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[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The war medals proudly worn by a Normandy veteran who broke out of his care home so he could attend last year's D-Day commemorations in France are being sold. Bernard Jordan was nicknamed the Great Escaper after he absconded from his carers, caught a ferry to Caen and turned up in Normandy for the 70th anniversary events with his service awards pinned to his blazer. He passed away aged 90 on December 30 and seven days later his widow, Irene, passed away. With no immediate family, the couple left his £600,000 estate to lifeboat charity the RNLI. Bernard Jordan, the 90-year-old war veteran, pictured on the ferry after he broke out of his care home in East Sussex to attend the D-Day commemorations in Normandy, France . Mr Jordan's campaign medals are to be sold at auction - and they could fetch thousands of pounds . Now his campaign medals are to be sold at auction - and they could fetch thousands of pounds. Mr Jordan was a 19-year-old Royal Navy lieutenant when on June 6, 1944, he was on a tank landing craft that was in the first wave of boats to hit the Normandy beaches. He had already taken part in the Battle of the Atlantic, the cat-and-mouse conflict between Allied ships and German U-boats over the vital supply routes from Europe to the United States. At one stage he was part of the boarding party that captured one of the Enigma coding machines, used by the Nazis to scramble messages, from an enemy submarine. He also served in the Italian campaign, supplying troops fighting their way north in an attempt to drive the Nazis from Europe. Following the war Mr Jordan got into local politics and served as a town councillor for 23 years in his hometown of Hove, East Sussex. Mr Jordan got a friendly reception when he arrived in Normandy from Adele Leatham and Julie Maguire . The hero enjoyed posing with fans following his fame but remained humble throughout, insisting: 'There were a lot of other people on the beaches of Normandy that day, this lovely attention is for them really, not me' Great Escape D-Day vet Bernard Jordan in Ouistream, Normandy, at the Grand Bunker museum . He was a a city councillor for two years and was mayor of the town from 1995 to 1996. Mr Jordan hit headlines in June last year when he went missing from his care home the day before the 75th anniversary D-Day celebrations. He slipped out of The Pines care home in Hove, East Sussex, telling carers he was going for a walk. In reality, he caught a ferry to Caen in Normandy and made his own way to the service. Police meanwhile had launched a missing persons appeal which was only called off when Mr Jordan called home to tell everyone he was ok. On his return Mr Jordan was made an honorary alderman of Brighton and Hove and on his 90th birthday he was inundated with 2,500 cards from wellwishers around the world. He died on December 30 last year, a week before Irene passed away. More than 150 mourners turned out to pay their respects to Mr Jordan at a joint funeral service for him and Irene held in Brighton on January 30. Popular: As he made his way to northern France he posed for a photo with female crew members . Mr Jordan was a Royal Navy officer (right) and married his wife Irene in 1946 (left). She also resides at the home where lived in Hove, East Sussex, up until his death. Staff said Mr Jordan died peacefully in hospital . The RNLI said the legacy came as a 'huge surprise' but believed the couple's admiration stemmed from Mr Jordan's time in the Royal Navy in the Second World War. Charity chief executive Paul Boissier said last month: ''Bernard's story charmed the nation last year when he journeyed from his Sussex care home to France to commemorate the D-Day landings. 'I am delighted that the couple chose to leave us this sizeable donation, and their contribution, like those of Bernard's veteran peers, will never be forgotten.' Auctioneers at Wallis and Wallis in Lewes, East Sussex, say they are expecting lots of interest in the sale of Mr Jordan's medals from the UK and Europe, which has been brought by solicitors acting for his estate. The set comprises of the 1939-1945 Star, the Atlantic Star with French and German clasp, the Italy Star, the Defence Medal and the War Medal. Mr Jordan was a 19-year-old Royal Navy lieutenant when on June 6, 1944, he was on a tank landing craft that was in the first wave of boats to hit the Normandy beaches . Upon his return to the UK following his trip to France, Mr Jordan received thousands of cards and gifts . He was clapped and cheered by staff at Pines Care Home in Hove, East Sussex, after returning from France . The official estimate is £200 to £300 pounds but experts say the medal set could sell for thousands. A spokesman for the auction house said: 'Bernard Jordan was a wonderful chap who really embodied the great British bulldog spirit. 'He proudly served his country both during the war as a Navy officer and afterwards as a councillor. 'Bernard really captured the nation's imagination when he escaped his care home and travelled to France to be part of the D-Day memorial last year. 'Medals such as these would normally only fetch a few hundred pounds but Bernard became something of a celebrity following his Normandy adventure and his set could sell for much more.' The sale will be held on March 17. Bernard Jordan said he served on a destroyer in the Second World War hunting the 'wolf packs' of Nazi U-boats attacking Allied shipping convoys. 'I was once on a mission to recover one of the Enigma machines from a U-boat which we'd forced to the surface by dropping depth charges, and crippling it,' the 90-year-old Royal Navy veteran told friends. 'We boarded the submarine and recovered the machine.' Exactly which ship he was serving on at the time was not clear, but the successful British mission to seize the German code machines and their codebooks has been credited with changing the course of the war. Mr Jordan proudly wore his medals every day up until his death and spoke fondly of his time in the Navy . The first machine was seized by HMS Bulldog off Iceland in May 1941 when U-110 was forced to the surface and a boarding party seized the machine. In another incident a few months later, HMS Petard sent a boarding party on board a U-boat, but two British sailors were drowned when the submarine sank. Captured machines were taken to codebreakers at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire where they were able to intercept reams of encrypted German signals for years. Up until his death, Mr Jordan - who captured the nation's hearts after sneaking out of his care home and boarding a coach to France to join in D-Day anniversary events - proudly wore his Atlantic Star medal. The first German code machine was seized by HMS Bulldog off Iceland in 1941 when U-110 was forced to the surface and a boarding party seized the machine. Captured machines were taken to Buckinghamshire ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bernard Jordan vanished from his care home to go to a D-Day memorial .\nHe caught a ferry and turned up in Normandy with WWII his service medals .\nMr Jordan passed away in December shortly followed by his wife Irene .\nThe couple left £600,000 and Mr Jordan's medals to lifeboat charity RNLI .\nRNLI has now put medals- which could fetch thousands- up for auction ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Mayan mural that could contain one of the earliest examples of 'photobombing'. The painting, which dates to around 600-900AD, was found during excavations of ruins in the Mayan city of Xultun in the rainforests of Peten in north-west Guatemala. Using digital scanning techniques to enhance the fading paint on the interior walls of a half buried building in Xultan, scientists found it featured a ruler of the city seated on a throne in front of kneeling attendants and scribes. However, behind the seated ruler - who is dressed lavishly in a huge headdress - is another figure, seen poking their head out from behind their lord. The figure of an attendant peeking out from behind the throne of the ruler in this recreation of a 1,250 year old mural discovered in the Mayan city of Xultan could be the earliest example of a photobomb discovered . Researchers at Boston University and Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, who excavated the discovery said it was extremely rare to find figures standing behind a ruler in this way in Mayan art. The person is thought to be a courtly attendant who may actually be helping to dress the ruler. Speaking to Livescience, Dr William Saturno, an archaeologist at Boston University who led the research, said: 'It's like a photobomb. He's almost like - \"do you see me here?\"' A huge Maya dam uncovered by archaeologists is thought to have provided filtered drinking water to the great Mayan city of Tikal. The dam found at the site of Tikal in northern Guatemala, stretched more than 260 feet and stood 33 feet high. It is thought to have held about 20 million gallons of water in a man-made reservoir. The discovery in 2012 shed light on the lifestyles of the ancient Maya water and land-use systems at Tikal, located in northern Guatemala. It shows how the Maya conserved and used their natural resources to support a highly complex society for over 1,500 years despite environmental challenges, including periodic drought. Tikal is thought to have been inhabited by between 60,000 to 80,000 people. Researchers believe that the mural could also be depicting a meeting of a guild or organisation of mastercraftsman or scribes as they take part in a ceremony with their king. Dr Heather Hurst, an archaeological artist at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York and an honorary research associate at the University College London, who reconstructed the paintings, said: 'This is not a formal portrait of the king at all as if it had been he would have been depicted alone. 'This is about courtly life and how it worked.' She said that the peeking figure may even have been put there to add a little humour to the image. 'I wouldn't put it past them at all,' she said. 'However there are similar murals from around the same time that also depict servants helping a prince getting dressed.' The murals were first discovered in 2010 by an undergraduate student called Maxwell Chamberlain while he was inspecting a hole made by looters. He noticed faint traces of paint on an exposed area of interior wall and as the archaeologists examined it they found it was far more extensive. After careful excavation they discovered the painting extended around three walls of the 63 square foot room (5.94 square metres). Dr Hurst said that they believe the room may have been the work space or studio for a group of artists working for the king. They also discovered the skeleton of a man buried beneath the behind the murals - possibly one of the scribes depicted in the 1,250-year-old mural. This photo of the hidden mural above shows one of the seated figures from the west wall on the left and the ruler on his throne on the far right. Between them is a kneeling man who is labelled as a junior obsidian . This map shows where the mural was discovered in a ruined building in the Mayan city of Xultan, Guatamala . Dr Hurst said: 'A lot of effort and passion has been put into the painting. I have illustrated and excavated a lot of artworks but I have never seen such a carefully painted mural. 'The calligraphy alone is stunning.' The mural, which has been painted on the mud-based plaster that covered the walls, shows 11 figures on the west, north and east walls. Sadly any paintings that had been on the south wall had been obliterated by the looters when they broke into the building. Using digital scanning the scientists were able to map the mural and enhance the painting, allowing it to be studied in detail for the first time. The figure poking out from behind the throne being examined by a researcher on the right of the picture above, is not immediately obvious but scientist spotted it with digital scanning techniques to study the mural . Red, orange blue and black pigments used to produce the vibrant mural (shown above) have faded over time . Dr Hurst said the room would have been covered in vibrant red, blue, green and black colours. While some of these pigments were local to the Xultun region, others like the bright blue and green used to paint the ruler were probably imported, said the researchers. She said that the portrait of the ruler may also have been covered with some sort of curtain most of the time. She said: 'We found holes in the wall around that suggests that part of the wall may well have been covered for much of the time. 'This would have put the attention clearly on the scribes. What is interesting is that the doorway that would have been on the south wall was slightly offset to the left. 'This would have framed the whole mural and shows the spotlight was not just on the ruling figure.' According to the researchers, the architecture of the building where the murals were found suggests the focal point of the artwork was the central portion on the north wall, where the figure sitting on a throne is depicted and the scribe is kneeling before him. Three seated figures on the west, thought to be taaj, or obsidians who are members of a ritual order, face north towards the central scene. Similarly the figures on the poorly preserved east wall also appear to be facing towards the scene on the north wall. The building was found during excavations of mounds that cover old residences in the rain forest of Peten . Kneeling in front of the figure on the throne is a figure labelled 'itz'in taaj', which means junior obsidian and is gesturing with his left hand. The seated lord wears a large, blue green feathered headdress and holds a staff in his right hand, etched with wind symbols, and a incense bag in his left. Maya kings were known to often dress up as deities in re-enactments of events from the mythic past. The figure peeking out behind him, labelled as individual eight by the researchers, is thought to be helping hold up the headdress. Writing in the journal Antiquity, Dr Saturno and his colleagues said: 'It is very likely that the Xultun mural is in fact a group portrait made by the scribal-priests themselves. 'The mural establishes a direct relationship between a particular order, or guild, of Xultun artists and scribal-priests and their lord, and it celebrates its members’ achievement in consulting and producing work for their sovereign’s reign. This illustration shows how the mural may have looked inside the building at the time when it was created . The faint outline of figures on the west wall of the building can also be seen in the image above . 'Additional texts accompanying the scene affirm that the portrayed rule is indeed impersonating a wind deity. 'Individual eight leans out from behind the ruler's headdress, perhaps in the process of dressing the seated lord. 'He is labelled as baah tz'am, a title carried by particular courtly attendants. 'It is rare to find the title explicitly paired with an attendant behind a ruler's throne - more commonly these figures remain unnamed in court scenes.' The researchers claim that the mural is particularly valuable as it is one of only two found in the eastern Maya lowlands. Dr Hurst said: 'Murals like this are rare due to the humid climate in the tropics - they just are not preserved that well, especially one of this antiquity. 'It really is an outstanding discovery. But perhaps more exciting is the context - it is in an ordinary residence rather than a temple or court. 'Adjacent to this room there have been living spaces, areas for cooking and pantries found, but it looks like this room had a specific purpose.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Scientists found paint flecks on walls of building smashed open by looters .\nArchaeologists had been excavating the Mayan city of Xultun in Guatemala .\nThey found murals on the north, east and west walls of the buried building .\nThe paintings depict a ritual and meeting of a guild with the Xultun ruler .\nThe ruler is sat on a throne dressed as a wind god and wears a headdress .\nFrom behind the headdress an attendant can be seen peeking his head out ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The new Brains, Parker and Lady Penelope from the upcoming Thunderbirds Are Go! series have been unveiled - but the characters' looks are not quite what was expected. All three have been given a makeover for the modern age - but have ended up looking eerily similar to some famous faces. The revamped Lady Penelope looks dramatically younger than the original version, while her blonde bob haircut has been replaced by a shoulder-length do, more akin to that of Paris Hilton or Taylor Swift. Scroll down for video . The new Lady Penelope (left) and Parker (right) have been unveiled by ITV for the new Thunderbirds Are Go! But the digital makeovers made the characters look more like Paris Hilton (left) and Noel Gallagher (right) Nick Wilson, former Channel 5 director of children's programmes and now a producer and script editor, said the new-look Lady Penelope might 'ruffle a few feathers'. He said: 'There is an increasing tendency today to make girl characters more tomboyish, to put them in dungarees. Broadcasters don't want them to be butch but they don't want them to be too girly. They want stronger role models for girls. 'But Lady Penelope is a pretty strong role model so you can't just go on looks, it's what underneath that counts. Let's see how she turns out three or four episodes in. We have only seen a glimpse.' Brains, who traditionally always donned a bow tie and blue spectacles, has kept the snazzy glasses but now has an open neck shirt, giving him an uncanny resemblance to comedian Alan Carr. Meanwhile, Parker the chauffeur appears to have aged incredibly well and, with his casual jumper and black coat look, has similarities to Noel Gallagher. Earlier this month, ITV caused a stir when it unveiled the new-look Tracy brothers from International Rescue. Meanwhile, the new-look Brains (left) has an uncanny resemblance to funnyman Alan Carr (right) The first look at the CGI enhanced Tracy brothers (left to right - Scott, Virgil, Alan, Gordon and John) didn't go down as well as expected as fans compared them to a boyband . The most noticeable difference with the brothers comes in the form of their new outfits. Ditching their trademark hats, the men now have metro-sexual haircuts with the help of styling wax. Their pilots' suits have also been swapped for lyrca while their sashes have been given a massive gadget upgrade. At the time many fans reacted angrily on social networking site Twitter, with one writing: ‘Thunderbirds are meant to be puppets. Nothing more, nothing less.’ Another joked: ‘Is That 1D Or The Thunderbirds?!’ and another wrote: ‘One Direction a bunch of puppets, well the new Thunderbirds adds evidence to this theory.’ ITV has confirmed Gone Girl star Rosamund Pike will be voicing Lady Penelope, while Fonejacker and Four Lions star Kayvan Novak will provide the voice for Brains. Game of Thrones and Love Actually actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster will voice John Tracy. The characters appear to be much younger than the original counterparts. Pictured: Parker (left) and Brains (right) How they were: The original series was made up of puppets whereas the remake relies heavily on CGI . Actor David Graham, who voiced Gordon Tracy, Brains, Parker and Kyrano in the original Thunderbirds, will return as the voice of Parker. One episode of Thunderbirds are Go is written by David Baddiel and will feature Sylvia Anderson, who voiced Lady Penelope in the original series, . Thunderbirds was turned into a live-action film in 2004, but the Hollywood production was poorly received by fans and critics. ITV have promised that the new show will 'deliver a new level of action-adventure animation whilst also paying tribute to the classic 1960’s phenomenon.' The new series is a co-production between ITV Studios and New Zealand-based Pukeko Pictures in association with the Weta Workshop, the team behind The Lord of the Rings and Avatar." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lady Penelope looks much younger and has a haircut like Paris Hilton .\nBrains has ditched the bow tie and opted for open neck shirt, like Alan Carr .\nParker has aged considerably well and has similarities to Noel Gallagher .\nITV series, being remade for children's television, due to air in the spring ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A high school honor roll student encouraged her friend to kill himself before raising thousands of dollars for suicide prevention, according to authorities. Michelle Carter, 18, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Conrad Roy III, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in his idling truck in Fairhaven, Massachusetts last July. When Roy texted Carter that he wasn't sure he should take his life and had climbed out of the vehicle, she allegedly texted him: 'Get back in.' Carter, who was 17 at the time of Roy's suicide, was indicted on February 5 and arraigned on an involuntary manslaughter charge the next day in New Bedford Juvenile Court. The high school senior was charged as a youthful offender, which means her case is open and she could face punishment as an adult if convicted. She is free on bail and is due back in court in April. Accused: Michelle Conrad, pictured left, allegedly knew that her friend Conrad Roy III, right, was suicidal but rather than seeking help, she encouraged him to take his life in the minutes before he died last July . Police and prosecutors say Carter, of Plainville, texted back-and-forth with Conrad before he took his life in the parking lot of a Fairhaven Kmart on July 13, 2014. Court documents show the two friends exchanged more than 1,000 text messages in the days leading up to his death, the Fairhaven Neighborhood News reported. Before his suicide, Conrad told her he was scared and not ready to leave his family, according to a police report, but 'she continued to encourage him to take his own life', theSun Chronicle reported. 'When he actually started to carry out the act, he got scared again and exited his truck, but instead of telling him to stay out of the truck ... Carter told him to \"get back in\",' the police report said. His body was found in the truck after his parents reported him missing, and police found the text messages after looking through his phone. Gregg Miliote, a spokesperson for Bristol County District Attorney Quinn, said in a statement on Thursday that Carter knew he was having suicidal thoughts. Tribute: In the hours after he was found dead, Carter shared this message to her Twitter page . 'Duplicitous': Three days after she allegedly encouraged him to take his life, she questioned why he had died . Cold: She also shared messages calling for suicide prevention, while paying tribute to her friend . 'Instead of attempting to assist him or notify his family or school officials, Ms. Carter is alleged to have strongly influenced his decision to take his own life, encouraged him to commit suicide and guided him in his engagement of activities which led to his death,' Miliote said. Quinn will not be overseeing the case because he knows the girl's family, he added. After the death, Carter, who attends King Philip Regional High School, started raising money and awareness for suicide prevention and organized a fundraising softball tournament last September. In a description for the event, 'Homers for Conrad', Carter wrote: 'Life can be tough, but helping others makes it easier.' She later wrote on Twitter that the event had raised $2,300. Carter has also repeatedly posted online about how much she misses her friend. 'Such a beautiful soul gone too soon,' she wrote on the day of his death. 'I'll always remember your bright light and smile. You'll forever be in my heart, I love you Conrad.' Most recently, just two days before her arraignment, she shared this image of Conrad, adding: 'Really missing you tonight'. She is free on bail but has been ordered not to touch her social media pages . Victim: Roy, 18, was a boat captain at his father's company and was about to start college when he died . Three days later, she added: 'I will never understand why this had to happen.' '1 month without your goofy humor and genuine love,' she later wrote. 'I miss you every day. I hope you're finally happy up there Co.' On September 10, 2014, she posted: 'National Suicide Awareness day, I wish more people understood. I love you and miss you everyday Conrad. Help others #WeCanEndSuicide.' Her most recent message - written just two days before her indictment - reads: 'Enjoy the parade from up there tomorrow Conrad, I know you would of loved to be there ♥ Really missing you tonight.' As conditions of her bail, she is not allowed to use the internet or social media and cannot text anyone but her parents. She is due back in court for a pretrial hearing on April 17. According to The Plainville Times, the teenager was also a founding member of 'Connect-To-Cure', a fundraiser selling $10 bracelets to raise funds for cancer patients at Boston Children's Hospital. Three weeks after she was arraigned, she went to the hospital to take part in a charity event. Her lawyer told The Standard Times that Carter did not commit a crime and expects the charge to be dismissed. Free: Carter, a high school senior who's on the honor role, has been charged as a youthful offender, which means her case is open and she could face punishment as an adult if convicted . 'I can't understand why they brought the charge,' Joseph P. Cataldo said. 'They're trying to claim there is manslaughter, when they freely admit the boy took his own life. You can't have it both ways.' King Philip Regional School District declined to comment on the case. 'The circumstances surrounding this tragic loss are under investigation,' Superintendent Elizabeth Zielinski told CBS Boston. 'Our deepest sympathy is extended to the family and school community of Conrad Roy.' Conrad Roy had graduated from Old Rochester Regional High School, where he was an all-around athlete who played baseball, rowed crew and ran track, according to an obituary. He had earned his captain's license from Northeast Maritime Institute and worked for his family's marine salvage business. He was planning to attend Fitchburg State University. His father, Conrad Roy Jr., was on a tug boat that came to the rescue of victims of US Airways Flight 1549 that crashed in the Hudson River in 2009, the Sun Chronicle reported." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Michelle Carter 'sent Conrad Roy III, 18, a series of texts encouraging to take his life in a parking lot in Fairhaven, Massachusetts last July'\nHe was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his idling truck .\nThe night of his death, she wrote on Twitter: 'I will never understand why this had to happen'\nShe raised $2,300 for suicide prevention through a softball event and often shared messages online about how much she missed her friend .\nCarter, who was 17 at the time, was arraigned this month as a youthful offender, which means she could face punishment as an adult if convicted .\nShe is free on bail and continues to study and take part in volunteer work ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Prince Harry is planning to leave the armed forces this year and devote his time to more charity work, pictured at Camp Bastion . Prince Harry will spend several weeks based in Australia in the next few months before attending the centenary Anzac dawn service in Gallipoli with his father Prince Charles. Harry will be seconded to work with the Australian defence forces during his time in Australia before quitting the British military altogether later this year, London's Evening Standard reported on Friday. It's suggested he'll also travel to New Zealand but not work with any units there. 'Officials are still working on the precise timings but he will leave the (UK) military this year after serving Down Under,' a senior source told the newspaper. 'Before that he will travel to both countries and be based there and is very much looking forward to that. 'The exact timings have not been finalised yet but are expected to be announced officially very soon.' The governor-generals' offices in both Australia and New Zealand are reportedly still working on Harry's program. The prince, who is the fourth in line to the British throne, has served two tours of duty in Afghanistan. The Evening Standard reports that after the 30-year-old quits the military he'll focus on charity work, spending a significant period abroad on field projects in Africa. The young royal, 30, served two tours of duty on the front line in Afghanistan, pictured making pre-flight checks on an Apache helicopter in Camp Bastion . Prince Harry is keen to pursue his interests in 'conservation and wildlife' and hopes to spend a 'significant period abroad' on field projects in Africa. The Prince, known as Captain Harry Wales in the military, will also focus on programmes to aid the rehabilitation of injured service personnel, the Evening Standard reported. This will follow on from his work in the wake of the Invictus Games, ensuring wounded, injured or sick serviceman have appropriate individual recovery plans. Harry is expected to join his father Prince Charles at the 100th anniversary Anzac Day dawn service at Gallipoli in April. Australian sources say the Prince is expected to fulfill several other non-military public duties Down Under. A spokesman for Kensington Palace said: 'Prince Harry is currently focused on his work supporting the Ministry of Defence's recovery capability programme to ensure those who are wounded, injured or sick have appropriate recovery plans and the necessary support they require. 'It's a natural progression from the work he did organising the Invictus Games. This involves working alongside case officers in London District's personal recovery unit and visiting various recovery centres and partner agencies (such as forces charities and the NHS) around the country.' A senior source told the Standard: 'The Prince thought long and hard about his decision to leave active military service but, having served his country on two tours of duty, he felt the time was right to leave. He has loved his time serving. He is keen to pursue his interests in 'conservation and wildlife' and hopes to spend a time on field projects in Africa, pictured playing with children during a visit to Phelisanong Children's Home in Lesotho . 'Officials are still working on the precise timings but he will leave the military this year after serving Down Under. Before that he will travel to both countries and be based there and is very much looking forward to that. 'The exact timings have not been finalised yet, but are expected to be announced officially very soon.' Prince Harry spent three-and-a-half years in training and serving with the Apache Force during his time with the Army Air Corps. He served as a Forward Air Controller in 2007 to 2008 and as an Apache Pilot between September 2012 and January 2013 during his tours of Afghanistan. During his time in the Army Air Corps he was assigned to 662 Squadron, 3 Regiment within 16 Air Assault Brigade and in July 2013, Prince Harry qualified as an Apache Aircraft Commander. He was promoted to the rank of Captain in April 2011 and was awarded his Apache Badge from the Officer in Command of his Squadron at the same time. Prince Harry passed the qualification necessary to train at Sandhurst, in September 2004. He entered The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2005 and Clarence House announced that he was to join the Blues and Royals the following year as an officer cadet. It was announced that had been serving with the British Army in Helmand, Afghanistan for more than two months in 2008. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant with The Household Cavalry (Blues and Royals) and then begin training to become and Army Air Corps Pilot in January 2009. Prince Harry spent three and a half years in training and operational service with the Apache Force during his attachment to the Army Air Corps. The royal has undertaken two operational tours of Afghanistan, as a Forward Air Controller in 2007 to 2008 and as an Apache Pilot between September 2012 and January 2013. During his time in the Army Air Corps he was assigned to 662 Squadron, 3 Regiment within 16 Air Assault Brigade and in July 2013, Prince Harry qualified as an Apache Aircraft Commander. He was promoted to the rank of Captain in April 2011 and was also awarded his Apache Badge from the Officer in Command of his Squadron at the same time. The Prince, who currently has the rank of Captain, took up a Staff Officer role in London in 2014." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Prince Harry will travel to Australia to work with local defence force .\nThe young royal, 30, will then head to Gallipoli with Prince Charles .\nPrince Harry is planning to leave the armed forces later this year .\nHe's served two tours of duty on the front line in Afghanistan .\nHe is keen to pursue his interests in 'conservation and wildlife'\nThe Prince is also planning to spend 'significant period' in Africa ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Boris Johnson today lashed out at Home Secretary Theresa May for watering down strict anti-terror powers which may have helped ISIS executioner Mohammed Emwazi escape the net and travel to Syria. The London Mayor accused his Tory leadership rival of giving the 'benefit of the doubt' to terror suspects like Emzawi – identified yesterday as the London-raised ISIS executioner known until now as 'Jihadi John'. Mr Johnson's astonishing attack comes amid growing controversy over who is to blame for MI5's failure to stop 'known wolf' Emwazi leaving Britain for the front line in Syria in 2013. Scroll down for video . Boris Johnson today lashed out at the Home Secretary Theresa May for making it easier for terrorists like Mohammed Emwazi to escape justice . The extremist, who was brought up in west London, was subject to a no fly order and was on a terror watch list but still managed to leave without detection. He was a 'person of interest' to MI5 as a member of a cell known as The London Boys, which was set up in 2007 to recruit and raise funds for Somalia-based terror group al Shabab. The Government's independent reviewer of terror legislation David Anderson today admitted MI5 may have 'slipped up'. But he said: 'One won't know until there's been an inquiry or a report of some kind.' London's police chief this afternoon defended MI5, adding: 'You can't plea bargain with evil.' But experts believe Emwazi was helped to escape Britain by his terror associates who had been allowed back to London by the Government in 2011. Mohammed Emwazi, who was brought up in west London, was subject to a no fly order and was on a terror watch list but still managed to leave without detection . Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, pictured in an ISIS video from September 14, 2014 (left) and at St Mary's Church of England primary school in London as a child . Experts say he is likely to have been aided with money, a false identity and bogus travel documents by a London jihadi cell which he had belonged to since 2009. Three members of the cell had been kicked out of London under Labour's control order regime, but were allowed to return in 2011 when Mrs May scrapped them. The power to relocate terror suspects was finally reintroduced a fortnight ago, under growing pressure from the security services. Speaking this afternoon, Mr Johnson slammed the 2011 'mistake' to scrap the 'internal exile' powers contained in Labour's control order regime. The Mayor of London said: 'We need to keep a very, very close eye on these people. 'The decision to modify the control orders, to water them down I think in retrospect looks as though it was a mistake because it is vital to be able, when you are controlling these people to be able to relocate them, to take them away from their support networks and look after them, to monitor them properly. The family home of Mohammed Emwazi, in Lancefield Street, West London . 'We are now back on the right track and it just confirms to me the vital importance of us being able to monitor these people, to keep tabs on them, to look at what they are saying to each other in their email, their electronic contact.' Mr Johnson added: 'The politicians who made that mistake need to think very carefully about why they did it and I think that the balance, the benefit of the doubt was, I am afraid, given too much to those who wish us serious harm. 'This whole thing needs to be tackled very, very robustly. 'We need to have a very strong security response that gives our people, gives our security services and the police the surveillance powers that they need.' The former head of Britain's terror powers watchdog David Anderson admitted Emwazi had 'a couple of associates… who were under control orders' before Mrs May scrapped them. He said he was not surprised that MI5 was aware of Emwazi but had failed to stop him from travelling overseas. 'I'm afraid it's not surprising to me at all. I do spend time with the intelligence agencies and with the police. They are very busy at the moment and they were very busy then. There are a lot of people that they're a bit suspicious of - there are hundreds, probably thousands.' He added: 'You can't round all those people up without a trial and declare that they're subject to some form of house arrest. You need at the very least to be sure that they have participated in terrorism before you start taking measures like that. Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette cooper shadow today backed the London Mayor's attack on Mrs May. She said: 'We warned the Government from the start not to abolish control orders. I said in Parliament many times that those relocation powers were immensely important and that removing them would make it easier for terror suspects to organise.' The Labour shadow minister added: 'At the very least, the Prime Minister should ask the Intelligence and Security Committee to examine the period following the scrapping of relocation. 'Parliament needs to know whether the legislation to alter counter terror powers affected the UK's ability to prevent people travelling to Syria. 'The Home Secretary has a duty to protect national security, so if the decisions she made on legislation against expert advice have weakened national security instead, the public and Parliament have a right to know.' Jihadi John was named in High Court as key player in UK terror funding network TWO YEARS before he vanished . Jihadi John was named in the High Court by the Home Secretary as being part of a terror funding network two years before he vanished from Britain despite being on a MI5 watchlist, it was revealed today. Court papers name Mohammed Emwazi as part of a notorious gang of Islamists called the London Boys 'provision of funds and equipment to Somalia to undertake terrorism-related activity'. This included allegedly raising cash to send people to terror training camos in Somalia. Emwazi was known to be trying to get to Somalia in 2009 and MI5 accused him of trying to join Al Shabaab. The London Boys were being monitored by the security services from as early as 2007, and Emwazi was himself interrogated by MI5 in 2009, but was still able to flee to Syria in 2012. Revealed: This court document from 2011 reveals that two years before he fled for Syria Mohammed Emwazi - Jihadi John - was known by the Government and believed to be part of a terror gang called the London Boys . Emwazi's name is on paperwork relating to a control order for a terror suspect known as CE, among at least 13 others linked to Somalia and Al Shabaab including some of the world's most notorious terrorists. CE attended an Al Qaeda training camp led by Harun Fazul and Saleh Nabhan, a leading Al Qaeda figure suspected of involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings in east Africa. Files leaked by WikiLeaks showed how Bin Laden sent messages to these men from his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, to other Al-Qaeda members in Somaliaand told them to carry out more attacks on the West. Fazul was named by Guantanamo Bay detainees as leader of Al Qaeda's African unit and trained number of Britons at a terror factory in Mogadishu. Saleh Nabhan was the mastermind behind two of East Africa's worst terror atrocities: the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 250, and the 2002 attempt to bring down an Israeli airline with Stinger missiles. He was known to be close to the White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite, who was the wife of 7/7 London terrorist bomber Germaine Lindsay. Notorious: Saleh Nabhan, left, and Harun Fazul, right, were also named in the document, and were part of Al Qaeda's leadership in Africa and received orders directly from Osama Bin Laden . The government stripped both Fazul and Nabhan of their British passports and they were killed in separate drone attacks in 2012. Also on the list was an extremist who can be identified only as J1 – an Ethiopian accused of being a member of Al Shabaab and a close associate of one of four bombers who attempted to cause mass casualties on the London Underground on July 21, 2005. On his return to Britain, Emwazi's comrade CE was tasked with recruiting others to join Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab. The group also included Hamza Chentouf and Mohammed Ezzouek, who along with CE were interrogated by British intelligence officers in Kenya. Ezzouek and Chentouf were rescued from Somalia . in 2007 after they were imprisoned while trying to flee after the US . ordered air strikes on Islamists who took over Mogadishu. The . Foreign Office spent tens of thousands of pounds on a jet to bring them . home. They denied accusations of being involved in the London Boys gang." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "'Jihadi John' Mohammed Emwazi was helped to escape by known fanatics .\nHe was a 'person of interest' to MI5 and a member of 'The London Boys'\nThree of the terror cell's members had been kicked out of London .\nBut they were allowed to return to the capital by the Government in 2011 .\nCame after Mrs May scrapped the draconian 'control order' regime in 2011 .\nMr Johnson today accused her of giving terrorists the 'benefit of the doubt'\nEmwazi named in High Court as terror helper two years before he vanished ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The melting Arctic sea ice could open up new areas for fishing that run the danger of being completely unregulated, experts have warned. Yesterday it was revealed how in just 40 years the Arctic could be 'ice-free' as temperatures in polar regions rise faster than predicted. And this could open up the previously inaccessible offshore Arctic coast, giving fisherman access to whole new ecosystems - without any constraints in place. As Arctic sea ice melts, new regions will open up to fisherman (stock image shown). The House of Lords Arctic Committee said the UK must get involved. Within these regions, the populations of fish are unknown. This could lead to over-fishing if the practice goes unregulated . The latest warning came from the House of Lords Arctic Committee. They said that potentially uncontrolled fishing in the Arctic's international waters raised serious concerns about fish stocks in the region. They called for fishing in the central Arctic Ocean to be banned, until a recognised management regime could be agreed. The Arctic could be completely free of ice in just 40 years as a result of global warming, one of the world's leading climate change experts has warned. This would cause sea levels to rise to nearly unmanageable levels. Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Oleg Anisimov, from the State Hydrological Institute in St Petersburg, said there is evidence that temperatures are rising four times faster in the frozen region than the rest of the planet. It should be noted that 'ice-free' does not mean it will be devoid of ice. Rather, an area (or grid) is said to be ice-free when it has lower than a 15 per cent ice concentration, enough for a ship to pass through. But the change would still be dramatic. He forecasts that the region will see temperature rises of up to 7°C within a century. 'For several reasons, the Arctic climate change is more intense and faster than in other regions. There is a reduction in snow and ice cover, which has a protective function,' he said. Predictions suggest that the Arctic will be soon be ice-free, although it should be noted this does not mean it will be devoid of ice. Rather, an area (or grid) is said to be ice-free when it has lower than a 15 per cent ice concentration, enough for a ship to pass through. The committee urged the UK to appoint an Ambassador for the Arctic - as France, Singapore and Japan have done - to ensure its influence there. Considering that much of the Arctic Ocean is inaccessible, the population of various species of fish in the region is unknown. As summer ice continues to fall, opening up the region, this raises the prospect of over-fishing becoming a problem, as if commercial fishing is allowed, the effect it is having will not be clear. 'The Arctic is changing in front of our eyes. That change is momentous and unprecedented,' said the committee's chairman, Lord Teverson. 'It will bring both difficulties and opportunities and it is vital that the UK takes this challenge seriously and is able to respond to it - indeed, is positioned as the premier partner for Arctic states and other interests in Arctic co-operation as that change happens. 'We also have serious concerns about the potential opening up of fishing in the central Arctic Ocean caused by a reduction in sea ice. 'We are calling for a ban on fishing there at least until more research is undertaken and we have a better understanding of the eco-systems that will be affected. 'We need to get a proper management regime in place for the central Arctic Ocean now, before the area is opened to the risk of over-fishing.' Yeseterday it was reported that the Arctic could be completely free of ice in just 40 years as a result of global warming, according to one of the world's leading climate change experts, Professor Oleg Anisimov. This map shows rates of erosion on the Arctic coast, with the fastest rates marked in red . The extent of Arctic sea ice has rapidly declined in the last few decades, as shown in this graph from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). This means more and more regions are likely to open up to ships as the Arctic becomes ice-free - running the risk of over-fishing . The UK has a long history of successfully engaging with the Arctic, as its 'closest neighbour', but the Government's approach is too hesitant and cautious in the face of other countries being assertive about their interests, a report by the committee said. And the peers warned that with Russia's foreign policy becoming increasingly hard to predict, efforts should be made to insulate the Arctic from other geopolitical tensions because of a 'global interest in protecting this unusually vulnerable environment'. The UK, the most northern country below the Arctic circle, should play an active role in managing fishing opportunities which are likely to open in previously inaccessible areas as sea ice retreats and fish stocks move north. Potentially uncontrolled fishing in the Arctic's international waters raises serious concerns about fish stocks in the region, the Lords warned, and called for a moratorium on fishing in the central Arctic Ocean until a recognised management regime could be agreed. Meanwhile, the recent fall in world energy prices may limit exploitation of the potentially vast oil and gas supplies in the Arctic in the short to medium term, offering a 'window of opportunity' to examine if extraction can be done safely and responsibly and under agreed international standards. The committee also concluded it was a matter of 'when', not 'if', the Arctic would be free of sea ice in summer. Warming in the Arctic raised the prospect of additional climate change caused by the release of methane gas from the seabed and melting permafrost, as well as other impacts such as altering the jet stream and bringing more extreme weather to the UK. The Lords called for increased funding for British Arctic science, and an examination of potential methane releases as part of a dedicated Arctic research programme." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As Arctic sea ice melts, new regions will open up to fisherman .\nThe House of Lords Arctic Committee said the UK must get involved .\nWithin these regions, the populations of fish are unknown .\nThis could lead to over-fishing if the practice goes unregulated .\nThe committee says all fishing in the Arctic Ocean should be banned until proper rules and regulations can be put in place .\nComes after warning that the Arctic could be 'ice-free' in 40 years ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A father who murdered his five kids before driving their bodies around for nine days and dumping them in a field had strangled four of the children and beat one to death, it has emerged. Timothy Ray Jones Jr., 33, was arrested in Mississippi on September 6 after a deputy said he smelled the stench of death in Jones' SUV at a traffic checkpoint. The father, from Red Bank, South Carolina, then led deputies to the bodies in rural Alabama. It emerged in grand jury indictments on Thursday that four of the children - Merah, eight, Elias, seven, Gabriel, two, and one-year-old Elaine - died 'by means of strangulation'. 'Killer': Timothy Ray Jones Jr., pictured being escorted from Smith County Jail in Mississippi last September, strangled four of his children and beat another one to death, according to newly-released indictments . Another of his children, six-year-old Nahtahn, was beaten to death, according to the indictments, which have been shared by The State for the first time. It is not clear what he used to murder the children, but five belts were found in the home, the newspaper noted. After the killings, he put their bodies in separate plastic bags and into his black 2006 Cadillac Escalade SUV before driving around for more than a week and dumping them. On September 6, he was stopped at a DUI checkpoint in Mississippi and officers noted that he was intoxicated and agitated. They found maggots, blood and children's clothes in his SUV, as well as handwritten notes about mutilating bodies, and the stench of bleach and death in the air, according to police reports. Murdered: One-year-old Elaine, left, and two-year-old Gabriel, right, were strangled to death last August . Loss: Seven-year-old Elias, left, and eight-year-old Merah, right, were also strangled before their bodies were put into bags in their father's SUV and driven for hundreds of miles before he dumped them in Alabama . Killed: Nahtahn, six, was allegedly beaten to death by his father, who feared the children would kill him, chop up his body and then feed it to dogs. Social workers said he was overwhelmed looking after the children . A check of Jones' license plate showed his ex-wife had reported him and the children missing three days earlier when he failed to bring them over for visitation. He led authorities to the five bodies on an Alabama hilltop near Pine Apple, 20 miles off Interstate 65 and about 65 miles south of Montgomery. Arrest: Timothy Jones, 33, could face the death penalty for allegedly murdering his five children . Jones told authorities that he murdered the children because he believed they 'were going to kill him, chop him up and feed him to the dogs', according to an arrest warrant. Last year, Jones' attorney said he had been treated for mental illness in the past and called for a mental evaluation to be performed on him as soon as possible. It emerged that he had earned a computer engineering degree and worked at a $71,000-a-year job. But nearly two years ago, he discovered his wife Amber was putting their children to bed then going to the neighbor's house and sleeping with their 19-year-old son, according to divorce papers. A therapist who saw Jones during their divorce described him as 'highly intelligent' and responsible, yet emotionally devastated and angry over his wife's actions. They divorced in October 2013 and Jones moved out with the children, but began to withdraw to the point where the woman who lived next door thought he and his family had moved away. Social services had visited the family three times to investigate conditions in the three years before the murders, and a recent report said Jones seemed 'overwhelmed' caring for the children. Scene: The father and his five children vanished from his Red Bank, South Carolina home last August . Found: After being stopped at a traffic checkpoint in Mississippi last September, officers noticed blood in his vehicle and the smell of bleach, and he led them to the bodies of his five children on this Alabama hilltop . He was reported missing with the children on September 3. Authorities said they believed the children had been killed shortly after they were last seen at school on August 28. Jones has been charged with five counts of murder and remains in jail. Prosecutors have not said if they will seek the death penalty, but Jones' attorneys have said it is likely, The State reported. In his teenage years, Jones went on a crime spree in Illinois. He was arrested on a cocaine possession charge March 30, 2001, in Carpentersville, Illinois. Six months later, when he was 19, he was arrested for stealing a car, burglary and passing forged checks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Timothy Ray Jones Jr. was arrested last September after Mississippi deputies smelled death in his SUV during a DUI traffic stop .\nThey found blood, maggots and handwritten notes about mutilating bodies in his truck and he then led them to the bodies in rural Alabama .\nIt has now emerged in grand jury indictments that he strangled four of the children: Merah, eight, Elias, seven, Gabriel, two, and Elaine, one .\nHe also beat one of the children, six-year-old Nahtahn, to death .\nJones said he feared they would chop him up and feed him to dogs; social workers noted how the father was 'overwhelmed' looking after the kids ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A northern Californian couple is praying for the safety of their family who are believed to have been captured by Islamic State militants in northern Syria. Sharlet David and her husband, Romel, of Modesto, California, fear that as many as 12 family members were taken from their homes on Monday morning. 'They came at four in the morning. They attacked them and they took them away. They were asleep,' said Sharlet. Scroll down for video . Sharlet (left) and Romel David (right) at home in Modesto, California. The couple fear that Sharlet's brother and his son's family have been kidnapped by ISIS militants in northern Syria . Over 100 Assyrian Christian civilians were rounded up by ISIS as its fighters battled Kurdish and Christian militia for control of villages in the northern province of Hassakeh. Sharlet fears that her brother, his son, his son's wife, and their two small children were among those ripped from their beds that morning. 'What we heard is that it was a sea of black uniforms marching through all the villages, burning down the churches, desecrating the crosses and wreaking havoc,' Romel told KCRA. Sharlet's 59-year-old brother had been a car salesman in Modesto, but had returned to war-torn Syria two years ago in the hopes of returning to America with his son and his family. They fear that those kidnapped by ISIS might suffer the same fate as the 21 Egyptian Christians beheaded on a beach in Libya earlier this month. The family identify as Assyrian Christians and fear the worst for their family members after the recent deaths of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya . It is also possible that they could be used in a prisoner swap for captured ISIS militants. Some villagers were able to escape and one small group managed to contact a relative of Sharlet's, also in Modesto, and told her about the raid. They said that her brother and his son were taken into the mountains, while his daughter-in-law and grandchildren remained in the village under armed guard. The Davids did not want family members to be identified directly for fear of retribution. 'We pray,' Romel said. 'We pray all the time.' The Assyrian village of Abu Tina, recently captured by ISIS. Fears have mounted for dozens of Christians abducted from villages near the town of Tal Tamr in northern Syria . Civilians have fled Tal Tamr as a Kurdish offensive against ISIS managed to cut one of the group's supply lines from Iraq . The number of Assyrian Christians abducted by the Islamic State in Syria has risen to 220 - far more than was previously feared, according to activists. Militants are said to have rounded up more hostages from a chain of villages along the strategic Khabur River in the past three days. After the first abductions on Monday, it was reported that 150 Assyrian Christians were seized after ISIS took control of two communities from Kurdish forces. Now the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that ISIS had picked up dozens more hostages from 11 communities near the town of Tal Tamr." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sharlet and Romel David of Modesto, California, fear for 12 family members kidnapped by ISIS in northern Syria .\nThe early morning raid in the province of Hasakeh saw approximately 100 Assyrian Christians rounded up .\nSharlet's brother, also from Modesto, his son, daughter-in-law and young grandchildren are thought to be among those taken .\nA group of villagers that managed to escape contacted Sharlet's family in Modesto with news of the raid .\nThey reported that the men were taken to the mountains while the women and children remained under armed guard in the village .\nThe number of Christians captured by ISIS has grown as fighting continues around the strategic Khabur River ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "More than 20 heavily-armed officers will escort the handcuffed Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan on to the military plane that takes them to their execution. Indonesian authorities put on a show of force in Bali on Friday, demonstrating how the Australian drug smugglers will be taken from Kerobokan jail to the penal island Nusakambangan. It has also emerged the Bali Nine pair could be making the move to 'Death Island' on Sunday with confirmation from authorities that arrangements for their transfer has now been finalised, the Daily Telegraph reports. Police mobile brigade (Brimob) commander Rudy Harianto, who invited the media to a simulation of their transfer from jail to the airport in armoured vehicles, told The Sydney Morning Herald they 'are ready at any given time' and is confident that prisoners 'will not be able to escape'. More than 20 heavily-armed officers will escort the handcuffed Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan on to the military plane that takes them to their execution . Indonesian special police hold a drill ahead of a planned transfer of Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan from Kerobokan Prison to Nusakambangan Prison . Indonesian authorities put on a show of force in Bali on Friday, demonstrating how the Australian drug smugglers will be taken from Kerobokan jail to the penal island Nusakambangan . Bali Nine's Myuran Sukumaran (left) and Andrew Chan (right) who have been sentenced to death . In the exercise, 22 heavily-armed officers clad in balaclavas took the prisoners, played by two police, on and off a military plane, represented by a bus. 'We're ready, any time. We're ready to move for security duty,' the commander said. He further told The Sydney Morning Herald: 'We've anticipated everything. They will not be able to escape.' 'We've been training since the end of January and we will continue training.' A Brimob water cannon is on stand-by and the military has Sukhoi jets available to escort the plane in flight. At Nusakambangan, a navy presence has been building around the island for the past week, with Indonesia's military commander Moeldoko saying they had to be ready for anything. The Bali Nine pair remain in Kerobokan jail awaiting the warden's signal that it's time to go to Nusakambangan after the move was postponed last week because the island was not ready. However Bali's chief prosecutor Momock Bambang Samiarso told the Daily Telegraph on Friday that Chan and Sukumaran will not be moved to the penal island Nusakambangan on Saturday but Sunday remains a possibility. In the exercise, 22 heavily-armed officers clad in balaclavas took the prisoners, played by two police, on and off a military plane, represented by a bus . 'We're ready, any time. We're ready to move for security duty,' the police commander said . Two armed vehicles of the Indonesian special police take part in a drill on Friday . A Brimob water cannon is on stand-by and the military has Sukhoi jets available to escort the plane in flight . Authorities plan to hold the Australians and eight others in Besi prison before they meet their end in front of a firing squad . Central Java Provincial Law and Human Rights Office head Mirza Zulkarnaen says new isolation cells are now ready, although other arrangements are not complete. Authorities plan to hold the Australians and eight others in Besi prison before they meet their end in front of a firing squad. Attorney-General HM Prasetyo has not named all 10 prisoners to face the firing squad, but 10 drug offenders are on death row, with the confirmation that another Nigerian man, Okwudili Oyatanze, has been denied presidential clemency. Chintu Sukumaran (right) and Brintha Sukumaran (left), brother and sister of Australian death row prisoner Myuran Sukumaran, arrive to visit him at Kerobokan prison in Denpasar on Friday . Michael Chan (C), brother of Australian death row prisoner Andrew Chan, leaves Kerobokan Prison . According to media reports, he and three others were caught smuggling heroin into Jakarta in 2001. * Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso (Philippines) * Serge Areski Atlaoui (France) * Martin Anderson alias Belo (Ghana) * Raheem Agbaje Salami (Nigeria) * Rodrigo Gularte (Brazil) * Myuran Sukumaran (Australia) * Andrew Chan (Australia) * Zainal Abidin (Indonesia) * Silvester Obikwe (Nigeria) * Okwudili Oyatanze (Nigeria) President Joko Widodo wants to deny all death row drug offenders clemency, believing it's a good shock tactic in the war against narcotics. Prime Minister Tony Abbott spoke to Mr Joko by phone on Wednesday night regarding the condemned Australians, and described the conversation as positive. Mr Joko has also spoken with leaders of France, Brazil and the Netherlands about their citizens facing the death penalty, but has maintained his country has a sovereign right to carry out its laws. Jakarta responded hotly last week when Mr Abbott brought up the $1 billion donation Australia made following the 2004 tsunami. Lawyers for Chan and Sukumaran have urged Indonesia to look at their clients' cases without the distractions of arguments about sovereignty. They plan a legal appeal and argue it would be unjust to execute them in the meantime. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Police demonstrated how Bali Nine duo will be transferred to 'Death Island'\n22 heavily-armed officers will escort the handcuffed drug smugglers .\nThey will get a military plane that takes them to location of their execution .\nAndrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are waiting for transfer from Bali .\nThe move was postponed last week because the island was not ready .\nAuthorities say arrangements are finalised ahead of possible Sunday move ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A young seasonal ski worker was found dead today after being sucked into a snow clearing machine in the Pyrenees. The horrific discovery was made in the early morning in the French resort of Les Angles, which is currently packed with holidaymakers. Local mayor Michel Poudade said there was 'complete bafflement' as to what happened. 'The driver of the machine is in a terrible state, he is not coping well at all,' Mr Poudade added. The horrific accident happened in the early morning in the French resort of Les Angles (pictured), which is currently packed with holidaymakers . There was speculation that the woman, who was in her early 20s, may have been lying dead in the snow following an unrelated accident, or simply walked out of the driver's range of vision. A fleet of snow-clearing vehicles had been sent out to clear the roads of the ski resort in the early hours following heavy dumps. Nobody noticed the woman's body being sucked into the machine. The driver only made the macabre discovery when his plough's engine started to play up. He immediately called emergency services, but paramedics who arrived on the scene confirmed the woman was dead. The woman's identity or nationality has not been revealed, with local police saying 'everything is being done to contact her next of kin'. The seasonal ski worker, in her 20s, died after being sucked into a snow clearing machine in the Pyrenees (file picture) Heavy vehicles including snow clearing and snow making machines are common in modern ski resorts, but they can often cause extreme danger. In December, an inquest heard how a British university graduate died in the Austrian Alps when he crashed into a snow machine. Aleksander Owens-Thurston, 23, of Surrey, was killed in February 2014, just weeks after FI motor racing champion Michael Schumacher was placed into a medically-induced coma following a similar accident. Recording a verdict of accidental death, West Somerset Coroner Michael Rose urged further safety precautions. He said: 'This is a tragic matter. These snow making machines are increasingly used, and I suspect this year more than ever, as resorts try and have a full season and cannot afford to lose customers if there is not adequate amounts of snow. 'One finds snow making machines at many modern resorts across Europe. It seems to me that the marking of this snow making machine was probably inadequate. 'Witnesses referred to other resorts where they have bright, luminous tape and certainly a warning.I also note that the pedestal and the machine itself were padded but not the boom.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The accident happened in the popular French ski resort of Les Angles .\nDriver made the grim discovery when plough's engine started playing up .\nWomen was in her early 20s and believed to have been seasonal ski worker .\nSnow clearing machine had been sent out overnight after a heavy downfall ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A Saudi man prosecutors portrayed as one of al-Qaeda's early leaders and Osama bin Laden's aide was convicted Thursday of conspiracy in the deadly 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa that killed a total of 224 people, including a dozen Americans. Khaled Al-Fawwaz, 52, stood expressionless, pursing his lips briefly, as the anonymous jury in Manhattan federal court delivered its verdict after more than two days of deliberating. He could face life in prison, though his lawyers said he planned to appeal. Prosecutors said al-Fawwaz, a native of Saudi Arabia, was a close confidant of bin Laden's and made sure the terror mastermind's death threats against Americans were heard and noticed worldwide in 1998. Guilty: FILE - Khaled Al-Fawwaz, 52, pictured in this January 20, 2015, file courtroom sketch, was convicted Thursday of conspiracy in the deadly bombings of two US embassies in Africa . Mastermind: Prosecutors said al-Fawwaz (left) was a close confidant of Osama bin Laden (right) and one of the early leaders of al-Qaeda back when the terrorist group was still in its infancy . 'From his onetime place at the top of al-Qaeda's membership list, Fawwaz now joins the long membership list of convicted, jailed terrorists,' US Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. With al-Fawwaz's conviction, 10 defendants tied to the embassy bombings have been convicted or pleaded guilty, Bharara said. Al-Fawwaz' lawyers said he was a peaceful dissident who had no part in al-Qaeda's violent plans. They saw the case as skewed by the passage of time and the drumbeat of news and fear about terrorism since the September 11 attacks. 'Trying a pre-9/11 terror case in a post-9/11 world, blocks from the World Trade Center, ensured that Mr. al-Fawwaz could never receive a truly fair trial,' defense lawyer Bobbi Sternheim said after the verdict. As one of bin Laden's 'original and most trusted lieutenants,' al-Fawwaz led an al-Qaeda Afghanistan training camp in the early 1990s, participated in a terrorist cell in Kenya and set up a media information office in London where he became bin Laden's link to Western journalists, Bharara said. Al-Fawwaz disseminated bin Laden's 1998 order to followers to kill Americans, a directive that was followed by the August 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, Bharara said. The attacks killed 224 people, including a dozen Americans. A bomb set off at the US embassy in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, killed 10 people and injured 72 others on August 7, 1998. This image shows then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright touring the blast site . Devastation: This August 1998 file picture shows Kenyan residents looking at the US embassy days after the bomb blast that killed 213 people . Al-Fawwaz disseminated bin Laden's 1998 order to followers to kill Americans, which prosecutors said led to the twin attacks in Africa . 'Murderous words lead to murderous action,' Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Lewin told jurors during the trial. An al-Qaeda roster of original members lists bin Laden first and al-Fawwaz ninth, and 18 copies of bin Laden's 1996 declaration of war — signed by bin Laden — were found in al-Fawwaz's London apartment, prosecutors said. The roster was found in an al-Qaeda leader's home after 9/11, the government said. Defense lawyers said al-Fawwaz sought only peaceful reform in his homeland. While he associated with bin Laden and some other al-Qaeda members early on, al-Fawwaz was dismayed by bin Laden's shift toward violence and wasn't aware of any plots for bloodshed, Sternheim said. 'We emphatically dispute that Khaled al-Fawwaz joined any violent conspiracy' against American citizens or property, she said. The month-long trial unfolded in a heavily fortified courthouse where federal guards stood outside with machine guns and spectators had to pass through a special metal detector outside the courtroom. Jurors got a picture of al-Qaeda in its infancy, when its members numbered in the hundreds and it plotted terrorist attacks that eventually drew the attention of criminal investigators a world away. Al-Fawwaz (second left) was arrested in London in 1998 and extradited from Great Britain to face trial in the US for the bombings in 2012 . Witnesses included an American former al-Qaeda member who said bin Laden asked him in 1995 to kill Egypt's president by ramming the president's plane with bin Laden's in midair. The New York Police Department's counterterrorism and intelligence chief, John Miller, testified about meeting al-Fawwaz in London in 1998, when Miller was a TV news correspondent. Al-Fawwaz did not testify. Arrested in London in 1998, he was extradited from Great Britain to face trial in the US for the bombings in 2012. Al-Fawwaz had been scheduled to stand trial with a co-defendant, Abu Anas al-Libi, but he died last month after a long illness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Khaled Al-Fawwaz, 52, could face life in prison in connection to the bombings that killed a dozen Americans in 1998 .\nAl-Fawwaz led al-Qaeda Afghanistan training camp in early 1990s, participated in terror cell in Kenya and set up media office in London .\nTen defendants, including al-Fawwaz, have been convicted or pleaded guilty in connection to the bombings .\nDefense painted the 52-year-old Saudi as a peaceful dissident who had no part in al-Qaeda's violent plans ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The 5:2 diet claims to not only help people lose weight, but also guard against diseases including cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's. Created by scientist Michael Mosley, it involves women reducing their calorie intake to 500 for two days a week, and men to 600 calories. The rest of the time, they can eat normally. Now a new study argues that the health benefits of 5:2 also exist when someone sticks to a 'feast and famine' diet, eating far more than they would one day and fasting another. The 5:2 diet claims to not only help people lose weight, but also guard against diseases including cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's. Created by scientist Michael Mosley, it involves women reducing their calorie intake to 500 for two days a week, and men to 600 calories. The rest of the time, they can eat normally . Intermittent fasting is an umbrella term for various diets that cycle between a period of fasting and eating normally. Perhaps the most famous is the 5:2 diet which involves women reducing their calorie intake to 500 for two days a week, and men to 600 calories. The rest of the time, they can eat normally. Previous animal studies suggest that intermittent fasting can guard against diseases including cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's. Scientists believe it provides these benefits by allowing the body to respond better to stress that might otherwise damage it. For instance, fasting could reduce inflammation, or improve the removal of damaged molecules, as well as starve tumors, according to previous research. But the health benefits of the diet only appear if people don't increase their intake of antioxidants, which can be found in high doses in superfoods such as chokeberries, as well as vitamin C and vitamin E supplements. During a three-week period, 24 participants alternated one day of eating 25 per cent of their daily caloric intake with one day of eating 175 per cent of their daily caloric intake. The study by the University of Florida measured the participants' changes in weight, blood pressure, heart rate and glucose levels over 10 weeks. They also looked at cholesterol, markers of inflammation and genes involved in protective cell responses. 'We found that intermittent fasting caused a slight increase to SIRT 3, a well-known gene that promotes longevity and is involved in protective cell responses,' said Michael Guo, a co-author at Harvard Medical School. The SIRT3 gene encodes a protein also called SIRT3. The protein SIRT3 belongs to a class of proteins called sirtuins which, if increased in mice, can extend their lifespans. Researchers think proteins such as SIRT3 are activated by oxidative stress, which is triggered when there are more free radicals produced in the body than it can neutralise with antioxidants. However, small levels of free radicals can be beneficial: When the body undergoes stress - which happens during fasting - small levels of oxidative stress can trigger protective pathways, Guo said. 'The hypothesis is that if the body is intermittently exposed to low levels of oxidative stress, it can build a better response to it,' Wegman said. The researchers found that the intermittent fasting decreased insulin levels in the participants, which means the diet could have an anti-diabetic effect as well. To test antioxidant supplements, the participants repeated the diet but also included vitamin C and vitamin E. At the end of the three weeks, the researchers tested the same health parameters. They found that the beneficial sirtuin proteins such as SIRT 3 and another, SIRT1, tended to increase as a result of the diet. However, when antioxidants were supplemented on top of the diet, some of these increases disappeared. A new study argues that the health benefits of 5:2 also exist when someone sticks to a 'feast and famine' diet, eating far more than they would one day and fasting another. But only if people don't increase their intake of antioxidants, which can be found in high doses in superfoods such as chokeberries (pictured) This is in line with some research that indicates flooding the system with antioxidants may counteract the effects of fasting or exercise, said Dr Christiaan Leeuwenburgh who was involved in the research. 'You need some pain, some inflammation, some oxidative stress for some regeneration or repair,' Dr Leeuwenburgh said. 'These young investigators were intrigued by the question of whether some antioxidants could blunt the healthy effects of normal fasting.' On the study participants' fasting days, they ate foods such as roast beef and gravy, mashed potatoes, Oreo cookies and orange sherbet - but they ate only one meal. On the feasting days, the participants ate bagels with cream cheese, oatmeal sweetened with honey and raisins, turkey sandwiches, apple sauce, spaghetti with chicken, yogurt and soda - and lemon pound cake, Snickers bars and vanilla ice cream. 'Most of the participants found that fasting was easier than the feasting day, which was a little bit surprising to me,' Dr Guo said. 'On the feasting days, we had some trouble giving them enough calories.' Dr Leeuwenburgh said future studies should examine a larger group of participants and should include studying a larger number of genes in the participants as well as examining muscle and fat tissue." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fasting is thought to prevent diseases including cancer and diabetes .\nStarving body allows it to respond better to stress that might otherwise damage it, according to a study on 24 volunteers over 10 weeks .\nIt causes a small increase to SIRT 3, a gene that promotes longevity .\nWhen antioxidants were added, some of the benefits disappeared .\nThese can be found in high doses in superfoods such as chokeberries ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I spent three days this week with Pierre Torres, one of the French hostages who was held captive by ISIS in Syria for ten months. He was released last year, a short time before his American and British co-captives were beheaded one by one in a series of gruesome videos. He was among the last people to see them alive. We conducted a question and answer session at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights. In addition, over a series of coffees and walks around Geneva, Torres, a charming and good-humored but rather shy young man of 30, slowly provided additional insights into his time in captivity - his first interview with a non-French journalist.Scroll down for video . Released French hostage Pierre Torres (far right) arrives back in France with fellow journalists Edouard Elias (far left), Didier Francois (second from left) and Nicolas Henin (second from left) after being released after 10 months of captivity in Syria . He was part of a group of hostages who passed their time by playing chess on card ripped from discarded milk cartons . French President François Hollande greets Pierre on his arrival back in France from Syria . 'We were moved around a lot, kept underground most of the time, sometimes chained together for weeks on end,' said Pierre. 'It was tough and terrible things happened, but we also kept ourselves in as good spirits as possible. 'We passed the time by inventing quizzes which we played with each other. We also played chess. We created chess pieces out of a discarded milk carton we had. 'Our captors let us play but were angered when we represented some of the pieces by faces - their interpretation of Islam strictly forbids any depictions of any man or animal. So we had to make the pieces again.' Torres, speaking in English, said that during his 10 months of captivity he learned English from the British and American hostages he was held with: British aid workers Alan Henning and David Haines, freelance journalist John Cantlie, American journalists Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid worker Peter Kassig. Cantlie remains in captivity. The others have been killed. 'We were not given access to TV, computers or the internet - but they did sometimes give us books, but mainly books propagating Islamic thought. They also brought us videos to watch, videos that tried to persuade us that the caliphate was god's will.' Torres added that he and fellow French hostage Nicolas Henin used the time in captivity to write a children's story in their head, and that book, titled Papa Hérisson rentrera-t-il à la maison? - Will Daddy Hedgehog come back home? - will be published in France next month. Torres did the illustrations for the book, which I suppose also served as a kind of therapy for him. He is a very gifted illustrator and drew me a beautiful full-page picture, which he said represented all the human rights activists at the Geneva Summit, on the copy of the book he gave me. He speaks fondly of his fellow hostages. Pierre was imprisoned with British hostages Alan Henning (left) and David Haines (right) for months while they were held by ISIS . He shared captivity with U.S aid worker Peter Kassig (left) and journalist Steven Sotloff (right), both of whom were beheaded . Freelance journalist James Foley (left) was described as 'very sociable' by Pierre. British photographer John Cantlie (right) - who was abducted in November 2012 - is still being held in Syria . 'Stephen Sotloff was very clever, and had deep political knowledge. And he was very brave. He was not afraid of to answer back to our captors. He used to challenge them with what he saw as inconsistencies in their teaching and worldview. He also, I should add, won all the games of chess. 'He managed to conceal the fact from everyone that he was Jewish and had lived in Israel. None of us had any idea and I only found out from press reports after he was killed.' ISIS supporters tend to be extremely anti-Semitic and had they known Sotloff was Jewish, he would probably have been subject to additional torture. Torres also confirmed what fellow hostage Nicolas Henin already told the French media, that Mehdi Nemmouche - the French Islamist on trial in Belgium for the murder of four Jews at the Brussels Jewish museum last year - was the same man who had been one of his captors in Syria. Henin has added that Nemmouche was responsible for torturing them too. Torres doesn't want to go into detail about the mistreatment the ISIS prisoners received and prefers to concentrate on the more agreeable details, to make sure they are not only remembered as victims of what are in effect perhaps the most sadistic snuff videos ever posted on the Internet. The French hostage was held by Jihadi John's terror gang. In January, the group demanded ransom payments for Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, from Japan . London man Mohammed Emwazi (pictured as a primary school pupil) was yesterday revealed to be the world's most wanted man, Jihadi John . But he did confirm to me that 'at least 10 French and Belgium citizens' were among their captors. He also hinted that the British and American prisoners were 'supervised' by a group of British and other fluent English-speaking ISIS members. 'Alan Henning was in many ways the most simple and innocent guy you can imagine. Being a taxi driver he was more down-to-earth, not like the experienced travellers that some of the journalists being held hostages were. 'He had a huge heart. It was sometimes hard to understand his heavy Manchester accent. But his jokes and humour came through. 'It's cool to be with him,' one of the other European hostages said to me at the time. Even though we were being moved around in locations in the middle of the desert he liked to speak of his beloved hobby of fishing. He was crazy about it. I think he taught me every word connected with fishing in the English vocabulary. 'David Haines was more introvert. He thought very carefully before he said anything. Peter Kassig had been disappointed by some of the things he had seen when he served in the American army and so much wanted to help Syrians. 'Jim Foley was very sociable. If the European hostages had arguments, he used to calm us all down. In a way he was the most respected of us all. He had a big soul.' Torres also spent time with American aid worker Kayla Mueller, who ISIS says was accidentally killed last month in a Jordanian airstrike, but said that most of the time, as a woman, she was kept separate from the men. ISIS fighters parade through Raqqa, where the terror network film many propaganda videos . Together with the three other French hostages, Torres was released last summer, for a reported ransom of several million euros - though the French government has denied they had anything to do with this. 'We were given 24 hours notice before we were freed. This gave time for the other hostages to give me messages to pass to their families. We were not allowed to take any paper with us but I memorised the email and phone numbers of their relatives.' Torres has subsequently had phone and Skype conversations with the relatives of some of the hostages and Jim Foley's mother flew from the U.S to Paris to meet with him. Torres also indicates that terrible things were done to them, and sometimes there were sharp disagreements between the hostages, but out of respect for those who were beheaded and for the sake of their families, he says he will never make public some of the disagreements or sufferings. 'It would be the decision of the families if they one day want to reveal details of the messages I passed on to them or what was done to them in captivity.' Torres is also wary of saying anything publically that could make life harder for John Cantlie, who remains an ISIS prisoner and who is now being used by ISIS to film a series of propaganda reports from the de facto capital of the Islamic State, Raqqa. Torres now speaks a relatively fluent English – a language he barely understood before his captivity. 'I learned English from the British and American hostages. Even though there were 23 of us in total from several different countries, English was the main language we all spoke together.' ISIS yesterday executed four men they accused of being spies in the Salahuddin province of Iraq . For various security reasons, few details have been made public about other released hostages from Spain, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and elsewhere. The other European hostages were all released, apart from a Russian who was executed by ISIS at the time Torres was being held there. 