Inter Milan 2 Chelsea 1: match report

By Henry Winter Published: 7:15AM GMT twenty-five February 2010

Crunch goal: Esteban Cambiasso celebrates his winning set upon opposite Chelsea Photo: REUTERS

Chelsea felt the unpleasant feverishness of an old fire last night. Jose Mourinho masterminded a first-leg feat over his former group last night, nonetheless Chelsea returned home anticipating that Salomon Kalous afar idea proves the special one.

Kalous deserved set upon came in in in between goals from Diego Milito and Esteban Cambiasso in a fanciful diversion full of unconditional moves. All the speak of a heedful initial leg, of counsel and overload reigning, left in a fuzz of black-and-blue transformation on the representation and plumes of fume on the terraces.

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Even prior to Militos third-minute intervention, San Siro was jolt in the low foundations, following the fans mass pogo in the rave to a initial alarm that usually the arbitrate and maybe a integrate of players could presumably have heard. The sound never ebbed.

No wonder. Two great teams went for glory, the pacesetters of Serie A and the Premier League laying on a enchanting spectacle, entertainment a sporting show fit for La Scala of Italian football. A throng of 78,971 relished this football of the old school, of the schoolyard even: you attack, we attack.

Overlapping left-backs set the buccaneering tone. Florent Malouda, reprising a purpose he initial over for Lyons opposite Mourinhos Porto 6 years ago, kept attack forward. The peerless, time-honoured Javier Zanetti, evidently in counterclaim for Inter, likewise outlayed most of the compare in his opponents back-yard.

No entertain was asked, nor given. Didier Drogba became inextricable in a extensive throw with Walter Samuel, one of those imperishable Argentine defenders who could get a yellow label practising the Tango. Challenges flew in all over, Thiago Motta cautioned for a feet up on Michael Ballack that was roughly a back back yard up.

Despite losing, Chelsea played well. The stats suggested that. Carlo Ancelottis players available eight shots on aim to 3 by Mourinhos.

Chelsea forced 3 corners to the hosts none, even enjoying 56 per cent possession. But Inter had a goalkeeper in Julio Cesar, who was jaunty rebuttal personified. For a man who had usually crashed his Lamborghini, the Brazilian achieved with worthy sangfroid. He finished usually one mistake.

The compound for a classical confront was illuminated by Inter, overwhelming Chelsea with the speed and threat of their initial surge. It was a lightning set upon in each sense, Mourinhos men racing down the inside-left channel, the round issuing from Zanetti to Thiago Motta to Samuel Etoo. When Wesley Sneijder dummied, the round one after another merrily towards Milito, whose eluding of John Terry was masterful. An Argentinian called Diego artfully dodging an England defender in World Cup year? Weve been here before.

Shifting weight from left feet to right, Milito expertly sent Terry the wrong way, creation a back back yard of space prior to anticipating the opening in in in between Petr Cech and the keepers right-hand upright. Only one chairman with Inter connectors unsuccessful to celebrate. Mourinho sat quiescent in the home dug-out, his face as intractable as a chunk of the internal granite. Respect for his former players? Possibly. He additionally gimlet the see of somebody who felt he had scripted this.

San Siro dissolved in delight, quite when the cameras panned onto the pained facilities of Ancelotti, before of AC Milan. Another past valet of Rossoneri fortunes, Fabio Capello, who had jetted in from Johannesburg, cannot have been tender by the proceed Terry was held out.

Terry rallied his team, Frank Lampard began motoring forward, Malouda was constant in his transformation upfield whilst Nicolas Anelka shuttled busily in in in between midfield and the front. Chelsea refused to be daunted by the scoreline or the setting. Drogba unleashed a howling free-kick that roughly splintered the Inter crossbar. Julio Cesar retained a Drogba shot and a Ballack drive.

The diversion kept unconditional from finish to end, Milito shortly requisitioned for diving. Back came Chelsea, Drogba volleying wide. Back came Inter. This was mesmerising, Lucio, personification the pass of the night, an off-balance, crossfield ball, found Sneijder in space on the left. Inters No 10 drilled in a cranky that deserved far improved than a fluffed reply from Eto.

Sadly, a smashing half accomplished in controversy. Kalou was obviously brought down by Samuel but Manuel Mejuto Gonzalez ludicrously waved fool around on. The Spanish arbitrate who oversaw Ancelottis misfortune impulse in management, the 2005 Champions League last better to Liverpool, had undone him again.

"It looked similar to a penalty, noticed Ray Wilkins, Ancelottis assistant, frequency a man since to stoking the fires of controversy. Justice was finished 6 mins in to the second period, Chelsea deservedly equalising.

How wise that it should be Kalou swooping, carrying been so rigourously denied by Mejuto Gonzalez.

How suitable that the idea should be combined by a violent full-back, reflecting the gung-ho proceed of both sides. Branislav Ivanovic charged 50 yards, in the future slipping but handling to slip the round to Kalou as he fell. The Ivory Coast international, vindicating Ancelottis preference to replace the off-key Joe Cole, met the round initial time, pushing it past Julio Cesar. For once, the Brazilian faltered, nonetheless he saw the deflected shot late.

Inter shrugged off the mishap, display their essential element and category underneath Mourinho, reclaiming the lead inside of 4 minutes. Sneijder, who has turn such a force underneath Mourinho, finished the goal, light in a cranky from the left. Ricardo Carvalho managed to head the risk transparent but usually to Cambiasso, whose initial shot strike Terry. His second was deadly, the round speeding past Cech.

Chelseas screw afterwards fell awkwardly catching a cross, vacating on a bracket to the sympathetic, sporting acclaim of the home tifosi. At the last whistle, Inter fans distinguished as if they had reached the last eight. Chelsea will have alternative ideas at the Bridge. Its as well close to call.

The forces of hell: Charlie Whelan and Damian McBride

By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent Published: 10:00PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Mr Whelan and Mr McBride have a good understanding in common. Both are undoubtedly constant to Gordon Brown and have modernized his bulletin forcefully in exchange with reporters and politicians alike. And both had to renounce from Mr Browns use among domestic controversy.

Like majority domestic spin-doctors, the dual took a no-holds-barred proceed to politics, as peaceful to conflict associate Labour members generally allies of Tony Blair as the Conservative opposition.

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That ruthlessness done both men greatly without a friend with majority colleagues. But their efficacy swayed Mr Brown, so majority so that he still has links with one of his ashamed operatives, Mr Whelan.

Mr Whelan grew up in Surrey and attended a in isolation school, but affects the glottal stops and football-obsessive mannerisms that heed so majority middle-class Labour apparatchiks.

After operative as a kinship official, he became Mr Browns orator in 1992 and accompanied him in to Government in 1997.

In the autumn of 1997, he became scandalous for lecture reporters around a mobile phone from the Red Lion beer hall in Westminster that discordant to Tony Blairs goal Britain would not stick on the European Monetary Union.

His contingent rain came in Jan 1999 when he was blamed for leaking inform about Peter Mandelsons debt arrangements, leaks that led to Lord Mandelsons initial ministerial resignation.

After a spell in the wilderness, in 2007, prior to long after Mr Brown became Prime Minister, Mr Whelan became "political director" of Unite, the countrys greatest traffic kinship and a vital monetary donor to Labour.

Precisely what he does for the kinship is unclear, and a little of his time appears to be outlayed behaving as an unaccepted help and confidant to Mr Brown.

