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Monica marries again in 'lavish' ceremony

Once more, but this time with some extravagance: Monica and her husband, 25-year-old L.A. Lakers player Shannon Brown, had another wedding in Los Angeles over the weekend.

The “Angel of Mine” singer, 30, previously tied the knot with Brown in a very intimate ceremony (we're talking two-people-in-attendance intimate) at their L.A. home in November of last year.
This time around, the couple opted for a renovated 19th century cathedral in downtown L.A. to host the wedding that was attended by hundreds of family and friends, including Lala Vazquez, Carmelo Anthony, Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher, reports People.
Monica’s two sons from a prior relationship, Rodney Jr., 6, and Romelo, 3, joined Brown’s son in a horse-and-carriage ride to the wedding ceremony.
Guests, who donned shades of blue for the event at the couple’s request, then joined the newlyweds for a “lavish” reception that included cocktails and a three-course dinner. Afterwards, hamburgers from Fatburger lined the grill for attendees to nosh on, and there was also a confection from Charm City Cakes.

Blood type linked to earlier decline in fertility

A woman's blood type may yield clues to her fertility, a new study suggests.

The results show that, of a group of women in their 30s who sought medical fertility help, those with blood type O were more likely than women with other blood types to have diminished ovarian reserve, meaning their ovaries had few eggs or had eggs unlikely to meet with success during in vitro fertilization procedures. Type O blood is the most common type in the United States.
"I don't want the message to be that women in the healthy population should be petrified that their blood type may predict compromised fertility," said study author Lubna Pal, who researches reproductive endocrinology at the Yale University School of Medicine.

But if the study's link is shown to hold up for other women, then the connection may provide a tool for earlier, more accurate fertility prognoses, Pal said.
The study was published online on June 26 in the journal Human Reproduction.
Babies and blood types
Fertility doctors expect to see diminished ovarian reserve in patients in their late 30s and 40s, but sometimes it strikes early.
"There is a subgroup of women," Pal said, who are young but whose bodies act as if they're older. "There is a lesser number of eggs in those ovaries."
Researchers measure levels of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) to see if a woman may have diminished ovarian reserve; high levels usually indicate that she does. Although most young, healthy women do not get their FSH levels measured during routine checkups, women visiting fertility centers do.
Pal and her colleagues studied the FSH levels of 544 women, whose average age was 35, seeking fertility help in Connecticut and New York. After taking into account the effects of age, they discovered that women with blood type O were twice as likely as those with blood types A and AB to have FSH levels high enough to indicate they had diminished ovarian reserve.
Women with blood types A and AB were generally less likely than others to have FSH levels indicating diminished ovarian reserve, the study showed. There were too few women with blood type B in the study for the researchers to determine statistically if their ovarian reserve was affected.

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For young women with type O blood, "maybe routine testing should be the way to go," to determine their risk of fertility problems later in life, Pal said.
How and why?
Because Pal's study included only women seeking fertility treatment, she cautioned that the findings of her study do not apply to the general population. However, "having said that, we have enough reasons to be worried about high FSH levels in someone who's not infertile," she said.
If a young, healthy woman came in to her office and had elevated FSH levels, "I would be testing that woman" for other signs of decreased fertility, she said. Researchers need to determine whether the relationship between blood type and fertility is consistent across national and global populations, and if it exists in healthy women, Pal said, then scientists need to ask: "How does it work?"
Pal hypothesized that the same molecular machinery that determines blood type could affect ovarian cells. Red blood cells have an identifier molecule that sticks out of the cell surface like a flagpole. People with blood types A, AB, and B have enzymes that modify the end of the flagpole, a process similar to raising a flag on the pole. In blood type O, no flag is raised. It's possible that some part of the process that raises the flag in blood type A and is missing in type O also performs some unknown function in ovarian cells, Pal said.
"It is certainly possible" that these processes at work in blood type also at work in the ovary, "but there is little hard evidence to that effect," said Pamela Stanley, a professor of cell biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who was not involved in the study
Further understanding of the connection between blood type O and diminished ovarian reserve would be a good thing, Pal said. If the results of the study are replicated in healthy populations, women with blood type O might start having "the ticking clock conversation" in their early 20s, she said. Then, anyone deemed at risk for diminished ovarian reserve could avoid "complicating factors like being a smoker," she said.
"Ovarian reserve is like a retirement account," Pal said. "You don’t worry about your retirement account only after you’ve retired. You need to keep an eye on your retirement account throughout your productive years."
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Facebook adds Skype video chat feature

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Mark Zuckerberg: "This type of thing is only possible because of the social infrastructure that already exists"

Facebook has announced a partnership with Skype to add video chat to the social networking site.

The move is likely to be seen as a shot across the bow of Google, which recently launched a Facebook rival, Google+, also featuring video calling.
This is not the first time Facebook and Skype have teamed up - they already share some instant messaging tools.
Skype is in the process of being bought by Microsoft, which is a major shareholder in Facebook.
The new video-call service was launched by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who also revealed that the site now had more than 750 million users.
However, he said that the total number of active users was no longer a useful measure of the site's success.
Instead, the amount of sharing - of photographs, videos and web links - was a better indication of how people engaged with the site, explained Mr Zuckerberg.
One to one At launch, Facebook's video chat service will only be able to connect two users face-to-face, whereas Google's system allows group video calls, known as Hangouts.

Coming hard on the heels of Google+, Facebook's Skype offering is likely to be compared to its rival's Hangout feature. That product allows up to ten people to chat at any one time, while the Facebook/Skype video chat feature facilitates just one-on-one video chatting. Skype did hint that there will be added features in future, but Google has stolen the lion's share of the headlines and Facebook will not enjoy being seen as following in its footsteps.
At the launch in California, Mark Zuckerberg was reluctant to get involved in a tit for tat comparison but he did say that he saw such products as part of the narrative that in future companies which have not traditionally looked at social networking will be layering it on top of all their products.

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Mr Zuckerberg said that it was likely that other "premium" Skype functions would be added in future.