'It is not for me to judge whether the U.S and British governments should have paid a ransom for their hostages. I would only say that the U.S is spending a lot more money on outside intelligence than any European government and they did not do the job to get their hostages out. 'More should have been done, although it is not for me to say how.' Torres also wanted to point out that he spent time with the locals in Raqqa in the immediate period before his abduction and 'the population of Raqqa was not at all supportive of ISIS and there were many demonstrations against ISIS there.' He was concerned that the people of Raqqa now have to live not only under the terror of ISIS rule but under the fear of American and allied airstrikes. 'It is them I am also thinking of,' he says." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pierre Torres was held captive in Syria for ten months by ISIS militants .\nHe was one of the last people to see executed hostages alive .\nKept chained together for long periods with other abused hostages .\nMade secret chess sets out of discarded milk cartons to pass the time .\nSaid Britain and America should have done more to help rescue those held .\nTom Gross is a journalist and commentator specialising in the Middle East .\nFor the full Geneva Summit interview between Tom Gross and Pierre Torres, click here ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The BBC came under fire last night for claiming it had ‘broken’ the story about the naming of Jihadi John when the Washington Post had revealed his identity an hour earlier. The US newspaper published its story at 9.45am GMT yesterday, while the BBC broadcast its first message on Twitter and put the story online at 10.51am. Washington Post reporter Adam Goldman complained: ‘I love the BBC but they don’t have much of the story: Souad Mekhennet [his colleague on the Washington Post] and I own this.’ The BBC published a story online and on Twitter at 10.51am GMT claimed to have unmasked Jihadi John, while the Washington Post published their story at 9.45am GMT (file image) The Washington Post is understood to have known about the story for several days but held back on publication until yesterday morning for editorial reasons. Its reporters strongly denied passing the story to the BBC. Miss Mekhennet said: ‘Can’t say how [the] BBC heard about it, but not from us.’ As part of their investigations, the newspaper’s reporters spoke to UK campaign group Cage, which describes itself as ‘an independent advocacy organisation working to empower communities impacted by the War on Terror’. There was speculation last night that Cage may have been the BBC’s source. Washington Post reporter Adam Goldman and colleague Souad Mekhennet who broke the story said they have never spoken to the BBC about their discovery ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "BBC news claimed to have broken the story on unmasking Jihadi John .\nBut records show Washington Post beat them to it by over an hour .\nU.S. journalists say they never spoke to the BBC about their scoop ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Soprano Sarah Brightman, pictured, will blast off for space on September 1 aboard the Soyuz-FG rocket to the International Space Station . Just before 11am on September 1, a mighty Soyuz‑FG rocket will blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome deep in the desert steppes of Kazakhstan. On board will be a space capsule containing three highly-trained cosmonauts bound for the International Space Station (ISS). The crew will be commanded by Colonel Sergei Volkov, a 42-year-old Russian who will be leading his third mission into space. Assisting him will be 35-year-old Danish Flight Engineer Andreas Mogensen, the holder of a doctorate in engineering from the University of Texas. The third crew member will be a 55-year-old English soprano called Sarah Brightman. Hang on a minute. Sarah Brightman? The big‑haired Phantom Of The Opera star who was once married to Andrew Lloyd Webber? Yes, that very same Sarah Brightman will be boldly going where no multi-millionaire singer has been before. Brightman, who ironically once fronted Hot Gossip for their 1978 smash hit I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper, is becoming a cosmonaut. It seems like a joke. But the star, who has sold more than 30 million albums, is deadly serious. Recently, she was shivering in sub-zero temperatures in a forest outside Moscow during survival training with her fellow cosmonauts. This week, Brightman announced that she’ll hold a press conference on March 10 to discuss the mission. It turns out the singer has always hankered after being the Brightman on the moon. ‘I think I was eight at the time. I remember watching the first man on the moon on TV, and something flipped,’ she said in an interview. ‘I’d been quiet and reticent as a child, and suddenly my mind opened and I thought: “I want to do something very, very special. I want to go there, where they are; I want to go up into space.” That moment, things changed for me.’ Ms Brightman, right, was previously married to renowned composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, left . The singer’s fascination with space travel may seem surprising — in fact, a cynic might suggest that the whole thing is just a publicity stunt. But if that’s the case, then it’s a stunt that is financially truly astronomical. The most reliable estimate suggests that Brightman’s ten-day sojourn on the ISS will cost her £34 million. Brightman may be rich — but not that rich, surely? Space tourists tend to be billionaires, not mere multi-millionaires. Ms Brightman, pictured, fronted Hot Gossip's 1978 smash hit I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper . Besides the question of who is funding the trip, what sort of training does a middle-aged woman have to do to be taken around the world 16 times a day? After all, in order to fly into space, you need to be a lot fitter than your average Ryanair passenger. That’s why, back in July 2012, Sarah travelled from her home near Los Angeles to Houston, where Nasa subjected the singer to the most rigorous medical checks to see whether she could make it as a cosmonaut. Turns out she could. ‘The doctor, who has worked with a lot of astronauts, was saying: “I don’t believe this: even on the brain scans you’re coming out perfect,” ’ Brightman said. The singer’s next port-of-call was the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, near Moscow, where she was evaluated on a whole range of simulators. Perhaps the most gruelling was the centrifuge — a giant arm-like structure that whisks its poor occupants around at something approaching 200mph, simulating the massive g‑forces that astronauts are subjected to when they sit on top of a rocket hurtling into space. Apparently, Brightman remained calm, with her pulse barely increasing. Other tests included being strapped to rotating chairs, and a psychological evaluation. ‘It was full-on,’ she said. ‘It was far more than I could’ve expected. ‘But I’d already sort of been trained for it by all my years of touring, in terms of the uncomfortableness, not knowing what to expect, having to create something out of nothing.’ Brightman may well have been prepared by the man she has most recently been romantically linked to, a flaxen-haired Californian inventor and aeronautics engineer called Dezso Molnar. According to Molnar’s website, he worked at Truax Engineering, one of the first companies that attempted to commercialise private manned space travel, and is currently developing a flying motorbike. With or without his help, Brightman passed through Star City with flying colours. Over the next six months, she can expect training to get even tougher. It will include working in space suits underwater, experiencing weightlessness in specially adapted aircraft, working on her physical and mental fitness, learning some Russian and getting to know her way around a mock-up of the ISS. The regime would be gruelling even for someone half her age. However, we must return to that thorny question of who is paying for all this. One clue could be found at the press conference in Moscow in October 2012 when Brightman announced her stellar ambitions. Ms Brightman will board the Soyuz-FG rocket as it blasts off into space to join the International Space Station . Sitting alongside her was a man called Neil Ford, who is the director of the sector for external relations and public information of UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation). As it happens, Brightman is a UNESCO ‘Artist for Peace’, which means she is an international advocate for its work. Ford and Brightman gushed about how the trip into space would ‘reach out to be a force for good’, promote ‘sustainability’ and encourage more women to enter the fields of science and technology. Brazenly referencing Dream Chaser, the album she would release in 2013, Brightman gushed: ‘We want to engage a generation of dream chasers from all walks of life to help us create a more sustainable future.’ Such sentiments are very worthy but they’re rather woolly. It is unclear how Brightman’s chasing of her own dream will, in reality, improve the planet and the advancement of women. Ms Brightman, pictured, is a UNESCO 'Artist for Peace' although they are not paying for her trip . However, according to a spokesman, UNESCO is not forking out a bean for Brightman’s mission. Nevertheless, its backing naturally makes the singer’s reach for the stars look more humanitarian than purely egotistical. If UNESCO is providing credibility, then another body is backing the aspirant astronaut in rather more practical ways. In Beijing in July 2013, Brightman signed a deal with the Reignwood Group. Reignwood is a vast Chinese collective firm that — among other activities — develops property, distributes the soft drink Red Bull, owns resorts, runs health centres, has its own aviation firm and has even recently bought Wentworth Golf Club for £135 million. Also in its portfolio in the UK is 10 Trinity Square in the City of London — now a luxury hotel, club and apartment block. At the ceremony, Brightman agreed — for an undisclosed fee — to be the ‘image ambassador’ for Trinity Square, and would ‘attend cultural exchanges organised by Reignwood’ every year for the next four years. She also agreed to perform a concert during her time in the space station that would be streamed live back to Earth ‘during an event organised by Reignwood’. It is undoubtedly a great coup for the Group. Brightman is a huge star in Asia, and her perceived sophistication is a big draw for the type of clientele that Reignwood wants to woo. A concert from space given by Brightman will be a fantastic publicity stunt for Reignwood, and would help to cement its global brand. The Group is worth many billions, so it is conceivable that Reignwood can bankroll most, if not all, of Brightman’s space trip. Sarah might have secured what may be the ultimate freebie. She may once have lost her heart to a starship trooper, but in order to get her to the heavens, it’s now been won by an Asian conglomerate. Ultimately, to get into space, it’s not dreams that Brightman has had to chase, but the reality of cold, hard Chinese cash." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sarah Brightman will board the Soyuz space rocket on September 1 .\nShe will be blasted into space along with two other cosmonauts .\nShe will spend ten days on the International Space Station before returning .\nIt is estimated her extra-terrestrial trip will cost more than £34million .\nScroll down for video ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A police force has scrapped an anti-violence online poster after Twitter users said it showed an officer with a riot stick hitting a victim begging for mercy. The image was supposed to promote a campaign to stop drunk and violent people entering pubs and clubs. But Twitter users quickly pointed out that the logo looked more like police brutality - claiming it appeared to show a riot officer beating a prone victim. Ridiculed: Devon and Cornwall Police were mocked on Twitter for this online campaign poster - which appeared to depict an officer with a riot stick hitting a victim begging for mercy . Paul Cruikshank tweeted '@DC-Police @euanmccolm How many drunk people the Dept's arrested have had a helmet on and carrying a truncheon?'. Police replied that it was 'meant to show one drunk person attacking another, which often happens when drinkers go overboard'. But this met with a response from Phil Ellery, who tweeted '@DC-Police a drunk person wearing a riot helmet and carrying a truncheon?'. Amazingly, the image can be downloaded from a number of clip-art websites, including pubzi and clker, by searching for the term 'police brutality'. A Devon and Cornwall spokesman today told MailOnline: 'The breathalyser campaign in Torquay has been extremely successful in contributing to reducing crime in and around the town centre. Violent crime was reduced by 45 per cent in January compared to last year. 'The image used on the infographic posted on social media to celebrate the success of the initiative was intended to depict a violent incident between two drunk members of the public. Online results: The same image can be found on this clip-art website by searching for 'police brutality' Another clip-art website, called clker.com, has the same image stored, again with the title 'police brutality' On this website, openclipart, the controversial image is searchable under a number of terms including 'violence', 'brutality', 'demonstration' and 'police' 'It has since been made clear that the picture could be seen as showing a police officer hitting somebody. This was not our intention. 'We apologise for any offence and it has now been removed. We hope that this does not detract from the great campaign we have run with our partners and the licensing trade in Torquay. The picture, posted yesterday, was accompanied by the message 'Breathalyser scheme #RU2drunk... keeping you safe'. Police want potentially drunk people to be breathalysed before they are allowed into pubs and clubs where they could spark violence. The spokesman added 'The breathalyser campaign in Torquay has been extremely successful in reducing crime in and around the town centre. 'Violent crime was reduced by 45% in January compared to last year.' Devon and Cornwall Police could not provide a copy of the updated info graphic. It is said to look exactly the same - but without the controversial image in the top right corner. Embarrassing: The force (headquarters pictured) initially defended the info graphic image but has now changed it by removing the controversial image . The 'Are You Too Drunk?' campaign has been pushed around Torquay town centre (pictured)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Several people claimed that the image appeared to depict police brutality .\nDevon and Cornwall Police bizarrely defended confusing campaign image .\nSaid it was 'one drunk person attacking another... which often happens'\nBut image can be found on clip-art websites under label 'police britality'\nForce has now withdrawn online poster which was part of breathalyser campaign ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A man shot four relatives and three neighbors before turning the gun on himself after finding his mother dead on the couch, police claim. Joseph Aldridge, 36, allegedly opened fire in four separate locations on Thursday night after his 74-year-old mother Alice, who had been ill, died at home in Texas County, Missouri. Armed with a handgun, he shot two male cousins, their wives, and three neighbors before shooting himself in his pickup truck on the outskirts of Summersville, Missouri, a neighbor told Daily Mail Online. An initial investigation suggests Aldridge had been feuding with his cousins for years. Authorities identified four of the victims as Garold Dee Aldridge, 52, his wife Julie Ann Aldridge, 47, Harold Wayne Aldridge, 50, and his wife Janell Arlisa Aldridge, 48. The shooter was a cousin to the male victims. Scroll down for video . Joseph Aldridge, 36, was found dead in his pickup truck in the middle of the highway after shooting seven people dead in rural Missouri . The shooter (pictured) is suspected of killing Garold Dee Aldridge, 52, his wife Julie Ann Aldridge, 47, Harold Wayne Aldridge, 50, and his wife Janell Arlisa Aldridge, 48 . Nine people died in a string of shootings in southern Missouri on Thursday night and Friday morning at six different scenes (pictured) Local media identified the other three victims as Darrell Shriver and Shriver's son and daughter-in-law, Carey and Valerie Shriver. Shriver's wife Martha was wounded and hospitalized with serious but stable injuries. His grandson had hidden in another room and is staying with relatives while his mother is treated. A neighbor told Daily Mail Online that everyone in the small towns of Tyrone and Summersville are aware of each other, and that 'he probably killed 10 per cent of the town's population last night'. Joseph Aldridge, who used one handgun in the attacks, is believed to be the cousin of some of the victims. All victims lived within a three mile radius of each other. Alice L. Aldridge, 74, the suspect's mother, 'died of natural causes' on the couch and is thought to have been dead for more than 24 hours before being found Thursday night. The woman died of a heart attack, the Summersville man said. Police discovered her while looking for her son. Her death may have sparked the suspect to go on his rampage, Texas County Coroner Tom Whittaker told the St Louis Post-Dispatch. Joseph Aldridge has a minor criminal history, according to the local sheriff. Three other victims, from a different family, have not yet been identified. Police first heard of the incident when a young girl called about gunshots at 10:15pm on Thursday evening . The shootings occurred within three miles of each other near Tyrone, a small town in Texas County, Missouri. Some of the victims were Joseph Aldridge's cousins . Sheriff James Sigman (pictured) identified four victims and a woman who died of natural causes as related to Aldridge, but did not identify three victims . The Summersville resident said that there had been an ongoing feud between the suspected shooter's family and some of the victims. John Shriver, 72, of Tyrone, said that he was called by a relative to check on her son. After arriving at the son's house he found him and his wife dead in their bedroom. The couple's son was hidden safely in the closet. A frightened girl called the police around 10.15pm on Thursday after hearing gunshots and fleeing to a neighbor's house. Two bodies were later found in the girl's home. The barefoot girl was crying that her parents had been shot and was only wearing a nightgown, the neighbor told the Associated Press. Her legs had been cut up after running through a field full of thickets. Five more bodies were found in three additional residences, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol. One woman, believed to be Martha Shriver, was injured with a gunshot wound and is in the hospital. She is expected to survive. Joseph Aldridge died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his GMC pickup, which was in the middle of highway WW. He did not leave a note. Troopers began an investigation in the area following the shootings. A resident reported that authorities were knocking on doors at 3.45am on Friday. The state-wide Missouri State Highway Patrol is assisting the small town in the investigation. Authorities did not release a suspected motive for the killings and are not looking for any other suspects. 'This is a bucolic area, one of the reasons people move here is to avoid these kind of incidents' the superintendent of nearby Houston's school district said . A teenage girl alerted police to the shootings when she ran through a snowy field with thickets barefoot, with nothing on but her nightgown . Staff of the Houston's school district were told to arrive early for counseling, according to the Houston Herald. Superintendent Scott Dill said that residents of the close-knit community are in a 'state of shock' and he has been trying to help kids come to grips with the situation. 'This is a bucolic area, one of the reasons people move here is to avoid these kind of incidents,' he told Daily Mail Online. Texas County, Missouri is an Ozark region of about 25,000 people located east of college town Springfield and south of Army base Fort Leonard Wood. Tyrone is located in the southern portion of the county, south of Houston, the county seat, which has about 2,000 residents. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon said that the shootings were 'a horrific tragedy, and our hearts go out to the victims of these senseless acts and their families.' Department of Mental Health in the state have also made contact with local authorities to provide crisis intervention services and counseling. Autopsies will be performed over the weekend. Mr Whittaker said that the county averages about one homicide a year, many years having none. Texas County, which has a population of about 25,000, is described as a 'close knit' community. Above, an abandoned general store seen in Tyrone ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shootings took place in Texas County, Missouri, at four separate sites .\nShooter Joseph Aldridge, 36, is cousin to at least two of the victims .\nHis mother Alice, 74, died of 'natural causes' before rampage .\nFamily of shooter and some victims were in a feud for years, according to a local resident .\nResident said: 'He probably killed 10 per cent of the town's population last night'\nShooter took his own life in car outside farm in Shannon County .\nThree victims remain unidentified on Friday ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The head gamekeeper at Belvoir Castle David Boynton (pictured) has been banned from the road for drink driving . The head gamekeeper at Belvoir Castle has been banned from the road for drink driving - after he had an afternoon 'tipple' with the Duchess of Rutland. David Boynton, 76, got behind the wheel of his Mitsubishi after he was invited to join the Duchess, Emma Rutland, for a sherry to celebrate his recent marriage. The court heard Boynton felt obliged to accept but tried to get rid of most of it without the Duchess noticing by pouring it into a nearby plant pot. Boynton was then stopped by police after he was seen driving erratically near his home on the 16,000-acre estate. Officers found the tipple had pushed him just over the limit- with 82 milligrammes of alcohol in 100ml of blood - the legal limit is 80 milligrammes. On Monday Boynton, who has been head gamekeeper at Belvoir Castle for three years, admitted to drink driving when he appeared at Grantham Magistrate's Court. He was handed a 12-month driving ban which would be reduced to nine if he completes a drink driver's rehabilitation course. He was fined £230, ordered to pay £85 court costs and a £23 victim surcharge. Prosecutor Marie Stace said: 'Police stopped the Mitsubishi Mr Boynton was driving on Eastwell Road in Belvoir. 'The officers could smell alcohol and after Boynton failed a roadside breath test he was arrested and taken to the police station, where a blood test was taken.' The Duchess, Emma Rutland, 53, provided a character reference for the defendant in a letter read by magistrates. They also heard that Boynton lives on the estate in Knipton, Leicestershire. Sonia Bhalla, defending, said Boyton had joined the Duchess of Rutland for a sherry at around 4pm on December 8 last year. Ms Bhalla, defending, said: 'Mr Boynton had been Belvoir Castle's head gamekeeper for the last three years, and on the date in question he had been to see his employer the Duchess of Rutland and she had offered him a tipple. Boynton had got behind the wheel of his Mitsubishi after he joined the Duchess of Rutland (pictured) for a sherry to celebrate his recent marriage . 'He felt obliged to accept, although recognised that he wasn't under duress. He did try to tip the alcohol into a nearby plant pot. He then left the castle and drove into the open arms of the law. 'Mr Boynton is an absolutely lovely individual, and it was his first ever brush with the law. I can tell you that this is an absolutely lovely individual. 'He has worked from the age of seven, and is still in full-time employment. He has been head gamekeeper at Belvoir Castle for the last three seasons..' Magistrates said that it was one of the lowest blood readings they had ever seen. Earlier this month a neighbour living next to the Duke of Rutland's daughters in London complained about the siblings raucous late-night parties. Boynton claimed he had tried to pour some of the afternoon sherry into a nearby plant pot at Belvoir Castle (pictured) without the Duchess noticing, but he still drank enough to tip him over the legal alcohol limit . Jackie Elliott wrote to the Duke, David Manners, who is worth around £125 million, claiming that it was like 'living next door to a nightclub..' The Duke's daughters, Lady Violet Manners, 21, and sisters Lady Alice, 19, and Lady Eliza, 17, live in a £2.6million mansion on Bovington Road, Fulham. David Boynton today refused to comment on his driving ban. Speaking from his farm house on the sprawling Belvoir Castle estate, he said: 'No comment. You can get off this land.' A spokesman for the Duke and Duchess of Rutland said: 'The comment will be no comment.' The Duke and Duchess of Rutland at home . Twenty years ago, the duchess was plain Emma Watkins, a farmer’s daughter from Radnorshire in the Welsh borders. But in 1992, Emma married David- the Duke of Rutland, whose ancestral home, Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire had been in the family since 1509. The Duke and Duchess of Rutland, went onto have five children – Violet, Alice, Eliza, Charles and Hugo. More than a decade ago, when Emma’s father-in-law Charles died, her husband David found himself 11th Duke of Rutland and the 36th generation of his family to inherit the castle and its estate. At the time, the castle was in crisis facing dwindling visitor numbers, death duties of almost £10 million and repair costs of up to an eye-watering £6.5 million. Thanks to the Duke and Duchess, today, Belvoir is the setting for national events such as the CLA Game Fair, rock concerts, weddings,product launches, TV shows and feature films. Eagle-eyed cinema-goersmay have spotted the castle in various guises in Hollywood movies suchas The Da Vinci Code and The Young Victoria. But while the estate was doing well, the Rutlands' marriage was crumbling. In 2012, the Duchess finally announced she was separating from the Duke of Rutland after a number of infidelities by her husband. Despite the end of their marriage, the couple have remained living in the colossal gothic castle, living separate lives in different wings." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "David Boynton got behind the wheel after joining the Duchess for a sherry .\nDuchess Emma Rutland been congratulating Boynton on his new marriage .\nThe head gamekeeper at Belvoir Castle claimed he tried to pour tipple away .\nBut he was stopped by police who saw him driving erratically and arrested ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A four-year-old Texas boy is fighting for his life after his mother allegedly beat and stabbed him repeatedly, mutilating his genitals in a brutal attack outside of the family's home on Thursday. Jenea Mungia, 23, has been charged with injury to a child after she alleged stabbed her son all over his body in their Houston home before dragging the boy out into the driveway to finish the assault, ABC reported. Once outside, Mungia allegedly beat the boy with a garden tool. Mother: Jenea Mungia, 23 (photographed), is accused of stabbing and beating her four-year-old son outside of her Houston home Thursday . At a probable cause hearing held on Friday, prosecutors said the little boy suffered 'multiple stab wounds to the torso, contusions to the head from blunt force trauma and his genitals were partially mutilated,' KHOU reported. Mungia did not appear in court. A FedEx driver passing the house around 1pm saw the assault and immediately called 911. 'I thought she was giving him CPR,' the driver told Click 2 Houston. 'But then she started slamming his head on the edge of the concrete driveway.' Police say Mungia was still attacking the boy when they arrived at the scene. They struggled to get Mungia off of him, the driver said. One cop eventually had to kick her off of the child. Police tackled Mungia and arrested her. A deputy told Click 2 Houston that the 23-year-old was naked from the waist up when the police arrived. Officers found blood inside the house and on the driveway where a bloody shirt lay on the pavement. Attack: Police say Mungia was still attacking the boy when they arrived at the scene and cops struggled to get her off of him, one officer ended up kicking the woman off of the boy . Blood: Officers found blood inside the house and on the driveway where a bloody shirt lay on the pavement . Critical Condition: The boy was airlifted to Memorial Hermann Hospital where he was listed in critical condition and immediately taken in to surgery . The boy was airlifted to Memorial Hermann Hospital where he was listed in critical condition and immediately taken in to surgery. Mungia was taken in for questioning and a mental health evaluation after the incident. She is being held at Harris County Jail without bail, charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury. The 23-year-old lived with her son, her parents, and her younger sister in the two-story home. Family friends, shocked by the incident, described Mungia as a 'good mom,' the Houston Chronicle reports. However, a longtime friend of the family said Mungia struggled with post-partum psychosis since her son's birth but thought that Mungia had been treated and everything was under control. Neighbors stood shocked as the boy was loaded aboard the chopper in the otherwise peaceful town. One mother even pulled her one-year-old son close to her as she watched. 'Good Mom:' Family friends, shocked by the incident, described Mungia as a 'good mom' but said the mother suffered from post-partum psychosis since her son's birth . Home: Police say Mungia stabbed her son all over his body in their Houston home (photographed) before dragging the boy out into the driveway to finish the assault ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jenea Mungia, 23, is accused of stabbing and beating her four-year-old son outside of the family's Texas home Thursday .\nPolice say she stabbed her son all over his body inside the home before dragging the boy out into the driveway to finish the assault .\nMungia was allegedly still attacking the boy when cops arrived at the scene, they struggled to get her off the boy ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A remarkable photography exhibition has revealed 300,000 images of every object an artist has touched with his right hand for the past 12 years. Italian Alberto Frigo's series 'Images of the artifacts used by the main right hand' comprehensively documents the thousands of everyday objects he has used for more than a decade. Photos included in the Lifelogging exhibition show hairbrushes, toothbrushes, drinks, food, reading glasses and more. Alberto Frigo's exhibition comprises thousands of small photographs displayed on separate panels . Mr Frigo is pictured as he takes a photo while using a hand tool during home renovations . Other everyday objects used include drink bottles (left) and an electric shaver (right) Many of the photographs show him simply eating - here he is pictured left holding a spoon. Right, he photographs himself holding a kaleidoscope . Two other images show him washing his hair in the shower (left) and then later brushing it . The 35-year-old Sweden-based artist used a small digital camera to record all objects he came into contact with in what he calls a 'DNA code for other humans to interpret'. He explained: 'The panels show the objects I have used with my right hand since the 24th of September 2003. 'Each panel represents a month, each line a day, and each individual photograph an object. 'Each of these objects is like the letter of an alphabet representing my activities as a kind of DNA code for other humans to interpret.' He estimated he touches about 75 objects per day, and intends to continue the project until his retirement in 2040, Yahoo reported. Alberto Frigo previously attempted to use a finger-mounted camera system where the camera sat permanently attached to his hand (pictured) Mr Frigo estimates he touches 75 objects a day with his right hand. Here he is pictured left and right drinking . Thousands of photographs simply document food or the utensils he uses to eat . Mr Frigo's exhibition is composed of many panels displaying the photograph in strands which he calls a type of 'DNA' It was when he started studying in Vancouver and became 'fascinated' by all that he was learning - such as making his own food, his laundry and the other jobs his mother once took care of - that the project began. He said: 'It was about at this time that I tried to figure out a way to record my life without all the post editing and technological frustrations. ‘A day later I was photographing every object my right hand uses in order to keep track of my activities. ‘I then thought of the objects I was using as the letters of an alphabet which could, in the long run, make up a sort of DNA code of my life. I was 24 then and still eager to discover new exciting things in life.’ He has become so accustomed to the project that his left hand now almost naturally photographs his right hand without him even thinking about it, and he abides by the rule that every object the dominant hand uses is photographed once while being used. His exhibition is currently on display at the Science Gallery in Dublin. Mr Frigo photographs himself as his right hand touches his reading glasses (left) and headphones (right) Alberto Frigo takes a selfie while peering through a set of binoculars . Unsurprisingly, photographs of Mr Frigo eating are common throughout the 12-year-long project . The exhibition is also broken down into dates, providing a remarkable timeline of everything he touches . Left, he adjusts his bike helmet, while right, he is seen brushing his teeth . This is the camera device he uses to record everything he touches with his right hand . Mr Frigo plays with an unidentified object in one of the more unusual photographs in the exhibition ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Italian artist Alberto Frigo photographs everything his right hand touches .\nHe has amassed a collection of 300,000 images over the past 12 years .\nThe photos include selfies of him brushing his teeth and combing his hair .\nOthers show him eating, drinking and playing with other random objects .\nThe photography project is now on display at the Science Gallery in Dublin ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "While dogs may learn about their world mainly through their nose, it appears cats prefer to rely on their eyesight. Domestic cats are known to have a sense of smell that is around fourteen times stronger than humans. However, in a test to find out what is the dominant feline sense, scientists found the animals tend to use their eyesight to find food. The eyes have it: cats tend to rely on their acute eyesight when searching for food rather than their nose . However, when deprived of the ability to see their food, cats revert to using their noses - especially if they have already learned what the food smells like. Large boxes, shoe boxes, and even just items that look like boxes – cats, it seems, can't resist squeezing into cardboard spaces. Scientists believe cats may be instinctively drawn to boxes because they offer security and shelter from predators while they stalk their prey. Veterinarian Claudia Vinke of Utrecht University in the Netherlands recently studied stress levels in shelter cats. She discovered that cats who had boxes got used to their new surroundings faster than those who did not because the boxes acted as a coping mechanism. Boxes may also offer safe places for cats to take a nap. Felines can sleep for 18 to 20 hours a day, so seeking out a hidden place would help their chances of survival in the wild. They could also be trying to escape unwanted attention. According toThe Domestic Cat: The Biology of its Behaviour, cats don't have good conflict resolution strategies and running and hiding is a coping mechanism for this. Professor Daniel Mills, a researcher in veterinary behavioural medicine at the University of Lincoln who oversaw the work, said: 'We tend to think of cats being very influenced by smells. 'We do wonder if it might partly be a result of domestication, as dogs too seem remarkably visual compared to wolves, but that really is speculation. 'If it is related to domestication, it might be because our faces are such a rich source of information for our pets.' Cats are known to have particularly acute vision and are able to see clearly in just one sixth of the light we need to see. Smell is also important - which is why they often rub against objects and owners - while their hearing is also usually sharp. However, little was known about which of their senses is the most dominant. The researchers, whose study is published in the journal of Applied Animal Behaviour Science, placed six cats in mazes that had presented them with two alternative choices. The cats were offered two pieces of paper at the same time containing a different picture of an object and odour. Choosing one combination of odour and visual stimuli won the cats a treat, while the other did not. After the cats had learned the rules, the researchers then mixed up the visual and odour stimuli so that the smell that lead to the treat was with the picture that did not and vice versa. Cats' sense of smell is fourteen times stronger than humans but it is not their dominant sense it seems . The scientists found that four of the six cats chose the visual cue that had led them to the treat over the smell. One of the cats tended to pick the route that contained the paper. When the scientists then removed the visual cues altogether and gave the cats a choice between smells, the cats consistently chose the smell that had been associated with a treat. Professor Mills said that it showed that while many cats used vision as their dominant sense, smell was still important to them. When they are first born kittens are blind and so rely upon smell to learn about the world around them but as they grow up their vision becomes more important for hunting and finding food than their other senses . He said the findings may also explain why some cats have a tendency to scent mark new objects when they come into a home and others do not. He said: 'One thing to realise is that some cats are very smell focused and others are more visual. 'So two individuals may respond very different to a similar change in the environment. 'For example we know many cats will spray on a new bag or article brought into the home, and perhaps this is because the cat is a smell orientated cat, whereas to a visual cat this is not as meaningful.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Researchers at the University of Lincoln tested how cats search for food .\nThey placed cats in a maze, giving them pictures and smells to find treats .\nMost of the cats tended to rely upon the pictures rather than the odour .\nCats sense of smell is fourteen times more powerful than the human nose .\nTheir eyes are able to see clearly in a sixth of the light humans need to see ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Children must be taught how to make a profit if the country is to generate a new generation of entrepreneurs, David Cameron has said. The Prime Minister said schools should do more to develop the future Richard Bransons and Karren Bradys, adding that he wanted to see business leaders visiting schools to share their knowledge. Speaking to the Institute of Directors magazine he said: ‘Children need to know how money is made, about turning over a profit, about working in a team. The future Richard Bransons and Karren Bradys are out there. Prime Minsiter David Cameron, right, said schools should do more to create the next Karren Brady, left . 'We need to bring alive their ambition by showing them what they can do – and our top business people will do just that by sharing their own stories and passing on their hard-won knowledge.’ His advice came after a survey by PR firm Edelman showed trust in business had fallen by four points to 52 per cent in a year. Asked why he thought trust in business had fallen, Mr Cameron said: ‘It is natural that during and after a recession people worry more – about their pay packets, job security, and yes, also about the role that larger firms play. ‘But rather than focus on the negative, I would say people are still very supportive of keeping Britain’s economy free and open, welcoming investment from far and wide.’ ‘That said, businesses, especially large businesses, should consider how they can win back people’s trust - pay the tax they owe, ensure they do not exploit workers, protect employees and give them opportunities for pay and career progression.’ Mr Cameron, pictured, made the comments in an interview with the Institute of Directors Magazine ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "David Cameron believes schools should do more to encourage business .\nHe said the next generation of entrepreneurs should be inspired in school .\nMr Cameron said he would like top business people to visit schools .\nHe added: 'Children need to know how money is made and to turn a profit'" } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Old Navy is introducing a new style of jeans coined 'skinny' and 'boyfriend' jeans for their children's line and some mothers across the country are deeming the styles inappropriate. The Gap owned affordable clothing chain touts jeggings, super skinny, skinny, boot-cut, and boyfriend skinny among its new looks. The jean styles for children are 'mini me' versions of the adult style of women's jeans which also include options like the diva, the flirt, and the sweetheart. Too young?: These young girls are modeling the new Old Navy boyfriend jean which is causing concern among some parents and psychologists . Trendy or too much?: Old Navy argues they are merely mirroring their adult styles of jeans in a playful way . 'Why not just call them 'loose fit?’' said Janet Choi, 41, a mother of two from Bushwick to the New York Daily News. Another mother added that the term skinny jean may urge some children to worry about their weight prematurely. ABC reports that a New York City psychologist said that the term 'boyfriend' shouldn't be applied to young children because they may feel the need to grow up too fast. 'Can’t we just buy jeans because we like them, and not have the ‘boyfriend’ label associated with them?,' said Joe Taravella, PhD and supervisor of pediatric psychology at Rusk Rehabilitation at New York University Langone Medical Center. 