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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 08:45 EST, 3 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 11:28 EST, 3 February 2014 . A British oil worker is believed to have been abducted by gunmen in Sanaa - just hours after three explosions shook the Yemeni capital, underscoring the transitional government's feeble grip on security. The kidnapping followed that of a German by Yemeni tribesmen, who said on Sunday they had seized him two days earlier to press the authorities to free jailed relatives. Meanwhile, two roadside bombs have exploded near the Defence Ministry and Central Bank - while a mortar bomb landed in a district that houses the French embassy and the home of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh on Sunday night, according to a police source. Gunmen abducted a Westerner identified by a police source as a British oil worker in Sanaa (pictured) on Monday - just hours after three explosions shook the Yemeni capital. Above, the site of one of the explosions . Two roadside bombs exploded near the Defence Ministry and Central Bank on Sunday, said a police source . Meanwhile, a mortar bomb landed in a district that houses the French embassy and the home of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. It damaged two cars - including the one above - and three buildings . Four people were injured in the mortar blast, which damaged three buildings and destroyed two cars, witnesses said. One resident reported hearing gunfire after the explosions, but details were sketchy. It follows a suicide bomb and gun attack that took place near the Defence Ministry in December last year - killing 52 people. The mortar bomb struck the home district of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh (pictured) Yemen, which neighbours oil giant Saudi Arabia and is home to an ambitious al Qaeda offshoot, has long wrestled with instability, internal conflicts and poor governance. Mass protests in 2011 eventually forced Saleh to end his more than three decades in power, but a political transition process has yet to calm a rebellion by Shi'ite Muslims in the north and a secessionist movement in the south. The Shi'ite Houthi rebels who had carved out a northern fiefdom before Saleh's fall have clashed in recent months with hardline Sunni Muslim Salafis and Hashid tribal rivals. Elsewhere, attacks blamed on al Qaeda-linked militants have grown bolder, raising fears of a total security breakdown in Yemen, a nation mired in corruption that has aggravated poverty. In Monday's kidnapping, four armed men forced the Westerner out of his car and into a waiting vehicle in Sanaa's upscale Hadda district, witnesses said. A police source said a report of the abduction identified the victim as a Briton. The source said the man worked for an oil services company. The British embassy in Sanaa and the Foreign Office in London had no immediate comment. It was not immediately clear if Islamist militants or tribesmen, who often use foreign hostages as bargaining chips to pursue demands against the government, were behind the attack. Efforts to stabilise Yemen hang on the post-Saleh transition and a national reconciliation conference that ended last month. In Monday's kidnapping, four armed men forced the Westerner out of his car and into a waiting vehicle in Sanaa (pictured) A police source said a report of the abduction identified the victim as a British oil worker . In December, a suicide bomb and gun attack near the Defence Ministry killed 52 people. Above, the explosion . Political factions have extended interim President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's term by another year to give him more time to turn Yemen into a federal state as agreed at the reconciliation talks to try to accommodate southern demands for more autonomy. Hadi will also oversee the drafting of a new constitution that will form the basis of elections slated for next year. | British oil worker believed to have been abducted in Yemeni capital Sanaa .
Reportedly forced out of car and into waiting vehicle by four armed men .
Follows seizure of German by tribesmen hoping to free jailed relatives .
Two bombs exploded near Defence Ministry and Central Bank on Sunday .
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(CNN) -- If you view a tablet as a guilty pleasure, like I do, then buying the Kindle Fire should make you feel a little less guilty. Amazon's new device doesn't replace a computer for doing e-mail or composing documents, but it's a fun hub for personal entertainment. And at $199, Amazon has managed to greatly undercut the price of Apple's iPad, the dominant tablet, and still churn out a good product. Apple calls its iPad "a magical and revolutionary product at an unbelievable price." Consider now that for the iPad's $499 price tag, I could buy two Kindle Fire tablets and still have cash left over for downloading apps and movies. However, except for price the Kindle Fire falls short of the iPad in just about every category. The iPad's processor is faster; its software is more abundant, capable and polished; its storage space is larger; its screen is bigger; and its body is more slender. Still, the Kindle Fire is a good Wi-Fi tablet, and the price is fantastic. After testing the device this week, I found the Kindle Fire is the most impressive iPad rival among the dozens of tablets that have flooded the market this year. Other iPad competitors have not sold well, but the new Kindle will likely have a different fate. The Nook Tablet, which also came out this week but which I have not tested at length, costs $50 more and has weaker multimedia offerings. Amazon and Barnes & Noble are squaring off with a new line of inexpensive black-and-white e-readers, too. Yes, those are still around, and bookworms love them. Size, components and features . Many tablets are much faster and have more bells and whistles than the Kindle Fire, which doesn't have cameras, GPS or a microphone. (The latter is especially strange because even the year-old black-and-white Kindle has a microphone.) Unlike other tablets and e-readers, there also is no version of the Kindle Fire with cellular-data connectivity, meaning that would-be Web surfers are limited to areas with Wi-Fi. Forgetting for a moment about the guts inside, the Kindle Fire does not feel cheap. The back is rubbery and doesn't slip out of my hands. It's not ultra thin, but it's girth and weight makes it comfortable to hold for long periods of time, like a paperback book. Because the Kindle is significantly smaller than the iPad -- with a 7-inch-wide screen versus the iPad's 9.7-inch more boxy display -- it weighs about a third less. The built-in speakers sound OK and get about as loud as an alarm clock. There is also a place to plug in headphones. But the Kindle's battery loses a charger much faster than the iPad. I was able to surf the Web and play videos for several hours, but I found myself frequently searching for a charger after that. That Amazon skimped on some of the components becomes evident when swiping through menus, switching the screen's orientation or playing games, which can all be jerky at times. The split-second delays are even present when turning pages on a Kindle e-book, which should be the pride of an Amazon device. The lack of a microphone means no Skype or other Internet telephony programs. Browser and OS . Amazon's Silk Web browser has the features I'd expect and can play most videos found online. Amazon touts the browser's unique speed enhancements, but probably due to the device's lower-end components, it doesn't show. Web pages generally take a few seconds longer to load than on computers or other tablets. Also, I am somewhat uncomfortable with the idea that Silk, as a means of speeding up load times, sends information from every page I visit to Amazon's servers. This Kindle's operating system is based on Google's Android, but Amazon has changed it so extensively that I barely noticed the similarities. A setback to this approach is that Amazon did not include some basic features, like the ability to copy and paste text, or to quickly switch between running applications. But overall, the interface is attractive and neatly laid out. On the home screen, the top bar allows me to search for content on the device or search the Web with Google. Below that is a list of categories like news, books, music and apps. In the main area, I have a bookshelf that includes recently opened items or apps organized in a carousel, plus other shelves full of my favorites. Movies and e-books . Amazon's multimedia offerings are pretty extensive and have been available on other platforms for some time. The company runs the biggest e-bookstore and the second-biggest music download store. Many publishers offer their newspapers and magazines in the Kindle newsstand, but the Kindle Fire's small screen size is not ideal for reading, say, an issue of Bloomberg Businessweek or the New York Times front page. The built-in Amazon shopping app is well designed. Each Kindle Fire comes with a free 30-day subscription to Amazon Prime, whose primary perk (for $79 a year) is free two-day shipping on every item the company sells. The Prime membership also gives new Kindle Fire owners a taste of its Instant Videos service, which has 13,000 movies and TV shows available for streaming on demand. Tens of thousands more are available for purchase. For those who prefer Netflix, that company released a new version this week for the Kindle Fire and other Android tablets. But overall, Amazon's Appstore carries far fewer apps than Apple's online store and even Google's own Android Market. Developers are required to list their Android apps separately with Amazon. (Yes, the Kindle Fire does have "Angry Birds.") A few bugs . The bare-bones e-mail client that comes with the Kindle Fire does not support Microsoft Exchange, which many companies use for their e-mail system. The app encourages users to download another e-mail program from the Appstore, but it doesn't specify which one to get. Holding the tablet upright and typing with my thumbs is fairly efficient, but the system occasionally doesn't register my taps right away if I type fast. I also ran into several bugs throughout the Kindle's software. Sometimes my Fire would crash for no reason, and other times, images would not show up in the gallery. Some third-party developers apparently did not account for Amazon not including volume buttons on the hardware, and so I had to adjust the volume from the settings menu activated by tapping the menu bar. These are issues that I expect will get fixed over time through software updates. The bottom line . The overall software experience is pleasant and integrated from top to bottom. I am never asked to punch in my credit card to buy things, which is convenient. When I first turned on the Kindle Fire, the software recognized who I am because it was already tied to my Amazon account. After a few clicks, I was set up without ever connecting to a computer to synchronize anything. The music I bought through the Amazon MP3 store and the books I've gotten through the Kindle Store were all ready to go. The iPad remains the superior tablet, and it's the closest I've found to replacing a laptop. But I wouldn't discount a less capable competitor. The Kindle Fire is a good entertainment device at a price that's truly unbelievable. | Amazon's Kindle Fire is a multimedia-heavy touchscreen tablet computer .
It's significantly cheaper than the iPad, the undisputed leader in the tablet market .
The Kindle Fire first went on sale this week .
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(CNN) -- The engineer who was operating the Metro-North train that derailed last year, killing four passengers and injuring dozens more, was suffering from a sleep disorder, according to documents released Monday by the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB's investigation discovered during a post-accident sleep evaluation that William Rockefeller Jr. had "severe obstructive sleep apnea." In a Metro-North medical history form from 1999, Rockefeller specifically answered "no" to a question asking whether he had difficulty sleeping, and at no point before the accident did any of his health care providers document a discussion with him regarding sleep problems, according to the NTSB's medical factual report of the investigation. However, after the derailment, a sleep study was ordered for Rockefeller because he "did not exactly recall events leading up to the accident," the report said. The sleep specialist noted that Rockefeller's recent work schedule change from late night to early morning shifts "might have contributed to the accident," according to an additional statement in the specialist's report. Sleep apnea is a disruptive sleep disorder in which a person's breathing repeatedly stops and starts. This can result in an individual feeling tired even after a full night's sleep. As a result, the sleep specialist prescribed Rockefeller continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) as treatment. Rockefeller reported feeling more energetic after 30 days of treatment. "My client was fully cooperative with the NTSB investigation, including giving them access to his medical records and doctors," Rockefeller's attorney, Jeffrey Chartier, said Monday. "I believe these reports support that there was no criminality in regards to my client." The accident happened on December 1 when the train of seven cars derailed while traveling from Poughkeepsie, New York, to Grand Central Terminal in New York City. The train was hurtling along at 82 mph, far above the speed limit of 30 mph for that section of track as it approached a sharp bend in the Bronx. The cars tumbled off the track, killing four passengers and leaving dozens more hospitalized. The lead car came to rest inches from water at the intersection of the Hudson and Harlem rivers. At the time of the accident, the train was in "push mode," meaning that the locomotive was in the rear of the train pushing it along the tracks, with Rockefeller in a cabin at the front operating it remotely. His cabin was equipped with a "dead man pedal" that required constant downward pressure with the foot to keep the train moving, MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan told CNN last year. "Should you lose consciousness or die, and the foot is taken off, a whistle sounds and the train begins to slow immediately to a stop," Donovan said. "It's a pressure you have to keep -- your foot actively engaged." But it is unclear whether the "dead man pedal" mechanism was activated when Rockefeller allegedly nodded off at the controls. "That is unknown," Donovan said. "MTA Metro-North Railroad is reviewing the documents released today by the NTSB," Donovan said Monday. "The investigation is still ongoing, and Metro-North will continue to work with the NTSB on addressing their recommendations." A safety review from the Federal Railroad Administration said Metro-North's focus on punctuality "had a detrimental effect on safety, adversely affecting the inspection and maintenance of track and negatively impacting train operations," according to the report released in March. CNN's Lawrence Crook III and Haimy Assefa contributed to this report. | Engineer of Metro-North train that derailed was suffering from sleep apnea, NTSB report says .
William Rockefeller Jr. had no record of sleep disorder before December accident, it says .
"There was no criminality in regards to my client," Rockefeller's attorney says .
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A woman who had a threesome with her two lovers to reward them after they murdered her husband has been sentenced to life in jail. Joanna Grabowski arranged for her lover Jacek Pawlak, 42, and his friend Lukasz Kaminski, 31, to kill her husband, disabled Piotr Grabowski, 31, after he refused to allow her to bring a lover back to the house. Piotr was a well-known and popular man in the city of Olsztyn in north-eastern Poland who did a lot for charity. Jailed: Joanna Grabowski (pictured with her children) arranged for her lover Jacek Pawlak, 42, and his friend Lukasz Kaminski, 31, to kill her husband, disabled Piotr Grabowski, 31, after he refused to allow her to bring a lover back to the house . Joanna Grabowski, pictured in court, has been sentenced to 25 years in jail . He was an active member of the Catholic aid charity Caritas and it was there that he met Joanna, 30, who was getting financial assistance from the charity to help her with her five children. The couple had started dating and eventually married, and he had been an enthusiastic stepfather for her five children, but when she told him that she had found a lover and wanted to bring him back to the family home, he told her that he wouldn't allow it. As a result she arranged for Pawlak and Kaminski to kill him when he went to get some fresh air in a local park. Guilty: Lukasz Kaminski (left) and Jacek Pawlak (right) strangled Piotr Grabowski then had a threesome with their victim's wife . Victim: Piotr Graboswki's body was found in a park by passersby . The court heard that she had called them on her mobile phone and told them he was coming, allowing them to hide in the bushes in advance. And as he passed by they dragged him from the wheelchair and strangled him with a trouser belt. Joanna then rewarded them afterwards by inviting them back to the house for sex while her dead husband's body was left lying in the park. He was later found by other park visitors who noticed the abandoned wheelchair and then found the body. Police who were suspicious when interviewing the woman about her husband's death managed to unravel the complicated love triangle by looking at telephone records, and after questioning all three eventually extracted a confession that resulted in the court case. And now the woman has been jailed for 25 years for the murder of her husband. Sentencing of the lovers was delayed pending reports. The woman's five children have all been taken into care. | Joanna Grabowski told her lovers to kill her disabled husband in a park .
She arranged his murder after he refused to let her bring a lover home .
Piotr Grabowski was strangled by Jacek Pawlak and Lukasz Kaminski .