He also appeared to offer a back-handed compliment to Google+, saying that its creation was a vindication of Facebook's vision for the social web.
Industry analysts welcomed the announcement.
"Advertisers love anything that keeps users on Facebook for longer and that is something Facebook has been brilliant at - keeping people engaged with the platform for increasingly longer periods of time," Susan Etlinger of the Altimeter Group told BBC News.
"It stands to reason that the longer you are on Facebook, the happier advertisers will be."
In California, Skype chief executive Tony Bates welcomed the partnership, calling it a "long-term relationship" that could benefit both companies.
At one point he had to correct Mr Zuckerberg on the subject of Skype's ownership, reminding him that the Microsoft deal was not yet complete and still had to be cleared by regulators.
The tie-in was announced a week after Google announced its own social networking service, Google+.
"The two companies built these products separately and independently over a number of months but they will be compared directly," said Ben Parr, editor-at-large of social media blog Mashable.com.
"They are going to be in more heated competition in the next year or so and you are going to hear a lot about who is going to win the social networking war - how does Google catch up, how does Facebook respond. This story isn't going away."

Ex-British prime minister 'shocked' by new hacking claims

More scandals in Murdoch's empire?

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NEW: Ex-PM Gordon Brown is "shocked" by the latest claims
"It is very personal and really hurtful if all true," former prime minister's wife says in tweet
The allegations about Brown widen a scandal that sunk Britain's News of the World
The scandal threatens News International's plan to create the largest British media company

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed new hacking allegations to a source close to former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The allegations should have been attributed to Britain's The Guardian newspaper.

London (CNN) -- The scandal that brought down Britain's biggest Sunday newspaper widened Monday with allegations that journalists from other News International papers improperly obtained personal information about former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Brown expressed dismay at the allegations Monday night and has given investigators "all relevant evidence" he has about the matter, according to a statement from his office.
"The family has been shocked by the level of criminality and the unethical means by which personal details have been obtained," the statement said. "The matter is in police hands."
The latest accusations of wrongdoing by journalists working for News International papers were published by rival outlet the Guardian on Monday. The Guardian said the tabloid The Sun -- the country's best-selling daily newspaper -- obtained details about Brown's seriously ill son and published a story about him, while people working for the upmarket Sunday Times tricked the former Labour Party leader's accountants into handing over financial details.
The efforts dated back some 10 years, and include periods when Brown was prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer, according to the Guardian.
News International, the British subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corporation, issued a statement saying it was aware of the allegations.

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"So that we can investigate these matters further, we ask that all information concerning these allegations is provided to us," the company's statement read.
And Brown's wife, Sarah, responded in a post on her Twitter account. "So sad to learn all I am about my family's privacy -- it is very personal and really hurtful if all true," the post read.
The latest allegations follow Sunday's closure of the News of the World over other allegations of illegal breach of privacy. The decision to pull the plug on the 168-year-old paper came amid accusations that its reporters illegally eavesdropped on the phone messages of murder and terrorist victims, politicians and celebrities, as well as claims it may have bribed police officers. Police said Thursday they had identified almost 4,000 potential targets of phone-hacking.
The widening scandal and public outrage over it threaten to scuttle plans by Murdoch to create Britain's largest media company by acquiring satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
U.K. Media Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced Monday in Parliament that he was referring the proposed sale to the Competition Commission for a thorough review.
"I know that colleagues on all sides of this house and the public at home feel very concerned at the prospect of the organization which allegedly allowed these terrible things to happen being allowed to take control of what would become Britain's biggest media company," Hunt said.
The company said Monday that it was withdrawing its plan to sell television channel Sky News as part of its acquisition of BSkyB pending further consideration of the bid.
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg urged Murdoch to reconsider the acquisition in light of public "revulsion" over the scandal.
Earlier Monday, London's Metropolitan Police angrily blasted leaks from its investigation into illegal eavesdropping by News of the World, hours after British media reported that the paper tried to bribe royal protection officers to get private phone numbers for members of the royal family.
Police said News International had shared information about alleged efforts by reporters to bribe police, and that both sides had agreed to keep the information confidential.
Police said they were "extremely concerned and disappointed" at the leaks, which they said "could have a significant impact on the corruption investigation."

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Police, the royal family and News International all refused to answer CNN questions about allegations that a reporter sought company money to pay a royal protection officer for the confidential details about the royal family.
BBC business editor Robert Peston claimed Monday that News of the World e-mails showed former royal correspondent Clive Goodman "was requesting cash from the newspaper's editor, Andy Coulson, to buy a confidential directory of the royal family's landline telephone numbers, and all the phone numbers -- including mobiles -- of the household staff."
Goodman was sent to prison in 2007 for illegally intercepting royal family voice mails. Coulson insisted he knew nothing about the crime, but resigned as editor because it happened on his watch.
Coulson went on to become communications director for David Cameron, now Britain's Conservative prime minister, but resigned from that post earlier this year because of fallout from the phone-hacking scandal. He was questioned by police on Friday and released on bail until October.
The controversy continued despite the shuttering of the News of the World. Murdoch has not apologized to the family of a murdered British teenage girl whose phone messages were illegally intercepted, a lawyer for the girl's family said Monday.
Rebekah Brooks, who was editor of the newspaper at the time 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler's phone was hacked, should resign, Dowler family lawyer Mark Lewis also said.
"She should do the honorable thing," Lewis said. "She was editor at the time Milly was taken. She should take editorial responsibility" for the actions of her journalists, he said.
Brooks has since been promoted to chief executive of News International, and Murdoch has stood by her so far. She may be questioned by police about the scandal in the coming weeks, a News International source told CNN Monday.
The source emphasized that Brooks would be interviewed as a witness, not a suspect, if police do question her, and rejected British press reports that the questioning would take place Monday.
The source asked not to be named discussing internal company business.
Dowler's mother and sister met with Clegg on Monday, keeping the scandal in the public eye. They are due to sit down with Labour leader Ed Miliband on Tuesday and with Cameron on Wednesday, Lewis said.
Clegg also said: "We owe it to the Dowlers" to get the bottom of what happened.
The News of the World struck a wistful yet proud tone in its final editorial Sunday, and repeated its owner's apology for the criminal activities that brought the paper down.
"Phones were hacked, and for that this newspaper is truly sorry," it said in an unsigned piece. "There is no justification for this appalling wrongdoing."
The paper welcomed Cameron's call for two inquiries, one into how police investigated the allegations of phone hacking and one into the ethics and standards of British journalists.
Separately, police are already conducting their second investigation into the hacking itself.
Downing Street on Saturday confirmed that Cameron has approached the head of the judiciary of England and Wales to suggest names for the judge to lead the inquiry into the hacking allegations.
Murdoch flew into London Sunday, hours after the final edition of the News of the World hit the stands. The publication was the first British national paper Murdoch bought, in 1969, as he began to propel himself from Australian newspaper proprietor to international media magnate.

