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Total 100 articles, created at 2016-04-05 18:03 1 The Panama Papers show why Britain needs to get its house in order

(2.00/3) David Cameron talks the talk about cleaning up international finance. Yet some of the biggest havens of dirty money are British territories and London property• Corbyn says UK should impose direct rule on tax havens• Five things Britain could do now to clean up tax havens• What are the... 2016-04-05 15:03 4KB www.theguardian.com 2 Panama Papers: Labour urges probe into Britons including PM's family (2.00/3) Labour calls for an inquiry into all Britons linked to tax haven allegations including David Cameron's family, as the PM insists he has "no shares". 2016-04-05 13:45 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 3 Photo highlights of the day: protests in Paris and flooding in Pakistan

(2.00/3) The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of the best photographs from around the world 2016-04-05 14:08 808Bytes www.theguardian.com 4 Governments face fallout from offshore accounts report FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Governments around the world tried Tuesday to contain

(2.00/3) the fallout from the publication of thousands of names of rich and powerful p... 2016-04-05 13:40 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk 5 Villanova cancels classes after NCAA basketball victory VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — Villanova University has canceled classes Tuesday as students

(2.00/3) celebrate the men's basketball team's first NCAA championship title since... 2016-04-05 13:28 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 6 Congress flip-flops on 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' controversy The Congress leaders who had demanded suspension of an AIMIM legislator because he refused to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ a couple of weeks ago, took a sharp U turn on (2.00/3) Monday in the legislature when it asked the CM Devendra Fadnavis to apologise for demanding that the slogan... 2016-04-05 12:16 3KB www.mid-day.com 7 Pratyusha Banerjee death: Mumbai Police register case against Rahul Raj Singh Mumbai Police, on Tuesday registered an abetment of suicide case against Pratyusha Banerjee's boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh 2016-04-05 18:03 2KB www.mid-day.com 8 Four held for shouting slogans in Maharashtra Assembly gallery Four persons were detained by Vidhan Bhawan security staff here today after they shouted slogans from the House visitor's gallery 2016-04-05 17:56 1KB www.mid-day.com 9 GOP appeal to conservatives with health care, immigrant cuts Trying to win over conservatives, House Republicans are sweetening their budget proposal by putting several programs on the chopping block, including President Barack Obama’s health care law and tax credits for children of immigrants living in the country illegally. 2016-04-05 16:24 4KB www.washingtontimes.com 10 McAuliffe vetoes immigration bills Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has vetoed GOP-backed legislation that would have prohibited state and local officials from releasing people from jail if federal immigration officials had requested they be detained. 2016-04-05 16:20 1KB www.washingtontimes.com

11 Strolling swan brings city traffic to standstill in Manchester Swan takes a casual stroll along a road in Manchester city centre bringing Monday morning traffic to standstill. 2016-04-05 16:55 937Bytes www.bbc.co.uk 12 2 ex-baggage handlers charged with drug trafficking at LAX Federal agents arrested two former baggage handlers Monday on suspicion of trafficking several pounds of cocaine through Los Angeles International Airport, the second time in weeks that airline or airport employees have been accused of smuggling drugs there. 2016-04-05 16:41 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 13 Opposition demand Baleka step down from presiding over debate Opposition parties have called on Speaker of the National Assembly Baleka Mbete to recuse herself from presiding over today's debate to remove Jacob Zuma from office calling her a “constitutional illiterate”. 2016-04-05 15:02 1022Bytes www.timeslive.co.za 14 Jade Lynch: Missing St Helens girl's social media 'silence' A 14-year-old girl's social media accounts have been "silent" since she disappeared 10 days ago, say police. 2016-04-05 13:45 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 15 Facebook's VR firm Oculus offers shipping refund Facebook-owned Virtual Reality firm Oculus is offering shipping refunds on all pre- ordered devices following delays. 2016-04-05 13:45 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 16 The stalker and the woman who refused to give in What's it like to be stalked for a decade? One woman tells her story. 2016-04-05 13:45 8KB www.bbc.co.uk 17 Tribe breaking ground on Massachusetts casino project Another casino project is joining the fray in New England’s increasingly crowded gambling scene. 2016-04-05 14:32 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 18 Vermont Senate committees hold joint hearing on dams Two Vermont Senate committees are holding a joint hearing on a series of hydroelectric dams on the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers that are up for sale. 2016-04-05 14:31 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 19 Indian lunar orbiter hit by heat rise - CNN.com Scientists have switched off several on-board instruments to halt rising temperatures inside India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft. 2016-04-05 15:08 2KB rss.cnn.com 20 Shuttle Endeavour lands at California air base - CNN.com Space shuttle Endeavour landed safely Sunday afternoon at California's Edwards Air Force Base after NASA waved off two opportunities for a Florida landing because of poor weather. 2016-04-05 08:03 3KB rss.cnn.com 21 Evergrande on brink of shock AFC Champions League exit Yuki Muto’s second-half winner left title-holders Guangzhou Evergrande teetering on the brink of a shock AFC Champions League exit as they went down 1-0 to U... 2016-04-05 14:22 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 22 Genette Tate murder file against Robert Black submitted to CPS An evidence file against a man suspected of murdering a schoolgirl almost 40 years ago is submitted to prosecutors, the BBC learns. 2016-04-05 13:45 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 23 “His Dark Materials” fans, rejoice: This new adaptation could actually do Philip Pullman’s novels justice BBC has assembled a dream team of "Dr. Who" and "Skins" creatives to give the brilliant trilogy its proper due 2016-04-05 13:10 2KB salon.com.feedsportal.com 24 Public discontent rises as Jacob Zuma's ship sinks in South Africa Nkandla scandal highlights widespread disappointment over ANC leadership’s failure to address deep-rooted problems 2016-04-05 14:11 6KB www.theguardian.com 25 Office nap rooms may soon be as common as conference rooms "Sleeping on the job" could take on a whole new meaning VIDEO 2016-04-05 13:03 1KB salon.com.feedsportal.com 26 The “Draft Paul Ryan” fantasy: A soothing fiction to make donor-class Republicans feel better GOP insiders are fooling themselves into believing Paul Ryan is a viable alternative to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz 2016-04-05 12:59 3KB salon.com.feedsportal.com 27 Donald Trump sets his campaign on fire: A self-destructive madman has decided he wants to lose Perhaps no front-runner has ever had a week so dreadful. Facing a November rout, maybe this is all part of the plan 2016-04-05 13:05 4KB salon.com.feedsportal.com 28 This is much worse than the Panama Papers: How America became a world leader in tax avoidance No Americans have been implicated in the stunning document trove detailing widespread global corruption — yet 2016-04-05 13:02 4KB salon.com.feedsportal.com 29 Inside the UK's white-collar cage fighting scene Mixed martial arts, or cage fighting, has an amateur scene fast growing in popularity among working professionals. 2016-04-05 13:45 6KB www.bbc.co.uk 30 War-wounded military dog awarded charity medal A military dog who lost her leg on duty in Afghanistan receives a vet charity's medal honouring the work of animals in war. 2016-04-05 13:45 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 31 Leonardo DiCaprio 'lacked information' about Indonesia rainforest Indonesia's environment and forestry minister says Leonardo DiCaprio "lacked complete information" when he criticised the destruction of rainforests. 2016-04-05 13:45 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 32 Migrants returned to Turkey from Greece under EU deal The first boats carrying migrants deported from Greece have arrived in Turkey. 2016-04-05 13:45 642Bytes www.bbc.co.uk 33 Moderate union debates industrial action on academy plan Moderate teaching unions considers industrial action over government plans to force all schools in England to become academies. 2016-04-05 13:45 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 34 Revenge porn: Movie studios attack draft law The Motion Picture Association of America opposes draft "revenge porn" legislation that is being considered in the US state of Minnesota. 2016-04-05 13:45 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 35 Myanmar parliament approves Aung San Suu Kyi 'PM-like' role Myanmar's parliament passes a bill that gives Aung San Suu Kyi a role similar to that of prime minister, despite a boycott by unelected military lawmakers. 2016-04-05 14:47 2KB www.bbc.co.uk

36 Lancaster mom charged in daughter's death appears in court April Victoria Gleason of Lancaster, SC appears in court Monday for a bond hearing. She is charged with homicide by child abuse after investigators say she knowingly left her daughter, Soren Chilson, alone with the man police say eventually killed the child. 2016-04-05 11:06 3KB www.heraldonline.com 37 Thane: Police informer cries foul, claims he was framed in smuggling case Alleges that police took a bribe of Rs 20 lakh from kingpin of the racket and revealed his identity as well; cops say just a misunderstanding 2016-04-05 13:48 3KB www.mid-day.com 38 UK service sector growth 'remains subdued' Growth in the UK's services sector picked up slightly last month but remained "sluggish", a survey says. 2016-04-05 13:45 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 39 White British pupils 'lag behind ethnic minority peers' White British children in England's schools have fallen behind children from other ethic backgrounds by the time they take GCSEs, a report suggests. 2016-04-05 13:45 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 40 Who might save Tata Steel in Port Talbot? Sarah Dickins looks at who might take over the threatened Tata steelworks in Port Talbot. 2016-04-05 13:45 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 41 Italy ups stakes in student murder as Egypt sends team to Rome Italy on Tuesday warned Egypt it would not accept a "fabricated" account of the brutal murder of student Giulio Regeni from a delegation of prosecutors and p... 2016-04-05 13:38 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk 42 New Lamborghini suitcase is worth more than a small car Lamborghini has teamed with fellow Italian company TecknoMonster to create a range of luxury suitcases made from carbon fibre cured in an autoclave, fully-machined aluminium and high-grade hides. 2016-04-05 13:37 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 43 ISIS goes high-tech, launches forensics division Contact WND ISIS released a new propaganda recruitment tool of slick imagery that showed terrorists engaged in the group’s latest endeavor: fingerprinting and forensics. MEMRI reported the pictorial display was aimed at recruiting new members who would help underscore the caliphate as “real,” not imaginary, by showcasing the... 2016-04-05 13:36 2KB www.wnd.com 44 “I’m dropping in, not dropping out”: John Kasich refuses to bow out He's not going anywhere VIDEO 2016-04-05 13:45 1KB salon.com.feedsportal.com 45 Three left with 'traumatic injuries' after boat crashes in Florida Three people with 'traumatic injuries' were rushed to the hospital after a boat owned by Florida state Sen David Simmons' company crashed into a dock. Officials said 'alcohol may have been a factor'. 2016-04-05 13:33 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 46 1991 Pilibhit Fake Encounter: CBI court awards life sentence to 47 cops A special CBI court yesterday sentenced 47 policemen to life imprisonment for killing 10 Sikh pilgrims in a fake encounter in Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh 25 years ago 2016-04-05 13:25 2KB www.mid-day.com 47 Petrol hiked by Rs.2.19/litre, diesel by 98 paise State-run Indian Oil Corp (IOC) hiked transport fuel rates from Tuesday, increasing petrol by Rs.2.19 a litre and diesel by 98 paise -- both at Delhi, with corresponding increase in other states, on the back of a further hardening of global crude oil rates 2016-04-05 13:23 1KB www.mid-day.com 48 Dispatchers 'passed around 911 call about Uber gunmen before shooting' A passenger phoned in saying 45-year-old Jason Daltton had hit a car and had been driving erratically around Kalamazoo on February 20, the night of the mass shooting. 2016-04-05 13:14 5KB www.dailymail.co.uk 49 Police psychological sick leave up 35% in five years Cases of UK police officers and staff taking long-term sick leave for psychological reasons rise by 35% over five years, police figures suggest. 2016-04-05 08:49 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 50 His most terrifying interview yet: Why Trump’s sit down with Bob Woodward should have America petrified In a conversation with the Washington Post, Trump demonstrated exactly why he's so dangerous in 2016 2016-04-05 13:45 3KB salon.com.feedsportal.com 51 Eurovision: Australian entry 'does not break rules' Australia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest is cleared of breaching rules on product placement. 2016-04-05 13:45 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 52 In pictures: Albinism and perceptions of beauty Justin Dingwall's series of portraits explores the aesthetics of albinism and perceptions of beauty. 2016-04-05 13:45 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 53 Mobile chat apps Line, Kakao flourishing among young Asians Forget Facebook and Twitter. 2016-04-05 12:40 8KB mynorthwest.com 54 Early morning rains take Mumbaikars by surprise It may be April, but Mumbaikars had to bring out their umbrellas again as rains hit the city early on Tuesday morning. Rains were witnessed in Borivli and Kandivli region at around 6:30 am 2016-04-05 12:35 2KB www.mid-day.com 55 No slowdown in legal highs flooding Europe, say drug watchdogs More than 100 new psychoactive substances reported in 2015 as report highlights challenge facing UK government 2016-04-05 12:30 5KB www.theguardian.com 56 Myanmar's former president leaves office, joins monkhood Myanmar's former president Thein Sein has shed his formal attire and his hair to join the Buddhist monkhood. 2016-04-05 12:28 2KB mynorthwest.com 57 Pakistan and Afghanistan join forces to wipe out polio Islamic scholars have been countering the Taliban’s anti-vaccine campaign, accompanying health workers to urge parents to inoculate their children 2016-04-05 12:27 5KB www.theguardian.com

58 Beauty queen is arrested again for stealing from a couple's home Liliana Vanegas, who is originally from Colombia, has now been accused of stealing another watch an valuables in a similar scam after meeting her alleged victims in Miami nightclubs. 2016-04-05 12:25 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 59 Al-Qaeda militants shoot down Syrian fighter jet and capture pilot Al-Qaeda militants have shot down a warplane with a surface-to-air missile and captured the pilot alive near the Syrian city of Aleppo. 2016-04-05 12:24 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 60 Assad used Panama law firm to get round international sanctions Three Syrian firms hit with punitive measures by the U. S., used the services of Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca to create a string of shadow companies, it has been reported. 2016-04-05 12:23 7KB www.dailymail.co.uk 61 Mother's Instagram is banned as her simnel cake looks like a breast' Sue Moseley, from London, is fighting to get her account reinstated after posting the image of her daughter Jenny's traditional Easter treat which is decorated with marzipan balls. 2016-04-05 12:19 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 62 How L’Oreal is turning to consumer reviews to boost online sales L’Oreal is hoping a new investment in consumer review technology will help instil confidence its brands, which include Yves Saint... 2016-04-05 12:18 2KB www.thedrum.com 63 Anthony Joshua hits back at "jealous" Tyson Fury Anthony Joshua has accused Tyson Fury of being jealous of his "beach body" and offered to lend the WBA and WBO heavyweight champion a hand in training. The 2... 2016-04-05 12:06 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 64 Male sperm whales DO use their massive foreheads to ram love rivals Researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia used structural engineering principles to test how the head (pictured) of the sperm whale might be able to resist strong impacts. 2016-04-05 12:00 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk 65 Why Wisconsin hasn't warmed to Donald Trump Donald Trump made quick work of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker when the two were Republican presidential primary opponents last year, lumping the popular conservative in with a crowded slate of political insiders. But now that the GOP's nominating contest has arrived in Walker's home state... 2016-04-05 11:57 1KB rss.cnn.com 66 Save the sex (for now); Brazilian scandal has it all The political scandal riveting Brazilians is as intriguing as any Latin soap opera they've ever obsessed over. Unfortunately for them, it's not fiction. 2016-04-05 11:53 918Bytes rss.cnn.com 67 Water crisis in Mumbai, but Chembur street flooded since 9 days Residents blame a leak in the water pipeline below a trench dug up on the road in Pestom Sagar area; no inkling of which agency had undertaken the dredging work 2016-04-05 11:51 2KB www.mid-day.com 68 Pratyusha Banerjee death: Messy end to TV star's life Stench and clutter that assailed cops as they entered actress' home on Sunday highlighted how she spent her last few days before committing suicide, with her life and home in shambles 2016-04-05 11:49 3KB www.mid-day.com 69 Leaks that shook the world The Panama Papers are the latest in a long line of leaks that have had political repercussions across the globe. 2016-04-05 11:49 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 70 Olivier Awards: Record eighth win for Judi Dench Dame Judi Dench wins a record eighth Olivier Award, this time for best actress in a supporting role. 2016-04-05 08:49 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 71 A Point of View: Does screen violence make society more violent? Moviemakers excel at recreating violence and gore on screen. But Will Self asks if we should view fictional violence with more caution. 2016-04-05 08:49 9KB www.bbc.co.uk 72 Rory McIlroy begins Masters preparation with hole-in-one on 16th at Augusta Rory McIlroy began his Masters preparation in spectacular fashion on Monday by making a hole-in-one on the 16th hole at Augusta National. McIlroy, who is loo... 2016-04-05 11:43 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 73 Islamic State hints at attacks in London, Berlin and Rome CAIRO, April 5 (Reuters) - The Islamic State militant group released a video on Tuesday suggesting it may carry out further attacks in the West, naming Londo... 2016-04-05 11:42 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 74 'Satisfying experiences' – including a bubble wrap carpet – key to Cadbury’s latest campaign Cadbury Dairy Milk has brought to life a plethora of “intensely satisfying experiences” as part of its new Taste Like This... 2016-04-05 11:41 2KB www.thedrum.com 75 Kenya's William Ruto due to hear war crimes case ruling Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto is due to hear if the International Criminal Court will drop the crimes against humanity charges he faces. 2016-04-05 08:49 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 76 India's sewer workers risking their lives Indian sewer workers are continuing to die due to a lack of safety equipment, as they toil, often bare-handed, in hellish conditions. 2016-04-05 08:49 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 77 How Cool! First AC local train reaches Mumbai Mumbai’s much-awaited first air-conditioned local train, which left Chennai on Friday, reached the city in the early hours of Tuesday. We have the first pictures 2016-04-05 11:40 2KB www.mid-day.com 78 A new threat to the American cowboy? Ranchers who graze their cattle in Oregon say plans to create a conservation area will threaten their way of life. 2016-04-05 08:49 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 79 Junior doctors' row: Government hit with second legal challenge over contracts A second legal challenge is made over the government's decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors in England, after a campaign group raised £100,000 online. 2016-04-05 08:49 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 80 Children as young as six 'stressed' about exams and tests The mental health of children as young as six is being blighted by exam stress, education staff tell their trade union. 2016-04-05 08:49 3KB www.bbc.co.uk

81 Queen's official residences to undergo £37m tourism revamp Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse are to undergo a £37m tourism revamp, the Royal Collection Trust charity announces. 2016-04-05 08:49 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 82 Ministers' language 'undermines human rights work', MPs say Ministers are creating a "perception" that human rights are not a priority for the government, a committee of MPs says. 2016-04-05 08:49 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 83 The 'next Einstein'? She's from Africa As calls for investment in African science get louder, the BBC meets some of the continent’s world-beating young researchers at the Next Einstein Forum in Senegal. 2016-04-05 08:49 6KB www.bbc.co.uk 84 Quantum computing: Game changer or security threat? Quantum computing offers financial institutions the prospect of faster transactions and lower trading costs, but is it also a threat to security? 2016-04-05 08:49 6KB www.bbc.co.uk 85 Orangutan who self-harmed is finally happy Baby Joss was taken from her mother in the wild by poachers, and sold on the black market pet shop for £25, but has now found a new at a 'monkey pre-school' on Borneo, Indonesia. 2016-04-05 11:37 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 86 S. Africa's Zuma faces impeachment move in parliament South African President Jacob Zuma faces an impeachment attempt in parliament Tuesday after the country's top court ruled that he had violated the constituti... 2016-04-05 11:30 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk 87 This Week in Pictures: Top Photos from Around the Globe Find this week's top photos from around the globe in ABC News' This Week in Pictures slideshow 2016-04-05 10:25 837Bytes abcnews.go.com 88 Julianne Moore & Lupita Nyong'o star in special edition magazines The new edition profiles influential women from the media and entertainment industries, including Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong'o, Vera Wang, Misty Copeland and Megyn Kelly. 2016-04-05 11:16 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk 89 Livonia - News Livonia - News 2016-04-05 06:18 2KB rssfeeds.hometownlife.com

90 Bupa UK teams up with The Futureheads to launch 'Body as a Band' digital campaign Bupa UK is aiming to raise awareness of its new health assessments with an interactive music video, starring The Futureheads, which shows... 2016-04-05 11:08 2KB www.thedrum.com 91 'No Franziska‚ no bail' say court protesters Dozens of women wearing T-shirts proclaiming 2016-04-05 11:07 1KB www.timeslive.co.za

92 Lidl’s £78m ad spend seals ‘fastest growing grocer’ title as Big Four fightback continues Lidl has held on to its ‘fastest growing supermarket’ crown, increasing its sales by 17.7 per cent to capture 4.4 per cent of... 2016-04-05 11:01 3KB www.thedrum.com

93 Wisconsin’s Time in the Campaign Spotlight The twin primaries in the state have the potential to further muddle the Democratic and Republican presidential races. 2016-04-05 11:00 2KB rss.nytimes.com 94 TV Week hits back at claims that the Logies are 'an embarrassment' TV's night of nights has been rocked by controversy following claims made by an industry 'insider' that TV Week's 2016 Logie awards nominations were rigged. 2016-04-05 11:00 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 95 The Times & The Sunday Times News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times 2016-04-05 06:11 568Bytes www.thetimes.co.uk 96 Brumbies flanker Pocock suspended for 2 Super Rugby matches CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia backrower David Pocock has been suspended for three weeks and will miss two Super Rugby matches after pleading guilty to... 2016-04-05 10:59 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 97 WB, Assam witness high voter turnout Conducted under heavy security, West Bengal and Assam registered an estimated 80% and 70% balloting respectively, for phase 1 2016-04-05 10:49 2KB www.mid-day.com 98 Perform or people will teach a lesson, Mehbooba Mufti tells ministers Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minster Mehbooba Mufti allocated portfolios to her team of ministers here overnight and told the ministers to 2016-04-05 10:44 2KB www.mid-day.com 99 Farmer from drought-hit Amravati attempts suicide in Delhi A 32-year-old distraught farmer from Maharashtra's drought-hit Amravati district allegedly attempted suicide at Jantar Mantar here today 2016-04-05 10:43 1KB www.mid-day.com 100 Panama papers leak: Arun Jaitley vows action, sets up multi-agency probe 11 million leaked documents — several times larger than the WikiLeaks cables — from a Panamanian law firm have revealed offshore accounts linked to the world’s most prominent people; hundreds of Indians have been named so far and the Centre has already set up a multi-agency probe,... 2016-04-05 10:41 5KB www.mid-day.com Articles

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1 The Panama Papers show why Britain needs to get its house in order (2.00/3) W hoever leaked the information from the Panama-based company Mossack Fonseca has done for international tax regimes what the NSA leaker Edward Snowden did for international intelligence. As with the Snowden revelations, it took a fleet of assiduous journalists in half a dozen countries to start to make sense of the small print, but within hours of the first articles and broadcasts, a similar pattern emerged in the response. The Nordics, broadly speaking, were up in arms; last night, Icelanders were out on the streets calling for the resignation of their prime minister. US officialdom tried to pretend that nothing had really happened, while doubtless rushing around to limit the damage behind the scenes. The initial British reaction was to seek, and find, villains abroad; associates of Putin, Chinese leaders’ in-laws, North Korean VIPs, and now a relative of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. The grassroots response in the UK was, meanwhile, whatever the English translation is of plus ça change. As well it might be. The UK has long held a view of itself as superior to almost everywhere else, especially in matters of state-level ethics and law. A good portion of our aid budget is spent on anti-corruption programmes and lecturing others on respect for the “rule of law”. Ministers show the same condescension towards continental Europeans, especially southern Europeans, who are regarded collectively as more tolerant of corruption than we are. Yet almost every year, the UK slips a little further down the international league tables of corruption, as compiled by the NGO Transparency International. When David Cameron and others talk – as they have done, at length – about the need to clean up international finance, make global companies such as Google pay their tax , and root out money-laundering worldwide, there is always snickering in the aisles. Some of the biggest havens of dirty money, they argue, are British overseas territories and the London property market. And until a UK government is prepared to remove the beam in its own eye, rather than wittering on about the motes in the eyes of others, our credibility as a country will be compromised. All manner of arguments are presented as to why this cannot happen. The former attorney general, Dominic Grieve, asked this morning whether we really wanted to ruin the economies of British overseas territories , and insisted that their autonomy had to be respected – in the same way we had to respect the autonomy of Scotland. Well, it rather depends on your attitude to wealth built at least in part on dirty money and gaps in the law, doesn’t it? Perhaps the most shocking aspect of the Panama Papers is less what they actually show – we sort of knew that – but what they indicate. This is just one company in one small jurisdiction. Such practices must be replicated many, many times over. The only fractional hint of progress in official UK attitudes may be that no one – at least that I have heard so far – has tried to maintain that what was going on in one company has no parallels closer to home. Doing anything about it, of course, is another matter. Panama papers: UK tax havens 'should face direct rule' bbc.co.uk 2016-04-05 15:03 Mary Dejevsky www.theguardian.com

2 Panama Papers: Labour urges probe into Britons including PM's family (2.00/3) Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is calling for an independent inquiry into all Britons linked to tax haven allegations - including David Cameron's family. Mr Corbyn said the prime minister must "set the record straight" and publish his tax returns. Mr Cameron responded by saying he had "no shares, no offshore trusts, no offshore funds, nothing like that". He said he had led international efforts to crack down on "aggressive tax avoidance" and evasion. The row centres on an investment fund set up by Mr Cameron's late father Ian. Leaked documents revealed Ian Cameron was a client of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca and used one of the most secretive - albeit lawful - tools of the offshore trade after he helped set up a fund for investors. It is not clear whether Mr Cameron's family retains an interest in the fund, which was registered in the Bahamas to shield it from UK tax. Jeremy Corbyn said: "I think the prime minister, in his own interest, should tell us exactly what's been going on. "It's a private matter in so far as it's a privately held interest, but it's not a private matter if tax has not been paid. "So an investigation must take place, an independent investigation. " The Labour leader said he would publish his tax returns and called on the prime minister to do the same. Asked whether the PM should resign if he is found to have benefited, Mr Corbyn said: "Let's take one thing at a time. We need openness, we need an examination, we need a decision after that. " He said an inquiry was needed by HM Revenue and Customs to quickly get to the bottom of how much private wealth was being "siphoned off" overseas, claiming the British taxpayer is being short-changed by the super-wealthy being allowed to "dodge taxes and flout the rules". Mr Cameron said he agreed that HM Revenue and Customs must investigate alleged abuses uncovered in the leaked Panama papers. He added: "In terms of my own financial affairs, I own no shares. "I have a salary as prime minister, and I have some savings which I get some interest from and I have a house which we used to live in which we now let out while we're living in Downing Street, and that's all I have. " He said no prime minister had "done more to make sure we crack down on tax evasion, on aggressive tax avoidance, on aggressive tax planning both here in the UK and internationally". He said the government had reclaimed billions of pounds and led the world in having an open register of beneficial owners of companies, which is due to come into force in June. The BBC's Norman Smith said Downing Street was "incensed" at Labour's decision to personalise the tax haven issue. The leaked documents show that Ian Cameron, who died in 2010, was one of five UK directors of Blairmore Holdings who flew to board meetings in the Bahamas or Switzerland. There were also three directors in Switzerland and three in the Bahamas. If the meetings had been held in London, then it may have been considered resident in the UK and taxed as a UK company. The leaked documents also reveal how the company used bearer shares , ensuring the true owners - the wealthy investors in Blairmore Holdings - were kept hidden from view. Blairmore stopped using bearer shares in 2006. It was David Cameron's government that banned bearer shares in the UK in 2015. Downing Street has insisted the UK has been "ahead of the pack" in pushing for tax havens to become more transparent, helping secure 40 changes to international tax law to close loopholes. Eleven million leaked documents showed how Mossack Fonseca clients were able to launder money, dodge sanctions and avoid tax - the law firm says it has operated beyond reproach for 40 years. There are links to 12 current or former heads of state in the data, including dictators accused of looting their own countries. The Guardian has reported that a number of Conservative donors, supporters and former MPs are linked to tax havens around the world. A number of them have firmly denied any impropriety. Reaction around the world to the Panama papers includes:

UK could impose direct rule on tax havens, says Jeremy Corbyn theguardian.com 2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

3 Photo highlights of the day: protests in Paris and flooding in Pakistan (2.00/3) The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of the best photographs from around the world, including protests in Paris and flooding in Pakistan and a Somali fisherman with a catch

Gallery: The Daily Edit 04.05.16 charlotteobserver.com 2016-04-05 14:08 Matt Fidler www.theguardian.com

4 Governments face fallout from offshore accounts report (2.00/3) FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Governments around the world tried Tuesday to contain the fallout from the publication of thousands of names of rich and powerful people who conducted offshore financial activity through a Panamanian law firm. China dismissed as "groundless" reports that relatives of current and retired politicians, including President Xi Jinping, own offshore companies. The state media are ignoring the reports, and search results for the words "Panama documents" have been blocked on websites and social media. Iceland's prime minister has vowed to not resign despite thousands of angry protesters demanded he step down and call new elections. The leaks showed possible links to an offshore company that could represent a serious conflict of interest. And Ukraine's president was accused of abusing his office and of tax evasion by moving his candy business offshore, possibly depriving the country of millions of dollars in taxes. The reports are from a global group of news organizations working with the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. They have been processing the legal records from the Mossack Fonseca law firm that were first leaked to the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. Shell companies aren't by themselves illegal. People or companies might use them to reduce their tax bill legally, by benefiting from low tax rates in countries like Panama, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. But the practice is frowned upon, particularly when used by politicians, who then face criticism for not contributing to their own countries' economies. Because offshore accounts and companies also hide the names of the ultimate owners of investments, they can be used to illegally evade taxes or launder money. Mossack Fonseca says it obeys all laws relating to company registrations and does not advise people how to evade or legally avoid taxes. The firm said in a statement that "our industry is not particularly well understood by the public, and unfortunately this series of articles will only serve to deepen that confusion. "The facts are these: while we may have been the victim of a data breach, nothing in this illegally obtained cache of documents suggests we've done anything wrong or illegal, and that's very much in keeping with the global reputation we've worked hard to build over the past 40 years of doing business the right way. " Members of the Group of 20 — which includes China — have agreed on paper to tighten laws relating to shell companies and make sure authorities can find out who the real owners are. Actual legislation at the national level has lagged behind the promises, however. The appearance of offshore accounts in political scandals is far from new. Shell companies played a role in the Petrobras scandal in Brazil, in which bribes were allegedly funneled to politician's accounts from executives at the oil company and from construction companies. The U. S. Justice Department said in an indictment last year that offshore accounts were used to mask the transfer of bribes to officials at FIFA, the global soccer federation. China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said he would not discuss the reports further and declined to say whether the individuals named would be investigated. "For these groundless accusations, I have no comment," Hong told reporters at a regularly scheduled news conference. Sueddeutsche Zeitung, working with NDR and WDR public television, reported Monday that 14 German banks had used Mossack Fonseca's services to set up 1,200 letterbox companies for clients. The report said use of offshore company registrations had spiked after the European Union introduced regulations in 2005 requiring countries to exchange tax information on physical persons, but not for companies. Many of the accounts, however, have since been closed. The EU has since tightened its rules on offshore companies under its Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, which is being phased in as national governments pass local laws to comply by June 26, 2017. The new rules tighten requirements for companies to keep accurate information on their real owners and to make that available to authorities.