According to Andrew Rawnsleys The End of the Party, Mr Whelan in 2008 plainly speedy reporters to inform that Mr Darlings pursuit was on the line. On Wednesday, he posted a summary on the Twitter website suggesting he was the plant of "smears."

Today, Mr Whelan is a unchanging caller to both No 10 and the House of Commons, where he can mostly be found in one of the multiform bars in the Palace of Westminster.

Mr McBride, by contrast, has dead from the Westminster stage.

He quiescent as Mr Browns domestic confidant last Apr after he was suggested to have helped issue a tract to allegation comparison Tories and their wives around an arms-length website, a tract Mr Brown has denied all believe of.

Raised in north London, Mr McBride attended a state propagandize prior to going on to Cambridge University, where he took a postgraduate grade in domestic history. He afterwards assimilated the Treasury as on the polite use fast-track.

A destiny as a mandarin beckoned, but Mr McBrides polite use career finished in 2005, interjection to his overzealous await for Mr Brown. As the then-Chancellors press secretary, Mr McBride crossed the line from domestic objectivity in to partisanship, lecture reporters with attacks on the Conservatives.

Sir Gus ODonnell, right away the Cabinet Secretary, told Mr Brown that Mr McBride could not sojourn a polite servant, so Mr Brown rehired him as a special adviser, means to rivet in narrow-minded domestic warfare.

In that role, he became both one of Mr Browns majority devoted aides and a hugely divisive figure, blamed not regularly rightly for planting disastrous media stories about ministers and their career prospects underneath Mr Brown.

Now operative at his old propagandize in north London, Mr McBride told BBC Radio Five Live on Wednesday: "The thought of me lecture opposite Alistair Darling is all wrong."

Sir Gus ODonnell: I did tell Gordon Brown to be nice to officials

By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent Published: 10:00PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Sir Gus O"Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary Photo: DAVID ROSE

Sir Gus ODonnell pronounced he had told the Prime Minister that he indispensable to be certain and understanding towards his officials.

He done the acknowledgment as Mr Brown faced uninformed questions over his diagnosis of colleagues after Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, indicted No 10 aides undermining him and unleasing the "forces of hell" opposite him.

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Mr Brown is underneath vigour over his control in the arise of claims done in a book by Andrew Rawnsley, a domestic commentator.

Mr Rawnsley reported that Sir Gus had since the Prime Minister "a pep talk" about his family with officials among regard in No 10 that Mr Browns indignant outbursts had left most staff "bruised" and demoralised.

Questioned by MPs, Sir Gus denied notice the Prime Minister about his behaviour. But certified he had speedy Mr Brown to be certain and understanding to polite servants.

"I didnt speak to him about behaviour. I talked to him about how to get the most appropriate out of his staff," he said. "I pronounced to the Prime Minister You unequivocally get the most appropriate out of your staff when you honour them for unequivocally great pieces of work"."

He said: "I have a point when I plead with him of observant It is unequivocally critical that you show your await to the Civil Service."

Sir Gus refused to contend if he had discussed the make a difference with Mr Rawnsley.

The Daily suggested that Jeremy Heywood, the comparison polite menial in Mr Browns office, had cooking with Mr Rawnsley in September.

Downing Street reliable the meeting, but insisted that Mr Heywood had not discussed Mr Browns behaviour.

The book additionally reported that dual aides to Mr Brown, Charlie Whelan and Damian McBride, attempted to criticise Mr Darling in 2008 after he likely the UK faced the misfortune mercantile downturn for 60 years.

Mr Darling himself permitted that inform on Monday night, accusing Downing Street of "unleashing the forces of hell" opposite him and confirming he believed Mr Whelan and Mr McBride planted journal stories suggesting he was to be sacked.

Both Mr Whelan and Mr McBride have denied lecture opposite Mr Darling.

Sir Gus refused to contend if he had ever perceived complaints about the poise of Mr Whelan and Mr McBride, saying: "Im not going to get in to particular complaints."

The Prime Minister and the Chancellor hold a in isolation assembly to "clear the air" yesterday morning, and in a show of unity, Mr Darling was at Mr Browns side in the Commons during Prime Ministers Questions.

In the Commons, David Cameron, the Tory leader, regularly challenged Mr Brown over either he certified his aides to short opposite the Chancellor.

Mr Brown said: "I never educated a lecture opposite the Chancellor".

Amid Tory shouts of derision, he added: "The Chancellor has been right on each issue of mercantile process over the last dual years."

Despite the protestations of harmony, Government sources pronounced Mr Brown and Darling sojourn deeply widely separated about mercantile and domestic strategy.

The simmering row focuses on preparations for the Budget subsequent month and Labours ubiquitous choosing campaign.

The Treasury is secretly assured that sum borrowing for the year will be less than the �178 billion it has forecast, mostly since stagnation is reduce than feared.

Officials pronounced that could give ministers "a couple of billion pounds" to allot in the Budget.

Mr Brown has signalled any additional income could go to open spending, widening the contrariety with the Conservatives plan for early cuts.

But Mr Darling is accepted to hold that Labour should be straightforward with electorate about the need to cut spending eventually. He wants any additional income to be used on shortening the Governments deficit.

Labour has pushed us to the brink of a blackout

By Benedict Brogan Published: 8:12PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

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Will the Tories see the light? Photo: Getty

The tellurian warming playground has hammered the CO footprint on Bali, where tonight, at the back of sealed doors, Dr Rajendra Pachauri will beg for his job. It is misleading possibly the greatest entertainment of sourroundings ministers given the Copenhagen limit will have the bravery to pull the on foot difficulty who heads the UN"s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in to station down, though it should. His credit has been shredded, and he right away resorts to relating the pale abuse hurled at him by his enemies. Recently, he voiced a enterprise to allegation their faces with asbestos.

The violence of the discuss in between an mostly sly systematic investiture and the insurgents who reject the orthodoxies about man"s purpose in whatever it is that is function to the world is perplexing the calm of electorate and readers of this journal who are confused or hurt (or both) by the lectures they get from each side. The full of health questioning that should be at the base of any systematic discuss is being transposed by a erosive disregard for scientists and governments. This week, an Ipsos Mori check found that the series who contend that meridian shift is "definitely" a hazard has depressed from 44 per cent to 31 per cent over the past year. Now, only one in five accepts that tellurian warming is caused by man pumping CO in to the ambience that is given ministers might well confirm the time has come to entice Dr Pachauri to lapse to his commercial operation interests.

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Yet this brawl is in risk of obscuring a far some-more evident hazard to the bland existence, that will affect not only destiny generations, but each family in Britain today. Forget tellurian warming the some-more dire complaint is that the lights are about to go out. Look at the projections, and you will see given Ed Miliband, the Cabinet apportion obliged for appetite (there have been eight given 1997), should be up at night worrying. Over the subsequent 7 years, all the assumptions about where the appetite comes from will be overturned.

Five years ago, Britain became a net importer of hoary fuels. The lassitude of North Sea oil and gas equates to that we are depending increasingly on unfamiliar supplies. In 2000, we alien only one per cent of the healthy gas supplies; right away it"s scarcely half, and the National Grid expects it will reach 70 per cent by 2018. On Tuesday, Oil & Gas UK, that represents the industry, released a notice that but some-more investment in the North Sea, the grant towards the appetite needs will go on to dwindle.

