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Webber breaks leg in bike crash
Formula One driver Mark Webber breaks his right leg after colliding with a car while riding his bike at a charity event in Tasmania.
2008-11-22 06:00:00
Event remembers World War heroine
The life of a World War II heroine, who was executed by the Gestapo, is marked with a weekend of events at Leeds' Royal Armouries.
2008-11-22 04:02:07
Squaw Valley Institute and Warren Miller presented 'A Toast Tahoe Skiing'
Lights, camera, music and lots of action! The Resort at Squaw Creek was the spot to be last Saturday night as the Squaw Valley Institute hosted its first ever "A Toast to Tahoe Skiing" event.
2008-11-22 03:16:12
UN body concerned over widespread torture allegations in China
Geneva, Nov 22 ANI: A UN body has expressed deep concern over allegations of widespread torture in China, and called on that country to fully probe rights abuses. The United Nations Committee Against Torture, meeting in Geneva, also revisited the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, urging the government to grant reparations and investigate the crackdown, The News reported. "The committee remains deeply concerned about the continued allegations, corroborated by numerous Chinese legal sources, of routine and widespread use of torture and ill treatment of suspects in police custody, especially to extract confessions or information to be used in criminal proceedings," it said in a report. The committee also criticised China's handling of its relations with the Tibetan Autonomous Region, noting there had been "longstanding reports of torture, beatings, shackling and other abusive treatment, in particular of Tibetan monks and nuns." Regarding the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown, the committee said China "should conduct a full and impartial investigation" of the events. It added that Chinese authorities should "provide information on the persons who are still detained from that period" as well as "offer apologies and reparation as appropriate and prosecute those found responsible for excessive use of force, torture and other ill treatment."Earlier this month, the committee's chief rapporteur Felice Gaer had accused the Chinese of not providing sufficient information. ANI
2008-11-22 03:00:00
Pak called a wild card in US intelligence report
Washington, Nov 22 ANI: The National Intelligence Council, an independent US Government body, has called Pakistan a 'wild card', whose northwestern territories will remain "poorly governed", as cross-border activities continue to cause instability in nearby areas of Afghanistan.The Global Trends reports, produced every four years by the National Intelligence Council, represents all 16 American intelligence agencies, in part to inform long-term thinking by new administrations. The reports project various possible sequences of events in the future; the new publication notes, between dire forecasts, that "bad outcomes are not inevitable."According to a report - Global Trends 2025 -Afghanistan will remain an essentially tribally centred nation facing continual conflict. The future of Iraq does not look much better, the Daily Times reported. China, however, is projected to emerge as the world's second strongest economic power after the United States, while the latter will have "less power in a multipolar world than it has enjoyed for many decades". Russia has the potential to be richer and more powerful, but only if it expands and diversifies its economy, predicts the report. US economic and political clout will decline over the next two decades and the world will be more dangerous, with food and water scarce and advanced weapons plentiful, the report projected. The outlook is intended to inform US president-elect Barack Obama of factors that will influence global events. It is based on a year-long global survey of experts and trends by US intelligence analysts. Thomas Fingar, chairman of the intelligence council and deputy national director of intelligence for analysis, said harmful outcomes were not inevitable. "It is not beyond the mind of human beings, or political systems, or in some cases the working of market mechanisms to address and alleviate if not solve these problems," Fingar told reporters. "We could have a better world in 2025." ANI
2008-11-22 03:00:00
Sienna Miller wins xA353k payout in paparazzi court battle
London, Nov 22 ANI: Sienna Miller has won 53,000 pounds in damages from a photo agency over claims of "intolerable" campaign by pursuing paparazzi.According to TimesOnline, the 26-year-old actress claimed that her life had been made "intolerable" by snappers as they were intruding into her privacy and pursuing her across the world.The stunner had sued agency Big Pictures UK Limited and its founder Darryn Lyons, who have agreed to pay her 37,000 pounds in damages and her legal costs.The case was due to be tried at London's High Court on January 19 but her counsel, David Sherborne, told Justice Eady that the two sides had come to terms.The agreement included detailed undertakings not to pursue or follow the actress, or to doorstep her at her home or that of her family.The actress' lawyer Mark Thomson, from Carter-Ruck, said the settlement and the undertakings may have important repercussions for other paparazzi and well-known figures. "It's not a binding court ruling but it may well encourage other celebrities and those followed in such a way to take action. We hope that people will back off my client as a result of this," Thomson said.Under the terms of the High Court order, Big Pictures pledged that its photographers would not pursue or follow Miller by car, motorcycle or moped, or "any means howsoever", or place her under surveillance. Miller agreed that she would not have any such reasonable expectation when she was entering or exiting a bar, restaurant or nightclub, was on a public footpath or highway - and not visibly upset or distressed - or attending a "red carpet" event. ANI
2008-11-22 03:00:28
Scientists produce first crude map of aurorae on Mars
Paris, Nov 22 ANI: Scientists have used the European Space Agency's ESA's Mars Express to produce the first crude map of aurorae on Mars, which are a powerful tool with which scientists can investigate the composition and structure of the Red Planet's atmosphere.The aurorae on Mars were discovered in 2004 using the SPICAM ultraviolet and infrared atmospheric spectrometer on board Mars Express. These displays of ultraviolet light appear to be located close to the residual magnetic fields generated by crustal rocks on Mars. They highlight a number of mysteries about the way Mars interacts with electrically charged particles originating from the Sun.Now, Francois Leblanc, from the Service d'Aeronomie, IPSL/CNRS, France and colleagues have announced the results of coordinated observation campaigns using SPICAM, the MARSIS sub-surface sounding radar altimeter's radar, and the energetic neutral atoms analyser, ASPERA's electron spectrometer on Mars Express.They have observed nine new auroral emission events, which have allowed them to make the first crude map of auroral activity on Mars. According to the researchers, the aurorae seem to be located near regions where the martian magnetic field is the strongest. This suggests, although it does not prove, that the magnetic fields help to create the aurorae.On Earth, aurorae are more commonly known as the northern and southern lights. They are confined to the polar regions and shine brightly at visible as well as ultraviolet wavelengths. The existence of similar aurorae is well known on the giant planets of the Solar System. They occur wherever a planet's magnetic field channels electrically charged particles into the atmosphere.The aurorae are caused by charged particles, in this case most probably electrons, colliding with molecules in the atmosphere. The electrons almost certainly come from the Sun, which constantly blows out electrically charged particles into space. Known as the solar wind, this constant stream of particles provides the source of electrons to generate the aurorae, as suggested by MARSIS and ASPERA.But how the electrons are accelerated to sufficiently high energies to spark aurorae on Mars remains a mystery. "It may be that magnetic fields on Mars connect with the solar wind, providing a road for the electrons to travel along," said Leblanc."There's now a large domain of physics that we have to explore in order to understand the aurorae on Mars. Thanks to Mars Express we have a lot of very good measurements to work with," he added. ANI
2008-11-22 03:00:00
2012 Olympics basketball venue to remain
Olympic organisers opt not to move the basketball and equestrian events but may re-site venues for badminton, handball and rhythmic gymnastics.
2008-11-20 01:00:00
Basketball stays in Olympic Park
The basketball event at the 2012 Games in London will not be moved away from the Olympic Park, it is announced.
2008-11-19 14:08:11
Rhys accused denies 'gang' call
A man denies starting the chain of events that led to the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones in Liverpool.
2008-11-19 12:15:07