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Spain cheers as Spanish-born Valls and Hidalgo win French posts

The Spanish press was triumphant over homegrown victories in French politics this week as Barcelona-born Manuel Valls became prime minister and Anne Hidalgo, born in Cadiz, took over as mayor of Paris.

Both had moved to France with their parents when they were young children, and both are naturalised French citizens.
Valls, who speaks fluent Catalan and who regularly visits the family home in Barcelona, is a Barca supporter whose uncle wrote the words for one of the city’s football team’s signature songs.
“The French prime minister is a Culé [nickname for Barca supporters],” declared sports daily "Sport y Va3.
"La Vanguardia’s" splash on Tuesday read, “Valls, the French prime minister from Barcelona, the Culé who speaks Catalan.”
‘For better and for worse’
Hidalgo, from the Andalusia region of south-west Spain, was two years old when her parents moved to Lyon in southern France.
Referred to in the Spanish press as “Ana” (she took on the French spelling of her name with naturalisation), the Gadatina (the Spanish name for someone from Cadiz) has put a smile on Spanish faces since her election victory on Sunday.
“She comes from Andalusia and she is the first female mayor of Paris,” rejoiced regional daily "Diario de Sevilla".
But while Spain may be brimming with pride, others are concerned that the advances of the far-right National Front in last month’s local elections are a dark portent.
“France has always been a political laboratory for things to come,” wrote "El Pais" columnist Cecilia Ballestoros on Monday. “For better and for worse.”

Spanish lawmakers reject Catalonia secession bid

Spain’s parliament on Tuesday rejected a Catalan petition calling for a secession referendum in the country's wealthy northeastern province, with 299 lawmakers out of 347 voting against the separatist movement.

Spain’s major political parties, including the ruling conservative People’s Party (PP), the Socialist opposition, and the centrist Union for Progress and Democracy voted against the request by the Catalonia region to be granted the right to call a referendum after a seven-hour debate. Lawmakers from the Catalan and Basque nationalist parties voted in favour of the Catalan petition.
"I defend [the idea] that Catalonia should remain in Spain because I can't conceive of Spain without Catalonia nor of Catalonia outside of Spain and Europe," Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told the assembly before the vote.
The Spanish leader repeated his argument that the vote would be illegal, since under Spain's constitution referendums on sovereignty must be held nationally and not regionally.
'Economic disaster'
Rajoy has warned that independence would be an economic disaster for both Spain and Catalonia, one of the country's most productive but also most indebted regions.
"Together we all win and separate we all lose," the prime minister told parliament.
Spain's Constitutional Court ruled last month that a region like Catalonia could not "unilaterally" call a referendum on its sovereignty.
But the Catalan government argues that a 2006 Catalan autonomy statute that was passed by Spain's parliament granted the region the power to hold referendums.
Catalonia's regional head of government, Artur Mas, has always vowed to remain within the law and he stressed after the vote that Tuesday's rejection was not final.
"From this painful 'no', the Catalan institutions will seek to build legal frameworks, and there are several, allowing for this November 9 ballot to take place," he said.
Mas has also threatened to call snap regional elections as a form of plebiscite on the struggle for independence.
'Question of dignity'
Last year on September 11, Catalonia's national day, hundreds of thousands of people formed a human chain across the region to demand independence in a rally organised by the group.
"It is not just a question of money, it has become a question of dignity," said 72-year-old pensioner Xavier Vivanco as he sat in a square in the city of Vic, in the heart of the most pro-independence province of Catalonia.
Proud of their distinct language and culture, a growing number of Catalonia's 7.5 million citizens resent the redistribution of their taxes to other regions and believe the region would be better off on its own.The 2008 real estate crash that triggered a five-year economic downturn across Spain has added to the pressure for secession over the past two years.
The European Union and NATO have warned that Catalonia – which has more people than Denmark and an economy rivalling Portugal's in size – would be excluded from both alliances if it broke away from Spain.

Hard disk pioneer Stuart Parkin wins Millennium Prize

Prof Parkin took advantage of electrons' spin to make cheap storage possible

A British scientist whose work made it possible for hard disks to radically expand in size has been awarded the Millennium Technology Prize.

Prof Stuart Parkin developed a type of data-reading head capable of detecting weaker and smaller signals than had previously been possible.
The innovation allowed more information to be stored on each disk platter.
The foundation behind the award said he had made Facebook, Google, Amazon and other online services possible.
"Parkin is a leading innovator in the field of spintronics, which relies on the magnetic spin of electrons rather than their charge to store bits and is one of the most successful fields of nanotechnology yet," said Technology Academy Finland.
"[His] innovations have led to a huge expansion of data acquisition and storage capacities, which in turn have underpinned the evolution of large data centres and cloud services, social networks, music and film distribution online."
Previous winners of the one million euro ($1.38m; £824,000) award - which is announced every other year - include web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and the Linux operating system kernel developer Linus Torvalds.
Those selected are judged to have invented something that either has changed or has the power to change people's lives for the better, ideally on a global scale.
Sensitive detector Prof Parkin's field of expertise is a branch of physics called spintronics - or spin electronics.
In this case, the word "spin" refers to a quantum mechanical property of an electron that can be likened to a planet turning around its axis.