At the same time, generating genius is set to dump off sharply, as ageing coal, gas and chief appetite stations are taken out of service. As so often, Europe is personification the part, in the figure of the EU Large Combustion Plant directive, that says that they should be spotless up at immeasurable cost or closed. The Government admits that by 2020 the lost genius will be immeasurable 22.5 gigawatts, or roughly a third of the sum requirements. The graphs show that if no movement is taken, the appetite supply will go downhill faster than Amy Williams at Vancouver.

And what should be concerned us all far some-more than the shenanigans in Bali is how small the benefaction Government has finished to residence the appearing blackout. It has stranded to a process written for an age of plenty, when what is indispensable is one to understanding with the insecurities of the 21st century. How, for example, should we strengthen ourselves opposite the awaiting of rising oil prices at a time when mercantile expansion elsewhere will expostulate up direct for ever scarcer supplies? How do we protection opposite made at home instability abroad? When Russia tightened the daub on the healthy gas pipelines last year in a brawl with Ukraine, Britain suffered, given we are at the alternative finish of that network and have far not as big stockpiles than the European counterparts. Argentina"s sabre-rattling over oil scrutiny in the Falklands might be laughable today, but what about a nuclear-armed Iran blockading the Strait of Hormuz, by that most of the world"s oil reserve contingency pass?

Last year, the Government certified that by 2017, direct will at times surpass supply, and that we could design the initial appetite outages given the rationing of the 1970s. That would meant up to sixteen million households sitting in the dim for an hour. Charts from Mr Miliband"s own dialect show that the incident will be even worse a decade later. Yet the industry complains with fact that Labour has finished nothing. It dragged the feet on nuclear, has finished zero to broach on purify spark technology, and has set targets for renewables that insiders contend secretly are pristine fantasy.

In the entrance days, the Conservatives will tell a Green Paper sourroundings out their plans to deliver an appetite process that could fill this vacuum. Greg Clark, their spokesman, proposes a process that is still market-led, but made by a supervision peaceful to give a lead. He is even rebuilt to prerogative firms for guaranteeing a rock-solid supply of power, and is toying with income subsidies, something that might dishearten the purists, who are questionable of anything that smacks of a Heseltine-type industrial policy.

Mr Clark describes what he is charity as "prudential oversight" of the market. But where his arguments over appetite security have genuine force is in the distinctness they suggest to those incited off by the meridian shift debate. Energy security or the miss of it is where those on possibly side of the discuss can find usual ground. And it is an issue that Conservatives can have their own. Whatever your doubts about tellurian warming, stressing the need for sustainability and arguable supply speaks to normal Tory concerns about stewardship of the healthy sourroundings and the inhabitant interest. You do not need to hold in meridian shift to determine that despoiling inlet is a bad thing, or that identifying and securing arguable reserve of the appetite we need to fuel the every day lives is a budding avocation of government.

It is Conservative, too, to wish to revoke the cost of energy. The normal made at home appetite check of about �1,200 a year matches what a family pays in legislature tax. If we are rapt by the relentless climb in how most we flare out to internal authorities, shouldn"t we rise the same regard about the appetite companies? And it is similarly Conservative to ask how we, as a country, are going to consequence a vital in this new age of austerity. If the City has been strangled, afterwards the new limit of cleanser record should not be left to the Chinese.

In 1990, Margaret Thatcher urged us to "remember the avocation to inlet prior to it is as well late. That avocation is constant. It is never completed… Many of the precautionary actions that we need to take would be essential in any event. It is essential to urge appetite potency and make use of appetite prudently."

We face a appearing predicament that has inevitable parallels with the promissory note mess that scarcely brought the world"s income complement to a halt. Just as income machines scarcely stopped giving out cash, so we face a time when no physical phenomenon will come out of the socket. Unless the subsequent supervision takes rapid, wilful and far-sighted action, the outcome will be catastrophic. As with the banks, we can see the mess coming. Energy is as well big to fail.

Shakhtar Donetsk v Fulham: club can be proud win or lose says Roy Hodgson

By John Ley in Donetsk Published: 6:46PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Great run: Fulham physical education instructor Roy Hodgson (left) and Shakhtar Donetsk physical education instructor Mircea Lucescu Photo: PA

Fulham lead 2-1 from the initial leg opposite Uefa Cup holders Shakhtar Donetsk can reach the last sixteen of the tournament.

Hodgson said: "Its an huge walk to get here, it was an huge scalp to kick the reigning champions and it has been huge for the bar to take scalps similar to Roma, Basle, CSKA Sofia, so we have valid we have come along way.

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"If we get a outcome it will be fantastic, but if we dont get a outcome it will have been a smashing experience and helped enlarge the status of the bar amongst people in England.

"Sooner or after we might come up opposite a group who could kick us, we idea it wouldnt occur tomorrow night.

"As a physical education instructor you shouldnt be seeking to have history, you should be seeking to do a great job. We will suffer this diversion in a illusory locus and opposite a extensive team. But it wouldnt have or mangle the feeling I have for Fulham FC."

Hodgson is but the harmed Paul Konchesky, Clint Dempsey, Andrew Johnson, John Pantsil and Kagisho Dokgacoi whilst Nicky Shorey and Stefano Okacha are cup-tied.

He added: "We are assured well give them a great diversion after we gave them a great diversion at Craven Cottage. We have a lot of apply oneself for them as a football team.

"We know how dangerous we can be, we dont miss confidence, but we are not pang from over confidence. We will have to fool around well."

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A profitable afar idea and he added: "Playing for draws is regularly a formidable thing to do since you automatically give the value to the alternative team.

"We unequivocally wish to fool around them and to compare them in their fool around and that equates to aggressive rather than defending.

"Everything we do is to hope for to do well and formed on when we get the round means them the problems.

"An afar idea is utilitarian in matches; by scoring an afar idea to have the charge easier. But they still need to win the diversion and I dont think they will blink us.

"It is good to have an value but it is a slim value and we are awaiting an assault from Shakhtar."

Fulham will fool around in the 51,000, $400m Donbass Arena built to for the 2012 European Championship finals and Hodgson was impressed, adding: "The track is utterly outstanding, a pretentious place. It bodes well for the European Championship finals."

Yahoo! signs real-time search and integration deal with Twitter

By Emma Barnett, Technology and Digital Media Correspondent Published: 6:23PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Yahoo!"s understanding with Twitter goes offer than the microblogging service"s partnerships with the likes of Google and Bing.

The poke side of the partnership is really identical to prior deals Twitter has sealed with Google and Microsofts Bing. Yahoo!"s poke engine has already proposed indexing tweets in a bid to have the use offer faster and some-more timely formula a move done by Google at the finish of last year.

However, what is opposite to the Google and Microsoft deals with the microblogging service, is that Yahoo! has effectively done itself a Twitter client, as Yahoo! users will be means to twitter from mixed locations opposite Yahoo!s products. It is different how this will be carried out at this stage. There is a probability it could occur around widgets.

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The partnership additionally concede Yahoo! users to entrance their Twitter feed around the companys email service, the homepage and around the calm verticals such as Yahoo! Finance.

"Were branch the key to the online amicable star - you will find the majority privately applicable practice by Yahoo!," pronounced Bryan Lamkin, comparison clamp president, consumer products group, Yahoo! "Were additionally simplifying peoples lives by bringing their amicable worlds - and the universe -- together for easy access."

Twitter"s co-founder, Biz Stone added: "The report in one singular twitter can transport light-years over with this Yahoo! integration. Tweets in some-more places brings aptitude where and when you need it most."

The poke formation has already left live with the alternative integrations approaching to launch after this year.