With its closure, News International now owns the Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times in Britain. Murdoch's News Corporation also encompasses Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and Harper Collins publishers.

Arsenal confirm signing of Lille striker Gervinho

Ivory Coast's Gervinho in action during the 2010 World Cup

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Arsenal have confirmed the signing of Lille's Ivory Coast striker Gervinho.

The 24-year-old scored 15 goals to help Lille win the French league and Cup double last season.
The Gunners are currently on a pre-season tour of the far East and manager Arsene Wenger said: "Gervinho has joined. He had a medical on Thursday.
"We sent him home for a couple of days because he has a family and children. He did not come [on tour] because he has not had a [training] session yet."
Gervinho, who captained Ivory Coast at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, recently told France Football magazine: "I chose Arsenal because it's a young group within which I will be able to integrate easily.
"I had no hesitation. None. But in a transfer there's always a period of analysis and negotiations.

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Emmanuel Eboue, Arsenal
Gervinho, Arsenal
Didier Drogba, Chelsea
Salomon Kalou, Chelsea
Abdul Razak, Man City
Kolo Toure, Man City
Yaya Toure, Man City
Cheik Ismael Tiote, Newcastle
Abdoulaye Meite, WBA
Steve Gohouri, Wigan

"All sides had to be satisfied so that things could develop smoothly. I'm going there to play, not to be on the bench. Arsenal love the game and I love teams that love the game.
"The Premier League is a notch above. It's maybe the best league in the world. I want to live that sensation."
Paris St Germain have also enquired about Gervinho but Lille general manager Frederic Paquet did not want to "strengthen a competitor" by selling to a domestic rival.
Paquet went on to describe 20-year-old Belgian winger Eden Hazard, who is also thought to be an Arsenal target, as "untransferable".

Who Shot Ya? Man Claims He Shot Tupac

Hip Hop legend Tupac Amaru Shakur would have turned 40 today had those five bullets not hit their target. But a day to what would be his birthday, a man has come forward claiming to have shot and wounded the rapper years before his death.
According to allhiphop.com Dexter Isaac has admitted to being involved in the attack on rap star Tupac Shakur inside Manhattan's Quad Studios in November of 1994, after allegedly being paid $2,500 dollars by James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond.
Isaac, a former friend of Rosemond, currently serving life in prison for murder, robbery and other offenses confessed his involvement in the 1994 shooting of the rapper to AllHipHop.com.
"I want to apologize to his family [Tupac Shakur] and for the mistake I did for that sucker [Jimmy Henchman]," Dexter Isaac told AllHipHop.com from prison. "I am trying to clean it up to give [Tupac and Biggie's] mothers some closure."
Isaac, who is from Brooklyn, has long been suspected of being involved in the Quad shooting of Tupac Shakur, along with an associate named Spencer "Scooter" Bowens, who is also serving a life sentence and another man named George Roland Campbell.
The November 30th shooting was the start of a deadly feud that resulted in the murders of both Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.
Their murders have never been solved.
Isaac was indicted by the government in 1998 and subsequently sentenced to life in prison for murder, robbery, fraud and witness intimidation.

Who Wants to Live Forever? Scientist Sees Aging Cured

If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20 years younger.

A biomedical gerontologist and chief scientist of a foundation dedicated to longevity research, de Grey reckons that within his own lifetime doctors could have all the tools they need to "cure" aging, banishing diseases that come with it and extending life indefinitely.

"I'd say we have a 50/50 chance of bringing aging under what I'd call a decisive level of medical control within the next 25 years or so," de Grey said in an interview before delivering a lecture at Britain's Royal Institution academy of science.

"And what I mean by decisive is the same sort of medical control that we have over most infectious diseases today."

De Grey sees a time when people will go to their doctors for regular "maintenance," which by then will include gene therapies, stem cell therapies, immune stimulation and a range of other advanced medical techniques to keep them in good shape.

De Grey lives near Cambridge University where he won his doctorate in 2000 and is chief scientific officer of the non-profit California-based SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) Foundation, which he co-founded in 2009.

He describes aging as the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage throughout the body.

"The idea is to engage in what you might call preventative geriatrics, where you go in to periodically repair that molecular and cellular damage before it gets to the level of abundance that is pathogenic," he explained.

CHALLENGE

Exactly how far and how fast life expectancy will increase in the future is a subject of some debate, but the trend is clear. An average of three months is being added to life expectancy every year at the moment and experts estimate there could be a million centenarians across the world by 2030.

To date, the world's longest-living person on record lived to 122 and in Japan alone there were more than 44,000 centenarians in 2010.

Some researchers say, however, that the trend toward longer lifespan may falter due to an epidemic of obesity now spilling over from rich nations into the developing world.

De Grey's ideas may seem far-fetched, but $20,000 offered in 2005 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review journal for any molecular biologist who showed that de Grey's SENS theory was "so wrong that it was unworthy of learned debate" was never won.

The judges on that panel were prompted into action by an angry put-down of de Grey from a group of nine leading scientists who dismissed his work as "pseudo science."