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Eli -- a sweet, active, blonde-haired preschooler -- had gone to sleep feeling fine, perhaps dreaming of playing with his sisters or having a fun day at school. He didn't make it through the night. While the young boy died sometime between the night of Wednesday, September 24, and the following morning, it wasn't until Friday night that authorities figured out why: enterovirus D68, a particularly pernicious strain of an otherwise common virus that has been particularly widespread this year. While it's been detected in at least four people who died, Eli's case is the first in which authorities have definitively cited enterovirus D68 as the cause of death. Jeff Plunkett, the health officer in Eli's hometown of Hamilton Township, New Jersey, explained Saturday that, while the boy was born premature, "he had no other existing condition" and his parents no reason to believe he was direly ill before the virus took his life. Eli was 4. "He was asymptomatic and fine, and the next morning he had passed," Plunkett told reporters. "So the onset was very rapid, very sudden. And that's clearly the big difference (between enterovirus D68 and other enterovirus strains)." Authorities are testing one other child who attended preschool at Eli's school, Yardville Elementary, albeit in a different class, for enterovirus D68. That boy has been treated at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and is now recovering at home, according to Plunkett. There are no other suspected cases in the town of 90,000 residents. Nor is there any sign of pervasive sickness at Yardville Elementary or other town schools, with attendance levels around normal. This speaks to the deadliness, the randomness and, in a sense, the pervasiveness of enterovirus D68. Hamilton Township Mayor Kelly Yaede pointed out that his parents "nor anyone will ever be able to determine where Eli may have contracted this virus." "The virus is out in the community, there is nothing we can do about that," the health officer said. "The way to prevent it is from your own personal hygiene and be vigilant with your own children and yourself." Officials did not disclose Eli's last name during a Saturday press briefing. More enterovirus cases are likely . Just last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or state public health laboratories had confirmed 277 cases of enterovirus D68. That figure has skyrocketed in recent days, to 538 confirmed cases in 43 states and the District of Columbia as of Friday. And there's no reason to think it won't get even worse. As the CDC points out, "Enteroviruses commonly circulate in summer and fall. We're currently in middle of the enterovirus season." Not including Eli's cases, tests showed enterovirus D68 in four people who had died. The CDC, though, reported then that "the role that EV-D68 infection played in these deaths is unclear at this time." Mercer County's medical examiner, Dr. Raafat Ahmad, was unequivocal about it's part in Eli's death. "The child had some brain swelling, it had some lymph node swelling," Plunkett said. "But Ahmad attributed that to the virus as the cause of death." Enterovirus is very common, with the CDC estimating 10 million to 15 million infections each year in the United States. But it has about 100 strains, with D68 among the most dangerous. Authorities say this strain has sent more children than usual to the hospital with severe respiratory illnesses. It seems to be most affecting children with a history of asthma or breathing problems. Enterovirus may also be linked to a small number of cases of a mysterious neurologic illness in Colorado, Boston and Michigan. Doctors in Colorado spotted it first -- a group of 10 children hospitalized with limb weakness, cranial nerve dysfunction and abnormalities in their spinal gray matter . Staff at Boston Children's Hospital have since identified four patients with the same symptoms. And a child in Washtenaw County, Michigan, has also developed partial paralysis in the lower limbs after being hospitalized with the virus, according to the Michigan Department of Community Health. As Plunkett, the Hamilton Township health officer, explained: "The D68 strain is a very virulent strain of entire that would attack young children, preschoolers, toddlers who have for the most part compromised immune systems. It has a certain target in our population." Hygiene education, cleaning ramped up in schools . It's not clear, though, whether Eli should have been any more susceptible than anyone else, beyond his age. That and the suddenness of his death makes it especially difficult to fathom or fully understand. People in Hamilton Township, at least, are doing something about it. While officials say they're being careful not to overly alarm students, they are stressing things like hand washing, sneezing into your sleeves, staying home if you're sick and the like to students, teachers and parents to try to prevent the spread of enterovirus D68 and other viruses. Superintendent Jim Parla also said "we have ramped up cleaning in all of our schools," devoting extra staff and hours to "do cleaning that goes above and beyond what we normally do." Then there's the matter of taking care of Eli's family, namely his parents -- both educators -- and two young sisters. Yardville Elementary Principal Elena Manning said that blue-and-yellow bows, her school's colors, are being put up around the community in Eli's honor. The late boy's preschool teacher and an assistant bought a girlish bedroom set and rug to decorate his sisters' room at home. And the school will soon have a "Proud of Me" wall to display students' work, because Eli would regularly "ask Daddy if Daddy was proud of him," according to Manning. Eli's parents are working with school officials on other things. But their focus now is more on grieving, taking care of their daughters and sending a message to the community. According to Principal Manning, "They are most concerned about giving thanks, which is incredible." | Official: A preschooler went to bed "asymptomatic," was dead the next morning .
A medical examiner now says the boy died suddenly from enterovirus D68 .
There's no way of telling how the boy contracted the virus, official says .
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By . Daniel Miller . PUBLISHED: . 12:41 EST, 13 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:55 EST, 13 August 2013 . Collapse: Lieutenant Colonel Michael McErlain, 45, died . during a D-Day run on the clifftops of the Normandy beaches in France . An army surgeon, who treated injured children in Afghanistan, died while competing in a charity D-Day run along the Normandy beaches in France. Lieutenant Colonel Michael McErlain, 45, was one of around 30 runners and was bringing up the rear when he collapsed around two miles into the 44-mile race. Another competitor, an American fireman, tried desperately to revive him but he died at the scene on the morning of June 6. The father-of-three, who worked as a spinal surgeon at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey, had co-founded the event with wife Joanna and brother-in-law Giles Barnes and had competed in it six times before. Mr Barnes, who was also competing, heard about the collapse and ran four miles to the scene but arrived to find Lt Col McErlain grey and cold. He had died about 20 minutes previously. The event, held in aid of the British Limbless ex-Services Men's Association, aims to raise awareness of the sacrifices made by allied soldiers in World War Two. A post-mortem examination revealed Lt Col McErlain, from Hindhead, Surrey, died from ischemic heart disease. At an inquest into the death held in Alton, Hampshire, Mr Barnes described his brother-in-law as an extremely talented man who was very 'humble' about his achievements in life. Recalling the day he died he said: 'It was about 16 degrees outside. A lovely temperature to be doing it. It was perfect conditions. 'I was going to be doing the support part of the run. Every seven miles giving them painkillers, something to eat and drink and be on their way. 'Mike was used to doing the run. He was the slowest person on the run, but made a point of being the slowest so he could literally bring up the rear. 'I would imagine he was not even running. More of a shuffle. Certainly the runner who was with him was more interested in sightseeing and taking photographs. Lt Col McErlain, who worked as a spinal surgeon at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey, had co-founded the event with wife Joanna and brother-in-law Giles Barnes and had competed in it six times before . 'He was American and with Mike when he collapsed. They were stop starting. They had been having a conversation about the beautiful weather. 'Some of Mike's last words were that he said it was such a historically wonderful thing to do and the setting of the run itself would be enough to get people to do it. 'It was such a beautiful run. To have that conversation suggests it he wasn't really going for it. 'He did not complain about having to stop and was chatting away and suddenly he collapsed.' The fireman, known as Brian from Colorado, said Michael was gasping for breath and lost consciousness. Despite his best efforts to perform CPR he died in his arms during the race aimed at raising awareness of the sacrifices made by allied soldiers. Recording a verdict of natural death, Hampshire Coroner Andrew Bradley said: 'I would expect this disease in the heart of a 65-year-old, not someone who is 45. 'If your heart is going downhill and you use it more the worse it is going to get. 'This is a degeneration and progressive change. 'He had constant medical check ups with the Army, which showed he was fine. 'It is clearly an ongoing condition. It was not a heart attack this was a degeneration rather than a single event. 'It is sad and very unexpected.' | Lt Col Michael McErlain, 45, collapsed around 2 miles into the 44-mile race .
He had co-founded the event and had competed in it six times before .
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(CNN) -- The eldest daughter of Walt Disney, Diane Disney Miller, has died at 79, a statement from the museum dedicated to the legendary animated filmmaker said Tuesday. "She went through life with a determination to inspire and entertain. She was her father's daughter, a creative force with the perseverance to follow dreams and make a difference," the news release said. Miller died in Napa, California, the result of injuries sustained in a fall. The statement didn't say what day she died and said funeral services will be private. Miller married Ron Miller in 1954, a year after they met at the University of Southern California. Ron Miller went to work for Walt Disney Studios and later was the CEO of the Walt Disney Company until 1984. Current Disney CEO Robert Iger said: "(Diane) holds a special place in the history of The Walt Disney Company and in the hearts of fans everywhere. She will be remembered for her grace and generosity and tireless work to preserve her father's legacy, and she will be greatly missed by all who knew her." Miller was one of the co-founders of the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. At the time of her death, she was the president of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Family Foundation, which owns the 4-year-old museum. She and her husband also operated Silverado Vineyards in Napa. She is survived by her husband, seven children, 13 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Her adopted sister, Sharon Mae Disney, died in 1993. People we've lost in 2013 . | Diane Disney Miller was Walt Disney's eldest daughter .
She helped start a museum to remember her father .
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(CNN) -- Travis Mills has no arms or legs. He is an American hero who served three tours in Afghanistan and lost all his limbs when a bomb exploded under him. "How I survived, I have no idea," he said. "I was yelling at the medic, 'Get away from me,' because I thought I was done." The retired United States Army staff sergeant spent months recuperating at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, but don't dare call him a wounded warrior. "I'm not wounded any more," he said. "I'm just a guy living life." Recalling comrades killed in combat, he asks: "How selfish would it be if I gave up?" He snowboards, bikes and recently jumped out of an airplane with the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team. And now, he has a new admirer in Mike Rowe, the star of "Dirty Jobs" and the upcoming CNN series "Somebody's Gotta Do It." He met Mills a few weeks ago at a conference in Washington and wrote a Facebook post about their exchange to honor him this Memorial Day. As of Monday night, the post had more than 90,000 shares on Facebook. "He has a motto: Never give up - never quit. He has a Foundation. He's featured in a new documentary. He also has a wife and a kid, and a deeply personal commitment to help other wounded vets cope with their injuries." Rowe wrote. "But when I asked why I hadn't seen him in any of the typical commercials and PSA's for wounded veterans, his answer was stunning. He said he didn't consider himself to be wounded. 'I'm not a victim, Mike. And I refuse to be portrayed that way. Case closed.'" Rowe ended his candid post by reflecting on the holiday meant to honor America's military fallen. "That's called a gut-check, and I could use one from time to time. Especially on Memorial Day, when the biggest decisions I face are what to grill and which type of frosty beverage to enjoy. This year, as I resolve these and other important issues, I'll think of Travis Mills." The toll of war now includes more amputees . CNN's Barbara Starr contributed to this report. | Mike Rowe meets Mills at conference in Washington .
Mills' motto is "Never give up - never quit"
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- George Lucas didn't get to be a billionaire by delegating. George Lucas says he was "completely surprised" by "Star Wars in Concert." Holding fast to his vision -- and his marketing rights -- for the "Star Wars" empire has made it the biggest franchise in history, and made Lucas one of the most powerful people in entertainment. But while he's enthusiastic about the new touring show "Star Wars In Concert," it wasn't his idea, and when I talked with him before the first Los Angeles performance this week, he kept giving the credit to others. "Star Wars In Concert" is built around John Williams' well-known scores from the films, performed by a symphony orchestra and choir, and accompanied by specially edited clips from all six movies, displayed on a mammoth LED screen. Anthony Daniels, who has played and voiced the golden protocol droid "C3PO" in every film and most of the spinoffs, provides live narration -- and another reason for the "Star Wars" fans in the audience, especially those waving lightsabers and dressed as everything from sand people to Imperial stormtroopers, to cheer mightily, as they did the night I interviewed Lucas. iReporter praises the 'Force' of the show . George Lucas: I've seen some presentations of, you know, live orchestras with "Star Wars" clips, and that sort of thing. But this is so much more than that -- it's so much more emotional, because what they've done is taken the emotional content of the score ... one is obviously the Imperial March, one is obviously romantic ... and then they've cut all the pictures around that from all the movies, so that you get this really wide range of visuals going with the music, and it really is quite powerful when you see the depictions of all of the various Imperial shenanigans that were going on over the Imperial March. CNN: Obviously, when John Williams did the music for the original film, neither of you could have guessed your association would last so long, or that you'd be so identified with each other. How did he get involved originally? Lucas: What I did was, I was doing this space opera, and I was talking to Steve Spielberg and I said, "Look, I've got to get somebody who really knows the old-fashioned music score, I really am doing some giant romantic action adventure, you know, throwback to the '30s, and who do you know that can do that?" And he said, "Oh, there's only one person who can do that and that's John Williams -- he did 'Jaws' and he's perfect." And I said OK, and I met him, and we hit it off, you know, perfectly, and doing the first film was such a great experience -- he's so wonderful to work with -- that, you know, I'll never let him go. And Steve won't let him go either! CNN: How did this show come together? Lucas: Howard! [Lucas calls over Howard Roffman, the president of Lucas Licensing.] You're the man who did the whole thing -- I've got nothing to do with it. ... We would kid him about how his concert was going and he had to get Johnny [Williams] to buy in and me to buy in. Howard Roffman: Well, he always got it from the beginning, so he was an easy sell. CNN: But what was it he "got"? How did you sell him on a new concept for his franchise? Roffman: I think he understood that the music was so powerful and the images are so powerful that when you put that together with a live orchestra on a big venue, I mean, who would not be thrilled to see that? CNN: It's a very different experience, being live. Lucas: It's very powerful. I was completely surprised by it. And I've seen other live orchestra performances with "Star Wars" images, but nothing like this -- I mean this really works, because it was edited specifically to bring out the emotion. | "Star Wars in Concert' features John Williams' music and scenes from films .
George Lucas supported idea, though he's quick to give credit to others .
Effect of the arrangement? "It's very powerful," says Lucas .
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Art often confronts questions of life, death and the human condition. Now one introspective painter has delved even further into existential themes. He creates each of his works entirely from his own blood. Scroll down for video . Strange themes: Vincent Castiglia sees his methods as putting 'psychic energy' into each piece. Pictured, Beautiful Vivisection . Portrait of the artist: Castiglia extracts his blood in his studio and then uses it to paint the unsettling scarlet designs . Vincent Castiglia, from New York, insists that the content of his work - surrealistic human bodies in various stages of decay - overshadows the strange medium. The tattooed 30-year-old describes his figures as being painted with 'what could be described as "liquid flesh"'. He says that the iron oxide in human blood is a pigment common in paint, and also found naturally in rust and iron ore. His first experiments with using his blood as paint were prompted by a 'need to connect with his work on the most intimate level', but he insists the methods are not gimmicky. Underground sensation: The tattooed 30-year-old has created art for heavy metal band albums and MTV slasher film Savage County . Oxidised: Castiglia's macabre paintings can fetch up to $26,000 a time. Pictured, Stings of the Lash (2005) 'My response would be to really take a . look at the content of the work, which overshadows what it's made from, I . think,' he said. 'In order for something to be a gimmick, it really . would have to lack substance.' Castiglia's website says he 'practises a kind of modern-day phlebotomy [blood-letting]... siphoning the life force which contains his own psychic energy, while giving it an outlet and form [and dissolving] the barrier between artist and art.' He sketches out his pieces in graphite or pen, before extracting his blood in the studio and completing his scarlet artworks. The larger, more detailed . paintings can take more than three months to complete all the works cost between $950 and $26,000. Rock and blues musician Gregg . Allman recently acquired a 2006 painting by Castiglia called Gravity. Under your skin: The works look at birth, death, the human condition and deeper psychological questions. Pictured, Conqueror (2008) Castiglia's latest exhibition, Resurrection, consists of a collection of his blood paintings from the last 10 years, and runs throughout October in Soho, Manhattan. One of the pieces, Feeding, depicts a mother with decaying legs in a wheelchair gazing at an infant she is breastfeeding. Castiglia describes it as an expression of the fragility of life and the hope and drive that can still accompany it. His art may be familiar to slasher film . and heavy metal fans. In 2010, one of his works was used as the . poster for MTV horror film Savage County, and other paintings were used . as album art for Swiss heavy metal band Triptykon's debut Eparistera . Daimones in the same year. Castiglia's work has also featured on Spike TV and tattoo parlour reality show Miami Ink. Life's work: The rust-coloured pieces show human . bodies in various stages of decay. Left, Strata of Self (2010) and . right, Conqueror (2008) | Vincent Castiglia describes his unusual medium as 'liquid flesh'
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(CNN) -- The coming summer and fall could be an "active to extremely active" hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, U.S. forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted. There is a 70 percent chance that three to seven major hurricanes will swirl in the Atlantic in the six months following the start of the hurricane season on June 1, according to NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. "If this outlook holds true, this season could be one of the more active on record," said Jane Lubchenco, the under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere, and NOAA's administrator. The forecast predicts between 14 and 23 storms with top winds of 39 mph or higher, the threshold for tropical storm status. It predicts eight to 14 of those will become named hurricanes, with winds topping 74 mph or higher, and three to seven of those will become major ones, meaning Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Category 3 storms have sustained winds of at least 111 mph. Forecasters have said that El Nino conditions will dissipate by summer and that unusually warm tropical Atlantic surface temperatures will persist, leading to favorable conditions for hurricanes to develop and intensify. A report released in April by Colorado State University's forecasters William Gray and Phil Klotzbach also said that this year's hurricane season could be difficult, but they predicted only 15 named storms, eight hurricanes and four major hurricanes. Gray and Klotzbach will issue a revised forecast next Wednesday. A typical season has 11 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes, according to NOAA. The hurricane season ends November 30, although later storms have been known to happen. Last year's hurricane season was below average, with only nine named tropical storms, three of which were hurricanes. The National Hurricane Center said it was the lowest number of tropical storms for the Atlantic basin since 1997. | NOAA predicts three to seven "major" hurricanes in the Atlantic .