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5 Villanova cancels classes after NCAA basketball victory (2.00/3) VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — Villanova University has canceled classes Tuesday as students celebrate the men's basketball team's first NCAA championship title since 1985. Police say six people were arrested and 25 people were injured after Kris Jenkins' 3-pointer in the final seconds of the title game Monday night propelled the Wildcats over North Carolina 77-74. Radnor Police Sgt. Anthony Radico says one of those arrested was accused of assaulting a police horse. Students rushed from Villanova's arena, The Pavilion, onto a nearby commercial strip where pubs and restaurants festooned with balloons and banners were packed with revelers. Police in riot gear stood by as celebrants shouted and chanted wildly. There also were reports of some students scaling a light pole and others creating small bonfires. There are no details on the injuries.

NCAA: Is this the greatest basketball finish ever? bbc.co.uk 2016-04-05 13:28 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

6 Congress flip-flops on 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' controversy (2.00/3) The Congress leaders who had demanded suspension of an AIMIM legislator because he refused to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ a couple of weeks ago, took a sharp U turn on Monday in the legislature when it asked the CM Devendra Fadnavis to apologise for demanding that the slogan should be raised by the people who loved the country or else they should concede the right to stay in India. Fadnavis’ statement had come at a public rally in Nasik on Saturday night following which the Congress and other opposition parties slammed him. Congress leaders Prithviraj Chavan and Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil raised the issue in the legislative assembly on Monday. A big ruckus was created in support with the NCP inside and outside the house. A fiery Fadnavis told the house that he did no wrong in saying that the people who loved the country should say ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. “I will chant the slogan even if I’m the CM or not,” he said while rejecting the demand for apology, saying that he would not apologise even if that costs him the CM’s job. When Chavan asked Fadnavis whether he made a speech (in Nasik) as a worker of the RSS or as the CM, Fadnavis said that the RSS had taught him nationalism. “I spoke about the people who had spoken against our country. The people who do not love this country have no right to stay here,” he said. “Do you want my apology for chanting Bharat mata ki jai? Actually you should apologise to the minorities because you people have been doing a politics of vote bank,” the CM said amid a loud applause from the treasury benches. Congress amends its stand On March 16, the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly had suspended an All India Majlise Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) legislator Waris Pathan for telling the house that he will not chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. The Congress leader and opposition leader in Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil had first demanded Pathan’s suspension though senior minister Eknath Khadse had said that a mere apology should be enough. Pathan, who represents Byculla in Mumbai, will be under suspension for the remaining period of the budget session. He was charged for behaving in a manner that disrespected the country by misusing freedom of speech and breaching parliamentary traditions and procedures. Sources in the Congress said that the party’s high command wasn’t happy with the stand that leaders had taken in the AIMIM’s case. “The Congress feared that such acts of supporting the BJP-sponsored nationalistic moves on the floor of the house would cost the party minority support when the AIMIM was successful in portraying itself as a defiant force against the BJP,” said a Congress leader, requesting anonymity.

Dear Abby: Co-worker tempts a married woman chicago.suntimes.com 2016-04-05 12:16 By Dharmendra www.mid-day.com

7 Pratyusha Banerjee death: Mumbai Police register case against Rahul Raj Singh Mumbai Police, on Tuesday registered an abetment of suicide case against Pratyusha Banerjee's boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh. Rahul Raj Singh. Pic/PTI The case was filed at Bangur Nagar Police station by Pratyusha's mother, Soma Banerjee. Also Read: Cops to quiz Rahul Raj after discharge from hospital Rahul Raj is booked under section 306 (Abetment of suicide), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of Indian Penal code. Also Read: Did Pratyusha Banerjee plan to file a case against Rahul Raj? TV producer Rahul Raj Singh, currently in hospital, was booked after police registered an FIR based on a complaint filed by Banerjee's mother Soma at Bangurnagar Police Station. He has been booked under IPC sections related to abetment of suicide, voluntarily causing hurt and criminal intimidation, among others, a police official said. Police declined to divulge details regarding the investigation that led to registration of the FIR. They suspect Singh was in relationship with another woman about which the deceased was depressed. Earlier Rahul Raj Singh was on Sunday hospitalised after he complained of breathing problems while he was being questioned by police for the second day in connection with her alleged suicide even as sleuths searched her house for evidence. (Read more) On Monday, he was shifted to the general ward, his lawyer Neeraj Gupta said, adding his client was in trauma and depressed following the death of Banerjee. Also Read: Rahul Raj Singh was cheating on Pratyusha Banerjee: Kamya Punjabi As part of their probe, police spoke to several people, including the common friends of Singh and Banerjee, their close relatives, friends, neighbours and domestic helps. Police are awaiting the viscera report of the actress. Pratyusha, 24, had committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan of her home in suburban Goregaon on Friday evening, sending shockwaves in the glam and entertainment world.

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8 Four held for shouting slogans in Maharashtra Assembly gallery Four persons were detained by Vidhan Bhawan security staff here today after they shouted slogans from the House visitor's gallery. They shouted slogans demanding reservation for Dhangar community and against Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. Speaker Haribhau Bagde adjourned the House for 10 minutes. When the House resumed proceedings, Bagde said if such an instance happen again, action will be taken against legislators on whose recommendations the visitor's gallery entry passes are given.

2016-04-05 17:56 By PTI www.mid-day.com

9 GOP appeal to conservatives with health care, immigrant cuts WASHINGTON (AP) - Trying to win over conservatives, House Republicans are sweetening their budget proposal by putting several programs on the chopping block, including President Barack Obama’s health care law and tax credits for children of immigrants living in the country illegally. But cuts to programs like food stamps are on hold and a drive to cap medical malpractice awards has faltered before a GOP-controlled committee, though cuts to Medicaid and a popular program that provides health coverage to children have advanced through a panel responsible for federal health programs. Still, it may not be enough. And if the party’s broader budget plan sinks, the effort may fade. The strategy behind the work is to increase support for the budget, a nonbinding measure that sets a more than $1.1 trillion overall cap next fiscal year for the operating budgets of federal agencies. Beyond the appropriations cap, the measure calls for sweeping spending cuts to benefit programs like Medicaid, the health care law, and food stamps. So far, the idea of the so-called “sidecar” spending cuts hasn’t swayed conservatives opposing the broader budget outline over its endorsement of last year’s bipartisan budget pact between Obama and the GOP-controlled Congress. The situation amounts to a black eye for House Republicans and their new leader, Speaker Paul Ryan. Just three years ago, House Republicans lashed out at a Democratic-controlled Senate for failing to adopt a budget and forced through a temporary law that would have cut off the paychecks of lawmakers if they failed to pass a budget. “When I grew up in Wisconsin, if you had a job and you did the work, then you got paid. If you didn’t do the work you didn’t get paid. It’s that simple,” Ryan said at the time. “All we’re saying is: ‘Congress, follow the law. Do your work. Budget.’ “ The “No Budget, No Pay” law has lapsed, however, and for the first time since taking over the House in 2011, Republicans are at risk of failing to do a budget. If the broader but nonbinding budget plan remains stalled, the sidecar idea is likely to get scrapped, several GOP aides said. Republicans have never sought to actually implement the most controversial cuts they’ve proposed, such as transforming Medicare into a voucher-like program for future retirees or sweeping cuts to Medicaid health coverage for the poor, elderly and disabled. Instead, when proposing real, concrete spending savings. Republicans have gone after many of the same targets time after time, opting for cuts that are politically easy for GOP lawmakers. And that’s the case now with the two committees that have already approved their share of the 10- year, $140 billion in cuts called for by House GOP leaders. The tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and the Energy and Commerce panel have weighed in with cuts to a prevention fund established by the Affordable Care Act and a move to reclaim Obamacare subsidies from people whose income has unexpectedly increased. A temporary increase in the government’s contribution to a popular health care program for children from lower-income families would be repealed. The tax panel also would require taxpayers claiming the refundable portion of the $1,000 child tax credit to claim it by filing their taxes with a Social Security number rather than an ID number commonly used by immigrants working illegally, saving $20 billion over the coming decade. But an effort to save $44 billion by putting restrictions on medical malpractice awards unraveled in the Judiciary Committee last month. The measure was estimated to generate savings because doctors would be less likely to perform “defensive medicine.” The Judiciary measure would have placed a $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages and established new guidelines for punitive damages. That drew opposition from some panel Republicans, even though similar legislation has passed in prior years. “What this legislation does is goes and tells 15 states that since you do not have a limit on punitive damages, we are going to impose a limit on punitive damages in your state whether you like it or not,” said Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, an opponent of the measure. Story Continues →

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10 McAuliffe vetoes immigration bills RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has vetoed GOP-backed legislation that would have prohibited state and local officials from releasing people from jail if federal immigration officials had requested they be detained. The Democratic governor vetoed the legislation last week, saying it would unfairly treat immigrants “caught up in a broken immigration system.” The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports (http://goo.gl/YioRmb ) that legislation was an attempt to roll back a 2014 opinion by Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring, which said federal detainer requests are not legal requirements. McAuliffe said in a statement that the legislation attempted to stoke “irrational fears of non- citizens present” in Virginia. ___ Information from: Richmond Times-Dispatch, http://www.timesdispatch.com

2016-04-05 16:20 - Associated Press - Tuesday, April 5, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

11 Strolling swan brings city traffic to standstill in Manchester A swan out for a leisurely stroll brought Monday morning traffic to a near standstill in Manchester city centre. The bird reduced cars and HGVs to crawling speed as it went for a waddle along Great Ancoats Street just after rush hour at 10:00 GMT. The video was filmed and tweeted by Joe Daly, a literature promoter, as he left his home in the city centre. Mr Daly also called the police, who made sure the bird was safe as they got the traffic moving again along the dual carriageway.

2016-04-05 16:55 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

12 2 ex-baggage handlers charged with drug trafficking at LAX LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal agents arrested two former baggage handlers Monday on suspicion of trafficking several pounds of cocaine through Los Angeles International Airport, the second time in weeks that airline or airport employees have been accused of smuggling drugs there. The Transportation Security Administration has focused on combatting security threats from “insiders,” which also include workers hired by contractors. Last month, authorities found 70 pounds of cocaine in the luggage of a JetBlue flight attendant after she was flagged for a random security screening. In the most recent case, authorities seized about 2 pounds of cocaine from Alberto Preciado Gutierrez, 26, in an airport restroom in December, where he was trying to pass the drugs to a courier who had a plane ticket to New York. Adrian Ponce, 27, who was waiting for Preciado in a car nearby, was taken into custody. The men were arrested Monday following a joint investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI and local law enforcement and charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine through the airport. Their attorneys have not returned messages seeking comment on the allegations. Ponce said he worked with a large-scale distribution ring and had smuggled drugs with Preciado several times, according to authorities. He said they used Preciado’s status as a supervisor to bypass security screening and deliver cocaine samples to couriers. Ponce told investigators that if buyers liked the sample, then large shipments of more than 220 pounds of cocaine would be driven to the East Coast and that he had driven the truck on more than one occasion. The security risk from airline and airport employees became a bigger concern after several Delta Air Lines baggage handlers were arrested in December 2014. Prosecutors allege they smuggled guns, including an AK-47, from Atlanta to New York. The TSA has said that fully screening all employees would cost too much. Instead, the agency has urged airports to increase random screenings of workers and to keep background checks up to date. To prevent insider threats, authorities are limiting employee access to secure areas of LAX, Airport Police Chief Patrick Gannon said Monday. The agency says officers are randomly inspecting employees coming in and out of restricted areas. LAX police “take the possibility of an insider threat seriously and are creating an environment where every employee should expect they could be stopped and inspected at any time and any place while at the airport,” Gannon said in a statement. JetBlue flight attendant Marsha Gay Reynolds surrendered to federal authorities after fleeing an LAX checkpoint on March 18, where authorities allege she left a bag with 70 pounds of cocaine. TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger is scheduled to testify Wednesday before a U. S. Senate committee on airport security. In recent testimony, he promised federal lawmakers that the agency “will pay particular attention to the insider threat.”

2016-04-05 16:41 - Associated Press - Tuesday, April 5, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

13 Opposition demand Baleka step down from presiding over debate Following the Constitutional Court’s recent ruling, it strikes me that there is a fundamental flaw at the heart of our electoral system, which might explain how Parliament came to be in dereliction of its duty in the Zuma/Nkandla affair (and many others).

2016-04-05 15:02 Bianca Capazorio www.timeslive.co.za

14 Jade Lynch: Missing St Helens girl's social media 'silence' A 14-year-old girl's social media accounts have been "silent" since she disappeared 10 days ago, say police. Det Supt Jon Betts, of Cheshire Police, said Jade Lynch's "very active" social media behaviour had changed significantly since she went missing. Jade, who lives in St Helens, Merseyside, told family members she was going to meet someone in the town on 26 March but has not been seen since. Her sister Stephanie said: "It is not like her not to be in contact. " Live updates on this story and others from Merseyside and west Cheshire The teenager was last seen in the Duke Street area of St Helens by her two younger brothers. Her sister Stephanie Lynch described Jade as a "really loving girl" who is "always talking to friends". She added: "She's a typical teenager, she's always in contact with someone online or on her phone - always talking to someone - that's why we are so worried. "We just want to know she is ok because as she's got older we have got so much closer. " Det Supt Betts said Jade was "vulnerable". "If something has happened whilst you've been missing there is nothing that we can't deal with. All we are interested in, is bringing you home safe and well," he added. It is understood the 14-year-old has links to the Merseyside and Manchester areas but may also have connections in Cumbria and Bristol. She is originally from Warrington. She was last seen wearing a black hoodie, black trousers and white Nike trainers and is described as white, about 5ft 6in (1.7m) tall, of medium build, with long straight black hair. Anyone with any information about Jade or her whereabouts is asked to contact Cheshire Police.

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

15 Facebook's VR firm Oculus offers shipping refund Facebook-owned virtual reality firm Oculus is offering shipping refunds on all pre-ordered devices following delays. The first headsets were due to have arrived with customers on 28 March, but many are still waiting. The firm has blamed an "unexpected component shortage" and says customers should receive updated news on their orders by 12 April. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey said he had no further information to share. Mr Luckey was responding to a thread on Reddit, the world's largest community forum, which appealed directly to him. "Don't shunt blame to other people, this is my call," he wrote. "I am not going to wax poetic about this, since I have done so in the past, but bottom-line: I won't give in-depth updates on any situation without knowing it is solid, true, and finalised. "Until I can do so, the best I can do is remind people that I will get them information as quickly as I can. " Mr Luckey personally delivered the first Rift headset to a customer in Alaska last week. He posted a video of the handover on Facebook. Rival VR headset the HTC Vive is set to ship on 5 April.

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

16 The stalker and the woman who refused to give in What's it like to be stalked for a decade? One woman tells her story. This sort of thing can happen to very ordinary people and I should know, because I'm very ordinary. It's pervasive and it's common. We first met about 25 years ago when we both worked for my in-laws' family business. He was good company, a bit eccentric, but an interesting man to talk to. We eventually became close family friends. He got to know my husband and his parents and we even made him godfather to our son. The full story was on the iPM programme on BBC Radio 4 - catch up on BBC iPlayer Radio But a few years after that, things changed and became slightly awkward and slightly invasive. He became too interested in our son's education and the decisions we were making. In retrospect we should've known something was wrong, but we made allowances to avoid a confrontation. He was going through a divorce at the time and all I can think is that I represented the sort of housewife he always wanted. I'm good at cooking. I know how to darn socks and knit. And I have a son. It was our decision to move away from the area that proved to be the game changer though. He found that profoundly unsettling and became increasingly awkward. Through letters and phone calls he told us we were "chasing a lifestyle". When we did eventually move I thought we had escaped him, but I was soon proved wrong. He sent a letter to my mother-in-law, which was obviously designed to cause a major family rift. Luckily she saw through it and it was at that point we decided to cut all ties with him. "We don't want any more contact. This is not what we want," we told him. He didn't listen though. His letters and silent phone calls just became more unpleasant and four years after we moved house it all seemed utterly inescapable. I couldn't even go to the end of my own garden to empty the bin because I was so scared. There were two incidents where I was in the house and I would find something hung on the backdoor. Obviously he had come to the garden. When we did eventually get the police involved he was apparently surprised to get a caution from them. He didn't see that what he was doing was wrong and it made him more threatening. Instead of sending letters to me he started sending postcards that my son could see. He'd been stalking me for six years when he was issued with an injunction. You should contact the police if you're being stalked - you have a right to feel safe in your home and workplace. Call 999 if you or someone else is in immediate danger otherwise contact your local police. I thought it would help. I thought it would stop him, but he carried on as normal after a three-week hiatus. When he eventually broke it he was taken to court and used his appearance to get closer to me again. I was a protected witness so I spoke from behind screens. He represented himself, but because I was protected he wasn't allowed to cross-examine me. They brought in a barrister to speak his words. He said we had been in a relationship and that I should be charged with perjury for denying it, which meant I had to go through the trauma of invasive questioning from his barrister about our alleged affair. It was very unpleasant - repeated questioning and trying to put me in the wrong. He lost his case and went quiet for the nine weeks he was behind bars. It was during that time I began to wonder: "What if he attacked? " There were two or three fairly serious offers of "I know someone, if you pay me some money he'll be threatened". I wasn't tempted by that though, because my stalker was the kind of person who would use that to go to the police and make himself the victim. He's not stupid. He's very, very clever. The letters started again. He broke the injunction for a second time and three days before he was due in court we heard a strange noise that woke us in the middle of the night. We thought nothing of it, but early in the morning, the doorbell rang and my husband went downstairs. My stalker was at the front door holding a gun. My husband was pushing against the door. But the stalker got his foot inside the door and tried to force it open. There was a struggle and my husband managed to get the door shut. I rang the emergency services. But soon the stalker was crashing into the back door as we barricaded ourselves in the bedroom and after a few minutes we could hear him inside the house. He was going from room to room looking for us and he had a bladed hammer to smash the door down. As he pounded and shouted at our bedroom door I said to my husband: "I think we should jump. " I honestly don't think we'd have got out alive if he'd got in. I climbed out of the window. It's amazing how far you can jump when you have to. Once I was down I ran out to the road expecting it to be like an American cop drama with a horseshoe of police cars ready to protect me. It wasn't. The police were hanging back at the end of the road while they waited for armed officers to arrive. So I ran to the house opposite and a stranger leaving for work led me inside to safety. My husband got out slightly later. Meanwhile, the stalker was still in our house. Several hours passed before he surrendered and his parting gift was some convincing fake explosives left in our house that meant they brought the army in. It's hard to convey how I feel. Everyone thinks it's about being frightened and being frightened is a fleeting thing. But it's the pressure of constant terror. It's like managing under a great weight, but on the day of the attack I didn't feel frightened at all. In the days that followed I felt a certain amount of euphoria that I'd escaped. My senses were heightened. Colours were brilliant, noises were acute and people seemed to be speaking at half speed. But that sense of relief soon came crashing down and the realisation of what I'd been through affected me deeply. Unfortunately we were both badly affected and ended up quite ill. It manifested itself in strange ways. I didn't want to change the locks, but I did want to change the cushions on our bed. I don't like scented candles, but for a while I had one in every room. I even invested my stalker with superpowers. I was convinced that somehow he would manage to get out of prison. But I know that's unlikely because he continues to write letters which I now just pass straight to the police. He won't be released until he can prove that he isn't a risk to me or anyone else. After years of being stalked there are some bits of me that are so emotionally dented they'll never be straight again. I will always be wobbly about the post - and I do have nightmares. But they're not nightmares about the attack. They're about earlier stages when I think I should've done something to stop him. It's irrational though, because I know couldn't have stopped him. Now I have a job where I'm involved with lots of strangers, but I'm much more alert when I feel something is off. I will back off immediately. I'm much more prepared to listen to my gut feeling than let politeness override it. As of 25 November 2012, stalking became a specific offence in England and Wales. Cases of stalking from after this date are dealt with under section 2A and section 4A of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. To prove a section 2A it needs to be shown a perpetrator pursued a course of conduct that amounted to harassment. It has a maximum prison sentence of six months. Section 4A is defined as stalking involving fear of violence or serious alarm of distress. It has a maximum prison sentence of five years. Someone being stalked can also take out civil proceedings. If they sue the person stalking them under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 they can obtain an injunction. This is an order from a court that the person stops the acts amounting to stalking or harassment. If the injunction is breached it is either a criminal offence, for which the person could be imprisoned by a criminal court for up to two years, or a contempt of court. This is when someone being stalked applies to the civil court for the person who stalked them to be imprisoned for up to two years. You can get further information from the National Stalking Helpline . Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

17 Tribe breaking ground on Massachusetts casino project TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - Another casino project is joining the fray in New England’s increasingly crowded gambling scene. The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe officially breaks ground Tuesday on a resort casino in Taunton, about 30 miles south of Boston. The casino, hotel and entertainment complex is expected to open in phases by 2017, making it Massachusetts’ first Las Vegas-style resort. MGM and Wynn are developing casinos that aren’t slated to open until 2018. At an estimated $1 billion cost, the project is the splashiest entry yet in the stretch of New England between Boston and Providence. Plainridge Park, a slots parlor in Plainville, Massachusetts, and Twin River, a full scale casino in Lincoln, Rhode Island, already are in operation. Chicago-based casino developer Neil Bluhm is also seeking Massachusetts approval for a resort in nearby Brockton.

2016-04-05 14:32 - Associated Press - Tuesday, April 5, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

18 Vermont Senate committees hold joint hearing on dams MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Two Vermont Senate committees are holding a joint hearing on a series of hydroelectric dams on the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers that are up for sale. TransCanada, the Alberta-based firm that owns the 13 dams, has confirmed it’s looking to sell the properties and public officials in Vermont have again expressed interest in buying them. The administration of Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin and state Treasurer Beth Pearce are expected to provide briefings to the Senate committees at the hearing on Tuesday at the Statehouse. Democratic House Speaker Shap Smith has said he would support the idea of the state looking to purchase the dams and hold them in public ownership. The state tried to do that more than a decade ago, but was outbid by TransCanada.

2016-04-05 14:31 - Associated Press - Tuesday, April 5, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

19 Indian lunar orbiter hit by heat rise - CNN.com NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Scientists have switched off several on-board instruments to halt rising temperatures inside India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft. Mylswamy Annadurai, the project director for the lunar mission, told CNN that temperatures onboard Chandrayaan-1 had risen to 49 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit). The increase occurred as the craft, the moon -- which it is orbiting -- and the sun lined up, a phenomenon which Annadurai said was not unexpected and which would likely last until the end of December. "We have switched off the systems (aboard) that are not needed to be on," Annadurai said, ruling out the possibility of damage and adding that the temperature was now down to 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). Heat on board the Chandrayaan-1 should not exceed 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit), Annadurai said -- but insisted the orbiter is designed to withstand up to 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit). The Chandrayaan-1 -- Chandrayaan means "moon craft" in Sanskrit -- was successfully launched from southern India on October 22. Watch the launch of India's first lunar mission » Its two-year mission is to take high-resolution, three-dimensional images of the moon's surface, especially the permanently shadowed polar regions. It also will search for evidence of water or ice and attempt to identify the chemical composition of certain lunar rocks, the group said. Earlier this month the Moon Impact Probe detached from Chandrayaan-1 and successfully crash-landed on the moon's surface. Officials say that the TV-size probe, which is adorned with a painting of the Indian flag, hit the moon's surface at a speed of 5,760 kilometers per hour (3,579 mph). It transmitted data to Chandrayaan-1 ahead of impact but was not intended to be retrieved after that. Chandrayaan-1 is carrying payloads from the United States, the European Union and Bulgaria. India plans to share the data from the mission with other programs, including NASA.

2016-04-05 15:08 Harmeet Shah rss.cnn.com

20 Shuttle Endeavour lands at California air base - CNN.com (CNN) -- Space shuttle Endeavour landed safely Sunday afternoon at California's Edwards Air Force Base after NASA waved off two opportunities for a Florida landing because of poor weather. The shuttle, steered by commander Christopher Ferguson, landed at 1:25 p.m., ending a mission that lasted more than two weeks. Wind, rain and reports of thunderstorms within 30 miles of the shuttle landing facility at Florida's Kennedy Space Center prompted NASA to cancel the landing attempts there. Those had been scheduled for 1:19 p.m. and 2:54 p.m. ET. After determining Monday's weather forecast at Kennedy Space Center was equally unpromising, flight controllers decided they would try to land the shuttle and its seven astronauts at Edwards AFB, about 100 miles from Los Angeles, California, where Sunday's forecast was sunny. Flight controllers prefer landings at Kennedy Space Center because of cost and schedule. NASA has estimated it costs about $1.7 million to bring a shuttle home to Kennedy Space Center from California. Watch Endeavour's Sunday landing in California » It also takes at least a week to get the shuttle ready for the trip, but schedule is not a major factor for the Endeavour; it is not scheduled to fly again until May. Endeavour's 15-day mission to the international space station began on November 14 and included four spacewalks. During that time, the crew brought key pieces -- including exercise equipment, more sleeping berths and a urine recycling system -- for a project to double the capacity of the station from three in-house astronauts to six. The recycling system was installed to turn urine and sweat from the astronauts into drinking water. Other modules are scheduled to arrive on a February shuttle flight. The goal of expanding the station's capacity to six astronauts is expected to be reached by the summer. The crew also worked on a joint that helps generate power for the space station. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steve Bowen spent hours cleaning and lubricating the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint, which is designed to allow the solar panels on the left side of the station to rotate and track the sun. The astronauts also removed and replaced several trundle bearing assemblies. The mission went according to plan, despite a minor interruption on the first spacewalk when a grease gun in Stefanyshyn-Piper tool's bag leaked, coating everything inside with a film of lubricant. While she was trying to clean it up, the bag -- with $100,000 in tools -- floated away. CNN's Kate Tobin and Miles O'Brien contributed to this report.

2016-04-05 08:03 rss.cnn.com

21 Evergrande on brink of shock AFC Champions League exit Yuki Muto’s second-half winner left title-holders Guangzhou Evergrande teetering on the brink of a shock AFC Champions League exit as they went down 1-0 to Urawa Red Diamonds on Tuesday. Muto's header seven minutes after half-time consigned Luiz Felipe Scolari’s super-rich Chinese champions to their second defeat in four games and left them rooted to the bottom of Group H. With two games to go, winless Evergrande have just two points so far, five points off second place and a spot in the last 16, with their title defence seemingly at an end. Evergrande, part-owned by Internet giant Alibaba, are the poster-child for President Xi Jinping's push to turn China into a football power, which has translated into heavy investment in players by Chinese clubs. But the five-time defending Chinese Super League champions looked anything but winners in a cauldron atmosphere as they faced Japan’s Urawa and their massed ranks of fans in Saitama. If not for some agile keeping by Zeng Cheng, the scoreline could have been worse for a team featuring ex-Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Paulinho and former Atletico Madrid striker Jackson Martinez, their record signing. Muto put Evergrande on the ropes on 52 minutes when he instinctively got his head to Tomoya Ugajin’s first-time ball across the box, following a cross from Takahiro Sekine. Zeng saved brilliantly from Sekine at close range but Tadanari Lee was left thumping the turf in exasperation when he passed up an open goal and instead tamely poked his shot at the goalkeeper. Zeng also saved from Shinzo Koroki one-on- one to keep Evergrande in it but the visitors’ costly strikeforce was finding little joy at the other end of the pitch. Urawa's victory lifted them to second in Group H behind Sydney FC, who moved to the verge of the knockout stages with a 1-0 home win over South Korea’s Pohang Steelers. Milos Ninkovic grabbed the winner for Sydney, who now have nine points from four games, in the 51st minute and at the second attempt after two Pohang players failed to clear the ball. Elsewhere, in Group F, free-scoring FC Seoul lost their perfect record when they were held to a 0-0 draw by China’s Shandong Luneng, with Brazilian sharpshooter Adriano unable to add to his nine goals so far. And Japan’s Sanfrecce Hiroshima kept up their bid for the knock-out stages when they beat Thailand’s Buriram United 2-0 away.