'It sets up our children to want and need a boyfriend, when at these early ages, this terminology should not be part of their vocabulary or on the radar of what they should be thinking about,' Taravella told ABC News. 'I am hard-pressed to understand why the label 'boyfriend' was associated with these jeans.' The New York Daily News also spoke with a psychologist who argued that insinuating romantic relationships in children's fashion may cause them to 'grow up too fast.' 'It’s another unfortunate example of how sexualization is getting younger and younger,' says Dr. Jennifer Hartstein, a child psychologist in Manhattan. New styles: Parents are outraged about the new boyfriend jeans for girls deemed too young to have a boyfriend or think about romantic relationships . 'It’s not so much the existence of the boyfriend jean that’s the problem. It’s the message that girls will pick up,' Hartstein adds. 'At (age) 2 she may not be so aware, but as she gets older, she will start to internalize these messages,' she says. ABC News spoke with the founder of Big City Moms, a resource center for New York based mothers with over 300,000 members. 'I think it’s just being true to their style names,' Leslie Venokur told ABC News. 'My kids don’t know what the style is called. I give them jeans and if the jeans are comfortable, they wear them.' Venokur who has children aged two and six says that the marketing is aimed at parents buying their children clothing modeled after their own style. 'Do they need to change it? No,' Venokur said . 'If they want to appease some opinionated parents, then that’s their call.' The New York Daily News reports that other comparable children’s designers don’t call looser pan 'boyfriend jeans.' H&M calls theirs 'denim pants' or 'loose-fit jeans.' OshKosh B’gosh and Gymboree don’t even offer the style. Abercrombie does sell boyfriend jeans, but only for older girls. Despite the complaints among some parents the brand does not plan on changing their whole campaign. Perfect or potentially harmful?: While some parents think the style is inappropriate, other moms claim their kids don't pay attention to the advertisements ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Gap-owned affordable clothing chain Old Navy touts jeggings, super skinny, skinny, boot-cut, and boyfriend skinny among its new styles .\n'Why not just call them 'loose fit?’' asks Janet Choi, 41, a mother of two from Bushwick to the New York Daily News .\nChild psychologists claim that the term 'boyfriend jean' sexualizes children at too young an age ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "SeaWorld reported a wider loss in its fourth quarter of $25.4 million as attendance to its theme parks continued to fall - due in part to the documentary 'Blackfish,' which criticizes the company's treatment of killer whales. Its shares fell in premarket trading Thursday. SeaWorld has been battling negative publicity after a 2013 documentary, 'Blackfish,' suggested that its treatment of animals may have led to the deaths of trainers. The documentary 2013 Blackfish highlighted the treatment of killer whales in captivity at SeaWorld and instigated a drop in park attendance . The marine parks are known for shows featuring killer whales and other animals. SeaWorld has taken out newspaper ads to defend its practices. And last year, the company said it would build larger environments for animals and fund additional research and programs to protect ocean health and whales in the wild. SeaWorld's chief executive resigned following low visitor numbers in the wake of the 2013 documentary Blackfish, which criticized the firm's treatment of killer whales. Jim Atchison, who had served as CEO and president since 2009, stepped down in January amid accusations that the company's treatment of killer whales may have led to the deaths of trainers. Attendance to the company’s 11 parks between October and December fell 2.2 percent to 4.4 million from 4.5 million in the same period a year ago. Attendance fell 4.3 percent during the entire year to 22.4 million from 23.4 million in 2013. Jim Atchison, former president and CEO SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, stepped down from his position following the release of the controversial film Blackfish . The Orlando, Florida-based company also said on Thursday that it expects to select a new CEO within the next six to nine months. Chairman David D’Alessandro took over as interim CEO in January after Jim Atchison stepped down. During the fourth quarter, the company reported a loss of $25.4 million, or 29 cents per share. That compares with a loss of $13 million, or 14 cents per share, in the same period a year before. Adjusted to remove one-time items, it had a loss of 21 cents per share, a larger loss than the 15 cent cents per share analysts expected, according to FactSet. Revenue fell 2.8 percent to $264.5 million, beating the $253.2 million that analysts expected. For 2014, the company reported net income of $49.9 million, or 57 cents per share, compared with $51.9 million, or 59 cents per share, in 2013. Adjusted earnings were 68 cents per share, below the 73 cents per share analysts expected. Revenue fell 5.6 percent to $1.38 billion in 2014, above the $1.37 billion analysts expected. Shares of SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. fell more than 7 percent in premarket trading Thursday. They are down about 41 percent in the last 12 months. SeaWorld lost more than finances this month. A beluga whale who was on loan to under-fire SeaWorld has died after fracturing his jaw during an 'interaction' with two other whales and later contracting an infection. Nanuq, who was around 31 or 32 years old, entertained millions of visitors at the firm's Orlando, Florida, theme park while on a long-term breeding loan from Canada's Vancouver Aquarium. Nanuq no more: In this handout photo provided by SeaWorld San Diego, actor Will Ferrell shakes flippers with Nanuq, a 2,000-pound beluga whale that died this month . No more attendees: Less and less are going to see whales perform at Sea World following the documentary . But during a recent encounter with two of the three beluga whales he lived with, the 2200lbs marine creature suffered a fractured jaw. He later developed an infection and passed away on Thursday. Although Nanuq had been undergoing treatment for the infection at the time of his death, a post-mortem examination has been arranged to confirm the cause. The results are expected in weeks. Scott Smith, a University of South Carolina assistant hospitality professor, said Nanuq's death could be potentially damaging to SeaWorld following the release of Blackfish. 'It really is one of the worst times this kind of news could come out,' he said. 'Any other time, it probably wouldn’t even make a blip on the radar, but now everyone is watching SeaWorld.' Longtime SeaWorld critic and Animal Welfare Institute marine mammal scientist Naomi Rose added that in the wild, suffering a broken jaw from an 'interaction' with another animal seems unlikely. Speaking to the Orlando Sentinel, Ms Rose said: 'If he died because of something related to that infection he got related to the broken jaw, then he died of being in captivity.' Blackfish, which implied that the stress of life in captivity may have been responsible of an orca's killing of Orlando trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010, sparked widespread criticism of SeaWorld, . Since its release, attendance has declined at the company's parks in Orlando, San Diego, California and San Antonio, Texas. SeaWorld's stock value has also plummeted. To counter the backlash, the firm, which has participated in animal rescue programs for more than 50 years, has announced plans to nearly double the size of its orca enclosures in upcoming years. SeaWorld has not yet named a replacement for Mr Atchison." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "SeaWorld reported a wider loss in its fourth quarter of $25.4 million as attendance to its theme parks continued to fall .\nSeaWorld has been battling negative publicity after a 2013 documentary, 'Blackfish,' said treatment of animals led to the deaths of trainers .\nAttendance to the company’s 11 parks between October and December fell 2.2 percent to 4.4 million from 4.5 million in the same period a year ago .\nJim Atchison, who had served as CEO and president since 2009, stepped down in January following the documentary .\nA beluga whale named Nanuq who was on loan to under-fire SeaWorld has died after fracturing his jaw during an 'interaction' with two other whales .\nNanuq later died of an infection ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It would be some people’s idea of a nightmare: a camera in the corner of the sitting room monitoring their family’s every movement. But experts at the Ideal Home Show predict this is the way many of us will live in future. Their vision of the ‘ideal smart home’ includes a small camera, housed in a pale wooden casing that would not look out of place on a mantelpiece. Withings say their home HD camera will allow family members to interact via tablet or PC when away from home, but campaigners say it could be used by controlling partners to keep an eye on one another . The £169.95 gadget can be used to film family life and stream HD footage to users’ tablet devices or mobile phones, even when they are away from home. Withings, the company which makes the ‘home camera’, boasts that its wide-angle lens means ‘no corner will go unseen’, even at night. When the sun sets, the camera automatically goes into Night Vision mode, ‘using an infrared mechanical filter to see through the darkness’. It will also record sound, monitor air quality and send users alerts when it detects sound or movement. According to Withings, this constant monitoring device will ‘facilitate family interactions’, by capturing moments together that some family members would not normally see. But privacy campaigners drew comparisons with Big Brother – the authoritarian state which watches people’s every move in 1984, the dystopian novel by George Orwell. Other gadgets featuring at the Ideal Home Show include the Pantelligent frying pan which links to a smartphone and tells you how long to cook food for . Controlling partners could constantly use it to monitor family members. Renate Samson, of campaign group Big Brother Watch, said: ‘This is keeping an eye on people, not interacting with them. There is no privacy in your own home, from your own family.’ Other gadgets in the Ideal Home Show’s vision of the future are less controversial. People in flats too small for a dining table could try the Picture Table, a pack away table that can be turned into a framed mirror and hung on the wall. The Pantelligent frying pan sends information to the users’ tablet or mobile phone, telling them how much longer to cook their food. The Ideal Home Show opens on March 20 at the Olympia London exhibition centre." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Withings home HD camera boasts 'wide angle' lens to cover entire room .\nCampaigners warn it will help controlling partners spy on one another .\nOther new gadgets include frying pan which tells you when food is ready ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hannah Delmonte is already Prom Queen - even though the big event isn't until May. The Virginia girl, a Philadelphia Eagles fan since birth, started a Twitter campaign to have her favorite player, linebacker Emmanuel Acho, be her date for the big night, figuring she'd 'give it a shot'. The 16-year-year-old sent the NFL player a direct message on Instagram, asking whether he would take her to her junior prom if she got 2,000 retweets. Acho replied within an hour. 'I raised the bar and I said, ''If you get 10,000, you got a deal'',' he later told ABC News. 'No way!' An overwhelmed Hannah Delmonte, 16, cries with shock as Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Emmanual Acho, 24, arrives at her school in Pucelville, Virginia, last week . Date night: After a social media campaign went her way, Delmonte is now going to her junior prom with Acho, who had a special Eagles jersey made up for his date . Miss Delmonte amassed 15,000 retweets in three hours. 'After that, I said, ''Ok, I'm going to prom and how can I make this an extremely special event for her?'' Acho said. So last Friday, 24-year-old Acho traveled from the University of Texas at Austin - where attends graduate school when he's not playing for the Eagles - to Woodgrove High School in Purcellville, Virginia, where Delmonte attends. 'I saw him and at first it didn't register all the way,' Hannah told ABC. 'Then I realized it was him. I was shocked and overwhelmed. He didn't know what to say at first because I was crying, but he actually did say, ''Will you go to prom with me?'' And in case Delmonte didn't know why he was there, Acho was armed with a specially-made Eagles jersey that said 'PROM' on the back. Shock: Acho was just as surprised to see the student amass so many retweets in such a short time . After dealing with the shock, Delmonte is now madly searching for a dress in the signature Eagles shade of green. Acho, of course, will be in a tuxedo with a green bow tie for the May 9 prom. He is also trying to think of ways to make the night even more special. 'I am trying to figure out where to buy a corsage,' he told ABC, laughing. 'I've gotten offers from different car services but, yeah, I also play a little piano and sing. 'We'll see if I have a special musical performance.' The gesture also seems to have had as much of an affect on Acho as it has on Delmonte. 'Saying it was humbling is so cliché,' Acho said. 'It's a very heartwarming feeling because I never realize the impact I have on other people until that moment. When I saw her cry, I truly realized that I play a big impact on people's lives.' 'Saying it was humbling is so cliché,' Acho said. 'It's a very heartwarming feeling because I never realize the impact I have on other people until that moment. 'When I saw her cry, I truly realized that I play a big impact on people's lives.' NFL star player: Emmanuel Acho, 24, from Dallas, Texas, is a linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hannah Delmonte, 16, asked Eagles player Emmanuel Acho, 24, to her to prom in Virginia .\nHe agreed to go - if she could get 10,000 retweets .\nShe got 15,000 retweets in three hours .\nAs a surprise, Acho went to her school in Purcellville, Virginia .\nHe presented her with an Eagles jersey and formally asked her to prom ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The parents of an 18-year-old boy who suffered a devastating brain haemorrhage while diving for cray fish have hailed his recovery a ‘miracle’ after doctors told them their son would not survive and set the wheels in motion for his organs to be donated. Simon Phillips and his son Ben were out diving near their home at Geraldton’s Point Moore, WA, one Saturday morning when the experienced diver told his father he had a headache and was heading back to the boat. ‘I didn’t think too much of it because I thought it was shallow water blackout,’ Simon told Daily Mail Australia. Doctors believed Ben Phillips, seen here in intensive care, had no chance of surviving bleeding on the brain . This photo of Ben was taken two days before his bleed out on 23 October at his final school assembly where Ben was deputy head boy . ‘We tend to get a bit of a head rush when we push ourselves too hard… but when two friends shouted out to say goodaye to Ben he said he had really bad headache and started vomiting over the boat.’ Simon had no idea that an Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) in Ben's brain which had been lying dormant since his birth had ruptured and caused life threatening bleeding. He rushed his son to the emergency department at Geraldton Hospital on October 25, while Ben drifted in and out of consciousness. ‘I knew something was wrong but didn’t think it was to the point of death,’ Simon recalled. ‘While in the car, I was just talking to him saying “Ben you need to stay with me” but still not recognising the desperation of the situation.’ When they reached the hospital Ben was quickly given a CT scan which discovered the AVM in his head. An AVM is described as a tangle of blood vessels in the brain or on its surface which bypasses normal brain tissue and directly diverts blood from the arteries to the vein. ‘The bleed was so extensive they said the outcome wasn’t good… that became real to us and they asked whether we would be keen on donating Ben’s organs,’ Simon said. Ben is seen here on the left with his father Simon and elder brother Zacc . Ben's family including his mum Amanda (centre) are closer than ever after the traumatic experience . During the rush to the hospital Simon called his wife Amanda and told her ‘you better get to the hospital’. ‘I just walked in and the look on the nurse’s face said it all. She said “come straight through on your own”,’ Amanda remembered. ‘They took me through the curtains and a nurse came to me and said “don’t panic but it’s confronting”. She opened the curtains and he was on life support right at that moment I still didn’t realise how serious it was, I just thought maybe he’d been hit on the head while coming up from the drive.’ Amanda recalls thinking ‘we were going to be late for his graduation dinner.’ ‘He was going to be singing at the Year 12 dinner that night… I thought “what the heck is going on”… there was silence in the room with the doctors and nurses not saying much. ‘It just got worse, the feeling in the room got worse.’ This photo was taken of Ben as he finally left hospital on February 2 after three and a half months . Ben and his father regularly go diving. In this photo he is seen spearfishing . Simon and his wife Amanda began praying and received a huge amount of support from their local and religious community and churches around the world. ‘The support has been tremendous; way beyond anything we expected it was crazy,’ Simon said. The doctors told Amanda and Simon more scans had shown a massive bleed on the brain and a top neurosurgeon in Perth told them ‘there is no chance of survival’. ‘As a mum I felt like everything had all of a sudden drained form the top of me all the way to my feet. I felt faint and it just got worse. This week Ben got back on his paddle board for the first time since October . Doctors hope that Ben will be back to full health within two years and able to surf and dive again within six months . ‘The other doctor came in and said “I know it’s bad timing but we need to know if Ben would be happy to donate his organs”,’ Amanda said. One of Amanda’s other two sons advised his mother that it was what Ben would have wanted and they began the process of moving him to Perth for his organs to be donated. ‘Ben and I got in the ambulance and about 30 people came to say goodbye, six of them very close friends, his grandparents and cousins. Everybody came because they were told to say goodbye… it was tough to see all the boys crying.’ An air ambulance flew Ben and Amanda to Perth where she held his hand the whole way and didn’t stop crying. ‘It was unbelievable and surreal and then I thought about his funeral, what he would like. I thought about his suit I had bought him. He had the school ball coming up, maybe he wouldn’t want to wear that to his funeral maybe he would want to wear boardies and a singlet?’ Amanda remembered. ‘I had to be there I couldn’t let him go on his own.’ It was when Ben reached Perth that the unimaginable happened. Ben planned to perform at his school graduation before the freak incident . The 18-year-old is seen in recovery here with his two elder brothers . While a nurse did routine checks for any movement Ben miraculously responded. ‘She said “you might want to turn away now” and she pushed really hard on his chest. He responded quiet strongly so I heard her say “I’m sorry darling”,’ Amanda said. Not long after that Simon and their middle son Zacc,19, arrived at the hospital, where their oldest son Kallan, 22, was too. ‘We were all in the room together, the five of us. The neurosurgeon came in and gave us a glimmer of hope as Ben had responded to the chest pain… he said “we’re willing to give it a go to try and save him”,’ Amanda said. A tense seven hour operation with no guarantees followed and finally at around 3am the family got the call to say Ben had made it. Amanda held her son Ben's hand the whole way to Perth and didn’t stop crying . Ben's mother Amanda told of the amazing moment the neurosurgeon told the family that Ben had responded for the first time . ‘It was then a good two weeks of up and down… it was a slow progress but it finally came, Ben responded to commands to squeeze the nurse’s hand.’ ‘It’s a miracle, he’s Geraldton’s own Lazarus… it was very much Jesus saying \"didn’t I tell you that I believed you would see the glory of God\",’ Simon said. Amazingly Ben has suffered no serious brain damage and doctors predict he will be fully recovered within two years with therapy. ‘I cried every day for three weeks. Every time I saw him it was heart wrenching… To think something like that can change in a moment. I’d just told him off about cleaning his room,’ Amanda said. Four months on, Ben has returned to the ocean to paddle board and once he’s got the all-clear from doctors it’s hoped he will be able to drive and dive again within six months. ‘He’s very grateful for his life because there was a point when everything went down and he was in a dingy by himself. He thought “I’m going to die, this is the end”. ‘He is very much aware that his life has been spared for a reason for a purpose and he’s very grateful for his life and very thankful to God,’ Simon said of his son Ben. The family said the traumatic experience has brought them closer together." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ben Phillips suffered extensive bleeding on the brain while cray fishing .\nArteriovenous Malformation (AVM) had been lying dormant since his birth .\nHis father Simon rushed him to hospital and doctors said he wouldn't live .\nHis mother travelled with him to Perth so his organs could be donated .\nHe then miraculously responded to a nurse's touch against all odds .\nMonths later he is back in the water and is expected to make a full recovery ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Growing reach: Russia has gained a foothold in Europe after President Vladimir Putin, pictured, signed a deal with Cyprus to dock warships there . Russia has gained a military foothold in Europe after Vladimir Putin signed a controversial deal with Cyprus to dock warships there. British MPs said Nicosia’s decision to let the Russian navy, including heavily armed frigates, use its ports for counter-terrorism and anti-piracy was ‘worrying and disappointing’. Cyprus, an EU member, thrashed out the agreement despite already hosting two British military bases and 3,200 troops. President Putin insisted the deal ‘should not cause worries anywhere’. But Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, who was visiting Moscow, hinted Russian warplanes could also be allowed to use a military airbase in Paphos, on the south-west coast of the island. The deal raised eyebrows as tensions between the West and Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine continue to rise. It will be watched warily by the UK, which has led calls for a string of punishing economic sanctions against Moscow for arming pro-Kremlin separatists who have taken over huge swathes of territory. On Tuesday, Britain announced it would deploy 75 troops to Ukraine as trainers – a move certain to have infuriated Putin. Russian bombers have recently buzzed UK airspace in a show of strength. The latest agreement fuelled speculation that the Kremlin had engineered the deal by putting together a multibillion-pound package to bail out debt-ridden Cyprus. The two countries, which have long had close economic ties, signed protocols including fresh financial deals between Cyprus and the Central Bank of Russia. There had already been a surge in Russian navy visits to the Cypriot port of Limassol, but the new agreement puts the situation on more solid legal ground. Tory MP Richard Ottaway, chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, said: ‘It is going to make renewing sanctions against Russia … much more unlikely. 'Putin is trying to drive a wedge between countries in the EU.’ Heavily armed: A 2003 picture of Russia's nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great, which could soon be sailing in the Mediterranean from new bases in Cyprus after the deal was sealed with Russia . A senior British Army officer said: ‘This will be watched closely by London. We know Russia has long coveted a naval base in Cyprus. 'This is another sign we are creeping back into a new Cold War.’ Dr James Ker-Lindsay, an expert on the politics of south-east Europe at the London School of Economics, said many in the EU ‘will feel worried and disappointed by this agreement’. He said Cyprus felt the EU had not helped it at the height of the financial crisis, yet Russian businesses and oligarchs stayed and did not withdraw their money. Unveiling the deal, President Putin said: ‘Our friendly ties aren’t aimed against anyone. I don’t think it should cause worries anywhere.’ ■ Warring sides in Ukraine last night declared the start of a withdrawal of heavy weapons from the front line. But the country’s Defence Ministry warned that its troops were still ‘in a state of total readiness to defend the country’." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The EU member already hosts two British bases with 3,200 troops .\nKremlin may have engineered the deal through bail-out to hard-up Cyprus .\nBritish officer says it's another sign we are creeping back to Cold War ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "America has its first all-vegan elementary school thanks to James Cameron's wife Suzy Amis. The Avatar director and his wife founded MUSE School in Calabasas, California, and Suzy announced last week their students will no longer eat, nor will the school utilize, any meat products, reports the Hollywood Reporter. 'Meals that are served at Muse will be 100 percent plant-based. The average person would say vegan, but we say whole food, plant-based. It's about raising kids who don't think it's strange or exotic or worthy of a pat on the back to be doing the right thing for the living biosphere.' Earthy: America has its first all-vegan elementary school thanks to James Cameron's wife Suzy Amis. The non-traditional private school is nestled in nature in the hills of Southern California and claims, per their website, to 'give each a voice in choosing curriculum based on what they like, how they learn, where they find fun, and what they need.' Amis, Cameron's fifth wife, made the announcement at LA's Chateau Marmont for an event where she was introducing a line of dresses whose sales will benefit the environmentally focused school. The celebrity standard-bearers for a vegan lifestyle aren't just wispy young actresses. They include talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, along with wife Portia de Rossi. (Or Oprah Winfrey, who isn't vegan but led her staff on a public 21-day vegan cleanse.) Starting in the fall, Amis announced last week that 'meals that are served at Muse will be 100 percent plant-based. The average person would say vegan, but we say whole food, plant-based' Or men like Ozzy Osbourne and Russell Brand, who in recent weeks both declared themselves vegans. Athletes like Carl Lewis and Mike Tyson. Even NFL player Tony Gonzalez, tight end for the Atlanta Falcons and 245-plus pounds — attributes his longevity to a largely vegan diet. And then there are the moguls, like billionaire publisher, real estate developer and recent avowed vegan Mort Zuckerman, and Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas casino magnate, who's hired a vegan chef and put vegan options in all his resort restaurants. Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, also has spoken of his veganism. Of all the high-profile vegans, though, Bill Clinton is the biggest 'catch.' Advocates were thrilled and stunned when he talked about it on CNN, telling Wolf Blitzer that his impressive, 24-pound weight loss was due to a largely plant-based diet — a regime he believes will prolong his life. The non-traditional private school is nestled in nature in the hills of Southern California and claims, per their website, to 'give each a voice in choosing curriculum based on what they like, how they learn, where they find fun, and what they need'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The MUSE School in Calabasas will be '100-percent plant-based' starting this fall, says Cameron's wife Suzy Amis ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "America's top intelligence official is predicting that Vladimir Putin plans to seize the strategic Ukrainian port of Mariupol in spring. Such a move by pro-Moscow rebels backed by the Russian army would be a key step in creating a land bridge and supply route to annexed Crimea. It would amount to a huge escalation in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Scroll down for video . Pro-Russian rebels of the Separate Repair and Refurbishment Battalion repair seized Ukrainian military vehicles and artillery in a factory compound in Donetsk . America's top intelligence official is predicting that Vladimir Putin plans to seize the strategic Ukrainian port of Mariupol in spring . An attack on Mariupol (pictured) would amount to a huge escalation in the conflict in eastern Ukraine . 'It is not our assessment that he is bent on capturing or conquering all of Ukraine,' said James Clapper, US Director of National Intelligence. 'He wants a whole entity composed of the two oblasts (regions) in eastern Ukraine which would include a land bridge to Crimea and perhaps a port, specifically Mariupol. 'We do not believe that an attack on Mariupol is imminent. I believe they will wait until the spring before they attack.' Ahead of a ceasefire, which has led to a lull in fighting in recent days, there were acute fears that pro-Moscow rebels were preparing an assault on Mariupol, a Sea of Azov port. Rebels were now 'reconstituting and regrouping', he warned. Moscow has struggled to supply Crimea from mainland Russia since annexing the Black Sea peninsula a year ago. Tanks of pro-Russian separatists on the road from Donetsk to Novoazovsk, Mariupol district . Ukrainian army soldiers go to the front line on the outskirts of the key southeastern port city of Mariupol . For now, land transport depends on the use of ferry services across the Kerch Strait. A seizure of Mariupol would represent a huge defeat for Ukraine and its backers in the West who want to stall Putin's alleged land grab strategy. The US spy chief made clear he favoured supplying arms to Kiev to counter Russian expansionism. This was his 'personal view' and not necessarily the position of US intelligence agencies, but he acknowledged that such a move could upset Putin and encourage him to give more powerful weapons to rebels. The head of military intelligence, Lieutenant General Vincent Stewart, appeared to disagree with him, telling the same US Senate hearing that the Rusisans 'will up the ante if we do any lethal aid or take any actions to bolster the equation'. President Barack Obama is weighing the idea of arming Ukraine but has yet to announce a final decision. Pro-Russian rebels guard a checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Russian border in Novoazovsk, Mariupol district ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If the rebels seize Mariupol it would amount to a huge escalation in the war .\nIt would give Russia a land bridge and supply route to annexed Crimea .\nMoscow has struggled to supply Crimea from mainland Russia ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Green initiatives: Energy Secretary Ed Davey announced agreements to buy energy from 27 new renewable energy projects until 2040 . More than £4billion in lucrative energy contracts was yesterday handed out to wind and solar schemes – but green lobbyists immediately insisted it was not enough. Energy Secretary Ed Davey announced agreements to buy energy from 27 new renewable energy projects until 2040. The subsidised schemes include 15 onshore wind farms, five solar arrays, two offshore wind programmes and five waste conversion plants. Mr Davey said the schemes will eventually power 1.4million homes. But parts of the green energy industry said they had not been treated fairly in the bidding process. The ‘Contracts for Difference’ scheme, which will guarantee energy firms a fixed price for their power for 15 years, will be funded by ordinary householders through their electricity bills. The scheme adds a subsidy on to the basic wholesale cost of electricity as part of the Government’s drive to expand renewable energy projects. The subsidies will cost up to £315million a year - an estimated total of at least £4billion over the lifetime of the scheme once fluctuations in the energy market are taken into account. Solar industry leaders complained that wind had been favoured by the Government, despite solar being cheaper. Paul Barwell, chief executive of the Solar Trade Association, said: ‘The soon to be cheapest and most popular renewable - solar power - has lost out in a complex auction scheme that favours big players and genuinely established technologies. ‘Is a policy that trips up the UK’s emerging solar industry really a successful policy? We don’t think so.’ Alex Fornal, head of project development at Solar company Juwi, which made three unsuccessful bids, said wind had taken most of what was already a ‘minuscule’ budget. ‘If properly supported solar will become the first renewable to compete with conventional generation by the end of the decade,’ he said. Simon Bullock of Friends of the Earth added: ‘Ministers should be investing far more on the UK’s huge renewable energy potential.’ Critics of renewable energy subsidies said green power firms needed to ‘grow up’. John Constable, director of the Renewable Energy Foundation, said: ‘This industry is behaving like a spoiled brat - you can never give it enough subsidies, it will always want more. ‘They have to grow up and come into the real world and compete.’ Windmills: Solar industry leaders complained that wind had been favoured by the Government . Mr Davey insisted the ‘reverse auction’ process - in which lower bids were favoured for the contracts - would save bill-payers a total of £110million a year. ‘This world-leading auction has delivered contracts for renewables projects right across the UK,’ he said. ‘These projects could power 1.4 million homes, create thousands of green jobs and give a massive boost to home-grown energy while reducing our reliance on volatile foreign markets. ‘The auction has driven down prices and secured the best possible deal for this new clean, green energy.’ The Government’s independent Committee on Climate Change estimates that green subsidies and taxes currently add £45 to dual gas and electricity bills – a figure that will rise to £100 by 2020 and £175 by 2030." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The schemes include 15 onshore wind farms and five solar arrays .\nEd Davey said the schemes will eventually power 1.4million homes .\nSubsidies will cost up to £315million a year, 4billion over their lifetimes ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Women in Australia are earning a record 18.8 per cent less per week than their male counterparts, a shocking new report has found. The gender pay gap between everyday Australians is the worst it’s been in more than twenty years, despite an ever-growing movement calling for equal pay for men and women. Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows the average ordinary full-time earnings for men rose to $1,587.50 per week, while their female colleagues received $298.10 less. It is the largest pay gap recorded since the ABS began collecting the data in 1994. Daily Mail Australia has contacted Prime Minister Tony Abbott – who also acts as the Minister for Women – for comment. The gender pay gap between everyday Australians working full-time is the worst it’s been in twenty years . Associate Professor Rae Cooper from the University of Sydney Business School’s Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies told Daily Mail Australia the findings are even more shocking because it’s the second year in a row the gap has grown. ‘I was shocked last time around when it was the highest in 20 years at 18.2 per cent and now it’s 18.8 per cent,’ Professor Cooper said. ‘It’s really concerning in a sense because there’s only been a modest wage growth. Wages have only gone up a little bit but the gap has grown massively.’ The reasons the gap keeps growing are complex, Professor Cooper said. ‘There is sticky floor, that’s the biggest cause, women get stuck in low level non-career track jobs,' she said. 'But it’s also a story about glass walls. Women are segregated into particular industries and those industries are low paid.’ Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows the average ordinary full-time earnings for men rose to $1,587.50 per week while their female colleagues received $298.10 less . Across the board the pay gap of average weekly ordinary time earnings is about $300 a week . Some employers – particularly large ones – are now giving more information on the scale of the problem and where it is but Professor Cooper said ‘what we’re not seeing is a lot of movement in response’. ‘How many times can we hear that there is a pay gap in every occupation and every level, it’s not a question of if there is one but the scale of it.’ Professor Cooper said that across the board the pay gap of average weekly ordinary time earnings is about $300 a week. This number does not include part time workers, casual staff or bonuses. Women who work in education have about a $200 gap from their male counterparts. Men in education earn $1,700 a week on average and women get $1,486. In finance, there is a $600 gap and mining there is an almost $500 gap. Men in the mining industry earn an average a week $2459.50, while women get $2014. Males in the mining industry earn an average a week $2459.50, while women get $2014 . These figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics from November 2014 visibly shows the pay gap between men and women (the blue graph is male earnings) This purple graph illustrates how women working full-time are still earning much less then their male counterparts . Essentially, women in Australia 'should take Friday off to compensate for the 18.8 per cent difference', Professor Cooper joked. The ABS’s findings were released after Employment Minister Eric Abetz announced plans to scale back business red tape on gender reporting. Extra gender reporting requirements were due to apply from April 1 covering job applications, interviews, the salaries of chief executives and parental leave. The government says after public consultation it will scrap the extra requirements but maintain existing arrangements. Men in education earn $1,700 a week on average and women get $1,486 . Women who work in education have about a $200 gap from their male counterparts . . Men in education earn $1,700 a week and women get $1,486 . However, it’s believed the Liberal's plans may fail in the Senate. Under laws introduced by the previous Labor government, businesses with 100 or more employees are required to provide the Workplace Gender Equality Agency with data on pay, recruitment, retention and promotions. Australian Greens senator Larissa Waters has flagged a disallowance motion in the Senate if she can't convince the government to change its mind. Senator Waters said data on managerial level job applications and interviews was critical because it would show where the glass ceiling was most impenetrable." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Australian women in full-time work earn 18.8 per cent less than men .\nWomen deserve to 'take Friday off to compensate,' expert says .\nThe average ordinary full-time earnings for men rose to $1,587.50 per week .\nTheir female colleagues received $298.10 less ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Twitter's boss recently admitted the social network 'sucks' at dealing with trolls and now the site is making good on its promise to clamp down on these abusive accounts. Reports from The Verge claim the site will start banning users who violate its rules by tracking email addresses and phone numbers. This means that if an offender attempts to sign up for other accounts using these details Twitter will be able to intervene. Reports claim Twitter will start banning trolls and abusive users by tracking email addresses and phone numbers. When people sign up they are required to give an email address, but adding a number (pictured) is optional. To solve this issue, Twitter may ban accounts accused of abuse until they provide a phone number . When people sign up to Twitter they are required to provide an email address, which is then validated. Adding a phone number is an optional step and is predominantly used if people want to receive text notifications or setup two-step verification. Under the reported plans, once a user is banned these email addresses and phone numbers will be stored and cross-referenced each time a new user signs up to the site. It is not known how this information will be stored and how specifically it will be used and MailOnline has contacted Twitter for more information. Stories of abuse, threats and internet trolls have become commonplace on Twitter in recent years. Robin Williams’ daughter, Zelda Williams, left the social platform last year after being sent disturbing images in the wake of her father’s suicide. Feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian was threatened with rape, sexual violence and death by Twitter trolls during the 'Gamergate' saga after she criticised the way women are portrayed in video games. In the UK, journalist Caroline Criado-Perez also received rape threats after she voiced her support for the campaign to introduce Jane Austen as the new face of the £10 note. Twitter users Isabella Sorley and John Nimmo admitted sending the messages to Ms Criado-Perez and both were jailed last year. Although this is a positive step, the system is unlikely to catch trolls if they sign up for accounts with multiple email addresses. Similarly, as adding a phone number is optional, this won't always be possible to track. But The Verge continued Twitter may temporarily ban accounts accused of abuse until they provide a phone number to get round this issue. Earlier this month, an internal memo sent by Twitter's chief executive Dick Costolo revealed the 51-year-old thinks his site ‘sucks at dealing with abuse and trolls’. In the memo, Mr Costolo said he is embarrassed by the way the company handles abuse and that it must take stronger action in the future. Mr Costolo’s comments were posted on an internal forum among Twitter employees, after one employee raised the question of what more could be done to tackle online abuse. In December, a blog post titled 'Building a safer Twitter' revealed Twitter is working on ways to make it easier to block and report abuse. The site has since improved the reporting process to make it more mobile-friendly, and it now requires less initial information. In December, a blog post titled 'Building a safer Twitter' revealed Twitter is working on ways to make it easier to block and report abuse. The site has since improved the reporting process to make it more mobile-friendly, and it now requires less initial information. It has also made it simpler to flag tweets and accounts for review . These enhancements similarly improved the reporting process for people who see abuse but aren’t directly receiving it. More recently the site posted a follow-up blog updating users on its new safety features. MailOnline has contacted Twitter for more information about how users details will be stored . Under the Malicious Communications Act 1988, any 'indecent or grossly offensive' message that causes 'distress or anxiety' to the recipient can lead to prosecution. The maximum punishment is a fine not exceeding level four on the standard scale - i.e. no more than £2,500. Since the 1988 law came into force before the widespread use of the internet, e-mail and social networking, prosecutors have used a number of different laws to charge Twitter trolls. Student Liam Stacey, who sent a series of racially abusive tweets after footballer Fabrice Muamba collapsed, was charged under the Crime and Disorder Act. Two men jailed for inciting riots last summer were found guilty under the Serious Crime Act, and Paul Chambers, who joked he would blow Doncaster airport 'sky high' was charged under the Communications Act 2003. It has also made it simpler to flag tweets and accounts for review. These enhancements similarly improved the reporting process for people who see abuse but aren’t directly receiving it. More recently, the site posted a follow-up blog updating users on its new safety features. Tina Bhatnagar, Twitter's vice president of User Services said: 'Over the last six months, in addition to the product changes, we have overhauled how we review user reports about abuse. 