Hurricane season starts Tuesday .
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A dingo has been put down after lunging at an 11-year-old girl and behaving aggressively towards several other tourists on Fraser Island off southeast Queensland. The girl was swimming in the Island's popular Eli Creek when the dingo lunged at her on New Year's Day. Authorities say her mother managed to scare off the dingo, which was linked to a string of other near-attacks in the Eli Creek area. Authorities say the dingo was linked to a string of other near-attacks in the Eli Creek area . As a result the male dingo was put down on Thursday. The dingo behaved aggressively towards to two teenage girls on December 27, and only left after a passer-by chased it with a stick, the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service says. On New Year's Day, the dingo also threatened a woman who was rescued by a passer-by and a ranger. Shortly afterwards, the same dingo stalked a group of people before lunging at the 11-year-old girl. The girl was swimming in the Island's popular Eli Creek when the dingo lunged at her on New Year's Day . 'The dingo presented an unacceptable risk and the decision was taken to capture and humanely destroy the animal,' a Queensland police spokeswoman says. 'Rangers have increased patrols and monitoring in the area and advise visitors to take extra care.' People are being advised to be vigilant and to report any dangerous dingoes. | The dingo lunged at the 11-year-old girl on New Years Day .
It was linked to a string of other near-attacks in the Eli Creek area .
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New York (CNN) -- In the first two days back from his Martha's Vineyard family vacation, President Obama gave two speeches on two important subjects. The first was a four-minute address from the Rose Garden on Monday on the economy. This was obviously a quickly thrown together speech to let the country know that even though the economic indicators, to quote the Washington Post, "trended from bad to worse" while the president golfed and relaxed, his team was aware of them. We all come back a little rusty, and hopefully relaxed, from our vacations, and certainly the president and his family are entitled to theirs. But this speech offered nothing new on the most important subject of concern to voters, who in two months may alter the political makeup of the Congress and change the way this president can do things for the remainder of his term. The president slammed the Republicans one more time. This is his campaign theme, and obviously it isn't working. Besides, the more he blames the Republicans, the more difficult it will be to work with them in January, when they may have a majority or at least a lot more clout in the Congress. Saying his economic team was working on identifying new ways to boost the economy, the president said he would provide details "in the days and weeks to come." It raises the obvious question: What has the administration been doing in the weeks and months just past? It may not matter if the administration proposes any new measures on the economy, especially if they would require a vote in Congress. I can promise you, Mr. President, in the heat of a campaign battle royal -- in which your congressional team is on the brink of a disaster unlike any that Democrats have faced since 1994 -- in the "days and weeks ahead," they are going to be focused on doing nothing except trying to get re-elected and running as far from you and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as possible. The second speech was given from the newly decorated Oval Office on Tuesday night in prime time. It was to celebrate the "Campaign Promise Kept": the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq. I couldn't quite figure out what the speech was about. Our combat troops moved out of the cities of Iraq last summer and haven't been in real combat since the success of the surge much earlier. There still isn't a functioning government there and may not be for months to come. Mr. President, you need to fill in the blanks about what you meant when you said, "Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not." It was appropriate to thank our troops and military leadership. It was a nice gesture to tell the country that George W. Bush supported our troops and loved our country, and obviously was committed to our national security. It would have even been more appropriate to say that the program he and Secretary Robert Gates laid out is the one the president implemented without change, and it seems to have worked. It would have been an accurate statement to remind people that we were withdrawing our troops because of a Status of Forces agreement signed in December 2008 by Bush and Iraq President Nuri al-Maliki to do so -- and not because Obama had promised this in his campaign. The Iraq government insisted that we withdraw all of our forces by December 31, 2011. I hope we can. We certainly will know by then whether the Iraq government can stabilize and whether the Iraq army and police can keep the peace. If not, the president has another tough decision to make. We signed an armistice in Korea in July 1953 -- and we still have nearly 30,000 troops there. Let's hope that's not the outcome here. The president said: "Now is the time to turn the page." But, as in his speech on the economy, he raised several issues that will need to be clarified "in the days and weeks ahead." He gave the clear impression that now that we are finished with the "bad war" in Iraq, his term we can focus on the good war, Afghanistan. "Because of the drawdown in Iraq, we are now able to apply the resources necessary to go on offense [in Afghanistan]." I am sure that the more than 100,000 troops fully engaged under the leadership of Gen. David Petraeus already think they are on the offense and didn't realize they were being bogged down by Iraq. But the president couldn't leave it there. He had to return to politics, because every speech will be political between now and November 2. He went on to say: . "As we wind down the war in Iraq, we must tackle those challenges at home [jobs, deficits, energy independence and education] with as much energy and grit and sense of common purpose as our men and women in uniform who have served abroad." The war was expensive, not only in terms of the soldiers who were killed and injured but in the trillion-plus dollars spent on it. But if the president thinks the nation and the world are in this economic mess because of a war he didn't want to fight and didn't support, we are in worst shape than I thought. We still have expensive obligations to those men and woman who so bravely served us. It's not like we can close down the Pentagon and use that money to build more buildings to house Energy and Education Department employees. Now that Iraq is fixed -- and in a few weeks we will hear how the president and his team plan to get the economy moving again -- we now move on to solving the crisis in the Middle East. Lots of luck! Like most Americans, I want my president's focus to be on the economy. In a few short weeks, we Americans get to exercise our voice and vote for a new Congress. I promise our voice and our message will be a lot clearer than these two pedestrian speeches the president just made. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ed Rollins. | President Obama made two speeches in first two days after vacation .
Ed Rollins says the president's speech on economy had no new ideas .
Rollins says speech on Iraq left questions unanswered .
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Two orphaned baby wombats have picked up an unlikely skill after a tragic start in life, learning to play soccer in the back yard of their temporary home. Dudley and Moria-Joy were rescued by Judy Bailey around 12 months ago on the NSW South Coast after their mothers were killed by cars. 'They were both found on the side of the road in their mums' pouches after their mums were run over by cars,' Judy’s niece Kirsten Bailey told Daily Mail Australia. Soccer is now ‘a regular hobbie’ for the marsupials. ‘It’s how they get exercise,’ Kirsten explained. When they were first rescued, Dudley weighed just 720g but now they are both a healthy 8kg. Scroll down for video . Two orphaned baby wombats have learnt to play soccer at their temporary home on the NSW south coast . Dudley and Moria-Joy love to have a kick around after being rescued when their mothers were hit by cars . 'Judy will look after them on her enclosed property on the South Coast until they are 22kg and old enough to be released into the wild. 'Besides soccer, they enjoy digging dirt to make burrows, eating grass and lots of sleeping,' Kirsten said. Judy has been rescuing wildlife for around a decade, but it’s not just wombats – she also takes in injured kangaroos, wallabies, birds and possums and cares for them until they are strong enough to be released into the wild again. Judy Bailey has been rescuing wildlife for around a decade, caring for them until they are strong enough to be released into the wild again . They were found in the pouches of their dead mothers but are now enjoying a happy life at Judy Bailey's home until they are old enough to be released into the wild . Kirsten said they wombats love to play around and 'bond with humans quite easily' Kirsten said the little wombats have ‘a lovely big area for them to play in’ out the back of Judy’s home. One day, Judy threw a soccer ball to them and they’ve been playing with it ever since. Their sporting antics were filmed and published on YouTube last week, with Kirsten’s husband Luke describing them as ‘too cute for words’. ‘The wombats are her babies, they are so cute,’ Kirsten said. The mini marsupials have formed a strong bond since being orphaned . ‘They are very affectionate; they love a cuddle and playing around and bond with humans quite easily. It can make it dangerous to release back into the wild but it’s OK if the location is far away from the roads,’ she added. Dudley and Moria-Joy will be driven out into the bush and released as soon as they are big enough, in the wild wombats are usually weaned after 15 months. Whether they’ll take their ball with them remains to be seen. Judy volunteers with Wildlife Rescue South Coast, to make a donation go to www.wildlife-rescue.org.au/donate . | The wombats were found as babies in their mothers' pouches after their mothers were killed by cars .
Judy Bailey cares for them at her home on NSW's South Coast .
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The online auction site eBay shaved almost £50million from its corporation tax bill in Britain by legally channelling payments through Luxembourg and Switzerland, it has emerged. The U.S. firm paid just a little over £1million in tax in Britain - despite generating sales of almost £800million in this country. Meanwhile Swedish furniture firm Ikea cut its UK tax bill by half by siphoning off profits overseas in the form of royalty payments to a sister company, it has been found. Headquarters: eBAY has said its European arm complies fully with all applicable tax laws and regimes . The news comes after it emerged coffee giant Starbucks has paid no tax in the UK in the past three years. The coffee chain has used loopholes in order to pay just £8.6million in tax in 14 years of trading in Britain - during which time it has raked in over £3billion in revenues. Foreign firms' use of savvy accounting techniques to legally avoid paying tax in Britain has provoked fury among politicians and consumers. eBay, the world's largest online marketplace, is structured in a way that allows it to dramatically reduce its UK tax liability. Furniture giant Ikea paid £8.1million in corporation tax on sales of almost £1.2billion and profits of £23.6million . According to an investigation by The Sunday Times, using a group-wide profit margin of 23 per cent, eBay's UK profits would have been £181million in 2010. At the time this would have resulted in a corporation tax bill of £51million. But the total amount of tax paid by the firm's four main UK-based subsidiaries for that year was £1.2million. This is partially down to the fact . that fees stumped up by eBay sellers in Britain are handed over to a . related company in Luxembourg called PayPal (Europe) Sarl, meaning most . sales are channelled through a tax haven. Other U.S. firms including Facebook and Google are known to use similarly complex methods of moving money out of Britain and into countries with lower tax rates. Furniture chain Ikea paid £8.1million corporation tax in the year to August 2011, on sales of almost £1.2billion and profits of £23.6million. The investigation found the firm uses a legal accounting trick to lower profits in Britain, by way of paying a three per cent 'franchise fee' to a separate company based in Holland. The fee covers the right to use Ikea's furniture designs and its trademark. In 2010-11 Ikea's profits in Britain were reduced by £35.7million by the fee, meaning the exchequer did not receive £9.7million in corporation tax it otherwise would have from Ikea's UK subsidiary. The fee was paid to Inter Ikea Systems BV in Holland, which is controlled by another firm based in tax haven Liechtenstein. The Public Accounts Committee are set to question the head of HM Revenue & Customs over the kinds of methods being used by foreign firms to legally avoid paying UK tax at a parliamentary hearing next month. Starbucks - the second largest restaurant or cafe chain in the world after McDonald's - has recorded losses in Britain while telling investors the UK market is profitable. It is now facing a backlash after thousands of outraged customers pledged to boycott its branches after learning of the host of complicated measures Starbucks employs to legally avoid paying tax in Britain. A spokesman for eBay said: . 'eBay Inc in Europe works with tax authorities and complies fully with . all applicable tax laws and regimes - including national and . internationally recognised rules.' An Ikea spokesman told the Sunday Times: 'There is a 3% franchise fee on Ikea sales worldwide. Tax authorities in the Netherlands have consistently confirmed that Inter Ikea Systems BV is the beneficial owner of the Ikea retail system and the franchise fee income.' Boycott: Thousands of customers have pledged to stop visiting Starbucks after it emerged the chain has not paid corporation tax in Britain in three years . Starbucks, which has to pay VAT on in-store hot drinks, has said it continues to pay its 'fair share' in taxes in full compliance with all UK tax laws. 'There has been no suggestion by any authority that we are anything but compliant and good tax payers,' the chain has said. | eBay generates sales of more than £800million a year in Britain - but paid only a little over £1million in corporation tax in the country .
The online auction firm legally channels payments through Luxembourg and Switzerland to avoid paying nearly £50m in tax in Britain .
Furniture firm Ikea has cut its UK corporation tax bill by half thanks to elaborate - and legal - accounting methods .
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By . Becky Evans . PUBLISHED: . 13:15 EST, 28 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:15 EST, 28 May 2013 . A sham marriage was foiled when a registrar saw the would-be bride holding hands with her real boyfriend. Svetlana Kokenyova, 20, was to be paid £3,000 for marrying Pakistani student Ali Ansar at the registry office in Llandudno, North Wales. However, the plan was rumbled when the registrar spotted Kokenyova, from the Czech Republic, hand-in-hand with her real boyfriend Vladimir Bango, 21. Svetlana Kokenyova was spotted hand-in-hand with her real boyfriend in the Llandudno registry car park . The pair was seen in the registry office car park after she had given notice of the planned marriage. The three were jailed at Caernarfon Crown Court today. Prosecutor Wyn Lloyd Jones said the aim was to enable Ansar, a student in this country illegally, to remain in Britain. They were arrested after the registrar contacted the UK Border Agency, who were waiting for the bride and groom to return to the office. Kokenyova, living in Salford, was sentenced to 10 months in prison, and her boyfriend Bango, also from the Czech Republic was jailed for one year. Kokenyova was to be paid £3,000 to marry Pakistani student Ali Ansar but the pair and her real boyfriend Vladimir Bango were jailed for between 10 months and 21 months at Caernarfon Crown Court, pictured . Ansar was sentenced to 14 months after admitting conspiring to facilitate a breach of immigration law. Parvez Tabassam, 50, Pervaiz Iqbal, 41, Abip Aslam, 37, who organised the would-be sham marriage were jailed for between 16 months and 21 months after admitting the same offence. Judge Philip Hughes said: 'Those people like you who involve themselves in this type of criminal activity must be made to understand, if caught, they will be dealt with robustly and immediate prison sentences will follow.' | Registrar in Llandudno saw bride holding hands with real boyfriend .