The professor says hard disks are able to store roughly 1,000 times more than they would have been without the use of spintronics

Just as planets can rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise, electrons are said to be able to spin up or down - an action that sets up a magnetic field.
The analogy is not perfect, but in short the phenomenon can be exploited to store bits of data on atomically-thin magnetic structures.
Prof Parkin made this possible by building on the observations of two Nobel Prize winners - Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg - to create a highly sensitive detector capable of discerning small magnetic fields at room temperature.
"The spin valve sensing device allowed one to detect much tinier magnetic fields and therefore smaller magnetic regions in a magnetic disk drive," he explained to the BBC.
"The information in a disk drive is basically stored as magnetic regions in a very thin magnetic film.
"So, now we could detect much smaller regions than was possible before, in fact about 1,000 times smaller because of the extreme sensitivity of the spin valve sensing device."

The falling cost of storage has made it affordable to build giant data centres

The work was carried out for IBM, and the firm commercialised the technology in 1997. It soon became an industry standard, allowing disk capacity to quadruple roughly once a year for several years.
That not only made it possible to store more information in computers but also meant it became affordable to build giant data centres.
"The modern world is sustained by our ability to store all our information in magnetic disk drives essentially in the cloud, so that you can instantaneously carry out Google searches, instantly stream music and movies," added Prof Parkin.
"None of those things would be possible without the immense capacities of magnetic disk drives at the very low cost that is possible today... thanks to this spintronic sensing device."
Racetrack memory
The professor continues to work for IBM, and is hoping to spearhead a further storage revolution with an experimental technology he is developing for the firm called Racetrack memory.

Prof Parkin is currently working on a new type of storage codenamed Racetrack memory

The goal is to exploit spintronics to create a new type of storage that would consume less energy than magnetic disk drives but be as high-performing as solid-state flash memory - a more expensive alternative.
"By building a three-dimensional device with tiny nanoscopic wires in which a whole series of magnetic regions are raced to and fro, it can increase the storage capacity of conventional solid-state memory 100-fold," he said.
"It would be as fast and reliable as conventional solid state memories but would be as cheap and capacious as a magnetic disk drive - basically containing the best of both worlds."
While the professor is keen to highlight how his work has made it possible for the internet to offer vast amounts of information and entertainment, he acknowledges that the technology has also been used for more controversial purposes - including the storage and analysis of large amounts of information about the public by cyber-spy agencies.
Even so, he said he had few regrets.
"Of course it's a concern if people misuse data if they can," he said.
"It's like any scientific discovery or development - it can be used for good and sometimes used for bad.

UFC Welterweight Title Fight:

Johny Hendricks vs. Robbie Lawler

Round 1

Referee Dan Miragliotta is in charge of tonight’s main event, with judges Douglas Crosby, Mike Gonzalez and Aladin Martinez scoring the bout. Lawler rushes Hendricks with punches against the fence but gets caught behind him with an awkward angle. Hendricks comes off the cage and then pushes Lawler against it with an underhook, driving a few knees into Lawler’s legs. Lawler shoves off and throws a combo, dodged by Hendricks, who drives forward for another clinch off a failed shot. They don’t stay tied up long, and Lawler creeps forward, absorbing a leg kick as he tries to jab into Hendricks’ range. A couple more low kicks connect for Hendricks, and now Lawler is checking them. Lawler grazes with an overhand right and eats a left-handed counter. Lawler jabs to keep Hendricks away now, but Hendricks gets inside with an uppercut and a right hook. Lawler blocks the left high kick that follows. Hendricks presses in with a left, a body kick, and now he puts Lawler up against the cage, where they finish the round.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Hendricks
TJ De Santis scores the round 10-9 Hendricks
Chris Nelson scores the round 10-9 Hendricks

Round 2

Lawler lands a long left and backs up as Hendricks works from the center of the cage. Hendricks is keeping him on the outside, working the jab, and now Lawler sticks a jab of his own. Hendricks comes inside with a kick and a left behind it, and the combo scores again a few seconds later, this one even harder. Lawler is pawing, sticking his jab in Hendricks’ face but not hitting hard. Hendricks drills Lawler with a hard knee to the gut and a chopping leg kick outside. Lawler steps into the pocket and gets lit up with a left, a right, an uppercut. Left hook connects for Lawler, slowing Hendricks for a few seconds, but now “Bigg Rigg” comes with a pair of punches and another hard low kick. Ninety seconds left in the round and Lawler sends a left hand over the top, then stuffs a shot and catches Hendricks in a headlock. Hendricks bursts out and pops Lawler with a left hook. Lawler is coming straight at Hendricks, moving him toward the fence, but it’s Hendricks pouring on the punches. Hendricks eats a right, points to his beard and takes a left. Lawler eats a hard knee but gets the last word in the round with a cracking overhand left on Hendricks’ cheek.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Hendricks
TJ De Santis scores the round 10-9 Hendricks
Chris Nelson scores the round 10-9 Hendricks