2016-04-05 14:22 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

22 Genette Tate murder file against Robert Black submitted to CPS A file of evidence against a man suspected of murdering a schoolgirl almost 40 years ago has been submitted to prosecutors, the BBC has learnt. Robert Black - who died in prison in January - killed four young girls and was believed to have murdered 13-year-old Genette Tate in Devon in 1978. Devon and Cornwall Police said the file runs to "scores of pages". Genette's body has not been found since she vanished while delivering evening newspapers in Aylesbeare, near Exeter. Her case is believed to be the longest running missing person inquiry in Britain. Black, originally from Grangemouth in Scotland, was first convicted of sexual assault when he was a teenager and the delivery driver's murder victims came from Northern Ireland, England and Scotland. He was convicted for killing Jennifer Cardy, nine, of County Antrim in 1981, Susan Maxwell, 11, of Northumberland in 1982, and Caroline Hogg, five, of Edinburgh in 1983 and Sarah Harper, 10, of Leeds, in 1986. Black died of natural causes in Maghaberry prison, Northern Ireland. A senior Devon and Cornwall Police source told the BBC: "We would like a clear statement that it [Crown Prosecution Service] would have charged Black with Genette's murder. "It's the closest we can now get to justice and might offer some comfort to her family and the community. " The new file is the result of two years of work by a dedicated group of eight detectives - including some who worked on the original inquiry - from the force's Major Crime Team. But, John Tate, Genette's father, said: "It's a shame this file was not submitted earlier to the CPS. "There was some talk of it being submitted last autumn, then the CPS would have had several months to decide whether to prosecute Black. "That would have meant that Black would have died in January knowing that he was going to put on trial for Genette's murder. " He added he awaited the "result of the CPS decision with interest". The BBC has been told the detectives found two new witnesses following a re-investigation of the case, including an examination of the thousands of files from the original investigation. They have been re-interviewed at length, senior police sources said, and have "strengthened the circumstantial case against Black". The witnesses' evidence "concerns Black's behaviour" at the time she disappeared, the sources added. Black, who was serving a life sentence for the murders of four children, was arrested and questioned in 2005 over the Genette Tate case, but not charged. The force sent a file to the CPS, but three years later it decided there was insufficient evidence to charge Black. He denied any involvement in Genette's disappearance.

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

23 “His Dark Materials” fans, rejoice: This new adaptation could actually do Philip Pullman’s novels justice Topics: Fantasy , science-fiction , Books , philip pullman , Atheism , Movies , Dr. Who , Catholicism , Entertainment News What happened? One of the strangest missed opportunities in recent years was the film of Philip Pullman’s “The Golden Compass,” the first of the “His Dark Materials” trilogy. How could one of the best fantasy series since Tolkien’s end up becoming such an inert film? Even with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig in the leads, the movie came across as an overblown spectacle with very little heart, memorable mostly for its armored polar bears. Fans of Pullman’s books are not only getting a second chance, they’re getting one with a much better chance of doing the novels justice: The previously announced project by the BBC now has the “Dr. Who” producer team Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner and screenwriter Jack Thorne, who established his reputation with “Skins.” If done right, “His Dark Materials” should have some of the same tone as “Dr. Who” – its mix of cheeky, geeky, intense, and obsessive. But the best thing about the project is that the BBC seems committed to adapting all the books. The trilogy – “The Golden Compass,” “The Subtle Knife,” and “The Amber Spyglass” – sits somewhere between “The Lord of the Rings,” the Harry Potter books, Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Earthsea” series, and “Paradise Lost.” The books follow a 12-year-old girl who has grown up in a college at Oxford and is launched into an adventure in multiple universes. Any description of it will make it sound like just another YA series – especially the way people are accompanied by an animal daemon and her meeting with a boy named Will — but these books hit a sweet spot that make them ideal for adults as well. They include subtexts about quantum theory and atheism and Calvinism, quotes from Blake and Rilke, and a complicated philosophical frame. The story gets more sweeping and expansive as it goes on. By the end, it’s truly cosmic. They’re the kind of books, in other words, that really need to be stretched out the way the BBC will, with eight parts planned. The film felt cramped at two hours; New Line cut the movie mercilessly, and director Chris Weitz saw his vision for the film destroyed.

2016-04-05 13:10 Scott TImberg salon.com.feedsportal.com

24 Public discontent rises as Jacob Zuma's ship sinks in South Africa Pressure to impeach Jacob Zuma , South Africa’s much criticised president, reflects broader, rising public discontent with the ruling African National Congress’s senior leadership, a widening democratic deficit and steadily deteriorating economic conditions. The Nkandla scandal, for which Zuma was belatedly forced to apologise last week, has been under investigation since 2012, when it was revealed that the cost of taxpayer-funded luxury improvements to the president’s rural home had risen nearly tenfold. The row has dragged on, poisoning public debate and undermining confidence in government. An official inquiry in 2013 cleared Zuma of any wrongdoing, saying the work, which included a new swimming pool and cattle ranch pens, was needed for security reasons. But the following year Thuli Madonsela, South Africa’s public protector, accused Zuma of misuse of public money and unethical conduct. Her report, waspishly entitled Secure in Comfort, noted that the estimated $23m cost was eight times what was spent on securing two private homes for former president Nelson Mandela, and more than 1,000 times what was spent on South Africa’s last apartheid-era president, FW de Klerk. Zuma repeatedly claimed he had used his own money to pay for building work. And even as the row intensified, the national assembly, where the ANC controls more than 60% of the seats, continued to protect him, passing a resolution whose apparent purpose was to nullify Madonsela’s findings. Zuma finally changed his tune last week after South Africa’s highest court ruled unanimously that he had violated the constitution. Baleka Mbete, the assembly speaker, who is overseeing the impeachment debate, is facing opposition demands that she, too, resign over her alleged efforts to cover Zuma’s tracks. Like Zuma, she has refused to go. Zuma’s survival may be short lived. Expectations are growing that, like former president Thabo Mbeki, forced out prematurely in 2008, he will not last until the end of his second term in 2019. He is under fire from all sides, including the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), church leaders, Mandela era veterans, the media and online petitioners. “Jacob Zuma is the cancer at the heart of South African politics. He is not capable of honourable conduct, and cannot continue to be president of our country,” the DA said before the impeachment debate. “The president can no longer be considered a fit and proper person to remain the commander- in-chief of the South African nationaldefenceforce, nor can any of the parliamentary members who so stubbornly protected him be considered fit and proper persons to hold office as members of parliament,” said JG “Pikkie” Greeff, national secretary of South Africa’s national defence union. More significant, perhaps, is the way Nkandla is being used by Zuma’s internal party rivals , political allies and breakaway factions to press for a more wide-ranging governance shake-up. Chief among the latter is party renegade Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters. Malema regularly abuses Zuma, but his main beef is with the ANC’s elitist old guard as a whole. These critics point to persistent, deeprooted problems including the failure to care for the poorest in society, high-level corruption, a crumbling education system, influence-peddling by wealthy businessmen and chronic economic mismanagement. South Africa’s economy is set to grow at its slowest pace this year since the 2009 recession and faces a possible credit rating downgrade. The rand has fallen in value amid a sharp decline in foreign investor confidence. Unemployment is at 34%, according to the World Bank. The Communist party, a long-time ANC ally, revealed the nervousness at the heart of South Africa’s ruling apparatus. It congratulated Zuma on his apology but wondered why the corrosive effect of the Nkandla scandal had not been neutralised earlier. Much more was now needed, the SACP said. The court’s ruling amounted to a warning that “decisive action is now imperative, otherwise the continuing loss of moral authority, political paralysis and fragmentation of our movement will continue”. A widespread sense of disappointment and disillusionment over the ANC’s perceived failure to significantly correct the economic injustices of the apartheid era is the biggest challenge facing those in the party’s top echelons currently clinging to Zuma’s sinking ship. They may yet decide to cast him off before all are dragged down. The next big test may be local elections, due by August, in key cities such as Pretoria and Johannesburg. Any change would be hard won. “The veterans have sway within the ANC,” Somadoda Fikeni, a politics professor at the University of South Africa, told Bloomberg News . “It’s an indictment against the current leadership, which says despite any logical argument ‘we are going ahead defending our leader’.” Gwede Mantashe, the ANC’s secretary general, said the party’s top leaders saw no reason to remove Zuma. And the president’s powers of patronage are considerable. More than 70% of the national executive committee’s members elected in 2012 were part of a bloc that backed him for the presidency. Many were directly appointed to government posts by him. Max Sisulu, son of the ANC legend Walter Sisulu and a former national assembly speaker, said parliament’s failure to hold Zuma to account was painful and lessons should be learned. “Parliament must put its house in order and do the right thing,” he said. “It was quite clear from the start what was needed. If there is something wrong, you fix it. Our people were able to change the whole system of apartheid and establish democracy. This is fixable.”

2016-04-05 14:11 Simon Tisdall www.theguardian.com

25 Office nap rooms may soon be as common as conference rooms Topics: Nap rooms , Energypod , Arianna Huffington , Huffington Post , original video , Social News , Media News , Life News , News Are you at work feeling sleepy? Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington has been an advocator for mid-day naps for years. And now she predicts within the next two years, all company offices will have nap rooms. Studies show that napping can boost alertness, creativity and productivity- all of which are crucial to maintaining good work performance. The Huffington Post currently houses two naps rooms that Huffington says are “perpetually used.” Could your office be next?

2016-04-05 13:03 Asha Parker salon.com.feedsportal.com

26 The “Draft Paul Ryan” fantasy: A soothing fiction to make donor-class Republicans feel better Topics: Paul Ryan , Donald Trump , Ted Cruz , 2016 GOP primary , 2016 Republican primary , Republican Party , Politico , Mike Allen , Elections 2016 , Elections News , Politics News The enthusiasm bubbling around Ted Cruz’s campaign to derail Donald Trump’s surge to the Republican presidential nomination can’t disguise the fact that establishment Republicans, by and large, hate Ted Cruz. GOP bigwigs like Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush are on Team Cruz for no other reason than he represents the lesser of two evils. Cruz, for his part, is happy to have their backing, but he knows that while they half-heartedly mutter “vote Cruz,” their hearts are screaming for someone else. These poorly hidden desires and frustrations of the Republican establishment find a safely anonymous voice this morning in Mike Allen’s Politico Playbook : And here we see the value of Playbook – where else in political journalism can an anonymous GOP insider convert their gut feelings into precise calculations describing the high probability of a fantasy presidential outcome? This Draft Ryan movement arises out of both the Republican establishment’s love of Ryan as a politician and their distaste for Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Ryan is the affable mascot of the Republican donor class: he’s young, ambitious, and prioritizes massive tax cuts for the wealthy alongside boosted military spending and huge cuts to social programs. He’ll bring back Reaganomics and turn Social Security into what it was always meant to be: a bonanza for Wall Street. Ryan has also emerged as the GOP’s savior-by-default, being the only Republican of national prominence who evinces basic political competence and/or isn’t actively loathed by huge swaths of the party. But only someone who has been determinedly ignoring every political development over the past year could possibly believe that parachuting Paul Ryan into the presidential nominating contest at the last second will fix what ails the GOP. Go back and look at the exit polls for the Republican primaries and you’ll quickly see a theme emerge: Republican voters don’t just dislike the GOP establishment, they feel betrayed by the party. In New Hampshire, where Trump dominated, half of the Republican electorate felt the party had betrayed them. In Ohio, 57 percent of Republicans told exit pollsters that they felt betrayed , while in North Carolina the number was 54 percent. These numbers repeat themselves in state after state , all over the country. Now imagine what happens when all those Republican voters who griped about the party establishment’s betrayal see the party establishment toss the candidates they voted for off to the side so that the Speaker of the House can be installed as the Republican presidential candidate – the same Speaker who ran on the last Republican ticket and lost badly.

2016-04-05 12:59 Simon Maloy salon.com.feedsportal.com

27 Donald Trump sets his campaign on fire: A self-destructive madman has decided he wants to lose Topics: Donald Trump , Ted Cruz , Bob Woodward , Editor's Picks , Elections 2016 , Innovation News , Sustainability News , Business News , News , Politics News Could our modern-day PT Barnum, Donald Trump, injure his chances any more than with this week’s damaging extravaganza? Let’s not count out an arguable new strategy to lose and get out while he can. What else explains such a concentrate parade of unforced, self-destructive gaffes? Is Trump so arrogantly out of touch, so profoundly ignorant, after such an amazing run, that he’s gunning for this era’s least-conscious candidate prize? With no one else close? Or could the last horrendous week anticipate a kind of save-your-ego, Trumpian damage control to deflect looming humiliation? Plus, this week’s self-sabotage, conscious or not, goes beyond his revealing, dangerously reckless interviews with the New York Times and the Washington Post in which he sounds like a college freshman, having skipped all the reading, faking his way through the final exam. Alas, I was hoping Trump would get close enough in July to implode the regressive right-wing renegades. Easy assumption: Trump is a spoiled egomaniac who can’t stand losing, let alone public humiliation that forever stamps him a confirmed “loser.” Clearly, he’s way over his head, unqualified even to finish the season without mortal wounds to his self-inflated skills and boasted superiority. In short, a Sarah Palin, unchecked, a rogue with more ego and acrimony. And since quitting (unlike the Palin ploy) affirms losing, that’s not a ready option. Of course, he’ll dream up unending establishment “unfairness” that does him in, thus this week reneging on his dishonest early pledge to support the GOP choice. Overplaying. Misplaying, Played Out But imagine: will Trump continue to make up insufferable nonsense, showing his “maverick” outlandishness even if that means total self-destruction? If so, this pathological liar could then transform withdrawal into sainted victimhood, as no “good deed” he’d done goes punished. And yet, Trump can display such mastery of the TV manipulation game that his shocking, spontaneous stupidity remains a puzzle. Here’s today’s explanation:Trump never really wanted to be president, the frontrunner seat is getting way too hot, and now he wants out. Being spoiled and impulsive, with only ego to lose, his Icarus-like fall could be far quicker than his rise. A glimmer of dignity for the profoundly insecure is better than none. For this week’s clear support , I cite the ex-Trump Super PAC chief and communications expert, Stephanie Cegielski, confirming what many initially believed: Trump never dreamed his prospects would soar, nor that his worn out “Birther-anti-immigration- bomb-them-into- smithereens” schtick would mesh so perfectly with an irate third of the right-wing dying to yell “Screw You” (or worse) to the hated GOP entrenchment: What does the world’s greatest political narcissist (after that character in North Korea) do when finding himself over his head, anxious at the prospect of winning, desperate for some exit strategy? The conundrum is how can he orchestrate a retreat while still blaming everyone else? What if Trump is sobered by badly losing Wisconsin, and that’s the beginning of the end? Remember, Trump never need facts or reality to solidify utterly insular fantasies. Can he survive these unforced, body blows?

2016-04-05 13:05 Robert S salon.com.feedsportal.com

28 This is much worse than the Panama Papers: How America became a world leader in tax avoidance Topics: The Panama Papers , Taxes , Corruption , Income inequality , Wealth inequality , Tax Havens , tax avoidance , Economics , Finance , News , Politics News Often when I’m sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic on one of L. A.’s many freeways, my mind drifts to wondering if there’s some special autobahn above the horizon line reserved only for elite celebrities, so they don’t have to bother with the day-to-day inconveniences of the masses. That feeling returned when I read about the Panama Papers , a blockbuster release of 11 million documents from 40 years of work by one of the world’s leading specialists in tax avoidance. The global law firm Mossack Fonseca creates untraceable shell companies for Mafia members, drug dealers, elites from sports and culture, and a host of corrupt politicians. You can come up with a couple legitimate reasons for creating a shell company: protecting trade secrets from rivals, for example. But most of Mossack Fonseca’s business involves people wanting to conceal their wealth: “Ninety-five percent of our work,” one memo reads , “coincidentally consists in selling vehicles to avoid taxes.” 214,000 of those vehicles, secured for 14,000 clients, are shown in the leaked documents. While massive, the leak exposes only a small corner of the tax avoidance industry. Mossack Fonseca is just one of many firms in just one of dozens of international tax havens providing their services to the global elite. Back in 2012, British activists at the Tax Justice Network estimated between $21-$32 trillion sitting in offshore tax havens, of which the Panama Papers reveals only a piece. “This is the single biggest driver of global inequality in the world today,” said Clark Gascoigne of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition, an assembly of over 100 organizations dedicated to rooting out tax avoidance. We’ve known about Mossack Fonseca’s creation of shell corporations since Ken Silverstein’s story about it in Vice well over a year ago. We’ve had similar leaks from tax havens in Switzerland and the British Virgin Islands dating back several years. Carl Levin made a cottage industry of producing damning reports about tax avoidance when he was in the Senate. Nobody should be surprised that rich people worldwide try to stash their money away or launder it through fake corporations. That doesn’t mean this undertaking isn’t valuable. The trove of documents has revealed the participation of dozens of political leaders, their families, and associates. This includes several leaders in the Middle East , a significant percentage of the ruling party in China , and several personal friends of Russian president Vladimir Putin. The Icelandic Prime Minister could face snap elections because of his shell account in the British Virgin Islands, a known tax haven. The heads of state of Ukraine, Argentina, and a dozen countries in all are also implicated. Law enforcement investigations have begun , and we’ll probably be hearing about the fallout from this leak for months, if not years. What we have not yet seen is any U. S. individual implicated in the leak, which seems unlikely given our stable of international wealth. The editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung, the German newspaper which first received the documents, promises there will be more to come. But one reason why Americans haven’t yet been implicated is that they already have a perfectly good place for their tax avoidance schemes: right here in the United States. While several developed countries are already moving to reduce the anonymity behind shell companies, including a public registry of “beneficial ownership” information in the United Kingdom and a directive to collect similar information throughout the European Union, the United States has resisted such transparency. According to recent research , the United States is the second-easiest country in the world to obtain an anonymous shell corporation account. (The first is Kenya.) You can create one in Delaware for your cat .

2016-04-05 13:02 David Dayen salon.com.feedsportal.com

29 Inside the UK's white-collar cage fighting scene Mixed martial arts, or cage fighting, has established itself as a popular televised sport. Now, its amateur scene is quickly growing in popularity among working professionals. On any given day, the Troxy in London's East End might play host to a music artist, business conference or even a wedding. Originally a grand cinema opened in the 1930s, it still retains much of its art deco style. On this visit, however, it has a very different purpose - the blood, sweat and testosterone-fuelled sport of mixed martial arts, or MMA. The sport's amateur scene is thriving in the UK, attracting competitors from unlikely working backgrounds. Ready for his weigh-in, Ricky Granieri arrives in his usual work attire - suit trousers and a blue- checked shirt - several hours before his fight. A recruitment consultant by day, in the cage he will simply be defined by his size - heavyweight. "I get called Jekyll and Hyde a lot," he says. "On the one hand I bake, I cook, I read novels and I write - on the other I play rugby, and I fight. " He will be competing in MMA for the first time and - unusually for a new fighter - has been paired against a kickboxing champion in one of the night's headline fights. For many it would be a rather ominous start - but if Granieri's nervous, he's definitely not keen to show it. "I don't think I'll feel nerves until the fight," he explains, as he catches a glimpse of the cage he will be competing in for the first time. "I'm like an ostrich, I bury my head in the sand. " Watch Ben's film in full here. The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays at 09:00 GMT on BBC Two and the BBC News channel . One man who's much more forthcoming is Dave O'Donnell, the exuberant chief executive of Ultimate Challenge MMA (UCMMA) - which is staging the event. "Just stepping into the cage is one of the hardest things that anybody's ever going to do," he explains, as he deliberately turns his head to glare down the barrel of the camera lens for maximum impact. "The thought of letting your friends down, letting your mum down, letting your kids down - that's the hardest part. " O'Donnell was originally a promoter for an MMA organisation called Cage Rage, featuring arguably one of MMA's greatest ever fighters, Anderson Silva. After Cage Rage went bust, O'Donnell formed the UCMMA. He believes the sport is riding a wave of excitement, sparked by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in the US. A recent fight, which saw one of the sport's biggest stars - Irishman Conor McGregor - losing to Nate Diaz was watched by millions around the globe. "There are more MMA gyms now in the UK than ever before. Gyms used to have a boxing ring, but now it's a cage," O'Donnell says. O'Donnell, perhaps ambitiously, envisages a landscape in little over 10 years' time where MMA is utterly dominant. For Granieri, it's personal reasons - rather than the sport's growing prestige - that brings him to compete in "the Octagon", as the cage is known. "I used to get beat up a lot as a kid, and I just felt afraid all the time. My mum was quite abusive... then when I went to school, I used to get beaten up. "When I got older, I think it made me a bit of a weakling. I was always afraid, and I just hate feeling fear," he says. "So if anything makes me feel fear, I just train myself to confront it. " Granieri has overcome a severe back injury to take part in the event, having been unable to compete for the last two years. But it has not dissuaded him from wanting to inflict pain on others. In fact, he revels in it. "I think you'd have to like hurting someone [to fight], why else would you do it? If I'm on top of someone, punching someone in the face then that's a good feeling isn't it? " It's a sentiment not many other combat sports competitors would admit to, and while he stands by his views, he seems disconcerted when it's suggested he may be alone in voicing them. Granieri becomes more distant in the lead-up to the fight. Most amateur cage fighters have trainers from the gyms they attend, and when Granieri's joins him at the venue he is keen to focus solely on his preparations. Back in the arena, seats are beginning to fill with nearly 2,000 fans keen for the action to commence. As the fighters take the long, pre-fight walk to the cage the energy rises, peaking further as the bell sounds. Granieri is competing in the third-to-last fight, some four hours after the night begins. It's a long wait. As he finally enters the cage, he hits his head with his gloves in the hope of gaining focus. The bell rings, and after taking some big kicks, Granieri takes control - pinning his opponent to the floor. After two minutes of fighting, he delivers what is known as the "ground and pound", which involves him repeatedly punching his opponent in the face, and the referee stops the fight. Miraculously, Granieri has won. "Just seeing my friends' faces in the audience, seeing them smile - that's what I'm most happy about," he says after the fight. "They all think of me as the hard man, and I didn't want to let them down. Hearing them cheer for me was special. " As for his opponent: "He was actually a great guy, I spoke to him afterwards. I'm not looking forward to going back into the office with this black eye he gave me though. " Granieri leaves to join his friends as the crowd's cheers ring around the Troxy, and the headline fight begins. Despite the negative headlines often given to MMA, it is easy to see how it appeals to many. Its defenders say the sport is safer than many assume and a lot more organised. It is cage fighting, but it is not bare-knuckle boxing. To most fighters, it's all about the pride and not about hurting an opponent. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

30 War-wounded military dog awarded charity medal A military dog who lost her leg on duty in Afghanistan has received a vet charity's medal honouring the work of animals in war. Lucca, a 12-year-old German Shepherd, suffered injuries including the loss of a leg during a search for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in 2012. She received the medal at a ceremony at Wellington Barracks in central London. The Dickin medal, founded in 1943, is awarded by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) charity. Lucca was trained by US Marine Corps as a search dog to sniff out munitions and explosives, and according to the Marines, protected the lives of thousands of allied troops. On her final patrol Lucca discovered a 30lb (13.6kg) IED and, as she searched for additional explosives, a second device detonated. She instantly lost her front left leg and suffered severe burns to her chest. Her previous handler Corporal Juan Rodriguez recalled the moment she was injured: "The explosion was huge and I immediately feared the worst for Lucca. "I stayed with her constantly throughout her operation and her recovery. She had saved my life on so many occasions - I had to make sure that I was there for her when she needed me. " Lucca, who is now retired, completed over 400 missions in Iraq and Afghanistan during six years of active service. She lives in California with her handler, Gunnery Sergeant Chris Willingham, but has been flown to London for the medal ceremony. Lucca's Dickin Medal was presented by the PDSA director general, Jan McLoughlin, who praised her "conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty". Her award will bring the total number of PDSA Dickin Medals awarded to animals in military conflict to 67. Since its introduction it has been awarded to 31 dogs, including Lucca, 32 World War Two messenger pigeons, three horses and one cat.

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

31 Leonardo DiCaprio 'lacked information' about Indonesia rainforest Indonesia's environment and forestry minister says Leonardo DiCaprio "lacked complete information" when he criticised the destruction of rainforests. The Oscar-winning actor took to social media last month after a visit to a protected national park. But Siti Nurbaya has said the current government is "working hard" to protect the environment. "We are fixing the problems of the past decade," she said. Nurbaya added it was "rather unfortunate" that DiCaprio had not, she claimed, obtained comprehensive information about issues such as deforestation in Indonesia. The minister said the government was making progress in prosecuting companies that violate environmental laws and had created an inventory of areas at risk of deforestation. Last week, an immigration official said DiCaprio could be banned from returning to Indonesia. "We support his concern to save the Leuser ecosystem," said Heru Santoso, spokesman for the directorate general for immigration at the law and human rights ministry said. "But we can blacklist him from returning to Indonesia at any time if he keeps posting incitement or provocative statements in his social media. " DiCaprio visited the Mount Leuser National Park in northern Sumatra last weekend. The actor criticised palm oil plantations for destroying the country's rainforests and endangering wildlife. He expressed concern on his social media accounts about species whose habitats are threatened. "The expansion of palm oil plantations is fragmenting the forest and cutting off key elephant migration corridors," the actor posted on Instagram. He described the area as "a world-class biodiversity hotspot", adding: "Palm oil expansion is destroying this unique place". Palm oil is a type of vegetable oil that comes from the palm fruit, which is grown on the African oil palm tree. After DiCaprio's visit, the immigration director-general Ronny Sompie told daily newspaper Republika: "If there are statements that discredit the government and the interests of Indonesia, he could be deported," pointing out that the actor's tourist visa limited him to "excursions" only. Slash-and-burn practices destroy huge areas of Indonesian forest every year during the dry season. Critics argue the practice creates a haze that pollutes neighbouring countries and causes considerable economic losses. The fires are often set to clear land for agriculture, including palm oil plantations. Siti Nurbaya said she appreciated that DiCaprio was trying to raise awareness of the issue and that his social media comments were posted with good intentions. "My view is that DiCaprio's concerns are both sincere and substantial, and he has certainly acted in good faith," she said. Last year, DiCaprio donated more than £9.5m ($13.5m) to environmental organisations. "The destruction of our planet continues at a pace we can no longer afford to ignore," he said at the time.

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

32 Migrants returned to Turkey from Greece under EU deal The first boats carrying migrants deported from Greece have arrived in Turkey. It is part of a controversial new deal between the EU and Turkey, aimed at easing mass migration to Europe, and discouraging migrants from making dangerous journeys. Mark Lowen reports.

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

33 Moderate union debates industrial action on academy plan One of the most moderate teaching unions is to consider industrial action over government plans to force all schools in England to become academies. The measure is "an attack on democracy" according to an emergency motion to be debated at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers conference in Liverpool. In her speech, ATL general secretary Mary Bousted called the plan "madness". On Monday, School Minister Nick Gibb said the plan made schools "profession-led" - though he faced some heckling . Under the plan almost 17,000 schools which have not already converted to academy status - mostly primaries - must do so by 2020 or have committed to do so by 2022. The ATL's emergency motion, to be debated by the conference on Tuesday afternoon asks delegates to "condemn the White Paper 'Educational Excellence Everywhere' as an attack on democracy". The motion warns the conversion of schools to academy status will be achieved without regard to the wishes of parents, staff or local communities and without proper Parliamentary scrutiny. The move represents "ever greater centralism and micro-management". "It takes no account of the growing evidence of failing academies but insists on a blind adherence to an ideology with no foundation in fact," says the motion. The motion calls for the ATL to work with "all those concerned", including other education unions to opposed forced academisation and to consider what forms of action, including potential industrial action, may be needed. In her speech to conference on Tuesday morning, Dr Bousted backed called for a co-ordinated response. "Alone we can do something. Together we can do great things. "We must fight together to protect our profession, for the sake of the children and young people whose education depends on us. "And we will fight and if we fight together, with parents and councillors, with other unions, with politicians, with governors, with the whole of civil society which opposes the madness of forced academisation, then we will win," Dr Bousted concluded. Earlier in the speech Dr Bousted called the white paper a "very strange document". "It asks us to believe six impossible things before breakfast, including the big whopper - that the forced academisation of all schools will improve educational standards. " The government's plans have drawn criticism from teachers, unions and Tory local councillors. At its conference over Easter, the National Union of Teachers voted to ballot for strike action over the academies plan . The Labour Party has said its own analysis of official figures suggests the plan could cost £1.3bn with a shortfall in funding of over £1.1bn. But in a speech to the NASUWT union over the Easter weekend, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said there was no going back on plans to make every school an academy by 2020. Ms Morgan maintained the government's plans would improve the education system in England. The Department for Education said it was "disappointing for any union to consider industrial action, rather than working constructively with us". "The vast majority" of schools which have already became academies were "now thriving", said a spokesman. The spokesman said figures from 2015 showed sponsored primary academies open for two years had improved their results by an average of 10 percentage points since opening - more than double the rate of improvement in local authority schools.