Svetlana Kokenyova, 20, from Czech Republic, to be paid £3,000 to marry Ali Ansar, from Pakistan, so he could stay in UK .
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Washington (CNN) -- Her voice was halting, but not weak. Two years after being shot in the head by a gunman at a political event, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords appeared at the first congressional hearing since last month's Connecticut school massacre to urge Congress to act now on gun violence. "Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something," Giffords said in a rare public appearance Wednesday, reading a statement that acknowledged her injuries made it difficult to speak. "It will be hard, but the time is now," she told the packed hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Teen who performed at Obama inaugural events shot dead in Chicago . The panel also heard from voices on both sides of the gun control issue in the nearly four-hour hearing that illustrated the deep political and ideological divisions over a longstanding issue. National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre blamed the government for failing to enforce existing gun laws and said new restrictions, including background checks, won't stop criminals from using weapons in violent crime. "Law-abiding gun owners will not accept blame for the acts of violent or deranged criminals, nor do we believe that government should dictate what we can lawfully own and use to protect our families," he said. Democratic senators led by California's Dianne Feinstein, who is proposing a ban on semi-automatic rifles and ammunition magazines exceeding 10 rounds, argued that restricting access to such firepower and expanding background checks to as many gun sales as possible will help. Giffords' husband, retired astronaut and naval aviator Mark Kelly, called for a "careful and civil conversation" on new gun limits and a broad new acceptance of society's responsibility to keep firearms from dangerous people. "Our rights are paramount. But our responsibilities are serious," he said. "And as a nation, we are not taking responsibility for the gun rights our founding fathers have conferred upon us." Opinion: Gun makers, help keep weapons out of criminals' hands . Sen. Patrick Leahy, the committee's Democratic chairman from Vermont, called for stronger background checks and a crackdown on so-called straw purchases, in which people who can pass background checks buy weapons for others. Leahy has proposed a measure to increase penalties for straw purchasers. However, Leahy avoided endorsing an expanded ban on the assault-style weapons called for by President Barack Obama and Feinstein. "Second Amendment rights are the foundation on which our discussion rests. They are not at risk," Leahy said. "But lives are at risk when responsible people fail to stand up for laws that will keep guns out of the hands of those who will use them to commit mass murder. I ask that we focus our discussion on additional statutory measures to better protect our children and all Americans." The hearing came a few weeks after Obama announced legislative proposals aimed at curbing gun violence following the December 14 shootings that left 20 children and six adults dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The shooter, Adam Lanza, also killed his mother and himself. How the violent mentally ill can buy guns . Obama's proposals include a ban on popular semi-automatic rifles that mimic assault weapons, a limit of 10 rounds per magazine, and universal background checks for anyone buying a gun, whether at a store or in a private sale. Guns sold through private sales currently avoid background checks -- the so-called gun show loophole. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said at Wednesday's hearing that he is in talks with colleagues -- including several who are ranked highly by the NRA -- on possible legislation to expand background checks on private gun sales. Sources close to both Schumer and Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma told CNN the two were in serious discussions about co-sponsoring a bill to strengthen background checks. The NRA, which is the public face of the powerful gun lobby, opposes many government limits on gun ownership as a violation of the constitutional right to bear arms. LaPierre insisted Wednesday that the current background check system doesn't work, so expanding it would only create an unmanageable government bureaucracy instead of reducing gun crime in the country. Quick draw: How the NRA's LaPierre keeps his enemies guessing . "The fact is the law right now is a failure, the way it's working," he said. "The fact is that you have 76,000-some people that have been denied under the present law. Only 44 were prosecuted. You're letting them go. They're walking the streets." Instead, he called for better enforcement of all existing gun laws and creating "an immediate blanket of security around our children" by putting armed guards at all the nation's schools. At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney called LaPierre's statistic an intentional diversion "from another issue that is part of this, which is the need for broader and universal background checks." "This is being pushed as a reason not to do something that the overwhelming majority of the American people support," Carney said, later adding that "the skepticism you're hearing" comes from those "who don't want to do anything on this issue." During the hearing, an exchange between LaPierre and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, showed the deeply held positions on each side. After LaPierre complained that expanded background checks would only burden law-abiding citizens and said they make no sense because criminals ignore the system, Durbin commented that the NRA official missed the point. Obama's gun violence measures: Would they work? "The criminals won't go to purchase the guns because there will be a background check," Durbin said. "We'll stop them from the original purchase. You missed that point completely. And I think it's basic." LaPierre responded that it was Durbin who failed to understand, adding as Leahy banged his gavel for order that "if you are not prosecuting them, you are not even stopping them." He and other opponents of more gun control also depicted extreme scenarios of Americans under threat in their homes and at schools to make the case for access to semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines. "We all know that homicidal maniacs, criminals and the insane don't abide by the law," LaPierre said. Another witness, Gayle Trotter of the Independent Women's Forum, repeatedly described scenes of women at home with their children needing weapons that would be banned under Feinstein's proposal to fight off bigger, stronger male attackers. "An assault weapon in the hands of a young woman defending her babies in her home becomes a defense weapon and the peace of mind that a woman has as she's facing three, four, five violent attackers, intruders in her home with her children screaming in the background, the peace of mind that she has knowing that she has a scary looking gun gives her more courage when she's fighting hard and violent criminals," Trotter said. "If we ban these types of assault weapons, you are putting women at a great disadvantage." Other witnesses and senators who support tougher regulations countered that the constitutional right to bear arms can be limited, for example, by the existing ban on private citizens possessing grenade launchers and other military weaponry. Why would someone own a military-style rifle? "I think most people believe that, sure, we could have guards at schools," Feinstein said, making a reference to the Columbine, Colorado, school massacre in 1999 in which two students killed 13 people before shooting themselves. "I'm well aware that at Columbine there was a deputy sheriff who was armed who actually took a shot but couldn't hit the shooter there. The question comes, what do you do about the malls then? What do you do about our movie theaters? What do you do about businesses. We can't have a totally armed society." The police chief of Baltimore County in Maryland, James Johnson, endorsed what he called the holistic approach urged by Obama to create a system that reduces access to guns for people who shouldn't have them. "The best way to stop a bad guy from getting a gun in the first place is a good background check," said Johnson, the chairman of the National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence. However, Denver University law professor David Kopel said the Supreme Court made clear in a Washington, D.C., case that gun controls could not include weapons used commonly by law-abiding citizens, such as the top-selling AR-15 semi-automatic rifle that Feinstein's legislation would ban. NRA chief: Obama makes 'mockery' of American freedoms . The hearing showed agreement in concept on some issues, such as strengthening mental health screening. In general, though, it appeared to do little to create common ground on the issue. Leahy said he hopes the committee will begin considering legislation next month. The NRA's membership has spiked by 500,000 people since the Newtown shooting, bringing its number to more than 4.5 million, the group said Wednesday. In the meantime, Kelly and Giffords have launched Americans for Responsible Solutions to push for gun control. On Tuesday, Kelly said that despite the Tucson, Arizona, shooting that wounded his wife and killed six others, he and Giffords still support the Second Amendment, which guarantees Americans the right to possess firearms. "But we really need to do something about the safety of our kids and our communities. It's gotten really out of hand," he said. After Wednesday's hearing, Kelly made a point of approaching LaPierre to shake his hand as media cameras recorded the moment. Why new laws could miss America's bigger gun problem . CNN's Faith Karimi and Arielle Hawkins contributed to this report. | NEW: Sources: Senators from both parties discuss a bill on background checks .
Senators and witnesses tangle over politics and ideology .
A Senate committee holds the first hearing on gun violence since the Sandy Hook massacre .
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A sham marriage operation was uncovered after a couple who could not speak the same language had to resort to an iPhone translation app in the register office, a court heard. The cross-Channel ‘delivery service’ scam which brought in brides from Eastern Europe was well organised and was compared by prosecutors to the retailer Amazon. Up to ten women were ferried from Dunkirk to Dover before tying the knot. Hamid Mushtaq, 24 (left), and Blanka Farkasova, 35 (right), are among the couples accused of arranging sham marriages in which some partners did not even speak the same language . The brides-to-be were ‘ordered’ by prospective Asian grooms with ‘questionable’ immigration status – many foreign students desperate to stay in Britain. One bride, a mother-of-six, was said to have booked a flight back to Prague in the Czech Republic within hours of tying the knot. Another groom was said to have used an iPhone app so he could talk to his wife-to-be. Avtar Singh and Melania Jakabova first aroused suspicion when they registered notice of intention to marry in Shrewsbury in 2013. The officiating registrar, Paul Ainscough, said they seemed unable to talk to each other without the help of the app. Describing the couple’s big day, on March 5, Mr Ainscough added: ‘The wedding seemed to be a choreographed performance. The hem of the bride’s dress was soiled and she wore it without any deportment or sense of occasion.’ Indian national Singh, 37, of Wolverhampton, admitted conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and awaits sentence. His bride Jakabova remains at large. Now two couples have gone on trial accused of taking part in the scam. Manchester Crown Court heard Hamid Mushtaq, 24, of Manchester, and Pavlina Kratka, 28, got married before going to a local KFC to celebrate. And, just a few hours after her marriage to Waqas Hussein, 25, – also of Manchester – Blanka Farkasova, 35, allegedly booked herself a flight back to Prague. Prosecutors told the jury at Manchester Crown Court (pictured) that one bride booked a flight to Prague within hours of tying the knot while a second couple went to KFC to celebrate their union . All four deny conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration. Registrars became suspicious when they saw that the couples interacted awkwardly. Czech-born Klement Buncik, 43, who denies nine charges of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration, was allegedly mastermind of the operation, bringing in brides between September 2012 and June last year. They were Czech nationals and therefore EU citizens, a court heard. Darren Preston, prosecuting, said: ‘This is a delivery service, but unlike a delivery you might order from Amazon, [Buncik] is delivering women.’ The trial continues. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article. | Jury told Klement Buncik, 43, brought Czech women to UK on ferries .
One bride booked flight to Prague after tying knot, court was told .
Another couple celebrate their wedding by getting a KFC afterwards .
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Tokyo (CNN) -- Fifty rebel lawmakers resigned Monday from Japan's governing party, weakening the majority of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda as he pushes a controversial increase in the sales tax through parliament. Led by the influential Ichiro Ozawa, 40 members of the lower house and 12 members of the upper house have left the Democratic Party of Japan, said Kenji Yamaoka, a senior lawmaker allied with Ozawa. However, two of the lower house lawmakers on the list announced by Yamaoka -- Megumu Tsuji and Takeshi Shina -- subsequently said they were not leaving the party, their offices said. The exodus is in protest over Noda's plan to double the sales tax from 5% to 10% to try to tackle Japan's huge public debt, Yamaoka said. The lower house passed the measure last week despite opposition from the group led by Ozawa, a former party leader known for his political power-broking. The departures Monday whittle down Noda's majority in the lower house, leaving the Democratic Party of Japan with 251 out of 480 seats. In the upper house, which is still to vote on the sales tax legislation, the party now holds 92 out of 242 seats. Noda, who took office in September, is the latest in a string of politically fragile Japanese leaders. He is the sixth prime minister in the six years since the departure of Junichiro Koizumi, who was in power for more than five years. The Ozawa-led exodus has fueled speculation about a possible vote of no confidence being introduced against Noda. But Ozawa has so far failed to lure away enough Democratic Party of Japan members to threaten Noda immediately. If a vote of no confidence were to be called and Noda lost, he would have to step down or call a snap election. Ozawa said last week that he expected a general election could be called "in the near future." | NEW: Two of the Japanese lawmakers on the list of those leaving say they are staying .
The departing parliamentarians are led by the influential Ichiro Ozawa .
They say they are protesting the prime minister's plan to double the sales tax .
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(CNN) -- Think of it as a giant barometer for climate science. With a new groundbreaking study on climate change seemingly coming out every other week, it can be hard to keep up with the latest findings. Fortunately, every five to six years, the United Nations sums it up in a comprehensive report. That's what's going on this week in the Swedish capital Stockholm, where the latest Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is set for release on Friday. The document will bring together the latest research from top scientists around the field. The IPCC is recognized as the leading authority on the subject of global climate change. The first section of its new report -- the fifth since the organization was formed in 1988 by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization -- contains a "Summary for Policymakers," aimed at guiding politicians and lawmakers worldwide on decisions regarding the environment over the next several years. The amount of research that goes into each section of the report is staggering. Friday's report is the culmination of work by over 250 authors from 39 countries and was subject to an extensive review process involving more than 1,000 experts. In addition to the rigorous scientific review, representatives of 195 governments are meeting in Stockholm to approve, line-by-line, each section of the Summary for Policymakers before its release. More than 850 expert authors from 85 countries contributed research for the full report, which will be released in three stages through April. The first, on the physical science behind climate change, will accompany the Summary for Policymakers on Friday. The second, expected in March, will cover "impacts and vulnerabilities" of climate change; the third, on mitigation efforts, is set to go out in April. Bloomberg: Why Sandy forced cities to take lead on climate change . What is expected in the report . Friday's report is expected to contain language that further identifies the role human activity is playing in increasing global temperatures through burning of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions. The last report, in 2007, indicated that it was "very likely" that humans were responsible for most of the observed warming -- a judgment that corresponds to a confidence level greater than 90%. A draft that leaked in August raised that confidence level to "extremely likely," or greater than 95% confidence that humans are responsible for the majority of global warming through carbon pollution. The impacts of this warming are already being seen through increases in extreme weather events like heat waves, droughts, and extreme flooding events, which the assessment will highlight. The report will lay out projections for climate change through the end of the century, based upon four different carbon emission scenarios. Those range from a low end which would require significant cutbacks in emissions, to a worst-case scenario in which carbon emissions would continue to climb unabated. The projections will provide more details about sea-level rise, for which observations show rates increasing, and should give a more precise estimate of the levels we will see at the end of the century. Loss of sea ice will also be addressed, and the report will discuss the accelerating loss of sea ice in the Arctic and the slight increase of ice seen in the Antarctic. Climate change may increase violence, study shows . Critics of the report . Despite the overall breadth of the scientific expertise involved, and the extensive review and approval process, the IPCC Assessment Reports spark quite a few criticisms, from both climate change believers and skeptics. Skeptics claim the IPCC exists only to produce further evidence supporting the idea of man-made climate change while ignoring opposing research. But climate change activists, and many climate scientists, believe that the IPCC's consensus-seeking policy produces conclusions and estimates that are too conservative. Another often-cited critique of the report is that, due to its size and lengthy approval process, it is already outdated by the time it is released. Several important studies already have been published in the past year in the constantly evolving science of climate change that will not be included in this assessment. Despite the critics, this week's document will serve as a major measuring stick for the current state of the world's climate and what type of change is in store. The Summary for Policymakers will be available Friday at http://www.climatechange2013.org. Climate sticker shock: Arctic thaw could cost $60 trillion . | The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report every five or six years .