Round 3

Lawler lands an early leg kick, answered in kind by Hendricks and followed by a whipping left. Hendricks takes another low kick to step in and deliver hard knees up the middle. Hendricks finds his mark with two more whopping lefts that back up Lawler. Great combinations from Hendricks, mixing up knees, low kicks and punches. Lawler looks stunned for a moment but then lurches forward to continue throwing. Lawler sticks a jab in Hendricks’ face and then hurts him with a left. Hendricks is dazed, on his back foot, and Lawler is throwing with confidence, bombing with both hands. Hendricks eats a dozen punches or more before diving for a takedown and being stuffed. Now throwing back, Hendricks is still eating vicious hooks and overhand lefts. Ninety seconds left and the welterweights are just throwing down, standing in the pocket and blasting away. Hendricks looks better as he steps in to hit Lawler’s body with a knee. Lawler answers back with a jab, a left around the outside. They circle around a bit in the last 30 seconds, Lawler trying to bait Hendricks inside with a low crouch.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Lawler
TJ De Santis scores the round 10-9 Lawler
Chris Nelson scores the round 10-9 Lawler

Round 4

Lawler is teeing off early in the first championship round, picking at Hendricks with jabs, throwing knees and blasting away with left hooks. Hendricks answers back with a combination of punches and a knee, and Lawler makes him pay with a left hook. Blood is streaming down the right side of Hendricks’ face, so Lawler keeps popping him with the left, worsening the damage. Hendricks is getting busy, keeping busy with leg kicks and zapping Lawler with the occasional left hook. Lawler grabs the Thai plum and sends a couple hard knees up the center. Now it’s Hendricks firing off a pair of hard shots that gets Lawler’s attention. The “Ruthless” one takes back some ground with a series of five or six stiff jabs. An outside leg kick lands flush for Lawler but Hendricks keeps coming and scores one of his own. Hendricks scores a late takedown with 20 seconds left and socks Lawler with a couple punches before the horn.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Lawler
TJ De Santis scores the round 10-9 Lawler
Chris Nelson scores the round 10-9 Lawler

Round 5

Lawler opens the final round with a jab that snaps back Hendricks’ head. Hendricks fakes a shot and steps forward, takes a nice, crossing counter on the cheek. Now Hendricks shoots the takedown for real, but Lawler keeps his balance with the help of the cage. Hendricks keeps him there for a minute, digging for the takedown until referee Miragliotta breaks them up. Hendricks misses with a pair of punches but hits the low kick behind it. Lawler comes through with a hard left hook, countered by another Hendricks kick. Lawler jabs his way into range, putting Hendricks on his back foot. Left straight-right cross combo from Lawler sends Hendricks backward, but he comes right back to rock Lawler with a left. Two more lefts have Lawler wobbling. Lawler is suddenly looking rough, standing right in front of Hendricks, absorbing knees, hard leg kicks, punching combinations. Hendricks hits a takedown with 60 seconds left and Lawler makes a face as he sits up against the fence. Lawler tries to climb up but Hendricks takes the legs out from under him and stays on top to the final horn.
Jordan Breen scores the round 10-9 Hendricks (48-47 Hendricks)
TJ De Santis scores the round 10-9 Hendricks (48-47 Hendricks)
Chris Nelson scores the round 10-9 Hendricks (48-47 Hendricks)

The Official Result

Johny Hendricks def. Robbie Lawler via Unanimous Decision (48-47, 48-47, 48-47) R5 5:00




 

Brazil World Cup Schedule – 2014

Here is the Brazil World Cup Schedule 2014. The 2014 Brazil World Cup kicks off on June 12th, 2014 in Sao Paulo. The Semi Final games will take place in Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo. The 3rd Place game will take place in Brasilia, and the final game will be in Rio de Janeiro.