It is not well well known either income exchanged hands in between the dual parties, but Google is believed to have paid stand in number millions when it sealed the real-time poke understanding with Twitter.

The headlines follows closely at the back of the proclamation that Microsoft and Yahoo!"s poke understanding was postulated the immature light by the US and European regulators, as it was not deemed anti-competitive.

Last year, Yahoo! done the initial stairs toward together with real-time poke formula when it sealed a understanding with OneRiot. It is not nonetheless well well known what how this understanding affects that arrangement. OneRiot was taken to comment.

Turkish officers charged over coup plot

By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Published: 4:58PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

More than fifty former officers, together with a emissary arch of the armed forces and the ex-heads of the air force and navy, have been hold in tie with the "Sledgehammer" tract to overthrow the Islamist supervision of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The tract was suggested last month in papers leaked to the Taraf newspaper, that claimed they antiquated from 2003 and contained inner armed forces plans to theatre a coup.

The municipal justice in Istanbul remanded 4 admirals, an armed forces ubiquitous and dual staff colonels tentative a trial. Speculation mounted that some-more arrests could embody the former armed forces chief, who led a manoeuvre opposite the supervision in 1980.

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As tensions rose in between the supervision and the armed forces, the country"s tip generals and admirals met on Tuesday to weigh the "serious situation", a troops orator said.

Later on Wednesday, the bureau of Abdullah Gul, Turkeys president, pronounced he would encounter on Thursday sunrise with the budding apportion and the armed forces chief, merging slight apart talks.

Experts on Turkey pronounced Mr Erdogan is winning the conflict of wills with the military, but that the altogether result was that the recognition of his celebration was declining.

"The supervision is pulling this manoeuvre tract to criticise the station of the military," pronounced Fadi Hakura from the Chatham House think tank. "But nonetheless it seems to be winning the battles, it is not winning the fight given it is saying a solid wearing away of the recognition between the people."

Turkey"s military, that views itself as the owner of the state, has dismissed 4 governments given 1960 but conditions of European Union membership negotiations has left it small range to overthrow inaugurated politicians.

After decades of unquestioned troops supremacy, the steer of comparison troops leaders who are ordinarily addressed with the Ottoman-era pretension of pasha handcuffed and confronting the courts is a sheer annulment of fortune.

Although the statute AK Party enjoys a large infancy and elections are not due until subsequent year, the doubt took a fee on the markets with the Lira and markets recording a third day of losses.

The Islamic roots of the AK Party have captivated the feeling of the Turkish investiture ever given it was inaugurated in 2002. The celebration is intensely renouned and portrays itself as a modernising force in Turkish politics. But the opponents fright that AK habours a tip plan to renovate Turkey in to an Islamic state. Critics forked out that some-more than 17,000 bars offered ethanol have sealed given it came to power.

Gen Yaşar Büyükanıt, a former arch of staff, certified on Wednesday that he had intervened in the last presidential choosing in 2007 to remind politicians of the military"s "commitment to secularism."

Jeff Bridges interview: songs in the key of Oscar

By Marc Lee Published: 5:34PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

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Its a bit of a clich to contend of a quite absolute opening that the actress "inhabits" the role, that he "is" that impression up there on the big screen. But, in his new strike movie, that has done him prime for the Best Actor Oscar, Jeff Bridges is so definitely credible as a nation thespian that he unequivocally has turn one.

Crazy Heart facilities a small good onstage performances from Bridges. Theres an irritable rawness, an flawlessness about them, as if hes indeed sketch on a lifetime of lost love and difficult breaks ("I used to be somebody, right away Im somebody else," he reflects ruefully in one song). And his piece for one person marks are the highlights of the concomitant soundtrack album.

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In the movie, Bridges plays Bad Blake, a thespian once on the verge of stardom who is right away in his late fifties and marked down to personification bars and bowling alleys in parochial Texas. His usually analgesic opposite grave being is a every day overdose of Jack Daniels, until a light comes in to his hold up in the figure of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a publisher and struggling singular mom half his age.

When I ask Jeff Bridges either he had to dig low in to his own essence to have Bad come alive as a character, he dismisses the thought that that sort of thing is necessary: the all about the "magic trick" of acting, he says, and the approach your associate actors assistance to lift your diversion ("Maggie was only smashing to work with").

But there is no evading the approach Bridges has once some-more called on his gifted middle musician, only as he did in The Fabulous Baker Boys, that he done with his brother, Beau, and Michelle Pfeiffer at the back of in 1989 nonetheless lustful memories of that movie primarily put him off this ultimate project.

"[Crazy Heart] was a smashing script, a good story," he says, "but the club had already been set flattering high as far as creation movies about a musicians hold up with The Fabulous Baker Boys."

In that movie, Bridges plays a shining jazz pianist who has deserted the song he loves to have a vital with his hermit (played by Beau) as a piano-playing twin in the soulless bubbly beverage lounges of Seattle. Though the Bridges boys are fanciful together, it has to be pronounced that the majority noted impulse belongs to Pfeiffer as she covers herself opposite a piano to secrete a show-stopping version of Makin Whoopee.

"I had a good time creation that movie," says Bridges now. "It had such smashing song all those cocktail and jazz classics. And on Crazy Heart, whilst the book was great, [in the early stages] there was no song trustworthy to it, so I took a pass on it. But then, about a year later, my crony [the musician and songwriter] T-Bone Burnett pronounced he was meddlesome in you do the music, and I said, "Oh God, lets go! So a lot of the songs were created generally for me."

There are eight new songs on Crazy Heart, majority created by Burnett and five of them sung piece for one person by Bridges. There are additionally a handful of nation classics, such as Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way.

Bridges is so credible in the purpose of Bad partly given the movies director, Scott Cooper, approached the impression as if he had essentially existed.

"Scott pronounced that if Bad had been a genuine person, hed have been the fifth Highwayman. In the Eighties and Nineties they were this organisation of country-music icons Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. Scott pronounced Bad would have been the fifth one, that gives you a small thought of the standing of the man."

Burnett was additionally good at defining Bad. "He did a unequivocally smashing thing," says Bridges. "He gave me a relapse of the song Bad would have listened to flourishing up in Fort Worth, Texas, where T‑Bone grew up. It would have been Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen not only this slight [country music] thing. So Dylan was a purpose denote for me: I watched a small of his performances. And positively Kristofferson. I knew Kristofferson. I still know him: saw him not as well prolonged ago." Bridges obviously found the experience of creation song again in Crazy Heart a thrill: does that meant theres an additional manuscript in prospect?

"Yeah, Id similar to to do that," he says. "There was a total collection of good tunes that didnt have the movie, that were cut for one reason or an additional they only didnt offer the story right, or whatever. And theres a garland of alternative tunes Ive written."

Over a prolonged career, involving a extraordinary accumulation of roles, Bridges has determined himself as the coolest city slicker in Hollywood. Hes so laid back: it all looks so easy for him. But, come Oscar night on Mar 7, he admits hes going to be far from loose as he waits to sense either the assignment his fifth eventually snags him the desired Best Actor statuette.

"Can you suppose it?" he says, a slight restlessness in his voice. "Can you put yourself in that position? Its only odd. Its odd, the tense, and I dont similar to being tense, I dont similar to being anxious."

Not that he isnt gay to have been nominated. "To me, personally, the good to get the curtsy from the guys who do what I do. And it would be smashing to have that small bullion guy. That would be a cool thing. Id similar to that."

