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Sampdoria forward Stefano Okaka believes Mario Balotelli 's lack of maturity cost him being a success in Italy with AC Milan , unlike Zlatan Ibrahimovic . Despite scoring 26 goals in 43 games for the Rossoneri Okaka insists Balotelli was a flop at Milan , and should point towards the example of Ibrahimovic to show him he under performed in Italy 's top flight . He told Gazzetta dello Sport : ` Is the fact Balotelli left Serie A for England a failure for our football ? No , if anything he is the one who failed . Mario Balotelli fires a shot on target for AC Milan against arch rivals Inter Milan in May 2014 . Mario Balotelli sits on the floor in disappointment during AC Milan 's game against Genoa in November 2013 . Zlatan Ibrahimovic celebrates scoring for AC Milan against Arsenal in their last 16 Champions League clash . Mario Balotelli looks to get new side Liverpool on the attack against Aston Villa . ` Does he think great champions were never under pressure ? When Ibrahimovic was in Italy , he scored 30 goals per season . ` He must n't keep looking to blame others . Mario is a great player , but if he had problems in Italy then half the responsibility is his . ` At times in life you need to stop and look inside yourself . The fact remains he is a great player and this new English experience might help him rediscover the hunger he once had . ' | Stefano Okaka believes Mario Balotelli was a flop in Italy with AC Milan . The Sampdoria striker believes the example of Zlatan Ibrahimovic during his time at the San Siro illustrates that Balotelli failed to succeed there . Okaka also believes Balotelli lacks maturity unlike Ibrahimovic . | [[155, 253], [0, 81], [68, 140], [155, 253], [224, 233], [260, 363], [0, 81]] |
The notebook of one of two 12-year-old girls suspected of stabbing their best friend ` to please ' the fictional online character Slender Man was released to a Wisconsin court today , giving a frightening insight into her troubled mind . The disturbing hand-sketched pictures were revealed during the preliminary hearing of Morgan Geyser on Tuesday , where a judge was tasked with deciding if the girl should be charged with attempted first degree murder as an adult . Drawn by Geyser , one of the grotesque cartoons depicts a young cat-like girl armed with a scythe standing over a dead girl with a speech bubble that says , ' I love killing people ' . Eerie and prescient sketches : This is one of Morgan Geyser 's sketches . The 12-year-old is one of two girls accused of stabbing her friend Payton Leutner and leaving her in the woods in May 2014 . In this frightening picture a girl who appears to be a cat-like and armed with a scythe stands over a dead girl while saying ' I love killing people ' Other writings and cartoons profess her admiration and devotion to the Slender Man urban myth and will be a central part of the defense team 's claim that Geyser is mentally unfit to stand trial as an adult . If the two girls are tried as adults and found guilty they will face up to 60 years in prison . Indeed , along with the sketches , the court was presented with the mutilated body of one of Geyser 's Barbie dolls , which had its hair and limbs cut and what appeared to be satanic markings drawn onto the torso . In addition to that was a list of ` supplies necessary ' which included a ` map of forest ' and ` weapons -LRB- kitchen knife -RRB- . ' Childhood icon : The court in Wisconsin was presented on Tuesday with these images a evidence of Geyser 's warped state of mind . Satanic symbols : The dolls , displayed in court in Waukesha , Wisconsin on Tuesday , were marked with cuts and had Slender Man symbols on them . Mutiliation : Barbie dolls of Geyser 's were found missing limbs and a list of supplies found in her notebook includes a kitchen knife . Anissa Weier and Geyser are thought to have lured their friend Payton Leutner to the woods in Waukesha , Wisconsin , and stabbed her 19 times after inviting her to a slumber party for Geyser 's 12th birthday . Ms Leutner was able to crawl out from the trees and has survived the May 2014 incident . Lawyers for Weier and Geyser , who could be tried as adults for attempted murder , are pushing to have the case moved to juvenile court , according to ABC News . Neither of the suspects has entered a plea as the attorneys attempt to get the charges changed . The two girls ' attorneys have never denied they attacked and stabbed Leutner , but claim they were so disturbed they truly believed the Slender Man - a popular online urban myth - would kill their own families in three seconds if they did not do his bidding . Geyser 's attorney began proceedings on Tuesday by trying to telling the court that his client is mentally disturbed and believed she had to kill to protect herself and her family from the creature . Taking the stand during the second day of a preliminary hearing , psychologist Deborah Collins testified that she has interviewed the Geyser several times and concluded she honestly believes Slender Man exists . ' -LRB- Her belief -RRB- has n't wavered and it 's been unyielding to a rational perspective , ' Collins testified . Collins also testified that the girl told her she uses Vulcan mind control to keep negative emotions at bay and believes Harry Potter villain Lord Voldemort visits her when he 's not away on business trips . Strange embrace : The Slender Man character is known for stalking and abducting children and became popular after fans of the creation did their own drawings of him . Urban myth : Obsession : On the left is a depiction of the urban myth of Slender Man - an unnaturally tall , thin figure with a blank , featureless face , wearing a black suit . His horror stories tell how he kidnaps children or forces them into murderous deeds . Checklist : This hand written note from Morgan Geyser 's sketchbook shows a list of ` supplies necessary ' before she and Anissa Weier stabbed their friend , Payton Leutner , in the woods last year . Noticeable is the reminder to bring a ` kitchen knife ' , a ` map of forest ' and ` the will to live ' State of mind : This sketch will be used by the defense to claim that their client was and is mentally unfit and should stand trial as an adult for murder . A private detective working for the defense testified he discovered more than 60 drawings of Slender Man in the girl 's bedroom . Many of the sketches included notes such as ` not safe even in your house ' and ` he is here always . ' One drawing depicted a girl lying on the ground and a person standing over her with the message ' I love killing people ' written over the figure . The detective went on to say he found more than a half-dozen Barbie dolls in the bedroom that had been marked with Slender Man 's symbol . Some were missing their hands and feet . ' I think we did a good job showing she believed -LRB- Slender Man -RRB- was real ... across time and environment , ' defense attorney Anthony Cotton said . ` She believed in Slender Man . She believed he would hurt the family . ' Accused : Morgan Geyser , 12 , -LRB- left -RRB- , and Anissa Weier , 13 , -LRB- right -RRB- , face a collective 60 years in prison if tried as adults and found guilty . June court appearance : Morgan Geyser was led into a Wisconsin court room in shackles in June where she was arraigned for the attempted murder of her friend . Agony : Geyser 's troubled state of mind appears evident in this scrawl in which she screams ' I want to die ' According to court documents , the girls told detectives they had been planning to kill Peyton Leutner for months . They are accused of luring her to a park in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha on May 31 and stabbing her 19 times . Leutner barely survived ; one stab wound just missed her heart . The alleged attackers were found walking toward the Nicolet National Forest , where they say they thought they would join Slender Man . All three girls were 12 years old at the time of the incident . The two alleged attackers face one count of being a party to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in adult court . They each could face up to 60 years in the state prison system if convicted . The Slender Man is a fictional character prevalent on the internet after originating as a meme in 2009 . Unnerving : The Slender Man with one of his chosen victims as depicted in a popular online meme . The mythical creature is often depicted as an unnaturally tall , thin figure with a blank , featureless face , wearing a black suit . The character is said to have long , tentacle-like arms , which can be extended to capture prey . It is said to stalk , abduct and traumatize children and , depending on interpretations of the myth , can cause memory loss , insomnia and paranoia . It is also said to be able to create distortions in photographs and teleport . It is understood to have originated in a Photoshop contest on the Something Awful Forums in 2009 . It then went viral with numerous works of fan art and short scary stories published online known as ` creepypasta ' . The character has developed its own life online , with two feature-length films funded in part by Kickstarter appearing in 2012 . The meme that appears most is that of a tall malevolent figure , who silently stalks down his prey . Over the past six or so years , the Slender Man meme has mutated liked all good scary stories into one that haunts the minds of those who become obsessed with it . Decision : Circuit Judge Michael Bohren presides over the second day of a preliminary hearing in Waukesha , Wisconsin for the two girls accused of stabbing their classmate to please horror character Slender Man . Laughter after recovery : Ms Leutner was able to drag herself out from the woods where she was stabbed 19 times and has since recovered . Unidentified : One of the two Wisconsin girls accused of stabbing their classmate appears in court where their attorney 's are trying to convince a judge to move their case into juvenile court . Police detectives testified on Monday that both girls believed they had to kill their friend and join Slender Man in order to protect themselves and their families from his wrath . Cotton is trying to use that to move his client to juvenile court , where she could n't be held beyond age 25 . He contends that since the girl thought she was defending herself a charge of attempted second-degree intentional homicide is more appropriate . Since the girl is under 18 , she would face that count in children 's court . Prosecutors countered that a preliminary hearing - the stage of Wisconsin 's legal process where a judge decides whether enough evidence exists to move to trial - is n't the proper venue for such an argument . Judge Michael Bohren declined to rule on anything Tuesday , asking all sides to submit briefs . He promised to issue a decision on March 13 . The other girl 's attorneys called only one witness Tuesday , a sheriff 's deputy who arrested their client on the road . He testified the girl told him someone would kill her family unless she did something bad . Cartoonish : The decapitated head appears to resemble that of the Slender Man , while the eyes on the child on the right appear to be bleeding . | Morgan Geyser along with Anissa Weier is charged with of stabbing classmate Payton Leutner in May 2014 . Filled her own sketchbook with dozens of drawings of horror cartoon character Slender Man . Barbies had missing limbs , supply list includes kitchen knife and map . Psychologist said that girl believes fictional characters are real . Morgan Geyser and her friend Anissa Weier were both 12 when they were charged as adults with first-degree attempted murder . The girls told cops they attacked their friend to impress Slenderman . 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A 33-year-old woman danced for the first time Wednesday night since losing her left leg in the Boston Marathon bombings . Adrianne Haslet-Davis , who taught 20 different types of dance at the Arthur Murray studio in Boston , performed a short rumba on stage at the TED conference in Vancouver , BC thanks to a one-of-a-kind prosthetic . The dance instructor lost part of her left leg when she and husband Adam Davis , a captain in the Air Force , decided to spend April 15 , 2013 watching the marathon . She and her husband were two of more than 250 runners and spectators injured in the blasts . Three died from their injuries . Back on the horse : Boston Marathon bombings survivor Adrianne Haslet-Davis danced for the first time since losing her left leg in the blasts at the April 2013 race . Survivor : Before losing her leg , Haslet - Davis taught 20 types of dance at a studio in Boston . Rhythmic technology : Haslet performed at the TED conference in Vancouver , BC Wednesday night using a specially-designed prosthetic . First of its kind : Hugh Herr -LRB- left -RRB- designed the prosthetic for Haslet-Davis and calls it the first prosthetic specifically made for dancing . While recovering from her injuries at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital , Haslet-Davis met Hugh Herr , director of the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media lab who thought he might be able to help her dance again . Herr , a double amputee himself from a rock climbing accident in 1982 , built the bombings survivor the first prosthetic leg specifically designed for dance . At the conference on Wednesday , Haslet-Davis debuted the leg with a routine to Enrique Iglesias ' ` Ring My Bells ' , performing with dance partner Christian Lightner . In sickness and health : Haslet-Davis and her husband Adam - a captain in the Air Force - were two of the more than 250 injured in the blasts . Active : Haslet-Davis pictured camping with her husband before losing her leg . ` I 'm thrilled to have danced again , ' Haslet-Davis said after her routine . ` It was invigorating to dance publicly with my new leg , but also to realize that my return to dance may have the power to inspire other people to reach for their goals and be proactive in their lives . ' ` My first dance happening to be so near the anniversary of the marathon bombing stands as a reminder that I 'm a survivor , not a victim , ' she added . In her statement , Haslet-Davis thanked Herr for the prosthetic gift that made it possible for her to dance again . Herr also appeared at the conference to talk about the new prosthetic and his other work . ` We 're beginning the age in which machines attached to our bodies will make us stronger and more efficient , ' he said . For Haslet-Davis , the new prosthetic opens up the opportunity for her to appear on Dancing with the Stars again . She made a guest appearance on the show last May , but hopes to dance on the show in the future . An inspiration : Haslet-Davis shared her story on Dancing with the Stars last May , vowing to return to dance . Dedicated performer : Haslet-Davis ' next goal is to return to the show to dance . | Adrianne Haslet-Davis , 33 , lost part of her left leg in the bombings at the Boston Marathon last year . She previously taught dance at Arthur Murray Studio in Boston . At the TED conference in Vancouver , BC Wednesday night , Haslet-Davis performed for the first time since becoming an amputee . She performed a short rumba thanks to a custom-designed prosthetic . The prosthetic was designed by a professor at MIT who calls it the first artificial limb specifically designed for dance . | [[0, 19], [62, 121], [337, 374], [650, 796], [122, 143], [150, 222], [832, 895], [0, 78], [122, 143], [225, 292], [650, 796], [918, 969], [1561, 1591], [1594, 1622], [122, 143], [225, 292], [972, 1030], [972, 1030], [1031, 1048], [1123, 1184], [1402, 1406], [1474, 1560]] |
Sesame Street 's Cookie Monster has become a symbol for far right extremists after he was used to help recruit children , according to German police . In the latest incident Neo Nazi Steffen Lange , 31 , dressed as the popular children 's TV character , walked into a school in Senftenberg , in the German state of Brandenburg , and together with another Neo-Nazi handed out pamphlets to children . The Monster and his accomplice were arrested after a teacher complained to police about the contents of the leaflets . A search of the home of the two men found computers with far right material and other Neo Nazi Cookie Monster-related pamphlets . German police say the Sesame Street Cookie Monster has become a symbol for far right extremists after he was used to help recruit children . A police spokesman also confirmed that the Sesame Street character was increasingly being abused as a symbol of the far right seen in Brandenburg and in particular in helping to recruit children and to get them interested in the right-wing scene . One of the images found on the Internet shows the cookie monster with Adolf Hitler and other admirers under the caption : ` Who ate my biscuit ' . A police spokesman investigating the scene in Brandenburg said : ` There is nothing humorous about far right ideology despite the fact they are trying to trivialise it by getting the Sesame Street character involved . ` It 's an attempt to make it seem harmless and every day and perhaps something a bit fun and a bit rebellious . ' Sesame Street characters Cookie Monster , Ernie , Elmo , Bert & Grover . | Neo Nazi Steffen Lange , 31 , dressed as the popular children 's TV character . He walked into a school in Senftenberg , Germany , and handed out leaflets . The man and an accomplice were arrested and their homes searched . Computers were discovered which showed far right material . | [[151, 196], [204, 251], [151, 177], [254, 289], [347, 398], [518, 647]] |
Dominique Ansel , the chef behind New York 's indomitable pastry craze , Cronuts , is trying to crack down on scalpers and also warn customers about the dangers of accepting second hand food . With only 200 cronuts made per day , and a line 40-people deep before the Manhattan bakery even opens its doors , the $ 5 croissant-donut hybrid has become a hot commodity for sweet-toothed New Yorkers . And now a new delivery service , Premium Cronut Delivery , which has no affiliation with the bakery , is charging $ 100 for delivering just one Cronut , $ 200 for two , or $ 3,000 for ten . Perfect pastry : The $ 5 Cronut was quietly unveiled by New York 's Dominique Ansel bakery on May 10 , and now a new delivery service which has no affiliation with the bakery , is charging $ 100 for delivering just one Cronut . Despite Mr Ansel enforcing a two-Cronut per customer limit in an effort to . ward off scalping schemes , the delivery company continues to make five deliveries every weekday . Although the chef has previously personally thrown scalpers out of the long morning lines , his major concern . about third-party delivery is actually food safety . ' I do n't . know much about the delivery service , but I do hope they give people . some sort of guarantee for hygiene , ' he told TODAY.com . ` Here at the bakery , we have to . answer to the Department of Health , but once it 's out of our doors , I . ca n't guarantee it has n't been handled or -LRB- even worse -RRB- , left out for . days . Cronuts should only be eaten on the day of . ' To deter Cronut opportunists , bakery staff members actively police the queue for scalpers . Recipe to success : The cronut is made from thin layers of flaky croissant dough that are deep fried , rolled in rose sugar , and then filled with light Tahitian vanilla cream . Sweet and soft : Rose-flavored glaze thinly coats the top layer , which peels apart like those in a mille crepe cake ; finally , crystallized rose petals add a garnish flourish . ' I open the door . for everyone every morning at 8am . And I say ` hello ' to all my . customers , ' explained Mr Ansel . ` It 's only a matter a time before something seems kind of . shady . ' He recalled the first time he was confronted with a scalper , who he said was ` was obviously . drunk , ' adding , ` it scared me to think someone bought second-hand food off of . him . ' Last month , Cronuts were selling up to eight times their original . retail price on Craigslist , available for delivery by scalpers in . Manhattan -LRB- $ 20 each -RRB- , Queens -LRB- $ 30 each -RRB- , and Brooklyn $ 40 each -RRB- . After the Cronut was quietly unveiled on . May 10 , with a small batch of 50 , by May 13 , 200 had sold out by . 9.30 am . One disappointed customer even ` flipped the finger ' at staff on his way out of the pâtisserie . In the making : It took around ten recipes , and multiple time and temperature adjustments before Mr Ansel found ` the trick ' to sheeting and frying the dough in grape-seed oil at one specific , and secret , temperature . The bakery 's owner and chef , Dominique Ansel , told MailOnline last month that while he 's flattered , the re-selling is illegal . ' $ 20 for a Cronut . That 's a 400 % profit ! ' he exclaimed , adding , ' A lot of people ask me why we do n't . just do more ? ` Well , I 'm a big fan of quality over quantity ... It takes a lot to ensure . all our other pastries are up to par with standards as well . ' The Cronut , which is now trademarked to Dominique Ansel after interest from curious pastry chefs in Hong Kong , . Melbourne , and Los Angeles , is made from thin layers of . flaky croissant dough that are deep fried , rolled in rose sugar , and then filled . with light Tahitian vanilla cream . Culinary magician : Chef Dominique Ansel , pictured in his kitchen , was named America 's best pastry chef by the James Beard Foundation earlier this year . Hot spot : The Dominique Ansel bakery opened in New York 's Soho in 2011 . Rose-flavored glaze . thinly coats the top layer , which peels apart like those in a . mille crepe cake ; finally , crystallized rose petals add a garnish flourish . ' A cronut is not as simple as frying up . some croissant dough , ' said the chef . ` We actually make a special laminated dough that is . sheeted and folded different than a croissant ' . The bakery , which opened in New York 's Soho in 2011 , makes the Cronut dough fresh daily in house , as well as the flavored sugars and vanilla ganache . ` Flakey but chewy , a little heavier than a croissant but fluffier than a donut ' - Margot Peppers , Femail reporter . ` Tears of joy ' - Micaela Mclucas , MailOnline assistant photo editor . ` The soft crunch was followed by an injection of cream and a whiff of a rose garden -- thanks to the floral-infused icing . The perfect breakfast sandwich ! ' - Sadie Whitelocks , Femail reporter ` There 's an element of the éclair about it , with the vanilla cream inside , which is n't too sweet , allowing the rose icing to provide the sugar hit alone . They 're insanely addictive -- mine disappeared in microseconds . I could have devoured the box . ' - Tamara Abraham , Femail editor . ` That 's why the batches are limited . Hopefully people will bear with us . as we try to ramp up production , ' the chef explained . With such a swift reaction to the new pastry , Mr Ansel has filed a trademark for the cronut , ` just for our protection , ' he said . It took around ten recipes , . and multiple time and temperature adjustments before Mr Ansel . found ` the trick ' to sheeting and frying the dough in grape-seed oil at one specific , and secret , temperature . For . the month of May , Dominique Ansel bakery is selling a Rose Tahitian . Vanilla Cronut . In June , the store will launch a new flavor : Lemon . Maple . And a new flavor every month after that . A quick quote from the Chef : ' A few tips on how to eat the Cronut . Please cut -LRB- if you must -RRB- with a serrated knife to avoid crushing the layers . ` Do not eat the next day , eat immediately -LRB- they have a six hour shelf life -RRB- and will get stale in the fridge . ` Finally , try peeling off the layers one by one like a mille crepe cake . ' Dominique Ansel , 189 Spring Street , New York , NY 10012 . | Dominique Ansel Bakery now has a two-Cronut per person limit . The chef personally kicks scalpers out of the bakery 's long line each morning . | [[815, 886], [1000, 1080]] |
No huge banners , no pre-match announcement and no chants . Malky Mackay is back in management -- but the hearts and minds operation might take some time . When there was a half-hearted call for a wave from fans early in the first half , the fallen star of the Cardiff pantomime was too busy directing Marc-Antoine Fortune to respond . A year is a long time to be out of management , yet no time at all in the context of the damage he has done to his reputation . He is back now , though , and the challenge will be to ensure Wigan owner Dave Whelan has not hurt his own name for no tangible reward . Patrick Bamford spoiled Wigan 's party with his equaliser for Middlesbrough at the DW Stadium . Bamford celebrates with team-mate George Friend -LRB- top -RRB- after his goal levelled the scores at 1-1 . Shaun Maloney opened the scoring with a stunning free-kick that looped over the Middlesbrough wall . Wigan -LRB- 4-2-3-1 -RRB- : Carson 6 ; Boyce 6 -LRB- Perch 83 -RRB- , Ramis 6.5 , Barnett 6 , Taylor 6 ; Forshaw 6.5 -LRB- Watson 82 -RRB- , McCann 7 ; McManaman 6 , Espinoza 6 -LRB- McClean 70 , 6 -RRB- , Maloney 7 ; Fortune 5.5 . Subs not used : Nicholls , Riera , Huws , Figueroa . Goals : Maloney 24 . Booked : McCann , Boyce . Middlesbrough -LRB- 4-4-2 -RRB- : Konstantopoulos 6 ; Nsue 6 -LRB- Fredericks 70 , 6 -RRB- , Ayala 6 , Gibson 6 , Friend 6.5 ; Adomah 6 , Clayton 6.5 , Leadbitter 7.5 , Reach 5.5 -LRB- Bamford 56 , 7 -RRB- ; Tomlin 6.5 , Kike 6 -LRB- Wildschut 82 -RRB- . Subs not used : Mejias , Whitehead , Husband , Vossen . Goals : Bamford 58 . Booked : Clayton , Adomoah . MOM : Grant Leadbitter . Referee : David Webb 6.5 . Attendance : 16,347 . The best way to do that will be through results . It might be disheartening but it is true and , in that regard , a draw against the Championship 's third-placed team will work wonders . It would have been more had Mackay 's new side held on to the lead gained through Shaun Maloney 's 25th-minute free-kick . But Patrick Bamford , on loan from Chelsea , levelled in the second half and ensured there were only half smiles for Mackay and Whelan . Against the backdrop of a rotten week , that should be enough . The toll was clear on Whelan 's face as he made his way to his seat ahead of kick-off . Like the League Managers ' Association in the summer , Wigan 's chairman attempted to defend Mackay 's conduct and only succeeded in shooting himself in the foot . He has until early next week to explain his Jewish and Chinese remarks to the FA , amid calls for him to step down . For his part , he has already claimed any suggestion from the authorities that he is racist will lead to his resignation . Speaking before this fixture , he said : ` Should they even suggest I 'm guilty I would immediately resign from my position as chairman of Wigan Athletic . Maloney scores his side 's first goal in their Championship match against Middlesbrough at the DW Stadium . Maloney wheels away in celebration after giving Malky Mackay the perfect start in charge of Wigan . ` I hope they do n't and I do n't see anything like that happening because I 'm absolutely anti-racist , always have been , always will be . However , if they have any questions I 'm willing to answer it . ' It is a dramatic threat and one that would not be popular in these parts . He was afforded an ovation before the game and 30 seconds into the game there was a chant of ` One Dave Whelan , only one Dave Whelan ' . Boro 's contingent responded by singing : ` You 're a town full of racists . ' And : ` He texts what he wants , Malky Mackay , he texts what he wants . ' Pure pantomime . Dave Whelan , who has received widespread criticism this week , celebrates Wigan 's opening goal . Mackay 's first game in charge of Wigan Athletic ended in a 1-1 draw with Middlesbrough at the DW Stadium . Meanwhile , the manager at the heart of this storm was a blur of hand movements and skips in the technical area . His enthusiasm was obvious and , for a time , it seemed like his fortune might turn . Maloney sounded an alarm with a delightful free-kick in the 10th minute which dipped on to the top of the bar . It was from an identical position on the edge of the area that he scored . From there it was largely a game controlled by Wigan . In their previous 12 games , they had won only once ; in the same stretch Boro had lost only once . Bamford celebrates after his goal levelled the match at 1-1 at the DW Stadium on Saturday afternoon . Mackay barks instructions during his first game back in management for a year . Lee Tomlin of Middlesbrough -LRB- right -RRB- evades the challenge of Chris McCann during the match . Boro almost levelled shortly before the break . In a move of brilliance , Albert Adomah and Lee Tomlin produced a one-touch sequence to put Kike through on goal , but the striker curled the ball wide of the far post . Bamford came on 10 minutes into the second half and within three minutes had equalised . Mackay buried his head in his hands , but said later : ` I did n't know what the crowd would be like but everyone was so welcoming . ` I am very proud that on the day my father and son were here and the hairs were up on the back of my neck . I 've been long time in the Championship and I 've no doubts as to to the size of the task . ' Scorer of Wigan 's first goal , Maloney -LRB- left -RRB- takes the ball away from Emilio Nsue of Middlesbrough . A Wigan supporter backs Latics chairman Whelan after a difficult week in which he was branded a ` racist ' | Malky Mackay took charge of his first match as manager of Wigan . Shaun Maloney opened the scoring for the home side with a free-kick . 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Tensions between the major powers have led to the brink of a new Cold War , with failures to achieve security in Europe likely to make the continent irrelevant in world affairs , former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned . The 83-year-old has accused the West , particularly the U.S. of giving in to ` triumphalism ' after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the communist bloc a quarter century ago . Speaking at an event marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , he said the result of the failures could partly be seen in the inability of global powers to prevent or resolve conflicts in Yugoslavia , the Middle East and most recently Ukraine . Scroll down for video . Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned of new Cold War tensions sparked by the Ukraine crisis . Gorbachev -LRB- pictured -RRB- also said Europe 's inability to establish peace risked making it ` irrelevant ' in world affairs . He warned : ` The world is on the brink of a new Cold War . Some are even saying that it 's already begun . ' Gorbachev called for trust to be restored through dialogue with Moscow , and suggested the West should lift sanctions imposed against senior Russian officials over the country 's support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine . Failure to achieve security in Europe would make the continent irrelevant in world affairs , he said . His comments echoed those of Roland Dumas , France 's foreign minister at the time the Berlin Wall fell . ` Without freedom between nations , without respect of one nation to another , and without strong and brave disarmament policy , everything could start over again tomorrow , ' Dumas said . ` Even everything we used to know , and what we called the Cold War . ' President Barack Obama appeared to share some of Gorbachev 's concerns for Europe , though he blamed Moscow for the current tensions . A man carries debris from the front of a damaged building after shelling in rebel-held Donetsk , eastern Ukraine . A woman passes a damaged housing building in Donetsk , where shelling continues despite the creasefire . Paying tribute to the East Berliners who pushed past border guards to flood through the Wall on November 9 1989 , Obama said in a statement on Friday that ` as Russia 's actions against Ukraine remind us , we have more work to do to fully realise our shared vision of a Europe that is whole , free and at peace ' . The calls for reconciliation come just as tensions in Ukraine begin to escalate once again following the signing of a peacefire agreement . More than 80 unmarked military vehicles were seen on the move today in rebel-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine , indicating that intensified hostilities may lie ahead . Three separate columns were seen - one near the main separatist stronghold of Donetsk and two outside the town of Snizhne , 50 miles further east . More than 80 unmarked military vehicles were spotted moving through rebel-controlled areas today , sparking concerns about an escalation in the conflict . Pictured , a woman stands outside her damaged home . A resident of Donetsk holds pieces of shrapnel found after the latest round of shelling . Officials work to fix a building damaged in the suburbs of Donetsk . The vehicles were mainly transportation trucks , some of them carrying small - and large-caliber artillery systems , and at least one armored personnel carrier . Several of the trucks were seen to be carrying troops . Ukrainian officials said this week that they believe rebel forces have received substantial consignments of weaponry and manpower from Russia . Moscow denies such claims . Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council spokesman Volodymyr Polevoy said rebel reinforcements have also been observed moving toward front-line locations around 150 kilometers -LRB- 95 miles -RRB- northeast of Donetsk , in the Luhansk region . Polevoy said rebel authorities are boosting their ranks by forcibly mobilizing residents in a number of occupied towns . Despite a cease-fire being reached in September , Ukrainian and rebel troops engage on a regular basis , with some of the heaviest fighting focused on Donetsk airport . A man walks past a mortar crater in the streets on Donetsk . One government paratrooper was killed Friday by a sniper at the airport , military authorities said in a statement . Polevoy said two other Ukrainian troops were killed on the same day , but gave no details . The statement added that Ukrainian positions came under artillery fire in several towns and villages east of Donetsk , including Debaltseve , which has begun to be increasingly encircled by rebel forces . Earlier this week , Ukraine 's president Petro Poroshenko said that additional troops were being deployed to the east to defend cities still under government control against possible incursions . That followed rebel statements of intent to expand the amount of territory under their control . The truce signed in the Belarusian capital , Minsk , by Russia , Ukraine and the separatists stipulates the pullback of heavy weaponry . In Beijing , U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met Saturday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference for what was expected to be a discussion about the unrest in eastern Ukraine . Asked if Russia still respects the legitimacy of the cease-fire agreement , Lavrov said it is for the ` rebels and the government ' of Ukraine to finalize a disengagement line - a process that he said is continuing . Tensions between Ukraine and Russia rose further after the rebels held an election last Sunday that Ukraine and the West denounced as a violation of the truce . Russia , however , quickly lent its support to the vote . | Former Soviet leader warns the world may already be in a new Cold War . He said failures to achieve peace risked making Europe ` irrelevant ' Mikhail Gorbachev called for the West to restore dialogue with Russia . President Barack Obama blamed Russia for the political impasse . 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Murdered : Bijan Ebrahimi , 44 , was beaten unconscious before being burned to death by neighbours who wrongly believed he was a paedophile . An innocent man was viciously beaten and then burned to death by vigilante neighbours who wrongly believed rumours that he was a paedophile . Bijan Ebrahimi , a keen gardener , had taken photographs of youths vandalising his hanging baskets and intended to hand them to police as evidence . But someone saw him with the camera and told police that the 44-year-old , who was registered disabled and unable to work , had taken pictures of children . Police went to his flat . As officers took Mr Ebrahimi away for questioning , other residents on his estate gathered in the street and chanted , ` Paedo , paedo ' . He was interviewed at a police station but officers soon realised he had been taking photographs only in an attempt to help catch the local yobs . Mr Ebrahimi , originally from Iran , was released from custody but two days later , in the early hours of Sunday July 14 , his body was found burning in the road . He had been attacked by Lee James , who lived in the same street in Brislington , Bristol , a court heard . James , 24 , beat Mr Ebrahimi unconscious and then with the help of another neighbour , Stephen Norley , dragged Mr Ebrahimi into the street , doused him in white spirit and set him on fire . James , who admitted murder , and Norley , 24 , who denied murder but admitted assisting his friend , will be sentenced next month at Bristol Crown Court . The pair had decided to ` take the law into their own hands ' , the court heard . After the hearing , Avon and Somerset Police spokesman Martin Dunscombe said Mr Ebrahimi was an innocent man . He said : ` Mr Ebrahimi was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence -- breach of the peace -- and after being interviewed he was released with no further action taken . We can categorically state he had not taken any indecent images and that nothing of concern had been found on his computer . ' Mr Ebrahimi 's family said police could have done more to prevent ` a callous act of unimaginable hatred ' . They said the convictions of James and Norley ` represent some measure of justice for Bijan ' . In court : Lee James , pictured left , has pleaded guilty to the murder of Bijan Ebrahim while Stephen Norley , pictured right , pleaded guilty to assisting an offender . Horrific crime : Police officers pictured investigating the scene in Bristol where Bijan Ebrahimi was found burned to death in July this year . But they added : ` We are gravely concerned that the actions of those men may have been made possible by the failures of the police and others to protect Bijan . ' Six police officers -- four constables , a sergeant and an inspector -- are being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission for possible gross misconduct over their handling of the case . Mr Ebrahimi 's family added in a statement : ` Bijan was a quiet , disabled man whose only joys in life came from his horticultural interests and his cat . ` Bijan was a caring , loving and unselfish man . He was an excellent uncle and a warm , supportive brother . ' Wrongly accused : Mr Ebrahimi was attacked outside this building in Bristol . Vigilante : Even though Mr Ebrahimi was cleared by police of any wrongdoing , local resident Lee James decided to take the law into his own hands and launched a brutal attack on the 44-year-old . Neighbours described how Mr Ebrahimi had a passion for the flowers and plants he grew in front of his maisonette . But after youngsters started destroying his garden he began taking pictures to show to the council , who owned his property , and to the police . Rumours that Mr Ebrahimi was taking pictures of young children quickly circulated in the neighbourhood . It is understood Mr Ebrahimi was subjected to harassment by mobs after James told locals he had taken photos of their children . One resident , who wanted to remain anonymous , said : ` On the Thursday evening -LSB- before Mr Ebrahimi 's murder -RSB- everyone came out and they were calling him a paedophile . ` There were about 20 people out there all having a say . They had him down as a 100 per cent paedophile . ` When the police took him away , everyone was cheering . Then he got released back into that . ' Targeted : Bristol Crown Court heard Mr Ebrahimi intended to hand the photographs to police as evidence against yobs who had been vandalising his garden . Another resident added : ` Whoever started those rumours now has to live with that . ` He was n't a paedophile and he 's now dead . That 's a hell of a conscience to have . ' Avon and Somerset Police say three of the officers under IPCC investigation have been suspended as a result of information about their conduct which came to light at an early stage of the investigation into Mr Ebrahimi 's death . The actions of a number of other members of police staff are also being investigated , the force says . The local council has also begun a review of the way the case was handled . | Bijan Ebrahimi , 44 , took pictures of youths vandalising his flower baskets . A court heard he planned to give the images to police as evidence . But a neighbour saw him with a camera and reported him as a paedophile . Police arrested Mr Ebrahimi but let him go when they realised the mistake . But two days after his release he was attacked by vigilante neighbours . 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A mild mannered father-of-one screamed ` I am innocent ! ' seconds before being burnt alive by a rampaging mob on an idyllic holiday beach , it emerged today . The last words of Frenchman Sebastien Judalet , 38 , were recorded by the vigilante crowd in the popular tourist resort of Madagascar last Friday . Mr Judalet , a Paris bus driver with an 11 year old daughter , was caught by a gang of some 300 people along with Roberto Gianfala , a Franco-Italian hotel worker in his 50s . Frenchman Sebastien Judalet , 38 , was burned alive and later mutilated by a mob in Madagascar who recorded the killing . In it the father-of-one can be heard begging for his life . This is the Robinson Crusoe hotel on the island of Nosy Be where Judalet was staying before being wrongly accused of murdering an eight-year-old boy and then lynched . They were accused of being paedophiles who had murdered an eight-year-old local boy after allegedly cutting off his genitals . But Madagascan police today said there was ` no proof whatsoever ' connecting the men with child 's disappearance and that he may well have drowned on Nosy Be , an idyllic Indian Ocean island which attracts holidaymakers from all over the world including Britain . The chilling voice recording , which has been circulating locally , is of a desperate Judalet screaming : ` I am the victim of a conspiracy . I am innocent ' . Franco-Italian hotel-worker Roberto Gianfala rented this small hut before being killed by a lynch mob last week . It is then that a confusion in Mr Judalet 's words may have caused his horrific death . He shouts , ` I do not like children , ' to which a member of the crowd replies : ` You do not like children ? ' Mr Judalet replied : ` I love kids , I have a little girl . ' He can be heard crying and further begging for mercy , before he is stripped naked , mutilated , and burnt on a beach fire alongside Mr Gianfala . Both men were on holiday in Madagascar , and neither had any criminal record or association with paedophilia . Crowds sat calmly beside the burning bodies while many filmed the killings before circulating the recordings . After burning Judalet and Gianfala alive the mob went on to kill a third man , named only as Zaidou , who is the dead boy 's uncle . In a further macabre twist , it emerged that a third man killed in the same manner was the boy 's uncle , referred to only by his first name of Zaidou . A neighbour of Mr Judalet in the Paris suburb of Montreuil said he was ` mild mannered and extremely friendly ' . ` Sebastien would not have hurt anyone . It is clear that he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time . ' The grisly killings happened here , on the small island of Nosy Be , on Wednesday last week . The idyllic islands of Madagascar are popular with tourists from across the globe . It was visited by 256,000 holidaymakers last year , and over half of them were French . French magistrates have now opened a murder enquiry , and detectives from Paris are expected to travel to the island to investigate . Madagascar police have , meanwhile , arrested 26 people for the three murders , where security has been stepped up to protect foreigners . All of those arrested live close to the palm-fringed Ambatoloaka beach , where the lynchings and burnings were caught on camera . Vincent Laza , a local community leader , said the boy 's body was wet when it was found , suggesting he may have drowned , and that his genitals were cut off later . He confirmed that there had been ` rumours ' that foreigners had been involved in the boy 's death -- leading to the vigilante mob forming . Two members of the crowd were shot dead by police . Despite its upmarket tourist resorts , Madagascar is an extremely poor place , with some 90 per cent of its population of 22 million people living on less than two dollars a day . | Sebastian Judalet and Roberto Gianfala were killed on Madagascar holiday . Pair were wrongly accused of murdering 8-year-old local boy . Recording , circulating locally , was made by mob before execution . In it Judalet , who has an 11-year-old daughter , is heard begging for his life . Madagascar police say there is ` no evidence ' to connect pair to boy 's death . Third man , revealed as boy 's uncle , killed later in similar way . In total 26 people have been arrested for the three deaths . | [[484, 511], [540, 578], [1910, 1948], [717, 724], [731, 833], [834, 838], [852, 923], [855, 872], [877, 960], [160, 205], [208, 307], [568, 578], [583, 605], [1226, 1291], [1294, 1329], [2071, 2131], [606, 665], [612, 629], [643, 665], [1226, 1291], [1294, 1329], [1300, 1329], [1334, 1367], [1763, 1815], [965, 1119], [2132, 2231], [2225, 2231], [2238, 2264], [2265, 2291], [2294, 2417], [3045, 3067], [3082, 3122]] |
Lots of little girls dream of one day wearing the perfect wedding dress . But when six-year-old Hannah Millington-Day designed this elegant ivory number , she was thinking about eating it . She came up with the idea for a life-sized , edible bridal gown when she saw a picture of her mother 's wedding dress . Donna Millington-Day and her daughter Hannah - who challenged her mother to create this life sized wedding cake - add the final touches . A sweet treat : The six-foot edible bridal gown is made from 17 tiers of sponge cake , 22 kilos of sugar paste icing and 2lb of royal icing . A feast for all : Decorated from hundreds of sugar pearls , the cake would cater for over 2,000 wedding guests . Then it was down to her mother Donna , a confectioner , to bake it . She used a whopping 224 free-range eggs , 28lb of flour , 28lb of caster sugar and 28lb of butter , and spent a whole week cooking . The result -- worth # 6,000 -- is 6ft . tall and made of 17 tiers of sponge cake . It is topped with 49lb of . sugar paste icing , 2lb of royal icing and hundreds of sugar pearls . It is filled with 17lb of Madagascan vanilla butter cream and around 7lb of raspberry jam . And it could feed as many as 2,000 guests -- if anyone can bring themselves to cut into it . Mrs Millington-Day , 36 , said : ` Hannah . was going through my old wedding photos when she suggested we recreate . my dress . I thought it was a great idea . ` Although it 's not an exact replica I have taken the details like the corset and styling on the side . Creator : Donna Millington-Day was inspired by her six-year-old daughter 's drawing of a wedding dress cake . Challenge : Donna decided to rise to the challenge of bringing her daughter 's design to life and one week later the stunning ivory dress heavily embellished with iced flowers and weighing in at 25 kilos was finished . ` The satin finish was achieved using a pearl lustre and each swirl was hand-piped . ' Mrs Millington-Day runs the Fairytale Cake Company with her husband of eight years , Myles . The couple , of Wombourne , Staffordshire , also have a son Edward , aged two . The enormous sweet treat was unveiled yesterday at the start of the National Wedding Show at the NEC in Birmingham . To get it there , a trolley was custom-made to fit its 30in base . But it wo n't be on the move too . often . Mrs Millington-Day said : ` We 're not going to sell the cake , but . to buy it would cost around # 6,000 . ` After the show we 're going to display it in our shop window . ' | Donna Millington-Day from Staffordshire was inspired by 6-year-old daughter 's drawing . Completed cake in one week . Made from . 17 tiers of sponge cake , 22 kilos of sugar paste icing , 2lb of royal . icing and hundreds of sugar pearls . Feeds 2,000 guests and will go on display at National Wedding Show . | [[1546, 1645], [772, 775], [876, 904], [448, 572], [954, 987], [590, 605], [608, 647], [650, 702], [1178, 1219]] |
Google has announced a new smartphone and tablet , as well as the company 's first TV streaming device . Both mobile devices will run the new version of the firm 's mobile operating system , Android 5.0 , which has been confirmed to have the name Lollipop . The Motorola-made Nexus 6 smartphone comes with a 5.96-inch Quad HD screen and a 13 megapixel rear-facing camera . Google has announced a new smartphone - the Nexus 6 - and tablet , the Nexus 9 - as well as the company 's first TV streaming device in a bid to compete with Apple and Amazon . The Nexus 6 also has dual front-facing speakers designed to offer better quality audio , says Google . The handset sports a feature called Turbo Charger , which can give the phone up to six hours of battery life from just a 15 minute charge . The phone also boasts new hands-free voice activated functions . It will come in two colours : midnight blue and cloud white and two storage options , 32 or 64GB . Meanwhile , one day before Apple unveils its updated iPad family , the search giant has shown off its new Nexus 9 tablet , made by HTC . The tablet , which is smaller than an iPad , but larger than and iPad Mini , is built for multi-tasking and has a brushed aluminium frame with a ` soft grip ' back . An upgrade in terms of size as well as internals on Google 's existing Nexus 7 , the new Nexus 9 has a 8.9-inch screen , and weighs in at 420g , making it 50g lighter than an iPad Air . The Nexus 6 smartphone -LRB- pictured left -RRB- and Nexus 9 tablet -LRB- right -RRB- can be voice activated without opening any apps and both sport the new Lollipop operating system . Both the mobile devices will run the new version of the firm 's mobile operating system - Android 5.0 , which has been confirmed to have the name Lollipop . Manufacturer : HTC . Screen : 8.9 inches , 2048 x 1536 resolution . Platform : Android Lollipop . CPU : 64bit dual core processor . Memory : 16GB or 32GB with 2GB RAM . Sound : Dual front-facing speakers with HTC Boomsound . Camera : 8MP with front-facing 1.6 MP camera . Battery : 6,700 mAh . Extra features : Keyboard folio . Price : Not yet confirmed . Launch date : Tablet can be pre-ordered from October 17 and will go on sale on November 3 . Because the 9 was built by HTC , it also takes advantage of their BoomSound speaker technology , complete with two front-facing speakers in the device , as opposed to the traditional down-facing output . This is for better quality audio , Google says . It is the first Nexus device to have a 64-bit processor for increased performance in terms of speed , particularly when playing games . There is an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera and , like the Nexus 6 , the Nexus 9 will be accessible hands-free thanks to a new feature that enables voice command to be accessed without touching the phone . Just saying ` Ok , Google ' will activate Google Now , even when the phone is asleep , and while the voice command and personal assistant already existed on Android , with Lollipop it has been pushed to the front of the interface . The Nexus 9 also has Turbo Charger functionality with a 64bit dual core processor to make switching between tasks fast . Google 's senior vice president of Android Sundar Pichai said : ` Advances in computing are driven at the intersection of hardware and software . That 's why we 've always introduced Nexus devices alongside our platform releases . The tablet , which is smaller than an iPad , but larger than and iPad Mini , is built for multi-tasking and has a brushed aluminum frame with a ` soft grip ' back . Like Windows ' tablets , a case that doubles as a keyboard can be used to turn it into more of a laptop -LRB- pictured -RRB- . The Nexus 6 smartphone -LRB- pictured -RRB- sports a feature called Turbo Charger , which can give the phone up to 6 hours of battery life from just a 15 minute charge . Manufacturer : Motorola . Screen : 5.96 inch display , 1440 x 2560 resolution -LRB- 493ppi -RRB- . Platform : Android Lollipop . Processor : Snapdragon 805 quad-core 2.7 GHz with Adreno 420 GPU for graphics . Memory : 32GB or 64GB . Sound : Dual front-facing speakers . Camera : 13MP camera with image stabilisation and 2MP front-facing camera . Battery : 24 hours with a full charge , plus TurboCharger for 6 hours life in 15 minutes of charging . Price : Not yet confirmed . Launch date : November , with pre-order beginning on October 29 . In a less expected move , Google also announced the company 's first full TV streaming device that will run their Android TV software , the Nexus Player . The new streaming box enables users to watch TV shows as well as stream content from other devices to their TV , such as an Android phone , tablet or Chrome-based desktop computer . The Nexus Player also comes with a video game controller and can be used to play games from the Google Play Store on TVs . Amazon has recently introduced a similar device , called the Fire TV . Sitting alongside Google 's existing streaming device , the Chromecast , the Nexus Player is likely to be aimed at more premium users than the # 30 Chromecast . Google confirmed that the Nexus 9 will be available to pre-order in the UK from October 17 and will go on sale on November 3 . It will come in three sizes : 16GB , 32GB and 32GB LTE . The Nexus 6 smartphone will also arrive in November , with pre-order beginning on October 29 . The Nexus Player will be available to pre-order from October 17 . UK prices have not yet been confirmed . The tablet has an 8.9-inch screen and HTC 's BoomSound front-facing speakers.There is also an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera and , like the Nexus 6 , the Nexus 9 can be voice activated without opening any apps . While Lollipop is being promised to be a redefining update by Google , we are yet to see it in action , thanks to a purely blog post-driven launch . The firm 's latest Android operating system is designed to be flexible and to be used on different devices . It can now power a watch , TV and even a car . The new Turbo Charger is an impressive addition when combined with more detailed battery settings , and Google says this will lead to longer lasting devices . The battery saver feature extends the life of device by up to 90 minutes . The support for 64-bit processing for the first time on Nexus devices is also an upgrade , with some of Google 's native apps like Chrome and Gmail supporting this feature , essentially meaning they will run faster and smoother than before . Songs , photos , apps and recent searches from one Android device are immediately accessible on another . Content responds to people 's touch and their voice . The operating system is designed to be more intuitive and better at multi-tasking . For example , users will be able to read an email alongside seeing their inbox . Users can adjust their settings so only notifications from certain people and apps can get through and they will appear on the lockscreen . Devices can be secured using a pin , password or pattern - or now they can be linked to a trusted device like a watch or smart lock . Google has also confirmed that as well as being built into their new devices , Lollipop will be available on the existing Nexus 5,7 and 10 devices ` in the coming weeks ' . | The mobile devices will run Android 5.0 , which is called Lollipop . Motorola-made Nexus 6 phone comes with a 13 megapixel camera . HTC-made Nexus 9 tablet has an 8.9-inch screen and front-facing speakers . 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The SAS has launched a mission to the Middle East to kill Jihadi John , the ISIS terrorist responsible for beheading two British hostages . The SAS has launched a dramatic mission to kill Jihadi John -- the Islamic State terrorist responsible for beheading British hostages Alan Henning and David Haines -- in the biggest Special Forces operation since the September 11 attacks . Official Government sources confirmed to The Mail on Sunday that SAS soldiers flew to a secret base in the Middle East last week . Travelling in groups of three and four , the crack troops boarded commercial flights dressed in civilian clothes . They mingled with unsuspecting businessmen and tourists to maintain operational security . After weeks of intense preparation at the regiment 's barracks in Hereford , the elite soldiers are now waiting for the order to strike Islamic State targets . It is understood that part of the SAS mission could also include an attempt to rescue the remaining hostages , including British photographer John Cantlie . The Mail on Sunday has been made aware of more detailed information about the mission but has agreed with Government officials not to publish it for security reasons . However , we can reveal that the soldiers are sharing a remote desert location with British intelligence agents and communications experts who are understood to be tracking Jihadi John 's movements and also intercepting IS radio and telephone messages . Final approval for any SAS mission inside Syria -- where it is believed the hostages are being held -- would have to be granted by the Prime Minister . David Cameron told Parliament in September that he would seize any opportunity to launch a rescue attempt . Last night , an SAS source described to this newspaper how , to respect political sensitivities in the region , British troops were keeping a low profile . He said : ` The guys have left Hereford to carry out a strike raid on IS . They flew out there on commercial flights so that sorties by UK military aircraft can be kept to a minimum . ` This is at the request of pro- Western leaders in the Middle East who are concerned about appearing to support the UK in the war against IS . ` All the kit is ready and waiting for the guys and they 're on very short notice to strike IS . ` It is more personal for the guys because Jihadi John is British and he 's killing British hostages . But now he 's basically a dead man walking . ' In September the Mail on Sunday published photos of British forces rehearsing surprise airborne assaults , which could be used by the SAS to rescue hostages . At the desert base , which is within striking distance of IS targets in Syria , the SAS troops are now carrying out final rehearsals for a raid and are using the most sophisticated weapons available to the British Army . In addition to this arsenal , the SAS troopers are backed up by teams from 264 -LRB- SAS -RRB- Signal Squadron who are equipped with mobile satellites . Using this equipment , the latest information about the whereabouts of Jihadi John and the remaining hostages in IS captivity is relayed to and from the frontline and back to SAS operational headquarters in Britain . The SAS troops are also supported by a 17-man crew aboard a British spy plane called ` Rivet Joint ' . The crew 's job is to record conversations between jihadis as the aircraft circles thousands of feet above the battlefield . These intercepts are fed to translators working with the SAS and are sent back to GCHQ , the Government 's secret communications headquarters . The messages between terrorists are matched against records of British jihadis believed to be fighting in Syria . Crack unit : The SAS troops have undergone intense training for the mission and have now flew to a secret base in the Middle East . The SAS is also rehearsing raids using video footage provided by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles -LRB- UAVs -RRB- , or drones . These aircraft , which can fly for up to 24 hours and can climb to an altitude of 18,000 ft , fly over IS strongholds and provide up-to-the-second pictures of the enemy 's hideouts . This live information will play a vital role in any British Special Forces operation to strike Jihadi John and rescue the hostages . While he seems to speak with a distinctive London accent , it remains unclear just how much is known about Jihadi John . In September FBI director James Coney announced that the agency had established his real identity . However , no more information has been released . Since his reign of terror began in August , Jihadi John has murdered four hostages -- Americans James Foley , 40 , and Steven Sotloff , 31 , and Britons David Haines , 44 , and Alan Henning , 47 . Jihadi John has already killed British hostages Alan Henning , left , and David Haines , right . All of the executions were filmed and the videos were subsequently released on the internet . In the video showing the beheading of Mr Haines , Jihadi John challenged the Prime Minister , saying : ` If you , Cameron , insist on fighting the Islamic State then you , like your master Obama , will have the blood of your people on your hands . ' The Prime Minister subsequently made it clear that he would not necessarily wait for MPs ' approval before giving the order to the Special Forces troops to take their hunt for Jihadi John into Syria . He said : ` In order to catch Jihadi John , you have to know where he is , right ? We know he is in Syria . ` I very clearly reserve the position that if you need to act immediately , either to secure a vital British interest or to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe , you would act first and go to then the House of Commons afterwards . ' It is believed that there has been only one attempt by international troops to target Jihadi John . Following Mr Foley 's death , it emerged that US Special Forces had previously launched a failed raid on an IS stronghold where it was thought the terrorist was holding him . It is understood that part of the SAS mission could also include an attempt to rescue the remaining hostages , including British photographer John Cantlie , pictured . However , when the troops from the elite Delta Force unit arrived , the IS commanders and their captives had already fled . The town of Raqqa is IS 's strongest base in northern Syria . It is considered likely that the terrorists would choose this town to hold its remaining hostages and for Jihadi John to hide out there . SAS sources told The Mail on Sunday of the planned mission as US-led air strikes targeted a gathering of IS leaders in Iraq yesterday . The organisation 's most senior figure , Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , was among those reported to have been attending the gathering . News of the US attack in Iraq yesterday follows an escalation in violence around the capital Baghdad . The deadliest attack took place in the city 's south-western Amil district , where two car bombs killed eight people and wounded 16 . On Friday , President Barack Obama authorised the deployment of up to 1,500 more American troops to bolster Iraqi forces . | Special Forces to head to a secret base in the Middle East for the mission . It is the biggest operation by the SAS soldiers since the 9/11 attacks . Will attempt to kill terrorist Jihadi John who beheaded two British hostages . 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Google has deleted more than 18,000 web links following requests from this country under the controversial ` right to be forgotten ' laws . Britons asked the internet search giant to remove links to more than 63,000 pages under EU legislation which has been criticised as an attack on free speech . In the first month of the ruling taking effect , 60 per cent of the Europe-wide requests came from fraudsters , criminals and sex offenders and one in ten reportedly came from paedophiles . The EU 's ` right to be forgotten ' legislation allows European citizens to request that links to ` inadequate , irrelevant or no longer relevant ' information be removed from Google search results . Requests from Britain included a former clergyman who wanted to remove links to articles about a sex abuse investigation and a doctor who botched a medical procedure . Google has received more than 146,000 requests from across Europe since May and reviewed almost half a million web links , of which 171,183 were deleted . A total of 18,304 requests -- which usually involve multiple web links -- were made by people in Britain , the third highest number per country after France and Germany . Google said it deleted 35 per cent , or 18,459 , of the unwanted links Britons requested be removed . Critics have likened the ` right to be forgotten ' ruling to restrictions in China , where the state imposes limits on what content is available through search engines . Newspaper websites have received notifications from Google that it has deleted links to their articles . MailOnline publisher Martin Clarke said : ` It is the equivalent of going into libraries and burning books you do n't like . ' The European Court of Justice ruled people had a right to ask for ` inadequate , irrelevant or no longer relevant , or excessive ' information about them to be dropped from internet searches . In total , members of EU countries have sent nearly 500,000 requests for links to be removed from Google . The decision -- which can not be appealed against and is binding for all EU states -- affects only search results and not lawfully published and true information . But once search engines like Google drop links to such material , it becomes almost impossible to find on the internet . Facebook was the site which had the most links removed , followed by the social network search site Profile Engine and video sharing site YouTube . Google gave anonymised examples of requests it had received . In Britain , they included the former clergyman who asked for two links to articles about a sex abuse investigation while he was still a religious leader to be removed . The search engine refused his request , and said it considered ` the rights of the individual as well as public interest in the content ' when assessing each request . Google also refused an application from a doctor who wanted more than 50 links to articles about a botched procedure removed . Three pages that contained personal information about the doctor but not about the procedure were removed from search results for his name , but links to reports about the incident were not deleted . | Law allows EU citizens to ask for links to be removed from Google searches . The ruling was widely criticised for allowing murderers , rapists and paedophiles to erase information about their past . UK has third highest number of requests , behind France and Germany . In total , Google has received nearly 500,000 requests to remove links . Within a month of the ruling ten per cent of requests came from paedophiles . | [[140, 242], [489, 648], [1806, 1879], [1953, 1986], [1806, 1879], [140, 242], [1235, 1284], [1880, 1888], [1891, 1958], [411, 488]] |