Group Matches:
	Belo Horizonte	Brasilia	Cuiaba	Curitiba	Fortaleza	Manaus	Natal	Porto Alegre	Recife	Rio de Janeiro	Salvador	Sao Paulo
June 12												17:00 Brazil vs Croatia
June 13			18:00 Chile vs Australia				13:00 Mexico vs Cameroon				16:00 Spain vs Netherlands
June 14	13:00 Colombia vs Greece				16:00 Uruguay vs Costa Rica	18:00 England vs Italy			22:00 Ivory Coast vs Japan
June 15		13:00 Switzerland vs Ecuador						16:00 France vs Honduras		19:00 Argentina vs Bosnia-Herzegovina
June 16				16:00 Iran vs Nigeria			19:00 Ghana vs USA				13:00 Germany vs Portugal
June 17	13:00 Belgium vs Algeria		18:00 Russia vs Korea Republic		16:00 Brazil vs Mexico
June 18						18:00 Cameroon vs Croatia		13:00 Australia vs Netherlands		16:00 Spain vs Chile
June 19		13:00 Colombia vs Ivory Coast					19:00 Japan vs Greece					16:00 Uruguay vs England
June 20				19:00 Honduras vs Ecuador					13:00 Italy vs Costa Rica		16:00 Switzerland vs France
June 21	13:00 Argentina vs Iran		18:00 Nigeria vs Bosnia-Herzegovina		16:00 Germany vs Ghana
June 22						18:00 USA vs Portugal		16:00 Korea Republic vs Algeria		13:00 Belgium vs Russia
June 23		17:00 Cameroon vs Brazil		13:00 Australia vs Spain					17:00 Croatia vs Mexico			13:00 Netherlands vs Chile
June 24	13:00 Costa Rica vs England		16:00 Japan vs Colombia		17:00 Greece vs Ivory Coast		13:00 Italy vs Uruguay
June 25						16:00 Honduras vs Switzerland		13:00 Nigeria vs Argentina		17:00 Ecuador vs France	13:00 Bosnia-Herzegovina vs Iran
June 26		13:00 Portugal vs Ghana		17:00 Algeria vs Russia					13:00 USA vs Germany			17:00 Korea Republic vs Belgium
June 27	No Games
Round of 16:
	Belo Horizonte	Brasilia	Cuiaba	Curitiba	Fortaleza	Manaus	Natal	Porto Alegre	Recife	Rio de Janeiro	Salvador	Sao Paulo
June 28	Game 49: 13:00 1A vs 2B									Game 50: 17:00 1C vs 2D
June 29					Game 51: 13:00 1B vs 2A				Game 52: 17:00 1D vs 2C
June 30		Game 53: 13:00 1E vs 2F						Game 54: 17:00 1G vs 2H
July 1											Game 56: 17:00 1H vs 2G	Game 55: 13:00 1F vs 2E
July 2	No Games
July 3	No Games
Quarter Finals:
	Belo Horizonte	Brasilia	Cuiaba	Curitiba	Fortaleza	Manaus	Natal	Porto Alegre	Recife	Rio de Janeiro	Salvador	Sao Paulo
July 4					17:00 Game 57: W49 vs W50					13:00 Game 58: W53 vs W54
July 5		13:00 Game 60: W55 vs W56									17:00 Game 59: W51 vs W52
July 6	No Games
July 7	No Games
Semi Finals:
	Belo Horizonte	Brasilia	Cuiaba	Curitiba	Fortaleza	Manaus	Natal	Porto Alegre	Recife	Rio de Janeiro	Salvador	Sao Paulo
July 8	17:00 Game 61: W57 vs W58
July 9												17:00 Game 62: W59 vs W60
July 10	No Games
July 11	No Games
3rd Place and Final:
	Belo Horizonte	Brasilia	Cuiaba	Curitiba	Fortaleza	Manaus	Natal	Porto Alegre	Recife	Rio de Janeiro	Salvador	Sao Paulo
July 12		17:00 Game 63: L61 vs L62
July 13										16:00 Game 64: W61 vs W62

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Scanners bought for Rs 1bn inoperative: Nisar

 
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that the scanners which were bought for Rs 1 billion are inoperative as they are not capable of identifying explosives.

Talking to media after visiting the site of bomb explosion in Islamabad that claimed 22 lives, Nisar said week and poor labourers were targeted in the explosion.
He said that the issue of terrorism could not be overcome without acquiring sophisticated technology. It is not possible for police to check each truck on the routes, he explained.
Accountability could not be done through bullet or gun, the minister added. 

At Least 21 Killed, dozens injured in islamabad blast

Locals and law enforcement gathered at the Sabzi Mandi blast site

Locals and law enforcement gathered at the Sabzi Mandi blast site
ISLAMABAD: At least 21 people were killed and 116 injured, some critically, on Wednesday when an explosion occurred behind the Metro Shopping center in the Sabzi Mandi area of the capital city
Police and rescue teams rushed to the site of the incident after the explosion occurred.
Initial reports suggest that the explosive material was planted inside a box containing fruits.
Police said that a remote controlled bomb containing five kilograms of explosive material was used in the blast.
Police added that boxes containing fruits were brought to the market from the Punjab province.
The blast occurred at a time when labourers and early morning shoppers were busy purchasing fruits.
Police initiated a search operation and cordoned off the area.
Moreover, police arrested a 'suspicious' person from the location of the blast. Sabzi Mandi is situated in the sector I-11 of the capital city and a kachi abadi of Afghan nationals is also located in the same sector.
Earlier, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Vice Chancellor Prof. Javed Akram said that 31 injured in the blast were given medical treatment in the hospital and the death toll was likely to increase.
Later, spokesperson Pims Dr. Ayesha said the earlier provided death toll was incorrect adding that 19 dead bodies and 73 wounded were brought to the hospital.
Following the attack, emergency had been declared in the hospitals of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
Also, Pims hospital made an information desk which would provide information related to dead bodies and the wounded persons.
The attack occurred just prior to the Corps Commanders’ Conference which was held today.

TTP condemns attack

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TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid condemned the blast in the capital city, adding that the death of civilians in the attack was regrettable.
The spokesman also denounced yesterday’s bomb explosion inside a train in Sibi which had claimed 17 lives.
Moreover, Shahid said it was possible that some “hidden hands” were involved in the attacks.