'Overall, we now review five times as many user reports as we did previously, and we have tripled the size of the support team focused on handling abuse reports. 'We are also beginning to add several new enforcement actions for use against accounts that violate our rules. These new actions will not be visible to the vast majority of rule-abiding Twitter users - but they give us new options for acting against the accounts that don’t follow the rules and serve to discourage behavior that goes against our policies. The safety of our users is extremely important to us. It’s something we continue to work hard to improve.' In recent years Twitter has come under fire for failing to protect its users from trolls. Robin Williams’ daughter, Zelda Williams, left the social platform last year after being sent disturbing images in the wake of her father’s death. She made an appeal to her followers to report two users on Twitter (shown above)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reports claim Twitter will start banning users who violate its rules .\nIt will then add these user's addresses and phone numbers to a blacklist .\nThis means if an offender attempts to sign up for other accounts using these details Twitter will be able to intervene .\nTwitter boss Dick Costolo recently said site 'sucks' at dealing with trolls .\nIn an internal memo he also took responsibility for Twitter's problems .\nTwitter streamlined its abuse reporting system in December ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Prince Harry is planning to leave the armed forces this year and devote his time to more charity work, pictured at Camp Bastion . Prince Harry is to leave the Armed Forces within six months to pursue charity work with injured service personnel. The captain in the Blues and Royals is expected to spend much of the next year in Australia, New Zealand and Africa, where he has links with charities. Senior royal sources said Harry, 30, was at a ‘crossroads’ in his military career. ‘Although the military will always be a huge part of his life, he is at a point when he needs to make significant decisions about his career and the prince believes he can best serve the charities he wants to work with, particularly those helping service personnel, as a civilian,’ said one. It is clear to many who work with Harry that since returning from Afghanistan he has been struggling to find a suitable long-term military role that can be combined with the causes close to his heart. Kensington Palace declined to comment yesterday on reports of his decision to quit because the fine details are still being worked through. The Mail understands, however, that he is likely to leave by the end of the summer. Before then he will spend several weeks with the military in Australia as well as representing the UK, along with his father, Prince Charles, at the 100th anniversary Anzac Day commemorations in Gallipoli. Last year Harry devised and organised the Invictus Games, a remarkable Para-lympics-style event for wounded servicemen and women which attracted 400 competitors from 13 nations and was lauded as an unqualified success. Despite that, some senior royal commentators question the wisdom of leaving the forces – which have given the once wayward prince so much direction in his life. Many believe Prince Andrew’s decision in 2001 to leave the Royal Navy, where he had a distinguished career, caused some of the problems that have dogged him recently. When Prince Harry leaves the Army, the Royal Family will have no senior members on full-time active military service. Harry has served twice on the front line in Afghanistan since graduating from Sandhurst in May 2005. He was first sent out as a forward air controller in 2007 after his wish to serve in the infantry was deemed too dangerous to both himself and his men. The young royal, 30, served two tours of duty on the front line in Afghanistan, pictured making pre-flight checks on an Apache helicopter in Camp Bastion . The angry prince was forced to return early from the posting when an American website broke the news blackout on his deployment. He then retrained with the Army Air Corps and was picked to fly the Apache attack helicopter. He returned to Afghanistan in 2012. He left last year to take up a Staff Officer role in London to work on his plan to bring the Invictus Games to Britain. His move to the capital brought him back to his then girlfriend, Cressida Bonas. But when the romance ended, he realised he had little appetite to progress up the ranks. He is now focused on working for the Ministry of Defence’s recovery capability programme. It involves working alongside case officers in London’s Personnel Recovery Unit and visiting recovery centres, Forces charities and NHS units. A source added: ‘What he is doing now is helping him develop his knowledge of how the system works. The military will always play a very important part in Prince Harry’s life and especially supporting those who have served or are serving in the Armed Forces.’ He is keen to pursue his interests in 'conservation and wildlife' and hopes to spend a time on field projects in Africa, pictured playing with children during a visit to Phelisanong Children's Home in Lesotho . Prince Harry passed the qualification necessary to train at Sandhurst, in September 2004. He entered The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2005 and Clarence House announced that he was to join the Blues and Royals the following year as an officer cadet. It was announced that had been serving with the British Army in Helmand, Afghanistan for more than two months in 2008. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant with The Household Cavalry (Blues and Royals) and then begin training to become and Army Air Corps Pilot in January 2009. Prince Harry spent three and a half years in training and operational service with the Apache Force during his attachment to the Army Air Corps. The royal has undertaken two operational tours of Afghanistan, as a Forward Air Controller in 2007 to 2008 and as an Apache Pilot between September 2012 and January 2013. During his time in the Army Air Corps he was assigned to 662 Squadron, 3 Regiment within 16 Air Assault Brigade and in July 2013, Prince Harry qualified as an Apache Aircraft Commander. He was promoted to the rank of Captain in April 2011 and was also awarded his Apache Badge from the Officer in Command of his Squadron at the same time. The Prince, who currently has the rank of Captain, took up a Staff Officer role in London in 2014. Pray Prince Harry doesn't make his uncle Andrew's mistakes, says RICHARD KAY, editor-at-large . Warrior prince: Harry on patrol in Afghanistan . For as long as he can remember, Prince Harry wanted to be a soldier. Aged eight, he sat in a Scimitar armoured vehicle in combat fatigues and camouflage paint, beaming as Princess Diana took the salute at a Light Dragoons base in Germany. While his brother William daydreamed about being a policeman – so he could better ‘protect’ their mother – Harry yearned for active service. This ambition drove him from Eton’s combined cadet force, where he narrowly missed out on winning the prized Sword of Honour, to Sandhurst military academy, and finally active service with the Blues and Royals. Two tours of Afghanistan followed, including one as an Army Air corps Apache pilot after he retrained to fly helicopters. So his decision to end a military career just ten years after it began cannot have been an easy one. It had, after all, seemed he was destined to become one of the few members of the Royal Family to actually earn most of those medals that routinely cover their chests. But life in the military represented a paradox for the warrior prince. Instead of helping him find the freedom he sought away from the heart of the Royal Family, it increasingly began to suffocate him. The restrictions imposed on him because of who he was meant the top brass were not prepared to allow him the luxury – as he saw it – of the further front line posting he craved. The Army proposed a desk job, a position which Harry is neither emotionally nor intellectually equipped to handle. He was, I am told, ‘desperate’ to stay in uniform but not at any price, and will now seek to find a new life concentrating on charity projects. If alarm bells are not ringing at this woolly if honourable prospect, then they should be. For there are some uneasy parallels with another significant royal figure who abandoned a military career to seek a new direction – Harry’s uncle Prince Andrew, who has never found a meaningful role since quitting the Navy in 2001. Once a heartbeat or two away from the throne as Charles’s brother, Andrew has slipped down the pecking order with the arrival of a new generation of princes. Now it’s Harry’s turn to slide down the line of succession. First George, and then in April – when the Duchess of Cambridge is due to give birth – another royal infant will vault ahead of him. So at 30, and unmarried, Harry has momentous decisions to make about his future. Andrew was a divorcee and over 40 when he left the Senior Service, only to stagger from one disreputable episode to another in a kind of extended midlife crisis, culminating in the current scandal in which he stands accused of sleeping with an underage girl – which he robustly denies – and consorting with a known paedophile. Harry's youthful indiscretions – underage drinking, smoking pot and dressing in Nazi regalia for a party – seem piffling by contrast. And as one figure who has been around him all his life tells me: ‘The difference between Harry and Andrew is vast. Harry is a nice guy whereas Andrew is arrogant. Yes, Harry has been a bit misguided at times, but he is intelligent enough to realise he must learn from his mistakes.’ When Diana was with him that day in Germany in 1993, she saw a confident figure better equipped for royal duty than William, and privately described him to friends as ‘good king Harry’. What happens next to harness those qualities is crucial. Hugely popular with the public he may be, but that fondness may leach away if he returns to the sybaritic lifestyle of a party prince. Harry stands at a crossroads. Now, we must hope this charismatic young man chooses the correct path." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Prince Harry is planning to leave the armed forces later this year .\nYoung royal, 30, served two tours of duty on the front line in Afghanistan .\nHe is keen to pursue his interests in 'conservation and wildlife'\nThe Prince is also planning to spend 'significant period' in Africa ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jeb Bush sounded more like his older brother than himself on Friday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, winning over many conservative activists in what is known as hostile terrority for political moderates like him. Mixing jokes with firm policy positions, the former Florida governor ditched the wooden posture that earned him low marks during recent speeches in Detroit and Chicago, stepping out from behind a podium and engaging in 20 minutes of one-on-one with Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity. Bush tackled head-on the two subject that have made him an object of scorn on the Republican Party's right wing – immigration policy and so-called 'Common Core' national education standards. Talk of a protest walkout by disaffected right-wingers never materialized beyond a handful of attendees heading to the exits after a stemwinder by the president of the National Rifle Association. THIRD BUSH IN LINE: Jeb would join his father and brother as White House occupants if he were to seize the brass ring in 2016 . SPRING IN HIS STEP: Bush won friends among conservatives by talking to the audience instead of reading from prepared remarks . The Common Core standards have aroused loud protests on the right, and Bush laid out his support for the plan in November saying 'the rigor of Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.' But on Friday he sought to distance himself from that statement and seemed to sympathize with the abti-Big-Government crowd gathered near the nation's capital. 'With this president and this Department of Education,' Bush allowed, 'there's a risk that they will intrude, and they have,' on the states. Republicans, he said, should insist taht 'the federal government has no role in the creation of standards, either directly or indirectly.' He also said the party must demand that Washington stay out of local schools' curriculum decisions and keep its hands off information collected for student ID cards. But the idea of raising the bar for education standards and requiring schools to prove they are meeting them, he insisted, is sound. 'If there's no consequence between mediocrity and failure, or excellence, then the system won't move forward,' Bush said. The immigration mess Bush finds himself in is thornier. in April 2014 he said at an event marking the 15th anniversary of his father's presidency that many illegal immigrants cross America's southern border with good intentions. 'Someone who comes to our country because they couldn’t come legally, they come to our country because their families – the dad who loved their children – was worried that their children didn’t have food on the table,' he said. 'And they wanted to make sure their family was intact, and they crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide for their family. Yes, they broke the law, but it’s not a felony. It’s an act of love. It’s an act of commitment to your family.' Conservative voters remember this and many booed Bush in anticipation of a smackdown when Hannity read the words back to him. The catcalls tripled in volume when Bush was reinded that he had green-lighted lower college tuition – the rates paid by students who live in Florida – for illegal immigrants attending state-run universities. 'For those who made an ‘oo’ sound – is that what it was?' he asked with a grin. 'I’m marking you down as neutral and I want to be your second choice.' The boos mixed with some cheers when Bush laid out his position more unapologetically. 'There is no plan to deport 11 million people,' he said. 'We should give them a path to legal status' provided that 'they don't break the law, they learn English and they make a contribution to society.' HOT-BUTTONS: Immigration and Commone Core education standards are stumbling blocks for Bush but he explained his positions and didn't back down . That position distinguishes him from most other Republicans in the hunt for the presidency, most of whom castigated the Obama White House for an 'amnesty' plan that threatens to mainstream 5 million or more people in the country illegally. But if he were to win the tense nomination fight, his stance would be a carbon copy of what any Democrat might offer – a situation that red-meat conservatives see as a capitulation. Bush split the difference by agreeing with the capacity crowd about President Obama's executive actions. 'The president did use authority he didn't have,' Bush said. 'The courts are going to overturn that.' 'I think the Congress ought to pass a bill that does not allow him to use that authority. ... The president has gone way beyond his constitutional powers to do this, and the Congress has every right to reinstate their responsibility for what the law is about.' Bush is fashioning a strategy that calls for pegging the immigration fight to jobs and economic growth. On Friday the White House announced that the Amercan economy grew by 2.2 per cent in the last quarter of 2014. With a 4 per cent growth, Bush said, there would be enough jobs for everyone in the U.S., whether or not they had the legal right to work. He encouraged the crown not to 'believe that the pie is static – that's the left's point of view.' 'If we grow at 4 per cent there's going to be opportunities for all.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gone was the awkward, middle-distance-staring Jeb from recent speeches in Chicago and Detroit .\nAided by Q&A from Fox's Sean Hannity, the former governor joked and sparred with audience members .\nA few hard-line conservatives staged a walkout to protest disagreements with him on education and immigration policy .\n'I'm marking you down as neutral,' he cracked at an audience member who booed him on immigration and jobs, 'and I want to be your second choice'" } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Human body parts that fell from the sky in Saudi Arabia could be the remains of someone trapped in an aircraft's undercarriage bay, police have revealed. Officers said the grisly incident happened near the centre of the Red Sea city of Jeddah, just south of King Abdulaziz International Airport, early this morning. Force spokesman Nawaf bin Naser al-Bouq said: 'Police received a telephone call at 2.30 am from a witness reporting the fall of human remains at an intersection in Mushrefa neighbourhood.' A plane is pictured after an emergency landing at Medina airport. Twenty nine people were injured . Initial indications were that the remains 'fell from a plane's landing gear,' said Bouq, adding that investigations were ongoing. The report came after a Saudi Arabian Airlines jet made an emergency landing in the city of Medina in the west of the kingdom, injuring 29 people on Sunday. That aircraft had been travelling from Iran's second city of Mashhad with 315 people on board. A spokesman for the General Authority of Civil Aviation said there was no connection between the emergency landing in Medina and the Jeddah incident. The Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) Boeing 767-300ER made an emergency landing at Medina airport in the west of the country early on Sunday, the General Authority of Civil Aviation said . The bod parts fell from the sky over the Red Sea city of Jeddah, on Saudi Arabia's western coast . In a desperate attempt to cross borders, some people at poorly monitored airports climb inside the bays housing aircraft landing gear. Most of them freeze to death once the aircraft reach cruising altitude, but some survive. In 2010, the head of Beirut's airport security resigned after the death of a man who managed to hide in the undercarriage bay of a Saudi-bound jet. The man's body was found by a maintenance worker who was inspecting the gear of the Saudi-owned Nas Air Airbus A-320 after it landed in Riyadh." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Officers said incident happened near the Red Sea city of Jeddah .\nInitial indications were the remains 'fell from plane's undercarriage'\nReport came after Saudi jet made emergency landing in Medina .\n29 were injured, but police said two incidents weren't connected ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Guilty: Anthony McSweeney has been convicted of indecent assault on a young boy 35 years ago . A Catholic priest dubbed the 'fat vicar' was today found guilty of sexually abusing a boy in a care home and downloading child porn onto his computer. Father Anthony McSweeney, 68, faces jail after he was convicted of preying on the vulnerable boy while he was working at Grafton Close Children's Home in Hounslow, west London, more than 30 years ago. The care home was run by McSweeney's friend John Stingemore, who was found dead in January weeks before he was due to stand trial alongside the priest. Southwark Crown Court heard that McSweeney watched young boys shower for his own sexual gratification, and kept a collection of child porn at home. He denied being a paedophile - but today a jury of six men and five women found him guilty of indecent assault and three counts of making indecent images of children. The attack on the young boy took place between 1979 and 1981, while the child porn was found on his laptop after he was arrested in 2013. McSweeney was cleared of three indecent assaults on two other boys at the care home and taking a pornographic photo of one of these boys. The 20st priest was once enlisted by TV cook Delia Smith to hold a special football service at Norwich City. And he officiated at the 1990 wedding of boxing star Frank Bruno and his now ex-wife Laura. McSweeney was investigated as part of Operation Fernbridge, the police probe into an alleged VIP paedophile ring at Grafton Close and Elms Guest House in Barnes, west London. Stingemore used his connections to help get his close friend a job at Grafton Close, where they molested vulnerable boys together, the court heard. McSweeney watched as a teenage boy was abused by Stingemore in the care home shower. Denial: The Catholic priest insisted he had no sexual interest in children but was found guilty by a jury . Three years earlier, McSweeney was seen ogling a Boy Scout as he washed at a retreat. When the boy reported him to a warden he was told not to be 'stupid and make trouble', and his mother slapped him because a 'priest would not do anything like that'. A schoolboy from Grafton Close told the court that McSweeney was 'touchy feely' and referred to him as a 'fat vicar'. He said that the priest went into his bedroom and told him he had to take his clothes off for a 'medical', before taking photographs of him on a Polaroid camera. Friend: John Stingemore was set to face a string of charges alongside Sweeney but was found dead in January this year . The priest confessed to watching a porn film featuring boys as young as ten on a home cinema with Stingemore - but claimed he turned it off in disgust. And he denied molesting boys as they sat on his lap, claiming he was too fat to do so. Stingemore was sacked from Grafton Close in mysterious circumstances in 1981, and McSweeney's visits abruptly stopped as he continued with his career in the priesthood. In 1998 McSweeney nearly lost his job when his cleaner discovered his stash of sex toys, truncheons and pornographic videos at St Peter's Catholic Church in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. She played one of the tapes and saw it featured two boys between 14 and 16 years old having sex, the court heard. McSweeney was originally told that he would be 'banished' from the priesthood, but after around six months was quietly moved to a new parish, St George's in Norwich. The defendant, who now lives in Pease Pottage, West Sussex, was told he could be jailed when he is sentenced in a month's time. Judge Alistair McCreath said: 'You are not to come to court in four weeks thinking to yourself that the judge gave me bail and therefore I'm not to go to prison, because that would be a false hope.' Responding to today's verdict, Gillian Norton of Richmond Council said: 'The council is sorry that a child in its care was indecently assaulted. 'The assault happened 35 years ago and clearly the service leadership and management laid bare in court were totally unacceptable. The situation today is completely different.' Detective Chief Inspector Keith Braithwaite of Metropolitan Police said: 'McSweeney was an abuser who used his role in a position of trust. 'I would like to pay tribute to the courage of the victim in speaking out against McSweeney. It was that testimonial that secured the charges and enabled this case to be brought to court. 'I would also like to thank those witnesses who provided key evidence that ensured the court could hear what sort of man McSweeney really is.' The Bishop of East Anglia, Alan Hopes, said that McSweeney had been barred from the ministry since his arrest and will now face disciplinary action. He said: 'These are grave crimes, and I wish to reassure firstly the victims and all of those affected that I take the matter very seriously. 'As a bishop and as an ordinary member of society, I share the experience of great sorrow and regret that such offences take place. 'The later offences of accessing indecent images of children whilst serving as a priest have both served to compound the abuse already committed on the children themselves, and breached the trust that was placed in him as a minister in the Church and those who held him in high regard. 'I wish to assure the victims and their families that their suffering is taken seriously by the Church.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anthony McSweeney is guilty of indecent assault and making child porn .\nThe 20st priest attacked a young boy 35 years ago at a care home run by his friend John Stingemore, who was found dead last month .\nMcSweeney, 68, ogled boys in the shower and was caught with videos of children having sex .\nVictims were not believed because of McSweeney's role as a priest ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A young woman got the shock of her life when a lip enhancing product she bought online left her looking like she had just gone a round in a boxing ring. Brittany Forster, 24, of Perth, Western Australia, bought CandyLipz from the company's website and tried it - sticking the apple-shaped device over her mouth and applying suction. After two 'horrific' minutes of watering eyes and painful lips, she removed the application and was appalled with the results, which had left her with a huge trout pout. Scroll down for video . 24-year-old Perth woman, Brittany Forster (pictured left before the application) bought CandyLipz from their online website and decided to try the product out on Monday night. Brittany was left horrified with the results (right) Brittany's lips were completely unrecognisable, swollen and bruised from the lip enhancing product. The young woman, who now lives in Sydney, where she is studying for her Masters in Education, was so shocked that she began hyperventilating, worried that she would be left with permanent scarring. 'I took it off and I just looked in the mirror and I said oh my god what have I done? No, no, no, this can’t be happening,’ Brittany told Daily Mail Australia. ‘As soon as I looked in the mirror I thought what have I done to myself?.' After looking up blogs online about how Kylie Jenner got her famous lips, Brittany decided to try out CandyLipz . The application takes two minutes and makes the user's eyes and lips sting . 'I was thinking it was permanent. When I put the lipstick on, I was like, well if this is my life now I'm going to have to start enjoying it. I’ll have to embrace it.' CandyLipz is a lip plumper which can freely be bought online. According to the company's website, the effects of the product can last for up to two hours. Other lip enhancing devices, including the Jolie Lips Plumping System, De Luxe Lip Plumper, and Luscious Lips by Cynthia Rowland can also be bought on a range of sites online. Brittany posted a video online after the incident in which her two best friends are trying to comfort her by saying: ‘They’ll go down, they’ll go down, don’t worry’. But Brittany did not appreciate their comments at the time, saying 'can you see my face?' After uploading a video of the moment she unveiled her new lips to her friends on YouTube, Brittany said she now finds the situation funny, despite the fact she is left 'looking like she's been sucking on a pen all day'. The applicator for CandyLipz latches onto your lips and squeezes them, giving users a tingling sensation. 'It’s quite a painful experience,' Brittany said. CandyLipz is a lip plumper which can freely be bought online. According to the company's website, the effects of the product can last for up to two hours . Brittany was horrified with the results of the application and left worrying she would be like that forever . 'You put it on for two minutes and it’s quite horrific and then you take it off.' However, the pain was worth it for Brittany, who had been looking at blogs on how famous Kardashian sister, Kylie Jenner, gets her massive pout, hoping to emulate the star. Kylie Jenner is now notorious for having some of the biggest lips in Hollywood and Brittany thought her secret was CandyLipz. ‘The funny thing is that when I saw Kylie Jenner's lips I thought they’re ridiculous, she’s gone too far,' Brittany said. 'But joke’s on me because that’s exactly what happened to me.’ Brittany's inspiration was Kylie Jenner, who is now famous for having a massive pout . Brittany believes the joke is now on her and that she 'should have expected it' Four days after the application, Brittany's lips are still battered and bruised. 'They're still really blue and bruised, I look dead. The next day they were still really red and quite big but now they’re just bloodied and bruised,' she said. Brittany does not blame CandyLipz for her bruised lips, claiming she knew what she was getting herself into and she said her lips will go down after a few more days. ‘In the instruction leaflet it does say all these things could happen, like bruising, swelling etc., but I just thought I was an expert on everything and used it thinking it’ll be fine, what can happen,' she said. ‘I should have just expected it.’ The traumatic experience has put the 24-year-old off ever using the product again though and she says she is now satisfied with the lips she was born with. ‘I’ll probably give it a miss. I think I've had my time with CandyLipz’, she said. CandyLipz say it is 'very normal' to get cupping marks from the product and that the bruising should resolve itself within 7 days. The company provided the following pictures which demonstrate the effects of CandyLipz . Brittany does not blame CandyLipz for her bruised lips, which she know will go down after a few more days . ‘I’m very appreciative of my little lips now. Grateful for what I have’. CandyLipz said they 'love' the video and couldn't believe how plump Brittany's lips were following the application. 'My, she got huge lips, we love it' CandyLipz told Daily Mail Australia. The company said that the swelling is a sign that the product has actually worked and it is 'normal' to get cupping marks from the applicator. 'It is very normal to get the cupping marks. These marks are temporary and will resolve within 7 days or less,' a spokesperson said. 'To have huge lips, we all went through this conditioning period. After the conditioning period, the cupping marks will not return if you continue to use the lip plumper daily.' The CandyLipz website claims that the product is suitable for 16-year-olds and older and is designed to 'raise the arches of the cupid’s bow, fills in grooves, and lip pits, lift the corners of the mouth, and block the development of duck lips.' CandyLipz said the bruising and swelling will do down in a few days . The traumatic experience has put the 24-year-old off ever using the product again though and she says she is now satisfied with the lips she was born with. She was left with severe bruising (pictured) after the application ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An Australian woman used a lip enhancer with shocking results .\nBrittany Forster from Perth was unrecognisable after the application .\nShe used CandyLipz in the hope of getting a Kylie Jenner-style pout .\nBut she was left with bruised and bloodied lips .\nCandyLipz say they 'love' Brittany's plump lips ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Clara Amfo presents the Radio 1 Top 40 chart show, which is due to be moved from a Sunday . The top 40 singles chart show is set to move from its traditional Sunday night slot. The move follows an international agreement by the music industry to release all new albums and singles on Fridays. Experts hope the new co-ordinated release date across the world will reduce piracy and 're-ignite excitement'. It comes after months of discussions between retailers, record companies, artists and musicians' unions about whether it should be changed. The Official Charts Company spokesman said it now planned to change the day the top 40 is announced. Although the new broadcast day has not yet been decided, a spokesman said BBC Radio 1 would continue to be the official home of the chart. In a statement it said: 'Exact details are to be decided, but Radio 1 will continue to be the home of the Official Chart.' A Radio 1 spokesman said a decision had yet to be made on whether the show would move or remain in its current timeslot. In the UK, singles are released on a Sunday, while albums are released the following day on a Monday. The chart show, presented by Clara Amfo, then runs between 4pm and 7pm on a Sunday. But albums and singles in other countries are released on different days, something which has led to problems across the industry. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the global record industry body, retailers around the world 'are committed to working with the labels and artist communities to ensure the successful implementation of the move to Friday'. The IFPI said Friday releases, which will come into force this summer, would 'breathe new life into music', adding: 'It has a compelling logic, at the start of the weekend when fans most want to buy music.' Under longstanding traditions, albums are generally released on Monday in Britain and France, Tuesday in the United States, Wednesday in Japan and Friday in Australia and Germany. A number of independent retailers in the United States, the world's largest music market, had opposed the Friday release date. They argued that weekends were already the busiest time and it made sense to encourage customers to come on an otherwise slow Tuesday. In recent years, artists including Beyonce and Madonna have also suddenly released albums without warning, sometimes selling them first in digital format, either in response to leaks or sometimes to avoid them. The music industry has witnessed turmoil since albums started going digital some 15 years ago. Paul McGowan, chief executive of Hilco Capital which owns Britain's largest music retailer HMV, voiced enthusiasm about shifting to Friday releases due to the flow of shoppers (file picture) The chart show's listening figures have alone dropped from four million in the 1980s to 1.3million. In comparison, Pick of the Pops, presented by Tony Blackburn on Thursdays and Saturdays, attracts an average audience of 2.1million for each episode. However, although modern audiences can now find the tracks on YouTube or streaming services such as Spotify whenever they want. Paul McGowan, chief executive of Hilco Capital which owns Britain's largest music retailer HMV, voiced enthusiasm about shifting to Friday releases due to the flow of shoppers. 'Quite simply, new music should hit the high street when people hit the street,' he said in a statement." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "New global release day for albums and single to come into force in summer .\nExperts say change will 're-ignite excitement' in music and reduce piracy .\nCharts spokesman said new broadcast date has not yet been confirmed .\nBut it said Radio 1 will continue to be the home of the official chart show ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ohio's Mount St. Joseph's women's basketball team held its postseason banquet in a hospital room in honor of their most courageous player. The 19-year-old freshman made it through a full season at the Cincinnati university while raising more than $1.3 million for research into the type of brain tumor that will likely end her life. During her senior year of high school, Hill was diagnosed with DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma), a rare form of brain cancer with a survival rate of less than 10 per cent, according to The Cure Starts Now. Scroll down for video . Made It: Lauren Hill, 19 (photographed), made it through a full season with the Mount St. Joseph's women's basketball team while raising more than $1.3 million for research into the type of brain tumor that will likely end her life . Despite the diagnosis, Hill decided to attend college and play for the Division III school. In September 2014, Hill's doctor told her she would not live past December, FOX reports. But Hill drastically defied expectations. Not only did she live, she played four basketball games with her team early in the season, making five layups. As her condition worsened, she became an honorary coach, attending games when possible. She tires easily now and needs to use a wheelchair often. The NCAA granted permission to move up the school's opening game because of her worsening condition, and she made a layup for the first basket in a game at Xavier University's 10,000-seat arena. She's occasionally hospitalized for treatment now, but still holding to each day as tightly as she can and urging others to appreciate their time together. 'That's truly Lauren,' coach Dan Benjamin said in an interview on Thursday. 'That's the message she's been saying forever. 'She's just thankful God gave her that opportunity and that role because she's the one that could handle it. And she's done it so gracefully. 'Even at the banquet, she comes in her wheelchair and she's all smiles. And that's truly amazing. I don't know what her pain level is or how much suffering she's going through, but the girl smiles every time she gets a chance.' Diagnosed: During her senior year of high school, Hill (left and right) was diagnosed with DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma), a rare form of brain cancer with a survival rate of less than 10 percent . The Team: The Mount St. Joseph's women's basketball team (photographed) held its postseason banquet in a hospital room with Hill . The team had planned to have its annual end-of-the-season banquet on Feb. 22 — a date that matches Hill's uniform number — but the final game got pushed back because of the weather. Hill was getting treated at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. So the team decided to take the banquet to the hospital, using a meeting room. Instead of having a big meal and awards, the players got sandwiches and spent time together. 'We were going to get something to eat, show up, talk about the season and celebrate being with each other,' Benjamin said. The team wore special gray jerseys for the first game at Xavier's arena. The NCAA prohibits schools from giving gifts to players, so they bought them for $22, another way to support Hill's fundraising for cancer research. Hill signed each of the jerseys at the banquet. Life: Doctors didn't expect Hill (center) to live this long with the tumor, which folds around parts of her brain . Doctors didn't expect Hill to live this long with the tumor, which folds around parts of her brain. 'The first diagnosis was December, around Christmas time, which is why I went ahead and tried to get the first game moved up,' Benjamin said. 'But that's Lauren. Lauren's not going to let it beat her. She's going to keep fighting. 'Everybody thought she'd be this small, tiny voice instead of this big lion roar. She's done a great job with that. And the money she's raised: Everybody thought she'd get some money, but $1.3 million is amazing.' In a recent interview with WKRC-TV, Hill said, 'Life is precious. ... Every moment you get with someone is a moment that's blessed, really blessed.' Throughout her battle, Hill has been honored by several local teams and schools. Earlier this week, Hill was honored by Ohio Gov. John Kasich as a recipient of the Governor's Courage Award, according to Sports Illustrated. The freshman received and honorary doctorate from the school, Local 12 reports. The Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters has been bestowed on a few others before Hill such as Neil Armstrogn, Nick Clooney, and Bob Castellini. She was recently named chief motivational officer of The Cure Starts Now, a cancer research foundation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lauren Hill, 19, played a complete season with the Mount St. Joseph's team despite having an inoperable brain tumor .\nDuring the season, she raised $1.3million for cancer research .\nBasketball team held their postseason banquet in a hospital room with Hill .\nIn September 2014, Hill's doctor told her she would not live past December, but Hill drastically defied expectations ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Chile's government on Thursday rejected a plea from 14-year-old Valentina Maureira (above) to be euthanized . Chile's government on Thursday rejected an ailing 14-year-old girl's plea on social media to let her 'sleep forever.' Cystic fibrosis sufferer Valentina Maureira posted a YouTube video shot from what appeared to be a hospital bed asking President Michelle Bachelet to allow her to be euthanized. It quickly circulated widely on social media. 'I urgently request to speak to the president because I'm tired of living with this illness,' said the teenager, whose older brother died at age 6 from the same disease. 'I want her approval so I can get a shot that will make me sleep forever.' Presidential spokesman Alvaro Elizalde said Thursday that although 'it's impossible not to be overcome by emotion with the girl's request, it's impossible to grant her wish,' because it's not allowed under Chilean law. Elizalde said the health ministry was in contact with Maureira's family and was providing her psychological assistance as well as medical treatment. Maureira was suffering from a respiratory illness and 'significant caloric malnutrition' when she entered Santiago's Catholic University hospital Jan. 30, said Andres Castillo, the doctor in charge of her treatment. In a statement issued by the hospital, Castillo said she had been transferred out of the critical pediatric patient unit. 'Right now our therapeutic efforts are aimed at the recovery of her nutritional state and supporting her family,' he said. Scroll down for video . Maurerira suffers from cystic fibrosis, and watched her older brother die from the disease when he was just 6-years-old . Valentina's father said she will continue trying to meet with Bachelet, so the president, who is also a pediatrician, can 'listen to her life story.' 