They concluded that this label was not fair, arguing instead that SENS "exists in a middle ground of yet-to-be-tested ideas that some people may find intriguing but which others are free to doubt."

CELL THERAPY

For some, the prospect of living for hundreds of years is not particularly attractive, either, as it conjures up an image of generations of sick, weak old people and societies increasingly less able to cope.

But de Grey says that's not what he's working for. Keeping the killer diseases of old age at bay is the primary focus.

"This is absolutely not a matter of keeping people alive in a bad state of health," he told Reuters. "This is about preventing people from getting sick as a result of old age. The particular therapies that we are working on will only deliver long life as a side effect of delivering better health."

De Grey divides the damage caused by aging into seven main categories for which repair techniques need to be developed if his prediction for continual maintenance is to come true.
He notes that while for some categories, the science is still in its earliest stages, there are others where it's already almost there.

"Stem cell therapy is a big part of this. It's designed to reverse one type of damage, namely the loss of cells when cells die and are not automatically replaced, and it's already in clinical trials (in humans)," he said.

Stem cell therapies are currently being trialed in people with spinal cord injuries, and de Grey and others say they may one day be used to find ways to repair disease-damaged brains and hearts.

NO AGE LIMIT

Cardiovascular diseases are the world's biggest age-related killers and de Grey says there is a long way to go on these though researchers have figured out the path to follow.

Heart diseases that cause heart failure, heart attacks and strokes are brought about by the accumulation of certain types of what de Grey calls "molecular garbage" byproducts of the body's metabolic processes which our bodies are not able to break down or excrete.

"The garbage accumulates inside the cell, and eventually it gets in the way of the cell's workings," he said.

De Grey is working with colleagues in the United States to identify enzymes in other species that can break down the garbage and clean out the cells, and the aim then is to devise genetic therapies to give this capability to humans.

"If we could do that in the case of certain modified forms of cholesterol which accumulate in cells of the artery wall, then we simply would not get cardiovascular disease," he said.

De Grey is reluctant to make firm predictions about how long people will be able to live in future, but he does say that with each major advance in longevity, scientists will buy more time to make yet more scientific progress.

In his view, this means that the first person who will live to 1,000 is likely to be born less than 20 years after the first person to reach 150.

"I call it longevity escape velocity where we have a sufficiently comprehensive panel of therapies to enable us to push back the ill health of old age faster than time is passing. And that way, we buy ourselves enough time to develop more therapies further as time goes on," he said.

"What we can actually predict in terms of how long people will live is absolutely nothing, because it will be determined by the risk of death from other causes like accidents," he said.

"But there really shouldn't be any limit imposed by how long ago you were born. The whole point of maintenance is that it works indefinitely."

FIFA Women´s World Cup wrap: England, Germany clinch top spots

England made sure of a first-place finish in Group B of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup with a 2-0 win over Japan in Augsberg on Tuesday.

England made sure of a first-place finish in Group B of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup with a 2-0 win over Japan in Augsberg on Tuesday.
Ellen White put England ahead after 15 minutes at SGL Arena when she latched onto a pass from Karen Carney to lob the ball over Japan goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori.
They had to wait until the 66th score their second, with substitute Rachel Yankey controlling a cross from Rachel Unitt before putting the ball past Kaihori to secure a win.
The result helped England leapfrog Japan into first place in Group B, with England now meeting France in Leverkusen on Saturday in a quarter-final.
Group B's other match was a thriller, as New Zealand scored two goals in injury time to salvage a draw against Mexico. England's win over Japan, however, meant pride was the only thing at stake.
Goals from Stephany Mayor and Maribel Dominguez gave Mexico a 2-0 lead inside the opening half-hour, but New Zealand hit back in the first minute of stoppage time through Rebecca Smith and Hannah Wilkinson scored another in the 93rd minute to ensure a point.
In Group A, Germany's 4-2 win over France in Moenchengladbach saw them claim top spot, setting up a quarter-final showdown with Japan on Saturday.
Kerstin Garefrekes put the host nation ahead after 25 minutes and when Inka Grings scored on 32 minutes Germany looked to be in cruise control.
Marie Delie pulled a goal back for France 11 minutes after half-time, but Grings restored a two-goal buffer with her second in the 68th minute.
Laura Georges made it 3-2 four minutes later but Germany finally killed the game off with an 89th-minute goal to Celia Okoyino da Mbabi.

Also in Group A, Nigeria made sure they did not finish bottom when a late goal from Perpetua Nkwocha handed them a 1-0 win over Canada, who go home pointless from their three matches.

Wednesday 6 July

Time
09:20	Adelaide secure Socceroo
07:46	Colombia boss: ´How do I mark Messi?´
03:14	Gasperini happy with Inter talent

Tuesday 5 July

Time
00:56	FIFA Women´s World Cup wrap: England, Germany clinch top spots
23:40	Clichy targets City success
18:38	Warnock frets over Taarabt departure
17:30	Aguero reveals Juve approach
16:41	Al-Habsi eager to repay faith
15:28	Gerrard misses Liverpool´s Asian tour
13:48	Derby fever hits Rio
13:41	Blatter threatens life bans
13:37	Nolan´s demands were too high
12:35	Martinez: New signings will happen
11:51	Scholes takes aim at Arsenal
11:09	Transfer round-up: Real capture Coentrao, Liverpool release Jovanovic
10:38	Algeria keen on replacing Libya
09:04	Mexico striker blames tactics for loss
07:59	MLS wrap: Drama in Salt Lake City, stalemate in LA
06:15	Copa America wrap: Uruguay falter, Chile win
03:17	Bayern´s pre-season of intent
01:07	Tevez to leave City - again