Intelligence warned of attacks

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The attack came a day before the April 10 ceasefire by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) ends.
Intelligence sources had first alerted the police and government officials on April 3, 2014 that possible terrorist attacks in Islamabad, Peshawar and Quetta were being planned by militants who oppose the peace talks between government and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
“Law enforcing agencies will be the main target of the terrorists, and in the case of their failure, any other official installation or public place,” one official said.
“TTP will choose the targets and the informal groups under its umbrella will provide support to the Ansarul Hind activists with weapons and other materials,” he added.
Security sources say the scenario looks similar to the terrorist attacks that quickly followed the announcement of a month-long ceasefire by the TTP last month. The most audacious of them was the bomb-and-gun attack on the district courts complex in Islamabad on March 3, which was claimed by Ahrarul Hind group.


 

Maria Miller quits as culture secretary after expenses row

Maria Miller: "I wish I could have stayed"

Maria Miller has denied being forced to stand down as culture secretary after a damaging row about her expenses, insisting it was her decision.

"I take full responsibility for my decision to resign. I think it's the right thing to do," she said.
Appearing close to tears, she said the row had become an "enormous distraction" from "the incredible achievements of this government".
Conservative MP Sajid Javid is to replace her as culture secretary.
The MP for Bromsgrove will be promoted from his current role as Financial Secretary to the Treasury.
But Prime Minister David Cameron said he hoped Mrs Miller would return to the cabinet "in due course".
Mrs Miller was cleared of funding a home for her parents at taxpayers' expense, but was told to repay £5,800 of the expenses she claimed.
The independent parliamentary commissioner for standards had previously recommended she repay £45,000.
But the lower sum was approved by the Commons Standards Committee, which has the final say on whether to accept the commissioner's recommendations - a decision which sparked a backlash across the political spectrum and calls for changes in how complaints against MPs are investigated.
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The committee also criticised her "attitude" during the investigation, which it ruled was a breach of the parliamentary code of conduct.

Mrs Miller apologised in the Commons, but was criticised for the brevity of the statement she made.
David Cameron's official spokesman said the PM and Mrs Miller discussed her future on Tuesday night and her resignation was confirmed on Wednesday morning.
In a TV interview, she dismissed speculation that she had been pushed into resigning by Downing Street.
"I was cleared of the central allegation made about me by a Labour MP," she said.
"I hoped that I could stay, but it has become clear to me over the last few days that this has become an enormous distraction, and it's not right that I'm detracting from the incredible achievements of this government.
"I've been a member of the Conservative Party for 30 years.
"I continue to support, obviously, my colleagues here in Parliament, the government, and above all the prime minister."
Education Secretary Michael Gove said he was "saddened" by the news.
"She worked incredibly hard as part of a team," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "She has done some brave and right things, not least that equal marriage is now on the statute book."
Mr Gove, a former journalist, said he "would not criticise the press", but said: "Over the course of the a last couple of days the pressure on Maria Miller grew more intense.

Mr Gove said politicians still needed to reflect on the level of public anger about expenses

"Some of the criticism directed at her had been very personal, and it must have been hurtful," he continued.
He also commended Mr Cameron's defence of Mrs Miller, arguing that his "loyalty, that desire to think the best of those who work with him, is a virtue".
"I don't think his judgement has been flawed," he said.

"The prime minister's attitude throughout has been governed by the basic human decency that is his hallmark."
It comes a day before Parliament breaks for its Easter recess and ahead of a session of Prime Minister's Questions at which Mr Cameron was expected to come under pressure over the row.
'Incandescent' Labour MP John Mann, whose complaint sparked the investigation into Mrs Miller's expenses, welcomed her resignation.
"My reaction is it's about time too... Maria Miller should have resigned immediately and when she didn't resign, David Cameron should have shown a bit of leadership and he should have sacked her," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"There is a difference between loyalty and blind loyalty," he continued later.
Voters were "incandescent" about Mrs Miller's expenses claims and Mr Cameron's "failure to act" had been "incomprehensible to most people", Mr Mann said.
He also said that criticism of the media's role in the affair was "total rubbish".

Labour MP John Mann said Maria Miller should have resigned "days ago"

"There's only one person who is responsible for Maria Miller's behaviour and that's Maria Miller, and there's only one person who is responsible for David Cameron's indecisiveness, and that's David Cameron. They should stop briefing and attacking other people.
"There's a word missing in British politics these days and that's honour, and I would define honour as: if you've done something wrong, as a cabinet minister, you resign - and if you don't resign you get sacked."
'Devastated' Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps said: "Labour is making much of this today, but let's face it they have MPs who have gone to jail - which is something that hasn't happened on our side - for wrongdoing."
Because Mrs Miller's case related to claims made between 2005 and 2009, before the expenses system was reformed, the investigation was governed by the rules which were in place at the time, Mr Shapps said, with MPs seen to be "judging themselves".
This was a discredited system, Mr Shapps said, adding: "In future that is resolved by the fact that it all goes now to an independent body in the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, that there is a lower tier tribunal which would look after these cases and can make judgements that the public can have confidence in. It's long overdue."