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

34 Revenge porn: Movie studios attack draft law The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has opposed draft "revenge porn" legislation that is being considered in Minnesota. "Revenge porn" broadly describes the act of publishing explicit images of someone without their consent. The MPAA said the Minnesota draft law could restrict the publication of "items of legitimate news, commentary, and historical interest". But supporters of the proposal said its reach was "plainly legitimate". Revenge porn commonly refers to the sharing of intimate images after the end of a relationship, but is also used in a broader sense to describe any publication of explicit images without consent, for example when private photographs of a celebrity are leaked online. A number of countries and US states have introduced legislation that prohibits the practice, but there is no US-wide federal law on the subject. Opponents of revenge porn legislation have argued that some of the new laws are too broad in scope, and that existing copyright, communication and harassment laws sufficiently cover the subject. The MPAA, which represents six major Hollywood film studios, said the Minnesota law could "limit the distribution of a wide array of mainstream, constitutionally protected material". It cited images of Holocaust victims and prisoners at Abu Ghraib as examples of images depicting nudity which are shared without the subjects' consent. The MPAA called for the legislation to clarify that images shared without consent only broke the law if they were shared with an "intent to harass". In a statement, the organisation said: "The MPAA opposes online harassment in all forms. While we agree with the aims... we are concerned that the current version of the bill is written so broadly that it could have a chilling effect on mainstream and constitutionally-protected speech. " But the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, which has campaigned for revenge porn to be made illegal, said an "intent to harass" provision would render the law "incoherent". "It would allow people to distribute private, sexually explicit material of no public concern unless it could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that their motive was to harass," the organisation said in its response to the MPAA. "The motive of a distributor has no bearing on whether the material is newsworthy or a matter of public concern. "A photograph of a dirty restaurant kitchen is not rendered less newsworthy because the distributor intends to harass the restaurant owner. " If passed, the Minnesota law would become effective on 1 August.

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

35 Myanmar parliament approves Aung San Suu Kyi 'PM-like' role Myanmar's parliament has passed a bill that gives Aung San Suu Kyi a role similar to that of prime minister. The Lower House passed the bill to create the post of "state counsellor", which now requires only presidential approval to become law. Unelected military representatives holding a quarter of parliamentary seats boycotted the vote, calling the bill unconstitutional. Ms Suu Kyi's party won elections but she is not allowed to be president. Clause 59(f) of the Burmese constitution bars candidates with foreign spouses or children, and Ms Suu Kyi's two sons hold British passports. The clause was widely considered to have been written specifically to prevent Ms Suu Kyi from taking office. The bill has gone through both the lower and upper houses and now must be approved by President Htin Kyaw. Htin Kyaw is Myanmar's first elected civilian leader in more than 50 years, and a close aide to Ms Suu Kyi. At the heart of power: Analysis by Jonah Fisher, BBC News, Naypyidaw The Burmese parliament in Naypyidaw has not seen a session like this before. The army representatives refused to vote, stood in protest and complained repeatedly that this new bill is unconstitutional. But it was all in vain - they are now hopelessly outnumbered by elected MPs from Aung San Suu Kyi's party. So this - the first bill proposed by the civilian government - passed unchanged. Having been denied the presidency by a clause in the constitution, this job will formally place Ms Suu Kyi at the heart of Myanmar's new administration. In addition to state counsellor, Ms Suu Kyi will also be foreign minister and minister in the president's office. The NLD won 80% of contested seats in the elections last year, ending decades of military rule. But the army has kept considerable power. In addition to its seats in parliament, it heads three key ministries - defence, home affairs and border affairs.

2016-04-05 14:47 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

36 Lancaster mom charged in daughter's death appears in court Julio "Andy" Castillo of Rock Hill is accused of molesting two boys years ago in his attic and at the victims' home. He is charged with four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor. Here are excerpts from his bond hearing on Monday. A judge granted an $80,000 bond with several conditions. Zachery Lee Reaves is accused of escaping a Rock Hill correctional facility and then fleeing to Georgia. He faces charges in a series of break- ins in East Pointe, Ga., including this Mexican restaurant where he allegedly cooked breakfast for himself. He was arrested last week. Charges are pending. Friends describe the victim who died in Friday's mid-day shooting in Rock Hill as an outgoing, typical teenager who was always smiling. Authorities have not released the teen's name as of this posting. This is Rock Hill's first homicide. A neighbor heard the sound of "pop pop pop" Thursday afternoon in what turned out to be a deadly shooting in Rock Hill, South Carolina. This is Rock Hill's first homicide of 2016. Police are still investigating and searching for clues. Here is video from the scene and excerpts from a media briefing. Police are on the scene of a reported shooting off Black Street near Keel and South Jones Avenue in Rock Hill. Here is cell phone video. Kevin Dejesus is accused of killing Jesse Campbell in his Lake Wylie home. Dejesus made his first York County appearance on Tuesday in the courtroom of Magistrate Judge Dan Malphrus. Here are excerpts from court. Lewis Warlick sentenced to two years prison. He was arrested three times for domestic violence in October before threatening to attack the prosecutors after he was charged with domestic violence. Raw video of police on the scene of a shooting Thursday afternoon in Rock Hill. York Police Chief Andy Robinson said a local teenager threatened to kill police if they got in the way of his plot to join ISIS, rob a gun store and murder soldiers. FILE VIDEO. A York boy, whose family is from Syria, was charged as a juvenile on a gun charge in York but investigators learned that he was plotting to join ISIS in Syria to fight “jihad” and had linked up with a more militant Muslim in Raleigh, N. C. who wanted to rob a gun store and use the weapons to kill American soldiers. A Family Court Judge sentenced the teen to prison that could last until age 21. This video was originally posted on April 21.

2016-04-05 11:06 www.heraldonline.com

37 Thane: Police informer cries foul, claims he was framed in smuggling case Manoj Thakur is now wary of the men in khaki. The 28-year-old resident of Ulhasnagar has claimed that he helped the police on Sunday nab three gold smugglers moving a consignment from Bangkok to Thane. But instead of rewarding him, they allegedly took a bribe of Rs 20 lakh from the kingpin and tried to frame him in the case. Manoj Thakur, the police informer and Rahesh Ahuja Thakur, a police informer who owns a construction firm, told mid-day that he had received a tip-off that a seasoned smuggler, Rahesh Ahuja (30) of Ulhasnagar was to arrive in Mumbai from Bangkok with gold biscuits on Sunday. He immediately passed on the information to Aslam Khatib, assistant inspector of the Mahatma Phule police station. The gold biscuits recovered Determined to end Ahuja’s free run, Thakur went to the Chhatrapati International Airport early on Sunday. Ahuja arrived on an Air India flight, AI349, via Delhi at 6.30am with two other mules — Nitin Sutar (43) and Heena Popatani (30) — both residents of Ulhasnagar. Sutar and Popatani had boarded the flight during the connecting stop at Delhi. During the flight, Ahuja allegedly passed on the six gold biscuits he had hidden in his rectum to the two couriers. Using the same technique, Popatani hid four gold bars in her rectum in the aircraft toilet, while Sutar took another two. After the plane landed, Sutar and Popatani walked right out of the airport without any trouble — since domestic passengers are not screened by Customs officials — and Ahuja joined them outside after clearing the immigration process. On the trail The three then hailed an autorickshaw and headed for Saki Naka. There, Sutar and Popatani went into a public restroom and took the gold bars out of their rectum. Thereafter, the three headed for Kalyan. Thakur was close on their heels on his bike and kept Khatib in the loop throughout the chase. The three gold smugglers were caught by two Mahatma Phule police constables near the Baicha Putla Chowk in Kalyan at 8.30 am. But at the station, the police allegedly failed to register a case. Fearing that the smugglers would find out his identity, Thakur left around 5.30 pm and a friend kept tabs on the goings-on. Thakur then found out that Khatib, on orders from senior police inspector Anil Pawar, demanded a bribe of Rs 25 from the kingpin of the smuggling racket and revealed Thakur’s identity. Thakur alleged that soon after, a man drove up to the station in a Mercedes car and handed over Rs 20 in cash. In an alleged volte face, the police then framed Thakur in the case. The police informer rallied forces — he sought the help of some activists and approached DCP, Kalyan, Sanjay Jadhav. He claimed that it was only after Jadhav intervened did the police file a case against the three smugglers. Pawar refuted the allegations. “How can we frame our informer? There has been some misunderstanding.” He said six gold biscuits weighing 1,195 gm and worth Rs 33,81,850 were recovered from the three smugglers. They were released on bail after being produced in court. Thakur, however, was not in a forgiving mood. “Informers are no longer assured of protection,” he rued.

2016-04-05 13:48 By Faisal www.mid-day.com

38 UK service sector growth 'remains subdued' Growth in the UK's services sector picked up last month but remained "subdued", according to a survey. The latest Markit/CIPS services Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to 53.7 last month, up from February's near three-year low of 52.7. A figure above 50 indicates expansion, but Markit said growth was "sluggish", with global economic uncertainty and the EU referendum affecting the sector. Markit said the UK economy had slowed in the first quarter of the year. The performance of the service sector is important for the UK as it accounts for more than three- quarters of the UK economy. Similar surveys from Markit released in the past few days have indicated that both the UK's manufacturing sector and construction sector also experienced subdued growth last month. "An upturn in the pace of service sector growth in March was insufficient to prevent the PMI surveys from collectively indicating a slowdown in economic growth in the first quarter," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit. "The surveys point to a 0.4% increase in GDP, down from 0.6% in the closing quarter of last year. "Business confidence remains in the doldrums as concerns about the global economy continue to be exacerbated by uncertainty at home, with nerves unsettled by issues such as Brexit and the prospect of further government spending cuts announced in the Budget," Mr Williamson added. "It therefore seems unlikely that March's upturn in the pace of growth represents the start of a longer term upswing. In contrast, the survey data suggest growth is more likely to weaken further in the second quarter. " The Markit/CIPS survey found that growth in new business in the service sector during March hit the slowest pace since January 2013.

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

39 White British pupils 'lag behind ethnic minority peers' White British pupils in England make less progress in school compared to other ethnic groups, a report suggests. The Centre Forum says that while ahead at age five, this group slips to 13th place behind those of Chinese, Indian, Asian and black African heritage by the time they sit GCSEs at the age of 16. The study also says pupils in England's schools are not performing as well as their peers around the world. The government welcomed the report, saying it was right to raise standards. The Centre Forum study, which looks at a wide range of factors surrounding education in England, found pupils from Chinese or Indian backgrounds were likely to make the most progress. The report acknowledges that overall levels of attainment in England are rising. "Since 2005, average performance at the end of secondary school has improved by just over half a GCSE grade," the report says. "Primary pupils are also achieving about a fifth of a national curriculum level higher than 10 years ago. " But the analysis suggests that more than 60% of secondary and 40% of primary pupils are failing to reach world-class standards on writing, literacy, maths and science, and their performance still falls short of the world's leading countries in education such as Finland and Canada. Accounting for changes to exams, which will see more academic subjects become mandatory and a new grades system, the Centre Forum predicts a drop in those achieving a "good pass" in subjects like maths and English. It also shows regional division, with secondary pupils in London outperforming their counterparts in the north of England. Knowsley, Blackpool, Stoke on Trent, Nottingham city, Barnsley and Doncaster are cited as the worst performing areas of the country in attainment and progress. However, data for younger children shows they are achieving a good level of development in line with the top-performing countries. Jo Hutchinson, Centre Forum's associate director for education, said parental engagement was key to pupils' success. "We are talking about things such as parents attending parents' evenings at school, talking to their children about subject options, supervising homework, ensuring that the family eats together and has regular bedtimes," she said. "Most parents actually want their children to continue in education and be successful in education. What sometimes differs is the extent to which they have the knowledge and the tools and resources to help them to make that aspiration real. " For a child, learning English as a second language, should on the face of it, be a significant disadvantage in education. But across England these children have been making good progress at school, and improving their results. This complex and subtle analysis suggests the ethnic mix in different communities is one potential factor behind regional variations in school performance. And for poorer pupils those regional variations can mean falling behind by the equivalent of almost half a year. When Centre Forum looked at the progress of similar children through primary and secondary school, white British pupils fell behind other ethnic groups. A child from a Chinese or Indian background was likely to make the most progress. The report will add to the growing concern about children from poorer white British communities. It's not just what happens at school, but what happens at home that makes a difference. The value parents place on education, and simple daily rituals of helping with homework or regular bedtimes, can help a child. The challenge for schools is how to help provide that focus, hope and ambition in communities where a lack of jobs or a feeling of being left behind can also be a powerful influence on children. A Department for Education spokeswoman said: "We welcome this report which shows the stark choice we face in education today - either we prepare today's young people to compete with the best in the world, or we don't. "Every time we have raised the bar for schools and colleges, they have risen to meet the challenge and we are confident that this is no exception. "Over time we expect to see more pupils reach this new higher standard and the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers continuing to narrow. "

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

40 Who might save Tata Steel in Port Talbot? As emergency talks take place in London and Welsh AMs reconvene to discuss the steel crisis in Cardiff Bay, economics correspondent Sarah Dickins looks at who might take over the threatened Tata steelworks in Port Talbot. Indian-born Sanjeev Gupta, the founder of steel, commodities and property group, Liberty House, already knows south Wales well and is the hottest bet. His company bought the mothballed former Alphasteel works in Newport - with workers on half pay for 18 months until it was ready to reopen late last year - plus a 10% stake in the firm behind the proposed Swansea Bay tidal lagoon. He also owns Uskmouth power station near Newport. Mr Gupta also helped save hundreds of jobs at steel firm Caparo - which included a plant in Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent. Liberty has also struck a deal already to buy two Scottish steel mills from Tata . But these are very different from Port Talbot. Between them the two Scottish plants Clydebridge and Dalzell employ 270 people; in contrast Port Talbot employs 4,000. So why would Liberty want to spend even more cash and in the steelworks at Port Talbot which it is claimed is losing £1m a day? Mr Gupta has suggested he would not be interested in the whole of the Tata operation at Port Talbot but sees a longer term future if there are changes. He told Bloomberg News on Monday : "There is a model which says that we transition over time from blast furnaces to arc furnaces. "It will sustain all the jobs, it will mean a lot of retraining, but it will sustain all the jobs. It will sustain the hot end of the business, but it's a much bigger undertaking. " We have already seen from the way in which Liberty bought the Newport steelworks and Uskmouth power station is that it is a company that plans for the long term. At the moment, Uskmouth generates electricity from Russian coal but the plan is to change it to biomass and provide renewable energy, perfectly placed alongside its steelworks. At the moment, Liberty in Newport rolls imported steel slab and turns it into finished steel. However, it plans in future to use an electric arc furnace to produce molten steel. Although not making steel from iron ore, the process still uses vast amounts of electricity and energy costs are one of the main problems for the steel sector at the moment. When Liberty has its own biomass plant making renewable energy, an electric arc furnace makes more sense financially. Liberty may not be interested in running blast furnaces to make steel in the short term. But it may be persuaded to take it on and in the medium term change to an electric arc system if the cost of electricity became cheaper. That could be done either through the building of a power plant - plans have already been unveiled for one by Tata in Port Talbot - or by changes to the way heavy industry pays for electricity in the UK . The steel employers' body - UK Steel - says steel companies in France and Germany get help from government to reduce the transmission and distribution elements of their electricity bills. That lowers production costs. German group thyssenkrupp Steel Europe has 27,000 workers and is one of the world's leading suppliers of high-grade flat steel, producing 12.4 million tonnes last year. However, it appears to be ruling itself out early on as the BBC understands it is not interested in buying Tata Steel's UK businesses. The London-based business turnaround specialist is headed by two families - brothers Marc and Nathaniel Meyohas and Richard Perlhagen. It rescued Monarch Airlines and has been in talks with Tata about a £400m deal for taking over its long products business, mainly in Scunthorpe in north Lincolnshire. Scunthorpe makes wire rods, steel beams and rail track - a very different business to Port Talbot - although it employs similar numbers of workers. The company said it was not interested in taking over Port Talbot and has not had any discussions. "Greybull is solely focused at this time on discussions about the acquisition of the long products steel business in Scunthorpe," said a spokesman. Greybull has been working on that deal for a year and is still not finalised, such is the complexity of buying a steelworks. There has already been discussions about what would happen to the pension fund if Port Talbot was sold. In Scunthorpe, it is not expected that Greybull will takeover the British Steel pension liabilities, instead it is thought they would stay with Tata. Wilbur Ross is a US billionaire Wall Street investor and chairman of WL Ross & Co merchant bankers. He has been called a "vulture investor" and a "shark" although he prefers the comparisons to a phoenix or a porpoise. He was behind the sale of Northern Rock in 2011 and also took a share in the Bank of Ireland. Back in the United States, Ross formed International Steel Group, taking on struggling plants, and later sold it to Mittal Steel to become the biggest steelmaker in the world. He is still a director of ArcelorMittal. "We like to go into buildings that aren't totally burned down and where you can put the fire out and have something very valuable, survive," he told the BBC in 2012. It is possibly not a metaphor useful to Port Talbot, which wants its fires to carry on burning but Ross, 78, has made a reputation of looking at "everything that's in trouble" so is probably expecting a call.

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

41 Italy ups stakes in student murder as Egypt sends team to Rome Italy on Tuesday warned Egypt it would not accept a "fabricated" account of the brutal murder of student Giulio Regeni from a delegation of prosecutors and police due in Rome. As Cairo confirmed the investigative team would fly to the Italian capital on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said there would be immediate consequences if Rome's demands for greater transparency on Regeni's fate were not met. Regeni, 28 and a PhD candidate at Cambridge University, was found dead outside Cairo on February 3, his body bearing the signs of torture which an autopsy concluded had been inflicted over several days. On March 25, Cairo announced police had killed four members of a criminal gang specialising in abducting foreigners, and that they had found Regeni's passport in the apartment of a sister of one of the slain suspects. That version of what happened to Regeni has been greeted with outraged scepticism in Italy, where there is a widespread suspicion that the murder was the work of elements in the security services. Cairo has rejected that theory as baseless. "We are on the eve of important meetings which could be decisive for the progress of the investigation," Gentiloni told lawmakers. He reiterated that Italy regarded the kidnapping gang story as a "new attempt to give credence to a convenient truth" and said he would reject any attempt to have it accepted as "a conclusion to the investigation". - Close ties at risk - Gentiloni said Rome was still waiting to receive Regeni's mobile phone records and CCTV images from the neighbourhood in which he was abducted. Italy was also seeking information on Regeni having "probably been placed under surveillance prior to his abduction," the minister said. If these elements are not forthcoming, Gentiloni warned of damage to the usually close relations between the two countries. "The government is ready to ready to react by adopting immediate and proportionate measures," he said, rejecting suggestions Italy could not afford a bust-up with a major trade and security partner. "In the name of reasons of state, we will not accepted a fabricated truth... and we will not allow the dignity of our country to be walked all over. " Egypt's public prosecutor's office said the team headed for Rome would be led by deputy general prosecutor Mostafa Suleiman and would "present the results of the investigation conducted by the Egyptian general prosecution in the case so far". The delegation was initially due in Rome on Tuesday, but the trip was delayed for undisclosed reasons. - Barely recognisable - Regeni disappeared in central Cairo on January 25, and his body was found nine days later on the side of a motorway, badly mutilated and showing signs of torture. Regeni had been researching labour movements in Egypt, a sensitive topic, and had written articles critical of the government under a pen name. He disappeared on a day when Cairo was almost deserted and security tight as the country marked the fifth anniversary of the uprising that ousted longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. "I won't tell you what they had done to him," Regeni's mother Paola told the Italian parliament recently after seeing her son's battered body. "I recognised him just by the tip of his nose. The rest of him was no longer Giulio. " Underlining the domestic pressure Renzi's government is under, she said she had taken a photograph of his mutilated body and was prepared to publish it if Cairo continued to refuse to share the findings of its probe with the Italian police. Since the 2013 ouster of Islamist leader Mohamed Morsi, rights groups have accused Egypt's security services of carrying out illegal detentions, forced disappearances of activists and the torture of detainees. Since Morsi's removal by then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a police crackdown targeting Morsi's supporters has left hundreds dead and tens of thousands jailed. Hundreds more have been sentenced to death, including Morsi himself.

2016-04-05 13:38 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

42 New Lamborghini suitcase is worth more than a small car They’re the perfect travel accessories for every Lamborghini owner – although they won’t all fit in the boot on the way to the airport in a £350,000 Aventador. The Italian supercar manufacturer has partnered with high-end luggage company TecknoMonster to create a range of handcrafted suitcases that only first class or private jet passengers can afford. Made with the same materials used to build Lamborghini’s supercars, the most expensive rolling bag in the collection is worth more than a small car, with a retail price of £11,279. Scroll down for video Inspired by Lamborghini’s extravagant carbon fibre exteriors and leather interiors, the cases are manufactured in Italy with all the hallmarks of the iconic supercar brand. Each case is made from carbon fibre cured in an autoclave, fully-machined aluminium and high-grade tanned hides. The luxurious Bynomio series comes in four sizes: large and small cabin luggage and large and small hold luggage. The largest bag, measuring 85x60x32cm, sells for £11,279 ($16,000), while the smallest bag, a piece of hand luggage measuring 54x37x21cm, costs £7,065 ($10,000). Consumers can choose from one of two lining options: a Sport Naked interior with visible, lightweight carbon fibre, or Sport Icon quilted leather inspired by Lamborghini’s hexagonal pattern. Each case is easy to use thanks to its spinning wheels and an ergonomic leather handle with hexagonal hand-made stitching and aluminium end places. The zipper pulls are engraved with 'Automobili Lamborghini' and there is a TSA-approved lock to protect valuables inside. The suitcase has a layer of neoprene, a synthetic rubber, to protect it while it is handled by the owner or airline staff.

2016-04-05 13:37 Chris Kitching www.dailymail.co.uk

43 ISIS goes high-tech, launches forensics division Contact WND ISIS released a new propaganda recruitment tool of slick imagery that showed terrorists engaged in the group’s latest endeavor: fingerprinting and forensics. MEMRI reported the pictorial display was aimed at recruiting new members who would help underscore the caliphate as “real,” not imaginary, by showcasing the group’s technological savvy. The ‘Stop Hillary’ campaign is on fire! Join the surging response to this theme: ‘Clinton for prosecution, not president’ ISIS announced it came into possession of microscopes and magnifying glasses, and wanted to recruit new members who could help form and grow a new forensics team, Fox News reported. The news outlet said ISIS most likely nabbed the lab equipment during take-overs of Syrian and Iraqi regions. The free WND special report âISIS Rising,â by Middle East expert and former Department of Defense analyst Michael Maloof, will answer your questions about the jihadist army threatening the West. ISIS put out an ad touting its new “Islamic police forensics department” alongside a picture layout of so-called detectives solving various crimes, like the burglary of a pharmacy. One image shows a set of gloved hands dusting for fingerprints, and then using a magnifying glass and an ultraviolet light to scrutinize the prints. Another picture shows an ISIS technician peering through a microscope to compare various fingerprints. And yet one more portray a camouflaged man handing over a check to the pharmacy owner after ISIS forensics team members solved the so-called “crime,” Fox News reported.

2016-04-05 13:36 Cheryl Chumley www.wnd.com

44 “I’m dropping in, not dropping out”: John Kasich refuses to bow out Topics: original video , John Kasich , Donald Trump , Ted Cruz , 2016 election , Elections News , Media News , News , Politics News Despite it literally being impossible for John Kasich to gain the necessary delegate count, the presidential candidate said he would pardon himself only if he lost the primary in his home state of Ohio — but he came out on top and soldiered on as promised. During last night’s interview with FOX’s Greta Van Susteren, Kasich stressed that he’s the only GOP candidate to consistently beat Hillary Clinton in polls, and by the largest margin. But unsurprisingly, the biggest advocates for Kasich’s dismissmal from the race have been his GOP counterparts, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Still Kasich insists that he’s not going anywhere…

2016-04-05 13:45 Asha Parker salon.com.feedsportal.com

45 Three left with 'traumatic injuries' after boat crashes in Florida Three people were rushed to the hospital with 'traumatic injuries' early Tuesday morning after a boat owned by a Florida state senator's company crashed into a dock. Sen David Simmons was not on the boat at the time, but he confirmed to Florida Politics that a family member was among the injured in the crash on Lake Maitland. The Republican from Altamonte Springs, said the boat was not registered in his name, but was registered to a company he owns. Maitland firefighters told WKMG-TV News 6 that one adult and seven children, including several teens, were on the 22-foot SeaDoo sport boat when it crashed. Simmons said he was at home and did not know the other people on the boat other than a family member. He wouldn't identify his family member but he said his relative suffered a broken leg and was being treated at a nearby hospital. A homeowner said he heard the crash in his back yard just after midnight and found the wreckage. Officials said it's likely the boat was traveling at a high rate of speed when the crash occurred. Maitland police Lt Louis Grindle told the Orlando Sentinel that the youngest was a 17- year-old, but they weren't 'all teenagers'. Grindle said officers investigating the incident told him the boat is registered to an address on the lake belonging to Simmons. The boat took off from that address across the lake and at an unknown time later crashed into the dock causing extensive property damage, Grindle said. A fire official told New 6 that the boat 'crashed into the dock, so it's mostly out of the water, and it's pretty much stuck on the back dock right now'. Authorities are looking into what caused the crash and Grindle said 'alcohol may have been a factor'. Firefighters said three others refused treatment at the scene and some of the victims had to be extricated from the boat following the impact with the dock. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating, according to WESH. Simmons represents the 10th District, which covers Seminole County and parts of Volusia County. Lake Maitland is a popular Central Florida boating spot, which is surrounded by luxury homes, most of which have their own private docks.

2016-04-05 13:33 Valerie Edwards www.dailymail.co.uk

46 1991 Pilibhit Fake Encounter: CBI court awards life sentence to 47 cops Lucknow: A special CBI court yesterday sentenced 47 policemen to life imprisonment for killing 10 Sikh pilgrims in a fake encounter in Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh 25 years ago. Special judge Lallu Singh had on April 1 held the policemen guilty of a ‘fake encounter’. On July 12, 1991, the policemen stopped a luxury bus filled with Sikh pilgrims and forced 10 passengers to get off. A chargesheet said they were divided into groups, taken to different areas in a jungle and killed in ‘cold blood’. About 57 policemen were charged in the case, of which 10 have died since. The policemen claimed the next day that 10 Khalistani terrorists had been killed. They claimed that some of the Sikhs in the bus had criminal cases and were armed. The case dates back to 1991 when the state’s Terai region witnessed a surge in militancy- related incidents. The CBI investigated the case on the orders of the Supreme Court and said the motive behind the killings was to earn awards and recognition for killing ‘terrorists’. According to CBI officers, the bus was on its way to Pilibhit on July 12, when a police team stopped it at Kachlapul ghat and allegedly dragged out 10 Sikh men from the vehicle. The other passengers, including women and children, were taken to a gurdwara in Pilibhit while the men were made to sit in another vehicle. Late in the evening, additional force joined the police team and they divided the Sikh men into three groups. On the intervening night of July 12 and 13, the policemen gunned down the Sikh men in three encounters in the thickets falling under three different police station areas — Bilsanda, Niuria and Pooranpur — in Pilibhit. The police then claimed that these men had criminal cases against them and claimed to have recovered arms and ammunition from their possession. The CBI probe found that the police got the autopsy done on 10 of the bodies and got them cremated the same day.

2016-04-05 13:25 By Agencies www.mid-day.com

47 Petrol hiked by Rs.2.19/litre, diesel by 98 paise New Delhi: State-run Indian Oil Corp (IOC) hiked transport fuel rates from Tuesday, increasing petrol by Rs.2.19 a litre and diesel by 98 paise -- both at Delhi, with corresponding increase in other states, on the back of a further hardening of global crude oil rates. "The current level of international product prices of petrol and diesel and the INR-USD exchange rate warrant increase in prices of petrol and diesel, the impact of which is being passed on to the consumers with this price revision," IOC said in a statement here. Petrol per litre now costs Rs.61.87 in Delhi, Rs.65.48 in Kolkata, Rs.67.96 in Mumbai and Rs.61.32 in Chennai The price of diesel per litre is Rs.49.31 in Delhi, Rs.51.58 in Kolkata, Rs.56.09 in Mumbai and Rs.50.09 in Chennai. The latest increase follows a stiffer hike of Rs.3.07 a litre on petrol and Rs.1.90 a litre in diesel rates effected on March 17. The Indian basket of crude oils, composed of 73 percent sour grade Dubai and Oman crudes and the rest by sweet grade UK Brent, closed trade on Friday at $36.58 a barrel of 159 litres as per official data, after having fallen to around $25 earlier in the year.