Ammunition has been pulled from the shelves of two Walmarts in Ferguson amid violent clashes over the police shooting of Michael Brown . Employees were ordered to lock all bullets in a store cupboard on Monday after demonstrators stormed one of the stores and formed a barricade outside another . Bosses in Ferguson and nearby Maplewood revealed they took the precaution in fear of looting and violence as racial divides in the Missouri city show no sign of resolve . It is the first time Walmart has taken such action since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012 , when assault rifles were removed from shelves in Connecticut . Scroll down for video . Fears : Bosses at this Ferguson Walmart and one in Maplewood have pulled ammunition amid violent clashes . Drastic : It is the first time the store has hidden weaponry since removing guns from shelves after Sandy Hook . Addressing Ferguson , Walmart spokesman Brian Nick told KMOV-TV : ` If there is a history of violence and looting and other activity that are going on or things that are putting associates and customers at risk - then yes , decisions can be made based on those circumstances . ' Customers who wish to buy bullets will have to discuss their intended purchase with a sales assistant , he said . The move came just days before a report was leaked revealing Darren Wilson told a grand jury he shot Brown because he feared for his life - a claim that has stoked renewed anger across Ferguson . Protesters have taken to the streets every week calling for Wilson 's resignation . On Monday , more than 43 people were arrested amid protests - many inside the Maplewood Walmart . The protests were held in memory of John Crawford , a black man who was killed in an Ohio Walmart days before Brown 's shooting in Missouri . Action : Bosses said they took the precaution in fear of violence as racial divides show no sign of resolve . Protests : Demonstrations against police violence and racial divides have been weekly since the shooting . Unrest : Protesters are seen doing a ` hands up ' chant in a nod to the fact that Brown allegedly held up his hands . Demonstrations are expected to escalate today after the news that a grand jury has heard an account of the shooting that shines a favorable light on the police officer . In it , Wilson claims he was sat in his SUV on patrol when the teenager leaned through the window , punching and scratching his face . He insists he feared for his life , which prompted him to shoot twice from inside the car . However , he does not acknowledge subsequently shooting Brown four times outside the vehicle . A number of witnesses agree that Brown and Wilson were embroiled in a physical fight through the car window , but few had an accurate vantage point to see what was happening . They insist , however , the teenager was trying to flee and holding up his hands . Anger : Renewed outrage is expected today after a leaked report revealed Darren Wilson -LRB- pictured over Brown 's body -RRB- claims he feared for his life and shot the unarmed black teenager in self-defense . One passer-by , Tiffany Mitchell , is certain Brown was leaning away but Wilson kept pulling him closer . Another , Dorian Johnson , said Wilson grasped Brown 's throat and then pulled out his gun threatening to shoot . They then heard shots fired from inside the SUV . There remains no account from witnesses or police of the final four shots fired . The police have maintained that the unarmed teen physically assaulted the officer and tried to get his gun . One witness , whose name has been withheld , from St. Louis , Missouri , told the grand jury that the teenager did not have his hands above his head when Wilson shot at him , but rather ` out to his sides . ' He also said Brown ` staggered toward Wilson despite commands to stop ' and that ` the two were about 20 to 25 feet apart when the last shots were fired . ' | Two Walmart stores have locked away bullets as violent clashes escalate . First time bosses have done this since pulling guns after Sandy Hook . Protests in Ferguson over Michael Brown 's shooting show no sign of ending . 43 people were arrested in and around the Walmart stores on Monday . Renewed outrage expected today over leaked report of the officer 's account . | [[0, 92], [137, 209], [137, 146], [160, 255], [468, 556], [1399, 1406], [1412, 1454], [1539, 1548], [1551, 1636], [1290, 1351], [1399, 1406], [1412, 1454], [2114, 2174], [2114, 2128], [2142, 2192], [2873, 2928]] |
Theresa May said the issue of tax credits for migrants was ` being looked at ' Migrant workers could be stripped of up to # 100million a week in tax credits under Tory plans to seize the initiative from Ukip on immigration . Home Secretary Theresa May has told the Daily Mail that the Treasury is conducting detailed work on ways to restrict access to tax credits , which are seen as a major ` pull factor ' for migrants to the UK . ` The tax credits issue is something the Treasury has looked at and the Treasury is continuing to look at it , ' she said . Britain spends # 5billion a year on tax credits to migrants -- from both inside and outside the EU . The subsidies -- which are available upon arrival and top up lower-paid jobs -- can treble the take-home pay of a worker with a family on minimum wage . Any attempt to restrict the right of EU nationals to in-work benefits will spark a ferocious row with Brussels . The dramatic plan emerged as David Cameron warned he will campaign to quit the EU unless it agrees to let Britain curb the free movement of workers to this country . Visiting Rochester , where the Tories face a must-win by-election against Ukip , the Prime Minister warned he was willing to give the EU ` one last go ' . He called for a wholesale retreat from the principle of ` ever closer union ' and a return to the founding purpose of the EU as a Common Market , declaring he did not want ` a European army , European flag or a European country ' . Ministers are pushing for a so-called ` emergency brake ' on arrivals from EU states if numbers exceed expectations . In a public meeting with locals yesterday , Mr Cameron was asked if he ` could really win back powers from Europe ' . He said : ` I think we can get what we 're looking for because the fact is it 's worth one last go trying to get a better relationship with Europe . ' I think it is worth one last go . I 'm not happy with how things are at the moment -- but I also think the rest of Europe actually wants us to stay . ' Scroll down for video . Speaking in Rochester ahead of a by-election triggered by Ukip defector Mark Reckless , the Prime Minister urged voters to consider ` one last go ' of improving relations with Brussels . David Cameron said the Tories still could get what they wanted out of the EU . His comments came during a visit to Rochester where the Tories go against Nigel Farage 's Ukip . Amid signs of growing Tory panic about the impact of Ukip , it also emerged Chief Whip Michael Gove was floating the idea of withdrawing from the European Arrest Warrant to prevent a damaging revolt . More than 100 Tory MPs are threatening to rebel on the issue , which is set to come back to the Commons next month . The scheme allows foreign police to demand the arrest of suspects here . Ministers have already acted to restrict access to out-of-work benefits for migrants in and outside the EU . But many experts believe the lure of in-work benefits is far greater . According to the Government 's Migration Advisory Committee , 415,000 foreign nationals are benefiting from the perk -- worth the equivalent of almost # 100million a week . The MigrationWatch campaign group found a migrant with no dependants earning the minimum wage has their net income of about # 184 a week boosted to # 254 by tax credits and housing benefit . If they have a partner and two children , it rockets from # 184 to # 543 . The benefit increases depending on the size of a family . State handouts can constitute 66 per cent of a total annual income of # 28,241 . Compared with back home , a family from Romania and Bulgaria could multiply their take-home pay by eight . Mrs May said : ` This is an example of the sort of thing where you constantly look to see if there are more steps you can take . It is something we look to see if , within the current arrangements , there is anything we can do . ' Mr Cameron yesterday made the first of five expected visits to Rochester , where the Tories are battling to defeat former MP Mark Reckless , who defected to Ukip . He said : ` We need to get back , frankly , to what we were told we were going to join in the first place and that 's why I 'm very passionate about getting Britain out of what 's called ever-closer union . ' | Home Secretary Theresa May said treasury is ` looking at ' tax credits issue . Credits described as a major ` pull factor ' for foreigners to the UK . Britain spends # 5billion a year on tax credits to migrants from all over world . David Cameron said it 's worth ` one last go ' for better relations with Europe . | [[0, 60], [225, 363], [501, 541], [457, 500], [349, 365], [372, 432], [557, 616], [1090, 1098], [1171, 1240], [1713, 1720], [1725, 1861], [2128, 2226]] |
England Under 20s drew with Turkey on Monday night to secure the point they needed to win the Four Nations Tournament in Holland . Having already beaten the hosts and Germany , Aidy Boothroyd 's team just needed to avoid defeat in their third and final match to lift the trophy . And the Young Lions looked on course for a third victory in succession when Wolves ' Kortney Hause put them in front on 21 minutes . England 's Kortney Hause -LRB- pictured in Thursday 's win over Germany -RRB- was on target as they drew 1-1 with Turkey to claim the Four Nations Tournament in Heerenveen , Holland . England 's kitman Pat Frost tweeted this picture of the squad together after winning the tournament . England -LRB- 4-3-3 -RRB- : Christian Walton -LRB- Brighton & Hove Albion -RRB- ; Lloyd Jones -LRB- Liverpool -RRB- , Dominic Ball -LRB- Tottenham Hotspur -RRB- , Kortney Hause -LRB- Wolverhampton Wanderers , on loan at Gillingham -RRB- , Matt Targett -LRB- C -RRB- -LRB- Southampton -RRB- ; Harrison Reed -LRB- Southampton -RRB- , Jordan Houghton -LRB- Chelsea -RRB- , Paul Digby -LRB- Barnsley -RRB- ; Kwame Thomas -LRB- Derby County -RRB- , Chuba Akpom -LRB- Arsenal -RRB- , Callum Robinson -LRB- Aston Villa , on loan at Preston -RRB- . Substitutions : Isaac Hayden -LRB- Arsenal -RRB- for Ball 68 ; Joe Rothwell -LRB- Manchester United -RRB- for Reed 75 ; John Swift -LRB- Chelsea , on loan at Rotherham -RRB- for Houghton 84 . Substitutes not used : Fankaty Dabo -LRB- Chelsea -RRB- , Joe Wildsmith -LRB- Sheffield Wednesday -RRB- , Ben Pearson -LRB- Manchester United -RRB- , Jacob Murphy -LRB- Norwich City -RRB- , Chris Long -LRB- Everton -RRB- . Scorer : Hause 21 . In the end , despite dominating much of the game , they had to settle for a draw when Berat Tosun equalised for Turkey six minutes into the second half . Captain on the night Matt Targett and Isaac Hayden , skipper for the wins over Germany and Holland , lifted the trophy together on the pitch in Heerenveen at the final whistle . ` We 're delighted with the way the tournament has gone and to win it is really , really pleasing , ' said boss Boothroyd afterwards . ` For the players to get a few results like this and to win against such strong opposition is a real feather in the cap . ` It 's a really big achievement to come away from home and get results against the host nation and against a very strong German side - and to get a draw against a much older Turkish team is a fantastic achievement as well . ` In the end it 's all worked out really well and we 're all very happy . ' Brimming with confidence after their 1-0 win over Germany on Thursday and Saturday 's 3-2 success over Holland , England started on the front foot . Pat Frost also captured the moment Isaac Hayden and Matt Targett lifted the trophy . And they gained their reward on 21 minutes when Targett 's free-kick was headed back by Liverpool 's Lloyd Jones for Hause to control on his chest and finish left-footed in one smooth movement . Turkey scored their leveller shortly after the break and both sides then saw a man sent off . Arsenal forward Chuba Akpom picked up a second yellow card for a late tackle before Cenk Sahin also went for a badly timed challenge . The contest threatened to boil over at time during the second half but England held out for the point they needed to wrap up tournament success . Aidy Boothroyd 's team took seven points from their three matches to claim the trophy . Boothroyd added : ` We played probably the best football of the tournament in the first half . ` We were excellent . We were creating lots of chances , making really good decisions and we really dominated the game and we could have had two or three . ` In the second half it was a little bit different . They came out at us and we did n't start particularly well . They equalised and we got a bit complacent . ` We managed to hang on in there in the end . ' | Kortney Hause , of Wolves , scored England 's goal after 21 minutes . Turkey equalised through Berat Tosun shortly after half-time . Chuba Akpom was sent off for a second yellow card . Turkey also had a player sent off as both sides finished with 10 men . England had beaten Germany and Holland earlier in the tournament . | [[356, 412], [413, 443], [491, 533], [2799, 2841], [1761, 1828], [2994, 3076], [3051, 3087], [3088, 3182], [2994, 3076], [3051, 3087], [131, 174], [2565, 2675]] |
We may think of Napoleon Bonaparte as the fearsome ruler of Europe who tried to bring down Britain 's greatest generals , but the emperor of France had a softer side too . The beautiful engagement ring he gave to his beloved wife Josephine is up for auction next week , and it shows that the leader was a lover as well as a fighter . The simple piece of jewellery comprises two tear-shaped gems , one diamond and one sapphire , set onto a gold band . It is going under the hammer at the Osenat auction house in Fontainebleau , near Paris , and is expected to fetch up to $ 15,000 -LRB- # 13,000 -RRB- . Stunning : This beautiful engagement ring was given by Napoleon Bonaparte to his wife Josephine . True love : Napoleon and Josephine wed in 1796 and , although they later divorced , remained devoted . At the time Napoleon married Josephine in 1796 , he was a 26-year-old revolutionary soldier and she was a widow who was six years older than her husband . Her first husband , Alexandre de Beauharnais , was an aristocrat who supported the French Revolution but later became a victim of guillotine . When she was re-married she already had two children - one of several factors which meant the groom 's family was deeply scandalised at the match . The couple wed on March 9 , 1796 after being engaged for just two weeks . Napoleon left France two days later to lead the French army on a successful invasion of Italy , which sealed his reputation as one of the dominant figures in the post-revolutionary state . Unique : The historic piece of jewellery is expected to fetch up to ¿ 15,000 -LRB- # 13,000 -RRB- when it is sold . He took charge of the government in a coup in 1799 , and five years later was declared 'Em peror of the French ' . The ruler was crowned at Notre Dame cathedral - and after placing the crown on his own head , he turned to Josephine and crowned her as empress . However , it soon became clear that the ageing wife would never bear her powerful husband a child . In 1810 , they agreed to divorce - but during the ceremony , they read out statements expressing their devotion to one another . Napoleon married Marie-Louise of Austria two months later in the hope of producing an heir , and was heard to comment : ' I have married a womb . ' Also up for auction : This silver sword was given to a nobleman by King Henri IV in 1592 . But he apparently never forgot the love he bore to Josephine , and he mentioned her in his last words on his death bed while in exile on St Helena . He is believed to have cried out : ` France . The army . The head of the army . Josephine . ' The ring that symbolised their love is remarkably simple given its origins . ` At the time , Napoleon had very little money , ' said Osenat 's Jean-Christophe Chataignier . ` The ring is a very ordinary one . ' The official estimate for the ring is $ 10,000 to $ 15,000 . It is included in a major auction of historical items taking place next Sunday . One of the many other unique treasures included in the sale is a ceremonial silver sword given to an aristocrat by King Henri IV in 1592 . | Gold ring with sapphire and diamonds goes up for auction near Paris . Couple married when Napoleon was a young soldier starting meteoric rise . | [[172, 229], [240, 267], [334, 425], [397, 425], [428, 450]] |
A slideshow presentation shown to US Army Reserve recruits classifies Christians , including both evangelicals and Roman Catholics , as religious extremists , placing them in the same category as skinheads , the Ku Klux Klan , Hamas and Al Qaeda . The presentation also warned that members of the military are prohibited from taking leadership roles in any organization the Pentagon considers ` extremist , ' and from distributing the organization 's literature , whether on or off a military installation . The opening slide warns that ` the rise in hate crimes and extremism outside the military may be an indication of internal issues all -LSB- armed -RSB- services will have to face . ' Citing a Southern Poverty Law Center report as evidence that extremism is on the rise , the Army Reserve presentation blames ` the superheated fears generated by economic dislocation , a proliferation of demonizing conspiracy theories , the changing racial make-up of America and the prospect of 4 more years under a black president who many on the far right view as an enemy to their country . ' RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM : These groups were all lumped together in a slideshow for US Army Reserve recruits . EXTREMIST ORGANIZATIONS : The presentation described groups like the religious organizations as advocating force , violence or extremist causes . Presenters were instructed in accompanying notes to read this slide in its entirety . It warns that soldiers may not take leadership positions in any group the military considers ` extremist ' in nature , nor may they distribute their literature . Later in the slideshow is a list of groups that exemplify ` religious extremism . ' Included are ` evangelical Christianity , ' ` Catholicism , ' ` Ultra-Orthodox ' Judaism , and ` Islamophobia . ' Most of the list is populated by more widely accepted examples of religious extremist groups , including Al Qaeda , Sunni Muslims , Hamas , and the Ku Klux Klan . ` Men and women of faith who have served the Army faithfully for centuries should n't be likened to those who have regularly threatened the peace and security of the United States , ' retired Col. Ron Crews , executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty , said in a statement . ` It is dishonorable for any U.S. military entity to allow this type of wrongheaded characterization . Are Catholic clergy like Pope Francis -LRB- L -RRB- and racist Klan wizards in the same boat ? An Army Reserve training presentation described both groups as examples of ` religious extremism . ' Crews also took a shot at the Southern Poverty Law Center . ` It also appears that some military . entities are using definitions of `` hate '' and `` extreme '' from the lists of . anti-Christian political organizations , ' he added . ` That violates the apolitical . stance appropriate for the military . ' He noted that the Army Chief of Chaplains has investigated the presentation and determined that it was ` an isolated incident not condoned by the Department of the Army . ' The Army Reserve presentation defines religious extremism as ` beliefs , attitudes , feelings , actions , or strategies of a character far removed from the `` ordinary . '' ' It concedes that ` ordinary ' is a subjective term , but condemns religious Americans ` who believe that their beliefs , customs and traditions are the only `` right way '' and that all others are practicing their faith the `` wrong way , '' seeing and believing that their faith/religion -LSB- is -RSB- superior to all others . ' SPOT THE RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST : The ultra-orthodox Lubavitch jew -LRB- R -RRB- or the late Osama bin Laden ? Trick question : the Army Reserve includes both men 's religious movements . Many Christians and Jews , the presentation suggests , fit into that category , making them as objectionable as Muslim terrorists . The U.S. Army Office of the Chief of Chaplains did not immediately respond to a request for comment . But the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services said it ` is astounded that Catholics were listed alongside groups that are , by their very mission and nature , violent and extremist . ' ` The Archdiocese calls upon the Department of Defense to review these materials , ' the organization said in a statement , ` and to ensure that tax-payer funds are never again used to present blatantly anti-religious material to the men and women in uniform . ' | Pentagon based conclusions on Southern Poverty Law Center report . Chaplains ' group calls lecture material ` dishonorable ' and ` wrongheaded ' Presentation says extremism is increasing because some Americans fear ' 4 more years under a black president ' | [[691, 727], [752, 776], [928, 1023]] |
A trip to a shopping center in Lake Worth , Texas , ended in a tragedy on Saturday when a 7-year-old girl was mowed down by an out-of-control pickup truck that also injured five other people . The incident happened at around 2:00 pm in the parking lot of the Target and Ross stores in the 6300 block of Lake Worth Avenue when the driver of a black pickup truck , identified as 84-year-old Vincent Martinez , slammed into several pedestrians . According to paramedics , six people in the parking lot were seriously injured , among them two adults and four children between the ages of seven and 14 , NBC5 reported . Horrific crash : A black pickup truck accelerated and came to rest on top of a white Lexus in the parking lot of a Lake Worth , Texas , shopping center . Innocent bystanders : A total of six people , including of four children , were injured in the crash , one of them fatally . Unnamed victim : An eyewitness said the impact of the crash threw the 7-year-old onto the windshield of his car before she fell to the ground . All of the kids were taken to Cook Children 's Medical Center . One of them , a 7-year-old girl , died from her injuries , according to Lake Worth police . Authorities have yet to release the victims ' names . Martinez 's daughter , Ester Zenteno , said that her father is diabetic and may have gone into diabetic shock from improper insulin intake at the time of the crash . ` He does take insulin and I ca n't say 100 per cent that he took it this morning , ' she told NBC5 . ` I 'm assuming that his sugar went out of control . ' Zenteno said that her father would . rather be dead than hurt someone , adding that he is going to ` go crazy ' when he finds out what happened . Driver : Vincent Martinez , 84 , was described as being dazed and shaken when he climbed out of his mangled truck following the accident . Possible explanation : Martinez 's daughter , Ester Zenteno , right , said her father is diabetic , and it 's possible that he forgot to take his insulin in the morning . ` My heart goes out to the family , the family that is hurt , ' she told MyFox DFW through tears . Martinez and the two adult victims were taken to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth . Eyewitness Paul Rahl said that he was sitting in his white Lexus waiting for his family at around 1:40 pm when Martinez 's truck crashed into him and came to rest on top of his car . Rahl said he saw the 7-year-old girl hit his windshield and then tumble to the ground . ` Her little hair is still in my windshield , ' he told the station CW33 . The first four victims were struck . outside the Ross clothing store , including one woman who was hit just . moments after she came out into the parking lot . Investigation : Police are reviewing surveillance tapes from the parking lot to determine the cause of the crash . ` She was just on the ground , face down , ' witness Brittaney Scott told CW33 . Police are looking at surveillance tapes from the parking lot in hopes of determining what caused the accident . | Vincent Martinez , 84 , plowed into several people at Lake Worth , Texas , shopping plaza . Total of six people , four of them children , were injured . Martinez 's daughter said her diabetic father may have forgotten to take insulin . | [[0, 41], [52, 96], [340, 360], [363, 415], [408, 442], [615, 629], [669, 768], [469, 521], [524, 534], [769, 788], [815, 841], [1248, 1268], [1287, 1413], [1856, 1876], [1926, 1953], [1960, 2026]] |
Chinese officials are building the first island large enough for its own airfield in the middle of disputed waters in the south sea . Satellite images revealed that since reclaiming the Spratly Islands in August , workers have expanded one stretch of sand to make it long enough for aircraft to land and take off . Dredgers are also creating a harbour to the east of the reef large enough to receive tankers and warships . The 3,000 m patch Fiery Cross Reef forms part of the archipelago which has been at the heart of territorial disputes for years . Scroll down for video . Satellite images show that since reclaiming the Spratly Islands in August , workers have expanded one stretch of sand to make it long enough for aircraft to land and take off . While the islands , named after the British sailor Richard Spratly who discovered them in 1843 , lie between the Philippines , Vietnam and Malaysia , they are host to a plethora of military machinery and resources owned by the Republic of China . Fears that China intended to use the archipelago as a mineral-rich installation of military bases spread when officials began reclaiming the abandoned islands in August . While the Chinese army controls many of the 750 islets and reefs , it does not yet have its own airfield in the south China sea unlike Malaysian , Vietnamese and Filipino forces . According to imagery obtained by independent analysis company IHS , dredging has begun on Fiery Cross Reef to create a harbour large enough for military tankers . China has used dredgers to construct an island about 3000 metres long and 200 to 300 metres wide on the reef , which was previously under water . Workers had built a reinforced seawall around an island on Johnson South Reef in the Spratly Islands by August -LRB- pictured -RRB- . This satellite image released in April 2014 showed substantial land reclamation , harbour redevelopment , and additional construction activity on Woody Island since October 2013 . Johnson South Reef , Cuateron Reef , and Gaven Reefs have all been expanded on since Chinese officials reclaimed the waters earlier this year , though the Fiery Cross Reef is the only island large enough for an airfield . Jin Zhirui , a colonel with the Chinese air force . command , declined to confirm plans to build an airfield on the reef but said China needed to build . facilities in the South China Sea for strategic reasons . ` We need to go out , to make our contribution to regional and . global peace . ` We need support like this , including . radar and intelligence . ' Chinese fishing vessels anchored at Fiery Cross Reef on the disputed Spratly islands where China is thought to be building a massive island . An aerial photograph taken in 1999 shows Chinese workers building on sparse land in the Spratly Islands . The dispute centres around hundreds of tiny shoals , reefs and islets in the South China Sea known as the Spratlys and the Paracels . Several south Asian countries stake claim to the territory , though China tries to control the largest portion of the archipelago . Beijing has claimed its right to the collection of land masses is 2,000 years old which , they say , includes the islands in Chinese history . Taiwan supports its claim , and has its own airfield on the island of Taiping . Vietnamese officials say their government has ruled over the land since the 17th century whilst the Philippines , the closest geographically , says the islands belong to them . In 1974 , Chinese forces seized the Paracels from Vietnam , killing 70 troops . There were further clashes between the two countries in 1988 , with 60 Vietnamese soldiers killed . In 2012 China and the Philippines were embroiled in a lengthy maritime standoff over a Scarborough Shoal . The Filipino military employed its largest warship for the dispute over the stretch of water which they call Panatag . Upon boarding a Chinese military vessel for inspection , officials claimed they found live sharks , clams and illegal reef . Later , Vietnamese border agencies refused to stamp passports asserting Chinese sovereignty over a handful of the islands and in January it was claimed China would be taken to a UN tribunal to challenge its stake . | Chinese officials have created a 3,000m-long reef in the Spratly Islands . Archipelago has been source of dispute between south Asian countries . Vietnamese , Malaysian and Filipino forces all have airfields in the water . The developing Fiery Cross Reef may become China 's first airbase . Air force colonel said the military needed facilities in South China Sea . | [[423, 487], [1514, 1622], [469, 487], [494, 551], [1238, 1240], [1250, 1350]] |
China has built an island fortress on a disputed reef , raising concerns over their military ambitions in the South China Sea . Satellite images show that an artificial island with two piers , a helipad and a cement plant has appeared within the past nine months at Hughes Reef in the Spratly Islands . China , the Philippines , Malaysia , Vietnam and Brunei have all registered claims to the territory , leading to increased military tensions recently . Original : The first satellite images , taken in March last year , showed the original 380 square metre platform that work started expanding from . US officials have described China 's building expansion in the area as ` unprecedented ' Progress : Within months , staff had built an artificial island and dredged a channel as they prepared to develop the fort on the disputed Hughes Reef . Concern : The pictures , released by military analysis firm IHS Jane 's , show the area has now been expanded to a 75,000 square metre fort amid concern that China can develop its navy , air force , coastguard and fishing fleets in the region . The pictures , released by military analysis firm IHS Jane 's , has been expanded from 380 square metres to a 75,000 square metre fort in the Union Banks region . The reef is approximately 210 miles from the Philippines and 660 miles from China . Work originally began in March last year , and by the end of January , the original structure had been connected to the helipad . Pictures also showed that similar structures are being built at nearby Johnson South Reef and Gaven Reefs . Experts say the fortresses will allow the Chinese government to extend the range of its navy , air force , coastguard and fishing fleets in the region . American authorities have repeatedly asked China to stop their building projects in the region , which began after President Xi Jinping came to power three years ago . James Hardy , Asia Pacific Editor of IHS Jane 's Defence Weekly , said : ` Where it used to have a few small concrete platforms , it now has full islands with helipads , airstrips , harbors and facilities to support large numbers of troops . Military might : China 's President Xi is expected to announce an increase in spending on the military next month . ` We can see that this is a methodical , well-planned campaign to create a chain of air and sea capable fortresses across the center of the Spratly Islands chain . ' One western diplomat said : ` These reclamations are bigger and more ambitious than we all thought . ` On many different levels it 's going to be exceptionally difficult to counter China in the South China Sea as this develops . ' Last May , Chinese ships were accused of attacking Vietnamese vessels in the area , which is thought to be rich in oil and gas . The Chinese have employed workers to build ports and fuel storage depots that experts say would allow Beijing to project power deep into the maritime heart of Southeast Asia . A senior US official described China 's building expansion in the area as ` unprecedented ' , and said : ` The Chinese have built up a head of steam on the land reclamation in the South China Sea over the course of 2014 . If anything , it looks to be accelerating . ' President Xi is expected to announce an increase in spending on the military next month . Last year China 's defence budget rose to approximately # 85 billion , second only to the US in terms of total spend . In March last year , the Philippine government revealed concerns that China was carrying out land reclamation activities in the region . Japan has been strengthening its military might as tensions in the area mount , and last month announced a record # 28 billion defence budget . | Island fortress has appeared on Hughes Reef in South China Sea . Experts say base and facilities can support large numbers of troops . Concerns that government are pursuing military ambitions in the region . Disputed territory is believed to rich in oil and gas reserves . | [[0, 53], [128, 302], [155, 302], [2101, 2137], [0, 5], [56, 127], [2724, 2732], [2741, 2754], [2724, 2732], [2752, 2779]] |
He is already the longest serving heir apparent in British history . So if Prince Charles ever gets too bored of waiting to accede to the throne , then he might just be tempted to have himself crowned King Carol 111 instead . Central European newspapers yesterday were alight with speculation that the Prince of Wales could be anointed the next King of Romania if the country 's monarchy is restored . Related : Speculation has mounted that Prince Charles could be crowned king of Romania after he revealed in a recent interview that he is related to bloodthirsty Romanian ruler Vlad the Impaler . The last royal ruler , King Michael -- who . reigned from 1927 to 1930 , and again from 1940 to 1947 - was forced to . abdicate by the country 's new Communist leaders , who threatened to carry . out mass executions if he refused to step down . Romania . went on to endure decades of communist government , most notably under . dictatorial party leader Nicolae Ceausescu who ruled the country with an . iron fist from 1965 until he was deposed and executed in 1989 . Admittedly , it is unlikely that he . will ever be a serious contender for the throne as the deposed King , . Prince Michael , is still alive -- albeit rather elderly at 90 -- and has . family of his own . Despite the reintroduction of democracy , in recent years there have been increasing calls for the monarchy to be restored . And after he revealed in an interview just a few weeks ago that he is related to historical Romanian ruler Vlad the Impaler -- the bloodthirsty nobleman who inspired Dracula -- Charles 's name has now , bizarrely , been thrown into the ring . Connections : Prince Charles further cemented his links with Romania when he held a private meeting with Romanian tourism minister Elena Uldrea at Clarence House last week . But . local newspapers have taken great pains to point out that as well as his . ` stake ' in the throne through his ancestor Vlad , Prince Charles 's . mother , Queen Elizabeth II , is also third cousin to the deposed King . whose great-great-grandmother was Queen Victoria . The . rumour mill went into further overdrive when the country 's powerful . tourism and development minister , Elena Udrea , flew to London last week . to meet with Charles at Clarence House . The meeting was not publicised in . advance , although pictures were subsequently released , and the glamorous . Udrea subsequently spoke of her host in glowing terms and said . Romanians should be more like Charles and ` appreciate the country they . live in ' . Links : Queen Elizabeth met Romanian President Ion Iliescu , at Buckingham Palace in 2004 -LRB- left -RRB- - but her ties with the monarchy are stronger - she is third cousin to Romania 's King Michael -LRB- right -RRB- who reigned from 1927 to 1930 and again from 1940 to 1947 - but was forced to abdicate by the country 's new Communist leaders . Newspapers have . even gone so far as to speculate that Charles could give up the British . throne in favour of his popular eldest son and heir , Prince William , to . become the next King of Romania instead . They . say the suggestion has such currency it is the reason its rattled . president , Traian Băsescu , has launched a series of attacks on the . former King Michael and the monarchy in general . Iron fist : Romania endured decades of communist government , most notably under Nicolae Ceausescu who ruled from 1965 until he was deposed and executed in 1989 . Intriguingly Charles is incredibly passionate about Romania . Indeed , he loves . the area around the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania so much that . he has bought a holiday home in the region and recently said in an . interview : ` The genealogy shows I am descended from Vlad the Impaler , so . I do have a bit of a stake in the country . ' Charles secretly bought the simple , . white-washed property in the heritage site of Viscri in 2005 with the . help of the Mihai Eminescu Trust , a British-based charity which works to . preserve Romania 's historic Saxon villages from destruction , of which . he is patron . He paid # 18,000 for the three-bedroomed , 18th Century farmhouse . Viscri lies in a picturesque valley in the heart of Transylvania , north-west of Brasov , and is comprised of men and women of mainly of Romanian and gypsy origin . It has already won many of Europe 's highest awards for cultural restoration and economic regeneration . Charles has visited the village . several times and is so taken with the simplicity of local life that he . holidays there each summer . He . and his security team sleep in the traditional white-washed village . house - complete with wooden truckle beds and outside toilets - and . drink locally-pressed organic apple juice . The house is rented out to overseas tourists when the prince is not in residence . Clarence House last night confirmed the . prince had a meeting with the Romanian minister but declined to be drawn . on the nature of their conversations . A spokesman did , however , say the . prince was very fond of the country and pointed out that he already . owned properties in the region . But senior royal sources have dismissed the speculation as ` ridiculous ' . Passionate : Charles paid # 18,000 for this property in the heritage site of Viscri in 2005 , and has since holidayed there every year . | European newspapers claim Charles could be anointed should monarchy be restored . Prince of Wales 's ancestral links with Vlad the Impaler and King Michael cited as reasons . Charles is passionate about the country and owns a holiday home in picturesque town of Viscri . | [[226, 387], [361, 401], [2897, 2914], [529, 578], [1455, 1502], [3466, 3527], [3620, 3662], [5030, 5065], [5222, 5300]] |
Chief Coroner dismissed excuse because she 'd been there before . Lindsay tweeted that she was ` sorry for confusion ' and was stressed . She turned up in an $ 80,000 Porsche . Lindsay not allowed to turn up at morgue unannounced and will need to ask permission from probation department and/or judge . Went straight to her therapist after the incident . The judge will be dead angry ! Lindsay Lohan fails to show up for morgue duty on first day of community service . It will be interesting to see if this excuse washes with the judge . Lindsay Lohan turned up 40 minutes . late for her first day of community service yesterday at the LA County . Morgue - only to be turned away without credit . The 25-year-old actress was supposed to report at 8am on Thursday morning - but arrived at 8.40 am , rolling up in an $ 80,000 Porsche . Her . publicist claims she was late ` due to a combination of not knowing the . entrance to go through and confusion caused by the media waiting for her . arrival ' . Lohan has also taken to Twitter , saying : ` With all of the stress and pressure . from yesterday and today , I 've never been so happy to go to therapy !!! ` Also , I 'm sorry for the confusion that I may of -LRB- sic -RRB- caused to those at . the Coroner 's office . Wo n't happen again , now I know where to go ! ' Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter , . however , is unconvinced by Lohan 's excuse , telling reporters that she . has been to the morgue before so should have known where to go . Speaking later in the day , Winter told RadarOnline that Lindsay will not be allowed to turn up unannounced on Friday at the morgue because she will need to ask for permission first from her probation department and possibly Judge Stephanie Sautner . ` Ms. Lohan has to have permission from the probation department and/or the judge , that she can come back , ' he told RadarOnline . ' I have n't heard from the probation department or the judge about whether or not Ms. Lohan will be allowed to come back . ' Following today 's incident , Lindsay went to see her therapist in Beverly Hills . ` With all of the stress and pressure from yesterday and today , I 've never been so happy to go to therapy !!!! ' she tweeted later in the morning . Lohan will face the wrath of Judge Sautner on her next court appearance on November 2 . Where 's Lindsay ? Camera crews wait for Lohan 's arrival at the morgue yesterday when she arrived late . Clean-up duty : Lohan has been ordered to complete 16 hours at the morgue before her next court hearing on November 2 . The actress was ordered to undertake 16 hours of morgue duty before her November court hearing at Wednesday 's appearance . So long as she manages to complete these hours in the next two weeks she is not in violation of her probation . However , the Coroner 's Office will . notify the Probation 's Voluteer Center - which monitors Lindsay 's . probation - of yesterday 's drama before the judge is formally told . Lohan is already skating on thin ice . with Sautner , who blasted the Mean Girls star on Wednesday for not making . an effort to complete her probation . Long arm of the law : Lindsay seen here arriving for her court hearing on Wednesday . Finding her feet : Lindsay tweet from yesterday apologising for the confusion at the morgue and suggesting she had got lost . The judge is incensed the actress has . barely scratched the surface of the 480 hours of community service she . was ordered to complete as part of her sentence for the theft of a gold . necklace earlier this year . Lohan only did around a . day-and-a-half at the Downtown Women 's Centre in LA - and failed to show . up nine times , resulting in her being rejected from the programme . This week she did some volunteer work . for the Red Cross - but Sautner ruled it as void because it was not . part of the sentence she had specifically stipulated at an earlier . hearing . Sautner said only time completed at the women 's centre and the morgue counted . What a twit : She also tweeted that she was pleased to be going to therapy after a stressful day yesterday and in court on Wednesday . Rejected : Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter tells reporters Lohan arrived late for her court-ordered community service and was sent away . In a further development , LA County . Sherif Lee Baca has told Fox 11 's Good Day LA that the overcrowding . issue will not keep Lohan out of jail . He told the show that if Lindsay is . sentenced to jail time he will make sure he finds room for her , adding . she needs at least 60 days inside to be rehabilitated . The news comes after Lohan 's father Michael spoke out , claiming his daughter was back on drugs and needs help . He said the recent photos of her . discoloured and apparently rotting teeth was down to her smoking . methamphetamine or crack cocaine . Lohan posted $ 100,000 bail yesterday following her court hearing . Lead away in cuffs : Lindsay was taken into custody after being blasted by the judge . She later posted $ 100,000 bail . Laying the lawn down : Judge Stephanie Saunter pulled not punches during yesterday 's hearing . Kicked off : Lindsay missed nine scheduled times . to work at The Downtown Women 's Center and told the Probation Office it . did not ` fulfil ' her . | Chief Coroner dismissed excuse because she 'd been there before . Lindsay tweeted that she was ` sorry for confusion ' and was stressed . She turned up in an $ 80,000 Porsche . Lindsay not allowed to turn up at morgue unannounced and will need to ask permission from probation department and/or judge . Went straight to her therapist after the incident . | [[0, 65], [39, 65], [1433, 1483], [66, 137], [66, 81], [123, 137], [1167, 1246], [3229, 3301], [138, 176], [697, 720], [798, 833], [177, 229], [177, 184], [234, 302], [1498, 1523], [1526, 1629], [1555, 1562], [1583, 1728], [1630, 1748], [1749, 1813], [303, 316], [324, 333], [2008, 2035], [2038, 2090]] |
Arsenal attacking midfielder Mesut Ozil is hoping he can be ` back on the pitch soon ' after being ruled out until the new year through injury . It was revealed last week that Ozil would be out for up to three months with knee ligament damage . The 25-year-old , who picked up the injury during his time on international duty with Germany , has been sent back to his club after undergoing scans . Mesut Ozil thanked Arsenal fans for supporting him after news of his knee ligament injury . Ozil will be missing for the remainder of 2014 after the German FA confirmed he had a knee injury . This is not the first time that the former Real Madrid midfielder has suffered from knee problems . October 18 : Hull -LRB- h -RRB- ; October 22 : Anderlecht -LRB- a -RRB- ; October 25 : Sunderland -LRB- a -RRB- ; November 1 : Burnley -LRB- h -RRB- ; November 4 : Anderlecht -LRB- h -RRB- ; November 9 : Swansea -LRB- a -RRB- ; November 22 : Manchester United -LRB- h -RRB- ; November 26 : Borussia Dortmund -LRB- h -RRB- ; November 29 : West Brom -LRB- a -RRB- ; December 3 : Southampton -LRB- h -RRB- ; December 6 : Stoke -LRB- a -RRB- ; December 9 : Galatasaray -LRB- a -RRB- ; December 13 : Newcastle -LRB- h -RRB- ; December 21 : Liverpool -LRB- a -RRB- ; December 26 : QPR -LRB- h -RRB- ; December 28 : West Ham -LRB- a -RRB- . Ozil has since thanked the Arsenal fans for the support he has received and is looking forward to representing the club once again . The German playmaker tweeted : ` Thanks for your support following my injury . I 'll come back on the pitch soon as I can to help #AFC . Now and in the future #MiaSanArsenal . ' Ozil 's club team-mate and fellow countryman Serge Gnabry has also provided Arsenal fans with an update on his fitness as he has revealed he is back in first team training after recovering from a knee injury . Serge Gnabry is in line to make his first start of the season after returning to first team training . VIDEO Ozil plays down Bayern link . | The German playmaker has thanked Arsenal fans for showing him support . Mesut Ozil was ruled out for three months with knee ligament damage . Serge Gnabry is back in training after recovering from a knee injury . | [[397, 488], [416, 488], [1367, 1394], [1323, 1327], [1338, 1378], [1456, 1484], [1487, 1534], [145, 244], [171, 244], [416, 488], [489, 568], [1753, 1843], [1844, 1856], [1868, 1946]] |
A Missouri couple have filed a lawsuit against a pair of obstetricians , . accusing them of decapitating their baby during his 2011 delivery and then trying to . hide it by shoving the child 's body and severed head back into the birth canal . In a court complaint that reads like the script of a horror . film , Arteisha Betts and Travis Ammonette , of Florissant , described how doctors . Gilbert Webb and Susan Moore had allegedly coerced them into a vaginal delivery . against their wishes , and then severed their son 's head . The 10-complaint lawsuit cites Midwest Maternal & Fetal . Medicine Services , LLC , Signature Medical Group Inc and the two doctors . However , the suit does not list St John 's Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis , . where the bungled delivery too place in March 2001 , as a defendant . Outraged parents : Arteisha Betts and Travis Ammonette are suing two obstetricians for allegedly decapitating their son during his 2011 delivery and then trying to cover it up . Touching tribute : Ammonette got a tattoo of little Kaden 's hand prints on his chest last April honoring his deceased son . According to the court filing , Betts and Ammonette were told . by Dr Moore during a February 2011 appointment that the baby will have to be delivered . via C-section rather than vaginally because the child had an abnormally large abdomen , Patch Florissant reported . But when the expectant mother prematurely went into labor on . March 22 only 28 weeks and five days into her term , the complaint indicates that . Dr Webb ` would not agree ' to the Cesarean and ` would only deliver her baby by . way of attempted trial of vaginal delivery . ' Sued : Dr Gilbert Webb is a defendant in a complaint accusing him of forcing Arteisha Betts into undergoing a vaginal delivery against her wishes . The couple claim that the obstetrician also refused to let . them go to a different hospital for a Cesarian . ` Believing that she had no other choice than to agree to a . trial of vaginal delivery , plaintiff Arteisha Betts consented to a trial of . vaginal delivery under duress and protest , ' according to the complaint . The infant 's head was delivered in the first stage of the . birthing process , but in the second stage which got under way at around 10.30 pm , . the lawsuit claims that his large abdomen became lodged in the birth canal . According to the complaint , Dr Webb applied traction to the . child 's head in an attempt to dislodge his body , at which point the infant was . decapitated . Citing the complaint , the Courthouse News Services reported that blood shot out from the baby 's arteries and veins , spilling onto . the floor in full view of the mother and Ammonette , who was sitting only two to . four feet away from the birthing bed . The lawsuit states that Webb then ` pushed decedent 's head and . body back into plaintiff Arteisha Betts ' birth canal ' and called for an . emergency C-section . The doctor started cutting into the woman 's abdomen before . the anesthesia fully set in , causing her great pain and suffering in the process , the suit . says . During the procedure , the doctor ` surgically and completely removed ' the child 's head from his neck and torso . Site : The bungled delivery took place March 2011 at St John 's Mercy Medical Center in St Louis , but the hospital has not been listed as a defendant in the lawsuit . Before handing the little boy named Kaden Travis to his . parents , Webb had allegedly ` intentionally concealed ' his neck wounds , although . the complaint does not specify how it was done . The Daily Mail was unable to reach the couple 's attorney , Christopher Wright of the firm Millikan Wright in St Louis , on Thursday . Calls to the two medical centers cited in the lawsuit also went unanswered . The suit seeks unspecified damages to cover pregnancy . costs , funeral expenses as well as personal injury and wrongful death . | Arteisha Betts went into labor in March 2011 only 28 weeks and five days into her term . Lawsuit claims doctor told Betts earlier that the baby must be delivered via C-section . Mother says she was forced into vaginal delivery against her wishes . Doctor pushed the baby 's detached head and body back into birth canal , complaint states . | [[1400, 1453], [1454, 1504], [1507, 1537], [3234, 3323], [1233, 1274], [1275, 1310], [1363, 1390], [391, 472], [1675, 1815], [2067, 2108], [2113, 2141], [167, 198], [203, 243], [2783, 2848], [2807, 2811], [2817, 2842]] |
They look good enough to eat and have proven to be a sweet way to raise money for charity with hundreds of people flocking to book virtual stays . These sugary gingerbread ` holiday homes ' are the brainchild of American advertising agency McKinney who designed them to raise funds for the homeless in New York City . The three differently styled bed and breakfasts - a modern mansion , a rustic Alpine cabin and a cute camper van - are available to ` rent ' , with prices ranging from $ 5 -LRB- # 3 -RRB- to $ 20 -LRB- # 13 -RRB- a night . Scroll down for video . American advertising agency McKinney designed three gingerbread bed and breakfasts to raise money for homeless people in New York City . Virtual stays in a modern mansion , a rustic cabin -LRB- pictured -RRB- and a cute camper van can be booked for between $ 5 -LRB- # 3 -RRB- to $ 20 -LRB- # 13 -RRB- a night . But holidaymakers wo n't actually be able to stay in the tiny houses . Made entirely of gingerbread , biscuits and sweets , all rental proceeds from Gingerbreadbnb will go to New York City 's largest poverty-fighting organisation Robin Hood , which provides shelter to homeless families . Guests can choose the number of nights they want to ` stay ' in the gingerbread house or book a property for their family and friends . The estate house is made from gluten-free gingerbread and locally sourced candy cane . It comes with a sugar-glass pool , fruit roll yoga mats and second-floor loft with marshmallow meditation room . All proceeds raised will go towards Robin Hood , a homeless charity in New York City . Take to the sweet open road in the candy camper van . It comes with deckchairs made from sweets and features a fruit roll awning . Gingerbread walls of the modern home are left unpainted for a minimalist look . Modern chocolate art on the walls provide a focal talking point . The agency 's site is worded exactly like a bonafide rental website and provides full gingerbread statistics for prospective tenants . The estate house , for instance , is made from gluten-free gingerbread and locally sourced candy cane . According to the website , it has a sugar glass pool , fully stocked gummy bar , priceless chocolate drip art , fruit roll yoga mats , mid-century taffy furniture , liquorice spiral staircase , second-floor loft with marshmallow meditation room , and access to jelly-bean jogging paths . Detailed creation : The interior of the rustic cabin features a fireplace made from dried fruits and nuts and a fruit roll mat . Every item in the miniature house is crafted from sweets , chocolate or gingerbread . Fruit roll mats and boiled candy sweets also feature . Guest staying in the modern home are encouraged to make full use of the Gummy bar -LRB- pictured -RRB- and walk up the liquorice spiral staircase to the marshmallow meditation room where they can do yoga on the fruit roll mats . The rustic cabin is tucked away in the mouthwatering candy rock mountains and was ` handcrafted with reclaimed 19th-century gingerbread ' . Features and amenities include all-natural trail mix fireplace although guests are warned not to use real flames as the ` house will melt ' , a fully equipped kitchen with Graham cracker countertop and a Bavarian-style gingerfather clock . Activities nearby include access to chocolate hiking trails and candy cane skiing . The final property in the sweet portfolio is the ` one-of-a-kind ' gingerbread candy camper with stainless-sugar kitchen , ginger bunk beds , a gingerbread sofa and spare cookie tire . Two pretzel wheel beach cruisers are also included in the ` stay ' . Ginger-bunk beds with sour licorice linens are provided in the gingerbread camper van for travellers looking for an adventurous holiday . Smarties act as throw cushions for the modern home 's sofa . Boiled sweets are the glass for the table in the centre of the room . A patio made from sugar and gingerbread is held up by biscuit posts . Two flower pots hold cactus , fashioned out of green sweets . | Sugary holiday homes created by American advertising agency McKinney to raise funds for the homeless . All proceeds will go to Robin Hood , New York City 's largest poverty-fighting organisation . Three styles of homes on offer to rent : modern mansion , rustic Alpine cabin and candy camper van . | [[147, 187], [190, 248], [212, 248], [253, 317], [565, 701], [1001, 1112], [1069, 1117], [1126, 1165], [1502, 1548], [318, 384], [413, 430], [433, 456], [702, 735]] |