Maria Miller: "I fully accept the recommendations of the committee and thank them for bringing this matter to an end"

In her resignation letter to the prime minister, Mrs Miller said she was "immensely proud" of her work in cabinet, including "putting in place the legislation to enable all couples to have the opportunity to marry regardless of their sexuality".
She also acknowledged that her role in "implementing the recommendations made by Lord Justice Leveson on the future of media regulation, following the phone hacking scandals, would always be controversial for the press".
The prime minister said he was sorry to receive Mrs Miller's resignation but accepted her decision.
"I think it is important to be clear that the Committee on Standards cleared you of the unfounded allegations made against you, a point which has been lost in much of the comment in recent days," he wrote.

Are suspected North Korean drones a threat to South Korea?

The wreckage of a crashed unmanned aerial vehicle on a mountain in Samcheok, South Korea on April 6, 2014.

Painted sky-blue, these small flying machines may look like toy planes but they have South Korea scrambling to secure its airspace.

In recent weeks, South Korea's defense ministry has discovered three crashed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that it believes belong to Pyongyang. Equipped with Japanese-made digital cameras, the drones captured images of important military installations and South Korea's presidential office in Seoul, according to local media reports.

South Korea says the aircraft are a sign of Pyongyang's heightened surveillance that should be taken seriously, and yet officials and experts suggest the drones pose little, if any, real threat.

"The small drones, presumed to have come from North Korea, don't really have great military significance," a spokesperson for South Korea's defense ministry, Kim Min-seok told reporters on

"Even if they are to be used for future attacks,(they) can only carry 2-3 kilograms of TNT and cannot cause a huge (amount of) damage," he said.

The machines are made of polycarbonate, which is difficult to detect with radar, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. The vehicle, which flies at an average speed of about 110 km per hour at an altitude of 1.3 km, is controlled by a basic transmission system but isn't sophisticated enough to send images instantaneously.

"Even if it is used for reconnaissance with a camera attached, the quality will be no better than information collected by commercial satellites," said Kim.

"Also, there is a limit to how much it can be utilized in operations because they don't have (a) real-time transmission function."

Of the three drones, two have turned up images of targets of military significance -- strategically important islands near the Demilitarized Zone, and the Blue House, residence and office of South Korea's President Park Keun Hye.

The data from the third drone, which had been found by a wild ginseng digger, could not be analyzed as its discoverer had wiped the camera's memory card for his own use, the Korea Times reported.

According to James Hardy, the Asia Pacific editor of IHS Jane's Defence Weekly magazine, this type of UAV can only travel limited distances.

"It has quite a small range, it doesn't have very long endurance so it would only be up there for a few hours. You would use those to see what the other guys are doing in a battlefield environment. So it's very useful in terms of knowing what's going on behind the next hill, or the next mountain or even over the other side of a wall."

Most armies have unmanned vehicles like these to varying degrees, says Hardy, but they're not designed to be armed.

"They're very much closely built off a remote-controlled aircraft that you can buy in a toy store. They're just a militarized version of that," Hardy said.

Flying bombs?

North Korea has flaunted similar, larger UAVs at military parades in recent years. These target drones are designed to test how well pilots can shoot at a moving object, or the accuracy of missiles. But it seems the North Koreans have reverse-engineered them with explosives, says Hardy.

"The way in which those have been used or have been modified by some countries is that they put an explosive in the front, so they do turn it into a flying bomb or a flying missile. So it's got a one-way mission -- you can fly it somewhere and then you can crash it."

Video footage shows North Korean exercises uses them for this purpose, but it's an expensive way to build a bomb, says Hardy. "You get one use out of it."

The explosion, depending on the charge and the level of sophistication of the charge, would be only big enough to take out a single vehicle or a ship.

"UAVs are a major part of the modern battlefield. We just have to look at how the U.S. uses them in Pakistan and Yemen and Afghanistan, but the UAVs that the U.S. is using are significantly more sophisticated. There's no comparison really."

Some analysts have also suggested North Korea could use UAVs to carry out a chemical or biological attack on the South. But Hardy doubts it would come to that.

"If North Korea did a chemical or biological attack on South Korea in any kind of situation, the United States and South Korea would respond with a massive amount of force...You would have the world's largest military on your doorstep very quickly."

South Korea bolsters air defense network

The discovery of the drones comes amid mounting tensions across the 38th parallel. Annual U.S.-South Korean joint military drills that ended on April 7, drew criticism from North Korea, which views the exercises as "dress rehearsals for invasion," according to James Person, coordinator of the North Korean International Documentation Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Two weeks ago, Pyongyang fired two mid-range ballistics missiles off its eastern coast, in apparent response to the drills. Days later, the two sides exchanged hundreds of shells across the Northern Limit Line, their disputed maritime border, after North Korea warned it was preparing to test another nuclear device.

"This time of year is provocation season," says Hardy.