The movie has additionally captivated Oscar nominations for Best Original Song (The Weary Kind by Ryan Bingham) and Best Supporting Actress (Gyllenhaal). Bridges is unrestrained in his indebtedness for his co-star, but what did it feel similar to carrying an on‑screen event with a lady allied in age to his own daughters (he has three, innate in 1981, 83 and 85)?

"I thought about carrying a some-more age-appropriate relationship, but the story didnt lend itself to that somehow. It felt improved to be this way. As for how that felt well, I still think of myself as 25. I cant hold Im 60 years old! Come on!"

Its additionally tough to hold that the 38 years given his initial Oscar assignment for his purpose in Peter Bogdanovichs The Last Picture Show. Now, though, it seems that the approval of his peers might eventually be in sight.

The movement is at the at the back of of Bridges in the shutting stages of the race, quite given his feat last month at the Golden Globes mostly an denote that Oscar excellence lies ahead.

Youve been close on so most occasions, I say, how does it feel his time? Is he confident? "Well see, man," is all ruin contend in that evil saccharine drawl, prior to sauntering ever so coolly out of the room.

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Goldman Sachss mistake is its failure to understand the anger towards it

By Charles Ellis Published: 3:51PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Traders in the Goldman Sachs counter on the New York Stock Exchange

At Goldman, they contingency consternation because nobody seems to understand. Any play could have assimilated in creation urgently indispensable markets to keep the monetary complement from freezing. The profitability was there. But so were the risks, and majority dealers motionless the risks were as well great. But instead of praising Goldman for keeping markets open and functioning, we vilified them.

Goldman understandably takes good honour in the early approval of difficulty in sub-prime mortgages, the repositioning of the portfolios, the hedging of risks, and the navigation of uneasy waters. But the firm"s leaders afterwards have a consequential mistake. When politicians and the media demonstrate anger, they don"t get it.

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To assimilate because they don"t get it requires appreciating a core on all sides in the management"s thinking. It goes similar to this. Goldman functions for and with both buyers and sellers, it functions with business who are approach competitors to each other, and it takes value of the marketplace believe for the own account. If the organisation disagrees with a customer or organisation of customers, it believes it has no shortcoming to remonstrate the customer to accept the firm"s research or conclusion.

Goldman has left in usually 3 years from the world"s majority dignified bonds organisation to a tellurian pariah. For insiders, such a thespian shift seems unbelievable. As they know so well, Goldman is still Goldman. Same super-smart people, same prolonged days, same intensity, same concentration on teamwork, same joining to excellence.

Goldman with the conspicuous skills in risk management, the significance in all the world"s vital markets for securities, line and currencies, and the greatly rival enlightenment is the same dynamic, ever-adapting, unrelenting, blurb champion. Suddenly, though, it"s different.

As arch senior manager Lloyd Blankfein observed: "Government is right afar a larger risk cause than the markets." But zero he has ever experienced rebuilt him for how dangerous that risk would turn as open annoy mounted and the media and politicians played "sound punch gotcha" to gain on the snub and incite still more.

When something we devoted goes terribly wrong as the monetary system, housing, economy, and amicable compress have dramatically finished it"s usually human to see for causes alternative than ourselves.

Inside Goldman, though, management team know it was all a outrageous misunderstanding. So they attempted to explain. But domestic leaders weren"t meddlesome and could not assimilate the formidable technical explanations. They live in a universe that has to reply to open perception. No one was meddlesome in receiving the time to assimilate prolonged explanations.

It"s the same story on pay. Most Wall Street firms admit that a really small series of unusually equates to people are consequential to super profitability. Their names are known. Goldman and the alternative vital firms are in a using conflict with sidestep supports and promissory note boutiques for these superstars.

Outsized compensate packages and the freedoms offering by small firms are sketch afar some-more and some-more of the "necessary players". No consternation rumors flew last week that Goldman competence go private. Wouldn"t they love to get out of the open glare?

Goldman is trapped in a "failure to communicate" that has mistreat the open picture really really bad and has the intensity to do it critical domestic mistreat unless it learns how to master the media and open perspective dual worlds it has never indispensable to assimilate or understanding with. Goldman has a lot to learn.

Learning is zero new to the firm. But this time it is different. Managing risk equates to handling recognizable variables with comprehensible odds. When the variables and the contingency are both unknowable, it"s not risk but meta-uncertainty. Can Goldman figure out this new universe of open perspective and allege again to transparent leadership? Surely yes. But time is flitting whilst open feelings and perceptions accumulate.

It might already be as well late. The sheer headlines and indignant commentary, the President"s hostility, and the embedded clarity of sum misapplication have turn some-more genuine than any receptive being can overcome soon. As of now, Goldman still doesn"t get it. Let"s goal they figure it out. We need Goldman, and Goldman needs us.

Charles Ellis is writer of The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs

Why young people wont be voting Tory

Published: 2:15PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

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Of all the variable demographics raising their rootless heads over the past fortnight, the majority not asked are we younger voters. It stands to reason on the total we cant be worried to have it to the polls, being as well bustling you do some-more critical things similar to binge-drinking and deactivating the Facebook accounts.

Its a pity, given from an electoral viewpoint were an engaging bunch. Just cruise the experience of those innate after May 1987. This will be the initial ubiquitous choosing theyre authorised for. Yet given they incited 18, they have witnessed a little of the majority violent governing body in the past dual decades: the finish of the Iraq fiasco, the attainment of David Cameron, the passing of Tony Blair, the ascendance if this is the right word of Gordon Brown, and the thrust in to the misfortune retrogression given the 1930s.

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All this set opposite a credentials of meaningful no supervision alternative than the Labour one, in energy as prolonged as we have been politically aware. We do not recollect Thatcher, and we do not care. We do not recollect the last recession. We know usually the past Government. Like majority whove nonetheless to turn abounding and have their homes burgled, we lend towards to the Left. But the thought of Brown staying in assign creates majority of us wish to abet the predestine prophesised for us and burst in to the nearest wheelie bin to die from drugs. Piers Morgan reassured us that the Prime Minister was in actuality a human being, but this is not in itself a really severe gift for high office.

Yet David Cameron, sharp with PR oil, is roughly as unelectable. The polls crop up to be seeing this, finally, but weve been observant it for years. Aside from the actuality that nobody is less cool than somebody perplexing to be cool - that he regularly is, from the iPod to the feign cycling around the Converse trainers - theres simply something treasonable about him. This intrinsic reply is standard of immature people, and mostly correct. To allude to a friend, "he looks similar to hes regularly apologising for lying to you about something".

Though this disillusionment is far from new, it is frustrating that the Tories have finished roughly zero to pill the situation, given they have a little good intensity weapons for courtship the immature from their apathy.

Chief between these is Rory Stewart. Though his opening on Question Time last week had rags of good naivety job January Moirs Stephen Gately wickedness joke was a rookie blunder - he speaks from the heart, something that is frequency practised by his leader. His CV is already the things of legend. To inspect his wikipedia entrance the initial and mostly the last point of investigate for the underneath 25s is to consternation forlornly because your own hold up is so disappointing. Oxford, Black Watch, administrator of Iraq, prize-winning author, Harvard highbrow all by the age of 36. This is inspiring. It shows loyal leadership.

Among the alternative prospectives the Tories would do well to foster are Kwasi Kwarteng and Chris Philp dual radical possibilities with genuine success pre-politics. Of the seniors, William Hague is their most appropriate item lawful and kindly urbane, experienced but being sinister by the Palaeolithic, other-worldly offensiveness of Nicholas Winterton and chums. David Willetts views on the debt due to the younger era ought to get some-more of an airing too.