Monday 4 July

Time
22:32	Monday transfer round-up: Marseille get their man, Al-Habsi earns Wigan stay
20:35	Clichy seals City switch
18:49	Van der Vaart: Spurs stars must stay
16:07	Clichy set for City medical
14:43	Pratley relishes Bolton chance
14:10	Jarvis wants England recall
13:57	Dortmund sign Aussie teen
12:23	Menezes blames predictable Brazil
12:00	Loyal Cole backs new Chelsea boss
07:39	Saudi Arabia appoint Rijkaard
06:53	MLS: Colorado Rapids 0 Houston Dynamo 0
04:48	Kewell´s A-League move in jeopardy
04:20	2014 World Cup qualifying wrap: Philippines, Vietnam progress
01:03	Copa America wrap: Brazil held on goal-less matchday

Cesc Fábregas frustrated as Barcelona and Arsenal haggle over price

Cesc Fábregas hopes his transfer to Barcelona will go through before Arsenal's pre-season Asian tour. Photograph: Achmad Ibrahim/AP

Cesc Fábregas fears his hopes of finally completing a move back to his boyhood club, Barcelona, could be frustrated beyond the weekend, with Arsenal and the Catalan side still at odds over their valuation of the Spain midfielder and, as yet, unwilling to compromise.
The 24-year-old reported for training as expected at London Colney on Tuesday, working in the gym with a private fitness coach as he is suffering from a hamstring strain, with his representatives having made it clear to Arsène Wenger that the player wishes to end his eight-year stay in north London to return to Barcelona.
Arsenal have accepted they are likely to lose their captain in the current transfer window having deflected the Catalans' interest over recent summers. Yet, understandably given the player is under contract at the Emirates Stadium until 2015, the Premier League club have made it clear to the Fábregas camp that he will only be permitted to leave for a fee deemed acceptable. That would amount to around £40m, a figure Real Madrid had previously indicated they might be prepared to offer but at which Barça have balked.
The European champions have submitted two bids to date this summer, their opening salvo amounting to some £27m with an improved offer that would eventually be worth around £35m made last week, but neither has been considered acceptable by either Wenger or the Arsenal hierarchy. The north London club's instinct is to sell the player to the highest foreign bidders who, at present, would appear to be Real – a club Fábregas has no intention of joining – unless Barça's stance shifts.
The Catalans' reluctance to up their interest further apparently hinges upon a lingering dissatisfaction with the level of compensation they accrued when the highly rated teenagers Jon Toral and Héctor Bellerín moved to north London ahead of the new season for a combined fee of around £600,000. Barcelona rated the youngsters at nearer 10 times that amount and want that valuation factored into the fee for Fábregas, a compromise Arsenal are reluctant to grant.
That has left talks stalled and Fábregas effectively in limbo, a familiar impasse, with the player disappointed that the move has not been swiftly resolved. He had hoped a transfer would be settled before he would be required to return for pre-season training, though now the likelihood is that nothing will have been concluded before the club depart for their pre-season tour of Malaysia and China on Sunday.
Fábregas, whose image has been used in promotional material for that two-match, week-long tour on the club's website, could yet be prevented from making the trip by the hamstring strain that is expected to see him train with his own fitness coach for the remainder of the week. He will hope that there is a breakthrough in the negotiations before the awkward decision over whether he is to travel to the far east or not has to be made.
Arsenal's pursuit of the Vélez Sársfield midfielder Ricardo Alvarez is set to be frustrated, with Internazionale expected to thwart them by signing him. The Italians are believed to have agreed an £11m fee for the player, who is to sign a five-year contract at San Siro.

Woman claims love letter from Michael Jordan stolen

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A North Carolina woman who received a love letter from Michael Jordan nearly 30 years ago says it has been stolen and sold at auction.

Laquetta Robinson says Jordan was her high school sweetheart and that she had no idea the letter was no longer in her possession.
Robinson was surprised when she saw the letter on TV last week.
It apparently was sold at auction in 2004 along with a prom photo of Robinson and Jordan.
Robinson says she doesn't want Jordan to think she had anything to do with the letter being sold and that she would not betray him in that way.
She now believes a family member took the letter and she's vowing to take legal action.

Trying for a baby? Then brush your teeth as gum disease affects fertility

Oral hygiene helps women conceive two months faster

Women with gum disease took just over seven months to become pregnant, while their peers took five months

Women who want to have a baby should take good care of their teeth, claim experts.
Gum disease could significantly delay the chances of conceiving, fertility specialists have found.
In the first study of its kind, researchers found women with gum disease took an extra two months to get pregnant compared with those who had healthy teeth and gums.
It took around seven months on average for those with poor oral hygiene to conceive, but just five months for those who brushed and flossed their teeth properly.
Gum disease – or periodontal disease in its severe form – is caused by a build-up of plaque. It leads to bad breath and bleeding gums and, if untreated, causes cavities, receding gums and tooth loss.
Bleeding gums caused by failure to brush properly can allow up to 700 different types of bacteria to get into the bloodstream.
It is not clear how gum disease may trigger problems with conceiving, but infected gums may release inflammatory chemicals, which activate the immune system and inflame the lining of the womb. This could affect implantation of a fertilised egg.

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Experts at the University of Western Australia in Perth who carried out the study said the delay was similar to that posed by being obese.

The team from the University of Western Australia also confirmed previous studies that suggest age, weight and smoking all impact on a woman's ability to conceive

Lead researcher Professor Roger Hart said: ‘For the first time periodontal disease has been linked with inability to conceive.

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'Women should be encouraged to see their dentist to have any gum disease treated before trying for a baby.
'It is easily treated, usually involving no more than four dental visits.’ More than a quarter of pregnant women have gum disease, he added, and there is evidence it is linked with miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth.
The researchers questioned almost 4,000 women who were 12 weeks pregnant. A total of 26 per cent were confirmed to have gum disease.
They found delays in conceiving among those aged 35 and over, smokers and obese women – already known risk factors. But there was a higher level of gum disease – one in three – among the women who took more than a year to get pregnant.

Of those who had healthy gums, only one in four took longer than a year, the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology was told.
Professor Hart said there was also evidence gum disease in men impaired their sperm quality. ‘I would advise any couple wanting to start a family to visit a dentist first,’ he said.