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For the frequent traveller, it could be the perfect way to attend those urgent meetings while staying at home. The Double robot can turn your iPad into a 'virtual you' that can be sent anywhere in the world. The $2,000 robot is described as 'the simplest, most elegant way to be somewhere else in the world without flying there' Scroll down for video . The Double robot that can let you virtually attend meeting anywhere in the world, and even let you visit art galleries. It can move around, all controlled by your own iPad, and even adjust its height to make sure you are always at eye level. The firm says the gadget could be used to attend meetings, meet friends for lunch, and even visit art galleries around the world. 'You can stay at eye level, whether sitting or standing, by adjusting your height remotely, which makes conversations fluid and real,' says the firm behind it. The robot is based around a single wheel, which balances the robot as it moves, rather like a Segway. Where you're not moving, a retractable kickstand automatically deploys to conserve power when you are not moving around. The robot is controlled via a second iPad, and can be driven using computer game style controls . Double Robotics, the firm behind the design, says 'Efficient motors and lightweight design give Double the ability to last all day without recharging the battery.' Where you're not moving, a retractable kickstand automatically deploys to conserve power when you are not moving around. The gadget has already proved a huge success, the firm said, with the first run already sold out. The robot could even be sent into art galleries without ever having to visit them, with rented robots being used to give hundreds access to collections around the world. 'First off, we want to thank you all for your enthusiasm and support for Double, especially to those of you who pre-ordered,' it said in a blog post. 'Because of the overwhelming response, we've already had to expand our first production run to include more robots than planned, which is great! 'However, in good conscience, we cannot continue to offer a December ship date for units placed from here forward. 'New orders placed (as of August 16th) will now be shipping in early 2013.' The double robot can adjust its height between a sitting and standing mode to ensure you are at eye level with others. | Motorised arm turns an iPad into a 'virtual you'
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By . Julian Robinson for MailOnline . A schoolboy who was banned from becoming a Boy Scout has won a landmark legal ruling against the group. Clare and Barry Coyne were left devastated when their autistic son Thomas,11, was refused admission to the Scouts after four years in the younger Beaver and Cubs group. Now after a legal battle against leaders of the 36th Sheffield Scouts Thomas has won £5,000 in compensation - and his parents hope to raise awareness to stop other youngsters suffering the same problem. Clare Coyne (pictured) says she was ‘shocked and hurt’ to be told Thomas would not be allowed to move into Scouts when she tried to register him for a camping trip in July last year . Mrs Coyne says she was ‘shocked and hurt’ to be told Thomas would not be allowed to move into Scouts when she tried to register him for a camping trip in July last year. Mr and Mrs Coyne, who volunteered for Cub committees and accompanied their son to sessions, were told their child posed a ‘significant health and safety risk to other Scouts and himself’. She said: 'I couldn’t believe the Scout leader at the time was refusing Thomas a place, based on an assumption because of his disability. 'It was only when I was registering Thomas to attend the trip that the leader delivered the news. 'He then emailed me back saying Thomas couldn’t progress to Scouts or attend the camping trip, because "he lacks independence". 'To be told, with no prior discussion, that he was not progressing to Scouts with his friends was devastating. 'I was also shocked and hurt to receive the news by email - especially after acting as parent rep for the group.' A Scout Association spokesman vowed that the organisation would 'take on board any lessons learned in this case' The Scout leader and a district commissioner then asked Mrs Coyne, 44, from Fulwood, Sheffield, for an apology when she made an official complaint of disability discrimination. She added: 'Thomas enjoyed four happy years at Ranmoor Beavers and Cubs. He didn’t cause any problems whatsoever. 'My child is gorgeous, not violent or aggressive. His former leaders had discussed Thomas’ needs with us, but the Scout leader didn’t - and wouldn’t back down on his decision. 'When he started at Beavers he could say about seven words and now he’s this articulate, funny, happy boy. It helped him so much. 'He is in special needs education and even though it is amazing, this allowed him to make friends near his home and do something in his own community. 'The whole family were very much involved with both groups, my 13-year-old daughter is a member of the same Scouts. I couldn’t believe they chose to tell me via email. They didn’t try and explain why, or have a discussion with us. It was horrific after four very happy years. 'We faced huge legal costs if we lost, but I felt a duty to fight this for other children out there.' Mrs Coyne sought legal advice from Sheffield Citizens’ Advice and Law Centre. The action was later settled before the case went to county court and the Scout Association paid £5,000 in compensation, which will be held by the court until Thomas is aged 18. Thomas has since taken up a place at the 79th St Timothy’s Scout Group in Sheffield, but Mrs Coyne says Thomas has already missed out despite moving to another group. She said: 'The financial compensation can’t replace the friendships and experiences Thomas has missed. 'We want to be lessons to be learned to avoid another family going through the distress that we have experienced.' Scout Association spokesman Simon Carter said: 'We do intend to take on board any lessons learned in this case. 'Our volunteer team is passionate about making sure we offer scouting to as many young people as possible whatever their needs.' | Thomas Coyne wins ruling after being banned from becoming a Boy Scout .
Autistic 11-year-old had spent four years with younger Beavers and Cubs .
But parents left 'shocked' after being told be would not be allowed to move into Scouts .
Claim they were told their son posed a 'significant health and safety risk'
Case was settled before it went to county county and the child has been awarded £5,000 in compensation .
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New York (CNN) -- Civil rights lawyers filed papers in federal court Monday seeking to prohibit the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities when there is no evidence that they are linked to terrorism or other illegal activities. The department's demographics unit -- or zone assessment unit -- was put together with the CIA's help after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The unit has acknowledged that it engaged in monitoring that included Muslim-owned business and mosques across the New York region. The motion filed Monday is part of a class-action case from 1971 that resulted in a historic settlement in 1985 known as the Handschu agreement, or Handschu guidelines. The settlement restricted police -- who were then accused of compiling dossiers on political activists and those perceived as radicals -- from investigating individuals whose activities were constitutionally protected. "We think the surveillance of innocent Muslims is an infringement of civil liberties by the police and a violation of the guidelines," said Paul Chevigny, a New York University law professor and one of five attorneys on the Handschu case. Muslim leaders boycott breakfast over surveillance program . According to the guidelines, the police cannot keep records unless they find evidence of terrorism, and according to Chevigny, they have kept voluminous records on businesses connected with Islam. "There's no indication of crime in connection with any of the organizations they've infiltrated," Chevigny said. Last summer the head of the city's police intelligence division testified that the controversial surveillance unit never produced a lead that linked to a potential terrorist plot during years of investigation. The unit's reports never led to a terrorism investigation in at least six years of surveillance, according to court testimony from Thomas P. Galati, the commanding officer of the police intelligence division. "I could tell you that I have never made a lead from rhetoric that came from a demographics report, and I'm here since 2006," he said in a June 28 deposition unsealed last August. "I don't recall other ones prior to my arrival. Again, that's always a possibility. I am not aware of any." A 60-page report obtained by The Associated Press in 2012 showed police department maps of Newark, New Jersey, and photographs of Muslim residences and mosques, while other reports revealed that authorities had tracked websites and on at least one occasion placed an undercover officer among university students. There was no statement in the documents regarding terrorism or other criminal activity. However, in 2011 civil rights attorneys filed papers in federal court challenging whether the use of undercover agents and informants within Muslim communities constituted a breach of those guidelines. Last year New York Police Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said that the "premise that the demographic unit was used for wholesale spying on Muslims, using undercover officers and informants to do so, was false," and that neither "confidential informants nor undercover officers were assigned to the demographics unit." Browne added that "the small unit, about eight people, surveyed places a terrorist might go to use a foreign language internet cafe, get a job off the books, find a place to stay, etc." However, police did uncover information that "led them to recommend that investigators take a closer look." Police actions adhered to the Handschu guidelines, Browne added, which were modified after the 2001 attacks to provide authorities greater leeway in investigating potential threats. In the first expansive official description of the city's demographics unit, Galati testified last June that the department had collected information often based on ethnicity and language. "Most Urdu speakers from that region (Pakistan) would be of concern, so that's why it's important to me," he said. Listening in on a conversation at a Lebanese cafe could also be useful, he added, allowing analysts to determine what part of Lebanon the cafe-goers were from. "That may be an indicator of possibility that that is a sympathizer to Hezbollah because southern Lebanon is dominated by Hezbollah." But "related to demographics ... I can tell you that information that (has) come in has not commenced an investigation." The purpose of the unit is to help "identify locations if we're faced with a threat," he noted, offering investigators a better starting point when confronted with a possible attack. "The police department needs to know where we should go and look for that particular terrorist," he said. "A lot of information that the zone assessment unit captures helps us identify locations that we should look or not look for." Last year New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa announced that the NYPD did not violate New Jersey laws when it carried out surveillance of Muslim-run businesses across state lines. The findings were the product of a three-month review meant to address concerns expressed by Muslim organizations, who later filed a lawsuit in New Jersey federal court against the NYPD for unfairly targeting the Muslim community. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in March called reports of NYPD surveillance "disturbing," though White House chief counterterrorism adviser John Brennan praised the city's efforts to strike a balance between security and the protection of civil rights. | Civil rights lawyers ask federal court to end New York police surveillance of Muslims .
Surveillance of businesses, mosques violate 1985 court settlement on monitoring groups, lawyers say .
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By . Paul Milligan . PUBLISHED: . 04:11 EST, 21 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:30 EST, 21 June 2013 . Enrika (left) and Jolanta Lubiene were brutally murdered in their home in Killorglin, County Kerry . Irish police are investigating a double murder after a mother and daughter were brutally killed in their County Kerry home. 27-year-old Jolanta Lubiene and her eight-year-old child Enrika, which were discovered on Sunday, confirmed the pair died in violent circumstances. It has emerged that eight-year-old Enrika Lubiene had her throat slit, and was killed alongside her mother, 27-year-old Jolanta Lubiene. Jolanta was stabbed more than 20 times in her torso as well as receiving a fatal knife wound to the neck . She was stabbed in the kitchen after putting away the shopping and her dinner in the oven. Their bodies lay dead in their home for 48 hours before being found by a friend. Ms Lubiene, originally from Lithuania, was found in a room downstairs and the child in an upstairs bedroom. According to sources, the extensive nature of the stab wounds . suffered by Ms Lubiene suggest she was the intended victim of the attack. Police are investigating whether Enrika was then killed because she . witnessed the attack on her mother and may have known the killer. A source said: . ‘The scene was awful, because there was so much blood. It was like an . abattoir.’ It is believed they were murdered sometime between 2.30pm and 5.30pm on Saturday. Enrika was not wearing pyjamas and was dressed in regular clothes. Police were eventually called to the house at about 8.30pm on Sunday, alerted by another Lithuanian . woman living locally who had been unable to contact Ms Lubiene. Enrica, who made her Holy Communion last month, was regularly seen cycling around the estate on the bicycle, and was known for always having a smile on her face. Her father Marius Lubys flew in from . Sweden yesterday, where he has been working for the past six months . He told the Irish Daily Mail: ‘I’m shocked. I am very . sorry for my wife and daughter.’ It is understood that the family were due to move back to Lithuania, where the couple came from, in just two weeks. Enrika with her mother Jolanta Lubiene and father Marius Lubys. He flew into Ireland from his job in Sweden after being given the news his wife and daughter had been murdered . Jolanta Lubiene with daughter Erika at her First Communion last month . A clearly distraught Kristina Lubite, Jolanta's sister, is consoled by her husband Viadas outside the house in Langford Downs, Killorglin . Detectives believe that the young mother . of one may have known the double murderer, as there were no signs of . forced entry at their rented semi-detached home, in the Langford Downs estate in Killorglin, . County Kerry. They also suspect the killer may be from . Eastern Europe. It is understood Ms Lubiene had taken out a . protection order against someone she knew in the past, though this person is not currently a suspect. Police have ruled out robbery as a motive as nothing was taken from the house. They have also ruled out a sexual motive as both victims were fully clothed. On Saturday morning, some neighbours . heard loud music coming from the house, suggesting to gardaí that the . killer turned up the radio to drown out screams. Ms Lubiene was last seen at around 1.50pm on Saturday on Langford Street, walking towards her semi-detached home. Police investigators remove the two bodies from the scene . Enrika was well known around the Langford Downs estate in Killorglin for riding her bicycle and always having a smile on her face . 'She was wearing a dark waist length . coat, dark trousers and white shoes,' Superintendent Murphy said. 'She . was carrying two bags of shopping, a pink bag and a white bag. 'Investigating Gardai are particularly anxious to talk to everyone who was in the Langford Downs housing estate between 12 noon and 7pm Saturday last. 'This is a small housing estate with just over 50 houses and with only one vehicle entrance and exit.' Ms Lubiene had been living in Ireland for several years and working locally. A technical examination of the scene is continuing. Earlier, Killarney Garda Station Superintendent Florence Murphy appealed for anyone with information to come forward. Jolanta Lubiene had gone to the courts to take out a protection order against someone she knew in the past . Marius Lubys (left) husband of the dead mother and daughter, arrives at a special mass held in their honour in Killorglin clutching a picture of them both, and people visiting the house to pay a floral tribute . Father Michael Fleming says a prayer after the bodies of Jolanta Lubiene and her daughter Enrika were removed from the house . | 27-year-old mother Jolanta Lubiene and her eight-year-old daughter Enrika were killed in a bloody attack .
The family was due to move back to Lithuania in two weeks .