Its degrading that at a time where immature people face the greatest hurdles for a era anticipating jobs, removing on the skill ladder, ancillary an ageing, underfunded operative population, conjunction celebration has reached out to us. Where are the incentives, the university support, the assistance anticipating houses and jobs? Though in the run-up to an choosing it competence appear ridiculous to reach out to those who don"t vote, couple of issues are some-more divulgence than how a republic treats the youth. We recognize this much: Labour has got us here, but the Tories havent assured us they can get us out. Come on, Dave show us what you got.

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Published: 12:02PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Blogger rescues Chinese homeless

By an AFP contributor in Beijing Published: 12:19PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

A caller looks at crosses done from homes broken in the Sichuan trembler of 2008. Five million people were done homeless. Photo: AFP/Peter Parks

The 57-year-old late Chinese promotion senior manager has embraced the purpose given rescuing fourteen infirm people from the streets of Beijing, interjection in large piece to the energy of his blog.

In the winter of 2007, Zhang wrote on his website about the unfortunate vital conditions of those left at the behind of by China"s sepulchral mercantile expansion - the without a nation people he met on the pavements of the capital.

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The greeting in a nation where some-more than 380 million people roller the web was inexhaustible and immediate: donations poured in.

A year later, Zhang was means to find housing for them in Daxing, about thirty kilometres (20 miles) outward the city centre.

"The materialisation of homelessness reflects a sure disaster on the piece of the supervision and is thus a supportive issue," he says.

In China - a nation of 1.3 billion people where the amicable reserve net stays unreliable, and the options for the without a nation are singular - people are apropos some-more wakeful of the apocalyptic conditions in that most are forced to live.

Although they perceived small coverage in the media, the deaths this winter of dual without a nation people in the collateral were at large criticised on internet contention forums.

There is no executive total of without a nation people in China"s capital.

Some are bad and disabled, and come to Beijing to have complaints opposite their internal governments. Others are migrants in poke of work.

But they all nap rough, preferring to dauntless temperatures that have mostly fallento -15 degrees Celsius (5 Fahrenheit) this winter, rather than face the awaiting of staying in one of the capital"s eighteen shelters.

Wang Yuhai, a one-legged 48 year-old who has benefited from Zhang"s assistance, risked it once.

"It was similar to a prison. There were 10 of us in one small room," he said.

"I was even knocked about by one of the guards".

The without a nation additionally face the risk that they will be forcibly sent home from the shelters.

"In general, without a nation people, the infancy of whom come from alternative tools of the country, do not opt for this solution," explained Tang Jun, a researcher at the Academy of Social Sciences.

"After a couple of days, they are possibly returned to the travel or escorted by force behind to their home towns," he said.

"But it"s a purposeless exercise. Sooner or later, they come back."

Wang, whose mentally infirm mother followed him to Beijing, does not wish to lapse to his home in the northern range of Hebei, where their 3 daughters are being lifted by friends and relatives.

He and the others helped by Zhang are no longer vagrant to stay alive. They work as hawkers offered maps in a traveller area of executive Beijing.

On a great day, they can each consequence 10 yuan (�1).

On weekends, Zhang comes to see them, armed with food and clothing.

"Web surfers from opposite China send us these things," he says.

Zhang does not wish his assistance for the without a nation to turn something broader and is not meddlesome in substantiating a substructure of any kind, preferring instead his discreet, in isolation acts of charity.

"I have no organization and I"m not a protester. I know what the authorities can endure and though they are infrequently raw by what I do, I have never been severely harassed," he adds.

George Osbornes doctor brother had relationship with cocaine addicted escort girl

By Caroline Gammell Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Dr Adam Osborne proposed saying the woman, well well known as Miss B, when his prolonged tenure partner Rahala Noor was afar for prolonged durations of time.

Miss Noor, a Bangladeshi-born doctor, is right afar his mother and awaiting their initial child.

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At a fitness to use conference at the General Medical Council, Dr Osborne was found guilty of critical bungle for prescribing the drugs.

The row listened how he wrote out a fake name for dual drug to assistance Miss B cope with a crazy part caused by withdrawal symptoms from cocaine.

He additionally wrote out a medication for the Pill for Miss Noor and the anti-smoking drug Zyban for a part of of his family.

D Osborne could right afar be struck off the healing register when the GMC decides what sanctions to take opposite him.

Alyson Leslie, authority of the GMC panel, pronounced the 33-year-old psychiatrist had certified a attribute with Miss B after assembly her at the finish of 2007.

He had refused to divulge in open how the span met, after he was asked if it was a "social environment you wouldn"t wish people to know about".

Mrs Leslie pronounced the span met whilst Miss Noor worked at Royal Preston Hospital in Lancashire.

"Your long-term partner was operative afar from home and you felt isolated.

"You afterwards commenced a attribute with Miss B, who you described as an chaperon girl.

"You pronounced you had attempted to assistance Miss B understanding with her addiction, but right afar really most bewail your impasse with her."

The row motionless he had acted in a "misleading" and "dishonest" demeanour when he wrote out a fake medication for her.

Dr Osborne told the GMC he had usually well well known Miss Bs initial name when she came to him for assistance in May 2008.

He additionally certified his actions were "highly inappropriate" in propinquity to prescribing drug to dual alternative people.

Mrs Leslie pronounced his failings constituted bungle and that he unsuccessful to defend the repute of the contention or follow "good healing practice".

She combined that whilst "aspects of your bungle are remedial, you dont have full discernment in to the earnest of the situation".

"In further the row is of the perspective that you unsuccessful to recognize or belong to open certainty in the profession.

"Your fitness to rehearse is marred since of your misconduct."

The row listened how Miss B rang Dr Osborne on May 12, 2008 during his change as a trainee psychiatrist at the Wythenshaw Hospital in Manchester.

Suffering withdrawal symptoms from cocaine, she was "seeing spiders on the walls" and indispensable help.

Rather than take her in to the sanatorium with him, Dr Osborne went in alone and wrote out a medication for the drugs.

When his initial try failed, he gathering to a circuitously pharmacy and wrote a medication but a name or residence and successfully performed the drugs.

Sanctions will be motionless after this week.

John Charcol saved by pre-pack adminstration

By Jamie Dunkley, City Reporter Insurance Published: 6:00AM GMT twenty-four February 2010

The association entered administration department department late on Monday night prior to being paid for by Towergate Financial for a "nominal fee" before long afterwards. Towergate is thought to have knocked about off a opposition bid from Jon Moulton"s new investment car Better Capital.

John Charcol found itself heavily gladdened after the mercantile predicament strike the UK housing market. Despite a array of staff cuts, bureau closures and refinancing measures it was incompetent to restructure and has not filed accounts at Companies House given the commencement of last year.

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Under the conditions of the deal, some-more than 100 John Charcol staff and directors together with arch senior manager John Garfield will send to Towergate, whose own arch senior manager Ian Darby was before authority at the debt broker.

The pre-pack routine has been criticised by regulators for permitting companies to equivocate their liabilities by entering administration department department with a customer already lined up. Over the past year pre-packs have been used by retailers together with USC and Whittards of Chelsea.

Despite pre-packs" argumentative reputation, Mr Darby pronounced the understanding supposing an "excellent fit" in between the dual companies. "John Charcol has a clever code built over most years. We mutually have a good event to suggest monetary formulation and word solutions to Charcol"s clients and clamp versa."