2016-04-05 13:23 By IANS www.mid-day.com

48 Dispatchers 'passed around 911 call about Uber gunmen before shooting' A 911 call about 'crazy' Uber gunmen Jason Dalton was passed around dispatchers just an hour before the shooting rampage that left six people dead. A passenger phoned in saying the 45-year-old had hit a car and had been driving erratically around Kalamazoo on February 20, the night of the mass shooting. He also told officers he feared he was about to kill someone and should not be on the road. It was one of the reported 14 fares he had on the evening he fatally shot Mary Lou Nye, 63, Mary Jo Nye, 60, Dorothy Brown, 74, Barbara Hawthorne, 68, Tyler Smith and his father Rich Smith and left two others - 14-year-old Abigail Kopf and Tiana Carruthers - seriously injured. The rider has not been named in records but is believed to have been Matt Mellen, as interviews he has given in the aftermath match the account given to dispatchers. He explained to the dispatcher that he had been driving at up to 60 miles an hour on all sides of the road and even made a detour through the woods before he jumped out, the Detroit Free Press reported. As he finished the description, he was passed to two different dispatchers. Around 80 minutes later, the first shooting was reported, prompting authorities to look into the call. The passenger then confirmed the driver's name was Jason. He then sent an officer a picture of the ride confirmation, including a picture of the driver. He then told an officer: 'No one needs to be riding with this crazy man, and he doesn't need to be on the road. He's going to kill someone.' According to the Free Press , the rider's 911 call was received at about 4:28 pm on February 20. From then a be-on-the-lookout alert was issued to officers, said Sarah Clark with the Kalamazoo Public Safety dispatch center. She said the call was transferred from Kalamazoo County dispatch to Kalamazoo Township dispatch first because the location described was in the township. The caller was transferred a second time to city dispatch because of where the collision occurred. The first of three shootings was reported at about 5:40pm after which a police officer called the rider back to follow up with him. Detroit Police did not respond to the Free Press. The identity of the passenger has not been revealed. Dalton was called to Meadows Townhomes in Kalamazoo by a request on the ride-sharing app at 5.15pm on February 20, authorities said. Around 25 minutes later, Tiana Carruthers became the shooter's his first victim. The 25-year-old mother had been on a playground outside the apartment complex along with a number of children when Dalton approached. Witnesses said the shooter called Carruthers over and gave a woman’s name, asking if she was the woman or knew her, KHOU reports. She reportedly threw herself in front of the children as Dalton allegedly opened fire – and was shot several times. However, Carruthers survived the attack and was able to give police vital information that helped them apprehend the suspected shooter. Hours later, at around 10pm, police say Dalton gunned down high school senior Tyler Smith, 17 and his father Rich at a car dealership. Then, just 15 minutes later, he shot five people who were all sitting in a car in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant. Mary Lou Nye, 63, Mary Jo Nye, 60, Dorothy Brown, 74, and Barbara Hawthorne, 68, all died. Abigail, is the only one who survived that shooting. The teenager was initially declared dead by medics, but is now talking and walking on her own. Earlier this month, Dalton reportedly told investigators that the Uber app had the ability to ‘take over’ his body. He told police when he pressed a button on his phone screen, the horned cow head of a devil would appear, WZZM reported. ‘When I logged onto site (the Uber app), it started making me feel like a puppet,’ Dalton told police in an interview, the news station reported. He also told his wife on the night of the deadly rampage that she would not be able to go to work and their children would not be able to go to school – and added that if she turned on the news, she would know why. Dalton is charged with shooting eight people, killing six, over a five-hour period on February 20 – in between driving customers for Uber in Kalamazoo. Last month, police said Dalton had admitted to the shootings. In March prosecutors said a judge had granted a request by Dalton’s attorney for a competency exam. Kalamazoo County Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey Getting said weighing a person's competency to stand trial had no bearing on the person's criminal responsibility for a crime and that the move was not to determine whether Dalton was legally insane. He faces 16 charges, including six for murder, and faces life in prison.

2016-04-05 13:14 Wills Robinson www.dailymail.co.uk

49 Police psychological sick leave up 35% in five years Cases of UK police officers and staff taking long- term sick leave for psychological reasons have risen by 35% over the last five years, statistics obtained by BBC Radio 5 live suggest. The figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, show cases rose from 4,544 in 2010-11 to 6,129 in 2014-15 despite police workforces shrinking. There was also a steady increase in overall long- term sick leave. The government said policing was "stressful" and forces must help staff. The BBC's 5 live Daily programme contacted 46 police forces across the UK, and 40 provided information. Data showed the number of police employees on long-term sick leave - defined by forces as either 28 or 29 days or more - rose from 19,825 in 2010-11 to 22,547 in 2014-15. West Yorkshire Police recorded the largest rise in long-term sick leave over a year - up 44% between 2013-14 and 2014-15 - from 521 days to 748. Warwickshire Police showed the biggest decrease of 17% over the same time period. The total number of police officers in England and Wales fell by almost 17,000 from 2010 to 2015, while the number of other staff fell by more than 20,000 . Che Donald, of the Police Federation, which represents officers up to the rank of chief inspector, said there had been "unprecedented cuts to police officer numbers" while demand on forces had not decreased. He said increased sickness - including for psychological reasons - was not surprising as officers often worked in "highly stressful fast-moving environments" and were exposed to "horrific situations". "This, coupled with a reduction in resources and manpower, can lead to the perfect storm," he said. Policing minister Mike Penning said: "Policing, by its very nature, is a stressful and demanding job and it is the responsibility of chief officers - with help from the College of Policing - to ensure that police officers and staff are supported in their work. " He said the government allocated £10m in 2014 to help emergency services staff through "mental health, physical recuperation and bereavement support". Police Scotland did not provide the information requested by the BBC so the figures do not include Scotland - but last year data suggested more than 53,000 working days had been lost in the force over two years due to stress.

2016-04-05 08:49 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

50 His most terrifying interview yet: Why Trump’s sit down with Bob Woodward should have America petrified Topics: Donald Trump , Elections 2016 , GOP primary , Editor's Picks , News , Politics News A 7th grader recently gave this answer when he was asked why Abraham Lincoln succeeded: No, that wasn’t actually a 7th grader who didn’t do his homework. That was the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump, who has obviously not given a thought to history of any kind since he put away his Prince Valiant comics. That comment is from the latest in a series of bizarre long form interviews with the press which was conducted by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of the Washington Post and may give the most insight into the mind of Donald Trump of all of them. Many politicians robotically stick to their talking points. (Recall Marco Rubio’s spectacular meltdown earlier this year.) But that is a calculated and practiced tactic in which the candidate uses every opportunity to get his or her message out regardless of the question. Trump appears to be doing something much more common and prosaic: He changes the subject when he doesn’t have an answer to the question. He does return again and again to his talking points, but they are unrelated to policies and issues. Everything is personalized and refers back to his own experiences which appear to be quite limited for a man of his wealth and opportunity. Indeed, he seems to have decided very early in life on a set of simple beliefs about the way the world works and has never questioned them. Pressed by Bob Woodward on the fact that he’s alienated so many people in the party and will need to reach out and build alliances, he said this: The assumption is that once he vanquishes all his rivals everyone will fear him and do his bidding. In other words, if you win you can get away with anything. That is his definition of leadership. Lately the public and the political establishment are pressing him harder on substance — or perhaps they’re just taking him seriously at long last. Last week he stunned the country with his comments about punishing women for having abortions, a position he meandered into by failing to understand that the right has its own kind of political correctness. But what he has been saying about nuclear policy is so reckless that President Obama was moved to comment on it, saying “the person who made the statements doesn’t know much about foreign policy or nuclear policy or the Korean Peninsula or the world generally.” Unfortunately, Trump didn’t get the message and continued to insist that Japan and South Korea either hand over more money to the United States or build their own nuclear weapons. This comment at a campaign event on Saturday was chilling: Nuclear war would certainly be a terrible thing, no doubt about it. But what are you going to do?

2016-04-05 13:45 Heather Digby salon.com.feedsportal.com

51 Eurovision: Australian entry 'does not break rules' Australia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest has been cleared of breaching rules on product placement. Dami Im's song, Sound Of Silence, features the lyric "trying to feel your love through face time," which some have interpreted as a reference to Apple's video-chat service FaceTime. Eurovision rules prohibit "messages promoting any political cause, company, brand, products or services". But organisers say the lyrics do not make specific reference to Apple's app. "The lyrics of the Australian song are presented as two separate words, 'face time' and not FaceTime which is an Apple trademark," said the Eurovision Song Contest Reference Group, which rules on such disputes. "The Merriam-Webster dictionary refers to 'face time' as 'time spent meeting with someone'... so in this case the song lyrics have been cleared. " In previous years, entrants have been forced to rewrite songs which fell foul of the Eurovision rulebook. San Marino's 2012 entry, Facebook Uh, Oh, Oh (A Satirical Song) was renamed The Social Network Song (Oh Oh Uh Oh Oh) after organisers intervened. And in 2005, Ukraine had to rewrite the lyrics to Razom Nas Bagato! , which had become the anthem of the country's "orange revolution" a year earlier. The song, whose title translated as Together We Are Many!, included such phrases as "Yushchenko - yes! Yushchenko - yes! This is our president - yes, yes! " Dami Im, a former winner of X Factor Australia, will perform her song at the first Eurovision semi-final on 12 May in Stockholm. The country was first admitted to the contest last year as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations, with Guy Sebastian eventually taking fifth place. Eurovision says Australia's continued involvement is an "exciting step" towards making the contest "a truly global event". The UK will be represented by pop duo Joe and Jake, both of whom appeared on last year's series of The Voice UK. Their track, You're Not Alone, is considered an outsider to win the contest - with odds of 50/1 at bookmakers William Hill and Paddy Power.

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

52 In pictures: Albinism and perceptions of beauty South African photographer Justin Dingwall's portrait series Albus explores the aesthetics of albinism and perceptions of beauty. Albinism is an inherited condition that results in the absence, or near absence, of pigmentation in the eyes, skin and hair. Many people living with albinism are subject to negative public attitudes, persecution and violence. Dingwall's project began with portraits of Thando Hopa, a legal prosecutor using her visibility to address the negative perceptions surrounding albinism. More recent work features Sanele Xaba, a young model with albinism, and uses specific elements to create symbolic meanings. "They are not about race or fashion, but about perception, and what we subjectively perceive as beautiful," says Dingwall. "I wanted to create a series of images that resonate with humanity and make people question what is beautiful. "To me diversity is what makes humanity interesting and beautiful. " Drawing on elements from nature, Dingwall aims to alter the viewer's perspective. "The butterfly unquestioningly embraces the changes of their environment and their body," says the photographer. "For this reason, butterflies have become symbols of growth, surrender, transition, celebration, resurrection and fragility. " In images such as Cerasinus and Indicum, Dingwall paints with light, using bold colours that neutralise the perception of skin tone. Albinism is particularly prevalent in Tanzania, with one in 1,400 affected, according to a 2006 BMC Public Health report. This compares with one in 20,000 in Western countries. Since 2000, at least 75 people with albinism have been killed in targeted attacks in Tanzania. Many are killed because potions made from their body parts are believed to bring good luck and wealth. All photos: Justin Dingwall

2016-04-05 13:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

53 Mobile chat apps Line, Kakao flourishing among young Asians SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Forget Facebook and Twitter. Two of Asia's biggest social media players, Kakao Talk and Line, are growing by making mobile messaging apps an integral part of the lives of young Asians who prefer to communicate more privately instead of shouting out in virtual arenas and risking troubles with trolls -- or disclosing aspects of their lives to their parents they'd rather not share. Kakao Talk is the top messenger app in South Korea, with more users than Facebook or Twitter. People use it to hail cabs and transfer money, advancing toward a cashless society. Even South Korean government officials prefer Kakao chat rooms for communicating with colleagues as opposed to email. In Japan, where Line users outnumber those on Facebook or Twitter, people buy cute digital stickers to link to messages and use the app to search for music and jobs. In doing so, the apps are serving as test beds for digital services, demonstrating ways the latest trends in technology and communication can be integrated with daily life in the 21st century. Above all, they are making money, although some of their products, such as digital stickers, would be a hard sell in other markets. Silicon Valley investors and tech startups everywhere are watching closely. Here's a look at Kakao Talk and Line, Asia's top messenger app companies. ___ KAKAO TALK: Headquartered on the southern island of Jeju, South Korea. The app was released in 2010. OWNED BY: Kakao, South Korea's No. 2 Internet search engine, which counts former Naver CEO Kim Beom-su as the largest shareholder. NUMBERS: 48 million active users globally, including 40 million in South Korea. Sales at the owner of Kakao Talk reached 932.2 billion won ($808.5 million) last year. HITS: Kakao Talk itself and its cute emoticon characters. The company was able to build on the success of Kakao Talk when it launched Kakao Story, an Instagram-like service which was at one point more popular than Facebook among South Koreans. But its user growth has been slowing. The latest big hit is Kakao Taxi, an Uber-like taxi hailing service. MAKING MONEY: The 2012 launch of Kakao Game proved its first big jackpot. Many mobile games adopted a business model where users would have to either invite Kakao Talk friends or pay to play more rounds or buy virtual items. This fueled huge growth in the mobile game market in South Korea, helping some game developers go public and amass cash. It also allowed advertisers like Uniqlo and mom-and-pop stores to interact with users one-on-one. CHALLENGES: Game revenue has declined since peaking in 2014 as game developers began to distance themselves to save commission fees. Following a controversy in 2014 over South Korean authorities' seizure of Kakao Talk user data, many customers have migrated to Berlin-based competitor Telegram. Since then, South Koreans have become wary of what they say on the app, which has not severely dented its traffic but has hurt its reputation. EXPANSION: Kakao Talk has unsuccessfully tried to expand in Japan and Indonesia, both countries where Line is strong. Instead, the company has largely focused on developing new services for its huge Korean customer base. ANALYST TAKE: "They have to get a momentum in the mobile advertisement market, but no messenger companies have established themselves as strong an advertisement platform as Facebook," said Justin Lee, an analyst at BNP Paribas in Seoul. Earlier expectations for monetizing messenger apps may have been overly optimistic, he said. "Because of the limitations of one-on-one services, its appeal as an ad platform is not as big as Facebook. " ___ LINE: Headquartered in Tokyo. Founded in 2011. OWNED BY: South Korea's No. 1 Internet search engine company Naver Corp. NUMBERS: 215 million active users globally, 68 million in Japan. Recorded 120.7 billion yen ($1.1 billion) in sales last year. HITS: Line has leveraged businesses such as merchandising of dolls and other goods featuring mascot-like characters such as Brown the bear. It also rakes in revenue from the sale of emoticon stickers, called "stamps" in Japan, to use with Line messages. Many stamps are free or cost very little, and Line has opened stamp designing to the public, enhancing their appeal. Cab drivers, for instance, use special stamps with their industry jargon handy for quick communication with other drivers in their team. Some 2.4 billion such stickers are sent each day, with sales reaching 25.3 billion yen ($224 million) last year. Free voice calls among Line users, including international calls, are another reason for its popularity. MAKING MONEY: Line has signed up major companies for advertising such as Toyota and online retailer Rakuten. It plans to expand its clientele, using its knowledge of users' interests in targeting advertising. Such contracts now cost about 50 million yen ($500,000), but will be offered to small and medium-size businesses at lower rates. Line mainly appeals to young people, many of whom don't have access to credit cards. To get around that problem, Line has come up with its own prepaid cards that can be charged at convenience-store chains. CHALLENGES: Line is entering the mobile operator service in Japan, to be launched in a few months, starting at an affordable 500 yen ($4.40) a month, using the telecommunications infrastructure of major Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo. Nearly half of mobile phone users in Japan haven't yet switched to smartphones, and Line hopes to attract those users when they finally make the switch. EXPANSION: Line has also been focusing on expanding to Thailand, Taiwan and Indonesia. To appeal to such markets, it has created locally oriented serial dramas to watch. It also offers music and job-search services and is branching into online news. ANALYST TAKE: "It is important for Line to continue focusing on its localization strategy," said Jun Wen Woo, an analyst at IHS. "Users from Japan and Taiwan may have similar interests in Japanese comics, but users from Thailand and Indonesia might be more interested in other content such as games. " Line users have been dropping outside the four main countries, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia, she said. ___ FACEBOOK AND TWITTER: Facebook, which boasts 1.6 billion users globally, has about 16 million monthly active users in South Korea and 25 million in Japan. Instagram, the photo-sharing mobile app owned by Facebook, has 6 million users in South Korea and 8.1 million in Japan. Globally, Instagram has 400 million users. Facebook has been gaining traction along with Instagram in South Korea. Facebook's users there jumped nearly 50 percent from 2013 to 2015. Twitter, meanwhile, has 320 million users around the world and 35 million in Japan, one of its largest markets. It is popular in Japan for to its quick, newsy feel and the option for anonymity that Japanese tend to favor. Koreans tend to view Twitter as a niche, alternative platform for people seeking to voice opinion anonymously. Twitter does not disclose a country-specific user number for South Korea. Seoul- based market research firm Rankey.com estimates that there are 1.2 million Twitter users in the country, but its estimate is based on a survey of 60,000 Android phone owners and does not include iPhone users. ___ Follow Youkyung Lee on Twitter at www.twitter.com/YKLeeAP Her work can be found on: http://bigstory.ap.org/content/youkyung-lee Yuri Kageyama reported from Tokyo. Follow her on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/yurikageyama Her work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/yuri-kageyama Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

2016-04-05 12:40 Associated Press mynorthwest.com

54 Early morning rains take Mumbaikars by surprise It may be April, but Mumbaikars had to bring out their umbrellas again as rains hit city early on Tuesday morning. Also Read: March rains take Mumbaikars by pleasant surprise All pics/Nimesh Dave As per reports, rains were witnessed in the suburbs of Borivli and Kandivli region at around 6:30 am. School children as well as office-goers were seen carrying umbrellas. Photos: Unseasonal showers take Mumbaikars by surprise While Mumbaikars were taken by surprise by the light showers on Tuesday morning, the drizzle can also result in an increase in temperature, weather experts confirmed. However, momentary changes in climate and cloudy sky pleased Mumbaikars who took to social media to express themselves. Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said that the light drizzle is a result of existing moisture in the climate and subsequent rise in temperature. “The showers were very light and were caused due to something which we call as wind discontinuity. The phenomenon is, as of now, similar from western peninsula to Vidarbha," said Rajiv Nair, Director IMD. While the forecast mentions that the sky will remain cloudy, there is an expected increase in temperature, which could go up to as much as 33 degree Celsius. Some areas on Konkan coast are expected to get thunderstorms. At the same time light rains are expected to hit different parts of the city.

2016-04-05 12:35 By Sadaguru www.mid-day.com

55 No slowdown in legal highs flooding Europe, say drug watchdogs There are no signs of any slowdown in the continuous stream of legal highs with more than 100 new psychoactive substances reported in 2015, according to a report by Europol and the EU’s drug agency. The official strategic analysis on the state of the EU drugs market says the number of legal highs being monitored has reached 560 – more than twice the number of the more traditional drugs banned under the international drug control treaties. The European police and drug experts say as the “low risk, high profit” trade in legal highs has grown so have the harms involved including acute, sometimes fatal, poisonings. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has issued 34 urgent public health alerts over the past two years. The report underlines the challenge facing the British government to control the explosion in legal highs in recent years and is being published one day before the delayed blanket ban on psychoactive substances was due to come into effect. Legal highs are laboratory synthesised chemical substances designed to mimic the effects of more traditional recreational drugs such as cannabis, ecstasy and amphetamines. Producers try to anticipate bans on individual substances by constantly developing new products that are sold online and through high street “headshops” and other outlets. Express mail and delivery companies are used to ship the packages from China or India to Europe in as little as two days. Recent police seizures of clandestine laboratories indicate that there is increasing interest in producing new legal highs in Europe. The joint EU drugs markets 2016 report warns that “given the nature of the market and the continuous stream of new substances, it is unfeasible that all of them can be controlled. In October 2015, the Chinese government controlled 116 new substances – which is just over the number currently identified each year in Europe. “It is unlikely that any regulatory system can be designed to sufficiently limit the stream of new substances being manufactured without resorting to a ban on a huge range of chemicals.” The annual strategic analysis also examines the wider ramifications beyond the individual harm caused by the illicit drug market in Europe, with citizens spending an estimated €24bn (£19bn) every year on illicit drugs. They say drug markets continue to be one of the most profitable areas for organised crime groups and impact on other types of criminal activities and terrorism, impact on legal businesses and the wider economy and place a strain on and corruption of government institutions. The negative effects include drug-related crime and violence, environmental damage as well as harm to families and communities. The report says that while drug trafficking is rarely used as the main source of finance for terrorist groups in Europe, involvement in the drug trade may play a role in the radicalisation of second- or third-generation diaspora youth who may use their criminal networks in support of terrorist activities. The analysis says cannabis is still the most widely used drug in Europe, accounting for about 38% of the market worth €9.3bn a year. Herbal cannabis grown on the continent dominates the market, although increasingly potent Moroccan cannabis resin continues to be imported into Europe. It reports recent signs of an increasing availability of heroin in Europe, with opium production in Afghanistan remaining high and a shift to maritime container trafficking with new routes involving Africa, the southern Caucasus, Syria and Iraq. Cocaine remains Europe’s most commonly used illicit stimulant with an estimated market value of €5.7bn. Its use remains relatively stable and concentrated in western and southern Europe. “What is clear to us is that illicit drug markets remain one of the key threats to the security of the EU. Efforts to understand them and the key actors involved are essential if we are to make sound policy decisions that will have any lasting impact,” says a foreword by Rob Wainwright of Europol and Alexis Goosdeel of the EMCDDA. “This report aims to improve that understanding and provide a platform for debate in the coming years. After all, drug markets are essentially driven by two simple motives: profit and power. The ability to undermine these motives is critical if we are to have any impact on drug-related crime and reduce the wider impacts on society,” they said.

2016-04-05 12:30 Alan Travis www.theguardian.com

56 Myanmar's former president leaves office, joins monkhood YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's former president Thein Sein has shed his formal attire and his hair to join the Buddhist monkhood. Thein Sein's ordination as a monk took place Monday, officials said, four days after he presided over a historic transition of power to the former opposition party headed by Aung San Suu Kyi. Photographs circulating on social media show the former president, with his head shaved and dressed in a saffron robe, beside a fellow monk. The Ministry of Information released a statement on its Facebook page Monday saying Thein Sein will spend five days at the Dhamma Dipati Monastery outside Pyin Oo Lwin, a scenic hill town near Mandalay in central Myanmar. A temporary stint at a monastery is common in the predominantly Buddhist country, where boys are expected to ordain as novice monks at some point in their childhood and then return later in adulthood. Thein Sein himself has not spoken publicly about his choice to temporarily become a monk but the official statement indicated he has been considering it at least since January when he attended a Buddhist conference in Myanmar. "Recently, the country's most respected monk, Sitagu, urged ex-President Thein Sein to enter into the Buddhist monkhood when he attended the World Buddhist Conference," the statement from the Ministry of Information said. "Thein Sein told Sitagu that he was busy with the duties of a president and promised that he would be ordained as soon as he finished his term as president. " Thein Sein, a former general, was installed as president for a five-year term in 2011 to head a nominally civilian government after the military ended a half century of military rule. In November, the country held its first free election in decades which Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won by a landslide. Thein Sein presided over the transfer of power to new President Htin Kyaw, who was handpicked by Suu Kyi, in a ceremony last Thursday. Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

2016-04-05 12:28 Associated Press mynorthwest.com

57 Pakistan and Afghanistan join forces to wipe out polio Pakistan and Afghanistan, the two remaining countries where polio is endemic, have joined forces to eradicate polio by vaccinating their children in synchronised campaigns. The countries – which share a 2,400km porous border – have been bracketed as the major stumbling block in the drive for the global eradication of polio. These countries have been tackling the Taliban’s opposition to the administration of oral polio vaccine (OPV) to children. Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), along with the adjacent Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), as well as the adjoining Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, have been declared a polio-endemic geographical block by the World Health Organisation. “We have started synchronised immunisation campaigns in KP, Fata and Afghanistan with a view to ensure vaccination of all children on both sides of the border,” said KP’s health minister, Shahram Tarakai. “There are about 100,000 children [whose parents] refuse vaccination on both sides of the border. They pose a threat to the polio eradication campaign. Each child should get vaccinated,” he said. The government has enlisted the support of Islamic scholars to combat refusals against OPV, said KP’s top polio officer, Dr Ayub Roz. Taliban groups have been campaigning against OPV because they consider it a ploy by the US to render recipients impotent or infertile, and reduce the population of Muslims. Ayub Roz said scholars have been involved in the vaccination campaigns to dispel the myth that OPV was against Islam and that it affected fertility. Maulana Samiul Haq, chief of Pakistan’s Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Haqqani in Akora Khattak, has been given the task of countering the Taliban’s anti-vaccine campaign. He said the scholars have been engaged to accompany health workers and urge parents that OPV is important for their kids to safeguard them against disabilities. “It is the responsibility of the parents to protect their children against diseases and provide them with safe and healthy environments. We have convinced 10,000 parents since January on vaccination of their children,” he said. Muhammad Rizwan, a farmer and resident of Nowshera, one of the 26 districts of KP, said he had not been vaccinating his children under the misconception that it wasn’t allowed in Islam. “As a result, my eldest son, aged four years, was diagnosed positive for polio. Now, upon the persuasion of religious leaders, I have been vaccinating my two other sons to let them grow healthy,” Rizwan said. According to Rizwan, the Taliban have been warning people against vaccination in these areas but local clerics have started to win parents round. “Parents are responding to religious leaders and are bringing their children for immunisation in droves,” he said. The KP police chief, Nasir Khan Durrani, said they have been deploying more than 10,000 policemen for the security of health workers. “ Militants have killed 70 health workers during the polio campaign from 2012 to 2015 but there [have been] no such incidents in 2016,” he said. A case in February in Afghanistan’s Kunar province , bordering Fata and KP, has triggered alarm bells, prompting both countries to speed up the immunisation drive in border areas. More than 60 polio cases reported last year were in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Peshawar registered 10 polio cases of KP’s total 18 in 2015 mainly because of free and unchecked movements of children from Afghanistan and Fata. Two of these cases had links to the virus in Afghanistan. Dr Ikhtiar Ali, Fata’s polio officer, said synchronised campaigns that began in Pakistan and Afghanistan in January have paid off: as of 16 March, the number of cases in Pakistan were six, and in Afghanistan one. The focus is on strengthening border vaccination, with 14 vaccination points set up on the border. Ahmed Barakzai, a polio officer in Afghanistan’s Nangrahar province, said the advocacy campaigns launched with support of community elders and religious leaders have meant vaccination levels are showing signs of improvement. Pakistan’s health minister, Saira Afzal Tarar, said the synchronised campaigns have proved fruitful. Part of the problem has been the influx of 6 million Afghan refugees into Pakistan. Lack of vaccination in Afghanistan meant children carried the virus across the border. Now, Tarar said, every child is getting OPV at the border points, decreasing local children’s chances of infection.

2016-04-05 12:27 Ashfaq Yusufzai www.theguardian.com

58 Beauty queen is arrested again for stealing from a couple's home A Colombian beauty queen who was arrested for stealing a tourist's Rolex after seducing him in a Miami bar has now been accused of using the same scam to steal another $25,000 watch and valuables from a couple's home. Last month, it was reported that Liliana Vanegas stole Alvin Malhi's luxury watch after approaching him at the swanky Nikki Beach nightclub. Scroll down for video The pair went back to his hotel room where Vanegas swiped the watch before attempting to flee. Now it has emerged that the 25-year-old has been arrested again for a similar crime after a couple who took her back to their house accused her of taking $14,000 worth of valuables. According to the Miami Herald , the couple had met Vanegas at a nightclub called Rockwell Miami and she ended up going home with the pair. The couple then claim they fell asleep and when they woke up found $13,700 worth of valuables had been stolen. Later, when they reported the theft to police, they were shown a mugshot of Vanegas face. And that's when they said, they believed she was the girl that had stolen from them. Miami Beach spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez told the paper: 'She’s been linked to several thefts. We’re still looking for others.' Meanwhile it has also been reported she has been linked to the theft of another $25,000 Rolex and a $1,000 gold chain from another man who claims he met her at another nightclub in Miami. Vanegas was first arrested last week after meeting Malhi, a married transportation company executive from Toronto, was celebrating his brother-in-law's bachelor party in Miami. Vanegas, 25, approached him and said: 'I don’t like young boys. I like men.' Malhi told the Miami Herald he thought he was in luck, but it was actually the start of an alleged scam which ended in him following the Colombian in a taxi to get the $28,000 timepiece back. Vanegas was charged with grand theft and cocaine possession. 'She fooled me pretty good', Malhi said. Initially friends went up to Vanegas when they saw her standing around 20ft away from them inside the venue. However she initially rebuffed them. But she returned when Malhi was getting into a cab at 4am on Monday morning. According to the Herald she asked him whether he had any alcohol in his hotel room at Loew’s Hotel. Malhi said: 'Of course I wanted to take her to bed. But she wouldn’t let me touch her.' The two downed shots of whiskey, then passed out in the same bed. Malhi then noticed Vanegas get dressed quickly, put on her shoes and race out the hotel room’s door. A short time later he also noticed his watch was missing. So Malhi threw on some pants and chased Vanegas, first down the elevator, then into the lobby. By then, she was waiting for a cab on Collins Avenue and 16th Street. He said he confronted her - but she denied stealing anything from him. Malhi then stopped her from getting into two cabs by yelling at the drivers that they were being ripped off. A few minutes later, police caught up with her and Malhi identified her. She was arrested, and Malhi got his watch back.

2016-04-05 12:25 Jennifer Newton www.dailymail.co.uk

59 Al-Qaeda militants shoot down Syrian fighter jet and capture pilot Al-Qaeda militants have shot down a warplane with a surface-to-air missile and captured the pilot alive near the Syrian city of Aleppo. The London-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a plume of smoke was seen as the plane caught fire before it fell in the Talat al-Iss highland. Al-Qaeda- affiliated rebels of Jabhat al-Nusra have reportedly carried the pilot back to their headquarters. He has reportedly been named as Colonel Khaled Saeed. Scroll down for video: The news comes as rebels have come under heavy bombardment by Syrian and Russian planes since they captured the area near Aleppo this week. The fate of the pilot was not known nor the type of aircraft and whether it was Russian or Syrian, the British-based monitor said. Videos downloaded on social media also showed footage of the plane and pictures of the wreckage of a burnt plane surrounded by rebels. Aerial supremacy has been a major advantage for the Syrian army that has been battling insurgents seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. Foreign-backed rebels have long demanded anti-aircraft weapons to offset the impact of devastating aerial raids by Syrian forces and since September Russian planes, but their backers have been wary of delivering weapons that could fall into the hands of hardline groups. A fragile 'cessation of hostilities' truce has held in Syria for over a month as the various parties try to negotiate an end to the five-year-old civil war. But the truce excludes ISIS and Nusra Front, and air and land attacks by Syrian and allied forces continue in parts of Syria where the government says the groups are present.