"It's all good stuff because it allows the North Koreans to do something provocative and slightly annoying which might embarrass South Koreans, but it's not provocative enough to create a proper military response."

But South Korea is taking precautions to secure its airspace.

In a weekly meeting with senior aides Monday, South Korea's President Park Keun Hye warned that insecurities among many citizens, especially those living near the border, are growing in light of the recent provocations from North Korea.

"Drones suspected of belonging to North Korea appeared to have spied in all directions, but our military authorities were completely in the dark about this," she said. "I think there are problems with the air defense and ground reconnaissance systems.

"We should view it seriously that North Korea has fired missiles and strengthened reconnaissance. To prepare for the possibility of additional provocations, we need to come up with measures to immediately block and repel any provocations."

On Monday, South Korea's military launched an expansive search for further drones. Two days later, a spokesperson for the defense ministry told CNN that South Korea plans to purchase low-altitude radar to improve the country's ability to detect small UAVs. He declined to say how many or where the radar would come from.

South Korea's own reconnaissance drone program includes a deal to buy four Global Hawk UAVs from Northrop Grunman Corp for over $800 million.

Person, from the Woodrow Wilson Center says that if the drones are from North Korea, it is a violation of the armistice agreement and South Korea should be concerned that its airspace was violated. "But given just how low-tech these things are, I don't think South Korean officials are so very concerned right now," he said.

The football showpiece promises the best of the beautiful game – but building work is behind schedule and protests are growing at the amount of public money spent

Protesters in São Paulo demonstrate against the public money spent on the forthcoming World Cup Photo: GETTY

By Donna Bowater

6:30AM GMT 05 Mar 2014

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With just 99 days left until the start of the 2014 World Cup, the host nation Brazil has an image problem. For all the complexities it faces as a developing country, with 200 million people living in vastly differing circumstances, it finds itself reduced frequently to its most famous assets: football, carnival, beaches and women.

There will have been little surprise outside Brazil when sports brand Adidas launched two World Cup T-shirts that focused on the curves of the female form, a laddish nod to the possible benefits of travelling to the tournament this summer – one of them carried the slogan “Lookin’ to Score” next to a cartoon of a bikini-clad girl on a beach; the other read “I love Brazil” with a heart resembling the upside-down buttocks of a woman wearing a thong.

The Brazilian authorities responded indignantly, and the company withdrew the T-shirts from sale last week. Yet there are contradictions in the national image at every turn. While appearing horrified at the sexism perpetuated by Adidas – the government denounced the designs as playing to sexualised stereotypes – the same country celebrated carnival this week with the main TV network, Globo, using a naked female samba dancer as its muse.

The “Globeleza” – based on the network’s name and beleza, meaning beauty – is elected by viewers annually, her modesty protected only by some body paint and glitter. And while the four-day bacchanal was celebrated on the streets of Rio de Janeiro with the usual fervour, stereotypical images of a colourful and vibrant party overshadowed a street cleaners’ strike that left a tide of rubbish across the city.

But holding the World Cup in Brazil ought to be the perfect match, the event that unites the nation and heals the cracks. This is the country that has won the World Cup five times, that gave us the talents of Pele, Zico and Ronaldo, and where football is often described in religious terms.