A terminally ill groom robbed of speech by cancer married his childhood sweetheart by squeezing her hand to say ` I do ' before he died 11 days later . William Kent , 24 married Emma , 25 , at his hospital bedside despite not being able to speak or blink because of nerve damage caused by the illness . For six months William , a teacher , fought the disease and would not let it ruin the moment he married Emma who he had proposed to three years ago on Valentine 's Day . Childhood sweethearts : William and Emma married in a hospital ceremony before he died 11 days later . Instead of saying his vows , he squeezed the registrar 's hand before his father supported his hand so he could make a mark on the marriage register . Family and friends from Ilkeston 's Ormiston Enterprise Academy , where William taught , crammed into the hospital room after being given just hours ' notice of the ceremony . Nurses had told William 's family and Emma earlier that day that they could arrange for the wedding to happen to fulfil the couple 's wishes . William died from lymphoma cancer 11 days after the whirlwind ceremony at Nottingham City Hospital on October 3 . The look of love : William was not able to speak because of his cancer and so had to squeeze the registrar 's hand to say ' I do ' Emma , who wore a blue dress for ceremony , said William loved life and was adored by everyone . She said : ` The squeeze of the hand was so tight , there was no doubt in my mind at all that he wanted to be married . ` I rushed into town to buy wedding bands . They only stocked samples so I bought those . ` The . wedding meant absolutely everything and it was amazing , I think it . spurred him on with the strength to keep going for another 11 days . ` Everyone adored William , he made friends with everyone he met and he had a huge group of friends . ` He 'd . always act the fool and would spoil a couple of photos pulling faces . We first met properly in art classes at sixth form , we started talking . and then went to a pub quiz together . ` William was really excited about everything , it was infectious his sense of joy at life , he was a cheeky chappy . ' Happier days : William and Emma met at school as children and started dating in sixth form . He graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University and worked as a teacher before the cancer struck . Emma said after a first round of treatment following the diagnosis in April William took her to eat out almost every night to build up his strength . She said : ` When he came out we just ate out everywhere , he wanted to go out and eat . I have never been to so many restaurants in such a short space of time - Chiquitos , Pizza Hut , KFC , everywhere , so he could build his strength up for his next round of chemo . ' Emma and William met at school as children but it was not until the they were in sixth form that they started dating . While William went to Leeds Metropolitan to study a degree in IT , Emma went to Lincoln to study illustration . They stayed together and after they graduated , they saved up to buy their first house together in Derby . For six months , William fought the disease and refused to let it take away the moment he married Emma who he had proposed to three years ago on Valentines Day . He popped the question at his parents ' house in Holbrook in Derbyshire after decorating the room with pictures of beaches , saying he could not afford to take her to the exotic location he wanted to propose in . In order to save money for a house and because they had started new jobs , they decided to postpone the wedding until 2014 . Their life together was dealt a bitter blow in April when William began getting pains in his arm and coughing . He went to the doctors who did not find anything wrong with him . The pain continued , however , and he returned to his GP who referred him to Royal Derby Hospital . They in turn referred him to Nottingham City Hospital where he was diagnosed with lymphoma , a type of cancer , and began chemotherapy . His strength declined , and his muscles and immune system weakened , forcing him to stay in hospital . Adored : William 's wife Emma said that he made friends with everyone he met . When he was well enough , he was allowed home to spend the odd day with Emma , his family , and beloved dogs Poppy and Riley . The hospital tried a new form of treatment for the type of cancer William had but it was unsuccessful . The cancer spread to his nervous system and brain which stopped his speech . William 's mother , Helen , said : ` At 11am on the morning of the wedding they were n't getting married but then the nurses said how William and Emma had been speaking about it a few weeks beforehand . ` They said that if they wanted to get married and William 's dad and I agreed , they could fix it for that day . ` Right to the end he did not get angry or have outbursts . He would still crack jokes . It was a real comfort to us actually . ' William 's sister , Rachel , 26 , said : ` It was a really happy day , a lovely occasion . You might not think of that when you think of a wedding in a hospital but it was , it was really nice . ' William 's father said it had been university which had given William the determination to succeed as a teacher . He said : ` He did change . He was the same character but he really got serious about wanting to do things , teaching for him was not just a passion but he had real flair for it . ` William was a keen skier and he enjoyed family holidays to France where he showed off his skills . To his sisters , both older sibling Rachel , and Emily , 15 , he was a caring brother . | William Kent , 24 , suffered from cancer , which prevented him speaking . He had fought the disease for six months so he could carry out his wish . He died 11 days after getting married . He proposed three years ago on Valentine 's Day in a room he decorated with pictures of beaches , saying he could not afford to take his fiancée to an exotic location like he wanted . 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Nick Clegg 's plans for free school meals have been met with criticism with some Liberal Democrats even admitting the scheme is a ` waste of money ' Plans to hand free school meals to the under-8s across the country were mired in chaos last night after senior Tories denounced the proposal to pay for the lunches of affluent children . Less than 24 hours after Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg revealed his plan to offer a hot lunch to every infant pupil , Liberal Democrat ministers were forced to admit they once branded the policy a waste of money . In addition , London Mayor Boris Johnson rejected the plans , saying that better-off families should pay for their children 's food . ` I am in no means against getting parents who can pay for to pay for it , ' said Mr Johnson . ` I have no problem with the concept of dinner money . ' Mr Clegg confirmed his # 600million plan during his speech at the Lib Dem conference in Glasgow yesterday . It is due to be announced by Chancellor George Osborne in the Autumn Statement later this year . But former Tory frontbencher David Davis said the scheme was incoherent , saying the Lib Dems have created a new universal benefit just as the Treasury is cutting child benefit for the better-off . He said : ` At a time when the Government is scaling back child benefit it seems very odd to add another universal benefit . ` It 's hard to understand why families in the best parts of Notting Hill should have free school meals , particularly since the free school meals available when I was a child would probably fail a health and safety test . ' Mayor of London , Boris Johnson , dismissed the plans saying that better off families should pay for their children 's food . The Lib Dems also faced embarrassment . after it emerged that they have opposed the very same policy when it was . enacted by Labour councils in London . A . letter signed by the party 's deputy leader Simon Hughes surfaced . yesterday in which he denounces the plans as a waste of money because it . helped better-off families . High Speed 2 will damage the environment and have a huge impact on irreplaceable ancient woodlands , a Lib Dem minister has said . Agriculture Minister David Heath said the route of the fast rail line needed to be examined carefully because ` you ca n't grow old trees ' . He said officials would have to ` look critically ' at the proposals for the # 50billion railway linking London to Birmingham and on to Manchester and Leeds . His Somerton and Frome constituency is not affected by the route , but Tory MPs in the Chilterns bitterly oppose the proposal . The Woodland Trust says HS2 will directly affect 33 ancient woods , and the noise and vibration will impact on habitats in another 34 . In a letter to a constituent , the MP for Southwark and Bermondsey said . Labour-run Southwark Council was ` wasting extraordinary amounts of . money ' . ` They are spending # 15million giving free school meals , some of this is going to the borough 's richest families , irrespective of whether they can afford to pay for them already . Labour-run Southwark Council ca n't get the basics right and act like they have money to burn . ` They are slashing projects that offer a hand up to those who need them -- to fund handouts for those who do n't . ' Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander said the Lib Dems can now afford to back the policy . He said : ` In the council in that area , which was cutting budgets all over the place , they were concerned about the allocation of resources in the council . ` As a national policy , which is going to be funded by the central government , it removes that pressure and they were welcoming what we were doing . ' Lib Dem Education Minister David Laws also prompted confusion by claiming the # 600million cost of the scheme could be funded by plugging tax loopholes . It had been thought the money would be found by making further cuts in the education budget , but Mr Laws vowed that the money could be obtained from ` tax loopholes that were abused by wealthy people ' . Less than 24 hours after Mr Clegg revealed his plan to offer a hot lunch to every infant pupil , Lib Dem ministers were forced to admit they once branded the policy a waste of money -LRB- file picture -RRB- . | Mayor of London , Boris Johnson rejects plan saying wealthier families should pay for children 's school lunches . Former Tory MP , David Davis said scheme was ` incoherent ' Critics say introducing plan after scaling back child benefit ` seems odd ' | [[253, 335], [567, 612], [622, 686], [567, 593], [615, 686], [689, 690], [706, 759], [1592, 1607], [1626, 1717], [1048, 1115], [1048, 1084], [1118, 1235], [0, 98], [1048, 1084], [1118, 1235], [1180, 1241], [1242, 1249], [1252, 1366]] |
Men will always remember the look on their lover 's face when they bent down on one knee - thanks to this ring box that secretly records your proposal . The Ring Cam looks like any other ring box - but it has a tiny camera hidden inside , so loved-up couples can capture their special moment on film with just one click of a button . The quirky invention was created by a group of five students from Hope College , Michigan , USA , for a class project before being launched in October 2013 . Scroll down for video . Capture the moment : A new ring box that doubles as a secret camera helps men remember the look on their partner 's face when they got down on one knee . Scott Brandonisio , Scott Bahash , Elliot Barney , Russell Fyfe , and Nick Haugen , all 23 , came up with the idea when one of their friends struggled to find a way to discretely record their proposal . Sam Tzou , Ring Cam 's General Manager , said : ` Customers love the product because they can keep the actual moment private , but they are able to share it with everybody afterwards . Sneaky : The Ring Cam looks like any other ring box - but it has a tiny camera hidden inside , so loved-up couples can capture their special moment on film with just one click of a button . Replay it again and again : The idea was the brainchild of Scott Brandonisio , Scott Bahash , Elliot Barney , Russell Fyfe , and Nick Haugen , all 23 . Shock : The group of boys came up with the idea when one of their friends struggled to find a way to discretely record their proposal . Re-live the moment : Romantic couples can replay their big moment thanks to this ring box that records your special occasion as you get down on one knee . ` Ring Cam captures the moment that only the proposer gets to see - which from our perspective is the most important . ` As that is the moment that the `` groom-to-be '' will remember for years to come . ` Compared to the average price that couples would have to spend on a secret photographer , not to mention wedding photographers and videographers , our product is very affordable . ` And it does something that no other product can provide . ' Hopeless romantics planning to propose can buy the Ring Cam for around # 120 - or they can rent one for # 60 online . Best view : Ring Cam captures the moment that only the proposer gets to see - which , say the makers , is the most important . Cheaper option : Compared to the average price that couples would have to spend on a secret photographer , not to mention wedding photographers and videographers , the boys say their product is very affordable . For sale : The new Ring Cam costs around # 120 - or can be rented for # 60 online . | The Ring Cam has a tiny camera hidden inside . Men can capture their special moment on film with one click of a button . Created by five students from Michigan . Costs around # 120 and can be rented for # 60 . | [[202, 236], [1116, 1150], [239, 333], [1153, 1247], [334, 429], [2139, 2220], [2218, 2256], [2607, 2623], [2643, 2679]] |
A bride lost 11st after passers-by teased her for being fat as she posed for her wedding photos . Chloe Dodds , of Seaham , Durham , walked down the aisle in a size 30 gown after ballooning to 21st 8lb on a diet of Sugar Puffs , pizza and chips . She was reduced to tears as by-standers heckled her with comments such as ` you look so fat in that dress ! ' as she posed for pictures beside her wedding car . Scroll down for video . After being heckled for her size by passers-by on her big day -LRB- left -RRB- , Chloe shed 11st to reach 10st 12lb -LRB- right -RRB- . Despite her smiles for the camera , cruel comments from passers-by meant Chloe spent much of her special day in tears . The ceremony had to be delayed for 15 minutes as Chloe , 35 , bawled her eyes out and she sobbed tears of despair - not joy - as she walked down the aisle . But the real shock came when her official wedding photos arrived - and she was so horrified by her appearance she vowed to lose weight . She shed 3st before having a gastric bypass and her weight has now plummeted to just 10st 12lb . Delighted carer Chloe , now a size 12 , said : ' I was mortified when I heard those comments . ` It was my wedding day and people had heckled me - I was a curvy bride but did I really deserve such taunts ? ` As I looked through the wedding pictures , I could n't believe how fat I was - I knew I could n't carry on like that . ' Chloe , of Seaham , Durham , peaked at 21st 8lb before falling ill on a holiday to Ibiza in 2009 and losing 2st in two weeks . Chloe 's diet of Sugar Puffs , pizza and chips saw her weight reach an unhealthy 21st 8lb . She was then diagnosed with type two diabetes and her weight settled at around 19st when she got engaged to long-term boyfriend Paul , who she met online aged 21 . But when she went wedding dress shopping she realised most gowns were only available up to size 20 and she had to get a size 30 imported from America . She only invited 15 people to her wedding because she was so self-conscious about her appearance and hid her dress away in a wardrobe until the big day in August 2010 . But when she slipped into the gown on the morning of the wedding she started to cry in despair at her appearance . Chloe Dodds two months after her weight loss surgery . She said : ' I checked myself out from every angle in the mirror , desperate to find a thin angle . ` But I was like a beacon in my dress . I just wanted to throw on my old , baggy black clothes and disappear . ` My mum wiped my tears away and assured me I looked beautiful . ' A group of local residents had gathered around her wedding car outside , waiting to catch a glimpse of the bride . But when she stepped out she was horrified to hear taunts of ` You look awful ! ' , ` Fat bride ! ' and ` You look so fat in that dress ! ' . Chloe , who is just 5ft 3ins , said : ` My heart broke into a thousand pieces . ' I thought I looked big when I 'd put the dress on , but to hear it come from other people hurt so much more than my own criticism . ' I thought there was an unwritten rule that you always complimented a bride , no matter what . ' Paul reassured her when she arrived at Sunderland Register Office but the cutting comments had ruined her big day . She said : ` We posed for photographs outside the registry office . I smiled and laughed and I was happy , but a part of me was still so upset . ` Our guests all complimented me , telling me I looked stunning . But their words fell on deaf ears . The damage was done . ' Chloe quickly changed out of her wedding dress and into comfortable baggy clothes at the reception and vowed to change her ways . She visited her doctor and explained that all previous diets , slimming classes and pills had failed and asked to be considered for a gastric band . Chloe , who is now dwarfed by her old wedding dress , has even managed to reverse her diabetes through her weight loss . Chloe was referred to a specialist in February 2011 and was told to slim down to 18st before she could go under the knife . She took two years to lose the weight and finally had the operation at Sunderland Royal Hospital in June last year . Now , a year later , her diabetes has disappeared and she has slimmed down to a 10st 12lb and size 12 . ' I physically ca n't eat much and I do n't want to ' , said Chloe , who is a full-time carer for her mother Joyce , 59 , along with husband Paul , 37 . ' I eat a boiled egg for breakfast , a jacket potato with cheese for lunch and a small portion of shepherd 's pie for dinner . ' I have some excess skin , which is common in rapid weight loss . I 'm saving up to have my bingo wings removed . And after we 've had children , I 'll have a tummy tuck too . ` Those cruel jibes ruined my wedding day , but I think I got the last laugh . I 'm finally who I want to be . ' Proud husband Paul said : ' I thought Chloe looked beautiful on our wedding day . ` What those people did was just cruel . But I 'm proud of Chloe for losing weight - she looks even more fantastic now . ' | Chloe had to order her size 30 wedding dress specially from America . Cruel jibes by strangers on her special day left her humiliated . The ceremony even had to be postponed by 15 minutes while Chloe cried . Determined to lose weight , Chloe lost 3st before having a gastric bypass . Now down to 10st 12lb Chloe is dwarfed by her old wedding dress . 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A bride-to-be had her heart melted by her very own Prince Charming when he made her dreams come true with a Frozen-themed marriage proposal . Brian Davis , 23 , from Denver Colorado asked his girlfriend Michelle Sequin , 22 , to marry him disguised as Prince Hans from the hit film , while his bride-to-be dressed up as Princess Anna . Brian and Michelle went to see Frozen on a date together and so the film has always been particularly close to the couple 's hearts . Scroll down for video . Brian surprised his bride-to-be Michelle by recreating a scene from the movie Frozen . ` We saw Frozen on a date together and both fell in love with the film . It gave me the idea for the proposal ' says Brian . ' I wanted to create a perfect Disney scene , where a charming prince would woo his princess by riding up on his trusty steed and proposing in front of a castle . ' Brian , a medical student , met Michelle when they were teenagers and knew from the start that he wanted her to be his wife . ` From the second day after I met her I knew I wanted to marry her ' says the groom who decided to propose to Michelle , a biomedical engineer , shortly after she graduated from university . Fairytale romance : Brain had replicas of Frozen costumes run up for both of them to make the experience feel more authentic . The proposal took careful planning and Brian enlisted the help of Michelle 's relatives to keep the plan a surprise . When it came to realising his dream of recreating the fairytale Brian spared no expense to ensure that the experience was ` completely authentic ' . The devoted groom ordered custom-made tailored versions of Anna 's coronation dress and Hans ' regal outfit at a total cost of # 180 , working with her relatives to create the perfect fit . ' I had to estimate Michelle 's size with the help of her mother in order to keep it a secret . ` The outfits arrived in time and they looked fantastic . I was excited and it was hard not to tell her what I was planning . ' Prince Charming : Brian even hired a trusty steed to complete his royal entrance . Michelle was utterly surprised by the proposal as she had been lead to believe she was going out to dinner . Not satisfied with a simple costume change the committed groom then went in search for a castle to create the perfect romantic setting for his proposal . Unfortunately fairtytale castles are few and far between in Denver and Brian eventually settled on a venue called Castle Marne Inn a near-by mansion with castle-like features . Brian 's proposal was given an extra flourish with his arrival on a ` trusty steed ' , like the character from the film . Setting the scene : Short of a castle , Brian opted for a nearby mansion as the location of his proposal . Brian based the custom-made dress on Anna 's coronation outfit from the film . ' I called the manager -LRB- of the Inn -RRB- and asked her if she would allow me to bring a horse onto the property . She loved the idea and was excited to be a part of it . I picked the date and reserved a private dinner for two . ' Once his elaborate plan was in place Brian had to try and figure out how to lure his bride to the venue without raising her suspicions . ' I convinced Michelle we were going to go out for dinner for our fourth anniversary . ' I dropped off Michelle 's dress at her house with instructions to wear it . I then saddled up the horse , which was called Romeo , and rode him to the Castle Marne Inn . ' The proposal was completed with a romantic meal for two in the mansion house . Attention to detail : Brian presented the engagement ring in a pink , crown-shaped box , Michelle was utterly shocked by the proposal but immediately said yes . Despite his meticulous planning , Brian still suffered from nerves as he prepared to ask the life-changing question . ` As Michelle arrived I felt my heart beating fast but I never questioned what I was about to do . I was ready to ask her . ' I rode up on Romeo , dismounted and proposed to her beside the castle , under a vine arch . ' Brian presented his bride-to-be with a white gold engagement ring featuring a diamond-studded design . Michelle was completely taken aback - but said yes immediately , adding that the proposal was a dream come true . Brian and Michelle announced their engagement to friends with a video of them singing ` Love is an Open Door ' Anna and Hans ' duet from the film . ' I can honestly say that I had no idea the proposal was coming but Brian has always been one to do crazy and romantic things . ' ` The entire thing was a dream come true . Once I saw Brian down on his knee all of my nerves went away and became pure joy . I was quick to say yes to my very own Prince Charming . ' The two lovers let their friends know about the engagement in a musical video where they mimed along to the song Love is an Open Door , which features in the film . The song ends with the lines : ` Can I say something crazy ? Will you marry me ? Can I say something even crazier ? Yes . ' In the movie , the relationship is destined for failure when Princess Anna discovers that Prince Hans is a fraud . But Brian is optimistic that his fairytale proposal will lead to happily ever after . ` It was the best proposal I could have planned for and she is the best princess I could have asked to be mine forever . ' I know our love story 's ending will be so much more than happily ever after . ' The pair became engaged in May 2014 . | Brian Davis proposed to his girlfriend Michelle Sequin in May . The two are both big Frozen fans , having seen the film on a date together . Brian recreated Anna and Hans ' proposal from the film . 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A father who killed himself after being questioned by police over being snared by a ` paedophile hunter ' would have been charged with attempting to meet an underage girl for sex , it has emerged . Father-of-one Michael Parkes , 45 , of Daventry , Northamptonshire , was confronted and filmed in May last year by Stinson Hunter , who had arranged to meet him after posing as a child online . Hunter - whose real name is Keiren Parsons - has caused controversy by posting the videos of his meetings online , including that of Mr Parkes , and has been criticised by police for his methods . Death : Father-of-one Michael Parkes -LRB- left -RRB- , 45 , of Daventry , Northamptonshire , was confronted and filmed in May last year by Stinson Hunter -LRB- right -RRB- , who had arranged to meet him after posing as a child online . At an inquest held today into Mr . Parkes 's death on June 2 last year , the senior coroner for . Northamptonshire Anne Pember recorded a verdict of suicide , with cause . of death as hanging . She . concluded Mr Parkes , a warehouse manager , was ` feeling low and . depressed ' at the time of his death . ` He made the decision he no longer . wished to live , ' said Mrs Pember . ` He killed himself . ' In . a statement after the inquest , Northamptonshire Police , who arrested Mr . Parkes on May 29 last year on suspicion of meeting someone he thought . to be a 12-year-old girl for sex , said it would have sought a charging . decision based on the evidence supporting the allegation . A force spokesman also said : ` It is clear that Parkes drove to Coventry with the intention of engaging in sexual activity with a child . ' However , the police went on to say they did not condone Mr Parsons 's actions and said investigating wrong-doing was best left to police . During the inquest at Northampton General Hospital , the court was told that Mr Parkes was found dead in his car . Police inspector Carol Fullerton was called to the scene by the fire brigade who had been responding to reports of a car fire at the location off Welton Road , near Daventry . When she arrived she found Mr Parkes 's ` apparently lifeless body slumped across the front seats of the car ' . Mr Parkes , identified at the scene from a driving licence and bank cards , was removed from the car where a passing doctor led efforts to resuscitate him . Despite their attempts , Mr Parkes , who lived with his mother in Daventry , died at the scene at 1.26 pm . Ms Fullerton , who was aware of Mr Parkes 's arrest over the child grooming allegation , then radioed headquarters telling them to inform Northamptonshire Police 's professional standards department . Clip : A video from Stinson-Hunter . com capturing the moment Stinson Hunter confronted Michael Parkes . The court also heard evidence from GP Dr Alexander Wennekes who said he had prescribed anti-depressants on and off to Mr Parkes over recent years , for bouts of work-related stress and depression . Dr Wennekes stated that earlier in 2013 Mr Parkes got in touch with the surgery complaining of feeling depressed after splitting from his partner of three years while she was pregnant with their son . On May 30 , that year , he said Mr Parkes - . who also had a wife from whom he had been separated for some years - . again contacted the surgery saying he was suffering depression . ` He made the decision he no longer wished to live . He killed himself ' Anne Pember , Northamptonshire coroner . ` When I saw him he said he was going through a bad patch , had financial difficulties , no access to his son and had been arrested by the police on what he said were false allegations - however he did not explain further , ' said Dr Wennekes . He added : ` He admitted to some morbid thoughts but had no plans or intentions in that area , and was keen to restart anti-depressants and wanted something `` to feel a bit calmer '' . ' Dr Wennekes prescribed anti-depressants and diazepam and Mr Parkes later booked himself in for a follow-up appointment scheduled for the following week . A long-term friend of Mr Parkes , Caroline Elston , said she received a text from him without explanation which simply read ` sorry ' , the day before his death . When she queried the message by text , however , she got no response . Richard Parkes , his brother , said Mr Parkes 's arrest had upset him and ` had a significant effect on his state of mind and the actions he had taken ' . Clip : Another still of the confrontation . An inquest has taken place at Northampton General Hospital today . Following the inquest , asked what he felt about the police investigation and the involvement of Mr Parsons , he replied : ` The police have not provided me with any evidence that supports these allegations . ' He paid tribute to Mr Parkes and said : ` Michael 's family are deeply shocked by his death . He was a loving father , son and brother and a caring person who put his family and others first . ' Northamptonshire Police offered its condolences to Mr Parkes 's family . ` We have a duty to investigate and respond to child abuse allegations , ' a spokesman for the force said . ` A decision to arrest Parkes was made when it became clear from the material supplied to us that he believed the age of the person he was in communication with was 12-years-old . ' A decision to arrest Parkes was made when it became clear from the material supplied to us that he believed the age of the person he was in communication with was 12-years-old ' Northamptonshire Police spokesman . ` It is also clear that Parkes drove to Coventry with the intention of engaging in sexual activity with a child . ` In the light of Parkes 's subsequent death , a thorough review was carried out and it is clear that it would have passed the threshold test and that Northamptonshire Police would have sought a CPS charging decision . ' The spokesman added : ` We do not condone or support the actions of Stinson Hunter . ` Identifying alleged paedophiles is best left to the police and suspected incidences of online grooming should be reported to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre . ' Separately , Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police issued a joint statement yesterday stating they do not condone Mr Parsons 's methods and adding that his actions ` could have several serious consequences ' , including compromising continuing investigations . In January , Warwickshire Police threatened Parsons with legal action if he did not stop his activities . Assistant Chief Constable Karen Manners said he could be ` compromising ' investigations . Although police insist Parsons has been repeatedly asked to stop his undercover activity , he claims he has been ` encouraged and coached ' by officers from Warwickshire Constabulary . A force spokesman said they would investigate claims by Parsons that officers disclosed sensitive information to him . Asked what advice he had been given , the spokesman added : ` None specifically . Officers have been consistently briefed that they should offer no encouragement to him . ' The Northamptonshire , Warwickshire and West Mercia forces have all reiterated the advice of the Association of Chief Police Officers -LRB- Acpo -RRB- on the topic of members of the public attempting to ensnare those they claim are out to commit sex offences against children . Acpo has previously stated : ` We understand the desire to protect children but any member of the public who has information about child sexual abuse , online or otherwise , should get in contact with the police so we can investigate and bring people to justice . ' | Michael Parkes was confronted and filmed by Stinson Hunter last May . Hunter has caused controversy by posting videos of meetings online . Coroner records verdict of suicide , with cause of death as hanging . Northamptonshire Police says it would have sought charging decision . For confidential . support call the Samaritans in the UK on 08457 90 90 90 , visit a local . 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Grief : Steven Rudderham 's parents Dave and Carol Matthews say their son was driven to suicide after he was accused of being a paedophile on Facebook . The grieving family of a man found hanged in a cemetery claim he was driven to suicide following paedophile accusations on Facebook . Steven Rudderham , 48 , was traumatised when his name , address and photograph were published online , along with a message calling him a ` dirty perv ' and claiming he was a paedophile . Within 15 minutes , the message had been shared hundreds of times and the bricklayer from Hull , East Yorkshire , began receiving death threats on Facebook , an inquest heard . He was found hanged in the city 's Hessle cemetery three days later . Mr Rudderham 's daughter Bethany Beaumont , 19 , said : ` They 've destroyed an innocent life for no reason . ` It was disgusting . It was slander . ' His mother Carol Matthews said : ' I want to know why someone did something like that . I hope they rot in hell . It took a person 's life . We will never get over it . ' Police have confirmed they are . considering an investigation into the Facebook posts in the days leading . up to Mr Rudderham 's death . A Humberside Police spokeswoman said no one had made any allegations of a sexual nature against him . Yesterday 's inquest heard Mr Rudderham was working towards examinations as a building site manager before the internet accusations . He normally saw Ms Beaumont every day and she realised immediately the profound effect the paedophile accusations had on him . She said : ` He just could n't believe it . He was just looking at the wall and he would n't eat . It was like someone had ripped his life apart . ' Mr Rudderham was afraid of walking the streets in case he was spotted and decided to stay with his daughter to prevent him being targeted at his home . Distraught : Mr Rudderham 's daughter says her father was devastated by the accusations . Ms Beaumont told the Hull inquest even people who had known her father for years joined in the cyber bullying . She said : ` There were people who had known him for years commenting on it , he was so upset . I had never seen him like that . ` He stayed at my house that night because of what the comments were saying , about people coming to his house and smashing it up . ' On Saturday , January 26 , his body was found by a member of the public . The Hull-based inquest recorded a verdict of suicide . Police were called at about 2pm but Mr Rudderham was pronounced dead at the scene . A memory stick was recovered on his body and police have also seized a computer hard drive . Mr Rudderham had discussed giving police a memory stick with evidence about the accusations on it in the days before his death . Mr Rudderham 's mother was told of her son 's death on her birthday and puts the blame solely on her son 's Facebook accusers . She said : ' I went berserk when I found out what had happened , he did n't want to stay in his house because he was frightened . ' Mr Rudderham 's family say he served time in HMP Hull in 2010 for fighting but had no convictions for sex offences . Dr Latifu Sanni was also told about the paedophile accusations made against Mr Rudderham before he carried out the post-mortem . The inquest heard there had been no evidence of medical depression in the months before his death . No drugs and no significant amounts of alcohol were found by a post-mortem . The inquest was attended by his family , including his mother and stepfather David Matthews , his sister Lisa Elm and daughters Bethany , Anna and Danielle Beaumont . Recording a verdict of suicide , Coroner Paul Marks said : ` The medical cause of death was hanging . ` He was actively pursuing a qualification to improve his status and job prospects . In the last few days of his life , he received a pejorative message on a social networking site which greatly troubled him . ' For confidential support call the Samaritans in the UK on 08457 90 90 90 , visit a local Samaritans branch or click here for details . Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article . | Steven Rudderham was called a pervert online in January . The 48-year-old was found hanged in a cemetery days later . His family say he was traumatised by the accusations . Police say they are considering investigating the posts . | [[401, 437], [3783, 3815], [3818, 3878], [173, 208], [176, 181], [188, 214], [652, 721], [652, 654], [665, 721], [60, 152], [1505, 1544], [1859, 1935], [1077, 1151], [1077, 1129], [1133, 1151]] |
Paedophile : Loren Morris , 21 , was sentenced to prison after a court found that she had slept with a child 50 times . A female paedophile has been jailed for having sex with an eight-year-old boy more than fifty times . Loren Morris , 21 , was 16 when she first slept with the schoolboy , who can not be identified , and continued until he was ten years old . Morris , who has a child of her own , would have regular intercourse with the boy , now 14 , and was only found out after he was overheard bragging about it at school . A judge today gave Morris a two-year prison sentence at Worcester Crown Court , following a trial last month where she was convicted of three counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 16 . She could be seen smiling and smoking outside the court today as she awaited her sentence . The judge in the case told Morris that he would be lenient with the sentence - which will see her released from jail after one year - because she ` realised it was wrong ' and stopped having sex with the boy . West Mercia police said they started investigating Morris in March last year after the . boy 's school told them that he had been heard bragging about having sex with her . Judge Robert Juckes QC said : ' I make no secret of the fact your case has given me cause for much consideration . ' I have come to the conclusion that due to the concern and embarrassment caused to both you and your family that you will not be offending again , let alone committing sexual offences . ' I am also aware of the effect this will have on your baby . I am pleased to hear your parents have started to build bridges with you . ` That does not stop the fact though that you had full sexual intercourse with a child when he was eight to 10 years old - by his evidence it was upwards of fifty times . ` It seems to me that I am bound to pass an immediate custodial sentence . I take into account what has been said to me and the fact that you stopped the activity yourself . ` You realised it was wrong rather than being caught and forced to stop . Therefore my sentence is one of two years . You will serve 12 months in prison before being released on licence . ' Repeated : The court heard that Morris slept with the boy , who can not be named , more than 50 times . Defence lawyer Antonie Mullers had told the court Morris was struggling to accept the facts of the case , and asked Judge Juckes to spare her a prison sentence altogether . He said : ` Her immaturity at 21 means she can not accept the facts yet . She accepts her conviction but with time will accept more . ` Her parents have stepped in and are building bridges , I understand she has met with some of her family . ` This could be stifled by a custodial sentence so I urge your honour or try and suspend it if possible . ' Morris , from Hereford , will serve two years each for the three counts to be served concurrently . Her sentence included a Sexual Offences Prevention Order , banning her from contact with a child under 16 without permission of a parent . She was also ordered to sign the Sexual Offenders Register , where her details will remain for ten years . | Loren Morris , 21 , started sleeping with the boy five years ago . She continued doing it for two years , until the boy was ten . She was convicted of sexual intercourse with a child last month . Today she was given the two-year sentence at Worcester Crown Court . | [[120, 139], [156, 221], [254, 288], [362, 368], [400, 443], [2175, 2183], [2186, 2232], [222, 234], [323, 361], [1682, 1760], [120, 221], [120, 139], [156, 221], [531, 538], [611, 725], [1642, 1726], [1682, 1760], [0, 10], [33, 70], [531, 608], [2059, 2102], [2802, 2808], [2816, 2873]] |
A nine-year-old schoolboy has become one of the world 's youngest grooms for the second time - marrying his 62-year-old wife again . Looking a little taller in last year 's silver tuxedo , baby faced Saneie Masilela clutched the hand of Helen Shabangu as they repeated their vows one year on . The second marriage ceremony was this time held at the home of the blushing bride in Ximhungwe in Mpumalanga , South Africa , in front of around 100 guests . Scroll down for video . Nine-year-old schoolboy , Saneie Masilela and his 62-year-old bride Helen Shabangu , wore traditional attire as they renewed their wedding vows in South Africa . The duo first married one year ago , but they decided to follow through with South African traditions which involves a second ceremony to make the marriage official . Wide-eyed residents looked on as the married mother-of-five shared a piece of cake , a toast and even a kiss with her young groom Sanele - and long-term husband Alfred Shabangu , 66 . Last year the boy , from nearby Tshwane , tied the knot with bride Helen after claiming he had been told by his dead ancestors to wed. . Shockingly his family took the message from the heavens seriously and hurriedly forked out # 500 for the bride and a further # 1,000 for the big day . But little Sanele - the youngest of five children - would n't rest until the couple followed through with South African traditions insisting they have the second ceremony to make their marriage official . Despite stunned villagers branding the act ` sickening ' the boy 's family defended the union saying it was just a ritual and not legally binding . Last year the bride and groom tied the knot after Saneie claimed he had been told by his dead ancestors to wed and his family took the message from the heavens very seriously . Helen 's husband of 30 years , Alfred Shabangu , 66 , -LRB- right -RRB- and their five children , aged between 38 and 28 , all attended the ceremony . Alfred said that he and his childrne were happy about the marriage : ` we do n't have a problem with her marrying the boy - and I do n't care what other people say ' Sanele 's 47-year-old mum , Patience Masilela said : ` Sanele was fine and he was happy about the ceremony last year and it what he wanted - he was not shy . ' ` He was just happy to get married , very excited and was not embarrassed about it . So much so he wanted to do it again . ` After the wedding last year people keep asking them question like will they live together , sleep together , have babies but I keep telling them that after the wedding everything went back to normal nothing changed . ` Sanele moved to Venda not long after the wedding because he wanted to learn a new language , but they are very close . Sanele 's 47-year-old mum , Patience Masilela , insists that the marriage is simply symbolic and not legally binding and that her son is very happy about the arrangement . The young groom said he hoped to have a proper wedding to a woman his own age when he was older . ` Our families are very close . It was nice celebrate with a wedding once more , it was after all a calling from the ancestors . ` By doing this we made the ancestors happy . If we had n't done what my son had asked then something bad would have happened in the family . ' The widow , who works at a recycling centre , added : ' I did n't have a problem with it because I know it 's what the ancestors wanted and it would make them happy . ' Young groom Sanele said he hoped he would have a proper wedding to a woman his own age when he was older . ' I told my mother that I wanted to get married because I really did want to , ' he said . ` I 'm happy that I married Helen - but I will go to school and study hard . When I 'm older I will marry a lady my own age . Sanele and his bride did not sign a marriage certificate and do not have to live together . Both have gone back to their normal lives . The groom 's mother -LRB- right -RRB- strongly believes that the duos ' unity is a necessity and a ` calling from the ancestors ' , saying : ` If we had n't done what my son had asked then something bad would have happened in the family ' ' I chose Helen because I love her and although we do n't live together all the time we meet at the dumping site where my mother works regularly . ' Old enough to be his grandmother , bride Helen , whose children are aged between 38 and 28 , yesterday said she was still happy with the arrangement . The recycling worker - who donned the same dress - said : ` I 'm very happy that the boy chose me and my family support and understand that it is part of making ancestors happy . ` One day Sanele would grow normally and have family of his own and get married one day , all this ceremony is for making ancestors happy . We are playing . ' Sanele and his bride did not sign a marriage certificate and do not have to live together . Both have gone back to their normal lives . Helen 's husband of 30 years and builder Alfred , attended both wedding ceremonies along with the couples five children . The 67-year-old added : ` My kids and I are happy because we do n't have a problem with her marrying the boy - and I do n't care what other people say . ' | Saneie Masilela from South Africa , repeated his vows alongside his wife in a traditional second ceremony to make their marriage official . Helen Shabangu , the bride , had her first husband and five children attend . The couple first married one year ago after Saneie claimed his dead ancestors told him to wed . 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Philippe Senderos has spelled out to Roy Hodgson the expectation on England to make it to Euro 2016 ahead of their crucial first qualifier in Switzerland on Monday . England lag 11 places behind their Group E opponents in FIFA 's world rankings but Senderos insists Hodgson 's team are favourites because of the depth of quality at his disposal compared to Switzerland . The Aston Villa defender , who has played every minute for the Premier League 's joint-meanest defence so far this season , believes English players sometimes wear the Three Lions shirt heavily , including at the World Cup in Brazil where he says : ` Everyone expected more . ' Clear warning : Philippe Senderos believes the pressure is on England to qualify for Euro 2016 . Disappointment : England crashed out of the 2014 World Cup during the group stages . But ahead of their clash at Basle 's St Jakob Stadium , Senderos believes the onus to deliver remains on the visitors . ` I do n't think you can ever enter as favourites against a big team like England , ' he explains . ` We are still a small country , we are developing very well and qualifying for big tournaments . But England are a massive country in football and they have a lot of players to pick from . ` It 's different in Switzerland , because England are expected to win and go to every tournament . With the players and quality they have they should do that . ` For Switzerland it 's a massive achievement to qualify for any competition . Now we 've raised the bar really high , qualifying for the last three World Cups , every time we do n't qualify it will be a big disappointment . ` We want our level of football to compete with the big nations . ' Under Ottmar Hitzfeld , Switzerland thrived to such an extent that they entered the summer 's World Cup as a seeded nation following an unbeaten qualifying campaign . In Brazil they won a thriller against Ecuador , experienced a chastening defeat to France but then rallied to beat Honduras . In the last 16 they only went out to Argentina by virtue of Angel di Maria 's late goal in extra time . Under pressure : England boss Roy Hodgson must guide the Three Lions to Euro 2016 . England were eliminated before 12 teams had even played their second game after defeats to Italy and Uruguay , before limping to a 0-0 draw with Costa Rica . Senderos declines to say what he thinks went wrong but concedes most seasoned observers had higher hopes . ` It 's a big competition and it 's always difficult to go through , ' he adds . ` I know we have a very tough game against them and that 's all I want to concentrate on . ` We are going to try to battle hard and start this new campaign on a good foot . A win means you can do something special . ' Croatian coach Vladimir Petkovic , 51 , has taken over from Hitzfeld , who retired aged 65 , and despite losing the man who masterminded Switzerland 's recent success , Senderos describes the atmosphere in the camp as ` very excited ' . New reign : Croatian coach Vladimir Petkovic has replaced the recently retired Ottmar Hitzfeld . ` He 's going to create something new , the whole country is up for it . ' It is nearly a decade since the 29-year-old made his international debut and he hopes to win his 55th cap against England . He is well placed to identify how a country of eight million has managed to compete at the last five major tournaments . He attributes their standing to an emphasis on youth development and the embracing of migrant families . Senderos , son of a Spanish father and Serbian mother , won the Under 17 European Championships in 2002 . ` The national team and every single club in Switzerland has done major work on youth . The next generation to mine -LRB- in 2009 -RRB- were world champions in Nigeria , a massive achievement . Those players now have come through to the first team . ` Also in Switzerland we have a lot of immigrants , born and raised here but with heritage from different countries , and have used that to our advantage . If you see our line-up we do n't have many Swiss names in the team . It 's very important for a small country to do that . ' Villa might have two representatives on the pitch in Basle , if Fabian Delph earns selection from Roy Hodgson . ` He will bring his energy , his power , his will to move forward all the time , ' says Senderos . ` He is a very positive player to have around . ' There are kind words too for maligned Wayne Rooney , and an explanation of why he is a nightmare for centre-backs . ` It 's very difficult to mark him because he 's always moving around and finding these pockets between the midfield and the striker . ` For us as defenders he brings you out of the spot where you are normally comfortable . He will thrive as England captain . ' Happy : Former Arsenal defender Senderos is delighted to be back in the Premier League . Senderos is thriving alongside Ron Vlaar for Villa , and the pair have only conceded once in three Premier League games as Paul Lambert 's side sit among the Champions League places . It is a brighter start than how his three-year spell at Fulham ended , before a six-month stint in La Liga with Valencia . ` I 'm very pleased to be back in the Premier League , ' he says . ` We have started well but it 's very early and we have to continue working . ` I 'm sad about what happened at Fulham and wish them all the best . I went to a big club like Valencia , so I was very pleased with my move . ` It was a good experience . We played in the semi-finals of the Europa League and were so close to going to the final . ' For England going close will not do . Hodgson must qualify.irmly in the thoughts of McLaren . | Philippe Senderos believes England are under immense pressure to qualify from a group which includes Switzerland and Slovenia . Switzerland host England in their opening Euro 2016 qualifier . Senderos is pleased to have sealed a return to the Premier League . | [[665, 745], [835, 884], [887, 950], [2092, 2106], [2109, 2175], [4783, 4863], [5173, 5223]] |
A fiancé faked his own death by telephoning his partner and pretending to be his father breaking the bad news - so he could get out of his approaching wedding day , it was revealed today . Bride-to-be Alex Lanchester , 23 , of Sutton Coldfield , West Midlands , received a phone call just months before her wedding claiming that Tucker Blandford , also 23 , of Stamford , Connecticut , had died in a car accident . She then rang the American 's parents to offer her condolences , but they told her he was alive and well - and Miss Lanchester quickly learned he had faked his death to avoid the wedding . Couple : Alex Lanchester met Tucker Blandford while studying abroad at the University of Connecticut . She said : ` He has shattered my trust and I 'm not sure I 'll ever be in a relationship again . All I ever did was love him . I 'm so sick of being messed around and I 'm glad to be rid of him . ` Looking back , maybe I was naive . But I really loved him and never thought he would go to such extreme measures to dump me . I 've cried until I felt numb but now I 'm just really angry . ` I 'll be spending our would-be wedding day making new memories without him . He 's a liar and a coward . He had put on a different voice on the phone and pretended to be his grieving father . What sort of sick person does that to his fiancé of two years ? It 's sickening . ' Miss Lanchester first met Mr Blandford in August 2012 while studying abroad in the US . She took a job at the campus cinema at the University of Connecticut in Storrs , 25 miles east of Hartford , where she bumped into set painter Mr Blandford on her first day of work . Miss Lanchester said : ` Tucker was such a gentleman and was always buying me dinner and beautiful vintage jewellery . I 'd never been in love like that before . Every Sunday he would take me out for pancakes , it was so sweet . ` And to celebrate the day we got together , on the 10th of each month we would go out for a posh dinner . The worst thing was the idea that one day I would have to leave him and go back to England . The thought of that was breaking my heart . ' After spending a year together Miss Lanchester began to plan for her return to Britain - but Mr Blandford proposed . They spoke daily and began making plans to spend their life together . Miss Lanchester began to organise her dream wedding and set a date for the big day - August 15 , 2014 . She bought a handmade dress from eBay and picked out every detail for the occasion . She even agreed to pay for flights for Mr Blandford to fly to Britain to help with the wedding organisation and enjoy a holiday together . Miss Lanchester said : ` I went all out even though I had hardly any money . In the weeks running up to his visit I was mad with excitement . Thinking of their future : After spending a year together Miss Lanchester began to plan for her return to Britain , but Mr Blandford proposed . They spoke daily and began making plans to spend the rest of their life together . ' A few days later when Tucker called me and said he 'd booked the venue and we would be getting married on the campus where we met , I was ecstatic . I could n't think of a more romantic place to tie the knot . ' ` He has shattered my trust and I 'm not sure I 'll ever be in a relationship again . All I ever did was love him . I 'm so sick of being messed around and I 'm glad to be rid of him ' Alex Lanchester . Miss Lanchester rushed to get things sorted for the big day and spent # 600 on photographers , invitations and bridesmaids ' dresses . But one week before Mr Blandford was due to land in Britain , she received a chilling phone call . She said : ` I picked up my phone and there was a man saying he was Tucker 's dad . He told me Tucker had been deeply depressed and wanted to die , so had thrown himself in front of a car . ` The man explained that they had been trying to send Tucker off to a psychiatric unit for help . But it was too late . I could n't breathe . It was absolutely devastating . ' Girl meets boy : Miss Lanchester rang Mr Blandford 's parents to offer her condolences after his ` death ' , but they told her that he was alive and well - and Miss Lanchester quickly learned he had faked it . Miss Lanchester rang back after she . had calmed down a little only for Mr Blandford 's mother to tell her he . was fine and they had no idea what she was talking about . ` I 'm a terrible , awful person . I know I should n't have told her I was dead , but I did n't know what else to do ' Tucker Blandford . They told her Mr Blandford had made . them believe the pair had broken up when she left America . Mr Blandford - who lives in a four-bedroom house worth # 650,000 - . has since admitted his deception , claiming he was ` scared ' . He . told a reporter in a phone call : ` I 'm a terrible , awful person . I . know I should n't have told her I was dead , but I did n't know what else . to do . ` Alex is an amazing girl but I got . scared and wanted to get out of the relationship . It was moving . extremely fast and with us being in different countries , it was really . hard . Planning : Miss Lanchester bought a handmade dress and the wedding was due to take place last Friday . ` At the time I just felt like I could n't tell the truth and thought if I could just postpone everything it would be better . ' Mr Blandford 's LinkedIn profile lists him as currently having three jobs - as an instructor for a painting tuition company , a designer/carpenter for a Connecticut theatre group and a freelance steel blender . It also lists his previous jobs as a lifeguard , audio-visual technician , sports coach , art gallery attendant and at a Blockbuster video store . He has also studied at Virginia Commonwealth University . His interests are said to be motoring , tattoos , art , movies , snowboarding , photography and lacrosse . | Alex Lanchester was told before wedding that Tucker Blandford had died . 23-year-old called his parents but they informed her he was alive and well . Miss Lanchester met Mr Blandford in August 2012 while studying in US . He proposed and they made plans for wedding to take place last Friday . American Mr Blandford admits : ` I 'm a terrible , awful person - I got scared ' | [[189, 243], [262, 314], [303, 414], [4539, 4569], [484, 541], [4133, 4229], [4268, 4278], [4284, 4341], [4268, 4341], [613, 706], [1372, 1459], [1372, 1387], [1432, 1459], [2896, 2919], [5173, 5220], [4403, 4435], [4741, 4765], [4811, 4843]] |
Booking a holiday when you can not afford it and driving with a near-empty tank of petrol are the two best ways to live life on the edge , research has shown . Driving through a red light , buying something frivalous which will take you into your overdraft and crossing the road when the red man is showing are also considered as some of the top ` edgy ' things to do . The study , which surveyed 2,000 people , also found that having an alcoholic drink at lunchtime , getting changed without closing the curtains and driving against the arrows in a car park were seen as daring . Booking a holiday when you do not have the money to pay for it and driving a car on a near-empty tank of petrol are the top two examples of living ` life on the edge ' , according to a survey . The research , which was commissioned by Pizza Hut Restaurants , also found that 79 per cent of those who took part in the survey wished they had more excitement in their life . More than three-quarters said their life lacked excitement , while 46 per cent admitted they would like to be more ` edgy ' . More than half of Britons also admitted they were not very daring , the research found . Other signs of living life on the edge . included driving through an amber light , sitting in a first class . carriage on the train when you have a standard ticket and going out . on a work night . Being the last person . to board a plan , eating cake for breakfast and consuming food past its . sell-by date were also seen as daring . Other top suggestions from those surveyed included ordering . something other than ` your usual ' in a restaurant , leaving your car . unlocked or staying up past 11pm on a . work night . Jumping a red light is also seen as a way to be ` edgy ' , according to the survey of 2,000 Britons . Kathryn Austin , marketing director at Pizza Hut Restaurants , which commissioned the research to launch The Edge pizza , said : ` For some , living on the edge means being a daredevil or doing something risky like bungee jumping or sky-diving . ` But . for everyone else , something as minor as making a change to their usual . routine , or doing something they know they should n't be can be seen as . ` living on the edge . ' ` Day-to-day , . most people will live their life the same as any other day and can . often feel like they are stuck in a rut , so even the smallest of risks . can make that day more exciting . ` So . while booking a holiday without actually having the means to pay for it . may seem quite tame , for many Brits , the idea of putting a luxury like . that on their credit card is as daring to them as a sky dive is to . others . ' 1 . Booking a holiday before you have the money to pay for it . 2 . Driving with the petrol light on or with little petrol left . 3 . Driving through a red light . 4 . Buying something frivolous that would take you in to your overdraft . 5 . Crossing the road when the red man is showing or the lights are changing . 6 . Driving through a light while the amber light is showing . 7 . Having an alcoholic drink at lunchtime . 8 . Not closing the curtains or blinds when you quickly get changed . 9 . Driving against the arrows around a car park . 10 . Sitting in the first class section of the train when you only have a normal ticket . 11 . Going on a big night out on work night . 12 . Leaving windows open in your house when not there . 13 . Not paying bills on time . 14 . Being the last passenger to board a plane . 15 . Eating cake for breakfast . 16 . Eating something past its sell by date . 17 . Ordering something other than ` your usual ' when eating in a restaurant . 18 . Not locking your car . 19 . Getting an unplanned takeaway . 20 . Going to bed past 11pm on a work night . 21 . Internet shopping after drinking . 22 . Not bothering to use suntan lotion . 23 . Turning up at a gig , cinema or event without buying a ticket first . 24 . Going outside barefoot . 25 . Turning up at a restaurant without booking . 26 . Leaving work half an hour early . 27 . Sitting in a reserved seat on the train . 28 . Undoing your seatbelt before a plane stops . 29 . Putting something on a credit card . 30 . Wearing high shoes you might fall over in . 31 . Going out without an umbrella when it looks like it might rain . 32 . Using the phone while driving . 33 . Drinking coffee or tea before going to bed . 34 . Getting the last tube or train home . 35 . Jumping the last few steps on the stairs . 36 . Overfilling your hand luggage or using a bag which is too big and hoping it wo n't get spotted . 37 . Putting something in the ` normal ' bin when you know it should be recycled . 38 . Eating/drinking/smoking when driving . 39 . Leaving the house without your phone . 40 . Not running from a bee . 41 . Standing over the yellow line on a tube station platform . 42 . Checking your Facebook or email when abroad knowing it will cost a fortune . 43 . Leaving washing up until the next morning . 44 . Not killing or disposing of a spider you 've just seen . 45 . Getting something different for lunch . 46 . Going out with wet hair . 47 . Parking in the ` family ' car parking space when you do n't have children or have them with you . 48 . Going on holiday where you know there will be no phone signal . 49 . Using someone else 's mug . 50 . Sleeping with make-up on . | Booking a holiday on credit seen as best example of living life on the edge . Driving on empty and jumping a red light also seen as ` daring ' , survey shows . 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Desperately clutching the body of his young son to his chest , tears stream down the face of Jihad Masharawi moments after he was told by doctors his little boy was dead . ` What did my son do to die like this ? , ' he pleaded , ` What was his mistake ? He is 11 months-old , what did he do ? ' Tiny Omar is the youngest casualty of the conflict in Gaza and Israel , which last night , threatened to escalate . He died after an Israeli airstrike on Hamas militants in Gaza from a rocket fired by Palestinians that fell short of its target in Israel . Today Hamas fired missiles into southern Israel . Last night air sirens were heard in Tel Aviv . Fifteen Palestinians and three Israelis have so far been killed . Scroll down for video and Twitter feeds . Father 's grief : BBC journalist Jihad Masharawi weeps while he holds the body of his 11-month old son Omar , at Shifa hospital . Grief : Jihad al-Masharawi carries the body of his son wrapped in a white shroud . Mourning : Jihad al-Masharawi , a Palestinian employee of BBC Arabic in Gaza , kissed the body of his young son . Respects : Today was the funeral of 11-month-old Omar al-Masharawi killed probably by a Palestinian rocket . A photographer and picture editor for . the BBC , Masharawi had arrived at Gaza 's Shifa Hospital after Omar . suffered severe burns in an airstrike that sent shrapnel tearing into . his home killing a woman and leaving his brother and uncle critically . injured . Dozens of casualties from the conflict were being treated at the hospital as a distraught Masharawi . said : ` My son was an . innocent . ' But as Hamas retaliated with a blitz . or some 200 rockets into Israel following the assassination of its . military leader Ahmed Jabari there were civilian victims there too after . three people died when a four-storey building in the town of Kiryat . Malachi , 15 miles north of Gaza , was hit as the residents sat down to . breakfast . Toast and jam still lay on the . kitchen table yesterday covered by dust and broken glass as angry . residents turned on politicans claimed not enough had been done to . protect them . Last night a Hamas rocket reached the . southern outskirts of Tel Aviv , Israel 's commercial and cultural . capital , by far the farthest strike into Israel in two days of . increasingly bitter fighting . An injured Israeli baby is held by a security officer inside an ambulance at the scene where a rocket , fired from Gaza , landed in the southern city of Kiryat Malachi . Under attack : Smoke billowing from a spot targeted by an Israeli air strike inside the Gaza strip earlier today . Three people have been killed in southern Israel by rockets fired from Gaza , amid escalating violence . Operation : Israeli soldiers take cover as the ` Iron Dome ' fires a missile against a Grad missile fired from the Gaza Strip . It landed in Rishon Lezion , a city . just south of Tel Aviv located in heavily populated central Israel , and . while it caused no damage or injuries , it underlined the growing . capabilities of Gaza militants . Earlier Hamas claimed it had fired a . one-tonne , Iranian-made Fajr 5 rocket at Tel Aviv , 40 miles north of . Gaza , but it is believed this one was shot down . Warning sirens sounded across the . city last night as militants boasted of being able to strike deeper into . Israel than ever before . Massive explosions rocked Gaza as . airstrikes , tanks and naval ships struck at launch sites , sending plumes . of debris and thick black smoke hundreds of feet into the air while . over Israel the clear blue skies were dotted by vapour trails from . missiles and warplanes . Anxious residents of southern towns . waited for the wail of sirens to send them to shelters and watched as a . series of spectacular mid-air explosions marked the impact of missiles . from Israel 's defensive Iron Dome interceptor system with those . in-coming from Gaza . Funeral : Thousands of people gathered in the Gaza Strip yesterday for the funeral of Ahmed Ja'abari , the commander of the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement . His casket was being taken to the al-Omari mosque in Gaza City for a prayer service before burial . Grieving : Palestinian women react during the funeral of Hisham Al Galban , a Hamas militant . Commeration : Palestinians carry the body of Ahmed Al-Jaabari , top commander of Hamas armed wing Izz el-Deen Al-Qassam , during his funeral . Killed : Ahmed Jabari , the most senior Hamas official to be killed since an Israeli invasion of Gaza four years ago , was travelling in a car in Gaza city when it was struck by a rocket and exploded . Armed : Palestinian mourners carrying automatic rifles at the funeral of Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari killed by Israeli airstrike yesterday . Israel said dozens were destroyed but . some made it through with two babies and a four-year-old wounded in . Kiryat Malachi alongside the two women and a man killed . Officials said . the dead had ignored warnings to take shelter . The deaths and the intensity of . rocket fire has led to fears that Israel is preparing to launch a . full-scale military invasion of the Gaza Strip with Israel 's prime . minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning the army is prepared for a . ` significant widening ' of its operations . He described Gaza as a ` terrorist . stronghold ' from where more than 1,000 rockets had been fired into . Israel this year and claimed rocket launchers had been deliberately . placed near schools and hospitals . ` No government would tolerate a . situation where nearly a fifth of its people live under a constant . barrage of rockets and missile fire , and Israel will not tolerate this . situation , ' he said . Trapped : Palestinian men try to pull out civilians blocked in a car after an Israeli air raid on the area of Twaam in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia . Medical help : Israelis are evacuated in an ambulance after a rocket attack from Gaza which hit an apartment building , claiming three lives . Distraught : Palestinian medics help a wounded woman at her family house following an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis southern Gaza Strip . Injured : A Palestinian girl receives medical treatment at al-Shifa following the airstrike . ` This is why my government has . instructed the Israeli Defence Forces to conduct surgical strikes . against the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza . And this is why Israel . will continue to take whatever action is necessary to defend our . people . ' The fighting , the heaviest in four years , has brought life to a . standstill on both sides of the border , with schools cancelled and . people huddled indoors . Israeli Transport Minister Israel . Katz said that ` if the shooting does n't stop , Israel will also target . Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh ' - a move that might draw Egypt . further into the crisis . Egypt 's Islamist president Mohammed . Morsi today ordered his prime minister to lead a senior delegation to . Gaza in a show of support for the coastal strip 's Hamas rulers . Explosions : A picture taken from the southern Israeli town of Sderot shows smoke billowing from a spot targeted by an Israeli air strike inside the Gaza strip . Dawn strike : Explosion and smoke rise following an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip . The attack resulted in the death of eleven Palestinians including children . Power : An Israeli ` Iron Dome ' fires a missile , the second of three form the same battery , to intercept Grad missiles fired from the Gaza Strip . Retaliation : A rocket launched by Palestinian militants towards Israel makes its way from the northern Gaza Strip . He has vowed to work to stop Israel 's . campaign , calling the Jewish state 's actions there ` unacceptable ' in . his first public comments on the crisis on his country 's doorstep . Foreign Secretary William Hague said . he was ` gravely concerned ' by the situation in Gaza , adding ` Hamas bears . principal responsibility for the current crisis ' , also urging all the . sides involved to `` avoid any action which risks civilian casualties or . escalates the crisis . ' Mr Hague said the latest crisis underlined the . urgent need for ` progress toward a two-state solution which allows . Israelis and Palestinians to live alongside each other in peace and . security ' . Hamas announced a state of emergency . in Gaza , evacuating all its security buildings and deploying its troops . away from their locations while schools have been ordered closed until . the operation ends with most of the territory 's 1.6 million people only . venturing out from shelters to buy food , fuel and other basic supplies . Protest : A Palestinian demonstrator runs through a cloud of tear gas during clashes against Israel 's operations in Gaza Strip , outside Ofer , an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah . A shell : A Zaka volunteer stands in the living room of an apartment building that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip and subsequently three people were killed in Kiryat Malachi , southern Israel . Clean-up : Zaka volunteers clean blood stains from a toy in a children 's room in an apartment building that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip . Few in the territory 's largest urban . area , Gaza City , came out following the call for dawn prayers , and the . only vehicles plying the streets were ambulances and media cars . Most Gazans remained in their homes , following developments on Hamas-run TV and local radio stations . ` I am trying to calm my children when . they hear the sound of explosions , ' said Zainab Nimr , a 33-year-old . mother of three . ` We have enough food and water for four days , so I . asked my husband to go out and get extra supplies . No one knows when . this will end . ' Thousands of people , including top Hamas officials , . braved the threats to attend the funeral for Jabari . ` We want to kill in the name of God , ' chanted mourners as angry gunmen fired automatic weapons into the air . Hundreds of people raised their index fingers in the air , chanting , ` God . is great . ' Destroyed : Palestinians inspect an area targeted by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City in the early hours of this morning . Destroyed : A Palestinian man sits inside his damaged house after Israeli air strikes . Ruined : Palestinians check their damaged house after Israeli air strikes in Gaza City . Alert : A father with his three sons and and daughter huddled outside their car when they stop in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malachai as a ` Red Alert '' sounds , signaling a rocket attack . Video released by the IDF shows the moment it targeted Ahmed Jabari , the head of Hamas ' military wing , in the Gaza Strip . Here , Mr Jabari 's car is driving along a residential road . As the car carrying Mr Jabari reaches a crossroads the missile is fired and then The pinpoint attack hits , and Mr Jabari 's car explodes in a ball of flamed . An earlier version of this article stated there had been an attack in Gaza by an Israeli rocket . Following later information , the report has been amended to state that the attack was probably a Palestinian rocket that fell short of Israel . | The BBC Arabic employee 's son Omar was killed in Gaza by an airstrike , probably a Palestinian rocket that fell short of Israel . Ahmed Jabari is the most senior Hamas . official to be killed since an Israeli invasion of Gaza four years ago . Israel 's Iron Dome interceptor system shot down dozens of some 130 rockets fired from Gaza in the first few hours of daylight on day two of Operation Pillars of Defence , the army said . Israeli army : Rocket strikes southern suburb of Tel Aviv but with no injuries . Islamic Jihad declares : ` Israel has declared war on Gaza and they will bear the responsibility for the consequences ' | [[496, 508], [514, 550], [1119, 1191], [11066, 11093], [11096, 11182], [11162, 11182], [11188, 11210], [4444, 4538], [4775, 4808], [2883, 2905], [2914, 2949], [2958, 2995], [2998, 3025]] |