2016-04-05 12:24 Tom Wyke www.dailymail.co.uk

60 Assad used Panama law firm to get round international sanctions Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was able to dodge international sanctions and help fund his war by setting up shadow companies in the Seychelles, it was reported today. Three Syrian firms were hit with punitive measures by the U. S. for allegedly supplying fuel to the regime. But they used Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca to create shadow firms as 'a way for the Syrian regime to circumvent international sanctions', according to French newspaper paper Le Monde. The claims are the latest to emerge in the Panama Papers which named the firms as Pangates International, Maxima Middle East Trading and Morgan Additives Manufacturing. The three firms are under US sanctions for allegedly providing petroleum supplies to Assad's regime likely to be used by his military, including aviation fuel. Since the start of Syria's war in 2011, tens of thousands of people have been killed and thousands of homes destroyed in air raids and barrel bomb strikes. Le Monde said the leaked files show Mossack Fonseca continued to work with at least one of the companies, Pangates, until at least nine months after the sanctions were announced in July 2014. Pangates belongs to the Damascus-based Abdulkarim group, which is close to the Syrian government, Le Monde said. The probe, coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, has exposed a tangle of financial dealings by global elites. Assad's billionaire cousin Rami Makhlouf, who is facing sanctions, was also shown by the leaks as long having registered companies in tax havens. Syria's most notorious and powerful tycoon, Makhlouf founded shadow companies such as Drex Technologies SA, which was registered in the British Virgin Islands in 2000 and which it took Mossack Fonseca a decade to grow concerned about, Le Monde reported. Documents show Mossack Fonseca worked with Assad's cousin, Makhlouf, who has been described in U. S. diplomatic cables as Syria's 'poster boy for corruption'. In February 2008, U. S. Treasury officials flagged Makhlouf as a 'regime insider' who 'improperly benefits from and aids the public corruption of Syrian regime officials.' They froze his U. S. assets and banned American firms or people working with him then blacklisted some of his companies later that year. However, the leaked files reveal that Mossack Fonseca continued to work with Rami Makhlouf and his brother, Hafez, who had also been blacklisted by the U. S. in 2007. The firm's e-mails at the time did not mention the sanctions and in January 2011 it dismissed the advice of its own compliance team which said it should sever ties with the family. According to The Guardian , the compliance officer wrote: 'I believe if an individual is found on a sanction list then this is a serious red flag and we should make every effort to disassociate ourselves from them.' But one of Mossack Fonseca's partners, Chris Zollinger, reportedly resisted over concerns the company would lose business. They wrote that 'there are allegations (rumours), but not any facts or pending investigations or indictments.' He made reference to a colleague's previous notes from a conversation between Mossack Fonseca and British bank HSBC that served as Makhlouf's financial manager. In the notes, HSBC assured the law firm that the bank's London and Geneva offices 'know about Mr Makhlouf and that they are comfortable with him.' According to ICIJ, Mr Zollinger said that if HSBC didn't have an issue with him 'then I think we can also accept him.' However, he ultimately agreed with dropping the firm after further discussions with colleagues and growing investigations into Makhlouf's business empire. Zollinger recently told Süddeutsche Zeitung: 'In retrospect, my comment in the e-mail was wrong, which I regret.' He added that Mossack Fonseca had 'no influence on the transactions or the business of the company' linked to Makhlouf. Mossack Fonseca was not legally obliged to comply with US sanctions. It did, however, have an obligation to respond to EU measures imposed in May 2011 that were extended to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in the June of that year. But it took until September 2011 before Mossack agreed to resign from Makhlouf's companies. It meant Makhlouf was able to keep his Swiss bank accounts open throughout the start of the Syrian war. HSBC said: 'The allegations are historical, in some cases dating back 20 years, predating our significant, well-publicised reforms implemented over the last few years. 'We work closely with the authorities to fight financial crime and implement sanctions.' Mossack Fonseca denies any wrongdoing. A spokesman told ICIJ that the firm relies on intermediaries such as banks and other law firms to review the backgrounds of the customers that are referred to them. He added: 'Likewise, we have our own procedures in place to identify such individuals, to the extent it is reasonably possible.' The time it takes to resign varies by jurisdiction, the spokesman said, and some authorities require the agent to remain in place to prevent interference with an investigation. President Assad's UK fixer bought £6million of luxury flats in London with cash siphoned through offshore firms President Assad's UK fixer used offshore companies to buy at least six flats in London worth nearly £6million, it has emerged. Businessman Soulieman Marouf bought a portfolio of homes across the capital through companies in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), according to the leaked Panama Papers. They included a £1m riverfront flat in St George Wharf in Vauxhall, a £1.2m apartment at the Norman Foster-designed Albion Riverside building in Battersea and a £1.3m home in St John's Wood. Marouf made headlines in 2012 when it emerged he carried out shopping errands for Assad's wife, Asma, buying goods worth thousands of pounds from Armani and Harrods as the civil war ripped Syria apart. In October of that year, his assets were frozen in Europe, with the sanctions notice describing him as as a supporter of the Syrian regime and 'close to President al-Assad's family'. The order meant he could not deal with his London flats without a licence, but his lawyer said the permits were 'obtained when required' from the Treasury. His name was removed from the EU blacklist in 2014 after getting backing from then foreign secretary William Hague. Restrictions have now been lifted and he continues to invest in UK property. He has since registered two new companies in the British Virgin Islands, named after London addresses. In November 2014, his offshire company acquired a £500,000 flat at 59 Regent Court in St John's Wood. A lawyer for Marouf told The Guardian : 'There are a number of reasons for utilising offshore companies, including the desire for privacy. 'Full disclosure has been given to [the] Treasury and/or HMRC [Revenue & Customs] and the UK tax authorities have acknowledge that these companies are compliant with UK tax laws. 'The UK authorities are fully aware that our client is the beneficial owner of these companies.'

2016-04-05 12:23 Simon Tomlinson www.dailymail.co.uk

61 Mother's Instagram is banned as her simnel cake looks like a breast' A mum's Instagram account was suspended after she proudly uploaded a photo of her daughter's homemade cake only for it to be blocked by the site's censorship filter for looking like 'a breast'. Sue Moseley, from Hackney, east London, posted the image of daughter Jenny's simnel cake - a symbolic dish which is decorated with marzipan balls to represent Jesus and the disciples - on Easter Monday. But when she went to log back into the social media site at the weekend she realised she had been barred for sharing 'explicit' content. Scroll down for video The mum-of-five immediately appealed the decision thinking the site had made a mistake, but she soon received a reply dismissing her appeal, saying she had breached 'Instagram Community Guidelines' and her account would not be reactivated. 'We disable accounts that post content that is sexually suggestive or contains nudity,' it added. One of her triplet daughters, Fiona Moseley, 26, took to Twitter to voice her outrage over the decision - and is on a campaign to get her mother's profile reinstated. Fiona told MailOnline: 'This Easter my sister Jenny baked a traditional simnel cake for my mum. 'My mum was really proud of the cake, so shared a photo of it on her Instagram with: "Jenny’s fabulous Easter Simnel cake - delicious". 'The next time she tried opening up Instagram on her phone she received an error notification that said her account had been disabled for violating their terms. 'I can only assume they’ve got some kind of recognition software that flags anything that looks remotely like a naked body part. 'My mum was really sad about it as she has lost all her Instagram photos and her account. She’s the loveliest person and only posts photos of her family, holidays and food and for that they’ve suspended her. 'I was annoyed that they’d done this so I’m on a mission to get her account back. So far, I’ve not had any reply from Instagram.' Fiona also said the decision displayed double standards, as she created a sexually suggestive joke Instagram account last year to coincide with the Great British Bake Off. 'A friend and I set up a joke Instagram account called Bake Off or Jerk Off where we shared quotes from the show and quotes from porn and asked people to guess which was which. 'This obviously contained heaps of innuendo and suggested baking imagery, but Instagram had no problem with it. 'Also, my sister Jenny shared a photo of the same cake from a different angle, and it was fine. Maybe because it’s less boob-like. 'The post was uploaded on Easter Monday, but my mum has only just tried to go back onto Instagram, so we’re not sure when exactly they suspended the account. So far her photo is still on Facebook.' Instagram has not responded to a request from MailOnline for comment on the matter.

2016-04-05 12:19 Aimee Brannen www.dailymail.co.uk

62 How L’Oreal is turning to consumer reviews to boost online sales L’Oreal is hoping a new investment in consumer review technology will help instil confidence its brands, which include Yves Saint Laurent and Kiehl’s, and boost sales of its products. Given that its own websites don’t have e- commerce functionality, L’Oreal historically couldn’t benefit from post-purchase email triggers to generate large numbers or reviews, which take time to build up. To combat this the beauty company has worked with Dunnhumby’s newly launched advocacy platform BzzReviews, which aims to drive e-commerce sales and build brand trust via reviews from consumers. The tool works by generating reviews based on product trials and experiences, which are then broadcast via syndication partners, including Bazaarvoice, to relevant brand pages and retail websites. For L’Oreal consumer reviews provide “invaluable insight” in to its product use and are one of the brand’s “most powerful routes to increasing sales”, according to Sam Crossman, senior digital manager, L’Oreal Paris UK. “We understand the value of reviews to both the online and in-store shoppers. Reviews reassure consumers and provide invaluable insight into product use and suitability,” he told The Drum. “The insight we receive from running review panels feeds directly back into brand marketing campaigns, and could even influence product development. “Reviews and other user-generated content are integral to our overall digital and ecommerce strategies… We know that peer to peer recommendation is a very important part of the consideration journey, whether directly through friends and family, or through peer group association.” According to Nielsen’s 2015 Global Trust in Advertising survey, 66 per cent of people trust consumer opinions posted online. Meanwhile Dunnhumby recently found that 84 per cent of shoppers regularly look at reviews to help decide which products to buy. L’Oreal will target consumers mostly via age but will also look at whether someone’s hair is coloured, or if they have sensitive skin, for example. “We can ask questions of a panel too, so we can further narrow down to find the audience we’ve developed the product for, and get the product out to them to trial,” added Crossman.

2016-04-05 12:18 Natalie Mortimer www.thedrum.com

63 Anthony Joshua hits back at "jealous" Tyson Fury Anthony Joshua has accused Tyson Fury of being jealous of his "beach body" and offered to lend the WBA and WBO heavyweight champion a hand in training. The 2012 Olympic gold medallist, 26, on Saturday at London's 02 Arena challenges defending champion Charles Martin in only his 16th fight as a professional for the IBF title Fury was stripped of. In his last win, however, against Dillian Whyte, he produced a limited performance that suggested he remains raw, and which has led to concerns that for all of his promise he is being rushed to world level. Fury last week described him as "Useless. He's got no footwork, he can't box and he's got no jab so that means he's useless. " He added: "All he's got is a big punch, which everyone who pumps iron for five years and is six foot, six inches can punch like. This game is not all about body- building. It's about knowing how to box. He's getting knocked out. " Fury's physique is considerably less impressive than Joshua, but when it mattered while challenging Wladimir Klitschko last November he produced a fluid, composed and cultured performance to out-point the then long-term reigning champion. Joshua has spoken of his wish to eventually fight Fury in a unification match-up should he defeat Martin on Saturday, and in a response to his comments, said: "They're hating on my beach body, they're just hating, that's what it is. If they want, I'll give them some sessions, they can come train with me if they want. "I asked them to spar, they don't want to spar, they don't want to work, so they can stay there, but this is just how I am. I ain't got no comments on his physique. This is just how I am. There's a lot of jealousy, a lot of negativity, so that's why I shut it down and just focus on myself. "I don't search for their attention, I'm not worried if he backs me or not, because I'll still handle my business, he's not supposed to back me realistically, so I don't expect no different. " Monday's public workouts of Joshua and Martin were disrupted by the appearance of veteran American Shannon Briggs, who in recent years has followed Klitschko around and last week appeared at a press conference surrounding David Haye. Press Association Sport understands he is highly unlikely to be given a licence to box in the UK by the British Boxing Board of Control, but his second appearance there will lead some to suspect Joshua would consider the 44-year-old as a future opponent, a possibility he refused to dismiss. "Shannon Briggs is a game opponent, an unbelievable self-promoter, and you can never underestimate him," he said. "He's big, he's got a punch from the experience he's gained from fighting the champs, so don't overlook Shannon Briggs. "He's around and he's here to fight, so that fight could happen if it's the right fight and it makes sense. "

2016-04-05 12:06 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

64 Male sperm whales DO use their massive foreheads to ram love rivals A male sperm whale's forehead is designed for ramming love rivals and even ships, just like in the novel Moby Dick, according to new research. Scientists used structural engineering principles to test how the head of the sperm whale might be able to resist strong ramming impacts. The theory was instrumental in inspiring Herman Melville to write the classic novel Moby Dick, but its mechanical feasibility had never been addressed. The theory was originally proposed by 19th Century whaler Owen Chase. Chase, whose ship the Essex was sunk by a sperm whale, suggested the forehead of male sperm whales evolved partly to be used as a battering ram weapon when fighting for access to reproductively active females. The sperm whale forehead is one of the strangest structures in the animal kingdom. Internally the forehead is composed of two large oil-filled sacs, stacked one on top of the other, known as the spermaceti organ and the junk sacs - and it is much larger in males than females. It is the oil within the upper spermaceti organ that was the main target of the whaling industry in the early 19th Century. Study co-author Professor David Carrier, of the University of Utah, said: 'We know that the sperm whale head is important in transmitting sonar clicks and there are many other hypotheses about its role in communication and buoyancy. 'But none of these hypotheses could explain how the sperm whale head could function as a weapon capable of sinking ships that are four to five times the mass of the whale.' The ramming hypothesis was initially dismissed by many because the sperm whale head houses sensitive structures. If it was used for battering ships and rival males out of the way, these anatomical structures could be damaged. Plus, few people had observed sperm whales ramming. The team decided to put this theory to the test after it received a report from a pilot and conservation researcher, who documented sperm whales ramming while flying over the Gulf of California. A consulting engineer then created a computer model to simulate ramming in sperm whales. Senior author Associate Professor Todd Pataky, of Shinshu University in Japan, said: 'We used probabilistic simulation to study the mechanical effects of impact variation. 'After creating a series of modified versions of the type and direction of impact force on the sperm whale head, we concluded that the connective tissue partitions embedded within the junk absorb impact stresses and protect the skull from fracturing.' Study lead author Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou from the University of Queensland in Australia added: 'Increased skull stresses at a ramming event can be detrimental for the animal since they can cause fatal fractures. 'Our findings show that the mechanical advantage of the structure of the junk may be the result of acquired traits related to selection on male to male aggressive behaviour. 'Although male sperm whales may not fight frequently, we know that aggressive ramming behaviour is a common characteristic in the group of mammals from which whales are derived - the even-toed ungulates, the artiodactyls. 'A closer look into the anatomy of the heads of other species of whales that ram may reveal a variety of protective mechanisms.'

2016-04-05 12:00 Victoria Woollaston www.dailymail.co.uk

65 Why Wisconsin hasn't warmed to Donald Trump Milwaukee (CNN) Donald Trump made quick work of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker when the two were Republican presidential primary opponents last year, lumping the popular conservative in with a crowded slate of political insiders. But now that the GOP's nominating contest has arrived in Walker's home state, the tables have turned -- and the billionaire's anti- establishment rhetoric appears to be falling flat with the party base.

2016-04-05 11:57 Gregory Krieg rss.cnn.com

66 Save the sex (for now); Brazilian scandal has it all Rio de Janeiro (CNN) At the Jean Louis David Salon, just a short walk from the famed Copacabana Beach, the blow dryers are roaring and the nail trimmers are clipping but blaring on the salon's television is hardly what you'd expect: It's the news.

2016-04-05 11:53 Paula Newton rss.cnn.com

67 Water crisis in Mumbai, but Chembur street flooded since 9 days Mumbai is in the throes of a water crisis, but civic officials have no qualms about letting water go to waste in a Chembur locality. The trench below which residents claim is the leak A water pipeline on Pestom Sagar Road 3, opposite Shoppers Stop, has allegedly been leaking for the past nine days, but despite a complaint, no action has been taken as yet. Also Read: Went to fix pipeline, found 3 more leaks, 40 illegal connections A flooded Pestom Sagar Road in Chembur A resident, Rashmin Gala, had on March 29 raised a complaint with the civic officials (a copy of which is with mid-day), stating that a trench dug opposite Krushal Tower in the locality gets waterlogged each morning from a leaking underground pipeline. “We have seen gallons of drinking water being wasted from 6 am to 8 am each day for the last nine days,” he rues. Amid official apathy, residents themselves went looking for the source of the leak and traced it to the trench. “Mindless digging by some agency is responsible for the leak,” alleges Gala. Read Story: JVLR pipeline was broken to supply water to buffalo sheds Residents have no clue about which utility service agency has undertaken the dredging work. There is no board next to the trench giving such details. Gala complains that the sheer waste has led to a water shortage in the area. “Such wastage at a time when the state is grappling with drought is criminal.” Municipal councillor Deepa Parab claimed to be in the dark over the issue, but promised to attend to the problem soon. Assistant commissioner Harshad Kale of M-West ward was unavailable for comment.

2016-04-05 11:51 By Shailesh www.mid-day.com

68 Pratyusha Banerjee death: Messy end to TV star's life The stench and clutter that assailed the police as they entered Pratyusha Banerjee’s Goregaon apartment on Sunday highlighted how the actress had spent her last few days before committing suicide, with her life and home in shambles. Also Read: Kamya Punjabi, Sara Khan continue to accuse Rahul Raj Singh for Pratyusha Banerjee's suicide Cops found heaps of clothes strewn around the bedroom and liquor bottles and half-empty packets of snacks littered everywhere This underscores the theory that Pratyusha was depressed; her family and friends said she was upset about dwindling work opportunities and her rocky relationship with boyfriend Rahul Singh, with whom she shared the 2BHK flat at Harmony building. Cops found clothes in disarray on the floor, liquor bottles and cigarette butts strewn around and half-eaten packets of snacks lying around, but the one thing they did not find was the 25-year-old’s suicide note. Read Story: Rahul Raj's dad blames Pratyusha Banerjee's parents for financial woes Pratyusha Banerjee A team of cops and forensic experts tried to reconstruct the entire suicide at flat number 703, including the manner in which she hanged herself. The apartment had no AC but there were two fans in the 10x15 hall, and Pratyusha was found hanging from the one closest to the door. The room had a wall-mounted TV and a showcase with the many awards Pratyusha had won, which was probably among the last things she saw. There was also a three-plus-one sofa set. Prima facie, it seems the actress (famed for her role as Anandi in Balika Vadhu) used the one- seater to get closer to the ceiling fan. The blades of the fan were found intact so it is thought that she might then have tied her dupatta to the middle of the fan and looped the other end around her neck. Sources privy to the investigation who were there at the crime scene reconstruction said Pratyusha might have stood on the edge of the sofa before she jumped and hanged herself. Also Read: Shocking! 'Balika Vadhu' actress Pratyusha Banerjee commits suicide Rahul was outside, struggling to enter the flat and asked his neighbour Sunil Mukhiya for help. Mukhiya, a cook, was also present for the crime scene study. He told the cops he had crossed over from his balcony into their apartment and found Pratyusha hanging by her dupatta. The investigators found this was a possible feat. Mukhiya also explained how he opened the door for Rahul and how the dupatta was cut to bring Pratyusha down, after which Rahul tried to administer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The police had hoped to find more clues from houses opposite the apartment, but were disappointed to learn the flat faces only an open ground. Meanwhile, they are awaiting the Call Detail Records (CDR) of the mobile phone used by the deceased and Rahul, to ascertain whether he had actually called her from outside, as he claimed in his statement.

2016-04-05 11:49 By Vinod www.mid-day.com

69 Leaks that shook the world The Panama Papers are the latest in a long line of leaks that have had political repercussions across the globe. Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leaked what became known as the Pentagon Papers in 1971. They detailed how war in Vietnam had been escalated by the US from 1945 to 1967. The Watergate scandal was one of the biggest political controversies of the 20th century, prompting President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974. A source known as "Deep Throat" helped bring the burglary of the Democratic National Committee to light, which the Nixon administration tried to cover up. In 2010, whistle-blowing website Wikileaks released US State Department cables that the American government considers critical for its national security. In 2013, former National Security Agency (NSA) worker Edward Snowden leaked classified information about global surveillance practices. He has been granted asylum in Russia.

2016-04-05 11:49 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

70 Olivier Awards: Record eighth win for Judi Dench Dame Judi Dench was the toast of the Olivier Awards on Sunday night. The veteran actress won a record eighth Olivier for her best supporting actress role as Paulina in Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's production of The Winter's Tale. No-one has won as many Oliviers for acting since the awards began 40 years ago. As she collected her award she joked that she was "livid" because she had lost a bet with her grandson. Speaking backstage about her record win, she said: "I'm rather overcome. I didn't expect it... it feels terrific. " Dame Judi praised the "really fantastic company and crew and stage management" of the Shakespeare production at the Garrick Theatre. "Everybody says what a wonderful time they have doing something. I can truly say that in the Winter's Tale it was an absolutely memorable family. " She added the award was "lovely to have, but in actual fact it belongs to all those people just as much as it belongs to me. " The musical Gypsy won the most awards on the night for a single production. Its four prizes included best actress in a musical for runaway favourite Imelda Staunton, and best musical revival. Staunton, who opened the ceremony with a performance of Gypsy's Everything's Coming Up Roses, said: "We felt we were doing something special every night and every night we went out and wanted to do a better show than the night before. " The show, which transferred to the West End from the Chichester Festival Theatre, also won for best lighting design while Lara Pulver was named best supporting actress in a musical. Hosted by Michael Ball, the ceremony took place at London's Royal Opera House and included a performance by singer Cyndi Lauper, whose Kinky Boots was named best new musical. Denise Gough won best actress for her acclaimed performance as a recovering addict in People, Places and Things, recently opened in the West End after a sell-out run at the National Theatre last year. Gough had been hotly tipped to win in a shortlist that included Gemma Arterton and Nicole Kidman. The Irish actress used her speech to raise the issue of diversity, saying: "In a year where we have seen progress made in racial diversity on our stages it's just a bit sad that in this category it hasn't been represented. " People, Places and Things was one of four wins for the National. Duncan Macmillan's drama also won for best sound, while Ma Rainey's Black Bottom was named best revival and Mark Gatiss won best supporting actor for Three Days in the Country. The best actor prize went to Kenneth Cranham in Florian Zeller's The Father. Cranham, who plays a man with dementia, beat competition from Kenneth Branagh, Benedict Cumberbatch, Adrian Lester and Mark Rylance. Speaking backstage, he admitted he didn't think he stood a chance of winning. "They are like brand names," he said. "I felt like a little old cornershop. " Meanwhile in the best director category, Robert Icke triumphed for his work on the Greek tragedy Oresteia, which ran at The Almeida theatre. The play is a blood-soaked family saga spanning several decades and is often said to not only be the 5th Century BC playwright Aeschylus's final play, but also his greatest. Musical Kinky Boots won two other prizes, with Matt Henry collecting best actor in a musical for his portrayal of Lola and Gregg Barnes awarded for his costume design. Musical In the Heights also had three wins - for outstanding achievement in music, choreography and a best supporting actor in a musical trophy for David Bedella. The Royal Court's production of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen was named best new play and also won for Anna Fleischle's set design. Nell Gwynn, starring Gemma Arterton and written by Jessica Swale, was named best new comedy. The prize for outstanding achievement in opera went to the English National Opera chorus and orchestra for The Force of Destiny, Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk and The Queen Of Spades, which were all performed at London Coliseum. The ENO has faced months of turmoil which includes the resignation of its musical director Mark Wigglesworth and the threat of strike action by its chorus over new contracts. The ENO's head of music, Martin Fitzpatrick, who collected the prize, said the chorus and orchestra were "a vital part of the lifeblood" of an opera company. Long-running musical The Phantom of the Opera won the Oliviers audience award - the only category voted for by members of the public. Highlights from the ceremony were screened on ITV for a third consecutive year and secured an average audience of 700,000 viewers - the same as last year. However, in 2015 that figure marked a 12.5% drop from the year before - and an almost 50% fall since it was first aired in 2013. The ceremony will be shown in full on ITV3 on 4 April at 23:00 BST. Next year the Olivier Awards will be on 9 April 2017 in a new venue, London's Royal Albert Hall.

2016-04-05 08:49 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

71 A Point of View: Does screen violence make society more violent? Moviemakers excel at recreating violence and gore on screen. But Will Self asks if we should view fictional violence with more caution. I can't look at representations of violence on the television or on film anymore. When I was younger I equated viewing such things (and viewing actors performing sexual acts) with some sort of liberty - an existential freedom to be the virile fellow I felt myself to be, and a universal freedom to witness human expression in all its polymorphous perversity. But with age - and possibly, I concede, declining virility - I began to see that pornography entailed the exploitation of vulnerable and mostly young people, while the depictions of violence which bedizen our ubiquitous screens aren't victimless crimes - no matter how enthusiastically those who stage them, may consent. A few years ago Stephen Pinker published a book in which he set out to show that the venerable Dr Pangloss (a character in Voltaire's Candide) was in fact completely right - we are living in the best of possible worlds, while every day, and in every way, things can only get better. I'm not in a position to assess the statistical basis of Pinker's argument - only an omniscient god could be, and perhaps that's his covert point - but even if it were the case, as he avers, that interpersonal violence has declined globally over the centuries, while in the West it's dipped still more precipitately, this doesn't, in my view, give us any great reason for optimism. Arguments about what witnessing on-screen violence does to us - or, conceivably, what it does for us - can grow so aerated that they become, um, violent. This in itself suggests something very primal indeed is going on when we witness a man, rendered in beautiful, crystal-clear close up, slowly having his throat cut. Shortly after Pinker's prolegomenon to peace-without-end was published I went to see the premiere of a feature film that had been directed by friend of mine from a script by another friend. It's a pretty gory film with shootings and stabbings aplenty, but undoubtedly the violent piece de resistance was the throat-slitting. I looked away, but it went on for a while - and later, to my astonishment, I heard that my friends had semi-fallen out over the cutting of the cutting. Apparently the screenwriter objected, um, violently, to the director - at the behest of the producer - reducing the throat-slitting sequence by some 20 seconds. What struck me as so bizarre about this is that both these men are gentle souls who, were they to be faced by actual fisticuffs would probably run a mile in the opposite direction. And yet here they were judging their artistic "integrity" by their willingness - or not - graphically to simulate murder. Of course, the idea that witnessing such stagings induces their viewers to behave in a similar fashion, has been around since the dawn of humanity. No doubt some cavilling Cro- Magnon objected to his fellows' enthusiastic recounting of his killing a Neanderthal on the grounds that it would cause more bloodshed - and each new medium, able to portray violence with greater fidelity, gives rise to the same moral panic. But I don't think watching violence drives us to commit violent acts - I think it is a violent action in and of itself. Moreover, as the mimetic death toll inexorably rises, so it begins directly to affect the real one. Let me explain by way of example - towards the end of 2014 the terrorist group calling itself the Islamic State began to upload videos of hostage beheadings to the web. I'm not disputing that these were videos of actual beheadings, although it's notable that they actually used basic film-editing techniques to give this impression, rather than showing the entire grisly act with the sort of protracted, locked-off shot my cineaste friends would favour. But it wasn't the actual killings which galvanised popular opinion in the West − it was their virtual representation. And understandably so - after all, we've come to view sharing imagery of one sort or another as integral to our social existence. Nowadays we know our lives are worth living precisely because they're readily available to be examined by anyone with a computer. To find videos of beheadings interleaved with those of weddings, bar mitzvahs and retirement parties induces in us a sort of cosmic queasiness - either the events of our own lives have little substantive reality, or these outrages must be taking place right here and right now. How else can we explain the reactions of our political class, who increasingly cast realpolitik aside when it comes to state-sanctioned violence, in favour of raw emotion? Interviewed at the time, the then Defence Secretary Philip Hammond was asked what his reaction was to the videos (not, you note, to the beheadings themselves - but to their cinematic depiction.) He replied that Her Majesty's Government was so concerned a decision had been taken to build a new naval base in Bahrain, which would represent a 20-year commitment to British involvement in the Middle East. Now, you may argue that I'm splitting hairs. Clearly Hammond was responding to the threat represented by the video-makers, not the videos themselves. And anyway, even if this was an instance of policy being made on the hoof by politicians caught up in a stampede of public opinion, what's new? Just as the new digital media have been able to depict violent acts more realistically, so they've also been able to galvanise mass sentiment more effectively. But the IS beheading videos represent, in my view, not simply a difference in degree, but also one of kind. We can define a virtual object, in distinction to a real one, as a mental object which is commonly perceived − but what happens when mental objects are more frequently and more commonly perceived than actual physical ones? The boosters of the digital revolution see such a phenomenon as wholly benign - this is the "global village" that the communications seer Marshall McLuhan promised us half a century ago, a playful realm in which the world's multitudes can achieve a strange, mass-intimacy in virtual space. McLuhan, a devout Catholic, saw the inception of what he termed "the unified electrical field" − the web lay 30 years in the future − as the beginning of God's rule on earth. But to my way of thinking, techno-prophets such as Ray Kurzweil of Google, who believe humankind will be uploaded to the web, are singing from the same hymn sheet. Moreover, I don't believe the effects of this on the human mind lie in the distant − or even near − future. They're already upon us. "You know nothing of my work" - Marshall McLuhan Plenty of doomsters worry about the impact of digital media on our cognitive function, but I think this is nonsense − however plastic the brain may be, it takes many millennia for its gross anatomy to evolve. But the human mind and the human persona are both shape-shifters par excellence, well capable of believing in almost anything, while accommodating to the most twisted of realities. It's one thing for a teenager to sit alone in his bedroom blasting away at virtual enemies, but quite another for millions, if not billions, of us to simultaneously experience an alternate reality − one that may, soon enough, achieve that quality heretofore known as verisimilitude, but which, in the not-so-distant future, when those millions are equipped with the virtual reality headsets due for release this year, may be called simply be called, how it is. The argument that watching on-screen violence − and even perpetrating it − is a cathartic act, which leads, in part, to the decrease in actual violence Pinker is so keen to establish, may have some force in a world in which people spend the majority of their time physically interacting, but in an era when these interactions are dwindling away, being violent in virtual space becomes, quite simply, being violent. And since people's appetite for such violence shows no sign of decreasing at all, we can only surmise that humans are innately so − a hypothesis which I suspect can be amply confirmed simply by depriving these homicidal fantasists of their window into this brave new world. More from the Magazine The video game of Steven Spielberg's ET is considered to be one of the worst of all time and has even been blamed for triggering the collapse of Atari. Richard Hooper finds out why such a high-profile game was rushed out in a matter of weeks. The man who made 'the worst video game in history' (Feb 2016) This is an edited transcript of A Point of View , broadcast on Friday on Radio 4 at 20:50 BST and repeated on Sunday at 08:50 BST. Catch up on BBC iPlayer Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