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Ryan Taylor is sat having dinner with two of his team-mates and their partners. It is April of last year and they are at the historic Close House, resting on Hadrian’s Wall in Newcastle. It’s where he got married, plays golf and socialises. It’s a happy place. Tonight, however, those special memories will be tainted by one phone call and the devastating news relayed to him. Forty-eight hours earlier, Taylor, afforded protection as a ‘non-contact floater’ in a practice match at Newcastle’s training ground, tweaked his knee chasing a loose ball. Ryan Taylor poses after unveiling the new mural of 2,000 Newcastle United fans that took selfies . Taylor unveiled a mural featuring 2,000 fans outside St James’ Park on Friday ahead of the match vs QPR . The mural was created and installed by sponsors wonga.com outside of Newcastle's St James' Park . Only a matter of days into his comeback from eight months out with knee ligament damage, he convinced himself it was a minor setback. Then the phone rang. It was Paul Catterson, the club doctor. ‘I was with Dan Gosling, James Perch and our wives and girlfriends,’ he recalls as we sit in the home dressing-room at St James’ Park, where he will on Saturday run out for the first time in more than two years against QPR. ‘The Doc phoned. I always used to know with his calls if it was good or bad. It was either very quiet, “Hello Ryan”. Or, “Alright Ryan, how you doing?”. ‘I knew straight away. It was the ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) again. I went back to the table, everyone was really upset. It hadn’t sunk in with me.’ Sink in, it later did, but only amid a flood of tears. ‘It wasn’t until I walked through the doors at training that I thought, “hold on a minute, I’m not coming to train here”,’ says Taylor, who on Friday unveiled a mural featuring 2,000 fans outside St James’ which was created and installed by sponsors wonga.com. ‘I completely broke down. There were a few shoulders which had tears on that day.’ Taylor has been recalling the devastating injury that kept the defender out of action for Newcastle . Taylor speaks with Sportsmail's Craig Hope in the changing rooms at Newcastle's St James' Park . Taylor was told he could be 30 by the time he returned to football following his devastating injury . Taylor, then 28, was told he’d be 30 by the time he returned. He rang his dad, Darren, back at home in Liverpool. ‘We talked about it - I’d put so much in and got nothing from it. It just killed me, my body went in to shut-down mode,’ he says. ‘I said to my dad, “this could be me”. He said, “listen, it’s not happening”. It took a while to get my head around it all.’ The best surgeon in the world was identified – Dr Richard Steadman of Colorado. It emerged that Taylor’s initial knee operation, the previous year, had not gone to plan. He spent the next six months ‘doing absolutely nothing, it was torture’. Then, thanks to a donor – a male in his twenties who had died – his patellar tendon was replaced. After that it was rehab. And then, more rehab. In October of this year, 26 months after his last appearance, finally, it was matchday. The opponents, Manchester City at the Etihad in the League Cup. Taylor takes up the story. ‘I thought I’d get half an hour but we had a team meeting and the XI went up. I was like, “hold on a minute, I’m in it”,’ he laughs. Taylor pictured during Newcastle training, practising kicking the ball and taking free-kicks over mannequins . In October of this year, 26 months after his last appearance, Taylor returned to face Manchester City . ‘I thought I’d play an hour. Once he’d made all three subs I thought, “what’s going on? It’s only 1-0, we could go to extra-time here”. So when Moussa (Sissoko) scored our second I wish that I could have sprinted and kissed him, but I couldn’t run. ‘It was one of those days where everything fell right and the result topped it off. It made those two years feel like two minutes.’ Afterwards, he received a standing ovation from his comrades. ‘It was incredible, the reaction from our fans and the lads,’ he says. ‘I had messages from John Terry, Steven Gerrard, Michael Owen, they helped me.’ Newcastle’s physio, Derek Wright, also gets a special mention – ‘he was like my dad up here’ – but his wife, Kim, and boys, Henri, three, and baby Evan, were Taylor’s biggest source of strength. This Saturday afternoon, the club have allowed him to walk out with Henri. ‘He’s been there from day one,’ says Taylor. ‘He’s never seen me play here, he was only six months old when I did my knee. ‘It will be a special day and I’m lucky to have a brilliant relationship with these fans, scoring the winner against Sunderland helps of course.’ That goal, in a 1-0 win in 2011, is a happy memory. After two years of turmoil, Taylor wants more like them, starting with Saturday. Taylor will walk out with his son Henri at St James' Park ahead of their match against QPR . · Created and installed by club sponsors wonga.com . · Wonga invited Newcastle supporters to submit photos of themselves, on wongafootball.com, cheering on the team for the chance to be included . · 6m x 2.2m artwork fixed to the exterior of the stadium’s Gallowgate End . · Captioned ‘St. James’ Park – home of the Toon Army’. · Includes faces of more than 2,000 Newcastle fans . · Fans from the all over the world – North East to the Far East . · Eleven members of the first team squad including Ryan Taylor . | Ryan Taylor unveiled a mural featuring 2,000 fans outside of St James' Park .
The Newcastle player will lead his son out ahead of their game against QPR .
Taylor suffered anterior cruciate ligament damage when he was 28 .
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By . Rebecca English . Less than 24 hours after details of their tour to New Zealand were announced, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been plunged into a diplomatic row. It centres on a planned visit to pay their respects to the king of the Maoris, Tuheitia Paki, at Turangawaewae Marae – his people's sacred place – during a visit to the country's North Island. But yesterday it emerged that the visit had been called off after the king made it clear he was offended that the couple could spare only 90 minutes out of their schedule. Snubbed: Kate and Prince George are on a 10-day stay in New Zealand . According to sources, the long list of demands around the visit and tight timeframe would have broken proper protocol on the marae. So the king told both the New Zealand government and Kensington Palace that the visit was off. Now William and Kate, who will still travel to nearby Hamilton, no longer have a specific meeting with any Maori leader outside of the usual 'traditional welcomes' they will receive during their ten-day stay in New Zealand, their first tour with Prince George, which begins on April 7. The meeting was important because not only was it seen as a mark of respect to the indigenous community, but William and Kate would have been following in the footsteps of the Queen and Prince Philip who made the same detour on their visit to New Zealand in 1953. Locals had been planning the couple's itinerary for weeks, saying they were looking forward to welcoming the young royals to the 'heart of the kingitanga', the Maori monarchy. The ensuing furore has forced New Zealand prime minister John Key to make a statement. 'I think it's a shame the couple aren't going, but it's a decision made solely by King Tuheitia's people,' he said. 'My understanding was the palace [Kensington Palace] offered King Tuheitia's people an opportunity for the prince to visit. Respect: Maori King Tuheitia Paki sits on the throne at his coronation at Turangawaeware Marae . This picture of Prince George leaving hospital is the only official public appearance he has made so far . 'They were offered a 90-minute slot, that was longer than pretty much any other engagement that they have, and King Tuheitia's people decided that wasn't long enough and on that basis they rejected him attending.' He added: 'He [Prince William] has a pretty tight timetable [and] 90 minutes by the time you also travel there and back and have to fit in a number of other things, was, I would have thought, quite generous.' Tuheitia Paki, 55, came to the throne in 2006 after the death of his mother, queen Te Atairangikaahu. Maori academic Professor Rawiri Taonui said the cancelled meeting was a snub that needed to be smoothed over. 'It's an awkward, clumsy and glaring oversight,' he said. 'The king may have over-reached in terms of the time that he's looking for, but ultimately I think it's the government's responsibility.' Kensington Palace said there would be numerous chances to meet members of the Maori community at the many traditional welcomes the couple will receive. | Row centres on a planned visit to pay respects to king of the Maoris .
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The trend for trying to take a good selfie is nothing new but with the evolution of the selfie stick or monopod people are trying so much harder to get that perfect photo. It's a regular site at tourist attractions like the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge, people with their selfie sticks out trying to get that shot they will post Facebook, Twitter or Instragram. Despite the help of a three-foot metal stick people are still getting it wrong and end up with the stick actually in the photo. Sydney Fashion Blogger posted this selfie on Instragram and its had thousands of likes, but she forgot to leave the stick out of her posy picture . Jillian Foss posted this picture on Instagram of a girl taking the micky out of 'stick selfie' obsession . Mohil92 posted this picture of a group of friends and they still got the stick in their selfie . The selfie stick is becoming a regular fixture among normal social activities like BBQs, holidays, sports events and parties. The trend for cameras on sticks, also known as monopods, isn’t new and a number of sticks are already available for digital cameras from companies including Opteka and XShot. But monopods designed especially for smartphones, however, were unveiled at this year’s Mobile World Congress, including a Samsung version from Chinese firm Winners’ Sun Plastic Electronics. This amazing backdrop would have looked much better if the photographer had left out the 'selfie stick' Oldanchorinn posted this picture of a man attemping a stick selfie while in a moving car . Tristan Vandeworp posted this happy looking selfie with his friends on Instragram at a cafe . 1. Don't have the stick in the picture. 2. Capture the best angle, try turning your head a few degrees to the right or left, your features will appear less flat . 3. Show off something new in your selfie like haircut or new item of clothing . 4. Enhance one of your features e.g. wear lots of mascara or a bright lipstick and keep the rest natural . 5. You need good lighting for the best selfies. 6. Use the phone's back camera because it will take a higher resolution picture. 7. Think about what background you want, the best selfies have something interesting behind the subject. It is a trend that's especially popular in Asia, including Indonesia. Soulaya Lestary, 20, from Indonesia, told The Huffington Post: 'We use social media all the time and because we’re shy to ask someone, [to] take picture of us,’ it’s easier to do it ourselves.' Meanwhile, a number of existing monopods can be used with iPhones, from companies including Interfit. They work by holding the camera in landscape mode, with the screen facing the photographer and using the front-facing camera. Buttons on the handle of the stick are used to control the device. Depending on the model, some monopods will manually press the shutter button on the side of phone using an arm, or similar, while others connect remotely via Bluetooth and take the photo using software controls. Makati City in the Philippines is the selfie capital of the World, reported time.com in March this year. Oldanchorinn posted this picture on Instragram but unfortunately left the stick in the scenic image . Jessiey McGee posted this Instragram picture with her friend and left in just a little bit of the stick . Selfie sticks, or monpods, pictured, work by holding the camera in landscape mode, with the screen facing the photographer. Buttons on the handle of the stick are used to control the device . The trend for cameras on sticks, also known as monopods, isn't new and a number of sticks are already available for digital cameras from companies including Opteka, pictured, and XShot . | First there was the selfie phenomenon and now there is the 'selfie stick'
The metal sticks or monopods range between $35 and $90 in Australia .
Despite hundreds of people carrying around the three-foot sticks lots of people still cannot take the perfect photo .
They end up with half the 'selfie stick' in their photo .
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (CNN) -- A Yale University lab technician was arrested Thursday and charged with murder in the slaying of a graduate student whose body was found in the basement wall of an off-campus medical research building, police said. Raymond Clark, 24, was arrested and charged with murder, police said. His bond was set at $3 million. Raymond Clark was apprehended about 8:10 a.m. ET at a Super 8 motel in Cromwell, Connecticut, where he had spent the night after being released Wednesday following his submission to DNA testing. Bond for Clark has been set at $3 million, New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said. Hours after his arrest, Clark appeared in court and did not enter a plea. Standing with chains on his ankles and his palms on a table, he looked only at the judge and spoke only to acknowledge that his rights were read to him. A court date of October 6 was set. Lewis described the killing as an instance of "workplace violence" but did not elaborate. Watch chief, acquaintances talk about Clark » . Annie Le's body was found in the basement wall of an off-campus medical research building Sunday. She had been strangled. Le, 24, a pharmacology student, was last seen alive September 8, the day she appeared in a surveillance video entering a four-story lab at 10 Amistad St., about 10 blocks from the main campus. Her body was found on what was to have been her wedding day. Lewis said the arrest "went smoothly." Watch the police chief announce the arrest » . He could not release details about the charges or whether DNA results led police to arrest Clark, who initially was described as a person of interest in the case. "This arrest warrant has been sealed, so no further information can be released in order to comply with this court order," Lewis said. Clark could have been arrested Wednesday if he had declined to provide DNA samples and allow police to search his home, but he was released after complying, New Haven city spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said. Police had been monitoring the motel where Clark was staying. When asked about the arrest, Clark's attorney David Dworski referred CNN to the statement he released earlier: "We are committed to proceeding appropriately with the authorities with whom we are in regular contact." Two other search warrants also were executed Wednesday -- one on property belonging to Clark that was not named in the first warrant and a second for Clark's vehicle, which was being processed Wednesday evening, Lewis said earlier. He said Clark is a technician who does "custodial-type" work at the building. Clark answered police questions for a while but later retained an attorney and stopped, Lewis said. Yale President Richard Levin said while the school's administration is "relieved" by the news of Clark's arrest, "we must resist the temptation to rush to judgment." Clark, a lab technician at Yale since December 2004, had nothing in his employment history that "gave an indication that his involvement in such a crime might be possible," Levin said in a statement Thursday. Lewis said Clark and Le worked in the same building and passed in the hallway, but he refused to comment further on whether they knew each other. Investigators have collected about 250 pieces of evidence, Lewis said. Watch police discuss the investigation » . Lewis earlier said police had reviewed about 700 hours of video and interviewed more than 150 people, some more than once. Watch a timeline leading up to Le's death » . Authorities have not released information on what DNA evidence may have been found, although investigators said earlier that bloody clothing was found hidden above tiles in a drop ceiling in another part of the building. Police have not described the clothes that were found, nor said to whom they might have belonged. Teams of investigators at a Connecticut State Police lab worked through the weekend processing and examining the bloodstained garments. But Thomas Kaplan, editor in chief of the Yale Daily News, said a Yale police official told the college paper that the clothes were not what Le was wearing when she entered the building. Lewis said Wednesday that processing of the building was nearing completion and police would probably clear it Thursday morning. Watch a report on the police saying the killing was no random act » . Le was to have been married Sunday on New York's Long Island to Jonathan Widawsky, a Columbia University graduate student. Le was from Placerville, California, and seemed to have been aware of the risks of crime in a university town. In February, she compared crime and safety at Yale with other Ivy League schools for a piece for B magazine, published by the medical school. Among the tips she offered: Keep a minimum amount on your person. When she walked over to the research building last week, she left her purse, credit cards and cell phone in her office. CNN's Tom Foreman, Mary Snow and Shirley Zilberstein contributed to this report. | NEW: Suspect appears in court, doesn't enter plea; October 6 court date set .
Bond for Raymond Clark set at $3 million, police say .
Police chief describes crime as a case of workplace violence .
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's mother and his three children will be immersed in the pop icon's music, dance and imagery as they attend the premiere of Cirque du Soleil's "Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour" in Montreal, Canada, Sunday. Katherine Jackson, who sat through four days of disturbing testimony in the trial of the doctor charged in her son's death, agreed with the Michael Jackson estate and Cirque du Soleil just this past week to attend the opening performance this weekend, according to a source close to the Jackson family. The agreement is a sign Katherine Jackson and the men who now control her son's estate as executors have reached an understanding that should ease the tensions that erupted in probate court soon after Michael Jackson's death in 2009, the source said. Jackson's mother waged a legal challenge against lawyer John Branca and music executive John McClain, who were named as executors in her son's will, but dropped it several months later. Relations between the Jackson family and the estate have been tense from that beginning. The trip, which includes Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson, will not end until October 9 when they return to Los Angeles following the Michael Forever Tribute show in Cardiff, Wales, next Saturday, the source said. With several of Michael Jackson's brothers and sisters also traveling to the Wales concert, most of the Jackson family's eight seats in Dr. Conrad Murray's trial will likely go empty until next week. Jackson's children never saw their father perform live on stage, but the Cirque du Soleil show promises for two hours to "capture the essence, soul and inspiration of the King of Pop, celebrating a legacy that continues to transcend generations." The road tour will reach at least 47 cities in the United States and Canada over the next year. The circus company, legendary for its creative and acrobatic performances, first talked to Jackson seven years ago about the possibility of a Jackson-themed show, Cirque's president said when the agreement with his estate was announced in April 2010. The estate and Cirque du Soleil are equal partners. The MGM Mirage has signed on to host the Las Vegas, Nevada, residency starting in 2012. The hotel also will open a nightclub based on the Jackson show, the hotel said. | Jackson's mother will miss at least the next week of the Conrad Murray trial .
Katherine Jackson's agreement to go to Cirque du Soleil shows peace with estate, source says .
"Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour" will go to 47 cities in the next year.