'This is so tough, but I have to respect her decision because she's the one who's suffering this illness,' said Fredy Maureira. 'I already lost a 6-year-old son because I didn't have enough money and organs. Now my daughter just wants to die in a dignified way,' he added. Maureira said that after he first heard his daughter's wish to die, he 'cried through the night.' The degenerative disease is affecting Valentina's liver, pancreas and lung, and she has said that she's frustrated by the lack of options and how much it has affected her quality of life. 'She's exhausted, we're all exhausted, but if she wants to keep fighting, I'll be by her side every second,' the father said. 'My message to all the parents in the world who have healthy kids is: Please take care of them. Love them.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Chile's government on Thursday rejected a plea from 14-year-old Valentina Maureira to be euthanized .\nMaurerira suffers from cystic fibrosis, and watched her older brother die from the disease when he was just 6-years-old .\nShe said in a video that she wanted 'a shot that will make me sleep forever'" } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nigel Farage has accused Ukip's political rivals of spreading 'malicious' lies that he is 'seriously ill' - and insisted he would go on-and-on leading the party. Speaking at Ukip's spring conference in Margate this afternoon, Mr Farage told activists that rumours of his demise 'have been greatly exaggerated' - but invited criticism after failing to unveil any new party policies ahead of the election. He claimed political insiders from the main Westminster parties had started rumours that he had been keeping a low profile because he was suffering a serious illness. Scroll down for video . Nigel Farage has accused Ukip's political rivals of spreading 'malicious' lies that he is 'seriously ill' But Mr Farage said the reason he had not been in the spotlight was because he was campaigning in South Thanet, the seat he hopes to win at the general election. He told delegates: 'There has been some considerable speculation as to my whereabouts. 'My absence from the Westminster scene has even led our opponents to spread some really quite malicious and unpleasant speculation about my health. 'It's said I am seriously ill and that's why I've not been seen.' Opinion polls had suggested the Ukip leader was trailing the Conservative candidate in the Kent constituency he hopes to win in May. But, to cheers in the hall, Mr Farage hailed a new poll showing he is on course to win comfortably. 'We're on our way to winning this seat,' he predicted. Mr Farage also made clear he has no intention of calling it quits any time soon. 'We are going to win lots of seats in this general election and I hope very much to be leading this party not just into this general election, but in all the elections to come.' Speaking at Ukip's spring conference in Margate this afternoon, Mr Farage told activists that rumours of his demise 'have been greatly exaggerated' The Ukip leader said he would not be quitting any time soon, adding: 'I hope very much to be leading this party not just into this general election, but in all the elections to come' Britain's sewerage system is struggling to cope with the influx of migrants, a senior Ukip figure has claimed. Immigration spokesman Steven Woolfe raised the issue as he listed elements of infrastructure that were under pressure during his speech to the party's pre-election conference. Mr Woolfe insisted the public did not care about 'colour of skin or race or creed'. 'What they are concerned about is that our eye has been taken off the ball for nearly a generation,' he told the audience in Margate. 'Schools are now full, hospitals are troubled, healthcare - it is very difficult to be seen in many areas of this country. 'Roads need to be built, we need to look at the way we feed ourselves because of our growing population. 'What about our water and sewage systems? All of these matter.' Mr Farage's address came after the Ukip conference threatened to be overshadowed by a Nazi-themed troupe of dancers which turned up in Margate this morning, dressed in hot pants, jackboots and Nazi insignia goose-stepping to 'Springtime For Hitler'. The dancers, from Mel Brooks's musical The Producers, caused the scene outside Ukip's conference venue - the Winter Gardens in Margate, Kent. A seven-strong troupe of female dancers performed a choreographed routine as Springtime For Hitler blared from a PA system on the tank turret. The cast were in Margate to promote the new touring production of the musical comedy about a failed producer who tried to put on the worst show ever. The new UK production will features stand-up comics Jason Manford, Phill Jupitus and Ross Noble – as well as TV celebrity Louie Spence. Mr Farage was given a major boost today after research was published indicating he is on track to win the nearby seat of South Thanet. The Survation survey, funded by party donor Alan Bown, put Mr Farage on 39 per cent ahead of Labour rival Will Scobie on 28 per cent when people were prompted with candidate names. A previous poll by Tory Lord Ashcroft in November had suggested the Conservatives could retain the seat - where their MP Laura Sandys is stepping down. At the party's conference today, Ukip MP Mark Reckless today warned delegates the party will not grow unless it can shake off the taint of xenophobia and demonstrate it is the 'party of the NHS'. Mr Reckless, who won a by-election in Rochester and Strood after defecting from the Tories, said voters knew Ukip wanted to leave the EU and cut immigration. But the party must 'talk about other things as well' and reassure people it is not a threat to the NHS in order to have wider appeal. Kirsten Farage, wife of Ukip leader Nigel Farage, enjoyed a glass of wine after greeting delegates at the Winter Gardens Theatre in Margate, Kent . Ukip delegates listen to a speech in the conference hall ahead of Nigel Farage's address this afternoon . Delegates were cheered by a poll showing that Nigel Farage is on course to become an MP by winning the seat of Thanet South in Kent . A leaflet produced by 'Christian Soldiers in Ukip' was being handed out to members today - accusing the gay community of a 'recruitment drive' in primary schools. 'The state is allowing the sexual grooming of our primary school children for same-sex attraction,' the leaflet said. Children were being 'indoctrinated' to 'confuse their gender identity' and 'think about and sing songs about same-sex attraction'. Mr Reckless told activists: 'There are two things most people know about us - we want to leave the European Union, and we want to cut immigration. 'We should talk about those things. But if we want to get beyond 20 per cent-30 per cent of the vote to the 40 per cent or so we will need to win constituencies, we will have to explain why we want those things, challenge some of the misconceptions there are around our party, and talk about other things as well.' Speaking in the US last night Mr Farage warned the Republican gathering that they risked becoming dinosaurs like the Conservatives in the UK if they continued to embrace the political centre. Mr Farage slammed David Cameron over his failure to identify the infamous ISIS executioner 'Jihadi John.' 'Of course they should have told us his name,' he said. 'We should have heard it weeks ago. This information's been known for a long time.' The dancers, from Mel Brooks's musical The Producers, caused the scene outside Ukip's conference venue - the Winter Gardens in Margate, Kent . Nigel Farage was upstaged this morning as dancing Nazis and a 16 tonne World War II TANK crashed UKIP's conference . He also claimed the name was leaked to cover yesterday's immigration figures. 'By sheer coincidence,' he said, Emwazi's name was published 'on the day when the government has to announce the worst immigration figures ever seen in the history of the United Kingdom.' He also hit out against CAGE, the British NGO that often advocates on behalf of radicalized Muslims and brands their detractors 'Islamophobes.' 'Yes, yes, yes!' Farage exploded when asked if the group was an embarrassment to most Britons. 'It's politcal correctness! 'I mean, we see protests on a regular basis with these groups on the streets of London saying and shouting things that – if you and I did them, we'd find ourselves behind bars in very short order.' Nigel Farage flew to Washington to address America's leading conservative conference - but hardly anyone showed up to listen . 'We actually have a Judeo-Christian culture,' he added. 'It's actually in our Constitution, so let's stand up for it. 'The thing about us 'is that we have been, of all the European countries, the most tolerant of all different religions and all different groups who have come to Britain.' While 'private observance' of any religion 'is fine,' he insisted, 'unless we live under one law we're in trouble.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nigel Farage accused political rivals of spreading lies about his health .\nInsisted he was keeping a low profile to campaign in Thanet South .\nVowed to lead the party into this election and 'all' upcoming contests .\nRemarks came in set-piece speech to Ukip's spring conference .\nFarage was joined by his German wife Kirsten ay the conference today .\nShe greeted delegates at the Winter Gardens Theatre in Margate ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A hippo has been making a splash in the small beach town of Ponta Do Oura in Mozambique with daily trips to the beach. The one-and-a-half ton animal has been seen trotting through the waves and going for a swim, much to the amusement of other beach-goers. 'Mr Hippo' - as he is known locally - was photographed by 44-year-old marine mammal guide, Angie Gullan who says that she has never seen anything like this before. The hippo spent three days in and out of the surf before moving on his way. Better than mud: Locals have fondly named this regular visitor to the beach 'Mr Hippo'. He enjoyed a dip in the sea Ponta Do Ouro, Mozambique for three days before moving on . Making waves: The surf proves no problem for this hippopotamus to negotatiate. Mr Hippo has amused locals with his daily dips in the sea . Strong swimmer: The giant animal surprises everyone with his swimming skills amongst the surf and in the open ocean in Ponta Do Ouro . Unusual sight: Hippos, or 'horses of the sea,' are usually found swimming in rivers, lakes and mangrove swamps rather than the open sea . Wallowing: Mr Hippo looks quite at home lying in the froth amongst the ocean waves. His arrival has surprised nature experts who say it is very unusual to see a hippo in the sea . Paddling: The hippo wanders about in the shallows before going for a proper swim, attracting the attention of bemused locals . Surfs up: The one and a half ton animal can be seen ploughing through the waves next to the beach at Ponta Do Ouro, Mozambique . Hippo-style: Mr Hippo wonders what all the fuss is about as he goes for a swim in the clear blue waters off the African coastline . Red flag: The massive mammal is largely unaware of the huge waves that are crashing all around him as he goes for a wander in the shallows . Dippopotamus: The hippo seems to be enjoying the last of the sunshine as he wallows in the sea off the coast of the popular holiday spot . Does my bum look big in this? The wild animal struggles to get his huge frame over a rock on the shores of Ponta Do Ouro in Mozambique . Life's a beach: Mr Hippo takes a well-earned rest after all of his swimming. He spent three days around this stretch of coast in Mozambique before moving on to pastures new ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Regulars to the sleepy beach town of Ponta Do Oura were left gobsmacked by their surprise visitor .\n'Mr Hippo' would walk through the surf then go for a long swim in the sea to cool off from the day's sun .\nHippopotamus - or 'horse of the river' - are usually found in the country's rivers, lakes and swamps ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "An unlucky student has been banned from driving and fined £250 after he was caught just one milligramme over the drink-drive limit. Jordan Richmond, 23, drank two-thirds of a pint after driving his Seat Ibiza into a town centre to meet a friend in a pub. Nottingham Magistrates' Court heard he crashed his car on the way home after losing control in frosty conditions on December 13 last year. Richmond today admitted driving a motor vehicle when his alcohol level was above the limit during a court appearance at Nottingham Magistrates' Court (pictured) Richmond got out of the vehicle and put on his hazard lights before contacting the emergency services. But when he was later taken to hospital, a blood sample revealed he was over the drink-drive limit of 80 milligramme in 100 millilitres of blood by just one milligramme. Richmond, of Watnall, Nottinghamshire, today admitted driving a motor vehicle when his alcohol level was above the limit. JPs banned the university student from driving for 12 months and ordered him to pay a £250 in fine as well as £85 in court costs and a £25 victim surcharge. Christopher Charter, chair of the bench, said: 'It is a hard lesson, when you drive you shouldn't drink. 'Here you were over the limit, you were just over the limit, but still over the limit. It's a hard lesson for a young gentleman doing well - don't drink and drive at all.' The court heard Richmond crashed his vehicle in Long Lane in Watnall after meeting a friend for a pre-Christmas drink. Prosecutor Sanjay Jerath said the student told police he 'lost control' because conditions on the road were frosty. Chris Saunders, defending, told the court Richmond was studying Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Derby. He said he needed his car to get to university and to his job as a multi-skilled engineer at Boots. Mr Saunders added: 'I hate cases like this because you have one penalty that you have to impose, when that occurs some may say it leads to undue penalties for someone like Jordan Richmond. 'You know that he has been fully co-operative and called the police in the first place. 'Please offer him a driver rehabilitation course because clearly the sooner he gets his licence back the better it will be for all of us.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jordan Richmond crashed in icy conditions while driving home last year .\nAfter crashing, he activated hazard lights and called emergency services .\nHe had drunk two-thirds of a pint after driving to meet a friend in a pub .\nBut a blood sample revealed he was one milligramme over the limit .\nHe was banned from driving for 12 months and ordered to pay £250 ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Australians who can't afford to buy property can invest in the real estate market with as little as $66 thanks to a new start up. The recently launched BrickX allows people to buy 'bricks' or sections of properties and profit from rental returns without having to go to auction, pay stamp duty or get a mortgage. BrickX CEO Darren Patterson said the idea behind the business was to make real estate investment more straightforward and achievable. Scroll down for video . BrickX allows people to buy 'bricks' or sections of properties - such as this two-bedroom Mosman apartment . Australians who can't afford to buy property can invest in the real estate market with as little as $66 . BrickX buys properties – with a focus on one-bed studios and two-bedroom apartments in 'blue chip' suburbs – and makes them available on its online platform . 'If you've never been able to have a mortgage or save for a deposit to get your first property, this is a chance for those individuals to share in the benefits of property investment,' Mr Patterson said. BrickX buys properties – with a focus on one-bed studios and two-bedroom apartments in 'blue chip' suburbs – and makes them available on its online platform. Once an investor has registered and undergone the required financial checks, they can search through properties and can look at a detailed data profile with information including the property's rental yield, capital growth over the past five years, pictures, council rates and other attached fees. If they find a property they want to invest in, they can buy one or more 'bricks' worth up to 5 per cent of the property's total value. Each property is in an individual trust, and each 'brick' is a unit within that trust which acts like a share. 'You can buy and sell them, and it can go up or down based on the value of the property,' Mr Patterson said. BrickX CEO Darren Patterson (left, pictured with executive chairman Markus Kahlbetzer) said the idea behind the business was to make real estate investment more straightforward and achievable. Once an investor has registered and undergone the required financial checks, they can search through properties and can look at a detailed data profile . The profile includes the property's rental yield, capital growth over the past five years, pictures, council rates and other attached fees . 'You get a share of the rent minus other costs, just like a dividend you get as a stock trader on the ASX.' BrickX currently has two properties available for investment – a one-bedroom unit in Enmore in inner-city Sydney, which costs $66 for one brick, and a two-bedroom apartment with Harbour views in Mosman on Sydney's North Shore, which costs $126 per brick. But Mr Patterson is looking for properties in Melbourne and has plans to expand into more suburbs in Sydney including Bondi, Manly and areas like the Lower North Shore and the Inner West. This one bedroom unit in Enmore in inner-city Sydney costs $66 for one brick . If investors find a property the want to invest in, they can buy one or more 'bricks' worth up to 5 per cent of the property's total value . Each property is in an individual trust, and each 'brick' is a unit within that trust which acts like a share . Mr Patterson said he had decided to cap investments at 5 per cent to encourage liquidity. 'We limit the size to force people to spread their money around, which gives them protection through diversification,' he said. 'Secondly we've done it to encourage trading so no one person can control a property, sit on it and not allow it to go up or down.' In the initial phase of the launch only wholesale investors – people who earned $250,000 in the last two years or have $2 million worth of assets outside their family home – can invest. But Mr Patterson hopes to get registered to make BrickX available to the wider public in the next 12 months." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "New start up BrickX allows people to buy 'bricks' or sections of properties .\nInvestors can buy bricks for as little at $66 and earn rent from the property .\nBrickX has two properties – a one bedroom unit in Enmore in inner-city Sydney a two-bedroom apartment win Mosman on Sydney's North Shore ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "David Cameron today vowed to hunt down British-raised ISIS executioner ‘Jihadi John’ and put him ‘out of action’. The Prime Minister refused to confirm that the Islamist fanatic filmed beheading hostages in Syria was the Londoner Mohammed Emwazi after he was finally identified yesterday. But Mr Cameron said the Government would do everything it could to tack down terrorists committing ‘appalling and heinous crimes’ against British citizens anywhere in the world. Scroll down for video . David Cameron said the Government would do everything it could to tack down terrorists committing ‘appalling and heinous crimes’ against British citizens anywhere in the world . The PM also hit back at criticism of the security services in the wake of yesterday’s unmasking of Emwazi, amid revelations that he had been on MI5’s radar for years. He said the security services did ‘extraordinary’ work to keep Britain safe – and revealed they had even foiled a terror plot ‘in the last few months’. Kuwaiti-born Emwazi moved to Britain as a six-year-old child – and quickly embraced British life, playing football in the affluent streets of West London while supporting Manchester United. Neighbours recalled a polite, quietly spoken boy who was studious at his Church of England school, where he was the only Muslim pupil in his class. After finishing primary school in 1999, Emwazi moved to Quintin Kynaston Community Academy, in St John’s Wood, where he is believed to have studied alongside former X Factor judge and pop star Tulisa Contostavlos . Once there, he became more observant of his religion and began wearing more traditional Islamic dress, and his sisters began to wear the hijab. Speaking in Wales, alongside the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Mr Cameron launched an impassioned defence of the security services . In August 2009, after his graduation, Emwazi flew to Tanzania where they were picked up by MI5 – who accused him of planning to travel to Somalia to join the militant group Al Shabaab. Mr Cameron today refused to name Enwazi but said: ‘When there are people anywhere in the world who commit appalling and heinous crimes against British citizens we will do everything we can with the police with the security services with all that we have at our disposal to find these people and put them out of action.’ The PM said this was his ‘number one priority’. Speaking in Wales, alongside the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Mr Cameron also launched an impassioned defence of the security services. But he suggested the House of Commons Security and Intelligence Committee could review MI5’s failure to stop Enwazi travelling to Syria to join ISIS. Mr Cameron said: ‘I work very closely with our security services. I meet with them regularly, I ask them searching questions about that they do – and in my almost five years of experience as Prime Minister I think they are incredibly impressive, hardworking, dedicated, courageous and affective at protecting our country. ‘All of the time they are having to make incredibly difficult judgements and I think basically they make very good judgements on our behalf. ‘While we are in the middle of this vast effort to make sure British citizens are sage, the most important thing is to get behind them.’ The ISIS executioner Jihadi John was finally identified as Londoner Mohammed Emwazi yesterday . Mohammed Emwazi pictured at St Marys School, first row, second from left, after moving to Britain from Kuwait . But the Prime Minister said there were ‘proper ways of calling security and intelligence services to account’ where there were concerns – and pointed to the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee. However, he added: ‘I am satisfied we have in place the right ways of scrutinising the work these extraordinary men and women do on our behalf. ‘All I can say is even in the last few months their dedication and work has saved us from plots on the streets of the United Kingdom that could’ve done immense damage, so it is a moment to stand up and thank them for the work they do on our behalf.’" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "PM refused to confirm ISIS fanatic is Londoner Mohammed Emwazi .\nBut he said the Government would track down terrorists attacking UK .\nCameron said 'appalling and heinous crimes' would not go unpunished .\nHe also hit back at criticism of MI5 following the unmasking of Emwazi ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Four people have been charged with murdering an albino woman in Tanzania and cutting off her legs and an arm for black magic rituals. Zawadi Magindu was killed at Nyamalulu village in the north western Geita region of the African country in November 2008. The four people accused of killing the 22-year-old have pleaded not guilty with a hearing set to continue next week. The trial is the first of its kind to be held in the Geita region where six albinos were killed and three wounded between 2007 and 2012, according to police data (file picture) Public prosecutor Ezron Mwasimba said: 'We have gathered compelling evidence against the accused persons including from members of the bereaved family who had identified them.' The trial is the first of its kind to be held in the Geita region where six albinos were killed and three wounded between 2007 and 2012, according to police data. The charges come as members of Tanzania's albino society prepare to hold nationwide protests next week to call on the government to take more action to stop such attacks. There are fears of more murders ahead of an election later this year because of the risk that some politicians could turn to witchcraft to improve their chances. The demonstrations have been triggered by the abduction and suspected murder of two albino children in the past two months. One-year-old Yohana Bahati was snatched by armed men from his home in the northwestern Geita region earlier this month and his body found days later with his limbs severed. A four-year-old albino girl was abducted in December by an armed gang from her home at Ndami village in Mwanza region. She is still missing but 14 people have now been arrested. Albino children at a recreational hall in Mwanza, Tanzania, on January 25, 2009 ©Tony Karumba (AFP/File) At least 75 albinos, who lack pigment in their skin, hair and eyes, have been murdered in Tanzania in the past 15 years, according to U.N. figures, many hacked to death and body parts removed to make spells that witch doctors claim bring good luck. Witch doctors will pay as much as £50,000 for a full set of body parts from an albino, according to a Red Cross report. Albinos face attack in many parts of Africa, but kidnappings, attacks and killings are more common in Tanzania and the government last month announced a nationwide ban on witch doctors to try to stem the violence. United Nations human rights officials have voiced concerns that despite the number of murders, trials are rare with only five successful prosecutions since 2000. The Tanzania Albino Society called on the government to speed up prosecutions. 'We would like to see those who are convicted for murdering people with albinism hanged to deter others from carrying out such acts, but that is not happening,' said the group's chairman Ernest Kimanya. Albinism is a congenital disorder which affects about one in 20,000 people worldwide, according to medical authorities. It is more common in sub-Saharan Africa and affects an estimated one Tanzanian in 1,400." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Zawadi Magindu was murdered in Geita region of Tanzania six years ago .\nFour people are now going on trial charged with killing the 22-year-old .\nThe trial in Mwanza city is the first of its kind to be held in the Geita region .\nSix albinos killed and three wounded in the region between 2007 and 2012 ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A judge has ordered the suspension of the globally popular instant messaging system WhatsApp across Brazil. He said it's because it has allegedly failed to help in an investigation and though he wouldn't comment on details because it's an on-going case, it's believed to be one that's looking into child porn appearing on the app. Judge Luiz de Moura Correia ordered the suspension earlier this month. A press officer at the Piaui state's Public Safety Department says the case is linked to 'sexually graphic photos of children on the app.' A judge says he has ordered the suspension of the globally popular instant messaging system WhatsApp across Brazil because it has allegedly failed to help in an investigation . The service has continued to operate normally, with newspaper Folha de S. Paulo reporting that this is because lawyers are appealing the ruling. WhatsApp does not have an office in Brazil so the judge's order was delivered to cellphone operators. SindiTelebrasil, the association that represents those operators, said on its website that the suspension could cause 'huge losses to millions of Brazilians' who use WhatsApp for personal and professional reasons. WhatsApp did not immediately respond to a request for comment. WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, which last year paid nearly $22billion to acquire the mobile messaging service. Earlier this year Prime Minister David Cameron threatened to block WhatsApp to prevent terrorists from plotting atrocities online. In a challenge to critics of the so-called snoopers’ charter, he said fanatics should not be able to talk to each other without security agencies listening in. WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, which last year paid nearly $22billion to acquire the mobile messaging service . Making an electoral campaign speech in Nottingham in January, Mr Cameron indicated he would revive monitoring legislation – blocked by the Liberal Democrats – if he secures a majority in May. ‘The attacks in Paris once again demonstrated the need to have robust powers through our intelligence and security agencies to keep our people safe,’ he said. ‘The powers that I believe we need, whether on communications data or on the content of communications, I am very comfortable that those are absolutely right for a modern, liberal democracy. ‘If I am Prime Minister, I will make sure we do not allow terrorists safe space to communicate with each other.’ The Prime Minister also added that he would stop the use of methods of communication, which cannot be read by the security services such as WhatsApp and Snapchat, due to data being encrypted. He explained: 'Are we going to allow a means of communications which it simply isn’t possible to read? 'My answer to that question is: ‘No, we must not.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Judge Luiz de Moura Correia ordered the suspension earlier this month .\nHe said it's because WhatsApp is allegedly failing to help an investigation .\nPublic Safety Department spokesman says case is linked to child porn ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A man who touched millions with a photo of him bathing with his arthritic dog to ease his pain, has a new pet. John Unger, from Bayfield, Wisconsin, took his former dog Schoep into Lake Superior to help with the animal's arthritis, and his friend Hannah Stonehouse Hudson captured an image that reached millions in 2012. Schoep, a shepherd mix, later died in July 2013 at the age of 20. Mr Unger has now adopted a new dog named Bear, a year and seven months later. Scroll down for video . John Unger with Schoep in 2012 after photographer Hannah Stonehouse Hudson captured this touching moment of them swimming in Lake Superior to ease the dog's pain . Mr Unger has adopted a new dog, a one-year-old Akita-Shepherd-Labrador mix named Bear, from the Northwoods Humane Society . 'I am whole again...' the man posted on a Facebook page for Schoep that has attracted almost 390,000 followers. The post announcing the new dog has received more than 73,000 likes on the social network. Bear is a one-year-old 70 lb Akita-Shepherd-Labrador mix adopted from the Northwoods Humane Society. Mr Unger says that Schoep was instrumental in his battling depression following a bad breakup when he adopted him as a puppy in 1993. He said the dog helped him fight thoughts of suicide. The man, now in his 50s, later repaid the faithful canine, who had been abused by his previous owner, by taking him into the water to ease pain from inflamed joints. The Wisconsin man would take Schoep into the water such as Lake Superior to help ease joint pain from the dog's arthritis . Schoep, who had just begun to limp, fell asleep against Mr Unger's shoulder during a photo shoot. Thousands of dollars raised after Ms Hudson's photo went viral helped pay for laser treatments for Schoep before he died. 'It was really tough after Schoep left and didn't know what to do with my time,' Mr Unger said, according to USA Today. 'It was re-learning how to live and once I learned that and once I got through the toughness of his love that's when I started searching again.' Mr Unger said that he still talks to Schoep and thanks him for everything. He said that he is working on a possible book. John . Unger adopted Schoep, who is named after a famous brand of . Wisconsin ice cream, when he was just a puppy and it was love at first . sight. Schoep and Mr Unger were together for 20 years . He and his ex-fiancée had been searching for a rescue dog for a year, going to dozens of humane societies. 'We wanted every single dog,' Mr Unger told Daily Mail Online. 'We just hadn't found the right one.' His then-fiancée they spotted the pup at the Ozaukee Animal Shelter 19 years ago. 'We fell in love with her immediately,' Mr Unger said. Schoep . was in a cage with another dog, possibly his mother, crouched in the . back quietly staring at the corner with his back to Mr Unger. 'I knew - that's him,' Mr Unger said. At the time Schoep was named Tramp by the shelter staff and showed signs of abuse. 'He didn't even know what toys were,' Mr Unger said. 'I really wanted this dog because I wanted him to enjoy life.' The couple worked hard to establish the trust of the dog and eventually brought out its 'full potential'." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jeff Unger was captured in 2012 photo bathing his shepherd mix Schoep in Lake Superior to ease his pain from arthritis .\nSchoep died in 2013, and Mr Unger has adopted a new dog named Bear .\nNew dog is a 70lb Akita-Shepherd-Labrador mix who is one year old ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Conservative darling Sarah Palin said Thursday that President Barack Obama needs to wake up and realize that the United States and the 'genocidal thugs' affiliated with ISIS can never coexist. Referencing Obama's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast the first week in February, during which he said Christians need to get off their 'high horse' when it comes to critiquing Islam, Palin told a group of conservatives that lectures like the president's 'won't stop the Islamists from killing the Christians.' 'While Christians bow our head to pray for you, radical Islamists want to cut off your head,' she said of the president. Scroll down for video . Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday that lectures on religion like the one the president made at the National Prayer Breakfast 'won't stop the Islamists from killing the Christians' Palin dedicated most of her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, held a few miles outside of Washington, D.C., at a hotel in Maryland, to praising veterans and their service to the country. 'Aside from God almighty,' she said, the only force that can keep 'barbaric' terrorists at bay and 'the only thing standing between us and savages is the red white and blue. It's the United States military' Palin dedicated most of her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, held a few miles outside of Washington, D.C., at a hotel in Maryland, to praising veterans and their service to the country. 'Aside from God almighty,' she said, the only force that can keep 'barbaric' terrorists at bay and 'the only thing standing between us and savages is the red white and blue. It's the United States military.' Admonishing the Obama administration, Clinton said the U.S. is in a 'long-term, civilization struggle against the forces of evil.' And 'if we intend to beat them, we better get serious about victory,' she said. 'In the past our leaders confronted evil with moral clarity, eliminating Facists and the Nazis' as well as Communists, she said. 'Make no mistake radical Islam is just as dangerous as those ideologies.' Palin mocked Obama for continuing to 'lead from behind' even after Islamic extremists threatened to cut off his head in the White House. 'He thinks the Islamic state isn't really Islamic,' she said, incredulously. Obama has acknowledged that terrorists who are a part of ISIS and al Qaeda are Islamic, but he and his administration have steadfastly argued that referring to them in that context merely justifies their hateful ideology. 'Pretending its not there doesn't make it go away,' though, Palin told conservatives on Thursday. 'Calling it something else wont make it so.' The world that they want is a world that will submit. We will never submit to evil,' she said to cheers from the audience. Palin said Obama's State Department is 'naive' to say that the U.S. can't kill its way out of war, as spokesperson Marie Harf, last week claimed. 'Really? Tell that to the Nazis,' she said. 'Oh wait, You can't because they're dead, we killed them.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lectures on religion like the one Obama gave at the National Prayer Breakfast 'won't stop the Islamists from killing the Christians,' she said .\n'While Christians bow our head to pray for you, radical Islamists want to cut off your head,' she said of the president .\nMocking Obama's views on radical Islam, she said: 'Pretending its not there doesn't make it go away. Calling it something else won't make it so'" } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This is the shocking moment a pedestrian has his mobile phone snatched out of his hand - by a man racing past on a bike. The 41-year-old victim was walking along the pavement and using his mobile when it was grabbed from his hands in a split-second by a passing cyclist, who then sped off down the street. The incident, which was captured on CCTV, happened at around 5pm on January 26, in central London. The 41-year-old victim was walking along the pavement at around 5pm on January 26 and using his mobile . His phone was suddenly grabbed from his hands by a passing cyclist, who then sped off down the street . The suspect is described as a white male, who was wearing a grey hoodie and white tracksuit bottoms. City of London Police Inspector Doug Blackwood warned people not to 'walk and text' and remain vigilant when using their phones outside. He said: 'We advise the public to be vigilant when using their phone out and about on the street in London. 'Try not to walk and text at the same time, not only does it put you at risk of injury, the distraction of texting also leaves you vulnerable. 'If you really need to make a phone call in a public place, try and keep the conversation as brief as possible.' The suspect is described as a white male, who was wearing a grey hoodie and white tracksuit bottoms . Police Inspector Doug Blackwood warned people to remain vigilant when using mobile phones outdoors . He said: 'We advise the public to be vigilant when using their phone out and about on the street in London'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The 41-year-old victim was walking along the pavement in central London .\nHis phone was grabbed from his hands in a split-second by passing cyclist .\nThe incident at around 5pm on January 26 was captured on CCTV ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh Jackman and his schoolmates are genuinely shocked, saddened and longing for justice as revelations emerge about rampant child sex abuse at their former school. That's according to Triple M radio presenter Gus Worland, who attended the prestigious Knox Preparatory and Senior Schools on Sydney's north shore with his lifelong friend from 1978 to 1986. The Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse has this week heard shocking evidence about the alleged paedophilia of teachers at the school between the 1970 and 2012. Among the disturbing stories aired at the commission this week include how a paedophile teacher was commemorated on a memorial with the inscription, 'he touched us all', and how a former teacher was suspected of hiding under a boy's bed and then touching him inappropriately. Jackman emails his mates around the world each day about the revelations, said Worland, one third of the Grill Team breakfast show. Scroll down for video . Hugh Jackman and Gus Worland (right) are lifelong mates and attended Knox together from 1978 to 1986 . Knox Grammar School: Jackman is pictured here in a school photograph, second from left, while Worland is pictured second from right . Despite spending much of the time world's apart, Worland (left) and Jackman (right) and friends email 'every day' about revelations to emerge from the commission . Prestigious: An inscription at a memorial erected to a former paedophile teacher at the school reads, 'he touched us all', the royal commission has heard . The commission heard the following in Sydney this week: . 'His reaction is my reaction and mates' reaction - sadness and disappointment and a want for justice for our class mates,' Worland told Daily Mail Australia. The radio presenter said he didn't think any of his mates had been affected by the scandal. He said the group of mates had been '100%' 'genuinely shocked' as they heard rumours while the years went by. 'I am very sad and upset for the victims and the cover up! 'None of my mates were affected I think because we perceived to be strong. They seemed to prey on the weaker guys'. Worland and Jackman are very interested in the testimony of Dr Ian Paterson, who was the school's headmaster from 1969 to 1998, most of the period under investigation. The commission has heard from counsel of the commission David Llyod that Dr Paterson was aware of sexual abuse allegations but that there was no evidence NSW police were contacted about the incident. 'We are all dotted around the world just trying to work it all out and of course waiting for the Dr Paterson evidence,' Worland said. 'We all respected Dr P so much and were scared of him too. Jacko (Hugh) was his school captain and I was a (Senior) Prefect so we dealt with him a lot'. Best buds: Hugh Jackman and Gus Worland went to school at Knox Grammar School in the early '80s. At the same time, several children at the school were being preyed upon by some paedophile teachers, a Royal Commission has heard . Winners are grinners: Worland is pictured with Jackman after successfully completing the New York Marathon . Jackman (left circle) and Worland (right circle) played together in the Bannockburn Rovers Under 7's . Movie star: Despite his fame and occasional distance for Australia, Jackman (pictured as Wolverine) has kept an interest in proceedings and wants justice for his former classmates, his best friend Gus Worland told Daily Mail Australia . A Royal Commission spokeswoman said Dr Paterson was expected to appear at hearings next week. The commission heard evidence from a former boarding house master on Thursday, Dr Timothy Hawkes, who said he reported the 'balaclava man' incident to Dr Paterson but not to police. According to the ABC, Dr Hawkes, now the headmaster of The King's School in Parramatta, in Sydney's west, told the commission: 'I didn't believe it was my place to do that. 'I had every confidence that the matter would be dealt with by a very experienced headmaster. 'There was absolutely no question in my mind that I fully expected the police to be notified because it was a serious offence. 'And I was desperate to make sure that this person was caught because I did not want that happening again to any of my boys.' Worland commented on the matter on Triple M this morning. 'He was my geography teacher,' he said. 'If he knows a balaclava'd man has been hiding under the beds of kids in his boarding house, he then takes it to his boss, I totally understand (that),' he said. 