2016-04-05 08:49 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

72 Rory McIlroy begins Masters preparation with hole-in-one on 16th at Augusta Rory McIlroy began his Masters preparation in spectacular fashion on Monday by making a hole- in-one on the 16th hole at Augusta National. McIlroy, who is looking to become just the sixth player to complete the career grand slam by claiming a first green jacket this week, holed out with a seven iron from 170 yards to complete a 3&2 win in his match against England's Chris Wood. "I don't think I have ever heard a roar that large in a practice round," the four-time major winner said of the reaction from the crowd. " It was great. It was a nice practice round and a bit of a highlight. And it ended the match as well. "I played well. I feel like my game is in good shape. We both hit j ust one ball (off the tee). It gets me into a nice mindset of this is how I'm going to play, so I'm going to try to do the same tomorrow, play 18 and a match with someone. "I feel that's the best way for me to prepare. It's competitive. You're trying to shoot a score. The pins aren't in the spots where they are going to be at the weekend, but at the same time you still have to get the ball in the hole and hole putts that you feel a little bit of pressure on. " Asked about the condition of the course, McIlroy, who finished fourth last year, added: " It's not very different at all from what we saw last year. "I feel like the way the course is now is probably the way the course played last year because it was soft and a little slow. I'm sure they are trying to get it faster and firmer as the week goes on. " Wood, who now owes McIlroy dinner, was faced with the daunting task of also trying to make a hole-in-one to keep the match alive, but joked: "I suppose it wasn't quite game over but when the crowd are chanting 'Rory, Rory' and you've got to try and hit a seven iron to that flag there's not much chance. " I've never quite heard a noise like it - it was pretty mad. It was great fun. It was a cool moment. " 2016-04-05 11:43 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

73 Islamic State hints at attacks in London, Berlin and Rome CAIRO, April 5 (Reuters) - The Islamic State militant group released a video on Tuesday suggesting it may carry out further attacks in the West, naming London, Berlin and Rome as possible targets. "If it was Paris yesterday, and today Brussels, Allah knows where it will be tomorrow. Maybe it will be in London or Berlin or Rome," said a member of the group in English on the video which showed footage of the aftermath of previous attacks. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for bombings that killed 31 people in Brussels in March and attacks in Paris last November that killed 130. The video showed images of the House of Commons in London and Rome's Colosseum. (Reporting by Ali Abdelaty; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Catherine Evans)

2016-04-05 11:42 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

74 'Satisfying experiences' – including a bubble wrap carpet – key to Cadbury’s latest campaign Cadbury Dairy Milk has brought to life a plethora of “intensely satisfying experiences” as part of its new Taste Like This Feels campaign, which kicked off with a bubble wrap-popping event on the weekend (31 March-3 April). Other experiences on the cards include a claw machine rigged to work more often than the usual unreliable arcade installation, in order to give consumers the satisfaction of winning. The game will be activated both online and offline. The first activity in the series – a carpet of bubble wrap - was launched in Westfield London. Shoppers were invited to remove their shoes and experience the small human pleasure of squeezing plastic pockets of air on an engorged scale. Samples of Dairy Milk were also handed out at the activation and ‘joyful’ music was played’. Devised by Fallon and produced in a four weeks by RPM, the latest Cadbury experience engaged a total of 190,000 consumers. The brand team filmed the activity for its social channels, using a first-person perspective to help people “really imagine the popping of the bubbles in front of them, even if they weren't able to get there themselves,” according to assistant brand manager Carly Sharpe. “The experience allowed people to evoke the wonderful feeling of intense satisfaction you get from popping bubble wrap and dramatised the joyful sensation that comes from tasting the classic Cadbury Dairy Milk,” she added. The live activity coincided with the airing of Cadbury’s new TV ad on 2 April. The spot features a real itchy grizzly bear trying to scratch his back on a tree to 'That's the Way I Like It' by KC & The Sunshine Band. The wider Taste Like This Feels campaign will also span PR, digital and social.

2016-04-05 11:41 Katie Deighton www.thedrum.com

75 Kenya's William Ruto due to hear war crimes case ruling Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto is due to find out whether a crimes against humanity case against him will be thrown out by judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Mr Ruto denies murder, deportation and persecution charges during violence that followed the 2007 elections in which about 1,200 people were killed. His lawyers want the case to be terminated due to a lack of evidence. Mr Ruto is one of the most senior politicians to be tried by the ICC. The prosecution case against him has been dogged by repeated setbacks. In February judges at the ICC barred the use of recanted testimony , meaning that prior recorded witness statements could not be used by prosecutors. Several key witnesses in the case have changed their statements, which prosecutors said was due to intimidation and bribery. Mr Ruto's lawyers say he should be acquitted because so many key prosecution witnesses have either dropped or changed their original statements. ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has acknowledged that the loss of witnesses has weakened the case against the deputy president - but she has argued there still remains enough evidence to proceed with the trial. A spokesman for the ICC has told the BBC's Anna Holligan in The Hague there are a number of possible scenarios. The judges could clear Mr Ruto of all the charges, they may ask the prosecution to consider changing the charges or they could reject the defence team's arguments and allow the trial to continue. In 2014, the prosecutor dropped similar charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta , alleging that witnesses had been intimidated to make them change their testimony. The future of the case now appears to depend on whether the prosecution has proved that it has sufficient evidence to offset a no-case-to-answer move from Mr Ruto's lawyers. The use of prior testimony falls under Rule 68 of the Rome Statute, which set up the ICC. But William Ruto's defence team argued this was unfair because changes to the rule were brought in after the case against him and his fellow defendant, the journalist Joshua arap Sang, had started. Presiding Judge Piotr Hofmanski ruled that prior-recorded testimony was delivered without an opportunity for the accused to cross-examine the witnesses. Mr Sang, who is accused of using his radio show to organise attacks in the election aftermath, said at the time that the decision was "one step to our freedom". Mr Ruto and Mr Kenyatta were on opposite sides of the 2007 election, but formed an alliance that won the 2013 election.

2016-04-05 08:49 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

76 India's sewer workers risking their lives On Sunday two workers suffocated to death while cleaning drainpipes in the southern city of Bangalore. Two weeks ago, two sewer cleaners in Mumbai lost their lives while doing their job. Unions claim they are among dozens of sewer workers who die in India every year because they are not given any safety equipment. "When I lift my hand to my mouth to take a bite of food, I feel like it smells of sewage," says Binod Lahot, a sewer worker in Mumbai. "But I still eat it. Why? Because I have to stay alive and go back to work tomorrow. " Mr Lahot doesn't know his age, but says he has been doing the job for more than 20 years. Most days you'll find him in a hole in the ground, scooping out sludge with his bare hands, unblocking the city's sewer lines. It's a critical job, but workers like Mr Lahot get paid less than $5 (£3.50) a day. He's often surrounded by swarms of cockroaches, and has no mask to protect him from the poisonous fumes that the sewage emits, but that's not the hardest bit of the job, according to Mr Lahot. Some days he has to go much deeper underground with only a rope to help him, and he's scared that he could drown if he gets caught in a sudden rush of sewage. It's happened before. Ismail Kazi, a 45-year-old worker drowned while cleaning sewers in 2014. In his one room home in a Mumbai shantytown, his wife Rehana Kazi says he chose to do this difficult and dangerous job so that he could educate his three children. Mrs Kazi breaks down as she tells me her eldest son has had to drop out of college to support their family. According to a survey done by the sewer cleaners union in Mumbai, Mr Kazi was among 28 workers who have died in the city since May 2014. Mumbai's municipal corporation does not have data specifically for sewer workers, but last year it said 1,386 conservancy workers had died over six years since 2009. In addition to sewer cleaners, conservancy workers include all those who sweep the city's streets and ferry garbage to dumping areas. The civic authority has commissioned a study to assess the reasons behind the number of deaths, but officers from the municipal administration declined to answer specific questions from the BBC on why no safety gear or insurance is offered to sewer cleaners. One reason could be the way they're hired. While the city's civic authority directly employs around 30,000 people to keep Mumbai clean, the more difficult and dangerous job of unblocking sewer lines is usually done by casual workers who are hired on a day-by-day basis through contractors, and so they're not eligible for medical or life insurance benefits. B Samuel Banda is one of the contractors who hire sewer cleaners. I asked him why they don't provide safety gear. "We do give them gloves and rubber boots sometimes," he says. "But it's a very unorganised sector. "We work with different people every day and at the end of the day we go our separate ways. So getting insurance policies made for workers is difficult. " This isn't a problem unique to Mumbai. No national surveys have been conducted, but social workers estimate that around 100 sewer workers die every year across India. In 2014, India's supreme court had ruled that the families of those who died while working in sewers since 1993 should be given around $15,000 (£10,000) as compensation. But many like Rehana Kazi are yet to see any money. "We have got no help from the government. No one has even come to meet us," she says. Last year the Indian government started collecting a separate tax from citizens to fund a major cleanliness campaign. Workers like Binod Lahot are integral to that plan. And while theirs will always be a difficult job, it does not need to be such a risky one.

2016-04-05 08:49 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

77 How Cool! First AC local train reaches Mumbai It took nearly 100 hours for the AC local to enter the precincts of Mumbai suburban rail system from Chennai. The first 12-car AC local train was pulled by an engine all the way until it reached Kurla car shed where it has been parked. It is standing on pit line 19 after its long journey. Also Read: Before battling heat, AC local to face rodent test The AC local at Vidyavihar station. All pics/Shabad Khan It first entered Mumbai at Kasara -- until where the local trains ply -- at around 11.30 pm on Monday night, where it stayed for 15 minutes. After this, its next and final stop was at Kurla car shed, where it reached at around 3 am, but not before making a brief halt at Vidyavihar station. The train was cruising at an average speed of 50 kmph all the way between Chennai and Mumbai. During trials, this train would be tested at speeds of 120 kmph although it could get permission to ply at maximum speed of 110 kmph. Read Story: Central Railway derails Western Railway's AC plan “We had to ensure that several halts are made, especially at crucial junctions, where traffic is heavy. We didn't want to hurt the punctuality of other long-distance and suburban trains," informed a railway official. This Rs 55-crore train will first undergo software and technical updates in the next one month. After that, for another 5-6 months, the train will undergo speed and oscillation trials where several of its aspects would be checked and inspected. The train at Kasara station

2016-04-05 11:40 By Shashank www.mid-day.com

78 A new threat to the American cowboy? They can cope with the harsh climate and tough job but America's cowboys say there is a new threat that could end their way of life. Ranchers in Oregon are worried that plans to create a conservation area will stop them using the land to graze their cattle. If you've never heard of the Owyhee Canyonlands of eastern Oregon, think high desert - deep canyons, sandstone columns, and mountains that seem to dissolve into the sky. It's a place where the deer and the antelope play. And elk, and bighorn sheep, and mustangs even. Many creatures here are home on the range. To complete this iconic American scene, dot the giant landscape with cowboys on horseback. They are there, if you look closely. I have to go halfway up a mountain to find one, a middle-aged man called Nick. He points to his peeling face, then to the sky. "Cancer," he says. "That sun's close. We run cattle up to 8,500ft (2,600m). I've seen it freeze here and crack the trunk of a tree - in June! " As a Canadian raised in deep cold, I am impressed. "Extreme climate," I commiserate. He agrees. "Look around. Nobody lives here because of it. " Indeed. Settlers coming west in the 19th Century hit the Owyhee and turned right - hoping for, and finding, an easier route to the Pacific. A few flinty families like Nick's stayed through the generations and made ranching the Owyhee's main industry. But the coming of the tractor reduced the need for horses and people. The decline is told in a glance at the shuttered shops of the Owyhee's main town, Jordan Valley. Today, it is this splendid isolation that environmentalists hope to lock into law. Campaigners call the Owyhee "the best conservation opportunity in the lower 48" - which is to say the entire country minus Alaska and Hawaii. The charge is being led by Oregon's outdoor industry - the guides and outfitters who enable a growing number of city folk to hunt, fish, hike, climb or just camp under the stars in America's vast wilds. The company at the forefront of the Owyhee campaign is called Keen Footware. It makes hiking boots that it says will take you from the city to the trail and back again. Its headquarters are in a converted warehouse in the hippest district of America's capital of eco-cool, Portland. The smell of freshly-brewed coffee lingers on every floor. A big TV sits in the basement for staff who need to chill out. And just outside the president's office sits a whole team dedicated to preserving the wilderness. The woman in charge of it, Linda Balfour, is articulate on the need for solitude in modern life and for preserving special places for future generations. "It's about protecting the places where we play," she says. When I suggest it may also be about protecting Keen's ability to sell hiking boots, she doesn't miss a beat: "If you're in business for the right reason with the right product," she says, "the money will come. " America's Angry Cowboys was first broadcast on Assignment , on the BBC World Service on 3 March 2016. Catch up on iPlayer. Linda wants President Obama to designate about two million acres of public land in the Owyhee - an area half the size of Wales - a park. Or, in the obscure American conservation vernacular, a monument. Whatever you call it, it would restrict how the land is used. That matters to Nick and every other cowboy I meet in a week's travel through the Owyhee because they all graze their cattle on public land. Almost no-one has enough private land to keep a cow alive 12 months a year. The ground is so dry and the grass so sparse that the animals need to be able to roam far and wide. If they can't because of the monument, "generations of ranchers will be wiped out," says Nick, with a crisp snap of the fingers. It's estimated that Nick and the rest of Oregon's ranchers contribute about $1bn a year to the economy. The state's outdoor industry is estimated to contribute $12bn. So no prizes for guessing who has a bigger megaphone to make its case to the president. Linda and other conservationists swear they have no beef with ranchers or how they use the land. They're just worried about mining and people ripping up the desert with trucks. But ranchers smell a rat. To a man and woman they do not believe the promises of urban conservationists. They say environmental regulation and lawsuits are killing family ranches. These issues have flared across the West. There have been two armed stand-offs between ranchers and federal officials in as many years. A man was killed in one near the Owyhee in January. One cowboy I meet doesn't discount it happening again if the Owyhee monument goes ahead. "This is our way of life," he says. "Sometimes you've got to make a stand. " Hawaii's cowboys, or paniolo, date back to 1798 and their modern-day equivalents are trying to preserve the tradition. But are their days numbered? Hawaii's cowboys: A dying breed? Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

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79 Junior doctors' row: Government hit with second legal challenge over contracts A second legal challenge has been made over the government's decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors in England. NHS staff campaign group Just Health started proceedings after raising £100,000 in four days online. The move follows separate legal action made by the British Medical Association last week seeking a judicial review. The Department of Health said it was waiting to look at the details of the challenge before passing comment. The news comes two days before a planned 48-hour strike affecting routine and non-urgent care is due to start. The forthcoming strike will be the fourth time doctors have taken industrial action in the long- running dispute. Just Health alleges that government's decision to impose the contract, affecting about 45,000 medics, did not allow for adequate consultation. The group raised the £100,000 through a crowdfunding website which remains open to donations. Dr Marie-Estella McVeigh, from Just Health, said: "We feel this contract imposition has been rushed through without appropriate consideration and due process. "There is no evidence that it will deliver a safer system or better quality care for our patients; it will instead exacerbate the staffing crisis we are already struggling with across the NHS. " The BMA, in its legal claim, alleges that the government failed to "pay due regard" to the equalities impact of the new contracts and is calling for a judicial review. Talks between the government and BMA broke down in January, prompting the government to announce the following month that it would be imposing the contract in the summer. Ministers have said the changes, which will see doctors paid less for working weekends, are needed to improve care at weekends and create a "seven-day service". This is disputed by the BMA. Currently, junior doctors are paid more for working unsocial hours at night or at the weekend. But under the imposed new contracts, the Saturday day shift will be paid at a normal rate in return for a rise in basic pay. Last month, the Department of Health described the forthcoming strike action by doctors as "desperate and irresponsible". Have you been affected by the issues raised? Has your treatment been disrupted because of the strikes? You can share your experience by emailing [email protected] . Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways: Or use the form below

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80 Children as young as six 'stressed' about exams and tests The mental health of children as young as six is being blighted by exam stress, education staff have told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers. Of 420 ATL members who responded to a poll, almost half said pupils in their school had self- harmed - and 89% said testing was the main source of stress. Some staff said they were aware of pupils attempting suicide - and 18 of these were in primary schools. The government says children's mental health is a priority. Teaching staff complained the pressure placed on children of 10 and 11 by end of primary school tests was "excessive". Others blamed the government for raising the stakes on testing and exams, affecting some of the youngest children in their schools. "Mental health issues are probably our biggest barrier to academic progress," said the head of a Norfolk primary school, ahead of the second day of debate at the ATL's annual conference in Liverpool. "As head of school I am spending more and more of my time supporting children with mental health issues," added the head, who added that the member of staff responsible for pastoral care was "now snowed under". A member of staff at a secondary academy in London reported "a huge increase in physical symptoms of stress and incidents of self harm". While "suicidal thoughts have escalated beyond control". The teachers who took part in the survey also pinpointed fragmented home-lives, family break- up and social media as major factors contributing to pupils' mental distress. Almost three quarters (73%) felt young people were under more pressure now than two years ago - while 82% felt students were more pressured now than 10 years ago. A fifth (21%) of those surveyed said their school had no access to a counsellor for pupils, but many others said their schools' counsellors were overstretched with education staff having to shoulder the responsibility despite not being qualified to do so. "Teachers are not social workers, psychologists or therapists but are increasingly expected to fulfil these roles," said a primary teacher from Somerset. ATL general secretary Mary Bousted described the findings as "horrifying". "The government bears responsibility for much of this stress which appears to stem from a test- focused, over-crowded curriculum," said Ms Bousted. The overwhelming majority (93%) of the staff who took part were in England, with smaller numbers in other parts of the UK. A Department for Education spokeswoman urged all schools to ensure pupils were supported at times of pressure. "Tests are a key part of ensuring young people master the skills they need to reach their potential and succeed in life. "But we have taken real steps to ensure they are not on a constant treadmill of revision and testing, including scrapping January modules, decoupling AS-levels and removing re-sits from league tables. " The spokesman said the government was spending £1.4bn on improving children's mental health services in England, with £150m earmarked for treating eating disorders and self harm and £1.5m to be invested in peer support schemes. The aim was to ensure a joined-up service which was "readily available when it's needed", she added. Have you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Let us know about your experiences. Email [email protected] with your stories. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways: Or use the form below

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81 Queen's official residences to undergo £37m tourism revamp Tourist areas at Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse are to undergo a £37m revamp, the Royal Collection has announced. A new cafe will be built in the medieval undercroft at Windsor Castle in Berkshire as part of a £27m project. The remainder of the cash will go towards the redevelopment of outside space at Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. The transformations are aimed at giving the public greater access to two of the Queen's official residences. At Windsor Castle the original entrance hall will be reinstated and improved access to the ground floor state apartments will be introduced. The new cafe, which was trialled temporarily several years ago, will be housed in the 14th Century undercroft - an area originally used for the storage of wine and other provisions. The transformation will also include a visitor centre and a dedicated learning centre with facilities for schoolchildren. People touring the castle will also get to see the state entrance and have a choice of routes through the state rooms. Ten million pounds has been allocated for the renovation work at the Palace of Holyroodhouse The outside space - including Holyrood Abbey, the grounds and forecourt - will be redeveloped in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland. The Abbey Strand buildings, which sit just outside the palace gates, will be restored to house a learning centre. Jonathan Marsden - director of the Royal Collection Trust, which is funding the work - said: "People have been visiting Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse for centuries and now more than 1.5 million do so every year. "We want everybody to have a proper sense of arrival, to be able to make choices about how they go about their visits. "We will interpret the palaces and collections in new ways, open up new spaces to the public and we're going to create two purpose-built learning centres. " Work is due to begin early next year and is expected be completed by the end of 2018. Both residences will remain open to visitors.

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82 82 Ministers' language 'undermines human rights work', MPs say Ministers are creating a "perception" that human rights are not a priority for the government, MPs say. The Foreign Affairs Committee said the government gave the impression of prioritising trade and security with China, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. This was despite a doubling in funding for the Foreign Office's dedicated human rights project. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said improving human rights was a "core function of the Foreign Office". But the committee's chairman, Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, said: "The actions and words of ministers in the Foreign Office have undermined the excellent human rights work carried out by the department. "This needs to be remedied. " Giving evidence to the committee in October, Sir Simon McDonald, the Foreign Office's most senior civil servant, said human rights was "not one of our top priorities". This was strongly rejected by ministers, but the committee said written evidence it received suggested there was "plainly a perception that this has occurred". The committee welcomed the doubling of funding for the department's human rights programme, called the Magna Carta Fund for Human Rights and Democracy, to £10.6m. But it said the decision to restrict the fund to registered organisations "acts against an intelligent deployment of resources". The MPs criticised remarks by Middle East Minister Tobias Ellwood, who told the committee he could not remember whether he had raised human rights during a visit to Egypt with a business delegation. "We are disappointed by the parliamentary under-secretary of state's choice of language on this occasion and others, which raises questions about how energetically the government is raising human rights issues," the MPs said. And they said the Foreign Office had failed to send an "important message" by not including Egypt and Bahrain on a list of "Human Rights Priority Countries", saying this "contributes to the perception that the [Foreign Office] has become more hesitant in promoting and defending international human rights openly and robustly, notwithstanding the importance of private diplomacy". The department should be "more mindful of the perceptions it creates at ministerial level" in its dealings with China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the report said, because "perceptions and symbols matter. " It also said the the department's failure to fly the rainbow flag - an international symbol of equality - for the London Pride event in 2015 "sent a message that contradicts much of the actual work and objectives" of the department. And it suggested the Foreign Office's human rights work should be presented in a more "user- friendly fashion" so it can be evaluated more easily. Mr Hammond said: "I do not recognise this characterisation of our human rights work. " The UK supports over 75 human rights projects in more than 40 countries, he said, adding that the doubling of funding for the projects was "a true measure of the importance we attach to this agenda". He added: "By mainstreaming human rights within the Foreign Office, we have ensured it will always be a central part of our diplomacy, delivering tangible results. "

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83 The 'next Einstein'? She's from Africa Back in 2008, South African physicist Neil Turok gave a speech in which he declared his wish that the next Einstein would be from Africa. It was a rallying call for investment in maths and physics research in Africa. The "Next Einstein" slogan became a mission for the organisation Neil Turok had founded to bring Africa into the global scientific community: the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). That search for an African Einstein now has some results, with 15 "Next Einstein Fellows" and 54 "Next Einstein Ambassadors" announced at an event last month . These are young African scientists, often leaders in their fields, working and studying in Africa. "Einstein is a natural, easy role model for people to look at - not just because he was a spectacular scientist, but also he thought about the way we should care for social justice as well as science," says the 36-year-old South African cosmologist Amanda Weltman, speaking to the BBC Discovery programme . Her work on the Chameleon field, a way to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe, is seen as a continuation of Einstein's work. "Where Einstein triggered all these completely new ideas and brought about revolution, that's what we want to do. It's not necessarily to be that person, but to be revolutionary and fearless," Dr Weltman adds. When Neil Turok made his declaration, he wasn't thinking so much of a literal African Einstein, but of creating opportunities to nurture young scientific leaders who would challenge the stereotypes of Africa and champion its development through science. "There is a huge youth demographic in Africa and this will get bigger; 40% of the world's youth will be African by 2050," he says. "Many scientists around the world are more than happy to come to Africa for a few weeks a year and share their knowledge and insights with the most able young Africans. " The apparent gap between studying maths or physics and Africa's needs - in public health and disease control, for example - might seem huge. But one branch of science can inform another. Thierry Zomahoun, the CEO of AIMS, cites the example of the west African Ebola outbreak, where local work on mathematical modelling of the virus might have slowed the spread of the disease at an earlier stage. "It's urgent for mathematical epidemiologists to be trained on the continent, for lab technicians to be trained so that we don't have to invest billions of dollars paying expatriate technicians from France or the US to do the work that we could have done here," he said. Mr Zomahoun is also the chair of the Next Einstein Forum - an AIMS initiative which held a gathering in March in Dakar, Senegal, both to celebrate the Next Einstein Fellows and to raise the political profile of the need for investment in scientific research in Africa. Rwanda's President Paul Kagame was one of the speakers. "We cannot be satisfied with just ending extreme poverty. Our aim is shared and sustainable prosperity and the key to that is science and innovation," he told the conference. Foreign donors, especially former colonial powers, have played a big part historically in developing African education - particularly in science - but have also dictated what kind of research is done. That model is changing, says Evelyn Gitau, adding that her Kenya-based research into cellular immunology and malaria is only possible because of large-scale funding and a hands-off approach from the UK's Wellcome Trust. In order to own scientific progress, Dr Gitau says, African governments must get more involved. "African governments have to change how they think. Travel grants are great, but $10 to $20,000 is not going to fund research at the cutting-edge level. " From the beginning, AIMS had a funding policy which compelled African governments to step up to the plate. Its institutes get half their funding from the governments of the countries in which they are based - South Africa, Tanzania, Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon - and the rest from foreign governments and private foundations. New AIMS institutes are planned for Morocco and also Rwanda. Rwanda styles itself as the place to do business in Africa, making it easy to set up there, especially for entrepreneurs from other African countries. It sits, however, in a region with a history of instability and autocratic government. That doesn't sound like a place for free-thinking scientists to thrive. This is an issue Neil Turok is only too aware of. "This does not mean we are an instrument of the Rwandan government. AIMS is all about freedom - it's about freedom to learn, freedom to express opinions... Science is all about critical thinking. Nothing we do will compromise that," he says. "We feel by getting involved in Rwanda now, we can be on the side of progress. " Africa might seem an unlikely destination for high-end scientific research, but this is becoming a reality and the continent has some natural scientific advantages. Amada Weltman cites the example of the Square Kilometre Array - the world's largest radio telescope, currently under construction. This "south south" project (the second section of it is in Australia) could not have been built in more densely industrialised countries, due to the amount of radio-wave pollution in their skies. "We didn't get that project just because of some sort of sympathy towards Africa. We consider the night sky as a resource, where Africa is perhaps more empowered than the global north, which is already overly polluted with radio waves. So this gives us a fresh angle to how we think about the universe. " There are advantages in other fields, too. For scientists using bioinformatics to explore the origins of genetic disease, Africa holds a unique place as the cradle of humanity - and therefore the repository of our oldest genetic information. The continent's future scientific development could have a profound impact on the future of mankind. Julian Siddle's radio documentary on the Next Einstein initiative will air on the BBC World Service at 22:30 GMT on Monday and is available to download now .