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“Brazil is the mecca of football,” Jérôme Valcke, Fifa secretary general, said last week after a local organising committee (LOC) board meeting.
Moreover, when the decision to make Brazil the host was announced in 2007, the economy was booming, with annual growth of more than five per cent. Under the then president Lula da Silva, the Bolsa Familia welfare programme was lifting millions out of extreme poverty and the country was thriving, grouped with Russia, India and China as one of the fast-developing Bric economies.
But as the World Cup edged closer, the economy stalled, growing by just 2.3 per cent last year. Preparations for the tournament have fallen so far behind schedule that Fifa has considered moving matches away from one of the 12 host cities. Two of the World Cup stadiums are unlikely to be finished until mid-May, a month before the event starts, throwing into chaos plans for test events, and transport projects have been delayed or cancelled.
“From what I hear abroad, they are talking about our very same doubts, delays, demonstrations, security – all this is very natural,” said Ronaldo, the former striker and Brazil’s World Cup poster boy, who is a member of the LOC board. “There was uncertainty around the Winter Olympics and Sochi and we know the event was very successful. We hope the same will happen here, it’s a lot of work. Until the end of the World Cup, I’ll keep on fighting to convince people that it is a wonderful project for all of us in Brazil.”
But for all Ronaldo’s optimism, the World Cup has caused divisions within a rapidly changing and growing country. Last summer’s Confederations Cup, which acted as a dress rehearsal and should have been the starting gun for the countdown to the biggest footballing party in the world, was instead the backdrop to the biggest protest movement in a generation.
The demonstrations that flared in cities across Brazil were sparked by a 20 centavos (six pence) rise in bus fares, which coincided with massive investment in the World Cup, a slowdown in the economy and a rise in the cost of living. The proposed increase would have hit the poor hardest in a country where the minimum wage is less than £200 a month and many of the working classes face long bus commutes to cities from deprived suburbs.
“The protests against the World Cup really bother the government because they want to sell the image abroad that we have no problems,” said Paulo Ventura, a student from São Paulo. “The aim is to show those outside Brazil that while we have many problems in various areas, our illustrious government is spending an absurd amount on the World Cup.”
Among the demands from the protesters were free public transport, greater public spending on education and health care, and better security. And they soon became targeted at the World Cup: banners reading “Fifa Go Home” and “There Won’t Be a World Cup” became a familiar sight.
“People say Brazil is an emerging country, but it’s emerging from nothing,” says Luciano Cardoso, a residents’ association leader. “We’re 88th in the world for education. In my opinion, the World Cup gives no benefits at all because 70 per cent of the spending on works is public money. So why didn’t they do it before if they had so much money to invest, to give to Fifa, as a donation?”
There are concerns within Fifa that protests will start again during the World Cup, testing the £475 million security operation that will see 170,000 troops, police and security staff on the streets. Popular support for hosting the tournament has fallen from almost 80 per cent in November 2008 to around 50 per cent last month, according to figures from the research institute Datafolha – though those in favour of protests during the competition are less than a third.
“Of course we would like the World Cup. Brazil loves football. Some people don’t like football but the majority like it,” says Claudia Favaro, representative of the Popular Committee in Porto Alegre, one of the host cities, which campaigns against abuses linked to the World Cup. Popular Committees were set up in each of the 12 host cities to monitor preparations for the tournament and their impact on human rights, including discrimination against the poor.
Many of the upgrades to transport infrastructure and stadiums have been carried out to meet Fifa standards, a requirement that has annoyed many who believe it comes at the cost of other priorities such as health care and education.
“The problem is the 'Fifa standard’,” Favaro says. “It doesn’t give anything back to the country. The organisation of a country is down to the state, to the government. But they put public money into delivering a standard that Fifa requires. Our stadiums are excellent, but they have to have everyone seated, everything formal.”
Among the grievances are the evictions required to make way for infrastructure, often affecting some of the 11 million people who live in favelas, or informal shanty-type communities. Compensation of £13,000 from the government in Porto Alegre has left many out of pocket, with an equivalent property now costing between £17,500 and £20,000.
“It’s very clear that the human rights legacy was not a real concern,” says Raquel Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur for Adequate Housing and a professor at the University of Sao Paulo. And the perceived legacy of the World Cup could prove decisive when Brazilians go to the polls in October. President Dilma Rousseff is expected to seek a second term, with her approval rating currently at 55 per cent after dropping to 30 per cent during last summer’s protests.
She has dubbed this year’s event the “Cup of Cups” in the hope of using a successful showpiece as a springboard for election success. “Brazilians are ready to show that they know how to receive tourists and contribute to make this the Cup of Cups,” she said, in a message marking the 100 days milestone.
Meanwhile in Rio, “Imagina na Copa” – which translates as “imagine this during the World Cup” – has become the catchphrase of taxi drivers, directed at all manner of shortcomings, including road works and traffic jams. They will take some persuading that a football tournament can change a nation’s fortunes.

Saharan dust stopped me going for a jog, Cameron

Even the Prime Minister has been affected by the Saharan dust cloud - prevented from going on his early morning jog

The Prime Minister did not go for his morning run bercause of the Saharan dust cloud  Photo: Rex Features

The "extraordinary" Saharan dust cloud that has descended on the UK has prevented the Prime Minister from taking his morning run, he has said.

David Cameron said that the unusual smog-like conditions were "unpleasant" and warned people to "listen very carefully" to the weather forecasts and official health advice.

Speaking on BBC Breakfast he said: "It is unpleasant, you can feel it in the air. The advice is that you listen very carefully to what the Met Office is saying about the weather, and Public Health England's website.

He added: "I didn't go for my morning run this morning, I chose to do some work instead. You can feel it but it is a naturally occurring weather phenomenon - it sounds extraordinary, Saharan dust, but that it what it is."

His comments come as it emerged healthy schoolchildren were being kept indoors as government experts' conflicting messages about the dangers of smog led to widespread confusion.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs warned of "very high" levels of pollution due to a mixture of dust from the Sahara and industrial emissions from Europe arriving on a south-easterly breeze.
^{Smog obscures landmarks across the City of London (Reuters)}
But its own advisers at Public Health England admitted that the "vast majority of people" would feel no effects and independent experts said there was "no need" to stay indoors.
Photographs of the Prime Minister's official car coated in a thin film of dirt captured the public imagination following an air pollution alert issued by Defra earlier in the week.
Pollution levels have reached 10 out of 10 in some parts of the country due to a combination of local pollution, pollution from the industrialised urban parts of Europe, and a large wind storm in North Africa which has blown dust across the British Isles.
So far scores of flights have been cancelled because of smog as a red dust - swept up from the Sahara and carried by the winds - has settled on cars and windows.
Dr Helen Dacre, a meteorologist at the University of Reading, said: "Weather conditions have conspired to create a 'perfect storm' for air pollution."