'Where's the moral obligation to then check up the next day and check, by the way boss, you have taken it to the authorities right?' The commission continues. Daily Mail Australia has approached Hugh Jackman's representative for comment on the proceedings. The child abuse royal commission has issued a warrant for the arrest of a former teacher at Sydney's Knox Grammar school who failed to turn up for a hearing. Christopher Fotis was due to give evidence on Tuesday but did not show up. On Thursday David Lloyd, counsel advising the commission, said police were searching for Fotis and if he was found he would be brought to the commission. Fotis was never charged with offences at Knox but was jailed in Melbourne for sexual abuse offences at a school there after his time at Knox, in Wahroonga on Sydney's north shore. The inquiry into the NSW private boys' school is focusing on an incident in 1988 at one of the boarding houses, MacNeil House, when a person wearing a Knox tracksuit and balaclava hid under a child's bed and sexually assaulted him. Mr Lloyd said although the person's face was concealed by the balaclava a number of the boys in the dormitory believed the offender was Fotis. The boys were later told police arrested the intruder - \"an Asian man\" - but the commission has found no evidence that police were ever informed of an intruder or a sexual assault. Fotis left MacNeil shortly after the incident and resigned from Knox a year later when he was found by police masturbating in his car outside a school in Melbourne. via Australian Associated Press . Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hugh Jackman 'genuinely shocked... saddening and wanting for justice' for former high school classmates allegedly subjected to child sex abuse .\nThat's according to his best mate, Triple M radio presenter Gus Worland, a fellow attendee of Knox Grammar School .\nA Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse has this week heard shocking evidence about some teachers at the grammar school .\nJackman emails his friends 'every day' about the shocking paedophilia allegations ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A multimillionaire businessman has been slammed by a judge for his refusal to pay his estranged wife a penny in a bitter divorce battle. Randy Work, a former key executive in Texas-based private equity company Lone Star, was told by Mr Justice Holman at the Family Division of London's High Court today: 'I am not sure you and I are on the same planet'. Mr Work, 47, was explaining to the judge why he was arguing in court that his estranged wife was only entitled to £5m despite the fact he has a huge fortune of at least £150m. Mandy Gray (left), and her estranged husband Randy Work (right), outside the High Court in London today. The judge in their divorce case said he did not feel he and Mr Work were 'on the same planet' The tycoon said that 'unfortunately' the mother of his two teenage children, Mandy Gray, 45, had failed to abide by a Texan post-nuptial agreement. She was therefore prevented from receiving a more substantial sum, or anything other than the £5m deemed to be her own separate property, an amount expected to fall to just over £3m when bills are paid. Justice Holman told the couple there was 'plenty of money to go around and it 'should be so easy' From the opening of the case Justice Holman urged the couple - who had 'married without a bean' - to settle their differences. The judge told them as they sat on opposite sides of the courtroom there was 'plenty of money to go round', there were no difficulties and it 'should be so easy'. He added: 'People who are struggling to afford two-bedroom houses have difficulties.' The couple began living together in 1992 and married in 1995 in California. They separated in 2013 and have two children, now aged 15 and 12. The court was told that Randy was 'the breadwinner' and Mandy 'the homemaker'. In 1997 he was offered a job with Lone Star in Dallas, Texas, and soon after he was offered a post in Tokyo, where they lived from 1998 until 2005. The couple moved to the UK in 2008 and their matrimonial home has been in London ever since. After the marriage broke down Mandy moved to a flat in Kensington. In the witness box Mr Work described how he had gone to Japan and made billions of dollars for Lone Star buying up real estate, including troubled golf courses, after the Japanese economy became stuck in a sharp downturn. Mandy Gray, 45, arrives back at the Royal Courts of Justice building following lunch, with her lawyer Fiona Shackleton (right). She is taking on her estranged husband Randy Work in a bitter battle over his fortune . Mr Work told the judge that Mandy had been 'a good wife' over 20 years and 'a good mother' and would have been entitled to at least $70m (£45m), the 'total sum payable' under the post-nup agreement they had signed in October 2000. But he argued Ms Gray was not entitled to any of his money, or any of his property, after coming to court to seek a better settlement. Ms Gray argued when she gave evidence that Clause V of the addendum agreement gave her 'the unfettered right' to seek from the court 'any form of financial provision the court has power to order'. Randy Work leaves court today. He made his fortune with a Texas private equity company . She argued the family wealth was generated during the marriage and there should now be an equal division of the current total net assets. The judge told Charles Howard QC, appearing for Mr Work that he was 'really concerned' about the husband's 'open' position that he was 'not going to pay her a penny'. The judge expressed his disbelief that 'a wife of roughly 20 years, married when neither had a bean, and he is now worth at least £150m, should be expected to go away with just over £3m'. He added: 'At the moment I am not sure Mr Work and I are on the same planet.' Mr Howard did not disagree that that was Mr Work's position in court, but he suggested to the judge that he was 'trespassing into negotiations' that might be taking place out of court. The judge replied: 'No I am not. I don't know how many times I have said the focus should be on negotiation.' He said he had no doubt that Mr Work 'would like to close this down' and had probably got more money on the table outside court, but he was maintaining an open position 'where he and I are not on the same planet'. The court heard how both Randy and Mandy were born in the US but had 'expatriated' and both are now resident in London. Ms Gray told the court that the post-nup was part of the move to separate their assets when her husband first decided to give up his US citizenship to save tax in America. Mr Work denied that was true." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "American Randy Work, 47, slammed by judge at the High Court in London .\nFormerly Texas-based multimillionaire is in midst of bitter divorce battle .\nIs arguing his estranged wife Mandy Gray, 45, is only entitled to £5million .\nThis is despite his vast fortune being got during their 20 years together .\nWork claims she has broken post-nuptial agreement, slashing her share .\nBut Gray says the 2000 agreement gives her an 'unfettered right' to seek more ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Two Ryanair flight attendants have been hospitalised after turbulence forced a Reus to Brussels Charleroi flight to make an emergency landing at Bordeaux Airport. The Boeing 737-800 experienced severe turbulence over the Pyrenees region and was reported to have landed safely in Bordeaux. Local media reports one member of staff was hit by the drinks trolley and suffered a broken ankle, while another was 'propelled' to the ceiling and suffered a back injury. A Ryanair flight from Reus to Brussels encountered severe turbulence over the Pyrenees that saw two flight attendants suffer injuries (File Photo) Both were transported to Pellegrin hospital on landing. Flight FR2829 declared emergency at 8.05pm local time and then landed at Bordeaux at 8.28pm. The plane had departed Reus in Spain at 6.30pm local time. A Ryanair spokesperson told MailOnline Travel: 'This flight from Reus to Brussels Charleroi diverted to Bordeaux after experiencing some air turbulence. 'The aircraft landed normally and medical personnel treated two cabin crew members who had minor injuries. One air hostess was reported to have broke her ankle, the other suffered back injuries after being 'propelled to the ceiling' (File Photo) The Ryanair flight was said to have been caught in a 'big air pocket' that caused the plane to be rocked when over the Pyrenees . 'A spare aircraft and replacement crew were sent from Barcelona to minimise the delay for customers, who were provided with refreshment vouchers in Bordeaux. 'Ryanair apologised sincerely to all customers affected by this diversion and delay.' Speaking to French news site 20 minutes, a spokesperson for Bordeaux Mérignac Airport said: 'The flight was rocked by large, heavy turbulence as it passed over the Pyrenees and there were huge 'bubbles' and [the] hostess was propelled to the ceiling. '[It was] caught in a big air pocket, the plane was badly shaken and two hostesses were injured.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Boeing 737-800 said to have got 'caught in air pocket' over Pyrenees .\nTurbulence left one worker with broken ankle after being hit with trolley .\nPassengers had to check on to another aircraft flown in from Barcelona ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Cliff Richard's lawyers criticised a House of Commons committee for publishing a letter revealing details of the police investigation into sex abuse claims against the singer (pictured) Sir Cliff Richard's lawyers have criticised a House of Commons committee for publishing a letter about the police investigation into sex abuse allegations against the veteran singer. In a letter to MP Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, the star's representatives said the disclosure was 'unnecessary' and caused him 'a further round of unnecessary and extremely damaging media coverage with no due process'. Earlier this week, a letter from South Yorkshire's chief constable emerged in which he said the police investigation into the singer has 'increased significantly in size' and involves 'more than one allegation'. Mr Vaz has since defended the decision, saying it is 'policy' to make all committee evidence public. The letter from Gideon Benaim, of Michael Simkins LLP, said: 'Plainly, it was not necessary for the SYP letter to be published on any urgent basis, if at all. 'The SYP letter appears to have been in the hands of the committee for a period of two weeks or more before it was proactively sent to media organisations, presumably to encourage widespread publicity. 'There was ample time to properly consider whether the SYP letter ought to have been released before it actually was. 'As a direct result of the decision of the committee to publish the SYP letter, and to proactively send it to media organisations, our client has been exposed to a further round of unnecessary and extremely damaging media coverage, with no due process.' Mr Benaim continued: 'Our client had no opportunity to comment or make submissions to the committee in advance of publication, but had he been able to do so, the damage that has since been caused by the Committee's actions and by the SYP letter would, most likely, have been avoided. Scroll down for video . In a letter to MP Keith Vaz (pictured) chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, the singer's representatives said the disclosure was 'unnecessary' 'It is the committee who have acted as enablers to the media so that they could report on claims of new allegations about which our client has been given no or very little information; about which he has yet to be questioned; for which he has not been arrested; and of course, over which he has not been charged. 'The committee have, through their actions, facilitated coverage which would not have otherwise occurred.' Stressing the fact that his client has not been arrested or charged with any offence and denies any wrongdoing whatsoever, Mr Benaim issued a strongly worded critique of this week's developments. He also rebuked Mr Vaz for media appearances over the issue. Mr Benaim wrote: 'It does of course remain the case that our client has neither been arrested nor charged with any offence and that he denies any wrongdoing whatsoever. 'In addition to not knowing much about the claims of new allegations, our client has not of course been interviewed about them. 'Extensive media interest was hardly dampened by the chairman of the committee who appeared on television to discuss the contents of the SYP Letter on the same evening of its release. 'It is manifestly unfair to our client that he has again been put in a situation where speculation and rumours are rife, where he cannot defend himself because he is the subject of an investigation, and, where third parties appear to know more than he does. 'It is not how a criminal investigation should be conducted.' Mr Benaim said it was understood that the letter from South Yorkshire Police was 'proactively' sent to media organisations by the committee without notice being given to Sir Cliff or his lawyers. It also described the original letter from the police force as 'poorly worded' and 'at certain points unnecessarily emotive', while including a 'number of significant points which could be misinterpreted'. Sir Cliff's lawyers said the police's letter 'has the appearance of being written without the level of care and attention that such an important communication demands' and disputed some of its contents. Mr Benaim said the singer has not been actively updated with 'substantive information' relating to the investigation, claiming that 'in the main' it is his solicitors, BCL, who have contacted South Yorkshire Police for updates. The letter added: 'That said, SYP and BCL have co-operated on several aspects of the investigation, for which our client has been grateful. 'He remains very keen to co-operate fully and for the investigation to be resolved swiftly.' Mr Benaim said Sir Cliff has been kept 'fully briefed' on conversations between his lawyers and South Yorkshire Police. Earlier this week, a letter from South Yorkshire's chief constable David Crompton (pictured) emerged in which he said the police investigation into the singer has 'increased significantly in size' The letter addressed the police's disclosure that there is 'more than one allegation', saying the 'information that has been provided to our client about the new allegations is so scarce it is difficult to comment meaningfully'. It went on: 'Late on Friday 6 February, BCL telephoned one of the lead officers on the investigation. During the course of that call, the officer told BCL that there was now more than one complaint (albeit a small number). Very little substantive detail was disclosed.' It also questioned the claim that the investigation has 'increased significantly', saying: 'This phrasing is curious and seems to us to be - at best - a loose use of language and at worst to be unnecessarily emotive. 'In the current climate, the phraseology deployed was likely to lead both readers and members of the press to jump to exaggerated conclusions, as indeed it has.' The letter called on Mr Vaz to take a number of actions in response to their concerns, concluding: 'In light of the damage that has been caused by the actions of SYP and the committee, we are taking the proactive step of making this letter publicly available straightaway, rather than waiting for it to appear on the committee's website at some uncertain date in the future.' Sir Cliff said the claims against him were 'absurd and untrue' and insisted he had 'never, in my life, assaulted anyone'. The entertainer was interviewed under caution last year by detectives investigating a claim of a sex crime involving a young boy in the 1980s, but was not arrested or charged." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Earlier this week, a letter from South Yorkshire's chief constable revealed police investigation into the singer has 'increased significantly in size'\nIt also revealed that the investigation involves 'more than one allegation'\nHead of the committee MP Keith Vaz has since defended the decision, saying it is \"policy\" to make all committee evidence public .\nIn a letter to Mr Vaz, the star's lawyers said disclosure was 'unnecessary'\nGideon Benaim, of Michael Simkins LLP, issued a strongly worded critique .\nMr Benaim also rebuked Mr Vaz for media appearances over the issue .\nAdded that his client has not been arrested or charged with any offence ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "RAF Typhoon fighters were scrambled to intercept 'multiple Russian aircraft' as part of the Nato mission to police the airspace over the Baltics, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday. The aircraft from 3 (Fighter) Squadron were ordered into the skies after four separate groups of aircraft were detected by Nato air defences in international airspace near to the Baltic states. The aircraft were subsequently identified as a Russian Tupolev Tu22 Backfire bomber, four Sukhoi Su27 Flanker fighters, one Beriev A50 Mainstay early-warning aircraft and an Antonov An26 Curl transport aircraft. Scroll down for video . RAF Typhoon fighters (below) scrambled to intercept 'multiple Russian aircraft', including this Russian SU-27 Flanker (top), detected in Baltic airspace . A Russian Antonov An26 Curl transport plane (pictured) was one of the aircraft monitored in Baltic airspace, The Ministry of Defence confirmed . Two Russian SU-27 Flanker with a RAF Typhoon fighter approaching from the left. The MoD said the planes appeared to be carrying out a 'variety of routine training' A Russian Tu22 Backfire bomber. The MoD said the aircraft were monitored by the Typhoons and escorted on their way following yesterday's interception . The MoD said the Russian aircraft, which appeared to be carrying out a 'variety of routine training', were monitored by the Typhoons and escorted on their way. Four Typhoons - which are now stationed at the Siauliai air base in Lithuania - were deployed to the region last month in a show of support by Nato against the backdrop of the crisis in the Ukraine. Russia’s backing for armed separatists in the Ukraine had increased nervousness in the three Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia which do not have their own air defence fighters and rely upon Nato. In the past week, Nato aircraft have been scrambled 13 times due to unidentified aircraft operating around the Baltic region. The Russian Beriev A50 Mainstay early warning aircraft. The interception was the sixth carried out by British aircraft - usually based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire . The Mainstay early warning aircraft. RAF Typhoon detachment commander Ian Townsend said they 'regularly' intercept Russian aircraft in the Baltic region as part of continued Nato efforts to police the airspace over the Baltics . The Antonov An26 Curl transport aircraft is followed by a RAF Typhoon. The scramble came as the Ukrainian president announced a plan to end fighting in eastern Ukraine . A Russian SU-25 Flanker. The president's announcement marked a major move towards peace in eastern Ukraine following months of unrest in the region . The interception was the sixth to have been carried out by the British aircraft since their arrival from their home base in at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, in support of the Polish-led Nato detachment in Lithuania. The Typhoon detachment commander, Wing Commander Ian Townsend said: 'We regularly intercept Russian and civilian aircraft from UK Quick Reaction Alert and so this type of mission is core business for us and exactly what we were sent to the Baltic region by Nato to do. 'It was a thoroughly successful operation with both my ground crew and aircrew performing to the exacting professional high standards I have come to expect.' Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Stavropol, southern Russia for a day of events . Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Head of Rossiya Agricultural Production Cooperative Sergei Pyanov as they walk in a barley field outside Stavropol . The RAF scramble came as the Ukrainian president announced a plan to end the fighting in eastern Ukraine, promising a unilateral cease-fire after discussions with the Russian and German leaders, a potential major development to bring peace to the country. Petro Poroshenko’s plan would offer pro-Russian insurgents in the eastern provinces that form the nation’s industrial heartland a chance to lay down weapons or leave the country. It could also help ease the worst crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War, which was triggered by Moscow’s annexation of Crimea that followed the ousting of Ukraine’s pro-Russia president. Tupolev Tu22 Backfire bomberRole: Long-range strategic and maritime strike bomberFirst flight: 30 August 1969Top speed: Mach 1.88 (1,240 mph)Crew: 4 (pilot, co-pilot, navigator, weapon systems operator)Weapons: Guns ( 23-mm GSh-23 cannon) plus missiles (including Raduga Kh-22 and Raduga Kh-15) Sukhoi Su27 Flanker fightersRole: Fighter aircraftFirst flight: 20 May 1977Top speed: Mach 2.35 (1,550 mph)Crew: OneWeapons: GSh-30-1 cannon with 150 rounds plus six medium-range AA missiles R-27 and two short-range heat-seeking AA missiles R-73 . Beriev A50 Mainstay early-warning . aircraft Role: Surveillance, early detectionFirst flight: 19 December 1978Top speed: 559 mphCrew: 15Weapons: N/A . Antonov An26 Curl transport aircraft . Role: TransportationFirst flight: 21 May 1969Cruising speed: 237 knots, 273 mphCrew: 5 (2 pilots, 1 radio operator, 1 flight engineer, 1 navigator)Weapons: N/A ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aircraft from 3 (Fighter) Squadron took to the skies after four groups of Russian aircraft were detected by Nato .\nRussian planes identified as a Russian Tupolec Tu22 Backfire bomber, four Sukoi Su27 and one Beriev A50 Mainstay .\nAn Antonov An26 Curl transport aircraft was also detected flying in Baltic airspace yesterday .\nMoD said crafts, which were carrying out 'a variety of routine training', were monitored and escorted on their way .\nComes as Ukrainian president announced a plan to cease fighting in eastern Ukraine after months of unrest ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "An 85-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and battered to death by a home invader who also shot her 90-year-old husband in the face with a BB gun. Nancy and Bob Strait, who had celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in December, were discovered by their daughter at their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Both the pensioners were rushed to hospital where Mrs Strait, who was nearly blind, died from her injuries. Home invasion: Bob and Nancy Strait were both attacked when burglars broke into their home in Tulsa. Mrs Strait died of her injuries . Mr Strait, who served in the 101st Airborne . Division in World War II, suffered a broken jaw, broken ribs and severe bleeding. He is in a serious condition in hospital. Police have arrested 20-year-old Tyrone Dale David Woodfork in connection with the case. The Straits' distraught family today . paid tribute to the pair, who grew up in poverty in rural Oklahoma . during the Great Depression. They met each other on a blind date on Thanksgiving 1946, . married a month later and went on to have six children, 18 . grandchildren and about 50 great and great-great grandchildren. They had . recently welcomed a great-great-great grandchild. Their daughters Lanora and Andra told . Tulsa World that the couple were loving and generous people who would . do anything for anyone. 'Dad never talked, and Mama never quit talking,' Lanora said. 'Whatever she did, it came from the heart,' Andra added. The pair could be found sitting on their porch singing and playing the guitar during warmer summer evenings. Mr . Strait, who had worked for the oil derrick supply company Lee C. Moore . before retirement, enjoyed woodwork while his wife loved making quilts . and baking. Suspect: Tyrone Dale David Woodfork, 20, was arrested a day after the attack on complaints of first-degree murder, burglary, assault with a dangerous weapon and two complaints of armed robbery . They . had both been struggling with health problems before the attack. Mr . Strait had been diagnosed with a terminal kidney illness but had . outlived the doctor's prognosis. 'He was living because Mother was alive,' Andra told Tulsa World. The couple had had food poisoning the week before the attack. 'There . is no one else who has been through what he's been through who is still . alive,' Lanora said of her father. 'We pray he doesn't remember.' Tulsa police believe burglars broke into the Straits' home either late Tuesday or early Wednesday last week. They were not found until the Wednesday evening. The home invaders made off with their Dodge Neon, a television and $200. Woodfork was later found hiding in a nearby house after a witness spotted the stolen vehicle being driven down the road. He is being held at Tulsa Jail . without bail accused of first-degree murder, burglary, assault with a . dangerous weapon and two counts of armed robbery. 'This . investigation is far from over,' Officer Jason Willingham of the Tulsa . police department told Tulsa World. 'We've still got a lot of questions . that we still need answered.' Mrs Strait's funeral will be on Friday. The family has set up a fund the Nancy Strait and Bob Strait Support Trust to help pay for the service and her husband's medical care. Life together: The couple went on to have six children, 18 grandchildren and about 50 great and great-great grandchildren all after marrying a month after meeting . Attack: One of the couple's daughters discovered her parents unresponsive in their Tulsa home with their car, a television and $200 among the items missing ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nancy Strait, 85, was sexually assaulted and battered to death by burglar .\nHer husband Bob, 90, suffered a broken jaw and broken ribs in attack .\nPolice have arrested 20-year-old Tyrone Dale David Woodfork ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Three British Muslims were accused yesterday of plotting a suicide bomb attack designed to wreak more devastation than the July 7 attacks. The Al Qaeda-inspired trio masterminded a conspiracy to detonate eight home-made rucksack devices, a court was told. They bragged how the attacks would have caused ‘mass deaths’ in crowded areas. One of the men was secretly recorded saying the 2005 London attacks had ‘gone a bit wrong’ because the killers forgot to put nails in their bombs. From left to right, Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid and Ashik Ali, both 27, who are accused of being 'central figures' in the extremist plot to cause mass deaths and casualties . They also discussed mass poisoning and fixing blades to the wheels of a vehicle before driving it into a crowd of people, and boasted their plot would be ‘another 9/11’. The trio raised thousands of pounds to fund the plot by posing as street collectors for the humanitarian charity Muslim Aid, the jury was told. Two of the men are alleged to have travelled to Pakistan to attend a terrorist camp and received training with explosives, weapons and poisons. They are said to have recorded ‘martyrdom videos’ explaining their actions which were to be released to the media after their deaths. On their return to Birmingham, they set up a bomb factory in a council flat and began recruiting a team of accomplices. The jihadist plot was smashed by counter-terrorism police and MI5, who had the cell under intensive surveillance, bugging the men’s cars and the bomb factory. Eleven men and one woman were arrested when officers swooped on addresses across Birmingham in September last year. Opening the case amid high security at Woolwich Crown Court, prosecutor Brian Altman QC said those on trial were ‘senior members of a home-grown terror cell’. The trio were arrested by police after covert probes caught them talking about their plot as they were heating chemicals in Ali's home . He said: ‘The police successfully disrupted a plan to commit an act or acts of terrorism on a scale potentially greater than the London bombings in July 2005. The defendants were proposing to detonate up to eight rucksack bombs in a suicide attack and/or to detonate bombs on timers in crowded areas in order to cause mass deaths and casualties. ‘One of them was even to describe their plan as “another 9/11”.’ Two of the men – unemployed graduate Irfan Naseer, 31, and former security guard Irfan Khalid, 27 – are accused of twice travelling to terrorist camps in Pakistan. They spent 15 months learning how to make bombs, use weapons and create poisons ‘for the sole purpose’ of bringing their knowledge to Britain and using it, the court heard. When they returned in July 2011, they teamed up with Ashik Ali, 27, whose ground-floor flat was transformed into a safe house to experiment with explosive chemicals. The court heard Naseer was recorded agreeing with another man that July 7 had ‘gone a bit wrong’ because the bombers did not use nails. Naseer, a heavily-built man known as ‘Chubbs’, used knowledge from his pharmacy degree to mix the chemicals. He bought an instant cold pack, in the mistaken belief it contained ammonium nitrate. The men were recorded talking about training with AK-47 assault rifles and grenades as well as firing a rocket launcher and the vehicle blade plot, which was in the Al Qaeda magazine, Inspire. Partially-sighted Ali, a former charity manager, obtained the flat with the help of a blind charity. Woolwich Crown Court heard how the gang tried to raise further funds by gambling the cash they raised from their bogus charity collections through a currency trading company . But he was recorded telling his estranged wife he was going abroad to fight jihad, and comparing himself and others to Four Lions, a film about bungling British extremists. After he was arrested, Ali confessed that his role was to wear a suicide vest and carry a gun, but he denied he would have carried out the attack, it was alleged. The terrorist cell was allegedly inspired by internet videos and the writings of Osama Bin Laden and US-born Yemeni extremist Anwar Al-Awlaki, who was killed in a drone strike 12 days after the suspects were arrested. Ali's estranged wife, Salma Kabal, 23, pictured, is accused of knowing . of her husband's terrorist intentions but failing to disclose them . The men raised £14,500 by impersonating street collectors for a charity and an Islamic learning centre, the jury heard. But Rahin Ahmed, 26, a conspirator who has admitted terrorist offences, lost £9,000 gambling on the currency markets. The court heard the law graduate was the gang’s ‘chief financier’ but was ostracised after his trading spree. The men wanted to spend the money on setting up a high-street Islamic centre which would serve as a front for terrorist recruitment. All three are also accused of radicalising and recruiting other young Muslim men to their extremist cause. All of those allegedly involved in the plot are of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin and from the Sparkhill, Sparkbrook, Balsall Heath and Alum Rock areas of Birmingham. The jury was told about others linked to the plot, including several men who have admitted involvement and are awaiting sentence. They included Ahmed and Mujahid Hussain, 21, who pleaded guilty to helping collect money for terrorism. Four men – Ishaaq Hussain, 20, Naweed Ali, 24, Khobaib Hussain, 20, and Shahid Khan, 20 – have admitted flying to Pakistan for terrorist training in August 2011. But they returned before joining the camp after one of their families learned of their plans. Two others – Ashik Ali’s brother Bahader, 29, and Mohammed Rizwan, 33 – will go on trial next year accused of terrorist offences. Ali’s estranged wife, Salma Kabal, 23, will also go on trial next year, accused of failing to inform the authorities of her knowledge of the plot. Naseer, Khalid and Ali deny preparing terrorist acts, including plotting a bomb attack, recruiting others and sending people aboard for training. The trial, which is expected to last three months, continues. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Three men are accused of masterminding a terror plot to detonate eight suicide bombs .\nThey are part of a group of 11 men and one woman who were arrested last year. Six await sentencing and two face trial next year .\n'Jihadists' spoke about blowing up their rucksacks, shooting people and blasting them with a rocket launcher, jurors were told today .\nPlotters 'took their inspiration from Osama Bin Laden' and were influenced by the lectures of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US born extremist of Yemeni ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Human rights group CAGE has come under further scrutiny for the support it gives to a number of convicted terrorists, including radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza (pictured) The campaign group that described ISIS executioner Jihadi John as a 'beautiful young man' came under scrutiny today as it was revealed British charities are funding them to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds. Human rights group CAGE sparked fury yesterday when its leader Asim Qureshi claimed west London student Mohammed Emwazi 'wouldn't hurt a fly'. Today, it was revealed CAGE supports a number of convicted terrorists and other jihadis who remain at large - while collecting donations from some well-known British trusts. The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has donated more than £300,000 to the group, and The Roddick Foundation - which distributes part of Body Shop founder Anita Roddick's fortune - has donated £100,000. Critics have alleged that CAGE is an extremist organisation that promotes a radical Islamist narrative and have questioned whether it could have done more to prevent Emwazi travelling to Syria. Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg, who was charged with terror offences, founded the Islamic rights group. Other individuals that CAGE offer support to include radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza and Aafia Siddiqui - dubbed 'Lady al Qaeda'. It was also revealed today that CAGE had its accounts with Barclays and the Co-operative Bank – and those of several of its board members – closed several weeks after Moazzam Begg was arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences. The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust handed the group a £300,000 donation in January 2014. A spokesman for the trust said: 'As a Quaker trust, we reject and condemn all violence, including all violence for political ends. We believe that building sustainable security requires patient, long-term work to address the underlying causes of conflict and injustice. 'Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has previously funded CAGE to promote and protect human rights. We believe that they have played an important role in highlighting the ongoing abuses at Guantanamo Bay and at many other sites around the world, including many instances of torture. 'The Trust does not necessarily agree with every action or statement of any group that we have funded. 'We believe that CAGE is asking legitimate questions about security service contact with those who have gone on to commit high-profile and horrific acts of violence, but this does not in any way absolve any such individual from responsibility for such criminal acts.' CAGE and The Roddick Foundation were both approached by MailOnline for comment, but have yet to reply. CAGE described ISIS executioner Jihadi John as a 'beautiful young man' who wouldn't hurt a fly. The killer is pictured with murdered British aid worker David Haines . The group is particularly animated about the case of Aafia Siddiqui - dubbed 'Lady al Qaeda' - who was jailed for 86 years in the US for attempting to murder US officials in Afghanistan. She had wide-ranging links to al-Qaeda and was married to a key plotter behind the 9/11 attacks. But CAGE said it has 'dedicated itself to campaigning for Aafia and her family in order to help secure their release and expose those involved in their abuse.' The group also represented the family of Michael Adebolajo - the man who butchered Lee Rigby in a London street in May 2013. CAGE revealed that Adebolajo had been harassed by the security services prior to his violent murder on the streets of Woolwich, south-east London. The group is animated about the case of Aafia Siddiqui (both) dubbed Lady al Qaeda, who was jailed for 86 years in the US for attempting to murder US officials in Afghanistan . The campaign group also defended radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri who was sentenced to life in prison by a court in New York for supporting terrorism. He was convicted in May 2014 of multiple charges, including hostage-taking and plotting to set up a terrorism training camp in the US. But CAGE called for him to be repatriated to Britain after the handless suspect appeared before a judge without the false limbs and complained that he wanted them back. At the time, Mr Qureshi said: 'We would want to see him, if convicted, serving any sentence in the UK, particularly when you consider the kind of treatment detainees face in US prisons.' Aafia Siddiqui had wide-ranging links to al-Qaeda and was married to a key plotter behind the 9/11 attacks . Asim Qureshi, leader of CAGE, who helped to name Jihadi John as west London student Mohammed Emwazi, caused outrage yesterday by saying the ISIS militant 'wouldn't hurt a fly' Others that CAGE support include Nizar Trabelsi who was convicted in Belgium as part of an al-Qaeda plot to carry out a suicide attack against a military base holding US soldiers. This comes to light as CAGE representative Cerie Bullivant today told Good Morning Britain he believes the British security forces played a role in radicalising Jihadi John. 'He came to us after he felt he was being harassed by the security services; he felt there was pressure being put on him and he couldn't carry on with his ordinary life,' Mr Bullivant said. 'We advised him on methods he could take if he was innocent to clear his name, we advised him to go to his MP, the IPCC - he was very, very willing to engage with the system to try and get his name cleared. He sent letters to the embassies as to why he was being barred, he tried as much as he could to work through the system.' The Islamic rights group was founded by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg (pictured), who was charged with terror offences . 'But the problem is you've got a detached unaccountable security apparatus and there was no clear was for him to engage with that process and the lack of due process we think played a role in radicalising him.' Anti-radicalisation organisation the Quilliam Foundation questioned whether the organisation could have done more to prevent Emwazi travelling to Syria. 'They seem to have had a relationship with him for three years - since before he went to Syria - and I simply don't believe that nothing could have been done in that process to stop him,' chief political liaison officer Jonathan Russell told the Evening Standard. 'It's very, very important to uphold human rights in counter-extremism work, but for an organisation like CAGE to focus entirely on grievances and allow those to be extrapolated in a radicalisation process is surely part of the problem and not part of the solution.' CAGE has also supported Sajid Badat, who was sentenced to 13 years in 2005 after confessing to being part of the plot to blow up an aircraft with a shoe-bomb. It has also backed Andrew Rowe, the convert also given 13 years for acts preparatory to terrorism. The CAGE website demands solidarity for several jihadis who have been both tried and convicted, and for many more who are at large. It also supported Anwar al-Awlaki, who called for the killing of the Danish cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard. Awlaki, who was killed by an American drone in September 2011, is thought to have inspired the Charlie Hebdo attacks. The group also represented the family of Michael Adebolajo (pictured) - the man who butchered Lee Rigby in a London street in May 2013 . CAGE representative Cerie Bullivant (pictured) today told Good Morning Britain he believes the British security forces played a role in radicalising Jihadi John . The Islamic-focused human rights group lodged a formal complaint with the financial ombudsman last year after spending five months on a cash-only basis. It was one of a number of Muslim pressure groups and charities to have had their accounts withdrawn by various banks. On the campaign group's website, it says: 'CAGE has been campaigning against the War on Terror for more than a decade. 'Its work has focussed on working with survivors of abuse and mistreatment across the globe. Its website is one of the leading resources documenting the abuse of due process and the erosion of the rule of law in the context of the War on Terror.' CAGE also supported Anwar al-Awlaki (pictured), who called for the killing of the Danish cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Campaign group CAGE supports a number of convicted terrorists .\nHanded tens of thousands of pounds by British charitable trusts .\nLeader Asim Qureshi described Jihadi John as a 'beautiful young man'\nGroup also supports radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza and Aafia Siddiqui .\nFormer Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg founded the group .