Sony plans to redesign PlayStation Network

Sony is planning a redesign of its online gaming network, the PlayStation Network (PSN), following a hacking attack that brought the network down for nearly a month, according to reports.
The original layout for the PSN and the PlayStation store was heavy in text and had a lot of information on the screen. The new look is more streamlined, with bigger images and more accessible information, according to the report. It will be similar to the streamlined design of Microsoft’s online gaming network, Xbox Live.
Sony’s online network is a critical service that competes with Microsoft’s Xbox Live online gaming service among others. There are also 948 games now available in the PlayStation Network store, as well as 4,000 pieces of add-on content for games.
Sony’s PSN was offline for 24 days in the United States, and longer in other countries. The company took the PSN down after hackers were able to break in and steal sensitive information about more than 100 million customers. Sony laid indirect blame for the PSN’s downtime on hacktivist group Anonymous, which typically rallies a group of loosely connected hackers under moral or political banners.
PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable owners were unable to download new content for their games and play online with other players. The downtime came at a critical time for two major releases — Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat, both of which prominently featured online play and had received a good deal of critical acclaim.
Sony offered PSN users free games and a whole batch of other welcome-back goodies — like free subscriptions to the company’s premium PlayStation Plus version of the PSN — to entice players to continue using the PSN. The packages will probably appease a large number of console and handheld gaming device owners. But a lot of gamers — myself included — already own those Triple-A titles, and find they aren’t really worth as much as they used to be.

VentureBeat previously published a timeline for the PlayStation Network outage.
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A Break For Churchill Live As Season Two Comes To A Close

One of the country's highest rated shows, Churchill Live will air its last episode for Season Two tonight before going on a break. The show, which airs on NTV, was on air for 43 weeks and everybody agrees that they need to take a break to review and restructure the show. Churchill's die hard fans, fret not, the crew is already thinking about season three!
However, they don't know when they will be back as that depends on NTV. The final show has Kenya's Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka as the guest. Big Brother Africa's evicted housemate Nic Wang'ondu as well as rapper Nonini also make appearances.
The show's last live recording was chaotic backstage when Makadara MP Gidion "Sonko" Mbuvi turned up at the Carnivore restaurant demanding to be interviewed but his hasty request was turned down. A month ago he made a last minute cancellation on a scheduled appearance.
He proceeded to get drunk at the bar as his bodyguards had an altercation with a photographer.

Victoria Beckham due to give birth next week

London, Jul 6 (PTI) Victoria Beckham has quashed reports that she is set to give birth to her first daughter this week.
Following reports that the former Spice Girl was due to have a Caesarian section on July 4, a representative for the Beckhams has stated that the rumours are not true, reported Daily Mail.
Speculation on Twitter had even claimed that Victoria had given birth to a baby girl named ''Felicity''.
"The rumours are rubbish, Victoria has not had the baby but she will be giving birth soon," said the spokesperson.
David''s publicist Simon Oliveria also took to Twitter on Monday to deny the reports, telling followers, "Contrary to certain reports, David and Victoria Beckham''s baby is not due today and that was never the case".
A representative later revealed that Victoria is due to give birth next week instead.
Speaking at the launch of the new Los Angeles Galaxy football strip, David spoke enthusiastically about the prospect of raising his first daughter.
"It''s a whole new different thing for us. To have so much pink in the house, lilac in the house, and dresses. All the clothes are ready, the room''s ready. We''re really excited".
Victoria Beckham and husband David are already parents to three boys, Brooklyn, Cruz and Romeo.

Strauss-Kahn case maid sues New York Post over prostitute allegation

Newspaper and five of its journalists face lawsuit amid spate of leaks about alleged sexual attack

A reporter holds up the front page of the New York Post on Saturday 2 July. Photograph: Allison Joyce/Reuters

The hotel maid at the centre of the attempted rape case against the former head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is suing the New York Post for libel after the newspaper accused her of working as a prostitute.
The lawsuit was filed against the Post and five of its journalists after a stream of articles over the weekend that claimed she had engaged in sex work both in the Sofitel hotel where Strauss-Kahn had been staying at the time of the alleged assault and afterwards when the maid was under the protective care of New York police.
The legal action, reported by Reuters, says that "all of these statements are false, have subjected the plaintiff to humiliation, scorn and ridicule throughout the world by falsely portraying her as a prostitute or as a woman who trades her body for money and they constitute defamation and libel per se."
The prosecution case against Strauss-Kahn is in deep crisis after the admission made last week by the Manhattan district attorney's office that there were "major holes" in the woman's account of events.
The prosecutors agreed to release Strauss-Kahn from house arrest but said they continue to investigate the allegations of a forcible sexual attack.
Prosecutors said last week they believe the alleged victim, a refugee from Guinea, lied over claims she was gang raped when she submitted a claim for political asylum in the US. She has also lied about her taxes and investigators found deposits made into her bank account of $100,000 (£60,000) over the past two years, some of which came from a drug dealer.
But as the main case flounders, it has been joined by a flurry of legal action on the sides.
A French writer, Tristane Banon, has now filed a criminal complaint in the French courts that alleges Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her in 2003 while she was conducting an interview with him. Banon told L'Express that "I can't take it anymore hearing that I must be lying because I haven't filed suit".
Strauss-Kahn has dismissed her claim as "imaginary".
The maid's libel action suggests that the New York Post had published defamatory articles "in an apparent desperate attempt to bolster its rapidly plunging sales".
In one weekend report, the paper accused the 32-year-old of demanding payment from Strauss-Kahn after having sex with him in his hotel room.
A separate report alleges that she continued to work as a prostitute in a hotel in Brooklyn while under the safekeeping of the district attorney's office.
The lawsuit says that the reports were published by the Post even though the newspaper knew they were false or should have known that they were false.
The unravelling of the Strauss-Kahn prosecution has been accompanied by an extraordinary spate of leaks to the New York media. In the latest, the New York Times revealed details of the account given by the maid to staff at St Luke's Roosevelt Crime Victim Treatment Center just hours after the alleged attack.
According to paper, the maid said that as soon as she entered his room Strauss Kahn had pushed her on to the bed and began to assault her. She freed herself only to be attacked again.
A director of the rape crisis centre that drew up the report has expressed intense unhappiness about the leaks. Susan Xenarios, a director, said they were "outrageous." "We have been in operation for 35 years and this has never happened before. Everything is leaking it seems," she said. "There are days when I feel psychotic about this."
Xenarios said she was fearful of the impact all these leaks would have on other victims. "I am very concerned that it will have wider ramifications."
She said Strauss-Kahn was a person of "extreme international power. I don't know how that factors in. The whole thing is very disturbing".
In France, the possible return of Strauss-Kahn to the French presidential race has plunged the Socialist party into a fresh round of infighting.
The latest poll showed that even if all charges are dropped against Strauss-Kahn, a majority of French people neither want him to stand nor think he will stand.