A video has revealed the gruesome step-by-step process that takes place when you die . From your bodily functions shutting down to the process of embalming to make you presentable for your funeral , all of the gruesome details are discussed . The video was created by the American Chemical Society on YouTube channel Reactions . Scroll down for video . A video by American Chemical Society explains what happens when you die . It explains the bodily functions that shut down after death . When blood stops circulating it pools in your body due to gravity -LRB- shown -RRB- your cells begin to die . This makes your body bacteria and fungi start to decompose your body . It begins : ` Let 's say hypothetically that you were to just slump over dead in your chair right now , so what happens next ? ' First , according to the narrator , your heart stops pumping so the flow of blood around your body ceases . This causes it to coagulate , forming clots and becoming thick and lumpy . It also gets pulled down by the force of gravity in a process called post-mortem hypostasis or livor mortis . ` Without circulation your body temperature also drops and your muscles stiffen in a process known as rigor mortis , ' the narrator continues . This also stops you breathing , which means no oxygen gets to your cells . This prevents mitochondria in cells making ATP , a chemical used for many tasks , and ultimately they too die . They results in the release of enzymes such as Lysosomal enzymes , which create an environment that is very attractive to bacteria and fungi . These begin to decompose and putrify your body . ` Before you 're buried or cremated your family may want a funeral , ' says the narrator . ` To slow down the decomposition process and keep you looking tidy chemistry comes in handy via a process called embalming . ' ` The embalming process happens in two steps . First , your body is going to be loaded full of conservative chemicals like formaldehyde or glutaraldehyde using a pump and your circulatory system . First your heart stomps pumping , so the flow of blood around your body stops . This causes the blood to coagulate , forming clots and becoming thick and lumping . Your muscles then stiffen in a process known as rigor mortis , which also stops you breathing and means no oxygen gets to your cells . Your cells thus too begin to die , releasing enzymes that make your body very welcoming to bacteria and fungi . These decompose and putrify your body and ultimately , within a year or so , most of the flesh on your body will have decomposed leaving just your bones behind . To stop your body decomposing this scientists can pump you full of chemicals - called embalming . This keep you presentable for about a week such as for your funeral -LRB- stock image of cemetery in Bath shown -RRB- . But ultimately your body will decompose to bones in a year or so . Dissolving dead bodies to create a brown , foul-smelling syrup may sound gruesome , but that 's exactly what some people are hoping to happen to them once they pass away . The process is called alkaline hydrolysis and was developed more than two decades ago to get rid of animal carcasses . It 's a more efficient and environmentally-friendly of getting rid of dead bodies , according to scientists . Alkaline hydrolysis uses lye , 300 °C heat and huge amounts of pressure to destroy bodies in big stainless-steel cylinders that look similar to pressure cookers . The process involves submerging the body in a solution of water and potassium hydroxide , which is then pressurised and heated for two-and-a-half to three hours . This leaves a green-brown tinted liquid containing amino acids , peptides , sugars and salts and soft , porous white bone remains which are easily crushed . Because of its environmental advantages , some in the funeral industry say it could someday rival burial and cremation . It also eliminates concerns about crematorium emissions , including carbon dioxide , which can be released into the air as part of the process . ` Next all your stomach contents get sucked out and all the dark nether regions touched by the circulatory system are filled up with the same chemicals . ` The embalming process allows your body to be displayed and buried without decomposing , but the process is only temporary ; eventually your body will again decompose , usually in a week or so . The awful smell that comes from a dead body comes from two particular chemical bioproducts , putrescine and cadaverine , which ` smell absolutely disgusting ' according to the narrator . Other bad smelling compounds include dimethyl disulphide and dimethyl trisulfide , which both contain sulphur , that ` reek like rotten egg and skunk . ' These bioproducts also , together with many other gases , make your body extremely bloated as the decomposition process continues . Ultimately , within a year , most of the flesh on your body will have decomposed - and in 40 to 50 years your bones will be dry and brittle , but can last for hundreds of years . One common misconception , though , is also that hair and fingernails continue growing after death . As explained in the video this is not the case , but rather it just seems this way because skin contracts when it is dehydrated , making them seem to grow . ` So hopefully now you 've got a good sense of what happens when you can sense no more , ' the video concludes . | Video by American Chemical Society explains what happens when you die . It explains the bodily functions that shut down after death . When blood stops circulating your cells begin to die . This makes your body bacteria and fungi start to decompose your body . 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It 's rare that your WiFi 's actual speed lives up to the number on your router 's box - but that could be about to change if Samsung has its way . The South Korean company has developed a 60 GHz WiFi technology that it claims can send data five times faster than other electronics devices . This will allow data transmission speeds of up to 575 megabytes -LRB- MB -RRB- per second -- enough to transfer a 1GB movie between devices in less than three seconds . Scroll down for video . Samsung has developed a 60 GHz WiFi technology that it claims can send data five times faster than other electronics devices . This will allow data transmission speeds of up to 575 megabytes -LRB- MB -RRB- per second -- enough to transfer a 1GB movie between devices in less than three seconds . It also means that an uncompressed high-definition videos can be streamed from mobile devices to a television in real-time . ` Unlike the existing 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi technologies , Samsung 's 802.11 ad standard 60 GHz Wi-Fi technology maintains maximum speed by eliminating co-channel interference , regardless of the number of devices using the same network , ' according to Samsung 's announcement . The group says previous attempts to use the 60GHz band for WiFi have failed because they used millimetre waves that travel by line-of-sight . They have weak penetration properties , which means they often lose signal and data performance when they hit obstacles such as walls . Using something known as a ` wide-coverage beam-forming antennae ' , Samsung says it has solved the speed issues that come with millimetre waves . Samsung has revealed it has been working on a consumer virtual realtiy headset . Samsung is working with virtual reality firm , Oculus Rift , to develop a consumer VR headset . Called the Samsung Gear VR , users slip a Note 3 tablet into the headset to provide the screen . The firm says it will start selling the headset to ` innovators ' this year . ` Powered by Oculus technology , the Samsung Gear VR delivers a completely new way to experience and consume mobile content , ' Samsung said . It is believed Samsung provided the hardware , while Oculus provided the software . It 's consumer headset , called the rift , is not expected to go on sale to the public until next year . The firm has also partnered with several game development firms to develop content for the gadget . The headset , in development under the name ` Project Morpheus ' , is designed toproject images that shift along with the movements of a gamer ` shead . The group hopes to commercialise its 60 GHz WiFi technology as early as next year , in audio-visual systems , medical devices and mobile phones . The technology is also likely to be key to the ` Samsung Smart Home ' - a vision of living in which home appliances are connected to the internet and controlled remotely . Last week , Samsung said its quarterly operating profit had fallen 60 per cent because of poor smartphone sales . It also announced a 15.6 trillion won -LRB- $ 14.5 billion or # 9 billion -RRB- investment to build a plant in South Korea that would produce semiconductor chips . Samsung hopes to commercialise its 60 GHz WiFi technology as early as next year , in audio-visual systems , medical devices and mobile phones . | This will allow HD video to be streamed from mobile to TV in real-time . Early attempts to use 60GHz band failed as they used millimetre waves . These waves travel by line-of-sight and have trouble penetrating walls . Samsung overcame this using ` wide-coverage beam-forming antennae ' The south Korean group said its technology will be available next year . | [[781, 783], [789, 905], [1188, 1251], [1228, 1298], [1272, 1329], [1272, 1329], [1466, 1530], [2192, 2214], [2235, 2296], [2550, 2631], [3146, 3225]] |
Nick Clegg 'S # 600 million free school meals plan has suffered a blow after a Government pilot scheme showed that children who switch from ` unhealthy ' packed lunches to cooked meals are no healthier . Supporters of the initiative to give free school meals to all pupils in the first three years of primary school say fattening food in packed lunches is fuelling rising levels of obesity among children . But a two-year scheme to test the school meals initiative , in which tens of thousands of children had cooked meals instead of packed lunches , has found there was no change in their health or body mass index , a measure of a person 's healthy weight based on height and gender . Nick Clegg 's proposed school meal plan suffered a blow after Government pilot scheme showed children who switch from packed lunches to cooked meals are no healthier . A report for the Department for Education found that although children ate fewer of the fatty and sugary items often found in lunch boxes , such as crisps , sandwiches , sweets and fizzy drinks , they made up for it by eating more roast potatoes and chips in the cooked school meals . Moreover , children who previously had a packed lunch and a hot meal at home in the evening were eating extra because they had two cooked meals a day . The findings were seized on by critics of the Liberal Democrat leader 's initiative unveiled at the party 's conference in Glasgow . Professor Alan Smithers , director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at Buckingham University , said : ` This is an expensive political gimmick and it is very doubtful that it will contribute much either to the health of the children or their education . ` The reason why it wo n't have much of an . impact on obesity is that children spend a relatively small part of . their lives at school , so any obesity will be down to their whole way of . life with their families , not just those few hours in school . ' The Department of Education study into the two-year scheme , published last year , said that although nearly all primary children in the two pilot areas -- Durham and Newham in London -- were eating cooked meals rather than packed lunches , there was no weight loss . The report said that though children were eating fewer packets of crisps and more vegetables at lunch they could be eating more fatty food outside school hours to compensate . The study by NatCen , a social research charity , said there was ` no evidence that the free school meal pilot led to significant health benefits during the two-year pilot period . For example , there was no evidence of any change in children 's body mass index . ' Professor Alan Smithers , director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at Buckingham University , described the scheme as ` an expensive gimmick ' The researchers cautioned , however , that two years could have been too short a period to see health improvements , and pointed out there were other benefits such as a boost in the pupils ' academic achievements.itch from ` unhealthy ' packed lunches to cooked meals are no healthier . Supporters of the initiative to give free school meals to all pupils in the first three years of primary school say fattening food in packed lunches is fuelling rising levels of obesity among children . But a two-year scheme to test the school meals initiative , in which tens of thousands of children had cooked meals instead of packed lunches , has found there was no change in their health or body mass index , a measure of a person 's healthy weight based on height and gender . A report for the Department for Education found that although children ate fewer of the fatty and sugary items often found in lunch boxes , such as crisps , sandwiches , sweets and fizzy drinks , they made up for it by eating more roast potatoes and chips in the cooked school meals . Moreover , children who previously had a packed lunch and a hot meal at home in the evening were eating extra because they had two cooked meals a day . The findings were seized on by critics of the Liberal Democrat leader 's initiative unveiled at the party 's conference in Glasgow . Professor Alan Smithers , director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at Buckingham University , said : ` This is an expensive political gimmick and it is very doubtful that it will contribute much either to the health of the children or their education . ` The reason why it wo n't have much of an impact on obesity is that children spend a relatively small part of their lives at school , so any obesity will be down to their whole way of life with their families , not just those few hours in school . ' he Department of Education study into the two-year scheme , published last year , said that although nearly all primary children in the two pilot areas -- Durham and Newham in London -- were eating cooked meals rather than packed lunches , there was no weight loss . The report said that though children were eating fewer packets of crisps and more vegetables at lunch they could be eating more fatty food outside school hours to compensate . The study by NatCen , a social research charity , said there was ` no evidence that the free school meal pilot led to significant health benefits during the two-year pilot period . For example , there was no evidence of any change in children 's body mass index . ' The researchers cautioned , however , that two years could have been too short a period to see health improvements , and pointed out there were other benefits such as a boost in the pupils ' academic achievements . | Two-year test scheme found no change in the health of children who switched from packed lunches to cooked meals . Department of Education report found children made up for fatty and sugary foods with roast potatoes and chips . 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Coach Jurgen Klinsmann has set his sights on leading the United States into the last four at the next World Cup . The German guided the US out of the ` group of death ' ahead of Portugal and Ghana before losing to Belgium in the last 16 . Bullish : United States coach Jurgen Klinsmann has raised the bar . But Klinsmann said he was disappointed by the extra-time defeat in Brazil and vowed to do better in Russia in 2018 . He told NBC Sports : ' I was left with that feeling to get out of the most difficult group of the World Cup should go further than just the round of 16 . Success : United States reached last 16 in Brazil before going out to Belgium . ` It was possible to get into the quarter-final , it was even possible to get into the semi-final in Brazil . ` This is our goal going towards Russia . To say clearly , listen , we have four years to prepare this cycle . Our goal is going to a semifinal in a World Cup . And that means a lot of work , a lot of competition , a lot of grind . ' | United States coach Jurgen Klinsmann has raised the bar for Russia . German guided the US out of the ` group of death ' in Brazil . Klinsmann eager to make up for disappointment of Belgium defeat . | [[0, 113], [249, 306], [114, 238]] |
A police chief has condemned his own force for letting a house burglar off with a warning . Jim Barker-McCardle , Chief Constable of Essex Police , said he was ` staggered ' by the officers ' decision to give a caution for the offence and has launched a misconduct investigation . Chief Constable Jim Barker-McCardle is furious that his officers gave a burglar a caution and let him off with a warning . Ireneusz Blaszczyk broke into the house in Essex in November last year , stealing cash , belongings including jewellery and cameras and unwrapping the family 's Christmas presents . The 23-year-old Pole handed himself in after a police appeal but , despite confessing to the burglary , was offered a caution -- meaning he would not face trial . Stock Image . The burglar ransacked a home , stole jewellery and cameras and unwrapped all their Christmas presents . Homeowner David Cable said : ` We want a bit of justice . The guy broke into our house , ransacked it and did n't even get a fine . ' Mr Barker-McCardle has referred three of his officers to the force 's Professional Standards Department , sent case files to the CPS and written to the local branch of the Magistrates ' Association . | Essex police officers just gave a burglar a caution . He had stolen jewellery and cameras from a home . Police chief Jim Barker-McCardle was furious about the decision . | [[0, 91], [177, 189], [201, 234], [281, 403], [333, 370], [333, 345], [375, 403], [586, 606], [690, 711], [404, 422], [477, 527], [486, 490], [493, 535], [763, 774], [794, 855], [0, 91], [92, 111], [114, 145], [148, 200], [281, 403]] |
The majority of circumcisions are performed soon after birth . Men who are circumcised are in for some bad news - it puts them at a disadvantage in the bedroom , according to experts . A study found those who 've had their foreskin removed as children or adults experience less intense sexual pleasure and orgasm than their peers . ` We 're not saying less sexual activity or satisfaction , but sensitivity , ' senior author Dr Piet Hoebeke , from Ghent University Hospital , said . The practice is common in the U.S , with three-quarters of men having the procedure for non-religious reasons . However , it is rare in the UK , with a rate of just six per cent , according to World Health Organisation figures . Some religions , such as Judaism and Islam , consider circumcision part of religious practice . British . doctors say that although it can reduce the risk of some types of . infection the risks associated with routine circumcision outweigh any . potential benefits . The latest study surveyed 1,369 men over the age of 18 , who responded to leaflets handed out in train stations across Belgium . The . men were asked whether they were circumcised , and were then asked to . rate how sensitive their penis was , how intense their orgasms were and . whether they experience any pain or numbness when they are aroused . Overall , 310 men who took the survey were circumcised , and 1,059 were not . Each rated how sensitive their penis was on a scale from 0 to five , with higher numbers being the most sensitive . For example , uncircumcised men reported an average sensitivity score of 3.72 when they or their partner stroked the head of their manhood compared to 3.31 amongst circumcised men . ` It 's a significant difference , ' Hoebeke said . Uncircumcised men also reported more intense orgasms . Male circumcision prevalence in 2007 : Yellow is lower than 20 % , orange is 20-80 % and red is higher than 80 % . One possible explanation for any potential difference in sensitivity is that a man 's foreskin may protect his penis 's head from rubbing against underwear and clothing . It 's possible , the researchers write , that friction makes the head of the penis thicker , drier and ultimately less sensitive . The researchers also found circumcised men were more likely to report more pain and numbness during arousal than uncircumcised men , which Dr Hoebeke said is likely due to scar tissue . ` I 'm amazed that people report pain during sexual pleasure ... that was unexpected , ' he told Reuters Health . However , Dr Aaron Tobin from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , who was not involved in the study , said : ` The medical evidence and the benefits of male circumcision are abundantly clear . ' The American Academy of Pediatrics says the benefits of male circumcision outweigh the risks , but stops short of recommending universal circumcision . | Men who had foreskin removed reporting feeling less intense sexual pleasure . 75 % of men in US and 6 % in UK have circumcision for non-religious reasons . NHS do n't routinely perform them saying risks outweigh benefits . | [[210, 331], [542, 594], [896, 957]] |
A Japanese judge has ordered Google to remove search results of a man 's unflattering past in a new ` right to be forgotten ' order following a landmark ruling in Europe . The Tokyo District Court yesterday ordered Google Japan to remove search results that hinted at the man 's relations with a criminal organisation after he complained his privacy rights were violated . Google spokesman Taj Meadows said the company has a standard process for removal requests , and people can come to Google . A Japanese judge has ordered Google to remove search results of a man 's unflattering past in a new ` right to be forgotten ' order following a landmark ruling in Europe in May . It is unclear whether the case would prompt further requests for information to be removed in Japan . He said : ` We remove pages from our search results when required by local law , including Japan 's longstanding privacy and defamation laws . ' Google was reviewing the Tokyo court decision , Mr Meadows said . It is unclear whether the case would prompt further requests for information to be removed from websites in Japan . In the court decision , Judge Nobuyuki Seki said some of the search results ` infringe personal rights , ' and had harmed the plaintiff . The case comes on the back of a decision by the European Court of Justice in May that ruled Google should delete references to negative past information , including old debts and past arrests , to protect what has come to be called ` the right to be forgotten ' . Google chairman Eric Schmidt ; the company is said to be reviewing the injunction . While the European ruling has no baring on privacy cases in Japan it is a further blow against freedom of speech and a sign of increasing moves by the courts and legislators to allow people to censor their past . In America where Google and other Internet giants are based , the decision has no effect and experts say it is in conflict with the US constitution 's first amendment , which guarantees freedom of speech . Examples of its use in the UK have already included hundreds of pedophiles applying to have their criminal pasts erased online . Within a month of the ruling coming into effect , over 12,000 people across Europe used an online Google form to request information about them be deleted . More than 10 per cent of the requests came from pedophiles . At one point Google said it was getting 20 requests per minute . The difference between Europe and the US means that results are deleted from local versions of google but not google.com . One man 's attempt to have his debts kept secret has led to the ` right to forget ' - which now seems to be spreading around the world . Mario Costeja González battle began in 2009 when he found a Google search of his name brought up an article in a Spanish newspaper from 1998 about an auction for his foreclosed home , and a debt he had subsequently paid . He initially complained to the Spanish Data Protection Agency , which rejected his request on the grounds the information was lawful and accurate . However , it asked Google to remove it . The company then challenged the matter in the Spanish courts before a ruling was made by the European Court of Justice . The decision was widely criticised . German professor Niko Harting said : ` Privacy by default will encourage politicians , celebrities and other public figures to put their lawyers on track when they find inconvenient information online . ' The impact of the ruling on Freedom of Speech , was highlighted by the removal from Google search listings of a blog Robert Peston , the BBC 's respected economics editor , wrote in 2007 about Stan O'Neal , the former boss of investment bank Merrill Lynch , and how he was forced out of his job after the investment bank suffered colossal losses on reckless investments it had made . In fact the removal was because one person no longer wanted a comment they had made on the blog associated with their name - emphasising that the ` right ' went far beyond ` forgetting ' the distant past . In May the European Court of Justice ruled that people have the right to have ` inadequate ' and ` irrelevant ' results about them wiped from the internet Under the European Data Protection Regulation , Article 17 . Under Article 17 , people who are mentioned in the data have the right to ` obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data relating to them and the abstention from further dissemination of such data ' . European citizens can submit take-down requests directly to internet companies rather than to local authorities or publishers under the ruling . If a search engine elects not to remove the link , a person can seek redress from the courts . Following the decision , thousands of pedophiles and others criminals sought to have their criminals pasts erased from the internet . All requests are considered by Google , but it will have to balance privacy with the public interest , and the company has said it will not remove links in all cases . The risk which the ruling poses to a free press and free discussion of ideas has been repeatedly highlighted , particularly by news websites , among them MailOnline . MailOnline publisher Martin Clarke said of the European Court of Justice decision : ` It is the equivalent of going into libraries and burning books you do n't like . ' | The search results hinted at the man 's relations with a criminal organisation . The decision echos the ruling made by the European Court of Justice in May . Google are said to be reviewing the injunction which was issued yesterday . | [[215, 317], [238, 252], [258, 349], [94, 171], [591, 675], [1243, 1323], [4046, 4176], [923, 968], [1538, 1549], [1558, 1590]] |
Climate talks were hanging in the balance last night , as the world 's nations argued over who should take responsibility for reducing greenhouse gases . But as world leaders talked into the night , it emerged that the 12-day summit in Peru had generated more carbon dioxide than an entire African country . More than 12,500 politicians , diplomats , green activists and journalists flew to Lima for the United Nations summit , the latest in a 20-year series of annual climate meetings . Scroll down for video . Shocking : It emerged that the 12-day summit in Peru had generated more carbon dioxide than an entire African country . The talks have produced more than 50,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide , the UN admitted , giving the Lima summit the largest carbon footprint of any meeting in the two-decade history of the negotiations . That is more than the emissions produced by entire nations such as Malawi , Sierra Leone , Fiji or Barbados over the same 12-day period . The summit is to produce a legally-binding treaty forcing every nation in the world to reduce greenhouse gases . The talks were scheduled to have finished last night , but were expected to overrun into the weekend as the 192 nations failed to reach an agreement on crucial points . Britain alone has a team of 45 negotiators at the summit , including Liberal Democrat energy secretary Ed Davey and civil servants from three different Government departments . Jorge Alvarez , project coordinator for the UN Development Programme , said the emissions were so high because a plan to run the summit on green power went wrong . Dispute : The talks were scheduled to have finished last night , but were expected to overrun into the weekend as the 192 nations failed to reach an agreement on crucial points . UK representative : Britain alone has a team of 45 negotiators at the summit , including Liberal Democrat energy secretary Ed Davey -LRB- above -RRB- . Instead the huge negotiating complex , built from scratch in the Peruvian capital , has been run on dirty diesel generators . Organisers had planned to draw power from Peru 's national grid , half of which is fed by green hydroelectric power . ` We worked to upgrade transformers and generators but for some reason it did n't work , ' said Mr Alvarez . Huge temporary structures were built on empty fields the size of 11 football pitches behind Peru 's army 's headquarters . Concrete was laid , plumbing installed and more than 300 buses hired to transport negotiators to the venue . Japan had donated 121 electric and hybrid vehicles for the summit -- but they have been nowhere to be seen in Lima . ` Unfortunately , most did n't arrive , ' Mr Alvarez said , blaming shipping bureaucracy . The thousands of flights , from delegates across the world , has produced 30 per cent of the estimated total . Some 6,817 civil servants and politicians , 1,025 UN officials , 3,630 green activists and 1,060 journalists registered for the summit . The carbon emissions of the UK delegation to Lima are estimated at 220 tonnes . Mass attendace : Some 6,817 civil servants and politicians , 1,025 UN officials , 3,630 green activists and 1,060 journalists registered for the summit . Each British official attending has carbon footprint of 4.9 tonnes over the 12 days in flights and hotel rooms -- it would take the average UK citizen more than seven months to produce the same amount . Mr Alvarez insisted 100 per cent of the emissions would be offset by Peruvian forestry schemes which would absorb carbon dioxide . Benny Peiser , director of the Global Warming Policy Forum , a climate-sceptic think tank , said : ` UN climate meetings are the most lucrative and most attractive perks for the tens of thousands of green bureaucrats and climate activists who are travelling around the world while telling others to curtail their carbon footprint . ` It 's a wandering circus of champagne greens to the most outstanding beauty spots and most luxurious hotels on earth . ' Negotiators are trying to reach a global agreement on how to slow the pace of climate change , to replace the disastrous 1997 Kyoto Protocol , which was ignored by major powers including the US . Diplomats have been trying to build bridges ever since , with the aim of signing a final treaty in Paris in December 2015 . They hoped to have a draft agreement in place by yesterday afternoon , with a firm roadmap expected as to how each country would commit to taking action over the coming months . But the talks stalled as nations bickering about the scope and extent of the pledges . A key hurdle is a bitter divide between rich and poor nations . US Secretary of State John Kerry called for poorer nations to step up and take responsibility for the problem . Many developing countries say the West should bear responsibility for taking more action on climate change because they industrialised earlier and have been polluting the atmosphere for longer . US Secretary of State John Kerry called for poorer nations to step up and take responsibility for the problem . ` We simply do n't have time to sit around going back and forth about whose responsibility it is to act , ' he told the summit . ` Pretty simple , folks - it 's everyone 's responsibility , because it 's the net amount of carbon that matters , not each country 's share . ' Britain and the US want the pledges to contain transparent details about how much each country plans to reduce their emissions . But China and Saudi Arabia rejected the call for public scrutiny -- and said only Western nations should have to produce detailed information about their pledges . Mr Davey told the Mail last night : ` It is important that we are the toughest , toughest negotiators . People need to know that when Paris concludes next year that there is a set of rules of governance structure which will force every country to adhere to them . ` Yes we are going to play tough , because I think we have to . ' The cost of the trip to UK taxpayers is estimated to be between # 300,000 and # 400,000 . A spokesman for the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat said : ` The UN like many organizations and businesses use video conferencing and other communications technologies to `` meet '' . But no one has yet found a really credible alternative to face to face intergovernmental negotiations . ' A spokesman for the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change said : ` The size of the delegation is consistent with that in previous years . ` Climate change is among the world 's most complex international negotiations - our delegation is an example of efficiency in engaging in such a huge and important process . ' | Talks in Lima have produced more than 50,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide . More than emissions produced by all of Sierra Leone over same 12 days . Summit is to produce legally-binding treaty on reducing greenhouse gases . | [[158, 196], [199, 307], [523, 631], [632, 697], [158, 196], [199, 307], [523, 631], [851, 970], [971, 1020], [971, 981], [985, 1057], [996, 1083]] |
A family doctor has been struck off for secretly filming the intimate examination of hundreds of women patients using a camera hidden in his wristwatch . Dr Davinderjit Bains , 46 , recorded hours of footage with the # 60 spy device as he carried out ` unnecessary and inappropriate ' inspections , the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service was told . The abuse continued for two years until his 19-year-old lodger told police he had filmed her showering and assaulted her . Predator : Dr Davinderjit Bains , left , used his . ` spy watch ' right to film himself sexually abusing female patients at . his surgery for more than two years before he was caught . When Bains was arrested at his surgery in Royal Wootton Bassett , Wiltshire , officers discovered 361 video clips filmed on the watch - some as long as 45 minutes . Around 3,000 potential victims were contacted but the exact number is thought to be ` close to 300 ' - aged between 14 and 51 . A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service banned Bains from practicing . The tribunal in Manchester was told that his conviction earlier this year means that his fitness to practice is impaired , and he should be struck off . In March , Bains appeared at Swindon Crown Court where he admitted 39 counts of sexual assault and voyeurism and asked for a further 65 offences to be taken into consideration . He is serving a 12 year prison sentence and is not represented at the hearing . Victims : After investigating a complaint , police found 361 high-quality images of Dr Bains abusing female patients at Tinkers Lane Surgery in Royal Wootton Bassett near Swindon , Wiltshire . The doctor was described as a ` sexual predator ' . He used an analogue timepiece - a 4GB Waterproof HD Spy Watch DVR - has . simple on and off buttons to record and can be bought online for less . than # 60 . Hidden in the . number six was a tiny high-definition camera , which he used to record . examinations between 2010 and 2012 that police said were ` for his own . gratification ' and ` could not be justified as an examination ' . Detective Inspector Mark Garrett , of Wiltshire Police , holds up the hi-tech wristwatch used by the disgraced GP . Detectives tracked down the victims by matching their faces on the film with patient records . The GP , who is separated from his wife , was suspended by the General Medical Council following his arrest last year . Opening . the MPTS hearing Ben Fitzgerald for the General Medical Council said : . ` Dr Bains faces the allegation that his fitness to practise is impaired . ` He was convicted of a large number of sexual offences and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment . Summarising , there were 13 counts of sexual assault on a female by penetration , 11 sexual assaults on a female , two counts of sexual activity with a female under 16 , and 13 counts of voyeurism . ` Dr Bains , whilst being employed as a GP in Royal Wootten Bassett , used his position of trust and responsibility of those in his care to carry out a campaign of sexual assault and voyeurism between 2009 and 2012 on 29 different victims , all but one was his patient . ` His conduct came to light in June 2012 as a result of sexual abuse of Miss A , a lodger . ` He covertly videoed her on a number of occasions . ` She reported it to the police and as a result of the investigation unearthed evidence of a large number of sexual assaults and other victims . The police found videos on his computer taken by him which showed him performing intimate examinations between 2009 and 2012 . ` The videos had been recorded using a specially constructed watch that he was using to record for his own sexual gratification . ' He said the doctor had been of previous good character . He qualified in India in 1993 and came to the UK in 2003 . He worked as a GP from 2007 and had been working at the Tinkers Lane Surgery in Wootten Bassett for four years at the time when he was exposed by Miss A. Disturbing : The disgraced doctor also had this watch containing a small camera . Many victims of the doctor thought his behaviour was strange but feared upsetting the delicate doctor-patient relationship . One 21-year-old victim told the Daily Mail of her horrific experience . She went to see Bains in May last year after experiencing vaginal bleeding following sex with her partner . She was offered an appointment with Bains . The surgery had no female doctors and , because of the intimate nature of the problem , she decided to take her mother with her . ` He asked me why I was there and I explained briefly . He started asking very strange questions . My mum and I were looking at each other , a bit taken aback . ' Bains told Kate - not her real name - that he would need to examine her . ` I had expected that , ' she said , ` so I 'd prepared myself . He asked if I wanted my mum to leave , and I said yes . ' Bains disappeared for a couple of minutes , telling Kate not to get undressed until he returned . She says : ` I assumed it was normal procedure before a patient undressed -- that maybe he was closing blinds somewhere , or locking a connecting door in case someone came in . ' When he came back , locking the door behind him , Bains told Kate to undress . He did not pull the examination bed curtain around her , close the blinds or offer her any privacy . ` He watched me getting undressed , ' says Kate . ` He was very quiet . I felt very uncomfortable . I was trying to pull my top down so he would n't see . But I did n't know what was normal . ` He put some gloves on and asked me to get up onto the bed . He said he was going to do a visual examination and that if there was anything he did n't like the look of , he 'd take a sample . ' For the next 20 minutes , Bains ` examined ' Kate , filming himself all the time . ` It was a long , long time , ' she says . ` but I just thought he was being thorough . ' Her mother assumed that they were talking and had not realised how long he had been intimately examining her daughter . Kate remembers that he was shaking and seemed very nervous . At the end of the consultation , Bains gave Kate the all-clear and told her to get dressed . Her mother said : ` When she came out of the room , I commented on how long it had taken and she said she 'd never felt so degraded in her life . I remember saying `` Welcome to our world '' , because all women have to endure that kind of thing at some point . I feel so stupid now . ' | Dr Davinderjit Bains , 46 , worked as a GP in Wootton Bassett , Wiltshire . He performed ` unnecessary and inappropriate ' inspections on hundreds of women . Police discovered 361 video clips of patients filmed on the watch . Nearly 3,000 potential victims contacted by officers during investigation . Bains is serving 12 year prison term after admitting sexual assault and voyeurism charges . Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service strikes Bains off . | [[2856, 2864], [2867, 2921], [0, 111], [236, 296], [661, 724], [739, 825], [1447, 1478], [1481, 1577], [826, 871], [1208, 1215], [1234, 1287], [2560, 2654], [954, 1025], [1002, 1025]] |
Flight attendants claim that using gadgets while flying -LRB- stock image -RRB- is dangerous during take-off . These days tablets and laptops can be used onboard the majority , if not the entire duration of a flight . But flight attendants are now claiming that using gadgets while flying is dangerous . However , not because of interference with avionics systems , as previously thought , but because many passengers ignore flight attendants ' emergency announcements . They also warn that the devices could become dangerous projectiles in turbulent conditions . The US ' largest flight attendant union is suing the Federal Aviation Administration -LRB- FAA -RRB- in a bid to have the ban on the use of phones and tablets during take-off and landing , brought back . The FAA has relaxed its guidelines to allow ` any other portable electronic device that the operator of the aircraft has determined will not cause interference with the navigation or communication system of the aircraft on which it is to be used ' . The Association of Flight Attendants , -LRB- CWA -RRB- which has 60,000 members , argues that by ignoring safety notices such as the location of emergency exits , passengers are putting their lives in danger . It also says that the new rules contradict others that require all items to be stowed safely during take-off and landing . Scroll down for video . The US ' largest flight attendant union is suing the Federal Aviation Administration -LRB- FAA -RRB- in a bid to have the ban on the use of phones and tablets during take-off and landing , brought back . It claims users of the gadgets -LRB- pictured left -RRB- ignore important safety announcements by cabin crew -LRB- pictured during the World Cup -RRB- . Rules vary , depending on the airline , whether people can use electronics during take-off and landing . In the US , the FAA allows smartphones ` that the operator of the aircraft has determined will not cause interference with the navigation or communication system of the aircraft on which it is to be used ' . In Europe , people can use mobiles on some commercial flights - most in ` airplane mode ' -- and some not during take-off or landing . Much research has been conducted as to whether electronics can interfere with aircrafts ' navigation and communication systems . The US ' Federal Communications Commission restricts use of smartphones to prevent disruption to cell towers on the ground . A 2010 study by Boeing warns that some gadgets used in the cabin can exceed the aircraft manufacturer 's permissible emission levels for safety on some avionics , but others dispute this . The union warned that the devices allow ` more things to fly around , ' in the cabin during take-off and times of turbulence . In response , a lawyer for the government told the judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit , that smartphones and tablets are no more dangerous than books , which plenty of people read during take-off . It is a year since the FAA found that personal electronic devices , including smartphones and computers , do not interfere with a plane 's navigation and communication systems , as previously thought . The relaxed rules , which depending on the airline , allow passengers to type and play games on their phones -- in airplane mode - as they take off , have proved a big hit with frequent fliers . Amanda Duré , an attorney representing the union told The Wall Street Journal : ` Essentially we want to set the reset button to the way personal electronic devices were handled prior to October 2013 . ' The union is apparently happy with a deal that means devices can be turned on , but not used by passengers , during take-off and landing . The law suit was filed in December , but has only just come to light . | Flight attendants claim gadgets are a distraction during take-off . Tablets could also act as projectiles during turbulence , they say . Flight attendant union is suing the Federal Aviation Administration -LRB- FAA -RRB- to bring back the ban on using gadgets during take-off and landing . The FAA relaxed its guidelines last year and some airlines allow passengers to use tablets and smartphones during the entire flight . | [[0, 110], [222, 239], [244, 303], [0, 110], [471, 475], [481, 563], [2623, 2749], [2708, 2719], [2720, 2749], [564, 673], [668, 750], [1375, 1484], [1479, 1561], [2142, 2146], [2151, 2162], [2163, 2179], [1837, 1846], [1849, 2014]] |
A disturbed young man has shocked North America after he tried to kill himself by setting his room on fire while 200 people watched on an online messageboard . The 20-year-old , who identified himself only as ` Stephen ' , announced on the anonymous 4chan website that he intended to commit suicide and broadcast the event for others to see . Disturbingly , scores of online users signed up to watch the suicide attempt and helped the man to set up the video stream for the ` an hero ' - online slang for suicide attempt . Tragic : ` Stephen ' , 20 , allegedly tried to kill himself on 4chan about 7pm Saturday night . Horrific : ` Stephen ' posted this note on 4chan explaining why he was trying to commit suicide . After 200 users had signed up to his . video stream , ` Stephen ' swallowed a handful of pills and drank vodka lighting a fire in the corner of his room about . 7pm on Saturday . He retreated under his bed as smoke appeared to billow around him . 4chan is an imageboard website allowing users to post anonymously . ` As an oldf * g who 's been on 4chan since 2004 , I thought I would finally give back to the community in the best possible way , ' he wrote on the notorious imageboard . ' I am willing to an hero -LSB- commit suicide -RSB- on cam for you all . ` All that I request is for you guys to link me to a site where I am able to stream it for you guys . ' ` Stephen ' , using the name ` LOLdoge ' , set up a camera to film his suicide attempt . Strange community : 200 viewers watched as Stephen 's room filled with smoke and firefighters pulled him from the room . The Daily Dot reported another user set up a . video chatroom on streaming website Chateen which ` Stephen ' joined . ` Stephen ' used the username LOLDoge , a reference to a meme featuring a photo of a Shiba . Inu dog that is popular on 4chan . With . 200 viewers - the maximum allowed on Chateen - watching him and even . more trying to get in , Stephen downed booze and pills before setting his . room alight . As the camera rolled , he crawled under the bed where he typed : ' #imdead #omgimonfire ' and ` I 'm f*ck 3d ' . The troubling video , still available online , shows firefighters pulling him out of the smokey room . A number of viewers disturbingly encouraged ` Stephen ' during his suicide attempt , while others clamored to view the horrific scene . One wrote : ` Let 's all of us use his photo as wallpaper for one week . He 's doing it . ' Another who was frustrated at not being to watch the suicide attempt because the chat room was full wrote : ` Leave someone so we can join . ' Another anonymous user wrote : ` PROVIDE PICS ROOM IS FULL DAMN IT . ' As 200 viewers watched , ` Stephen ' ingested pills and vodka , lit a fire with his toaster and hid under his bed . The disturbing video captured the moment firefighters pulled ` Stephen ' out of the smokey room . It is not known whether he is still alive . A spokeswoman for the University of Guelph confirmed that the incident took place on campus . She told Mailonline that the troubled man 's mother was at his hospital bedside and was ` not in a good place psychologically ' . 4chan has been described as ` one of the darkest corners of the web ' and ` the rude , raunchy underbelly of the internet ' The . website , a series of chatrooms and picture sharing boards , was designed . by New Yorker Christopher Poole when he was just a teenager . It . started out as a place to discuss manga but quickly turned into a more . controversial chat-room where users under the cloak of anonymity seem to believe . nothing is beyond mockery . Members have no issue making light of tragedy : Openly taunting suicide victims , their families and laughing at the reaction to fake death rumors they put about the internet . Users have also taken responsibility for hacking other sites - including famously Sarah Palin 's private email . The / b / board is said to be the most popular page on the site and coincidentally home to its most sickening material . It often includes pornography and vicious bullying . The term ` an hero ' - used to discuss suicide on the site - is a good example of how vile users can become . Spotting a grammatical error on the memorial page for seventh . grader Mitchell Henderson , who shot himself in the head with his parents ' rifle in 2008 , 4chan users thought the typo more worthy of interest than the tragic death . They began to bombard the boards with images and messages mocking Mitchell 's death and the people mourning him which even led to prank phone calls being made to his parents . Several other bullying victims and mourning families have complained of similar treatment by the site . Hannah Smith who killed herself after months of cyber-bullying was one such victim as was Natasha MacBryde . The site can at times claim responsibility for some good deeds . On . one occasion the community tracked down a man who posted videos of . alleged cat abuse which led to his arrest . She added : ` A fire was reported at 7.40 on Saturday evening and fire and police responded . The fire was put out and they found the injured student . ` The damage was confined to the student 's residence but students were evacuated as a precaution . ` We were suspicious the fire had been started by the student but the police began investigating . ` When videos started circulating yesterday -LRB- Sunday -RRB- meetings were called with university staff and students and counsellors brought in to be available to any students as obviously it 's a disturbing situation . ` We are also advising students not to watch or share the video . We 're trying to take it down but it 's on so many guerrilla sites it 's almost impossible to do that . ' Brenda Whiteside , Associate Vice President for Student Affairs told MailOnline : ` We have n't been able to speak to the student yet . He 's in hospital and he 's going to be okay . ` He ca n't talk to anyone at the moment . His mum is with him and we may be able to talk to him in the next day or two . He 's going to be in a fragile state . We 're respecting his privacy and need to recover with the interest it 's a difficult balance . ' According to the Guelph Mercury , the victim was rushed to hospital with ` serious but non life-threatening injuries ' caused by smoke inhalation . Two staff members were also taken to hospital but were later released . 120 students were evacuated and 42 remain out of their rooms as the investigation continues . They are now being put up in temporary accommodation . An anonymous user posted their own account of the incident , claiming ` Stephen ' had taken prescription drugs in his dorm room , cheated on his girlfriend , was disowned by his parents and ` in debt for useless degree ' . ` Stephen ' has quickly become the subject of cruel taunts and jokes on the messageboard , being dubbed ` Toaster Steve ' . For confidential support call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90 , visit a local Samaritans branch or see www.samaritans.org . For confidential support in the U.S. , call the National Suicide Prevention Line on 1-800-273-8255 . | A 20-year-old man studying at Ontario 's University of Guelph tried to kill himself live on 4chan . 4chan is an imageboard website allowing users to post anonymously . ` Stephen ' lit a fire as 200 people watched on a live video stream . Footage shows him being pulled out by firefighters . The student is in a serious but non-life threatening condition with his devastated mother at his bedside . 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Liam Andrews , 17 , from Stockton-on-Tees , died from a brain haemorrhage caused by a sneezing fit . A teenager collapsed and died from a brain haemorrhage after having a sneezing fit . Liam Andrews , 17 , had a seizure at his home in Stockton-on-Tees after sneezing six times in quick succession . His mother Suzanne , 35 , rang an ambulance when he started vomiting and rolling around in pain , but he died four days later in hospital . Ms Andrews said : ` Liam came downstairs in the morning complaining of a headache and saying he had just sneezed six times in a row . ' I thought it was nothing serious at first and I told him I would get him some paracetamol but then he got poorly very quickly . ` Initially he was saying `` my head hurts , my head hurts '' , then he started being sick . ` His eyes were going back and forward and he was rolling around in pain . ` He could n't work his hands . ' I gave him a glass of water but he threw it over himself as he was so hot . ` He was so hot I could n't touch him , then he started to fit . Suzanne Andrews , mother of Liam , said she was proud of her son after he had donated his organs . ' I was extremely worried , I rang an ambulance and they were here within minutes . ' He was rushed to the emergency department of University Hospital of North Tees before being transferred to the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough . Mr Andrews underwent surgery to remove a clot on his brain and spent four days in critical condition in intensive care . Liam Andrews and his brother Elliott . Liam 's organs were donated helped save six lives . His mother said : ' I did n't see him again for hours . I felt numb , shocked and empty . ' I was just watching the clock ticking . ' I could not think of anybody else but Liam . Fortunately I have a lot of friends who helped look after my other children . ' Mr Andrews eventually died on his younger brother 's 12th birthday last June . His mother said : ' I was shocked and devastated when he passed away . ' I never would have imagined that something as simple as a few sneezes could kill a healthy young boy . ' I could n't believe it , there was nothing to indicate that something like this would happen . ' I asked for a specialised post mortem and it came back that he was absolutely fine . ` It is usually more common for this kind of thing to happen in people over the age of 40 , not in someone so young and fit . ' I do n't think there was anything anybody could have done to save Liam . ` It could have happened at any time or any day . ' I am just thankful that I was there to try and help and he was n't by himself . ' Since his death , Liam 's heart , liver , pancreas and kidneys have been donated to help save the lives of six other people . Ms Andrews , whose other children are Amy , 17 , Elliott , 12 , Erin , nine , Lewis , three , and Evie , one , said : ` Of course I am amazingly proud of Liam for making the decision to become an organ donor . ` Just six months before his death Liam was telling me you should be prepared to donate organs if you are willing to receive , then six months later we were fulfilling his wishes . Mr Andrews ' family - Elliott , Lewis , Suzanne with Evie , Erin and Amy - donated funds raised at his funeral to a Down 's syndrome charity . ` Liam was very sensitive and loving , he was a real character . ' I could have mature conversations with him but he was still young and liked to get himself into mischief . ' I would never have swapped him for the world . ' At his funeral , Ms Andrews asked for donations to the Education Centre for Children with Down 's syndrome -LRB- ECCDS -RRB- - a charity which helps his Elliott , who has Down 's syndrome . The collection raised more than # 500 and the charity paid tribute to Mr Andrews by presenting a series of prizes in his honour at its annual World Down 's Syndrome Awareness Day celebration . Because of the violent nature of a sneeze and the strain it puts on the human body , people can die from a sneeze that triggers a pre-existing condition - such as a blood clot or a fracture . However , they can also die from the pressure that builds up in the brain , with no pre-existing conditions , although these cases are incredibly rare . One of the only other documented cases happened when a Cornwall father died in 2009 from haemorrhage and a heart attack caused by a violent and heavy sneeze . His sneeze caused a subdural haematoma - trauma to the brain , but doctors detected no fractures or trauma caused the sneeze to be worse . | Liam Andrews , 17 , from Stockton-on-Tees , sneezed six times in a row . Immediately afterwards he had a fit , followed by a brain haemorrhage . 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A Rob Horne try and Bernard Foley 's subsequent conversion one minute from time gave Australia a 24-23 victory over South Africa in a rain-soaked Rugby Championship encounter in Perth . The Wallabies trailed South Africa for much of the match but a 65th-minute yellow card for Bryan Habana , in his 100th Test , swung the game in the hosts ' favour and their persistence paid off as the Springboks defence finally buckled in the closing stages . The result , Australia 's first win over South Africa in the Rugby Championship in four attempts , means they also have their first victory of this year 's competition and will look forward to next Saturday 's encounter against Argentina in the Gold Coast with renewed confidence . Left it late : Michael Hooper and Adam Ashley-Cooper celebrate Australia 's dramatic victory over South Africa . Try : Cornal Hendricks runs in for the Springbok only score of the game . Battle : Australia and South Africa players compete for the ball in a brutal encounter . A fortnight to reflect on a 51-20 defeat to New Zealand in Auckland saw Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie replace Kurtley Beale with Foley at fly-half and the men in gold made a blistering start as full-back Israel Folau scored inside 90 seconds . Inside centre Matt Toomua received quick ball from the breakdown , and having stepped inside opposite number Jan Serfontein , he offloaded to Folau who gathered the low pass to dive over . Morne Steyn , also returning to the number 10 jersey in place of Handre Pollard , reduced the deficit to two points four minutes later when he kicked the first of his six penalties as the Wallabies were whistled by Irish referee George Clancy for not releasing . Cornal Hendricks put South Africa into an 8-5 lead in the 13th minute , cutting inside from the right wing to touch down after the Springboks stretched the hosts ' defence with some quick passing . All over : Australia 's players celebrate their win . Eyes on the prize : South Africa 's Morne Steyn takes a kick at goal . Divine intervention : Hendricks celebrates his try . Pass master : Nick Phipps spins a pass out for Australia . A marauding run by outside centre Tevita Kuridrani resulted in a penalty for the Wallabies which Foley duly converted to square the match at 8-8 , but South Africa were in front immediately from the restart when the Wallabies gave away a needless penalty . Steyn 's second penalty of the match stretched South Africa 's lead to 14-8 in the 25th minute , before Foley narrowed the gap to three points with his second penalty of the night shortly before the half-hour mark . That proved to be the final score of the half as South Africa went into the interval with a 14-11 lead . Foley hit back with a penalty two minutes after the restart to square the match at 14-14 before a scrambling Wallabies defence was forced to concede another penalty which Steyn kicked to return the Springboks into the lead . The Stade Francais lynchpin then stretched his side 's lead to 20-14 in the 49th minute after a collapsed scrum before he squeezed over his final penalty just after the hour-mark to stretch the visitors ' lead to nine points . Stretching : Australian try scorer Israel Folou competes for the ball with Hendricks . Solid : Australia 's Michael Hooper and South Africa 's Duane Vermeulen clash in Perth . The momentum then swung back in the hosts ' favour when Habana was sin-binned for a high tackle with 15 minutes left on the clock and Foley reduced South Africa 's winning margin to six points with his fourth penalty with 10 minutes to go . With the clock ticking down to full time , a fine , one-handed offload from Folau found Kuridrani and he passed to Horne , who cut in from the left wing to score Australia 's second try with less than two minutes to go before Foley held his nerve to slot the subsequent conversion to send the majority of those assembled in the Subiaco Oval into a frenzy . | Horne 's last gasp score - followed by Bernard Foley 's conversion - earned Australia a dramatic win in Perth . The boot of Morne Steyn looked like kicking South Africa to a crucial victory . The flyhalf bagged 18 points to add to Cornal Hendricks ' try . Israel Folau had scored a try for Australia in the first minute . Foley kicked four penalties as the home side claimed its first win of the tournament . Springbok face New Zealand in Wellington next Saturday . Need to win to retain realistic hopes of clinching the Rugby Championship trophy . | [[0, 11], [20, 69], [80, 185], [1155, 1220], [1198, 1247], [446, 542], [545, 727], [3475, 3557]] |