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By . Lydia Warren . Arrest: Mike Doster was charged with domestic . battery after the violent argument with his wife . A woman has died from head injuries days after her husband threw her off their jet-ski when she confronted him about seeing him engaging in a sex act with another man, police said. Pamela Carter Doster, 45, passed away at hospital on Wednesday and authorities in Manatee County, Florida are now investigating the 'suspicious' incident, the Bradenton Herald reported. On Sunday, her husband of two years, Mike Doster, 49, was arrested for domestic battery. The Tennessee man had called 911 and told dispatchers that she had 'jumped off the boat' and was unable to find her in the water. Their drunken, . violent argument on Sunday evening was sparked when Mrs Doster told her husband she had seen him engaging in a sex act with another man, the police report said. She was eventually found naked on Passage Key, a nudist beach that is popular . with swingers, and told police that her husband had thrown her into the water. She claimed that she had been riding back to land on a jet ski when the argument became heated and he reached back and threw her off the water vehicle. The report seen by Smoking Gun . states that Doster threw his wife off the . jet ski a total of four times and 'during the last time she was pulled off she hit . her head against the side of the jet ski.' 'Suspicious': Authorities are looking into the death of Doster's wife after he allegedly pushed her off a jet ski multiple times on Sunday, causing her to hit her head. She died from head injuries on Wednesday . She refused to get back on the ski with him and stayed on the sandbar which rests under knee deep water. Her . husband tried to get her back on the jet ski but she flat out refused . and eventually he rode away, leaving her there, the police report said. When . he reached the shore, he called 911 and informed rescue services she was . out at sea. Emergency workers were able to find her - wearing nothing but her life jacket - and noticed . she had a 'bruise/bump' on her head, a bruise on her biceps, and a . 'large swollen area to her left hip area.' Scene: The woman was found on the sandbar pictured just north of the tip of Santa Maria Island in Florida . Shore: After losing his wife in the water, he drove the jet ski to the shore, pictured, and called 911 . She was transported to a local hospital for treatment, and she passed away on Wednesday, . Doster was arrested for domestic battery and was released on Tuesday after posting $5,000 bond. Detectives are now asking for anyone who may have witnessed what happened to call Detective John Kenney at 941-747-3011, ext. 2216, or Crime Stoppers at 866-634-TIPS. | Mike Doster, 49, was charged with domestic battery after leaving his wife, Pamela, 45, naked on a Florida sandbar on Sunday .
They had started arguing when Pamela said she saw her husband performing oral sex on another man .
He 'threw her off the jet ski and she hit her head on the vehicle'
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The days of awkwardly trying to wing your way in a foreign language could soon be over. Microsoft has unveiled their new Skype Translator technology that they say can decode languages in real-time. It means that during video calls the speech recognition software will allow two callers from different countries to talk with ease. Scroll down for video . Microsoft has revealed their language translation software for Skype (pictured). Known as Skype Translator, it will enable people with two different dialects to communicate using voice or video calling, with the software then translating what they say into text and voice so that the other person can understand . Microsoft first unveiled the technology two years ago. At the time, though, it was deemed too inaccurate to release to the general public. But a recent breakthrough by the Skype and Microsoft Translator teams in neural network-based speech recognition has reduced errors in speech recognition by more than 30 per cent. In a blog post Microsoft says Skype has more than 300 million users, while at least 2 billion minutes of conversation are spoken every day. Skype can be used across a variety of devices including computers, smartphones, tablets and TVs. It allows users to either voice-call or video-call friends and family anywhere in the world without the large costs of regular phone tariffs. Microsoft says Skype has more than 300 million users around the world, who in turn speak 2 billion minutes of conversation every day. Skype is available for a number of devices including computers, tablets (Windows tablet shown) and smartphones and lets people make calls over the internet . Now Skype Translator could allow people who normally wouldn't be able to understand one another to communicate. Skype Translator is a spin-off of the technology behind Microsoft's Siri clone called Cortana, the personal voice assistant on Windows Phones. In a demo, Microsofts show a conversation with real-time audio translation between and English and German speakers using Skype Translator. The foreign language is converted into subtitles for the other person, and then spoken aloud by a chosen voice. The quick translations allow for a back and forth conversation even though the two don't speak the same language. Microsoft, however, say it is still early days for the technology ‘but the Star Trek vision for the universal translator’ isn’t a galaxy away.’ By the end of 2014 Skype Translator will be available as a Windows 8.1 beta app, although no news on when a full release will be brought to other platforms has yet been announced. | Microsoft has unveiled its new speech recognition software for Skype .
It will allow two people to communicate through a language barrier .
Called Skype Translator the software decodes speech on the fly .
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By . Sally Lee . It's been a dismal start to the Australian snow season this year as snow slopes have been uninvitingly bare and brown. While it's usual for snow fall to be infrequent this early in the season, temperatures have been too warm for snow machines to be brought out by ski resorts. And it doesn't look very promising as snow forecaster Peter Taylor says it's going to be an average season. Despite the slow start to the snow season due to warm weather, families enjoyed Thredbo Ski Resort's opening weekend celebrations . One snow gun was used at Thredbo on Friday night . Mr Taylor, the operator of snowatch.com.au, said this hasn't been a good start to the season which officially begun on Friday. 'It's been very slow,' he said. 'But there usually isn't enough snow at the start of the season. 'Although warmer temperatures meant that snow machines couldn't be used until last night. 'They usually bring out the snow guns two weeks prior but it was too warm to do that this year.' This was the case at Thredbo as their spokeswoman Susie Diver confirmed they only brought out their snow guns last night. Snow forecaster Peter Taylor predicts it will be another average year for snowfall this year . Mr Taylor also believes it will be a slow start to the snow season this year. Pictured is an Australian ski resort, Thredbo, on Friday . 'But the temperatures dropping now and we’re expecting to see a few centimetres of snow tonight,' Mr Taylor said. He predicts that the snow season will be 'average' this year but it'll certainly be better than the last. 'Thankfully season 2013 is well and truly behind us as it was one of the worst seasons on record,' he said. 'And because of the El Nino patterns, we're less likely to get a good season this time round but it'll definitely be better than last year.' Thredbo’s spokeswoman Susie Diver said there probably won’t be enough snow for skiing and snow boarding this long weekend. ‘But we can't be too sure as it's very unpredictable,' she said. Despite the minimal snowfall, Thredbo are gearing up for the Queen's Birthday long weekend. Temperatures have been too warm for ski resorts to use their snow machines . The Australian snow season officially launched on Friday . | Temperatures have been too warm for ski resorts to use their snow machines .
The Australian snow season officially launched on Friday .
Snow forecaster Peter Taylor says it'll be another average season this year due to El Nino weather patterns .
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By . Anna Edwards . PUBLISHED: . 10:35 EST, 7 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:36 EST, 7 September 2012 . A university cheerleader fell to her death from a warehouse roof after scaling the building with a friend to get a better look at a nearby river, an inquest heard today. Outgoing student Vanessa Clarke, 23, had decided to . climb up the building in order to get a better view of the River Avon, . next to the building in Bath, Somerset. But in a tragic turn of events Miss Clarke plummeted 20ft onto the concrete floor of a builders’ merchant warehouse after enjoying a night out in May this year. Tragedy: Vanessa Clarke fell to her death in after she toppled six metres through the roof . An inquest into her death heard she died almost instantly from head injuries after toppling six metres through the roof. Flax Bourton Coroner’s Court heard Miss Clarke, a third-year computer science student at the University of Bath, was walking home from the city centre with a friend at 4am on May 5. They decided to climb onto the roof of the Travis Perkins building, in Lower Bristol Road, to look at the River Avon. But the roof gave way under the Bath Jets cheerleader and she fell 20ft onto a concrete floor below. She died almost instantly from head injuries. Tragedy: The cheerleader died almost immediately from the 20ft fall off of the building, an inquest heard . Untimely death: The roof gave way beneath Miss Clarke's feet and a verdict of death by misadventure was recorded at her inquest . Tributes, including flowers and cheerleading vests, were left on railings close to the site after her death. One message on a bunch of flowers read: 'Colourful ones for a colourful princess.' A verdict of death by misadventure was given into her death at Flax Bourton Coroner’s Court today. After her death, Bath University said in a statement: 'The University is saddened to announce the death of Vanessa Clarke, a third year Computer Science with Business undergraduate student. Plunge: A view across the River Avon in Bath towards warehousing thought to be part of the same building where Miss Clarke died . 'Vanessa’s family has been informed and the Coroner’s Office is now investigating the circumstances of her death. 'Police are treating Vanessa’s death as a tragic accident and inquiries are continuing. 'The University wishes to express its deepest sympathies to her family and friends. 'We recognise the impact this will have on students and staff who knew Vanessa and are offering a range of support.' | Vanessa Clarke, 23, plummeted 20ft and died almost instantly from severe head injuries . | f0bf6771060857f1228e74639ba8727ff8131b52 | [
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(CNN) -- While several high-profile actors and directors have rallied around Roman Polanski, not everyone in Hollywood believes he should be freed and forgiven. The case surrounding the arrest of director Roman Polanski has both supporters and critics. In the face of a petition signed by notables such as Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and John Landis calling for the immediate release of Polanski following his detainment in Switzerland, a backlash is building against such support. "I can't believe that Hollywood has separated itself so completely from American morality," said Paul Petersen, a former child actor and president of A Minor Consideration, which advocates on behalf of young performers. "It is yet another case of Hollywood being out of sync with most of America." Polanski pleaded guilty in 1977 to having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, but fled the United States before he could be sentenced. In the years since, the director known for "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby" settled in France and avoided authorities until he was arrested Saturday while on his way to the Zurich Film Festival. In the aftermath of Polanski's arrest last weekend, a number of performers -- including Penelope Cruz, Tilda Swinton and Monica Bellucci -- appear as supporters on a petition which states, "Roman Polanski is a French citizen, a renown and international artist now facing extradition. This extradition, if it takes place, will be heavy in consequences and will take away his freedom." Polanski's detention has stirred debate over whether he should be returned to the United States to face possible imprisonment. Supporters make note of his age, the years that have passed, his talent and the victim's own assertion that pursuing the case opens fresh wounds for her as reasons the director should be left alone. But critics observe that Polanski's supporters might be downplaying his crime. "I don't think a lot of people take the sexual assault of children very seriously at all, and it's something we battle everyday," said Grier Weeks, executive director of Protect, a national organization to protect children. "We say at Protect that we are the most bipartisan group in America because we've got everyone from Hollywood liberals like Alison Arngrim [Nellie Oleson] from 'Little House on the Prairie' to extremely conservative people. ... But I will say with the notable exception of a few people from Hollywood, we get blank stares from some of that crowd." Weeks pointed to the example of a discussion on ABC's "The View," in which panelist and actress Whoopi Goldberg made the comment that she didn't believe the original charges against Polanski were for "rape-rape," as what he views as a pervasive attitude. "I assume [Goldberg] regrets saying what she said, but she really didn't say anything that is not under the surface anyway," Weeks said. "This is just the attitude, that children are property and crimes against them are not real crimes." Watch a discussion of about Polanski's supporters » . Goldberg's fellow panelist, Sherri Shepherd, said during the show that she believed Polanski should still be punished. On Twitter, she tweeted, "Whew... long day at 'The View'... two shows today... hot debate over the Statutory Rapist Polanski. 45-year-old man plies a 13-yr-old w/drugs & Liquor and anally & orally penetrates her w/o her consent is a RAPIST. We hunt down 75-year-old Nazis. We must protect our children." Actress Kirstie Alley wrote on Twitter "JUST FOR THE RECORD....RAPE IS RAPE...this is one HOLLYWOOD STAR who does not CELEBRATE or DEFEND Roman Polanski..his ART did not RAPE her." "The Biggest Loser" trainer Jillian Michaels said "If she's [the victim] OK and feels that they are resolved then who are we to say" referring to the now adult victim, Samantha Geimer. Despite that, Michaels said, "If somebody drugged and raped my 13-year-old I'd shoot them." Watch stars discuss Polanski's arrest » . Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, said it is understandable that Geimer would want to move on given what has occurred. "I think that it's deplorable that some celebrities, and I emphasis the word 'some,' are supporting rape, supporting the destruction of the life of a 13-year-old girl," O'Neill said. "You look at what happened to the victim in this case and how she was re-victimized over and over again. First by [Polanski] himself when he claimed it was consensual, then by his pals all powerful, wealthy celebrities who supported him, then by the media who characterized her as the little Lolita, the 13-year-old temptress." Petersen, who played son Jeff Stone on "The Donna Reed Show," said he believes there are many in the industry who would like to speak up against the support Polanski has received. "They are afraid of the Hollywood power structure that is tilted distinctly to the left and plays favorites," Petersen said. Thomas J. Reese, S.J., a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, wrote a piece for The Washington Post's "On Faith" column titled "Father Polanski Would Go to Jail." Reese said Hollywood might learn a lesson from the scandals involving pedophiles and the Catholic Church. "I think that perhaps there is a sense of entitlement that comes with being a celebrity and a star and part of that whole industry where people are always fawning over them and idolizing them," Reese said. "I think that kind of goes to your head and makes you think that you are special and above the law. The clergy used to think that at one time, inaccurately, and it's just not a healthy attitude." On Wednesday, the BBC reported that the French government had dropped its public support for the release of Polanski stating that the director "is neither above nor beneath the law." | Some stars speak out against Roman Polanski's crime .
A petition with high-profile names has circulated calling for his release .
NOW president calls support of Polanski from some celebs "deplorable"
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By . Gerard Couzens . Pope Francis has agreed to meet his first Falklands War veteran since his election last March. He will receive fellow Argentinian Oscar Doria Fernandez privately at his Vatican home Saint Martha's House on Wednesday. Fernandez, the youngest Argentinian Air Force non-comissioned officer to take part in the 1982 conflict, wants the Pope to bless two crosses due to end up at Falklands cemeteries where casualties from the two countries are buried. Pope Francis (right) will meet fellow Argentinian Oscar Doria Fernandez (left) privately at his Vatican home . Speaking before leaving his home in Gran Canaria ahead of his meeting with the Pope, Fernandez, 19 when war broke out the two countries, said: 'I want to tell the Pope there are new paths we haven't trodden and that we have to take, and that I'm committed to helping. 'I believe the Falklands issue can be solved but we have wounds to heal because the damage has been great.' Pope Francis, the first Argentinian Pontiff, claimed the islands were snatched by Britain when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 2011. He insisted those who died in the war had 'shed their blood on Argentinian soil.' And in a mass to mark the 30th anniversary of the Argentinian invasion he said the islands were 'usurped.' After he became Pope, David Cameron urged him to respect the overwhelming wishes of residents who days earlier had voted overwhelming to remain British in a referendum. In a dig at the Vatican, where officials pumped white smoke from a chimney to announce Pope Francis had been chosen in keeping with tradition, he said: 'The white smoke over the Falklands was pretty clear.' Pope Francis poses with Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner during a private meeting at Domus Sanctae Marthae in Vatican city . Argentinian president Christina Kirchner begged her compatriot to intervene in the row with Britain over sovereignty of the islands when they lunched together before his inaugural papal mass. But Tory minister Baroness Warsi, the minister for faith, said later she was confident the Pope would not get involved. And Nigel Baker, the UK ambassador to the Holy see, claimed around the same time he had received assurances from Vatican officials its policy of non-intervention in the dispute had not changed. Fernandez, who has written a book about the Falklands war and is in close contact with British veterans of the conflict, says he was invited to meet the Pope through his publishers. He said ahead of his meeting with Pope Francis he supported the idea of a 'diplomatic war' and dialogue. | Pope will meet Argentinian Oscar Doria Fernandez privately at his Vatican home on Wednesday .
