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Knew there was no hope... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7717669.stm -------------------------------------- S President-elect Barack Obama will go ahead with plans to build part of a controversial missile defence system on Polish soil, Poland has announced. President Lech Kaczynski's office said the pledge was made during a telephone conversation between the two men. Russia opposes the US plans, and early this week said it planned to deploy missiles on Poland's border and electronically jam the US system. This is the first signal that Mr Obama plans to continue George Bush's policy. During the US election campaign, Mr Obama said he wanted to review…

Carnage UK: The company cynically turning student binge drinking into big business By Richard Pendlebury Last updated at 12:17 AM on 12th November 2008 Comments (87) Add to My Stories They are, we are supposed to believe, the brightest and the best. But 'I love dog porn' and ' hooker' are among the least crude slogans scrawled on the clothes and flesh of several hundred female undergraduates gathered in Prince of Wales Road, Norwich. Other graffiti is much more explicit. One pretty girl, slumped on a bench in drink-sodden incoherence, has cartoon male genitalia daubed in marker pen on her goose-pimpled breasts. Students dressed up and …

Paralysed skier 'to win millions' after holiday in the French Alps ends in tragedy By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 12:36 AM on 15th November 2008 Comments (0) Add to My Stories Graham Anderson was left paralysed after a skiing accident in the French Alps A skier left in a wheelchair for life by an horrific accident in the French Alps is in line for multi-million-pound damages after a judge ruled yesterday that his instructor was negligent. Graham Anderson's family holiday to Puy St Vincent in 2004 ended in tragedy when he went off piste with his ski school, lost control and slammed into a tree. Mr Anderson, 46, of Crapstone…

Life's nice for mice - and there's more of them - now the cats are too fat and lazy to catch them By David Derbyshire Last updated at 10:57 PM on 14th November 2008 Comments (0) Add to My Stories You'd think the only place where mice run rings around cats is on children’s TV. But these days, it seems the Tom And Jerry story is closer to fact than fiction. For pampering is making our cats fatter and more unfit. And just like Jerry, the rodent in the popular cartoons, the mice are taking advantage. Lacking in energy: Pampering is making our cats fatter and more unfit, which is great news for mice Rodent infestations are soaring in th…

Outrage as paedophile Gary Glitter's pop hit 'I'm The Leader Of The Gang' is recommended for GCSE By Matthew Drake Last updated at 7:18 AM on 10th November 2008 Comments (34) Add to My Stories Gary Glitter pictured in August: One of his songs is recommended listening in GCSE music studies An examination board came under fire last night after it emerged a Gary Glitter song was being recommended in schools. The Assessment and Qualification Alliance, the largest body of its kind in Britain, encourages listening to the paedophile's pop hit 'I'm The Leader Of The Gang' on a reading list aimed at children studying for GCSE music. A brief sent t…

Is this the end of free banking? Britons face charges to use cash machines and write cheques By Sean Poulter Last updated at 12:19 AM on 12th November 2008 Comments (0) Add to My Stories Britons face the introduction of charges to use cash machines and write cheques, it is claimed today. Analysts Datamonitor claim it is only a matter of time before free banking, as British consumers know it, is abandoned. The introduction of up-front charges for the right to have a current account is being speeded by a court case investigating the legality of punishing overdraft charges, it is claimed. Hidden costs: Datamonitor claim it is only a matter…

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Conman posing as Status Quo star enjoys free meals and trips in mayor's limousine after tricking entire town for a year By Robert Mendick Last updated at 12:11 PM on 14th November 2008 Comments (3) Add to My Stories A conman convinced a whole town that he was the Status Quo frontman Francis Rossi, earning himself free meals and trips in the mayor's limousine for almost a year. The trickster promised Dover's town councillors that he would perform free at their festival. And if that wasn't enough, he would ensure that his 'friends' Sir Paul McCartney, Charlotte Church and Queen's Brian may would play alongside him. The council was duped, it…

Hillary Clinton 'to be U.S. foreign chief': Obama poised to pick his former rival for powerful role on world stage By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 10:21 AM on 14th November 2008 Comments (-) Add to My Stories Hillary Clinton has emerged as a candidate for Barack Obama's new U.S. secretary of state, according to reports in the U.S. today. Sources close to Obama said he was 'very serious' about offering Clinton the crucial role. Condoleeza Rice, the current Secretary of State, will step down when the Democrat takes over from George W. Bush on January 20. A senior aide to Clinton was asked yesterday if she would take the position …

Flying into the record books: 71 daredevil skydivers get into formation above California By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 12:09 PM on 14th November 2008 Comments (-) Add to My Stories Soaring through the air like a stealth bomber this spectacular wing suit formation skydive is a world first. Travelling at speeds of up to 100 mph these 71 flying daredevils set a new world record for the largest slot specific wing-suit formation ever constructed. Situated 14,500 ft above Lake Elsinore, California, these extreme divers set the new record on Wednesday. Enlarge Wo…

Thought i'd start a Spurs thread and see if there are any fellow Spurs fans on here.... C.O.Y.S :cool:

Jim Bowen brings the world's oldest joke book to the London stage... and reveals the ancestor of Monty Python's Dead Parrot By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 8:00 PM on 13th November 2008 Comments (7) Add to My Stories Heard the one about the man who bought a slave which died? You may have recently: it was performed on a London stage by comic legend Jim Bowen. But the show was not exactly new or fresh - instead, the veteran comic was performing material from what may be the world's oldest joke book. Made 1,600 years ago by the Greeks and unearthed from recently translated manuscripts, some of the jokes bear striking similarities with…

The five-a-day dunces: One in ten parents thinks Jaffa Cakes, chips and cola count as your fruit and veg By Fiona Macrae Last updated at 11:45 AM on 14th November 2008 Comments (-) Add to My Stories Perhaps it's the orangey bit in the middle which fools them. For although most of us wouldn't consider a Jaffa Cake a particularly healthy snack, one in ten parents apparently thinks they pass as fruit. And according to a survey into family eating habits, Jaffa Cakes aren't the only food to cause confusion. Unbalanced diet: Chips are mistakenly thought to count towards a child's intake of fruit and vegetables Cola, chips, spaghetti …

Email spam drops by 75% after just one website is closed By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 10:49 AM on 14th November 2008 Comments (-) Add to My Stories Cyber-criminal gangs bombard computers with unsolicited emails Online junk mail has been slashed by 75 per cent after a company believed to host some of the world's largest internet spam gangs was shut down. Two major internet service providers (ISPs) cut off internet access to the company McColo.com on Tuesday. Carole Theriault, of internet security firm Sophos called it an 'unprecedented' move. It is believed the California-based company had a client list that included some of t…

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'Newspaper claims I cheated on Cheryl breached my human rights', claims Ashley Cole By Niall Firth Last updated at 11:49 AM on 13th November 2008 Comments (0) Add to My Stories Ashley and Cheryl pose for the launch of a new National Lottery game. Cole claims articles about his private life are an invasion of his privacy Chelsea footballer Ashley Cole is to sue two newspaper groups saying articles claiming he cheated on his wife, Girls Aloud's Cheryl Cole, breached his human rights. Using a similar defence to the one employed by Max Mosley earlier this year, Cole is launching a privacy battle against Mirror Group Newspapers and News Gro…

Drunk yobs could be let off with lessons on booze By James Slack Last updated at 12:59 AM on 13th November 2008 Comments (18) Add to My Stories Drunken yobs could be let off with a slap on the wrist if they agree to attend a course on sensible drinking. Instead of facing a court charged with being drunk and disorderly, they would be given advice on reducing how much they consume. The louts would attend ‘alcohol referral schemes’ at which counsellors would explain the link between their drinking and bad behaviour. The lessons would also include advice on alcohol unit strengths. In some cases, the course would be classed as a ‘conditional cauti…

Blind pilot guided to land by RAF A pilot who suddenly went blind while flying his plane at 5,500ft (1,676m) was guided in to land by an RAF plane. A plane was scrambled from the RAF base at Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire to help stricken pilot Jim O'Neill, 65. He was flying a two-seater Cessna aircraft from Glasgow Prestwick Airport to Colchester, Essex, when he suffered a stroke and lost his sight. The RAF plane flew alongside Mr O'Neill and th…

Pictured: The robot that can pull faces just like a human being By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 12:23 PM on 12th November 2008 Comments (0) Add to My Stories Scientists have created the first 'humanoid' robot that can mimic the facial expressions and lip movements of a human being. 'Jules' - a disembodied androgynous robotic head - is controlled only by his own software and automatically copies the movement and expressions of a human face. Human face movements are picked up by a video camera and mapped onto the tiny electronic motors in Jules' skin. It can grin and grimace, furrow its brow, and 'speak' as the software translates real e…

My favourites at the moment is: Lost, Smallville, Scrubs and Mythbusters..

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Couple arrested for 'having sex' on crowded train By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 10:48 AM on 11th November 2008 Add to My Stories A couple have been arrested for allegedly having sex in a crowded train carriage. Other passengers en route from Liverpool to London appear to have sat in embarrassed silence as the 41-year-old woman allegedly committed a sex act on her male partner. The pair were arrested by police on arrival at Euston station. Officers are believed to have been called after a guard on the Virgin intercity train spotted the couple on CCTV. A man has been charged and a woman bailed for allegedly having sex on a crowd…

so i tried to play my live 2003 cd on the computer nd all that comes up is photos of the band. why wont the cd play?? it works fine in the car

Pelosi's Auto-Rescue Plan Sets Up Clash With Bush, Republicans By Laura Litvan Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan to aid troubled U.S. automakers threatens to spark a final clash with President George W. Bush before he leaves the White House in January. Pelosi said yesterday she wants ``immediate action'' to give automakers additional assistance as shares of General Motors Corp. hit their lowest level since 1943 and analysts said the company faces possible bankruptcy. Bush hasn't said he would approve any further aid to those companies. Richard Shelby, the Senate Banking Committee's top Republican, opposes the measure. Senate Democratic L…