Attacked : Judge John Devaux had just jailed a motorist when he was apparently attacked by former fitness instructor Paul Graham in the courtroom . A judge was attacked and had his wig and robes pulled off after he jailed a motorist yesterday for causing death by dangerous driving . The driver 's brother allegedly ran up to the judge 's chair and ` started battering the hell ' out of him while shouting that the 30-month sentence was too harsh . The man was restrained and the judge , 65-year-old John Devaux , continued to hear cases minutes after the attack . Apparently unflustered , he told the court : ` I think we 're all unharmed . ' Paul Graham , 27 , was arrested on suspicion of assault and contempt of court and held in the court cells . Witnesses said he was furious that his brother Philip had been jailed for 30 months for overtaking a car near the brow of a hill and killing a motorcyclist in a head-on crash . Jaimie Budd , who was in the public gallery at Ipswich Crown Court , said the man stripped to his vest before wrestling with the judge and hitting him at around 10.45 am . She said : ` We thought that he was going to reveal some sort of statement or tribute but instead he got up and ran to the judge 's bench . ` He ran up the steps and started battering the hell out of the judge . He pulled his robes , his wig came off . It was extremely horrific . ' She said that the man shouted ` arrest me ' and claimed that his brother was a victim of ` injustice ' . Two police officers in the court for the sentencing restrained the man after he left the public gallery and attacked the judge . John Weston , who was also at court , said : ` I saw a couple of chairs had been turned over . I was grabbed on the back and told to `` wait '' by two security guards who rushed past me . ' Appearing before the judge in the afternoon , Paul Graham was told he would be kept in custody and be dealt with by another judge today . The brother of defendant Philip Graham , 30 , pictured left , of Haverhill , Suffolk , allegedly attacked the judge who jailed his sibling for 30 months for causing the death of Derek Foster , pictured right , by dangerous driving . Judge Devaux told him : ` It is not right that I should deal with this case . ' Graham , who was still dressed in his black vest , had blood on his left elbow and kept his eyes closed throughout the hearing . The drama unfolded shortly after . Judge Devaux sentenced employment consultant Philip Graham , 30 , of . Haverhill , Suffolk , for causing a fatal head-on crash on July 4 last . year . He was driving to catch a train at . Audley End , Essex , when he pulled out to overtake a car near the brow of . a hill and hit motorcyclist Derek Foster , 37 , who was on his way to . work . The father of two , a former soldier , died from multiple injuries . Court drama : Witnesses claim the male attacker pulled off Judge Devaux 's wig and his robes at at Ipswich Crown Court , stock image pictured , earlier today . Philip Graham denied causing death by dangerous driving , but was found guilty at an earlier trial . Yesterday a former colleague of Paul . Graham , who previously worked as a fitness instructor , said : ` He was . always quite a fiery character . He was very opinionated and always . thought that his point of view was right . ' The attack on Judge Devaux , who has . been a circuit judge since 1993 , comes 12 years after a woman judge at . the Old Bailey was assaulted by a man accused of murder . Judge Ann Goddard needed five stitches after being punched repeatedly in the head by the man who had leapt from the dock . Last December , family court judges . spoke out to say they fear attacks by angry parents because of . inadequate security . They reported that a number have been attacked by . mothers and fathers , including one female judge who was seriously . injured . One judge said : ` I have been . threatened . A very angry father stood up and shouted anti-Semitic . threats at me . Another father threw a cup of water across the courtroom . Another parent threw a book but fortunately I was too far away for it . to reach me . ' Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article . | Judge John Devaux was sentencing Philip Graham at Ipswich Crown Court when he was attacked by the defendant 's brother Paul . Philip was jailed for 30 months for causing death by dangerous driving . Witnesses claim his brother then pulled off the judge 's wig and robes . Paul Graham , 27 , arrested on suspicion of assault and contempt of court . | [[0, 8], [11, 28], [11, 147], [148, 168], [1243, 1245], [1267, 1312], [1566, 1568], [1597, 1617], [1946, 2020], [2033, 2178], [2423, 2486], [177, 283], [752, 928], [782, 928], [1946, 2020], [2033, 2178], [148, 155], [173, 194], [177, 283], [1335, 1353], [1946, 2020], [2033, 2178], [2850, 2995], [644, 655], [658, 660], [663, 721]] |
Defence chiefs fear plans for two giant wind turbines could allow enemy jets to evade radar as their own fighter plans would confuse them as threats . Officials at the Ministry of Defence say the 115ft -LRB- 35-metre -RRB- towers are so big they could look like planes on monitoring equipment . The MOD say radar could classify the turbines as a threat - automatically sending in fighter jets to investigate and allowing real enemies to sneak in . A wind turbine could interfere with the Ministry of Defence radar system . They say if approved the green energy devices , in Cornwall , would confuse computer systems designed to protect the UK - and do n't want them put up . Plans for the turbines have been submitted by Richard and Ian Lobb , who want to install the 50kW towers on their neighbouring farms in St Ewe , Cornwall . But their application prompted a written objection from the MoD which warned the installation would cause ` unacceptable interference ' to an air traffic control -LRB- ATC -RRB- radar 30 miles away in Wembury , Devon . Radar operators have to treat any unidentified object as a genuine threat - and could even have to scramble fighter jets to investigate . Their objection said : ` Wind turbines have been shown to have detrimental effects on the performance of MoD ATC radars . Radar operators have to treat any unidentified object as a genuine threat - and could even have to scramble fighter jets to investigate the turbines . ` These effects include the desensitisation of radar in the vicinity of the turbines , and the creation of ` false ' aircraft returns which air traffic controllers must treat as real . ` The desensitisation of radar could result in aircraft not being detected by the radar and therefore not presented to air traffic controllers . ' MoD chiefs said controllers relied upon accurate radar readings to distinguish between military and civilian aircraft . Their letter added : ` The creation of `` false '' aircraft display on the radar leads to increased workload for both controllers and air crews and may have a significant operational impact . ` Furthermore , real aircraft returns can be obscured by the turbine 's radar returns , making the tracking of conflicting , unknown aircraft much more difficult . ' The wind farm proposal has also provoked opposition from locals who say the towers will be a blot on the picturesque Cornish landscape . Graham Chaplin , who owns a smallholding near the proposed site , has collected signatures of 109 villagers calling on Cornwall Council to reject the plan . He said : ` The turbine will really be right on top of us . It 's so close that we are going to suffer from noise pollution . ` But what 's more worrying is that there is a public safety issue with these turbines . ` The MoD clearly says that operators can not assume that it 's just the wind turbine . They have to deal with it as if it was a real problem . ' Cornwall Council is due to report back on the application by May 13 . A spokeswoman said the council does not comment on undecided applications . | Officials at the Ministry of Defence say . the 115ft towers are so big they could look like planes on . monitoring equipment . | [[192, 294]] |
James Milner fears he may have become a victim of his own stoicism after spending more time than he would like on the fringes for both club and country . Milner has struggled to command regular first-team football at Manchester City under manager Manuel Pellegrini and has lost a grip on his England place as a result . Typically , Milner knuckled down and fought his way back into Pellegrini 's team but has to admit there have been times when he wondered if his professionalism counted against him , making him easier to drop than more volatile team-mates . Milner -LRB- left -RRB- , pictured playing for Man City against Aston Villa , has started the last four matches for his club . Despite his current form , Milner has struggled to cement a place in the first teams of both City and England . ` There are two ways to react -- a right and a wrong way , ' said Milner . ` You can sulk and mouth off or work harder and working harder is the only way I know . ` Maybe it counts against you if you 're not sulking or ruining training if the manager leaves you out . I 'm not naming names . I 've played with enough players for you to decide who it can be . ` Maybe that does count against me at times . The manager knows I 'll just carry on training as hard as I can . It 's no good for the team if someone sulks or disrupts training . ` The team comes first , whether it is England or Man City . It is no good for the team if you do alienate yourself from the group and start making things difficult . ' Milner -LRB- second left -RRB- believes that the good of the team is more important that personal performance . The 28-year-old believes his professionalism could have hindered his career for Manchester City . Milner has started City 's past four matches in the Barclays Premier League and his form has impressed but lack of action in 2014 did not help his international career in World Cup year . He won his 50th England cap in Switzerland last month and yet the 28-year-old has played only 223 minutes for the national team in 2014 . The only games he started were a friendly against Ecuador , when he was used as an experimental right back , and the final group game in Brazil against Costa Rica , when the team 's fate was sealed . ` It 's a dilemma for the England manager -LRB- Roy Hodgson -RRB- , ' said Milner . ` It 's difficult when someone 's not playing much at club level and he is seeing other people playing every week . It 's definitely frustrating but on the other hand it 's England . Milner believes that volatile teammates could be more likely to get picked ahead of someone who stays quiet . Milner made his 50th England appearance last month , but has only managed 223 minutes in the whole of 2014 . ` I do n't think I could ever turn my back on my country and look back thinking I 'd stopped , just to have a few extra days off . ` It 's a massive honour to play for your country . I played 46 times for the Under-21s and never would have turned it down . ' Friends have jokingly tried to persuade him to shed the reputation which inspired the Twitter parody @BoringMilner , an account which was recently posting tweets about the virtues of skimmed and semi-skimmed milk . ` People get a tag and it sticks , ' said Milner . ` That 's the way it is . If I change my Yorkshire accent , it might change something but I 'm stuck with that and proud of it . ` At times , I do think if I was a bit lazier , just did the attacking side of the game , would people notice me more ? But I play the game which is best for the team . I track back , I defend and sometimes might not have the energy to go forward because you 're doing that work . Milner is professional in his approach to the game , and thinks he plays the game which is best for the team . Manuel Pellegrini has selected Milner -LRB- right -RRB- for Manchester City 's last four Premier League matches . ` If I feel I 'm not getting a fair crack of the whip I do go and see the manager . That 's the way I 've always done it . Football is all about opinions . People who do n't rate you ... I try to change their mind . ` This is my fifth season at City and , with the trophies I 've won , and to be there , to hold my own , I ca n't be doing too badly . ' Milner has survived an exodus of English players from the Etihad Stadium -- Joleon Lescott , Adam Johnson , Micah Richards and Jack Rodwell have all left the club . He is out of contract at the end of the season and in talks about a new deal . He added : ` I seem to go through phases in my City career where at times I 've played a lot and enjoyed it massively and there 's no place you 'd rather be . It 's an amazing club , why would you want to leave ? ` Then at other times it 's a bit more frustrating when you 're not playing as much and it 's a bit more difficult . ' Milner has even taken the step of learning to speak Spanish to help him bond with signings from Spain and Argentina , as well as Chilean manager Manuel Pellegrini . ` I always wanted to learn another language , ' said Milner . ` A few of the lads do n't speak great English , so it helps them and helps me improve , too . I do n't think you can be fluent until you live in a country but I can speak it OK . ' | James Milner has struggled to cement his place in the starting eleven for both Manchester City and England over the last year . 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A woman was found guilty of culpable negligent manslaughter Friday for referring another woman to a transgendered phony nurse for illicit silicone buttocks injections that prosecutors say killed her in 2012 . Natasha Stewart , of suburban Memphis , Tenn. , was found guilty Friday in Jackson , Miss. , in the death of 37-year-old Karima Gordon of Atlanta , who prosecutors say died at the hands of Morris Garner , who now refers to herself as Tracey Lynn Garner after gender reassignment surgeries . Ms Stewart had been charged with ` depraved-heart ' murder , defined as a ` callous disregard for human life ' resulting in death , which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison , and conspiracy to commit murder , but was found guilty of lesser charges . Guilty : Natasha Stewart , also known as Pebbelz Da Model was found guilty of culpable negligent manslaughter in the death of an Atlanta woman who received illicit silicone buttocks implants in 2012 . Jurors ultimately also convicted Ms Stewart of conspiracy to commit culpable negligent manslaughter . She faces up to 20 years in prison for each charge . A sentencing date has not yet been set . The former adult entertainer showed little emotion when the verdict was read . She was found not guilty on the charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud . Authorities say Stewart , also known as Pebbelz Da Model , took $ 200 for referring Ms Gordon to the alleged injector and falsely represented that the injector was a nurse . Miss Garner faces life in prison for her role in the scheme . Ms Gordon died only days after the silicone used in the faulty injected found its way into her lungs . Ms Stewart testified Friday that Ms Gordon was insecure about her body and wanted help fixing previously botched buttocks enhancements . Ms Stewart said she connected Ms Gordon with Miss Garner to help her out , not for money , but she said Ms Gordon insisted on paying her the finder 's fee . Dead : Karima Gordon died in 2012 after receiving the faulty buttocks implants . Phony nurse : Tracey Lynn Garner , formerly known as Morris Garner , is charged injecting the silicone that eventually killed Ms Gordon . In court : Ms Stewart and co-counsel Kevin Camp listen Friday as the prosecution address the jury . Stewart also testified that she thought the woman performing the injections at a Jackson house was indeed a registered nurse and had gotten the injections herself more than 20 times over seven years . ` She told me that she was an RN , ' Ms Stewart testified . Miss Garner is charged with depraved-heart murder in the deaths of Ms Gordon and another woman , Marilyn Hale of Selma , Ala. . She has pleaded not guilty . Her trial is scheduled for March . Emails introduced Friday in Ms Stewart 's case showed that Ms Gordon was a fan of the entertainer 's and was persistent in asking for help to get buttocks injections at least as far back as 2010 . The two were introduced by another woman known only as ` pebbles . ' ' I wo n't give up my mission to ultimately achieve a tastefully great butt enhancement , ' Ms Gordon wrote in one of the messages . HIs honor : Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bill Gowan pictured Friday prior to the verdict being read . Anglean Barber , testified Thursday that she and Ms Gordon flew to New York to meet Ms Stewart in February 2012 and that the woman later referred them to Ms Garner . Ms Barber said she and Ms Gordon wanted the same kind of buttocks enhancement that Ms Stewart had gotten with hopes of becoming models in the hip-hop industry . The two women drove to Ms Garner 's house in Jackson on March 16 , 2012 , with plans to get the injections , Ms Barber testified . Ms Barber said she was unsettled by the supposed nurse 's appearance and decided not to get the injections . Her friend Ms Gordon fell ill during the car ride back to Atlanta in the hours after the procedure . The phony nurse then told Ms Gordon to take cough syrup during a phone call asking what was wrong , according to court documents . Other lethal injections : Loretta Cheek -LRB- left -RRB- and Oneal Ron Morris were also charged with murder for fatal buttocks implant injections performed without medical licenses . A doctor testified Thursday that Ms Gordon died in a Georgia hospital on March 24 , 2012 , of silicone embolism in her lungs . During closing arguments , Ms Stewart 's attorney , Kevin Camp , said that the jury should find his client not guilty because ` nobody knew that this situation was going to cause any imminent death . ' Prosecutors , however , argued that Ms Stewart charged money and lied when she told Ms Gordon that the person performing the injections was a registered nurse . The Gordon case was one of a handful that shocked the nation over the past few years . Also charged with murder were Loretta Cheek and Oneal Ron Morris , who also provided backroom cosmetic surgical procedures that killed unwitting victims . | Natasha Stewart had been charged with ` depraved heart ' murder and conspiracy to commit murder . She faces as much as 40 years behind bars . The victim died after silicone traveled from her buttocks into her lungs . | [[500, 558], [688, 715], [2540, 2634], [1635, 1665], [1967, 2040], [4219, 4345], [4252, 4330]] |
Fighter jets screamed over Red Square and heavy tanks rumbled over its cobblestones as Russia flexed today its military muscle on the anniversary of its costly victory over Nazi Germany in the Second War War . At the annual military parade President Vladimir Putin told the crowd that Russia will be a guarantor of world security , at the annual military parade on Red Square . Putin made his short speech at the culmination of Victory Day , marking the defeat of Nazi Germany 68 years ago . Show of strength : Fighter jets screamed over Red Square and heavy tanks rumbled over its cobblestones as Russia flexed today its military muscle on the anniversary of its costly victory over Nazi Germany in the Second War War . Annual tradition : Russian military academies cadets march at the Red Square . Crowd pleaser : A column of Russia 's Msta-S self-propelled howitzers impress the watching crowds during the display . It is Russia 's most important secular . holiday , honoring the huge military and civilian losses of World War II . and showing off the country 's modern arsenal . Putin told 11,000 . servicemen standing in tight formation on the square and the war . veterans in the spectator stands that ` we remember what the tragedy of . war means and will do everything so that nobody will ever dare to . unleash it anew , threaten our children , our homes and our land . ' He added , ` We will do everything to strengthen security on the planet . ' The Soviet Union lost an estimated 26 million people in the war , of whom 8.5 million were soldiers . Sky 's the limit : Russian military transport planes fly over the Kremlin today . Display : An honour guard from the Presidential Regiment marches . Planned : The precisely choreographed parade included servicemen marching through the 5.5-acre square and a convoy of more than 100 military vehicles ranging from armored cars to mobile missile-launchers and tanks . Putin told 11,000 servicemen standing in tight formation on the square and the war veterans in the spectator stands that ` we remember what the tragedy of war means and will do everything so that nobody will ever dare to unleash it anew , threaten our children , our homes and our land ' Russian Second War War veterans walk after the Victory Day parade . Putin said `` We will do everything to strengthen security on the planet ' Among the thousands of spectators along the square were elderly World War II veterans , displaying rows of medals . Putin . lauded them , saying `` We will always remember that it was Russia , the . Soviet Union , that ruined the misanthropic , bloody , arrogant plans of . the fascists . ' Although Russian armed forces . suffered from severe funding shortages and morale problems in the early . years after the collapse of the Soviet Union , the parade put forth the . image of a spit-and-polish and vigorous military , with an emphasis on . discipline and precision . In 2010 the Victory Day period was marked by repeated complaints from Dmitry Medvedev . and other officials that some countries denigrate the Soviet Union 's . contribution in WWII , in which some 26 million Soviets died , according . to some estimates . Proud : Putin made his short speech at the culmination of Victory Day , marking the defeat of Nazi Germany 68 years ago . Patriotic : Russian army fighters release smoke in the colours of the national flag as they fly over Red Square . Honour : Today is Russia 's most important secular holiday , honouring the huge military and civilian losses of World War II and showing off the country 's modern arsenal . Sea of uniform : Russian naval infantry soldiers - marines - march together across the square . Polished : Although Russian armed forces suffered from severe funding shortages and morale problems in the early years after the collapse of the Soviet Union , the parade put forth the image of a spit-and-polish . Leader : Russian President Vladimir Putin leaves the stage after his Victory Day parade speech . Spectacular display : Russian tanks move across Red Square during the traditional military parade . Attraction : Russian soldiers march along Red Square as crowds watch the famous parade . Sky high : Russian airforce jet planes fly over the Kremlin during Victory Day Parade at the Moscow Red Square . Respect : People carry portraits of deceased relatives who were veterans of the Second World War . Generations : Teenagers release white pigeons in front of a war monument during a ceremony . | Russia will be a guarantor of world . security , President Vladimir Putin said at the annual parade . Victory Day , marks the defeat of Nazi Germany 68 years ago and honours the huge military and civilian losses . | [[210, 377], [280, 329], [1381, 1389], [1394, 1454], [1392, 1454], [2280, 2352], [2292, 2352], [210, 377], [378, 383], [442, 491], [960, 967], [970, 1034], [3181, 3186], [3189, 3194], [3253, 3302], [3417, 3423], [3426, 3431], [3478, 3589]] |
The most senior judge in England and Wales has rejected calls for specialist courts to deal with cases of child sexual exploitation but judges will be handpicked by a specialist panel . Sex offence trials involving vulnerable children are to be conducted by a team of specially vetted judges , the Lord Chief Justice said yesterday . The small group of highly experienced judges will also undergo ` bespoke training ' to help protect weak and exposed child witnesses , Lord Judge said . His decision to introduce tighter restrictions on the list of judges who can run the most sensitive and potentially brutal sexual exploitation cases was sent to MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee , who expressed concerns recently over the way some trials were conducted . The move follows deepening alarm at the treatment of children by lawyers and judges in cases involving paedophilia charges and alleged sex gangs . Lord Judge said the new rules will apply to the choice of judges who sit in serious sex cases in which one of the witnesses is regarded as ` significantly vulnerable ' and is expected to give evidence ` in circumstances that call for especially sensitive handling ' . The system will also operate in cases that involve a number of defendants and are expected to go on for more than ten days . Judges in such cases are already chosen from a list of trained and experienced judiciary who are supposed to be versed in methods of stopping defence lawyers from subjecting child witnesses to ` oppressive ' cross examination . But Lord Judge told committee . chairman Keith Vaz that while he thought the system worked ` extremely . well ' , he accepted that there were a ` very few cases in which valid . criticisms have been made of the treatment of vulnerable witnesses ' . The move is in response to concerns about how young people are cross-examined during cases . Under the new system , judges will be . on the sex case list only if they have been approved by the Presiding . Judge , who is in charge of a regional circuit of courts , and the . Resident Judge , who is the chief judge at the Crown Court involved . The Senior Presiding Judge , Lord . Justice Gross , will have final approval of ` the limited number of judges . who are likely to be selected to try these cases ' . A judge will be picked from the list for each case that qualifies . There will also be bespoke training . from the Judicial College , the body responsible for training judges and . providing guidelines on how to conduct trials . This will ` focus . particularly on how best to conduct trials involving significantly . vulnerable witnesses , as well as addressing the undoubted difficulties . posed by multi-defendant trials ' . Lord Judge also promised updated . guidelines on how to conduct trials and named three senior judges who . will try to find ways of protecting children who give evidence . Judge Peter Rook QC , who earlier this . year gave life sentences to five Oxford men who abused girls as young . as 11 , will act as mentor to judges on the sex case list . Judge Sally . Cahill QC will take part in Whitehall talks on fighting child sex abuse , . and Deputy Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot is already running a scheme . to try to ensure cases with very young witnesses come quickly to trial . But Lord Judge rejected the idea of . sending child sex trials to special courts . He said that could have . unintended consequences , including high expense and long waiting times . because of the limited numbers of courtrooms , judges and court staff . A victim was abused by a gang of Asian men from the age of 13 then had to endure a harrowing cross-examination in front of her abusers in court -LRB- picture posed by model -RRB- . By Michael Seamark . She was a damaged and vulnerable teenage girl , who had been ` passed around and used as meat ' by a gang of Asian men since she was 13 years old . Then she had to spend 12 days in the witness box , facing cross-examination from defence barrister after defence barrister , until she finally broke down . Her friend , who was also sold for sex by the men , had an even more horrifying experience , and ended up sobbing as she gave evidence . Jurors were visibly angry and dismayed at the aggressive tactics of one particular lawyer . Another barrister walked out of court in disgust . Their appalling treatment , in a case that critics say shamed British justice , prompted yesterday 's moves to provide child victims of sex abuse with greater protection in criminal trials . The girls gave evidence in two trials , and at both they were cross-examined by barrister Mohammed Tayyab Khan . In the summer of 2011 , seven men from Telford went on trial at Stafford Crown Court accused of turning young white girls into ` sexual commodities ' , who were trafficked and sold to dozens of men . Among the defendants was Ahdel Ali , who was represented by Mr Khan . In the original trial the first girl , by now aged 18 , was cross-examined by a succession of defence lawyers . Some of them challenged her evidence in a methodical way but others were far less restrained . During aggressive questioning , Leicester-based Mr Khan accused her of ` telling lies ' , giving ` phoney evidence ' and being a ` very dishonest girl ' . He even asked her whether she repented her ` sins ' . Next the girl 's friend , now aged 19 , gave evidence . Mr Khan accused her of being ` very wicked ' and making ` false and malicious allegations ' . He then went on to question her about an incident unconnected to the men on trial.When she was 13 , she had confided in her mother that she was being sexually abused by her stepfather . Her mother called the police and the girl initially gave a detailed statement . But , as she explained to the jury , she withdrew it a day later because she was concerned about the impact on her mother . At times shouting at the girl , Mr Khan used it to argue that her evidence in court could not be trusted . His method was to force the sobbing teenager to read statement containing her original allegations against her stepfather out loud . The girl was distraught , jurors were shaking their heads , and concerned Judge Robin Onions asked whether it was necessary . Mr Khan said it was . After more complaints he agreed to read out lines from the statement himself , but the teenager 's distress continued . The trial eventually collapsed and was split into a series of retrials . Twelve months later , the second trial of the Crown v Ahdel Ali began at the same court with a new judge , Patrick Thomas QC , in charge . Judge Thomas made his opinion of the conduct of the original trial clear . ` The way things went last time is just so wrong that we should all be ashamed that our justice system allowed it , ' he said . The two girls were again witnesses but Mr Khan 's questioning took a different course . Before Mr Khan cross-examined the second girl the judge warned him that he would not be allowed to repeat the distress caused at the previous trial . He rebuked the barrister when he attempted to delve into the incident involving the girl 's stepfather . The judge asked him : ` Is it difficult for you to understand that she finds all this troublesome and embarrassing and it has nothing to do with the case ? ' At the end of the second trial , Mr Khan 's 25 - year old client was found guilty of rape , 11 counts of sexual activity with a child , inciting child prostitution , inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and meeting a child after sexual grooming . Ali was jailed for 18 years . Mr Khan has said that he was doing his professional duty . | Senior judges will have to approve the trial judge for all serious sex cases . Response to concerns about how young people are cross-examined . However , Lord Chief Justice rejected calls for specialist centres . Wrote to Keith Vaz saying specialist courts would increase waiting times . | [[546, 555], [560, 635], [655, 688], [695, 735], [1711, 1777], [1782, 1874], [1828, 1874], [0, 131], [3410, 3433], [3436, 3458], [3468, 3483], [3410, 3483]] |
Tragedy : Megan White , 11 , died after suddenly collapsing at school last year . A healthy 11-year-old girl suddenly collapsed at school and died just 24 hours later after suffering a rare brain haemorrhage , an inquest heard . Popular Megan White , from Cheltenham , Gloucestershire , was ` merry and laughing ' with her friends during the morning at All Saints ' Academy . She had even told her mother not to pick her up from school that afternoon as she was having dinner at a friend 's house . But , just after lunch , she fell ill and was rushed to a nearby hospital where tests revealed she had suffered a small bleed on her brain . Avon Coroners ' Court heard Megan then suffered a second , larger , bleed when she was in the accident and emergency ward , causing her to lose consciousness . She underwent emergency surgery but did not recover from her brain injuries . An inquest into Megan 's death at Flax Bourton in Somerset was told the haemorrhage was ` rare ' , with experts unable to pinpoint what had caused it . Gail Elliman , deputy coroner for Avon , ruled Megan died from ` natural causes ' following the tragedy in January last year . She said : ` Megan collapsed at school on January 13 . She was taken to hospital where investigations showed a large bleed on her brain . ` She was transferred to Bristol Children 's Hospital where despite treatment , she died on January 14 . I am sorry that the experts have not been able to make it any clearer as to why this happened . ` She died of natural causes . ' Dr Margrid Shindler , a consultant in paediatric intensive care at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children , told the inquest : ` While she was in the emergency department , she had a larger bleed which caused her to go unconscious and at that point she was put on a breathing machine . ` She was taken to Frenchay Hospital and underwent neurosurgery . After that , unfortunately she was still showing signs of a very severe brain injury . ` This bleed occurred in an area very deep inside the brain where even a small bleed can cause a large amount of damage . ` We probably see two cases like this a year , where people come in with a small bleed then the second bleed occurs . ` Mostly , despite our best efforts , we are unable to save these children . It is very , very sad - going from someone who is quite normal to such devastating injury . ' ` The family very kindly consented for organ donation and we thank them very much for their kind gift . ' Dr Craig Platt , who conducted a post-mortem examination , said he had consulted with other experts about what could have caused the haemorrhage . Sudden : She arrived ` merry and laughing ' friends at All Saint 's School in Cheltenham in the morning but fell ill shortly after lunch . ` It was clear that there had been quite a large haemorrhage which was the cause of death , ' Dr Platt said . ` But I do n't think that we can say what the cause of this bleed was . ' The cause of death was recorded as cerebral haemorrhage and raised inter cranial pressure . Speaking after Megan 's death in January last year , her parents Rebecca and Paul White , who attended the inquest , paid tribute to their daughter . Mrs White said her daughter was ` always smiling ' and ` generous beyond belief ' . ` She 'd been happier than usual on the morning of Friday the 13th when she died . ` Her teachers and friends said she was merry and laughing . Just after lunch she fell poorly immediately and the ambulance came . ` It was instant and quick and the surgeons said she would n't have known anything . ' Mrs White added : ` Children seemed to gravitate to her . ` Megan was beautiful , but never vain - she always thought others were more beautiful . ' The schoolgirl had been particularly good at maths and loved performing as she . was a ` bit of a drama queen ' . All . Saints ' principal , Peter Kingham , said last year : ` Megan was a very popular . student who loved being part of All Saints ' Academy . Megan was bright . and cheerful and stood out as an excellent student . | Megan White died last year after falling ill at All Saint 's Academy , Cheltenham . She arrived at school ` happier than usual ' and was ` laughing ' with friends . But after lunch she suddenly collapsed and died in hospital the next day . Avon Coroners ' Court near Bristol heard she suffered two fatal brain bleeds . Her parents said she was ` always smiling ' and ` generous beyond belief ' | [[0, 7], [29, 81], [229, 266], [287, 330], [229, 248], [303, 311], [314, 375], [2638, 2732], [3280, 3335], [3345, 3360], [3361, 3421], [3393, 3421], [0, 7], [29, 81], [82, 137], [82, 108], [142, 207], [505, 521], [524, 536], [2629, 2635], [2638, 2641], [2737, 2767], [3422, 3466], [1244, 1294], [3044, 3094], [3097, 3131], [3161, 3193], [3194, 3273], [3209, 3242]] |
Boots is recalling thousands of bottles of medicines , including many designed for children , because they may contain pieces of plastic . The firm has been alerted to a manufacturing fault associated with the machines that attach the tamper-proof plastic seals around the caps . Parts of the seal may have fallen into the medicine as a result , creating the risk of a choking hazard . The bottles , bought since September this year , have been recalled because they may contain pieces of plastic . There are no reports of any ill health to date , rather the problem was picked up on the production line . The recall relates to : . - Boots Pharmaceuticals Chesty Cough Relief 100mg/5ml Oral Solution . - Boots Pharmaceuticals Dry Cough Relief Oral Solution . - Boots Pharmaceuticals Mucus Cough Relief 100mg/5ml Oral Solution . - Boots Pharmaceuticals Paracetamol 6 years Plus 250mg/5ml Oral Solution 200ml . - Boots Pharmaceuticals Ibuprofen 3 Months plus 100mg/5ml Oral suspension Strawberry flavour . A spokesman said : ` The health and safety of our customers and patients is always our highest priority , so as a precaution we are recalling some Boots Pharmaceuticals medicine lines . ` We 've discovered a potential manufacturing fault with the tamper seal on some Boots Pharmaceuticals liquid medicines , which might result in small pieces of plastic being found in the medicine . ` While we 're not currently aware of any customer incidences , we have taken the decision to ask customers to return these products to our stores for a refund or replacement with a similar item . ` We 're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause our customers and would like to offer our reassurances that these actions are taken as a precaution , while we fully investigate the situation . ' Recalled : Three of the affected products are : Boots Pharmaceuticals Paracetamol 6 . years Plus 250mg/5ml Oral Solution 200ml , Boots Pharmaceuticals . Ibuprofen 3 Months plus 100mg/5ml Oral suspension Strawberry flavour and Boots Pharmaceuticals Chesty Cough Relief 100mg/5ml Oral Solution . Adam Burgess , the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency 's Head of Defective Medicines Reporting Centre , added : ` This is a precautionary recall by Boots and there is currently no evidence that people have had any problems with these cough and cold medicines . ` People should check their medicine cupboards at home and return these products to Boots if they have purchased them since September 2013 . ` If people are worried or have any questions , they should speak to their pharmacist or GP . ' Boots is offering customers a refund if they return these medicines and people with questions can telephone Boots Customer Care on 0800 915 0004 or visit the healthcare team at their local Boots store . | A fault in the machines that attach the tamper-proof seals around the bottle caps could mean parts of the plastic seals have fallen into the medicine . No customers have currently reported experiencing any problems . Bottles include Boots Pharmaceuticals Chesty Cough Relief 100mg/5ml Oral Solution and Boots Pharmaceuticals Dry Cough Relief Oral Solution . Recall applies to products bought since September 2013 . | [[206, 218], [224, 279], [280, 343], [1190, 1309], [1266, 1309], [1318, 1357], [499, 545], [1396, 1449], [2078, 2090], [2199, 2204], [2209, 2355], [704, 758], [386, 397], [400, 432], [2446, 2496]] |
The grief-stricken friend of a murdered teenage girl was jailed today for setting fire to his home so he could be ` with her ' . Devastated Luke Morgan , 22 , was so upset by the rape and murder of pregnant Nikitta Grender that he torched his own house in a suicide bid . Morgan was the best friend of Nikitta , 19 , who was raped and murdered by nightclub bouncer Carl Whant . Luke Morgan -LRB- left -RRB- , 22 , was so upset by the rape and murder of pregnant Nikitta Grender -LRB- right -RRB- that he torched his own house in a suicide bid . Cardiff Crown Court was told Morgan was so overcome with ` extreme grief ' after the tragedy he set fire to his own home . He told police : ' I do n't want to be here , I just want to be with Nikitta . ' Whant , 28 , was found guilty of murder , rape and destroying Nikitta 's unborn baby Kelsey-May who was due just two weeks after the 2011 tragedy . The former nightclub bouncer set fire to Nikitta 's home in Newport , south Wales , to cover his tracks . He was jailed for life with a minimum tariff of 35 years in March last year . Morgan . set fire to a shoe box at the council house he shared with his mother . when he was alone in the house - but panicked and fled when the blaze . took hold . Nikitta 's unborn baby Kelsey-May was due just two weeks after the 2011 tragedy . Carl Whant -LRB- pictured -RRB- was jailed for life with a minimum tariff of 35 years for the murder and rape of Nikitta . He alerted neighbours , who called the emergency services , but the family dog perished in the smoke-filled house . Consultant psychologist Dr Angela Phillips said Morgan was suffering with post traumatic stress disorder after Nikitta 's tragic murder . She said he is undergoing cognitive behavioural therapy to deal with anxiety and was on medication for depression . Morgan , from Newport , south Wales , was jailed for three years after admitting arson and being reckless as to whether life could have been endangered . Former nightclub bouncer Whant set fire to Nikitta 's home in Newport , south Wales , -LRB- pictured -RRB- to cover his tracks . Judge David Wynn Morgan ruled that the public 's safety could not be guaranteed if he was released into the community . Judge Morgan said : ` The offence was committed during a period of extreme grief following the appalling murder of a very close friend . ` This was an extremely serious offence , endangering the lives of those living adjacent to his mother 's property . ` The primary concern of the court is for the public . ' | Nikkita Grender , 19 , was raped and murdered by bouncer Carl Whant . Her friend Luke Morgan was so upset he torched his house in suicide bid . Morgan has now been jailed for three years after admitting offence . | [[299, 316], [321, 330], [302, 309], [335, 377], [0, 98], [129, 151], [159, 222], [228, 271], [501, 544], [545, 637], [626, 667], [897, 964], [981, 1002], [1821, 1827], [1830, 1842], [1851, 1856], [1859, 1926]] |
A woman with a desire to put wrongs to right . combined with the ability to keep cool in a drama . These are the characteristics that apparently spring to a man 's mind when a woman reveals she is a human rights lawyer , according to a new poll . Journalists , meanwhile , are perceived as quick-thinking , intelligent , with a sexy lifestyle . Women who are journalists and human rights lawyers are thought to be sexy do-gooders . If you 're a man though , a doctor is the most attractive job : the ultimate ` caring ' profession , doctors are seen as supportive and authoritative , according to a new report on the most fanciable professions . The jobs guaranteed to bag you a partner are revealed in the Valentine 's Day Dream Date survey , released by author and long-time matchmaker Mary Balfour , who 's been running Britian 's first personal dating agency for 30 years . Mary 's annual survey , now in its 14th year , reveals the most frequently . requested professions for the perfect partner at her personal dating . agency Drawing Down the Moon . Between 1 January and 31 December last year , a female human rights lawyer and a journalist rated as the sexiest dream dates for men seeking the love of their life , whereas women seeking Mr Right were more likely to opt for a doctor , an architect or a man in another creative profession . Photography and graphic design are also good choices of professional fields to get into for attracting a man . 1 . Doctor2 . Architect3 . Creative profession4 . Furniture maker5 . Film maker6 . Academic7 . Entrepreneur8 . Graphic designer9 . Environmental Scientist10 . Engineer . 1 . Human Rights Lawyer2 . Journalist3 . Website designer4 . Photographer5 . Marketing6 . Advertising7 . Events manager8 . Creative9 . PR10 . Architect . 1 . Surgeon2 . Solicitor3 . Company director4 . Journalist5 . IT6 . Management consultant7 . Designer8 . Banker/stockbroker9 . TV director10 . Academic . 1 . Journalist2 . TV director3 . Human resources4 . Designer/Architect5 . Property6 . Academic7 . Banking8 . Advertising9 . Doctor10 . Writer . The survey suggests that modern women are looking for a mate who is in a creative or caring field rather than a . high-powered banker . And although earning power may be important when . choosing a mate , job satisfaction , authority , plus concern with the . human condition rate highly as turn-ons with both men and women . Mary and her team interviewed 615 single women -LRB- ages 24-68 -RRB- and 489 single men -LRB- ages 30-72 -RRB- for this year 's annual report . Mary and her team at Drawing Down The Moon always do in-depth in person interviews with their clients . To be accepted for matchmaking , applicants must be educated , whether that be at University , college - or even the School of Life . Mary says they have many clients who may have side-stepped formal education but who are successful in the creative world . And they do n't accept people they ca n't match . The team ask clients about their background , relationship history and more , and especially about the type of person they 'd like to meet . The question for the survey was ` What is the most likely profession your future partner might be working in ? ' The descriptions below are the team 's intuitive take and expert analysis based on 30 years of feedback after clients have been on a date with someone who works in the professions listed . A doctor is seen as supportive and authoritative . o The human rights lawyer combines a desire to put wrongs to right with a strong ability to keep . cool in a drama , an alluring combination with relationship appeal . o Journalists are perceived as quick thinking , intelligent , with a sexy lifestyle . o Web designers are able to think outside the box . o Often judged to be a sexy profession , photographers are able to inject visual excitement into everyday scenes . o Marketers are intelligent and challenging with broad appeal and a practical approach . o Advertising is the perfect combination of creativity plus sex appeal ! o Events managers are the ultimate multi-taskers and considered to have fun + a good work/life balance . o Friendly go-getters , those in PR are people-friendly communicators . o The ultimate ` caring ' profession , the doctor is seen as supportive and authoritative . o Sensitive and artistic as well as pragmatic , architects and graphic designers are perceived as stylish and cool . o Furniture makers are perceived to be good with their hands and can turn a vision into a reality . o TV directors and film makers are perceived to have creative flair and an adrenalin-driven lifestyle ! o An academic with a combination of quick thinking , curiosity and an analytic approach is always intriguing . o Environmental scientists are appreciated for caring about the future in a practical way . o Engineers make the world go round and know how to fix most things . o Those in human resources are perceived as good with people and great organisers . o TV directors are perceived to have creative flair and an adrenalin-driven lifestyle ! o Banking , in spite of its recent bad press , will always have the sexy allure of being a high earning job . o Company directors are viewed as being high achievers . o Every person in IT is at least a potential ` dot-com millionaire ' with an amazing lifestyle . | Mary Balfour 's personal dating agency Drawing Down the Moon 's stats . 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Meet the Tiler girls - the three sisters who are turning their brute strength into weightlifting gold . As the head of the clan , 13-year-old Rebekah is quickly making a name for herself in the sport and looks set to be one to watch at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics . Her trophy cabinet is bulging with more than 100 medals and prizes . But it is n't just Rebekah who holds the talent . Girl power : The Tiler sisters - -LRB- L-R -RRB- : Lisa , 7 , Rebekah , 13 , and Sophie , 9 , show off their skills at their gym in Mytholmroyd . Also on the podium are Sophie , nine , and seven-year-old Lisa , who are following in their sister 's footsteps and bagging their own trophies . And even their youngest sister , four-year-old Emily , is keen not to miss out and often tries her hand at the famous ` clean and jerk ' move , practising with a broom handle . Rebekah 's strength became apparent when she was a baby and could lift herself up off the floor , amazing her parents Chris and Emma . The summer Olympics inspired Rebekah who , having been invited to train for Team England , and as a new member of Team GB , is well on the way to Olympic glory . Head of the clan : 13-year-old Rebekah 's trophy cabinet is bulging with more than 100 medals and prizes but her sisters are n't far behind her . Rebekah , from Denholme , West Yorkshire , said : ' I go to Team GB camp weekends where we are tested . ` I 'll be training with them for the next four years . ' But her success does n't come without hard work . The teenager faces a daily demanding schedule and has to stick to a strict diet . She said : ' I train three times a week for two hours at a time . And I have to keep to a strict diet , with lots of protein , eggs and spinach . ` This is very important , especially when competitions approach as you have to make sure you are within your weight category . ' Following in her footsteps : Sophie , nine , and Lisa , seven , who are following in their sister 's footsteps are bagging their own trophies . As well as the Olympics , Rebekah is also focusing on the Commonwealth Games in Scotland in 2014 and hopes to take part in next year 's European youth championships . Speaking about the sporting opportunities , she said : ` I 'm really excited . My school friends think it 's great and there 's a noticeboard at school showing all my achievements . ' Rebekah attends special camps where her speed work and reaction times are tested . ' I just find weights really easy to lift . I like clean and jerk best , ' she added . Last year , Rebekah won numerous new records , including setting a new title for the snatch and clean and jerk in the 58kg class in the British under-13 contest . Focus : As well as the Olympics , Rebekah is also focusing on the Commonwealth Games in Scotland in 2014 . In September alone , the teen , who has been praised for her technique , broke an astonishing nine British records at the National Weightlifting Bergson Trophy in Myetholmroyd , including two at under-15 level set by Britain 's best known female weightlifter Zoe Smith . Rebekah has now moved up to the 69kg body-weight class , and smashed 47 British and regional records , in under 14 , 16 , 18 , 20 and senior categories . She often outclasses contestants far older than herself . In the British under-20 and under-23s category , she set new Northern Weightlifting records in her class . But Rebekah 's sisters are firmly following in her footsteps and each one recently won their weight category , taking home three gold trophies . Keen sportswoman : Rebekah 's weightlifting interest began when she was just a baby when she would lift herself up , amazing her parents . Keen : Four-year-old sister Emily is keen not to miss out and often tries her hand at the famous ` clean and jerk ' move , practising with a broom handle . Sophie is the British schools ' champion for her group . Rebekah added : ' I was about five when I started lifting weights . My dad used to bodybuild and I would copy him . ' Chris , who is still involved in bodybuilding , advises his daughter , and Emma provides refreshments at competitions . Emma said : ` We are usually away every weekend . Bodybuilding has taken over our lives but we love it and really enjoy it . Family support : Mother Emma says she and her husband are ` really proud ' of their daughters . ` We are really proud of Rebekah and her sisters . We get nervous but sometimes I 'm shaking as I watch . ' I know Rebekah 's trained and wo n't drop the weight but it is nervewracking . ' With so many titles to her name , Rebekah 's Olympic future looks hopeful . She said : ` I 'm very excited about it . I really love it and I 've met so many nice people too . ' | Eldest sister Rebekah Tiler , 13 , has more than 100 medals and trophies . 2012 Olympics inspired Rebekah . who is now a member of . Team GB . Sisters Sophie , 9 , and Lisa , 7 , are also in training to be weightlifters . Even their four-year-old sister wants to join in . | [[271, 339], [1174, 1259], [993, 1033], [685, 711], [736, 759], [685, 711], [764, 822], [3687, 3707], [3714, 3737], [3680, 3684], [3687, 3707], [3742, 3800]] |
` Not acceptable ' : Theresa May fears relaxing visa rules for Chinese tourists could open the door to an influx of organised crime gangs . Theresa May has blocked plans to make it easier for Chinese tourists to get visas because she fears it would lead to a rise in organised crime , it has been revealed . The Home Secretary has warned that national security would be threatened and criminals would be brought in if checks on Chinese visitors were relaxed . A leaked letter from Mrs May 's private secretary to the Prime Minister 's private secretary reveals her staunch opposition to the plans by Cabinet colleagues . According to the Daily Telegraph , the letter said : ` The proposal ... is not acceptable to the Home Secretary for national security reasons . At Cabinet , the issue of asylum claims was discussed . ` We also face significant challenges with Foreign National Offenders and organised crime including drugs , money laundering , fraud , criminal finances , intellectual property , immigration and cyber crime . ' Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has raised concerns that potential tourists are being put off visiting the UK because of the expensive and difficult visa system . He is understood to be supported by the Chancellor , George Osborne , and Business Secretary , Vince Cable . But Mrs May has rejected the proposals to let Chinese tourists apply for European and British visas at the same time as she believes their checks ` do not match the UK decision quality ' . Economic boost : Official figures show that Chinese visitors typically spend an average of # 1,700 per trip to the UK . She has also pointed to figures that show 400 Chinese criminals are awaiting deportation and there were 1,000 applications for asylum from Chinese citizens last year . Official figures show that Britain is losing out on the potential income generated by Chinese visitors , who typically spend # 1,700 each per trip . Around 147,000 came to the UK last year compared to 1.2 million who went to France . The Home Office said last night that improvements had been made to the Chinese service , including bringing in more visa officers and introducing an online application process , but declined to comment on the letter . | Leaked letter reveals Home Secretary 's opposition to Cabinet proposals . | [[460, 620]] |
A 10-year-old boy needed extensive plastic surgery after being left with horrific facial injuries when a jet ski crashed into his head . Daniel Clamens was enjoying a banana boat ride with his friend on Al Mamzar boat beach in Dubai when the pair were thrown into the sea . The jet ski , which was allegedly being ridden by an off-duty policeman , crashed into the child 's face before continuing its journey . Struck : Daniel Clamens , aged 10 at the time of the incident , was struck in the face by a jet ski after falling into the water on Dubai 's Al Mamzar beach , pictured , in 2011 . Arrests : Sharjah Police arrested a 23-year-old Emirati policeman from Dubai and his cousin with a jet ski attached to their Nissan Patrol - they have been charged with mistakenly injuring the child -LRB- stock image -RRB- . The child , who was aged 10 when the incident occurred in June 2011 , was left with a 15cm scar across his head and fractures to his cheek and eye socket . Daniel was only saved when his 13-year-old neighbour Peter , who he was on the boat ride with , turned him over and dragged him back to the boat . A family friend , known as JP , who was driving the boat then lifted the heavily bleeding child out of the water before calling an ambulance . The jet ski rider is understood to have sped off , before briefly returning . JP said : ` He raised his hands and covered his face in a . gesture indicating that a grave mishap had happened . ' The jet skier then left once more before the ambulance arrived . Daniel was in Dubai with his father Roberto , a commercial pilot , older brother Bryan and his mother . Sharjah Police arrested a . 23-year-old Emirati policeman from Dubai and his cousin as they headed . towards the emirate with a jet ski attached to their Nissan Patrol . Injuries : The child was rushed to Rashid Hospital 's Intensive Care Unit after the incident , in which he was left with a 15cm scar across his head and fractures to his cheek and eye socket . They were both charged with . mistakenly injuring the child and with violating regulations governing . sea vessels by not registering the jet ski . After the incident , Daniel was rushed to Rashid Hospital 's Intensive Care Unit . where the wound on the left side of his face was treated and a metal plate was inserted into his face . After surgery he was unable to close his left eye and could only open his mouth minimally . He was flown back to the US where he was treated at Miami Children 's Hospital . Surgeons performed five procedures on the child , including the repositioning of his eye and the removal of the implant fitted in the previous surgery . Doctors told the family that one of the bones had been misplaced and the previous reconstruction had been incorrect . The . policeman denied the charges during prosecution interrogations , claiming he had not entered Dubai waters . ` I 'm only guilty for violating . regulations regarding the jet ski , ' he said , according to . prosecution records . ` When my cousin and I were in the sea , we reached . the Dubai side and saw many coastguard patrols . I thought the shore must . have been shutdown for some reason and told my cousin we should return . to Sharjah waters . ' The policeman was not present at a court . hearing on January 7 this year , though . his cousin arrived with a lawyer . The case has been adjourned until January 28 . Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article . | Daniel Clamens was struck after falling into sea at Al Mamzar beach . Had been playing with friend on banana boat before being hit in the face . Left with a 15cm wound and received plastic surgery in Dubai and Miami . Policeman driving the jet ski with cousin accused of mistakenly causing injury . | [[411, 417], [464, 567], [501, 502], [511, 567], [581, 590], [0, 10], [51, 136], [137, 232], [274, 285], [348, 410], [0, 97], [816, 843], [879, 971], [1875, 1887], [1893, 1987], [2225, 2279], [2436, 2495], [274, 287], [294, 345], [730, 807]] |