Fernandez was the youngest Argentinian Air Force non-comissioned officer to take part in the 1982 conflict .
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Camera-shy pop star Sia Furler enlisted Kristen Wiig and Dance Moms star Maddie Ziegler for her Chandelier performance at Sunday's Grammy Awards. The 41-year-old Oscar nominee seemed an offbeat choice of avatar for the Australian 39-year-old, who kept her back turned to the crowd. The SNL veteran donned her signature platinum blonde fringed wig with an unflattering, tear-away jumpsuit for the interpretive dance. Scroll down for video and full winners list . Wiigging out! Camera-shy pop star Sia Furler (M) enlisted Kristen Wiig (L) and Dance Moms star Maddie Ziegler (R) for her Chandelier performance at Sunday's Grammy Awards . Kristen wildly girated in a set resembling a broken-down apartment featuring an overturned mattress and a light bulb-riddled ceiling. Later, the similarly-clad 12-year-old joined the Skeleton Twins actress in a whirling dervish through the cluttered stage. It didn't take long for both ladies to wind up in the prominently featured nude leotard tugging at each other viciously. Camera shy: The 41-year-old Oscar nominee seemed an offbeat choice of avatar for the Australian 39-year-old, who kept her back turned to the crowd . Bridesmaids funnywoman: The SNL veteran donned her signature platinum blonde fringed wig with an unflattering, tear-away jumpsuit for the interpretive dance . 'I'm gonna swing from the chandelier!' Kristen wildly girated in a set resembling a broken-down apartment featuring an overturned mattress and a light bulb-riddled ceiling . '1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3 drink': Later, the similarly-clad 12-year-old joined the Skeleton Twins actress in a whirling dervish through the cluttered stage . Double take: It didn't take long for both ladies to wind up in the prominently featured nude leotard tugging at each other viciously and animatedly . Art imitating life: Much of the imagery and movements during the performance related to Sia's real-life struggle with alcoholism . Cathartic: The Pittsburgh-born prodigy showed off her impressive handsprings and split leaps during the vibrant performance choreographed by Ryan Heffington . Interpretive: Furler lurked in the background, belting the emotional song as Kristen catched Maddie in a climactic moment . Still strange? Wiig embraced Ziegler in a similar fashion as Shia LaBeouf in Sia's cage-set video for Elastic Heart . Wiig caught then embraced Ziegler in a similar fashion as Shia LaBeouf in Sia's cage-set video for Elastic Heart. The Big Girls Cry belter was forced to apologise to fans after 'pedophelic' imagery of the 28-year-old actor dancing with the young reality star from the video offended them. LaBeouf was also there, introducing Furler by reading a cryptic letter from 'Erik' - likely her filmmaker husband Erik Anders Lang. Daring dance: Sia was forced to apologise to fans after 'pedophelic' imagery of the 28-year-old actor dancing with the young reality star from the video offended them . 'I love you so. Punch me if I stop crying': LaBeouf was also there, introducing Furler by reading a cryptic letter from 'Erik' - likely her filmmaker husband Erik Anders Lang . The 'metamodernist' Fury actor read: 'For Sia, I feel like this may be strange to say this here. I love you so. Punch me if I stop crying. I raise the white flag for you defeated, finally. If strength were made of broken pieces, you and I would always win. 'It is though and buildings and statues wink at us. I could squeeze you to zero. I'll never know another "What am I going to do?" Punch me if I stop crying and I'll do the same. Love, Erik. Ladies and gentlemen, Sia.' Her song Chandelier - which won best choreography at the MTV Video Music Awards - was nominated for four Grammys but lost in all categories. 'I'm gonna fly like a bird through the night': Her song Chandelier - which won best choreography at the MTV Video MusicAwards - was nominated for four Grammys but lost in all categories . Another funnywoman: Last June, Girls creator and star Lena Dunham - posing with choreographer Ryan Heffington - filled in for Sia's appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers . 'It's horrible I just wanted to have a private life': The elusive hitmaker (R) - who favours Maddie as her avatar - also refused to face the camera on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in May . Last June, Girls creator and star Lena Dunham filled in for Sia's appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. 'It's horrible,' she lamented to the New York Times. 'I just wanted to have a private life. Once, as my friend was telling me they had cancer, someone came up and asked, in the middle of the conversation, if they could take a photograph with me.' Don't look at me! Before the ceremony, the elusive hitmaker hid her eyes beneath a massive wig alongside her mini-me Maddie outside the Staples Center . Caped crusader! The lookalikes rocked matching hand markings and black Armani suits for the red carpet . Pin parade: However, Sia had no trouble smiling for the cameras alongside Lang (R) backstage following the performance while clad in an ultra-short shirt dress . Before the ceremony, the elusive hitmaker hid her eyes beneath a massive wig alongside her mini-me Maddie outside the Staples Center. The lookalikes rocked matching hand markings and black Armani suits for the red carpet. However, Sia had no trouble smiling for the cameras alongside Lang backstage following the performance while clad in an ultra-short shirt dress. Maddie - born Madison - can currently be seen in the fifth season of Dance Moms, which airs Tuesdays on Lifetime. Big grin! Ziegler opted for comfy Adidas slides and a grey marbled jacket while cooling her heels backstage . 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(CNN) -- Members of a well-known hacking group -- according to a statement and Twitter messages -- took credit Sunday for an online attack targeting San Francisco's embattled transit system. Anonymous -- in a news release attributed to the group, and backed up by related Twitter pages -- said it would take down the website of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, known as BART, between noon and 6 p.m. PT Sunday. This is in response to the system's decision to cut off cellphone signals at "select" subway stations in response to a planned protest last week. "By (cutting cell service), you have not only threatened your citizens' safety, you have also performed an act of censorship," a seemingly computer-generated voice -- speaking over dramatic music and images -- said in a video posted online Sunday afternoon. "By doing this, you have angered Anonymous." On Sunday afternoon, a link off BART's website to myBART.org apparently had been hacked. It showed a page featuring, among other items, the Anonymous logo -- a smirking mask above two crossed swords, all on a black background. In addition, Twitter traffic related to Anonymous boasted that hackers had been able to get into BART's internal network. Several related items and documents were posted, including one claiming to be "the User Info Database of MyBart.gov." This had e-mails and, in some cases, phone numbers of hundreds of people. "We apologize to any citizen that has his information published, but you should go to BART and ask them why your information wasn't secure with them," the posted item said. "Also do not worry, probably the only information that will be abused from this database is that of BART employees." A call to a BART communication officer was not immediately returned. In a statement on its website released earlier in the day, BART acknowledged that it was aware of the threatened online attack -- and was taking steps in response. "We're doing what we can to defend against any attack on the BART website," the system said. "BART's website infrastructure is wholly separate from any computer network involved in the operation of BART service." In recent years, the hacking collective calling itself Anonymous has targeted several organizations to make political statements. Last week, for instance, Anonymous promised an "operation" targeting Facebook. And it took credit for hacking the site of the Syrian Defense Ministry, replacing its content with an anti-government message and the Anonymous logo. Anonymous also has boasted about taking down numerous other prominent websites, including those of PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and the Church of Scientology. The action in San Francisco is the latest challenge for the transit system, which has faced criticism after several shootings involving its police officers -- the latest coming last month and resulting in the death of 45-year-old Charles Hill. Demonstrators had planned a rally last Thursday to bring attention to the issue. But BART contended that such a protest during rush hour endangered the safety of commuters and employees. In response, the system said in a statement that "it temporarily interrupted service at select BART stations as one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform." The move was made on the same day that British Prime Minister David Cameron proposed a crackdown on social media to quell riots. The statement from Anonymous also touted a new peaceful demonstration that it said would occur at 5 p.m. Monday at the transit system's Civic Center station. "We sincerely hope that this series of actions will serve as a warning to BART and every public organization in the USA to NOT engage in this sort of dangerous and human rights violating behavior," the statement said. In the video statement linked to Anonymous and posted Sunday, a voice urges demonstrators to wear red shirts "in remembrance of those who have been battered by the BART police" and bring a camera to record the events. "We will show the world and BART that we will not stand for these types of actions," the voice said. BART issued another alert Sunday advising riders about the possible Monday protest. "As always, BART's primary mission is to ensure your safety and keep trains on-time," said a statement on the system's website. "BART may need to close some stations temporarily or make other service adjustments on short notice." CNN's Divina Mims and Greg Botelho contributed to this report. | NEW: A video urges protesters Monday to wear red shirts and record the event .
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By . Emma Innes . PUBLISHED: . 06:55 EST, 11 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:56 EST, 11 July 2013 . A fit and healthy young man died at the age of 21 because of an undiagnosed and deadly heart condition. Callum Branche, a carer, had a ‘work hard, play hard’ attitude and enjoyed regular games of football with his friends. But he enjoyed life and his work not realising he had the potentially fatal heart condition coronary artery anomalies. The condition means that blood is fed into the heart from the body’s main artery, the aorta, from only one side. Callum Branche, 21, died from a rare and undiagnosed heart condition which meant that blood was only fed to his heart from one side of his aorta . It can be aggravated by exercise as a problem artery can be squashed or kinked under the pressure of more blood being pumped to the heart. Mr Branche, from Little Lever, near Bolton, Greater Manchester, was found dead at his family home by his parents Timothy and Lindsay in April. An inquest was told six foot three inch Mr Branche - described by his family as a ‘gentle giant with an infectious grin’ - had no history of poor health. He was said to be ‘very family-orientated’ and ‘didn’t have a vicious bone in his body’. His father told the hearing: ‘He wasn’t shy of work. He worked hard and played hard. He was very active with how he lived his life.’ His father said: ‘He had his . breakfast then went back to his bed. He came back downstairs and spoke . to us, he was his normal self. ‘There was absolutely nothing to indicate there was a problem at all. He was just his normal self.’ However, . when his parents returned from a shopping trip later that day they . found their son’s lifeless body slumped against a door. Mr Branche, who worked as a carer, was not aware that he had the condition and had no history of ill health . His father desperately attempted to revive him before paramedics arrived, but his son was pronounced dead a short time later. Pathologist Dr Emil Salmo said Mr Branche’s death would have been very sudden and unexpected. He said he died from natural causes, the sudden death being down to an anomaly of the right coronary artery from the left coronary sinuses. He added: ‘It is a condition that would not normally have any symptoms.’ Mr Walsh strongly advised the couple to encourage their two other sons, aged 24 and 26, to go for a medical check-up. Returning a verdict of death by natural causes he added: ‘Callum was a young man who lived life to the full to work hard and play hard - exactly how you would want to have a son. ‘It is devastating for you to go out shopping and you come home to find him collapsed. I am so dreadfully sorry, I cannot imagine what it would be like, it is devastating.’ Mr Branche was found dead at home by his parents, Timothy and Lindsay Branche, when they returned from a shopping trip. Images shows the heart and circulatory system . In a statement Callum’s family said: ‘He would put his big arm around you. He was just a lovely lad. ‘He loved his mum to bits. He loved his job. He loved caring for people and talking to the residents. He was such a caring person and all the patients loved him.’ A spokesman for the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young said: ‘In 1 in 100 people both coronary arteries come from the same side of the aorta. This is called an “anomalous coronary origin” or “coronary artery anomaly”. ‘The unusual origin of the artery means that the artery must take a different route to supply the heart muscle. In the majority of people this causes no problems. ‘However, in a small number, the abnormal route can cause the anomalous coronary artery to be squashed or kinked during exercise. ‘If the blood supply to the heart is disturbed then it can cause chest pains or dangerous arrhythmias. The cause of coronary artery anomalies is not known. However, in most cases they do not appear to be inherited.’ | Callum Branche had a heart condition called coronary artery anomalies which meant blood was only fed to his heart from one side of his aorta .
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By . Matt Blake . PUBLISHED: . 05:48 EST, 22 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 01:04 EST, 23 April 2013 . When dinnertime arrives on the sun-scorched savannah of Kenya's Maasai Mara, you either fight for your life or your livelihood... but it doesn't always go according to plan. As this incredible series of photographs show, there is one kind of free dinner that likes being free, and will fight hoof and tail to keep it that way. So when Malaika the cheetah tried to hunt down a young wildebeest, the plucky calf stood its ground and gave the predator a nasty surprise. Tables turned: As this incredible series of photographs show, there is one kind of free dinner that likes being free, and will fight hoof and tail to keep it that way . Charge: The cheetah dodges the wildebeest's horns as it lunges in the long grass . Easy target? The wildebeest calf was slightly slower than the rest of the adult wildebeest and looked like an easy target . The images, taken by British photographer Manoj Shah, show the wildebeest fought back sending the cheetah running from its horns. The cheetah - named Malaika by local guides - had been tracked for several days by Manoj's party studying her hunting habits. Manoj said: 'The cheetah mother Malaika had to hunt every day or two to feed herself and the fast growing cub. 'I was taking her pictures as she was . seated with the cub on a termite mound. By being on top of the mound the . cheetah could scan the vast savanna grassland and easily spot any prey. Attack: Moving at top speed, the cheetah caught up with the wildebeest calf and put her front two feet on the wildebeests back, trying to bring it down . Hanging on: She tried to hold on to the wildebeest as it thrashed about trying to break free . Ferocious: The young wildebeest turns, dips its horns and charges at the unsuspecting cheetah in a last-ditch bid to save its own life . 'This was necessary because the grass . was taller than the cheetah's height and therefore she had to be taller . than the grass by climbing on top of a mound. 'While . on the mound, the cheetah - with a much more powerful eyesight than . humans - noticed a line of wildebeest moving across the grassland. I was . using binoculars all the time. 'She . quickly left the cub on the mound and started walking fast to the line . of the wildebeest. Her walk turned into a fast sprint at at approximate . distance of 100 metres from the wildebeest group.' Tussle: An almighty tussle broke out between the two as the wildebeest fought for its life and the cheetah its livelihood . Wild frenzy: The pair circled each other, locked in battle, as - for a brief moment - the hunted became the hunter . Victory: Incredibly, the cheetah ends up giving up the chase and running away . Manoj said the cheetah quickly singled out a potential target. He said: 'Cheetahs are known to reach a speed of about 100 kmph in a few seconds. 'The wildebeest started running on . spotting the fast encroaching cheetah. The wildebeest calf was slightly . slower than the rest of the adult wildebeest and became an easy target. 'Moving . at top speed, the cheetah caught up with the wildebeest calf and put . her front two feet on the wildebeests back, trying to bring it down. Snapper: The pictures were taken by British photographer Manoj Shah who had been tracking the cheetah for several days, studying her hunting habits . Majestic: Shah was taking her pictures as she was seated with the cub on a termite mound. By being on top of the mound the cheetah could scan the vast savanna grassland and easily spot any prey . 'But the wildebeest calf was brave and a strong fighter. It could not be brought down but instead it turned to face the cheetah, throwing off the cheetah on the ground. 'The wildebeest calf then charged with its horns and the scared the cheetah ran off. Being at a slight disadvantage the cheetah did not want to get injured as her cub was totally dependent on her hunting skills. So she let the wildebeest go.' | The series of photographs were taken by British photographer Manoj Shah in Kenya's Maasai Mara .
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- Dataset: cnn_dailymail
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