Towergate Financial is piece of the Towergate Partnership headed by businessman Peter Cullum.

Aaron Lennons continued absence is a worry for Tottenham and England

By John Ley Published: 7:00AM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Spurs setback: Tottenham winger Aaron Lennon has not played a diversion in 2010 Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Lennon, a key member of Fabio Capellos England squad, will miss the accessible general with Egypt a week on Wednesday after Harry Redknapp, the Tottenham manager, certified that the damage had turn an "ongoing saga" and confirming that the player had ripped fibres in his groin.

Lennon underwent an ultra-scan on Tuesday and the subsequent step will be to ask for some-more recommendation on how most appropriate to rehabilitate the injury.

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Lennon has nonetheless to fool around in 2010 and when he was creatively diagnosed, he was approaching to be blank for 4 to five weeks, but after eight weeks given he last played, his one after an additional deficiency is apropos a be concerned for a group behest for a tip 4 finish and a place in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.

Spurs face Bolton in Wednesday nights FA Cup fifth-round replay with a outing to Fulham the reward, and on Sunday, they perform Everton in a diversion that could go serve to cementing a place in the Champions League.

Redknapp said: "Lennons damage has turn an ongoing tale and hes had a bit of a set back. Hes ripped a integrate of fibres, but we goal the not as well big a set back.

"The initial diagnosis was he could be behind in 4 to five weeks, but you never know with groin problems. Hopefully it will get sorted out.

"Aaron, expected any footballer, gets low when hes not playing. Hes worked tough in the healing room so an additional small bit of a set behind is not what he wanted.

"No-one is going to pour out him here since the physios and the fitness coaches, they do take their time," combined Redknapp. "He only keeps removing small setbacks at the moment."

The longer Lennon is out, the some-more Capello will be concerned, but Redknapp added: "I have never unequivocally discussed that with him. We need him behind here personification first. That is the key.

"Obviously I wish to see him fit for Tottenham and I wish to see him go to the World Cup similar to all the lads that have got a chance. He needs to get behind personification here initial and get in a little games for us."

Spurs are additionally but Ledley King, whilst Niko Kranjcar is cup-tied. Roman Pavlyuchenko, who scored twice at Wigan after entrance on, might begin whilst eidur Gudjohnsen could additionally feature.

With reserve forward of a Cup run, Bolton physical education instructor Owen Coyle might embody border players Stuart Holden, Jlloyd Samuel, Tamir Cohen, Andy O"Brien, Ali Al Habsi and Mustapha Riga, whilst Ivan Klasnic could begin as he continues his liberation from a calf injury. But on-loan twin Vladimir Weiss and Jack Wilshere are cup-tied and Mark Davies, Chris Basham and Gretar Steinsson could all miss out by injury.

Women are cleverer than men, says research

By Laura Roberts Published: 7:00AM GMT twenty-four February 2010

The end was drawn following a five month online foe in in in between the sexes conducted in 9 languages and formed on the renouned house diversion Trivial Pursuit.

During the foe some-more than fifteen million questions were asked and nonetheless the change of energy shifted consistently from the proceed of the foe in Oct last year the womanlike of the class narrowly clinched victory.

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Women answered 4,088,139 questions correctly, compared to the 4,077,596 right answers since by men.

It would take an particular some-more than 3,500 uninterrupted days or 9 years, 215 days, 8 hours and twenty-four mins to answer the same series of questions when personification the house diversion that was initial launched in 1982.

While the theme difficulty is comparison by the hurl of the die in the house diversion online players were means to name the theme area that appealed to their "inner genius".

The majority renouned altogether difficulty was Entertainment, followed by Science & Nature, Sports and Leisure, History, Arts & Literature, Geography and eventually People & Places.

Women were strongest when responding questions from Entertainment. They answered twice as most from the category, traditionally characterised as pink, as men with 56.8 per cent of answers since correctly.

Their subsequent prime theme area was Science & Nature of that 54.4 per cent of answers were right. People & Places presented the biggest plea with usually 41.7 per cent of questions supposing with the right answer.

The most appropriate categories for the men were Science & Nature (57 per cent accuracy), Entertainment (56.7 per cent). They answered twice as most questions on Sports & Leisure as women with a 54.8 per cent success rate. Their weakest theme areas were Geography and People & Places with usually 49.9 per cent of questions answered rightly for each.

"The online Trivial Pursuit Battle of the Sexes examination invited people worldwide to contest for the idealisation showing off rights - to be a part of of the smartest team," pronounced Katreena Lines, Global Senior Marketing Manager. "The online experience invited everybody to show off their middle genius, by responding 1, 10 or 100 questions a day, in await of their team. Our congratulations to the women who fought tough for the win."

Last Friday men were quickly in the lead prior to being knocked about in the last stages by women.

The subsequent conflict programmed is in in in between the generations - in in in between the underneath 30s and the over the 30s. It will proceed in mid-March 2010 at http://www.trivialpursuitexperiment.com.

Satellite photos of US Navy reserve fleet on Google Maps

By Andrew Hough Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-four February 2010

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The National Defense Reserve Fleet is a organisation of ships that are used for "national counterclaim and inhabitant emergency" crises.

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More than 170 vessels, managed by the Department of Transportations Maritime Administration, are located at James River, Virginia, Beaumont, Texas and Suisun Bay, California.

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Its ships are personal as possibly ready "reserve force ships" (RRF), that can be put behind in to use in between 10 and 120 days or "non-retention vessels", that are past their workable hold up and have been nominated for disposal.

It is an additional e.g. of how the US governments ordering of troops machinery.

On Monday, a fantastic array of new high-resolution Google Earth heavenly body images were expelled of the worlds majority costly troops cemetery, a �22.6 billion centre dubbed "The Boneyard".

The 2,600 hactare facility, strictly well known Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, is home to thousands of old-fashioned aeroplanes and helicopters mothballed by the United States Air Force and alternative associated forces.

Established underneath Section eleven of the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946, NDRF vessels have upheld puncture shipping mandate in 7 wars and crises, according to is central website.

They were used by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to await service efforts during Hurricane Katrina.

Officials contend that of the 93 non-retention vessels in the fleet, 70 are in the ordering process, or are ready for ordering whilst a serve twenty-three are being rebuilt for disposal.

Last month the US supervision voiced that a cleanup operation of Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet had been expanded.

A MARAD orator pronounced that when a boat becomes obsolete, the dialect organised for their ordering in an "environmentally supportive manner".

"When a boat is recycled, the recycler mostly salvages and sells steel and alternative materials, and disposes of alternative materials in suitability with state and sovereign law," he added.

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Published: 9:29AM GMT twenty-three February 2010

Get critical illness cover for peace of mind

By Emma Wall Published: 12:14PM GMT twenty-three February 2010

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Phil Smith perceived �1.2m payout from his vicious seizure word after being diagnosed with skin cancer. He right away has the all-clear and his family has monetary security. Photo: Christopher Jones

Nearly two-thirds of the race have no form of monetary word if they die or turn critically ill, notwithstanding advances in disinfectant and record that meant some-more people are vital longer and flourishing illnesses that used to be fatal. In investigate conducted by insurer Aviva, majority people elderly 45 to 54, the age organisation majority expected to claim, contend they cannot equates to protection.

But a debilitating seizure can take years to redeem from and whilst your association might straightforwardly concede you ill leave, it can be limited to a compensate commission or tenure length. Without a source of income, family assets can fast collapse on the essentials let alone costly healing care, or astonishing costs.