David Cameron will have to resign if Scotland votes for independence , according to some Tories amid growing fears that the Yes campaign could win this autumn 's referendum . One senior Conservative said Mr Cameron would ` go down in history as the Prime Minister who lost the union ' and would have no choice but to quit Downing Street . It came as Tory MPs called for a law change to block Scottish voters from taking part in the 2015 general election if they back independence later this year . Senior Tories warn David Cameron could go down in history as the Prime Minister who lost the union . Votes in Scotland will have their say on independence in a referendum on September 18 . Recent polls have suggested that support for going it alone is rising , with the no campaign 's lead narrowing . In a major political headache , if Scotland votes for independence it will not break away officially until 2016 . It means that in theory voters north of the border will still be able to take part in the 2015 general election to choose MPs for Westminster . Senior Tories now want to ban all 59 constituencies north of the border from taking part in the general election . The move would make a dramatic difference to the outcome of the election next year , wiping out a significant section of Labour 's powerbase and a sizeable number of Liberal Democrats . In May 2010 Labour won 41 seats , the Lib Dems 11 , the SNP six while the Conservatives secured just one MP . First Minister Alex Salmond has been buoyed by polls showing a narrowing between the Yes and No campaigns . So far , there has been no decision on what would happen to Scotland 's Westminster seats between parliamentary elections and March 2016 , when it would become an independent nation , in the event of a yes vote this autumn . It is widely assumed that elections would continue as usual but Scottish MPs would then vacate their seats when links are severed . Tories believe it would unacceptable , however , for them to hold their seats while London and Edinburgh were negotiating the break-up of the UK . Scottish-born John Stevenson , who represents Carlisle , told The Times : ` Why should the peoples of Northern Ireland , Wales and England have laws passed in this House by MPs who for all intents and purposes are about to be part of a foreign country ? ' Downing Street insists Mr Cameron is focussed on winning the referendum to keep Scotland in the UK , so the issue will not arise . But privately many Tories believe his position will be untenable if voters back independence . A minister said : ` It would be very difficult because he would go down in history as the Prime Minister who lost the union . ' A No 10 source said : ` The Prime Minister is focused on making the case for Scotland to remain part of the United Kingdom . ' A record 4.1 million Scots are now registered to vote as more people sign up to take part in the independence referendum . The . figure is almost 60,000 more than in December 2012 and has been fuelled . by 16 and 17-yearolds who are not eligible to take part in General or . Scottish elections but can do so in the referendum . Around 92,000 out of a possible 120,000 young Scots have signed up . The . figures have been compiled by the Electoral Commission 's 15 Scottish . electoral registration officers -LRB- EROs -RRB- , following an annual canvas of . voters between October 2013 and March 2014 . The . deadline to register to vote in the independence referendum is . September 2 , 2014 . Andy O'Neill , head of the Scotland office at the . Electoral Commission , said : ` The snapshot provided by the publication of . the electoral registers gives an indication of the hard work already . put in by electoral registration officers , but that hard work does n't . stop now . ` The EROs will . continue to encourage as many people who are eligible to register to . take action and get themselves registered before the September 2 . deadline , in order to take part in the referendum . ` The . commission will support EROs activities by launching a public awareness . campaign in the summer , reminding people that the only way to vote at . the referendum is to be on the register . ' | Narrowing of opinion polls heap pressure on David Cameron . Senior Tories warn he could go down in history as PM who lost the union . Calls from Conservative MPs to act ahead of general election in 2015 . If Scots back independence they could still send MPs to Westminster . | [[1516, 1576], [0, 13], [71, 114], [175, 263], [245, 263], [268, 282], [498, 530], [512, 577], [559, 577], [582, 598], [2563, 2578], [2583, 2667], [2581, 2667], [2649, 2667], [2672, 2688], [339, 358], [498, 530]] |
A Chilean television channel has come under fire after a broadcasting the moment when a teenage boy was shot dead by police . The 16-year-old boy had stolen a car in San Bernardo , south Chile , and a policeman on motorcycle chased him down the road and shot him . Viewers have hit out at both the local TV channel and police , who , they say , crossed the line when they shot the young boy . Scroll down for video . Fatal : Video shot on a policeman 's helmet camera shows the moment an officer shoots a teenage car thief . Police officials have defended the fatal shooting , saying the teenager had already run over and injured one person , and was threatening to cause further injury and therefore needed to be stopped . Defending the officer on the motorcycle who fired the killing shots , they added that there was no way of knowing the boy was just 16 . The teenager had earlier stolen the car and was being chased by police officers on motorbikes when he became stuck in a traffic jam . When the young man saw the armed officers tried to break through the glass of the car , he had smashed the vehicles in front of him out of the way running over another rider and continuing on his wrecking spree . A police spokesman said : ` As a result of the threat to other drivers , the police officer decided to use his gun to eliminate the threat . ' High-speed chase : Police in Chile followed a stolen car down the highway after which one officer shot and killed the 16-year-old driver . Defence : Officials have defended the fatal shooting , saying the teenager had already run over and injured one person , and was threatening to cause further injury and therefore needed to be stopped . The video was recorded on the police officer 's helmet camera , and shows him asking the driver to stop the vehicle several times . The police officer is then seen firing his handgun repeatedly at the driver 's side of the car before rushing over . The camera then films the bloodstained teenager lying slumped forward and not moving . The 16-year-old was still alive when ambulance arrived , but later died in hospital . The video was broadcast on a show called ` Criminal Gangs ' , where it quickly went viral after being shared on social networks . | Moment police shoot and kill 16-year-old shown on TV in Chile . The teen had stolen a car and was being chased by policemen . Police defend shooting saying teen could have caused harm . | [[81, 125], [425, 524], [1436, 1447], [1457, 1488], [126, 178], [199, 249], [525, 574], [525, 541], [577, 640], [525, 541], [647, 707], [1497, 1541], [1489, 1496], [1614, 1674]] |
The Department of Defense awarded a contract on Wednesday to a Connecticut company that will build a fleet of helicopters to replace the Marine One fleet that ferries U.S. presidents short distances . The contract , given to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation , will cost an initial $ 1,244,677,064 ` for the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the Presidential Helicopter Replacement program . ' For that price the U.S. Navy will get six test aircraft and all the necessary research & development . The Pentagon made a similar attempt to replace the aging fleet of Sikorsky choppers , spending $ 3.2 billion on a landing pad to nowhere . Adding in the likely $ 17 billion price tag for the new project -- a number estimated by the Congressional Budget Office -- the $ 20 billion total makes the fleet the most expensive helicopters ever built . Marine One-to-be : An artist 's rendering shows what Sikorsky 's proposed ` VXX ' presidential helicopter might look like . Seeing double ? If the current fleet of presidential choppers looks a lot like the new one , it 's because the same company will build them , and it was the only firm to bid on the project . The CBO reports that the projected cost also ` does not include costs to keep the 19 existing presidential helicopters in operation until they are replaced by new helicopters . ' During a White House fiscal responsibility summit a month after President Barack Obama took office , Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain mocked the boondoggle helicopter upgrade project that was later shelved . ` Your helicopter is now going to cost as much as Air Force One , ' McCain said . ' I do n't think there 's any more graphic demonstration of how good ideas have cost taxpayers an enormous amount of money . ' Obama replied that he had asked then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates for a ` thorough review of the helicopter situation , ' and joked that he did n't see the project as very important . ` The helicopter I have seems perfectly adequate to me , ' he told lawmakers in the room . ` Of course , I 've never had a helicopter before . Maybe I 've been deprived and I did n't know it . ' The Daily Beast reported Friday that the 23 or more new choppers based on the Sikorsky S-92 medium helicopter will be delivered , but not until 2022 . That means Obama , whose administration has green-lighted the expense , will likely never ride in the shiny new aircraft . The aircraft will meet exacting standards , including the capability for encrypted communications and secure videoconferencing with people on the ground . They must also have systems that can defend against missile attacks , and shielding to guard electronic components against energy waves produced by nuclear explosions . Not exactly bullet-proof : President Dwight Eisenhower was the first to use a helicopter to travel to and from the White House , using this Bell UH-13J Sioux until Sikorsky could deliver a specially designed replacement . All-weather beast with built-in snow blower : Marine One took off in the snow in March with President Obama aboard , en route to Andrews Air Force base . The challenge has proven daunting , even for the most experienced military contractors . According to the U.S. Naval Institute , . Sikorsky was the only company to bid on the project , raising questions . about whether or not the military is paying a fair market price . A former senior Pentagon official told MailOnline on background that the Department of Defense tried to . encourage other aircraft manufacturers to compete for the award , but . none were interested . He joked that for what the military is paying , ` Marine One should be able to have a solid gold toilet for the president -- except that it would add too much weight . ' The need for 23 choppers to serve one president can be explained by the minimum of two decoys -- and as many as five -- that fly to Andrews Air Force Base whenever he hops from the White House to a waiting Air Force One . And whenever Obama travels , duplicate helicopters are flown on cargo planes in advance , so one can be fueled and waiting when the plane touches down . | The tab for a new helicopter fleet will likely top $ 20 billion , including $ 3 billion spent between 2005 and 2009 on a program that was later canceled . The new contract will buy 23 SIkorsky helicopters at an estimated cost of $ 400 million each -- about the cost of the Air Force One 747 jet . Duplicate choppers fly as decoys . whenever a president takes off from the South Lawn ; others are flown to . Obama 's travel destinations in advance . Just one company bid on the project , raising questions about whether the Navy got a fair price . A former senior Pentagon official said for the price , the new aircraft should have a ` solid gold toilet ... except that it would add too much weight ' | [[510, 522], [596, 648], [1494, 1535], [1545, 1560], [1561, 1585], [1592, 1624], [1561, 1578], [1582, 1624], [2151, 2278], [1126, 1170], [3256, 3329], [3269, 3307], [3597, 3764], [3645, 3733], [3729, 3764]] |
Liverpool midfielder Jordan Henderson has urged his team-mates to use their disappointment at Newcastle as extra motivation for a daunting double . The Merseysiders lost 1-0 at St James ' Park on Saturday as their lack of cutting edge without the departed Luis Suarez and the injured Daniel Sturridge was exposed once again . However , they have little time to lick their wounds with a Champions League trip to Real Madrid looming on Tuesday evening ahead of Saturday 's visit of Premier League leaders Chelsea to Anfield . Liverpool 's Jordan Henderson sees the trip to Real Madrid on Tuesday as a chance to rediscover form . Henderson told the club 's official website , www.liverpoolfc.com : ` They are two big games , two games to show that we can score goals and defend better . ` We 'll look forward to that still . We 'll work hard during the week and put in two good performances , hopefully , against two top teams . ' That , however , may be easier said than done with manager Brendan Rodgers admitting as he started to analyse an unproductive day on Tyneside that '80 per cent ' of last season 's goals had been taken out of his team with the absence of SAS double-act Suarez and Sturridge . Spanish striker Ayoze perez celebrates scoring the winner as Newcastle beat Liverpool 1-0 on Saturday . Newcastle celebrate after Ayoze 's goal inflicted Liverpool 's fourth Premier League defeat in ten games . Liverpool enjoyed plenty of possession at St James ' , particularly as midfield general Steven Gerrard worked his way gradually higher up the pitch as the game wore on . However , with Mario Balotelli static and Raheem Sterling , who spent most of his afternoon wide on the right , largely becalmed by full-back Paul Dummett , home goalkeeper Tim Krul had little of note to do . Newcastle always looked the more dangerous through the pace of Gabriel Obertan , until he tore a thigh muscle 23 minutes into the game , and then substitute Rolando Aarons , Sammy Ameobi and the marauding Moussa Sissoko . But it took them until the 73rd minute to find what proved to be the winner when substitute Ayoze Perez capitalised on Alberto Moreno 's hesitation on the edge of his own six-yard box to hammer the ball past helpless keeper Simon Mignolet . Cristiano Ronaldo , who scored a 17th league goal at Granada on Saturday , will look to help defeat Liverpool . The Belgium international then pulled off a superb save with his foot to deny Remy Cabella a second , but his efforts were to count for nothing in the end . Henderson said : ` It was very disappointing . We came here for confidence and to get a result and we did n't manage to do that , so we 're very disappointed . ` Throughout the game , I thought we dominated the ball but we did n't really get in behind them or create many chances . ` We had one or two through Philippe Coutinho and Martin Skrtel from the corner , but overall , we 're disappointed not to get something out of the game . ' I felt as though we started the game well and we quietened the crowd down , kept the ball . But the ball was n't the problem - we were dominating the game through possession , but it was just getting into that final third and creating an opening . Henderson talks to striker Mario Balotelli , who once again struggled to make an impact at Newcastle . ` We struggled with that , so we 'll have to improve on that and kick on for the next game . ' That next game - Real at the Bernabeu - could hardly be any more difficult with the Spaniards having won 3-0 on Merseyside at a canter on October 22 , and clear-cut chances are likely to be even more difficult to come by . However , Henderson insists that is a collective responsibility despite the growing pressure on summer signing Balotelli . He said : ` It 's down to the whole team , especially the midfielders and the attackers , to make runs in behind and create lots of options and movement and combination play as well . ' I just thought we did n't do as well as we know we can , so we 'll have to improve . ' | Liverpool put in a poor performance to lose 1-0 at Newcastle on Saturday . Brendan Rodgers ' side face Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday before hosting Premier League leaders Chelsea this Saturday . Jordan Henderson sees the tricky double as motivation to respond . Liverpool are currently 7th in the league , 12 points behind Chelsea . | [[148, 234], [1203, 1306], [1264, 1288], [336, 449], [411, 510], [0, 147], [524, 605]] |
A University of Georgia student whose body was found in a creek close to her home last month had taken her own life . Rebecca Elaine Greene died from hypothermia and severe intoxication of Benadryl , the chief medical officer ruled yesterday . The 22-year-old is said to have fallen into the cold stream on November 19 after intentionally taking a large quantity of diphenhydramine . Loss : Chemistry student Rebecca Greene , right , was found dead in a creek in November . Search : Rebecca with her boyfriend , who reported her missing and had been trying to find her when the body was discovered . Miss Greene was reported missing by her boyfriend , who has not been named , on the morning she was found , after she failed to come home on Monday night . The student , who was described as an environmental advocate , had sent him a text message at about 5.30 pm saying she planned to walk or take the bus home , according to Red and Black . When his texts and calls to her went unanswered he contacted her parents at 11.30 pm and went door to door asking neighbors if they had seen or heard anything . Her body was found by investigators who traced her through her cell phone . An officer found her body in the creek and bicycle on the bank , not far from the house she shared with two friends , Fox 5 reported . Police said early on that they did n't suspect foul play , but the results of her death have only just been revealed . Evidence : Police found Rebecca 's bike on the creek bank after her boyfriend reported her missing . Investigation : Officers search the area where Rebecca was found . It was later ruled that the 22-year-old had taken her own life . Missed : Rebecca pictured at a University of Georgia football match earlier this year . Miss Greene 's face and head had not been covered by water in the creek and she did not drown , according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation . ` According to Dr. Sperry , the death . occurred when Miss Greene inadvertently fell in to a cold stream after . intentionally consuming very large quantities of diphenhydramine , ' spokeswoman Sherry Lang told the Atlanta Constitution-Journal . ` The university expresses its sorrow at the loss of life , particularly a young life , ' university president Jere Morehead said in a statement about Miss Greene , who loved horses and travel . Green : Rebecca was a keen horse rider and environmental advocate . | 22-year-old found dead last month took her own life , medical officer rules . Rebecca Greene was reported missing by boyfriend after she failed to come home . For confidential support call the Samaritans in the UK on 08457 90 90 90 or visit a local Samaritans branch , see www.samaritans.org for details . In the U.S. call the National Suicide Prevention Line on 1-800-273-8255 . | [[0, 31], [87, 117], [200, 243], [1602, 1614], [1621, 1666], [1602, 1666], [496, 509], [516, 536], [600, 649], [684, 705], [708, 755], [1498, 1534]] |
Tragic : The devastated mother of nine-year-old Aaron Dugmore uploaded the last photo she ever took of her son to Facebook after she sound him hanged at their Birmingham home . A boy of nine who was found hanged is believed to have killed himself after he was ` bullied for being white ' by an Asian gang at school . Aaron Dugmore -- thought to be one of the youngest children in the UK to commit suicide -- was discovered in his bedroom after being tormented for months , his parents said . They said Aaron was threatened with a plastic knife by one Asian pupil , who warned him : ` Next time it will be a real one . ' He was also allegedly told by another pupil that ` all the white people should be dead ' and he was forced to hide from the bullies in the playground at lunchtime . Aaron 's mother , Kelly-Marie Dugmore , 30 , and stepfather Paul Jones , 43 , said that despite complaints to the school , nothing was done to stop the bullying . Aaron had recently started in Year Five at Erdington Hall Primary School in Birmingham , a school where 75 per cent of pupils come from ethnic minority backgrounds . According to staff at the school he had already ` settled in quickly ' with his classmates after he joined the school last September when his family moved nearby . The school , which caters for 450 pupils aged three to 11 , received an ` inadequate ' rating by Ofsted inspectors last year . ` It 's better to have loved and lost , then never to have loved at all ' : The message written by Aaron Dugmore 's mother Kelly on her Facebook page . Aaron was discovered by Miss Dugmore . hanged in his bedroom at the family home in the Erdington district of . Birmingham at about 6pm on February 11 . He was taken to Birmingham Children 's . Hospital where doctors desperately attempted to revive him but he died . the following day from a suspected cardiac arrest . ` Gone but not forgotten ' : Friends and family paid tribute to the young schoolboy . His mother said she was convinced the taunts led to her son killing himself . ` Aaron got on with all the children at . his last school , and for him to have been bullied because of the colour . of his skin makes me feel sick to my stomach , ' she said . Mr Jones said that from Aaron 's first day of joining the school he had noticed a change in him . ` He became argumentative with his brothers and sisters , which was n't like him at all , ' he added . ` Eventually he told us that he was . being bullied by a group of Asian children at school and had to hide . from them in the playground at lunchtime . ' His mother claimed she went to see the . head teacher of the school several times only to be told : ` You did n't . have to come to this school , you chose to come here . ' A neighbour of the . boy 's grandmother earlier told how ` he had been targeted by a gang of . older bullies at the school ' . She said : ` They made fun of him because he was the new kid but no one really thought it was any more than playground stuff . ' An inquest was opened at Birmingham Coroner 's Court last week but was adjourned to a date to be fixed . Detective Inspector David Wallbank , of . West Midlands Police , confirmed that the force was investigating . allegations that Aaron was being bullied in the run-up to his death . Pupil : The family of Aaron Dugmore claim he was being bullied at Erdington Hall Primary School . | Aaron Dugmore , nine , found hanged at Birmingham home by his mother . Believed to be Britain 's second youngest ` suicide ' caused by bullying . The schoolboy was rushed to hospital but died of suspected cardiac arrest . Family claim Aaron was being tormented by bullies at his new school . Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding Aaron 's death . | [[129, 176], [177, 190], [195, 211], [177, 190], [212, 316], [1557, 1595], [177, 190], [212, 316], [1977, 2038], [1823, 1874], [1846, 1874], [177, 190], [212, 316], [2455, 2507], [2765, 2838], [3232, 3284], [3321, 3382], [3147, 3167], [3170, 3214]] |
Capitulation : Boehner called the decision a ` disappointing moment ' , it sets aside a difficult and divisive issue through the 2014 congressional elections in November and clears the way for Republicans to focus their campaign efforts on the rocky launch of Obama 's health care reform law . The GOP-controlled House has backed away from a battle over the government 's debt cap and passed a measure extending Treasury 's borrowing authority with overwhelming support from President Barack Obama 's Democratic allies . The 221-201 vote came hours after Speaker John Boehner announced that his fractured party would relent and not seek to add other items to the must-pass legislation . Twenty-eight Republicans voted yes . The bill would permit Treasury to borrow normally for another 13 months and would diffuse the chance of a debt crisis well past the November elections . Just Monday , Republicans suggested pairing the debt measure with legislation to roll back a recent cut in the inflation adjustment of pension benefits for working age military retirees . Unwilling to risk spooking the markets , and leading a fractured GOP majority , House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday stepped back from a confrontation with Democrats to let Congress vote on increasing the government 's borrowing cap without trying to extract any concessions from the White House . The move risks more displeasure from the tea party but came after most Republicans in the House made clear they had no taste for another high-stakes fight with President Barack Obama over the nation 's debt ceiling , which must be raised so the government can borrow money to pay all of its bills . Victory : President Barack Obama spent today with French President Francois Hollande but he secured an important political victory over Republicans today as they backed away without a fight on the debt ceiling . Walking away without a fight : Caving into President Barack Obama 's demands for a `` clean '' debt ceiling increase , Republicans in the House of Representatives agreed on Tuesday to advance legislation that extends U.S. borrowing authority for a year with no strings attached . The vote comes four months after Washington diffused a government shutdown and debt crisis that burned Republicans politically - an experience they did not want to repeat . Tuesday 's developments , which many Capitol Hill insiders saw coming , marks a major reversal of the GOP 's strategy of trying to use the debt limit to force spending cuts or other concessions on Obama . The president yielded to such demands in 2011 - before his re-election - but has since boxed in Republicans by refusing to negotiate . Boehner , made the announcement after conservatives failed to rally around his latest plan , floated Monday , to tie lifting the debt ceiling to a measure to reverse cuts to military pensions that were enacted less than two months ago . Earlier plans to tie a debt cap increase to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline or repeal of part of the new health care law failed as well , stymied by a group of hard line conservatives who vowed never to vote for increasing the government 's debt , which stands at more than $ 17 trillion . President Barack Obama hosts a state visit by French President Francois Hollande today - while over at The Capitol Democrats celebrated their decisive victory over the Republicans . The measure does not raise the debt limit by a set amount but would suspend it through March 15 of next year to allow Treasury to borrow the money it needs to pay bills like Social Security benefits , payments on government debt , and checks for federal workers . The move reflects a return to the old ways of handling the politically tricky debt ceiling vote in which the president 's party is expected to carry most of the load to pass it . ` We 'll let the Democrats put the votes up , ' the speaker said . ` We 'll put a minimum number of -LRB- GOP -RRB- votes up to get it passed . ' ` That 's how it 's supposed to work , ' said Vice President Joe Biden at the Capitol after swearing in the newest senator , John Walsh , D-Mont . Boehner said his inability to assemble 218 GOP votes - enough to win a floor vote - for any debt limit plan left him no alternative but to turn to Democrats . Winners : Senator Charles Schumer , the Democratic Policy Committee chairman , -LRB- left -RRB- , and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , arrive for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday last week , where they told reporters that Republicans were preparing to battle attempts to raise the debt ceiling . In the end the Republicans gave in and voted for the ceiling to be raised . Unfounded fears : -LRB- from left -RRB- , Sen. Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y. , the Democratic Policy Committee chairman , Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , D-Nev. , Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin , D-Ill. , Sen. Jack Reed , D-R.I. , and Sen. Patty Murray , D-Wash. , chair of the Senate Budget Committee , tell reporters last week that Republicans are thwarting Democratic efforts pass a bill to extend unemployment benefits . ` When you do n't have 218 votes , you have nothing , ' Boehner said . ` We 've seen that before and we see it again . ' He said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif. , promised him sweeping Democratic support in the vote . More than 180 Democrats have signed a letter pledging to vote for a clean increase in the debt cap . The White House applauded the move . Gene Sperling , director of the White House 's National Economic Council , said the administration hopes Tuesday 's development means ` that the tactic of threatening default or threatening the full faith and credit of the United States for budget debates is over , off the table and never is going to happen again . And if so that would , I think , be a boost for confidence and investment in the US . ' Obama 's refusal to negotiate , GOP disunity , and Boehner 's determination to avoid the possibility of a market-cratering default on U.S. obligations gave the Ohio Republican little choice but to announce the vote on a ` clean ' debt ceiling increase . ` It 's disappointing but we have an intractable White House , ' said Rep. Doug LaMalfa , D-Calif . ` This is a hard deal for us but it 's also important that we keep the country operating and the financial markets stable , so this is the thing we have to take until somehow there 's a change in attitude in the Senate or the White House or a change of occupancy of the Senate or the White House . ' Come again : A National Park worker removes a closed sign at the Martin Luther King Jr. . Memorial after it was re-opened to the public in Washington October 17 , 2013 . New day : Morning breaks over the U.S. Capitol as the federal government reopens after a 16-day shutdown , in Washington , October 17 , 2013 . The announcement amounted to resigned defeat for a party that has sought to use must-pass debt ceiling measures as leverage to force spending cuts on Democrats . Republicans won more than $ 2 trillion in spending cuts in a 2011 showdown , but gave Obama two debt limit increases last year with only modest add-ons . ` The Democrats got burned when we negotiated and that led to the sequester , and we learned our lesson , ' said Rep. Peter Welch , D-Vt . ` And the Republicans got burned when they shut the government down . ' The House voted 326-90 Tuesday on separate legislation to restore full cost-of-living increases that were to have been cut by 1 percent for retirees under 62 . The cuts , which had just passed in December , were backed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan , R-Wis . Repealing them would cost $ 7 billion over the coming decade , the Congressional Budget Office said Monday . The reduction sparked an uproar among advocates for veterans , and lawmakers in both parties are scrambling to repeal it . | Republicans caved into President Obama 's demands for a ` clean ' debt ceiling increase . The move marked a dramatic shift from the confrontational fiscal tactics . House Republicans have used over the past three years , culminating in last October 's 16-day government shutdown . Boehner called the decision a ` disappointing moment ' for Republicans - but has decided to focus his campaign efforts on the rocky launch of Obama 's health care reform law . | [[1820, 1874], [1875, 1882], [1896, 1903], [1906, 1991], [4603, 4637], [4603, 4629], [4642, 4663], [5371, 5435], [2328, 2351], [2400, 2477], [6702, 6709], [6712, 6806], [15, 67], [72, 74], [174, 293], [2668, 2675], [2678, 2758], [6845, 6901]] |
The world 's first test-tube burger will be served in London next week . It is made from meat grown in a laboratory , rather than cattle raised in pastures . And its developers hope it will show how the soaring global demand for protein can be met without the need for vast herds of cattle . The 5oz ` Frankenburger ' , which cost # 250,000 to produce , is made from 3,000 tiny strips of meat grown from the stem cells of a cow . The raw meat is said to be grey with a slippery texture similar to squid or scallop . World first : One lucky person will be able to try the first test tube burger , but it cost # 250,000 . It has been created by Professor Mark Post , from the University of Maastricht in Holland . His research has been funded by an anonymous businessman -- who may be the first to try the burger . He told The Independent on Sunday : ` Right now , we are using 70 per cent of all our agricultural capacity to grow meat through livestock . You are going to need alternatives . If we do n't do anything meat will become a luxury food and will become very expensive . ' A four-step technique is used to turn stem cells from animal flesh into a burger . First , the stem cells are stripped from the cow 's muscle . Next , they are incubated in a nutrient broth until they multiply many times over , creating a sticky tissue with the consistency of an undercooked egg . This ` wasted muscle ' is then bulked up through the laboratory equivalent of exercise - it is anchored to Velcro and stretched . Finally , 3,000 strips of the lab-grown meat are minced , and , along with 200 pieces of lab-grown animal fat , formed into a burger . The process is still lengthy , as well as expensive , but it could take just six weeks from stem cell to supermarket shelf . Time : Once optimised , Professor Mark Post 's method could mean that the time from stem cell to supermarket shelf could be reduced to six weeks . Biology : Dutch scientist Mark Post with samples of in-vitro meat , or cultured meat grown in a laboratory , at the University of Maastricht . His work is funded by the Dutch . government , as well as an anonymous donation of 300,000 euros - but it . remains to be seen , however , whether the pioneering development will . find favour with a public that likes to think of its chops , steaks and . sausages as having their roots in nature , rather than in test-tubes . He first attempts involved mouse . burgers . He then tried to grow pork in a dish , producing strips with the . rubbery texture of squid or scallops , before settling on beef . His burger consists of about 20,000 thin strips of cultured muscle tissue . The cell-grown burger is produced . with materials -- including fetal calf serum , which used to grow the . cells -- that will eventually be replaced by materials not orginating . from animals , the New York Times reported . In-vitro meat or cultured meat is an . animal flesh product that has never been part of a complete , living . animal , and is quite different from imitation meat or meat substitutes , . which are vegetarian foods made from vegetable proteins like soy . Scientists say that it is possible the meat will be sold to the public within ten years . It also reduces the amount of feed , water and fuel needed to produce beef . Every kilo of meat requires 10 kilos of plant feed and oil , but cultured meat would only need two . According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation we will be eating twice as much meat as we do now by 2050 . Each individual in Briton eats on average 85kg meat a year . Professor Post added : ` It comes down to the fact that animals are very inefficient at converting vegetable protein into animal protein . This helps drive up the cost of meat . ' It is thought that the new form of meat could be acceptable to vegetarians , and animal rights organisations have already given their approval . Environmentally friendly : Cultured meat uses 99 per cent less land than regular livestock . Peta spokesman Ben Williamson said : We do support lab-grown meat if it means fewer animals are eaten . Anything that reduces the suffering of animals wold be welcome . ' Peta also runs a competition offering a $ 1million prize for the person who invents an artificial form of chicken meat . Oxford university scientists said in 2011 that cultured beef would need 45 per cent less energy that natural beef . They added that it would require 99 per cent less land than regular livestock and produce between 78 and 95 per cent less greenhouse gas . But , the difficulty may be persuading the public to eat an artificial product . Professor . Post said that it is possible to add fatty tissue and nutrients to it , . changing the taste and making it more palatable for the public . But . before it became commercially viable , the Food Standards Agency have . said that they would have to provide evidence showing it is safe for the . public to consume and nutritionally equivalent to regular meat . | The artificial burger will be cooked and served for the first time this week . It cost in the region of # 250,000 to produce the prototype . The 5oz beef burger is grown from the stem cells of one cow . Creator Professor Mark Post believes the development could help solve problems in the meat industry . | [[0, 72], [292, 315], [326, 343], [600, 619], [367, 429], [2639, 2674], [620, 662], [665, 711]] |
Vladimir Putin is suffering from Asperger 's Syndrome , a study by a Pentagon think-tank has claimed . The study claimed the Russian President 's ` neurological development was significantly interrupted in infancy , ' resulting in his Asperger 's diagnosis . In order to come to the conclusion that Putin suffers from an autistic disorder , the think-tank cites work by autism specialists and movement pattern experts . Scroll down for video . ` Autistic ' : Russian President Vladimir Putin , pictured staring down Russian Foreign Minister Srgei Lavrov last week , has been ` diagnosed ' with Asperger 's Syndrome by a Pentagon think-tank . President Putin has ` an autistic disorder which affects all of his decisions , ' Brenda Connors , an expert in movement-pattern analysis at the US Naval War College in Newport , Rhode Island , wrote in the report obtained by USA Today . After studying Putin 's movement in public settings , Connors concluded that ` the Russian President carries a neurological abnormality . ' Two studies on Putin , one in 2008 and another in 2011 , were written for the Office of Net Assessment , an internal Pentagon think-tank on military strategy . The study also quotes Dr. Stephen Porges , Professor in psychiatry at University of North Carolina , as saying ` Putin carries a form of autism ' , but following the report in USA Today he told the website that he would not go as far as to say the Russian leader has Asperger 's . The results of the studies have been published as French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel prepare to join US Secretary of State John Kerry in Kiev ahead of talks with Putin about the situation in Ukraine . Proof ? : An expert in movement-pattern analysis studied Putin 's movement in public settings and concluded that hat ` the Russian President carries a neurological abnormality ' Warning : Speaking at a news conference in Paris this morning French President Hollande said ` diplomacy can not go on forever ' as world leaders prepare to meet Putin to discuss an end to war in the Ukraine . Not forever : Francois Hollande told journalists that while France and Berlin had chosen diplomacy rather than arming Kiev troops against the pro-Russian separatists , negotiations could not drag on indefinitely . Tomorrow , Merkel and Hollande will travel on to Moscow to meet with Putin in the hope of producing a conflict-resolution deal that would be acceptable to all parties , . Asperger 's Syndrome is a life-long condition which falls within the autistic spectrum . It affects about 1 in 200 people , more commonly in men than women , and sufferers experience difficulty in social interaction , social communication and imagination , and cognitive flexibility . These are often displayed , predominantly in males , by a lack of empathy , impaired imagination , difficulty in making friends , intense absorption in a special interest . Whilst people with Asperger 's will exhibit some or all of these characteristics to a greater or lesser degree , many tend to experience isolation and a lack of understanding in their everyday lives , which often results in frustration , anger , depression and a lack of self-esteem . Source : aspergerfoundation.org.uk . The flurry of high-level diplomacy aimed to end the resurgent fighting in eastern Ukraine that is threatening European security . France and Germany hoped this time they could come up with a peace deal that both Ukraine and Russia could agree to . Kerry is already visiting Kiev and in Brussels , NATO prepared to boost its forces today in response to Ukraine 's unrest and Russia 's increased military forcefulness . Fighting between Russia-backed separatists and government forces picked up in January after a month of relative calm , with more than 220 civilians killed in the past three weeks alone , according to the United Nations . The UN has sharply criticized both sides for indiscriminate shelling and called for a temporary truce . Putin 's spokesman , Dmitry Peskov , said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies that Putin , Merkel and Hollande will discuss ` what the three nations can do to help put a quick end to a civil war in southeastern Ukraine , which has exacerbated in recent days with mounting casualties . ' The study has been criticised by autism organisation National Autistic Society -LRB- NAS -RRB- , saying this kind of speculative diagnosis is ` fraught with risks and unhelpful ' . ` Autism is a complex condition and a diagnosis should only ever be made following a thorough , holistic face-to-face process involving both the individual and the diagnostician , ' Jane Harris , Director of External Affairs and Social Change at NAS said . | Vladimir Putin has Asperger 's Syndrome , according to two studies . Think-tank studied Putin 's movement and concluded he is ` autistic ' Study claims his neurological development was interrupted in infancy ' Published as Hollande and Merkel arrive in Moscow for peace talks . | [[0, 53], [218, 258], [577, 586], [589, 614], [1391, 1393], [1417, 1455], [1424, 1460], [1708, 1746], [1796, 1873], [56, 102], [259, 261], [268, 338], [880, 931], [934, 1017], [1281, 1323], [1708, 1746], [1796, 1873], [56, 102], [103, 172], [121, 213], [1461, 1581], [2300, 2426]] |
A soldier who spotted a boy with a terrible deformity while on patrol in Bosnia has spent ten years fundraising to finally deliver his promise of giving him a new face . Former Staff Sergeant Wayne Ingram , 44 , met four-year-old Stefan Savic a decade ago while on peacekeeping duties in Eastern Europe . Stefan was born with a debilitating condition called Tessier facial cleft , which meant his eyes were 4.5 cm further apart than normal and he had no proper nose . Former Staff Sergeant Wayne Ingram has raised more than # 100,000 to pay for a Bosnian boy , Stefan Savic , to have surgery at Great Ormond Street Children 's Hospital in London . But father-of-two Mr Ingram , formerly of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers , was so moved by Stefan 's plight he vowed to get him state-of-the-art medical help . He collected an amazing # 85,000 with a fundraising drive across Bosnia and the UK before bringing Stefan to London 's Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2003 . The youngster underwent 12 hours of surgery with plastic surgeon David Dunaway , who cut his face in half before moving his eyes closer together and building him a nose . The operation was a success but Mr Dunaway warned that a second operation would be needed a decade later . Mr Ingram kept in touch with Stefan and his parents Slavenka , 36 , and Milos , 44 , raising a further # 20,000 to bring him back to the UK to finish his treatment . Stefan , now 14 , returned to Great Ormond Street this week for his second operation with Mr Dunaway to improve his face and help his breathing . When Mr Ingram first met Stefan a decade ago he promised to help raise the money for him to have the surgery he needed on the facial deformity he was born with . Stefan has now had the treatment -LRB- pictured -RRB- . Stefan -LRB- pictured at the age of four -RRB- born with a debilitating condition called Tessier facial cleft which meant his eyes were 4.5 cm further apart than normal and he had no proper nose . Mr Ingram , from Weymouth , Dorset , said he was just happy to complete the remarkable job of helping Stefan lead the life of a normal little boy . He said : ` I was on a routine patrol in Bosnia when I was introduced to his father and went to meet Stefan . ` The condition had been left untreated and had grown between Stefan 's eyes , crushing his skull , forcing his eyes apart to the point he could n't see what was ahead of him . A facial cleft is an opening or gap in the face , or a malformation of part of the face . It occurs when separate areas of the face do not join together properly when a baby is developing in the womb . There are many different types of clefts , one group of which are called Tessier clefts . These are clefts affecting the centre of the face . The clefts are very rare and most children with them need multiple operations to help them breathe and eat . ` But aside from the facial deformities . he was just a normal , playful little boy . He was confident and cheeky , . climbing all over me as we played football in the yard . ` He was too young then to be self-aware . But his facial cleft was blocking his airways and without medical attention , could kill him . ` I had two young sons myself at the time and there was no way I could stand back and do nothing . I knew in an instant I had to do everything I could to help . ' As Mr Ingram set about raising funds , he wrote to a long list of celebrities . Only David Beckham replied , politely explaining he had already chosen his charities for that year . Mr Dunaway , the surgeon , was offering his services for free but Mr Ingram still needed to pay for flights , accommodation for the family , as well as essential hospital costs . He raised 6,000 Euros by staging a charity football match in Banja Luka , with Muslim , Serb and Croat players setting aside their conflicts to help Stefan . And back in the UK , Mr Ingram launched a massive fundraising drive , persuading his local Asda to put collection boxes beside their tills . He said : ` Donations poured in and I was bowled over by the generosity . ` Stefan needed three operations back then - one to remove his teeth , another to reconstruct his nose and another to reconstruct his skull . Thanks to Mr Ingram , Stefan has had a series of operations and procedures at Great Ormond Street . The pair are pictured during one of Stefan 's previous trips to London for treatment . Stefan -LRB- pictured after his latest operation -RRB- is expected to need one more operation and Mr Ingram has promised to be there for him and to help raise the money for this operation as well . ` He was back and forth to the UK many times , staying for as long as a month at a time . ` The doctors warned us it was n't over , however , and that ten years later Stefan would need follow up surgery . ` But we have kept in touch ever since and as ten years neared I let Stefan 's family know I would raise the necessary funds - over # 20,000 . ' As Mr Ingram set about raising a second lot of cash to pay for visas , hospital costs and flights , he was once more amazed by people 's generosity . In his native Dorset , one anonymous donor , calling herself simply ` the kind granny ' contributed a ` large , undisclosed ' amount . And this time celebrities including comic Jim Davidson and musician Billy Bragg also answered his letters . After his latest operation , Stefan -LRB- pictured on his first trip to London in 2003 -RRB- said : ` This is the best thing that has ever happened to me ' Stefan 's operations have been carried out by surgeon David Dunaway -LRB- right -RRB- who has waived his fee on each occasion . This meant Mr Ingram only had to raise money for flights , accommodation and hospital costs . With the funding in place , Stefan underwent his four-hour follow-up operation with Mr Dunaway on Saturday and is making a good recovery . Mr Dunaway , who once more waived his fees , said : ` This operation was really about reconstructing his nose and improving his nasal airway . ` His nose was very wide and he basically did n't have a tip to it at all . ` We took a cartilage from one rib , fashioned it into the shape of a nose , then used it to reconstruct his nose . ` This will allow him to breath more easily , eat more easily , it will improve his speech and he will look much more like the rest of us . ` To have the opportunity to greet him again and finish it off so he can lead a normal life and not worry about these things is just great . ' Without treatment , Stefan 's condition could have killed him because his airway was being blocked . Mr Ingram -LRB- pictured with Stefan before his latest operation -RRB- was so inspired by Stefan that after leaving the army he became a paramedic . Stefan will likely need a further operation on his nose and orthodontics to realign his teeth before one final surgery to correct the roof of his mouth . Mr Ingram , who was so inspired by Stefan 's medical progress he became a paramedic after leaving the army , says he 'll be there every step of the way . Mr Ingram , whose own sons Harry and Toby are now 18 and 16 , added : ` Stefan has never moaned or complained the whole time I 've known him . ` His mum says that after his latest operation he looked in front of the mirror and said : `` this is the best thing that has ever happened to me '' . ` For me this was about honouring a promise I made all those years ago and doing everything I could for Stefan . ` He 's changed my life as well and inspired me to become a paramedic . We 'll always have an inseparable bond . ' Mr Ingram 's fundraising efforts have been supported by the Facing the World charity , which provides life-changing surgery to children from developing countries with severe facial disfigurements . To make a donation visit facingtheworld.net . | Former Staff Sergeant Wayne Ingram met Stefan Slavic ten years ago . Stefan , now 14 , was born with a facial deformity and needed surgery . His eyes were 4.5 cm further apart , had no nose and skull was crushed . Mr Ingram promised to raise enough money for him to have treatment . Thanks to his efforts , the first operation was carried out in 2003 . 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While it may sound to many men like more of a blessing than a curse , Dale Decker claims that his 100 daily orgasms are a hell that has ruined his life . The 37-year-old , from Wisconsin , developed persistent genital arousal syndrome in September 2012 after slipping a disc in his back while getting out of a chair . Speaking on ITV 's this morning , the father of two explains : ` It 's completely changed everything I have ever done . I ca n't do anything , I ca n't get a job . You have to understand that in America 90 per cent of the jobs are service industry and nobody would ever put me in front of their customers so working is pretty much out of the question . ' Dale spoke about his rare and little understood condition on ITV 's This Morning via video call . Dale 's condition has affected not only his ability to hold down a job but his family life , even occurring during his own father 's funeral . Unable even to do simple things like play baseball with his two sons , Dale feels particularly awkward when it happens around children . Becoming obviously tearful as he spoke , Dale says : ` I do n't go around kids . My own children did n't even know what the word orgasm was until Tuesday when some kids in school had apparently seen the video on YouTube . How do you explain an orgasm to an 11-year-old child ? ' The 37-year-old became very distressed when discussing the consequences of his condition . According to medical literature , trauma to the pelvic nerves can trigger hypersensitivity in this area . The painful pelvic condition has left him housebound and isolated , through fear of suffering a public orgasm , with some even causing him to drop to the floor . ` There are different intensities . The ones that cause me to fall to the floor feel like all the muscles from my chest to my thighs have gone rock hard and everything just seizes up . ` It hurts and it feels good at the same time and you have all these things running through your head as they happen . You do n't want to be around anyone and you do n't want anyone to see it , ' Dale explains , speaking via video call from America . The painful pelvic condition has left him housebound and isolated , through fear of suffering a public orgasm . Mr Decker lives in Two Rivers , Wisconsin , with his wife April and two sons Christian , 12 , and Tayten , 11 . While doing all she can to support her husband , Mrs Decker said his condition is ` hard to live with ' . She said : ` We really struggle right now as he is unable to work and supply for his family and I feel like all the strain is on me . ` It 's really upsetting , we do n't do things that man and wife should do and we argue over things that should not be affecting us . Despite suffering from a near constant erection Dale and his wife April -LRB- right -RRB- rarely have sex . ` Because he sometimes has episodes at night we took the decision to sleep in separate beds . ' ` He struggles to be a good father to the children because they obviously do n't understand what is happening , ' his wife added . ` He ca n't take them to practice - ca n't play ball with them , it 's really hard . ' Despite suffering from a near constant erection Mr and Mrs Decker rarely have sex . ` Occasionally we will but it 's very frustrating for both of us , ' Mr Decker said . ` I 've tried reading about it , tried going to doctors but nobody can help me - I do n't know what I 'm going to do . ' I just want to get my old life back - I just want to get back what this condition has taken from me . ' To watch the full interview go to This Morning . | Dale developed persistent genital arousal syndrome in 2012 . Spoke on ITV 's This Morning about the devastating effect on his life . Became very distressed when discussing the consequences of his condition . Has become isolated because he fears the reaction of others . Can no longer even play with his own sons or hold a job . Condition is not well understood and treatments are limited . | [[154, 186], [189, 309], [318, 349], [1330, 1420], [1330, 1345], [1369, 1420], [1527, 1555], [1584, 1592], [1595, 1636], [461, 481], [811, 861], [914, 982], [3083, 3120]] |
One of central London 's busiest train stations was evacuated today after builders discovered what they thought was an unexploded bomb in a nearby residential street . However , the device was not a remnant of the bombing campaign endured by the capital during the Second World War , but a discarded gas canister found by workers in Peabody Avenue in Pimlico , a short distance south of the major transport hub . A British Transport Police spokesman said that no trains were leaving or entering the station and a ` controlled evacuation ' took place - causing travel misery for thousands of passengers . London 's Victoria Station was evacuated after a gas canister discovered nearby was mistaken for an unexploded Second World War bomb . Twitter user Matt Jones on the incident at Victoria Station in London . He added : ` British Transport Police -LRB- BTP -RRB- officers were called to London Victoria mainline station at 10.36 am on Tuesday , 10 June , after the discovery of what was believed to be a suspicious item at a site near the station . ` The device was discovered by maintenance workers at the site on Vauxhall Bridge Road and a police cordon was established around the surrounding area to allow emergency services to carry out an investigation . ` BTP officers attended alongside colleagues from the Metropolitan Police Service and discovered the item in question was a camping gas cylinder . Not a bomb : The device in question was actually as a gas cylinder . File picture . ` Some trains were briefly delayed and cancelled at Victoria while the investigation was carried out , and the incident was resolved at 11.07 am . ' A Network Rail spokeswoman said it is not yet clear how many services had been affected and how many passengers were stranded , but said the incident resulted in around an hour of disruptions and delays . She added : ` As the incident was close to the tracks leading into Victoria it was necessary to shut the station and halt trains for a time . ' With more than 73 million passenger . entries and exits between April 2010 and March 2011 , Victoria is the . second-busiest terminus in London after Waterloo . The London Fire Brigade press office confirmed 10 firefighters were at the scene , which was cordoned off . The discarded gas canister was found by workers in Peabody Avenue in Pimlico , a short distance south of Victoria Station . All train journeys to and from the station were halted after the bomb was uncovered . They were called at 10:50 am and said it 's a police-led incident . The spokesman added that the firefighters left at around 11.20 after the area was made safe . Experts have said there could be up to 21,000 unexploded bombs in Britain because one in ten dropped by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War never detonated . The cities with the highest numbers are London , Plymouth , Bristol , Manchester and Birmingham . Five years ago Landmark Information Group used aerial images taken by the RAF after the war to map likely spots where unexploded bombs might have fallen , although exact locations remain a mystery . London 's East End suffered badly during the Blitz , and work on the Olympic Park at Stratford had to be halted after a 1,000 kg bomb was found . It later emerged there could have been up to 200 unexploded devices there . | The ` bomb ' was discovered by builders in Peabody Street . London Victoria was evacuated and all rail journeys halted . Police and firefighters attended the scene and discovered the canister . | [[74, 167], [2260, 2336], [413, 603], [460, 536], [604, 665], [1493, 1506], [1532, 1553], [1923, 1988], [2384, 2469], [651, 683]] |
A group of 11 terrorists with links to Al Qaeda were yesterday being interrogated on whether they are behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 . The suspects were arrested in the capital Kuala Lumpur and in the state of Kedah last week and are members of a violent new terror group said to be planning bomb attacks in Muslim countries . The interrogations come after international investigators , including the FBI and MI6 , asked for the militants , whose ages range from 22 to 55 and include students , odd-job workers , a young widow and business professionals , to be questioned intensively about Flight MH370 . Scroll down for video . A Malaysian Airlines aircraft takes off from Kuala Lumpur Airport : Questions have been raised after the airline refused to reveal details of 2.3 tonnes of cargo aboard missing jet MH370 that was not listed on its manifest . Nearly two months after the . Beijing-bound plane vanished soon after take-off from Kuala Lumpur , no . trace has been found despite a huge sea search costing hundreds of . millions of pounds . It is thought to have crashed into the Indian Ocean . with 239 people on board . An . officer with the Counter Terrorism Division of Malaysian Special Branch . said yesterday the arrests had heightened suspicion that the flight 's . disappearance may have been an act of terrorism . ` The . possibility that the plane was diverted by militants is still high on . the list and international investigators have asked for a comprehensive . report on this new terror group , ' the officer said . In . interviews conducted so far , some suspects have admitted planning . ` sustained terror campaigns ' in Malaysia but denied being involved in . the disappearance of the airliner , he added . During the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith Osama Bin Laden 's son-in-law , Saajid Badat -LRB- left -RRB- said he had been instructed to give a shoe bomb to the Malaysians . He claimed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed masterminded the plot . During the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith Osama Bin Laden 's son-in-law , Saajid Badat , a British-born Muslim from Gloucester , said he had been instructed at a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan to give a shoe bomb to the Malaysians . He said : ' I gave one of my shoes to the Malaysians . I think it was to access the cockpit . ' Badat , who spoke via video link and is in hiding in the UK , told the New York court the Malaysian plot was being masterminded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the principal architect of 9/11 . A . mystery surrounding the cargo being carried by the missing Malaysian . Airlines plane emerged on Friday when it was discovered that it had been . loaded with items not specified on the manifest . The . aircraft was carrying 4.566 tonnes of mangosteens - an exotic fruit - . and a shipment of lithium batteries , which were part of a separate . consignment . The batteries . weighed 200kg , but that separate consignment totalled 2.453 tonnes . So . what was being carried to make up the 2.253 tonnes in that separate . shipment ? Questions have been raised as Malaysia Airlines said it will close assistance centres in Beijing and Kuala Lumpur for the families of the 239 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 777-200ER jet . Relatives of passengers aboard flight MH370 prepare to leave a hotel where they have been staying in Beijing after Malaysia Airlines said it would close all its assistance centres for relatives the missing . The closures come after rescuers . abandoned their fruitless air search for the missing jet , which had . focused on a remote area of the Indian Ocean off Australia 's west coast . The . mystery was sparked by a spokesman for the company that shipped the . batteries telling a Malaysian newspaper that he would not reveal what . the remaining 2.253 tonnes of cargo were . ' I . can not reveal more because of the ongoing investigations , ' the . spokesman told The Star newspaper . ` We have been told by our legal . advisers not to talk about it . ' The . spokesman said he could not even name the company which manufactured . the batteries , insisting that the matter was confidential . Questioned . about the fact that a mystery cargo was not stated in the manifest , . Malaysian Airlines told the paper that the rest of the consignment was . ` radio accessories and chargers . ' A . statement from the airline said that the freight not specified had been . ` declared as radio accessories ' , despite there being no reference to . this in the manifest released publicly last Thursday . What the manifest does say is that NNR . Global shipped 133 pieces of one item weighing 1.99 tonnes and 67 . pieces of another item weighing 463kg for a total ` consolidated weight ' of 2.453 tonnes . Just how . many lithium batteries had been loaded , or their weight , are not . specified in the manifest , although Malaysian Airlines boss Ahmad Yahya . told a media conference in Kuala Lumpur on March 24 that the batteries . weighed a total of 200kg . What . the manifest does say , in respect of the lithium batteries , is that . ` the package must be handled with care and that a flammability hazard . exists if the package is damaged . ` Special procedures must be followed in the event the package is damaged , to include inspection and repacking if necessary . ' Still praying for answers : A relative of a missing passenger inside a prayer room at Lido Hotel in Beijing . There has been earlier speculation that a fire involving the batteries might have been the cause of the aircraft 's fate . According to The Star , shippers NNR Global are located at an air freight forwarding warehouse located less than 100 yards from the Penang International Airport . ` The complex is guarded by the police and only those with passes are allowed entry , ' the newspaper said , following its investigation into the unspecified cargo . A consolidated shipment combines several individual consignments to make up a full container load . At . the port of destination , the consolidated shipment is separated back . into individual consignments for delivery to their respective . consignees . The lithium . batteries and the other mystery items that are said to be radio parts . were addressed to NNR Global Logistics in Beijing , but a company named . JHJ International Transportation Co.Ltd of Beijing was to collect the . cargo on its behalf . A policeman naps beside a board written with messages for passengers aboard the missing fight at the hotel . Among the conspiracy theories that have already emerged following the Boeing 777 's disappearance on March 8 , is that its fate was linked to 20 of the 239 people on board - they were employees of a semi-conductor manufacturing firm which develops components for hi-tech weapons systems and aircraft navigation . They were employees of Freescale Semiconductor , a Texas technology firm , working in several manufacturing sites in Kuala Lumpur and Tianjin , China , a fact confirmed by a spokeswoman for the company . The citizens news site Beforeitsnews , said earlier that it was conceivable that MH370 was ` hiding ' with its high-tech electronic warfare weaponry . ` In fact , this type of technology is precisely the expertise of Freescale , that has 20 employees on board the missing flight , ' said the website . However , until a detailed description of the ` radio parts ' that have not been itemised in the MH370 manifest has been made available , the conspiracy theories are likely to be given an added thrust . | Suspects were arrested in the capital Kuala Lumpur and the state of Kedah . Said to members of violent new terror group said to be planning attacks . Interrogations came after demands from agencies including FBI and MI6 . Manifest revealed presence of consignment but did not reveal its contents . Airline has admitted 200kg of lithium batteries was among the items . It refused to say what else , citing ` legal reason ' related to ` ongoing ' probe . | [[163, 243], [163, 175], [258, 299], [273, 354], [355, 440], [3759, 3785], [4759, 4797], [4976, 5002], [3714, 3785], [3759, 3785], [3835, 3892]] |
