (10.30pm GMT). But two hours into the flight contact was lost and the plane, having reached 35,000ft, disappeared around 153 miles off the Vietnamese coast. Missing: Malaysia Airlines flight MH307 disappeared off the coast of Vietnam two hours after taking off from Kuala Lumpur airport . Search site: A major search operation was launched off the coast of Phu Quoc island in Vietnam. Vietnamese air force planes spotted two oil slicks, which they believe could indicate the crash site . Delayed: The arrivals board at Beijing airport listed the flight as delayed . A major search operation was launched by Malaysia, Vietnam, China, aided by a host of other nations including the U.S. Two oil slicks were spotted in the Gulf of Thailand by Vietnamese air force planes before the air search was abandoned because of fading daylight. The search continued at sea and the air search is expected to resume in daylight. As Malaysian Airlines released a list of the passengers aboard the plane, it emerged two of the names listed matched passports stolen in Thailand. An Italian national Luigi Maraldi called his parents from Thailand to let them know he is 'alive and well', having heard his name linked to the crash. The Italian foreign ministry said in Rome that an Italian was listed on the flight's manifest although no national from the country was on board. The passenger list provided by the airline includes Luigi Maraldi, 37, an Italian citizen. Newspaper Corriere Della Sera reported that Maraldi's passport was stolen in Thailand last August. The Italian Interior Ministry was unable to immediately comment on the report. In Vienna, the Austrian foreign ministry said an Austrian listed among the passengers was safe and had reported his passport stolen two years ago while he was travelling in Thailand. South China Sea: The search operation spans the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand . Vanishes: A flight tracking website shows the plane's signal stop abruptly not far from Malaysia . Asked for a possible explanation for the plane's disappearance, Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told a news conference: 'We are not ruling out any possibilities.' By late on Saturday night, there were no confirmed signs of the plane or any wreckage, over 20 hours after it went missing. Operations will continue through the night, officials said. The Boeing 777 flown by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared over the South China Sea is one of the world's most popular - and safest - jets. The long-range jumbo jet has helped connect cities at the far ends of the globe, with flights as long as 16 hours. But more impressive is its safety record: The first fatal crash in its 19-year history only came last July when an Asiana Airlines jet landed short of the runway in San Francisco. Three of the 307 people aboard died. Airlines like the plane because it is capable of flying extremely long distances thanks to two giant engines. Each engine is so massive that a row of at least five coach seats could fit inside it. By having just two engines, the plane burns through less fuel than four-engine jets, like the Boeing 747, which it has essentially replaced. 'It has provided a new standard in both efficiency and safety,' said Richard Aboulafia, an aviation consultant with the Teal Group. 'The 777 has enjoyed one of the safest records of any jetliner built.' Feared dead: American Philip Tallmadge Wood, 50, is among the 239 people feared dead. He and two other Americans, Nicole Meng, three, and one-year-old Leo Meng are listed on the passenger list . Missing: Norliakmar Hamid (second right) and her husband Razahan Zamani (right) are among the 239 people missing feared dead . Besides last year's Asiana crash, the only other serious incident with the 777 came in January 2008 when a British Airways jet landed about 1,000 feet short of the runway at London's Heathrow Airport. Malaysia Airlines did have an incident in August 2005 with a 777 flying from Perth, Australia, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's largest city. While flying 38,000 feet above the Indian Ocean, the plane's software incorrectly measured speed and acceleration, causing the plane to suddenly shoot up 3,000 feet. The pilot disengaged the autopilot and descended and landed safely back in Perth. A software update was quickly made on planes around the world. Malaysia Airlines has 15 Boeing 777-200ER jets in its fleet of about 100 planes. The first was delivered on April 23, 1997, and the most recent on December 13, 2004, according to Boeing. The 200ER is one of four versions of the 777. The 777 is capable of flying 7,250 miles non-stop. Its two Rolls-Royce Trent 875 engines each have 74,600lb of thrust, letting the plane cruise at Mach 0.84, or nearly 640 mph. A new model has a list price of 261.5 million US dollars (£156 million), although airlines usually negotiate discounts. The 777 was the first twin-engine plane to be immediately certified to fly over the ocean as far as 180 minutes from any emergency landing airport. Government safety regulators have determined that it could fly for nearly three hours on a single engine in the case of an emergency. ### SUMMARY:

Missing plane was involved in a crash at Shanghai's Pudong airport . The incident in August 2012 left the plane with a broken wingtip . Flight MH307 disappeared off the coast of Vietnam two hours after take off . Major search operation launched by air and sea to locate plane . Two oil slicks could pinpoint a crash site, but no wreckage has been found .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Footballer Ben Hayes, 18, has been jailed for four and a half years for killing a teenage peacemaker with a single punch in a post-party brawl . A trainee professional footballer who killed a peacemaker with a single punch when a drug-fuelled 16th birthday party ended in violence was jailed for four and a half years today. Footballer Ben Hayes, 18, swung at trainee electrician George Verrier when he tried to stop a street brawl at the end of dancer Madison Moran’s celebrations. Mr Verrier, 17, was able to walk away from the attack, but was found unconscious at a friend's house the following morning with severe bleeding on his brain, and died just hours later. Police told him he needed to go to hospital, but refused to take him, with friends adding that officers told him to 'get a bus'. Hayes was convicted of manslaughter at the Old Bailey and sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment in a young offender’s institute. The victim’s family wept in court as sentence was passed. In a statement read to the court, mother Laura Verrier described her son as a ‘healthy, funny and intelligent young man’ who ‘had his whole life ahead of him’. She said: ‘The only comfort, if any, is that through George’s selflessness, he had completed an organ donor card, three people have been given a second chance at life.’ As Hayes was led away to the cells a man, who identified himself as the defendant’s brother, shouted obscenities from the public gallery about the judge and police before he was escorted out by security staff. Judge Anthony Bate told Hayes: ‘You punched George because he got in your way. ‘A substantial term of imprisonment is inevitable for this grave offence. ‘The length of the punishment now imposed in no way equates to the enduring and profound loss felt by George’s family. ‘A healthy and intelligent young man had a promising future taken when you lashed out at him in a moment of hot temper.’ George Verrier, 17, was described by his mother as a 'healthy, funny and intelligent young man’ who ‘had his whole life ahead of him’ He continued: 'It’s plain that shortly before the killing your friends had twice tried to calm you down. ‘You remained angry, upset and pumped-up. ‘George intervened as a peacemaker and you struck him to the face. ‘He fell heavily and struck the right side of his head on the ground.’ Stephen Kamlish QC, defending Hayes, said in mitigation that he had a bright future ahead of him. ‘His football career has been cut short, he was on a list to go to the US for a year of scholarship at a sports university,’ he said. Hayes and Mr Verrier had been among the guests at Brit School pupil Ms Moran’s party, thrown by her parents at their £500,000 home in Bromley. The bash for the teenager, a trainee dancer at the prestigious arts school attended by Adele, Jessie J, and Amy Winehouse, was said to be well-organised, with bouncers on the door and wristbands for all guests. Dancer Madison Moran, whose 16th birthday party ended in a brawl which resulted in the death of guest George Verrier, with residents nearby complaining of fighting and debauchery . However, Mr Kamlish said drug dealers were offering a rash of illegal drugs to the largely teenage guests. ‘The jury will hear drugs were being offered - ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine, and cannabis,' he said. ‘It was not just one person, but people were going around whispering "can I sell you something?".’ Violence flared up when the party ended at 12.30am, as hoards of partygoers flooded out on to the quiet residential street. ‘A number of local residents called the police, complaining about disorderly behaviour and fights involving large groups of youths’, said prosecutor Zoe Johnson QC. She said one resident, Carly Mairs, saw up to 20 teenagers punching and shoving each other in the street, while another, Andy Finney, reported ‘fighting and general debauchery’. ‘He told the police he had seen six to eight lads kicking cars and fences, and urinating in the street’, she said. ‘He also observed couples having sex in full view, and he described being intimidated by the size and nature of the group.’ The Bromley house where the party had been, before violence spilled out into the quiet residential street . Hayes attacked Mr Verrier at around 1am, after chasing him down the street with a pack of other boys. Max Kane, a pupil at The Ravensbourne School in Bromley, said Verrier was trying to break up a fight in the street when he was attacked. ‘George was absolutely no threat to Ben Hayes’, he told the court. ‘Ben looked angry, he looked like a ball of anger, like he wanted to explode and switch at someone. ‘He looked like he was there for a fight. ‘He punched him round the side of the face, in between the jaw and the chin as I remember it. ‘As George was hit, the momentum with which the punch hit him spun him round towards me. ‘I remember seeing his face as he fell to the floor. ‘It looked like the life had been sucked out of him.’ Mr Kane said the trouble began when one of his friends was headbutted by another teenager. He said a large group ‘swarmed’ up the street as arguments raged between the teenagers, and some started to chase one of his friends up the road. Mr Verrier was able to walk away from the attack, but was found unconscious at a friend's house the following morning with severe bleeding on his brain, and died just hours later . Mr Kane said he went to protect the friend, and was punched in the face himself, just before Mr Verrier was attacked. ‘George was standing opposite him, still telling him to calm down’, he said. ‘They were both shouting at each other but George was shouting at Ben to calm down and to leave it.’ He said Hayes landed the punch out of nowhere, then left the scene when a police van called to the earlier disturbances arrived. ‘As soon as Ben Hayes saw the police van, he ran down the road’, he said. ‘I’ve never seen someone running so fast in my life. ‘George Verrier was bleeding from the nose and the mouth. ‘I remember thinking to myself I thought he actually looked dead.’ Hayes was arrested shortly after the attack, in Southborough Street, on September 1 last year. ‘There are no winners in this case’, said Ms Johnson. ‘Both the defendant and the deceased were young men with their whole lives in front of them.’ Hayes argued he was acting in self-defence when he punched Mr Verrier. Hayes, of Constable Mews, Bromley, denied but was convicted of manslaughter. ### SUMMARY:

Trainee professional footballer Ben Hayes killed trainee electrician George Verrier . Mr Verrier, 17, had been trying to stop a street brawl after a birthday party . Walked away from the attack, and police told him to 'get a bus' to hospital . Was found unconscious at a friend's house the next day, and later died . Mother called him, a 'healthy, funny and intelligent young man' Judge says punishment does not equate to loss felt by Mr Verrier's family . Party was for 16th birthday of a Brit School dancer at her Bromley home .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Some people melt when they see babies or small kittens. For me, it’s chairs. I find myself stroking them longingly at parties (you do get some odd looks). Whenever I pass a sofa or an armchair, I dream of flopping down with a cup of tea or sprawling across it with my shoes off. But I don’t. Instead, I march on past, gritting my teeth, as I stay standing. My name is Liz and I’ve spent the last month Mostly Standing Up. Seats on the train or bus are banned. I’ve conducted meetings and phone calls standing up. I’ve taken to typing vertically and learned to book ‘standing room only’ tickets at the theatre. I’ve even watched TV balancing on one leg. Beware the chair: Liz tried standing up more often to see if she could lose weight . The reason for all this time spent upright? WeightWatchers’ new pound-shedding plan. As well as the usual advice on diet and exercise, they now advocate you simply stand up more to lose weight. According to the company’s latest research, 67 per cent of us are off our feet, either seated or lying down, for an astonishing 20 hours a day. We watch more TV than ever, an average of four hours and two minutes a day. And yet we kid ourselves that we lead busy, active lives. Dr Stuart Biddle, Professor of Physical Activity & Health at Loughborough University, who is backing WeightWatchers’ campaign, says: ‘Even if you exercise for at least 30 minutes most days, you are still storing up health problems from being sedentary too much. The message is clear - move more and sit less!’ He has come up with a list of small changes you can make to incorporate sitting less into daily life - from using your smartphone while standing up, to placing your computer on an ironing board and even moving your bin away from your desk, forcing you to stand up to use it. Tall order: Liz tried balancing her laptop on an ironing board and books so she could stand while working . He says you should water the garden using a watering can rather than a hosepipe. If there are just a few dirty plates after dinner, stand and wash them at the sink rather than loading the dishwasher and flopping on the sofa. Convenience is the enemy of calories. And every second counts. WeightWatchers suggests you squeeze the muscles in your bottom repeatedly as you brush your teeth. 'I hate the idea that something so innocent as sitting down is actually doing irreparable damage to my health' Simply by standing and walking for five minutes in every 30 of an eight-hour working day - an hour and 20 minutes a day - Dr Biddle say an average adult could burn over 2,500 calories over one month. That’s a third of a stone. ‘Of course, more physical activity and healthy eating will also help a great deal, but small changes, like standing and moving every half hour, can be an important part of weight control,’ he adds. ‘The change will be slow and gradual. If we move more while standing, the benefits will be greater.’ A third of a stone just for standing up for a bit? I resolved to see what would happen if I stood up for three hours every day for a month. On the first day, I had to take a rush-hour train to a meeting. Standing up was tough, and I had to go against all of my commuter instincts when I spotted the perfect seat. But I clung on for 30 minutes, distracting myself with a gripping novel. Result: After a month of standing up more she lost half a stone . Mid-afternoon was another test as I wandered around an art gallery, without stopping for a coffee, followed by an hour’s window shopping and a stroll across the park to meet friends. My calves began to feel tight, my back ached (memo to self: keep your handbag light or you end up lopsided). But I found that by walking through the pain I did actually feel more energised. By the evening, I didn’t want to sit down on the train, even as a treat. Back at home, I watched an episode of House Of Cards, standing upright. It felt most peculiar, but I noticed I concentrated on the programme much more than normal. Sitting down clearly makes my brain sluggish, as well as my muscles. Frankly it was a relief to go to bed - lying down, what a hedonistic joy. Sitting targets . Women are 40 per cent more likely to die early if they sit for six hours a day than if they sit for three . The next day I got stuck into working while upright. WeightWatchers advises you to do some stretching or star jumps every half hour to kickstart your metabolism. The star jump and I will never be friends, but I did try typing an article while standing up. My desk proved too far away from my arms, so I repositioned the laptop on the ironing board, balanced on a pile of books. But I’m so damn shortsighted that I still I couldn’t see the keyboard properly and felt like Les Dawson mangling the piano. Any concentration evaporated. Disaster.While typing was difficult, making phonecalls was a winner. I focused more on the conversation and it made me feel authoritative. I did my best to remain chairless when I went in for catch-up meetings with editors, leaning against their desk rather than flopping down gratefully. And it is rather productive, with all business conducted in under ten minutes. I’m not surprised to hear that U.S. companies favour this style over long, sit-down conferences where people get too comfortable. Bottoms down: We spend too many hours a day being sedentary . As the month went on, I began carving away the time I usually spend on my generous English bottom. And I discovered that going for dinner was still possible thanks to my new love affair with restaurants where you stand up to eat at the counter, from Japanese noodle bars to espresso counters. The only pain is you eat and leave, rather than lingering for a leisurely feast with friends. Standing up can be socially awkward, too, as it does rather unnerve other people. Female friends would say: ‘For heaven’s sake sit down, Liz, it’s not comfortable to have you towering over me.’ But after a month of staying on my feet for three hours a day, I’ve lost half a stone. And, yes, I was still eating cheese and drinking wine. I’ve bought a new pair of (size 14) trousers for the first time in ten years. My legs and stomach are more toned. I get up from the sofa without making that strange ‘Oof’ noise. I feel more capable and energised. Though I know I will never be able to stand up all day, every day (I’m still working up the courage to ask for a blow-dry standing up; I’m 5ft 8in, will they ask an energetic young stylist to climb a stepladder?) I’m going to try to stay on my feet as much as possible. I hate the idea that something so innocent as sitting down is actually doing irreparable damage to my health. ‘Those who sit a lot tend to have a higher risk of lifestyle diseases, including diabetes, regardless of how much exercise you do,’ warns Dr Biddle. I do still have dreadful chair lust at parties, though. So don’t be surprised if you come across me, standing alone like a wallflower, fondling a nicely-upholstered Chippendale. ### SUMMARY:

67 per cent of us are sedentary for 20 hours a day . WeightWatchers' new pound-shedding plan involves standing up more . Simple ways to stand more in daily life include washing up over using dishwasher .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: It promises to be some wedding. Carolyn Bourne, 60, launched the first salvo by sending her future daughter-in-law an email criticising her ‘staggering uncouthness and lack of grace’. Yesterday the father of bride-to-be Heidi Withers hit back, branding Mrs Bourne a ‘snotty Miss Fancy Pants’. In the stinging repost, Alan Withers, . 64, said the renowned horticulturist ‘has her head stuck so far up her . own a*** she doesn’t know whether to speak or f**t.’ Family-to-be at war: Alan Withers (left) has said his family call Carolyn Bourne (right) 'Miss Fancy-Pants' and say they do not like her 'snotty' attitude saying 'she thought she was better than us' Heidi Withers still wants to marry Freddie Bourne, pictured today, despite his step-mother's ranting email . And although Mrs Bourne appears fastidious about social mores, it emerged yesterday that she may have become pregnant some months before her first marriage in 1974, according to public records. She is also now on her third marriage. The astonishing war of words began after . Miss Withers, 28, and her fiancé Freddie Bourne, 29, spent the weekend . at the home of his father Edward and stepmother Carolyn in April. Incensed by her future daughter-in-law’s . apparent lack of manners, Mrs Bourne sent her an email listing all her . faults. She then sent it twice more to ensure it arrived. In the attack she told Miss Withers she should attend a finishing school in ‘utmost haste’ to get rid of her ‘bad manners’. She went on to describe her as ‘an ideal candidate for the Ladette to Lady television series’. Happy couple: Heidi Withers and her fiancé Freddie Bourne are reeling after the venomous message sent by Mrs Bourne bemoaning Heidi's manners . Stunned Miss Withers, a PA for a London recruitment firm, sent it on to a select group of friends. However, the email was forwarded to others and has now been read by millions on the internet. Speaking from the £450,000 family home in Ledbury, Herefordshire, Mr Withers, 64, said he would never forgive Mrs Bourne for sending the email. ‘Heidi was very upset and the two of them obviously don’t see eye to eye,’ he added. ‘I met Carolyn and her husband Edward for dinner at a pub in London last year. ‘Edward was a jovial chap but Carolyn was quite snotty. She had a look about her which made us think she thought she was better than us. She kept talking about her five horses and how it made her part of the Queen’s set. Sitting outside their home in Dawlish, Devon, yesterday when the Bournes said they were 'well aware' of the criticism by Heidi's father . ‘Ever since that meeting we call her . Miss Fancy Pants. I don’t care if she apologises. You can’t take back . what has been said once it’s said.’ In the email, Mrs Bourne accused Miss . Withers of poor table manners, insulting the family in public and . failing to send a handwritten card to say thank you after her stay. She even said her behaviour had left their pet dog Bomber  ‘profoundly upset, depressed and anxious’. Freddie . Bourne is getting married to Miss Withers in an £18,000 ceremony in the . great hall of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire in October. Mrs Bourne . told Miss Withers that her decision to get married in a castle smacks . of ‘brash, celebrity style behaviour’. She went on to criticise Miss Withers’ parents for failing to ‘contribute very much’ money towards the wedding. Mr Withers said: ‘The reason we have been unable to contribute as much money was because we both lost our jobs. I doubt Carolyn was aware of that when she sent the email. We were unceremoniously got rid of without warning in January and have been searching for jobs ever since.’ His wife Sylvia, 60, has since found work as a matron in a care home but he is still looking for work. ‘I have no desire to meet Carolyn or Edward again before or after the wedding,’ Mr Withers added. ‘They don’t know us and we don’t know them. Of course at the wedding we will shake hands and toast Heidi and Freddie.’ The young couple met three years ago through mutual friends and soon became close, enjoying a trip to America in 2009. They live in a flat with a shihtzu dog called Whisky in the affluent district of Parsons Green in South-west London. Freddie has an office nearby where he runs an online bike shop. A source close to the couple said: ‘It’s not going to be a Jordan wedding with all that kind of pumpkin carriages and tack. They are middle-class people with middle-class respectabilities. ‘It’s not like they’re taking over the entire castle in some vulgar show of excess. There’s a great hall that’s available and that’s where they’re having it. ‘They wanted to have as much of a . dream wedding as possible. They heard about Berkeley Castle and it was . available to book, so why not? It’s such a lovely setting.’ The . source added: ‘Freddie is an absolutely charming guy and Heidi is an . absolute sweetie. I’ve never heard a bad word said about either of them. None of their friends can believe what’s been said about Heidi. ‘Rude . and unpleasant are the last things you’d say about her. The view of . people who know them is that the problem lies with the mother in law.’ Enlarge . Mrs Bourne, 60, sent the e-mail to after she was less than impressed with her etiquette when she visited her Devon home in April . The couple declined to comment on the row yesterday. Mrs Bourne and her husband Edward confirmed they were ‘well aware’ of the criticism by Heidi’s father but still planned to go to the wedding. When asked if she thought it may be awkward, Mrs Bourne laughed: ‘We will see.’ It is high time someone explained to you about good manners. Yours are obvious by their absence and I feel sorry for you. Unfortunately . for Freddie, he has fallen in love with you and Freddie being Freddie, I . gather it is not easy to reason with him or yet encourage him to . consider how he might be able to help you. It may just be possible to . get through to you though. I do hope so. If . you want to be accepted by the wider Bourne family I suggest you take . some guidance from experts with utmost haste. There are plenty of . finishing schools around. Please, . for your own good, for Freddie’s sake and for your future involvement . with the Bourne family, do something as soon as possible. Here are a few examples of your lack of manners: . I . understand your parents are unable to contribute very much towards the . cost of your wedding. (There is nothing wrong with that except that . convention is such that one might presume they would have saved over the . years for their daughters’ marriages.) If . this is the case, it would be most ladylike and gracious to lower your . sights and have a modest wedding as befits both your incomes. ### SUMMARY:

Carolyn Bourne told Heidi Withers she was 'an ideal candidate for Ladette to Lady television series' She sends vitriolic email three times in a day and tells bride-to-be she needs 'guidance from experts' Heidi's shocked father hits back and says he will never forgive Carolyn for abusing his daughter . He says Carolyn was snotty on the day he first met her .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: For those trying to enroll through online health exchanges, help has long been advertised as just a phone call away. Yet the challenge in some states has been trying to get a call through at all, never mind the multiple transfers once contact has been made. Long wait times of an hour or more have been commonplace in some states, primarily those running their own health care exchanges. California, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada and Washington are among the states in which consumers and insurance agents have complained. Jacki Manley - pictured with husband David and two-year-old son Tyndale - has been trying to enroll in a Maryland health plan since December . One consequence is that people just give up because they are unable to wait indefinitely. 'If I had to use one word, I'd use ''frustrating'',' said Jacki Manley, a stay-at-home mom in the western Maryland town of Keedysville, who has been trying since mid-December to enroll in a health plan through that state's health exchange. With a child who is almost 3 and another who is 5 months, the 20 minutes she can spare on hold often have not been enough. She estimates she has reached someone at the Maryland call center three out of about a dozen times she has called, but then she gets passed between different people and cannot get definitive answers to her questions. 'It just seems like all the right connections aren't being made,' Manley said, adding that she believes she has successfully enrolled her children but is unsure whether she and her husband have been enrolled after more than two months of trying. Manley said she has given up calling. Now, she uses Facebook to try to get the help she needs. The telephone frustration is just one more obstacle consumers are facing as the March 31 deadline for open enrollment approaches. Technical glitches and software meltdowns on the federal and some state-run exchanges deterred many people from signing up after enrollments under the federal Affordable Care Act began in October. With many of those technical problems solved, enrollments across the country have been brisk since the start of the year. Yet even with 4 million signed up for policies through the exchanges, the Obama administration will be challenged to meet its own projection of 7 million enrollees by the deadline. Specialists help callers and potential customers find health insurance at a customer contact and call center for HealthSource RI. There have been delays and technical difficulties at centers around the country . Long wait times for consumer won't help. In California, an operational review of the state-run exchange's first three months showed consumers waiting 45 minutes to an hour for an employee to answer, and insurance agents have said they have waited hours to make human contact. The exchange's goal was to answer 80 percent of the calls within 30 seconds. 'We did not meet our standards,' said Yolanda Richardson, Covered California's chief deputy executive director. The most recent statistics, from the first week of February, show the average wait time for those dialing in to a California call center at about 47 minutes. Sherrie Larsen, a 49-year-old truck driver in Tacoma, Wash., said the first time she called the exchange, she was told after waiting an hour and 27 minutes that the computer system was down, and she would have to call back. She called the state insurance commissioner's office to complain, and said she didn't get a lot of help or understanding there. The next day, Larsen called the exchange again, and was told the wait time would be about 29 minutes. After more than an hour on the phone, she finally got the help she was seeking, but no apology or explanation. 'It's very, very, very frustrating,' Larsen said. In Nevada, Claudia Lamb complained publicly about spending more than 100 hours on the phone to a call center, then waiting by her phone for hours more for return calls that never came. Lamb and her husband first tried to apply in early October when the system went live, but she only received confirmation they had been insured on Feb. 12. That was 129 days after she first applied. Covered California Executive Director Peter Lee greets more than 250 new employees at a call center in Fresno, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. The new employees began training to help uninsured Californians navigate the health care exchange . 'I once waited three hours and 40 minutes to get through to a manager who cycled the problem back through to his subordinate,' Lamb testified about her experience with Nevada Health Link, the state's exchange. 'The subordinate's solution was to do another application.' Wait times for call centers on the federal marketplace that is running in 36 states have been much shorter to reach a customer service representative. The average wait time in October was just more than one minute, dropping to 38 seconds in November. It rose to about eight-and-a-half minutes in December, when more people were trying to get coverage for Jan. 1. The federal call centers have about 14,000 employees. Maryland's problems have been particularly embarrassing because officials there were quick to support President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Gov. Martin O'Malley, a term-limited Democrat who is weighing a White House bid, and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, who is running to succeed him, had hoped to make Maryland a national model for health care implementation. Instead, the state has had one of the rockiest rollouts of the 14 states operating their own exchanges, with the call center problems coming on top of constant problems with the online enrollment portal. For example, some Maryland residents early on were prompted erroneously on the exchange website to seek help by calling a telephone number that led callers to the owner of a pottery shop in Seattle. The disastrous rollout forced the previous director of the Maryland exchange to resign. Officials in some states, including Maryland, Nevada and California, have taken steps to address the long wait times. Nevada has boosted its call center staff from 50 to nearly 250, and wait times reportedly have been reduced significantly. California is adding 350 to 400 more call center employees by the end of March, while Maryland has tripled the number of call center employees from 120 to about 360 at the state's call center in Baltimore, said Carolyn Quattrocki, the interim director of Maryland's health exchange. Quattrocki said she is optimistic the boost in staff at Maryland's call center, expected to cost about $6 million, will be enough to handle the expected increase in activity as the enrollment deadline nears. She said wait times and abandonment rates have gone down since the middle of January. Covered California also created a dedicated phone line for insurance agents and counselors, increased the number of bilingual staffers and added an online chat feature to help take pressure off the phone lines. Exchange officials there said they were somewhat surprised by consumer behavior that exacerbated the long wait times. They designed the exchange so people could shop, compare, select a plan and be done with the process in one stop. Instead, they found that people often had questions after visiting the website and wanted to speak to someone by phone. They often called back two or three times before selecting an insurance plan, adding to the volume of calls coming into the service centers. Still, Covered California Executive Director Peter Lee said the exchange is not making excuses and is working hard to reduce wait times. 'We've heard their concerns,' Lee said. 'We've stepped up to say we're going to make it right.' ### SUMMARY:

Complaints of hour-long waits in California, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada and Washington . Technical problems across the country . Jacki Manley, from Maryland, has given up after trying since December . Consumers rush to meet March 31 deadline . Four million already signed - long way off the Obama administration projection of seven million .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: A plasterer was hailed a hero today for punching and detaining a hoodie after catching him red-handed stealing lead from the church next to his home. Catholic Jon-Paul Fawcett, 28, was watching Euro 2012 when he spotted yob Neil Langley stealing lead from the church window pane, balancing on a vase taken from a nearby grave. He was so disgusted that he stormed up to him saying: 'What do you think you are playing at, nicking from a church?' Hero: Catholic plasterer Jon-Paul Fawcett, 28, . was watching Euro 2012 when he spotted yob Neil Langley stealing lead . from the church opposite his home and stormed over to confront him . When Langley, 30, lashed out Mr Fawcett, thumped him in self defence, fearing he was armed with a chisel, then carried out a citizen's arrest grabbing him by the arms then pinning him to the ground while police were called to the scene. During the scuffle, Mr Fawcett's mobile phone accidentally rang his father who overheard the commotion and was so upset he had a heart attack. He has since recovered. Today, as Langley began 12 weeks jail for theft, Mr Fawcett, who has a close connection to St Paul's Church in Nelson, Lancashire and recently became a godparent there, was commended for his bravery. Yob: Neil Langley has been jailed for 12 weeks for theft after being caught red-handed by Mr Fawcett . 'It was just instinct and I would do . it again in a flash if I had to,' said Mr Fawcett who lives in a street . to the adjacent to the church. 'I didn’t really consider that I might . have got hurt but it was my duty to do something and protect my . community. 'I was brought up . a Catholic and my two kids are Catholic and it’s despicable. Only three . weeks ago I was in that church fulfilling my role as a godfather at a . Christening. It’s a lovely church both inside and out that is about 200 . years old. 'It was insulting . that he could do something like this. Thefts like this are not fair on . the elderly people who live around here either. They have moved here for . a quiet, peaceful life and something like this happens. 'That guy was scum and he effectively made my dad have a heart attack. ‘The . amount of jobs which we get called out to where a property is leaking . because of a metal theft or a shop which has had lead taken is . unbelievable. 'They are . low-life's. And to steal from a church, they should be put in the . gutter, I’m glad he’s gone to prison. He had absolutely no shame doing . this in broad daylight.' Burnley . magistrates court was told Mr Fawcett had been watching a Euro 2012 . football match TV when he looked up at half-time and spotted Langley . stripping lead flashing at 8.30pm on June 13 this year. He went outside and shouted at . Langley to stop only for the yob to deny stealing and to falsely claim . he was putting the window pane back. Mr . Fawcett added: 'I could see somebody wearing a black hooded jacket . messing about and he even taken a vase from someone’s grave to stand on . so he could get to the lead. Theft: Langley tried to deny stealing lead from the window pane falsely claiming he was putting it back . Furious: Langley targeted St Paul's Church in Nelson, Lancashire and Mr Fawcett said stealing from a church is the 'lowest of the low'. Many people turned out to watch the commotion when the surprise arrest was made . 'I . was furious. I thought it was disgusting what he had been doing. He was . coming towards me with his arms waving. I thought he was going to take a . swing for me so I just punched him. 'Then . he tried to turn around to make a run for it so I gripped him and made a . citizen’s arrest. I grabbed the back of his hands and grabbed hold of . his belt which snapped and it cut all my hand. I knew I had to get him. 'Then . I got his arm and put it up his back so he couldn’t move and held on to . him. There was a lot of commotion and a bit of a scuffle but nothing . serious. I did what I had to do to restrain him. 'I . go to the gym so I’m quite strong and I knew I was stronger than him. He was saying ‘can we just talk’ but I thought ‘no what you are doing is . wrong’. It’s the lowest of the low stealing from a church and he is . scum. Community spirit: Jon-Paul Fawcett with Rev Fr Philip Knowles outside the 200-year-old St Paul's Church. Rev Knowles said it's nice to know that there are people who are looking out for the community . 'Meanwhile elderly people had come out of their houses to see what was going on and they were all watching. I shouted for them to call the police. 'I had his arm up behind his back and I walked him over to where they were stood. He kept pleading with me to ask if we could talk but I wasn’t having any of it. 'Unbeknown to me, my phone was in my pocket and had called my dad. He had picked it up and he’d heard the commotion and started to panic. He thought I was in trouble at first. Shortly afterwards he suffered a heart attack and had to hospital. 'When the police arrived they knew who he was instantly and addressed him using first name terms. 'My phone started ringing and it was my mum telling me how proud she was because they’d heard everything on the phone. 'She kept saying, ‘I’m so proud of you’, but then she said my dad was having a funny turn and then my sister called to say he’d been taken to hospital in an ambulance.' Catholic: Jon-Paul has a close connection to the church and was pictured at a christening service (at the back in a light grey suit and black shirt) just three weeks ago . In court Mrs Alex Mann prosecuting said: 'The church warden says that lead was missing and other pieces of lead were loose. It will cost a substantial amount of money to fix.' In mitigation for the former drug addict, defence lawyer Ben Leech said: 'He has very little recollection of what happened. 'He had been in a pub and had got himself in some trouble either inside or outside of it and tried to escape by going into the churchyard. He believed his drink may have been spiked.' After the case Rev Fr Philip Knowles of St Paul’s Church said: 'It is very sad that people feel that they have to fund whatever they have to fund by doing something like this through criminal activity. 'It’s sad and I feel for them that they end up doing something like this. 'The church is 200 years old and there has been a church on this site for the last 800 years. Lead thefts is something that all churches have been suffering from. Obviously the broken pane of glass will have to be replaced at a cost. 'People like Jon-Paul who just happened to see what was going on felt compelled to do something. It is nice to know that there are people like him who are looking out for the community and it shows good community spirit.' ### SUMMARY:

Jon-Paul Fawcett thumped the yob in self-defence and then grabbed his arms and pinned him to the ground . During the arrest Jon-Paul Fawcett's phone accidentally rang his father who heard the commotion and had a heart attack .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has some unexpected roots, it has been revealed - his ancestors were carpenters in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria. The family of the former Massachusetts governor lived in England's industrial northwest for generations before converting to Mormonism and heading for the New World. Romney is one of the wealthiest . Americans ever to run for the White House and has estimated his fortune . at between $190million and $250m. Scroll down for video . British connections: Mitt Romney, left, has family in the north of England while President Barack Obama, right, last year visited an Irish village where one of his forebears once lived . Before we were Mormons: Romney's ancestors lived in Dalton-in-Furness before moving to the US in 1837 . Many of his remaining family in Britain's rainy north, however, are factory workers or unemployed. Jennie Iveson, a 69-year-old widow who lives in a modest home in Barrow-in-Furness, the shipyard town once at the heart of Britain's industrial revolution, said: 'It's all come out of the blue. 'It's a surprise really. Big surprise.' Her link to Romney came to light when her grandson-in-law began tracing their family history by . delving into archives in their home county of Lancashire two weeks ago. Records show that Mrs Iveson is Mitt Romney's fourth cousin - they share a . great-great-great grandfather, George Romney, who died in 1859. Now . she can't help but notice that her distant American relative bears a . striking family resemblance. 'I saw him on the telly twice the other day, last week I think. He looks . a bit like my brother,' said Mrs Iveson, a retired factory worker, most of . whose children have no jobs. '[My brother] looks quite like him. He had dark hair like him. It's all . grey now. He (Romney) looks like our Mike. Same sort of face and . everything.' Distant cousins: Jennie Iveson, a former factory worker, said she believes the wealthy American looks like her brother . Cuppa and a catch-up, Mitt? Simon Nash, his wife Maria and their 12-year-old daughter Sarah at their home in Preston, northern England. Mrs Nash is Romney's fourth cousin, twice removed . She shrugs and smiles when asked about Romney's privileged status in the US, where he is sometimes accused by . critics of being out of touch with poor people. 'I wish him luck and . everything else,' she said. For Romney, his faith and English roots remain a sensitive issue, partly because his Mormon religion is still regarded with suspicion by some American voters. When he came to Britain in July this year, Romney did not visit the area where his family have their roots - unusual since emphasising a European heritage is often seen as an electoral plus in U.S. politics. Barack Obama, who faces Romney in the November 6 presidential election, went down well last year when he toured an Irish village where one of his forebears once lived - despite being born in Hawaii himself. Romney's campaign spokeswoman made no comment when asked how the Republican challenger felt about his English origins. In Lancashire, the county the candidate's ancestors left behind, Romney enthusiasts offered their own explanation. 'He is Mormon and this is Mormon central,' said Christopher Nelson, a local vicar with an interest in Romney's heritage. 'Perhaps he would perceive (coming here) as highlighting his Mormonism more than highlighting his roots.' Amateur genealogist Simon Nash was astonished to discover while digging into regional records recently that his wife Maria - Mrs Iveson's granddaughter - was Romney's fourth cousin twice removed. Humble origins: A sign for Romney Road in Dalton-in-Furness, where relatives of the Republican candidate were born and bred in the 18th and 19th century . Poring over archival material at his home in the industrial city of Preston, Mr Nash, whose day job involves dressing in a duck outfit and posing as a mascot for a local football team, more interested in US politics. 'If he got in, America would be a completely different place in three years time to what it is now,' he said. 'I don't know if it will be for the better.' Mrs Nash, 32, was equally astounded by his research. 'I was very much shocked ... It still feels like... it's not quite happening to (me),' she said. 'It's quite an unreal feeling.' She said meeting Romney in the White House would be 'surreal', but she 'would like to go there for a brew if he ever got in there.' The village of Dalton-in-Furness, a picturesque scattering of mediaeval cottages, is where the Romney clan began. Hidden past: Romney did not visit the area his family are from when he came to Britain in July . One of his ancestors was carpenter William Romney, who gained notoriety for making his own coffin and putting it on display in his workshop before he died in 1915. 'I get the impression that quite a few Romneys were carpenters. It seems to be a family trait,' said Jim Walton, a Dalton historian, outside a canary-yellow cottage where William Romney used to live and work. 'Should Mitt Romney succeed and become the next president of the United States, he would be able to look around in pride and say: "My great-great-granddad came from Dalton-in-Furness". Well, I hope he can say that in pride.' Another famous son in the family was George Romney, who went to London and became one of the most celebrated portrait painters of the 18th century. Who do you think you are? An original baptism record shows details of some of the presidential candidate's relatives in what was then Lancashire . Two streets and a park are named after the artist, who is said to have had a secret affair with the mistress of Lord Nelson, the naval hero who defeated the French at Trafalgar. George was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's parish church - where Mitt Romney's great-great grandparents, Elizabeth and Miles, were baptised and married before converting to the Mormon faith in 1837 and moving to the United States. Their daughter Sarah's baptism record from the year before is still in the archives in Preston, with her father's vocation - joiner - scribbled in an old parish book. 'It's a fascinating story that Dalton holds,' said Reverend Alan Mitchell, gazing over the town's skyline from the top of a church tower - a view that has changed little since Romneys lived here. Pointing at a couple of old communion cups, he added: 'The Romneys could have touched these.' At the time, Lancashire was a tough, polluted and chaotic place to live, and disease and drunkenness were rife. Mormon promises of a better and more orderly life fell on fertile ground. 'It was a grimy, mucky hell on earth,' said Nelson, the vicar. 'Why on earth you would want to stay here, if somebody tells you there is milk and honey elsewhere? It was a horrible place.' ### SUMMARY:

Romney did not visit his family when he came to Britain in July . His distant cousins live in terraced houses and some are unemployed . Romney is one of the wealthiest Americans to enter the presidential race . His English relatives say they would love to meet for a cup of tea . His great-great grandparents converted to Mormonism and moved to the US in 1837 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The Ukip official charged with vetting the party’s election candidates has revealed he spends half his time ‘weeding out the lunatics’. David Soutter told Ukip activists he was not able to spend enough time finding good new candidates – because he was too busy getting rid of people ‘who shouldn’t be there’. The remarks come after one Ukip candidate was recorded making homophobic, racist and obscene comments - while another was exposed as a fantasist after becoming embroiled in a public sex scandal. Nigel Farage is battling to contain a series of scandals which have hit Ukip over the past week . Ukip MEP Patrick O'Flynn played down the revelations - claiming they were 'hand grenades rolling down the corridor' In recorded comments passed to the Sunday Times, Mr Souter said the party needed to become more disciplined, . He said: ‘One of the things that Ukip has lacked as a party — and looking at it the way I’ve been able to from the outside — discipline is one of the things that’s really been missing. ‘Half my job is spent not finding good candidates to stand, it is weeding out the lunatics, the people who shouldn’t be there.’ Mr Soutter had even resorted to ‘doing tests to make sure people were vaguely sane and that they could string their words together more or less’, Ukip's Scottish MEP David Coburn said. Mr Souter’s role vetting party candidates was thrown into the spotlight last week over his failure to spot a series of glaring errors on the CV of leading Ukip candidate Natasha Bolter. Ms Bolter was introduced to the Ukip party conference as a Labour defector, who taught at a local comprehensive school and had a degree from Oxford University. But after she accused the party’s general secretary Roger Bird of sexual harassment it emerged that she never attended Oxford – and may not have been a teacher. Doubts were first raised about her account after a series of affectionate text messages she sent to Mr Bird were published. Kerry Smith (centre) was recorded making a series of astonishing comments including a baseless claim Nigel Farage had accepted 'a nice fat envelope' for promoting a Ukip ally . In a shock announcement on Monday evening, Ukip announced Mr Bird had been suspended while it investigated allegations of 'impropriety'. On Tuesday Mrs Bolter gave an interview claiming to have been the victim of sexual harassment. But Mr Bird has said the pair were in a relationship. Mrs Bolter told the BBC’s Newsnight: ‘I didn’t sleep with Roger Bird, end of.’ But he insisted: ‘For the record, yes she did.’ The scandal came after a series of tape-recorded phone calls were leaked to The Mail on Sunday, showing party candidate Kerry Smith, chosen to fight Ukip target seat of Basildon South in Essex making a series of offensive remarks. In the tape he mocks ‘f***ing disgusting old pooftahs’ who belong to a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning group, calling them ‘BLTs’ – bacon, lettuce and tomato. He also jokes about ‘shooting peasants’ and refers to a woman with a Chinese name as a ‘Chinky.’ But Mr Farage last night refused to sack Mr Smith. A well-placed Ukip official said: ‘Kerry wants to make a full apology and is hoping it all blows over.’ Ukip MEP Patrick O’Flynn today defended Mr Smith - claiming he had been drugs at the time. He said: “This was a phone call sometime ago while he was on sedatives by his own account, not really speaking, thinking rationally. He was on prescription sedatives after suffering an injury.' But he said: 'Using derogatory terminology, this slang, is not right at this level of politics and you shouldn’t do it.' 'Clearly what he said there is unacceptable. He’s apologised unreservedly, there are big mitigating circumstances, it’s from some time ago, and we’re willing now to judge him on his performance going forward from this.' Ukip game to rate 'blacks' and Muslims to win £100... or golf umbrella: Farage in another race row over 'rate on immigrant' survey . The Ukip leader has found himself embroiled in another row over race . Nigel Farage was in another race row last night after asking supporters to rate ‘blacks, Muslims and Eastern Europeans’ in a game – with prizes of cash and a Ukip golf umbrella. The ‘rate an immigrant’ survey is part of a Ukip private survey of members aimed at helping the party draw up its policies. Sent last week by Ukip chairman Steve Crowther, it asks members to say ‘how close they feel’ to a number of groups. They include ‘Blacks, Asians, Muslims, English, Eastern Europeans and Whites’ as well as the four main political parties. Ukip activists are urged to rate each on a scale from 0 for ‘not close at all’ to 10 for ‘very close.’ But the survey was slammed as a racist stunt after details were leaked to The Mail on Sunday. Last night, senior Labour MP Margaret Hodge condemned the Ukip survey as ‘shocking’. Mrs Hodge, who won a campaign against the BNP in her Barking constituency in east London, said: ‘This openly brings race into politics. It’s shameful, it’s shocking and it’s offensive. 'It lifts the lid on the unacceptable face of Ukip.’ The survey comes after a series of claims of racism involving Ukip, although Farage has insisted ‘stupid or offensive’ comments by a handful of candidates ‘never have and never will’ represent the views of his party. The email to thousands of Ukip members from chairman Crowther is headed: ‘Help the Party and Win Prizes!’ It declares: ‘Ukip is growing quickly. We want to strengthen our party by understanding our rapidly growing membership. We are asking all our members to complete a new survey.’ The aim was to ‘use the insights to strengthen the Ukip operation… Your responses will be invaluable in making sure we fulfil our promises over the coming years – and in government! ‘So please, do complete the survey. It should be fun! You might even win some prizes!’ Prizes included ‘one prize of £100, two of £50, three prizes of a Ukip golf umbrella, four prizes of £25, five Ukip notebooks and six Ukip pocket diaries.’ Other Ukip race rows include: . A Ukip spokesman denied the survey was racist, claiming every major employer carried out similar research of their staff. ### SUMMARY:

David Soutter said he did not have time to find good new candidates . Comes after a series of scandals which have rocked the party this week . One candidate recorded making a series of astonishing remarks . Kerry Smith, chosen to fight Basildon South seat, referred to'old pooftahs' Mr Smith issued an 'unreserved' apology and retracted corruption claim . National executive member Gerard Batten’s call for Muslims to sign a ‘charter of understanding’ in which they rejected violence and parts of the Koran that promote ‘violent physical Jihad.’ Parliamentary candidate in Grimsby Victoria Ayling was recorded saying ‘let’s keep the blacks out’. Council candidate Andre Lampitt said Africans should ‘kill themselves’. Council candidate William Henwood said Lenny Henry should ‘emigrate to a black country’. Exeter activist David Challice denounced the ‘lunacy of multiculturalism’ and called Greeks ‘vile’. Town hall candidate David Wycherley said Mo Farah was African, not British.

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: For years, Margaret Keane was kept behind locked doors - painting the pictures of the wide-eyed waifs that made her husband Walter Keane an art sensation. Feted by celebrities during the 1950s and 60s, Walter, ever a showman, took credit for his wife's work until Margaret found the courage to come forward and tell the truth. Her story is told in new movie Big Eyes, which premieres tonight in New York. Amy Adams plays Margaret, while Christoph Waltz is the controlling, egomaniac Walter. Both actors have won Golden Globe nominations for their work. In a softly spoken voice, Margaret, now 87, tells MailOnline: 'I think Walter would have enjoyed every minute of it - all he cared about was being a celebrity, and of course,' she muses: 'he would have just claimed he was an artist until the very end, he would have loved the attention.' Scroll down for video . Art mirroring life: Amy Adams with painter Margaret Keane, whom she portrays in new movie Big Eyes . Famous: Margaret Keane is famous for her depictions of big-eyed children, as seen in Beach Bums II . She adds: 'Christoph did a wonderful job, I think he's portrayed Walter exactly as he was, but I think Walter was maybe a little crazier! 'He doesn't go over the top enough to show how nutty my husband was - but he had to make it believable.' With a soft chuckle, Margaret says: 'I think Christoph thinks HE did the paintings now!' After viewing the movie, directed by Tim Burton and produced by The Weinstein Corporation, Margaret admits: 'It was a very emotional experience, it was very traumatic to see it. 'To see it so big and intensified, it was quite an experience. I cried and I laughed and then I cried again, I really was in shock for about two days afterwards. 'My daughter had the same reaction, she was in shock too - it made it all come back alive to us. It was really emotionally overwhelming.' But, she says: 'It really is wonderful to have the whole truth come out and it's very satisfying to have it really portrayed like it really happened.' Locked up and forced to paint: Although this November 1961 photo shows Walter and Margaret Keane busy painting actress Natalie Wood in her Bel Air home, they would divorce four years later and Margaret would tell how she was locked up while Walter took credit for her work . Lifelike: Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams as Walter and Margaret Keane in Big Eyes. Margaret says: 'I think Walter would have loved it...all he cared about was being a celebrity' Egotistical: Margaret Keane was awarded $4 million in court in 1986 - but has never seen a penny . Margaret met Walter in 1955 when he charmed her at an outdoor art exhibition in San Francisco. Divorced, with a daughter, they soon married - and soon Walter was passing off Margaret's paintings of the sad children as his own, along with the story that they were based on youngsters he had seen in postwar Berlin in 1946. One night, Margaret accompanied her husband to San Francisco beatnik cub, The Hungry i, where Walter sold the paintings as comics such as Bill Cosby and Lenny Bruce performed on stage. When a customer asked her 'Do you paint too?' she realized Walter was taking the credit for her work. Staying with Walter for the sake of her daughter - while the paintings were printed on to postcards and posters sold in millions across America - Margaret was kept a virtual prisoner in her own home while her husband frolicked in the pool outside - and brought other women into their bed. Banned from having her own friends, she told The Guardian: 'The door was always locked, the curtains closed...when he wasn’t home he’d usually call every hour to make sure I hadn’t gone out. I was in jail. 'He was always pressuring me to do more. 'Do one with a clown costume'.’ Or: ‘Do two children on a rocking horse.' Behind the smiles: Walter Keane could not paint - but took credit for his wife Margaret's portrayals of wide-eyed children that became beloved by celebrities. The couple are pictured in 1963 . Art elite: Diana Picasso, a granddaughter of the artist (right) joins actress Meredith Ostrom (left) at a Manhattan screening of Big Eyes earlier this month . Feted: Eileen Guggenheim (left) attends the screening of Big Eyes . Walter, it must be said, could not paint, a fact Margaret would seize upon, when finally in a court case in a 1986 - 21 years after they divorced - she was declared to be the true creator of the paintings. The verdict came only after a judge asked both Margaret and Walter to paint in court. Walter claimed he had a sore shoulder and could not pick up a brush. Margaret was awarded $4 million, but she never saw a penny of it as Walter, an alcoholic, had drunk his fortune away. A court psychologist diagnosed him with a rare mental condition called delusional disorder. Walter died in 2000 and making the decision to turn her life story and what was once so painful into a movie, was not an easy decision, Margaret says. Stars: Director Tim Burton, pictured left, with Amy Adams, center, and Christoph Waltz, right, was a big collector of Margaret Keane's work before he embarked on the project . Art world: Larry Gagosian, Chrissie Erpf and Christoph Waltz . 'It was difficult. I turned down four or five other offers and then the writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski came to me and I trusted them to do it the way I wanted it done, and we started talking and I liked what they did. Now a committed Jehovah's Witness, Margaret - who has a cameo as a little old lady sitting on a park bench in Big Eyes - says: 'I would like to think all our gifts and talents and abilities come from God. 'When I was married to Walter, I did rely on my faith, at that time I hadn't yet become a Jehovah's witness, so I didn't know HIS name, but I knew there was a God.' Margaret still paints every day 'when I can' at her home in Napa, Northern California. Lonely: Amy Adams as Margaret Keane alone in her studio. Amy has been nominated for a Golden Globe . Asked about Amy Adams' portrayal of her, Margaret tells how the pair bonded before filming and said that Amy looks just like her in the movie, 'only prettier', adding: 'I knew she'd do a good job, but I had no idea it would be so fantastic.' The movie has already been screened at Art Basel in Miami, while art royalty including Diana Picasso and  Eileen Guggenheim attended a screening hosted by mega-art dealer Larry Gagosian with the film's Oscar-winning star Christoph Waltz at Manhattan's Crosby St. Hotel. Introducing the film, actor Chrisoph said: 'The art is kitsch, but the Keanes' story certainly isn't.' ### SUMMARY:

Margaret Keane painted the wide-eyed waifs made popular in the '50s and '60s . Her husband Walter claimed her work as his own - and kept her locked up while he sold the paintings to celebrities . She was awarded a $4m settlement in court in 1986 - but never saw a penny . Their story is now the subject of new movie, Big Eyes, starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz, who have both won Golden Globe nominations . Margaret tells MailOnline: 'Walter would have enjoyed every minute of it - all he cared about was being a celebrity'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Comedy writer Jeremy Lloyd, who created sitcoms including Are You Being Served? and 'Allo 'Allo! has died aged 84. His agent said he died in a London hospital yesterday evening from pneumonia. Alexandra Cann said: 'Jeremy was a great wit and always a mass of original ideas. Comedy writer Jeremy Lloyd, who created sitcom Are You Being Served? and 'Allo 'Allo! has died aged 84 . Mr Lloyd with his wife Lizzie Moberley, an interior designer, in 2008. The couple married this year . 'He had a wonderfully original mind and will be greatly missed.' Mr Lloyd, who was married three times including to Joanna Lumley, created a string of hit shows with his writing partner David Croft. He was given an OBE for services to comedy in 2012. Accepting his OBE, Lloyd said he was 'astounded' to be honoured for doing something he enjoyed. He said: 'it is, after all, what I love doing and couldn’t have done without the many wonderful actors, directors and others who made my work come to life.' Writing about their marriage, which lasted less than a year, Lumley said: 'He was witty, tall and charming - we should have just had a raging affair' Mr Lloyd and Joanna Lumley at Patrick Lichfield's wedding - they were married for less than a year . Lloyd began his career as a writer in 1958 before making his film debut two years later in 1960 in School for Scoundrels. He appeared in numerous comedies during the 1960s and 1970s and was a regular performer on US show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in 1969. Lloyd starred in two films with the Beatles, including a Hard Day's Night in 1964 and in Help! in 1965. In 1969 he filmed a scene with Peter Sellers for The Magic Christian, which co-starred Ringo Starr. His first major success as a comedy writer was with Are You Being Served? in 1972, on which he worked with David Croft. They subsequently produced 'Allo 'Allo! and a spinoff of Are You Being Served?, Grace & Favour which aired in 1992. Jeremy also wrote the poem for the popular Captain Beaky album and books in 1980. Jeremy played the eccentric chimney sweep, Berthram Fortesque Wynthrope-Smythe aka Bert Smith in The Avengers episode, From Venus With Love in 1967. In 1974 he was a British Army officer in Murder on the Orient Express. He worked as a paint salesman and a road digger before getting into showbusiness and enjoyed a screen career of his own before devoting himself to providing the lines for others. He made his film debut in School For Scoundrels and had minor roles in the Beatles films Help!, released in 1965, and A Hard Day's Night, released in 1964. He also featured in classics such as Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines in 1965. He also had roles in Doctor in Clover with James Robertson Justice, and The Wrong Box with John Mills, Michael Caine and Peter Cook. In 1974 he was a British Army officer in Murder on the Orient Express. Lloyd was later a regular writer and performer on popular US show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Mr Lloyd said he got the job after answering the phone at his agent's office to the show's producer, George Schlatter, who was looking for someone who could act and write. He explained: 'I said "The best possible person you could get is Jeremy Lloyd and we handle him". 'And George said "Is he available?" And I said: "I'll just check his book... just a second... he's got a day off from filming tomorrow and he can see you." 'I wasn't filming at all, of course. "Can he be at the Dorchester at 9?" And I said "Don't worry, I'll make sure he's there."' Jeremy Lloyd and actress Carole Ashby (left), who were engaged for three years, and Jeremy Lloyd with actress Barbara Trenton (right) The screenwriter was also briefly engaged to actress Charlotte Rampling (pictured), who acted as his best man during his marriage to Lizzy Moberley . Mr Lloyd, the son of an army officer and a dancer, was born in London but brought up in Manchester by his grandmother. He regularly appeared on the hugely popular Billy Cotton Band Show playing what he described as 'an idiot in a bowler hat' and - more importantly - it was where he met Croft. They teamed up on a short-lived sitcom It's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes Darling, which starred Lumley, before working up an idea based on Lloyd's past experiences working at Simpsons of Piccadilly, which became Are You Being Served?, set in the fictional Grace Brothers store. Its run spanned 13 years and attracted audiences of up to 22million. It became known for its catchphrase 'I’m free!; as well as Mrs Slocombe’s ongoing dramas with a high maintenance pussy cat. Mr Lloyd was the son of an army officer and dancer and was brought up in Manchester by his grandmother . He was given an OBE for services to comedy in 2012 and said he was 'astounded' to be honoured for doing something he enjoyed . They worked on further shows such as Come Back Mrs Noah and Oh Happy Band, then struck comedy gold again with 'Allo 'Allo! about the French Resistance, which lasted the best part of a decade. At various times, he also wrote for Jon Pertwee, Morecambe and Wise, Bruce Forsyth and Lionel Blair . Writing about their marriage, which lasted less than a year, Lumley said: 'He was witty, tall and charming - we should have just had a raging affair.' His third marriage, to interior designer Lizzy Moberley, took place in central London this June. He said his third bride, who was 49 when they tied the knot, was 'beautiful, clever and sent from heaven on mission impossible'. Gordon Kaye as Rene and Vicki Michelle as Yvette in Allo Allo . The cast of Are You Being Served, along with David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, at a reunion lunch 25 years after the first episode . He was previously due to marry actress Carole Ashby - who played Louise in Allo Allo - but they split in 1990 after a three-year engagement. Lloyd was also briefly engaged to actress Charlotte Rampling, who later acted as his best man when he married Lizzie Moberley. Lloyd was also behind an unlikely hit record in the shape of Captain Beaky which went into the top five in 1980. It was the most well-known hit from two albums produced by the band in 1977 and 1980. The albums led to numerous spinoffs, including two books of poetry, a BBC television shows, a West End musical and a pantomime. The Captain Beaky poems were revived in an all-star tribute show at the Royal Albert Hall in 2011, featuring Joanna Lumley. The writer also claimed to have been invited to Sharon Tate’s house for tea on the night that she was murdered by followers of Charles Manson. ### SUMMARY:

Comedy writer Jeremy Lloyd died aged 84 yesterday from pneumonia . Mr Lloyd was married three times including to actress Joanna Lumley . He created a string of hit shows with his writing partner David Croft . Mr Lloyd was given an OBE for services to comedy in 2012 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Journalist Caroline Clarke has known for most of her life that she was adopted, but it was not until she turned 37 and was searching for some medical history that she found out that her grandfather was the legendary signer and jazz pianist Nat King Cole. Clarke, a married mother of two who hosts the syndicated TV show Black Enterprise Business Report, made the shocking discovery in 2002. That same year, she reunited for the first time with her birth mother, Carole 'Cookie' Cole. Last year, Clarke published a book about her extraordinary family titled Postcards From Cookie: A Memoir of Motherhood, Miracles and a Whole Lot of Mail. Famous relative: At age 37, journalist Caroline Clarke (left) found out that her biological mother, Carole 'Cookie' Cole, was the eldest daughter of famous singer Nat King Cole (right) Reunited: In 2002, Clarke and Carole 'Cookie' Cole (right) met for the first time after being estranged for 37 years - from the day of Clarke's birth . Cole clan: Carol Cole, pictured far left as a child next to her sister Natalie and their parents, gave birth to a baby daughter in 1964. She was forced to put her up for adoption because she was conceived out of wedlock . For Clarke, it all started when a mystery pain in her joints forced her to reach out to a social worker in hopes of obtaining her birth mother's medical history. But the woman at Spence-Chaplin Adoption Services did one better and voluntarily provided Clarke not only with her family's medical records, but also with a seven-page report detailing her mother’s personal history, down to her major in college. What the Ivy League-educated journalist learned was that she was born on Christmas Day in 1964 at Lenox Hill Hospital to an exceptionally wealthy and famous black family, but her 20-year-old mother was not allowed to raise her because Clarke was conceived out of wedlock, and the scandal could have damaged her grandfather's reputation, reported the New York Daily News back in April. Memoir: Caroline Clarke wrote a book about her incredible family in 2014, five years after the passing of her biological mother . By the time Clarke was born, Nat King Cole, her maternal grandfather, was one of the most celebrated entertainers in the country. The singer, his wife and their five children lived in a 20-room mansion in a tony part of Los Angeles where they hosted lavish parties for their famous friends. Born Nathaniel Adams Coles, Nat King Cole emerged in the post-World War II era as a trailblazing black performer, best known for such chart-topping hits as Mona Lisa and Unforgettable. He also held the distinction of being the first African-American man to host a show on NBC. That is why when the family learned that the singer's eldest unwed daughter, Carole, became pregnant, her mother made the decision to put the child up for adoption. Determined to keep her child, whom she named Gretchen, Carole Cole initially refused to sign the adoption papers, but she finally relented upon learning that her 45-year-old father was dying of lung cancer. ‘I lost my baby in December. I lost my father in February. I lost my soul,’ Carole Cole would write in her journal. Not long after, Robert and Vera Clarke, an African-American couple from The Bronx, adopted little Gretchen and renamed her Caroline. Her adoptive father was a college professor while her mother taught high school. Nat King Cole's music was ever present in the Clarkes' home on Wilson Avenue. By her own account, Caroline Clarke enjoyed a happy childhood marked by joyous celebrations and summers spent at her adoptive uncle's home in Long Island. It was during one of those family get-togethers that she met her future husband, John Graves, at the age of 7. Clarke went on to earn a Bachelor's degree from Smith College and a Master's degree from the prestigious Columbia University School of Journalism. In an unexpected twist of fate, during her time as an undergraduate student, Clarke met and became close friends with Timolin ‘Timmie’ Cole, one of Nat King Cole's younger children who had a twin sister, Casey. Keeping up appearances: Maria Cole (far right) insisted that Carole put her child up for adoption. The Clarke family, from The Bronx, New York, raised little Caroline as their own . Nat King Cole at play with his girls. Like Caroline, Carole was also adopted. When her mother, Maria Cole's sister, passed away, the family of the famous musician took the child in . Long-distance relationship: Caroline (center) and Cookie (right) spent seven years, until her mother's passing in 2009, exchanging postcards and phone calls . Over the course of their 20-year friendship, Clarke got to know the Cole family well and was told about Timmie Cole's much older sister, Carole, who was an actress in Hollywood, and who put up her baby for adoption. Carole Cole herself was adopted by Nat King Cole and his wife, Maria, after Maria's sister died in her youth. After learning the truth about her heritage, Caroline Clarke recalled how at age 17, she was invited to a sleepover at Maria Cole’s penthouse at the Ritz Carlton in Boston. That night, Nat King Cole’s imperious widow questioned Caroline about her date of birth, the hospital where she was born and the circumstances of her adoption. At the time, Caroline Clarke thought nothing of Maria Cole’s very personal line of questioning. It was not years later that the conversation came back to haunt her. In 2002, Caroline Clarke finally reached out to her birth mother after getting her phone number from her friend, Timmie, who was actually her aunt. The mother and daughter reunited later that year and kept in touch, mostly via postcards, for the next seven years, until Carole Cole passed away from cancer in 2009. Truth comes to light: Caroline Clarke, the host of the TV show Black Enterprise Business Report, reached out to a social worker in 2002 to obtain medical history, but she got so much more than that . Over the course of their relationship, Carole Clarke was shocked to learn that her biological father was a white Jewish man whom her mother met in college, and who knew nothing of her existence. Clarke, a strong, independent black woman who married into the family that owned Black Enterprise, initially struggled to accept that she was a person of mixed race. ‘I was raised black in a black family, very happily, proudly, adamantly black. And finding out that my birth father was white was jolting,’ she revealed to the site The Root. In the end, however, Clarke was glad to uncover her family history, with all its dark secrets and unexpected twists and turns. ‘My feelings have evolved,' Clarke said in an interview with Smith College's news site. I accept that I am what I am genetically. Mixed-race is such a common reality now; the culture has evolved, which helps. But I still identify as African American.’ ### SUMMARY:

Journalist Caroline Clarke found out the truth about her birth family in 2002 when she went searching for medical history . Nat King Cole's eldest daughter, Carole 'Cookie' Cole, conceived a child out of wedlock and was forced to put her up for adoption by her mother . A couple from The Bronx adopted Carole Cole's daughter and raised her as their own . Caroline Clarke met her mother's much younger sister, Timmie Cole, while in college and became close friends with her, not knowing she was her aunt . Mother and daughter finally reunited in 2002 and enjoyed a seven-year relationship, until Carole Cole's passing in 2009 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Politicians who wore T-shirts for a feminist campaign were branded ‘chumps’ yesterday as it emerged the product was made by women paid just 62p an hour. The charity behind the £45 item launched an urgent investigation into reports they were produced in a ‘sweatshop’ in Mauritius. The shirts boast the slogan ‘This is what a feminist looks like’ and have been worn by Ed Miliband, Harriet Harman and Nick Clegg. Scroll down for video . Ed Miliband wearing the controversial pro-feminism shirt last week which was made by women paid just 62p an hour . The shirts were made in a factory on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius where workers said: 'How can this T-shirt be a symbol of feminism when we do not see ourselves as feminists? We see ourselves as trapped' But Conservative MP Conor Burns said the Mail on Sunday’s report into working conditions for the women who made the shirts was ‘hugely embarrassing’ for the two party leaders and for women’s rights campaigner Miss Harman. Critics voiced anger over the apparent hypocrisy, saying the politicians’ T-shirts should carry the slogan ‘This is what an utter failure looks like’. Twitter user Simon Bull wrote: ‘Pro-feminist T-shirt costs £45?! More like “This is what a chump looks like”.’ Tory MP Ben Wallace retweeted a picture of Harriet Harman wearing the T-shirt, with the words: ‘This is what someone supporting Third World sweatshops looks like.’ Fellow Conservative MP Caroline Dinenage also took aim at the deputy Labour leader, saying: ‘Who angers me most is Harriet Harman who sat smug at Prime Minister’s Questions flaunting her £45 T-shirt. ‘As if we take a single step closer to equal pay for the same job by wearing an ugly, over-priced T-shirt.’ Deputy leader of the Labour party Harriet Harman wore the T-shirt made in a sweat shop during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons . David Cameron triggered a row last week when he refused to wear one of the shirts, which were made for high street fashion chain Whistles in aid of women’s rights group the Fawcett Society. Both said they would investigate the ‘sweatshop’ claims. The Mail on Sunday reported the shirts were made in a factory on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius where women workers are paid only 6,000 rupees a month – the equivalent of around £120. Taking home just a quarter of the country’s average monthly wage, the women also sleep 16 to a room in spartan dormitories between shifts, it was reported. A female worker told the newspaper: ‘How can this T-shirt be a symbol of feminism when we do not see ourselves as feminists? We see ourselves as trapped.’ Fayzal Ally Beegun, president of the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Union, said: ‘The workers in this factory are treated very poorly and the fact that politicians in England are making a statement using these sweatshop T-shirts is appalling. ‘It would take a woman working in the factory nearly two weeks just to buy one shirt. What is feminist about that?’ Nick Clegg was also pictured looking jolly in the T shirt produced by women paid just £120 a month . Critics last night questioned the high price of the controversial pro-feminist T-shirts, which have gone on sale for £45 despite costing only £9 to produce. Others also asked why the tops were only available up to a size 16. As well as the T-shirts, a £55 clutch bag, an £85 sweatshirt and an iPhone cover costing £30 were also part of a range of items for sale at high street chain Whistles, it was revealed yesterday. Simon Bull, who has called people who wear the T-shirts ‘chumps’, tweeted: ‘It’s not even what a good T-shirt looks like, is it?’ Helen Purves accused the retailer of an ‘epic feminism fashionista fail’. She tweeted: ‘This is what a feminist looks like: thin... And before anyone says size 16 is big, it’s the UK average.’ Women’s rights group the Fawcett Society, which is behind the campaign, said pricing and sizing had been decided by Whistles. The charity’s original T-shirts, which it has sold for eight years, remained on sale on its website for £15. The Whistles range appeared unavailable on its website last night, suggesting it had either sold out or been withdrawn. The firm declined to comment. The shirts are on sale in Whistles, popular with the Duchess of Cambridge, and the campaign has been backed by fashion magazine Elle. Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch and Harry Potter actress Emma Watson modelled the shirts for this month’s ‘feminism’ edition of the magazine. Student Shereen Shafi sent a Twitter message to Miss Watson and the magazine, asking: ‘Does indentured female labour look like feminism to you too?’ The row is particularly embarrassing for Labour, which has campaigned for companies to take greater responsibility for their supply chains. Backbench MP Mr Burns added that politicians who wore the T-shirt now look ‘ridiculous’. And Scottish Labour leadership candidate Jim Murphy told BBC Radio 5live it was ‘disappointing’ that there weren’t better checks. However, Labour sources said Mr Miliband was not embarrassed to have worn the T-shirt, and said it was the responsibility of those running the campaign to carry out the checks. A party spokesman said it was ‘happy’ to support the campaign. Conservative MP Miss Dinenage said there was ‘egg on faces all round’. She added: ‘On the politicians, who couldn’t have foreseen how this PR gimmick would unfold; the Fawcett Society, who are very unforgiving of these kind of errors of judgment in others; Whistles, who claim to be a company with ethical values; and Elle magazine whose “feminist” issue kicked this off in the first place – when they promote wholly unachievable ideals of women’s bodies all year round.’ The Fawcett Society said it had been assured by Whistles that the T-shirts would be produced ethically in the UK. When it realised they were made overseas, the charity was told the factory, owned by Compagnie Mauricienne de Textile, had ‘world class’ social and ethical policies. Fawcett Society deputy chief executive Eva Neitzert said she was ‘disappointed’ by the new claims and will insist the T-shirts are withdrawn if there is ‘concrete’ evidence of mistreatment. Whistles said it had launched an investigation, adding: ‘We place a high priority on environmental, social and ethical issues’. It said it carried out regular audits of its suppliers and said the Mauritius factory conformed to ‘the highest standards’. ### SUMMARY:

Controversial shirts were produced in a sweat shop in Mauritius . They were made in a factory where women workers are paid £120 a month . Women also sleep 16 to a room in spartan dormitories between shifts . Critics voiced their anger over the hypocrisy of those who wore them . This included Labour leader Ed Miliband, Harriet Harman and Nick Clegg who were called 'chumps' for wearing them . Also been modelled by Harry Potter actress Emma Watson for this month's 'feminism' edition of Elle magazine .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The FBI has announced it believes it has identified 'Jihadi John', the executioner seen in the ISIS hostage videos . The FBI has identified the ISIS executioner who appears in the beheading videos of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and British aid worker David Haines. Agency director James Comey told reporters today that he knew who the militant was but would not be releasing his identity or nationality to the media. The executioner, who has a British accent and has been dubbed Jihadi John, is one of four British jihadis known as the 'Beatles' holding hostages in Syria. He appears in the group’s execution videos wielding a knife – and taunts President Obama before carrying out the killings . Today British officials would not say if the identity had been shared with the authorities on London, and would not be drawn on whether any arrests are imminent. A Home Office spokeswoman said: 'We won't be commenting on matters of security at this stage.' Comey said the FBI believes that ISIS is 'looking to try to do something in the U.S.,' but added he did not believe the group is capable of a sophisticated or complex attack. During questioning from reporters at the FBI headquarters Comey also spoke about Khorasan group, an al Qaeda affiliate who were targeted along with ISIS by American airstrikes in Syria earlier this week. He said he was 'not confident at all' the threat from Khorasan militant group was thwarted by the airstrikes. 'We don't have complete visibility about their activities. 'We believe they've been working toward an attack, but it's hard to say whether it would come tomorrow, in three weeks, or in three months,' he said. FBI Director James Comey (pictured) told reporters today that he knew who the militant was but would not be releasing his identity or nationality to the media. The executioner, who has a British accent,  is one of four British jihadis known as the 'Beatles' holding hostages in Syria . Comey added the FBI is still working hard to identify two people in ISIS videos who appear to have American or Canadian accents. 'We have a big focus going on that right now,' Comey said. He said about a dozen Americans are believed to be fighting with extremist groups in Syria at the moment. He says more than 100 Americans have either tried to go to Syria and been arrested, gone successfully, or gone and come back. The figure of 100 has often been misinterpreted to represent the number of U.S. citizens fighting in Syria. Comey says all the Americans who have returned after fighting with extremist groups are either under investigation, under surveillance or have been arrested. The director says he's not confident the U.S. has identified every American who had joined up with militants in Syria. The masked man was seen in the execution videos of American journalists James Foley, 40, (right) and Steven Sotloff, 31 (left). Comey did not address whether U.S. believes man actually carried out the killings . British aid worker, David Haines, 44, was seen in a  gruesome video with Jihadi John before his death. Today British officials would not say if the identity had been shared with the authorities on London, and would not be drawn on whether any arrests are imminent . Yesterday British Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond revealed intelligence agencies were closing the net on Jihadi John. Hammond, who just ten days ago admitted special forces didn't know where the Islamic terror group was holding its British hostages, said the investigation into tracking down the killer with the British accent was 'narrowing down the field'. Speaking to American television network CNN at the United Nations summit in New York, Mr Hammond said: 'We are getting warm, we are working on all the leads. 'There's a big investigation and we are getting warm. We're narrowing down the field, but I don't want to say any more at this stage.' Earlier this week it was revealed that US spy planes are flying above Britain monitoring telephone and computer signals in a bid to track down Jihadi John and those who are communicating with him. The aircraft, manned by British pilots and carrying FBI agents, are equipped with technology so advanced they can detect heat coming off a keyboard when a button is pressed. A source revealed Jihadi John, comes from a South London suburb about 10 miles from Central London. The signals and data collected by the spy planes is being sent back to the US to be analysed, the Sunday Express reported. An FBI source told the paper: 'Electronic footprints might help us pinpoint the location of the British IS executioner because we believe there are associates of his in the UK who are directly communicating with him.' A formation of US Navy F-18E Super Hornets refueling having carried out airstrikes on targets linked to ISIS. Comey said he was 'not confident at all' the threat from Khorasan militant group was thwarted by the airstrikes . Strong presence: Military leaders have said about two-thirds of the estimated 31,000 Islamic State militants were in Syria. The U.S. has also been increasing its surveillance flights over Syria, getting better intelligent on potential targets and militant movements . International revulsion after the scenes were posted on the internet sparked a massive manhunt by British and American security services and the investigation has now focused on a district about ten miles from Central London. It's also believed the planes are being used to study the movements of Jihadi John's suspected Midlands associates. An intelligence services source said the delicate detection equipment on board the planes had previously been used successfully to work out a suspected terrorist's computer password because of the heat signature left on the keys. The intelligence source said the surveillance plane had recently been used over Birmingham in relation to Junaid Hussain - who is suspected of being one of the so-called 'Beatles' holding hostages. Defiant: A fluttering ISIS flag is flown over a hill in Tel Abyad, on the Syrian-Turkish border. The area, which is in the heart of the Raqqa countryside, has been the subject of numerous coalition airstrikes . The planes are understood to be military aircraft which are sometimes used by the police to find escaped prisoners or stolen vehicles. The US Senate has also offered a £6 million reward to anyone providing information that could lead to the capture of Jihadi John. A team of more than a dozen US investigators from an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force flew to the UK, where they are working with MI5 and anti-terrorist officers from the Metropolitan Police Force to identify the man. It is believed family members of Jihadi John have been interviewed by Met officers and an FBI agent. The source said Jihadi John was known to the security services even before he went to Syria, but had been regarded as a 'low-level player'. It is believed he did know some of the terrorists convicted in the 2006 'liquid bomb' plot to blow up ten airliners bound from the UK to the US in mid-flight over the Atlantic. ### SUMMARY:

FBI Director James Comey would not reveal the man's identity . Did not address whether U.S. believes man actually carried out the killings . Said the FBI believes that ISIS is 'looking to try to do something in the U.S.' The executioner is one of four British jihadis known as the 'Beatles' Comey said he was 'not confident at all' the threat from Khorasan militant group was thwarted by this week's airstrikes . Comey also told reporters that he hadn't heard of the subway plot .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- At first, Kip Scheidler said he felt the ground tremble. Then the roof began to shake. Tiles tumbled from the ceiling as people bolted from their chairs to escape. When Scheidler tried to follow them, he could barely keep his balance as the ground wobbled. "The weird thing is that afterward you will swear that it lasted 20 minutes but it really lasted 60 seconds," Scheidler said of the earthquake tremors. "But at the moment, it seems like it will never stop, and it keeps getting stronger." That's how Scheidler remembers one of the most horrific moments in his life -- the 1986 earthquake in El Salvador that killed 1,500 people. All those memories came flooding back recently when Scheidler turned on CNN and saw images from this week's earthquake in Haiti, which may have killed at least 100,000 people, according to initial estimates. "I was sickened by the news," said Scheidler, now the senior director for global disaster response for Habitat for Humanity International, an international relief agency. "I was there [El Salvador] as family members identified the bodies of family members pulled from the rubble. It's something that you can never forget. I can't imagine hundreds of thousands of people going through that now." For people like Scheidler, the news from Haiti isn't abstract. It's personal. They are people who have either survived natural disasters or respond to them. The Haitian earthquake has forced some of them to think again about the survival lessons they learned, and what Haitians face in the days ahead. How disaster brings out best, worst in human nature . Several say disasters can reveal the worst in human nature. Patrick Johns traveled to Indonesia in the immediate aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami. He's also traveled to Ethiopia to aid in famine relief and Rwanda after the country was decimated by genocide. Johns, who is now the director of emergency response for Catholic Relief Services, said it is critical to immediately establish security right in Haiti. "Crime is a problem in Haiti even in the best of times," Johns said. "With this kind of situation, it's going to go from bad to worse." Security can make the difference between life and death, Johns said. It's not enough to deliver the right supplies to Haitians. Someone has to guard the good Samaritans. "You could get stopped on the road, your driver could be thrown in the ditch and you lose everything," Johns said. People responding to the disasters often have to make excruciating choices, Johns said. In the past, aid workers would help some needy people but turn down others when they ran out of supplies. How an aid workers makes that decision can cause a riot, Johns said. It's better to talk to people beforehand to warn them that not everyone will get help immediately, but eventually all will be helped, he said. "If you can only build 30 ramshackle shelters, who are the 30 who get them and what's going to be the reaction of people who don't get help," Johns said. "It can be nightmarish." See other places hit by historic natural disasters and their recovery . Another disaster lesson: Don't wait for the authorities to help, several disaster experts said. Tad Agoglia is the founder of the the First Response Team. Since May 2007, he and his crew have aided thousands of victims at disaster sites across the United States, free of charge, he said. Agoglia said disaster survivors become energized when they stop waiting for the cavalry and start doing what they can within the first ten hours of the disaster. When people act, they shake off their stupor, he said. "Things start moving. Roads are opened up. Order comes to chaos and people start to speak to each other," Agoglia said. "People began to have hope. They say, 'It's not going to last like this forever. We can begin again.' '' Impact Your World: How you can help . One of the most important needs for Haitians right now isn't just food, water and medicine but something else: heavy moving equipment, Agoglia said. Agoglia's company has three cranes as well as infrared cameras that can spot body heat under rubble and lighting towers that illuminate the darkness. It might not be as obvious as delivering water, but it's vital, he said. "Bringing in food and water and those kind of things are great, but there's only so much you can do with human hands," Agoglia said. Disasters also require leadership -- not from so far-off entity but from ordinary Haitians in the hardest-hit areas, some said. During disasters, community leaders become critical, said Eddie Argenal, director of humanitarian assistance for CHF International, a relief agency based in Silver Spring, Maryland. Community leaders can quickly take an estimate of the damage done, their community's needs, and start clean-up efforts. They give their communities a head-start, Argenal said. "Humanitarian assistance can take time to arrive, so the community plays a hugely important role in their own recovery," Argenal said. "The more proactive a community is, the better they will do in the short and long term." How communities rebuild after disaster . History gives Haitians a reason to hope. Virtually every major city that's been demolished since 1800 has been rebuilt -- no matter how poor the city was or where it was located, said Lawrence J. Vale, co-author of "The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster." Vale said people have such a fierce attachment to where they live that they will go to extraordinary lengths to rebuild their homes. Vale said he remembers seeing pictures of residents in New Orleans mowing their lawns in front of their destroyed homes after Hurricane Katrina struck. He also saw a picture of Japanese schoolchildren in Hiroshima, Japan, holding their lessons outdoors in 1946, a year after an atomic bomb had vaporized their city. "They're attempting got have some semblance of normalcy in this totally surreal, devastating landscape," Vale said. "It's an extraordinary testament to the effort of people to go on." Scheidler, the survivor of the El Salvador earthquake, has seen the same resiliency. After the initial quake, there is a surge of adrenalin, he said. People spread out and rush to their homes to check on relatives. People are nervous, trying to put the pieces together. Then they start to rally around one another. Scheidler said he visited a neighborhood in El Salvador that had been buried by a mudslide after the earthquake struck. Nobody waited for the authorities. "People who had construction equipment starting showing up and afterward everybody was grabbing everything they could, whether it was a shovel or a gardening tool, to help dig through the dirt," Scheidler said. Scheidler said the buildings in one community had been flattened, including its church. But the community searched and found the church bell. What they did with the church bell is seared in his memory today just as much as the scenes of tragedy he witnessed, he said. "They rallied around the church bell, and put it in a tree so they could call everybody together," he said. "What I saw in people in El Salvador was not every man for himself; but everybody pitching in." ### SUMMARY:

Disaster witnesses reflect on painful lessons learned . Destruction on vast scale brings out the best and worst in human nature . Leadership from inside the community is essential in recovery . Man who survived El Salvador earthquake recalls examples of human resiliency .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- "No ma'am ... I will not register my weapons." These passionate words from a former Marine sparked an insatiable conversation on CNN.com. Since Joshua Boston posted an open letter to U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, dismissing stricter gun control, on CNN iReport, his commentary has received more than 1 million views, almost 30,000 comments and even a response from Feinstein's office. But one response stood out from the rest -- a reaction from another former Marine addressed directly to Boston. Nicolas DiOrio called Boston's letter an "embarrassment to those who've served." The two views on gun control were as different as the photos adorning the letters, Boston wielding a firearm and DiOrio pointing a video camera. Prompted by the firestorm of discussion the two have sparked, we interviewed both men with the same set of questions to further explain their opposing views on gun control. Read their responses and judge their arguments for yourself: . 1. What do you think our founding fathers meant by the right "to keep and bear arms" mentioned in the Second Amendment? Boston: They had just fought a war against a government that had overstepped its boundaries. You can only come to the conclusion that they put it there for us to have the same ability to do that in the future should the need arise. They use the terms people, militia and arms specifically. They differentiate between the United States, the states and the people elsewhere. I think they use the term arms because they mean any weapons that we might have to bear in such a situation. DiOrio: I think that because we had a much smaller military at the time, it was more of an allowance that people could have weapons or muskets to raise a militia to defend the country from outside invasion. But in today's world, we have a much larger military and the weapons that are available are much more dangerous than the weapons of that time. I would think that the founding fathers would not make as broad of an allowance of individual possession of firearms if they knew what the state of firearms was today. 2. What if a new bill about banning assault weapons passes, say Sen. Dianne Feinstein's bill? What would it mean for America? Boston: It's going to open a door that we, or our descendants, are going to deplore. It's saying it's OK to take away guns away based on the actions of a few. The next time somebody goes up the tower at the University of Texas Austin shooting people with a deer rifle, it will show our willingness to give away hunting rifles. And after the next Virginia Tech, handguns are going to be taken away. These shootings have happened before; they just don't have the same emotional weight as this shooting had. DiOrio: I don't think it would really harm gun owners as they think it would. They would still have access to all sorts of hunting weapons and rifles. The bill only seeks to ban assault weapons. Unless we had a bill like the one passed in Australia in 1996, a retroactive ban, we would still have all these weapons out there. Unless such a ban is instituted, it will probably not be as effective as we hope. Nevertheless, I do support any step taken in limiting assault weapons. 3. What's the biggest misconception that you think people have about your stance on guns? Boston: There's a few of them. They think I'm paranoid. I'm not. I just learned early on that you have to expect the worst while hoping for the best. Expecting that the best is going to happen when hard times show up you won't be prepared and you will fail. People assume because I own guns that I'm not educated or that I don't know how to think for myself. I own guns because I'm educated to the dangers and the reality of the world that we live in. I accept the reality that we live in and I don't accept that the police will always be there for me. I own guns because I'm very much attached to reality. DiOrio: I think, based on what I've read, people just have the perception that I think that gun owners are evil or don't care about gun violence. I realize that's not true, but I just think that people are very eager to talk about their rights but not always so eager to talk about collective responsibility and safety. Also, I want to set straight that I don't think Josh Boston is a disgrace at all. I just think that his letter could have been more sensitive to the issues. I respect him and his service; I wasn't trying to personally attack him. 4. What should the U.S. do to keep guns out of the wrong hands (like criminals)? Boston: Criminals are going to do what they want to do. We have to accept that. We can make all the laws that we want, but it's not going to stop [people] from breaking them. We have laws to prevent that from happening. Just as keeping drugs out of peoples' hands doesn't solve the drug war, gun control is not going to keep guns out of peoples' hands. The majority of crime is committed with illegally acquired weapons in the first place. What we can do is remove the restriction levels for law-abiding citizens who want to defend themselves. This idea of a gun-free zone has never stopped a shooting. People never walk up to a school and say, 'This is a gun-free zone, so I'm going to go shoot somewhere else.' It's never happened. DiOrio: We need to enforce background checks, not just at commercial retailers but also at gun shows. We need to limit the sale of dangerous weapons to people who have no record of criminal history. We need to perhaps consider enacting some kind of mental screening or wellness testing before people are allowed to purchase weapons as well. It might offend people because it would infringe upon their rights, but we need to consider if that would outweigh the benefits brought to society by not allowing weapons to go into the hands of the mentally ill. 5. Why were there so many mass shootings in 2012 (Aurora, Colorado, Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and Newtown, Connecticut)? What do you think is to blame? Boston: Humanity. We as a species have faults and we still have wars with each other. I can still hear atrocities happening around the globe. ... It's not because of a simple object that propels a projectile. It's because of us. We refuse to look at the root of the issue because it scares us. We give into fear and play to our emotions and we move to outlaw something that is not a cause, but just a means. I'm not a psychiatrist. I couldn't tell you why there are so many. There's a deeper problem here. These kinds of things, and not just mass shootings, happen all over the globe; it's not a problem specific to America. DiOrio: Based upon just what I've read on the shootings, it appears that at least a couple of them are mentally disturbed in some way and they had access to these weapons. When the Assault Weapons Ban expired, people were allowed to purchase them again. When the mentally ill have access to them, it's inevitable that these tragedies are going to happen. It's very sad to me that not even Aurora took us to these discussions. It took the murder of 20 children before we were again willing to look at our gun laws and wonder whether or not we should make changes. Who do you think had the better answers, Boston or DiOrio? Share your thoughts in the comments below. ### SUMMARY:

Former Marine says he will not register his guns even if a federal law is passed . Marine's open letter goes viral online; draws fiery responses from CNN commenters . Another former Marine responds to Joshua Boston's letter with a countering view . CNN asks both men the same questions to explain their opposing views .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Dividing up the newspapers on a recent weekend, my husband asked me if I wanted to see the Sports section. "No," I replied jokingly. "Reading the sports got me into a big argument once." Big argument indeed. This week's Masters Golf Tournament marks the 10th and final round of the national brouhaha over admitting women to the Augusta National Golf Club. Female members will be present for the first time. As leader of the National Council of Women's Organizations, I was the standard-bearer for the "girls team" in the controversy over a woman's place -- not only at Augusta National but in society as a whole -- that raged in the media and around kitchen tables alike for more than a year beginning in 2002. The dispute has continued to simmer, mostly out of the public eye, for the past decade. Although not as loud as it was in 2003 when the council's petition to then-chairman Hootie Johnson to open the club culminated in a public protest, the argument never went away. Confined by a sheriff's directive to a muddy field far from Augusta's entrance -- with promises of arrest if we moved -- and surrounded by more police than supporters, the protest was roundly ridiculed at the time as a failure. It's true that women did not walk through the gates as equal members that day. But the national dialogue during the preceding year, combined with legal action facilitated by the National Council of Women's Organizations in the following years, triggered change that took a decade to mature. By the long-view standard, our action was most definitely not a failure. There is little doubt that if we had not raised the issue and kept it alive for a decade, women would still be barred from one of the highest profile "off-campus" business venues in the United States, if not the world. Last summer the gates finally opened a crack and two women -- Darla Moore and Condoleezza Rice -- were allowed to slip through. During the 2012 Masters Tournament a few months earlier, the club and its major sponsor, IBM, had drawn their own share of public ridicule when Augusta National refused to grant membership to IBM's new CEO Virginia Rometty, though they had always invited her male predecessors. IBM had meekly acquiesced to the insult, bringing Rometty to the tournament to "entertain clients" and parading her around the grounds in a pink jacket. Last year's IBM debacle was a public relations nightmare, but it was not the major reason the club opened to women. After all, the original controversy was also a public relations nightmare -- for both Augusta National and its sponsors -- and one that had stayed front and center in the media for a full year. Nor was current chairman Billy Payne responsible for the change, as some speculated. He had already been at the helm for six years, and it seems obvious he might not have been chosen without agreeing to continue the club's no-women policy. (The council and our attorneys asked Payne for a private meeting shortly after his election. He never responded.) In the aftermath of the original controversy, the National Council of Women's Organizations, in partnership with a major civil rights law firm in Washington, helped bring lawsuits for sex discrimination in employment against major corporations whose CEOs were members of the club. We had been hearing from women who worked at these companies since we made the membership list public in 2002. It looked like a roster of the Fortune 500. It seems that sex discrimination does not stop at CEO club memberships, but trickles down to front-line management. Two of our lawsuits -- against Morgan Stanley and the Smith-Barney division of Citigroup -- netted nearly $80 million in settlements to the women. The price of membership in Augusta had just gone up. More important, the suits resulted in agreements by the companies not to honor business expenses that are directly or indirectly related to male-only entertainment establishments. In effect, they can no longer entertain or hold events at venues that discriminate. Our project is ongoing, and there are many more companies still represented on the Augusta roster. Were sex discrimination lawsuits the bulldozer that finally knocked down Augusta National's tree house? Perhaps not, though surely they contributed. In the 10 years since that original protest, the council and our allies also continued to challenge exclusion of women not only at Augusta National Golf Club, but also everywhere women are left out when important business contacts and deals are made. We changed the argument from one about the "rights" of so-called private clubs to one about the "wrongs" of a cadre of industry titans using the fig leaf of such memberships to exclude women, the standard this behavior sets in corporate America and damage it does to women at all levels. Public opinion followed, until by 2012 the position of the club and its members was not only indefensible, it was seen as antiquated and ridiculous. Unfortunately, one action can't change ingrained corporate practices overnight. Women in the Fortune 500 have made some progress in the last 10 years as top earners, from 5% to 8%; but men still hold 96% of the CEO spots, from 98% a decade ago; and 86.5% of Fortune 1000 board seats, down from 90%. On the lower rungs, adult women are still the majority of minimum wage earners and the majority of clerical support workers, and the pay gap between women and men working full time and year-round is just under 20%. Sex discrimination at work, not only in the executive suites but also up and down the line, is still rampant. So, was a decade of struggle to open one golf club to women worth the effort? Was it worth the credible death threats, volumes of vile and vulgar hate mail, and my image on stickers at the bottom of urinals? For all it represented symbolically, the answer is an unequivocal "yes." Backward beliefs about women's place in society can and must change, and that fight was one part of making it happen. Arguments like the one over Augusta National matter, because they shine a bright light on the ingrained attitudes that should be no longer acceptable in a civilized society. Without countless such confrontations -- large and small -- over "a woman's place" throughout our history, the ranks of women in executive suites, the U.S. Congress, courtrooms, surgical theaters, the military, and many other places in society would still be close to zero, and the idea of a female president would be as alien as a creature from Mars. Let's hope the club does not make tokens out of its female members, as it appears to have done with its very few men of color. If more women follow Moore and Rice through those vaunted gates and are treated as truly equal with the men -- or more companies refuse to be associated with Augusta National if women aren't treated equally -- it will be the more lasting victory. The big argument over female members at Augusta National was never about golf. It was about discrimination at the highest levels of American corporate power and the message that sends about where women belong in business and society. Until we're truly equal, we must all continue to fight to change the culture that let it happen in the first place. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Martha Burk. ### SUMMARY:

Martha Burk: A decade of protests opened Augusta National Golf Club to women . The fight wasn't about golf, she says, it was about women's "place" in the corridors of power . Burk: Without such protests, women would not be judges, lawmakers, troops, doctors . Burk: Let's hope more women will join Condi Rice and Darla Moore, and not as tokens .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- We don't use the F-word in my family. And by F, I'm not talking about the F-bombs, because those get dropped from time to time. I'm talking about the word "fat." The word is banned from my house with the same vigilance that racist language would not be tolerated. Extreme, perhaps, but I have a husband who went through a chubby stage and still bears the scars of his prepubescent ridicule. I also have two tween children with very different body types and low thresholds for teasing. Mention weight or body shape among my family and the reaction can be nuclear, unleashing a tsunami of tears, screams and "I hate you!" Extreme body awareness and the barf-starve-smoke-yourself-to-thinness regimen is hardly new for teenagers and young women. But the age at which the obsession is starting seems to be creeping even younger. Today, according to the Duke Center for Eating Disorders at Duke University, more than 40% of all 9- and 10-year-old girls have already been on a diet. The National Eating Disorders Association reports that 40-60% of children between ages 6 and 12 are worried about their weight and 70% want to slim down. Maybe this isn't so surprising given the aggressively narrow proportions in girls' clothing these days in trendy skinny jeans, Lycra leggings and unforgiving clingy tops that are all the rage among the under-12 set. It's no wonder that young girls are more aware than ever of their own mini-muffin tops or "baby fat" as grandmas call it. Compound clothes with the omnipresent camera phone, photo stream and "selfies," and it's a recipe ripe for self-loathing. We know that there is a very real childhood obesity epidemic in this country plaguing entire communities and it is one of the most significant health issues of our time. Our snack food nation is chock full of overstuffed soda-coma kids who play outside less and eat more. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2010, more than one-third of children and teenagers in the United States were overweight or obese. The number is alarming. It's a national crisis that everyone from first lady Michelle Obama on down seems intent on tackling. In fact, my daughter's elementary school participated in an amped-up fitness program this year. The program included cardio and flexibility tests, weighing the children and taking a body mass index. The results were printed with color-coded columns that red-flagged danger zones for kids at risk in various categories. I happened to walk into the school on a morning when some fourth-grade girls were being herded into a corner next to a scale and weighed by the physical education teacher, who then typed the children's weight into a laptop. As the girls waited to be weighed, some looked like they were about to burst into tears and others like they were going to throw up. One of the tiniest girls in the grade stood next to one of the largest, in a painfully awkward scene that seemed stolen from a Judy Blume novel. For the next few days the chatter among the girls was "What do you weigh?" My daughter came home stressed; she, like many of the girls, didn't want to share her weight or even step on a scale. The whole ordeal was mortifying, even among a group of average-sized girls. I told my daughter she didn't need to tell anyone her weight, and if pushed, I said she could lie. Having just been to the pediatrician for my daughter's annual physical, she and I knew exactly what she weighed and that she was perfectly healthy. But the number on the scale startled her. On the cusp of puberty, many of the girls' bodies are changing, and emotionally they are more fragile than ever. I told our school principal that I didn't want my daughter weighed. Even at age 9 or 10, regardless of the number on the scale, it just felt like a public shaming. "We're very concerned about some of the children's anti-obesity programs and messaging that's happening now," said Claire Mysko, manager of the National Eating Disorders Association's Proud2Bme program. "They are well intentioned, of course, but when the focus is on BMI as an indicator of health and when kids are getting weighed at school and comparing notes, it can really be a trigger for kids who are already feeling vulnerable. There is research out there that these programs may be backfiring. The kids are coming home more anxious. The goal is to shift the conversation away from BMI and talk about what makes your body feel good." A few years ago there was a public outcry when Dara-Lynn Weiss documented in Vogue the severe diet she put her 7-year-old daughter on. The article was part confessional about Weiss' own body issues and struggle with food, as well as her yearlong quest to slim down her daughter. Weiss got the mother lode of scorn heaped on her by the blogosphere and even the media. But after Weiss learned that her daughter was obese at 6 years old standing 4 feet 4 inches and weighing 93 pounds, didn't she have to take some serious intervention? My daughter enjoys a good meal, especially if mac and cheese is on the menu. So when she went to sleepaway camp at 8 years old, I had prepped her ahead of time about making healthy food choices: Make sure to eat lots of fruit and drink plenty of water. Stay away from all the white and creamy ranch salad dressings. Choose the clear ones that look like vinaigrette, I told her. One of the first letters she sent home that summer was all about what she ate for dinner. "Mommy you'll be so proud of me, I didn't eat the white dressing. I ate the clear one!" she wrote. The letter had me laughing and a little worried. At 8 years old, had I started the beginning of a life-long eating disorder or am I just making for a conscientious and healthy eater? "As parents you have to set boundaries but you don't want to make certain foods off limits or shameful. You also don't want to set it up that every time you have the chocolate cake that it's indulgent or sinful," Mysko said. "We don't want kids thinking about calories or fat grams and stoking that fear. And shame is not a motivator of healthy behavior." Some children hit the genetic lottery and don't have to worry about their metabolism or weight, but many more, boys included, feel the embarrassment of being the bigger kid. Experts say that the key for parents is to not obsess about the number on the scale and also to look at their own attitudes about food and weight. If every time you walk by the mirror you're scrutinizing yourself, you're sending a dangerous message to your own children. "Weight is a fear that so many parents have. But we have to shift the focus away from weight and BMI. It's less about making sure kids don't get fat or that fat kids get thin," Mysko said. "The conversation should be about how can we make all kids healthy and feel good about themselves." ### SUMMARY:

Mom Wendy Sachs wonders how to create healthy food habits for her kids . 40-60% of children between ages 6 and 12 are worried about their weight . When kids were weighed at school it seemed like a scene "from a Judy Blume novel" National Eating Disorders Association: "Shift the focus away from weight and BMI"

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- It's the question Edin Dzeko is constantly asked. "You ask me again about war..." sighs the 28-year-old, rolling his eyes and smiling as he enjoys a rare moment of peace outside Bosnia-Herzegovina's team hotel in the picturesque suburb of Ilidza. Perhaps the line of questioning is understandable given that just a short drive away is Dzeko's home city of Sarajevo, where the national hero lived throughout the Bosnian War which raged between 1992 and 1995. The war in Bosnia left tens of thousands dead, and hundreds of thousands displaced. But just as the bullet holes which still riddle this land represent a gruesome past, Dzeko and his teammates have become symbols of a different more optimistic future. For the first time in its short history, Bosnia is off to the World Cup. "I never thought I would be where I am now," Dzeko, who played a key role in Manchester City's 2013-14 English Premier League title triumph, told CNN. Dzeko's early years were played out against the devastating backdrop of the consequences of a brutal internecine conflict. "I started to play football when I was about 10, my father brought me to one school because there were more pitches where we could play. Everything was destroyed after the war." In previous interviews Dzeko has spoken of how his family home was destroyed and he was forced to live in his grandparents' house with 15 of his relatives. His mother once inadvertently saved his life, calling him inside seconds before the land he was playing on was hit by bombs. The siege of Sarajevo followed the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, with conflict erupting between the ethnic groups which make up Bosnia -- chiefly Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs. Modern-day Bosnia is an independent state, although still under international administration. "I was here all the time during the war and I know what it is, but I think we came out stronger," explains Dzeko. "We want to show the world that even if you go through some bad periods, you always have to think positive just to go forward. "Some people had a very hard life, we are still making positives and I think that's amazing." Amid the bombs and bullets, Dzeko forged an unlikely path to the top. After signing his first professional contract in Bosnia, the young striker earned a move to Teplice in the Czech Republic before getting his big break with VFL Wolfsburg in the German Bundesliga. He became one of the hottest properties in European football during a prolific spell which saw him score 67 Bundesliga goals in three-and-a-half seasons, with City winning the race for his signature after paying Wolfsburg a reported $45 million in January 2011. While Dzeko carries echoes of the fighting wherever he goes, other members of the Bosnia squad had a different experience. Asmir Begovic and his family left Trebinje, 80 miles south of Sarajevo, and headed to Germany before immigrating to Canada. Aged four when his family relocated, Begovic has no memories of the conflict which engulfed his homeland. "And it's probably better so," the 26-year-old goalkeeper, who plays in England for Stoke City. "I mean it's obviously very bad memories, very bad experiences for some of my other family members who have been around and stayed for the war. "I left when I was a boy, so I really don't remember much from the past. "As I've gotten older I've educated myself a little on the situation and what happened, drawn on experiences from my family members and friends, who lived through it and it was just a very unpleasant experience as people can imagine. "For our quality of life as a family, just being able to be safe in a different country meant a lot to us." Although Begovic's life abroad has left its mark on his voice -- he speaks perfect English with a slight North American accent -- he insists his upbringing was distinctly Bosnian. "I've always been very close to the country," he says. "When the opportunity came it was a fantastic thing for myself and my family to do, I couldn't wait to put on a Bosnia shirt and I haven't really looked back since." Neither has Bosnia's national football team. Since an inauspicious first official international match in November 1995 -- a 2-0 reverse away to Albania -- "The Dragons" have gone from strength to strength. Bids to qualify for the 2010 World Cup and the 2012 European Championships fell agonizingly short, with Portugal ending the team's hopes at the playoff stage of both qualification competitions. But, on October 15, 2013 in the Lithuanian capital city of Vilnius, a goal from striker Vedad Ibisevic sealed a 1-0 win for Safet Susic's Bosnia and passage to Brazil 2014. Cue wild celebrations on the streets of Sarajevo, with the team flying home to be greeted by 50,000 ecstatic Bosnian football fans. "I am proud of this team that we achieved some great things, that we did some things that nobody could do it before us," said Dzeko. "When you see 50,000 there waiting for you, then you know you did something good." "We've learned from our past, we've learned from our failures and I think we've definitely grown as a team and we've been able to overcome that final hurdle now," added Begovic. "To receive such an ovation and such a reception from our people, being able to celebrate with them is what qualifying and being able to qualify for major tournaments is all about. "It's something we have all accomplished together." Now Rio de Janeiro's iconic Maracana Stadium awaits. At the arena first built for the 1950 World Cup and lavishly redeveloped for Brazil's second hosting of the tournament, Bosnia will take its bow against a Lionel Messi-led Argentina. African Cup of Nations winners Nigeria and Iran are the other two teams which make up a tough Group F. "I'm very much looking forward to it," says Begovic, who will be trying to keep out four-time FIFA Ballon d'Or winner Messi. "That's what football is all about, being able to work your whole life to get to a World Cup and then playing against one of the biggest football countries in the world in the opening game. "Obviously we're massive underdogs, so we've got nothing to lose in that game, we can go there with an open mind and see how we can beat them. "It's going to be a huge challenge, but I believe in the quality of our team and we can cause Argentina problems." With players like Begovic and Dzeko, not to mention Roma playmaker Miralem Pjanic, Bosnia have players capable of upsetting the odds. And in Dzeko, they also have a leader who is determined to show how far his country has come in the last 20 years. "I love this country, I love my country," he said. "I am very happy that I am born here and I am very happy that I know that I will always, always come back here. "I think we all just can't wait for this World Cup to start." Interactive: Take the pulse of the 2014 World Cup . ### SUMMARY:

Bosnia-Herzegovina will play at the World Cup for the first time in its short history . First major tournament the team has played at since gaining independence in 1992 . Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko is the biggest star in a team . Bosnia will play in Group F, alongside Argentina, Nigeria and Iran .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- As if dealing with the impact of devastating storm surges, drenching rains and potent winds weren't hard enough, hundreds of thousands in New York and northern New Jersey battled a new adversary Saturday night: the cold. The National Weather Service forecast temperatures would dip into the 30s in Belle Harbor, New York, and Cape May, New Jersey. And even after the sun rises Sunday, residents may be lucky if the thermostat tops 50 degrees. For many, keeping warm isn't simply a matter of turning on the heat, after Superstorm Sandy knocked out gas lines and electricity. Some 2.4 million people had no power for a fifth straight day Saturday, their patience running low, along with the temperatures. Several residents in the Rockaways, in Queens, vented their frustrations at New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as he toured the area Saturday. One woman yelled, "When are we going to get some help!" while a man talked about "old ladies in my building who have got nothing." Supplementing and, in some cases, dissatisfied with the government response, neighbors and volunteers from afar to hard-hit areas Saturday to offer food, clothing and whatever else to those who are still cold and hungry. "We covered two children with a blanket freezing and shivering here trying to get food last night," Rockaway resident Lauren O'Connor told CNN affiliate NY1. "We said we had to do something." Official: Sandy-stricken areas will vote 'come hell or high water' At a Saturday news conference, Bloomberg admitted he'd encountered many who were "worried and frustrated and cold" and urged those without electricity to go to a shelter or find another "warm place" to stay. "Please, I know sometimes people are reticent to take advantage of services -- the cold really is something that is dangerous," he said. For all the continued problems, however, many residents and officials also could point to progress Saturday. More public transit services were back running, fewer people were out of power, and even the days-long gas shortage showed signs of abating. "We need to continue to focus now on the next phase -- returning to normalcy," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said restoring electricity is the top priority, reiterating Saturday that his state will hold utilities accountable if they weren't prepared for Sandy. More than 835,000 customers were in the dark statewide by mid-afternoon. Marathon canceled . One of New York's top utilities, Con Edison, has restored power to all but 270,000 of its initially 940,000 customers affected by the storm, Senior Vice President John Miksad said. Bloomberg praised that company, while blasting the Long Island Power Authority -- which services the Rockaway peninsula -- for not having "acted aggressively enough." "We realize that LIPA has outages throughout Long Island, but the Rockaways were the hardest hit by the storm," he said, adding that the utility indicated it could take two weeks to restore power there. "When it comes to prioritizing resources, we think they should be first in line. So far that has not appeared to be the case, and that is certainly not acceptable." LIPA did not immediately respond Saturday night to CNN requests for comment on the mayor's criticism. But the utility's official Twitter feed was active, with promises of extra crews and that 90% of its customers should have power by late Wednesday. Both Bloomberg and Cuomo praised the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for restoring 80% of subway services in New York City. The mayor said it should be up to 90% by Sunday. "Not only did they try hard, but they got it done," Cuomo said. Powering cars and trucks is another issue, as evidenced by long lines at gas stations around the region. Long gas lines test patience . Christie noted that about 70% of gas stations from Interstate 195 and points north weren't operating Saturday -- not necessarily because they did not have gas, but because they couldn't pump it due to power outages. (By comparison, about 95% of stations south of Interstate 195 were working, he said.) In Suffolk County on New York's Long Island, Leah Cepeda-Winfield said people were sleeping in their cars around 3 a.m. Saturday, trying to be first in line once the pumps reopened. About eight hours later, lines were still about a quarter-mile long. "It seems that these long lines are everywhere you go," said Cepeda-Winfield, a CNN iReporter. Still, a concerted effort in recent days to address the gas shortage appears to have yielded some positive results. Whereas the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported no gas in 67% of metropolitan New York stations on Friday, the federal agency estimated that figure plummeted to 38% on Saturday. In addition to other sources again flowing into the region, the federal government announced Friday night it would deliver 12 million gallons of unleaded gas and 10 million gallons of diesel to dispense around the hard-hit region. Such fuel had already arrived at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst and was being shipped out to stations, Christie said Saturday. Powerless in New Jersey . The governor also singled out Hess, based in Woodbridge, New Jersey, for distributing gas to rival companies whose stations had run dry. "That's what New Jersey is all about," he said. Drivers in New York City and Long Island, meanwhile, were able beginning Saturday to fill up directly from 5,000-gallon fuel trucks moving around the area. Plus, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano issued a temporary waiver of the Jones Act, allowing oil tankers from the Gulf of Mexico to enter northeastern ports. On Saturday, officials cheered developments on several fronts. With one small exception, the Port of New York and New Jersey is now open to all vessels, the Coast Guard said. All water has been removed from the once-flooded World Trade Center work site, said Cuomo. Nearly $28 million in federal disaster emergency grants have been allocated across nine counties, the governor added. Migration to coast heightens impact of storms . Still, as millions can attest, headaches and heartache from Sandy persist. The 900-mile-wide superstorm left a huge swath of damage when it hit the Northeast this week, claiming at least 106 lives in the United States and two in Canada after earlier killing 67 around the Caribbean. Worst-hit New York state suffered 48 deaths, including 41 in New York City, authorities said. Twenty of those were in Staten Island. As communities grapple with the human toll, the price of the damage is stunning: between $30 billion and $50 billion, according to disaster modeling firm Eqecat. That far exceeds the firm's pre-storm estimate of $20 billion. The region may be in for more bad weather, with a weaker storm predicted for next week. But Christie, for one, isn't ready for that quite yet. "I know there are some forecasts of a Nor'easter next week," the governor said. "I can't believe it." 7 health risks in the wake of the superstorm . CNN's Faith Karimi, David Ariosto, Erinn Cawthon, Henry Hanks and Maria White contributed to this report . ### SUMMARY:

Cold temperatures heighten health and other concerns in areas still without power . New York's mayor says 90% of New York subway services should be restored by Sunday . Con Edison: All but 270,000 of its once 940,000 affected customers have power .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: It has been a starting point for some of the world's top soccer players. As youngsters, the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Andrea Pirlo, Carlos Tevez, Javier Mascherano, Thierry Henry and Nicolas Anelka all played in the Mondial Montaigu youth tournament in France. Known as "Mondial Minimes," the 40-year-old competition is contested by under-16 national teams over Easter, with an event also held for club sides. Leading French clubs Lorient, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Nantes, Montpellier and St Etienne are all involved this year alongside another lesser-known name -- Foot Solidaire. Its a team that will showcase the very best of Africa's talent, but which also aims to open young African players' eyes to the risks of seeking their fortunes in Europe's top leagues. The team has been put together by Culture Foot Solidaire (CFS) -- a Paris-based charity which campaigns against the dangers of the trafficking of young players by unscrupulous individuals; be they former players, businessmen, lawyers or unlicensed agents. "I've heard a lot about less ethical agents bribing parents, and I have no doubt about the methods," one agent, who asked not to be identified, told CNN. "I know of agents using the parents' ''money weapon' (promising them untold riches), kind of 'selling' the player to an agent or organization. "How many times was I offered that option? Not only agents though. An agent cannot do anything without a club at end of the line." The movement of African players to Europe is long established. European clubs generally regard African players as athletically and technically gifted. Arguably just as importantly, they are relatively cheap to develop, with the added potential that clubs can make a large profit if they are sold in the future. For the players, the idea of becoming of a professional footballer in Europe holds the promise of a better life for themselves abroad and their families back home -- if they are not discarded by clubs and left to fend for themselves. Smuggling players . CFS's founder is Cameroonian Jean-Claude Mbvoumin, who has already helped hundreds of youngsters return home after they were left stranded in Europe. Often they have been brought to Europe on an illegal passport, frequently taken first to eastern Europe, where it is easier to arrange a visa before moving them on to Western countries. Mbvoumin estimates each year as many as 700 youngsters leave Cameroon alone to seek a professional career. But if the club doesn't sign the player the youngster is left to his own devices as to how he returns to Africa. "To bring young players to this tournament is a very good experience for them," the 39-year-old Mbvoumin, who played for a number of lower league French clubs, told CNN, as he explained the reason behind entering in the Montaigu tournament. "Very few can become professionals and our goal is to explain how hard to become is to do so. It's important to dream, but they must realize how few players there are in the professional world." At one stage CFS was monitoring nearly 1,000 boys dumped in France. It believes these youngsters were taken from hundreds of football academies in Africa -- ones that don't recognize basic child protection issues -- by clubs desperate to unearth the next Yaya Toure, Michael Essien or Claude Makelele. "When I brought players from Africa -- either for trial or on a contract -- I always faced a huge problem: visas," added the anonymous agent, referring to players over the age of 18 rather than minors, as he detailed the complexities of such transfers. "And I am talking of a period when things were easier, that is, 10 years ago. "I visited consulates with players trying to get a visa -- and I had to present the proper paperwork such as invitations and return tickets, etc. -- otherwise the player's application would not even be considered." However the agent said he did once manage "to smuggle" a player out of his home country Cameroon. "He had already gotten a visa -- the Italian consulate would only grant a tourist visit once a year -- so I had to find a way to get him out again," the agent said. "Yaounde being a modern airport I decided to fly from Douala, where the lights at the airport were dimmer. It was an amazing experience because in order to get to the plane we passed through four security controls. "The last one was at the plane's door -- and lights were stronger than in Yaounde -- and I had made a 'change' on his stamped visa. We managed to pass this last obstacle anyway and the player made a reasonable career." Money, money . Foot Solidaire's team for this year's Montaigu tournament is made up from players from Cameroon. More than 500 players have been assessed since January, before their 25-man squad was selected. Those players, who have been preparing for the tournament at a training camp in Nantes, came from as many as 100 training centers in Cameroon, which have all signed up to CFS's objectives to protect the young players who are being trained. Its charter is designed to provide the players with the best possible training environment, and it recognizes world governing body FIFA's regulations as well as the United Nations Convention on Human Rights. Mbvoumin estimates CFS is working with as many as 2,500 players -- this on a miniscule budget of just over $100,000. "We don't have salaries and we rely on volunteers," he said. "We have a very important network of partners and we rely on very small donations. But we need help -- our organization has been in existence for 13 years. "Football can just be business, business and money, money. People forget about education and the protection of young players -- football should not be above the law." Mbvoumin recently featured in a documentary film called "Soka Afrika" that traced the journey of two African footballers -- South Africa's Kermit Romeo Erasmus and Cameroonian Julien Ndomo Sabo -- as they attempt to fulfil their dreams of playing professional football in Europe. At the age of 18, Erasmus signed a professional contract with Dutch club Feyenoord, though he is back now in South Africa with Supersport United, where he is the team's captain. Sabo was trafficked to Africa as teenager after he and his family were promised "riches beyond their imagination," before he was abandoned in Paris. "Ndomo has been a bit off the radar for the last few weeks," said Sam Potter, managing director and chief executive officer of Masnomis, the production company behind the film. "But following a series of injury setbacks he and (Spanish club) Deportivo La Coruna -- where he eventually signed in 2010 -- agreed to terminate his contract last year. "He is still signed up with Octagon sports agency and they are hopeful of finding him another club in Europe for next season." Potter said Mbvoumin and CFS " work tirelessly on a shoestring budget to provide support and education to vulnerable and exploited young African footballers", despite a lack of interest and funding from the wider football community. "I have had the privilege of working with Jean-Claude in the making of Soka Afrika and I would say that he is a genuine hero -- working for little reward beyond his love of the game and, more importantly, his deep respect for the human rights of all men, women and children." ### SUMMARY:

Some of the world's leading players have appeared at France's Montaigu youth tournament . For the second year running unique team from Africa -- Foot Solidaire -- is taking apart . Charity Culture Foot Solidaire campaigns against trafficking of young players . Charity featured in recent documentary film Soka Afrika .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The element of surprise was lost in a failed U.S. military raid to rescue two hostages being held by al Qaeda militants in Yemen, a senior Defense Department official said Saturday. American photojournalist Luke Somers and South African Pierre Korkie, a "respected teacher" who was to be released on Sunday, were fatally shot in the compound by a terrorist as the secret mission unfolded, a U.S. official said. The relief group Gift of the Givers, which was helping secure Korkie's release, had recently informed his wife that "the waiting is almost over." "Three days ago, we told her 'Pierre will be home for Christmas,'" said the group, which identified the South African hostage as Korkie. "We certainly did not mean it in the manner it has unfolded." He was an "innocent man, a respected teacher," Korkie's wife, Yolande, said in a video made before his death. U.S. President Barack Obama ordered Friday's mission because "there were compelling reasons to believe Mr. Somers' life was in imminent danger," Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said. A video of Somers pleading for his life was released earlier this week by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. AQAP gave the U.S. three days to comply with unspecified demands. Time was running out. Arrangements for Korkie's release may have been missed by the White House. The Obama administration assessed that there were two individuals at the location but did not know one was South African or that negotiations were under way for his release, a senior State Department official told CNN. Korkie and his wife were abducted in May of last year, but AQAP subsequently let his wife go. On Friday, a team of local leaders was finalizing arrangements to reunite Korkie with his wife and children, the relief group said in a statement. Obama's decision . The President condemned AQAP's killing of the two hostages and explained his decision to authorize the rescue attempt. "Earlier this week, a video released by his terrorist captors announced that Luke would be killed within 72 hours," Obama said in a statement. "I also authorized the rescue of any other hostages held in the same location as Luke." Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement that the President had received a recommendation to authorize the operation. Obama offered his condolences to Somers' family. "I also offer my thoughts and prayers to the family of a non-U.S. citizen hostage who was also murdered by these terrorists during the rescue operation," the statement read. "Their despair and sorrow at this time are beyond words." South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation expressed its "deepest condolences to the family and friends of Mr Korkie for their loss. Condolences are also conveyed to the family and loved ones of the deceased American hostage." 'They lost the element of surprise' The operation took place Friday at 5 p.m. ET, a U.S. official told CNN. On Thursday, the Defense Department became aware of enough new intelligence about the location of the hostages to stage a rescue mission, the official said. A senior Defense Department official traveling with Hagel in Afghanistan said that the operation was accelerated because there was intelligence that Somers would be killed on Saturday morning, Eastern time. Obama and Hagel were briefed the next day. Two Osprey aircraft transported a team of about three dozen U.S. Navy SEALs, mainly from SEAL Team 6, and a combat medical team near the captives' location. There were no Yemeni forces with the U.S. commandos. The official traveling with Hagel said that once the Ospreys landed, the team had to trek about 10 kilometers (6 miles) to the compound. They were discovered about 100 meters from the location where Korkie and Somers were being held, according to that official. The main part of the assault lasted five to 10 minutes. "They lost the element of surprise at the last minute as they approached the compound," the official said. It was not clear where the kidnappers were when the firefight started, but the official said that the U.S. is certain that someone ran back inside the compound and shot Korkie and Somers after the battle broke out. The official would not specify how it could be certain of that detail. Difficult, 'precision' mission . U.S. forces were on the ground for about 30 minutes, an official told CNN. They stayed for that length of time because the combat medical team was trying to stabilize the two wounded hostages. According to another official, the hostages were loaded onto a plane and flown to a nearby U.S. ship. One of the hostages died before reaching the ship. The other died afterward. Drones and fighter jets patrolled overhead during the mission. The U.S. forces that carried out the mission are safe, a U.S. defense official said. Both the President and Kerry praised their valor. The hostages were being kept at a location close to one where U.S. and Yemeni forces had carried out a previous raid. This rescue mission was particularly difficult, due in part to Yemen's sparse population, retired Lt. Col. James Reese, global affairs analyst for CNN, said Saturday. Reese noted that it would have been difficult for the military to travel a significant distance by air and still maintain the element of surprise in a rescue operation. "It has to take precision," he said. "This is like brain surgery." A previous attempt . It was the second such attempt by U.S. forces in two weeks. In the first attempt, in November, U.S. and Yemeni special forces outfitted with night visors embarked on the mission about a few miles from a cave where AQAP was holding hostages. A gunbattle ensued, and the special forces killed all seven abductors and freed eight hostages. But the militants had separated Somers and four more hostages from the group and moved them to another location two days before the raid. This week, AQAP released a video threatening to kill Somers and showing the American photojournalist pleading for his life. A spokesman read a statement saying Somers would be killed if Washington did not meet the terror group's demands. The spokesman did not name the demands but said the U.S. government knew what they were. Pleading for his life . Somers' brother and mother posted a response video to YouTube in which they pleaded with the militants to spare him. "He is not responsible for any actions that the U.S. government has taken. Please understand that we had no prior knowledge of the rescue attempt for Luke, and we mean no harm to anyone," Jordan Somers said. Paula Somers thanked his captors for taking good care of him, but also asked her son be returned to her alive. "Please show mercy and give us an opportunity to see our Luke again. He is all that we have," she said. Tik Root, a former freelance journalist, met Luke Somers when they were both in Yemen. "Of all the people I met in Yemen, Luke is certainly not the person that should have happened to," Root told CNN. "He was passionate about the country, its people, and he was just a very thoughtful, quirky guy." Root is now a desk assistant for PBS NewsHour, and he wrote about Somers on Saturday morning on NewsHour's website. "I didn't know him particularly well but we did cross paths about a dozen times," Root said. "He was really dedicated to Yemen." More on detained Americans . ### SUMMARY:

State Department didn't know other hostage was South African, official tells CNN . Luke Somers "was really dedicated to Yemen," acquaintance tells CNN . Somers, a photojournalist, was captured in September last year . South African hostage Pierre Korkie was to be released on Sunday .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Prosecutors likely would have sought the death penalty against a researcher who killed himself after learning he was going to be charged in the 2001 anthrax killings, two sources told CNN on Friday. Former U.S. Army researcher Bruce Ivins was found unconscious in his Frederick, Maryland, home on Sunday. Three sources familiar with the investigation said the case soon will be closed because a threat no longer exists. No information has been made public about what charges were planned. Authorities had been investigating Bruce Ivins, 62, a former researcher at the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, a bioweapons laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is still officially open. Ivins had been working at Fort Detrick trying to develop a vaccine against the deadly anthrax toxin. A U.S. official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN on Friday that authorities were looking at whether Ivins released anthrax as a way to test his vaccine. A spokesman for Maryland's medical examiner told CNN Friday the official cause of Ivins' death on Tuesday was suicide. One of CNN's sources said Ivins knew he was about to be charged. The medical examiner's spokesman said he could not confirm a report in the Los Angeles Times that Ivins had taken Tylenol mixed with codeine. The Times first reported Ivins' death on its Web site early Friday. Watch what's known so far about case against Ivins » . Ivins' attorney said Friday his client was innocent of the anthrax deaths, and said he is disappointed that he "will not have the opportunity to defend his good name." In a written statement, attorney Paul Kemp said his firm had represented Ivins for more than a year. "The relentless pressure of accusation and innuendo takes its toll in different ways on different people, as has already been seen in this investigation. In Dr. Ivins' case, it led to his untimely death. We ask that the media respect the privacy of his family, and allow them to grieve." The anthrax mailings, which killed five people, shook the nation just weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. There have been no arrests in the case, which started after someone sent letters laced with spores of deadly anthrax to congressional offices and several news organizations. Among those who died were two postal workers. Two contaminated letters were sent to senators, exposing 30 staffers. Read more on the health risks of anthrax . A spokesman for the Frederick County, Maryland, Fire and Rescue Service told CNN that someone called the 911 center at 1:08 a.m. Sunday to report an unconscious person at a home at 622 Military Road. Frederick Police Capt. Kevin Grubb said Ivins was found unresponsive on the floor of a bathroom. He was taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital. Ivins' modest two-story home is located across from Fort Detrick. Court documents show that a judge issued a restraining order against Ivins on July 24, days before his suicide. A woman sought the order against "Dr. Bruce Edward Ivins," whom she accused of making threats of violence, harassment and stalking in the previous 30 days. In the order, Ivins is told not to contact the woman -- whom CNN is not identifying -- by telephone or other means, and to stay away from her place of employment. A hearing on the order had been scheduled for Thursday, and according to court documents, she had been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in Washington on Friday. John Ezzell, former chief of special pathogens at Fort Detrick, said he was involved in hiring Ivins, who worked at the facility for years before retiring in 2006. He declined to describe Ivins' exact job responsibilities, but said, "He was an interesting character." Ezzell said Ivins was the one who examined an anthrax-laced letter that was sent to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, in November 2001. The envelope, which was opened in the lab, contained 23,000 anthrax spores and was postmarked October 9 in Trenton, New Jersey. Ivins' brother, Tom, said the FBI questioned him about his brother about a year and a half ago. Investigators "asked you about your personal life, how you got along with your brothers when you grew up," he said. Watch as Tom Ivins talks about his brother » . "They said they were investigating him when they talked to me," said Tom Ivins, who said he was not close to his brother and never spoke to him about the anthrax investigation. "I stay away from him," he said. An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment about Ivins on Friday. A Justice Department spokesman could not be reached for comment. The FBI had traced the anthrax used in the attacks to the lab, the U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases, one of CNN's sources said. CNN has been told by a source familiar with the investigation that new technology helped in the breakthrough. A separate source, a U.S. official familiar with the investigation, told CNN that a genetic technology aided in the investigation and identification of the anthrax used in the attacks and led investigators back to the Ft. Detrick lab. Fort Detrick issued a statement mourning the death of Ivins, who worked at the U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases for more than 35 years as a civilian microbiologist. "In addition to his long and faithful government service, Bruce contributed to our community as a Red Cross volunteer with the Frederick County chapter. We will miss him very much," the statement said. Ivins had been questioned previously by the FBI, as had many scientists assisting the FBI, the source said. Investigators believed the culprit might be a scientist because of the amount of knowledge needed to process the anthrax. FBI Director Robert Mueller told CNN in July that "there have been breakthroughs" in the investigation and he was confident it would be resolved. Watch Mueller discuss "breakthroughs" in anthrax case » . "We've made great progress in the investigation and it's in no way dormant," Mueller said. "I'm confident in the course of the investigation, I'm confident of the steps that have been taken in the course of the investigation, and I'm confident that it will be resolved." Early in the investigation, Attorney General John Ashcroft publicly identified a "person of interest" in the anthrax case -- Steven Hatfill, a former civilian researcher on anthrax. Hatfill and Ivins both worked at the bioweapons lab at Fort Detrick. Hatfill was not charged and strongly denied involvement. He sued the Justice Department, claiming his privacy rights were violated when his name was leaked to the media in connection with the ongoing federal investigation into the biological attacks. Watch Hatfill deny involvement in anthrax case » . The Justice Department reached a settlement with Hatfill in June. He is to receive a one-time payment of $2.8 million and $150,000 a year for life. CNN's Kevin Bohn, Kelli Arena and Mike Ahlers contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