Student splits 40k in winning among runners up

The event - a foul-shooting contest for top academic students at Compton High School in Los Angeles - was created with a simple premise: Organizers wanted to show the kids at Compton how to create community spirit with college scholarship money as the incentive.



Allen Geui won in front of a packed house.

Following a tear-jerking gesture from the winner - it appears the true lessons learned were by the adults.
The kids in Compton are more than alright.
Three months after winning the $40,000 top prize, Allan Guei donated all of his winnings to the seven other finalists.
Guei, a star player on the basketball team who is headed to Cal-State Northridge on a full scholarship, said he felt the others could use the college cash more than he could. He wanted to give his classmates a chance to make their academic dreams come true, too.
"I've already been blessed so much and I know we're living with a bad economy, so I know this money can really help my classmates," he said in a release from the school. "It was the right decision."
One that stunned Court Crandall, the man behind the event.
"What he has done is exceptional, just like Allan," he said. "Like any young people, whether it's my kids or someone else's, you hope they are given opportunities to show what they can do. These Compton High grads have a lot of talent. They have a lot of drive, and I wish them all the best."
Crandall, a partner at the Southern California advertising firm WDCW and a hollywood screenwriter whose credits include "Old School," came up with the idea after watching his 16-year-old son play on a basketball team with some Compton students.
Crandall felt foul shooting was something that could unite a community regardless of racial divide. He felt doing it in Compton - a community battling an image problem - could help change those attitudes, too.
"I thought the free throw is a good metaphor in a world where there's a bunch of lines that are kind of dividing us," Crandall said afterward. "The focus became, how do we show the world another side of Compton, that's more positive, beyond the stereotypical guns and crime stuff."
The only requirement for the contest is that the students must have a GPA of 3.0 and above. After receiving nearly 100 applicants, eight contestants were chosen at random. The contest was held in March.
"My hope was that what started as a competition would become a collaboration with the kids supporting each other," Crandall told the L.A. Times. "They did, but in the end they did that to a much greater extent than I ever could have anticipated."
The students were filmed throughout the ordeal as part of a documentary that is scheduled to be released this fall.
One of the final scenes figures to be Compton principal Jesse Jones making the surprise announcement at the school's graduation in June.
"Allan is a great basketball player, but he is a better citizen than a basketball player," Jones said. "It's truly a blessing."
Even though Guei was a basketball star, Crandall allowed him to enter the contest to reward him for his academic efforts.
Guei would have been allowed to keep the money under NCAA rules. The other finalists, who will receive roughly $5,500, are thankful that he will not.
Donald Dotson, who also plans to attend Cal-State Northridge, said Guei is "a very deep, intelligent, and warm person."
Dotson figures his gesture will pay forward.
"He's going to go really far in life," he said. "Because of what he's done for us, God will bless him. That's what life is all about; stepping forward to help other people."
The irony in this story: Compton's boys basketball team advanced to the Southern Section Division 2AA title game last winter before losing . The team was done in by poor foul shooting.

Free Throw update from Court Crandall on Vimeo.

Nancy Grace 'cannot believe that Caylee’s death has gone unavenged' in Casey Anthony trial

Nancy Grace on the Casey Anthony verdict

Nancy Grace, the notoriously contentious CNN host who has closely followed the 33-day Casey Anthony trial, was beside herself with outrage when the jury acquitted the young mother of murder charges.
"I absolutely cannot believe that Caylee’s death has gone unavenged," Grace said on the cable channel moments after Anthony was found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter, a charge that could have sent Anthony to death row.
"'Tot Mom' will be walking free. She’s headed back to jail. Sentencing for a few lesser counts, false information she released, will take place 9 a.m. sharp Thursday morning," Grace continued, utilizing her nickname for Anthony. "And you've got to wonder what the state is thinking now. They gave it their all; they gave it 200%. They gave scientific evidence like none ever seen in the country before, behavioral evidence that knocked everybody off of their seat."
Grace, a former prosecutor, concluded: "But, in the end, Tot Mom’s lies seemed to have worked."
The host speculated that once Anthony emerges from jail, where she has been held for several years, she will be greeted with a "big fat book deal" and/or "a made for TV movie", but will probably spend all the money quickly.
"It's tough when you think about Caylee and you think about this evidence and you think about all those days that Tot Mom went about partying as if Caylee had never existed," she said.
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Mystery bird: scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber

This Brasilian mystery bird's brilliant red plumage colour is an example of an "honest signal"

Scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber (formerly, Guara rubra; protonym, Scolopax rubra), also known locally as the gaurá, photographed at Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon, Brazil.
Image: Dave Rintoul, 27 May 2011 [velociraptorize].
Canon EOS 5D Mark II, ISO: 800, 1/125 sec, f/5.6 330mm