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84 Quantum computing: Game changer or security threat? Superfast quantum computers could transform the world of finance, advocates say. In a world where how fast you can assimilate and analyse data then act on it, makes the difference between profit and loss, computing speed is key. This is why banks, insurance firms, and hedge funds invest millions on technology to give them an edge when trading, and to offset human error. Quantum computers, that owe more to quantum mechanics than electronics, promise to be exponentially more powerful than traditional computers, holding out the tantalising prospect of near-perfect trading strategies and highly accurate forecasting and risk assessments. "Financial services is a data-rich environment," says Kevin Hanley, director of design at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). "Time is money and the ability to process data fast could have a huge potential benefit for our customers. " Classical computing relies on binary digits or bits - ones and zeros representing on/off, true/false states. Quantum computing, on the other hand, features qubits, which can be both 0 or 1 at the same time - a state known as superposition. It all goes back to Schrodinger's cat, but that's another story.... Subatomic particles such as electrons, photons or ions can be made to behave in this mysterious way. And because of this flexibility, qubits can do a lot more - a quantum computer could theoretically carry out trillions of calculations per second. But these computers aren't easy to build or operate. Quantum processors from one of the leading manufacturers in this field - D-Wave - need to be cooled to just above absolute zero (- 273.15C). They also need to be free from any electromagnetic interference. This makes them bulky and costly; D-Wave's computers cost about $10m-15m. Ironically they're also a bit limited in the kinds of calculations they can currently do, and many observers are still sceptical about how fast they really are. So it's fair to say we're still at the very early stages of quantum computing. Goldman Sachs, RBS, Guggenheim Partners and Commonwealth Bank of Australia have all invested in quantum computing, with the aim of stealing a march on their competitors. "This is interesting to the financial world because if you can find an algorithmic advantage to solve a problem, that can give you a great competitive advantage," says Colin Williams, director of business development for D-Wave. Google, Nasa, Lockheed Martin, the US Department of Energy and the University of Southern California have all used D-Wave's systems so far. Other tech companies, such as Cambridge Quantum Computing , QxBranch and Rigetti , are also rushing to develop the hardware and software needed to make quantum computing a reality. Quantum computers could solve problems in a day that would take classical computers thousands of years to solve. So in the world of investment, they could consider millions of different global investment scenarios and calculate which ones have the best chance of success over the long-term. "We can build an optimal portfolio today, but tomorrow it won't be optimal and needs to be rebalanced, which is expensive," says Marcos Lopez de Prado, a senior managing director at Guggenheim Partners. Quantum computers could, in theory, give investment firms much better visibility over the longer- term and reduce this need to tinker with their portfolios, saving costs. "If you can predict the US dollar/Swiss franc exchange rate a tenth of a cent more reliably, then the value isn't in the computer, it's in the cost saving," says Mr Williams. Better forecasting could also reduce the prevalence of high-frequency trading, which has been accused of creating market volatility. High-frequency traders have also been blamed for raising the costs of trading for ordinary investors by swooping into purchases nanoseconds before an interested party and reselling the stocks at a higher price. So how soon will quantum computers be readily available? D-Wave's Mr Williams reckons businesses will have access to quantum computing functionality by 2018, whereas RBS's Mr Hanley thinks it will be "five to 10 years before quantum computing comes of age". But this isn't stopping financial institutions getting excited. Blu Putnam, chief economist for the CME group - a US-based derivatives market - says quantum computing has led to a "mind-set change" where financial services "now seek out the nearly impossible to solve problems" in asset and risk management. Before then, there is a lot of preparation to do. Quantum computers can't be interrogated in the same way as traditional computers. The algorithms - sets of complex mathematical rules - used for classical computing need to be reworked to fit into the quantum system. And finding and training computer scientists to understand and use these systems effectively is another big challenge for the financial services industry. But Mr Hanley says: "Rather than observe these changes from a distance or be last in the queue, I'd rather be at the front and have a seat at the board. " Quantum computing may offer potential benefits to the financial services industry, but it also poses risks. Banks rely on encryption to keep their transactions and customer data secure. This involves scrambling and unscrambling data using keys made of very large numbers - tens, if not hundreds, of digits long. A hacker would have to find the right key by trial and error and test it in order to unlock the data - a process that could take hundreds of years even with the most powerful of today's supercomputers. But quantum computers - with their ability to carry out trillions and trillions of operations a second - could crack the code with relative ease, potentially undermining the security of the entire global financial services industry. Such a possibility leads Mr Lopez de Prado to fear that governments might outlaw quantum computers entirely. "Governments could say they should be banned because otherwise there would be no secrets, but they can't be un-invented. "We need a new mathematical breakthrough that creates an unbreakable encryption," he says. Cryptographers are busy working on new algorithms to block attacks from future quantum computers, and many believe this will be possible. But the industry needs this breakthrough fast. The processing power of quantum computing is growing with each generation. Follow Technology of Business editor @matthew_wall on Twitter .

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85 Orangutan who self-harmed is finally happy An orphaned baby orangutan who was so traumatised she resorted to self-harm, is enjoying its new life at a 'monkey pre-school' on Borneo, Indonesia - and has even made friends. Joss the baby ape was taken from her mother in the wild by poachers and sold at a black market pet shop for £25 - despite it being illegal to keep orangutans in Indonesia. When the tiny female arrived at the rescue centre in Ketapang in the West Kalimantan province of Borneo, she displayed clear signs of trauma and abuse. Joss, who is just a few months old, exhibited self- harming behaviours including gripping her arms tightly around her back to mimic her mother's cuddles, and even banging her head against the floor. However, thanks to the care of International Animal Rescue (IAR), the baby orangutan is now playing with her friends in the trees at the centre. IAR veterinarian Jaclyn Eng said: 'Joss hugs herself constantly because she misses the physical contact and comfort she should still be getting from her mother. 'Her life up until now must have been very traumatic and stressful for her to behave in this abnormal way.' But despite experiencing extreme hardship, baby Joss is now on the road to recovery and is making friends at the 'ape pre-school'. With all the orangutans roughly the same age, it is the perfect environment for babies such as Joss to learn the essential development skills to allow her to thrive in the wild once released. From wheelbarrow rides to their very own babysitters, every need for these cheeky apes is catered to. The orangutans spend their days playing with one another climbing trees, and when they are old enough they are eventually released back into protected areas of the forest where they will live out the rest of their lives. Alan Knight, chief executive of International Animal Rescue, said: 'The young babies that we've rescued recently are the lucky ones that now stand a chance of undergoing rehabilitation and returning to the wild one day.' Currently the natural habitat of orangutans is being encroached upon as forest fires is causing mass deforestation. Karmele Llano Sanchez, programme director of IAR Indonesia, said: 'With the rising number of orangutans our team has rescued from burnt forest during recent months, Joss is now the 99th orangutan we have taken in to our rehabilitation centre.' Like Joss, many of the orangutans being rescued by IAR are suffering from severe psychological trauma. 'As is the case for the other orangutans at the centre, efforts to rehabilitate Joss and prepare her for eventual return to the wild will take many years,' Sanchez added. 'This lengthy period of time is not only necessary for them to learn the skills to survive, but also to recover from the psychological trauma of being captured and kept in captivity.' IAR expect that there will be an influx of baby orangutans to their centre in the next few months as forest fires increase.

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86 S. Africa's Zuma faces impeachment move in parliament South African President Jacob Zuma faces an impeachment attempt in parliament Tuesday after the country's top court ruled that he had violated the constitution over spending on his private residence. Zuma will almost certainly survive the vote, which requires a two-thirds majority to succeed, as his ruling African National Congress holds an overwhelming number of seats. Despite rumblings of discontent within the party over a series of scandals involving the president, there is unlikely to be a revolt among ANC lawmakers, particularly as it will not be a secret ballot. But Zuma has been seriously wounded in recent months, and is under increasing pressure that could see him fail to serve out the last three years of his final term. He has been urged to resign by a number of senior ANC veterans of the struggle against apartheid, which brought liberation icon Nelson Mandela to power in 1994. In pointed comments Monday, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said that "once our actions are seen to be contrary to (the constitution) you must know we have moved away from our duty to serve our people". The ANC leadership has held a series of meetings since the Constitutional Court judgement last Thursday, and has dismissed the impeachment plan as electioneering by the opposition ahead of municipal elections later this year. The court ruled that Zuma had flouted the constitution by failing to repay some of the money spent on "security upgrades" at his rural home at Nkandla in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal. The project, which cost taxpayers $24 million, included a swimming pool, chicken run, cattle enclosure and an amphitheatre. A 2014 report by the government-appointed Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, found that Zuma and his family had "unduly benefited" from the upgrades and ordered him to pay back some of the money. - Fight to survive - Zuma apologised in a national television address on Friday for the "frustration and confusion" caused by the affair, but made it clear that he had no intention of responding to calls to resign. He however said he would pay back some of the money as ordered. The impeachment motion was lodged by the main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, which drew unflattering comparisons between Zuma and Mandela. "Jacob Zuma is the cancer at the heart of South African politics; he is not capable of honourable conduct, and cannot continue to be president of our country," the party said in response to his televised address. It is unlikely that Zuma will be in parliament for Tuesday's debate, which means that it might escape the chaotic scenes which have regularly erupted when he is present. Previous disruptions have been sparked by the radical Economic Freedom Fighters party, led by firebrand Julius Malema, who vowed last week that it will no longer allow Zuma to address the assembly. "In between now and the impeachment, the president will not speak in parliament and we will stop him physically. "We will push him because President Zuma is no longer the president of the Republic of South Africa," Malema told a news conference. In a surprise statement at the weekend, the South African National Defence Union, which represents a small percentage of members of the armed forces, urged soldiers to participate in any mass action to remove Zuma from office, saying he was no longer fit to be commander in chief. Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula called on the union's secretary general Pikkie Greef to be criminally charged. "If he's mobilizing men and women in uniform, that amounts to a coup d'etat... a coup d'etat will not be allowed in South Africa," she said Monday. Zuma has also been beset by allegations of corruption centred on a wealthy immigrant family from India that was alleged to have such influence that it could decide ministerial appointments. 2016-04-05 11:30 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

87 This Week in Pictures: Top Photos from Around the Globe Pakistani residents cross a flooded street following heavy rain on the outskirts of Peshawar, April 4, 2016. At least 53 people were killed and 60 injured after heavy rain across northwest Pakistan and areas of Kashmir caused landslides and the roofs of dozens of homes to collapse, officials said.

2016-04-05 10:25 ABC News abcnews.go.com

88 Julianne Moore & Lupita Nyong'o star in special edition magazines Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong'o and Vera Wang are just three of the famous faces gracing the cover of Variety magazine this month as the publication marks its annual Power Of Women issue. The new edition, which hits newsstands tomorrow, profiles influential women from the media and entertainment industries, and featured on the covers are this year's Lifetime Impact honorees - Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong'o, Vera Wang, Misty Copeland and Megyn Kelly. Kelly was honored for her work with Childhelp, which cares for child abuse victims. After receiving a 2009 award from the nonprofit Childhelp for covering these issues as an anchor on Fox News, she continued to stay involved by donating her time and appearing at fundraiser. Actress and activist Julianne, who is praised for her work around gun control laws, looks stunning as she sports a natural look with her hair worn in loose waves, delicate hoop earrings and a leather jacket. Scroll down for video The 55 year old was deeply affected by the recent spike in shootings throughout the US and became involved with Everytown for Gun Safety, an organisation for gun violence prevention. In October 2015, she launched the Everytown Creative Council with herself as founding chairwoman, working alongside J. J. Abrams, Ellen DeGeneres, Steve Carell and Amy Schumer. She has said that the group’s efforts are ‘not an anti-gun movement or a partisan movement - this is about safety.’ Fellow actress Lupita, 33, looks smart in a blue trench coat with the collar turned up as she speaks about her work with charity Mother Health International, which provides relief to women and children in Uganda and other impoverished or war-torn regions, in part by building local birthing centres. The Jungle Book actress and Lancôme ambassador said: ‘It’s a tragedy that women’s bodies are used as tools of war. When that happens, the trauma of war affects birthing. Mortality rates of children are so high and mothers die at such a high rate in these areas. It’s so important to change that.’ Joining the two actresses is legendary wedding gown designer Vera Wang, who is lauded for her work involving anxiety among young people. She pointed to what she called a 'tsunami' of worries for young people today, from family problems to ‘what’s going on culturally - the hookups, the Tinder thing’, and pressure to achieve academically. The 69-year-old has described the mental illness as a 'pandemic' and helped set up the New York Presbyterian Youth Anxiety Center which works around anxiety disorders in 16- to 28-year-olds as they transition into adulthood, with a focus on treatment, research and education. The fashion luminary looks typically chic in a fitted black sleeveless dress worn with a statement belt, bracelets and a silver pendant. Also gracing the covers are journalist and political commentator Megyn Kelly as well as ballet dancer Misty Copeland. Misty - American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT's) first African-American principal dancer - highlights her work with Project Plie, which aims to encourage diversity in the classical ballet world. ’I was the only African-American woman at ABT for a decade,' she said. 'And so much of what I do now is mentoring young minority dancers and trying to be a support system for them.’ A spokesperson for Variety said: 'Through their humanitarian efforts, these women have made a significant difference to their chosen causes.' Last year, Kim Kardashian was named one of the magazine's Impact Honorees thanks to her charitable work with the Children's Hospital Los Angeles. She shared the bill with Glenn Close, Whoopi Goldberg, Lena Dunham, and Rachel Weisz.

2016-04-05 11:16 Unity Blott www.dailymail.co.uk

89 Livonia - News This feed's current articles are shown below. Subscribe for updates to all the content available in this feed, or click through here to see the original article. A teen says her father threatened her with a metal broom and a knife Police say Joshua Palmer has been found. He was reported missing Thursday. Westland’s Wild chosen for fellowing to train at Harvard Business School From organization to advocacy, here’s how to be successful Documentary film aims to understand the pain of social rejection The Yankee Air Museum will offer air tour rides on a Waco biplane April 9. A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Canton cops in a murder-suicide case Family-business still has several hurdles to clear before property is sold to developer Shocking headlines dominate the news as a murder trial unfolds. Dark secrets are revealed. Pain turns to sorrow. Questions linger. What went wrong that day? What if? Reporters Aileen Wingblad and David Veselenak search for answers in interviews with convicted murderers Nancy Seaman and Lakeshia Valdez. This is the third and final month of the summer with a Supermoon. It's when a full or new moon coincides with the moon's closest point to Earth in its orbit. Basically, the moon appears bigger and brighter than usual in the night sky. Angels Above has made more than 10,000 care packages. Two projects will add residential and retail components to the city South Lyon group happy with progress in its first three years There’s plenty of activities taking place at the library. Looking for a church in and around Novi and Northville? Check out this list Ed Nakfoor writes about business, education and the relationship between the two. Mayor Dennis Wright will give his first address April 20 at Burton Manor.

2016-04-05 06:18 rssfeeds.hometownlife.com

90 90 Bupa UK teams up with The Futureheads to launch 'Body as a Band' digital campaign Bupa UK is aiming to raise awareness of its new health assessments with an interactive music video, starring The Futureheads, which shows people how their bodies are performing. Created by WCRS, the online quiz ( available here ) allows the British public to create a unique, personalised version of the 2010 tune ‘Heartbeat Song’ to show how their health is performing with each of the band members representing a different part of the body. Participants need to answer four health-related questions with their answers impacting upon the band’s performance in a variety of unexpected ways. Simon Chrisp, general manager, sales and marketing at Bupa UK, described the campaign as an “innovative” way to highlight the new health assessments. “I’m looking forward to seeing the public get involved and create their very own body as a band videos," he added. Tom Crossley, managing partner at WCRS, said: “We’re really excited by this new and innovative way Bupa are talking to a hard to reach young audience who generally don’t even think about the effects their day-to-day habits have on their health. “Hopefully if they can see the effects your lifestyle would have on a band they’ll stop and consider whether it’s the right time to get a check with Bupa.” Directed by Rob Brandon, 54 different music videos were created overall. Bupa launched the campaign following new research which claimed most Brits are clueless about what’s happening inside their bodies with nearly two thirds (63 per cent) of the nation unaware of the basic functions of their kidneys. The campaign will run for eight weeks via a digital partnership with Mashable as well as other social media activity, blogger outreach and digital advertising.

2016-04-05 11:08 Gillian West www.thedrum.com

91 'No Franziska‚ no bail' say court protesters Shortly before the hearing began at the Wynberg Magistrate's Court‚ the crowd in the corridors had swollen to about 100. Three of the men are being held on charges on murder‚ rape and robbery with intent to cause grievous bodily harm in connection with Franziska's death on March 7. The fourth was arrested for possession of stolen property - an iPhone and jewellery stolen from Franziska - but the state said it could not exclude any of the accused from the more serious charges. The suspects‚ aged between 22 and 27‚ cannot be named until they have pleaded to the rape charges. Since their arrest on March 8‚ they have been held in Pollsmoor Prison‚ less than a kilometre from where Franziska was killed. Franziska‚ 16‚ from Muizenberg‚ was jogging in Tokai forest when she was killed. Her phone‚ watch‚ headset and diamond ring were among items stolen from her. The four accused were arrested in Westlake when the stolen iPhone was activated in the area‚ allegedly when a man negotiating to buy it asked for proof that it was working. When police arrived‚ community members pointed out known criminals they suspected of being involved in trying to sell the cellphone. – TMG Digital/The Times

2016-04-05 11:07 Aron Hyman www.timeslive.co.za

92 Lidl’s £78m ad spend seals ‘fastest growing grocer’ title as Big Four fightback continues Lidl has held on to its ‘fastest growing supermarket’ crown, increasing its sales by 17.7 per cent to capture 4.4 per cent of the market according to the latest Kantar Worldpanel figures covering the 12 weeks to 27 March. The seemingly unencumbered growth of the German discounter was driven in part by a massive £78m investment in marketing last year – almost double what it previously spent. According to data from Ebiquity, published by The Grocer, Lidl is now the UK retailer with the biggest traditional media budget after increasing its marketing budgets over the three consecutive years. Ronny Gottschlich, Lidl UK’s chief executive said the last quarter has been one of its most successful trading periods, processing some 40 million customer transactions in the four weeks leading up to Easter. “Lidl has become the supermarket of choice both for the regular shop and the most important meals of the year for an increasing number of British consumers,” he said. "To meet customers’ strong and fast-growing appetite for our 'best quality for the best price’ offering, we are strategically investing in both store refurbishment and new openings as well as the introduction of fresh and exciting products. We now have 630 stores in the UK and are on track to open up to 50 more by the end of the year.” Hot on its heels is main rival Aldi – which spent £62.5m on advertising last year – which grew sales by 14.4 per cent to reach a new record-high market share of six per cent. By contrast the Big Four – Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s – have all drastically cut their marketing budgets, in part due to almost every grocer shaking up its marketing team in the past 18 months. Despite massive efforts to reposition the brands, Tesco and Asda have both shed budgets by 19 per cent to £64m and £77m respectively, while Morrisons - in the midst of an overhaul - has cut its marketing spend by 35 per cent to £44.7m. Tesco, Asda, and Morrisons has all continued to see sales fall, although not as dramatically as in previous quarters. For the fourth month in a row Tesco’s decline lessened, with sales now down by only 0.2 per cent year-on-year. It’s yet to stem its market share loss, which was down by 0.3 percentage points to 28.1 per cent. It was a similar story for Morrisons; while improving on last month it still saw sales fall by 2.4 per cent. Market share also decreased by 0.4 percentage points to 10.5 per cent. However, it was Asda that felt the biggest slump in sales, which were down almost four per cent over the quarter. In contrast, Sainsbury’s, which has scaled back multi-buy promotions to great effect as recently claimed by its chief exec, was buoyed by a sales increase of 1.2 per cent. It has not been as quick to weild the axe on marketing, although it has reduced its spend by almost eight per cent to £55.6m.

2016-04-05 11:01 Jennifer Faull www.thedrum.com

93 Wisconsin’s Time in the Campaign Spotlight Wisconsin is upon us. The twin primaries in the state have the potential to further muddle the Democratic and Republican presidential races. For Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a win would further fuel his desire to keep the race going, particularly after he outraised Hillary Clinton by roughly $15 million in March. For Donald J. Trump, a loss to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas seems likely, but there are degrees of defeat. He could score wins in some congressional districts, and fend off a bad storyline about getting trounced in the state pivotal to those trying to stop him. And Gov. John R. Kasich of Ohio has done his best to stay in the fight. The contests on both sides have become increasingly nasty. On Wednesday, the focus for both races will move to New York, the home state of Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton, the birth state of Mr. Sanders, and where the Democrats have agreed to a debate on April 14. For Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton, who have seemed weary at times, the break from long flights might be welcome. Mr. Cruz will most likely take a victory in Wisconsin and use it to press the case to on-the-fence donors that it is time to support him. Mrs. Clinton, should she win, would use the victory to again highlight Mr. Sanders’s difficult mathematical climb, a case that is harder for her to make when he wins.

2016-04-05 11:00 By rss.nytimes.com

94 TV Week hits back at claims that the Logies are 'an embarrassment' Now, TV Week has hit back by publishing a biting response on its website in which the media company delineates exactly how the nominees were chosen. 'Taylor Swift tells the world 'haters gonna hate', and it looks like since our recent nominations announcement, TV WEEK has copped a few of those haters', the article begins. Scroll down for video Descending into to a somewhat sarcastic expose, the article later goes on to say: 'The award is voted by the Australian public. 'So, that means if the Australian public voted, then the Australian public are happy with the Gold nominees. Crazy, we know'. According to the article, nominees are selected through a two-tiered selection process. The TV networks select their chosen candidates before these media personalities are presented to the Australian public for voting. All candidates that are submitted for Best Actress, Best Actor and Best Presenter by the networks are automatically entered into the Gold Logie category, creating a pool from which the Australian public can vote for it's Gold Logie nominees. On Sunday afternoon TV Week released the official nominees list which included The Project's Carrie Bickmore and Waleed Aly, SBS's Lee Lin Chin, Reno Rumble's Scott Cam, Grant Denyer and Essie Davis, who are up for the well prestige Gold Logie. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday, a 'TV insider' has slammed the nominees, claiming the awards are no longer based on popularity. 'The Logies are an embarrassment. It is a complete joke,' the unnamed source told the publication. 'What has Waleed ever done? Because he does an editorial slapping someone down every now and then, does that qualify him for a Gold Logie?' The source went on to also criticise the selection of SBS newsreader Lee Lin Chin, stating the publicly voted Gold Logie now focuses on 'how well you run an online campaign or how much traction a show has on social media' rather than popularity and talent on screen.

2016-04-05 11:00 Monique Friedlander www.dailymail.co.uk

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2016-04-05 06:11 www.thetimes.co.uk

96 Brumbies flanker Pocock suspended for 2 Super Rugby matches CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia backrower David Pocock has been suspended for three weeks and will miss two Super Rugby matches after pleading guilty to dangerous play in the ACT Brumbies' loss to the Chiefs last weekend. Pocock was cited for grabbing Chiefs No. 8 Michael Leitch's neck in a maul in the 74th minute of the match in Canberra on Saturday, and was sanctioned on Tuesday after a hearing with judicial officer Adam Cassleden. Super Rugby organizers SANZAAR released a statement saying Pocock's action was at the lower end of the scale but the penalty had to be a deterrent. Cassleden says "taking into account mitigating factors including the player's early plea, his good character, his genuine remorse and his excellent disciplinary record I reduced the suspension to a period of two games. "

2016-04-05 10:59 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

97 WB, Assam witness high voter turnout Kolkata/Guwahati: The first phase of Assembly polls in West Bengal and Assam passed off peacefully yesterday with a high voter turnout of 80 per cent and 70 per cent, respectively. Voting in 18 of the 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal and 65 of the 126 seats in Assam was ‘by and large peaceful’ with no reports of violence-related death or injury, DEC Sandeep Saxena said in New Delhi. A Central Force jawan checks voter identity cards at a polling booth during the first phase of West Bengal Assembly Elections in West Medinipur West Bengal In West Bengal, where Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) is making a determined bid for a second successive term, heavy voter turnout was recorded with an estimated 80 per cent of 40.09 lakh electors casting their ballots. Most of these constituencies are in areas where Maoists held sway before TMC came to power and neutralised them. Banerjee’s TMC, which contested the last Assembly polls in alliance with the Congress, is pitted this time against foe- turned-friends Congress-Left combine, besides the BJP, which is seeking to make inroads into the politically volatile eastern state. Women stand in a queue showing their voter card in Jorhat during the first phase of Assam state assembly elections. Pics/PTI Assam In Assam, where the Congress, under Tarun Gogoi is seeking a fourth straight term, an estimated 70 per cent of little over 95.11 lakh voters cast their ballots. There were no reports of violence from any of the 65 of the 126 constituencies, where polling was held in the first phase. Seeking to capitalise on anti-incumbency factor and a host of contentious issues, including the divisive debate on ‘nationalism’, BJP has tied up with former chief minister Prafulla Mahanta’s AGP and Bodo People’s Front in its bid to dislodge the Congress from power in the north eastern state. The fate of several prominent Congress candidates, including Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi from Titabor and Speaker of the outgoing Assembly Pranab Gogoi from Sibsagar will be decided in the first phase.

2016-04-05 10:49 By Agencies www.mid-day.com

98 Perform or people will teach a lesson, Mehbooba Mufti tells ministers Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minster Mehbooba Mufti allocated portfolios to her team of ministers here overnight and told the ministers to "perform or people will teach a lesson". Chairing her first cabinet meeting late Monday night after she took over as the first woman chief minister of country's only Muslim majority state, Mufti told her ministerial colleagues: "Perform or else the people will teach you a lesson. " J&K Governor NN Vohra congratulates Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti after her swearing-in in Jammu yesterday. Pic/PTI Having already lost nearly three months in re-stitching an alliance her late father Mufti Muhammad Sayeed had tailored by calling it 'the meeting of the north and the south', Mufti settled down to administrative business immediately after being sworn in here on Monday. Nirmal Singh (BJP), deputy chief minister has been allotted power development, housing and urban department portfolios. Abdul Rehman Bhat Veeri (PDP) is the new minister for roads and buildings and parliamentary affairs. Haseeb Drabu (PDP) gets the all important portfolio of finance, planning and culture. Naeem Akhtar (PDP) has again been allotted the education portfolio. Abdul Haq (PDP) gets rural development, panchayati raj and law. Syed Basharat Bukhari (PDP) has been allotted revenue, relief and rehabilitation. During his 10- month stint as education minister Akhtar was 'blamed' in a lighter vein for having pushed non- performing teachers to suffer from sleep disorders. Bali Bhagat (BJP) gets health and medical education, Sajad Lone (Peoples Conference) social welfare, Chowdhary Zulfiqar (PDP) consumer affairs and public distribution, Choudhary Lal Singh (BJP) gets forests, ecology and environment, Abdul Ghani Kohli (BJP) animal husbandry and veterinary department. All other departments including general administration, home, tourism and th ose not allotted to any other minister will be handled by the chief minister herself.

2016-04-05 10:44 By IANS www.mid-day.com

99 Farmer from drought-hit Amravati attempts suicide in Delhi New Delhi: A 32-year-old distraught farmer from Maharashtra's drought-hit Amravati district allegedly attempted suicide at Jantar Mantar here today. The incident took place around 1 PM when the man, identified as Prashant Deshmukh, tied a rope at a tree in Jantar Mantar area and formed a loop, a senior police official said. When the man was allegedly trying to fit his head into it, he was spotted by staff posted at the police picket near Kerala House, who rushed to his rescue, the official added. Police officials persuaded Deshmukh not to take the step, following which he broke down. Deshmukh was then taken to a police station. He said he had come to Delhi in a train seeking answers to many of his problems. Deshmukh told police he owns a farm land at a drought-hit village in Amravati and claimed a water reservoir was constructed in his farm under some government scheme but he did not receive the compensation promised for the same. "We have arranged counselling for Deshmukh and also informed his family. Officers at Maharashtra Sadan here have also been informed," DCP (New Delhi) Jatin Narwal said.

2016-04-05 10:43 By PTI www.mid-day.com

100 Panama papers leak: Arun Jaitley vows action, sets up multi-agency probe New Delhi: Government yesterday declared that action will be taken against "unlawful" accounts held abroad by Indians and constituted a multi- agency group to continuously monitor information in the wake of the Panama Papers. Arun Jaitley. Pic/PTI Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed the issue with him yesterday morning and on his advice, the group has been set up, which includes officials from CBDT, RBI and FIU (Financial Intelligence Unit). "The multi-agency group will comprise various government agencies – the CBDT, FIU, FT&TR (Foreign Tax and Tax Research) and RBI. They will continuously monitor these (accounts) and whichever accounts are found to be unlawful, strict action as per existing laws will be taken," he said. Jaitley said after yesterday’s revelations, more names may come out in the next few days. "I welcome this investigation. I think it is a healthy step that these kind of exposes are being made," he said. Under new law The monitoring and investigation into the cases of 500 Indians being named in the leaked papers will be conducted under the stringent provisions of the new law to combat the menace of black money generated by Indians in foreign shores. The new anti-black money law, termed the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015, was enacted last year and operationalised from July 1. The paper trail >> An investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and more than 100 other news organisations around the globe has revealed the offshore links of some of the world’s most prominent people. >> The vast stash of records was obtained by German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung and shared with media worldwide by ICIJ. >> The leaked records come from Mossack Fonseca, a little-known but powerful law firm based in Panama Salve calls leaks ‘invasion of privacy’ Senior counsel Harish Salve, whose name appeared in the Panama Papers said he considers the media coverage around the issue as an invasion of his priavcy, since he has ensured transparency in his tax returns. Speaking to Legally India, he said, "Everything we have is declared. If it is declared, is it not the invasion of my privacy to publish all this? " Revelation a crime: Mossack Fonseca Panama City: The revelation of the "Panama Papers" detailing the off-shore structures of many wealthy clients is a "crime" and an "attack" on Panama, the law firm at the heart of the scandal has said. "This is a crime, a felony," Ramon Fonseca, one of the founders of the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, said yesterday. "This is an attack on Panama because certain countries don't like it that we are so competitive in attracting companies," Fonseca said. Meanwhile, Panama’s government said ina statement, "The Panamanian government will vigorously cooperate with any request or assistance necessary in the event of anylegal action occurring. " Bachchans, Adani among list of 500 that includes Putin, Sharif The Panama Papers have exposed offshore dealings of Russian President Vladimir Putin, world leaders and celebrities including Barcelona forward Lionel Messi. India Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai The Indian Express ran several pages of the investigation reports alleging among other names that Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai were directors in companies in Panama. Vinod Adani Elder brother of industrialist Gautam Adani was also alleged to have set up companies in tax havens. World leaders Nawaz Sharif’s family Sharif’s children Mariam, Hasan and Hussain “were owners or had the right to authorise transactions for several companies”. Close associates of Putin Putin, who is not himself named in the documents, “secretly shuffled as much as $2 billion through banks and shadow companies,” the ICIJ said. Iceland’s PM The files allegedly show Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson and his wife secretly owned an offshore firm holding millions of dollars in Icelandic bank bonds during the country’s financial crisis. Football Lionel Messi Argentine football great Messi and his father owned a Panama company, Mega Star Enterprises Inc., a shell company that had previously not come up in Spanish investigations into the father and son’s tax affairs. Michel Platini Francetvinfo named as the beneficiary of a Panama-based tax company, adding however that no illegal activity was alleged.

2016-04-05 10:41 By Agencies www.mid-day.com

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