Authors Jonathan Safron Foer and Nicole Krauss have called it quits on their 10 year marriage . A rep for the literary power couple confirmed that they ` split amicably a year ago ' , according to The New York Post , and ` have chosen to live in close proximity in order to raise their -LSB- two -RSB- children . ' Last October , in what was to be a real-estate omen , the pair listed their six bedroom townhouse in Brooklyn , New York , for $ 14.5 million , and although they have both moved out , the house remains unsold . Shock split : Authors Jonathan Safran Foer -LRB- right -RRB- and Nicole Krauss -LRB- left -RRB- ` split amicably a year ago ' without the public knowing , and are pictured here looking cosy at a New York event , in February of this year . Once dubbed ` the too-successful-to-stomach physical embodiment of literary Brooklyn ' by New York Magazine - the couple 's split comes as a shock to many , as the ferociously successful author-duo appeared to enjoy a happy and stable marriage . Mr Foer , 37 , is best known for his 2009 novel , Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close , which was later turned into a film starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock , in 2011 . In 2012 , just one year before the couple separated , Mr Foer told The Guardian that ` the best kiss of his life ' was : ' -LSB- The -RSB- First date with my wife , beneath a costume shop awning , in the rain . ' In the same interview , he declared that ` the love of his life ' , was ` life itself . ' Literary heavyweights : Mr Foer -LRB- left -RRB- is best known for his novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close , while Ms Krauss -LRB- right -RRB- wrote the bestselling The History of Love , both plots being notably similar . Film : Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was made into a movie in 2011 , starring Tom Hanks -LRB- pictured -RRB- . Ms Krauss has been hailed by The New York Times as ` one of America 's most important novelists ' , and is best known for her bestselling novel , The History of Love , which she wrote around the same time Mr Foer was writing Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close . In a signal of the pair 's creative unity , the two post-modern novels have been widely noted for their similarities , in plot and in writing style . Both center around intelligent children with dead fathers solving mysteries in New York . Mr Foer is . also the author of the 2009 book , Eating Animals ; a nonfiction which . exposed the gruesome insides of America 's meat industry . The work is now . being made into a feature-length documentary starring self-proclaimed . vegan , Natalie Portman . Mr Foer and Ms Krauss have raised their . children , Sasha , eight , and Cy , five , as strict vegetarians . Mr Foer currently teaches creative writing and the New York University , and Ms Krauss is writing short stories . | The bestselling authors were married for 10 years . They have two sons ; Sasha , eight , and Cy , five , and live close by in Brooklyn , New York . | [[0, 95], [59, 95]] |
Australian singer Rob Mills has been accused of being homophobic on social media after posting an indecent photo of two Lego figurines on Instagram . The former Australian Idol contestant , who is vocal about supporting gay marriage , celebrated the Hawk 's AFL Grand Final win over the Swans when he posted two figurines in a sexual position . The photo , which has since been removed , shows a Hawthorn Hawks Lego figurine bending-over a Sydney Swans figure with hashtags #hilarious #criticssaidwhaaaaaat #b2b and #alwayshawthorn . Mills , who recently starred as Danny in the Grease Musical , released an official statement on Sunday night , saying the photo was ` immature and inappropriate . ' Australian Idol contestant Rob Mills , who is vocal about supporting gay marriage , has been accused of being homophobic on social media . Mills has since received a social media backlash for the image -LRB- above/cropped -RRB- he posted on Instagram . ' I apologise unreservedly for the photo I tweeted yesterday ' , Mills said in the statement . ` In the excitement of celebrating the Hawks Grand Final win , I did n't think about the homophobic implications of the image . ` This incident probably shows how entrenched inadvertent homophobia is in our culture . ` As a long-time supporter of the rights of Australia 's gay community , it 's not good enough and I 'm ashamed if I have contributed to it , even in a small way . ' The singer has vocal in supporting of gay marriage , calling it ' a no-brainer ' , and saying ' I ca n't believe that in Australia we still do n't allow same-sex couples to get married . But the singer has now been slammed for demonising homosexuality . Bec Barrett tweeted : ` Shame on you @RobMillsyMills for instagramming that vile , homophobic lego picture about the Swans v Hawthorn . I thought better of you . ' Former Australian Idol contestant has apologised on Twitter after posting a controversial image on Instagram . Bec Barrett tweeted : ` Shame on you @RobMillsyMills for instagramming that vile , homophobic lego picture about the Swans v Hawthorn . I thought better of you ' Rob Mills has caused a controversy through social media after posting an indecent photo on Instagram . Mills has now been slammed for posting risque picture of two Lego figures after AFL Grand Final . Erin Riley tweeted : ` It equates receiving anal sex with being beaten or losing - that is homophobic , ' Ms Riley , a 20 year old Sydney resident , told Sydney Morning Herald that a large group of Hawthorn fans had been chanting during the match , ` Sydney take it up the a -- , doo-dah , doo-dah ' . Alex Dunnin tweeted : ` Another celeb social media fail . What a goose . ' But others came to Mills ' defence , such as Enda Markey , who tweeted : . ` For the sake of saying it : Calling @RobMillsyMills homophobic is ludicrous . He 's not . ' James Millar tweeted : ` Accusing @RobMillsyMills of being homophobic is as legitimate and accurate as accusing me of being a heterosexual football fan . #HesNOT . ' Mills currently plays Danny Zuko in an internationally toured musical production of Grease . Daily Mail Australia has asked Rob Mills for comment . He is yet to respond at the time of publication . But others came to Mills ' defence , with James Miller tweeting : ` Accusing @RobMillsyMills of being homophobic is as legitimate and accurate as accusing me of being a heterosexual football fan . #HesNOT ' Paul Kidd tweeted : ` Lots of homophobes and sundry idiots coming to @RobMillsyMills ' defence , but Mills himself is silent . He just needs to apologise ' Enda Markey tweeted : ` For the sake of saying it : Calling @RobMillsyMills homophobic is ludicrous . He 's not . ' Mills is best known for featuring on the first season of Australian Idol . More recently he has starred in a musical rendition of Grease . | Rob Mills posted a controversial image during the AFL grand final on Saturday . The former Australian Idol contestant has released an official statement on Sunday night , saying the photo was ` immature and inappropriate ' Mills said : ` In the excitement of celebrating the Hawks Grand Final win , I did n't think about the homophobic implications of the image . ' He has since received a social media backlash . Some have accused Mills of being homophobic . He has previously been vocal in supporting gay marriage . Mills has since removed the image . | [[1848, 1958], [1848, 1881], [1908, 1958], [2121, 2223], [2224, 2321], [2224, 2229], [2251, 2321], [534, 539], [596, 642], [534, 539], [645, 696], [1047, 1048], [1052, 1107], [1047, 1091], [1110, 1174], [0, 149], [699, 725], [772, 837], [838, 853], [863, 926], [838, 843], [854, 926], [2121, 2223], [0, 149], [0, 17], [45, 149], [699, 725], [772, 837], [2802, 2838], [150, 187], [194, 232], [726, 735], [742, 780], [1430, 1440], [1451, 1480], [345, 385], [388, 533]] |
Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson issued a grovelling apology yesterday after being caught shoplifting from Tesco . He pledged to ` seek the treatment that is clearly needed ' following a caution from police for sneaking out cheese and wine without paying . Worrall Thompson , a father of four , stole from the store five times over the Christmas period before being confronted by security guards in front of shoppers . Apology : Antony Worrall Thompson being driven by a friend after being exposed for shoplifting . The 60-year-old former star of Ready Steady Cook described the thefts as ` stupid and irresponsible ' and said he was ` devastated ' for the family and friends he had let down . He also apologised to staff at the store in Henley-on-Thames , Oxfordshire , where he has shopped for many years . Worrall Thompson , whose restaurant business went into administration three years ago , was filmed on the store 's cameras using the self-service checkout machines . He was said to have been caught ordering blocks of cheese at the delicatessen counter and taking bottles of wine , but putting only some items through the scanner and walking out with the rest . On suspicion of shoplifting : TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson -LRB- centre -RRB- , pictured with Michel Roux and Aldo Zilli , has apologised . Security staff were said to have filmed him in the act several times so they could be certain that it was not a genuine mistake . Worrall Thompson said yesterday : ` I am . so sorry for all my recent stupid and irresponsible actions . ' I am of . course devastated for my family and friends , whom I 've let down , and . will seek the treatment that is clearly needed . ` I am not the first , and I certainly . wo n't be the last person to do something without rhyme or reason -- what . went through my head , only time will tell . ` Of course , I must also . apologise sincerely to Tesco , with whom I 'm had a long and genuine . working relationship , and to all the staff at the Henley branch , many of . whom I 've got to know over the years . ` Once again , I am so sorry and hopefully in the future I can make amends . ' Last night , in a rambling interview , the chef admitted on one occasion he stole bread and two pack of discounted coleslaw . On another occasion , he paid # 180 for three crates of champagne and then stole # 4 of goods . He said he did not need the money and was comfortably well off , so could not fathom why he had stolen low-price and discounted items . Suffered a downturn : Antony Worrall Thompson with wife Jacinta and children . Worrall Thompson mulled over . everything that could have pushed him to steal . He spoke of the stress . of moving house , the death of two close friends , giving up smoking , . anaemia , long working hours , his inability to relax , his age and . dementia . Over Christmas , he said , he had personally flambeed every Christmas pudding at his restaurant , which had left him exhausted . He went on : ` I hope I 'm not going . totally gaga in my old age . I have wondered if it 's something like that . but I hope 60 is too young for something like Alzheimer 's . ' The former I 'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here ! contestant described the moment he was approached by security guards . He said : ` It was like a dream or a nightmare . ` I went back to the office with them and I 'd taken a newspaper , three onions and a sandwich that time . ` I was just thinking over and over , ` Why , why , why , are you taking three onions ? ' I 'd taken # 6 of stuff and the rest of the bill came to about # 30 . ' Worrall Thompson was arrested on suspicion of theft and cautioned on Friday . He was taken to a police station and had his photograph and fingerprints taken , along with a DNA saliva sample . Security staff secretly filmed Worrall Thompson at the Tesco superstore in Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire . Antony Worrall Thompson 's company AWT was forced into administration . He was questioned about shoplifting on five occasions at the Tesco superstore between December 22 and January 6 . The total value of the goods taken was . # 70.68 . To receive a formal caution from police , a suspect must admit . guilt . He will not have a criminal record but his details will remain on . police files . Worrall Thompson 's previous connection . with Tesco was as a judge in the supermarket 's competition to discover . Britain 's best unknown cheese in 2003 . It was won by Goat 's Caerphilly , . from Ditcheat , near Shepton Mallet , Somerset . Forced out : The former home of celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson , in Lower Shiplake , Henley . The chef lives with his third wife , Irish-born Jacinta ` Jay ' Shiel , 46 . The once-booming AWT empire has been hit badly by the economic downturn . He put his chain of six restaurants , pubs and cafes into administration . in February 2009 , blaming his bank for being too cautious with credit . But administrators said the business was ` overstretched ' with debts of . more than # 800,000 , papers from a meeting of creditors at Reading County . Court showed . He has since bought back and reopened the Greyhound , a gastropub in . Oxfordshire , and the Windsor Larder , a delicatessen and cafe . The chef . also used his own funds to keep open two restaurants , in Kew and . Windsor . Two years ago he quit his # 1.6 million home in Henley for a house in Cadmore End , near High Wycombe . Antony Worrall Thompson has been a regular fixture on television cookery shows for more than a decade . The . chef , who was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon , grew up in a theatrical . family . Both his parents were actors and he is the godson of Richard . Burton , who was his father 's understudy at the Royal Shakespeare . Company . Worrall . Thompson , who said he comes from ' a posh sort of family , in a way ' , was . sent away to boarding school at the age of three . His parents split up at around the same time and he was 21 before he saw his father again . Worrall Thompson appeared on ITV reality show I 'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here in 2003 . He was 16 when a rugby accident left his face badly disfigured and he needed surgery to repair the damage . A . course in catering management was followed by a series of jobs learning . his trade at various restaurants in Essex , much to the horror of his . grandmother who refused to write to him because she could not bring . herself to write the word Essex on the envelope . He really shot to fame in the early 1980s when he opened a restaurant called Ménage à Trois in London 's upmarket Knightsbridge . The restaurant , which was patronised by the Princess of Wales , only served starters and puddings . The . boom in cookery programmes in the 1990s propelled him into a different . league and he was soon making regular appearances on shows including . Food and Drink , Ready Steady Cook and Saturday Kitchen . He . has also made appearances on Question Time , The Weakest Link and went . into the jungle for I 'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here ! But his career has not always run smoothly . In . 2008 , he apologised after mistakenly recommending a potentially fatal . weed as part of a healthy living regime and a year later he was forced . to put his restaurant company into administration . The three-times married chef has spoken candidly in the past of the toll his restaurant career has had on his private life . In 2003 , he told the Observer : ` I 've lost two wives to restaurants , and a fantastic Japanese American girl . ' I . mean , some of it was my own fault - too much dabbling in other women . But it 's like a drug : you finish work , you ca n't sleep because the . adrenaline is rushing round , so you end up in a club . You 're never at . home . Things start to fall apart . ' Richard Madeley stood trial for shoplifting in a branch of Tesco but was cleared . A number of celebrities have been accused of petty theft despite in many cases having huge wealth . In one of the most bizarre cases , Liverpool footballer Glen Johnson was given a # 70 on-the-spot fine in 2007 after he and a friend allegedly tried to steal a toilet seat and other bathroom fittings from B&Q in Dartford , Kent . Last autumn , Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea was challenged by Tesco staff after he allegedly ate a doughnut and tried to leave without paying for it . The footballer , who earns # 70,000 a week , said he intended to pay but wandered out when he realised he 'd left his wallet in the car . Staff dropped the matter without calling police . Richard Madeley found himself in a similar predicament in 1991 , but this time the store decided to press charges . He stood trial for shoplifting after staff in a Manchester branch of Tesco said they saw the This Morning presenter pushing trolleys of alcohol through the checkout without paying . He denied the charges , claiming he was simply absent-minded and was later cleared . In 2002 , Winona Ryder was convicted of theft after a shoplifting spree in a Los Angeles department store . The actress , who had a history of depression , was fined # 12,000 and told to attend counselling . And last year , actress Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 360 hours community service for stealing a gold necklace from a jewellery store in the U.S. Peaches Geldof has also been accused of shoplifting -- although no prosecution has ever been brought . In October last year she was reportedly caught stealing make-up from Boots , leading her to be banned from the store . Several months before , staff in a retro clothing store in Bristol accused her of taking clothes -- a claim her spokesman dismissed as ` nonsense ' . | Celebrity chef issued grovelling apology after being caught shoplifting from Tesco . 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The secret of happiness may be to not expect too much from life . For if you start off with low expectations you could end up pleasantly surprised , according to a scientific study into human happiness . British scientists found that day-to-day wellbeing does not reflect how well things are going , but whether things are going better than expected . The secret of happiness may be to not expect too much from life . For if you start off with low expectations you could end up pleasantly surprised , according to a scientific study into human happiness . A stock image of a group of smiling friends is pictured . The ` ebb and flow ' of mental happiness - the way our mood shifts moment-to-moment - is profoundly impacted by our expectations of life , they suggest . The researchers even created a formula for predicting happiness . Although the formula itself is complicated , put simply it looks at the event -LRB- t -RRB- , how important or significant that event is to that person -LRB- w -RRB- and when the event occurred , also known as the ` forgetting factor ' . The ` forgetting factor ' in particular looks at what has happened in the past to determine the current expectations . EVj is the average reward from taking part in a certain event , and RPE is the reward compared to the expectation the person had beforehand . The researchers created a formula -LRB- pictured -RRB- for happiness . Although the formula is complicated , put simply it looks at the event -LRB- t -RRB- , how important or significant the event is -LRB- w -RRB- and when the event occurred -LRB- y -RRB- . EVj is the reward for taking part , and RPE is the reward compared to the expectation . Dr Robb Rutledge of University College London said his team were surprised to find just how important expectation is . He said : ` It is often said that you will be happier if your expectations are lower . ` We find that there is some truth to this - lower expectations make it more likely that an outcome will exceed those expectations and have a positive impact on happiness . ' But his team of researchers , who tested their theory on 18,000 people , also discovered a converse force affects our mood . While low expectations can make us happy . if they are exceeded later , having high expectations to begin with make . us happy earlier . Scientists found that day-to-day wellbeing does not reflects whether things are going better than expected . They also discovered that expectations affect happiness before an outcome is certain . For instance , going to a friend 's favourite restaurant -LRB- illustrated -RRB- with positive expectations can instantly lift someone 's mood . Dr Rutledge said : ` Expectations also affect happiness even before we learn the outcome of a decision . ` If you have plans to meet a friend at your favourite restaurant , those positive expectations may increase your happiness as soon as you make the plan . ' British . scientists found that day-to-day wellbeing does not reflect how well . things are going , but whether things are going better than expected . Lower expectations make it more likely that an outcome will exceed those expectations and have a positive impact on happiness . While . low expectations can make us happy if they are exceeded later , having . high expectations to begin with make us happy earlier , the found . Expectations also affect happiness even before we learn the outcome of a decision . His team combined the contrasting aspects of expectation and its impact on happiness and wrote it into an equation , which they discovered accurately predicted people 's happiness . The equation accurately predicts how happy people will say they are based on recent events . The formula , published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , was put together by studying 26 people who completed a decision-making task in which their choices led to monetary gains and losses . They were repeatedly asked how happy they were , and their brain activity was measured using MRI scans . The scientists used the data to build a computer model , which was tested on 18,420 people using a smartphone app . The results confirmed that people who started off with lower expectations were happier when they had better results . The authors wrote : ` Conscious emotional feelings , such as momentary happiness , are core to the ebb and flow of human mental experience . ` Our computational model suggests momentary happiness is a state that reflects not how well things are going but instead whether things are going better than expected . ` This includes positive and negative expectations , even in the absence of outcomes . ' A recent study found that the articiulation of vowels influence how we feel and that the most positive letter is ` i ' while the most negative - and likely to make us feel sad or grumpy -LRB- stock image -RRB- is ` o ' Researchers from Germany found the articulation of vowels influence how we feel . During tests , they tracked participants ' emotions by measuring changes in facial muscles linked with smiling and frowning , and found the most positive letter is ` i ' and the most negative is ` o ' . The team , led by the Erfurt-based psychologist Professor Ralf Rummer , was able to demonstrate the articulation of vowels systematically influences our feelings and vice versa . The scientists focused on the sound of the long ` i ' vowel and that of the long , closed ` o ' vowel . In the first experiment , the researchers asked participants to watch film clips designed to put them in a positive or a negative mood , and then asked them to make up ten artificial words and to speak them out loud . They found the artificial words that contained significantly more i 's than o 's when the test subjects were in a positive mood . In a second experiment that looked at the link between the sounds , mood and people 's facial muscles . They found that participants making the ` i ' sounds found things funnier than those making ` o ' noises . They believe that the tendency for ` i ' sounds to occur in positively charged words , such as ` like ' , and for ` o ' sounds to occur in negatively charged words , such as ` alone ' , in many languages appears to be linked to the corresponding use of facial muscles . | British scientists found that day-to-day . wellbeing does not reflect how well things are going , but whether things . are going better than expected . Dr Robb Rutledge of University College London said his team were surprised to find just how important expectation is . While low expectations can make us happy . if they are exceeded later , having high expectations to begin with make . us happy earlier . His team combined the contrasting aspects . of expectation and its impact on happiness and wrote it into a mathematical . equation . 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The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a black North Carolina teenager after his family questioned an official ruling that he committed suicide , it was today revealed . Lennon Lacy , 17 , was found hanging by a dog leash and a belt from a swing set in a largely white trailer park in Bladenboro , Bladen County , less than a mile from his home , in August this year . Although the state medical examiner ruled Lennon 's death a suicide based on reports from law enforcement and a county coroner , his family argued that it was a ` race-based homicide ' . They pointed out that the teenager - who had no history of mental illness - had washed his uniform and packed his bag in preparation for a big football game just hours before he was found hanging . Scroll down for video . Tragic : Lennon Lacy -LRB- pictured -RRB- , 17 , was found hanging by a dog leash and a belt from a swing set in a trailer park in Bladenboro in Bladen County , North Carolina , less than a mile from his home , in August this year . They also said he was discovered wearing a pair of white sneakers that did not match the shoes they had last seen him in , that he did not own , and most remarkably , that were two sizes too small for him , . And they said at 6ft 4ins , Lennon could not reach up and touch the 7ft 5ins beam he apparently hanged himself from . There was no item present he could have used to reach the bar , they said . Some relatives even went so far as to say that Lennon 's relationship with a 31-year-old white woman - who lived across the road from him - could have led to his death . The pair 's relationship had apparently not been well received by the predominantly white community . Meanwhile , Lennon 's teammates refused to believe he had killed himself before their high school game , which the starting linebacker had reportedly spent the entire summer training for . One of his teammates , Anthony White , told The Inquistir that his friend had huge NFL dreams , saying : ` He was real excited ... he was looking forward to doing good in the game . ' As Lennon 's family , friends and teammates spread the word of their unease , a coalition of church leaders , lawyers and activists in the state called on federal authorities investigate Lennon 's death . NFL fan : Although the state medical examiner ruled Lennon 's -LRB- pictured -RRB- death a suicide , his family argued it was a ` race-based homicide ' . Now , the government has launched a federal investigation into his death . Scene : Lennon , who aspired to be an NFL player , was found hanged from this wooden swing set -LRB- pictured -RRB- . The North Carolina branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -LRB- NAACP -RRB- claimed police had reached a ` quick four-day call ' that Lennon had taken his own life . ` Given evidence uncovered by the -LRB- North Carolina -RRB- NAACP , there are several other possible explanations for his death besides a simple suicide , ' the Association said in a letter . The Reverend William Barber , president of the chapter of the NAACP , said many questions remain unanswered , including why the teenager was hanging from a dog leash and a belt he did not own . ` We do n't know what happened that terrible night , ' Mr Barber said . Speaking to Yahoo , he added : ` The call was made so quick . And what concerns us about that is that if Lennon Lee Lacy was white and was found hanging in a. . . predominantly black trailer park that was known to have some drug involvement and other things , we just do n't believe that it would have been this quick rush to say it was a suicide . Mother and son : Lennon 's -LRB- right -RRB- mother , Claudia Lacy -LRB- left -RRB- , also backed calls for further investigation into her son 's death , saying : ' I just want to know what happened to my 17-year-old son ; all I want is justice ' ` It would have been a very , very , very intense investigation . ' Lennon 's mother , Claudia Lacy , also backed calls for further investigation into the death of her son , . ' I just want to know what happened to my 17-year-old son ; all I want is justice , ' Mrs Lacy , who identified her son 's body in the back of an ambulance at the scene , told the Guardian . She dismissed the coroner 's findings that Lennon had been depressed over his uncle 's death , saying the loss would not have driven him to suicide and that he was , in general , a very happy person . And she added that a number of cuts and abrasions had been found on her son 's body following his death , alongside a large bump on his head that may indicate he was hit by someone . Speaking to AP , she said : ` When I saw him , I just knew automatically he did n't do that to himself . Gifts : Mr Lacy added that a number of cuts and abrasions had been found on Lennon 's body following his death , alongside a large bump on his head . Above , Lennon 's friends leave gifts at the scene of the hanging . Tribute : Candles spell out ` L' for Lennon in a tribute to the teenager , who reportedly had big NFL dreams . ` Seventeen years old -- he had no reason to . I know my child . As a mother , I would have sensed if something was wrong to the point that he was going to harm himself . ' Days after he was buried , Lennon 's grave was defiled - an act of vandalism that Lennon 's family believes supports their claim that he was killed in a racially-motivated homicide . Following months of campaigning , the same coroner who ruled Lennon 's death a suicide has now questioned his initial verdict due to the high number of ` unanswered questions ' in the case . On Friday morning , Bladen County District Attorney , Jon David , confirmed to AP that an FBI agent has finally been assigned the case after being made aware of the coroner 's concerns . Lennon 's family hopes the probe could be the detailed investigation they have been waiting for . However , Teresa West , a spokesman for the State Bureau of Investigation , said agents have already addressed all viable leads in the hanging . And the Bladen County District Attorney 's office said in a statement that it has not received any information to counter the initial ` asphyxia due to hanging ' cause of death verdict . ` While the investigation is ongoing , and no final determinations have been made , to date we have not received any evidence of criminal wrongdoing surrounding the death , ' it said . The state chapter of the NAACP has organizing a march in Bladenboro , a tiny town with a largely white population of fewer than 2,000 people , on Saturday . An investigation is now ongoing . | Lennon Lacy found hanged from North Carolina swing set in August . State medical examiner ruled death a suicide based on official reports . But 17-year-old 's family has maintained it was a ` race-based ' homicide . Say victim was found wearing shoes he did n't own that were too small . Also claim he did not possess dog leash nor belt he was hanged from . 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A Gold Coast woman who is the ` crucial witness ' for the prosecution of Gable Tostee has given a graphic account of Warriena Wright 's final moments before she plunged to her death in Surfers Paradise on August 8 . In an affidavit filed to the Queensland Supreme Court by Gable Tostee 's lawyers during his bail application , Emily Ellis , who lived below Gable Tostee 's 14th floor apartment , provides a graphic re-enactment of 26-year-old Ms Wright 's fatal plunge . Police re-enacted the fall by lowering a female officer over the balcony of Tostee 's apartment in the days following her death . Scroll down for video . `` Oh God she 's coming over ' : Police -LRB- inset -RRB- recreated the moment that Warriena Wright came over the 14th floor balcony of the Avalon Apartments -LRB- pictured -RRB- as observed by a neighbour in the flat below . `` I just want to go home ' : Neighbour Emily Ellis , a crucial prosecution witness in the alleged murder of Warriena Wright -LRB- pictured -RRB- heard Ms Wright cry out and then came out onto her balcony to witness feet dangling . Gable Tostee -LRB- pictured -RRB- says he did not murder Ms Wright and plans to strenuously defend his case when he goes to trial in late 2016 or early 2017 . Tostee has denied murdering Ms Wright and plans to strenuously defend his innocence . Ms Ellis said she and two males , Ryan and Nick , were first drawn out onto her balcony of the Avalon Apartments in the early hours of August 8 this year primarily because of what she could hear going on from above . ' I heard a girl say `` I just , I just want to go home , please let me go home '' and she was quite scared , ' Ms Ellis said in the re-enactment for Gold Coast detectives . Emily Ellis saw Ms Wright 's ` legs dangling ' from above in the Avalon Apartments -LRB- pictured -RRB- and then said , ` Oh God , she 's coming over ' ` We were trying to look out . We said ` it 's right above us , there 's something going on right above us here '' ... because you could hear her . she was trying to get away , there was a lot of movement . ` We were trying to see what was going on and because of what we could hear I looked over and as I looked over ... I 've said to Ryan ... `` Oh God , she 's coming over , she 's coming over the balcony '' . ` I 've said to -LSB- Ryan -RSB- `` I do n't , l do n't know what , what is she doing ? Like I do n't know what she 's doing '' . 'Cause I could n't work out the logic of why she was the way she was . All I could see , cause I 'm quite short ... I could see the bottom of her feet . ' I could n't work out what why or what she was doing ... and she was n't gripping either , she was n't on a ledge , so um her feet were dangling . I could n't work out , is she trying to get down , or was she trying to get somewhere else ? ` And then by the time I 've tried to work out what she was doing , was she trying to get down to another level or where she was going , um , she was gone , she 'd fallen , she , there was just shock in her voice . ' Ms Ellis said Ms Wright 's fall was just -LSB- snapping her fingers -RSB- split instant . She was just gone . ' She described seeing ` the bottom of her feet , and um , her toes ' . ' I thought she was wearing shoes , but I think stockings . ` I 'm pretty sure it was stockings ... I 've run it over ... through my head . I had said `` she 's coming over '' and then her feet are there and it was as if she was trying to do something , get down . Final moments : Emily Ellis saw the soles of Warriena Wright 's -LRB- pictured -RRB- feet and could n't understand why Ms Wright was coming over the balcony of Gable Tostee 's 14th floor apartment at 2.20 am on August 8 this year . ` She was n't trying to do anything significant to make her ... I do n't know if it was just a miss-grab . I do n't know what she 's done to -LSB- snaps fingers -RSB- fall . ' In the police re-enactment , a female officer is lowered on a harness over the balcony and Ms Ellis says of Ms Wright 's descent , ` When she was coming down ... she started twisting herself . ' I did see a lot of her body which alerted me , like she 's coming out on the edge . I do n't know what she was thinking because ... her feet were coming towards me first , it was n't as if she was crouching or anything . Fatal date : After several hours of drinking and in the early housrs of the morning 26-year-old New Zealand bank clerk Warriena Wright -LRB- left -RRB- came over the balcony of Gable Tostee 's -LRB- right -RRB- 14th floor apartment , as neighbours watched from below . ` Her legs were there first ... it was n't a lowering or a gentle , cautious ... she was n't hanging on , she was n't facing that way ... she was n't facing that way to hold on . ' The police then repositioned the female officer re-enacting Ms Wright 's fall , so that her ` feet were pointing away from the building , her back was towards the building ... and she was a little bit lower ' . Ms Ellis agreed that the female officer was in the right position and said Ms Wright had been ` flush against the building ' . ' I could n't see her upper body at all and she was out like that and um her legs had reached that point . I could n't see her upper body and that 's why I turned and said `` I do n't know what she 's doing '' because I was trying to work out is she trying to lower herself that way ? ' Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article . | Warriena Wright fell to her death from Gable Tostee 's Gold Coast flat on August 8 . A ` crucial ' police witness has given a graphic account of Ms Wright 's final moments . Emily Ellis lived in the apartment below Gable Tostee in Surfers Paradise . She heard Ms Wright begging to be allowed to go home . Ms Ellis suddenly realised ` Oh God , she 's coming over the balcony ' She said Warriena 's ` feet were dangling ' and ` facing out ' from the apartment wall . 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A pilot who was forced to make an emergency landing on a busy road has said he is considering giving up flying - because it is his second plane crash in just six years . Danny Hall , 48 , from Torrington , Connecticut , walked away from crash landing his plane in West Hartford after the power failed with just a sore back . In 2008 the roofing company owner was forced to land his plane in a river in similar circumstances after the engine failed . Danny Hall was forced to crash land his plane -LRB- pictured -RRB- on a bus route near a busy road - no one was hurt . Mr Hall said during the incident on Saturday afternoon his single-engine Skyline Cessna experienced engine problems and lost power while flying from Robertson Field in Plainville to Hartford-Brainard Airport . He said he radioed a controller at Hartford airport while looking for a place to safely put the plane down . ' I said , `` Tell my kids I love them if I do n't make it . '' He said , `` OK . Good luck , '' ' Mr Hall said . Mr Hall said while he was looking for a place to land he noticed a road only a few miles from Hartford airport that did not appear to have any traffic on it . He said : ` What I thought was a road was actually the bus route I guess they just built . ' I was kind of questioning why there were no cars on it , but I figure if I 'm going to land a plane , I 'm going to try to put it somewhere where no one is going to get hurt . ' The plane narrowly missed several homes and businesses and a wing broke off during the crash . Mr Hall was flying to Hartford-Brainard Airport -LRB- pictured -RRB- when the engine of his Skyline Cessna lost power . Mr Hall said : ` When I got out of the plane after it put down I noticed a little smoke coming up where the engine was . ' I popped my seatbelt , opened the door , got out of the plane and as I was -LSB- walking -RSB- away from it I realised I was safe , ' The $ 567 million bus-only corridor between Hartford and New Britain is nearing completion and is set to open early next year . Mr Hall added : ` The most important thing , I 'm just happy no one got hurt , especially on the ground . ' I did what I had to do , ' The Federal Aviation Administration -LRB- FAA -RRB- is investigating why the plane lost power . Six years ago , Mr Hall survived a plane crash into the Pawcatuck River in Westerly , Rhode Island . He said the engine on that Cessna failed about two miles from Westerly Airport . An FAA investigation at the time found mice had built a nest in the plane , and when he pulled a device that prevents icing the mice and their nest were sucked into the carburetor , causing the engine to seize up . | Danny Hall , 48 , was forced to make emergency landing after engine failed . Plane narrowly missed several homes and businesses and a wing broke off . He landed the plane on a busy road but no one was injured during incident . In 2008 Mr Hall landed plane on a river after experiencing similar problems . | [[0, 120], [170, 185], [220, 324], [325, 449], [333, 358], [370, 449], [624, 684], [569, 576], [689, 747], [1549, 1646], [2364, 2444], [2627, 2659], [1432, 1490], [1491, 1526], [0, 120], [537, 568], [486, 557], [325, 449], [333, 358], [370, 449], [2263, 2276], [2279, 2346]] |
A new book out in Germany reveals how President Kennedy was a secret admirer of the Nazis . The news comes embarrassingly close to a visit being paid to Berlin next month by President Obama - one week before 50th anniversary commemorations of JFK 's memorable ` Ich bin ein Berliner ' speech pledging US solidarity with Europe during the Cold War . President Kennedy 's travelogues and . letters chronicling his wanderings through Germany before WWII , when . Adolf Hitler was in power , have been unearthed and show him generally in . favour of the movement that was to plunge the world into the greatest . war in history . Secret : A new book out in Germany reveals how President Kennedy was a secret admirer of the Nazis . ` Fascism ? ' wrote the youthful president-to-be in one . ` The right thing for Germany . ' In another ; ` What are the evils of fascism compared to communism ? ' And on August 21 , 1937 - two years before the war that would claim 50 million lives broke out - he wrote : ` The Germans really are too good - therefore people have ganged up on them to protect themselves . ' And in a line which seems directly plugged into the racial superiority line plugged by the Third Reich he wrote after travelling through the Rhineland : ` The Nordic races certainly seem to be superior to the Romans . ' The future president 's praise is now . embarrassing in hindsight - a few years later he fought in War . War Two against the Nazis and his elder brother Lt. Joseph Patrick ` Joe ' Kennedy , Jr was killed . Revealing : Presidential diaries and photographs are among more than 500 items from a collection of John F. Kennedy documents and artifacts . Tour : Kennedy recovers , right , from jaundice in a London hospital in 1937 and left juggles on a street in Amsterdam during a trip to Europe . Trip : Kennedy and one of his sisters ride camels in Egypt in 1939 . As a young man , the future president had desperately wanted to go into the Navy but was originally rejected - mainly due to a back injury he sustained playing football while attending Harvard . In 1941 , though , his politically connected father Joe P Kennedy used his influence to get him in to the service and he joined the Navy . In 1942 , Kennedy volunteered for PT -LRB- motorized torpedo -RRB- boat duty in the Pacific . On 12 June 1944 he received the Navy 's highest honor for gallantry for his heroic actions as a gunboat pilot during World War II . The Navy Marine Corps Medal and the Purple Heart were presented to Lt. Kennedy for his heroics and injuries sustained in the rescue of the crew of PT 109 during on August 2 , 1943 when the motor torpedo boat was struck by a Japanese destroyer . His back was hurt during duty and Kennedy was released from all active duty and finally retired from the U.S. Naval Reserve on physical disability in March 1945 . ' I can . imagine no more rewarding a career . And any man who may be asked in this . century what he did to make his life worthwhile , I think can respond . with a good deal of pride and satisfaction : I served in the United . States Navy . ' John F Kennedy . Source : History.com . Other musings concern how great the autobahns were - ` the best roads in the world ' - and how , having visited Hitler 's Bavarian holiday home in Berchtesgaden and the tea house built on top of the mountain for him . He declared ; ` Who has visited these two places can easily imagine how Hitler will emerge from the hatred currently surrounding him to emerge in a few years as one of the most important personalities that ever lived . ' Kennedy 's admiration for Nazi Germany . is revealed in a book entitled ` John F. Kennedy - Among the Germans . Travel diaries and letters 1937-1945 . ' When World War II did arrive , the future president 's father , Joe P Kennedy , strongly opposed going into battle with Germany and made several missteps that severely damaged his political career . He adopted a defeatist , anti-war stance and tried to arrange a meeting with Adolf Hitler without the approval of the Department of State . The reasons for this are unclear - some speculate he was eager to do anything to avoid war because he feared that American capitalism - which he profited from - would not survive the country 's entry into the conflict . In his role as US ambassador to Britain he also opposed providing the UK with military and economic aid . He said in an interview ` Democracy is finished in England . It may be here -LSB- in the US -RSB- . During the World War II , JFK 's older brother Joe volunteered for a secret mission testing an experimental drone plane packed with explosives - a weapon the Allies hoped to use as a guided missile . On the first test flight , the explosives detonated prematurely and the plane exploded - his body was never found . Studies : The future American president sits at a typewriter , holding open his published thesis , ` Why England Slept ' March 1939 , London , John F. Kennedy and his father , Joseph P. Kennedy , US Ambassador to Great Britain , board an Air France plane at Croydon Airport . He accompanied his father to Rome , where he will be representing President Roosevelt at the coronation of Pope Pius XII . Pals : Kennedy and Lem Billings , right , who was a classmate from the Choate School and Princeton University , outside a drugstore in the mid 1930s . Travel companion : Kennedy , Dunker the dog , and Lem Billings at the Hague , during their Europe trip . The youthful president carved his own place in history when he stood . outside the West Berlin town hall of Schoeneberg on June 26 1963 to . declare US solidarity with the city and the continent with the immortal . words ; ` Ich bin ein Berliner . ' The . fact that , strictly speaking , he was referring to himself as a doughnut . - a Berliner - did not diminish the wild enthusiasm for him . But . his praise of Hitler in a country still struggling to come to terms . with his legacy may prove awkward for Obama who will visit Berlin for . wide-ranging talks with Chancellor Merkel on June 18 and 19 . US President John F. Kennedy at the Schoeneberg Town Hall during his visit to Germany . The youthful president carved his own place in history when he stood outside the West Berlin town hall on June 26 1963 to declare US solidarity with the city and the continent with the immortal words ; ` Ich bin ein Berliner ' Infamous : One of President Kennedy 's speech cards carrying his famous remark ` Ich bin ein Berline ' , which he delivered in a speech that electrified an adoring crowd in Berlin . Fans : Thousands of citizens lined the main street in West Berlin as the president arrived flanked by police and bodyguards . Farewell : President John F. Kennedy waves goodbye as he leaves Berlin for Ireland . But . his praise was not entirely without caveats . ` It is evident that the Germans were scary for him , ' said Spiegel magazine in Berlin . In the diaries of the . three trips he made to prewar Germany he also recognised ; ` Hitler seems . to be as popular here as Mussolini in Germany , although propaganda is . probably his most powerful weapon . ' Observers say his writings ranged between aversion and attraction for Germany . The . book also contains his impressions when walking through a shattered . Berlin after the war : ` An overwhelming stench of bodies - sweet and . nauseating ' . And of the . recently deceased Fuehrer he said ; ` His boundless ambition for his . country made him a threat to peace in the world , but he had something . mysterious about him . He was the stuff of legends . ' The book editor 's believe that he was ` eerily fascinated ' by fascism . Bad timing : The news comes embarrassingly close to a visit being paid to Berlin next month by President Obama - one week before 50th anniversary commemorations of JFK 's memorable ` Ich bin ein Berliner ' speech pledging US solidarity with Europe during the Cold War . | A new book reveals President Kennedy was a secret admirer of the Nazis . Embarrassingly close to visit being paid to Berlin next month by Obama . 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Think Liza Minnelli and Joel Gray in Carberet . Think West Hollywood , Greenwich Village and Provincetown and the Castro , known as hotbeds of homosexuality . But they are nothing like the uninhibited urban gay sexual scene and vast homosexual subculture that flourished in Berliin under Germany 's Weimar Republic . Sexual experimentation between the same sexes and medical advances of helping genders ` trapped within the wrong body ' in Germany more than one hundred years ago shaped our understanding of gay identity today . The city 's liberal years - before the rise of Hitler - are detailed in a new book , Gay Berlin . The science of ` transsexuality ' was founded in Berlin at the Institute of Sexual Science where the first male-to-female surgery was performed . The words ` homosexual ' or ` transvestite ' were German innovations . Police mugshots of Berlin prostitute Johann Scheff , arrested in July 1932 . Youths dressed in women 's clothing who successfully passed for women , descended on department stores en masse stealing large quantities of merchandise . The cover of Die Intel , December 1930 , advertising a serialized installment of Men for Sale -LRB- Manner zu verkaufen -RRB- . German gay magazines also offered gay and lesbian friendly services to the gay subculture including medical doctors specializing in ` sexual disturbances ' , detective agencies offering to investigate blackmail threats , as well as dressmakers and restaurants . Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey starred in the film version of Carbaret in 1972 . Male prostitution , homosexual bars and nightclubs , cabarets populated by gay men , lesbians and transsexuals flourished in a wild , incomparable sexual subculture that was exciting yet dangerous . It was in Berlin where scientists concluded that ` same sex love was a natural , inborn characteristic and not merely the perversion of a ` normal ' sexual tendency ' , author and scholar Robert Beachy writes in his compelling book , Gay Berlin : Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Knopf Publishers . The Weimar Republic emerged out of the wreckage of Germany 's war . The Kaiser was gone , the 1919 Versailles Treaty saw the abolition of the German Empire and the loss of significant amounts of its territory . It was a troubled and tortured time for Germany , but Berlin , the old imperial capital became its most liberal city . High living , a vibrant urban life and relaxed social attitudes , along with the influx of American money defined the Golden Twenties in Berlin that was the most creative period in German history . Writers , poets , artists from London , France , the United States arrived in the German city to witness and experience the wild erotic sexual freedom along with curiosity seekers , voyeurs , and homosexuals . Western Europeans , Scandinavians and Russians all came to indulge their sexual appetites in the hedonistic nightlife and party culture of the German capital -- or they came to witness the ` luridly licentious Berlin ' , spiking their own voyeuristic impulses . ` The pervasive prostitution -LRB- both male and female -RRB- , the public cross-dressing , and the easy access to bars and clubs that catered to homosexual men and lesbians were just a few of the features that supported Berlin 's sex industry ' . Transvestite prostitutes sitting on the laps of gay men in the popular Berlin gay bar Marienkasin . Hansi Sturm , was the winner of the Miss Eldorado transvestite pageant in 1926 . There were twenty-five to thirty separate homosexual German-language periodicals that were appearing in Berlin , weekly or monthly . There were no other journals published anywhere else in the world until after 1945 . Openly nudist and homosexual titles were displayed in the kiosks . Same-sex bars , clubs and cafes advertised as well as the professional services of doctors , dentists , lawyers , stationers ... all with the implied ` friends patronize friends ' . In those magazines , anyone facing blackmail found private detectives to track down extortion threats . Cross-dressers found dressmakers who tailored for large sizes . There were the single ads placed by individuals forever in search of love . The American modernist artist , poet and essayist Marsden Hartley , a habitué of 1920s Berlin , ` attended large transvestite balls and patronized homosexual bars frequented by male hustlers . He later recalled , ` Life in Berlin then was at the height of heights -- that is to the highest pitch of sophistication and abandon . None of us had seen anything quite like the spectacle ' . Acclaimed American Architect Philip Johnson often considered the dean of American architects , ` availed himself of Berlin 's male prostitution ' . ` Paris was never that hospitable ' , Johnson said . He became fluent in German later saying , ` I learned it the best way , using `` the horizontal method '' . ' Transvestites having drinks in the Eldorado club that was not hidden away but celebrated in the golden age of the gay bar and club scene in Weimar Berlin . It was a hot spot for high society and partying until dawn was the norm . Dr Magnus Hirschfeld opened the Institute for Sexual Science in March 1919 , the first such facility in the world to offer medical and psychological counseling on sexual issues to heterosexual men and women , homosexuals , cross-dressers and intersex individuals also known as hermaphrodites or individuals caught between male and female . ` The institute represented the first attempt to establish `` sexology '' , or sexual science , as a topic of legitimate academic study and research . ` Nowhere else in the world was there so much as a university department or chair devoted to the subject , much less an entire institute , ' writes author Robert Beachy . The Institute also emphasized public education and had a museum of sexuality , the Hirschfeld Museum , with not only wall charts and photographs but also cases filled with phalluses and fetishes from around the globe . Photographs of homosexuals dressed in huge hats , earrings and makeup adored the walls as well as women in men 's clothing and top hats . When Dr William Robinson , a New York physician and prominent activist for birth control , visited the institute in 1925 , he stated : ` It is an institution absolutely unique in the whole world ... which I hoped to establish in the United States but which I felt would not thrive on account of our prudish , hypocritical attitude to all questions of sex . ' It was at this institute that Hirschfeld and his colleagues pioneered some of the first sex-reassignment surgeries as well as primitive hormone treatments . Dr Hirschfeld studied cross-dressing , men and women who wore the clothing of the opposite sex . Previously interpreted as a symptom of homosexuality by psychiatrists and sexologists , and associated with prostitution and criminal activity , Hirschfeld believed cross-dressers were often heterosexual . Picture postcard of the gay club Silhouette , popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s . Always under a blue haze of cigarette and cigar smoke , film stars , cabaret artists and wealthy nobility were regulars including a young Marlene Dietrich alongside princes , counts and barons . Nazi officials sort through ` un-German ' and ` perverted ' materials in the debris of the Institute for Social Science , that was ransacked on May 6 , 1933 , for a book burning event they staged four days later . Male and female impersonators drew huge crowds at cabarets , circuses and variety theatres -- as well as providing entertainment at the big transvestite balls and homosexual clubs , but they faced the possibility of being arrested by the police and harassed . Dr Hirschfeld helped reform the practices of the Berlin police and convinced them to issue ` transvestite passes ' so that performers could work without fear of harassment although there was no law prohibiting public cross-dressing . But dressing like the opposite sex sometimes inspired the desire for a physical metamorphosis . So the doctor performed one of the first -LRB- primitive -RRB- male-to-female sex-reassignment surgeries on a twenty-three year old officer who had fought in World War I. From childhood on , he felt he was trapped in the wrong body and only went into the military to demonstrate his masculinity . But that did n't subdue his feminine feelings and when the war was over , he felt suicidal . Hirschfeld 's colleague , Dr. Arthur Kronfeld removed the man 's testicles and the effect was quite successful leading to a ` psychic relaxation and a permanent feeling of harmony and balance ' . His facial hair disappeared and now he passed for a woman . He visited a Dresden gynecologist , Dr. Richard Muhsam , who made a ` vagina-like structure ' and tucked his member up in there in what was the first attempt to construct a vagina for a man . Five months later , the former officer was back and reported having erections . He also had fallen in love with a woman , abandoned his cross-dressing and was now masculine . The doctor successfully undid the surgery and restored his masculinity . Afternoon teas and large costume balls were held at the Institute as another venue for flamboyant cross-dressers . The balls attracted young male prostitutes along with the cross-dressers and prominent , open homosexuals . Hirschfeld wanted homosexual men and lesbians to experience greater erotic fulfillment that was n't connected to procreation . With the Great Depression of 1929 , and the crash of the American stock market , the Golden Age was slipping away to a Hitler-led government by spring 1930 , the Nazis were on the rise with the new Reichstag election . In 1933 Adolf Hitler completed his march to power - and with fury the Nazis pursued Hirschfeld as a symbol of all they hated -- as Jew , homosexual and sexologist . 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An unruly pig and its owner were escorted from a US Airways flight after it began defecating on the floor and squealing uncontrollably , a passenger has told Mail Online . Rob Phelps was travelling from Hartford , Connecticut , to Washington 's Reagan Airport for Thanksgiving on Wednesday morning when he saw the animal being led into the cabin on a leash . The 65-year-old described how the 80-pound pig was screaming ` three times louder than a child ' as its female companion coaxed it down the aisle with her feet because it struggled to move on its own . ` It was ridiculous , ' he said . ` It started to smell and flight attendants told her to clean the mess up . ' Ordeal : A passenger has described how a pig that was escorted from a US Airways flight was defecating everywhere and squealing uncontrollably , forcing flight attendants to escort its owner off the plane . Interaction : Rob Phelps , 63 , described how the woman was talking to the pig like a human during the ordeal , calling it a ` jerk ' for not behaving . He added that the pig weighed around 80 pounds . Mr Phelps from Havenville , Western Massachusetts , who was with his wife at the time , said after five or ten minutes a number of passengers began to complain as the pig got more and more distressed . He added that during the encounter the woman was talking to the animal like a human being , calling it a ` jerk ' for not behaving . She had been allowed to take it onto the plane for 'em otional support ' , based on guidelines released by the Department for Transportation . Staff realized it was n't going to work , so the animal and passenger were led out of the cabin . Mr Phelps said that they did not encounter the pig until they boarded the plane , saying everything was normal . Describing the moment passengers saw the creature , he said : ` There was instant silence . There was a mixture of controllable laughter and shock . You could n't write this . ' I have seen dogs and cats in cages on a plane - but never a pig . ` This was not a small pig . When she held it over her shoulder it reached her waist . ' I do n't even know how it got through . You have the TSA and intense security and yet it still was let on board . ' Mr Phelps said that the pig was the only thing the rest of the travelers spoke about the rest of the flight , and he was still laughing about it when he sat down for his turkey on Thursday . American Airlines , the parent company of US Airways , said the woman had the pig as an emotional support animal - which is allowed under Department for Transportation guidelines . In 2012 it was revealed that the Department of Transportation had certain guidelines allowing animals , including pot-bellied pigs , could be taken on flights . Along with monkeys and miniature horses , they could be designated as 'Em otional Support ' . Transportation officers would have to determine whether the animal is permitted on the plane by running through a list of guidelines . Pigs are favored service animals for people allergic to dogs . Guidelines suggest they are intelligent companions and attuned to dangerous situations . American Airlines , the parent company of US Airways , said the woman had the pig as an emotional support animal and was asked to leave the plane after it became disruptive . | Woman boarded US Airways plane in Hartford , Connecticut on Wednesday . Rob Phelps told Mail Online there was instant silence as it entered . Described how the 80 pound pig made the whole plane smell . Said the woman was calling the animal a ` jerk ' for not behaving . It was around five or ten minutes before the animal was taken off the plane . | [[1823, 1830], [1833, 1862], [597, 627], [680, 815], [1033, 1081], [1047, 1081], [880, 891], [992, 1032], [1284, 1395], [1376, 1416]] |