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Although majority homebuyers take out hold up cover to safeguard desired ones are supposing for in the eventuality of their death, couple of people realize the monetary implications of flourishing but in vicious ill health.

"The diagnosis of a life-threatening seizure can meant you will have to give up work at the moment or henceforth and you might confirm to compensate for interrelated treatments that are not accessible by the NHS to assist your recovery," warned Stephen Crosbie, of Aegon. "You"re additionally still expected to catch costs such as debt repayments, loan repayments, focus bills and alternative vital expenses."

Critical seizure cover typically provides an particular with a lump-sum remuneration or monthly income if they tarry for at slightest fourteen days after being diagnosed with an seizure that meets the policy"s criteria. These can embody cancer, Alzheimer"s, mixed sclerosis, organ transplants, a cadence or heart conflict between others. Cover cannot be purchased for a pre-existing seizure and the younger and healthier you are, the reduce your monthly reward so it pays to be prepared. Premiums can be on trial or reviewable, definition monthly payments are bound for the tenure of the process or can shift on an annual basis. Customers can select that sort is majority appropriate for them depending on their needs, as reviewable rates are primarily cheaper, but the rates are reviewed each five years at that point they could increase. Guaranteed rates safeguard business compensate the same premiums via the hold up of the policy.

As record allows us to live longer, seizure blights lives. Assuming you will be one of the propitious couple of is not unsentimental scarcely dual thirds of the race has not paid for any form of protection, such as hold up word or vicious seizure cover, but one in 3 of us will be diagnosed with cancer, and each year about 146,000 people in Britain have a heart attack. Each year, 10,000 people underneath the age of 55 humour a stroke.

Axa says that the normal age at that people explain for vicious seizure cover is 43 for a man and 40 for a lady a time when losses are high, with young kids still at home and a debt outstanding. This equates to that but cover they might struggle.

You can buy vicious seizure cover in and with hold up cover, and a little association health policies embody it as standard, so it is receptive to advice to check what cover you have prior to receiving out a new policy. Some hold up word policies might compensate out if you are diagnosed with a depot seizure but not if it is in the last year of the good term. If you are self-employed or run your own business, vicious seizure cover will not usually strengthen your family should you turn ill, but your business, too. Company policies might compensate for your bills and mortgage, but they mostly won"t widen to alternative losses such as kid caring or travel. Aviva offers ""integrated"" vicious seizure cover that includes hold up cover to a some-more elderly total customarily the volume superb on the process holder"s mortgage.

When shopping a vicious seizure cover, cruise either the process matches your needs. For example, a little insurers will automatically embody children"s vicious seizure cover to your plan whilst others will have an choice to embody a spouse. You might wish abroad cover should you outlay time abroad, or are formulation to retire overseas.

All of these inclusions will affect your premiums. Because of the particular mandate of a policy, these quotes from Axa are generalised, but a monthly reward for a healthy, non-smoking, 40-year-old masculine requiring �150,000 of vicious seizure cover over a 20-year tenure is �77. The monthly reward for a healthy, non-smoking, 40-year-old womanlike requiring �150,000 over a 20-year tenure is �73. In some-more elderly with hold up insurance, a monthly reward for a healthy, non-smoking, 40-year-old womanlike requiring �150,000 of hold up cover over a 20-year tenure is �12. The monthly reward for a healthy, non-smoking, 40-year-old masculine requiring �150,000 of hold up cover over a 20-year tenure is �15.

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To spell out how the after you leave it, the some-more costly cover is, usually five years on, Axa"s allude to for a non-smoking masculine elderly 45 years, formed on a not as big good of �100,000 over a 20-year term, is �85 a month. Fortis quotes the same particular �75 a month, and PruProtect �96.

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Additional report might be compulsory if the insurer suspects the explain is fake or the petitioner is guilty of non-disclosure. Non-disclosure can lead to a explain being dismissed, but usually if the insurer can infer it was deliberate. Alternatively, trusting or inattentive non-disclosure relating to a dubious subject or perplexity of the focus form can still outcome in a payout.

It is not value risking voiding your process over misinterpretation, however, so it is regularly receptive to advice to hit the insurer with any questions.

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Maybe you shouldnt put your nest-egg in Anthony Boltons China basket

Published: 10:15PM GMT twenty-three February 2010

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Shanghai - Maybe you shouldn"t put your nest-egg in Bolton"s China basket Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES

But, whilst past opening might not be a guide, it can be a flattering great pointer, as Anthony Bolton valid during his twenty-eight years in assign of Fidelity"s UK Special Situations Fund.

Over that duration the comment consistently outperformed rivals, delivering an annual lapse of 19.5pc simply outperforming the FTSE All-Share that delivered a 13.5pc lapse over the same period. As Fidelity is regularly fervent to remind us: an investment of �10,000 would have grown to some-more than �1.4m over the period.

Bank bail-out: Blow to investors as division payments dangling

Three years after he stepped behind from day-to-day government of the Special Situations fund, Bolton is behind with plans for a new �600m-plus car to deposit in China. Launched in the run up to the ISA deadline it will, no doubt, be a sell out similar to a little ageing stone star"s quip tour.

Yet the past opening (sorry, I know it"s no guide but...) of high-profile supports isn"t essentially that great. At the tallness of the dotcom bang sell investors put some-more than �1bn of their hard-earned assets in to Henderson"s Global Technology Fund. The comment was an financier darling, receiving some-more income a month in the run up to the close of 1999 than it had in the prior fifteen years, but the burble detonate and any one who invested �1,000 in the Global Technology Fund at the begin of 2000 would have lost some-more than 80pc of their investment inside of dual years.

Bolton is assured that, distinct the competition in to Tech bonds a decade ago, the pour out to deposit in China is no bubble. The maestro batch picker describes it as "the investment event of the subsequent decade".

But it has emerged that even his own colleagues are unconvinced. Jorma Korhonen, who manages Fidelity"s Global Special Situations Fund, reportedly describes China as "one of the greatest collateral grant mistakes ever".

Lets goal that Bolton"s quip lives up to the hype.

Woodford might have last word at Omega

While Anthony Bolton grapples with how to have income investing in China, Neil Woodford, associate comment physical education instructor and head of investment at Invesco Perpetual, is apropos inextricable in an increasingly sour row at Omega, the listed Lloyd"s insurer.

With a �20bn portfolio, Woodford reputedly runs some-more income than any alternative UK comment manager. With billion-pound and stakes in between them, his income supports are between the largest shareholders in the likes of Vodafone, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca.

Yet it appears to be a comparatively little �70m-odd interest in Omega that is increasingly occupying most of his time.

Woodford, Omega"s largest shareholder, has called a special assembly to reject the stream house and designate 6 new non-executives (three of that work for the law organisation advising Woodford on his revolt).

According to the Omega board, the attempted manoeuvre not usually breaches corporate governance most appropriate use seasoned mixture the house with member of the largest shareholder but has additionally sparked regard between US regulators, who might interpretation that Woodford right away controls the insurer.

The doubt has already stirred rating agencies to advise of probable rating downgrades at Omega.

Woodford is, nevertheless, expected to prevail.

He owns a 29pc interest in Omega and is thought to have the await of associate institutional shareholders who comment for a serve 30pc.

A feat for romantic shareholders? Maybe. But even if it is, it is expected to be at a little substantial cost.

Invesco Perpetual will find it a lot some-more formidable to harangue the likes of Tesco or Vodafone on great corporate governance in the future, if it fails to fool around by the manners at Omega.