Question: How does this elegant Brasilian mystery bird get its intense plumage colour and what is its purpose? This species also has black wingtips; what might be the evolutionary reason for that? Is this species monochromatic? Can you identify this species?
Response: This is a scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber. These elegant birds are monochromatic, meaning that males and females are equally colourful. (Males are somewhat larger than females.) Scarlet ibises consume a diet of frogs, reptiles and crustaceans -- and it is the carotenoids within the bodies of the crustaceans that give scarlet ibises their stunning colour. The birds concentrate the carotenoids that they obtain from their diet and deposit these pigments into their feathers when they moult. The brilliant colouring helps the adults attract mates -- the brighter their colour, the more attractive they are as mates.
There are several hypotheses that may explain this observation. Since birds with a high parasite load cannot store as much carotenoid pigments, their colouring is not as brilliant as that of healthier individuals. So brighter colour is associated with better genes.
Also keep in mind that older birds are brighter in colour than younger birds. The "handicap principle" suggests that these older, brighter-coloured birds are more clever and able to evade predators despite the handicap provided by their bright colouring, and thus, they have better genes.
Because the brightness of an individual's plumage can be used to reliably predict its overall quality as a potential mate, this is an example of an "honest signal".
Juvenile scarlet ibises resemble white ibises due to their lack of scarlet colouring, and some authorities believe the scarlet and white ibis to be subspecies.
The black wingtips are the only part of the scarlet ibis's plumage that is not scarlet in colour. This is due to the presence of the dark pigment, melanin, in the feather structure. This pigment helps strengthen the feather and provide greater resistance to abrasion, as fingsaint pointed out.

Time is running out for winner to claim $250,000 lottery prize

SOMERVILLE — The odds are stacked against you — 1 in 3.9 million, to be exact — of predicting the five winning numbers (minus the Mega Ball) in the Mega Millions lottery. Someone beat those odds, but has yet the claim the ticket.
On July 27, 2010, a Mega Millions ticket worth $250,000 was purchased at McAleavy’s Newsstand at 10 E. Main St. in Somerville.
The ticket has been unclaimed and, by New Jersey law, the holder of the ticket has until July 27 to claim the prize.
“The holder of this winning ticket should immediately sign the back of the ticket and call lottery headquarters or visit a local Lottery retailer to file their claim before the ticket expires,” New Jersey Lottery Executive Director Carole Hedinger said in a statement.
There were 15 winning tickets worth the $250,000 prize, including three from New Jersey. The other two in-state winners were Silvia Gailliard of Westampton and Pamela Kopp of Hasbrouck Heights. The tickets matched all the numbers but the Mega Ball.
The winning Mega Millions game numbers drawn on July 27, 2010, were: 2, 7, 10, 16 and 29 and the gold Mega Ball number was 8.
An annual average of $38.2 million has gone unclaimed over the past five years. It reached a peak in 2010 with $42.2 million unclaimed.
By law: “Unclaimed prize money for the prize on a winning ticket or share shall be retained by the director for the person entitled thereto for one year after the drawing in which the prize was won. If no claim is made for said money within such year, the prize money shall be allocated to State institutions and State aid for education in the same manner as lottery revenues are allocated for such purposes under this act.”
McAleavy’s Newsstand has been in business since 1989 and participating in the New Jersey Lottery since the state added Mega Millions in 1999.
“We sell to a lot of neighbors around the area and to businesses that start office pools,” said Jesal Amin, the store’s owner. “When the jackpot goes up, we usually sell to a lot more people.”

Tanzania 'will mine uranium on Selous Game Reserve'

The Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania is one of the largest fauna reserves in the world

Tanzania will go ahead with plans to mine uranium in the UN World Heritage site Selous Game Reserve, the natural resources minister has told the BBC.

Ezekiel Maige said he told the recent UN World Heritage Centre meeting it would mean the park's size would need to be reduced by less than 1%.
The UN body said it would approve the plans, as long as environmental assessments were carried out.
Money made from the mining would help in the park's upkeep, Mr Maige said.
According to the UN cultural organisation Unesco, the 5m hectare-Selous Game Reserve in the south of Tanzania has large numbers of elephants, black rhinos, cheetahs, giraffes, hippos and crocodiles - and is relatively undisturbed by humans.
'Regrettable' In an interview with the BBC Swahili Service, Mr Maige said the uranium mining project was in its infancy, but it would only affect about 0.69% of the current World Heritage site park and would be an important source of income for the country.

"Radiation levels will remain the same - the minerals in the ground are already emitting a degree of radiation, but it is not dangerous for human beings”

End Quote Ezekiel Maige Natural resources minister

Firms could expect to earn $200m (£125m) each year from mining uranium from the site, of which $5m would be paid to the government, he said.

Some of this would be able to help with the costly business of managing the park, and it would provide employment for about 1,600 Tanzanians.
During the annual meeting of the World Heritage Committee, the minister said concern had also been expressed about the Undendeule Forest Reserve, to the south of the Selous Game Reserve.
But Mr Maige, who also serves as Tanzania's tourism minister, insisted there would be no impact on that forest either.
He said it currently costs the government about $490,000 a year to manage it and the income from mining would help pay for guards to stop poaching.
He said Tanzania did not need permission from Unesco to go ahead with its uranium mining plan, but the East African nation wanted to take into account the organisation's recommendations.
"The uranium project will go ahead," he told the BBC.
Unesco spokesman Lazare Eloundou Assomo told the BBC it would be "regrettable" if Tanzania started uranium mining without the UN body's approval.
He did not say how long the assessments would take.
The World Heritage Committee wanted Tanzania's own assessment to be approved by the country's environmental agency, Mr Maige said.
The second requirement was for a UN team of experts to visit the area to give their own recommendations for the protection of the ecosystem.
The minister said a decision would then be taken at next year's WHC meeting about changing the boundaries of the Selous Game Reserve.
Studies so far had shown that there was no need for concern about radiation poisoning from the uranium extraction in the area, Mr Maige said.
"Radiation levels will remain the same - the minerals in the ground are already emitting a degree of radiation, but it is not dangerous for human beings, the animals or the [Mkuju] river," he said, adding that the uranium would be processed abroad.

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