Most grandmothers are known for baking cookies and pinching cheeks , but Willie Murphy does n't stop there . At 77 years old , this 105-pound grandma can lift twice her weight ... and maybe even yours too . Murphy is a self-taught , self-trained , competitive powerlifter and can effortlessly do one-handed pull-ups , one-handed push-ups and fingertip push-ups , according to the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle . She began lifting five-pound weights four years ago after seeing a sign about a local weight-lifting competition . In November , Murphy won her division in the World Natural Powerlifting Federation World Championships in November . But wait , there 's more . This super-ripped granny won multiple awards this year at the WNPF New York State Powerfest competition in Henrietta including the WNPF 2014 Lifter of the Year award with several first-place awards in lifting exercises including power curl , bench press , and bench press repetitions , the Democrat & Chronicle reports . ' I wanted to become better , to have a little edge in life , ' Murphy told the Democrat & Chronicle , ` So I started the weight training . So , little by little , I got stronger and stronger . ' Murphy told USA Today that her strength is completely natural , ` none of those steroids for me , ' she said . She said she works out three times a week and eats what ever she wants including pizza and rum with cranberry juice . Murphy credits her weightlifting as the reason she can shovel her own snow , carry her own groceries , lift her grandchildren , and even push her own car when it gets stuck in the snow . The septuagenarian lifts 215 pounds and told USA Today that she hopes to inspire women , seniors , and people of color who suffer higher rates of high blood pressure and diabetes . ` She is so spunky , sweet and inspirational , ' Lisa Greer , director of administration and member services at the Maplewood Family YMCA , told the Democrat & Chronicle . ' I could n't do half the things she does . ' Murphy has reportedly received a lot of praise from people at her gym since her recent powerlifting wins . When people congratulate her , the Democrat and Chronicle reports , Murphy says thank you and curtseys . ` They see I 'm old and I 'm not being pushed around in a wheelchair , ' Murphy said . ` I 'm almost 80 years old and I am still living life . ' | Willie Murphy is a 77-year-old powerlifter who just won multiple awards at a world championship powerlifting competition . At just 105 pounds , Murphy can lift twice her weight and even pushes her car out of the snow when it gets stuck . Murphy can do one-handed pull-ups , one-handed push-ups and fingertip push-ups . | [[109, 124], [127, 177], [528, 539], [542, 644], [109, 124], [127, 177], [1418, 1424], [1550, 1604], [207, 213], [276, 337], [293, 360]] |
Russia issued a thinly-veiled warning to Moldova not to forge closer links with Europe after pro-Western parties sneaked an election victory yesterday . The three main pro-Europe parties in Moldova have about 44 per cent of the vote , despite the pro-Russian Socialist party receiving the highest number of votes in yesterday 's election . This will see them hold 57-58 seats in Moldova 's 101-seat parliament , while the two pro-Russian opposition parties will get 43-44 seats . Deputy Prime Minister of Russia accused Moldova of rigging the election results by banning one pro-Russian party on the eve of the vote . He also criticised the country for depriving about 500,000 residents of the Russian-backed breakaway region of Trans-Dniester from voting . He said : ` Kishinev -LRB- Russian name for Moldova capital -RRB- better think , `` Comrades have you chosen the right road ? '' ' Scroll down for video . Moldovan residents voted in the crucial election yesterday , which saw the three pro-European parties record the highest number of votes - it is thought they will now form a ` grand coalition ' The sign which translates as ' I vote pro-Europe ' demonstrates the feeling of pro EU sentiment in the country . Moldovan students gathered today with signs ' I vote pro-Europe ' , ` We want democracy ' and ` we want justice ' Serving Prime Minister Iurie Ciocan has seen Moldova establish closer ties with Europe since 2009 . In the election results , the pro-Russian Socialist Party led with more than 21 per cent of the vote . The Communist Party - a Soviet era survivor that still uses the hammer and sickle as its symbol - was in third with almost 18 per cent . In second place were the pro-EU Liberal Democrats with 19 per cent . The party wants Moldova to achieve EU candidate status by 2017 and full membership by 2020 . Two other pro-Europe parties - the Democrats and the Liberals - are on 16 per cent and 9 per cent respectively . It is now thought they will try to form a pro-European ` grand coalition ' although that is likely to face opposition from Vladimir Putin 's Russia . Russian President Vladimir Putin , in Turkey today , has already shown his displeasure for the country establishing closer links with the EU by banning imports of wines , vegetables and meat . The pro-European coalition is likely to face opposition from the Russian President . The elections have taken on greater significance as Moldova , one of Europe 's smallest and poorest countries , borders on war-torn Ukraine . Ukraine has been in crisis since November last year , when the former leadership made a last-minute U-turn , refusing to sign a landmark association and free trade deal with the EU - under huge pressure from Russia . That resulted in mass protests in Ukraine that toppled President Viktor Yanukovych , and the country later signed the EU deal . But the protests , in turn , led to Russia annexing southern Crimea peninsula in March and backing rebels in eastern Ukraine . Since then , the two countries have been locked in a bitter conflict that is the most dangerous to grip Europe since the wars in the former Yugoslavia . Vladimir Voronin , leader of Moldova 's Communist party , casts his vost in Chisinau , Moldova . A child casts her father 's ballot at a polling station in Chisinau during yesterday 's election . Russia believes NATO is destabilising northern Europe and the Baltic states , Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov has said . He has accused NATO of strengthening ties with east European countries that were once dominated by the Soviet Union and Moscow . Mr Meshkov said : ` NATO are trying to destabilise the most stable region in the world - northern Europe . ` The endless military exercises , transferring aircraft capable of carrying nuclear arms to the Baltic states . This reality is extremely negative . ' He added : ` The Russian authorities are and will be taking every step to firmly safeguard the security of Russia and its citizens ... no matter which part of our country it concerns . ' Moldova 's breakaway pro-Russian enclave of Transdniestria - which did not take part in the election - gives Russia a potential foot-hole in the country of 3.5 million . However , Moscow has so far shown no desire to intervene . But it has shown its displeasure for the pro-EU policies by prohibiting imports of wines , vegetables and meat from a struggling economy that relies on agricultural exports . However , analysts say that with Moldova already gaining from the recent EU deal that enables its citizens to travel visa-free to western Europe - the pro-European sentiment in the country will be hard to overcome . A three-party coalition , led by prime minister Iurie Leanca 's Liberal Democrats , has seen Moldova establish closer ties with Europe since 2009 . He has said he wants full EU membership for Moldova by 2020 . Turnout at yesterday 's election was just under 56 per cent , the central electoral commission said , out of a total of 2.7 million eligible voters . | Three pro-Western parties in Moldova have about 44 per cent of the vote . Despite pro-Russian Socialist party winning the election with 21 per cent . They will now try to form a pro-European ` grand coalition ' in the country . Moldova , a small and poor EU country , borders on war-torn Ukraine . 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A man who had racially abused a stranger was knocked out by one punch and left unable to even drink through a straw after his victim 's brother ` saw red ' and hit him from behind . Zack Collins had made insulting remarks to random people in the street as he staggered home from a nightclub in Plymouth with a friend . One of these comments was aimed at the brother of Sami Krasniqi - who later hit Collins after he had become fed up with his family enduring racist abuse on an almost daily basis . Krasniqi knocked out Mr Collins with a single punch - leaving him with six missing teeth , a broken bone in his ear canal and a fractured jaw . Mr Collins was unable to eat solid foods for two weeks because of the injuries to his jaw , and was in so much pain he could not suck up blended food through a straw . Zack Collins -LRB- circled left -RRB- was knocked out by a single punch , leaving him with a fractured jaw and in so much pain he could not drink through a straw , after Sami Krasniqi heard him racially abuse his brother and another man as he walked home from a night out . Krasniqi -LRB- circled right -RRB- walked up to him and punched from behind . Plymouth Crown Court heard that Krasniqi , who pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm , had only intended to give Mr Collins ' a fat lip ' when he walked up to him and hit him from behind . CCTV showed Krasniqi putting Mr Collins in the recovery position when he fell to the floor after he punched him . Krasniqi was arrested and jailed for eight months for the attack . The court heard Mr Collins had been out clubbing with a friend in Plymouth and was highly intoxicated when he left and the pair began walking home at 6am on June 22 . He made a number of abusive comments to strangers in the street , including to a man who turned out to be Krasniqi 's brother . Mr Collins 's friend told police he held him back and apologised for his comments , before dragging him away from Krasniqi 's brother , who he had just insulted . CCTV operators spotted the pair and tracked them , apparently catching Mr Collins making a comment to a black man , while Krasniqi and his brother walked behind . The court heard then the ` red mist came down ' for Krasniqi - and despite only intending to give Mr Collins a ` fat lip ' - Krasniqi punched him once , hard , to the back of the head . This single punch knocked Mr Collins out and he fell to the floor . Alistair Verheijen , prosecuting , said Mr Collins lost two of his upper front teeth , four of his lower front teeth , and suffered a cut to his cheek , a fractured jaw , and an inch-long cut to his tongue . A bone in his ear canal was also fractured . Mr Collins was seen on CCTV staggering home through Plymouth with a friend when he insulted strangers . After he saw Mr Collins insult a black man Krasniqi walked up to him and punched him hard in the head . He said Mr Collins was in such pain and discomfort he was even unable to suck up blended food through a straw . Officers who arrested Krasniqi also found he had a knife with a two-and-a-half inch blade , but the court heard this was not used in the attack and he had it with him because he used it for work . Nigel Hall , defending , said Krasniqi had not realised the man he was following was Mr Collins , who had earlier abused his brother . He also said members of his family had endured ` some form of racial abuse ' on a daily basis and a ` red mist came down . ' Krasniqi had become fed up with the constant racist abuse , having also been subjected to a tirade of comments from a woman earlier that evening who he had accidentally bumped into . Krasniqi was arrested by police and jailed for eight months after he admitted causing grievous bodily harm . Mr Hall said Krasniqi was ` absolutely remorseful ' and never intended to seriously harm Mr Collins . He said Krasniqi ` has to realise he ca n't take the law into his own hands -- he knows that racial abuse is n't going to stop and he has to learn how to deal with it . ' The court heard Krasniqi was already subject to a 12 month sentence , suspended for 18 months after an incident the previous December where he threw a glass at a woman in a pub . Judge Alan Large sentenced Krasniqi to four months for breaching the suspended sentence and eight months for the latest offence to run consecutively , totalling 12 months . | Zack Collins was staggering home from a nightclub in Plymouth at 6am . He insulted strangers and also racially abused brother of Sami Krasniqi . Krasniqi later saw Mr Collins insult a black man , who was walking by . He said ` red mist came down ' and punched Mr Collins in random attack . Mr Collins was knocked out , lost six teeth and suffered a fractured jaw . He was in such pain he could not even drink blended food through straw . 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There are some debts which can never fully be repaid : the freedom which Britain and her people owe the mighty little Spitfire is one of them . When Britain stood alone against the threat of Nazi Germany , the Spitfires and ` the Few ' who flew them protected our skies and all that lay beneath . Even today , almost three-quarters of a century after the Battle of Britain , the air-rending thunder of a 1750-horsepower Merlin engine and the sight of those curved wings slicing through the clouds can still lay claim to the heart of the nation . Scroll down for video . Boultbee Flight Academy in West Sussex can offer passenger flights to non pilots in their # 2 million Spitfire TR9 aircraft built in 1944 . And now , remarkably , ordinary members of the public can experience the thrill of flying along Beachy Head in this unique aircraft . This is because back in September , the historic rules limiting Spitfire experiences to those who hold a pilot licence were lifted by the Civil Aviation Authority . Boultbee Flight Academy in West Sussex is the only company approved by the Civil Aviation Authority to offer passenger flights in their Spitfire TR9 aircraft , which was originally designed to train fighter pilots . Yesterday I was lucky enough to soar out over the white cliffs of Southern England , the Channel limpid below and the late afternoon light torching into an orange parabola around the wooden propeller . It was an extraordinary experience ; the closest any of my generation will come to knowing what the Few knew , that this is flying at its most graceful and elemental . We arced and turned and dived and climbed into the setting sun , the smell of hot grease and engine fuel wafting into the cockpit , the thrumming and throbbing of the plane 's tiny carcass beating into our backs . And as we did so we felt the decades rapidly slip away -- for the Spitfire is an icon of aviation , the years have not withered her magnificent power nor her silvery allure . At 280mph -- using a mere fifth of the engine 's capacity -- and 500ft above the waves , we carved our own little bit of history along the fortress of white cliffs which would once have welcomed Britain 's fliers home . I was flying in Gilda , a Mark IX Spitfire built in 1944 which is worth # 2 million -- and is one of just seven two-seater Spitfires in the world . The aircraft , which has a 1,750 horse-power Rolls Royce Merlin engine , is one of only seven two-seat Spitfires in the world . The flight in a Spitfire , pictured , could just about be the best Christmas present any Briton might receive for next year . I climbed in behind pilot Matt Jones into a rear cockpit where space is so tight it 's measured in fractions of an inch and there is no floor above the constantly moving controls . As the chocks are pulled away , the flaps lifted for take-off and the canopy closes over your head , it 's almost like the Spitfire claims you . That much was expected , but what came as a surprise was the gentleness of one of the most brilliant war machines ever built ; so soft are the controls that the merest movement of the stick up or down or from port to starboard will send it skimming into another corner of sky . After flying over the Channel , we turned inland , reaching 2,500 ft as a pale autumn mist rose beneath us . Then we crossed the Thames up into East Anglia towards the Imperial War Museum at Duxford where Gilda is to spend the winter . Shortly before we landed , Matt pulled back the worn leather casing of the joystick , glanced at me in the cockpit mirror and gently pulled the nose up while turning the plane a full 360 degrees : a victory roll . As we turned , pulling 2.5 times the force of gravity -LRB- Gs -RRB- , I watched the world spin on its very axis and waited for my stomach to catch up . A few minutes later we accelerated to 300mph and performed a Half Cuban , a partial loop from which you also emerge in a roll , pulling 3.5 Gs , the swiftness and sharpness of the Spitfire 's manoeuvrability giving some small clue to her prowess in battle . Now you can win your own flight in a Spitfire , which could just about be the best Christmas present any Briton might receive for next year -- the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain . The little plane , which saved so very many lives , gave me the ride of mine . Here 's your chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime flight in a Supermarine Spitfire , the most beautiful and iconic aircraft in RAF history . The Mail on Sunday has teamed up with the Boultbee Flight Academy to offer one lucky reader an unforgettable 20 - to 30-minute flight over the English Channel -- usually worth # 2,750 . The flight will take place next year on a date subject to availability and conditions . The prize includes an overnight hotel stay for two near the Goodwood Aerodrome . TO ENTER : Phone 0901 553 0697 and leave your details . Calls cost 51p per minute plus any network extras and should last no longer than two minutes . Or text SPITFIRE followed by your first and last name to 65700 -LRB- eg SPITFIRE Sue Smith -RRB- . Texts cost # 1 plus standard network charge . Or email your details to [email protected] . Entries must be received by midnight on Sunday , December 14 , 2014 . The winner will be chosen at random from all entries . Subject to availability . Prize is non-transferable and no cash alternative is available . Prize : One winner to receive a flight as a passenger aboard the two-seat Spitfire TR9 operated by Boultbee Flight Academy and one night 's accommodation for the winner and guest at a local hotel . Winners must be available to take the flight on the appointed day . In the event of the Spitfire being unable to fly , efforts will be made for an alternative flight . Entrants must be 18 or over and residents of the UK . The winner will not be permitted to fly without undergoing a full safety briefing and signing a waiver form . For Mail on Sunday terms and conditions , visit mailonsunday.co.uk / promotions . Phoneline and SMS helpline : 0800 839 173 . | A shotgun seat in the back of a World War II Spitfire is the ultimate Christmas present for British aviation fans . Boultbee Aviation Academy owns one of the seven surviving # 2 million two-seat Spitfire TR9s . The aircraft , which was built in 1944 , features the legendary 1,750-horsepower Rolls Royce Merlin engine . 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Tottenham will launch a bid for Southampton striker Jay Rodriguez in the coming weeks . Although the England forward is recovering from surgery on the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee , the White Hart Lane club are convinced he will be back in action before the end of the year . Southampton have already fielded bids of # 25million from Manchester United for Luke Shaw and # 20m from Liverpool for Adam Lallana and are now braced for Tottenham 's opening gambit for Rodriguez . Earning his Spurs ? Jay Rodriguez is a summer target for Tottenham . In good form : Rodriguez scored 17 goals for Southampton before his season was cut short by injury . The 24-year-old was in excellent form for Southampton prior to his injury scoring 17 goals and was pushing for inclusion in Roy Hodgson 's World Cup squad . Tottenham , who could yet appoint Southampton coach Mauricio Pochettino as their new manager , want more homegrown players to blend with the large influx of foreign players they invested heavily in last summer . Some of those will go , with Romanian centre-back Vlad Chiriches , Erik Lamela , Etienne Capoue , Roberto Soldado and the more established Jan Vertonghen all attracting interest - predominantly from Italian clubs . Rodriguez can play from the left of the attack or behind a main striker and his pace and intelligence gave Southampton a cutting edge that had hem pushing for European contention at one stage of the season . They face a difficult summer and will be fighting off more bids with Calum Chambers , Morgan Schneiderlin , Victor Wanyama and Dejan Lovren all subject to interest from Premier League rivals . Reunited ? Mauricio Pochettino and Rodriguez could both be at Spurs next season . Hammers eye move for defender Peruzzi . West Ham are showing an interest in Catania right-back Gino Peruzzi . The 21-year-old was due to sign for Sunderland last summer but the club pulled the plug on the deal as he had failed to recover sufficiently from a knee ligament operation . Argentina international Peruzzi had flown to England and agreed personal terms but medical reports meant Sunderland did not want to take a chance and a # 5m move from Velez Sarsfield was put on hold . Peruzzi , however , went on to prove his fitness and secured a move to Italy for # 4million . Hammer time : Catania 's Gino Peruzzi -LRB- left -RRB- is a target for West Ham . He has gone on to play 22 games this season but was sent off for a second bookable offence at the weekend . Manager Sam Allardyce will hold a meeting with co-chairman David Sullivan tomorrow about the club 's summer plans and will also find out about his own future . If the club wish to change manager it may mean Peruzzi will stay in Italy . Allardyce has been looking for around six new players and is also considering the likes of Norwich City 's Robert Snodgrass , AC Milan striker M'Baye Niang and Southampton target Aaron Cresswell at Ipswich Town . One-time Allardyce target Josip Drmic at Nuremburg has signed for Bayer Leverkusen . Norwich , Cardiff , Wolves and Boro keen on Huddersfield 's Clayton . Huddersfield are struggling to hold on to highly-rated midfielder Adam Clayton . The former Manchester City trainee has 12 months left on contract and is attracting a lot of attention from rival Championship clubs after another impressive season in which he was voted Huddersfield 's player of the year . Wanted man : Huddersfield 's Adam Clayton celebrates scoring is attracting interest from a number of clubs . Huddersfield rejected a # 1million offer from Brighton in January for a player they bought from Leeds for # 350,000 in 2012 . They want him to stay but the 25-year-old is ambitious and Brighton remain keen while Norwich , Cardiff , Wolves and Middlesbrough also have an interest . Burnley set to move for Mallorca captain Nsue . Premier chance : Burnley could move for Emilio Nsue . Burnley could be poised to allow Real Mallorca captain Emilio Nsue to finally realise his Premier League dream . The 24-year-old was due to sign for Arsenal in 2009 only for personal tragedy to shatter his hopes . The former Spain U21 international had had his medical and was due to discuss terms with Arsenal when news came that his father had collapsed and died . Nsue cancelled the move to be with his grieving family and returned to Mallorca . The highly-rated right winger was part of Spain 's European Championship U21 winning squad in 2011 along side Juan Mata and David de Gea but has since opted to play for Equitorial Guinea in tribute to his late father . Nsue , however , is now ready to make his mark in England and Burnley are among those to have shown interest with the possibility he can leave Mallorca for free . West Bromwich Albion have also shown an interest . Sunderland , Spurs , Southampton , West Ham and Hull keen on Swansea 's Taylor . Swansea defender Neil Taylor is in demand this summer as well as teammate Ben Davies . The left-back who was the subject of a failed # 4million bid from Fulham in January , is weighing up his next move ahead of a summer of change at Swansea . Taylor , who has started 18 games this season , is keen to be playing more regularly and will discuss his future with Swansea boss Garry Monk over the coming weeks . In demand : Neil Taylor could leave Swansea this summer . The 25-year-old has two years left on contract but has interest from Sunderland , Tottenham , Southampton , West Ham and Hull City . Gosling set for Bournemouth move . Dan Gosling is expected to sign for Bournemouth over the coming days . The Championship side made their first approach for the Newcastle midfielder in March and are proposing a long term contract to persuade the 24-year-old to move back to the south coast . Gosling , who began his career at Plymouth , has failed to reach his potential following his acrimonious move from Everton to Newcastle . He made 24 appearances this season including a loan spell at Blackpool where he scored two goals and has made four starts for Newcastle since returning in February . Heading south : Dan Gosling is set to join Bournemouth . QPR keen on midfielder Sammir . Queens Park Rangers are planning ahead for the summer by watching Getafe midfielder Sammir . The 27-year-old was born in Brazil but has been capped by Croatia and holds a Croatian passport . An attacking midfielder , Sammir rose to prominence at Dinamo Zagreb where he replaced Luka Modric and scored 46 goals in 173 games . Heading to England ? Getafe 's Jorge Sammir is being watched by QPR . He joined Getafe in February but is interested in a move to England with Getafe three points above the relegation zone with one game left . QPR are expecting a high turnover of players this summer regardless of whether they go up or stay in the Championship . Sammir , full name Jorge Sammir Cruz Campos , is affordable at around # 3million . Blow for United as Reus commits future to Dortmund . Marco Reus has seemingly ruled out a summer move to Manchester United by insisting he is staying with Borussia Dortmund . United were poised to bid for the 24-year-old who has a release clause of # 27.5 million . Yet in an interview with Kicker-Sportmagazin , he said : ` It 's safe to say I will be playing for Borussia Dortmund also in the 2014/2015 season . Staying put : Marco Reus says he is staying at Dortmund . ` Basically I do not need to stress all the time that I am feeling great being with the club . As far as leaving -LRB- Borussia Dortmund -RRB- that is no issue for me , and I am not affected by it -LRB- the transfer release clause -RRB- . ' | Spurs keen to strengthen strike force with move for England man Rodriguez . Gino Peruzzi attracting interest from QPR . Championship clubs queuing up for Huddersfield 's Adam Clayton . Burnley keen on Mallorca captain Emilio Nsue . Swansea defender Neil Taylor could be on move to Premier League rivals . Newcastle midfielder Dan Gosling set for Bournemouth switch . | [[0, 87], [511, 559], [3101, 3181], [3182, 3216], [3252, 3346], [3419, 3514], [3727, 3771], [3777, 3795], [3796, 3843], [3861, 3897], [3898, 3964], [4861, 4947], [5282, 5327], [6542, 6544], [6575, 6674], [5496, 5566], [5496, 5507], [5520, 5566], [6072, 6114]] |
It 's one of the most advanced robots under development by the US military . The cheetah , described as the ` Ferrari in the robotics world ' , could be used on the battlefield in just ten years , according to its creators . The stealthy machine can run faster than Usain bolt , jumps 16 inches -LRB- 40 cm -RRB- and gallops for 15 minutes - all while using less power than a microwave . Scroll down for video . It 's a robot unlike any other : inspired by the world 's fastest land animal , controlled by video game technology and packing sensors - including one used to maneuver drones , satellites and ballistic missiles . It is the creation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , who had to design key elements from scratch because of a lack of or shortcomings in existing technology . That includes powerful , lightweight motors ; electronics that control power for its 12 motors ; and an algorithm that determines the amount of force a leg should exert within a split second . This allows the machine to reach speeds of up to 30mph -LRB- 48kph -RRB- over difficult terrain . Insight gleaned from the design of their prototype could have real-world applications , including the design of revolutionary prosthetics , wearable technologies and all-terrain wheelchairs . There are hopes the robot will be able to be used in search and rescue operations in hazardous or hostile environments where it 's too risky to send a human rescuer . The elegant machine can run faster than Usain bolt , jumps 16 inches -LRB- 40 cm -RRB- high and gallops for 15 minutes . The cheetah , described as the ` Ferrari in the robotics world ' , could be saving lives on the battlefield in just ten years , according to its creators . Researcher Hae Won Park is shown here plugging batteries into the cheetah . ` In the next 10 years , our goal is we are trying to make this robot to save a life , ' said MIT Professor Sangbae Kim . ` When the robot is running , at every step , we calculate the appropriate amount of the force to the legs so that the robot can balance itself , ' added MIT research scientist Hae-Won Park . Sensors inside the robot measure the angle of the leg and that information is sent to an onboard computer that also organises data from the Inertial Measurement Unit which is also used to manoeuvre drones . The project is funded by the US Department of Defense 's Advanced Research Projects Agency , who is developing a similar robot being alongside Boston Dynamics . The cheetah is Earth 's fastest land animal , able to accelerate to 60 mph -LRB- 96 kph -RRB- in a few seconds . Speed and agility are hallmarks of the cheetah . The predator is the fastest land animal on Earth , able to accelerate to 60 mph -LRB- 96 kph -RRB- in just a few seconds . As it ramps up to top speed , a cheetah pumps its legs in tandem , bounding until it reaches a full gallop , the MIT team say - and their robo-cheetah can do the same . The flexible spine , as well as unique leg muscles , give a cheetah 's legs abroad swing range , allow the animal to achieve a stride of 25 ft -LRB- 7.6 metres -RRB- . The MIT team say the act of running can be parsed into a number of biomechanically distinct gaits , from trotting and cantering to more dynamic bounding and galloping . In bounding , an animal 's front legs hit the ground together , followed by its hind legs , similar to the way that rabbits hop -- a relatively simple gait that the researchers chose to model first . ` Bounding is like an entry-level high-speed gait , and galloping is the ultimate gait , ' Kim says . ` Once you get bounding , you can easily split the two legs and get galloping . ' As a cheetah bounds , its legs touch the ground for a fraction of a second before cycling through the air again . The percentage of time a leg spends on the ground rather than in the air is referred to in biomechanics as a ` duty cycle ' ; the faster an animal runs , the shorter its duty cycle . ` In the next 10 years , our goal is we are trying to make this robot to save a life , ' said MIT Professor Sangbae Kim , who is pictured here alongside a prototype of the robotic cheetah . MIT researchers Randall Briggs , left , and Will Bosworth monitor the robotic cheetah during an early test run . MIT scientists said the robot -LRB- left -RRB- , modeled after the fastest land animal , may have real-world applications , including the design of revolutionary prosthetics , wearable technologies and all-terrain wheelchairs . The machine could beat Usain bolt -LRB- right -RRB- in a race . The company says its version is powered by an off-board hydraulic pump and uses a boom-like device to keep it running in the centre of the treadmill . Crafting the cheetah robot took five years of designing , testing , tweaking and plenty of confidence to ignore those who said electric motors are n't strong enough to propel a running mechanical cheetah powered by batteries . Researchers had to exercise a lot of patience during test runs . The robot broke dozens of legs manufactured by 3D printers and reinforced with Kevlar strips and carbon fiber . Strong , lightweight components make untethered running possible , including a carbon fiber-and-foam sandwich frame that can absorb the forces generated by running and jumping . Some off-the-shelf components , including an Xbox controller for manoeuvring the robot and wireless internet communications for sending commands , were also used . Each leg is propelled by three motors that can generate powerful forces at slow speeds . Still , researchers continue to tweak their prototype , looking to add additional sensors that would eventually make the robot autonomous . Strong , lightweight components make untethered running possible . Each leg is propelled by three motors . Researcher Hae Won Park works on the software for a robotic cheetah with a Xbox game controller . Crafting the cheetah took five years of designing , testing , tweaking and plenty of confidence to ignore those who said electric motors are n't strong enough to propel a running mechanical cheetah powered by batteries . | Robo-cheetah jumps 16 inches -LRB- 40cm -RRB- and can gallop for 15 minutes . The stealthy military machines can reach speeds of 30mph -LRB- 48kph -RRB- . Algorithm controls 12 motors that change amount of force legs exert . It may be used in hostile environments which are too risky for humans . MIT has been working with US military on a prototype for five years . | [[225, 245], [279, 345], [1448, 1467], [1501, 1568], [2798, 2807], [2835, 2874], [991, 1088], [1003, 1088], [1925, 1950], [1953, 1961], [1969, 2029], [1281, 1399], [1379, 1399], [1406, 1447], [4701, 4802], [5881, 5976]] |
Most brides will spend the months leading up to their wedding trying on dresses and saving up for their dream gown worth thousands of pounds . But that was n't the case when Hsin Han tied the knot with her fiance Cai Yuan . The Chinese couple decided they would n't bother with traditional wedding clothes and posed for their bridal album naked . Scroll down for video . Scenic setting : Hsin Han and Cai Yuan stripped off for their wedding pictures in the Wulingyuan Scenic Area in China 's Hunan Province . The groom said they posed naked because , ` we wanted to show our love for each other and to have something forever capturing us in the bloom of youth ' Movie buffs : The couple chose the area because it inspired the planet Pandora in their favourite film , Avatar . Cai Yuan , 31 , and Hsin Han , 29 , from China , were inspired by the hit 2009 film Avatar . They decided to strip naked for their wedding photographs and have a photo shoot in the Wulingyuan Scenic Area in China 's Hunan Province . The stunning scenery in the area was the inspiration for ` Pandora ' , the home of the Na ` vi people in the Oscar-winning film from James Cameron . The couple said they wanted to have spectacular wedding photos , and travelled to the region with a team of make-up artists and lighting experts as well as a professional photographer . Feeling blue : As well as posing naked , the couple also transformed themselves into avatar characters . Action ! The pair recreate a scene from the 2009 film directed by James Cameron . Not your average wedding album : A team of make-up artists and lighting experts as well as a professional photographer travelled with the newlyweds to bring their dream to life . The young couple shot their nude wedding photographs in various locations with dramatic backdrops of forest covered mountains and wide , sparkling lakes . As super fans of the film , which stars Sam Worthington , Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver , the couple also decided to transform themselves into the blue Na ` vi characters for the next stage of their bridal shoot . The pair got their accompanying make-up artists to paint them in blue and them posed in various locations around the area , including Baofeng Lake and the South Pillar of Heaven rock which were among the inspirations for the film . Beautiful view : The couple pose naked beside a scenic waterfall . Bold : Cai Yuan said their naked wedding photos ` show that we have nothing to be ashamed of in our love ' Oscar worthy : The couple take to the water and pretend to be Na ` vi people in another Avatar-themed picture . Inspiration : A character from Avatar which was a hit in 2009 and will soon have a sequel released . Gone viral : The wedding pictures have been popular on social media . Groom Cai Yuan explained why they chose such a different way to celebrate tying the knot : ` We wanted to show our love for each other and to have something forever capturing us in the bloom of youth . ` And we wanted to make it a bold statement , to show that we have nothing to be ashamed of in that love . ' The wedding pictures have been a hit on social media even though the pair could find themselves arrested as public nudity is illegal and generally regarded as socially unacceptable in China . | Cai Yuan and Hsin Han decided to strip naked for their wedding pictures . Pictures were taken in Wulingyuan Scenic Area in China 's Hunan Province . Stunning scenery in the area inspired ` Pandora ' setting for Avatar film . Newlyweds also decided to transform themselves into Na ` vi characters . Took make-up artists with them to paint them blue . | [[224, 346], [388, 508], [869, 926], [1710, 1783], [388, 508], [869, 873], [931, 1008], [676, 764], [1009, 1075], [1385, 1395], [1401, 1448], [1958, 1968], [1974, 2081], [2082, 2160]] |
Lax border regulations in Eastern Europe are providing a back-door route into the EU and fuelling an alarming trade in illegal passports , The Mail on Sunday has discovered . Many former Soviet countries are keen to offer citizenship to ethnic minorities who want to return to their homelands . But this has also fuelled an illicit trade , mostly controlled by agencies with links to the Russian mafia . Scroll down for video . Many potential new EU citizens are being created as some former Soviet countries are keen to offer citizenship to ethnic minorities . The Latvian government has begun granting citizenship to descendants of Stalin 's victims deported to Siberia in the 1940s . Poland , Germany , Romania and Hungary have similar schemes for descendants of their own people trapped in the former USSR . Potential new EU citizens created by this perfectly legal route could run into millions but it also opens the way for major passport fraud . The Mail on Sunday has tracked down agencies offering to broker EU passports for citizens of Russia and war-ravaged Ukraine who are not entitled to these documents . One Kiev agency boasts that for between $ 7,500 -LRB- # 6,000 -RRB- and $ 15,000 -LRB- # 12,000 -RRB- its lawyers ` have built up some relatively quick methods to acquire Romanian citizenship and passports , as well as citizenship of a number of other EU countries ' . It also boasts Ukrainians with an EU passport will get the right to work ` in England ' . The agency boss told our researcher : ` Once we find your Romanian relatives , you have to prove in court that they are authentic . ' On researcher said she was keen to get an EU passport as it would give her the right to work anywhere in Europe , including the UK . When she insisted she did not have any such relatives , she was told : ` No matter . What we do is just find someone with a matching last name who lived in the country before 1940 . ' Another option , she was told , was a Hungarian passport , at a cost of $ 22,000 -LRB- # 17,500 -RRB- . When the researcher said she did n't speak Hungarian , again she was told this did not matter . ` Our specialists will go through the church books and other databases . Once we find the person , it 's almost done . You just have to show up in Budapest to get your passport and an ID card . You 'll get all the benefits of being a Hungarian and EU citizen . ' When our researcher explained she ultimately wanted to live and work in the UK , she was told : ` Like any Hungarian citizen , you 'll get the right to work anywhere in Europe , including the UK . ' | Some former Soviet countries are offering citizenship to ethnic minorities . This allows them an EU passport and provides a back-door route to Europe . Fuelled an illicit passport trade , controlled by agencies with links to mafia . Creates many potential EU citizens who have right to live in the UK . | [[175, 254], [480, 561], [562, 651], [0, 97], [1631, 1634], [1644, 1696], [0, 40], [89, 136], [299, 403], [904, 906], [912, 952], [812, 875], [812, 837], [864, 899]] |
Kirsty , 31 , decided that she needed to lose weight after her brother announced his engagement . A mother of five who dreaded the thought of attending her brother 's wedding because of her size has lost 10 stone ahead of his big day . Kirsty Armstrong , from Houghton-le-Spring , County Durham , dropped half her body weight slimming from 20 stone and a size 28 to 9st 6lbs and a size 10-12 in time for the big day . The 31-year-old had struggled with her size for years but finally found the inspiration to shed the pounds when she found out her brother was tying the knot - swapping takeaways and junk food for fresh fruit and vegetables . Kirsty said her inspiration behind her weight loss was the thought of being overweight in the wedding photos . She said : ` My brother was getting married in July and I wanted to lose weight for his wedding . ' I never had the confidence but I would try to eat healthy and it would n't ever really work . ' Kirsty added that no matter how big her efforts had been in the past , her bad habits had crept into her eating , taking her to 20st 1lb . ' I would just pick off the kids ' plates and snack on crisps during the day and then have a takeaway meal for dinner after they went to bed , ' she said . But in January , determined to change her ways , Kirsty joined New Herrington Slimming World group which meets once a week at St Aidens Parish Centre for support . Kirsty said that the slimming group was more effective than going it alone as there was a sense of unity . ` The slimming group is just a massive support for me , ' she said . ` There 's loads of us in there . There 's a girl who is 14 up to a man who is in his 70s . It did n't take long to see changes . In the first two weeks I lost 6.5 lbs and in the third week 7lb . ' Scroll down for video . Kirsty may have seen quick results but she said losing weight was n't easy . Kirsty 's routine had a complete overhaul adding exercise to her schedule as well as changing almost everything about her diet in order to shift the weight . ' I eat loads of fresh fruit and vegetables . I do n't have takeaways and I cook a lot from scratch . I have proper meals now , ' she said . Kirsty lost half her body weight - from a size 28 -LRB- right -RRB- and to a size 10-12 -LRB- left -RRB- in time for the wedding . ' I always cooked for my kids but now because I have loads of fruit and veg they snack on that too . ' I also did loads of walking . I started walking my dogs for three or four miles . ' By the time of her brother 's wedding , Kirsty had reached her goal having lost 8 stone . However , spurred on by her success she continued to slim and lost an additional 2 stone . Kirsty 's weight loss was so dramatic that it even saw her shortlisted in the Slimming World 's Woman of the Year competition where she got to meet Hollyoaks , Casualty and Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps star Will Mellor . Kirsty says that the whole experience left her completely star-struck . ` It was a once in a lifetime experience meeting Will Mellor , absolutely amazing . He was really lovely . He told me I 'd done amazing and looked great . ' Aside from the celebrity perks , Kirsty says that her weight loss has also helped to improve her relationship with her children . ' I can do more with the kids and it 's given me more confidence , ' Kirsty added . ' I can run around with them which I could n't do before . ' | 31-year-old Kirsty Armstrong was a size 28 and weighed 20 stone . Slimmed down so she would n't be overweight in brother 's wedding photos . Mother of five lost half her body weight and now wears size 10-12 clothes . | [[236, 252], [297, 391], [490, 642], [643, 744], [655, 753], [98, 114], [186, 235], [236, 252], [297, 391], [2183, 2250]] |
Think of a Stone Age hand axe and you may imagine a simple teardrop shape hewn from flint . But archaeologists in Denmark have uncovered a rare 5,500-year old axe complete with its wooden handle . The Neolithic tool was revealed during a dig to prepare for a tunnel and may have been rammed into the ground as some sort of ritual offering . Scroll down for video . Archaeologists in Denmark have uncovered a rare 5,500-year old axe with a wooden handle -LRB- pictured -RRB- . The Neolithic tool was revealed during a dig to prepare for a tunnel and may have been rammed into the ground as some sort of ritual offering . The flint axe 's wooden handle was preserved because the tool was shoved into the clay seabed , where oxygen could not reach it , according to archaeologists at the Museum Lolland-Falster . The team uncovered the tool in Rodbyhavn on the Danish island of Lolland , which will be connected to the German island of Fehmarn when the tunnel is built . ` Finding a hilt axe that is so well preserved is absolutely incredible , ' said Søren Anker Sørensen , archaeologist at the museum . The team uncovered the tool in Rodbyhavn on the Danish island of Lolland along with other wooden tools , while they were excavating the site of the Femern Belt Tunnel -LRB- marked -RRB- . The island will be connected to the German island of Fehmarn when the tunnel is built . A flint halberd was found less than one metre from the axe , also placed vertically in the mud , suggesting it too was a ritual offering . Archaeologists working on excavations of the Femern Belt Tunnel in Lolland found evidence of at least two people 's footprints , dating back to the Stone Age . The experts believe they were left by fishermen attempting to protect nearby river barriers during poor weather . ` It is quite surreal to have found human footprints , ' said archaeologist Terje Stafseth . ` We normally find historical clues in the form of human waste , but here we have found an entirely different clue and a first in Danish archaeology : a physical print left behind by a human . ' ` We know about animal footprints being found from the past , but human footprints have , as far as I know , never been found in Danish Stone Age archaeology . ' The footprints were found running along a 3.2ft-long -LRB- one metre -RRB- system of fishing weirs used to feed a nearby Stone Age community . Their close proximity to these barriers , as well as their depth and position , suggest that a storm caused the barriers to flood and become covered in sand . Using the size of the prints as a guide , experts from Lolland-Falster Museum believe that the poor weather threatened the barriers , and the fishermen would have waded into the water to try to protect them . As each print was made , sand was pushed into the seabed and became preserved over time . ` Because of the unique preservation conditions , we have found much organic matter in the course of the excavations , including a large number of ... candlesticks . Dr told MailOnline : ` Two wooden paddles , also placed verticalyl in the seabed , eight wooden spears and six axe handles without the axes , are some of the many spectacular finds we discovered . ` In the same area we have found depositions of ceramic and animal bones , in one concentration we found about 60 jaws from different animals , together with two antler axes made from red deer antler , both with small pieces of the wooden handles preserved in the shaft holes . Dr Sørensen said that then the team saw most of the axe stuck 12 inches -LRB- 30cm -RRB- into the ground , they knew they had ` a unique find ' . Stone Age people living in the area used such axes for working wood and they played a role in converting Europe into an agricultural region , because dense forests had to be cleared to make way for fields in which to grow crops or let animals graze . But the experts believe the axe played a role in religious life at the time too . With the introduction of agriculture , societies became more hierarchical and religion became more important too . The archaeologists say that the communities of south Lolland may have used the coast as an offering area and nearby marshes and wetlands show signs of burial customs and rituals , in the forms of large stone graves . ` The vertical objects found in the excavations east of Rødbyhavn , clearly shows that people have used the coast -LSB- as a -RSB- sacrifice area , ' they said . The experts believe that objects such as the axe were ` deliberately ' stabbed in underground clay as part of a ritual . Dr Sørensen explained : ` The interpretation as a ritual find is mainly based on the fact that many of the artefacts are placed vertically in the ground , which is not the normal way for artefacts in an archaeological context . ` It tells us that the axe and other artefacts are placed on purpose in the shallow water just off the coast and there are no obvious functional or profane explanation for this . That 's why we see it as ritual depositions . So far , the excavations have also revealed uncovered 5,000-year-old footprints and archaeologists hope to discover more interesting offerings buried in the clay . The experts believe that objects such as the axe were ` deliberately ' stabbed in underground clay as part of a ritual . So far , the excavations have also revealed 5,000-year-old footprints -LRB- pictured -RRB- that are thought to have been made by fishermen trying to safeguard weirs during a storm that hit the region and caused flooding . | Neolithic tool was revealed during a dig to prepare for a tunnel . Wood was preserved because the 5,500-year-old axe was buried in a clay seabed where oxygen could n't reach it for thousands of years . Archaeologists at the Museum Lolland - Falster , Denmark , believe the tool was jammed into the ground as part of a ritual offering . They found it on the island of Lolland at the site of what will be a tunnel . 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More than 200 people were safely evacuated from an American Airlines plane that landed at New York City 's Kennedy Airport on Sunday afternoon following a bomb scare . Flight AA67 from Barcelona , Spain , landed and was taken to a specially designated - and remote - hanger just after noon . Firefighters and PAPD K-9 units conducted a thorough search of the Boeing 767 and the FDNY tweeted two hours later that the incident was under control and no bomb had been found on board . More than 200 people were safely evacuated from an American Airlines plane that landed at New York City 's Kennedy Airport on Sunday afternoon following a bomb scare . Once the plane had safely landed , passengers were allowed to take their carry-on luggage and they were directed them to a grassy area on the side of the runway to await buses to take them to the terminal . The bomb threat was made on Sunday morning about an American Airlines flight landing at JFK from Barcelona that was searched by the bomb squad on arrival . Emergency services were placed on standby and twenty-five units and 105 firefighters responded to the airport . All 200 passengers and nine crew were safely evacuated off the plane without injury . The incident is n't believed to have any impact on other flights at the airport and the FBI has been notified . Joe Pentangelo with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police said all is now clear after the bomb threat . ` It was apparently a telephone bomb threat , ' said Pentangelo and authorities have begun investigating where the call came from . One passenger told the New York Times that the plane landed early , but instead of heading to a gate it was taxied away from the terminal and then stopped without explanation . All 200 passengers and nine crew were safely evacuated off the plane without injury . Eventually a member of the crew announced via the intercom that there had been a bomb threat made against American Airlines and ` this was just a precaution , ' said Teresa Dietrich . ` It 's a little nerve-racking , because you 're not quite sure exactly what 's going on , ' she said . Passengers were however allowed to take their carry-on luggage as they left the plane and they were then directed them to a grassy area on the side of the runway to await buses to take them to the terminal . ` It never seemed rushed ; it never seemed panicked ; it was fairly orderly , ' Dietrich said . Sunday is one of the busiest travel days of the year on the roads and at airports , as millions of people who traveled for Thanksgiving return home after the long weekend . The New York Fire Department tweeted about the bomb threat on Sunday morning . Sunday is one of the busiest travel days of the year at airports such as JFK as millions of people who traveled for Thanksgiving heading home after the holiday weekend . | Authorities at New York City 's JFK International Airport received a bomb threat about an incoming American Airlines flight on Sunday morning . Flight AA67 from Barcelona , Spain , landed at a specially designated - and remote - hanger just after noon . Firefighters and PAPD K-9 units conducting a thorough search of the Boeing 767 - before determining that there was no bomb on-board . All 200 passengers and nine crew were safely evacuated from the aircraft . | [[48, 74], [80, 167], [529, 555], [561, 648], [856, 962], [1882, 1894], [1900, 1965], [168, 194], [205, 291], [292, 406], [443, 480], [0, 74], [481, 555], [1124, 1209], [1750, 1835]] |
An expert claims the loud bangs which baffled Britons last night sounded like a type of experimental jet engine - which conspiracy theorists enjoy linking to a rumoured spy plane . Dr Bhupendra Khandelwal added his comparison to a debate which began when hundreds of Twitter users from Aberdeen to Devon - and even New York - reported ` explosions ' which shook windows and disturbed sleeping children at around 10pm . One resident in Croydon , South London , recorded the sounds on her phone in a mystery that has left Britons blaming meteors , an ` alien invasion ' , ` the end of the world ' ... or just fireworks . Could it be ? An artist 's image of the so-called Aurora project . Enthusiasts say one possible power source is a ` pulse detonation engine ' , whose sound is said to resemble that caught on an audio clip last night -LRB- below -RRB- . Dr Khandelwal , an engineering research associate from Sheffield , is among a team of scientists working on the technology behind types of ` pulse detonation engine ' . ` It makes the same kind of pulsing sound as the one on this audio , ' he told MailOnline . ` When we run a test engine it 's a real industrial noise and you can hear it for miles . We have people coming to us asking to make less noise or keep it to the daytime . ' The engine works by using the force from a series of explosions , caused by mixing a fuel mist and air intake , to thrust itself forward . It can theoretically power planes at five times the speed of sound . The technology builds upon ` pulsejet ' principles which first emerged in the early 1900s and were used in German V-1 flying bombs . Test flights using the most recent forms of the technology have lasted only a few seconds , but it is still listed by conspiracy theorists as a possible way of powering the so-called Aurora spy jet . The theorists have cited ` Aurora ' -- a name which appeared in a Pentagon budget report in the 1980s -- as an ongoing spy plane project for several years . Officials routinely deny it exists . Of course , that has not dampened the spirits of the theorists , who point to a sighting of a mysterious triangular object by a North Sea oil engineer in August 1989 . Last year Lockheed Martin also unveiled plans for a spy plane that could fly at Mach 6 , twice as fast as its famed SR-71 Blackbird , and said a missile demonstrating the new technology could fly as early as 2018 . Dr Khandelwal was keen to distance himself from the world of conspiracy theories , though he conceded there could always some things unknown to the public . ` Of course we ca n't know for sure if someone else could have the technology already , ' he said . Loud noises : People from Croydon -LRB- left -RRB- to Glasgow -LRB- right -RRB- were left baffled by a string of bangs last night . One possible explanation is that the loud noise and ground shaking could have been a meteorite breaking up in the atmosphere , which would result in a sonic boom - but this was dismissed by another expert . ` We ca n't say for sure what this sound was , ' he added . ` It 's possible , but even if it was a PDE , I think half an hour would be a bit too long ! ' Steven Aftergood , a government secrecy expert at the Federation of American Scientists , said : ` If an aircraft is responsible , then it 's worth noting that it may not be local at all . ` Because the sound wave that causes the boom can be reflected by the stratosphere , the source of the event could conceivably be hundreds or thousands of miles away from the place where it is heard on the ground . ' But Dr Andrew Taylor , a senior lecturer in aviation at Buckinghamshire New University , said the noises did not sound like a normal sonic boom . ` With smaller fighter jets just a single boom would be heard , or , as with Concorde , a `` double boom '' might be heard from larger aircraft as both the nose and tail cause shock waves , ' he said . ` It sounds like gunfire or other ammunition , similar to what I used to hear as a child growing up in Lincolnshire when the RAF & USAF aircraft used to do bombing runs on the east coast bombing ranges . ` It could be geological or meteorological , but certainly not aeronautical in my opinion . ' Many Twitter users suspected sonic booms , similar to ones which shook Kent last month when two RAF jets intercepted a Latvian cargo plane in British airspace . But a Ministry of Defence spokesman told MailOnline last night she had no records of any jets being scrambled . Some suggested unusual weather conditions might be the source , but the Met Office dismissed those claims and said there was nothing out of the ordinary . A spokesman told MailOnline : ` It definitely was n't meteorological ' . The Metropolitan Police said there had been a fireworks display in Croydon , but Twitter users insisted that could not explain sounds in Bedfordshire , Glasgow , North Devon , Leicestershire and West Sussex . At around the same time , a loud boom was reported by a number of people in the upstate New York areas of Buffalo , Cheektowaga and Clarence more than 3,000 miles away . People described it as loud enough to shake their homes and rattle windows . Theories : There was no shortage of ideas when it came to the possible source of the noises . Claudia Angiletta , who recorded the sounds in Croydon , south London , said she was watching TV at home when the unexplained sounds started . She told MailOnline : ' I was just at home watching TV when I could n't hear the program due to the loud noises . It was very distracting as it went on for ages . ' I went out to look for fireworks but I could n't see anything in the sky . That 's when I recorded the clip to send to my family to see if they could hear the same thing . ' The 27-year-old said that her family , who live roughly seven miles away in Norbury , south London , could also hear the sounds , which lasted for about 30 minutes . She then turned to Twitter to see if anyone could explain what they were . Within minutes Twitter users had started spreading hashtags from the straightforward -LRB- #loudbangs -RRB- to the slightly melodramatic -LRB- #omgwereallgoingtodie -RRB- . Reaction : There was an explosion of activity on Twitter , where some users came up with their own theories . Many of the reports were picked up by Twitter user Virtual Astronomer , who said space debris re-entering the earth 's atmosphere could have been responsible . ` Space debris such as old satellites and things can cause sonic booms heard over very large areas , ' he told MailOnline . ` It 's the same for big meteors or rocks that come in . ` There was very little wind last night so conditions were perfect for sound to travel very long distances . ' Science writer David Dickinson was among the experts who dismissed the meteor theory . He told MailOnline that there was one piece of debris from Russian satellite Kosmos 2251 scheduled for re-entry , but said that the timing was ` not a good fit ' for it to have been over the UK . He added : ' I do not think it was a meteor or a piece of space-junk , as the noises mentioned spanned a large segment of time . Plus , unless it was cloudy over the U.K. , there would 've been visual sightings . #Spooked : Was it an alien invasion , a meteor , the Third World War - or simply a few stray fireworks ? Dave Reed , who lives in Fareham , Hampshire , said his dogs ` went crazy for a couple of minutes ' after hearing what he had assumed were fireworks . The noises prompted conspiracy theories and immediate claims of a ` media blackout ' . Twitter user Carrie Proctor wrote : ` This is how we 'll find our that WW3 has begun . It 'll be a Twitter hashtag long before any official announcement ! ' One MailOnline reader heard similar noises in Belgium . Hyacinth Fahsi , who lives in Grimbergen , near Brussels , said the sound at 11pm local time - the same time as it was heard in Britain - woke his daughter and matched the recording in Croydon . Describing the sound as ` repetitive explosions ' , he said : ' I first thought it was firework but it was different . Maybe thunder , but the sky was clear and I did n't see lightning , even far away . ' I was n't thinking about it until my wife read your article . ' | Sounds reported last night from Aberdeen to West Sussex to Devon . Twitter users blamed meteors , fireworks , aliens and ` the end of the world ' A woman in south London managed to record the mysterious bangs . Now an expert says the noises sound like a ` pulse detonation engine ' Dr Bhupendra Khandelwal is helping develop technology behind engines . Conspiracy theorists say power source could be behind U.S. spy plane . MoD said no aircraft scrambled ; Met Office said unusual weather not cause . Do you have a recording of last night 's loud bangs ? If so , we would like to hear from you . 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