NEW: U.S. official: We were looking at whether Ivins released anthrax to test vaccine . Attorney says Ivins was innocent in anthrax case, pressure caused his death . Suicide is official cause of death for Bruce Ivins, medical examiner says . Ivins was being investigated in 2001 anthrax attacks, source says .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Washington (CNN)Mitt Romney's decision to pass on 2016 anoints Jeb Bush as the clear establishment favorite in the Republican presidential race and lays down a challenge to the party's divided conservatives. Though the first contests will not take place in early voting states for a year, Romney's swerve, announced on a conference call with supporters on Friday, is the most important moment yet in the nascent GOP contest. It removes the prospect of a bruising battle for big establishment donor cash and moderate, right of center, Republican primary voters between Romney, the 2012 nominee and Bush, heir to a dynastic political machine. "I think it is hard to argue that today's news did not help Gov. Bush," said Matt Moore, chairman of the Republican Party in South Carolina, which holds one of the crucial early voting primaries next year. Bush sent the Republican race into overdrive with his sudden announcement last month that he was actively exploring a run for president. Since then, he has been flying around the nation in an apparent bid to put up a formidable "shock and awe" early fundraising number to define the contest in his favor. Though Bush is seen as leading establishment Republicans, Romney's decision could improve New Jersey Gov. Christie's hopes of financing a long campaign. "Today's news certainly does re-open the fight for donors. I know many donors had been frozen in recent weeks, taking a 'wait and see' approach," said Moore. "There's a finite amount of money that can be raised -- so every candidate benefits." Kevin Madden, a one-time adviser to Romney who is now a CNN commentator, said his former boss's decision opened up an early trial of strength between Christie and Bush. "This becomes the first big test between those candidates, which one of them can quickly move to lock down those donors. It is a very successful, very large fundraising network. It's going to be an important asset." Some party insiders also believe conservative candidates who can also straddle the line with the establishment could benefit from Romney's departure. A top adviser to one potential Republican primary contender said in an interview that Romney's exit likely helps both Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who both have strong conservative support but have also been warmly received by some establishment-minded donors. "They're acceptable to the establishment but they also have support within the various conservative bases — among economic conservatives, social conservatives and national security conservatives," the adviser said. Romney's decision not to run doesn't remove him from the 2016 calculus entirely — it sets him up to be a potential kingmaker in one of the most wide-open primary fields in recent memory. Though sources told CNN's Dana Bash not to expect a Romney endorsement of another candidate in the near future, contenders will be clamoring for his blessing. A top Rubio aide said "any leading candidate would" want Romney's support. Jim Merrill, Romney's top strategist in New Hampshire, said that his "guess is [Romney] probably will" endorse a candidate in the primary. Romney's statement, however, made clear that he was not stepping aside in favor of Bush. In fact he appeared to take a veiled swipe at the 61-year-old former Florida governor. "I believe that one of our next generation of Republican leaders, one who may not be as well known as I am today, one who has not yet taken their message across the country, one who is just getting started, may well emerge as being better able to defeat the Democrat nominee," Romney told his supporters. He appeared to be implying that the GOP would be best served by a younger candidate taking on Clinton, who will be 69 at the time of the general election in November 2016. Rubio, 43, quickly picked up on the idea of a generational shift, stressing repeatedly in a short statement praising Romney that he was close to the 2012 nominee. "He certainly earned the right to consider running, so I deeply respect his decision to give the next generation a chance to lead." Walker, 47, also picked up the signals, thanking Romney in a tweet for "opening the door for fresh leadership in America." Romney may also be making a point by sitting down for dinner on Friday night with Christie, 52, in New York. His exit will also shift the terrain more practically in the early states, where his former staffers can now join the campaign of their choice. Merrill said he's been receiving calls from former Romney operatives in the state — and interested candidates — wondering what's next, but he wasn't yet leaning toward any candidate in particular. "[Romney's] not gonna be a candidate, so that means we are open for business," Merrill said. Reverberations are also being felt in Iowa, where voters will get the 2016 ball rolling next year and where Romney lost by only a handful of votes to Rick Santorum on the way to the GOP nomination in 2012. A Des Moines Register/Bloomberg poll published Friday showed 57 percent of likely caucus goers had favorable feelings about Romney. But that figure was down from 65 percent in October. Romney may have calculated that he would have struggled to keep that level of support, fighting Bush and Christie for moderates and facing fresh faced conservatives like Walker and firebrand Sen. Ted Cruz. "There a lot of people who had second thoughts about Romney," said Steffen Schmidt, an Iowa State University Professor who is an authority on the state's fabled caucuses. "Mitt Romney would have had a much harder time in Iowa," in 2016, Schmidt said. Bush is basking in a second straight day of good news. On Thursday, he poached David Kochel, one of the state's most highly regarded political consultants for a possible post running his campaign. Kochel previously worked for Romney in Iowa, and his departure was seen as a serious blow to the former Massachusetts governor. The narrowing of the establishment field may hold a wake up call for conservatives who hoped a candidate preferred by the grass roots would emerge this cycle. But with candidates like Walker, Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Santorum and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul all tipped to appeal to certain sections of the conservative electorate, they face a familiar problem : the lack of a single right-wing favorite to take on the establishment's pick. Romney's announcement, which kept political pundits guessing until minutes before he spoke with supporters, was in keeping with the already rich drama of the 2016 race. Even a month ago, no one thought that Romney, who twice ran for president and lost, could find a rationale to underpin another shot. But in three frenzied weeks, Romney, apparently disdaining the quality of the crowded GOP race, and bumped into a swift decision by Bush's early move, appeared to be about to jump in. Bush had previously effectively forced out another possible establishment candidate Sen. Rob Portman, by getting into the race. Romney traveled to California to headline the Republican National Committee's winter meeting, and stoked speculation by consulting former staffers and party heavyweights about a possible run. For now, most of those close to Romney believe he will resume his role as the de-facto leader of the party until a nominee emerges, speaking out on key issues. "You'll see him do what he's already been doing post-2012 — be someone that stands up to President Obama, speaks the truth when the opportunity calls," Merrill said. CNN's Erin McPike contributed to this story . ### SUMMARY:

Bush cements role as establishment favorite . Christie has chance to compete for Romney donors . Romney looks to new Republican generation .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: I have always romanticized the family ski vacation -- that's before I actually started skiing with my own children. What no one warns you about is that skiing with young kids can suck the relaxation right out of you. I am the ski Sherpa, schlepping my kids' boots, skis and poles, as hand warmers and granola bars bulge from my pockets. By the time I get to the slopes, even in the midst of a Polar Vortex, I am sweating right through my Hot Chillys long underwear. Welcome to Vail and the Sachs family ski trip of 2014. My kids are pumped to be in Vail, home to several Olympic athletes, and the Sochi Games have just kicked off. The conditions are fabulous, with snow dumping at an exceptional rate. After a day of lessons, both of my kids are officially better skiers than I. And I am wiped. My thighs are aching from plowing through the 20 inches of fresh powder. It was glorious; I'm just pooped. If it weren't for my debilitating headache at 10,000 feet, a cocktail would be in order. But alas, it's Colorado and legalized weed has given après ski a new meaning -- so I start weighing my options. When you are traveling with precocious tween kids who are super judgy about any type of smoking and recoil from the stench of beer, how do you even broach the subject of marijuana? Mommy needs her glass of wine is now mommy needs her hit of weed? It feels wrong, but maybe that's why it's so exciting to even contemplate. Still, my kids are not sophisticated enough to understand the nuances or subtleties of life or why parents do what they do to relax and reinvigorate. There are some things they just don't need to know, and I decide this is one of them. At their age, it's probably best to keep it black and white. Drugs, drinking and sex are all bad -- very bad! I considered drawing others into my quest for the green stuff. We were staying at the gorgeous, new Solaris luxury residences in Vail. I was assigned a concierge named Ilse to do everything from stock my fridge to schedule my son's snowmobiling adventure. Could I also ask Ilse to hook me up with pot? I felt like I was 16 years old again, trying to score some wine coolers. It may be legal, but it still seemed illicit. I couldn't bring myself to ask Ilse, but I did check the weed situation with Bob Armour, my awesome ski instructor who also happens to be the former mayor of Vail. They wear many hats in this town. Bob confirmed that the Vail Resort is pot-free and smoking on their magnificent mountain is illegal. It's federal land and lighting up outside is a big no-no. They take it seriously in Vail -- I get it. No one wants stoned skiers near themselves or their kids. But I would argue that boozing boarders are just as scary and there's no shortage of alcohol at ski resorts in America. So while weed wasn't for sale anywhere in Eagle County, a quick Google search and a click on the Best Buds app turned up a half-dozen dispensaries within an hour's drive. In Colorado you can ski a bowl in Vail and smoke a bowl in Breckenridge, all in a few hours. The PR folks may scoff at that tagline, not wanting to sully the sophisticated image of Colorado skiing, but it could be a boon for the industry. Utah has Sundance; Colorado has Mary Jane. And after a day of hard skiing, you may just want to skip the Hot Toddy and relax with a tasty pot edible instead. With my husband's enthusiastic support, I went in search of the Cannabis Club in Breckenridge. It felt a little stealth as I told my kids that mommy needed to run a few errands before Valentine's Day. So I cranked up some tunes in my rental minivan and hit Interstate 70 to downtown Breckenridge, where the marijuana market is nestled along the picturesque main street across from a Starbucks. After consulting the Cannabis Club's petite, blonde, 20-something budtender -- that's what they call themselves - I bought a $25 chocolate chip cranberry "Lucie in the Sky" cookie and some THC-infused chocolate truffles in a shiny, silver package. I considered the gummies, but the chocolate seemed more festive. A couple of doors down, I found a fancy candy store for my kids. Mission accomplished. Chocolate-covered strawberries for my children, THC chocolate truffles for my man -- happy Valentine's Day! Even though it was all perfectly legit, I felt a little giddy. Old habits, I suppose. At night after the kids were asleep, my husband and I nibbled on the jumbo cookie and watched some Olympic slopestyle, waiting for Lucie to work her magic. She was to be my masseuse-by-pot-proxy, easing my tired and aching body into a blissful, peaceful state. After all, I never can break away to a spa on a family ski trip. It's too time consuming and it's tough to grab an alone moment when we are away. But Lucie, well, she's conveniently sitting on my nightstand waiting to be appreciated. We made sure to keep Lucie locked in our bedroom so as not to confuse her with my kids' cookies in the kitchen. Earlier, my budtender warned me to only eat a quarter of the cookie, but I must have consumed more than was recommended because the next eight hours turned into a heart-racing, chest-thumping, head-spinning trip. The potency of edibles is apparently unreliable, and they can pack a punch. Who knew? The next morning after some strong coffee, I was back in the heated, Wi-Fi gondola, not only happy that I could finally stand, but psyched to squeeze in a few more hours of Vail powder before the trek back East. My THC cookie didn't give me the relaxing zen that I was hoping to have, but I didn't regret the experience. Next time I could do without the heart palpitations and pay closer attention to my budtender's recommendations. Perhaps the oatmeal raisin cookie would have been mellower. A week later, my kids were still talking about the 50,000-plus vertical feet they shredded as recorded on their handy EpicMix app. As for me and my chocolate truffles, it's illegal to transport any form of cannabis over state lines. Those weed amnesty drop boxes popping up at airports around the state are probably getting a lot of action, and not just from stoners. Colorado skiing has always been known for its Rocky Mountains and blue skies; now après ski gives the family ski trip a whole new high. Parents, weigh in below: While on a trip with the kids, would you use pot to relax -- the same way you might have a drink after the kids are asleep? ### SUMMARY:

Wendy Sachs wanted to try using pot to relax during a family vacation in Colorado . Weed is legal in the state, and she looked up a local dispensary for supplies . Sachs kept her children in the dark about it; they aren't old enough to understand . The high wasn't all she hoped, but it lent a new aspect to the traditional family ski trip .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . James Chapman And Tim Shipman . PUBLISHED: . 09:45 EST, 11 June 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 05:44 EST, 12 June 2012 . George Osborne yesterday admitted he played a key part in the ‘risky’ appointment of former News of the World boss Andy Coulson as the Tories’ chief spin doctor. The Chancellor said he had accepted an assurance from Mr Coulson, who had resigned from the newspaper in the wake of the phone hacking allegations, that there were no more revelations to come. In evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, Mr Osborne revealed that around a third of his meetings with media owners and editors since 2005 were with News International – including one meeting with the Murdochs at a ski chalet in Davos, Switzerland, in early 2009. No secret pact: Mr Osborne denied that a meeting with the Murdochs, him and David Cameron to seal election backing never happened . Pals: Mr Osborne said he remained friends with Andy Coulson but 'sadly' had not been able to talk to him for more than a year . Mr Osborne also said he had been at a crucial No 10 meeting where it was decided to remove responsibility for deciding the BSkyB bid from Business Secretary Vince Cable and handing it to Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. That idea, he said, had come from Sir Jeremy Heywood, then No 10’s Permanent Secretary and now the Cabinet Secretary. The Chancellor said his main concern when Mr Cable was caught boasting he had ‘declared war’ on the Murdoch empire in 2010 was to come up with a solution that would not mean the Business Secretary being sacked or having to resign. Mr Osborne suggested that would have threatened the Coalition. Claims: Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, leaving the Leveson Inquiry and his wife Sarah today said the Tories had done a deal with News Corp, which Mr Osborne said was nonsense . Mr Osborne dismissed the idea that the Tories entered into some sort of deal, either explicit or implied, with Rupert Murdoch to hand him full ownership of BSkyB in return for the support of his papers. In an apparent reference to Gordon Brown, who suggested in evidence to the inquiry that he believed such an arrangement had been made, Mr Osborne said only a ‘real fantastist’ could believe such a ‘vast conspiracy theory’. Controversy: Leveson heard that Mr Osborne had fought to save Vince Cable's job despite his going to war with Murdoch comments . He said the Conservatives would have had to have somehow arranged for Mr Cable to be ‘secretly recorded’ by a newspaper saying he had declared war on the Murdochs so that responsibility could then be handed to Mr Hunt. ‘It is complete nonsense and the facts simply don’t bear it out,’ he said. Mr Osborne insisted he had not had a strong view about the merits of the Murdochs’ £8billion takeover bid for BSkyB, adding: ‘As far as I could see it was just going to cause us trouble one way or the other.’ The Chancellor said it had been clear that if the deal was approved by the Government, it would offend one set of newspapers and broadcasters who were opposing the takeover, while if it was blocked it would offend the Murdoch camp. Pressed on his own attitude to the proposed takeover, the Chancellor replied: ‘As far as I could see, it was about increasing the shareholding in a company that most people would think they ran anyway.’ On Mr Coulson’s appointment, Mr Osborne said the former editor denied knowing anything about phone hacking at the News of the World going beyond one single reporter. As shadow chancellor, he said he briefly asked Mr Coulson about phone hacking in March 2007, when he was attempting to recruit him for the job of director of communications for the Conservative Party. Links: Lobbyist Fred Michel gave evidence to Leveson last month and had sent hundreds of texts and e-mails to the Government about the BSkyB bid . He said he had asked Mr Coulson ‘in a general sense, as you might do in a social encounter, whether there was more in the phone hacking story that was going to come out, that was not already public, that we needed to know about – and he said no’. He said he had been aware of the ‘risks’ and potential controversy that would be generated by hiring Mr Coulson, but recommended to David Cameron that he should get the job. ‘It was not a consideration: let’s hire the ex-News International man. It was: let’s hire this very experienced ex-newspaper editor,’ Mr Osborne added. He said he still regarded Mr Coulson as a ‘personal friend’, but added: ‘Sadly I’ve not been able to speak to him for a year.’ Big Day: The Chancellor pictured arriving at the Royal Courts of Justice to appear after former Prime Minister Gordon Brown . The Chancellor yesterday sent the strongest signal yet that the Government will not adopt plans for regulating the Press that stifle freedom of speech. George Osborne rejected proposals to separate news and comment, the ‘kitemarking’ of newspapers or allowing ‘class action’ complaints by offended groups. He also warned against attempting to draw up a code that defined what was in the national interest. Mr Osborne said that if the Leveson Inquiry came up with proposals that target print media but exclude the internet, everyone involved would have been wasting their time. His remarks echoed those of Education Secretary Michael Gove, who insisted press freedoms must be preserved at all costs and warned Lord Justice Leveson that any cure could prove ‘worse than the disease’. They suggest an emerging consensus among Tory ministers appearing at the inquiry. On Thursday, David Cameron is also expected to ‘put down a marker’ that the Government will not accept over-the-top proposals on press regulation. Lord Leveson said he had heard evidence from groups who felt ‘very disadvantaged’ by how they were portrayed in the Press, mentioning the disabled, migrants and those who change gender. Asked if he agreed there should be some mechanism for such groups to complain about or prevent negative coverage, Mr Osborne replied: ‘There are laws to prevent racial discrimination or sexual orientation discrimination. 'You mention immigrant groups – they are obviously some of the most vulnerable people in our society. Equally there’s a huge concern out there ... about immigration controls. ‘If that’s not allowed to be aired, then I think we stifle public debate.’ He insisted it was vital that the Press could air views that were not fashionable or shared by the Establishment – citing the example of Eurosceptic opinion. He said that a decade ago it was regarded as ‘faintly eccentric’ to be against British membership of the euro, with such views disparaged by the BBC. But newspapers including the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and The Sun had campaigned against euro membership and contributed to what ‘in hindsight was one of the most important economic and political decisions’ ever made by Britain. However, Mr Osborne said the Press Complaints Commission required a ‘complete overhaul’ and that victims of press mistreatment needed ‘better redress’. ### SUMMARY:

Andy Coulson was 'the best man for the job,' he told the Inquiry, discussing why he appointed him as No. 10 spin doctor . He added that he wanted Vince Cable to keep his job despite saying he had 'declared war' on Murdoch . Any conspiracy to hand the decision to Jeremy Hunt was nonsense, he added .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Tim Shipman . PUBLISHED: . 18:02 EST, 30 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 02:30 EST, 1 October 2012 . MPs last night called for an urgent investigation into the Tony Blair spy chief who stands to gain from Britain’s biggest ever defence deal. Sir John Scarlett, who played a key role in the dodgy dossier on Saddam Hussein’s weapons, is lobbying the Government in support of the  £28billion merger. He now works for Morgan Stanley, which is advising BAE Systems on its proposed merger with European rival EADS. Sir John Scarlett, pictured, now works for Morgan Stanley, which is advising BAE Systems on its proposed merger with European rival EADS . The investment bank is in line to make millions if the deal goes ahead and MPs want to know how much Sir John, who left MI6 in October 2009, will gain personally from lobbying his former colleagues. Insiders say the 64 year old is ‘liaising’ between the bank and the Government to help ‘soothe concerns’ in No 10 about the deal. Critics of the tie-up say handing control of BAE to a company in part controlled by the French and German governments will undermine national security, lead to the closure of key defence facilities in the UK and destroy Britain’s military and intelligence relationship with the US. Details of Sir John’s involvement have reinforced the notion that the deal – which has David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s support – is being stitched together by the Whitehall establishment. MPs have already demanded the chance to question Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, who has been pushing the deal with the Prime Minister and has had a series of meetings with BAE and the bank. He worked for four years at Morgan Stanley and MPs are concerned he has a conflict of interest by promoting the deal in Downing Street. The Cabinet Office confirmed yesterday that Sir John was banned from lobbying government for a period of a year following his last day of his service. But now that has expired he is clear to call his old contacts. He and Sir Jeremy face being dragged before the Commons defence select committee, which is investigating the BAE deal. Sir Bob Russell, the senior Liberal Democrat on the committee, said Sir John should be called to give evidence and forced to answer questions about how much he will personally profit from the deal. ‘I have serious concerns about the merger, both from a defence point of view and for job reasons,’ he said. ‘I am of the view that there’s too cosy an arrangement between former ministers and civil servants becoming consultants when they leave government. ‘I’d prefer it if the time limit on them going into lobbying was ten years, not one. The public perception is that people like this are using the contacts they gained as ministers and civil servants. ‘If Sir John is trying to use the influence he has to skew a decision he ought to come before us so someone can ask who much he is being paid and whether he stands to get a personal bonus if the deal goes through.’ Ben Wallace, the Tory MP who is coordinating Commons opposition to the deal, said Sir John was a poor choice for BAE. ‘The last thing the defence industry needs is the overseer of the dodgy dossier to be lobbying on your behalf,’ he said. He said Sir John had no track record in the aerospace industry and ‘wasn’t a particularly stunning success as a civil servant’. A senior civil servant also expressed doubts, saying: ‘There are lots of people prepared to offer former ministers and mandarins large sums of money because they think they know how to open doors. I’m not sure they always represent very good value for money. Every day that passes after they leave, they are a day less plugged in to the people and the way things are done.’ A Cabinet Office spokesman said Sir John had complied fully with the Business Appointment Rules. His appointment with Morgan Stanley in March 2010 was approved on the advice of the independent advisory committee.’ By JAMES SLACK . Sir Jeremy Heywood, who holds extraordinary influence inside No 10, finds himself dragged into controversy over his former business interests for the second time in barely a year. The cause of his trouble last year was the disaster which stuck the Southern Cross care homes group. And, as with the latest row over defence giant BAE, it concerned his time spent as a senior manager at the investment bank Morgan Stanley. Southern Cross, which looked after 31,000 frail elderly people at the height of its success, was bought by the US private equity firm Blackstone in 2004. Influence: Sir Jeremy finds himself dragged into controversy over his former business interests for the second time in barely a year . Blackstone floated it on the stock market two years later and sold all its shares in 2007 – taking a huge profit. But the flotation, which had been based upon the sale and lease-back of the company’s homes, left Southern Cross in a hugely precarious state by saddling it with expensive long-term rent commitments. When the economy downturn came, it could no longer afford to pay many of its bills – leaving the elderly and their relatives fearing they would be evicted. Sir Jeremy was safely inside Downing Street as ministers wrestled with trying to find a solution to this mess in the summer of 2011. But, in a huge personal embarrassment to the mandarin, a report by the GMB union revealed the controversial stock market flotation had been guided by Morgan Stanley, at a time when he was co-head of UK investment banking between 2004 and 2007, during a break from the civil service. The bank advised Blackstone on the float, informing it of stock exchange rules, helping draw up a prospectus, setting the share sale price and attracting investors. Morgan Stanley is believed to have shared in a £10million fee with other advisers, including Swiss bank UBS. Although Mr Heywood did not work directly on the Southern Cross deal, he was the ultimate boss of the team that managed it. It was never made clear how much, if any, of a personal bonus Sir Jeremy was paid for overseeing the Southern Cross float in 2006. However banking sources said he would have been handsomely rewarded. Justin Bowden, a national officer at the GMB, said the civil servant was in the Southern Cross scandal ‘up to his neck’. Ros Altmann of over-50s group Saga said: ‘I am absolutely staggered someone involved in this can be so influential in No 10.’ Sir Jeremy was brought back to government by Gordon Brown in 2007. He became involved in rumours that he was the source for journalist Andrew Rawnsley’s claims that Mr Brown bullied his staff. It was he who apparently emailed No 10 workers to inform them of their rights if they were treated badly. Since Mr Brown’s departure from  No 10, the father-of-three’s career has flourished. He is said to have a very close working relationship with David Cameron – with some Tory MPs being concerned that he has far too much sway. In particular, he has been embroiled in a series of rows over Iain Duncan Smith’s plan to ‘make work pay’ by shaking up the benefits system. Sir Jeremy is reported to have said he was ‘sceptical’ about the plan for a universal benefit – language which was seen as an attempt by the civil service to derail the flagship policy. He is also understood to be part of a cabal of Downing Street and Treasury advisers which has been pressing Mr Cameron to water down his commitment to reduce net migration to tens of thousands a year. ### SUMMARY:

Sir John Scarlett works for Morgan Stanley, which is advising BAE systems on its proposed merger with European rivals EADS .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Toby Harnden In Washington . PUBLISHED: . 15:06 EST, 20 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 02:48 EST, 21 November 2012 . The descent of the David Petraeus case into a media circus has been accelerated by the appearance of Natalie Khawam, Lebanese-born twin sister of Tampa socialite Jill Kelley, at a press conference alongside celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred. In an apparent bid to gain leverage for her client in a bitter custody battle with her ex-husband over their four-year-old son, Allred portrayed Khawam's case as 'extremely important to single moms across the nation'. Petraeus, who resigned as CIA director after his affair with biographer Paula Broadwell was revealed when Kelley complained to the FBI about harassing emails from her, wrote a letter in support of Khawam's case. Tears: Natalie Khawam, the sister of Jill Kelley, addresses her part in the Petraeus scandal on Tuesday . General John Allen, Nato commander in Afghanistan and under investigation for potentially 'inappropriate' emails in a correspondence of up to 30,000 pages, also wrote a letter backing her. Allred paid tribute to Petraues and his wife Holly at the press conference in the Ritz Carlton in Washington on Tuesday afternoon. 'Both have known Natalie and her son personally for many years, and have had numerous opportunities to observe them together,' she said. 'They have loved Natalie's child and emotionally supported her and her son through the toughest time in Natalie and her son's life. Speaking out: Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred is representing Khawam, a friend of Petraeus and his wife . Business: Khawam was flung into the limelight after her sister contacted the FBI about threatening emails she was receiving from Petraeus' mistress - which led to the discovery of their affair . 'They both spoke up through their court declarations in support of Natalie about what a loving, protective mom she was.' Khawam, 37, who wiped away tears as she stepped forward to speak, declined to answer any questions but spoke of her relationship with her sister. 'My sister Jill and I aren't just twins, we're best friends. Literally inseparable,' she said. 'During my darkest time... she and my brother-in-law, Dr Kelley, took me in with my son when we needed refuge and protection. Jill is the kindest, most generous person I know. 'We played tennis together. She played net and I served. We also played softball together. She was the catcher and I pitched. We love to cook. I usually bake and she sautees. Emotion: At the press conference, Khawam said Petraeus and General John Allen had written letters of support to judges on her behalf as she battled her ex-husband for custody of their child . Sisterly bond: Khawam described her sister, Jill Kelley, as her best friend and loyal supporter . Gloria Allred has a long history of standing up for downtrodden women and of trotting out female clients who claim to have revealing and damaging stories about high-profile men. The California attorney's clients have included the family of Nicole Brown Simpson in the O.J. Simpson trial and former Spice Girl Mel B for her paternity case against Eddie Murphy. She has represented two of Tiger Woods' alleged mistresses, Rachel Uchitel and Joslyn James, and worked for Ginger Lee, who claimed Anthony Wiener had encouraged her to lie during his sexting scandal. More recently, she represented Sharon Bialek, who claimed Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain had groped her - which he denied - and the girlfriend of the former girlfriend of Rudy Eugene, known as the 'Miami Cannibal'. 'We used to study together. I love math, she loves science and she excels in chemistry. We love to play piano and play chess. 'Jill has lovingly supported me through the years and I plan to love and support her unconditionally.' Khawam lost an ugly child custody dispute with ex-husband Grayson Wolfe despite the letters written on her behalf by Petraeus and  Allen. The judge said he had serious concerns and reservations over her mental stability and her grasp on reality and accused her of 'outrageous conduct', 'bad faith litigation tactics', and 'illogical thinking' before awarding full custody to the father, who had been unable to see his child for more than a year. According to the New York Post, Wolfe, . won sole custody of the boy after the judge found out Khawam, a lawyer, . repeatedly lied under oath and filed false domestic-violence and . child-abuse claims against her husband. She . was also accused of defying court orders to allow her estranged husband . access to their son and sent emails to his friends and colleagues . telling them he was a 'horrible father and husband'. Friends: Khawam, left, smiles alongside (from left) David Petraeus, her sister's husband Scott, her sister Jill Kelley and Holly Petraeus at a garden party at her sister's Florida home . Battle: As she was locked in a custody battle for her son with her ex-husband Grayson Wolfe, left, Khawam received letters of support from Petraeus and General John Allen, right . Allred . described her client as 'a loving, caring mother' as well as a 'highly . educated academic scholar and a successful attorney'. She described Kelley's relationship with Petraeus as 'social'. He has been pictured at garden parties at her $1.3 million Tampa house, alongside Kelley's husband and his own wife, Holly. Asked by MailOnline whether Khawam had, as reported, visited the White House, Allred said she had been there 'essentially for a tour' but declined to say who had been the host. Neither Allred nor Khawam would speak about Allen or go into any detail about Petraeus. On Friday, as news coverage of Kelley . and Broadwell persisted as their roles in the scandal became . increasingly clear, Allred blasted the media's obsession with the women. 'Inseparable': Khawam, pictured right with Jill Kelley and Senator Marco Rubio, also used the opportunity to laud her 'kind, generous' sister and describe their lives growing up together . Affair: Khawam became part of the scandal surrounding his affair with biographer Paula Broadwell, pictured, when her sister began receiving threatening messages from Broadwell . She told the Daily Caller: '[M]y . personal feeling on this matter is that women are being depicted in a . negative and stereotypical manner which appears to be very unfair to all . of them.' Allred's clients include a string of high-profile women, including former porn star Joslyn James and nightclub promoter Rachel Uchitel, for whom Allred helped win $10 million from Tiger Woods. She is renowned as the go-to lawyer for women who find themselves caught up in celebrity scandals and has has defended women against stars such as Charlie Sheen, Eddie Murphy, and Rob Lowe. ### SUMMARY:

Natalie Khawam was swept up in Petraeus scandal after her sister Jill Kelley tipped off the FBI about threatening emails from his mistress . Petraeus and Gen. John Allen wrote letters of support for Khawam during her bitter child custody battle with her ex-husband . Press conference on Tuesday detailed her relationship with the men . Also used the opportunity to paint her sister as 'kind and generous'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Larisa Brown . PUBLISHED: . 10:25 EST, 16 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 03:28 EST, 18 October 2012 . An unemployed father-of-12 branded 'Britain’s most badly behaved dad' was condemned by a judge today for setting a bad example to his children and making the 'lives of others miserable'. Stuart Murgatroyd, 41, was handed an Asbo to prevent him from harassing his neighbours, after a previous order banning his bad conduct expired. He was previously arrested on suspicion of assault against the mother of his children last month - just 20 minutes before he was due to appear in court to contest his second anti social behaviour order. The hearing, where Murgatroyd was to 'vehemently deny' terrorising neighbours in two council boroughs, was later adjourned after prosecution lawyers informed JPs that Murgatroyd was in police cells. Stuart Murgatroyd, left, with his partner Dawn Hughes outside court just minutes before a hearing was about to begin and right, today, as he was given an Asbo for terrorising neighbours in two council boroughs . In their blood: Murgatroyd with children Demi, 15, Chloe, 14 and Reece, 13, who have all been given Asbos . But today as he was finally banned him from being drunk in public, he made a plea from the dock, insisting: 'I shouldn't really be getting an Asbo'. He is the fifth member of his family to have been given an Asbo. At Burnley Magistrates' Court, Murgatroyd was issued with a two-year anti social behaviour order. The . Asbo bans him from using abusive and threatening language in public, . making obscene hand gestures and being drunk or in the possession of any . open container of alcohol. Drunken Murgatroyd, who has never worked, has a long criminal record for robbing elderly people and once had to be sprayed with CS gas by police in a row over his son’s football. Council officials had kicked the family out of one of their previous homes in Burnley, Lancashire, after 125 complaints from neighbours who had endured three years of loud parties, fighting and drunken behaviour. His twin boys Reece and Dillon, aged 13, already have two-year Asbos ordering them not to cause 'harassment, alarm or distress'. Police secured interim Asbos against their big sisters Chloe and Demi, aged 14 and 15 - but both were dropped after there were no further reports against them of bad behaviour. Last month Murgatroyd tried to make a legal challenge against the application to issue him with the Asbo. But he failed when he was arrested outside the courthouse for tipping a carton of Ribena juice over his long-suffering partner. Vicious: The father-of-12 tipped a carton of Ribena juice over Miss Hughes last month . He claimed his predominantly Muslim neighbourhood singled him out and reported him to police because they disapproved of his heavy drinking. But District Judge Mr Peter Ward warned he faced jail if he stepped out of line again and retorted: 'I don’t think it is a clash of cultures, I think the problem is him being drunk. Arrested: The earlier hearing was adjourned after prosecution lawyers informed JPs that he was in police cells . 'If he is involved in disorderly behaviour that does not set a good example to the children and looking through the papers that’s what has been going on and clearly making the lives of others miserable. 'This is a dreadful category of anti-social behaviour, being drunk outside, shouting abuse and general disturbance to others makes their lives miserable. 'If you breach this order, the maximum sentence is of five years in prison. 'If there is a repeat of this sort of behaviour and you are on breach I will be looking at the sentencing guidelines for persistent breach of the Asbo. 'Do not assume that if you breach it you will only be getting a fine of £50.' The Asbo will apply in the Burnley area but will not stretch to his new address in Nelson where he and his family moved for a 'fresh start'. Murgatroyd has never worked, claiming sickness benefit for depression since he was 17. 'Britain's worst-behaved dad' has been jailed previously for mugging pensioners and stealing in a cemetery . In April 1999 he was jailed for two-and-a-half years for mugging three pensioners and stealing a handbag from a woman of 78 in a cemetery. Partner Dawn Hughes, who left their children with a babysitter so she could act as his getaway driver, was jailed for a year. In August 2004 he suffered head injuries when he was attacked by a neighbour armed with a 2ft-long machete amid claims a text message had been sent threatening to firebomb the home of the attacker’s mother. Then in 2007 Murgatroyd sparked a police siege after a row over a neighbour confiscating his children’s football. He was said to have lost his temper and hurled cutlery and a vacuum cleaner towards officers before being overpowered with CS gas. Murgatroyd had previously been issued with an Asbo but after it expired last November the couple and eight of their children moved into a £150-a-week rented three-bedroomed terrace house in Nelson hoping to make a 'fresh start'. The parents arriving at court today as Murgatroyd was condemned for setting a bad example to his children . But he was arrested again and given an interim Asbo earlier this year. Representing Burnley Council, Mr Jonathan Jackson said: 'He has shown low-level, persistent anti-social behaviour which makes life a misery for other people. 'It is his drunk and disorderly behaviour that is a problem, but not necessarily targeting specific people. 'Perhaps some of it stemming from a family of 13, this happened largely in the Burnley borough.' In mitigation, defence solicitor Mr Mark Williams said: 'On July 1st the family moved to Nelson and it has been a good three months without any issues. 'There were problems which grew over a period of time in Burnley, to a degree there was a clash of cultures. 'He had a large family living in a predominantly Pakistani area and he would drink and that would be frowned upon in the community. 'Mr Murgatroyd was more the victim. There was a confrontation with a group of males with baseball bats, maybe they are more at fault. 'There have been other incidents where drink has been involved. He wasn’t well liked in the area. They wanted to move and wanted a fresh start, it has been a fresh start. There has not been any problem in Nelson and he said he wishes never to go back to Burnley. 'There is always going to be a bit of noise when there are eight children living there. 'They have been brought up properly and their behaviour has always been good - to question him as a father is not right.' ### SUMMARY:

Stuart Murgatroyd, 41, has never worked but claims sickness benefit for depression, has long criminal record for robbing elderly people . He tried to contest his Asbo last month but failed when arrested outside court for tipping a carton of Ribena over his long-suffering partner . His four children, under 15, have all had an Asbo and two are still serving them . In April 1999 he was jailed for two-and-a-half years for mugging three pensioners and stealing a handbag from a 78-year-old woman in a cemetery .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Anthony Bond . PUBLISHED: . 10:56 EST, 6 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:59 EST, 6 February 2013 . With his arms outstretched in shock, this is the moment a man suspected of being smuggled into the UK was pounced upon by border agency officials. The man was staying in east London when officers from the UK Border Agency ( UKBA) raided his accommodation as part of a crackdown on gangs bringing illegal immigrants into the UK. More than 150 officers from the agency took part in the operation today which was carried out across the UK ,France and Belgium. Crackdown: Dozens of raids were carried out across the UK today in a crackdown on gangs who bring illegal immigrants into the UK. This man in east London is suspected of being smuggled into the country . Probe: More than 150 officers from the UK Border Agency took part in the operation today . The raids took place after it emerged that people smugglers are paying luxury yacht owners to sneak illegal immigrants into the UK. Gang . leaders are offering people with expensive boats huge rewards to enter . British ports carrying desperate stowaway foreigners. It marks a new tactic away from the traditional method of illegal immigrants being smuggled into the UK on board HGV lorries and ferries bound for Dover. UKBA officers raided 35 addresses in England and Scotland while another 40 . raids were carried out at the same time in France and Belgium. Action: Raids were carried out in London, Hampshire, Peterborough, Birmingham, Coventry, Smethwick, Leamington Spa and Stoke-on-Trent . Tough approach: A total of 35 addresses were raided across England and Scotland today . A total of 26 people were arrested following the raids, which took place in a number of towns and cities throughout the UK. The stowaways pay from £2,000 to £6,000 per person to be smuggled into Britain. Raids were carried out in London, Hampshire, Peterborough, Birmingham, Coventry, Smethwick, Leamington Spa, and Stoke-on-Trent. Warrants were also executed in Manchester, Sheffield, Lancashire and Glasgow. It is understood many of the immigrants who pay the gangs are from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. So . far, officers have made 20 arrests in relation to their investigation . and another six in relation to other suspected offences including . immigration breaches. Identity: The Border Agency officials used this machine to take the fingerprints of a man suspected of being smuggled into the country . Chris Foster from UKBA said: 'We . believe this to be one of the biggest operations of its kind ever . undertaken in the UK, involving officers the length and breadth of the . country. 'My officers have . been working closely with their counterparts in France and Belgium as . well as other law enforcement agencies in the UK in the build-up to . today’s operation. 'We . believe we have successfully disrupted a significant organised network . suspected of being involved in a systematic attempt to evade the UK’s . immigration controls. 'Our investigation will continue with the evidence we have seized today.' Immigration . Minister, Mark Harper, said: 'The organised criminal gangs involved in . people-smuggling prey on the desperation of others in order to line . their own pockets. They are also a major factor involved in illegal . immigration to the UK.' The 20 men arrested in connection with the investigation included nine aged 19 to 33 who were held in London in Stockwell, Wood Green, Peckham, Southall, Manor Park, Peckham, East Ham, South Croydon and Harrow. Another four aged 18 to 33 were arrested in the Midlands in Smethwick, Birmingham and Coventry; and three aged 20, 21 and 25 were held in Peterborough. The remaining arrests were of a 38-year-old in Manchester, a 27-year-old in Leigh, Lancashire, a 36-year-old in Sheffield and a 31-year-old in Fareham, Hampshire. The other six not relating to the investigation were five men who were held on suspicion of immigration offences in Manor Park, east London, Southall, west London, and Palmers Green, north London. The sixth was a man who was arrested for ID card offences in Southsea, Hampshire. People smugglers are paying luxury yacht owners large sums of money to sneak illegal immigrants into the UK, it emerged today. Gang . leaders are offering people with expensive boats huge rewards to enter . British ports carrying desperate stowaway foreigners. Speaking today, border agency . officials said yacht owners are being approached by smugglers because . their vessels face less rigorous checks by border officials when they . enter UK waters. Stowaways: People smugglers are paying yacht owners large sums of money to sneak illegal immigrants into the UK. Brittany, pictured, is one area in which yacht owners are being targeted . Illegal immigrants have traditionally tried to smuggle into the UK on board HGV lorries and ferries bound for Dover. But officials in France say . mobsters are now targeting yacht owners in the Brittany area and bribing . them with huge sums to take immigrants into less guarded UK harbours. The . new menace to Britain's borders was revealed by French customs officers . who found 15 Albanian migrants huddled in the cabin of a £100,000 yacht . on January 12. Officials . in Cherbourg were carrying out a routine check on the yacht, based in . Brittany, which was heading north across the Channel towards the . Westcountry. The luxury . boat's two French skippers told a judge Kosovan gangsters paid them to . transport migrants on regular trips across the channel. Worrying: Officials in France say mobsters are now targeting yacht owners and bribing them with huge sums to take immigrants into less guarded UK harbours. This is a file picture . Police . were told the immigrants, who had no identification or paperwork, each . paid 1,000 Euros on the promise of a new life in Britain. The two sailors are currently in custody in France awaiting trial for smuggling. A French border official said: 'In 2012 they transited 30 foreigners without papers on two yachts, making five trips to the UK.' Border . officials in France say a 'turf' war between people smugglers from . Afghanistan, Egypt and Albania have seen them targeting new potential . ways into Britain - including posh yachts. Investigators . have begun probing a gang using ports on the north coast of Brittany - . where controls are less frequent than at Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk. A . Home Office spokesman said: 'People smuggling is an international crime . and we are working closely with our counterparts in France on this . operation. 'In the last financial year 9,000 individual attempts to cross the Channel illegally were prevented. 'We . also have a fleet of cutters protecting the UK from any criminal . sea-borne threat and people attempting to evade our border controls.' ### SUMMARY:

Dozens of raids were carried out across UK, France and Belgium today . Was part of crackdown on gangs bringing illegal immigrants into UK . Gang leaders offering yacht owners huge rewards to enter British ports . Their vessels . face less rigorous checks when they enter UK . waters .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 14:40 EST, 8 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:40 EST, 8 February 2013 . More than 150 potential jurors are packing a hotel ballroom for the rape trial of a former University of Montana quarterback, as attorneys attempt to seat an impartial panel in a town where Griz football is king. Jury selection got under way Friday in Missoula in the trial of Jordan Johnson, who is accused of raping an acquaintance while they watched a movie at her residence on Feb. 4, 2012. Johnson says the sex was consensual. Friday's proceedings took place in the Holiday Inn after District Judge Karen Townsend said no courtroom was large enough to hold the number of potential jurors called. Former University of Montana quarterback Jordan Johnson was charged with rape last July and his trial began on Friday February 8 with jury selection . Just weeks after the female student claimed she was raped by the quarterback, the coach enthusiastically welcomed him back to spring drills and . lauded his 'character and tremendous moral fiber. The woman's lawyer, Josh Van de . Wetering, quickly complained to the athletic department that the comment . left his client 'less than confident in the university's commitment to . protect her.' Since then, . the case has played out against a backdrop of NCAA and federal . investigations of the school athletic department and the manner in which . rape allegations are reported on campus, investigated by police, and . prosecuted by the Missoula County Attorney's Office. The situation has left some worried that the football program - while successful on the field - was out of control off it. Jordan Johnson, center, scrambles against Cal Poly during an NCAA college football game in Missoula, Montana . District Judge Karen Townsend initially called 400 potential jurors for the high-profile case. An affidavit supporting the rape charge said Johnson and the alleged victim had known each other since 2010 and decided to watch a movie at her house on Feb. 4, 2012. The woman told investigators Johnson held her down and forced her to have sex with him in her room despite her protests. Court records show the woman texted her roommate: 'Omg... I think I might have just gotten raped... he kept pushing and pushing and I said no but he wouldn't listen... I just wanna cry... Omg what do I do!' Johnson, in a motion to dismiss the case, said the woman had flirted with him the night before at a party and consented to sex the next night, even asking if he had a condom. The motion also claimed the case was filed by county prosecutors to send a message about their efforts to pursue rape cases. The Grizzlies football team, pictured, has been successful on the field. But this rape case has been played out against a backdrop of investigations of the school athletic department . 'The collateral damage to Jordan and his family is immeasurable,' attorney Kirsten Pabst wrote. The judge rejected the motion, saying the proper place to challenge the state's case was at trial. Concerns about the handling of sexual assault cases peaked in December 2011, when UM President Royce Engstrom ordered an outside investigation after two students reported being drugged and raped. Former Supreme Court Justice Diane Barz later said her investigation found nine alleged rapes or sexual assaults involving students had occurred between September 2010 and December 2011, including at least two that hadn't been reported. One led to former Montana football player Beau Donaldson pleading guilty to rape and being sentenced to 10 years in prison. Engstrom said in January the investigation 'indicated an association with patterns of behavior from a small number of student-athletes.' 'We will not tolerate the tarnishing of the proud tradition of Grizzly athletics,' he said at the time. Barz suggested training faculty and staff on how to handle and report sexual assault allegations and rewriting student and student-athlete conduct codes. The University of Montana President, Royce Engstrom, ordered an outside investigation after two students reported being drugged and raped in December 2011 . Just weeks later, the university came under more criticism after the dean of students notified a Saudi national about sexual assault and rape allegations made against him. The student fled the country before the alleged victims could file a police report. Johnson's case surfaced on March 9, when the female student obtained a temporary restraining order against him. He was briefly suspended from the football team then reinstated when a civil no-contact order replaced the restraining order. Three days after coach Robin Pflugrad welcomed Johnson back, Engstrom announced he was not renewing the contracts of the coach and athletic director Jim O'Day. Both were immediately relieved of their duties, without an explanation from Engstrom. The move came after a season when Montana advanced to the Football Championship Subdivision semifinal game. The Grizzlies have advanced to the national title game seven times since 1995, winning twice. The team's success came even as players and former players were arrested for drunken driving, assault and other charges. The university received a grant from the DOJ Office of Violence Against Women that provides it with training in mandatory education for students and for disciplinary boards, community response teams and campus law enforcement . 'I'm sure the president has been reviewing all the different things that have been going on for some time and just decided, both in leadership of the department and in leadership of the football program, it was time to make a change,' O'Day said when he was relieved of duty. Last April, the federal Department of Education announced it was investigating a complaint alleging the university discriminated against female students, faculty and staff by failing to address a sexually hostile environmental caused by its failure to appropriately respond to reports of sexual assault. Soon after, the U.S. Justice Department announced its investigation into the handling of rape investigations and prosecutions, and the school announced in May the NCAA had been investigating its athletic programs for undisclosed reasons. The Department of Education said Wednesday it had closed the discrimination complaint because the allegations were being addressed by the Department of Justice investigation. The Justice Department and NCAA investigations continue. The university received a grant from the DOJ Office of Violence Against Women that provides it with training in mandatory education for students and for disciplinary boards, community response teams and campus law enforcement, spokeswoman Peggy Kuhr said Thursday. The campus has seen a rash of departures. Charles Couture retired as dean of students, Jim Foley stepped down as vice president for external relations, and chief legal counsel David Aronofsky retired from his post but said he would continue to teach classes. Aronofsky issued a memo in late February on legal issues and recommendations for the university's handling of sexual assault reports. It urged UM employees to use caution in referring student-athletes to outside attorneys to avoid the appearance of seeking free or low-cost legal help, which would be a violation of NCAA rules. Foley had earlier told the Missoulian he met two football players at an attorney's office on a Sunday in the fall of 2011 after they were arrested by police trying to break up a loud party. Coaches Robin Pflugrad (left) and Jim O'Day (right) were relieved of their duties without an explanation from the university president . ### SUMMARY:

Former Grizzlies quarterback, Jordan Johnson, charged with raping female student at her home as they watched a movie at her home in February 2012 . Johnson claims the sex was consensual . Case takes place as investigations continue into school athletic department, how rape allegations are dealt with .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Deni Kirkova . PUBLISHED: . 06:49 EST, 29 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:48 EST, 29 March 2013 . Between the choice of reading one of the sweariest cookbooks you're ever likely to read and 'no coffee, no alcohol, no dairy, no eggs, no sugar, no shellfish, no deep-water fish, no wheat, no meat, no soy and nothing processed at all' it seems the novice foodies of Britain have made up their minds. Bad Cook, an eBook by journalist and intrepid amateur chef Esther Walker, was released yesterday and immediately raced ahead of Gwyneth Paltrow's It's All Good in the Amazon book charts. The book is inspired by Esther's popular food blog, the Recipe Rifle, and is a blisteringly honest account of her endeavours in the kitchen . The book is inspired by Esther's popular food blog, Recipe Rifle, and is a blisteringly honest account of her endeavours in the kitchen. It also includes tales of life as a mother to her two-year-old daughter Kitty and as a wife to restaurant critic Giles Coren. Here, to celebrate the launch of her book Esther shares her top five tips for 'crap cooks' like her and a fail safe Salmon en Croute recipe to impress a date. 'You can either use a decent amount of salt in your cooking or you candie of a) starvation b) boredom' 1) Don't rush . Accept . that you are a bad cook and so when you ARE cooking, make sure you're . not under any time pressure. Cooking in haste is a guaranteed way of . really making a mess of things. 2) Try things out . It . can seem like a waste to make anything more complicated than pasta when . it's just you, but you have to try new recipes out or you'll never . learn and get better - and using yourself as a guinea pig rather than, . say a dinner party of 6, leaves you less open to panic, failure and . embarrassment. 3) Don't assume that cooking is easy, because it isn't . Gwyneth's book has been trumped . At least, not for everyone. Although Jamie and Nigella and Nigel make knocking up dinner a joyous breeze on telly, it's not like that for the novice cook. So when attempting a recipe, follow it to the letter. Don't skip any steps, weigh everything properly, use the right-sized dishes and time everything religiously. 4) Keep it simple . If . you want to cook for a lot of people, don't be afraid to serve up . something homely, like spaghetti bolognese or a fish pie. Everybody will . love it. And having people over isn't just about dishing up impressive . food - just make sure there is plenty to eat and drink and have a bunch . of flowers somewhere and everyone will be delighted. 5) Salt is the key to cooking . An . extra pinch of salt can transform a dish from bland to delicious. So if . your curry is lacking a certain something, your pie seems uninspiring . or your bolognese needs a boost, sprinkle over a large pinch of salt and . see if that makes a difference. Intro taken from Recipe Rifle . 'I had Salmon en Croute once at someone's house and it was absolutely disgusting. 'The cook had failed to use any salt, because they are the sort of person . who thinks that any salt kills you stone dead within weeks. My view is . that you can either use a decent amount of salt in your cooking and run . the extremely tiny risk of it doing you some damage, or you can use no . salt and die of a) starvation b) boredom. And get some mean leg cramps . in the night. 'But there's no reason why Salmon en Croute shouldn't be a delicious . thing. It's wrapped in pastry! I mentally file this kind of thing under . my 'finishing school' category of cooking. Quiches and souffles are . also filed under this category. Baked bone marrow and suet puddings are . filed under 'New British, curries and stir-fries go under 'student', . lemon meringue pie, soup, and devilled kidneys go under 'yuk' and so on.' Salmon en Croute . Salmon en . Croute is one of those things that . seems very complicated but is in fact very easy. Sliced on the diagonal . and served with a simple salad, it looks beautiful and will impress . anyone. Salmon en Croute is one of those things that seems very complicated but is in fact very easy . Ingredients: . Serves 2 . 2 x salmon fillets. It . is best to get these from a fishmonger, or at least the fish counter of a . supermarket because you need them with no skin on. You can skin them . yourself, but it is tricky. 1 x packet of all-butter puff pastry1 egg, beatensalt and pepper1 small bunch dill, chopped - basil will also work here, if you don't like dill40g butter at room temperature1 tbsp wholegrain mustard . Method: . 1 Put your oven on to 200C . 2 . Now make a paste out of the butter and dill. Put the butter in a small . bowl with a pinch of salt and a few turns of the pepper grinder and then . mash in the dill with the back of a spoon. Set to one side. 3 . Take your salmon fillets and have a look at how they would fit together, . like a Yin Yang sign - this is how you are going to sandwich them . together before wrapping them in the pastry. Then spread one side of . your salmon sandwich with the herb butter and the other side with the . wholegrain mustard, then fit together and set to one side. 4 Put a baking tray in the oven to get nice and hot (this will help prevent a soggy bottom...) 5 . Roll out the puff pastry until it is about the thickness of a pound . coin (have a look at an actual pound coin, because this is thinner than . you think it is). Now place your salmon in the middle and bring the . pastry up and over it to form a neat parcel. Trim the ends so there . isn't too much of an overlap and tuck it all in, like a present. Seal . all the edges with some beaten egg to help it stick. (If you don't have a . pastry brush to distribute the egg, you can just use a finger.) 6 . Turn the salmon over, so that the seam is on the underside. Make three . slits in the top of your parcel to let steam escape and brush all over . with beaten egg (I also sprinkle some sea salt and pepper over the top . for decoration). 7 Now take your hot baking tray out of the oven . and brush with a little bit of oil to stop the salmon en croute from . sticking. You can use a folded square of kitchen towel for this. Lay . your pastry parcel on the baking tray and bake for 35 mins. Produce to gasps of awe from your date. Bad Cook costs £1.99 from Amazon. ### SUMMARY:

Wife and mother Esther Walker's 'sweary' cookery book hails using salt . Husband Giles Coren tweets success in Amazon book charts this morning . Book is starkly different to Gwyneth's 'no alcohol, no dairy, no sugar' mantra .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Michael Zennie . PUBLISHED: . 13:03 EST, 7 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 23:44 EST, 7 August 2012 . Mitt Romney is courting General David Petraeus, the hero of the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan, to be his vice presidential pick, it was claimed today. In spite of speculation on The Drudge Report which cited an unnamed source who overheard President Barack Obama talking about the Republican candidate's desire to name Petraeus as his running mate, Petraeus released a statement denying the rumor. 'Director Petraeus feels very privileged to be able to continue to serve our country in his current position, and, as he has stated clearly numerous times before, he will not seek elected office,' CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz told Reuters. It remains to be seen whether the four-star general, who is currently the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, would even agree to such a proposition. In previous interviews he has said he has no interest in jumping into the political arena. If Petreaus were tapped to be the Republican vice presidential nominee, it could shift the entire balance and momentum of the election -- electrifying Romney's campaign by picking a man regarded by most of the nation to be a war hero. The pick: The Drudge Report says President Barack Obama believes Mitt Romney wants CIA Director David Petraeus to be his vice president . And Obama could find a fearsome political enemy in the retired general. The two men had a falling out after the president declined to follow Petreaus' advice on keeping American forces in Afghanistan longer. The president is said to be nervous about giving Petreaus too much political power in his administration -- while at the same time worry about the damage he could mete out if he becomes an administration critic. Drudge quotes an anonymous Democratic fundraiser, who says he overheard the president whispering this week about Romney courting Petreaus for the number two spot on the Republican ticket. 'The president wasn't joking,' the fundraiser told Drudge. Romney is said to have met with Petraeus in New Hampshire, where both men have homes. The White House swiftly batted down the report and said the president believes no such thing. Game change: Picking the general, who has bipartisan popularity, could change the momentum of the race for Romney . 'Warrior scholar': Petraeus, who holds a PhD in international relations from Princeton University, is regarded as the greatest military strategist so far this century . David Petraeus, 59, has become one of the most prominent military figures of the 21st century, thanks to a combination of political prowess and military savvy. He was born in upstate New York and attended the West Point, where he graduated near the top of his class in 1974. He quickly rose through the ranks as a promising Army officer and continued his education by earning a PhD in international affairs from the prestigious Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. His degree, along with combat command experience, led politicians and military officers to begin calling him the 'warrior scholar.' In 1991, he was shot in the chest by an M-16 rifle when a soldier tripped during a live-fire exercise. After he recovery, he earned an early release from the hospital by impressing the doctors with 50 sit-ups. He first gained combat prominence in 2003, when he commanded the 101st Airborne Division during the invasion of Iraq. He became the father of modern American counterinsurgency after he oversaw the writing of the Army manual on the subject in 2007. That spring, he was tapped by President George W Bush to employ his new tactics during the Iraq War 'surge,' which has been credited with stabilizing the country and allowing US forces to pull out. The success of Petraeus' strategy, combined with his calm and diplomatic public persona, have made him enormously popular in Washington -- on both sides of the aisle. In 2010, President Barack Obama tapped Petraeus to employ a similar strategy in Afghanistan. He was appointed director of the Central Intelligence Agency and retired from the Army in 2011. The US Senate confirmed in with a 94-0 vote. 'I can say with absolute confidence, such an assertion has never been uttered by the president.' press secretary Jay Carney said during a daily press briefing. 'And again be mindful of your sources.' The former Massachusetts governor overtly dodged a question about Petraeus while speaking with reporters this afternoon. Allies describe Petraeus as a 'good soldier' who follows orders, but he and Obama had a falling out of sorts over the troop draw down in Afghanistan. Petraeus opposed pulling American forces out of the war-torn nation when he was the top general in the country and asked the president to give the military more time to beat back the Taliban. However, the president is believed to have listened to polls from a war-weary nation instead of his top general. Petraeus confirmed that revelation during US Senate hearings on his appointment to the CIA. The Romney campaign has been mum about its vetting process for the Republican vice presidential nominee. Numerous names have been bandied around Washington, some seen as reasonable, others are long shots. Petraeus, whose name had been mentioned by pundits but only in passing, is considered one of the long shots. Ohio Sen Rob Portman is viewed as one of the most likely vice presidential picks. Other possible names in the hat include: Florida Sen Marco Rubio, Virginia Gov Bob McDonnell, former Minnesota Gov Tim Pawlenty, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan. Petraeus could be a game-changer for Romney, who is beginning to trail Obama in some key battleground states. The general hold a PhD in international relations from Princeton University and is celebrated as one of the greatest military strategists in a generation -- earning him the nickname the 'warrior scholar.' He is wildly popular on both sides of . the aisle. When Obama nominated him to lead the CIA, he passed senate . confirmation with a 94-0 vote -- a nearly unprecedented unanimous vote . in the heavily-divided Congress. Petraeus . is the author of the counterinsurgency strategy that turned the tide . against insurgents in Iraq -- allowed US forces to leave the country . with relative stability. He also deployed the tactic in Afghanistan, to less success. However, in 2011, he retired from the Army after a career that spanned four decades and assumed a post at the CIA. When he took the CIA post, The Daily Beast speculated that Obama fears the political power Petraeus could wield. Critics suggested promoting him to . chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the most powerful military . officer in the nation, would have given him too large a podium -- one . where he could control military policy by threatening to make . disagreements public. The Daily Beast also speculated that . Obama feared Petraeus could become a deadly critic of the administration . if he retired and entered public life. Despite this, Petraeus has repeatedly denied he has political ambitions. ### SUMMARY:

Drudge Report says Barack Obama was overheard saying Romney was courting the popular general . Petraeus was the most prominent military commander in the nation -- credited with stabilizing the Iraq War . Tension between the general, who is now CIA director, and Obama over draw down of troops in Afghanistan . Petraeus issued a statement denying the rumor . Obama is thought to fear Petraeus' political power if he becomes a critic of the administration . White House denies Obama ever mentioned Petraeus as possible vice presidential candidate .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Becky Evans . PUBLISHED: . 11:41 EST, 17 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:28 EST, 19 July 2013 . They are handpicked by some of the world's wealthiest jet setters - but you would have to travel more than 25,000 miles if you wanted to try them all. Elite Traveler magazine compiled the list of the 'Top 10 most amazing cocktails in the world' to tempt those with even the most expensive tastes. The decadent drinks, served in bars from Sydney to London, and New York to Singapore, feature some of the most expensive highly rated liquor in the world. Risque thirst-quencher: The Lady's Leg Cosmopolitan is prepared in a vintage shaker in the shape of a woman's leg complete a high-heeled silver shoe at the Eau de Vie bars in Sydney & Melbourne, Australia . Something a bit different: The Vanilla Chocolate Malt (left) is served in small pinta bottle at London's OXO Tower and the Ron Zacapa Blaze (right) is made using rum and Pedro Ximenez sherry at Sydney's Eau de Vie bar . The magazine, which . circulates to passengers using private jets to get around the world, . consulted its panel of experts to come up with the list . produced by mixologists and barmen from across the world. Australia's plush bars feature heavily on the list, rewarded for their inventive and extravagant use of ingredients. Eau de Vie bars in Sydney and Melbourne are renowned for their Ron Zacapa Blazer concoctions. The cocktail uses Ron Zacapa rum - rated as among the best in the world, Pedro Ximinez Sherry and Bitters. Decadent: Forever Young cocktail is elaborately served behind a mirror and scented opium incense . Refreshing: The Paloma Hermosa (left) is made from tequila, elderflower liqueur, fresh fruit and egg whites and served with edible flowers and The Mulata Daisy (right) is made from Bacardi, lime, fennel, dark creme de cacao liqueur and Galliana L'Autentico and served in a champagne bowl . Sharp: New York's Gin Palace serves this White Negroni that combines gin, Vermouth and Salers aperitif and is believed to be one of the strongest cocktails served in the world . But taste alone is not enough in the world of high-class drinkers. The bars' unique Lady's Leg Cosmopolitan also made the top ten. The cocktail is made . in a 1930's vintage cocktail shaker shaped like a lady's leg complete . with high-heeled silver shoe. It uses homemade Cranberry Sorbet and . vintage Champagne to produce a creamy soft textured, chilled thirst . quencher. The duo of bars bagged a third spot in list with their Versaille Experience cocktail. The cocktail is served in Absinthe Fountains, in . which Tanqueray Gin and Absinthe are combined with pear, lemon, apple . and mint. London also has a healthy showing in the top ten. The UK capital's Artesian bar at the Langham serves the Forever Young cocktail made from Grey Goose Vodka, Martini Extra . Dry, eucalyptus, maraschino and citrus. But if that was not enough, it is served to customers with a small scented stick of Opium incense. London's Oxo Tower bar made the list for its Vanilla Chocolate Malt, using almond milk and Mozart Dry Chocolate spirit with vanilla sugar, malted . milk and Absolut Vodka served in a little pinta type bottle. The 'Mulata Daisy' at the Connaught Bar, London, featured in the top ten. It combines Bacardi Superior Rum with freshly squeezed lime juice, fennel seeds, . dark creme de cacao liqueur and Galliana L'Autentico. Arty: Singapore's Tippling Club serves the Dropje Daiquiri using salted licorice and Venezuelan rum . Fruity: The Cucumber Collins (left) uses cucumber vodka, yuzu juice, fresh lemon and sake while the Eau de Vie bars serve their cocktail in Absinthe Fountains (right) Florida bar The Living Room's take on the Cucumber Collins is popular with the jet setters. It combines Square . One Cucumber vodka, yuzu juice, fresh lemon and blueberry-stained . cucumbers Mirlin, Sake and rice wine vinegar. The bar had a second entrant in the top ten with its 'Paloma Hermosa' cocktail made from . Tapatio Blanco tequila and St. Germain Elderflower liqueur, fresh . grapefruit, lime, agave and egg whites, served up with lime wheels and . edible flowers . The strongest cocktail on the list is served at New York City's Gin Palace. The 'White Negroni' has 114 proof gin, with blanco vermouth and Salers apertif. The 'Dropje Daiquiri' at the Tippling Club Singapore completes the elite's favourites and  salted licorice from Holland that is infused into a Venezuelan rum and then mixed with orange curagao and citrus. The list was chosen by some of the best mixologists in the world . Ron Zacapa Blazer, served at Eau de Vie in Sydney and Melbourne, AustraliaContains: Ron Zacapa rum, Pedro Ximinez Sherry and BittersForever Young, served at Artesian bar at the Langham, LondonContains: Grey Goose Vodka, Martini Extra Dry, eucalyptus, maraschino and citrusCucumber Collins, served at Living Room at West South Beach Hotel, FloridaContains: Square One Cucumber vodka, yuzu juice, fresh lemon and blueberry-stained cucumbers, Mirlin, Sake and rice wine vinegarLady's leg Cosmopolitan, served at Eau De Vie in Sydney and MelbourneContains: Cranberry Sorbet and vintage Champagne White Negroni, served at Gin Palace, New York Contains: Perry's Tot Gin, blanco vermouth, Salers apertifVanilla Chocolate Malt, served at Oxo Tower bar, LondonContains: Almond Milk, Mozart Dry Chocolate spirit with vanilla sugar, malted milk, Absolut Vodka Dropje Daiquiri, served at the Tippling Club, SingaporeContains: salted licorice, Venezuelan rum, orange curagao, citrusMulata Daisy, served at the Connaught Bar, LondonContains: Bacardi Superior Rum, lime juice, fennel seeds, dark crhme de cacao liqueur and Galliana L'AutenticoVersaille Experience, served at Eau De Vie barsContains: Tanqueray Gin, Absinthe, pear, lemon, apple, mintPaloma Hermosa, served at Living Room, Florida  Contains: Tapatio Blanco tequila, St. Germain Elderflower liqueur, fresh grapefruit, lime, agave, egg whites . ### SUMMARY:

The top ten were handpicked by jet setters through Elite Traveler magazine . The list features drinks served with opium sticks, in shoes... and the strongest cocktail in the world sold at a New York bar .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . James Tozer . PUBLISHED: . 10:42 EST, 23 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:09 EST, 23 September 2013 . A judge hit out yesterday after discovering that a woman who falsely claimed £94,000 in benefits will clear the debt by using her welfare payments. ‘The taxpayer just ends up paying itself back,’ stormed Beverley Lunt after being told Cleo Embley would draw on her £237-a-week handouts. The judge jailed 37-year-old Embley for 22 weeks, saying the money was not going to be repaid in any meaningful way. Anger: Cleo Embley, left, falsely claimed £43,000 in benefits - but as judge Beverley Lunt, right, pointed out, she will receive State funds to help her pay back her debt . The mother of seven had pocketed extra benefits by claiming she lived alone. But . undercover investigators spotted her handyman partner Paul Harwood . taking their children to school and returning to the home they shared. Between . 2008 and 2012, Embley illegally obtained £94,064 in income support, . housing benefit and council tax benefit. Had she told the truth about . her partner she would instead have been paid £50,955 in tax credits. This means she needs to return around £43,000. When . her lawyer Mark Stuart said his client ‘knows she is going to have to . pay the money back’, Judge Lunt interrupted to say: ‘But she isn’t – the . taxpayer is going to have to pay it back! Trapped by surveillance: Embley, 37, did not tell officials that her boyfriend was living with her when she claimed benefits . ‘She . has defrauded all this money but is entitled, from the state, to more . money! So the state will receive the money, from the money the state is . giving her!’ Embley . started making legitimate claims in 2001, but failed to inform the . benefits system when she moved in with Mr Harwood, who is father of six . of her seven children. Gerald Jones, prosecuting, said: ‘Random . surveillance showed Mr Harwood taking the children to school, returning . with the shopping – effectively living as man and wife.’ Mr . Stuart told Burnley Crown Court that jailing Embley, from Rishton, . Lancashire, would stop her partner working. ‘He would have to look after . the seven children and would have to give up his employment and be in . receipt of benefits,’ said the barrister. Sentence: The fraudster was handed a 22-week prison sentence at Burnley Crown Court, pictured . Embley . broke down in tears in the dock as Judge Lunt rejected this argument, . telling her: ‘Over a period of four years you obtained over £94,000 of . taxpayers’ money you were not entitled to.‘You were not driven by debt or financial need but greed. ‘You took away that which should be given to people who are genuinely in need. ‘These frauds are becoming a very real and common problem. ‘It . is realistically not going to be paid back – and if it is it will come . back from the taxpayer as you are getting benefits still.’ Embley admitted three counts of dishonestly failing to notify a change of circumstances. After . the hearing Joan Smith, deputy leader of Hyndburn Council, said: ‘We . actively pursue people for benefit fraud and we want to give the message . that you are not going to get away with it. 'We . are very good at pursuing information about benefit fraud, which we get . from various sources including members of the public.’ Lord . Freud, who is the minister for welfare reform, said: ‘We are taking on . benefit fraud, with greater resources going to our investigation teams . to stop those people who try to pocket support meant for the most . vulnerable. ‘We have also ramped up our use of powers to claw back money from these cynical criminals.’ In . 2011, Judge Lunt hit out at rules that stopped her jailing salesman . Daniel Blagboro for falsely claiming £12,000 in benefits, saying of the . resulting suspended sentence: ‘Some may think it’s pathetic, and that . includes me.’ In 2008 she refused to spare a Nigerian illegal immigrant’s bogus bride from a jail term even though she was having a baby. Share what you think . The comments below have been moderated in advance. brassed off, . Wigan, . 9 hours ago . What a disgrace....she can claim almost £51000 in benefits. That's a great salary if it was a wage for a job. Having said that though is she not near the threshold for having her child benefit stopped or does it not work like that for benefits only for us idiots working. Excitable, . Exeter, United Kingdom, . 10 hours ago . I am now thinking that fraud is worth it - why should I work for what I have if all you get is 22 weeks for stealing nearly a £100,000 then getting the taxpayer to cough up the money to pay for her theft - shameful . mactheexpat, . malaga, . 11 hours ago . 94000 quid for 22 weeks R & R at the taxpayers expense. It's not right! Scroggins, . Florida, United States, . 12 hours ago . New rule that needs to be passed: Anyone found guilty of cheating the benefits system, automatically loses eligibility to ever pocket benefits again. Graham Lowcock, . Nanning, . 13 hours ago . £94,000 tax free in exchange forr 22 weeks in jail doing nothing? Sounds a great way of building your wealth. What a country! dadidave, . Kirkcaldy, . 14 hours ago . People like this are stealing from all of us tax payers, change the laws so that convicted benefit cheats are not allowed to receive any further benefits for the rest of their lives! dadidave, . Kirkcaldy, . 14 hours ago . People like this are stealing from all of us tax payers, change the laws so that convicted benefit cheats are not allowed to receive any further benefits for the rest of their lives! Cllr Cabbie, . To the right, United Kingdom, . 15 hours ago . That should be £43000 with interest added, plus costs. She should be refused any benefit until it's been paid back, with the above costs, from hard work! Happy Dude, . Newcastle NSW, Australia, . 15 hours ago . People in Australia who commit welfare fraud are jailed and made to repay the outstanding amount when they are released. If they claim welfare when they are released, a portion of their payment (around $80) is deducted until the amount owing paid in full. UK Taxpayer, . Once-Great Britain, United Kingdom, . 15 hours ago . £237 a week benefits!!! That's more than I earn a week in my full time job! The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. By posting your comment you agree to our house rules. ### SUMMARY:

Cleo Embley, 37, failed to tell authorities she was living with her boyfriend . Undercover investigators spotted her handyman partner Paul Harwood . taking their children to school . ‘The taxpayer just ends up paying itself back,’ stormed judge, jailing Embley for 22 weeks .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Lizzie Edmonds and Grant Hodgson . PUBLISHED: . 18:28 EST, 5 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 04:49 EST, 6 October 2013 . Prince Harry was mobbed by tens of thousands of adoring fans on Sydney’s famous harbour as he began his first official visit of Australia yesterday. Screams greeted the Prince as he went on a walkabout among the excited crowds after officially attending the International Fleet Review, which involved 40 warships from 17 nations. Despite being in Australia to represent the Queen, Harry’s party-loving reputation preceded him, as one national newspaper warned the country’s prime minister, Tony Abbott, to ‘lock up his daughters’. Scroll down for video . Adulation: Tens of thousands of screaming fans turned out to catch a glimpse of Prince Harry . Joking about: Prince Harry is greeted by members of the public during the 2013 International Fleet Review . Warm welcome: Harry shakes hands with scores of adoring fans in the Campbell's Cove area of the city . Fans of all ages: Harry jokes with a toddler held by its mother at the front of the crowd . Another described the Prince as the ‘most desirable ginger in the cosmos’. Despite a 20-hour flight from the UK, Harry showed no sign of jet lag as he boarded the Australian Navy’s survey ship HMAS Leeuwin. The Prince was dressed in a white Army tropical uniform with the sky-blue beret of Army Air Corps. Harry was joined on board the Leeuwin by Mr Abbott, and Governor-General Quentin Bryce, the Queen’s representative in Australia. Australian trip: Prince Harry speaks to the media (left) and walks along the tarmac (right) at Sydney Airport before departing for Perth . Talks: Prince Harry (left) speaks with Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott (right) at Sydney Airport today . Visit: Prince Harry speaks to the media (left) and points towards his police escort (right) at Sydney Airport . Shaking hands: Prince Harry (left) greets PM Tony Abbott at Sydney Airport before departing for Perth . Cheers: Prince Harry thanks the police officers who escorted him to Sydney Airport before departing for Perth . Greetings: Prince Harry meets with West Australian Premier Colin Barnett and his wife Lyn after arriving in Perth . Walking: Prince Harry arrives at Perth Airport with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and is greeted by West Australian Premier Colin Barnett . Driven off: Prince Harry gets into a car at Perth Airport in Australia, as a security officer opens the door for him . As Harry sailed past the Sydney Opera House, tens of thousands of spectators roared at him. Later, he changed into a navy blue suit for a walkabout among the  adoring crowds. Among them was student Lauren Burke, 22, who resembled Harry’s girlfriend Cressida Bonas, 24. She said: ‘I tried my best to flirt with him but it was quite formal and he was well behaved. I told him if he ever wanted to look around Sydney, I would be his guide. He smiled and laughed.’ Another onlooker, trainee medic Renee Simmons, 21, described Harry as ‘gorgeous’, adding: ‘I’m in love. He wears a uniform very well.’ 'Perfect gentleman': Lauren Burke, 22, left was weak at the knees when Harry picked up her mother Therese's hat while they stood in the crowd . For the cameras: Harry poses for a photograph with a member of the public holding a small koala cuddly toy . Snap happy: The public, holding cameras and smartphones, crowd around the Prince to take his photograph . Good to meet you! Prince Harry shakes hands with a small boy during his first official tour of the country . Crowded: A wave of people pack the foreshore to view the fleet of ships from 17 countries . Fans: Crowds gather to catch a glimpse of the Prince, who is representing the Queen during his visit . All aboard: The Prince boards a small boat to cross the harbour for a reception at Kirribilli House, on the north side of the bay with the country's Prime Minister Tony Abbott . The Prince then made his way across the harbour by boat to Kirribilli House, the official residence of the Australian prime minister. He posed for photographs with Mr Abbott, his wife Margie and their daughters, Frances, 22, and Bridget, 20 – who the politician had described as ‘not bad looking’ during the recent election campaign. Mr Abbott, a staunch monarchist, apologised to Harry for his nation’s strong republican movement, saying: ‘I regret to say that not every Australian is a monarchist, but today everyone feels like a monarchist.’ THE press had warned him to ‘lock up his daughters’ – but Mr Abbott was more than happy to introduce Prince Harry to Bridget, 20, Frances, 22, and his wife Margie at his official residence. In action: Prince Harry stands and salutes as he arrives at Garden Island in Sydney . All smiles: Harry grins for photographers onboard the HMAS Leeuwin during the celebrations . Visit: Harry and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott view Sydney Harbour during the Fleet Review . Official: Prince Harry and Governor-General Quentin Bryce pose onboard the HMAS Leeuwin . The fleet review climaxed with a stunning fireworks display over Sydney Harbour Bridge seen by an estimated million spectators. He described his Sydney experience as ‘absolutely fantastic’ before boarding Mr Abbott's jet today to fly to the west coast city of Perth. ‘It's just ... really sad that we're leaving,’ the 29-year-old royal told reporters before boarding the jet. ‘Work - just can't get the time off work nowadays.’ ‘The next time I come back you're going to be struggling to get rid of me, I'm sure,’ he added. Meeting the family: Harry is introduced by Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott to his daughter Bridget, second left, as his wife Margie, centre, and daughter Francis, left, look on . Keep to get a glimpse: Crowds wait for the prince at Kirribilli House, where a reception was held for the prince . Meeting fans: The Prince shakes hands with the gathering crowds outside the Prime Minister's residence . Magical: The day came to a close with a light show and massive fireworks display over the harbour . Incredible: The show, which saw more than 7 metric tons (7.7 tons) of fireworks used, was expected to draw 1.4 million spectators . Magnificent: Fireworks explode as the Royal Australian Navy warship HMAS Sydney sits underneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge . Spectacular: The Prince watched the amazing display from the reception at Kirribilli House . Lit up: The Sydney Opera House looks magnificent during the display . Western Australia state Premier Colin . Barnett, who greeted Harry in Perth, said the fourth in line to the . throne explained that he had to be home in a few days. ‘He said it was a short visit because he had to be back to work on Thursday,’ Mr Barnett told reporters. He is then heading to Dubai on Monday for a gala dinner for his charity Sentebale. Prince Harry last visited Australia in 2003 during his gap year, when he worked on a ranch in the outback. ### SUMMARY:

Prince Harry was greeted by tens of thousands of fans in Sydney . He attended the International Fleet Review involving 40 warships . And then he went on walkabout where he was greeted by screaming fans . One newspaper warned Australian prime minister to 'lock up his daughters' Staunch monarchist PM Tony Abbott apologised for republican movement .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 17:49 EST, 20 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 18:02 EST, 20 December 2013 . The number of U.S. sailors who claim to have been poisoned by radiation while serving during the 2011 tsunami in Japan - resulting in cases of leukemia, thyroid and testicular cancers, chronic bronchitis and brain tumors - has jumped to 51, as the group continue to fight the company they say didn't report the contamination when it happened. The U.S. Navy members who were allegedly infected - who served aboard the USS Ronald Reagan and its sister ship the USS Essex - started to develop strange symptoms and sicknesses in the months following their mission near the Fukushima nuclear power plant, such as lumps, night sweats and dramatic weight-loss. Now the majority of the group who worked in the rescue effort have been diagnosed with an assortment of diseases, after their ships' desalination systems pulled in contaminated seawater that was used for drinking, cooking and bathing. Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) conduct a counter-measure washdown to remove potential radiation contamination while operating off the coast of Japan providing humanitarian assistance in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami. Some 51 sailors involved in the effort are claiming to have been contaminated . Sailors working aboard USS Ronald Reagan during the 2011 tsunami effort in Fukushima, where a nuclear power plant went into meltdown, have been diagnosed with a variety of cancers they claim is a result of radiation contamination . Aerial shot shows white smoke billowing from a window in the No. 2 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, following a tsunami in March 2011 . In a lawsuit filed against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the plaintiffs claim the power company delayed telling the U.S. Navy the tsunami had caused a nuclear meltdown, sending huge amounts of contaminated water into the sea and, ultimately, into the ship's water system. 'At our level, we weren’t told anything,' Jamie Plym, who has been fighting bronchitis and hemorrhaging, told FoxNews.com. 'We were told everything was OK.' 'They said as long as the plume was avoided we would be fine. 'But we knew then that something was going to happen. 'Common sense tells you that the wind would blow it everywhere. You don’t need to be a nuclear scientist to figure that out.' San Francisco Attorney Charles Bonner, who is representing the allegedly cancer-stricken sailors, initially filed a federal suit in the Southern District of California more than a year ago on behalf of a dozen sailors. Aftermath: Aerial view of tsunami damage in an area north of Sendai, Japan, taken from a U.S. Navy helicopter assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan on March 13, 2011. An earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale hit the northeast coast of Japan causing a tsunami . The lawsuit was initially dismissed, when the court ruled that any ruling would hinge on interpreting communication between the Japanese and U.S. governments, which could violate the separation of powers. But Bonner is amending the suit to add new allegations that would fall under the court's jurisdiction. And the number of plaintiffs has more than quadrupled as more service members come forward with radiation-related illnesses, he said. 'They went in to help with rescue efforts,' said Bonner. 'They did not go in prepared to deal with radiation containment.' The new suit will be refiled on January 6. The plaintiffs don't blame the U.S. Navy, which they believe acted in good faith, Bonner said. It was the plant's operators who sat on the meltdown information during the crucial hours following the March 11, 2011 disaster, he said. 'TEPCO pursued a policy which caused rescuers, including the plaintiffs, to rush into an unsafe area which was too close to the [Fukushima nuclear power plant] that had been damaged,' Bonner charged in an April filing now being updated to add more plaintiffs. The damaged roof of reactor number No. 1 (L) is seen next to an undamaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after an explosion that blew off the upper part of the structure in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, March 12, 2011. Japanese authorities battling to contain rising pressure in nuclear reactors damaged by a massive earthquake were forced to release radioactive steam from one plant after evacuating tens of thousands of residents from the area . 'Relying upon the misrepresentation regarding health and safety made by TEPCO, upon information and belief, the U.S. Navy was lulled into a false sense of security. 'The officers and crew of the U.S.S. Reagan (CVN-76) and other vessels believed that it was safe to operate within the waters adjacent to the FNPP, without doing the kinds of research and testing that would have verified the problems known to the defendant TEPCO at the time.' Nathan Piekutoski, 22, who served aboard the USS Essex, which was in the same deployment as the Reagan, said sailors had no choice but to trust what they were told. 'They did say it was safe at the time,' Piekutoski said. 'We had to take their word for it.' Piekutowski now suffers from leukemia and, while he is currently in remission, doctors have told him that he may need a bone marrow transplant. The Pentagon has been monitoring and collecting data on radiation exposure in the region, a Department of Defense spokesman said. TEPCO officials have not responded to requests for comment. Soldiers aboard the USS aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan (pictured) were unaware they were being contaminated by radiation while serving in the 2011 Japanese tsunami effort Fukushima and were told by authorities the conditions were safe, claims their attorney . But during a recent meeting before members of the Japanese press on December 12, former Prime Minister Naoto Jan said the first meltdown occurred five hours after the tsunami, not the next day as reported at the time. Bonner believes the statement means the Japanese government knew radiation was being leaked and did not inform the U.S. Navy. 'They knew there was an active meltdown and they deliberately hid it from the public as well as the Navy,' Bonner said. 'Those sailors went in there totally unaware and they were contaminated as a result.' Plym says she is prepared to have her symptoms questioned in court, should the case go to trial. But with so many U.S. sailors coming forward, she believes justice will prevail. 'People will say that out lawsuit is fake and that we are doing this for money, but it’s really about getting the correct information out there,' she said. ### SUMMARY:

USS Ronald Reagan and its sister ship USS Essex worked the rescue effort near the Fukushima nuclear power following the Japanese tsunami in 2011 . At the time sailors were told they were safe from radiation . Diagnoses include leukemia, brain tumors and testicular cancer. The 51 they claim was caused by contaminated water . A new group action will be filed against Tokyo Electric Power Company based on allegations they delayed releasing confirmation of the meltdown .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Lucy Crossley . PUBLISHED: . 09:01 EST, 25 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:56 EST, 25 December 2013 . Bearing gifts of extra rations, Coca Cola and nylon stockings it is no wonder that American GIs were popular house guests among British families during the Second World War. With British soldiers away in Europe, war-hit families were issued with an urgent plea to invite their US colleagues to share their Christmas celebrations. Faced with the prospect of their guests bringing extra food with them, families jumped at the chance to welcome the Americans into their homes, with some 50 invitations being offered for every GI, or Government Issue. Festive cheer: With British soldiers away in Europe, war-hit families were issued with an urgent plea to invite their US colleagues to share their Christmas celebrations . Celebrations: Father Christmas hands out toys and games, including a set of building bricks, to children at a home for evacuees in Henley-on-Thames . For troops serving in a foreign land, far away from home, Christmas was a difficult time. Around 60,000 had reached Britain by December, with the majority being stationed in East Anglia, where they had been tasked with building airfields for American planes. As many soldiers and airmen as possible were given the day off, and advised to spend the day with British families, 'Filling the chairs left empty by British fighting men'. Posters were put up around bases bearing the message: 'GIs spend your Christmas at home with a British family'. The soldiers who took up the invitations were given special ration packs to share with their guests, containing sought-after items such as fruit juice, evaporated milk, bacon, coffee sugar, rice, peas and lard. Partying gift: A reveller says goodbye to a crew of GIs after a 1942 Christmas party thrown in their honour . Far from home: American troops settling into their accommodation hut in southern England . Time to relax: Two British-based GIs kick back with a well-earned beer . War and rationing had brought many changes to familiar festive rituals in Britain, and Christmas celebrations often had to be scaled down or adjusted as restrictions and shortages took hold. As even the most basic foods were scarce, festive luxuries were hard to come by. Gifts were often homemade and practical and children’s toys often made from recycled materials. With the extra food on offer, perhaps it was not a surprise when so many invitations were extended that in 1942 a US camp commander revealed 'The ration is estimated at 50 invitations for every one soldier available.' Party time: US soldiers dancing at Rainbow Corner, the Red Cross club for American troops in London . All aboard: American soldiers driving through the streets of London in 1942. Their average salaries were more than five times that paid to British soldiers . He urged more GIs about to spend their first Christmas in Britain to come forward 'and accept some more of those invitations'. One GI recalled in historian Juliet Gardiner's book Overpaid, Oversexed, And Over Here: The American GI In World War II Britain, how he was invited to spend Christmas at the home of a woman in the Land Army. He had arrived on a bicycle, laden down with his rations of spam, powdered coffee, chocolate and soap, along with other items from his camp stores. 'We all sat down to a Christmas dinner and scene that might have made Charles Dickens the only true recorder', he said. New friends: British Major General Archibald Nye plays 'Oranges and lemons' with London children at a party for American soldiers in 1942 . Determined: The threat of bombs did not stop the crowds doing their Christmas shopping in the famous Petticoat Lane market, London during the war . 'I don’t recall what we had for dinner, but at long last the plum pudding was served – and I gained the silver sixpence.' Along with their rations the GIs were also responsible for bringing many festive traditions into British homes, including Christmas crackers, while in exchange the Brits introduced their guests to Advent calenders and Advent candles. As in peacetime, a prominent feature of a war-time Christmas was singing songs and carols, and from 1939 onwards the BBC's special Christmas Day radio programming would include a speech by the King, an event which became an annual ritual and continues to this day. The Americans would also help British families to forget their wartime woes by throwing lavish parties at their Army and Air bases, inviting local school children to join in their festivities. War orphans were the guests of honour when the US Army soldiers of the 3120th Signal Service Battalion held a party for the children at the Salvation Army War Emergency Home at Lady Templemore's estate at Alresford, Gloucestershire. Party time: For many young children away from home Christmas was a difficult time, especially for these evacuees who were cheered up by a visit from Father Christmas . For these young children Christmas could be a particularly difficult time, as they were not only spending the holidays away from home, but they had also lost a parent - either in action, or as a result of enemy bombing raids. One former guest of a party in Middlesbrough recalled how a Christmas party was thrown for school children in the Town Hall and the youngsters each given a gift from Santa - who had an American accent. 'The G.I.s had decorated the interior with lots of flags, Stars and Stripes and Union Jacks, together with tinsel and paper chains,' he said. 'They served an immense amount of food, not only the cakes, jellies and blancmange but many sweet dishes that we hadn't seen for ages due to rationing.' Keen to decorate their vast bases, the GIs would hang 'chaff', strips of metallic foil thrown from their aircraft to confuse German radar, from trees, as well as more traditional items like coloured lights and streamers. Lasting legacy: GI brides and their babies get ready to fly to America for Christmas 1946. Unfortunately, their flight was turned back because of bad weather. These women and their children had to wait for another opportunity to reach their new home. When the GIs arrived on British shores in 1942, bringing with them sought-after Coca Cola, cigarettes, chewing gum and nylons there was initially distrust between the Brits and the GIs. Their average salaries were more than five times that paid to British soldiers and their generosity made them particularly attractive to women. Around 70,000 British women became GI brides, although it was estimated that around 9,000 war babies were born out of wedlock as a result of the GIs liaisons. After the war the British GI wives were offered a free passage by the US Army to start their new lives in America, although the journey was not so simple for the group of women preparing to fly across the Atlantic for Christmas 1946. Four years after the first GIs found themselves far from home in the UK, the British women found themselves in the same predicament as their flight was turned back because of bad weather, and they had to wait for another opportunity to reach their new home. By the time the war was over around three million US soldiers had spent time in Britain, and were frequently described as being 'overpaid, oversexed and over here'. ### SUMMARY:

American soldiers were encouraged to spend Christmas with Brits who saw them as Johnny come latelys to war . GIs given ration packs to share, containing fruit juice, bacon and sugar . Families issued so many invitations there were 50 for each GI . Troops also arranged Christmas parties for British children .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Steph Cockroft . As the debate rages on in the US about what is most to blame for the nation's obesity problem, a new film is claiming the real danger behind the epidemic is sugar. Fed Up, a film released in the US this week, predicts 95 per cent of Americans will be overweight or obese in the next two decades, unless something is done to tackle the so-called hidden sugars which appear in everyday foods. Producer Laurie Davies - who was also behind the 2006 film Inconvenient Truth which studied the myths surrounding global warming -  warns in the film that one third of adults will also have diabetes by 2050, as our brains become increasingly dependent on sugar. Scroll down for video . Fed Up, a film which looks into the approach to dieting and weight-related health problems , pictured above, says sugar and not fat is to blame for the rise in obesity rates . In the film, one of the interviewees Dr Mark Hyman, chairman for the Institute for Functional Medicine, says sugar is a 'fundamental problem' which noone is talking about. He said: 'The message has been pushed onto us: it is your fault you're fat. Forget about it.' Dr David . Kessler, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, goes one step father, predicting that the obesity crisis fuelled by sugar will end up as 'one of . the greatest public health epidemics of our time'. 'We are toast as a country', he tells the film. The expert comments come after researchers behind the film found that, of the 600,000 food items in the US, a staggering 80 per cent have added sugar. The film . claims fast-food chains and the makers of processed foods add more sugar to 'low fat' foods to make them more palatable. Dr Mark Hyman, chairman for the Institute for Functional Medicine, tells the new film that sugar is a 'fundamental problem' which noone is talking about . But the . truth about how damaging this can be for a person's health has remained hidden behind supposedly-healthy food labels - because manufacturers need to rely on sugar to make their food, the film claims. According to Gary Taubes, an author interviewed for . the film, blaming willpower for obesity - as has been the way for several years - is a 'crime'. 'Your brain lights up to sugar just as it does with cocaine and heroin, meaning you are going to become an addict' Instead, the film claims that obesity could be started by the human brain's reaction to sugar. The human brain 'lights up to sugar just as it does with cocaine and heroin', according to one expert. It means people who are unwittingly eating sugar will become addicted to the ingredient. Michael Pollen, writer of the book The Omnivore's Dilemma, also tells the film that, by not implementing laws to stop so much sugar being used, the government is 'subsiding the obesity epidemic'. According to the film, the . problem means early-onset diabetes - a condition associated with . exposure to cane sugar and corn syrup - will be a medical condition in one in . three Americans by 2050, if current rates continue. In two decades, 95 per cent of Americans will also be overweight or obese, according to the film. A study of the brain shows that humans react in the same way to sugar as they do to cocaine which causes addiction, the film says . The idea that sugar, rather than fat, causes both obesity and diabetes has been gaining support among diet and health experts for the past few years. In January, . an alliance of doctors and academics described sugar as 'the new . tobacco', blaming it for a range of health problems and early death. Fructose is found in fruit, sucrose (table sugar) and in high fructose corn syrup. It is a simple sugar and is sweeter than glucose. Sucrose (the sugar that we commonly add to food) is made up of 50 per cent glucose and 50 per cent fructose. High fructose corn syrup (containing more fructose than glucose) commonly replaces sucrose in the US food industry because it is both sweeter and cheaper. In the UK, it can also be labelled as ‘glucose-fructose syrup’ or ‘HFCS’. Because it causes a lower blood sugar spike than sucrose or glucose, and therefore has a low glycaemic index, manufacturers are allowed to claim that fructose is ‘healthier’ than the other two. But some scientists claim the problem with fructose is twofold. Firstly, there is no hormone to remove fructose from our bloodstream . (unlike glucose, which stimulates insulin production). It is therefore left to the liver to . remove it. When the liver is overwhelmed it converts fructose to . liver fat, which ups our chances of developing insulin resistance (a . precursor to diabetes), hardened arteries and heart disease. Secondly, . fructose suppresses the hormone leptin, which tells you when you’re . full. In other words, your brain lets you consume it without limit. A US study last year carried out by the University of California found that for every 150 calories of extra sugar people had each day, the prevalence of diabetes in the country rose by 1 per cent in the population. Mark Bittman, a columnist for the New York Times, supports this point, telling the film how junk food companies are acting like 'tobacco companies were 30 years ago'. The claims about sugar come after some scientists say illnesses that typically show up in the obese are also apparent in those who have average weight. Scientists claim this must be due to exposure to sugar. But efforts to curb the sugar industry have largely failed. In the US, . the Bush administration threatened to withhold funding to the World . Health Organisation in 2003, if it published nutritional guidelines which suggested no more than 10 per cent of calories per day should come from . sugar. Campaigners are now calling for health warnings on some foods, as well as equal advertising time to marketing fresh fruit and vegetables. They also want voluntary agreements to reduce sugar content. The problem is particularly apparent in low-fat . versions of foods such as yoghurts, fizzy drinks and spreads, in which natural sugars are swapped for sugar substitutes. But many other leading scientists say there is not yet enough evidence to prove sugar has the harmful effect some campaigners are claiming. Sugar Nutrition UK said the World Health Organisation published a review last year that found that any link between diabetes and body weight was due to over-consumption of calories and was not specific to sugar. Barbara Gallani, of the Food and Drink Federation, an industry group, also denied sugar was responsible for obesity. She said the industry already provided clear information on sugar levels to consumers, using figures and colour-coded labels. In Briton, the typical person consumes 12 teaspoons of sugar a day and some adults consume as many as 46. The film, produced by Laurie David, former wife of Seinfeld creator Larry David, is narrated by TV journalist Katie Couric. It was released this week in America. ### SUMMARY:

New film Fed Up warns it is sugar and not fat which is causing obesity . 80 per cent of the 600,000 food products in America have added sugar . A third of adults will have diabetes by 2050 if nothing is done, film predicts . Dr David Kessler says it is 'one of the greatest public health epidemics of our time'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Victoria Woollaston . Ask anyone who they think is the greatest singer of all time and it’s likely to divide opinion. In an attempt to solve this age-old question, a website has plotted the vocal range of singers widely considered to be the best, alongside contemporary artists nominated for last weekend's Billboard Music Awards. Although the list features the likes of Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin the singer who tops the chart is Guns N’Roses frontman Axl Rose, followed closely by Mariah Carey. Scroll down for infographic . This graphic was created by Concerthotels.com to celebrate the Billboard Music Awards. It looked at the vocal range for singers widely considered among the greatest of all time. Axl Rose was found to have the greatest vocal range, covering five octaves, while the female with the greatest range was Mariah Carey . Axl Rose: F1 on There Was A Time up to Bb6 on Ain’t It Fun . Mariah Carey: F2 on Sweetheart to G7 on Emotions . Prince: E2 on Daddy Pop to B6 on God . Steven Tyler: D2 on St John to E6 on Crazy . James Brown: Eb2 on Peace In The World to E6 on Funky President (People It's Bad) Marvin Gaye: D2 on Easy Living to Eb6 Flyin' High . According to the chart, Rose covers five octaves ranging from F1 on There Was A Time, from the 2008 album Chinese Democracy, up to Bb6 on Ain’t It Fun from the 1991 album “The Spaghetti Incident?“. Although Mariah Carey has the highest note of the group, hitting G7 in 1991 hit Emotions, she is in second place to Rose’s range. That said, Carey covers four octaves on Emotions alone. Her lowest note is F2 on Sweetheart in 1998. Rounding off the top three is Prince (E2 to B6), Steven Tyler (D2 to E6) and James Brown (Eb2 to E6). At the opposite end of the scale is country singer Luke Bryan ranging from A2 on You Make Me Want To, up to A4 on Over The River both from 2007. The lowest female is Taylor Swift hitting F#5 in You Belong With Me in 2008, down to E3 on Begin Again in 2012. Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose, pictured, ranges from note F1 on There Was A Time, from the 2008 album Chinese Democracy, up to Bb6 on Ain't It Fun from the 1991 album "The Spaghetti Incident?". The researchers began by taking names from the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time post from Rolling Stone. They then used The Range Place site to get their vocal data . At the opposite end of the scale is country singer Luke Bryan, pictured left, ranging from A2 on You Make Me Want To, up to A4 on Over The River, both released in 2007. The lowest female is Taylor Swift, pictured right, who hit F#5 in You Belong With Me in 2008, down to E3 on Begin Again in 2012 . ConcertHotels.com commissioned the graphic to celebrate the Billboard Music Awards at the weekend. As well as vocal range, the list can be sorted by singers that hit the highest notes, and those who have songs featuring the lowest. Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera and Prince score top on the high note chart with G7, C#7 and B6 respectively. While Axl Rose, Barry White and David Bowie are top of the lowest note list from F1, F#1 and G1. Along the bottom of the graphic is a keyboard that highlights where the notes sit, and hovering over a singer’s row reveals their top and bottom range. This range is also shown along the right-hand side. Unsurprisingly, male singers dominate the top half of the lowest notes list. Nina Simone is the first female, in at number 26 on the list. Although Mariah Carey, pictured, has the highest note of the group - hitting G7 in 1991 hit Emotions - she is in second place to Rose's range. However, Carey covers four octaves in Emotions alone. Her lowest note, according to the chart, is F2 on Sweetheart in 1998 . As well as vocal range, the list can also be sorted by singers that hit the highest notes, and those with the lowest. Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera and Prince score top on the highest note chart with G7, C#7 and B6 respectively. Along the bottom of the graphic is a keyboard that highlights were the notes sit and hovering over a singer's row reveals their top and bottom range. This range is also shown along the right-hand side . Music app Shazam has predicted the songs it expects to be hits this summer based on which are being searched for the most on the app. Ed Sheeran's Sing tops the list. Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea with Problem is second, followed by Sam Smith's Stay With Me in third. According to the research, Luke Bryan, who featured in the Concerthotels.com list, is set for a hit with Play It Again, and Nico and Vinz's Am I Wrong rounds off the top five. The highest notes list has a more even split and in the top 20, women make up 45 per cent, compared to 55 per cent men. 'We started talking about which singers have the biggest vocal ranges,' explained Concerthotels.com. 'Clearly vocal range is also determined by the songs the singers choose to sing, but nevertheless we figured it would be fun to dig a little deeper. 'We started by taking the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time post from Rolling Stone. 'To this list, we added some of the . nominees for top male and female artist at the Billboard Music Awards . 2014, because we were curious to see how Justin 'seven gongs' Timberlake, Katy Perry et al. stacked up versus the greats. 'Finally . we hit up The Range Place for their amazing vocal range data. 'We . included all of the singers on the list for whom the data was readily . available and all their data is taken from recordings as opposed to live . performances.' Michael Jackson, pictured left, is often labelled as one of the greatest singers of all time but he was 26th in the list based on vocal range. Barry White, pictured right, is renowned for his low voice but came second behind Axl Rose in the lowest note list . Axl Rose, Barry White and David Bowie were top of the lowest note list from F1, F#1 and G1, pictured. Unsurprisingly, male singers dominate the top half of this list and the first female doesn't appear until number 26 with Nina Simone . ### SUMMARY:

Graphic was created by Concerthotels.com to celebrate the Billboard Music Awards that took place at the weekend . It looked at the vocal range for nominees, as well as the greatest artists of all time according to Rolling Stone . This included older artists such as Bob Marley, Neil Young, Barry White, Lou Reed and Nina Simone . Plus more contemporary singers including Taylor Swift, Eminem, Miley Cyrus, Christina Aguilera and Beyonce . Axl Rose was found to have the greatest vocal range covering five octaves from F1 to Bb6 . The female with the greatest range was Mariah Carey singing F2 in Sweetheart, up to G7 in Emotions . At the end of the scale were Luke Bryan and Taylor Swift with ranges between A2 and A4, and E3 and F#5 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Daniel Martin, Whitehall Correspondent . Robust response: Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, is to look into the practicalities of allowing any school to be inspected without notice . Six schools accused of spreading Islamic extremism will be placed into special measures in a bid to tackle fanatics, a report into the 'Trojan Horse' controversy is expected to reveal today. Ofsted is also planning ‘no notice’ inspections dubbed 'dawn raids' as part of a crackdown on teachers who undermine ‘British values’. David Cameron has personally intervened in the controversy to demand an end to Ofsted’s practice of giving schools two days’ notice of an inspection. His move is a direct response to claims that hardline Islamist schools are taking advantage of the advance warnings to change lessons and give the impression they are promoting a multicultural society and not denigrating Christianity. Tough new powers to be outlined separately today by Education Secretary Michael Gove could also see teachers and governors who undermine ‘fundamental British values’ barred from every school in the country. He will address MPs after the publication by Ofsted of reports into 21 Birmingham schools that have allegedly been infiltrated by Islamic extremists. The BBC has learned that six of these will be placed in special measures after 'significant evidence' that children were not being adequately protected from extremism. Five of those schools - including Oldknow Academy and Park View School - were previously judged as good or outstanding by Ofsted, but have now been rated inadequate following an investigation sparked by the so-called Trojan Horse allegations. Ministers say this is precisely why advance notice inspections must be stopped. Following days of damaging rows at the heart of government, the Prime Minister will today meet senior ministers, including Mr Gove and Home Secretary Theresa May, to ensure progress is being made on tackling extremism in schools. He has also instructed Mr Gove to ask Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to report back on the practicalities of allowing any school to be inspected at no notice. Intervention: David Cameron will meet senior ministers, including Home Secretary Theresa May (left) and Education Secretary Michael Gove (right) to ensure progress is being made on tackling extremism in schools . Findings from the Education Funding Agency suggest that notice periods were used in schools in Birmingham to put on hastily arranged shows of cultural inclusion. The Prime Minister said: ‘Protecting our children is one of the first duties of Government and that is why the issue of alleged Islamist extremism in Birmingham schools demands a robust response. ‘The Education Secretary will now ask Sir Michael Wilshaw to look into allowing any school to be inspected at no notice, stopping schools having the opportunity to cover up activities which have no place in our society.’ Mr Gove said: ‘Evidence uncovered in . Birmingham clearly indicates that schools have used the notice they have . been given of inspections to evade proper scrutiny. 'Our children need . to be kept safe from the dangers of extremism and guaranteed a broad and . balanced curriculum.’ Allegations: Park View School, which has allegedly been infiltrated by extremists, has been iven glowing reports and rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted in recent years . A leaked report speaks of alarm at language and teaching in Oldknow Junior School, Birmingham . The Trojan Horse allegations came to light earlier this year after a letter emerged claiming existence of a plan for hard-line Muslims to seize control of schools by installing friendly governors, then forcing out uncooperative headteachers. The letter is now regarded as a hoax, but prompted investigations by Ofsted and the Department for Education, under orders from Michael Gove as well as West Midlands Police. The controversy has left David Cameron's Government in crisis after Mr Gove was forced to make a grovelling apology to the Prime Minister for undermining Home Secretary Theresa May, whose spin doctor had to quit for attacking the Education Secretary. The punishments were meted out after a furious Mr Cameron was compelled to intervene to stop a vicious power struggle between Home Secretary Mrs May and Education Secretary Mr Gove. Mr Gove agreed to say sorry after private remarks he made criticising her and Home Office counter-terrorism boss Charles Farr at a lunch with Times newspaper executives over the Home Office’s handling of extremism in schools appeared in the media. Mrs May’s spin doctor, Fiona Cunningham, was forced to quit for leaking a damaging private letter to Mr Gove written by Mrs May. Many in the Muslim community have expressed anger over the investigations, with staff at one of the schools inspected branding the inquiries nothing short of 'a witch-hunt'. Mr Cameron also said he was calling a special meeting of the Government’s Extremism Taskforce to discuss the implications arising from the findings of the Ofsted review and the wider situation in Birmingham. Mr Gove is expected to say today that the five or more schools to be placed in special measures by Ofsted could have their governors and leadership teams removed. Powers granted in February will allow him to impose an indefinite ban on anyone whose conduct has undermined ‘fundamental British values’, including ‘individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance or those with different faiths and beliefs’. The Rev Oliver Coss, a governor at Regent's Park primary school, one of the 21 inspected, told BBC Breakfast that allegations were made that were 'completely untrue' after the departure of its head and deputy head teacher last year. 'Our school was named in a document which has become known as the Trojan Horse document, as being one where the head teacher and the deputy head teacher had been removed by an insurgency. Those allegations we utterly rejected,' he said. 'I do think it is right that once criticisms or complaints are made about schools that we see them through and make sure we know that we have answers.' Commenting on the wider inquiry, he said: 'There is a wide variety of allegations that have been made by a number of different groups and people and it is absolutely right that we get to the bottom of what is going on, so that people have confidence in saying that there is no extremism in Birmingham schools and that children are adequately protected from those risks. 'But I think there is a genuine risk of making it seem as though Islam is the same as extremism, or Islam is the same as terrorism, those things are categorically not true. 'It is very wise and very right that we should respect Islamic communities in east Birmingham, it is very right that we should allow that to be reflected in the culture of our schools because those things are good and noble and we want things that are good and noble celebrated in our schools.' The Trojan Horse allegations came to . light earlier this year after a letter emerged claiming existence of a . plan for hard-line Muslims to seize control of schools by installing . friendly governors, then forcing out uncooperative headteachers. The . letter is now regarded as a hoax, but prompted investigations by Ofsted . and the Department for Education, under orders from Michael Gove as . well as West Midlands Police. Park View, Nansen Primary and Golden Hillock Schools are all expected to be given inadequate ratings and placed in special measures, with their governing boards replaced. They are run by the Park View Educational Trust, which rejected the findings, pointing out that Ofsted found ‘no suggestion’ of extremism or radicalisation within classrooms. ### SUMMARY:

Five of the six schools 'had previously been rated good or outstanding' Ofsted inquiry to say they had not done enough to tackle extremism . Prime Minister demands an end to two days' notice for Ofsted inspections . Chief Inspector of Schools Sir Michael Wilshaw asked to investigate plan . 21 Birmingham schools have allegedly been infiltrated by Islamic extremists .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Sophie Jane Evans . Her husband earns a seven-figure salary as a Premier League footballer. But Sunderland defender Wes Brown's wife Leanne is still counting the pennies - as she proved during a recent trip to Legoland. Leanne, 36, who visited the Windsor-based resort with her husband and daughters Halle, Lilia and Lola, collected tokens from cereal packets to gain free entry. Scroll down for video . Couple: Sunderland defender Wes Brown's wife Leanne is still counting the pennies - as she proved during a recent trip to Legoland. Above, the couple are pictured in a black-and-white photo posted on Twitter . 'A bargain': The mother of three collected tokens from cereal packets to gain free entry. She wrote on Twitter: 'We made sure we stopped off at tesco and bought 3 boxes of cereal to get the buy one get one free offer' The blonde mother of three wrote on Twitter:  'We made sure we stopped off at tesco and bought 3 boxes of cereal to get the buy one get one free offer legoland saving £138! A bargain.' Kellogg's is giving away two-for-one vouchers - offering one free adult entry for every adult or child ticket purchased - to several Merlin theme parks this summer, including Legoland and Alton Towers. By using the tokens, Leanne and her 34-year-old husband, who live in Cheshire, paid around £140 for six people, including a friend, to enter the resort, instead of £280. But despite their savings, Leanne was not impressed with the queue, rides, food nor the price at the theme park, which features 55 rides, shows, workshops and other attractions. A long wait: But despite their savings, Leanne was not impressed with the queue, rides, food nor the price at the theme park. Earlier in the day, she tweeted: 'Wow biggest que in the world at LegoLand! hope it's worth it' Resort: Kellogg's is giving away two-for-one vouchers to an array of Merlin theme parks this summer, including Legoland and Alton Towers. Above, Legoland in Windsor, Berkshire, which Leanne and her family visited . Husband and wife: Leanne and Wes, who married in 2009, have three daughters together: Halle, Lilia and Lola . Video courtesy of Sunderland Association Football Club . Earlier in the day, she tweeted: 'Wow biggest que in the world at LegoLand! hope it's worth it (sic)', but later added: 'Value for money it is not!'. She then took to her blog, writing: 'Legoland was not so great. Having never been there before, I was quite looking forward to it but was shocked to find out the price of entry per person. 'Luckily my friend Zoe remembered there . was a buy one get one free offer on cereal boxes, so we stopped off at Tesco . to buy three boxes of frosties and saved ourselves £138. Offer: Leanne collected the two-for-one tokens from the sides of three boxes of Kellogg's Frosties . '[This was] well worth it as . when we actually got inside, we ended up spending an extra £120 on the . equivalent to fast passes to bypass the queues…shocking but necessary! 'The rides were dated and there wasn’t much to raise the heartbeat (to be honest, even my seven-year-old wasn't impressed). 'They [also] ran out of hotdogs. Unfortunately we will not be going again.' Wes, who married Leanne in 2009, owns a five-bedroomed mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire, complete with a decadent cinema room, a vast spiral staircase, a leisure complex and a sound-proofed music studio. In 2010, he put the property up for sale for £4.5million, but was later forced cut the price by £1million after failing to sell it for several years. The couple's visit to Legoland this week was part of a 'family trip' to Windsor, Berkshire, before the ex-Manchester United player settles down for the Premier League season. Wes joined the Manchester United youth team in 1996, before becoming a regular first team player in the 1998-99 season, during which he was part of the club's treble-winning side. From 2000 to 2008, he won numerous honours, including four Premier League titles, an FA Cup, a League Cup and another Champions League. He earned his first England cap in 1999, before being selected to play at the 2002 World Cup. He retired from international football in August 2010, but joined Sunderland on a four-year deal in July 2011. Mansion: Wes, who married Leanne in 2009, owns a five-bedroomed mansion (pictured) in Prestbury, Cheshire, complete with a decadent cinema room, a vast spiral staircase, a leisure complex and a music studio . The club, nicknamed the 'Black Cats' and managed by Gus Poyet, recently enjoyed a pre-season tour in Portugal where they enjoyed mixed success. They will kick off their season away at West Brom, a fixture they lost 3-0 last season. Speaking of Leanne's purchase of its promotional packets of cereal, a Kellogg's spokesman said: 'Our fantastic value on pack offers such as Merlin are for all of our loyal consumers to enjoy whatever their bank balance. 'At the end of the day millionaire or not, everyone loves a bargain.' Defender: Wes Brown, pictured playing for Sunderland, will soon settle down for the Premier League season . Meanwhile, a Legoland spokesman said: 'We are, of course, always disappointed if any of our visitors do not 100 per cent enjoy their day with us. 'We are, however, a little at a loss to understand these comments given Mrs Brown took advantage of our fantastic Kelloggs offer – giving her and her whole family a wonderful full day out together for significantly less than say the average hour long beauty treatment.' 'Legoland was not so great! Having never been there before I was quite looking forward to it but was shocked to find out the price of entry per person. 'Luckily my friend Zoe remembered there was a buy one get one free offer on cereal boxes, so we stopped off at Tesco to buy 3 boxes of frosties and saved ourselves £138. '[This was] well worth it as when we actually got inside we ended up spending an extra £120 on the equivalent to fast passes to bypass the queues…shocking but necessary. 'The rides were dated and there wasn’t much to raise the heartbeat (to be honest even my seven-year-old wasn’t impressed. 'Oh, and they ran out of hotdogs! Unfortunately we will not be going again. We would definitely have been much better off spending the day in and around the hotel and the countryside!' Source: Leanne's blog . ### SUMMARY:

Wes Brown's wife Leanne collected tokens from Kellogg's cereal packets . Using offer, she paid £140 for six people to enter resort, instead of £280 . This is despite her famous footballer husband earning seven-figure salary . Couple visited resort in Windsor, Berkshire, with husband and daughters . Leanne later revealed she was not impressed with park's queue nor price . She said on blog: 'Legoland was not so great. We will not be going again'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Mark Prigg . Apple's iPad mini launched last week, and before iteven went on sale, enterprising fans has acquired one and ripped it apart. However, today another site, IH, has gone one step further and worked out exactly how much the gadget costs Apple to make. The firm says that the Wi-Fi 16GB base model costs roughly £117 ($188) for Apple to build - and it sells them for £269 ($329) each. Scroll down for video . The iPad mini in pieces: US site IHS has added up the cost of the components, and found the base £269 model costs £117 to make . The IHS study found the iPad mini's bigest costs were: . £50 ($80) - Display (with associated control chips) £9.70 ($15.50) - Memory chips . The 32GB and 64GB models cost an additional £19 ($31) and £39 ($62) to build, respectively. During its Q4 earnings call last week, Apple's CFO Peter Oppenheimer said that the . iPad mini gross margin is 'significantly below' the rest of the products . Apple is cranking out. 'We’re unwilling to cut corners in delivering . the best experiences in the world,' Tim Cook added. Apple also said it will be working to make iPad mini production more . cost-effective in the future. In its report, IHS further looked at the components that are being used . to build the iPad mini. It was found that LG Display and AU Optronics . are supplying roughly $80 in display components for the 7.9-inch tablet. iFixit’s teardown released on Friday found that Samsung is also making . display components, too. Samsung was also found to be supplying the A5 . chip in the iPad mini in IHS’ report. However, IHS wasn't the first site to rip apart Apple's new mini. Ifixit.com got there before the gadget even went on sale . The . £269 iPad mini goes on sale tomorrow, but the site has already posted a . look inside the gadget set to become the must-have this Christmas. Apple's iPad mini uses a display from South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, one of Apple's major suppliers and also its fiercest rival in the global mobile-device market that the two companies dominate. Analysts say the Silicon Valley-based iPhone maker is trying to wean itself off its reliance on Samsung, as both giants are embroiled in a bitter international legal battle over mobile patents, for everything from microchips to displays. In the first dismantling of the iPad mini, which will be sold in 34 countries beginning tomorrow, teardown and gadget-repair specialist company, iFixit, discovered a Samsung display driver chip, which indicated that Apple had picked the Korean firm's screen technology. Like most producers of mobile hardware, the U.S. company typically employs several suppliers for the same components in its gadgets. Apple has been known to use screens made by LG Display, for instance. The chips (coloured) which reveal Samsung as the screen supplier for Apple's iPad mini . The ifixit site details the entire process of dismantling the iPad Mini . The iFixit.com site is well known for taking apart gadgets as soon as they are released. It aims to help third parties find out how easy their new gadget are to repair, and each new gadget is given a 'repairability index'. In the iPad mini's case, the index was low - meaning few parts can be repaired. However, the firm did find that the Samsung manufactured screen can be easily repaired. 'Though the markings on the back of the LCD (display) don't turn up much information, the Samsung display driver IC (chip) reveals that Apple, once again, went with Samsung in its display manufacturing,' iFixit said, detailing the teardown on its website. However, Apple does sometimes uses more than one supplier. Supplying parts for Apple's iPhones and iPads - some of the industry's most popular and advanced gadgets - is considered a coup for chipmakers and other manufacturers. The iPad mini also employs SK Hynix Inc flash memory, a Broadcom touch controller, and a number of microchips from Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc, according to iFixit, which acquired one early. The 7.9-inch iPad mini marks the Apple's first foray into the smaller-tablet segment. The company hopes to beat back incursions into its home territory - carved out with the original iPad's launch in 2010 - with 7-inch slates that are popular with consumers, even as it safeguards its lead in a larger tablet space that even deep-pocketed rivals like Samsung have found tough to penetrate. It has won mostly positive reviews focused on its ability to wrap most of the functions of its full-sized iPad sibling into a smaller package, but critics pointed out the higher price tag of the iPad mini and an inferior display relative to those of rival products like Amazon's Kindle Fire HD and Google's Nexus 7. The main motherboard of the iPad Mini, with Apple's a% processor visible in the centre. However, the site has so far failed to identify many of the other components in the gadget. Online sales have run for a week, but Apple has not disclosed sales numbers so far. Friday's global sales rollout may offer a hint of demand for the gadget, which analysts expect to be strong. Apple and Samsung are engaged in patent disputes across several countries, and Apple is believed to be seeking ways to rely less on Samsung. But the Asian tech powerhouse remains a key supplier for Apple, manufacturing its application processors and providing other components. Samsung has stopped supplying displays for Apple's iPhone, and plays a reduced role in the full-sized iPad, according to DisplaySearch. Apple is also buying fewer memory chips from Samsung for the iPhone 5, relying more on Hynix and Elpida Memory. Many analysts believe Apple will also gradually phase out Samsung as the main producer of the mobile micro-processor and shift business to rival supplier TSMC. The site gave the iPad mini a repairability score od 2/10 . iPad Mini Repairability: 2 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair) source: iFixit.com . The iPad mini in pieces: US site ifixit has taken the gadget apart before it even goes on sale - although many of the components are still a mystery . The white iPad mini before being taken apart . The internal battery connector being removed using a special plastic tool . The iPad mini's main control board. The team have so far identified the marked chips, but are yet to confirm what their function is. Do not try this at home: The team used a heat torch to melt the glue in the rear of the iPad mini holding the internal components together . The A5 processor iFixit found at the heart of the iPad mini . The iPad mini's touchscreen controller chips . The iPad mini's stereo speakers . The camera sensor being removed from the casing . iFixit has previously taken apart the iPhone 5, seen here . The iPhone's arch rival, the Samsung Galaxy S3, in pieces . The iPhone 5 laid bare by ifixit . ### SUMMARY:

IHS site took Apple's latest iPad apart and added up the cost of its components . Profit margin believed to be lower than other products in Apple's range - although firm has pledged to reduce manufacturing costs . Screen is biggest cost - with a bill of £50 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . David Mccormack . and Ruth Styles . A mother of two who lost her hands and feet and nearly her life after a silicone filler procedure went horribly wrong says she is a living example of what can happen when you put your life in the hands of rogue cosmetic surgery practitioners. Apryl Brown, from Los Angeles, was a successful hair stylist who owned her own salon, but had always wanted to fix what she saw as her ‘flaw’ – her flat bottom. Instead of a curvier behind, Apryl was left in agony and eventually had to undergo 27 surgeries to have her buttocks, legs and arms amputated after a black market practitioner injected her with industrial grade silicone of the sort commonly used in bathroom sealant. Scroll down for video . Apryl Brown, 47, lost her hands and feet and nearly her life after a silicone filler procedure went horribly wrong . Since recovering from the horrific ordeal the 47-year-old has devoted much of her time to speaking out and encouraging others to think twice about what they let someone inject in their bodies and seek out skilled professionals . Since recovering from the horrific ordeal the 47-year-old has devoted much of her time to speaking out and encouraging others to think twice about what they let someone inject in their bodies and seek out skilled professionals. ‘All I would ask them to do is, when you have that first thought, make sure they have a second thought about it and do a little research. And if they still want to do it, go for it,' she told CNN. 'They won’t be blindsided, saying, “Oh, my God, I had no idea that a simple procedure like that can leave me with no hands, no feet and no butt cheeks.'" It is a growing problem, with the American Society of Plastic Surgeons warning that more and more people are putting their lives at risk by bypassing doctors just to save some money on basic medical procedures. In 2007 Apryl was rushed to hospital, where surgeons discovered that a massive infection caused by the impure silicone had caused her body to go into severe shock . ‘I think that’s awfully seductive to a person who doesn’t know there’s a problem,’ said Dr. Richard Glogau, a clinical professor of dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco. At 47, Apryl has had to learn to do everything all over again with prosthetics and has learned to live on her own with the help of an aide who comes in to help her for a few hours a day. In recent years she has even competed in the Pasadena Triathlon and while she doesn't want people's pity, she does want them to listen to her cautionary story. Her problems began in 2005 when a woman claiming she could provide buttock injections walked into her salon. Instead of telling her to leave, Apryl, who says she always wanted bigger buttocks, was thrilled and immediately agreed to have the treatment. At first, everything seemed fine but just months after having the injections, the pain began. At 47, Apryl has had to learn to do everything all over again with prosthetics and in recent years she has even competed in the Pasadena Triathlon . 'They [Apryl's buttocks] started to get hard, and then they started to get discoloured,' she explains. 'By 2006, it was starting to itch and by 2007, the pain started. 'One thing about pain is that you can't turn it off. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, I couldn't even concentrate.' But things continued to get worse. ''I had gone to this party one Saturday night and woke up Sunday morning and thought "oh my God, Apryl!". I just couldn't pull myself together,' she remembers. 'That night was the roughest night of my life. I literally scratched all of the skin off my buttocks. My nails pulled all of the skin off my body. And when my sister came in, and she saw that, it freaked her out.' Apryl was rushed to hospital, where surgeons discovered that a massive infection caused by the impure silicone had caused her body to go into severe shock. 'The only end point on silicone injections is removal,' explains the doctor who saved Apryl's life, James Jens Black. Despite the heavy price she paid for cheap surgery, Apryl says that she's recovering and is determined to enjoy the rest of her life . Instead of a curvier behind, Apryl was left in agony and eventually had to undergo 27 surgeries to have her buttocks, legs and arms amputated . 'Removal when it's not infected or removal when it is infected and about to kill you.' After a month in a coma, Apryl awoke to a very different world. The drugs that saved Apryl's life had diverted blood flow to her essential organs, keeping her heart beating and liver functioning as her body fought off the infection. But her hands and feet, starved of oxygen while the drugs did their work, had died. 'I just moved the cover and I saw my right foot and I thought "oh my God" and it was that moment, that's when it got real,' remembers Apryl. 'They were just black and swollen and necrotic and there was gangrene, and one [of Apryl's family members] said: "just look at your hands" and I looked and that's when it got really real. Along with her buttocks, too damaged and infected from the injections to remain, her hands and feet had to be amputated. Despite . the heavy price she paid for cheap surgery, Apryl says that she's . recovering and is determined to enjoy the rest of her life. 'Now . it's just my new normal,' she explains. 'Now it's just different. Now I . don't just wake up and jump up on my legs, I wake up and snap on my . prosthetics. Gruesome: The damage to Apryl's backside following the botched jab. Her buttocks were later amputated . 'The hands, that's more challenging because you don't really realise how much you do with them until you don't have them.' She also hopes others will learn from her story and offers this advice to those contemplating surgery: 'Don't ever do anything without researching it and definitely don't ever do anything on the black market. 'It's not about how you fall down. It's not about making choices that are not catastrophic. It's about knowing how to get up. 'And the only thing that will ever make you feel better about yourself is feeling loved. That you are enough, no matter how it looks, what it is or how it feels, that it's enough.' Video: DIY plastic surgery leads to horrific injuries . ### SUMMARY:

Apryl Brown, from Los Angeles, lost her hands and feet and nearly her life after a silicone filler procedure went horribly wrong . She was left in agony and eventually had to . undergo 27 surgeries after . a black market practitioner injected her with industrial grade silicone . The 47-year-old now . encourages others to think twice about what they let someone inject in . their bodies . She says she doesn't want people's pity and in recent years she has even competed in the Pasadena Triathlon . 'The only thing that will ever make you feel better about yourself is feeling loved,' says Apryl . The American Society of Plastic Surgeons . warns that more people are putting their lives at risk by . bypassing doctors just to save some money . WARNING: Graphic content .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Griff Rhys Jones yesterday led the . tributes to his long-standing comedy partner Mel Smith, who  died after . suffering a heart attack. Smith, his friend of 35 years, was a . ‘brilliant actor’ he said, and his death at the age of 60 had left . ‘everyone in a state of shock’. Smith died at his home in St John’s Wood, North London, where he lived with his wife of 25 years, Pam. Entertainer: Mel Smith died on Friday, aged 60, a loss which was described as a 'great shock' by his long-standing comedy partner Griff Rhys Jones . Paramedics were alerted shortly after . 9am on Friday but London Ambulance Service said he was ‘dead at the . scene’. Friends said that Smith had suffered a fall at home earlier in . the week ‘and had been unwell since’. Others said he been beset by ill health for months and had been ‘in and out of hospital’. Rhys Jones said yesterday: ‘I still . can’t believe this has happened. To everybody who ever met him, Mel was a . force for life. He had a relish for it that seemed utterly . inexhaustible. ‘He inspired love and utter loyalty . and he gave it in return. I will look back on the days working with him . as some of the funniest times that I have ever spent. We probably . enjoyed ourselves far too much, but we had a rollercoaster of a ride . along the way. 'Terrific business. Fantastic fun, making shows. Huge . parties and crazy times. And Mel was always ready to be supportive. Nobody could have been easier to work with.’ Sad news: The actor and director Mel Smith has died at the age of 60, his agent Michael Foster has confirmed . Comedy classic: Mel Smith (left) with his co-stars in Not The Nine O'Clock News Rowan Atkinson (back right) Pamela Stephenson (centre) and Griff Rhys Jones (front right) Dressed up: Mel Smith as Wilbur Turnblad, with Michael Ball as his wife Edna in the the West End Musical 'Hairspray' The pair found fame in the late 1970s . in the ground-breaking satirical sketch show Not The Nine O’Clock News. But it was Alas Smith And Jones, which lasted for ten series over 16 . years, that guaranteed their place in the comedy firmament. In later years they set up the . independent television company, Talkback Productions. Rhys Jones went . on: ‘We never had an argument about which part we should play or how we . were going to do something. We never had an argument, in fact. We loved . performing together. He was a very generous and supportive actor. We had . a good deal of fun. ‘Mel was not a pressure person. He was . a gentleman and a scholar, a gambler and a wit. And he was a brilliant . actor. But he never took himself or the business too seriously. We are . all in a state of shock. We have lost a very, very dear friend.’ When he moved into the director’s . chair, Smith’s career flourished further, first with the acclaimed . romantic comedy The Tall Guy and later the hugely successful Rowan . Atkinson film, Bean. Atkinson, who was also in the Not The . Nine O’Clock News team with Pamela Stephenson, said: ‘Mel Smith – a . lovely man of whom I saw too little in his later years. Partners: Mel with his 'other comedy half' Griff Rhys Jones in TVs 'Smith and Jones in Small Doses' Double trouble: Mel in red and Griff Rhys Jones in green during a drinkers sketch on Not The Nine O'Clock News . ‘He was the cast member with whom I . felt the most natural performing empathy. He had a wonderfully generous . and sympathetic presence both on and off screen. ‘He was also an excellent theatre and . movie director, doing a wonderful job on the first Mr Bean movie. I feel . truly sad at his parting.’ John Lloyd, producer of Not The Nine . O’Clock News, said: ‘Mel did an extraordinary thing – he taught us all . how to make comedy natural.’ Comedy duo: Smith and Jones became famous in Not The Nine O'Clock News together . In 2007, Smith took to the West End . stage to play Wilbur Turnblad in the hit show Hairspray alongside . Michael Ball. Concerns about the multi-millionaire comedian’s health were . raised four years ago after he appeared on a celebrity version of . Mastermind looking ‘frail and anxious’ and slurring his words. He was . taken to hospital days after the show was recorded and said later: ‘My . throat specialist feared I had cancer. I spent three weeks in agony in . hospital. It turned out I had a virulent throat infection.’ In 2000, Smith revealed that he had conquered a seven-year addiction to over-the-counter painkillers. He said he downed handfuls of the drug . Nurofen Plus ‘like Smarties’ after developing gout which spread from . his feet to his wrists, elbows and knees, causing excruciating pain. ‘It was my dark secret and I got deeply depressed,’ he said then. ‘I didn’t dare tell a soul. Like an . alcoholic hiding his bottles, I started hiding my Nurofen tablets in the . backs of drawers, behind books on bookshelves and slipped them between . scripts. It was all terribly grubby. ‘They didn’t make me feel high. They just helped me relax.’ Double act: Mel Smith with his long-term collaborator Griff Rhys Jones . Family: The comedian had been married to former model Pam for 24 years . Shock: Mel, pictured with his wife Pam in 2005, had been battling ill health for some time . On one occasion he swallowed 50 . tablets – more than eight times the recommended daily dose – and had to . be admitted to hospital. Tests revealed he had two stomach . ulcers which had been ‘dripping’ blood, leaving him anaemic. He said: . ‘When my doctor found out how many pills I’d taken he told me, “You . might as well of put a gun to your head”. I am very lucky to be alive.’ That realisation finally made him quit the tablets. At the start of his addiction, Smith . was also depressed that his career as a director seemed to be stalling, . despite his film Bean having taken £100 million at the box office. ‘It’s frightening how I became hooked . on a prescription drug which is freely sold over the counter at any high . street chemist,’ he said. The son of a bookmaker, Smith went to . Oxford before beginning his career as an assistant director at the Royal . Court Theatre in London, joining Not The Nine O’Clock News in 1979. BBC Director General Tony Hall said: . ‘Mel Smith’s contribution to British comedy cannot be overstated. On . screen he helped to define a new style of comedy from the late 1970s . that continues to influence people to this day. His pioneering TV work . with Griff Rhys Jones through their company Talkback has created many of . the defining comedy shows of recent decades.’ Tributes: Mel Smith's friend Peter Fincham described him as an 'extraordinary natural talent' ### SUMMARY:

Not The Nine O'Clock News star had been ill for some time, friends say . In 2000 he revealed his seven-year battle against pill addiction . Took Nurofen Plus 'like Smarties' after developing gout . Long-term collaborator Griff Rhys Jones: 'We are all in a state of shock' Friend Peter Fincham described him as 'an extraordinary natural talent'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: A Royal Protection officer has been arrested after bullets were found hidden in personal police lockers in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. The 9mm ammunition was found in a dedicated 'police station' within the palace grounds and is believed to be from the Metropolitan Police's own supplies. The officer was arrested at his home on suspicion of misconduct in public office and unlawful possession of ammunition. He is in custody at a London police station and will be suspended from duty, the force said. Incident: A Royal Protection officer has been arrested after ammunition was found in a personal locker in the grounds of Buckingham Palace (pictured). The ammunition is believed to be from the Met Police's supplies . Royal officers receive specialist training. Pictured are officers on the roof of Buckingham Palace (file photo) The officer 'normally works in a protection role' but was not assigned to guard any individual member of the Royal family, police said. He has not been charged with an offence. He was arrested after an investigation by the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards which began a few weeks ago. The probe was triggered by other Royal Protection officers, who found ammunition in their personal lockers and belongings before raising the alarm with their bosses. Investigators are believed to be considering whether the officer could have deliberately placed the bullets in a bid to ‘discredit’ colleagues in the tight-knit unit. The palace 'police station' in which the bullets were found is just inside an entrance known as Electricians Gate, on the south side of the Royal residence. Guarded: The Palace has round-the-clock protection from specially-trained elite officers from the Met Police . The lodge houses a parade room, lockers and armoury for the squad of officers charged with protecting the Queen, her family and guests. A Met Police spokesman said: 'Investigators have been searching the officer's home address and the police building where the ammunition was found. 'Established security procedures are unaffected by the investigation, which does not affect the daily work of the officers providing personal protection to the Royal Family. Security breach: In 2004 a Fathers 4 Justice campaigner scaled the palace walls as Batman . 'These units include some of the most highly trained and professional officers in the Met. They recognise the great responsibility their roles carry, and the privilege that goes with these positions. 'The Royal Household is aware of the on-going investigation and has been briefed on today's development. The IPCC have been informed.' A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: 'It is a matter for the Metropolitan Police. We would never comment on security issues.' Scotland Yard refused to reveal their suspect's age or the area in which he lives for 'operational reasons', despite these two details almost always being available after any arrest. Any misuse of bullets would be an extremely serious breach of police protocol and a potential criminal offence. It is a further embarrassment for the prestigious command at a time when security is already under review at high-profile buildings in the wake of the Ottawa shooting. Last week the Met announced it was shaking up the structure of its protection wing after a litany of scandals including Plebgate. Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said restructures had revealed 'a few pockets of poor behaviour which would not be tolerated'. He added: 'Nothing below the highest standards of personal behaviour is acceptable.' Senior commanders want to break up this unhealthy working culture and cut the jaw-dropping cost to taxpayers of protection operations, which include Royals, senior politicians and visiting dignitaries. A Buckingham Palace sergeant remains suspended from duty over separate claims earlier this year that he took knives, umbrellas and other items surrendered by public visitors and sold them on eBay. Officers from the elite unit have been tested by several breaches at Buckingham Palace, which was completed in 1850 and has 24-hour protection. In 2004 a Fathers 4 Justice campaigner dressed as Batman broke through heavy security to climb onto a balcony an unfurl a banner. And in 1982 the Queen infamously spent ten minutes talking to a man who had scaled a drainpipe to climb into the monarch's private apartments. Security: One member of the SO14 squad, Jim Beaton, famously took three bullets for Princess Anne during a kidnapping attempt as she returned to Buckingham Palace in her limousine in March 1974 (pictured) Ian Ball (left), 26, at the time, tried to kill the princess (right in 1974) and Captain Mark Phillips during the raid . Michael Fagan, 31, was barefoot and wearing just a T-shirt when he evaded electronic alarms and palace guards to disturb the Queen by opening a curtain. Known as SO14, the Royal Protection unit is one of the most elite in the force. Officers are picked from the Met's most experienced staff and receive specialist training. The eye-watering cost of protecting the royals is famously kept secret by authorities on security grounds, but has been estimated at around £100million by previous investigations. Several members of the Royal family as well as their homes and palaces have 24-hour protection, including some who have not been subject to any particular terror threats. One member of the SO14 squad, Jim Beaton, famously took three bullets for Princess Anne during a kidnapping attempt as she returned to Buckingham Palace in her limousine in March 1974. The altercation, which remains the closest anyone has ever come to kidnapping a member of the Royal family, took place outside the palace on the Mall. 1982: Michael Fagan broke into the Queen's bedroom after climbing the fence at Buckingham Palace and scaling a drain-pipe. He was sent to a mental hospital in Liverpool after being acquitted of stealing a bottle of wine from the Palace. June 2003: Aaron Barschak gatecrashes Prince William's 21st birthday celebrations at Windsor Castle. September 2004: A Fathers4Justice campaigner evades guards to climb on to one of the balconies at the Palace and unfurl a banner. September 2004: Weeks later two journalists claim to have 'breezed' past security with a fake bomb at Windsor Castle, weeks before the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. December 2010: A mob protesting against rising student fees stormed a car transporting the Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles in Regent Street. Reports claimed an open window allowed one demonstrator to poke a stick at the Duchess of Cornwall. MPs called for an inquiry into the police's handling of the event after it was claimed the Royals' car should not have been driving in Regent Street at the time of the protest. September 2013: Two men were arrested on suspicion of attempting to burgle. One of the men was found in a room which had been open to the public during the day when officers found him at 10.30pm. September 2013: Days after the arrests of two men at Buckingham Palace, armed police allegedly pointed their guns at Prince Andrew after mistaking him for an intruder in the gardens. November 2013: A man is arrested after trying to enter the Palace with a knife. ### SUMMARY:

Officer from elite SO14 unit suspended after having his home searched . Held on suspicion of misconduct and unlawful possession of ammunition . Royals aware of the incident and have been briefed on developments . Probe was launched when other officers found bullets in their lockers . Investigators looking at possibility of attempt to discredit colleagues . Arrest follows review which exposed 'pockets of poor behaviour' Buckingham Palace refused to comment on the ongoing investigation .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: With half-term almost upon us, there is good news for families planning an autumn break. The pound is up against the majority of the major currencies compared to this time last year, which could mean that little bit extra luxury this autumn season. The strength of sterling means holidaymakers jetting off to the sun could get up to 13 per cent more money than October 2013. There is fun for all the family at the four-star Hotel Cala Gran at the Costa del Sur - and this year it will cost less . Cyprus is always a good place to head to at this time of the year for some autumn sun . Travel money expert International Currency Exchange compared rates this October versus October last year and found the biggest difference to be Turkish lira, with families getting more than 195 extra lira on a £500 exchange. The pound against the euro has reached a two-year high in the past few weeks and now offers over 6.5 per cent more euros compared to this time last year, boosting spending power in popular autumn destinations like Portugal, Malta and the Canaries. Consider choosing a destination where your currency is strong versus the local currency. When you are away you'll receive better value on food, drinks and holiday activities. Booking a flight and accommodation together as a package can provide a saving. Book travel insurance before you leave to avoid the pitfalls of large bills and having to replace the contents of your suitcase if the worst was to happen. Book activities such as tours and excursions before you leave, saving time when you reach your destination. When booking late night or early morning travel consider the additional costs that may be incurred such as taxi fares or airport parking. If you are parking at the airport, shop around for the best deals. Book medical insurance before you leave to avoid potentially expensive medical bills if you fall sick or get injured. For those travelling in Europe you can get a European Health Insurance card which you can apply for online. It's free to apply and it can mean that the cost of medical treatment is significantly reduced or even free. Check if an in-flight meal is included and weigh up the costs of saving a few pounds on your flight vs. the amount you'll actually spend at the airport or in-flight on food. Consider all the extras when booking a hotel. A hotel might seem cheaper at first, but if you consider the cost of Wi-Fi and meals you may find you're not really saving at all – and may even end up paying more! Provided by Expedia . Those planning a holiday to North America for the fall could also be 'quids in'. Sterling has strengthened by more than seven per cent against the Canadian dollar. Parents forking out for theme parks and attractions in the US will find it a little more affordable than last October with rates now comparable to 2012. Koko Sarkari, head of International Currency Exchange, said: 'The pound is providing good value against a range of currencies right now, particularly the euro, offering over 38 more euros on a £500 compared to last October.' David Swann from Travelex added: 'The Pound's value has sunk slightly from its inflated position a few months ago but British holidaymakers will still get more from their holiday budgets compared to this time last year. 'Whether heading on a short getaway, or farther flung destinations there are some considerable savings to be made.' Expedia.co.uk managing director Andy Washington said: 'Families looking to book a holiday this half term can really benefit from the strong pound we are seeing this year. 'At the current exchange rate, for every £10 spent, holidaymakers receive a further 80 pence for their money in Europe, compared to this time last year. 'This puts British holidaymakers in a great position when booking European travel, giving them better value for money on hotel bookings and Euro currency before a trip. 'Visiting destinations where the pound is strong is a great way to save money and make it go further on your holiday.' London Gatwick Airport has released its forecast figures and destinations ahead of one of the busiest breaks in the school calendar. Around one million passengers will fly through Gatwick between Friday, October 24 and Sunday, November 2, with more than 509,000 expected to depart. The data also reveals that Friday, October 24 – the first day of the school break – will be the most popular to fly from the airport, with around 64,000 people expected to travel. Passengers are clearly making the most of the half term, with the busiest arrivals period set to be the day before the schools go back. Sunday, November 2 will see around 60,000 people return via Gatwick. The five-star THB Torrequebrada in Benalmádena comes at a good price for Brits this year . The NH Lord Charles in South Africa offers a luxury Brits might be able to take advantage of this half-term due to the strength of the pound . A seven-night stay in the Pensione Hotel in Perth, Australia, is now cheaper for Brits . More air passengers will fly off to Barcelona this upcoming half-term than anywhere else. The Catalan capital takes the number one crown from last year's most popular October half-term destination, Dublin. Meanwhile, Tenerife in the Canary Islands is 2014's third favourite, followed by the Dutch capital Amsterdam in fourth. Orlando, Florida – home to popular family attractions such as Disneyland and Universal Studios – remains a firm favourite this year in fifth place. Nick Pope, Operations Manager at London Gatwick, said: 'This has been a record year for passenger numbers at Gatwick and this October is no exception. Gatwick is ready to welcome more than one million passengers and we're expecting this October half term to be one of our busiest yet.' Lastminute.com have taken on board the strength of the pound and are hoping holidaymakers will be enticed into a last minute booking. A seven-night stay at the 5* Hotel Venus Beach, Cyprus, departing from London Gatwick on October 26, all inclusive was £1,253 per person at this time last year. Now it comes in at £877pp, a saving of £376pp. And a seven-night stay at the 4* Hotel Cala Gran - Costa del Sur, departing from Gatwick on October 26, all Inclusive was £775 last October, now it is £581pp, a saving of £194. And these cost savings aren't limited to Europe. A seven-night stay at the 4* Pensione Hotel, room only, departing from London Heathrow on October 26, was £1,121pp last October, and is now £995pp, saving £126pp. A Thomas Cook spokesperson said: 'Demand for holidays this half term has been incredibly high, and while there might be a few deals still available for anyone who's left it late to book, these are few and far between. 'Savvy consumers booked their half term breaks early, realising that holidays to popular destinations on the continent aren't as expensive as they might think. 'The Canary Islands, famed for year-round sunshine, their fantastic family offering and exceptional value for money, are proving particularly popular. However, it's not just Europe that offers great value – this half term, we've seen non-Euro Zone favourites such as Egypt and Turkey very much in demand.' ### SUMMARY:

Compared to other currencies, the British Pound is faring well . Savings to be made across Europe, but also further afield like Australia . Biggest difference is against the Turkish Lira, with 195TRY extra on £500 . One million passengers to fly through Gatwick Airport this half-term .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: A Texas prosecutor's office says it knew nothing of a 2004 attack on an Indiana woman when it offered a lighter sentence in a 2009 sexual assault case to a man now suspected of several killings. In a statement Monday, Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg said she offered Darren Vann a plea deal of five years' imprisonment in the 2009 case because it was weakened by the victim's delayed outcry, a resulting loss of DNA evidence and her inconsistent statements. The original charge could have meant up to 99 years in prison. Lehmberg said Vann's criminal history then 'revealed no prior history of sexual assault and no prior convictions.' Lehmberg spokesman Rudy Magallanes said the 2004 case didn't appear in Vann's criminal history. Police in Indiana say Vann has confessed to killing seven women. Case: Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, right, said she offered Darren Vann, left, a plea deal of five years' imprisonment in a Texas 2009 sexual assault case because it had been weakened. Police in Indian say Vann recently confessed to killing seven women . Victim: Vann has been charged in the death of Afrikka Hardy, pictured, whose body was found October 17, 2014 in a bathtub at a Motel 6 in Hammond, Indiana. Authorities say Vann has confessed to killing her . Last Wednesday, Vann refused to speak or even acknowledge his name to a judge, and a sheriff explained later that the suspect was upset his hearing was in open court before dozens of journalists. The judge asked Vann, 43, of Gary, Indiana, at his initial court appearance if he understood the reason for the hearing in the strangulation death of 19-year-old Afrikka Hardy. But Vann stood unmoving and stone-faced, staring back silently at the judge. 'Mr. Vann, are you choosing not to take part in this hearing?' Magistrate Judge Kathleen Sullivan asked Vann sternly. When Vann — wearing striped jail garb, with his wrists and legs shackled and flanked by two guards at the lockup — still offered no response, Sullivan told his public defender to 'tell your client that he stays in jail the rest of his life until this hearing takes place.' Putting his hand on Vann's shoulder, public defender Matthew Fech, encouraged him to speak — but he again stood silently. The judge then found him in contempt and said she would schedule another hearing for this week. Before entering the room, Vann had peered through a window at spectator benches, asking why so many journalists were there and refusing to even enter, Lake County Sheriff John Buncich said later. Fech finally convinced Vann to at least enter. Until the October 22 hearing in Crown Point, the sheriff said Vann's demeanor had been 'quiet, calm and collected,' which included confessing to investigators and leading police to abandoned homes where several bodies were hidden. Deaths: The bodies of Teaira Bately (left) and Anith Jones (right) were found last weekend in Indiana . Authorities: Lake County Coroner Merrilee Frey, speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, October 22, 2014 in Crown Point, Indiana. Darren Vann is set to appear in a court hearing this week . Vann is held in isolation on 24-hour-a-day watch in jail, Bunich said, so it's unclear how the contempt charge will alter his status. His silence, if it persists, could raise complicated legal questions that might severely slow the prosecution process. At the 10-minute hearing, the judge also issued a gag order, meaning investigators can no longer interview Vann unless they first get his permission through his attorney. Authorities, who had provided details of the case, can also no longer discuss it publicly. Vann, a convicted sex offender, was arrested October 18 and charged with the strangulation death of Hardy, whose body was found October 17 in a bathtub at a Motel 6 in Hammond, 20 miles southeast of Chicago. On October 22, he also was charged in the death of 35-year-old Anith Jones of, Merrillville, Indiana, whose body was found in an abandoned house Saturday night in Gary. Five more bodies were found October 19 in other homes, said Hammond Police Chief John Doughty, who identified two of the women as Gary residents Teaira Batey, 28, and Kristine Williams, 36. Lake County Coroner Merilee Frey said three bodies remain unidentified, one was found with a silver-colored bracelet with the words 'Best Aunt.' But bodies were largely skeletonized so other markings, like identifying scars or birthmarks, weren't present. Members of 17 different families have called the coroner's office inquiring about the bodies, and one call led to DNA tests on the third unidentified victim, Frey said. Scene: This October 20, 2014 file photo shows an abandoned home in Gary, Indiania where police found the one of six women's bodies . House of horros: Another body was found inside this separate residence, also in Gary, Indiana . Investigators in Indiana and Texas, where Vann also lived, have been poring over cold case files and missing person reports to determine if there are more victims. Inquiries were also being made in Illinois. Hammond Police discovered information indicating Vann may have been in various communities just across the state line in Illinois in Cook County between the day Hardy's body was found and when Vann was arrested. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart confirmed that 'through technology' investigators believe that Vann was in the area of Hazelcrest, Markham and Harvey then, but he wouldn't elaborate. But a law enforcement official close to the investigation said what Hammond investigators gave to the sheriff's department were cellphone records tracking Vann's phone through the region. The official, who was not authorized to speak about the investigation and would only discuss it anonymously, said investigators were also informed Vann told detectives that after a killing he would visit abandoned buildings where he'd stashed previous victims to ensure bodies had not been discovered. Vann was convicted in 2009 of raping a woman in his Austin, Texas, apartment. He was released from prison last year and moved back to Indiana. Before that conviction, he served a year in prison in Indiana after he grabbed a Gary woman in a chokehold in 2004, doused her with gasoline and threatened to set her on fire. In both cases, the charges against Vann were reduced in plea bargains, and Texas officials deemed him a low risk for violence. Vann registered as a sex offender in Indiana and police made a routine check in September that he lived at the address he provided. Sherriff Buncich said he wished registered sex offenders, like Vann, could be monitored more closely than they are but that budgetary and legal constraints make that difficult. ### SUMMARY:

A Texas prosecutor's office says it knew nothing of a 2004 attack on an Indiana woman when it offered a lighter sentence in a 2009 sexual assault case to Darren Vann . Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg said she offered Vann a plea deal of five years' imprisonment in the 2009 case . She said the case was weakened by the victim's delayed outcry, a resulting loss of DNA evidence and her inconsistent statements . Police in Indiana say Vann has confessed to killing seven women . He has been charged in the deaths of Afrikka Hardy, 19, and Anith Jones, 35 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The doors of New York's iconic Studio 54 gave way to a dark world of sex, drugs and alcohol-fuelled celebrities, a former owner's memoirs have revealed. The behind-the-scenes documents, which tell the 'true story' of the popular Manhattan club, were written by Mark Fleischman, who bought the venue from its founders in 1981. They reveal how the disco was the 'epicenter of New York's drug culture', with stars often gathering in Mr Fleischman's office, where an employee was specifically hired to cut lines of white powder. They also claim that the club had an 'ongoing' sex and high-end partying culture that was so popular that Michael Jackson would often retreat into the DJ booth to dance away from other guests. Scroll down for video . Iconic: The doors of New York's iconic Studio 54 gave way to a dark world of drugs, sex and alcohol-fuelled celebrities, a former owner's memoirs have revealed. Above, the popular Manhattan club in 1978 . Celebrity guests: The memoirs claim the club had a high-end partying culture that was so popular Michael Jackson (pictured with Woody Allen) would often retreat into the DJ booth to dance away from other guests . In good spirits: They also reveal how the disco was the 'epicenter of New York's drug culture'. Above, Rod Stewart (right) is pictured with actress Alana Hamilton (center) and Studio 54 co-founder Steve Rubell (left) Owners: The behind-the-scenes documents, were written by Mark Fleischman (left), who bought the venue in 1981. Right, Studio 54 co-founder Ian Schrager plans to release a positive book on the club in 2015 . It comes as co-founder Ian Schrager, who first launched Studio 54 in 1977 with Steve Rubell, is planning to release a Rizzoli coffee-table book on the club in the fall of 2015. Speaking of his memoirs, collectively named 'The Studio 54 Effect', Mr Fleischman said: 'Steve died in 1989 and Ian appears to be sanitizing what occurred. My book is the true story about Studio 54.' The former owner said he relaunched the club with an aim of 'entertaining the biggest stars of the world with Champagne and cocaine', including John Belushi, Keith Richards and Andy Warhol. In his memoirs, he reveals how celebrities used to watch an employee - 'a very pretty girl' - chop up to 40 'perfect' lines of cocaine alongside Champagne in his office, the New York Post reported. Having a dance: Singer Olivia Newton-John is seen dancing at the club with producer Allan Carr in June 1978 . A-list guests: Speaking of his memoirs, collectively named 'The Studio 54 Effect', Mr Fleischman said: 'Ian appears to be sanitizing what occurred. My book is the true story about Studio 54.' Above, Micahel Jackson is pictured at Studio 54 with Steven Tyler of Aerosmith (left) and Cherie Currie of The Runaways (right) Disco dancers: The former owner said he relaunched the club with an aim of 'entertaining the biggest stars of the world with Champagne and cocaine', including John Belushi, Keith Richards and Andy Warhol . Stars: Bianca Jagger, ex-wife of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, is pictured with two doves in a party held in her honor at Studio 54, while actress Ali MacGraw looks up as she sits next to former husband Robert Evans . 'There were so many people at a long desk, you needed 30 or 40 lines of coke,' he writes. 'That takes a long time. You don't want to make them uneven.' Mr Fleischman, who counted Rick James as his 'best friend' at the time, adds that while Jackson would dance in the DJ booth, U.S. fashion designer Halston would use it to do drugs out of sight. The memoirs also reveal that at 5am, a group dubbed 'the Dawn Patrol' - including Robin Williams, Dodi Fayed and Christoper Reeve - would climb into a limousine provided by the owner. Posing: Curtis Mayfield of the Impressions, who composed the soundtrack to Super Fly, poses at the club . Party: In his memoirs, Mr Fleischman reveals how celebrities used to watch an employee - 'a very pretty girl' - chop up to 40 'perfect' lines of cocaine alongside Champagne in his office. Above, New Year's Eve party . A lavish treat: Dolly Parton with a white stallion at the nightclub West 54th Street. This was one of co-founder Steve Rubell's strategies to ensure the A-list celebrities would return to the club time and time again . Future couple: Mr Fleischman, who counted Rick James as his 'best friend' at the time, said that Michael Jackson would dance in the DJ booth to escape the crowds. Above, Mick Jagger and Jerri Hall arrive . Then, they would head to an after-hours venue in the Meatpacking District, where they would continue partying 'until noon', they said. Guests at Studio 54 were greeted by famed New York City doorman Haoui Montaug, while performers at the club included Madonna, Wham!, Duran Duran, Cyndi Lauper and Lime. Other celebrities spotted at the venue included Woody Allen, Rod Stewart, Dolly Parton, Olivia Newton-John, Bianca Jagger and producer Allan Carr. Relaxing with friends: Diane von Furstenberg (center) attends a party at Studio 54 on September 25, 1978 . Co-founders Mr Fleischman, who bought the popular Manhattan disco when Mr Schrager (right) and Mr Rubell (left, pictured in May 1977) were serving time for tax evasion, said he 'crashed' after selling it in April 1986 . Club: In subsequent years, the former owner attended rehab, before venturing to a spiritual mountain in Baja, California, where he said he 'gained redemption'. Today, he owns Bar Method exercise studios in LA . Mr Fleischman, who bought the disco when Mr Schrager and Mr Rubell were serving time for tax evasion, said he 'crashed' after selling it in April 1986. In subsequent years, he attended rehab, before venturing to a spiritual mountain in Baja, California, where he said he 'gained redemption'. He then started reinventing himself in the night club industry, opening more American clubs and restaurants. Today, he owns Bar Method exercise studios in Los Angeles. But despite his new venture, he still says: 'I miss Rick and the old times at Studio 54.' ### SUMMARY:

Behind-the-scenes documents were written by ex-owner Mark Fleischman . They reveal how Studio 54 was  the 'epicenter of New York's drug culture' Tell of how Michael Jackson would retreat into DJ booth to dance on own . Guests would venture into room 'filled with as many as 40 lines of cocaine' Celebrities who frequented venue included John Belushi and Andy Warhol . Mr Fleischman purchased the iconic Manhattan club from founders in 1981 . Comes as co-founder Ian Schrager plans to release book on venue in 2015 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: When Ian Bell was dropped after two matches of England’s tour to Sri Lanka before Christmas, his World Cup place was very much in jeopardy. Now he has confirmed his role at the top of the order in emphatic fashion. Not only did Bell’s magnificent 187 at the Manuka Oval on Wednesday spoil Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s annual cricketing party but it proved that perhaps England can play modern one-day cricket after all. The giddy heights of 391 for six against a far-from-shabby Prime Minister’s XI was certainly a statement from an England side who seemed to arrive in Australia hoping once again that everything would be all right on the World Cup night. Ian Bell hits out on his way to a magnificent 187 as England beat a Prime Minister's XI in Canberra . Bell's innings dispelled any thoughts that he does not deserve a place in England's World Cup line-up . Nothing more so than the contribution of Bell, who was controversially handed Alastair Cook’s opening role here ahead of Alex Hales on the far-from- convincing evidence of just three centuries in 150 ODIs. Bell is England’s classiest Test batsman but he has never been as comfortable in coloured clothing and his selection seemed to provide more ammunition to those who feel England remain stuck in the one-day dark ages. This, then, was vindication for the selectors, who ditched their captain Cook before coming here but not their game-plan, and provided a little hope that this World Cup mission might not necessarily be doomed to failure. The opener's enormous score helped England reach a total of 391 for six at the Manuka Oval . Bell is congratulated by James Taylor after reaching his century against the Prime Minister's XI . ‘Of course I was worried about my World Cup place,’ admitted Bell afterwards. ‘The squad had to be narrowed down and a lot of people have come in and done well. Coming out here I didn’t know where I was going to bat or even if I was going to start, so it was nice to have a good chat with Eoin Morgan when he told me I was going to get first crack.’ The sight of Glenn Maxwell, far from certain of a place in Australia’s World Cup side, smashing 136 off 89 balls in reply ensured England did not get too carried away by their sudden show of batting strength. Another notable mention must go to Chris Woakes who managed to complete a stunning 'keepy-up' catch to dismiss Lega Siaka. Chris Woakes fumbles a catch in the field during the Prime Minister's XI clash in Canberra on Wednesday . The 25-year-old keeps his eye on the ball as it rebounds off his thigh after a wayward shot from Lega Siaka . Woakes manages to flick the ball with his feet back towards his grasp all in one motion . The 25-year-old fumbled Siaka's attempt for a boundary as the ball rebounded off his thigh and looked destined to be a missed chance in the field. However Woakes was able to flick the ball with his feet back towards his hands in one swift motion to complete an impressive recovery to add an extra gloss to the victory. More will become clear once England have faced Australia and India in the Tri-series, which begins tomorrow, but for now they can be satisfied with just about the perfect batting display even if their bowling here was not so effective. England want Bell to bat through an innings while others, notably his partner Moeen Ali, attack around him and the plan was executed spectacularly by the openers and a worthy accomplice in James Taylor. Woakes completes his remarkable recovery and catch to help dismiss Lega Siaka off Chris Jordan's bowling . Moeen said ahead of this final warm-up game that he would carry on being aggressive and he was as good as his word as he smacked 71 off 49 balls, including six fours in one frenetic nine-ball spell. Bell, meanwhile, moved to his hundred at just about a run a ball before accelerating to England’s highest individual score in a one-day match, hitting three sixes and 20 fours while consigning Hales very much to the subs’ bench. ‘One thing I’ve probably been guilty of when I’ve opened in the past is getting to 60 or 70 and not going on,’ said Bell. ‘But I enjoyed myself and if I can do that a couple more times it will be good for the team. It’s nice to have a good start but the big stuff starts on Friday.’ Stuart Broad (centre) celebrates with his England team-mates after dismissing Jason Behrendorff (14) Glenn Maxwell led the fightback for the Prime Minister's XI, hitting 136 off 89 balls . Matt Condon is bowled by James Tredwell (not pictured) for 19 runs as wicketkeeper Jos Buttler looks on . Only when he had reached 68 did Bell offer a semblance of a chance — Maxwell doing well to get a hand to a low drive — before guiding England to their equal highest score in a 50-over game, matching the 391 they smashed against Bangladesh at Trent Bridge in the heady summer of 2005. Taylor is another batsman who looked a long way from a World Cup place not so long ago but he came into the England side in Sri Lanka when Cook was suspended and has made the most of his unexpected opportunity. The biggest compliment that can be paid to Bell and Taylor is that they moved through the gears without fuss and as effortlessly as any of the leading exponents of the modern Twenty20-driven 50-over game. They added 141 in 24 overs, Taylor hitting 71 off 77 balls, as England impressively followed up the 364 they had scored in their opening tour match here in the Australian capital against rather more modest opposition. England's James Taylor hits out during his innings of 71 off 79 balls . Moeen Ali offered strong support for Bell with an attacking 71 runs off 49 balls . When England stood at 200 for one after 30 overs, a score of 400 did look on the cards and their failure to fully do themselves justice looked as if it might cost them dear when Maxwell set off in hot pursuit. The man known as the ‘Big Show’ in these parts is certainly a destructive performer and here he came close to taking apart a one-dimensional England attack lacking Jimmy Anderson, who is being eased back into competitive action. If Maxwell, one of two Australian World Cup players along with Pat Cummins in the PM’s side, had stayed for another five overs, England would have been in trouble. But once Stuart Broad had him caught at point, the home side had too big a mountain to climb. They finished 60 short on a day of 722 runs, Jos Buttler having earlier taking a spectacular running catch to dismiss captain Chris Rogers, and now England will travel to Sydney to take on Australia with just a little hope in their heart. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott joins captains Eoin Morgan and Chris Rogers for the toss . Moeen ali celebrates with Jos Buttler after taking the wicket of Peter Handscomb for 16 runs . Maxwell celebrates reaching his century - his innings of 136 wasn't quite enough for the PM's XI . ### SUMMARY:

England beat Prime Minister's XI by 60 runs in World Cup warm-up . Ian Bell hit magnificent 187 at Manuka Oval in Canberra . Moeen Ali and James Taylor both hit 71 as England posted score of 391-6 . Glenn Maxwell scored 136 in response but hosts could only reach 331 . Stuart Broad was pick of the bowlers with four wickets .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: A Dutch colleague watching Louis van Gaal’s most recent press conference on the internet found it amusingly familiar. He recognised the facial expression that said Manchester United’s new manager was less than impressed with what he considered a challenge to his authority. Not to mention a tactic he often employs when he does not want to answer a question. He simply dismisses it as a poor one and moves on. As Van Gaal said after being asked if Wayne Rooney’s red card had made him doubt the wisdom of selecting the combustible Englishman as his captain, it was his ‘right’ to offer no response. Which it was. New Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal does not suffer fools gladly during press conferences . Van Gaal's temper is reminiscent of the way in which Sir Alex Ferguson ruled at Old Trafford . Ferguson would often dish out contempt to questions he didn't agree with during press conferences . Sir Alex Ferguson . 13 x Premier League . 2 x Champions League . 4 x FA Cup . 5 x League Cup . 2 x European Cup-Winners' Cup . 1 x World Club Cup . 1 x Intercontinental Cup . 3 x Scottish Premier League . 4 x Scottish Cup . 1 x Scottish League Cup . TOTAL: 36 major trophies . Louis van Gaal . 1 x Champions League . 4 x Dutch League . 2 x Spanish League . 1 x Bundesliga . 1 x UEFA Cup . 1 x German Cup . 1 x Spanish Cup . 1 x German Cup . 1 x Intercontinental Cup . TOTAL: 13 major trophies . And on a weekend when Phil Mickelson demonstrated how destructive public criticism can be in a team environment, the Dutchman did himself no harm by displaying the kind of unity on which success at Old Trafford has long been built. If he was unhappy with Rooney for getting himself suspended for three matches in what promises to be a tough few weeks for a misfiring United side, he expressed that view in private. For what it’s worth, Van Gaal actually missed the point when it came to that particular enquiry about Rooney. Sometimes questions need to be asked in anticipation of a wider response and the days of debate that have followed Rooney’s dismissal for kicking Stewart Downing prove the point. Some of it has been hysterical, some of it rather surprising. Some of his fiercest critics have suddenly become his most vocal allies, pointing to the fact that three years had passed since Rooney’s last red card. True enough. But a red card only six games into his captaincy at United is a statistic that at least raises concern that the burden of responsibility might occasionally become too much for a player of Rooney’s volatile nature. That does not mean that Rooney is not the right man to lead United in these challenging times, particularly at a football club where the captain has often been an extension of a combative manager. There was a time when the same heart appeared to beat inside Sir Alex Ferguson and Roy Keane, even if Ferguson would now deny it and Keane will no doubt do the same when his new autobiography goes on sale next week. Wayne Rooney was sent off for kicking out at West Ham's Stewart Downing at Old Trafford last weekend . The decision to hand Rooney the captain's armband has been scrutinised over the last week . Van Gaal, however, brushed off questions surrounding his choice when asked on Saturday . The relationship between Van Gaal and Rooney is similar to that of Ferguson and Roy Keane . Van Gaal clearly sees something of himself in Rooney. It will be why he chose him. And while Rooney’s professional relationship with Ferguson might have ended much like Keane’s, he might see something of his former manager that he admires in Van Gaal, too. That press conference on Saturday certainly reminded me of Ferguson, even if it lacked the sheer explosiveness of some of Fergie’s more memorable encounters with the media. What made Ferguson so fascinating, in particular for the reporters whose job it was to see him ahead of every match, was his unpredictability. Sometimes he was mesmerising. Other times grumpy and disinterested. He might surprise you by suddenly appearing friendly; funny even. And then there were those moments when he could descend into a blind rage with venomous, personal attacks. On one particular morning he concluded his answer to the last question by telling the assembled reporters to ‘go away and write’ their ‘s***e’. Those who were there still laugh about it to this day. The Dutch journalists recall similar tales of Van Gaal, even if many of them have found him difficult to warm to over the years. In certain cases relationships have been eroded by the tone of the confrontation. Not because he might declare a question unworthy of a response but because of the way he then goes on the attack. He might inform a reporter that their opinion lacks credibility because they have not had the benefit of attending his training sessions all week. Ferguson addresses the media ahead of the 2009 Champions League final against Barcelona . He might even point to the fact that they have never played the game professionally - an argument that jars with every football fan - and therefore are not entitled to doubt him. ‘He can be funny, too,’ said my Dutch colleague earlier this week. ‘But he sometimes enjoys trying to ridicule you in front of your colleagues.’ At the World Cup in Brazil last summer certain reporters felt Van Gaal was too controlling. He had an excellent tournament where it mattered most, of course, guiding his country to the semi-finals, which was all the more impressive for the fact that he was not blessed with quality in every area of the pitch. But he limited his access to the official FIFA press conferences and that proved a frustration because those gatherings could be manipulated to silence certain journalists, essentially because the media officer decides who gets the microphone you require to ask a question. There were senior writers who were left deeply frustrated by the lack of opportunities to engage with their national team coach, particularly when the same reporter from a Dutch children’s TV show was invited to ask the final question every time. Ferguson and Rooney share a joke during training ahead of a Champions League semi-final in 2011 . So far here in Manchester there have been few such complaints. Reporters would probably consider Van Gaal’s press conferences a bit too brief. But for the most part he has been candid and accommodating, and if there have been flashes of that arrogance, aloofness and aggression it is only to be expected. These, after all, are characteristics a manager probably needs to lead a club like United, and were certainly employed to good effect when he followed that astonishing 5-3 defeat at Leicester by tearing into his players in the dressing room. As the faces Van Gaal encounters in his press conferences become more familiar, and he develops a greater command of English, there is sure to be more confrontation in that arena too. According to my Dutch colleagues, Saturday was fairly tame by Van Gaal’s standards. With some relish they often recall a clash he had with a Dutch reporter during his time at Barcelona when he objected to a question about Rivaldo. ‘You’re very bad,’ said a ranting Van Gaal. ‘Very, very bad. No, no, no, you’re very bad. Very bad! Always negative. Never positive. Always negative.’ Give him time, and a few decent results, and there will be plenty more echoes of Ferguson. VIDEO We fought to the end - Van Gaal . Like our Manchester United Facebook page. ### SUMMARY:

Man United boss Louis van Gaal opted for Wayne Rooney as captain . Rooney was sent off against West Ham for kicking Stewart Downing . Van Gaal refused to answer questions surrounding his captain . The Dutchman has similar demeanour to Sir Alex Ferguson .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The Taliban was 'thrilled' when Bowe Bergdahl's father 'claimed the White House for Islam' by thanking Allah in his press conference with President Obama, it has been claimed. The father of the freed soldier - who former colleagues claim was a deserter - said he was speaking Arabic and Pashto because his son's English was poor after five years in captivity. But commentators accused him of giving the Taliban a priceless propaganda tool, with one saying extremist sources in Pakistan were delighted. Threats: Federal authorities have confirmed that threats have been made against Bob Bergdahl and his wife Jani following their son's controversial release . Moment of release: Sgt Bowe Bergdahl was shown struggling to adjust his eyes to the light at the moment he was released in a video released by a Taliban website. Former colleagues accused him of being a deserter . Mr Bergdahl spoke at the White House after 28-year-old Bowe - the only American prisoner of war in Afghanistan - was freed in exchange for five Afghan detainees held by the U.S. Introduced by the President in the rose garden on Saturday, he spoke mostly English with some Arabic and Pashto. 'I'd like to say to Bowe right now, who's having trouble speaking English, bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim,' he said. 'I'm your father Bowe. The people of Afghanistan, the same. 'To . everyone who effected this... throughout the whole of American . government and international governments around the world, thank you so . much.' The Arabic phrase bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim appears prominently in the Koran and means 'In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful'. Sara Carter, senior Washington correspondent for conservative news network TheBlaze, said her Taliban sources were 'thrilled' at the phrase being used. Swap: Sgt Bergdahl, 28, was handed over to U.S. special forces in exchange for five Guantanamo detainees . Emotional: Bob and Jani Bergdahl wept as they spoke of their love for their son in another press conference . Accusations: Sara Carter, senior Washington correspondent for TheBlaze, said the Taliban was thrilled . She told TV commentator Glenn Beck, who founded TheBlaze: 'He definitely was, in a way, consecrating the area. 'He was reaching out. It's an Islamic phrase... And when I contacted my sources in Pakistan who have direct links with the Taliban, they were actually thrilled, the Taliban was actually thrilled that the father did this.' She added: 'This is incredible, he's gone way way beyond just a father reaching out to his son. Divisive: Bob Bergdahl said he studied Arabic to understand his son's captors . 'He’s actually putting so many lives in danger, and he’s giving a propaganda tool to Mullah Omar, who is the leader of the Taliban who the U.S. has been looking for for years.' Others, however, said there was nothing so sinister in the former UPS delivery man's speech. After his son was captured by the Taliban in June 2009, Mr Bergdahl said he immersed himself in the language and culture of Afghanistan chiefly so he could understand the captors, and speak to them from afar. He said in a previous interview: 'I'm trying to learn a little Pashto so that I can speak to people... I'm trying to write or read the language. 'I probably spend four hours a day reading on the region and the history.' Stefanie O'Neill, a Bergdahl family friend, added to CNN: 'Wouldn't you try and connect with the people that had your child? 'Bob and Jani did everything possible they could to ensure Bowe's safety. And if Bob was trying to connect with them, it was to keep his son safe, I'm sure.' Yesterday a public homecoming parade for Bergdahl featuring Grammy-winning singer Carole King was abruptly cancelled in his tiny hometown of Hailey, Idaho. The official reason given was a concern for public safety - but MailOnline learned that a row erupted between Mayor Fritz Haemmerle and former US Army Platoon leader Jonathan Kennedy, who lives in the town. In . an email to Mayor Haemmerle, who wanted to hold the celebration, Kennedy said: ‘If Individual members of the . community wish to hold sedate, private celebrations to commemorate Bowe . Bergdahl's homecoming, they are of course free and welcome to do so. Cancelled: A homecoming parade for Bergdahl was abruptly called off in his home town of Hailey, Idaho . Political firestorm: Senator John McCain - who was a POW for more than five years in North Vietnam - speaks to reporters yesterday. President Obama has been accused of putting a price on an American life . 'It would be, however, a monstrous profanity if a public ceremony, financed by public money, were to be held. ‘It would be more monstrous still if this ceremony were to, in any way, heap undeserved adulation on Bergdahl, or to adopt the sickly hue of ostentatious jingoism that all too often colors such occasions.’ He added: ‘Until he is cleared of the charges against him, this man deserves no applause. For now, the only appropriate response is silence.' Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel phoned Bergdahl's family yesterday to update them on his condition. In the 10-minute call Hagel wished the family well and told them the Defense Department will continue to support the soldier's medical care, along with the process known as reintegration. An official said Bob and Jani Bergdahl expressed their gratitude. Earlier Wednesday, Hagel told reporters that the rush to judgment about Bergdahl is 'unfair' to his family. Footage: A video on the Voice Of Jihad Website was confirmed to show Sgt Bergdahl on the day he was freed . Released: Since he was taken back by the U.S., Bergdahl has been in debriefing with military psychologists . To freedom: The soldier was shown in the video being patted down by his own colleagues before boarding . The POW's exchange for five Guantanamo detainees has provoked a storm of controversy. Many accused President Obama of negotiating with terrorists and allowing a clear price to be set on an American life. And . while the soldier has been hidden from public view, being debriefed by . military psychologists, many of his former colleagues have accused him . directly of desertion. Some claim six servicemen died in the search for the POW, and a Facebook group called Bowe Bergdahl is NOT a hero! has attracted more than 13,000 members. Its description reads: 'Bowe Bergdahl has been made out to be a hero, deserving of praise. 'However, the media and government have lied to the public and covered up the facts. 'I and many of my former battle buddies have first hand knowledge of what took place on that hill in Afghanistan. 'We are here. We will be heard. Bergdahl will be held accountable for his actions.' ### SUMMARY:

Bob Bergdahl said 'bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim', Arabic phrase in Koran . He said his son had poor English after five years of captivity in Afghanistan . But some commentators claimed he was 'claiming White House for Islam' One correspondent claimed Taliban sources were 'thrilled' at the phrase . Obama has been accused of putting price on American life in prisoner swap . Parade in Hailey, Idaho, axed yesterday amid claims Bergdahl was a deserter .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: When cartoonist Clive Collins proudly posed before cameras with his MBE he revealed his rock star brother Phil had stepped in to join him because his son couldn’t make it. Clive’s son – also called Phil – was sailing the Atlantic on a ‘once in a lifetime’ voyage to the Caribbean and beyond. Collins junior blogged from the island of Aruba that he was ‘so, so proud’ of his father and told him and his multi-millionaire uncle Phil to have an ‘amazing day at Buckingham Palace’. Scroll down for video... Two years ago Phil Collins' nephew Philip Austin Collins, 39, (above) was arrested in Peru after £3million-worth of cocaine was found on a yacht he and two other British men were trying to sail across the Atlantic . Humiliating: Philip Austin Collins was paraded in front of Peruvian media following his arrest . Nervous: Philip Collins bites his nails as he is taken away by Peruvian police following his arrest . Weeks later in Lima – the capital of Peru – the 37-year-old sailor and his two crew mates Gareth Young, 39, and Richard Crewe, 32, would also find themselves paraded before the cameras. But they were in handcuffs after being arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle £3million of cocaine out of Peru and on to the streets of Britain. They face up to 15 years in a rat infested jail after 30kilos of the Class A drug was allegedly hidden in the fuel tanks and fire extinguishers of their yacht, the Audaciter. The trio are among 27 suspects, including three Italians and a Peruvian woman called Helena Ramirez Vargas, arrested in police operations in Peru in the last month that have seen more than a ton of drugs seized. The Italian men were arrested in possession of cocaine and ecstasy and are believed to belong to a gang called the Bambinos. Raid: The moment Peruvian police boarded the Audaciter boat to search for drugs . Allegations: Officers swooped on the 37-year-old former pub owner, whose father Clive is musician Phil's brother, while he was onboard his 39ft boat the Audaciter . Claims: The cocaine was reportedly hidden in fire extinguishers and gas cylinders in the cabin . Collins’ father Clive, 71, who was honoured for his services to art in January, must now endure an agonising wait to learn the fate of his son because of Peru’s notoriously slow legal system. Speaking from their £500,000 home in Benfleet, Essex, Collins’ stepmother Lynne, 58, said: ‘This is a very, very distressing time.’ It is a far cry from the excitement of six months ago when Collins and his crewmates set off from Mylor Marina in Cornwall in their 28-year-old Tradewind 39 cruiser. The former pub manager and his friend Gareth Young, a pharmacist, had bought the yacht for £65,000 in 2010 telling the broker they were planning on taking a gap year to the Galapagos Islands. The pair had been friends since attending the elite Westcliff High School for Boys, a well-respected grammar school in Essex. Proud: Clive Collins (right) with brother Phil (left) as he received his MBE for services to art earlier this year. Clive's son Phil called to say he would not be able to attend . Greg Duffy, the previous owner of the Audaciter, said: ‘They said they had taken an intensive zero to hero course teaching them to sail and they were planning a trip to the Galapagos Islands. It is the perfect yacht for that.’ They made an attempt to sail to the Caribbean soon after buying the yacht but had to be rescued by the RNLI just south of Cornwall, after one of its masts broke. Undeterred they waited a year before setting off again in September, even pressing on after their engine failed hours into the voyage. Collins kept a blog detailing their journey which included stop offs in La Coruna in Spain, where they got their engine fixed, the Canary Islands and Cape Verde off the coast of Senegal. They then sailed to Antigua where they spent Christmas with their girlfriends who had flown out to meet them. After leaving the island the three friends island hopped to Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica and St Lucia before arriving at Aruba off the coast of Venezuela on January 23, 2012. It is from there on January 26 that Collins writes of his regret at missing his father being awarded the MBE. He blogs: ‘Originally I thought I was going to be able to attend. The reality with this unpredictable sailing lark is that it was unfeasible which upset me greatly.’ Discovery: This police video shows the cocaine was allegedly hidden in fire extinguishers . From this point the blog takes a darker tone as Collins writes about his friends falling out after a night in a casino. Then, after paying $1,000 to get through the Panama Canal, he writes about befriending a ‘crazy Ecuadorian’ who claims his nephew is the vice president of Ecuador. This man apparently directs them to Manta in Ecuador telling them to mention his name to a man called Roduigo Adugo and ‘he will sort everything out for you’. When they arrived in Manta on February 20 and eventually find Mr Adugo it appears he owns the yacht club ‘and about 20 of the huge fishing boats out in the harbour’ and arranges for his engineers to make repairs to the Audaciter. Collins and the crew eventually left Manta on March 1, heading south down the coast of Ecuador to test their new engine before heading out into the Pacific to the Galapagos Islands. By now Collins appears tired of his travels and reveals he is planning to fly home when the yacht returns to the Panama Canal after the Galapagos. Seized: Collins was later humiliatingly paraded in front of Pervuian television cameras. Next to him were bags full of cocaine found in several recent raids . In his last blog entry on March 4 he says: ‘We have been away for nearly five months but only recently has it started to take its toll.’ But eight days later the three were arrested after their boat was intercepted leaving the Yacht Club de la Punta Callao in Lima, more than 1,000 miles away from the Galapagos. National Police director Raul Salazar said the arrests showed his officers were effectively disrupting the ‘international tentacles’ involved in the country’s illegal drug trade. The three Britons were paraded in front of cameras with their hands cuffed behind their back next to bags full of cocaine from recent raids. Last night Richard Crewe’s mother Brigitta, looked distressed as she answered the door at her home near Norwich. She said: ‘I haven’t spoken to him. I can’t say anything at the moment.’ A friend of Collins said:  ‘Everyone is putting their faith in the Foreign Office that they can sort the situation out.’ Peruvian police allegedly found 30kilos of cocaine on the Audaciter. Cocaine has a street value of around £50 a gram meaning the haul could be worth £1.5million. However the drug is likely to be pure because it has come direct from South America meaning it could be cut doubling its street value to £3million. The Foreign Office said it was providing consular assistance. ### SUMMARY:

Philip Austin Collins detained alongside two other Britons over 30kg bust . 37-year-old's father Clive is musician Phil's brother . Richard Marshall Crewe and Gareth John Young also arrested .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Warning: Dr Myles Bradbury has been warned he faces a substantial sentence after admitting carrying out examinations on children 'purely for his own sexual gratification' and with no medical justification . A children's doctor who admitted abusing boys in his care fondled some of his victims behind a curtain while their parents were in the room, a court has heard. Dr Myles Bradbury has been warned he faces a substantial sentence after admitting carrying out examinations on children 'purely for his own sexual gratification' and with no medical justification. His 18 victims, aged between 10 and 16, included children with haemophilia, leukaemia and other serious illnesses, Cambridge Crown Court heard. In total, the married 41-year-old father-of-one, who worked at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and lived in Herringswell, Suffolk, has pleaded guilty to 25 offences including sexual assault, voyeurism and possessing more than 16,000 indecent images. At the beginning of his sentencing hearing today, prosecutor John Farmer said the defendant had a 'longstanding, unlawful, sexual interest in boys'. He added: 'The defendant, through the trust he had acquired, circumvented the procedures and encourages a number of young patients to see him alone. 'It was in these circumstance under the guise of legitimate examinations he went entirely beyond the bounds. 'He took the opportunity of fondling the boy's genitals and encouraging them to masturbate in his presence and obtain erections for his own personal gratification. 'On some occasions, when he failed to exclude the parent, he simply carried on behind the curtain behind which the boy had gone to remove his clothes.' The offences took place over four-and-a-half years, beginning within six months of him taking up his post in 2008 and continuing to the day he was suspended when the first concerns were raised. At some point, he began using a camera pen in an attempt to gain images of the boys when partially clothed, Mr Farmer added. Police found 170,425 images on this pen but none of these were classed as indecent. Mr Farmer explained Bradbury was first arrested in December 2013 after police were alerted by Canadian authorities that he had bought a DVD containing indecent images of children as part of Operation Spade. At that point Cambridgeshire Police were already investigating after concerns were raised about his conduct. Mr Farmer said the offences were a 'grave breach of trust' which had undermined the trust of patients. 'This defendant was a complete maverick and his behaviour is the antithesis of his profession - he has betrayed his profession,' he added. Serious: A photo from a trip to Africa during which Bradbury was left alone with children. His 18 victims, aged between 10 and 16, included children with haemophilia, leukaemia and other serious illnesses, Cambridge Crown Court heard . Guilty: In total, the married 41-year-old father-of-one (far left) has pleaded guilty to 25 offences including sexual assault, voyeurism and possessing more than 16,000 indecent images . The court is due to hear mitigation from Bradbury's barrister, Angela Rafferty, this afternoon before Judge Gareth Hawkesworth delivers his sentence on Monday. Bradbury, who, the court heard, was also involved in church and Scout groups, was described as 'a man of great charm and persuasiveness' whom everybody trusted. When one victim raised concerns with his mother, she responded: 'He's a doctor, it must be necessary.' Brazen: Outlining details of some of Bradbury's victims, the prosecutor said the familiar routine involved isolating them from their parents, asking them to remove their clothes and then groping their genitals . Mr Farmer said: 'That was the very image that really protected him from anything other than the most persistent line of complaint.' Outlining details of some of Bradbury's victims, the prosecutor said the familiar routine involved isolating them from their parents, asking them to remove their clothes and then groping their genitals. The depth of the examinations were often increased to meet Bradbury's sexual needs, not any medical requirement, he added. One victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said in a statement read to the court: 'I am now anxious to go to the doctor because I don't know who I should trust. 'I have haemophilia and a pain in my side so I know I should go but I feel disgusted and weird. 'I didn't think it would happen to me and I feel angry every time I think about it but also relieved it wasn't just me but we shouldn't have to go through it.' Another said he had regular nightmares, felt stressed and lacked confidence. 'I'd like to see Myles Bradbury and ask him why he did what he did to me,' he added. Bradbury looked anxious as he sat in the dock wearing a dark suit and blue tie. In mitigation, Ms Rafferty said Bradbury's guilty pleas had spared his victims the ordeal of giving evidence in court. She added: 'Clearly on a human level something has gone very badly wrong in this man's life and thought processes.' She said Bradbury seemed to have repressed homosexual feelings during puberty and this influenced his behaviour. Ms Rafferty added that he accepted what he did was 'repugnant'. 'He knows he will not get any understanding or forgiveness because what he did was unforgivable,' she said. 'His medical life may have done some good at some time but that means nothing now. 'He accepts that that was the life which allowed him to commit those offences.' Mistakes by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) meant Bradbury was left free for 16 months to wage his campaign of abuse. The doctor bought a DVD in 2005 from Azov Films in Canada. The company advertised on its website 'just legal' and 'naturist' films but many were clearly illegal - and were bought by paedophiles in over 50 countries around the world. The site was finally closed down by Toronto police in the summer of 2012 and concerned officers in Canada soon dispatched the names of its customers to authorities in other countries in an operation called Project Spade. CEOP was handed a list of 2,235 suspected British paedophiles in July 2012 by Canadian police - but did nothing for months. Canadian police told British authorities about suspected paedophiles including Bradbury as part of a worldwide operation called Project Spade . It was only when the centre was absorbed by the National Crime Agency last November that Bradbury's name was passed to Suffolk police and his home was raided. In the intervening time he had continued his abuse and made his trip to the African orphanage. Among the other suspects named on the list handed over by Canadian authorities was that of teacher Martin Goldberg, who was found dead a day after police first contacted him. Following the 46-year-old's death, a search of his house in Shoeburyness, Essex was conducted and 7,257 indecent images of children that he had downloaded from the internet were found. Three police forces in Britain - Essex, North Yorkshire and North Wales - are under investigation for allegedly failing to act on the child porn intelligence, it emerged earlier this month. 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Predator is awaiting sentence for abusing 18 boys in his care at hospital . They included children with haemophilia, leukaemia and other illnesses . Married father-of-one, 41, worked at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge . Judge tells him he has 'longstanding, unlawful, sexual interest in boys'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: A private intelligence outfit which helps defence firms and paid for Adam Werritty’s jet-set lifestyle has doubled its profits since Liam Fox became a minister. G3 Good Governance Group gave £15,000 to Pargav Ltd, the company set up by Dr Fox’s best man and former flatmate, which helped fund his globetrotting and extravagant spending. The revelations prove a direct link between the defence industry and Mr Werritty’s globetrotting with the Defence Secretary. Dr Fox’s allies tried to say that Mr Werritty’s backers were ideological allies of the Defence Secretary. Proof: Intelligence firms invested in the company of Liam Fox's best friend Adam Werritty (front red tie), financing his trips with the Defence Secretary like this one to Dubai . But it is another example of  how some of them had commercial interests in the defence industries – a fact which made his position untenable. G3’s accounts show that the firm has enjoyed huge commercial success over the last two years. After making a loss of £33,026 in 2009, between 2010 and 2011 it doubled its turnover from £6million to £12million and raised its profits from £1.3million to £2.4million. G3 works hand in glove with a firm named C5 Capital, which describes itself as ‘an independent investment company, focusing on the global security sector’. One of C5’s employees is Lt General Sir Graeme Lamb, the former director of UK Special Forces. On C5’s website the firm reveals: ‘We are closely associated with the Good Governance Group, which includes G3, a leading strategic advisory consultancy. ‘Through G3, we have unparalleled access to in-depth sector knowledge and to an extensive network of specialist advisers.’ Funded by tycoons: Jet-set spending of friend who was always at minister's side . G3 and C5 work so closely together that they are based in the same London premises, 40 George Street in Marylebone. The two companies also share a director, Andries Pienaar, a South Africa-born security expert, who was once a managing director of the secretive private intelligence company Kroll. Eric Morris, G3’s geopolitics specialist, once taught at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. G3 said it gave money to Mr Werritty’s company because it had believed the donation of £15,000 was ‘intended to go towards charitable work’. But it ended up paying towards Mr Werritty’s stays in  five-star hotels around the world, first-class flights, lavish meals and even £2,000 suits. G3 also funds what it describes as a ‘charitable organisation’ – Universal Exports Charity Foundation, which is named after the company used as a cover for MI6 in the James Bond films. Universal Exports Charity Foundation is administered and run by Laura Tantum, who Sky News reported to be the daughter of Geoffrey Tantum, a former MI6 Middle East director. In a further twist, it emerged that the address at 40 George Street was formerly used by the Sri Lanka Development Trust, a group which Dr Fox helped to set up. The trust, along with the Sri Lankan government, paid for Dr  Fox to fly to Sri Lanka on three occasions. Its chairman is Chester Crocker, a former assistant secretary of state under Ronald Reagan. The trust was designed to help Sri Lanka rebuild its infrastructure following the civil war, using private finance and charitable projects. But Dr Fox’s involvement led to irritation in the Foreign Office, which has tried to keep its distance from the regime in Colombo accused of brutality against the Tamil minority. Despite this collection of security and defence groups using the same address, G3 has categorically denied any involvement with the Sri Lanka Development Trust or Liam Fox. On Thursday, a spokesman explained away the connection as a ‘coincidence’ and claimed to have no knowledge of who operated from the premises before G3. The Mail attempted to contact G3 yesterday but no one was available for comment. Other Pargav sponsors appear to include Michael Lewis, a millionaire with close links to Israel who helped fund Dr Fox’s Tory leadership campaign in 2005. The 52-year-old investor was  vice-chairman of Bicom until 2007, and last night insisted he was ‘not connected with globetrotting by Fox and Werritty’. Disappointed: Poju Zabludowicz says he was tricked into funding Werrity's globetrotting . One of Adam Werritty’s billionaire backers claimed yesterday that he was tricked into funding his globetrotting with Liam Fox. London-based Poju Zabludowicz – a former arms dealer who owns much of Las Vegas and helped bankroll David Cameron’s campaign to become Tory leader – was said to be ‘extremely disappointed’ to discover the truth about Mr Werritty. Mr Zabludowicz, 58, heads the Tamares Group of investment companies, based in Liechtenstein. The firm paid £3,000 to Mr Werritty’s company Pargav Ltd, which funded his first-class travel to meet Dr Fox on lavish foreign trips. Jonathan Hawker, a spokesman for Mr Zabludowicz, said: ‘He is just extremely disappointed. He is now learning that his money was not all used in the way he thought it was. ‘He is passionate about promoting dialogue to promote the Middle East peace process, and he donated £3,000 a year to [Mr Werritty’s  other company] Security Futures  for that purpose. ‘Then his office had a call from Werritty saying his annual contribution was due, and that the invoice would be from Pargav Ltd but that it was effectively the same thing. He took it at face value.’ In 2005, Mr Zabludowicz’s firm paid £15,000 to Mr Cameron’s campaign to lead the Conservative Party, and last year donated £131,805 to the party itself. Tamares is said to own approximately 40 per cent of the property in downtown Las Vegas, including numerous casinos, plus property in Washington DC and New York’s Times Square. Mr Zabludowicz fiercely guards his privacy and does so with much success despite counting Madonna and other A-list celebrities among his close friends. His wife Anita, 50, is a  renowned art collector, . The billionaire’s father Shlomo was an Auschwitz survivor who moved to Finland and built up the Israeli arms company Soltam. After Shlomo’s death in 1994, his son took over the business and sold most of the defence interests in favour of property. However, he is still chairman of a U.S. firm which manufactures ammunition for the military. Mr Zabludowicz, worth an estimated £2billion, is also a key  figure in Bicom, the British Israel Communications and Research  Centre, which is the UK’s major pro-Israel lobby and one of the common threads running through Mr Werritty’s network of political friendships. Mr Hawker added: ‘For many  years, Poju Zabludowicz has helped fund not-for-profit organisations, not individuals... [to] promote  peace and understanding  between the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.’ ### SUMMARY:

Investor G3 Good Governance Group gave £15,000 to the company set up by Adam Werritty and between 2010 and 2011 it raised its profits from £1.3million to £2.4million .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Whether it’s a big night out or a cosy night in with a bottle of bubbles and Jools Holland on the TV, dressing up for New Year’s Eve is mandatory. But what if you still haven’t got your party dress? Fear not. We’ve chosen 20 of the best dresses on the High Street for under £20 - all available to buy today. From simple LBDs to statement, daring frocks, there’s something for everyone, so here’s how to see in the New Year in style. 20 Dresses under £20 . Make the colour from the floral print pop by accessorising with a matching clutch bag . Floral dress: £11, Peacocks: 029 2027 0944 Sandals: £275, Russell and Bromley: 08454 501 865 Pink clutch: £30, Accessorize: 0203 372 3052 . LEFT: Choose sequins in midnight blue for chic and smart sparkles Sequin dress: £12.50, New Look: 0344 499 6690 Necklace: £45, Coast: 0845 899 1119 Black courts: £20, Debenhams: 08008008877 RIGHT: The peplum skirt on this dress is ideal for concealing any lumps and bumps Peplum dress: £15, H&M: 03 44 736 9000 Necklace: £29.99, Zara: 0800 030 4238 Shoes: £22, New Look: 0344 499 6690 . Instantly lose inches from your waist and hips with this lace panel illusion dress . Illusion dress: £20, Asda: 0843 596 3088 Shoes: £19.99 H&M: 03 44 736 9000 . LEFT: Make a statement in this pillarbox red, asymmetric neckline dress Abbey Clancy dress: £20, Matalan: 0845 330 3330 Shoes: £29.99, Zara: 0800 030 4238 RIGHT: The black band on this dress cinches in your waist and creates an hourglass figure Black and gold dress: £14, New Look: 0344 499 6690 Bow shoes, £115, Lucy Choi: 02074 020 515 . LEFT: The off the shoulder scalloped neck trim gives just a glimpse of your collarbone Blue lace dress: £20, Matalan: 0845 330 3330 Lace up sandals : £59.99, Zara: 0800 030 4238 RIGHT Team this simple cross front midi dress with a pair of statement sandals Navy dress: £20, V Label: 02076271894 Navy sandals: £250, LK Bennett: 020 7637 6731 . Update a simple lace dress by adding detail at the collar with a jewelled necklace . Pink lace dress: £12, Dorothy Perkins: 0870 606 9666 Necklace: £35, Coast: 0845 899 1119 Bow shoes: £115, Lucy Choi: 02074 020 515 . LEFT: Go for New Year glamour in this flattering body con jewel-tone dress Lace dress, £19, Forever 21: 08081680541 Black courts, £20, Debenhams: 08008008877 RIGHT: The gathered draping and plunging neckline will highlight a narrow waist Grey dress, £20, V Label: 02076271894 Sequin shoes, £198, Lucy Choi: 02074 020 515 . The floral lace edging at the hem makes this dress look well above its price tag . F&F red dress: £20, Tesco: 0800 323 4070 Leopard shoes: £19, Dune: 03332407306 . LEFT: This sleeveless dress features a flattering wrap over design with ruching at the bust F&F pink dress: £20 Tesco: 0800 323 4070 Sandals,: £275, LK Bennett: 020 7637 6731 RIGHT: Go for 20s glamour with this shimmering pleat skirt dress Dress: £20, Topshop: 0344 984 0264 Black courts: £20, Debenhams: 08008008877 . Designed with a loose fit, the pretty lace edging at the sleeve will accentuate your shoulders . Red dress: £20, H&M: 0344 736 9000 Necklace: £80, Stella and Dot: 0800 096 4749 Shoes: £69, Dune: 03332407306 . Perfect for a glamorous invite, this floor sweeping gown is a show stopper . Maxi dress: £20, Topshop: 0344 984 0264 Sandals: £175, Russell and Bromley: 08454 501 865 . LEFT: Embrace this season’s winter florals with a bold printed frock George floral dress: £8, Asda: 0843 596 3088 Blue heels:  £115, Lucy Choi: 02074 020 515 RIGHT: Balance out wider hips with this drop waist, peplum hem dress Blue embroidered dress: £13, Matalan: 0845 330 3330 Black courts: £95, LK Bennett: 020 76376731 . This belted sequin detail dress is the ultimate party look, a pair of black heels is the only addition you need . Sequin skirt dress: £17.99, H&M: 03 44 736 9000 Shoes: £29.99, Zara: 0800 030 4238 . Your wardrobe staple, the little black dress has had an update in intricate black lace . George lace dress: £20, Asda: 0843 596 3088 Shoes: £29.99, Zara: 0800 030 4238 . ### SUMMARY:

Tonight is New Year's Eve, the perfect excuse to dress to the nines . We've waded through the high street and picked out the best dresses . All 20 of the dresses listed below come in under £20 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- Bamboo, woven into the shape of human stomachs. Red, sky blue and orange pencil shavings glued onto a large canvas form a woman's traditional hair clip. A collage of magazine clippings, drawings and found materials depict Cambodia's tumultuous modern history. Leang Seckon's "Prison Guard" depicts Duch, who is facing a genocide tribunal starting Tuesday. These are a few of the offerings on hand in Hong Kong at one of the first large international exhibitions of artists from Cambodia. The work by 14 artists varies in practice-- video, photography, collage, wood shavings, paper, bamboo and painting-- as well as in themes, from reflecting on the Southeast Asian nation's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime to the emerging modern Cambodia, with traffic lights and all. "Every artist in this show is referencing ancient tradition and recent history," said Phnom Penh-based curator Erin Gleeson, noting the wall-size depiction in folded paper of the serpent Naga (which in Cambodian culture represents the people's mythical birth) to a collage of 20th-century Cambodia and its six different regime changes. "The show is looking at the present -- 'Forever Until Now' is the title -- and it is this lineage of the past, you see that in the show, and then you see artists that arrive at the present," she added. The show opens Friday and runs through March 22 at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery. Gallery owner and director Katie de Tilly said she believed it was important the artists get international exposure. " ... it's really at the beginning of their art emergence. Obviously, they've had a very hard history," she said. "This is really the beginning of contemporary Cambodians who are expressing very original ideas in their artworks and I think that that's what makes it very unique and to show to the rest of the world." Cambodia, which lost an estimated one-quarter of its population or at least 1.7 million people -- including an estimated 90 percent of its artists -- under the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, has a small but growing artistic community: there are some 50 practicing artists out of its 14 million people, Gleeson said. The genocide and ensuing war, which only ended in the last decade or so, stifled the development of the arts in one of the world's poorest countries. "The legacy of that is now in every facet of a developing society," said Gleeson, who noted the country had no art books when she arrived in 2002 on a fellowship to teach art history. "There's an absence of infrastructure for them, there's an absence of materials, there is no art store. ... they are quite inventive about mixing materials to make them of a higher quality or last longer, but in many cases they don't know archival techniques." The harsh weather conditions -- a dusty, hot season and a rainy monsoon -- add to the trying work conditions. "Everything's against them," she added. "Their parents in many cases are coming from a really disadvantaged background, as the majority of the country is economically." Some of the art included in the show looks at the Cambodia of today, such as Leang Seckon's "Three Greens" -- an acrylic painting showing children in school uniform crossing a road with a yellow light, red light and three green lights, along with cows and roosters. The piece shows the changes in a country that recently got stop lights, with animals, people and traffic mingling on the main roads of the capital. Sopheap Pich, a Cambodian-American whose family migrated to the U.S. in 1984, works with bamboo and rattan -- materials often used in Cambodian traditional farming and crafts -- to make sculptures. His work, "Cycle 2," is the joining of the stomachs of an infant and an elderly person that for him brought up ideas of Cambodian traditional village life. "You belong to each other, you help each other out," he said. "But also, if you look at the lines and you see how it's shaped by hand, it's not very perfect, so it's also about struggle... "You could say it's a cycle of trying to hold onto each other, now we are living everywhere in the world, Cambodians are all over the planet," he added. "All this technique and pattern that I am quite obsessed with ... it's about this idea of trying to hold on with very simple means." Chan Dany, a 25-year-old artist who graduated from one of the country's three art schools, creates textured patterns that appear almost like tapestry using pencil shavings in various colors. The works on display in the show are from a series based on Cambodian architectural decor, such as door and window shutter carvings, and include ancient Khmer forms whose shapes are derived from nature. "When I started learning art, the teacher introduced a lot of new ways of making art, new ideas that were very difficult for me, so I had to think a lot," he said through a translator. "So then I looked around at what my classmates were doing and I started to think about what they weren't using for their work, so I started to collect the things that they didn't use when they were making art and started to think about my way of making art using those materials." "I like the first piece I did (using the pencil shaving technique) because I had never done it this way before and since then I kept on making it," he said. The younger artists "seem to be expressing something more fresh," while the work by artists from the older generation is "much more heavy," de Tilly said. Some of the works of the Khmer Rouge period include a painting by Vann Nath, one of seven people to survive the regime's infamous S-21 torture prison. His painting, "Pray for Peace," depicts women wearing traditional Cambodian funeral scarves praying en masse under troubled skies by stormy seas. Another work, Leang's "Prison Guard," tells the life of Duch, a former teacher who ran S-21 and goes on trial Tuesday before a U.N.-backed tribunal on charges that include crimes against humanity. The art scene has been growing slowly in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh over the last few years: Sopheap started a group to promote contemporary Cambodian art practices and two art institutes offer programs apart from the Royal University of Fine Arts. One factor that has also made Cambodian contemporary artists different from their counterparts, for example in neighboring Vietnam, has been the lack of outside influence, such as was the case with Chinese contemporary art 30 years ago, de Tilly said. "Cambodia still is very much influenced by itself and so the development is happening on a slower pace but as well very interesting," she said. "They seem to not have as much international exposure to materials, magazines, publications, so you really do feel -- it was the same just after the Cultural Revolution in China -- that they didn't have exposure to many publications and things, and so their art was developing at that moment in time." " ... it's very interesting to document it and see what's going to happen in the future," she said. Part of the exhibit will be shown at another of the gallery's venues in Hong Kong and will run through April 25. ### SUMMARY:

Fourteen artists, ranging in age and practice, displaying their works . One work depicts Duch, a former Khmer Rouge leader facing genocide tribunal . Cambodia's arts were stunted by the 1970s genocide and civil war . Some 50 artists now practicing their craft in the Southeast Asian country .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Take a handful of screen goddesses and a clutch of matinee idols, put them together and one thing's sure to happen. Nobody does love like they do in the movies: this month on the Screening Room, we've picked our favorite silver-screen romantic moments. No contest: Bogie and Bergman in undoubtedly the silver screen's top romantic movie moment . From rom-coms to heartbreak, these are the scenes that skip the schmaltz to make us believe that sometimes, Cupid really does get it right. And, just for balance, we've also picked those moments that made us cringe -- or long for a sick-bucket ... Don't agree? Think we've missed one? Post your comments to the Screening Room blog and we'll publish the best. Read other CNN viewers' favorite romantic movie moments, and tell us yours >> . 1. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) Yep, it's a no-brainer. In a world full of slushy, happily-ever-after rom-coms, Bogie and Bergman find true romance in heartache, sacrificing their romance for the greater good. Bogie's "hill of beans" speech still gets us every time. Oh, the tragedy! Still, they'll always have Paris ... 2. City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931) Truly, madly sweetly: Blind flower-girl Virginia Cherrill recognizes Chaplin's tramp when she presses a coin into his hand. Deeply moved, as the scale of his sacrifice dawns on her, she wells up -- as did we; his expression shifts from shame to tentative delight. The most touching film moment of all time? 3. Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) Audrey Hepburn's princess falls for Gregory Peck's noble hack (surely that's an oxymoron!) -- but while the ending is bittersweet, it's the playful scene at the Mouth of Truth, with its pitch-perfect comic timing, that captured our hearts. 4. From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, 1953) "Nobody ever kissed me the way you do." Army sergeant Burt Lancaster and troubled wife Deborah Kerr find refuge in their torrid, adulterous affair; the heat between them is tangible. With the tumultuous waves crashing over the embracing couple, Zinnemann creates one of old Hollywood's most iconic images. 5. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001) A sheer moment of joy, as Amélie (Audrey Tautou) zooms through Paris on the back of Nino's (Mathieu Kassovitz) bicycle. The laughing couple freewheel down the cobbled streets past Sacré Coeur, filled with the delirious exuberance of new love. Ah, c'est l'amour. 6. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977) The highlight of Woody Allen's confessional masterpiece is Annie's (Diane Keaton) first meeting with Alvy (Allen) at the tennis club where we're blown away by her vitality, ebullient charm and fresh contrast with Allen's wound-up, navel-gazing New Yorker. La-di-da, la-di-da, la la! 7. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960) Fellini's beautifully choreographed tableau in the Trevi Fountain sees young journalist Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) rendered helpless as buxom screen goddess Sylvia (Anita Eckberg) draws him into her spell. A paean to those fleeting moments between sunset and dawn when reality slips away to reveal something altogether more magical. Talking of which ... 8. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995) They've no time for mix-tapes, so Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) head to a record store's music booth to acid-test their compatibility. In its confined space, they nervously avoid each other's eyes, so painfully aware of each other's physical presence. A moment that evokes strong memories of those sweet first-love connections. 9. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003) Bob (Bill Murray), a movie star well past his sell-by date, and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a neglected newlywed, are two lost souls who are cast adrift, and come together, in Tokyo. Their parting moment, when Bob whispers his secret farewell to Charlotte, is all the more romantic for its mystery. 10. When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, 1989) Forget the orgasm scene in Katz's Deli. Forget the strolls in scenic Central Park. After ninety minutes of vacillating, Harry and Sally have one final bout of verbal sparring before they finally get it together for good. Now that's what we call New Year fireworks. ....................... And our most cringe-worthy moments... Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell, 1994) Out of the frying pan, into the fire: Hugh Grant escapes Bridezilla to pour his heart out to Andie MacDowell, who utters her painfully corn-dog response: "Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed." You could have had Kristin Scott Thomas, you dolt! Howard the Duck (Willard Huyck, 1986) Please, no! Down in B-movie hell, we hid our eyes and winced as lovely Lea Thompson attempted to seduce a rather startled duck-shaped alien. There should be laws against that sort of thing. Wait a minute, there ARE laws against that sort of thing! The English Patient (Anthony Mingella, 1996) "I've watched you - on verandahs, at garden parties, at the races ... " Ralph Fiennes turns stalker in Mingella's improbable mush-fest. And don't even start us on the bit where he runs across the desert. As Seinfeld's Elaine says, "Quit telling your stupid story about the stupid desert and just die already! Die!" Titanic (James Cameron, 1997) Timeless romance? We think not. As Leo slips away, Kate Winslet's star-crossed lover cries, "I'll never let go, Jack. I promise." And then does -- scurrying as quickly as her hands will paddle her to the safety of a lifeboat, a warm blanket and a nice cup of tea. Ah, the relief. Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones (George Lucas, 2002) "I've been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life." Any scene featuring Hayden Christensen's moody teen has us wincing, but he's most awkwardly shown up against Natalie Portman, who struggles nobly through Lucas' plodding love-lines. Georgie, please, leave out the romance. We're begging you. Don't agree? Think we've missed one? Sound off and read others' thoughts in the Screening Room blog. E-mail to a friend . ### SUMMARY:

Films full of romance include "Roman Holiday," "City Lights," "Amélie" Bogart and Bergman's "Casablanca" farewell tops the list . List by no means complete; send us yours .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Arroyo Grande, California (CNN) -- First, an 11-foot wooden cross was stolen from Saint John's Lutheran Church in Arroyo Grande, California. Then, weeks later, the cross was discovered set aflame in the middle of the night outside the bedroom window of a 19-year-old woman of mixed race. Now authorities are investigating the case as a theft, arson and hate crime, police said Tuesday. The burning cross was erected in a neighbor's large front yard adjacent to the house rented by the woman and her mother. The mystery of who stole the cross and set it afire has deeply disturbed the small coastal town of Arroyo Grande, located midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It sits in the heart of a wine region, just 47 miles northwest of the vineyards depicted in the movie "Sideways." Police Chief Steven Annibali told CNN Tuesday that a cross-burning is unheard of for his community of 17,000, and that only three hate crimes have been reported in his town the past 15 years, mostly for uttering slurs. That figure is the lowest for San Luis Obispo County, he said. With a picturesque mountain backdrop and only about 5.5 square miles in size, Arroyo Grande calls itself "the gem" of the central California coast. Authorities have announced a $3,500 reward in the case and even established a "Justice for All in Arroyo Grande" fund-raiser to raise that amount. But an attorney for the alleged victim and her mother has criticized the police investigation. "The family is trying to go about daily business, but they have ongoing concerns about their security and the direction of the investigation," attorney Louis Koory told CNN on Tuesday. "For example, if there are known racist elements in the community, it is not clear that the police are looking at these groups. It appears that it would be a logical starting point for an investigation, if there are known racist groups in the community. The first problem is that the police initially treated this as a prank and may have lost the opportunity to conduct an effective investigation," Koory said. Arroyo Grande police have not released the name of the 19-year-old woman, citing confidentiality provisions under California hate-crime laws. Annibali, the police chief, said his agency moved quickly over the weekend following the cross burning, which occurred on a Friday, and is now working with the FBI, the California Department of Justice, San Luis Obispo County District Attorney's investigators and the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department. His agency is also working with the Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP, he said. "It's funny that he would even say that because we have a very good relationship with the victim and the mother from the start," Annibali said about the family's attorney. "Like with most crimes, you look at who would want to do this, and have you been involved in any activities that would lead someone to do this, or do you know somebody who would," the police chief said. "I'm very comfortable that we handled this appropriately," he continued. "We have been given access to any resources that the FBI has. And for a local agency like this, it's unprecedented." Annibali said police never called the cross-burning a "prank," saying that word was misattributed by local media. Agencies are now pursuing several leads, and he believes the cross-burning isn't the work of an organized hate group, he said. "We feel right now that it's people who are local. We don't think it's an organized group or anything like that. It's bloggers who want to raise that issue," the chief said. "There's no active hate groups in Arroyo Grande, none that we're aware of. We're working with the FBI, so we're pretty confident." Arroyo Grande police submitted physical evidence from the cross-burning scene to an independent crime lab for forensic analysis, authorities said. Authorities are also analyzing an "accelerant" used on the cross, Annibali said. In an interview with CNN at her home, the mother said she and her daughter looked out their window after midnight March 18 and were horrified by the sight of a burning cross just 12 feet from their house. "We were just blindsided. My daughter does not have a beef with anyone. We were both terrified. My daughter had a friend over and we looked out the window and there it was, a huge burning cross," the mother said. "We are just trying to maintain normalcy. We would like to see whoever did this caught," the mother said. She added that her daughter "is doing better now -- I bought her a puppy. She can give some love instead of all that hate and anger." The cross was stolen from the grounds of Saint John's Lutheran Church between February 5 and March 5, police said. The exact date is uncertain because church members weren't aware of the theft for a month, police said. The cross is ceremonial and wasn't an architectural fixture on the church, police said. At 12:30 a.m. on March 18, local police and firefighters were called about the cross-burning. By the time they arrived, they found large pieces of charred wood in the wet grass, still burning with about 5 inches of flame, police said. Randy Ouimette, pastor of the church where the cross was stolen, said he was disturbed that "a cross which is revered and gives hope was used to put fear into this family and disgust into the community." "First, the cross in Roman times became this symbol of crucifixion, punishment and awful death. Then it became the symbol of resurrection, renewal, the symbol of Jesus Christ of reconciliation, peace and hope. Now to see it used as a symbol of hate, intolerance and rejection is a misuse and desecration," Ouimette told CNN. The cross, which was hollow and made of different types of wood, had been used in a local production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" in the community theater, Ouimette said. It was often brought to the beach on Easter mornings and adorned with bright flowers, Ouimette said. Many in the community are outraged at the incident. The Rev. Stephanie Raphael, president of the San Luis Obispo County Ministerial Association, said the group's 35 religious leaders representing Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and others, signed a letter to the San Luis Obispo Tribune condemning the incident. "Catching someone is less important to me as people coming to grips with the fact that we do not live up to all the ideals of our democracy here in America," Raphael told CNN. "Even in a wonderful place like Arroyo Grande, bad things happen. I think that that is why some people in Arroyo Grande had such a hard time dealing with this: They did not think a cross-burning could happen in their city," she said. "But I think the good thing is that people are talking about this, discussing this, people of all faiths engaging in dialogue about what happened. I think that is very healthy." The police chief described his community as "one of the best secret places in California to be." "It's not what I would describe as a heavily multicultural community. It's heavily white, but we do have a number of other cultures represented in the community," Annibali said. CNN's Paul Vercammen contributed to this report . ### SUMMARY:

Police in Arroyo Grande, California, are investigating a cross-burning as a hate crime . A 19-year-old biracial woman found an 11-foot cross burning outside her bedroom window . The police chief defends his investigation from criticism by the victim's family attorney .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: New York (CNN) -- Northeast Florida State Attorney Angela Corey has made it clear that she alone will decide whether George Zimmerman will be charged in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman's attorneys termed as "courageous" her decision not to present evidence to the grand jury that the original prosecutor, Norman Wolfinger, scheduled to convene on April 10. The Trayvon Martin family was also pleased that Corey would make the charging decision. But the question remains, will George Zimmerman be charged? Tuesday, in a bizarre development, George Zimmerman's attorneys, Hal Uhrig and Craig Sonner, during a news conference held in front of the Seminole County Courthouse, announced that they had withdrawn from his representation. They said they had lost contact with their client over the previous two days and revealed Zimmerman's unusual behavior -- including phone calls to Fox News host Sean Hannity and the special prosecutor, Corey. The attorneys also said that they are concerned with Zimmerman's emotional and physical well-being and even suggested that he may be suffering from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). In short, they said that their client had gone rogue. Clients fire attorneys every day, for no reason or any reason. And attorneys withdraw from cases around the country daily. But it is rarely done so publicly and with so much information divulged about the inner workings of the lawyer-client relationship. Rogue clients that are potential defendants spook prosecutors. It can be a nightmare to try to locate and arrest a fleeing defendant. Remember Joran Van Der Sloot. Not surprisingly, within hours of the now-infamous withdrawal, Corey issued a statement saying she would be holding her own news conference within 72 hours "to release new information regarding the Trayvon Martin shooting death investigation." Many suspect that the announcement that Zimmerman had gone rogue forced the special prosecutor's hand. By all accounts though, Angela Corey is a seasoned career prosecutor who doesn't bend to public opinion or political pressure. During her 25 years as an assistant state attorney, Corey tried hundreds of cases, including more than 50 homicides. During her three-year-plus as state attorney of the 4th Judicial Circuit, Jacksonville's Duval County jail has seen an increase in the population, despite a drop in crime in the city. Some say this is a direct result of her aggressive prosecutorial bent. But her career hasn't been without controversy. Recently she came under intense fire for charging 12-year-old Cristian Fernandez as an adult in the killing of his 2-year-old brother, making Christian the youngest person in Florida ever to be charged as an adult. Corey, a devout Episcopalian, references her faith in discussing her cases, which some would say is a no-no for a prosecutor. In a written statement she provided in response to her detractors about the Fernandez case, Corey defended her decision to charge Fernandez as an adult by stating, "We are blessed in the 4th Circuit to have a great working relationship with ... public defenders," and "We asked for prayers for our two-year-old victim, David, and for Cristian Fernandez." In discussing the investigation into the shooting death of Martin she said, "What we are asking people to do is take a step back. Pray for Trayvon. Pray for his family. Listen to their words. I believe these are wonderful people who are asking for a peaceful approach to this case, while still demanding the answers they deserve. And I look forward to meeting with them to try to help them on this journey. Our victims always have a tough plight." If she files charges against Zimmerman, it would be wise not to "overcharge" the case. Corey needs to be able to prove her case beyond a reasonable doubt. To prove manslaughter in Florida, Corey's team would have to prove that Zimmerman's acts caused Martin's death. Manslaughter would not be difficult to prove but for Florida's "stand your ground" law. Florida's law states that a person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force ... to prevent death or great bodily harm. So even if Zimmerman killed Martin, he was justified in doing so if he believed he was in danger of being killed himself or of suffering great bodily harm. It seems the Sanford Police certainly believed Zimmerman's claims. But there is an exception. If Zimmerman was the initial aggressor, he cannot avail himself of the protection of the "stand your ground" law. Former Florida State Rep. Dennis Baxley, the co-sponsor of the law, told me by phone that the law doesn't apply to Zimmerman if he pursued Martin and was the initial aggressor. And he is right. Florida's statute makes it clear that the justification is not available to a person who initially provokes the use of force against himself, unless such force is so great that the person reasonably believes that he is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and that he has exhausted every reasonable means to escape. And that is what this case ultimately boils down to -- who started the fight. And the answer to that question is far from clear. Martin left the home of his father's fiancee on February 26 to buy skittles and an ice tea. He was unarmed. Zimmerman left his home to go to Target and was carrying a concealed weapon for which he had a permit. Martin was 17 years old, Zimmerman, 28. The police report describes Martin as 6 feet tall and 160 pounds and lists Zimmerman as 5-foot-9. Zimmerman sees Martin, deems him "suspicious" and calls the police. Zimmerman tells the dispatcher he is following Martin. The dispatcher tells Zimmerman "we don't need you to do that." Martin notices Zimmerman is following him and tells his girlfriend, Dee Dee, with whom he is on the phone. She tells him to run, and he agrees to walk quickly. Zimmerman says that he returns to his parked SUV and is attacked suddenly by Martin. Dee Dee hears someone ask Martin why he is there. Martin asks Zimmerman why he is following him. Dee Dee believes she hears Martin being tackled. Witnesses say they heard angry words, heard someone crying for help (many explain it sounded like the voice of a younger person) and then a single gunshot. The screams for help stop. Three witnesses saw Zimmerman straddling Martin in the grass. The incident happens 70 yards from the home Martin was walking to, not near Zimmerman's SUV. Martin is found dead, laying on his stomach. Zimmerman is bleeding from his nose and the back of his head and has stains on the back of his jacket. Zimmerman isn't tested for drug or alcohol consumption and is allowed to leave the police station with the clothes he was wearing that night. A tenet of our legal system is that when there is conflicting evidence, let a jury decide. I believe in our jury system. Let them decide. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sunny Hostin. ### SUMMARY:

Sunny Hostin: The state attorney has made it clear that she alone will decide on charges . She says the public withdrawal by lawyers representing George Zimmerman was strange . Hostin: Zimmerman's actions may not have been covered by the "stand your ground" law . She says she believes in the jury system; it makes sense to let a jury decide .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Washington (CNN) -- At a gathering of his safety-minded peers, John Lee had a confession to make. Last month, while driving to Madison, Wisconsin, Lee glanced down to review a playlist on his car's MP3 player. He scrolled through the titles, looking for Bruce Springsteen songs, "wanting to avoid the Adele songs that my wife had put there." Then Lee looked up... and continued driving. There was no crash. No one died. Unremarkable? Lee doesn't think so. Lee, an expert at human-machine interactions at the University of Wisconsin, had just co-authored a paper titled "Scrolling While Driving." And despite his own heightened awareness about the dangers of distracted driving, he had spent three to five seconds with his eyes off the road, a time lapse that placed him well into the danger zone. The incident, he said, demonstrated the insidious creep of distracting technology into the automobile. "It seems like the old technology," he said of his car's audio system. "It seems like a radio. But it isn't." And if Lee -- who has forsworn cell phone and text messaging in his car -- can be lulled into a distracting experience, anybody can, he said. "I've been very well-trained to the dangers of distraction, and yet I'm vulnerable," he said. Lee's anecdote at a National Transportation Safety Board all-day forum Tuesday hit upon two themes -- the invasion of pernicious technology in automobiles and the precious few seconds it takes to go from an attentive driver to a distracted one. Lee and a panel of experts said that any distraction of two seconds or longer significantly increases the likelihood of a crash. Novice drivers are 16 times more likely to take a dangerous glance inside the vehicle than experienced drivers, the experts said, citing one study. And the risk of a crash increases "four-fold" if a driver was on the phone, regardless of whether they were using a hand-held or a hands-free device, they said. Some agreement; some dispute . The forum comes at a time when the NTSB and the Department of Transportation are at odds over just how far the government should go to restrict digital devices in cars. The Department of Transportation is recommending that states ban the use of handheld cell phones and text messaging devices. But the NTSB wants to take it a step further, banning the use of hands-free devices, except those that aid driving. "Things that are hands-free are distracting too," said NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman. "We'd like to see requirements and standards that look at all distractions, not just the manipulative or the visual distractions, but recognizing that there's a cognitive distraction," she said. Experts call it "looking but not seeing." "The issue of cognitive distraction seems to have been left off the table -- forgotten a little bit," she said. Distractions everywhere . Driver distractions are hardly new, safety board members and panels acknowledged. Everything from billboards, to beautiful scenery, to pretty girls, have distracted drivers since the advent of automobiles, they said. But new texting technology creates a "perfect storm" of activities that create danger, prompting users to look and engage. In addition to taking a driver's eyes off the road and hands off the wheel, texting devices can engage people's minds so that they're paying less attention to the task of driving, the experts said. And the technology is evolving faster than its impact can be appreciated, Lee said. "The pace of change is daunting. The pace of change far outstrips the pace of regulatory response," he explained. An often-quoted study on distracted driving known as the "100 car study" was conducted in 2003 and 2004 -- before the introduction of Facebook (2004), Twitter (2006), the iPhone (2007), and iPhone apps (2008), Lee said. Driver distraction is a growing contributor to U.S. traffic fatalities, said Jeff Caird of the University of Calgary. In 1999, there were 4,563 distracted driving fatalities, accounting for 10.9% of all fatalities. In 2008, there were 5,870 distraction fatalities, 15.8% of the total. But police reports are not a reliable source of information for the cause of distracted driving accidents, said Anne McCartt of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The cause of accidents is frequently not reported, and there are very large differences across the states, McCartt said. The best studies, she said, used phone records to determine if drivers were possibly distracted at the time of a crash, she said. Cell phones vs. conversations . Cell phones are more distracting than conversing with passengers, said Donald Fisher of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A passenger is "an extra set of eyes," and can moderate their conversation during challenging driving periods, unlike a person on a phone, Fisher said. They can serve as a collision avoidance system, "pointing out hazards and screaming in the extreme case," said Lee. Passengers can be distracting too, said Caird. Some modulate conversations; some don't, he said. But for all the study on distracting driving, a lot is still unknown, the experts said. Experts, for example, don't know to what extent drivers self-regulate, confining dialing and texting to less dangerous times, such as at stop lights. And they don't know whether people who choose to buy hands-free devices differ from those who use hand-held devices, and how that may impact test results. But experts at the NTSB forum say distractions of two seconds or more appear to divide safe driving from dangerous driving. The challenge, they said, was getting drivers to understand just how fleeting two seconds is. Fighting fire with fire . The experts say the solution to technological distraction may be technology itself. Already, smart phones have applications that can regulate use, restricting the use of cell phones or texting services while the device is moving, for instance. Industry has become a major force, using dashboard cameras to keep tabs on fleet drivers. Increasingly, new cars are equipped with collision warning systems. And those systems are becoming more sophisticated. At the University of Iowa's National Advanced Driving Simulator, scientists have tested a seat belt that tightens to warn the driver of a possible crash. "What we've learned is that auditory displays can be a nuisance," said Daniel McGehee, of the NADS lab. "They are annoying. They alert other passengers that something is going on and that's embarrassing to the driver." However, a seatbelt that tightens, a vibrating seat or a pulsing brake are "very driver-centric." "The driver can say, 'Oops, something's going on here' and sort of reorient their attention." Back to those play lists . In John Lee's study, 50 people searched for songs on playlists of varying lengths using either an MP3 player or an aftermarket controller while driving on a simulator. The results: searching through long playlists containing 580 songs resulted in poor driving performance and required long glances of two seconds or more. "Drivers did not adequately adapt their behavior to roadway demand, as evident in their degraded driving performance," his study concludes. Lee says he now knows that from scientific research and from personal experience. CNN's Lizzie O'Leary contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

Experts say a distraction of more than 2 seconds is dangerous . The NTSB wants to ban use of hands-free devices in cars . Cell phones are more distracting than talking to passengers, experts say .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Moammar Gadhafi's military machine pounded the western city of Misrata again Tuesday as France and Britain called for beefed-up NATO airstrikes to stop such attacks on the Libyan people. Witnesses reported heavy shelling in central Misrata, besieged for weeks and the scene of some of the worst fighting in the Libyan conflict. At least 10 people were killed and 30 others wounded in the heavy shelling, a doctor operating in two central clinics told CNN. The doctor, identified only as Dr. Hakim for safety reasons, said medical teams are exhausted from treating the wounded. Rebel fighter Moaath al-Misrati told CNN the shelling came after rebels killed several of Gadhafi's snipers. "We are expecting a ground offensive by the Gadhafi forces any time now," he said. The witnesses said all telephone communications, including mobile service, had been cut. British Foreign Secretary William Hague and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe both called Tuesday for NATO to get more aggressive in Libya, and a rebel leader issued a plea for the international community to carry out the U.N. Security Council resolution of March 17, which calls for "all necessary measures to protect civilians under threat of attack" in the North African country. Hague told reporters in Brussels, Belgium, that "a huge amount has been achieved in Libya, but clearly there is more to be done." Juppe said NATO needs to fully embrace the role it accepted -- to protect Libyan civilians from Gadhafi's forces. "NATO wanted to take charge of the military operations, we accepted it," Juppe said on France Info radio. "It has to carry out its role today, which means to prevent Gadhafi from using heavy weapons to bombard the population." Specifically, Juppe mentioned the attacks on Misrata, where on Monday at least five civilians -- including two toddlers, a 75-year-old man and an Algerian worker -- were killed and more than 20 people wounded in mortar attacks, according to witnesses. In Benghazi, Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, the deputy chairman of the Transitional National Council, issued an "urgent statement" calling on the international community "to intervene and stop the massacres that Gadhafi promised in Misrata, and to implement the UN resolution in any possible means." Ghoga told CNN that the opposition has submitted a wish list of military equipment to Qatar and France. He said the list was compiled by rebel military leaders and he didn't know exactly what was being requested. Last week, when asked by CNN's Reza Sayah which countries were providing rebels with weapons and training, Ghoga said, "We are in communication with our brothers in Qatar and also with our brothers in the Egyptian republic and with our friends in Italy and France." He indicated in the interview that the weapons were on their way to Libya. Meanwhile, Libya's most high-profile defector flew from Britain to Qatar Tuesday for talks on how to break the deadly impasse in his nation. Former Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa flew to the Qatari capital, Doha, to meet with government officials and Libyan opposition leaders ahead of the first meeting Wednesday of the Libya Contact Group, formed in London last month and charged with implementing United Nations resolutions. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will also attend. In a news conference in Benghazi, Ghoga did not explicity reject the idea of opposition leaders' meeting with Koussa in Doha, but said such a meeting was "not on the agenda." In an earlier interview with the BBC, Koussa had expressed concern that the situation in Libya was spiraling downward into a grinding war, in the mold of the conflict in Somalia. Koussa, who fled Libya last month and sought safe haven in Britain after resigning his post in Gadhafi's regime, urged all parties to avoid plunging Libya into a civil war. "This will lead to (much bloodshed), and Libya will be a new Somalia," Koussa told the BBC. Koussa, a longtime Gadhafi confidant and a former Libyan intelligence chief, also told BBC, "The solution in Libya will come from the Libyans themselves through discussion and democratic dialogue." did not explicitly reject the idea of meeting with Libya's held a press conference on Tuesday and when asked if the opposition would be open to a meeting with Moussa Koussa - Libya's former Foreign Minister - in Doha, the Deputy Chairman of the Transitional National Council did not explicitly reject the idea. He told reporters a meeting with Moussa Koussa in Doha "was not on the agenda." An African Union attempt at forging peace fell flat when Ghoga and fellow rebel leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil rejected it on grounds that it did not provide any solutions to violence against the Libyan people. Gadhafi had agreed in principle to stop hostilities and allow outside forces to help keep the peace, his government and African Union mediators said Monday in a joint statement after a meeting in Tripoli. The African Union plan announced Monday did not address whether Gadhafi will step down, nor is it binding. According to the memorandum detailed by Ramtane Lamara, the African Union's commissioner for peace and security, the plan had four elements: . -- An immediate end to all fighting . -- Libyan authorities' cooperation "to facilitate the diligent delivery of humanitarian assistance" -- The protection of foreign nationals in Libya . -- The start of talks involving various Libyan authorities, including opposition figures, with the aim of setting up "an inclusive transition period" to adopt and implement "political reforms necessary for the elimination of the causes of the current crisis." U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday that Washington is still "waiting to get a full readout" from participants in the African Union's peace mission in Libya. "We've made it very clear that we want to see a cease-fire," Clinton said. But she said there also must be, among other things, a resumption of water, electricity and other services to Libyan cities that have been "brutalized by Gadhafi's forces." She also reiterated the U.S. position that Gadhafi needs to step down from power. Ghoga, the Transitional National Council's deputy chairman, on Tuesday said rebel forces were "fighting in the direction of Brega" from the western gate of the "completely liberated" city of Ajdabiya. "Gadhafi's forces still have some elements in Brega," he told reporters. "We added more security personnel to protect the oil fields in the city because the regime is trying to strand us economically." "The situation in Tripoli is very dire," Ghoga continued. He said fuel and food there were depleted "because all fuel is being for the Gadhafi forces' need(s)." Ghoga also claimed that "thousands of demonstrators" opposing the regime were arrested in the capital and that "a large number of them were executed in the Saladin military academy," but didn't provide further details. CNN could not independently confirm those claims. He added that on Monday, "there was a massive demonstration in Fashloum in Tripoli, and the majority were hiding their faces, fearing arrest." CNN's Amir Ahmed, Reza Sayah and Ben Wedeman contributed to this report . ### SUMMARY:

NEW: Leading rebel official calls on international community to help Libyan civilians . At least 10 killed in Misrata shelling, doctor says . France and Britain call for intensified NATO attacks . Ex-Foreign Minister Koussa flies to Qatar ahead of an international meeting .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Washington (CNN) -- Before Tuesday night's debate, polls showed Mitt Romney had gained ground with women voters. But his comments about using "whole binders full of women" as a hiring aid while governor, whiffing on an equal pay law question, and alluding to helping women get home to cook dinner has landed the GOP presidential hopeful in verbal quicksand with some female voters. He'll have to do some serious repair to regain traction, political experts say. Online erupts over 'Binders full of women' That's because Tuesday night's debate made clear that both presidential campaigns are focusing on female voters — a group that makes up the majority of the electorate. Some of the spiciest exchanges between the candidates in their second debate were over so-called "women's issues." "Romney's discussion of his promotion of women in his gubernatorial administration was ... problematic," said Andra Gillespie, an associate professor of political science at Emory University in Atlanta. "First, Romney's description of how he found female appointees sounded an awful lot like affirmative action, and someone will bring this up again. Accusations, interruptions define bruising debate . Also, the Twitterverse exploded with links to articles about how Bain Capital under Romney's leadership didn't have a female partner." The highest-ranking woman in his gubernatorial administration was his No. 2, Lieutenant Gov. Kerry Healey. Beth Myers has long held senior positions in Romney's political campaign. President Barack Obama was quick to use the "binders" line against Romney on the campaign trail Wednesday. "We don't have to collect a bunch of binders to find qualified, talented, driven young women ready to learn and teach in these fields right now," Obama told supporters in Mount Vernon, Iowa. Vice President Joe Biden at a campaign event Wednesday in Greeley, Colorado, questioned where Romney's comments were coming from. "What I can't understand is how he has gotten in this sort of 1950s time warp in terms of women," he said. Romney responded on Twitter: @MittRomney "I understand the challenges women face and want to make it easier for them in the workplace." 'Romney just can't connect with working women' During the debate at Hofstra University in New York, Romney, who worked in business before serving as governor of Massachusetts, said he "learned a great deal" about the inequalities between men and women in the workplace when leading his state. When he and his staff ran into problems finding qualified female applicants to fill cabinet posts, Romney said he "went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Can you help us find folks,' and they brought us whole binders full of women." Undecided women voters who were watching the debate and participating in a focus group in Ohio reacted positively to Romney's anecdote during dial-testing for CNN. The responses from the women jumped sharply on-screen when Romney spoke about workplace flexibility. 25 funniest debate tweets . The tweets, posts and pictures quickly exploded on the internet. Before the debate ended, there were Twitter hashtags and handles, a series of memes on Tumblr, and a Facebook page with over 100,000 fans. The "binders full of women" phrase was the third-fastest rising search on Google during the debate. Romney's comments 'extremely offensive to women' Not to be outdone or out-messaged, the Romney campaign put out an ad as the debate wrapped up, clarifying the GOP nominee's support for contraception and belief that in some cases abortion should be legal. But there is a lingering perception behind the comedic Internet takes on Romney's "binders full of women" response and pre-emptive advertising aimed at women that he is disconnected from the day-to-day issues facing that critical group of voters. And in a close election, that type of narrative could be a problem for Romney as he fights to woo a narrow pool of voters. 5 things we learned from the debate . "The gap between Obama and Romney was declining and I'm not sure ... if the governor made significant headway (with women voters)," said Meena Bose, director of the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra. A USA Today/Gallup poll conducted last week showed Romney had closed the gap with women and was within one point among women who are likely voters, 48% for Romney and 49% for Obama. Throughout the debate, Obama and Democrats sought to reverse that trend and widen that gap. Obama tried to draw a distinction between himself and Romney on a number of women's issues, tying equal pay, contraceptives and health care to the economy. Obama said his administration's Affordable Care Act gives insured women free contraception coverage and asserted that Romney "feels comfortable having politicians in Washington decide the health care choices that women are making." Romney reacts to frenzy over 'binders' comment . Romney pushed back, calling the president's statement "completely and totally wrong." While not opposing the availability of contraception, Romney opposes the contraception rule, arguing it forces some religious institutions to go against their faith. After the debate, Democratic pundits criticized Romney's efforts to hire women. "What it demonstrates here and why these debates are important because they're a window into what people are really thinking and how they operate," former Clinton adviser and Democratic analyst Richard Socarides said on CNN's Early Start. "Here's a situation where, you know, it should have been readily apparent to anyone that there were plenty of qualified women but they had to make this special effort." Socarides gave Romney points for trying to hire women but said in doing so, "Romney demonstrates that he's living in another world." "Qualified women should be apparent to everyone," added Socarides. He said he didn't understand why Romney "has to go out and make this special effort to find women." And though Romney sought to highlight his support of flexible work schedules for women, his reference to women who need such schedules to race home to make dinner for their families may have ruffled some female voters the wrong way. Opinion: Romney's empty 'binders full of women' "His discussion of work-life balance appeared condescending to some because of the reference to women cooking dinner," Gillespie said. Romney will now have to rebuff the Obama campaign's attempts to define him as someone who is anti-woman, political experts say. Romney campaign surrogate Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, said one reason more women may be looking to vote for Romney is because of his economic message. "The Number One issue with women is jobs and the economy," Blackburn said on CNN's Early Start recently. The former governor will have to do more of this type of messaging if he wants to sway this group, Bose said. Romney, she said, will have to hammer home the message "what's good for women is good for the country." Roundup: 10 takes on the second presidential debate . CNN's wire staff, political unit and Emily Smith contributed. ### SUMMARY:

NEW: Barack Obama, Joe Biden take on Mitt Romney's 'binders' comments on campaign trail; Romney responds on Twitter . Romney's comments on using "binders full of women" in hiring; contraception could hurt his standing with some women . Obama and Democrats rush to paint Romney as someone who doesn't have the best interests of women in mind . Romney will now have to score messaging points on the economy while clarifying stance on women's health issues .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Pervez Musharraf recently returned to Pakistan after five years in exile, determined to face down his challengers in the courtroom and make a sensational return to politics in time for the May 11 election. But his grand plan has turned to a disaster following a week that the former president would rather forget. On Tuesday, election officials barred Musharraf from running for a seat in parliament. By Friday he was formally arrested -- the first time that has happened to any former chief of the Pakistani army -- amid claims he illegally placed senior judges under house arrest during a period of emergency rule he imposed in 2007. Later that day he was transferred to a guest house at Islamabad Police HQ where he can be held for a maximum 48 hours before he appears in court to face charges relating to the detention of the judges. At that point he could get bail, go to jail or return to house arrest at his villa. Most analysts expect the house arrest option. The ex-military strongman still has to face two separate other cases dating from his time in power. The first relates to claims he did not do enough protect the life of Benazir Bhutto -- the first woman to be elected prime minister of Pakistan -- after she was assassinated in 2007, just weeks before an election in which she hoped to be returned to office. Musharraf is also accused of ordering his troops to kill Nawab Akbar Bugti, a popular tribal leader, in the volatile province of Balochistan, in 2006. WATCH: Musharraf under house arrest . Last month, Musharraf told CNN that all the charges against him are "trumped up, politicized cases." But he now finds himself under house arrest at his farmhouse compound on the outskirts of Islamabad. Why did Musharraf bother returning to Pakistan? Despite the criminal charges awaiting him and the threat of assassination by the country's Taliban extremists, Musharraf arrived in Karachi last month and declared: "I have come to save Pakistan." Though the party that succeeded him became the first democratically elected government to serve a full five-year term during the country's 65-year history, Pakistan is still beset with problems -- a crippled economy, food shortages, frequent power cuts and a bloody insurgency. In his absence overseas, the government had frozen the considerable wealth Musharraf had acquired. According to CNN's Nic Robertson in Islamabad, Musharraf expected a swift return to politics amid plenty of popular support -- but that proved a major miscalculation. "From day one it didn't happen," said Robertson. "As one of his advisers told us, 'it would have been better if he hadn't come back.' Musharraf anticipated hundreds of thousands of people greeting him at the airport when he landed. It turned out to be hundreds. "Then there were the legal cases: charges of treason, of being involved in the Bhutto murder and of putting judges under house arrest. In all those cases the judges really went after them aggressively. "Musharraf had expected them to hold off until after the election. That didn't happen. "Then his apparent miscalculation in the election itself -- he was barred by the election commission from challenging for four different seats. Now he's not able to leave the country and under house arrest. The reality is the advice he appears to have been given about the level of popular support he still has in Pakistan was erroneous." What level of support does Musharraf have? Musharraf's popularity began to wane in 2007 after he suspended the chief justice of the Supreme Court for "misuse of authority." The move resulted in protests and accusations that he was attempting to influence a court decision on whether he could seek another term in office. More than six years on and some Pakistanis would be happy to see the return of the ex-military ruler, hoping his leadership could help restore order to a country riddled with political division and plagued by extremist violence. But others will point to the many enemies in the final years of his presidency, notably among the judges he detained. The Pakistani Taliban vowed to send a death squad to hunt down the former president if he returned to the country, although Musharraf has admitted he has been living under threat of death since September 11, 2001, when he supported the American war on terror and fought against the Taliban. Musharraf also revealed last week that his government secretly signed off on U.S. drone strikes within its borders, but only if there was no time for Pakistan's military to act against al Qaeda targets. This is the first time a top Pakistani official, past or present, has admitted publicly to such a deal. "He said it wasn't a blanket agreement -- he agreed to perhaps several of these types of drone attacks -- but until now absolutely no word, no hint of this, only ever denials that there were ever any green lights," said Robertson. Can Musharraf count on support from the military? As the former army chief, Musharraf will have retained support and influence within Pakistan's powerful military. "Most people here think the army won't let him go to jail and won't tolerate him being under house arrest for long," said Robertson. "However they will not do anything rash. They'll exert their influence behind the scenes to secure a favorable outcome. I think for now the legal process continues apace." What's next for Musharraf? More court appearances. After appearing before a magistrate Friday, Musharraf returned home where he is being held under house arrest, according to his lawyer, Ahmed Raza Qasoori. Musharraf will continue to seek bail in the case, Qasoori said. However, an attempt on Thursday to appeal the Islamabad court's decision at the Supreme Court appeared to have so far been unsuccessful. To further complicate matters, Qasoori claimed the Islamabad High Court judge who ordered Musharraf's arrest is one of the judges whom Musharraf is alleged to have had detained in 2007 and therefore should have recused himself from the case. Are there implications for Pakistan? "The judiciary has been emboldened, though they are widely perceived to operate a political bias," said Robertson. "But in the end we are seeing small steps towards democracy in Pakistan. Ultimately a strong and unbiased judiciary is a good check on political corruption and excess." But an editorial Friday in The Nation, an English-language newspaper, took a more critical view of events this week. "All segments of society, supporter or opponent, official or non-official, high or low, are watching keenly to ascertain just how Pakistan will deal with the first of its former dictators to go on trial. "Adding further spice to the case was the total inaction shown by the police in putting him under arrest that had been specifically ordered by the IHC (Islamabad High Court). As he came out of the court room, he sped off to his villa ... in a bullet-proof vehicle, guarded by his personal security, with the police and rangers playing the part of silent spectators." Referring to the provisional administration in place until after next month's election, it added "the shameful reality is the utter lack of cooperation and indifference shown by the caretaker setup in Musharraf's trial, though it is simply carrying on with the tradition set by its predecessor governments." CNN's Jethro Mullen contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

Pervez Musharraf went back to Pakistan after five years in exile, hoping to return to politics . But officials barred Musharraf from running for parliament, days later he was arrested . Some Pakistanis would be happy to see the return of the ex-military ruler . Others will point to the many enemies he made in the final years of his presidency .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Privacy advocates plan to call on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to suspend use of "whole-body imaging," the airport security technology that critics say performs "a virtual strip search" and produces "naked" pictures of passengers, CNN has learned. A TSA employee, shown from the back, as he stands in an airport whole-body imaging machine. The national campaign, which will gather signatures from organizations and relevant professionals, is set to launch this week with the hope that it will go "viral," said Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which plans to lead the charge. "People need to know what's happening, with no sugar-coating and no spinning," said Coney, who is also coordinator of the Privacy Coalition, a conglomerate of 42 member organizations. She expects other groups to sign on in the push for the technology's suspension until privacy safeguards are in place. Right now, without regulations on what the Transportation Security Administration does with this technology, she said, "We don't have the policy to hold them to what they say. They're writing their own rule book at this point." The machines "detect both metallic and nonmetallic threat items to keep passengers safe," said Kristin Lee, spokeswoman for TSA, in a written statement. "It is proven technology, and we are highly confident in its detection capability." Watch a video of the body-imaging scans » . Late last month, freshman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, introduced legislation to ban these machines. Of concern to him, Coney and others is not just what TSA officials say, it's also what they see. iReport: Tell us what you think about these scanners . The sci-fi-looking whole-body imaging machine -- think "Beam me up, Scotty" -- was first introduced at an airport in Phoenix, Arizona, in November 2007. There are now 40 machines, which cost $170,000 each, being tested and used in 19 airports, said TSA's Lee. Six of these airports are testing the machines as a primary security check option, instead of metal detectors followed by a pat-down, she said. The rest present them as a voluntary secondary security option in lieu of a pat-down, which is protocol for those who've repeatedly set off the metal detector or have been randomly selected for additional screening. So far, the testing phase has been promising, said Lee. When given the choice, "over 99 percent of passengers choose this technology over other screening options," she said. A big advantage of the technology is the speed, said Jon Allen, another TSA spokesperson, who's based in Atlanta, Georgia. A body scan takes between 15 and 30 seconds, while a full pat-down can take from two to four minutes. And for those who cringe at the idea of being touched by a security official, or are forever assigned to a pat-down because they had hip replacements, for example, the machine is a quick and easy way to avoid that contact and hassle, he said. Using millimeter wave technology, which the TSA says emits 10,000 times less radio frequency than a cell phone, the machine scans a traveler and a robotic image is generated that allows security personnel to detect potential threats -- and, some fear, more -- beneath a person's clothes. TSA officials say privacy concerns are addressed in a number of ways. The system uses a pair of security officers. The one working the machine never sees the image, which appears on a computer screen behind closed doors elsewhere; and the remotely located officer who sees the image never sees the passenger. As further protection, a passenger's face is blurred and the image as a whole "resembles a fuzzy negative," said TSA's Lee. The officers monitoring images aren't allowed to bring cameras, cell phones or any recording device into the room, and the computers have been programmed so they have "zero storage capability" and images are "automatically deleted," she added. But this is of little comfort to Coney, the privacy advocate with EPIC, a public interest research group in Washington. She said she's seen whole-body images captured by similar technology dating back to 2004 that were much clearer than what's represented by the airport machines. "What they're showing you now is a dumbed-down version of what this technology is capable of doing," she said. "Having blurry images shouldn't blur the issue." Lee of TSA emphasized that the images Coney refers to do not represent millimeter wave technology but rather "backscatter" technology, which she said TSA is not using at this time. Coney said she and other privacy advocates want more oversight, full disclosure for air travelers, and legal language to protect passengers and keep TSA from changing policy down the road. For example, she wants to know what's to stop TSA from using clearer images or different technology later. The computers can't store images now, but what if that changes? "TSA will always be committed to respecting passenger privacy, regardless of whether a regulation is in place or not," Lee said. She added that the long-term goal is not to see more of people, but rather to advance the technology so that the human image is like a stick-figure and any anomalies are auto-detected and highlighted. But Coney knows only about what's out there now, and she worries that as the equipment gets cheaper, it will become more pervasive and harder to regulate. Already it is used in a handful of U.S. courthouses and in airports in the United Kingdom, Spain, Japan, Australia, Mexico, Thailand and the Netherlands. She wonders whether the machines will someday show up in malls. The option of walking through a whole-body scanner or taking a pat-down shouldn't be the final answer, said Chris Calabrese, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union. "A choice between being groped and being stripped, I don't think we should pretend those are the only choices," he said. "People shouldn't be humiliated by their government" in the name of security, nor should they trust that the images will always be kept private. "Screeners at LAX [Los Angeles International Airport]," he speculated, "could make a fortune off naked virtual images of celebrities." Bruce Schneier, an internationally recognized security technologist, said whole-body imaging technology "works pretty well," privacy rights aside. But he thinks the financial investment was a mistake. In a post-9/11 world, he said, he knows his position isn't "politically tenable," but he believes money would be better spent on intelligence-gathering and investigations. "It's stupid to spend money so terrorists can change plans," he said by phone from Poland, where he was speaking at a conference. If terrorists are swayed from going through airports, they'll just target other locations, such as a hotel in Mumbai, India, he said. "We'd be much better off going after bad guys ... and back to pre-9/11 levels of airport security," he said. "There's a huge 'cover your ass' factor in politics, but unfortunately, it doesn't make us safer." Meantime, TSA's Lee says the whole-body imaging machines remain in the pilot phase. Given what the organization has gleaned so far, she said additional deployments are anticipated. ### SUMMARY:

Privacy advocates to launch campaign against 'whole-body imaging' machines . They say airport security device gives 'virtual strip search' and needs regulation . TSA: Technology saves time, improves safety and is welcomed 99 percent of time . One critic calls investment 'stupid,' part of 'cover your ass' politics in post-9/11 world .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- A camera that can see around a corner? I know this sounds like something in a sci-fi movie or a superhero comic, but this is a real-world technology we've made possible with a camera that is aware of the travel time of light, an imaging technique that can create movies of light in motion with an effective rate approaching a trillion frames per second: the speed of light. Before I joined the MIT faculty in 2008, I had done deep research in "computational photography," a field of new imaging techniques dramatically improving the capture and synthesis of photos. But, I knew there was more to photography than just depicting what the eye can see. I wanted to create a camera that could see beyond the line of sight. The speed of light isn't infinite: light travels about a foot per billionth of a second. If I could build a camera fast enough to analyze light at high speeds in room-sized environments, I knew we could then create cameras to solve major problems in scientific and consumer imaging, and enable completely new functionality. I spoke to top researchers in ultrafast lasers and photonics to understand what was currently possible. When I did, most of them asked some version of: "Why? Why spend years building a camera to look around corners when no commercial application is screaming for it and no funding agency has a call for it?" In addition, it's rare to shoot light pulses and analyze at such high speeds in large environments. Ultra-fast imaging experiments are usually limited to centimeter- or smaller-size samples. I continued the work and in the spring of 2008, with James Davis from UC Santa Cruz, wrote a proposal that laid out the mathematical foundation and various experimental solutions for exploration. TED.com: Boaz Almog 'levitates' a superconductor . I also began working with Media Lab graduate student Matthew Hirsch to build a prototype, hoping that we would have something to demonstrate within a few months. The grant proposal was rejected for administrative reasons (I made a paperwork error!), which meant we had to wait nearly a year to apply again. But those two years didn't yield any meaningful results, as our lab components weren't designed to be used the way we wanted. After nearly three years of experimental work, the team -- especially postdoctoral associate Andreas Velten and MIT professor Moungi Bawendi, many students, and several collaborators -- cobbled together pieces of the puzzle and built a software program to create a first demonstration of looking around corners. Very soon afterward, we could also start creating surreal movies of light in motion. We call this new imaging technology femto photography because we capture a segment of the image with a flashlight (in this case, a laser pulse) on for a few millionths of a billionth of a second (or a few femtoseconds) and an exposure time approaching a trillionth of a second. Just how fast is femto photography? Think of it this way: if we took one-thousandth of a second of footage from the femto camera video output and slowed it down to the speed of 30 seconds per frame -- the approximate speed of a standard TV broadcast -- it would take us a lifetime to watch. Photographers know that at very short exposures and even at the most sensitive setting for dark scenes, we will record barely any light. So what about in a trillionth of a second? We actually record and average millions of photos to get enough light, each photo made to look the same via carefully timed synchronization with the light pulse. So even if our exposure time is indeed nearly a trillionth of a second, to get sufficient light we must take an average. Thus, as of now, we can only record repeatable events, but this is not a fundamental limitation. TED.com: A robot that flies like a bird . Unlike conventional cameras, our femto camera captures an image as one thin slice at a time of one-dimensional space using a "streak tube," a laboratory instrument that is commonly used by chemists to study light passing through chemical samples. We then take hundreds of these narrow videos (each shot at a slightly different angle) and create a carefully synchronized, slow-motion composite of the light pulses. It takes about an hour to collect and aggregate the data (view a demonstration of a light pulse as it travels through an ordinary Coca-Cola bottle). To see around the corner, we use femto photography to analyze scattered light. We bounce light off of visible parts into hidden parts and then measure the time and direction of returned light. Usually the scattering of energy is considered a nuisance -- whether driving in fog or poor reception from a cell phone tower -- and most techniques either try to avoid it (by turning on fog lights) or reduce the impact of scattering (by selecting energy for the phone only from direct paths). In contrast, we exploit the scattering. For the camera, a laser pulse is fired at a wall, and the impact of hitting the wall causes the particles of light to scatter. Some of the scattering particles return to the camera at different times. This is repeated about 60 times per image as the camera measures how long it takes for the light to travel back and where the particles land. An algorithm then crunches the data to reconstruct the hidden image. This technique even allows us to see a three-dimensional object such as a mock-up of running person. TED.com: Test for Parkinson's with a phone call . As exciting as this work is, don't look for this technology to be in practice tomorrow -- we're still years away from bringing this to market. But, we can already imagine multiple ways that it could have a significant, positive impact on our everyday lives. By allowing us to "see" around a corner, for example, this technology added to our cars could let us know if there's another vehicle approaching around a blind curve. It also could give us a new way to look deep inside our bodies without X-rays, or to look through a window into a burning building from a distance to see if anyone is left inside --without risking a firefighter's life. When I gave a TEDGlobal talk on femto photography in June, I began with a reference to Doc Edgerton, a very popular MIT professor of electrical engineering who, in 1964, wowed the world with an image of a bullet in midair, having just passed through an apple. He accomplished this by using a strobe light to freeze the action of the bullet at a millionth of a second. What we're talking about here -- the speed of light --is a million times faster, and is opening the door to a complete rethinking of what we mean by, and can do with, photography. It is a first step toward a new world of imaging that far exceeds human ability, resynthesizing data and depicting it in ways that are within human comprehensibility. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author, Ramesh Raskar, who would like to thank his collaborators: Moungi G. Bawendi, Professor, MIT Department of Chemistry; Andreas Velten and Christopher Barsi, postdoctoral associates, MIT Media Lab; Everett Lawson, Otkrist Gupta, Nikhil Naik, Amy Fritz, Di Wu, MIT Media Lab; Matt O'toole, Kyros Kutulakos, University of Toronto; Diego Gutierrez, Belen Masia, and Elisa Amoros, Universidad de Zaragoza; Kavita Bala, Shuang Zhao, Cornell University; Ashok Veeraraghavan, Rice University.; Thomas Willwacher, Harvard University. ### SUMMARY:

Ramesh Raskar's team at the MIT Media Lab is re-imagining what photography can do . By creating movies of light in motion at a trillion frames per second, camera can see around corner . Raskar: Technology is years away from applications in the real world . He says it could be helpful in preventing car crashes and aiding rescues .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- A massive herd of caribou grazes the Arctic tundra. Sea birds fatten up on shellfish along the Chesapeake Bay before flying thousands of miles to winter in South America. A pod of orca glide past Pacific islands blanketed in fir and cedar as they hunt for salmon. Few sights are more awe-inspiring than mass movements of  animals instinctively traveling the path forged by the millions of their kind that came before them. Summer is prime time for wildlife viewing, the season when you'll catch birds and animals tending their young and storing up energy before their fall migrations to winter feeding and breeding grounds. Here are seven jaw-dropping places in the United States to spot amazing creatures as they prepare for journeys large and small. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska . Isolated and vast, the 19 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is often called the last truly wild place in the United States. The coastal plain along the Beaufort Sea, the heart of the refuge, offers spectacular wildlife viewing. In early summer, the 123,000-strong Porcupine caribou return here to give birth and graze the tundra. You might also spot grizzly bears, wolves, muskoxen and even polar bears, as well as huge populations of migratory birds. Most of the refuge is only accessible by plane. Unless you have extensive wilderness experience, it's best to hire a qualified guide for both day hikes and longer expeditions. You can find more information on authorized guides online. Best affordable beach resorts . San Juan Islands, Washington . Between the Washington mainland and Vancouver Island lies the San Juan Archipelago, a chain of 178 islands. From late spring through the summer, orca sightings are very common here: three extended family pods regularly pass through, following salmon migrations. Although boats are required by law to keep a 200-yard distance from the spouting giants, curious orcas will sometimes come very close. Whether you opt for a kayak trip or a larger boat tour, you'll want to select a tour operator that respects the orca's habitat. The Whale Museum, a local educational and research institution, recommends booking with tour companies that are members of the Pacific Whale Watching Association. Even if you don't spot an orca during your trip, you're likely to see a variety of marine life, including sea lions, harbor seals, porpoise and perhaps even gray whales. Plan a visit to the San Juan Island National Historical Park, where you can hike through cedar forests, native prairie and along rocky shorelines while enjoying marvelous views of the Olympic Mountains and the Northern Cascades. America's best North-South roads . Glacier National Park, Montana . With more than 1 million acres of glaciers, forests, lakes, mountains and wetlands, visitors to Glacier National Park have the chance to see everything from elusive wolves, grizzlies and mountain lions to the more common mountain goats, bighorn sheep, elk and moose. Most animals in the park have relatively modest migration ranges, moving between higher and lower elevations depending on the season. Elk congregate in valleys to give birth, then head into the mountains to keep cool and to feed. During summer, bighorn sheep can also be spotted on high mountain slopes, often around rocky outcroppings where they perform the seemingly death-defying feats of scrambling along ledges and cliffs. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming . It goes without saying that Yellowstone offers some of the most impressive wildlife encounters anywhere, but there's something unique about bison, the park's largest mammal. According to the National Park Service, Yellowstone is the only place in the United States where bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times. There are two main bison herds in Yellowstone that migrate within the park. Roadside bison sightings are common in summer. As with other large animals in the park, they'll sometimes cross the road directly in front of cars, so drivers should take great care. 10 best motorcycle roads in the U.S. Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico . On summer evenings, tourists gather in an outdoor amphitheater at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southeastern New Mexico to witness an awesome spectacle: hundreds of thousands of Brazilian (also known as Mexican) free-tailed bats taking flight en masse at dusk to hunt insects. The best opportunities to see the bats are in July and August, before they head to Mexico for the winter. If you're really ambitious, arrive before dawn and catch them swooping and diving hundreds of feet as they re-enter their cave after the nocturnal hunt. A full day leaves ample time to tour the caverns before watching an evening flight. Nesting sea turtles, Florida . Florida's coastlines are crucial to the survival of several species of threatened and endangered sea turtles, including the loggerhead, leatherback and green turtle. From May through July, female turtles swim onto beaches to dig deep holes, deposit their eggs and cover them before returning to the water. About two months later, it will be up to the tiny babies to crawl out and hurry toward the ocean. Secret hotels of Florida's Gulf Coast . Coastal counties, state parks and wildlife refuges offer organized turtle walks to help ensure visitors don't inadvertently harm the fragile creatures. You can learn more about turtle walks by contacting the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, a 20.5-mile stretch of coastline between Melbourne Beach and Wabasso Beach on Florida's southeast coast. Staff can also help identify other places to witness this incredible event. You can help protect turtles by avoiding -- and keeping dogs away from -- areas where the turtles nest unless you're on a guided walk. Don't dig in the sand, and avoid using flashlights, flash cameras or other electronic devices. Baby turtles instinctively move toward natural light reflecting off the water and may become disoriented by artificial light. Assateague and Chincoteague Islands . Cute ponies might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about wildlife, but on Assateague and Chincoteague, barrier islands off the coast of Virginia and Maryland, the descendants of ponies brought by colonists in the 1600s roam freely through salt marshes, pine forests and windswept beaches. Wild ponies are far from the only reason to visit. Assateague National Seashore and the neighboring Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge are a birder's paradise because of their location along the Atlantic Flyway, a major migratory bird flight path. Hiking, boating and kayaking are great ways to bird-watch here. Keep your eyes peeled for deer, foxes, opossum, otters, whales and dolphins, too. Animal attacks: A note of caution . Before you venture out into the wilderness, do your research and know the risks. Though rare, wild animal attacks can and do happen, and different animals require different responses to protect yourself. For your own well-being and that of the wildlife you encounter, always maintain a safe distance -- no matter how cute or cuddly they may seem. Photos: Escape to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula . Do you have recommendations for great spots to see animals in the wild? Please share them below. ### SUMMARY:

Summer is prime time for wildlife viewing . These spots across the United States provide opportunities to see animals in the wild . For your own well-being and that of the wildlife, always maintain a safe distance .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Monday will be a day of mourning for the slain schoolchildren of Newtown, Connecticut. Then what? Some are urging President Barack Obama to lead a national campaign for tighter control of firearms. Bad idea. If the president -- any president -- inserts himself into the gun debate, he will inevitably polarize it. Supporters of the president will rally, but opponents of the president will become more obdurate. Because the president has many items on his agenda, and often needs the votes of Democrats from districts where pro-gun feeling runs strong, his opponents will probably outlast him. Presidential leadership on guns will most likely fail for another reason, one that comes from a darker and grimmer place in American culture. I've written before at CNN about the paradoxes of American gun ownership. Here's one more such paradox: Obama has done literally nothing to restrict the (large and growing) rights of gun owners. President Bill Clinton signed two important pieces of gun control legislation and issued many restrictive executive orders; Obama has not so much as introduced even one. Yet the election of Obama has triggered an angry reaction among gun owners fiercer than anything seen under Clinton. Between 1960 and the late 1990s, there occurred a gradual decline in the percentage of American homes that contain a gun, from about one-half to about one-third. (This trend is at least partly explained by the decline of hunting as a sport. In 2011, about 6% of Americans aged 16 or over went hunting even once in the year. ) In 2009, however, that trend away from guns abruptly went into reverse. Gun buying spiked in the Obama administration, pushing the share of households with a gun all the way back up to 47%, near the 1960 peak, even as crime rates tumbled to the lowest levels ever recorded, making guns less necessary than ever to self-defense. Black Friday 2012 set a one-day record for gun sales. What's going on? People who buy guns for self-defense do not look only to the statistics for information about the dangers they face. They are guided by their own perceptions, and often their own misperceptions. By the numbers, Obama's America is probably the safest America ever. But in the imaginations of millions of people, Obama's America is threatened by social instability. For many, the president himself is the leading symbol of the changes they fear. The more the president leads the campaign for gun control, the more hopeless that campaign will be. Instead, progress to more rational gun laws must be led from outside the political system. Look at the success of the campaign against drunken driving. In 1980, 13-year-old Cari Lightner was struck and killed by a drunken driver. That driver had recently been arrested for another driving under the influence offense, but he remained on the road to kill again. Cari's mother, Candice, threw herself into the cause of stopping drunken driving. A powerful organizer, she founded a group, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, that not only changed laws at the federal and state level, but also changed the larger cultural context. Forty years ago, the hugely popular entertainer, Dean Martin, made giggling jokes about being drunk at the wheel. Today, in millions of American homes, workplaces and restaurants, "friends don't let friends drive drunk" has replaced "one for the road." This is the model for the future campaign against dangerous weapons. That campaign should be led from outside the political system, by people who have suffered loss and grief from gun violence. Only that way can the campaign avoid being held hostage by the usual conflict of parties -- Democrats who fear that gun control will lose them rural congressional districts; Republicans who exaggerate for partisan gain exactly what gun control would mean. Gun control should no more mean the abolition of guns than Mothers Against Drunk Driving abolished the car. Guns are part of the cherished American culture of the outdoors. In many parts of the country, a deer rifle literally puts meat on the table. In other parts, a revolver in the bedroom dresser drawer is the frightened spouse's last defense against an abusive partner, or the gay urban homesteader's final protection against violent bigots. Guns can be souvenirs of heroic moments on faraway battlefields, mementoes of national history, or art objects of great beauty. It's harder to imagine why any civilian would need a semiautomatic weapon. Still, it's a free country, and gun ownership is one of the freedoms specifically cited in the Constitution. Responsible gun owners have a right to their guns. The challenge for the grass-roots gun-safety movement of the future is to focus on the danger posed by irresponsible owners. The goal should be less to ban particular classes of weapons -- such a goal puts the law in a race against technology, a race the law will likely lose -- and more to change the rules defining who may keep a gun. Prospective gun owners should be required to take serious training and pass a safety exam before qualifying for a license. They should be screened for mental illness and histories of violence, very much including domestic violence. They should be required to buy insurance against the harm done by wrongful use of their weapons, and if that insurance proves expensive -- well, too bad. People apprehended in possession of an unlicensed weapon should face severe sanctions. At the same time, we also need to pay attention to the role of mental health professionals in averting such horrors like the Newtown massacre. In a survey of mass killings published in 2000, The New York Times observed: "They give lots of warning and even tell people explicitly what they plan to do." Yet it's exceeding difficult in this country to compel treatment of the mentally ill, even as they prepare to commit the worst crimes. The Associated Press reported this disturbing story on October 1: . "Andrew Engeldinger's parents pushed him for two years to seek treatment for what they suspected was mental illness, but even though he became increasingly paranoid and experienced delusions, there was nothing more they could do. "Minnesota law doesn't allow people to be forced into treatment without proof that they are a threat to themselves or others. Engeldinger's parents were horrified last week, when their 36-year-old son went on a workplace shooting spree that led to the deaths of a Minneapolis sign company's owner, several of his employees and a UPS driver. Engeldinger then killed himself." It's important to ensure that guns are kept out of the hands of people like Engeldinger. It's also important to expedite the process by which family and friends can require them to accept treatment. Such measures might not produce immediate results, but like the campaign against drunken driving, would steadily enhance gun safety and raise higher the obstacles to the obtaining of weapons by people likely to misuse them. As with any public safety measure, the goal is not absolute security. We'll never reduce the toll of crime, accident and general human mayhem to zero. But after the seventh mass killings of this single year 2012, isn't it about time that we tried to reduce the toll at least somewhat? The politicians can't or won't. But one of the many, many families bereaved in this year of random violence -- maybe they will be moved to follow for the victims of gun crime the lead Candice Lightner established for the victims of reckless driving? The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum. ### SUMMARY:

David Frum: What happens after the mourning is over? He says a presidential-led effort on gun safety will likely fail for political reasons . It would be better if campaign were modeled on MADD, with victims' families leading, he says .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- When Pinterest exploded onto the scene, enthusiasts could barely contain their excitement over pages upon pages of pastel, lace-trimmed, sugar-sprinkled DIY deliciousness. It was the manifestation of our collective consciousness of intended crafts. We spent hours pinning, as if the action itself were a legitimate replacement for actual creation. Who doesn't want to know how to make Skittles-infused vodka ("Vomit the rainbow") or create an anytime jersey dress out of an oversized T-shirt? Again, we weren't exactly creating most of these items, but knowing they were safely tucked away within meticulously organized virtual boards was enough to make us feel like creative maestros. For parents, Pinterest took things to a whole ... 'nother ... level. One could pass days falling down the rabbit hole of ideas spanning every milestone of child rearing. From the time-lapse pregnancy photo montage to gender-reveal cupcakes to lunchbox hand-pies shaped like baby octopi, Pinterest left no familial event untouched. Suddenly, a rumbling in the distance. An overwhelming tide began to rise. It's not that these ideas were overly complicated. There were just so many of them. All demanding attention, crying out for a voyage to the craft store, begging to be manifested into fruition. What's wrong with using tech to distract kids? Initially, I'd managed to stay on the shore and watch Pinthusiasts sink or swim from a distance. Pinterest didn't infect me during any of the traditional gateway holidays like Christmas or Halloween (did you know both of these holidays now require wreaths?). It got me with the Tooth Fairy. When I was kid, the Tooth Fairy, if the wench remembered to come all, would leave a quarter. Maybe 50 cents if she was having a good year. A 2012 survey reported that American parents give their children $3 per tooth, so even considering 20 years of inflation, my fairy was obviously from the wrong side of the tracks. When I was a child, my mom was studying to become a dentist. Maybe to her, the idea of celebrating calcified structures separating from mouth tissue seemed like overkill. These days, a quick "Tooth Fairy" search on Pinterest will result in thousands of ways to turn what should be a very simple transaction into an event worthy of a Disney score. I'm not sure what it is about this specific milestone that had me feeling all romantic, but I knew Pinterest would be the place to go for inspiration. By the time my oldest daughter's first tooth was threatening to wriggle free, I'd hyped up the Tooth Fairy significantly. "What do you think she'll bring? I hope it's not money. I don't like money," she said as I pulled her comforter to her chin. "Me too?" my 3-year-old worriedly asked from her bed across the room. "I'm not sure what she's going to bring. And she never forgets little sisters," I explained. Eventually, the tooth fell out during breakfast. Unfortunately, as the day went on, the business of life combined with my chronic tendency to procrastinate proved more powerful than the Pinterest-derived Tooth Fairy extravaganza I'd planned. I didn't remember the Fairy's scheduled visit until I woke up with a massive start at 2 a.m. the next day. I'd dropped the ball. My mind started to race with ideas. Perhaps the gas station around the corner had candy ... wait no, the Tooth Fairy wouldn't give candy; that'd be like a doctor handing out Big Macs. And do I really want to get on the road at 2 a.m. when the bars are closing? What if there are drunken drivers? I don't want to go down as the first Pinterest-related death. I began opening every closet in my home, searching the pantry for something that I could pass off as a gift from an enchanted forest warehouse. I found a few mini candy canes, but no, the tooth fairy would clearly be non-denominational. Maybe I could make sandwiches shaped like hearts and keep them in the fridge -- no, the present is supposed to be under their pillow. Shaved turkey slices on whole wheat have no place in a child's bedding; even I know that. I finally found some snack mix that I was sure my kids hadn't seen before. Combined with a few chocolate chips ... that's something the Tooth Fairy would whip together in her Middle-Earth kitchen, right? As I prepared the melange and dumped it into sandwich bags, I got a distinct mental picture of a jury of Pinterest moms in cardigans shaking their heads at me while knitting stuffed animals. "Groceries? Really?" their leader said. She was wearing a T-shirt dress. It looked amazing on her. I glanced down sheepishly at my work. The bags looked like something you'd sneak into a movie theater to save $5. Not magical enough. I closed the bags with craft twine and finished the whole debacle with wrapping paper. What about a note? There are hundreds of pins featuring little notes written with what I can only assume are calligraphy pens. People even make matching miniature envelopes. It was almost 2:30. No time for that. After I'd dropped the packages, being careful not to wake the children (how would that go? "Oh I was just seeing the Tooth Fairy out ..."), I still felt uneasy. You're only a kid once. It's fun to believe in this nonsense. I decided to take it up a notch by sprinkling some pink glitter by their bedsides and made a trail all the way to the upstairs bathroom window. No, I hadn't been drinking or using recreational drugs. It just felt right at the time. By now, I was so tired that I was having a semi-out-of-body experience and felt like I really was the Tooth Fairy. Glitter clean-up? I'd have one of the lesser fairies take care of it the next day. It will be good for their résumés. About 3 a.m., I remembered seeing a website where you can superimpose pictures of a fairy on a photo of your sleeping child. Knowing that nothing would traumatize my youngest daughter more than a visual of an otherworldly creature walking on her face while she lay unconscious, I took a photo of a windowsill upstairs instead. For the low price of $7, I added what looked like a crouching Barbie doll wearing a cheap prom dress and wings. As I lay in bed, I created an elaborate backstory of how I'd managed to take the photo with my iPhone right before she spit in my face for scaring her. Come morning, the children were as excited as could be to find their plastic food bags beside their beds. "There is fairy dust everywhere!" they shouted from upstairs. The photo was the icing on the cake. I'm still trying to decide what the Tooth Fairy will bring the next time she pays a visit. Maybe a gift card. ### SUMMARY:

Honest Toddler's Bunmi Laditan says Pinterest has created unrealistic expectations . She managed to avoid the holiday Pinterest craze but succumbed with the Tooth Fairy . In a blast of creativity, Laditan decorated her kids' room with snacks and glitter . She says the kids' reaction made the effort worthwhile but set a high bar .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama's decision to seek congressional authorization of a military attack against the Syrian government is in part his way of trying to fix a legal problem. The president's decision to launch military strikes that would be "limited in duration and scope" is illegal under international law, legal experts say. The United Nations charter generally doesn't allow nations to attack other nations unless the attack is in self-defense or has the approval of the U.N. Security Council, neither of which is the case in Syria. That's a problem for a president, who has tried to distinguish his administration from that of President George W. Bush on the idea that he is bringing the United States back into compliance with international law. CNN has learned that the Justice Departments' Office of Legal Counsel provided the president with a preliminary legal opinion on carrying out the Syrian attack. OLC lawyers are the ones who advise the president on whether he is acting lawfully under federal statutes and the Constitution. The opinion was provided verbally to the White House and is expected to be followed with a formal written opinion in coming weeks. The exact legal reasoning in the opinion could not be learned but sources familiar with the matter said the president's legal team believes he is acting lawfully. Is it 'High Noon' for Obama on Syria? To help bolster the president's legal case, the Obama administration over the weekend asked Congress to authorize the use of military force. It's a departure for the president, who didn't seek similar approval when the United States joined a United Nations-sanctioned bombing campaign in Libya. But it is more in line with the view that Obama expressed as a senator and presidential candidate, that presidents need congressional approval to wage war. Congressional approval wouldn't solve the problem with international law, a senior administration official said, but it would enhance the legitimacy of military action. Obama, in a Rose Garden statement Saturday, spoke of the humanitarian and moral reasons to respond to what the United States says is clear proof that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have used chemical weapons against civilians. Obama called the most recent alleged chemical weapons attack near Damascus "an assault on human dignity." A senior administration official acknowledged the international legal constraints but said the president is authorized to take action with or without Congress, in part for U.S. national security reasons. The president in his Saturday statement said the use of chemical weapons against civilians poses "a serious danger to our national security." The administration uses similar language in the Authorization for Use of Military Force proposal it is presenting to Congress, citing the need to protect the United States and its allies and partners from the threat of chemical weapons. A second senior administration official said the United States is acting on humanitarian as well as security grounds. "We are not trying to address all of the humanitarian aspects of the crisis, but the security and humanitarian elements of the situation are inextricably linked and it would be artificial to separate them," the official said. "The security situation endangers the welfare of the populations in the region, and the humanitarian situation -- including the flows of refugees and displaced persons -- endangers the security and stability of countries in the region. "Left unanswered, there is serious danger that the August 21 use of chemical weapons would lead to further use in this and future conflicts, posing a humanitarian threat both to those victims who would suffer these weapons' scourge and a security threat to neighbors, others in the region, and the international community as a whole." The thorny political and legal problems the president faces were on display over the weekend as some lawmakers returned to Washington early to receive intelligence briefings and to prepare to vote on the authorization. The administration's proposed authorization for action in Syria is broad and open-ended, and many lawmakers emerged from briefings with deep misgivings. Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri said that among about 100 members present, the biggest single concern was the "very broad request for authority" that is at odds with the narrow scope of the mission the president outlined. Syria vote could have consequences for 2016 . Democratic Sen. Pat Leahy of Vermont, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Sunday told reporters he would propose a more narrowly tailored authorization. Fears grew over the weekend that the administration's broad proposal could lead to a wider conflict and perhaps U.S. military strikes in Iran or Lebanon, because Iran's Lebanon-based Hezbollah allies are providing support to the Assad regime. The administration official said the military authorization was written narrowly to address Syria but asserted it also has to take contingencies into account. If the United States found chemical weapons were being transferred to Iran, and the only way to stop such a move was by striking in Iran, then the proposed authorization wouldn't prevent Obama from ordering such strikes. John Bellinger, former legal adviser to the State Department and the National Security Council under President George W. Bush, said Obama's international law problem is of his own making. "This particular president has boxed himself into a corner to distinguish himself from his predecessor," he said. Of Obama's planned Syria military strikes, Bellinger said, "even if it's with the purest of motives, it makes him look hypocritical." Robert Chesney, a University of Texas law professor, drew parallels to the Clinton administration's bombing against Serbian forces to protect Kosovo. In that case, President Bill Clinton ignored the fact that a proposed military force authorization was voted down in Congress. Chesney said the problem is that international law doesn't necessarily take into account events like those in Syria or Kosovo. In these cases the argument becomes, Chesney said, that "it was legitimate, but illegal (under international law). It was the good thing to do because of the moral reasons." Some human rights groups have long pushed for international law to allow outside intervention to stop atrocities. The United States and other nations have been reluctant to accept such a broad change, Bellinger said. The administration's lawyers have been careful to guide the choice of words used by top officials. Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, who made a forceful case for military action on Friday, have carefully portrayed al Assad's actions as violating "international norms." That's in part because Syria isn't among the 188 countries, including the United States, that signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, the treaty that prohibits the production and use of such weapons. Obama has long grappled with the issue of how to deal with civil war atrocities when international law doesn't offer a way to stop them. In his December 2009 speech to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, Obama endorsed a call for an "evolution of human institutions." On one hand, he said, it is important for the United States and other nations to respect international rules, saying "when we don't, our actions appear arbitrary and undercut the legitimacy of future interventions, no matter how justified." But then he also noted the need to "prevent the slaughter of civilians by their own government, or to stop a civil war whose violence and suffering can engulf an entire region." Obama added: "I believe that force can be justified on humanitarian grounds, as it was in the Balkans, or in other places that have been scarred by war. Inaction tears at our conscience and can lead to more costly intervention later. That's why all responsible nations must embrace the role that militaries with a clear mandate can play to keep the peace." Military has concerns about Syria mission . ### SUMMARY:

NEW: The Justice Departments' Office of Legal Counsel provides the president with a preliminary legal opinion . Obama's plan to strike Syria is not legal under international law, experts say . Congressional approval would lend it some legitimacy, an administration official says . Lawmakers briefed on the administration's proposal say it is too broad .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Whenever Felicia Hudson gets overwhelmed juggling a full-time job and caring for her ailing father, she finds solace in a piece of paper hanging in her office. "Circumstances do not cause anger, nervousness, worry or depression ... it is how we handle situations that allow these adverse moods," it says. "We actually choose our own attitudes. I choose to be calm, well-adjusted and happy!" She can't remember where she found the motto, but focusing on it is one of several coping mechanisms Hudson has developed since she took her father out of a nursing home in July 2008 and moved him into her two-bedroom apartment in San Diego. By then, 72-year-old Alvin Hudson had suffered three strokes and been diagnosed with diabetes, kidney failure and renal disease, requiring a long list of medication and dialysis three times a week. It was only a matter of days before Hudson became overwhelmed, she says. "It was like, 'oh my, what did I get myself into?'" the 51-year-old Georgia native recalls. "Sometimes, I would just go into the bathroom and cry." She laughs about it now, but in the beginning, "it was horrible," she says. She'd go to her job at a manufacturing plant at 8 a.m., leaving at lunch three times a week to bring her father to a dialysis center. She'd return to work and stay late to make up the time, and then go back to the center to pick him up. Those were just the normal days. If he had an extra appointment with the dentist, podiatrist or general practitioner, she took the day off to shuttle him around and sit in waiting rooms. "I put my life on hold," she said. "I was trying to do it all." It's a scenario familiar to many across the United States as adult children become caregivers for aging and chronically ill loved ones. With the first of the baby boomers turning 65 in 2011, the number of Americans entering retirement age is expected to nearly double by 2030, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration on Aging. As the country braces for the prospect of providing health care to roughly 72 million adults, the impact on caregivers is coming into focus. A study released last week found that Americans caring for aging and chronically ill relatives reported higher levels of stress, poorer health and a greater tendency to engage in unhealthy behaviors to alleviate stress than the population at large. Moreover, 55% of caregivers reported feeling overwhelmed by the task at hand, according to the American Psychological Association's "Stress in America" survey, which was conducted online among 1,226 adults in the United States in August and September. While emphasizing results among caregivers, the survey also found that 22% of Americans reported "extreme stress" and 39% said their stress had increased over the past year. Those results were higher among caregivers, who were also more likely than the general population to report doing a poor job at managing and preventing stress, according to the survey's findings. "People who care for loved ones tend to take on a lot, but don't take care of themselves," said Beverly Hills psychologist Fran Walfish, who helps look after her 90-year-old father. "It's easy to neglect yourself when you try to be all things to everyone else, but something has to give and it catches up with you." The report emphasizes the public health implications of high stress levels, with caregivers reporting greater rates of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity and depression. "It takes an incredible amount of self-awareness but you have to be willing to say I need help, I'm not omnipotent," Walfish said. "It's impossible to be all things to everyone, so what we have to do is have honest straight talk with ourselves about how much we can handle and when we seek help from others." The same lesson applies to those who are stressed, without the added burden of being a caregiver, she said. Significant sources of stress among respondents included money (75%), work (70%), the economy (67%) and relationships (58%), according to survey results. Regardless of the cause, stress often results from taking on too much and not knowing when to stop or ask for help. "People feel a lot of pressure, especially in this economy, to not complain or set limits for themselves. Before you know it, you can have a bodily reaction that can be very negative, from extreme depression to heart attack or stroke," said Andrew Spanswick, chairman and CEO of KLEAN, a residential addiction treatment center in West Hollywood, California. "Americans are chronically sleep-deprived and overworked, so most people could really benefit from taking time for themselves and figuring out a way to relax," he said. For low-income households, a reprieve can be hard to come by. Even as work piled up around her, Hudson didn't complain, fearing for her job security. She'd lie awake at night worrying about finances. With the rest of her family across the country in Atlanta, she felt alone. She lost contact with friends, put on weight and began to neglect basic household chores amid the hustle of work and caring for her father. Help finally arrived for Hudson and her father when they discovered an all-inclusive elder care center that accepted Medicaid. St. Paul's PACE, which stands for Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, functions like a day care for the elderly, providing medical services, social outlets and meals under one roof, along with transportation to and from the Bankers Hill campus. "What we usually encounter is a very overwhelmed adult child who is trying to work and can't keep things together. Oftentimes, their house is a mess, they're financially burdened and they no longer have outside ties to the community because all their time is spent caring for the mom and dad," said Amanda Gois, marketing director of St. Paul's PACE. "The adult child is almost at the point of resenting the parent they love and the parent is often depressed and withdrawn and has lost a desire to thrive or connect with the community because he or she doesn't want to be more of a burden," she said. Now, Hudson no longer has to bring her father to appointments. The program picks him up from home three times a week and brings him to the center, where he receives his medication and has lunch with other clients. The program also brings him to the dialysis center and back before returning him home. One night a week, someone from PACE comes to the home and cleans his room, changes his sheets and provides extras like a foot rub. "The goal is she can now enjoy her dad versus having to care for her dad," said Gois. For Hudson, it's working. She joined a gym with a goal of taking off her caregiver weight. She has the ability to focus on her job and work overtime if she wants. At home, she still occasionally takes refuge in the bathroom if she has a disagreement with her dad. But it's a world of a difference from when they first became roommates, almost four years ago. "It's a godsend," she said. "I'm finally getting my life back." ### SUMMARY:

"Stress in America" report emphasizes toll of caring for chronically ill relatives . 55% of caregivers reported feeling overwhelmed, American Psychological Association says . In survey of 1,226 Americans, 39% said stress levels had increased in past year . "People who care for loved ones ... don't take care of themselves," psychologist says .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- A spokesman for a national registry of radiologic technologists declined Friday to say whether the group was aware of a 2010 incident in which David Kwiatkowski allegedly tested positive for illegal drugs and was fired from an Arizona hospital. After being fired from the Phoenix hospital, Kwiatkowski went on to work at four more hospitals in four other states. He was arrested this month in New Hampshire in connection with stealing drugs from a hospital, and it's believed he infected 30 people in that state with hepatitis C through infected syringes. Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire said it consulted the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists before hiring Kwiatkowski and he held the required certification for his cardiovascular tech position. The registry's website says Kwiatkowski's certification was "summarily suspended" as of July 2012. Kwiatkowski was working at Arizona Heart Hospital in 2010 when a fellow employee found him passed out in the men's bathroom, according to documents obtained by CNN. Hepatitis C outbreak in New Hampshire strikes fear in 7 other states . "I looked in the toilet and spotted a 5 cc syringe and a needle floating in the water," the employee said in a statement submitted to the Arizona Radiation Regulatory Agency. "The label was a blue fentanyl label... He then said 'Shit ... I am going to jail.'" Fentanyl is a powerful narcotic frequently used in hospitals. Kwiatkowski flushed the syringe and needle down the toilet, according to the employee. Kwiatkowski was immediately fired from Arizona Heart Hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman. He then relinquished his license as a radiologic technologist. "I don't have the resources nor money to fight the accusations," Kwiatkowski wrote at the time. A few weeks later, he was working at Temple University Hospital in Pennsylvania, and then went on to work in Kansas and Georgia before working in New Hampshire. The agency that placed Kwiatkowski in the Arizona job reported the incident to the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists, according to a spokeswoman for the agency, Springboard, Inc. A spokesman for the national registry said they're investigating the allegations against Kwiatkowski. "Because we have strict confidentiality policies, the status of an ongoing investigation is not released," the registry said in a statement. Christopher Cook, a spokesman for the registry, declined to comment further. The director of the Arizona Radiation Regulatory Agency said officials stopped their investigation when Kwiatkowski moved out of state. "We had no jurisdiction," said Aubrey Godwin. "If drugs or alcohol were involved, we would want to get blood tests done, but he was out of state, so it was sort of hard to implement." An expert in so-called "drug diversion" said it's not uncommon for healthcare professionals to leave a state when they're being investigated for drug use. "They just move on to the next job," said John Burke, president of the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators. "This is a much bigger problem than most people realize." Godwin, the director of the Arizona licensing board, said he's not sure if his group reported the 2010 incident to the national registry. "It's not clear. I can't say. It would have been just a phone call, and I don't remember a phone call, but I'm not sure on that one," he told CNN. In the Exeter case, Kwiatkowski has been charged with obtaining controlled substances by fraud and tampering with a consumer product, namely a hospital syringe, according to an affidavit filed in federal court. He is suspected of stealing fentanyl, the affidavit said. Hepatitis C is considered to be among the most serious of hepatitis viruses. It is typically asymptomatic, going undetected until liver damage shows up, according to the Mayo Clinic. New Hampshire's health department is asking everyone who was a patient in Exeter's operating rooms and the intensive care unit between April 1, 2011, and May 25 of this year be tested. Those are two areas that Kwiatkowski visited during his "routine duties to transport patients," an Exeter Hospital statement said. But it added he "was not involved with procedures or patient care." Exeter, in a statement, said it conducted a background check and took other steps before hiring Kwiatkowski full time. U.S. Attorney John P. Kacavas said his office interviewed employees at Exeter who said they had seen Kwiatkowski acting strangely, one time sweating profusely and with bloodshot eyes. "One of them described him as unfit to provide medical care and his supervisor sent him home," Kacavas said. "He provided a plausible explanation for his condition, which was that he had been crying his eyes out because his aunt had died and he was an emotional wreck." According to state, county and hospital officials, he worked as a radiology technician and medical technician in cardiac catheterization labs in the following locations: . -- Oakwood Annapolis Hospital in Wayne, Michigan, January to September 2007; . -- Saint Francis Hospital, Poughkeepsie, New York, November 2007 to February 2008; . -- UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, March 2008 to May 2008; . -- Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, May 2008 to November 2008; . -- Southern Maryland Hospital, Clinton, Maryland, December 2008 to February 2009; . -- Maryvale Hospital, Phoenix, March to June 2009; . -- Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, July 2009 to January 2010; . -- Maryland General Hospital, Baltimore, January 2010 to March 2010; . -- Arizona Heart Hospital, Phoenix, March 2010 to April 2010; . -- Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, April 2010; . -- Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas, May 2010 to September 2010; . -- Houston Medical Center, Warner Robins, Georgia, October 2010 to March 2011. -- Exeter Hospital, Exeter, New Hampshire, April 2011 to July 2012. Institutions say they are calling former patients and offering free testing, and that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is helping state health officers and hospitals tackle the problem. Kwiatkowski was arrested earlier this month after police found him in a Massachusetts hotel room "in an intoxicated state" and took him to a hospital, the affidavit states. He is now being held in the Strafford County, New Hampshire, jail. He could face more than 20 years in prison if convicted. Kwiatkowski appeared in New Hampshire federal court Tuesday and waived his right to a detention hearing. Kacavas said it is possible more charges could be filed. Bjorn Lange, a public defender representing Kwiatkowski, told CNN Friday he would have no comment. Former hospital worker accused of transmitting hepatitis C . CNN's Jennifer Bixler, John Bonifield, William Hudson and Joe Sterling contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

NEW: Arizona did not complete investigation of David Kwiatkowski . NEW: Public defender declines to comment . Kwiatkowski worked in at least eight states as a lab technician . He also worked at a New Hampshire hospital where 30 patients got hepatitis C .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Question: How many years since the Civil War have both U.S. senators from Pennsylvania been Democrats? Sen. Arlen Specter's breed of fiscally conservative, socially progressive lawmakers is on decline in Northeast. Answer: two. The state sent Democrats Francis Myers and Joseph Guffey to the Senate between 1945 and 1947. If you knew that, you understand just how far the Republican Party has fallen in its ancestral homeland of the Northeast, a decline that was underscored by Sen. Arlen Specter's recent decision to leave the party. Specter's decision to join Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey on the Democratic side of the aisle raises a host of questions about a party that, after years in power, suddenly finds itself hemorrhaging voters and ceding vast swaths of electoral terrain. First and foremost, who killed the Rockefeller Republicans? What happened to Specter's breed of fiscally conservative, socially progressive, temperamentally moderate Northeastern officeholders? And if they can be resurrected, should they? Liberal to moderate Northeastern Republicans once were as much a part of the political landscape as today's liberals from Massachusetts. Now, they live mostly in the history books. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine may be the last ones standing in today's Senate. The Northeast region sealed the deal for Abe Lincoln in 1860. It broke the back of William Jennings Bryan's populist Democrats in 1896. It kept the Republicans in power for all but 16 years between the Civil War and the New Deal. Specter's home state was the only large industrial state to back Herbert Hoover over Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. Even after FDR started tilting the region to the Democrats, it produced a slew of moderate GOP officeholders, postwar leaders like New York's Nelson Rockefeller and Jacob Javits, Pennsylvania's Richard Schweiker and John Heinz, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith and William Cohen, Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall and Ed Brooke, Connecticut's Prescott Bush and Lowell Weicker, Rhode Island's John Chafee, New Jersey's Clifford Case and Maryland's Mac Mathias. So what happened? In short, notes CNN Polling Director Keating Holland, there has been a slow but steady Northern backlash to the GOP's four-decade-old "Southern strategy." Race and religion brought Southern whites into the Republican Party but also began pushing out a lot of affluent Northern suburbanites. Those socially moderate voters formed the core of the Rockefeller Republican constituency. Major political realignments don't happen overnight, however. A lot of disaffected Dixiecrats continued voting Democratic in state and local elections for a long time, even after being wooed by Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Old habits die hard, and Southern Democratic parties slowed their decline by continuing to nominate candidates more in step with voters in their states. The same story, only in reverse, held true in the Northeast. Thirty years ago, after Nixon but before the Reagan Revolution, the 11 Northeastern states stretching from Maryland to Maine still sent 37 Republicans to the House of Representatives and another 10 to the Senate. Today, those same states have 18 Republican representatives in the House and three in the Senate. The numbers are more stark in New England and New York. New England no longer has a single GOP representative in the House. The 29-member New York House delegation has only three Republicans. And what about Specter's home state? Since Nixon implemented the Southern strategy in 1968, the Republican presidential nominee's share of the popular vote in Pennsylvania has been smaller than his share of the nationwide vote in every election. The erosion of the Rockefeller Republican vote is clearly seen in election returns from Specter's political base, the moderate Philadelphia suburbs. In 1976, Gerald Ford lost Pennsylvania to Jimmy Carter while carrying suburban Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties. In 2008, John McCain lost Pennsylvania to Barack Obama while getting crushed in those same counties. McCain lost Delaware and Montgomery counties by more than 20 points. Those same suburbs are now represented by only one Republican congressman, moderate Rep. Jim Gerlach, who has been elected in each of the past four cycles by the skin of his teeth. Increasingly precise gerrymandering to create safer districts for incumbents has taken a bad situation for moderate Republicans and made it worse. Safe Republican districts are conservative districts, and conservative districts don't nominate moderates. When Specter announced his defection to the Democrats, he noted that more than 200,000 Pennsylvania Republicans changed their registration to become Democrats in 2008. Specter knows that the bulk of those switches came from the moderate suburbs. After barely beating conservative challenger Pat Toomey for the 2004 GOP nomination, he could read the writing on the wall for the 2010 primary. Now that Specter's gone to the other side, should Pennsylvania Republicans nominate a conservative in 2010? Not if they want to have a good chance to win. A new Quinnipiac poll of Pennsylvania voters suggests that Specter would beat Toomey, a former congressman, by 20 points in a general election contest. Former Gov. Tom Ridge, a social moderate in the Rockefeller Republican mold, trails Specter by only 3 points, a statistical dead heat. It's not impossible for more conservative candidates to win statewide in the Northeast -- former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum won two terms before losing in 2006 -- but it is significantly harder and happens much less often. Conservative candidates in step with today's Southern-dominated GOP are out of step in the Northeast. They also represent a distinct ideological minority on the West Coast, much of the Midwest and, increasingly, the Southwest. Of course, GOP strategists are right when they say the party has been left for dead before, only to spring back to life. Barry Goldwater's 1964 blowout loss was followed by major Republican gains in the 1966 midterms and Nixon's triumphant return in 1968. The party's 1974 Watergate debacle laid the groundwork for Reagan. And Bill Clinton's 1992 win paved the way for the GOP's first House majority in forty years. But what may make the fallout from 2008 different is the clear regional nature of the GOP's setback. The wipeout in the old Republican heartland has been a long time coming. At the same time, the Republicans have lost some ground in the South and the West because the Democrats have been willing to nominate candidates who differ with national party leaders on hot button social issues like gun control and abortion. They also haven't been afraid to throw a few fiscal conservatives into the mix. Winning national coalitions are rarely unified on all of the big issues. The GOP now has to decide whether it wants to copy the Democrats' strategy in the Northeast or whether it would rather circle the ideological wagons. The decision may dictate the shape of American politics for years to come. ### SUMMARY:

Liberal, moderate Northeastern Republicans once a strong part of landscape . Specter's decision to switch parties raises a host of questions about the GOP . There's been a slow northern backlash to GOP's "Southern strategy," Holland says . GOP has been left for dead before, only to spring back to life .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- A deeply divided Venezuela is mourning its late leader and preparing to pick a new president to replace him. Venezuelan officials called for peace and unity after President Hugo Chavez's death on Tuesday, emphasizing in state television broadcasts that all branches of the government and the military were standing together. Elections will be held in 30 days, and Vice President Nicolas Maduro will assume the presidency in the interim, Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said in an interview broadcast on state-run VTV. Tearing up as he announced Chavez's death after a long battle with cancer, Maduro called on Venezuelans to remain respectful. "We must unite now more than ever," Maduro said. Henrique Capriles Radonski, a former presidential candidate and opposition leader, said Venezuelans should come together. "This is not the time for difference," he said. "It is the time for unity. It is the time for peace." Supporters of Chavez poured into a Caracas square soon after news of his death spread. Some wept openly. Others waved flags and held up pictures of the late president. There were no reports of major violence, but there was palpable tension in the streets, as some Venezuelans heading home from work tried to steer clear of Chavez's fervent supporters. Venezuela's military is in a "process of deploying ... to ensure the safety of all Venezuelans" and to support the country's constitution in the wake of Chavez's death, said Adm. Diego Molero, Venezuela's defense minister. iReport: Share your thoughts on the death of the Venezuelan president . Venezuela prepares for funeral, elections . Venezuela's government has declared seven days of national mourning, Jaua said. At Venezuelan embassies around the world Tuesday, flags were flying at half mast. Chavez's remains will be taken to a military academy in Caracas on Wednesday, Jaua said. There he will lie in state for three days. His state funeral will be held there on Friday morning, Jaua said. The announcement of Chavez's death came hours after Maduro met with the country's top political and military leaders about Chavez's worsening health condition and suggested someone may have deliberately infected Chavez with cancer. Chavez first announced his cancer diagnosis in June 2011, but the government never revealed details about his prognosis or specified what kind of cancer he had . Shortly before his last trip to Cuba for cancer surgery in December, Chavez tapped Maduro as the man he wanted to replace him. "He is one of the young leaders with the greatest ability to continue, if I cannot," Chavez said. Chavez leaves a revolutionary legacy . Maduro made no mention of running for election in his public comments Tuesday, but he is widely expected to be the United Socialist Party of Venezuela's candidate for the job. During Chavez's absence from the political stage over the past three months, Maduro has been front and center. He has spoken at political rallies around the country and delivered updates about Chavez on national television, drawing growing support from Chavez loyalists. Opposition critics have said he was campaigning for office -- a claim the government has denied. Even as Jaua said Tuesday that Maduro would temporarily assume the presidency, some critics questioned whether that was constitutional, since Chavez missed his inauguration and was never officially sworn in. Opposition politicians haven't said who will represent them in the election. But as speculation mounted over Chavez's health in recent weeks, many had turned to Capriles, who lost to Chavez in October's presidential contest. On Tuesday, Capriles called for a national dialogue including all Venezuelans, not just Chavez's supporters. "Today there are thousands, maybe millions, of Venezuelans who are asking themselves what will happen, who feel anxiety, and including those who feel afraid," Capriles said. Chavez supporters, critics react . Word of Chavez's death drew swift expressions of sorrow and solidarity from regional allies. Ecuador and Cuba both announced three days of national mourning to honor Chavez. "The national government expresses its solidarity in light of this irreparable loss that puts the Venezuelan people and all the region in mourning and at the same time sends its heartfelt condolences to the family of the late champion of Latin America," Ecuador's foreign ministry said in a statement. Bolivian President Evo Morales' voice cracked as he spoke to reporters, describing Chavez as someone "who gave all his life for the liberation of the Venezuelan people ... of all the anti-imperialists and anti-capitalists of the world." But longtime critics of the controversial president offered a different take. "Hugo Chavez was a tyrant who forced the people of Venezuela to live in fear. His death dents the alliance of anti-U.S. leftist leaders in South America. Good riddance to this dictator," said U.S. Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. "Venezuela once had a strong democratic tradition and was close to the United States. Chavez's death sets the stage for fresh elections. While not guaranteed, closer U.S. relations with (this) key country in our Hemisphere are now possible." Venezuela-U.S. relations surge into spotlight . Just hours before the announcement of Chavez's death, relations between the two countries appeared to be souring, as Venezuelan officials said they were expelling two U.S. Embassy officials and accused them of plotting to destabilize the country. The U.S. officials, both air attaches at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, are accused of having meetings with members of the Venezuelan military and encouraging them to pursue "destabilizing projects," Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said. "We will not allow any foreign interference in our country," Jaua said. "Do not think that the situation of pain over the health of President Chavez will translate into weakness." State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell denied the accusations. Opinion: Chavez used force of personality to win votes, influence leaders . "Notwithstanding the significant differences between our governments, we continue to believe it important to seek a functional and more productive relationship with Venezuela based on issues of mutual interest," he said. "This fallacious assertion of inappropriate U.S. action leads us to conclude that, unfortunately, the current Venezuelan government is not interested an improved relationship." After announcing the expulsion of one attache, Maduro -- addressing the media in a lengthy statement -- asserted that someday there will be "scientific proof" that Chavez was somehow infected by outsiders. "An assertion that the United States was somehow involved in causing President Chavez's illness is absurd, and we definitively reject it," Ventrell said. It isn't the first time that a Venezuelan government official has implied that a plot could be behind Chavez's cancer. Chavez made the assertion himself in 2011, saying at a military event in Caracas that he wondered whether the United States could be infecting Latin American leaders with the illness. CNN's Shasta Darlington, Mariano Castillo, Rafael Romo, Patrick Oppmann, Juan Carlos Lopez, Ione Molinares and Pam Benson and journalist Osmary Hernandez contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

Official: Maduro will temporarily assume the presidency until elections are held . A state funeral for Chavez will be held Friday, Venezuela's foreign minister says . Venezuela's defense minister says troops are deploying to ensure safety . "We must unite now more than ever," Venezuela's vice president says .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Prosecutors say he believed he had a duty to kill as many soldiers as possible. His lawyers say he is trying to help the prosecution put him to death. For his part, Army Maj. Nidal Hasan has said little during his death penalty trial, other than to say he was the shooter in the Fort Hood, Texas, rampage that left 13 people dead. With the prosecution expected to rest this week, the big question is whether the Army psychiatrist will take the stand, perhaps more eager to prove he is a martyr than to avoid a death sentence. Hasan is acting as his own attorney at his court-martial, defending himself against 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted murder in connection with the November 5, 2009, attack. Hasan left no doubt about his role, telling a panel of 13 officers during a brief opening statement: "The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter." "The evidence presented with this trial will show one side. The evidence will also show that I was on the wrong side. I then switched sides," he said. He's also left little question about why he did it, repeatedly saying before the trial started that he was acting to protect Taliban leaders in Afghanistan from the U.S. military. "We mujahedeen are trying to establish the perfect religion," he told the panel last week. But, Hasan added, "I apologize for the mistakes I made in this endeavor." Hasan, 42, has previously indicated that he intends to call himself and two witnesses to the stand. If he testifies, Hasan is expected to discuss religious justification for his actions. "He is trying to become a martyr, trying to be executed for his crime," CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin has said of Hasan's defense strategy, adding that it amounted to a "form of suicide by judge." Hasan refused to enter a plea at the outset of the court-martial after a judge barred him from pleading guilty. Under military law, defendants cannot enter guilty pleas in capital punishment cases. Last week, Hasan released a portion of his mental health evaluation to The New York Times that revealed he believes that being put to death would allow him to become a martyr. "I'm paraplegic and could be in jail for the rest of my life. However, if I died by lethal injection I would still be a martyr," Hasan told a military panel evaluating whether he was fit to stand trial, according to documents published by the Times. Hasan has been confined to a wheelchair since being shot by Fort Hood police. He is paralyzed from the chest down. The release of the documents, coupled with Hasan's lack of an appearance of a defense, prompted military attorneys ordered to act as his stand-by counsel to demand they be allowed to drop off of the case. The attorneys said they believe Hasan is trying to help the prosecution obtain a death sentence. The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, refused to grant the request, and the defense attorneys have since appealed her ruling. "We believe your order is causing us to violate our professional ethics. It's morally repugnant to us as defense counsel," Lt. Col. Kris Poppe, head of Hasan's legal team, told the judge. A U.S.-born citizen of Palestinian descent, Hasan was a licensed psychiatrist who joined the Army in 1997. But he had been telling his family since 2001 that he wanted to get out of the military, saying he had been taunted by people after the September 11 terror attacks. Prosecutors hope to show that the devout Muslim had undergone a "progressive radicalization," going so far as to give academic presentations in defense of suicide bombings. Hasan, who was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan, did not want to fight against other Muslims and believed "that he had a jihad duty to kill as many soldiers as possible," said lead prosecutor Col. Michael Mulligan. Investigations following the shooting rampage found he had been communicating via e-mail with Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S. born cleric who officials say became a key member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. He was killed in U.S. drone strike in 2011. The prosecution has sought to enter the communications with al-Awlaki into evidence as well as materials about Hasan's alleged interest in the action of Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar, a U.S. soldier who was sentenced to death for killing two soldiers in a grenade attack in Kuwait at the start of the invasion of Iraq. While the judge deferred a decision on the requests, she has ruled that prosecutors may use evidence of Hasan's Internet searches on jihad and the Taliban in the days and hours before the attack. Fort Hood victims: Sons, a daughter, a mother-to-be . Hasan has listened impassively as survivors and investigators have testified, painting a horrific picture of what unfolded during the shooting inside the Soldier Readiness Processing Center as soldiers and civilians prepared to leave for Afghanistan and Iraq. Dozens of witnesses, primarily soldiers, testified that Hasan specifically targeted uniformed personnel. Army Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, the first survivor to take the stand, recounted how the gunman rose from a chair in the processing center, shouted "Allahu Akbar" -- Arabic for God is great, pulled out a pistol and began shooting. "It was a state of panic," Lunsford said. As Lunsford was checking behind him, "Major Hasan is turning the weapon on me," he said. "He has a laser on his weapon and it goes across my line of sight and I blink. In that time, he discharges his weapon. The first round, I'm hit in the head." A second shot caught Lunsford in the back. He decided to play dead for a while before changing his mind and deciding to run for the door. He made it out of the building but was shot five more times outside, he testified. Capt. Dorothy Ellen Carskadon, who was her final checkup ahead of her deployment, testified that she initially believed the shooting was part of a military exercise. Then he heard Pvt. Francheska Velez screaming, "my baby, my baby" as she cradled her stomach. She crawled to the pregnant Velez and tried to comfort her, telling the 21-year-old private that it would be OK and that the training exercise would end soon. Velez and her unborn baby died in the attack. Carskadon told the court she suffered four gunshot wounds: one that grazed her head; another through her right hip; a third lodged in her right leg; and a fourth in the abdomen. Chief Warrant Officer Christopher Royal, 41, stared down at Hasan from the stand, where he testified how he charged the gunman to try to stop him and how Hasan shot him. Days before he took the stand, Royal told CNN that he had forgiven Hasan. "I can't hold that grudge," Royal said. "It's just too much. I won't allow him to consume any more energy for my life than he has already done, and so I have released him. "I have forgiven him completely," he said. "It's not up to me to punish him. His punishment will come." ### SUMMARY:

Maj. Nidal Hasan is charged with 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted murder . Hasan admitted in court he was the Fort Hood shooter . He tried to plead guilty to the charges, but was barred from doing so under military law . "If I died by lethal injection I would still be a martyr," he said in a mental health evaluation .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Liz Hull . Last updated at 4:13 PM on 9th January 2012 . The heartbroken grandfather of the four children who burned to death during their mother's birthday party has left a poetic tribute at the scene. Keith Smith, 56, left the poignant message for his loved ones after they perished in an attic room at the family home in Freckleton, near Preston. The grieving man poured out his feelings following the tragic deaths of four-year-old twins Holly and Ella, two-year-old Jordan and their 19-year-old brother Reece, who died in a brave attempt to save his siblings. Scroll down for video . Tragedy: Four-year-old twins Holly and Ella (pictured) lost their lives despite their brother Reece's attempt to save them and two-year-old Jordan . Chaotic scenes: Reece Smith (left), 19, is thought to have run into the home to save his younger brother Jordan (right) and his little sisters . Wracked with pain: Grieving Keith Smith left an emotional message at the scene in honour of his adored grandchildren . Beautiful: The 56-year-old expressed his feelings in an achingly moving poem . Mr Smith, father of the children's inconsolable mother Michelle, addressed his note to 'Reece, Jordan, Ella, Holly.' His poem reads: 'The time here you really shone/ A short lives you had/ Now your gone [sic]. 'All my love was there to keep/ My life is broken all I do is weep.' The bereft relative signs his message, in red marker pen, 'Grandad Smith, love you forever, till we meet again'. His . tribute is propped against a white wooden fence placed outside the . Lancashire home, on which someone has written: 'Please leave a message.' Others have added: 'Your [sic] in my thoughts, sleep tight' and 'RIP'. The wall is piled with flowers and teddy bears left by friends and family in tribute to the dead children. Sobbing uncontrollably, Miss Smith returned to her converted bungalow last night accompanied by police officers, after the four children . were pronounced dead at hospital. Clutching a picture of her twin girls, all she could say was: ‘I have lost the lights of my life... Where can I turn?’ Grief: Michelle Smith visits the floral tributes left after four of her nine children died in the blaze . Investigation continues: Police confirmed there was a birthday party at the house, which remained sealed off yesterday . The full-time mother had invited . friends round for a party on Saturday night when the fire apparently . started in a loft conversion where the twins were sleeping. Revellers spilled out on to the . pavement in panic, before dialling 999 shortly before 11.30pm. Yesterday . relatives described teenager Reece as a ‘hero’ after it emerged he went back . inside the house to try to rescue the three children. Miss Smith, who has three other . daughters and two sons who live elsewhere, had also stayed in the home . and had to be led to safety by firemen. She was unharmed. Miss Smith’s father . said his blood ‘turned cold’ when he heard the story on the news early yesterday. ‘I rushed down here straight away, . all the time wishing it wasn’t going to be true, but when I got here my . worst nightmare came true,’ he said. Outpouring: A teddy bear sits among piles of floral tributes outside the converted bungalow, with an envelope reading 'Angels' just visible. Other neighbours left notes expressing their sadness . ‘I’m still trying to take it all in. They were smashing kids. The last time I saw them was at Christmas.' They had moved into the house about two-and-a-half years ago and seemed very happy there. ‘I’m still in shock. It is devastating news,’ he said. Fighting back tears, he added: ‘It was . Michelle’s birthday – I feel so sorry for her. They are cracking kids . and she is a great mother.’ Police have begun an . investigation into the tragedy and said they were keeping an ‘open mind’ as . to whether there were any suspicious circumstances. Reports suggested the house had smoke alarms, but they were not working. Miss Smith’s former partner, Colin . Ostler, 42, said: ‘Michelle is in shock, she’s devastated, we all are, . but it’s not really hit her yet. She’s too upset to talk about it, the . enormity of what’s happened just hasn’t sunk in.’ Community in mourning: Tiny Ella, Jordan and Holly are believed to have only lived in the house for three months . 'All hell broke loose': Neighbours said fire crews rushed to the scene where four of the Smith family lost their lives . Shocking: The twins' grandfather said he only heard of the tragedy on the news yesterday morning . Police and fire crews were confronted . with a ‘chaotic’ scene when they arrived, with many partygoers on the . street in a distressed state. Six firemen wearing breathing apparatus went inside the property and brought out the four children. They were taken to the Royal Preston Hospital but declared dead. Mr Ostler, who was in a relationship . with Miss Smith for nine years and had three daughters, Bethany, 11, . Jodie, ten, and Chloe, seven, with her, said Reece had died trying to save . his siblings. ‘Reece died a hero,’ he said. ‘My . three girls always stay with their mum on Friday nights and they wanted . to stay on Saturday as well. ‘Thankfully, we said no and I took them home, otherwise who knows what could have happened.’ Mr Ostler, a part-time chef from . Freckleton, added: ‘It is such a sad loss, it’s just horrendous, I can’t . get my head around it. Nobody should see their children die.’ Party: Police confirmed there was a gathering at the home which was attended by at least ten people . Big brother: Vibrant bouquets were adorned with messages to 'our best buddy and brother' Reece and a note from 'PippyJana and Grandad', saying the teenager would look after his siblings in heaven . Family friend Carolyn Milburn added: ‘It’s knocked us all for six. They were all lovely, all of them. ‘Lovely kids, well behaved, well brought up, always happy. Michelle is a good mum. She loves her kids. ‘I haven’t spoken to her yet but she and her mother, Christine, are both in a state.’ Detective Superintendent Andy Murphy, of Lancashire Police’s major investigation team, said they would be talking to a number of people who were at the house when the fire broke out. ‘We are keeping an open mind at this stage as to what happened,’ he added. Tragic: Despite all four siblings being pulled from the home in Lytham Road, Freckleton, they were pronounced dead on arrival at the Royal Preston Hospital . Mourners: Friends and family left notes and gifts for each of the children individually . Devastation: A neighbour said it was a sad day for Freckleton . Watch the video . ### SUMMARY:

The four were named as Reece Smith, 19, four-year-old twins Holly and Ella Smith and Jordan Smith, two . Mother Michelle Smith was celebrating her 36th birthday with friends at home when blaze broke out . Eldest son Reece ran into house in doomed attempt to save siblings . Grandfather Keith Smith, 56, 'deeply shocked' by tragedy .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Jack Doyle . PUBLISHED: . 15:07 EST, 11 April 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 01:41 EST, 12 April 2012 . One is an Anglican priest, the other a notorious hook-handed hate preacher. Yet the friendship between Reverend Stephen Coles and Abu Hamza has endured over more than a decade. Just a day after Euro judges ruled Hamza, who has convictions for inciting murder and hatred, could finally be extradited to the US on terror charges, Rev Coles said he would be ‘sad’ to see him go. Confidant: Reverend Stephen Coles, left and Abu Hamza right, have been friends for more than a decade. On hearing Hamza, could be extradited to the US on terror charges, Rev Coles said he would be ‘sad’ to see him go . Long talks: Rev Coles, who regularly visits extremist Hamza in top security Belmarsh prison in south east London, pictured, said he would miss their chats . Rev Coles, who regularly visits extremist Hamza in Belmarsh said he would miss their chats in the high security prison. Their unlikely connection began when . Hamza moved into Finsbury Park Mosque in the late 1990s, which is on the . same street as St Thomas’ Anglican Church, where Rev Coles presides. Yesterday, Rev Coles said it is . unlikely he will ever see Hamza again - and worried he may struggle to . stay in touch when Hamza is sent to the United States for trial. He said: ‘He is someone with whom it . is possible to have a conversation. You might not agree about everything . but you can have a conversation with him. ‘It’s highly unlikely - if he is extradited fairly soon - that I shall ever see him again.’ ‘On one level I have a sense of slight . relief as I do not have to get myself into a high security prison which . is not a very nice experience. ‘On the other level I’m sad that the . conversations we have been having for the last twelve or eleven years . will come to an end. I don’t know how much it’ll be possible to keep . contact with him.’ In an interview with Premier Christian . Radio, Rev Coles said the men were ‘both pastors’ and that they were . able to discuss religious issues - even if they don’t always agree. He also raised questions about the . charges laid against Hamza, and said he was worried extraditing him to . the US will ‘build up more and more resentment’ in Britain. Same street: Their unlikely connection began when Hamza moved into Finsbury Park Mosque, left, in the late 1990s, which is on the same street as St Thomas’ Anglican Church, right, where Rev Coles presides . Controversial: Abu Hamza addresses followers during Friday prayer outside Finsbury Park mosque in north London, in 2004, with the kind of rant that drew attention from the authorities . And he praised Hamza’s knowledge of . current affairs, and said it would be wrong to jail him in a US . ‘Supermax’ high security prison. Hamza was jailed for seven years in . February 2006 for inciting murder and race hatred. Since serving his . sentence he has remained in prison while fighting extradition to the US. But according to Rev Coles he has been ‘demonised’ and ‘turned into a monster’ by the media. The men first came into contact after . 9/11 when Hamza said of the attacks: ‘Many people will be happy, jumping . up and down at this moment.’ These comments were, Rev Coles said yesterday ‘rather outrageous’. But nonetheless he made contact because the men were ‘both pastors working practically next door to each other’. Hamza made him a cup of tea and, Rev Coles has said, ‘treated me like a normal human being’. After Hamza was arrested in 2004, Rev . Coles sent him a card to mark Eid, the festival at the end of the month . of Ramadan, in which Muslims fast. ‘I was sending Eid cards to some of my Muslim friends and I decided that I would send one to him,’ Rev Coles said. The Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, which could become Abu Hamza's new home if he is convicted of terror charges in the U.S. High praise: Rev Coles,  said Hamza had a good knowledge of current affairs, and said it would be wrong to jail him  in a U.S. Supermax high security prison, pictured . In the card he asked if Hamza would like to continue their conversations. Hamza wrote back he would ‘very much like to’. Since then Rev Coles has visited Hamza two or three times a year. Hamza also sent him a condolence card following the death of his parents. He also gave evidence in his defence. ‘We have had conversations about all manner of different things,’ he said. ‘I always ask him about his family. I ask him about his health and how he is being treated. ‘We discuss Christianity and Muslim things and what’s going on in Finsbury Park.’ ‘He is extremely well informed about what is happening in the world. I assume because he has access to television.’ He also worries about Hamza’s health . and the treatment he receives in Belmarsh which, he says does ‘not have . the facilities to deal with his health issues satisfactorily’. Hamza is blind in one eye and has no arms below the elbow after they were blown off in Afghanistan. Hamza was cleared for extradition to . the US yesterday by the European Court of Human Rights along with four . other terror suspects. A grand jury in New York has indicted . him on charges that he ran a terror training camp in Oregon in the late . 1990s and involvement in the kidnapping of 16 hostages in the Yemen in . 1998, during which four people died. Moving on: Hamza was cleared for extradition to the US yesterday by the European Court of Human Rights, pictured, along with four other terror suspects . The training camp charges are, Rev Coles said on the ‘wider edges of credibility’. ‘I never ever speak to him about that . business in the Yemen. We did speak about this so-called training camp . in Oregon which does seem to me to be on the wider edges of credibility. ‘Given that he is here, I know you can . organise all kinds of things on the internet these days. But organising . a training camp is quite a detailed thing that you have to do. ‘And he I think felt that somebody else had been telling stories about him to implicate him.’ He said Hamza expects to spend the rest of his days in prison, and is anxious about not seeing his family if he is found guilty. ‘I think a long time ago he got used to the idea that he will probably spend the rest of his life in prison,’ he said. ‘The possibility of any real contact . between him and his family from the moment he gets to the US - I mean . assuming he is found guilty - is very remote. When contacted by the Daily Mail, Rev Coles declined to comment further. Rev Coles is openly gay and entered into a civil partnership in 2006. He is also an open advocate of gay marriage. On its website, St Thomas’s church . says it is an ‘open and welcoming congregation, an inclusive church that . embraces the joys and challenges of being human with all our . differences.’ ### SUMMARY:

Friendship began when Hamza moved into Finsbury Park Mosque which is on the same street as Rev Coles St Thomas’ Anglican Church . A day . after Euro judges ruled Abu Hamza could be extradited to the US on . terror charges, Rev Stephen Coles said he would be ‘sad’ to see him go .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Alex Gore and Glen Owen . PUBLISHED: . 13:01 EST, 26 May 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 20:23 EST, 26 May 2012 . Ed Miliband yesterday called for new laws to protect members of the Armed Forces from discrimination as he visited British troops in Afghanistan. The Labour leader also called for the international community to ‘up its game’ on political progress in Afghanistan – or risk wasting a decade of sacrifice by British soldiers. He said that reports last week that soldiers had been turned away from a pub in Blackpool by bouncers saying ‘no Army here’ highlighted the barriers they faced. On tour: Ed Miliband arrives in Nahr-E Saraj as part of his two day visit to Afghanistan . Service: Ed Milband, shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy, and shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander, left to right, meet meet soldiers from 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment in Nahr-E Saraj . Laughing: The Labour trio share a joke with troops in Nahr-E Saraj . More than a quarter of personnel  are refused a mortgage, loan, credit  card or mobile phone despite having  a full-time job with a reliable income. Mr Miliband said: ‘I think it is wrong that any of our troops face discrimination, disadvantage or unfair treatment because they have served in the military or because they are serving. ‘I want cross-party talks, I want to work with the military charities, to say, “How can we really resolve this issue?” ’ After flying into Camp Bastion, the Armed Forces’ main base in southern Helmand, Mr Miliband and Shadow Defence Secretary Jim Murphy visited  a memorial to fallen British troops at a patrol base in the Nahr-e Saraj district. Mr Miliband denied his trip was a PR stunt. ‘My purpose for being here is to express the deep sense of gratitude I have for our troops,’ he said. Fry-up: Ed Miliband enjoys a full English breakfast with British troops at Camp Bastion . Hungry: The Labour leader helps himself to the breakfast buffet . He expressed fears that the country would slip back into being a failed state when combat troops are withdrawn in 2014, during a visit to the capital Kabul for talks with president Hamid Karzai. He flew in after visiting troops serving in southern Helmand, where he expressed surprise at the level of progress being made in training the Afghan security forces ahead of the international pullout. Despite giving his backing to the planned withdrawal date - reaffirmed at last weekend's Nato summit in Chicago - and to Prime Minister David Cameron's approach, he said there was 'a long way to go'. In an address to troops at the end of a tour of British bases yesterday, Mr Miliband told a gathering of troops that political failure must not be allowed to undermine their 'extraordinary' efforts. A total of 414 members of UK forces have died since operations in Afghanistan began in October 2001. Speaking at the British Embassy ahead of talks with Mr Karzai - as well as senior ministers and opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah - he said: 'It is incredibly eye-opening coming out and actually seeing what they are doing, throwing themselves in harm's way, every day going out on patrol. Remember: Miliband and Alexander reflected in a memorial to British troops in Nahr-E Saraj . Statesman: Labour leader Ed Miliband meets British soldiers at Camp Bastion . 'Seeing it up close, with people who are young enough to be my son or daughter doing that, is incredibly humbling. 'I think the best way we can honour the sacrifices our troops have been making is to make sure that they have the best support when they come back home. 'But also, the international community needs to up its game in getting a lasting political settlement here in Afghanistan because I think that is necessary in order to prevent Afghanistan slipping back into being a failed state and there is a lot more work to do to make that happen.' He continued: 'In this final phase it is very important that we don't take our eye off the ball. I do not think the Government is, I am not criticising the Government. 'The Prime Minister is right to set a timetable. I think we should stick to the timetable. 'We have invested a lot. Many of our troops have made huge sacrifices, including the ultimate sacrifice. The best way we can honour that is to ensure the political settlement we need.' Visit: Ed Miliband accompanied by his shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy, left . He said it would be wrong for anyone - including those who opposed the campaign in the first place - to argue for the troops to be pulled out before 2014, despite increased public hostility to the war. French president Francois Hollande was in Kabul for talks with Mr Karzai while the Labour leader - who is an ally of the newly-elected Socialist - was in Helmand, to explain his decision to accelerate France's pullout. Mr Miliband said: 'President Hollande has to make his own decisions. 'What is interesting about Afghanistan is that whether you were for the mission originally or against the mission, to suddenly up sticks now would not be the right thing to do.' Mr Miliband's visit to the troops yesterday was kept secret for security reasons. Opposition: Ed Miliband arrives at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province with Labour's shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy, left, and shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander, right . Protection: Jim Murphy, Ed Miliband and Douglas Alexander, left to right, wore body armour on their visit . After flying in to Camp Bastion, the UK's main base in southern Helmand, Mr Miliband started the day by chatting with soldiers over a full English breakfast. Under a hot sun, he then headed to provincial capital Lashkar Gah to talk about the progress of Afghan control with the commander of the Helmand task force Brigadier Doug Chalmers. A moment of reflection followed as he stopped, flanked by shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander, before a memorial to some of the fallen British troops at a patrol base in Nahr-e Saraj district. The pause to remember the dead was made more poignant by the flag of The Yorkshire Regiment, fluttering at half mast in honour of the six men - five from the regiment's 3rd Battalion - lost when their Warrior armoured vehicle was blown up by a massive improvised explosive device on March 6. Some of their comrades were on hand to show the politicians the range of hardware used by British forces in the field - from Mastiff armoured personnel carriers to medical kits and search dogs. One dog, named Benny, was put through his paces as the politicians looked on, a little unsure of the canine member of the crew, one military chief joking: 'You're all eight to ten inches away from a 'reshuffle' there!'. All three of the districts where the UK is involved have now been transferred to Afghan control - with some troops telling Mr Miliband their local counterparts have become 10 times more efficient within just a couple of years. The transition process is due to be complete across Afghanistan by the middle of next year ahead of the 2014 Nato pullout deadline. Talking with an Afghan colonel, Mr Miliband praised the 'tremendous strides forward'. ### SUMMARY:

Labour leader arrived in the capital Kabul ahead of talks with president Hamid Karzai . He expressed fears the country could slip back into being a failed state when combat troops leave in 2014 . Mr Miliband tells British troops a strong political settlement is best way to honour those who have made the ultimate sacrifice . He backed Prime Minister David Cameron's timetable for withdrawal . It follows a visit to Helmand where he said it would be wrong for the French to 'up sticks' and leave .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Daily Mail Reporters . PUBLISHED: . 17:22 EST, 14 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 05:55 EST, 15 August 2012 . Two new videos reveal the terrifying moments during and after a gunfight between police and a 'deeply troubled' Texas gun collector. One of the videos was recorded by neighbor Rigo Cisneros, a former Army combat medic whose skills honed in Afghanistan were needed at home when he rushed over to dying police constable Brian Bachmann and tried to save him. Thomas Alton . Caffall, 35, turned a weapon on Mr Bachmann, a 41-year-old married father of two, . when the officer arrived at his house near Texas A&M University to . serve him with eviction papers. Chris Northcliff, 43, a bystander caught in the crossfire, was also killed. Four others, including three officers, were wounded. Caffall later died. Scroll down for videos . Drama: Two officers run up to the house where Thomas Caffall shot a police constable before being wounded himself . Good Samaritan: Neighbor Rigo Cisneros shot this video while he was waiting for permission to run over to the officer who was fatally wounded . Shooter: College Station divorcee Thomas Alton Caffall, 35, was 'deeply troubled', according to his mother Linda Weaver . The first video shows little, but reveals the piercing ring of several volleys of gunshots in the quiet suburban neighborhood of College Station, Texas. The wail of sirens can be heard as the neighbor leads his wife away from the street and into the cover of their house. The second video, recorded by Mr Ciseros, shows the grainy image of several officers running up to the house after Caffall was shot and disarmed. 'Do not move! Do not move! If you move, you are dead!' screams and officer as he approaches Caffall. 'Do not move! Do not move!' Mr Cisneros, who emerged from his house when the gunfire started, can be heard asked a police officer if he can help. 'You got an ambulance here yet? I’m a medic,' he volunteers. 'C'mon ... every minute. He's been down for like 20 minutes,' he pleads with the officers, who is keeping him at bay. The video ends with Mr Cisneros running toward the violent scene. He told the New York Times that when he arrived at Mr Bachmann's side, it was already too late. He was not responsive and there was no pulse. There was a gaping wound in the officer's chest. 'I heard gurgling sounds,' he said. . When medics arrived to help Mr Bachmann, police directed Mr Cisneros to help the shooter. He said he saw bullet wounds in Caffall's thigh, foot and armpit. It was the wound in his abdomen, which showed signs of internal bleeding, that likely proved fatal, the former medic told the Los Angeles Times. He was badly injured, but Caffall was alert enough to give Mr Cisernos a message. Arsenal: Three people, including a police constable, were shot dead and three others have been injured after Caffall opened fire near Texas A&M University on Monday afternoon. One of Caffall's weapons is pictured . Loss: Police constable Brian Bachmann, 41, has been shot dead by a gunman near Texas A&M University. He is pictured right with his family . Killed: Bachmann was the elected constable for Precinct 1 in Brazos County. He was killed in the shooting on Monday, as was civilian Chris Northcliff, 43 . 'Could you please tell the person I shot I’m sorry,' he asked of Mr Cisernos. On Tuesday, a lawyer for Caffall's family said the divorcee was mentally ill, but would not elaborate on his condition. 'He wasn't the same kid that he used to be, let's just say that,' W Tyler Moore said. 'He was sweet, very bright, good sense of humor, just a good kid, a sweet kid. I've known him since he was 4 years old.' The day of the tragedy, Caffall's mother said her son had been having emotional problems. 'He's been very deeply troubled,' Caffall's mother Linda Weaver told the Huffington Post. She said that her son had been having mental health 'difficulties' in the past few years. 'The minute I saw the TV I knew it was him,' she said. 'I've been that worried about him. 'We are just devastated.' Victim: An investigator uncovers a body at the scene where a gunman opened fire on a police officer serving an eviction notice near the Texas A&M University on Monday . Scene: The gunman was also shot dead when police officers swooped on the scene and found Bachmann shot . Mrs Weaver was having trouble coming to terms with the tragedy. 'If you're going to commit suicide, why take all these other people with you?' Caffall's sister Courtney Clark said the family was 'distraught'. 'Our hearts and prayers go out to the families and this is just a senseless tragedy,' she said. 'We are just distraught by the havoc that he has caused.' Caffall's stepfather Richard Weaver described the 35-year-old as a 'ticking time bomb.' 'He was crazy as hell,' Mr Weaver said to Click2Houston. 'At one point, we were afraid that he was going to come up here and do something to his mother and me.' He said that Caffall had quit his job nine months ago and said he would never work for anybody ever again. Anger: Bachmann attended the home of the shooter in College Station to serve him with eviction papers . Shock: A woman reacts outside of the College Station Medical Center, where five victims were brought . On . his Facebook page, Caffall has posted multiple photographs of his . weapon collection, including antique rifles and semi-automatic guns. 'No, . it's not an AK. It's a Czech vz. 58. Just picked it up today, can't . wait to try it out on the range. :),' he wrote as the caption to one of . his gun photographs. 'I just got a new toy!' he wrote on the caption of another one. He lists his religion as Christian . and describes himself as 'a cross between Forrest Gump and Jack Kerouac . (without the drugs). I'm on the road, permanently.' 'God loves us all. We are all capable of redemption, if we are willing to change,' he says. He . lists Emily Dickinson, Winston Churchill, Yoda and George Orwell quotes . as some of his favorites, as well as one of his own sayings. 'If you feed the bears, they come back,' he says. VIDEO: . Amateur video filmed by a neighbor of shooter Thomas Caffall captures the chaos... ...And other neighbours were filming as well... VIDEO: Animation of the house on Fidelity Street where Thomas Caffall opened fire... ### SUMMARY:

Gunman Thomas Caffall told medic to tell the constable he was sorry for shooting him . Rigo Cisernos, an Afghanistan veteran who lived nearby, rushed to the scene and tried to help the wounded . Four police officers and two bystanders were shot in gun battle . Police constable Brian Bachmann and civilian Chris Northcliff, 43, were killed . Caffall's mother describes her son as 'deeply troubled' The divorcee bragged about weapons, saying 'I just got a new toy...can't wait to try it out!'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Lucy Buckland . PUBLISHED: . 08:36 EST, 6 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 04:50 EST, 7 February 2013 . Beyoncé's half-time extravaganza at the Super Bowl may have impressed fans but her raunchy leather-clad performance failed to pull in more viewers than Madonna's record breaking 2012 appearance. In fact, fewer people watched Sunday's thrilling Super Bowl than the previous two championship games, according to figures released on Tuesday. Although Beyoncé, who prepared for five months for the hotly anticipated gig, reunited Destiny's Child and sung live, viewing figures showed the 31-year-old was watched by 104 million viewers, compared to Madge's audience of 112.5 million. Scroll down to watch both performances . Sasha Fierce... but not in viewing figures: Beyoncé failed to beat Madonna's 2012 ratings for her half time show . What did you think of Beyoncé's Super Bowl performance? Nielsen, a company that tracks the ratings, reported the actual game drew 108.4 million viewers, which is a drop from last season's tally of 111.3 million viewers. Madonna's performance in 2012, which sparked controversy after M.I.A swore at cameras, was criticised on Twitter but its lavish nature - the slot featured CeeLo Green, Nicki Minaj and LMFAO - meant the show was certainly noticed. Nearly half of all households that own a television were tuned into Sunday's game, the company added. Massive gig: Madonna, seen performing with Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., spoke out about the British rapper swearing during the Super Bowl halftime show last year branding it 'negative' The showdown, where the Baltimore Ravens defeated the San Francisco 49ers, scored a 46.3 rating and 69 . share in its overnight ratings. For the Nielsen measurement, one ratings point represents 1,147,000 households, or 1 percent of . the nation's estimated 114.7 million TV homes. The share means that 71 . percent of TVs that were on at the time were tuned to the Super Bowl. Oblivious: Madonna said she didn't know about the swearing until she had left and was on the way to the airport . How rude! The 36--year-old rapper was seen swearing into the camera during the live broadcast of the show . At CBS' request the ratings figure . from last night did not include a 30-minute period when there was a . partial power outage in the Superdome. But viewership actually increased after the power outage, as the game measured a 52.9 rating during its final moments, CBS noted. Not surprisingly, Baltimore ranked first among cities watching the championship game. The game drew a 59.6 rating and share of 83 there. In second place was New Orleans, where the game was played. The contest drew a 57.1 rating and a 77 share. Crazy In Love: This year's Super Bowl's half-time show comes in at second in the most watched league . San Francisco did not rank in the top 10 cities for viewership. The network also drew criticism by the Parents Television Council for not moving quickly enough to edit out a profanity said by Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco shortly after the game. Flacco was caught by microphones describing his team's victory as 'f------ awesome.' The game also illustrated the explosive growth of second screen activity. The company Trendrr TV, which tracks activity on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks, estimated there were 47.7 million social media posts during the game. That compares to 17 million during the 2012 Super Bowl and just 3 million the year before that. Last year's Super Bowl, when the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots, drew a Nielsen rating of 47.8 and had a share of 71. The only non-Super Bowl to have reached the 100-million viewer benchmark was the series finale of MASH in 1983. EVENT                                                               VIEWERS                                          DATE1.   Super Bowl XLVII                                         111.3 million                                       Feb. 5, 20122.   Super Bowl XLV                                           111 million                                          Feb. 6, 20113.   Super Bowl XLVII                                       108.4 million                                     Feb. 3, 2013   4.   Super Bowl  XLIV                                        106.4 million                                       Feb. 7, 20105.   M*A*S*H Special                                         105.9 million                                       Feb. 28, 19836.   Super Bowl XLIII                                           98.7 million                                        Feb. 1, 20097.   Super Bowl XLII                                            97.4 million                                        Feb. 3, 20088.   Super Bowl XXX                                           94 million                                           Jan. 28, 19969.   Super Bowl XLI                                             93.2 million                                        Feb. 4, 200710. Super Bowl XX                                              92.5 million                                       Jan. 26, 1986 . OTHER NOTABLE EVENTS . Seinfeld Finale                                                76 million                                           May 14, 1998 . Moon Landing                                                 53.5 million                                        July 20, 1969 . Cheers Finale                                                 42.4 million                                        May 20, 1993 . 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremonies             40.7 million                                        July 28, 2012 . ### SUMMARY:

Beyoncé's half-time show pulled in 104 million viewers, compared to Madonna's 112.5 million in 2012 . Madonna's controversial performance, where M.I.A swore at cameras, beat Bruce Springsteen's 2009 show, which pulled in 95.7 million viewers .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Steve Nolan . PUBLISHED: . 14:29 EST, 11 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:40 EST, 11 February 2013 . Jackie Powell,49, pictured coming out of her house in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, in August a few days before her arrest . The confidante of Moors murderer Ian Brady is to avoid charges over claims that she failed to tell police about a letter which may have revealed the whereabouts of his only undiscovered victim. Jackie Powell, Brady's mental health advocate for 13 years, had been arrested on suspicion of preventing the lawful burial of Keith Bennett after she told a television documentary that the killer had given her a sealed envelope to pass on to Keith's mother Winnie Johnson when he died. The letter was never found and Winnie Johnson died last August with her heartbreaking search for the body of her 12-year-old son still unresolved. John Dilworth, head of the CPS North West Complex Case Unit, said: 'After careful consideration, we have decided that Ms Powell should not be charged, as it cannot be established that she knew the contents of the letter referred to, that the letter in question existed or what information it might have contained. 'The only evidence of the letter’s existence was in comments given by Ms Powell to an interviewer and she stated only that she believed it may contain information about Keith Bennett.' Mr Dilworth added: 'The only offence that might have been committed by Ms Powell was preventing a lawful and decent burial. 'It is possible to prosecute a person for preventing a lawful burial through a failure to act, but there must be sufficient evidence to prove that the suspect either prevented the burial or intended to do so when they chose not to act.' He said: 'Even if it could be proved that this letter existed, there is no evidence to suggest that Ms Powell ever knew the nature of its contents and there is insufficient evidence to prove that she genuinely believed it contained the information in question. 'As such, it could not be established in court that Ms Powell either prevented Keith Bennett’s burial or intended to do so. 'We understand that this is still a very sensitive matter for the relatives of Keith Bennett. 'We have written to Keith Bennett’s brother to explain our decision and have offered a meeting to discuss this matter.' Allegations: Miss Powell had said in a television documentary that killer Ian Brady, left, had written a letter to Winnie Johnson, mother of one of Brady's victims Keith Bennett, right, whose body has never been found . Keith Bennett is the only one of the five victims of child killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley whose body was never found. He was snatched by the pair as he walked to his grandmother's house in Longsight, Manchester on June 16 1964. His mother Winnie dedicated the rest of her life to trying to find her son's remains, but died of cancer aged 78 last summer. She had visited Saddleworth Moor, which overlooks Oldham, Greater Manchester, thousands of times and had written numerous letters to Brady pleading for information as to Keith's whereabouts. Jackie Powell had become in embroiled in controversy when she spoke about the existence of a letter that Brady had said might help Mrs Johnson 'find peace' when she took part in Channel 4 documentary Endgames of a Psychopath last year. Tragic: Keith Bennett's mother Winnie Johnson, pictured, never gave up the search for her son's missing body, but died last August without knowing his whereabouts . Police raided her South Wales home but were unable to find the letter. She was arrested last August. Martin Bottomley, head of investigative review in Greater Manchester Police’s major and cold case crime unit, said: 'As soon as we were made aware of the existence of this alleged letter, we made exhaustive attempts to obtain it to establish whether or not its contents would assist us in finding Keith’s body. 'That resulted in the warrants we carried out in the South Wales area and at Ashworth Hospital in August 2012. 'However, despite seizing numerous documents and a search of Brady’s cell, no such letter has been recovered. 'That in itself does not prove or disprove the letter’s existence. It might have been destroyed, it might be hidden elsewhere, it may be in someone else’s possession, or it may simply never have existed in the first place and this has been yet more mind games by Brady. No clues: Police dogs digging during the search for victims' bodies on Saddleworth Moor in 1985 . Continued hunt: Forensics officers from Greater Manchester Police searching for the body of Keith Bennett, whose body was never found after he was killed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley . 'What I can say for certain is that we have not recovered the letter itself nor any credible information that would help us find Keith.' Mr Bottomley added: 'As a result, we have liaised with the Crown Prosecution Service who have concluded there is no realistic prospect of any criminal conviction and therefore no further action will be taken against the woman we arrested. 'I do want to make this point however: this whole episode about the letter came at a time when Winnie was sadly in her final days. 'Winnie and the rest of her family have suffered unimaginable torment. Jailed: Brady's accomplice Myra Hindley died while still in prison in 2002 aged 60. She confessed that the pair had killed Keith Bennett in 1987 . 'Keith still has surviving relatives who deserve to know the truth and Greater Manchester Police will continue to act on any credible evidence to bring this torment to an end.' The other victims of Brady and Hindley were Pauline Reade, 16, who disappeared on her way to a disco on July 12 1963; John Kilbride, 12, who was snatched in November the same year; Lesley Ann Downey, 10, who was lured away from a funfair on Boxing Day 1964, and Edward Evans, 17, who was axed to death in October 1965. Brady was jailed for life at Chester Assizes in 1966 for the murders of John Kilbride, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. Hindley was convicted of killing Lesley Ann and Edward and shielding Brady after John’s murder, and jailed for life. In 1987 the pair finally admitted killing Keith and Pauline. Both were taken back to Saddleworth Moor to help police find the remains of their victims but only Pauline’s body was found. Brady claimed he could not remember where he had buried the boy. In 2009, police said a covert search operation on the moor which used a wealth of scientific experts had also failed to discover any trace of Keith. Brady was due to go before a mental health tribunal last year, but it was delayed after he suffered a seizure. The tribunal was to consider his application to be transferred to a prison and be allowed to die. He has been tube-fed since refusing food 12 years ago. The re-listed hearing is due to take place in Manchester in June. ### SUMMARY:

Jackie Powell was Brady's mental health advocate for 13 years . She claimed in a TV documentary that Brady had given her a sealed letter . It was meant for Winnie Johnson, mother of his victim Keith Bennett . Keith is the only one of Brady's victims never to have been found by police . Ms Powell said that the letter may provide clues as to his body's location .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Jill Reilly . PUBLISHED: . 09:16 EST, 8 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:39 EST, 9 April 2013 . Russian President Vladimir Putin looked bemused today as he was confronted by a group of topless female protestors in Germany. The activists, who strip off to highlight a range of issues, including women's rights, press freedom and domestic violence were dragged kicking and screaming from the premises by security guards . As one women tried to push through to Putin she was blocked by his aides - her back was painted with an obscene word directed against the Russian president. Scroll down for video . Stopped work: An eye-opening experience for Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) as he is confronted by a topless demonstrator with written messages on her back during an opening tour of the Hanover Fair . Attention-seeking: Mr Putin looked startled three members of the women's rights group Femen, which has staged protests against Russia's detention of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot around Europe, took over . Grabbed: A security guard is seen grabbing the topless demonstrator as Mr Putin looks on . The members of the women's rights . group Femen, which has staged protests against Russia's detention of the . feminist punk band Pussy Riot around Europe, appeared as he visited a trade fair in . Hanover with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. They stripped off to the waist and . shouted slogans calling the Russian leader a 'dictator' before being . covered up and bundled away by security men. But a smiling Putin shrugged off the protest and said 'As for the action, I liked it.' 'You should be grateful to the girls, they are helping you make the fair more popular.' Protest: They stripped off to the waist and shouted slogans calling the Russian leader a 'dictator' before being covered up and bundled away by security men . Tricky job: A security man tries to grab one of the protestors who has 'Partners in crime' written on her bare back . But Merkel was not amused. 'Whether . one has to resort to such an emergency measure in Germany and can't say . one's piece some other way, I have my doubts,' she said. But it seems that the Kremlin were not so impressed by the demonstration as Putin. 'This is ordinary hooliganism and . unfortunately it happens all over the world, in any city. One needs to . punish (them),' said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. The Russian leader's arrival at the . trade fair on Sunday also drew protesters, some of whom were dressed in . striped prison uniforms. 'Stop political terror,' read one banner. Anger: Several activists stormed the booth of Volkswagen to demonstrate in presence of Merkel and Putin . Consequences: 'This is ordinary hooliganism and unfortunately it happens all over the world, in any city. One needs to punish (them),' said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov . Merkel . told Putin in a speech at the fair on Sunday that Russia needed 'an . active civil society' including freedom for non-governmental . organisations, after a wave of controversial state inspections of . foreign-funded NGOs in Russia. The . chancellor had promised to raise what she called 'controversial . subjects' with Putin, after coming under pressure to voice Berlin's . unease over the crackdown on NGOs, Moscow's support of the Syrian . government and its criticism of the German-orchestrated financial . bailout of Cyprus. Femen was founded in Kiev in 2008 to protest against Ukraine's booming sex industry. At their first demonstration members appeared clothed carrying banners reading 'Ukraine is not a brothel!'. But it was the demonstrations in favor of the jailed Russia punk group Pussy Riot in August last year that brought the group to the attention of the worldwide media. Baring it: An activist from women's rights group Femen is arrested by security . guards during a protest in a shopping mall, in Sao Paulo, Brazil in Janaury . The organisation has since gone from strength to strength with 150,000 members worldwide and branches across Europe and even in highly conservative countries such as Egypt. As part of the Pussy Riot protests, the Brazilian Femen branch staged a demonstration outside the Russian embassy in Sao Paulo. Three women were arrested including two members of Femen and another who joined in the protest spontaneously. British policemen block a topless Femen activist as she was protesting against Islamic regimes near the Tower Bridge in Central London on day 6 of the London 2012 Olympic games . During the Olympic protest, demonstrators organised an 'islamic marathon' to . demonstrate against 'islamic regimes' they say are being supported by . the IOC. In September last year Military Police in Rio de Janiero arrested two women protesting topless on the Esplanade of Ministries during the country's Independence Day parades. At the time Femen Brazil founding member Sara Winter criticised the arrests arguing that while Brazil's hugely popular carnivals exploit female nudity the country does not tolerate it during a political protest. In another incident Ms Winter attempted to invade the stage during a performance by pop star Gretchen but was held back by security guards. At the end of the show she managed to get onstage where she was pictured holding a sign with the phrase: 'Every three minutes, a woman is beaten in Brazil.' Protest: Topless activists from a Ukrainian . women's rights group staged a second attack on the Euro 2012 trophy by . grabbing it while it was on public display . During last year's Olympic games four topless Femen activists were arrested after a protest in central London after accusing the Olympics' organisers of having supported 'bloody' Islamist regimes. Some of the women had slogans marked on their bare chests. At least one carried the message: 'No Sharia'. Three months earlier Femen activists managed to snatch football's European Championship trophy on two occasions during the tournament in the Ukraine. They grabbed the cup in May while it was on display in a central square in Dnipropetrovsk, south-east Ukraine. One activist took off her top to reveal an offensive slogan before picking up the trophy. As security guards moved in on her, another activist, standing next to the cup, stripped off to the waist to display the same slogan. Chilly: An Femen activist braves freezing temperatures during a topless protest against the World Economic Forum annual meeting in the Swiss resort of Davos in Jasnuary 2012 . In February last year the protest group clashed with Italian police during Milan Fashion Week after a demonstration against the use of anorexic models. The topless protesters wore jeans and had handwritten slogans such as 'Fashion = Fascism' and 'Anorexia' scrawled across their chests. A similar protest was held in January in the Swiss resort of Davos in January, where the World Economic Forum held its annual meeting. ### SUMMARY:

The three protestors were members of the women's rights . group Femen . Staged protests against Russia's detention of feminist punk band Pussy Riot . Putin on the topless protest: 'As for the action, I liked it' Russia urged Germany to punish the group of women . Group now has over 150,000 members worldwide since it began in 2008 . They campaign on issues such as women's rights and domestic violence .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Emma Innes . PUBLISHED: . 06:25 EST, 4 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:36 EST, 4 June 2013 . Natasha Porter, 23, developed Guillain-Barre syndrome after being bitten by a mosquito in Australia . A woman bitten by a mosquito while on holiday in Australia was left paralysed from the neck down. Natasha Porter was confined to a wheelchair for four months and was unable to move anything below her neck for three weeks after suffering the bite. Ms Porter was two weeks into the holiday of a lifetime in Australia when she developed Guillain-Barre syndrome - a disease which causes the body attacks its own nervous system. She first noticed numbness in one toe, but within four days she could barely walk. Doctors told her the fast-moving paralysis could freeze her diaphragm within hours and that there was a chance she could die. Ms Porter watched helplessly as she lost control of her entire body within hours. She was unable to feel her hands, feet or legs - or move anything below her neck. ‘Every time I went to sleep at night I wondered if I might not wake up,’ said Ms Porter, from Crawley, West Sussex. ‘All I could think was I'm 23 - I don't want to die.’ Ms Porter flew to Western Australia in March 2012 and spent seven months working in a cafe to save up for a trip down the country’s east coast. However, she began to notice numbness in her toe two weeks after arriving in Cairns. The paralysis then moved to her hands two days later. Ms Porter visited a pharmacist who dismissed her symptoms as an allergic reaction and prescribed antihistamines. But when her arms began to feel so heavy she could not lift them up to brush her hair, she consulted a doctor who diagnosed anxiety and stress. She spent two more days deteriorating on a two-day cruise round the Whitsunday Islands before a concerned couple rushed her to hospital. The condition causes the body to attack its own immune system and it left Ms Porter in a wheelchair for four months and unable to move anything below her neck for three weeks . Doctors tested her reflexes and found she had none. Ms . Porter said: ‘The doctor said he thought it could be Guillain-Barre . syndrome. I had never heard of it. The next words he said were “I'm . worried," and I was so scared. ‘He said it was potentially fatal because it freezes your diaphragm and he said I might need to go on a ventilator really soon. ‘I remember feeling guilty because I knew I was going to have to call my parents. I was thinking, how do I call them up and say I might be dead in a few hours? She was diagnosed after she started to experience numbness in her feet and hands and felt as though her arms were too heavy to lift. Doctors initially thought she was suffering from an allergic reaction or stress . ‘I was thinking I just don't want to die, I'm only just beginning to live.’ Guillain-Barre . syndrome is a rare and serious condition which occurs when the body's . immune system attacks the peripheral nervous system. The exact cause is unknown but around 60 per cent of sufferers develop it when bacteria or a virus enters the body and triggers the immune system to attack nerves. This causes the nerves to become inflamed and stop working and in some cases makes the body numb. She was warned that she could end up on a ventilator, or even die, if her diaphragm also became paralysed by the condition. Her parents had to fly out from England to be at her bedside . Within three weeks she was able to move both her arms a few centimetres, and six weeks after she was paralysed she stood up for a few seconds with the help of three nurses. She had to wear a face mask to protect her from further infections . It can prove fatal but around 80 per . cent of suffers make a full recovery after several weeks in hospital . although some take a year or more to fully recover. Ms . Porter’s father Joe, a taxi driver, flew out to join his daughter, and . called her mother, Sue, a college lecturer, when it became clear she was . very ill. In November, Ms Porter (pictured with father, Joe) was flown back home accompanied by two nurses . Within two days Ms Porter could not move anything but her head. She said: ‘I was trying to wiggle my toe and I was staring at it knowing it should move but it wouldn't. ‘I . couldn't do anything, it was awful. To go from being so independent to . not being able to go to the loo, lift up your own leg. I had to ask to . be turned over in bed. It was depressing. ‘There was a constant burning. It was incredible. I can't describe the pain.’ However, thanks to a lot of physiotherapy, Ms Porter was able to regain her independence one movement at a time. Within three weeks she was able to move both her arms a few centimetres, and six weeks after she was paralysed she stood up for a few seconds with the help of three nurses. She said: ‘People were saying, “bend your legs, straighten your back, tuck you tummy in,” but it was so strange as I just had no idea how to do it. ‘The first time I was able to move for five seconds I remember just yelling and everyone started applauding.’ In November, Ms Porter was flown back home accompanied by two nurses, and reunited with brother Jack, 27, and sister Shelley, 25. By the New Year she was able to take short trips away from her wheelchair and by the end of January she went out dancing with her friends for the first time. Ms Porter has now made a full recovery and returned to work. She and her boyfriend, Tom Kelly, are hoping to finish their travels once they have saved up enough money . In March she began work as an administration assistant, and she is planning to finish the round the world trip she began, and to climb to Everest base camp with boyfriend, Tom Kelly, as soon as they raise the funds. Ms Porter said: ‘I don't want to waste anytime anymore and I hope I have become a better person. ‘I just want to live as much as I can, spend as much time with my friends and family, just enjoying my life.’ Guillain-Barre syndrome (pronounced Ghee-lan Bar-ray) syndrome is a rare but serious condition of the nerves that control the body's senses and movements. It affects about 1,500 people in the UK every year and is slightly more common in men than women. It causes the immune system (the body’s natural defence against infection and illness) to attack these nerves, causing them to become inflamed. Symptoms include a tingly, numb sensation in the arms and legs which can result in a loss of feeling and movement. Most people who develop it have suffered from a viral or bacterial infection a few weeks before. Around 80 per cent of people make a full recovery within a few weeks or months, and do not have any further problems such as permanent nerve damage. ### SUMMARY:

Natasha Porter developed Guillain-Barre syndrome while travelling . The condition causes the body to attack its own immune system . She was in a wheelchair for four months and paralysed for three weeks . Was warned she might die if her diaphragm also became paralysed . It was six months before she was fully recovered and able to go back work .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Christian Gysin and Sarah Hashash . PUBLISHED: . 18:19 EST, 27 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:52 EST, 1 March 2013 . The horrific ordeal of a British tourist who escaped the Egyptian hot air balloon disaster then watched his wife plunge to her death was relived yesterday. Michael Rennie, 49, jumped 10ft to the ground from the burning basket, then ran 250 yards along a track chasing the balloon screaming ‘My wife. My wife’. But he could only watch in horror as the doomed craft rose rapidly into the skies and exploded at 1,000ft above Luxor, then plummeted to the ground along with its passengers. Scroll down for video . Tragedy: Michael Rennie watched his wife Yvonne plunge to her death in a horrifying hot air balloon disaster . Happier times: The Rennie couple are their wedding day. Michael Rennie screamed helplessly 'My wife!' as the burning basket rose higher in the sky once he jumped out . Desperate: With severe burns on his body, he then helplessly ran along a 200 metre dirt track, pictured, to a group of houses to raise the alarm . Survivor: Michael Rennie was airlifted to hospital after he survived the blaze which killed his wife Yvonne . The Egyptian pilot, whose clothes were on fire, leapt out just before Mr Rennie and was the only other survivor. Mrs Rennie, 48, from Perth, Scotland, . was among 19 tourists killed on Tuesday morning. Other victims included . artists Joe Bampton, 40 and Suzanna Gyetvai, 34, who lived in Clapham, . South West London. Four of the dead had tried to leap from the balloon . as it rose. Mr Rennie suffered burns to his face and shock but is in a . stable condition in a Cairo hospital. The same balloon, operated by Sky Cruise, had been involved in another crash less than 18 months ago, it was revealed yesterday. Couple: Mr Rennie, right, is in hospital after the balloon ride went tragically wrong, killing his wife Yvonne, left . Video footage shot in October 2011 . showed the balloon narrowly missing a hotel roof in Luxor before . plunging into the Nile. Luckily, all the passengers on board that flight . escaped with nothing worse than bruising. Yesterday Sky Cruise produced paperwork showing the balloon was checked and certified airworthy in October 2012. Tuesday’s tragedy is believed to have . happened near the end of the dawn flight, after a landing rope became . entangled with a propane gas tube, severing it and sparking a fire. Mohamed Youssef Mohamed, 27, a pilot for Magic Horizon balloons, was on his own balloon at the time. Respect: Ezat Saad, Governor of the ancient temple city of Luxor (left) and Japanese Okumura Hatsuko (right) director of Japanese division in an Egyptian travel agency lay flowers at the site of the accident . Bodies: Medical workers in Cairo with the bodies of those who were killed in the tragic accident . Air balloon crash: The events leading up to the crash that killed 19 people . ‘One of my tourists on board pointed . out that the balloon appeared to have caught fire on the right-hand . side,’ he said. ‘It was just two or three metres from the ground and was . about to land but the pilot was quickly engulfed in flames and flung . himself out of the basket. ‘Seconds later, on the other edge of . the basket, the British survivor jumped out. By the time it reached 70 . metres I saw four people fall – I’m not sure if they jumped or if the . basket opened due to the fire. This was all before the sound of the gas . explosion.’ The whole incident took a little over . two minutes. Another witness, a holiday worker called Mohamed, said: ‘It . was a horrific sight. The scene was pure hysteria. The pilot Momen . Murad was a professional with around 10 years of experience flying hot . air balloons and was well known in Luxor as a skilled flier.’ The green hot air balloon can be seen as it took off, before exploding and plunging to earth in Egypt . Before the blaze: This picture shows the basket carrying tourists that exploded and plunged to earth . Yvonne Rennie and Joe Bampton (right) were the Britons understood to have died in the horrific tragedy . Popular Suzanna Gyetvai in was on board the air craft which plunged to earth after it hit a power line . An investigation is underway by Egyptian authorities and all balloon flights have been grounded. Ahmed Mohamed Al Yemeni, Luxor’s . deputy public prosecutor  who is in charge of investigating the . incident, said: ‘Investigators are searching for evidence of a technical . malfunction of a gas canister used. It appears likely the gas was . largely responsible for the accident.’ Yesterday Mr Rennie’s brother David . complained that he had ‘not been told anything’ by Thomas Cook, the tour . operator used by the four Britons. He said he could not speak about the . disaster until he had seen his brother, who works for a construction . company, but the family ‘were grieving for our loss of Yvonne’. This sequence shows the moment the hot-air balloon exploded during the sightseeing trip, killing 19 tourists . Mrs Rennie joined the radiology department of Perth Royal Infirmary as an appointments officer in June 2006. Radiology manager Douglas Mitchell said: ‘We are in shock at the sudden and tragic loss of Yvonne. ‘She was a much-loved colleague who . enjoyed her job and her tragic passing has had a huge impact on all of . us who knew and worked with her. She will be sadly missed.’ Mr Bampton . and Miss Gyetvai both worked for Lots Road Auctions in Chelsea. They were described by their neighbours as ‘a quiet, lovely couple’. Mr Bampton was originally from . Merseyside before moving to London to become an expert valuer of rugs . and carpets. His Hungarian-born partner was also known by her artist . name, Zsi Chimera. Grim: The site of a balloon crash where the remains of the burned gondola are seen. In total nineteen tourists were killed after the hot air balloon exploded and came down in a ball of flames . Investigation: An Egyptian inspector of the Civil Aviation Authority walks among the wreckage. Shocked eye-witnesses told yesterday how the pilot and a number of passengers jumped from balloon at around 300ft as it was being towed into land and hit a power line . Tragedy: At least 19 foreign tourists, including some British citizens, have been killed after their hot air balloon exploded and fell from the sky . ### SUMMARY:

Michael Rennie saved himself by leaping from fiery balloon along with pilot . His wife Yvonne was one of 19 tourists killed in the blaze outside Luxor . British artist Joe Bampton and girlfriend Suzanna Gyetvai died in tragedy . Incident was close to the famous Valley of the Kings . Witnesses heard an explosion, saw smoke and then it fell from the sky . The catastrophe may be the deadliest hot air balloon accident in history .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Mark Duell and Nick Mcdermott . PUBLISHED: . 06:57 EST, 10 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:37 EST, 11 July 2013 . The scorching temperatures are set to carry on climbing this weekend before thunderstorms cool us off, forecasters warn. The mercury could reach 30C (86F) in some parts on Saturday before the heavy showers arrive. However, don’t pack away the bikinis and barbecues just yet – the downpours will be short-lived before much of the country can get back to revelling in a second weekend of glorious sunshine. Splashing about: Students Paula Brosowska (left) and Daisy George, both 19, from Coventry, and Katie Guy (right), five, cool on in the water at Bournemouth beach . All smiles: Nicola Sowinska, three, keeps her cool on Bournemouth Beach yesterday, as forecasters predicted the heatwave will last over the weekend . Flat out: A woman enjoys sunbathing on a sunny morning at Victoria Park in east London, after temperatures soared this week across the UK . Glorious weather: A young woman enjoyed the hot conditions at St James's Park in central London as the heatwave experienced by Britain continued . Sunbathing: St James's Park in central London was busy again yesterday as the heatwave continued and people tried to make the most of the warm weather . Relaxing: A woman lies on a thin rug and enjoys a paperback book in the hot weather at St James's Park in central London as the heatwave continues . Beautiful sight: Commuters cross London Bridge in central London on the way to work as the Shard building can be seen in the background . What a morning: Commuters cross London Bridge . (left) on the way to work while a runner jogs along the River Thames . (right) with Tower Bridge in the background . Three-day forecast: We can expect plenty of sunshine in the next few days with highs of 29C, which is warmer than Rio where the mercury is only expected to top 27C . By Monday, temperatures will return to . nearer normal for the time of year, though there will be long dry . periods for much of the country. Next week the South will continue to . enjoy plenty of fair weather, while it will be more unsettled in the . North. The hottest day of the year was on . Monday in Edenfel, County Tyrone, where the mercury hit 29.9C (85.8F). But Met Office experts predict the record could be broken on Saturday, . with temperatures expected to peak past 30C (86F) for the first time . this year. The monthly outlook remains mostly positive for the south of England, with dry and sunny conditions predicted until August. Forecaster Tony Gray of the Met Office . said: ‘It will be mostly dry and fine with plenty of sunshine around . into the weekend. Central areas will enjoy the warmest weather, with . temperatures reaching the high 20s, while northern and coastal areas . will be cooler. ‘There is a risk of thunderstorms on . Saturday in the afternoon and evening, mostly likely in parts of the . north and east, caused by the warm weather. ‘Thunderstorms can be triggered by the intense heat and humidity rising into the upper atmosphere.’ The warm start to this month is a . welcome change after the coldest spring in more than five decades, while . last year was the second wettest on record. It's a beautiful day: People punt on the River Cherwell past Magdalen College Tower in Oxford, as the country basks in the warmth of summer . Making a splash: The sunshine attracted people to play in a river in Chester, Cheshire, as the whole of Britain enjoyed another beautiful day of warm weather . Under cover: This tortoise in Southampton, Hampshire, looks for shade to control his body temperature, during the warm spell the UK is experiencing . Different picture: Very low water levels were seen today (pictured) at Dovestone Resevoir in Greenfield, Greater Manchester, compared to the same day last year . Deeper: This is how the Dovestone Reservoir appeared on July 10 2012 - at a much higher level than today. The year 2012 was the second wettest on record for England . Impressive: The Football Association is unveiling this huge maze near Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, after farmers cut an image of the famous Three Lions badge . Hosed . down: The Barton Bridge near Trafford Park, Greater Manchester, was . stuck open yesterday after heat caused the metal frame to expand whilst . it was opened . Not closing: The metal on Barton Bridge, near Trafford Park, swelled up in the afternoon sun and by rush hour its two halves would not fit together . Too hot: Firemen look at the edge of the swing . bridge where it meets the road (left) and expanded. Later, they cleared . hoses (right) and were able to reopen the bridge . Yesterday, parts of Britain were similar in temperature to Spain, Portugal and the South of France, and hotter than Rio. The sunny weather has resulted in a . sudden rise in sales of paddling pools and water pistols as the nation . tries to keep cool. Sainsbury’s reported selling tens of thousands last . weekend, while on Saturday alone they shifted a record 85,000 bags of . ice. Ice cream sales were also up 130 per . cent. And as families grabbed the first chance to enjoy al fresco . eating, 1.85million packs of burgers flew off the shelves – with 250 . bags of salad bought every minute. Yesterday, the temperatures  soared so much that even the roads started to melt. Streets in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, . were badly affected as the sun caused tar to liquefy, and authorities . were forced to put sand on damaged surfaces. We . can expect plenty of sunshine in the next few days with highs of 29C, . which is warmer than Rio where the mercury is only expected to top 27C. The hot weather here is also on par . with Spain, Portugal and France. Met Office forecaster Sarah Holland . said: ‘There should be plenty of sunshine around in the next few days . for most areas, with highs of up to 27C in the north and 29C in the . south. ‘On Friday we could see a bit of . cloud around and in the north and north west there could be a few spots . of drizzle but apart from that it looks like another fine week.' Meanwhile, a busy commuter route in Greater Manchester was closed on Monday after a bridge expanded in the summer heat and jammed open. The metal on Barton Bridge, near Trafford Park, swelled up in the afternoon sun and by rush hour its two halves wouldn’t fit together. Firefighters were called and hosed down the bridge with cold water for more than an hour before it had cooled enough to close. ### SUMMARY:

Britain scorching in temperatures hotter than Rio de Janeiro - and the heatwave is set to continue into August . Highs of up to 27C in the north and up to 29C in the south with plenty of sunshine expected for next few days . Today's high expected to be 27C in Bude, Cornwall, as the South West experiences the best of the weather . Commuter route in Greater Manchester closed after bridge expanded in the summer heat and jammed open . Roads in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, were badly affected as they started to melt and sand had to be put down .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Sam Webb . PUBLISHED: . 02:41 EST, 24 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:29 EST, 24 September 2013 . Cold War warrior: Ferguson Smith, a spycatcher who brought down some of the USSR's deadliest spies . A decorated Second World War pilot who went on to hunt Soviet spies selling nuclear secrets during the Cold War has died at the age of 98. Ferguson Smith, a former Bomber Command flight lieutenant, spent 36 years in the Special Branch, tirelessly rooting out agents who stole the nation's nuclear secrets during the paranoid and fearful 1950s and 60s. During his incredible career he was also a bodyguard to the Duke of Windsor, the former king, when he visited the UK following his abdication. His most high profile scalp was George Blake, a double agent who worked for the British Secret Intelligence Service and in 1955 and gave British secrets and details of agents to the KGB, crippling MI6's operation behind the Iron Curtain. He was also instrumental in breaking the Portland Spy Ring, which was selling British nuclear sub secrets to the USSR, as well as capturing traitorous naval attache John Vassall and Klaus Fuchs, the German physicist who exchanged details of Britain and America’s atomic weapons programme to Moscow. Neil Root, an espionage expert, said the British public owe a debt of gratitude to Smith, who would have had to be 'brutal' to achieve his aims. 'There was a real fear of Communist spies in the 50s and 60s. 'At the time espionage and counter espionage were about face to face contact, it was all meeting in dirty macs on park benches. It was much more psychological, you had to be able to read people. 'The things you see in James Bond now, that was the kind of stuff happening then. It was much more brutal, people were killed much more quickly,' he told the Daily Mirror. Mr Root said George Blake was a deadly adversary who employed violence and bloodshed to achieve his nefarious aims. Hundreds of spies were killed in the line of duty thanks to Blake breaking their cover. It was a sting orchestrated by Smith in 1961 that led to Blake's capture. He was jailed for 42 years but escaped and fled to the USSR in 1966. Dangerous prey: George Blake (left), considered the most deadly of Russia's agents in Britain. Klaus Fuchs (right), who was sentenced to ten years in prison in 1950 for passing the secret of the atom bomb to the Russians . Smith was born in 1914 in Aberdeen and was the son a grocer. He joined the police and moved to the Special branch in 1936. He joined the RAF in 1941 and flew Lancasters equipped with radar-jamming equipment - a perilous role as the aerial made the aircraft a favourite target of the Luftwaffe. In an assignment that did not reward failure, he survived 30 missions. He was awarded a medal for rescuing two fellow airmen from fighters over Berlin despite being heavily injured. Ferguson Smith (left), with Detective Superintendent George Gordon Smith after the Portland Spy Ring was dismantled . Red menace: John Vassall, a former Admiralty clerk who was jailed for 18 years for spying. He was a British civil servant who, under pressure of blackmail, spied for the Soviet Union . Upon rejoining the Special Branch in the aftermath of the war, he spied on radicals like fascist leader Oswald Mosley and the explorer Laurens van der Post. Smith also protected VIPs, including the former king, who he once bluntly turned down a cash reward from, stating: 'I don't take tips'. In 1996 he was Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and running Special Branch. As well as Blake, the Portland Spy Ring and Fuchs, he also caught John Vassall, who worked as an aide to a Civil Lord of the Admiralty. He was gay and Russian agents used this to blackmail him into stealing thousands of classified documents. After retiring in 1972 Smith, a poetry lover, lived quietly with his wife, Margaret, until her death in 2003. The Portland Spy Ring was a group of Soviet spies operating in England from the late 1950s until 1961 when the five main members of the network were arrested by the British security services. The spy ring was caught after MI5 launched an undercover investigation after being tipped off by the CIA that information was being leaked to the Russians from the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment at Portland, England, where the Royal Navy tested equipment for undersea warfare. Suspicion fell on Harry Houghton, a former sailor who was a civil service clerk at the base, as his extravagant living expenses were far beyond his meagre salary. MI5 was tipped off by the CIA that information was being leaked to . the Russians from the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment, pictured, at . Portland, England . MI5 put Houghton under surveillance and also watched his mistress, Ethel Gee, a filing clerk who handled documents Houghton himself did not have access to. They often went to London, where they would meet a man identified as Gordon Lonsdale, a Canadian businessman. During these meetings Lonsdale and Houghton exchanged packages and MI5 also put Lonsdale under surveillance. They discovered Lonsdale often went to visit antiquarian bookseller Peter Kroger and his wife Helen at their home in Ruislip, northwest London, and the couple were also put under close but discreet watch. In January 1961, Houghton, Gee and Lonsdale were arrested by Special Branch Detective Superintendent George Gordon Smith — as MI5 officers are not authorised to make arrests. Gee's shopping bag contained huge amounts of film and photographs of classified material, including details of HMS Dreadnought, Britain's first nuclear submarine, and the stalling speed specifications of the Borg Warner torque converter. Smith and two colleagues then went to Ruislip to see the Krogers. They found microdots, the photographic reduction of documents in order to make them small enough to be smuggled more easily, hidden inside Mrs Kroger's handbag. The microdots found at the Krogers' home were letters between Lonsdale and his wife, who lived in the USSR with their children. Kroger had used the print in his antique books to hold the microdots and smuggle them between Britain and Russia. These would have also held the intelligence secrets passed on by Houghton and Gee. After an extensive search, spying equipment was found inside the home. This included large sums of money, fake passports, photographic material, code pads for coding messages and a long-range radio transmitter-receiver for communicating with Moscow. Large amounts of money were also found in the homes of Houghton, Gee and Lonsdale. Two days after their arrest all five were charged with espionage at Bow Street Magistrates Court. Their trial began on Monday 13 March 1961 and the jury returned verdicts of guilty for all of the accused. ### SUMMARY:

Ferguson Smith brought down the worst of Britain's Soviet enemies . He was also a decorated WW2 pilot and was bodyguard of former king . His quarry included traitor George Blake and the Portland Spy Ring .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Meghan Keneally . PUBLISHED: . 17:16 EST, 25 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 23:47 EST, 25 October 2013 . The mistress of the Mormon doctor accused of killing his wife has revealed how they exchanged 22 text messages with him throughout her funeral. Gypsy Willis began giving her testimony on Friday afternoon and told how her relationship with the married pediatrician progressed from their first interaction online a year before his wife's death to the point where he paid for her apartment, gave her a debit card for spending money and helped pay her nursing school tuition. Willis, who appeared in court as part of a plea deal to get a lesser sentence for felony identity theft charges that she currently faces, tried to downplay the seriousness of her relationship with Martin MacNeill. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE . Out in public: Gypsy Willis testified about how she first met Martin MacNeill when he contacted her through an online interest board that she ran and they began instant messaging . Tense: Martin MacNeill remained expressionless throughout the trial on Friday . She said that they first met when he commented on a post she had published on an website dedicated to her interests, and they struck up an instant messaging conversation that turned into more. While on the stand, she admitted that she had previously lied about how they met, but asserted that this version was the truth. She repeatedly said that even though she lived in a duplex that he controlled the contract to, they kept their sexual relationship very loose after first making contact in November 2005. It became sexual in January 2006- a year and three months before MacNeill's wife Michele was found dead in their bathtub. 'We would see each other about a couple of times a month but there were some months where we didn't see each other,' Willis said in her testimony. 'It was a very casual thing.' She said that she was still seeing other people while maintaining this relationship with MacNeill and continued that level of seriousness even after she moved into a complex where he had an apartment that was not being used. Looking over the facts: The prosecutor asked Willis to read out the number of texts they exchanged for a wide swath of days during the relationship, including throughout the week that his wife was found dead . Getting ready: Willis, seen walking into court in Provo, Utah on Friday, said that their relationship was very casual and had been sexual for more than a year before his wife was found dead in their family home . Willis was a nursing student at the time, and although part of her tuition was being paid for by financial aid, MacNeill also helped her with the additional payments- though she said in court today that those financial entanglements had no reflection on whether or not their relationship was serious. 'I was still seeing other people, I was . very busy so the fact that i did see him a little more than other . people’ was insignificant. Motives: Willis agreed to testify as part of a plea deal for an ongoing felony identity theft case . After repeatedly saying that she kept things casual with the married father, the prosecutor had her read out an email that she sent on March 7, 2007 to an unnamed potential suitor where she put an end to that man's advances because of MacNeill. In the March 7 email she wrote saying that she could not see the man in question because 'a very good and best friend of mine has become much more than that,' referring to MacNeill. In a follow up to that same man, she expanded on it and said that even though they met online more than a year ago, 'just recently his reasoning and views changed and we are together now'. The prosecutor then went through the log of texts and calls that the pair exchanged, that ranged from anywhere between six and 38 texts in one day- even during the week of April 11, 2007 when Michele was found dead. On that particular day, they exchanged 15 texts, and on April 14 they texted 22 times during Michele's funeral. The majority of the calls were made from MacNeill's office phone while the texts came from his cell- showing that he tried to keep his audible interactions with her hidden while at home with his wife and children. 'This was a very informal, discrete . thing. We were not interested in other people knowing. He was trying to . keep it discrete. I respected that,' Willis said. Asked about the nature of the relationship she added: 'We had sex half the time. Sometimes, it was just lunch.' Friday's . appearance was Gypsy's first time taking the stand in the controversial . murder trial, and she only spoke briefly about the circumstances around . Michele's death. When asked what MacNeill had told her about the way in which his wife had died, she said: 'He found Michele in the bathtub.' 'I didn't chase him for details but I believe she was partially dressed,' she said. Plotted: Prosecutors say MacNeill convinced his wife to get a facelift then drugged her and coaxed her into the tub, where she drowned . Willis recalled two other potentially pivotal details, telling how she remembered an undated anecdote that MacNeill told her about how his wife had recently been told by doctors that she had high blood pressure. Willis also said that on the day of Michele's death, she remembered MacNeill telling her he had called one of his older daughters- Alexis- and asked her to check in on her mother because Michele had seemed 'restless' that morning. The secret lovers became less and less discrete after Michele's death, however, as Gypsy attended her funeral on April 14 and spoke to him briefly immediately after the service in front of family and friends. A tearful Rachel MacNeill, left, and her younger . sister Alexis Somers, right, both testified in court against their . father on Thursday. They both believe he is guilty of killing their mother . Martin MacNeill bows his head and listens to his daughter Rachel MacNeill's emotional testimony during his murder trial on Thursday . She went on to say how some time after the funeral, he 'staged and directed' her first meeting with a few of his daughters at a Mormon temple by making sure she was dressed appropriately and steering the conversation into one about their need for a nanny. In front of his daughter, he asked Gypsy for her phone number- even though he clearly already had it- and arranged for an interview at his house to see if she would be a good fit for the nanny job. Willis, now 37, will return to the stand on Tuesday. The prosecution is trying to prove a case that supports the theory that MacNeill killed his wife by using a combination of drugs following a plastic surgery operation in order to be with his mistress. ### SUMMARY:

Martin MacNeill is accused of killing his wife Michele and making it look like an accidental death as a result of medication from a facelift . The prosecution believes that he killed her as a way to start up a fully-fledged relationship with his mistress, Gypsy Willis . Willis, 37, took the stand on Friday and detailed their affair . She confirmed that they first began talking online in November 2005 and it turned sexual the following January- more than a year before Michele died . Willis said MacNeill paid for her apartment, part of her nursing school tuition and gave her a debit card to use for any shopping . 'It was a very casual thing,' she said, even though she read an email where she told a potential suitor they couldn't see each other because of MacNeill . They texted 15 times on the day his wife was found dead .