\nMajor donors include the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and Body Shop founder Anita Roddick's charitable foundation ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Britain has demanded Brussels launch surprise inspections in Gibraltar of Spanish border checks in a fresh escalation of tensions between London and Madrid. Ministers want the European Commission to make unannounced visits to assess the legality of border checks which have been blamed for long queues to enter and leave the Rock. The row has been simmering since last summer when Spain suggested a £43.50 fee could be imposed on anyone wanting to cross the border with the British territory. Scroll down for video . Motorists have been forced to queue at the border crossing between Spain and Gibraltar over the last year, leading ministers to ask for new inspections by European Commission officials . Visitor numbers to Gibraltar have fallen as a result of the hold-ups, which Madrid argues are needed to prevent smuggling across the border. In November, European Commission inspectors found the checks were within the law and said Britain should work with Spain to bring down tobacco smuggling and other border crime. However, the Foreign Office has raised doubts about the report because it was based on inspections agreed in advance with the Spanish authorities. With the draconian checks still causing ’significant’ delays and hitting the local economy, European officials are being urged to travel to the border without giving Madrid prior warning. ‘We want them to go back and carry out more inspections but without arranging it in advance,’ said a government source. There is also growing anger in Whitehall over Spanish ships making incursions into Gibraltan waters. The number of unlawful incidents doubled from 229 in 2012 to 496 in 2013. Figures released in response to a parliamentary question show the number of incursions into Gibraltan waters has more than doubled in a year . Already this year from January to May there have been 185 incursions, latest figures show. As a result the Spanish Ambassador has been summoned three times to explain the aggression, most recently on April 2 this year. Earlier this year a Spanish warship had to be escorted off British territory by Gibraltar Squadron's patrol boat, HMS Sabre, after it entered the waters near Gibraltar. Europe minister David Lidington is expected to travel to Gibraltar within the next month to discuss the problem . The boat allegedly used a fake name and call sign, and refused to leave by its own accord at it claimed it was in Spanish waters, local media said. The vessel approached as UK Special Forces personnel from the Royal Navy's Submarine Parachute Assistance Group were carrying out training jumps into the sea. Government insiders suspect that the Spanish aggression towards Gibraltar is in part designed to distract attention from its domestic problems, including high unemployment and public anger at allegations of corruption. Europe minister David Lidington is expected to travel to Gibraltar within the next month to discuss the problems. He has admitted that the government is ’concerned’ about the impact that border delays are having on businesses in both Spain and Gibraltar . 'The delays imposed by the Spanish authorities at the border with Gibraltar continue to have a significant impact, resulting in significant changes in behaviour at the border: visitor arrivals in Gibraltar are down and vehicle traffic has fallen,’ he said in response to a parliamentary question. ’Since the beginning of the disruption last summer, the Government has raised this issue regularly with the European Commission.’ The UK government has sent a dossier on the border delays to Spain’s Director General for Home Affairs. It has also asked the European Commission to ’make follow-up visits to monitor the continuing delays’, Mr Lidington added. ’We continue to request that the Commission urge Spain to act on their recommendations and return border checks to reasonable and proportionate levels.’" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Security checks still causing delays entering and leaving the Rock .\nSpain accused of using border controls to make life harder for Gibraltarians .\nUK government asks Brussels officials to carry out surprise inspections .\nIllegal incursions by Spanish boats into Gibraltan waters double in a year ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "In a maneuver straight out of the Cold War, a Russian fighter jet purposely flew 100-feet in front of the nose of an American spy plane in April, US officials confirmed on Monday. The fly-by over the Sea of Okhotsk between Russia and Japan was described by one US official as 'straight out of a movie'. The same US official said the Russian jet put the lives of the US Air Force RC-135U in danger and called it 'one of the most dangerous close passes in decades.' Close-call: A Russian Su-27 fighter jet intercepted an American reconnaissance plane in international airspace over the Pacific in late April - defense officials confirmed on Tuesday . Army Col. Steve Warren, the spokesman, said the Russian Su-27 fighter flew across the nose of the U.S. Air Force RC-135U aircraft, coming within about 100 feet, while in international airspace over the Sea of Okhotsk . Army Col. Steve Warren said the US reconnaissance aircraft - which was in international air space - did not take any evasive measures. The Russian pilot maneuvered his jet in a way that exposed its belly to the American crew, he said, apparently as a way of showing that it was armed. Warren said there was no radio communication between the two planes' crews. He said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both raised the matter later with their Russian counterparts. Cold war: The near air-collision happened in April off the coast of Russia over the Sea of Okhotsk . According to CNN, the United States did not reveal the incident publicly, but Chuck Hagel and his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoygu discussed the issue. Warren said he could not explain why the incident, which happened April 23, was not made public earlier. Asked why the Pentagon didn’t disclose the incident until it was reported on Tuesday by the Washington Free Beacon, spokesman Warren said, 'I don’t have a good answer for you.' Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a former commander in Alaska, voiced his concerns about the provocative Russian action. 'The dangerous intercept by a Russian Su-27 is far worse than we experienced during the Cold War,' McInerney told the Washington Free Beacon. 'In my four plus years as the Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense region commander at the height of the Cold War, we never saw such recklessness by the USSR.' At the highest level: US Defense Secretary spoke to his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoygu (right) about the incident - but the near-miss was kept secret . It is the latest source of concern for U.S. officials since a heightening of U.S.-Russian tensions following Moscow's intervention in Ukraine. In mid-April a Russian Su-24 fighter made low-level passes over a U.S. Navy ship in the Black Sea. An RC-135U is a highly specialized reconnaissance plane known as 'Combat Sent.' There are only two such planes in the U.S. Air Force; both are assigned to the 55th Wing at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. Their crews are from the 45th Reconnaissance Squadron and the 97th Intelligence Squadron of the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency. The 'Combat Sent' aircraft are equipped with communications gear designed to locate and identify foreign military radar signals on land, at sea and in the air. The crew is composed of two pilots, one navigator, two airborne systems engineers, at least 10 electronic warfare officers and six or more technical and other specialists." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Near mid-air collision occurred in April over the Sea of Okhotsk - 60 miles off the coast of Russia - but in International air space ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The father of Broadchurch star David Tennant has revealed he is terminally ill and has backed plans to give patients the 'right to die'. The Very Reverend Sandy McDonald, a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, said he is suffering from lung condition pulmonary fibrosis. He has made an end-of life plan and has called on senior church figures to back proposed laws to give terminally-ill people 'assistance towards a peaceful death'. The Reverend Sandy McDonald (pictured left) has revealed he is terminally ill. The father of actor David Tennant (right), he backs plans to give terminally-ill people the right to die . Earlier this month, ex-Dr Who actor Tennant dedicated his special recognition prize at the National Television Awards to his 77-year-old father. Rev McDonald, of Paisley, Renfrewshire, said he did not know how long he had left to live but said it was time to give dying people more rights over end-of-life care. He said: 'I have pulmonary fibrosis. It just gets worse, there is no cure. I have had to address it and decide what to do. 'I have an advance directive which says 'do not resuscitate'. I do not want to be fed by something in my stomach. 'What I do want is the right to a peaceful end to my life.' He added: 'I think we have the wrong slant, the wrong emphasis. Ex-Dr Who actor David Tennant (pictured starring in Broadchurch as D.I Alec Hardy with Olivia Colman as D.S Ellie Mille) dedicated his special recognition prize at the National Television Awards to his father this month . 'The phrase - assisted suicide - has criminal overtones in the minds of many people. 'We need to take seriously the provision of a peaceful end of life for all those who need and want it. 'Of course there would have to be safeguards and that should be discussed.' The Church of Scotland is formally against a change in the law such as the Assisted Suicide Bill, which is currently being debated at Holyrood. The Bill, originally introduced by the late Margo MacDonald, has the aim of legalising suicide for terminally-ill people through the Scottish Parliament. Rev McDonald said many terminally ill people wanted to die and insisted current legislation was putting a strain on the NHS. He called on the Kirk to discuss the issue at this year's assembly in May. He said: 'We have got so many people in our nursing homes, in our care homes and our bed-blocked hospitals, whether elderly or seriously ill, who are saying 'it's time for me to die'. 'I sympathise hugely with them. 'The doctors and nurses have their hands tied because they are liable to end up in court. 'I believe it is only just that the Church come together and discuss this.' Rev McDonald filmed a special tribute to his actor son which was played before he collected his award at the NTAs. In his acceptance speech Tennant, 43, said: 'I would like to dedicate this to my dad. He is an inspiration and a role model, so thanks Sandy.' The star's father, whose wife Helen died in 2007, said he was delighted at the tribute. He added: 'The event brought a great deal of joy. 'Friends from all over have been ringing since the broadcast. Some people I have not heard from for years have been in touch to say how delighted they were. It was good to talk to them.' Rev McDonald was a minister in Lanarkshire, West Lothian and Paisley before becoming the General Secretary of the Church of Scotland's Board of Ministry. He retired in 2002." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reverend Sandy McDonald, 77, has revealed he has pulmonary fibrosis .\nFather of actor David Tennant is member of the Church of Scotland .\nRev McDonald backs proposed laws to give terminally-ill people right to die .\nDoes not know how much time he has but wants the right to 'peaceful end'\nBut the Church of Scotland is formally against the Assisted Suicide Bill ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They were feared as barbarians who built one of the largest empires in the world from horseback, but it appears the Mongolian emperors were also some of the planet's biggest polluters. A new study into the silver mines of Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, shows that the people produced four times as much pollution as modern industrial mining activities. It is thought to be one of the few examples where pre-industrial period pollution has exceeded modern day levels. Kublai Khan (above), the grandson of Genghis Khan, founded the Yuan Dynasty during which pollution from silver mining activities in the Yunnan region of south west China increased to four times modern levels . Geologists from the University of Pittsburgh and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found pollution from heavy metals like lead, zinc and cadmium spiked between 1271AD and 1368AD in the Yunnan region of south west China. He was one of the most feared warriors in history, waging bloody war across Asia and Europe. But Genghis Khan’s 13th-century rampage may have never happened had it not been for a spell of good weather. The leader of the Mongol armies created a vast empire that eventually stretched across China, India, Russia and Eastern Europe. Historians used to think his armies of nomadic horsemen were fleeing the bleak, cold and dry Mongolian plains for warmer regions. But now scientists have discovered that the rise of the Mongol Empire coincided with a 14-year spell of weather that was the warmest and wettest for 1,000 years. The academics, from Columbia University in New York, discovered the weather anomaly by studying the rings of ancient trees. They think the conditions created those needed for a boost in lush growth of grass, which would have fuelled the soldiers' horses and fattened their livestock. The good weather lasted from 1211 to 1225 - the exact period when Genghis Khan and his armies rose to prominence. They say that this pollution was caused by large amounts of silver smelting driven by the Mongolian hunger for the precious metal, which they used to make coins, jewellery and art. Writing in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, Aubrey Hillman, who led the work, said that the impact of this pollution was still being felt today by the wildlife and environment in the area. She said: 'Culminating during the rule of the Mongols, known as the Yuan Dynasty, these metal concentrations approach levels three to four times higher than those from industrialised mining activity occurring within the catchment. 'Notably, the concentrations of lead approach levels at which harmful effects may be observed in aquatic organisms. 'The persistence of this lead pollution over time created an environmental legacy that likely contributes to known issues in modern-day sediment quality.' Miss Hillman and her colleagues extracted sediment cores from Lake Erhai in Yunnan. The mud within these sediments catalogued around 4,500 years of debris deposited on the floor of the lake. By scanning the cores for heavy metals they were able to determine how pollution levels had changed through out the areas history. In 1500BC they noticed a rapid increase in copper levels in the silt - marking the onset of the Bronze Age in southeast Asia and the birth of metallurgy in the area. They say that from around 1100AD there was an increase in lead, silver, zinc and cadmium, all linked to the smelting of silver. This map shows Lake Erhai in south west China where Mongol rulers caused heavy pollution by mining silver . The researchers took sediment core samples from Lake Erhai (pictured above) in Yunnan, south west China . The Mongol's Yuan dynasty prized silver for coins and jewelry similar to the belt shown in the picture above . However, the levels of pollution remained relatively low until 1271AD, around the time when Kublai Khan founded the Yuan dynasty and became Emperor of China. The Mongols are thought to have established the first government operated silver mine in Yuann in 1290AD and taxes from silver production came to account for 47 per cent of the national revenue. Silver smelting (shown above) can release heavy metal pollutants like lead into the environment . The Yuan Dynasty remained in power until 1368AD when they were defeated by the Ming Dynasty. The researchers found that lead pollution in Lake Erhai peaked at 119 micrograms per gram of sediment in 1300AD before then declining to to around 30 micrograms per gram in 1420AD. By 1980 they had reached fallen to 8 micrograms per gram of sediment. However, Yuann is known to be particularly rich in mineral resources and has large deposits of copper, tin, gold, silver and iron, and mining activity continues there today. Miss Hillman said: 'Our findings are unique - while pre-industrial pollution has been detected in lake sendiments over many time periods and regions of the world, only a few studies have found pre-industrial pollution levels to be greater than the modern and none of these have been in China. 'Modern pollution issues rest on a long history of decline in sediment quality at Ehrhai. 'A study of Idaho wetlands documented that the persistence of lead in sediments impacted organisms several centuries after mining activity was reduced. Similarly, we suggest that the elevated concentrations of lead due to the environmental legacy of Mongol silver mining has impacted the lake for several centuries.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Geologists have found Mongol silver mining produced four times as much harmful heavy metal pollution than modern industrial mining activities .\nThe scientists examined sediment from lakes in Yunnan, south west China .\nThe Mongols oversaw large scale silver mining and smelting in the region .\nTheir silver smelting activities caused pollution levels to peak in 1300AD .\nSmelting silver causes other heavy metals to leach into the environment .\nScientists say the heavy metals are still damaging the environment today ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Late: Teenager Yasmin Tisbury has a hospital appointment booked for the year 2099 . A teenager who tried to book a consultation at hospital was told to come back for an appointment in 84 years' time. Yasmin Tisbury, 19, was referred for an ultrasound scan at Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertfordshire by her GP after complaining of stomach pains. But a month later, she received a letter telling her she had an appointment at 11am on Thursday January 1, 2099. The student will be 103 years old by the time she finally gets the scan - but as January 1 is a bank holiday, doctors may not even be working on that day. Miss Tisbury was put on hold for an hour before she was able to speak to the hospital to sort out the IT blunder. 'I thought it was funny at first, I'm not sure I can wait 84 years for a scan,' said Miss Tisbury, who is studying animal management. 'But then I got quite annoyed while I was waiting on the phone. 'It's just a mix-up but I just wanted to get the date sorted. I have already had to wait a month to get the appointment and obviously I am worried about that. 'There wasn't even a clue when the appointment might be, because we are already in February so it would obviously not be in January. 'In fact I first thought the appointment was for next January but then I read what year they put.' After tweeting about her bizarre experiences, Miss Tisbury was given a new appointment for next Tuesday. Long wait: An extract from the letter telling Miss Tisbury to come in to hospital in 84 years' time . Blunder: Lister Hospital in Stevenage admitted that the letter was in fact the result of a clerical error . But she said: 'The appointment they have given me is when I start my work experience, and I am unable to have time off, so I will have to rearrange again.' East and North Herts NHS Trust said: 'We're very grateful to Yasmin for alerting us to this problem, which is clearly a clerical error. 'We know that sometimes our patients have to wait a few weeks for their appointments, but 2099 is stretching it somewhat. 'We've now agreed the details of her appointment with Yasmin directly - it will take place in a few days.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yasmin Tisbury booked an ultrasound scan at Lister Hospital in Stevenage .\nShe was sent a letter telling her to go in for the scan on January 1, 2099 .\nThe teenager will be 103 years old by the time of scheduled appointment ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A man was left with third-degree burns after his iPhone 5C spontaneously exploded in his pocket during his cousin's wake. Erik Johnson had to spend ten days at a specialist burns unit after the mobile melted through his trousers and stuck to his skin on Valentine's Day. Mr Johnson, from Long Island, New York, said he was bending over to get keys when he heard a 'pop'. Scroll down for video . Erik Johnson, from Long Island, New York, was left with third-degree burns on his upper left thigh (above) after his iPhone 5C spontaneously exploded in his pocket during his cousin's wake . The extent of the damage to the phone (above) shows how high temperatures melted the case and warped the screen . 'My leg just started going on fire,' he told ABC. 'I had to rip my pants off. A couple of people actually said they could smell my body burning. 'It felt like when you're branding a bull or something like that.' Mr Johnson was left with a huge wound on his upper left thigh and now has to have his bandages changed twice a day by nurses. One picture of the phone shows how high temperatures caused its metal case to weld with the plastic, as well as warping the screen. Experts have said the phones can explode if their circuit boards are damaged or a different charger is used. Experts have said the phones can explode if their circuit boards are damaged or a different charger is used. But Mr Johnson (above) insists he was using the correct charger - and is now suing the company . But Mr Johnson insists he was using the correct charger - and is now suing the company. Apple users took to social media to express their shock. One user, @deerenye_, wrote: 'Crazy! On the news, guys iPhone exploded in his pocket and gave him a 3rd degree burn.' Another, @erica8221, wrote: 'Omg someones iphone 5c exploded in a guy pocket and he has third-degree burns' (sic). The iPhone 5C was launched in September 2013 and was designed as a mid-price model to increase accessibility. It was the first iPhone with a plastic case and costs around $450 in the US and £319 in the UK. The model will reportedly be discontinued at the end of this year. Apple has been contacted for comment by MailOnline but has not yet responded. Apple's mobile gadgets have a generally good safety record with few serious defects reported since the first generation iPhone was launched in 2007. But there have been several malfunctions that have dogged Apple. August 2013 - A Chinese woman claimed she was left with a scratched eyeball after her iPhone 5 exploded after a 40-minute phone call. February 2013 - Marketing manager Shibani Bhujle, from New York, claimed the battery of her iPhone 4S spontaneously melted, oozing acid and destroying the handset. January 2013 - An Oregon fire crew blamed an apartment blaze on an overheated MacBook battery which was dropped onto a mattress. December 2011 - An iPhone 4 reportedly began emitting smoke in a plane cabin on a flight to Australia. December 2011 - It was reported that an iPhone 4 was plugged in to charge overnight in Brazil when it began to emit smoke and sparks as its owner slept nearby." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Erik Johnson spent ten days in hospital after phone melted skin .\nHe said: 'It felt like when you're branding a bull or something like that'\nExperts said iPhones can explode if different charger is used ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "France is pleading for troops from across Europe to bolster its peace-keeping effort in the war-torn Central African Republic. However, the UK has rejected any on-the-ground intervention to halt the escalating bloodshed between Muslim rebels who ousted president Francois Bozize and Christian militia. As France’s efforts to control growing violence in its former colony lose support at home after the deaths of two soldiers, its government will this week also urge EU countries to back the establishment of a fund to bankroll support for armies in unstable African countries. Scroll down for video . French President Francois Hollande pays tribute at the coffin of a French soldier killed in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic. France wants its European allies to intervene in the increasingly volatile region . French troops detain a suspected rebel officer, preventing Christian mobs from lynching him near the airport in Bangui earlier this month . Both proposals, to be discussed at a . Brussels summit, are being met with scepticism by British officials. Senior sources told the Mail: ‘There is no question of British boots on . the ground. We can offer C17s [military transporter planes], but no . troops. We want to look at the detail but it is not immediately obvious . that it is something we would sign up to.’ Ministers . are wary of committing British troops to military action after the . embarrassing Commons defeat on taking action over the brutal civil war . in Syria. So far, France has deployed 1,600 troops to the country but it wants to boost numbers up to 6,000. It . emerged yesterday that dozens of heavily armed rebels surrounded Mr . Hollande’s plane during a tense stand-off in a visit to Central African . Republic. Six vehicles each . carrying about ten fighters sped up to the presidential jet as it . landed at Bangui airport last Tuesday evening, but following . negotiations no one was hurt. Mr Hollande completed a short visit to . troops before returning to Paris. French troops stop the crowds who have gathered at the entrance to the airport of Bangui . Increasing numbers of people in France are opposed to their Socialist government getting involved in dangerous overseas adventures . President Francois Hollande has already called for the ‘permanent European fund’ for African intervention, and Mr Fabius will push for this at the European Council meeting in Brussels this week. ‘Europe does a lot but it only intervenes from time to time,’ Mr Hollande said last week during a state visit to Brazil. ‘We need a permanent European fund, not a fund for each individual operation. This should not be about us providing the armed forces on the ground and demanding that we be paid. We are neither the mercenaries nor the police of Europe.’ Mr Hollande’s handling of his economy at home is leaping from one disaster to another, leading to accusations that he is using overseas military adventures to try and increase his popularity. But he insisted: ‘I did not come to power to make war’, adding that ‘circumstances’ had forced France to launch military operations in Mali and the Central African Republic. Radical Islam is behind much of the trouble, with an Al Qaeda army trying to seize power in Mali. The . killing and maiming of hundreds of British soldiers in countries like . Afghanistan and Iraq in recent years – combined with the massive cost of . such wars – will make many of wary of joining the French. Hollande has defended the interventions, claiming circumstances have forced his hand ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "French foreign minister says fighting is escalating in CAR and Mali .\nFrance also wants a European fund for emergencies in Africa .\nBut public are turning against Hollande's overseas intervention ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A campaign to encourage victims of sexual abuse to write love letters to themselves has gone viral - with hundreds of people taking part. The initiative - #survivorloveletters - was started by artist Tani Ikeda, owner of ImMEDIAte Justice and a survivor of abuse herself, as an 'act of defiance' about her experiences. Tani, who lives in LA, said the movement, which has seen the letters shared on social media websites, is a 'cathartic' way in which survivors of abuse can share their stories. This letter is written by a woman called Sarah, she posted the colourful piece to herself on Valentine's Day as part of the #survivorloveletters project which was started by the artist Tani Ikeda . The project was launched on Tumblr along with with feminist activist Suey Park so that the moving accounts could be shared with and read by other victims. Tani started the initiative on Valentine's Day as it is the anniversary on the day she was abused. Tani told Femail: '[The campaign] started on Valentine's Day and #Survivorloveletter was an act of defiance, a declaration of self love and a call to allies to honor the survivors in their lives. 'I imagined what it would mean for my younger self to wake up and read message after message of public support for surviving. This letter was written to a woman named Andrea in it it says, 'I want you to know how proud I am of you for keeping your head up and your heart open to the beautiful things this world still has to offer' 'That's when I knew I wanted to create #survivorloveletter.I was incredibly grateful that activist Suey Park helped kick off #survivorloveletter on twitter and that Lisa Factora-Borcher, Patrisse Marie Cullors-Brignac, Amita Swadhin and other women I admire joined the conversation.' Tani was abused herself and said: 'Growing up, I realised story was my most powerful weapon against violence, marginalization, and a media landscape that rendered me invisible. 'Story had the capacity to heal myself and break the stigma around being a survivor of sexual violence. 'We didn't have to be ashamed about what had happened to us. We don't have to live the rest of our lives as victims.' This letter, written in green pen, said that it took this survivor a long time to come to terms with what had happened to them . Tani said she decided to set up the Tumblr initiative when she started to get a lot of submissions as she wanted a way to archive the letters. She said: 'At first, the letters were coming in mostly from family and friends, but now strangers are sending me their most intimate, painful, and brave survivor love letters. It's a real privilege to help facilitate this kind of sharing. Tani told Femail that she hopes the project will help other survivors of sexual abuse to feel less alone. This is a letter written to Tani, the woman behind the #survivorloveletters project, by one of her friends . Tani said after a while she started to receive more letters and she decided to start the Tumblr account . She said: 'I hope that someone reading #survivorloveletter will feel a little less alone today. 'I hope that by sharing our complex stories of violence we will break down the stigma of shame around rape and start conversations that lovingly honor survivors.' Some of the letters are written by the survivors themselves whilst others have been submitted by their friends or family. One letter written by a woman named Sarah said: 'Dear Sarah, you didn't ask to be here, but remember, you are not what they took from you. 'You are the monument of survival and recovery you erected in its place. I love, and will always love, every healing part of you. 'You are a queen, you are a goddess, you are a survivor. Happy V-day. All my love and everything else, Sarah.' Another written by a man says: 'To the little five year old me: Just because they don't want to acknowledge boys get raped, doesn't make the right. Rape knows no gender.' This moving letter which has been created on a computer is from a man who had been raped as a child . Some of the letters are from family members, such as this touching one written to a daughter from her father ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The campaign was started by artist Tani Ikeda, who was abused .\nMen and women share their letters under #SurvivorLoveLetters .\nSome have been written by victims, others by family and friends ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pies and ice cream have been a long been a staple at the American dinner table. But a new report suggests the nation's love affair with dessert is waning because of the preparation time and cost. Market research company, NPD Group, tracked the daily eating habits of 5,000 consumers across the country and found that only 12 per cent tucked into a sweet treat after dinner in the home. A sweet goodbye: Pies and ice cream have been a long been a staple at the American dinner table - but a new report suggests the nation's love affair with dessert is waning because of the preparation time and cost . It marks a decline from 15 per cent ten years ago and a dip from 24 per cent back in 1986. Despite healthy eating drives, experts say the trend has nothing to do nutritional concern and is simply down to making life simpler. Of the dessert eaters, almost 20per cent said easy-to-prepare fruit was their favorite option. Fifteen per cent plumped for cake, while 13 per cent preferred a few scoops of ice cream or cookies. The faithful pie came in at fourth place with 8.9 per cent plucking up the energy to slice it up and another classic - brownies - came bottom of the pile. Market research company, NPD Group, tracked the daily eating habits of 5,000 consumers across the country and found that only 12per cent tucked into a sweet treat after dinner in the home - It marks a decline from 15per cent ten years ago and a dip from 24per cent back in 1986 . Older Americans, adults over 65, were revealed as the heaviest dessert eaters . Commenting on the findings, Harry Balzer, senior vice president and chief food industry analyst at NPD, said: 'Dessert adds to the effort of making a meal. 'You have to prepare it and clean up, plus it adds to the cost of the meal. It’s one more thing Americans are learning to do without.' Fruit - 19.7 per cent . Cake - 14.3 per cent . Ice cream -13.9 per cent . Cookies - 13.8 per cent . Pie - 8.9 per cent . Frozen Novelties - 6.3 per cent . Candy - 5.3 per cent . Pudding - 3.8 per cent . Salty snacks - 2.8 per cent . Brownies - 2.7 per cent . Older Americans, adults over 65, were revealed as the heaviest dessert eaters. They reported eating a sweet course at home twice as often as any other age group. However, even they are cutting back. For the year ending February 2014, people over 65 ate 76 desserts per person per year at home. In 2000, they ate 104 desserts per person per year at home. The analysis came from the NPD Group's 29th annual Eating Patterns in America report. Balzer suggests the culinary trend in American homes is about one-dish main meals. He jokingly concluded: 'If this trend continues, desserts may entirely disappear from the dinner table. 'We are on target to serve the last dessert on Feb. 27, 2054.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Market research company, NPD Group, tracked the daily eating habits of 5,000 consumers across the country .\nOnly 12 per cent tucked into a sweet treat after dinner in the home .\nIt marks a decline from 15 per cent ten years ago and a dip from 24 per cent back in 1986 .\nDespite healthy eating drives, experts say the trend has nothing to do nutritional concerns and is simply down to making life simpler ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The relentless snow and winter storms sweeping the country will continue into March after one of the coldest months in history. Dozens of states will be hit by yet another Arctic blast over the weekend and into next week with meteorologists predicting almost everywhere east of the Rockies will experience temperatures between 10 and 30 degrees below average, and on Saturday there is snow expected in all 50 states, something that has not happened since the second week of February in 2010. And with many bodies of water on or near the Eastern seaboard freezing over, the U.S. Coast Guard has been forced to deploy ice breakers to clear shipping lanes in the Hudson Valley and the Delaware River in Philadelphia. In Wisconsin meanwhile, conditions have allowed for the creation of beautiful ice caves, as the water trickling down the caves at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore on lake Superior freezes over. Scroll down for videos . Frozen over: The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sturgeon Bay breaks ice in the shipping channel on the Hudson River in Catskill, New York, on Friday. With the prolonged cold winter weather, that is set to continue into March, the Coast Guard has been busy clearing shipping lanes . Braced: Dozens of states, including New York, are set to be hit by another wave of snow and wintry storms over the weekend and into the beginning of next week. The U.S. Coast Guard will continue to work in places such as Catskill as we enter March . Frigid: The tanker Harbour Legend moves up the icy Delaware River Friday in Philadelphia on Friday. Temperatures forecast for the rest of the week mean February would be the fifth coldest month on record . Operation: With the Catskill Mountains and Hudson-Athens Lighthouse in the background, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sturgeon Bay leaves Hudson, New York to break ice . Patches: Some of the ice on the Delaware River has cleared, but declining temperatures could mean the water becomes frozen once again in the coming days . Passage: The tanker Harbour Legend clears a path in the Delaware River outside of Philadelphia . Meanwhile, parts of the East and the Midwest will be hit with sub-zero conditions so severe that more daily records are, yet again, set to tumble. The mercury has dropped so low that three of the five Great Lakes have completely frozen over. As February draws to a close, records will likely show it is the fifth coldest on record for swathes of the east coast, according to ABC. In Detroit, the month is expected to be the second coldest since records began in 1874. Temperatures in the Michigan city dropped to 14.6 degrees on Wednesday. The record was set in 1875, according to the Detroit News. With below freezing temperatures forecast for the remainder of the month, Chicago is set to beat the record for the coldest February set in the same year. James Kuhn, left, of Seattle, and Edward Mitchell, of Detroit, explore an ice cave at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore on Lake Superior . A person explores an ice cave at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore on Lake Superior . Edward Mitchell, front, of Detroit, and James Kuhn, of Seattle, explore an ice cave at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore on Lake Superior . A person explores an ice cave at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore on Lake Superior . An ice cave is seen at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore on Lake Superior . People explore an ice cave at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore on Lake Superior . The Weather Channel's Michael Palmer told NBC: 'We're almost into March now so it's pretty late to see this kind of cold. The cold this February has been brutal, and there doesn't look like there will be any let-up until late next week.' At 4am ET on Friday, the mercury had already dropped below zero in North and South Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa. The frigid conditions are set to move towards the eastern seaboard as the day goes on with freezing conditions predicted in the Midwest and Great Lakes. According to ABC Syracuse, New York, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Bangor, Maine, Boston, Detroit, Chicago and New York City could have a top-three coldest February on record if the temperature continues to drop. The only areas getting snow early Friday were Oklahoma, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Another band of snow was forecast to hit the Midwest on Saturday and shift into the Northeast on Sunday. Crash: A firefighter peers at a car that veered off the road in icy conditions in Raleigh, North Carolina, and ended up in a stream on Thursday. Roads were shut down and schools closed along the east coast as the relentless winter weather continued to cause chaos . Collapsed: Two police officers walk beside a fallen tree in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the heavy snow on Thursday . On the surface: Ice covers Lake Michigan with the Chicago skyline barely visible in the background.Three of the five Great Lakes had completely frozen over by Thursday . Braving the weather: A goose walks on the banks of the partially-frozen Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, on Thursday . Covered: Extensive ice covers the Chesapeake Bay area near Annapolis in Maryland on Thursday. Many bodies of water on or near the Eastern seaboard have been completely frozen over . White: Snow blankets a lawn outside Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. More daily records are expected to broken across the country today . Powder: Snow also lined the National Mall in Washington D.C. Many cities were given a break from the snow on Thursday but it is set to continue over the weekend . Cleanup: Authorities try to move a downed tree branch out of the middle of the road in Raleigh, North Carolina . The snow in Alabama has also delayed jury selection in the capital murder trial of a woman accused of making her granddaughter run until she died. Some roads were still icy in northeast Alabama around Etowah County early Friday, and officials say Joyce Hardin Garrard's trial won't get started until Monday as a precaution. Authorities say Garrard forced nine-year-old Savannah Hardin to run for hours as punishment for a lie three years ago. The girl eventually collapsed and died days later in a hospital. The defense says Garrard is innocent. Attorneys were first supposed to begin questioning jurors in court on Wednesday, but the judge postponed the session because of winter weather. The same thing happened Thursday when snow blanketed the county. On Thursday most of the country had a break from the snow - despite storms earlier in the week forcing schools, roads and businesses to close. Thousands of people in the Carolinas, Virginia, Alabama and Georgia were also left without power as falling trees knocked down power lines. This is the third storm to hit the Deep South in less than a week. Since the storms began, airlines have been severely affected, canceling nearly 7,000 flights in the past seven days. For Thursday, more than 1,300 flights had been canceled nationwide and another 4,400 delayed, according to tracking site FlightAware.com. By 11.45 on Friday, more than 4,000 flights had already been affected - 399 were cancelled and 1,049 delayed. Huntsville, Alabama, received 8.1 inches on Wednesday, breaking a daily record. It was also the snowiest February day and the second snowiest day of any month on record there. Standing by: Paul Kral clears snow from the dock area of Willoughby Harbor Marina while his dog, Lucky, an American Eskimo breed, watches on in Norfolk, Virginia . Snowy weather ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dozens of states from coast-to-coast are set to be hit by snow over the weekend and into next week .\nOn Saturday there is snow expected in all 50 states, something that has not happened since February 2010 .\nSub-zero temperatures are expected in New England and the Midwest, with more records expected to be set .\nThree of the five Great Lakes have frozen over and thousands have been left without power in the South .\nDetroit has experienced its coldest winter in 140 years while Chicago is set to break the record set in 1875 .\nMore than 7,000 flights across the country have been cancelled because of snow in the past seven days .\nThe U.S Coast Guard has deployed ice breakers in the Hudson Valley and Philadelphia to create shipping lanes ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "More than a quarter of a million car insurance claims are made each year in the US alone for damages caused by hail stones. And now an inventor has devised a 'bouncy castle-inspired' system to protect vehicles from these storms. Called Hail Protector, the cover inflates within five minutes to surround a car or truck and stops stones damaging the chassis beneath. Scroll down for video . The inflatable protector was inspired by a bouncy castle and was designed by Texas-based Michael Siciliano. It works with an early warning app that gives drivers up to 30 minutes notice about the chances of a hail storm at four different locations. These locations can include the driver's home or office, for example . The protector was designed by Texas-based Michael Siciliano. It works with an early warning app that gives drivers up to 30 minutes notice about the chances of a hail storm at four different locations. These locations can include the driver's home or office, for example. But the process isn't quick. The driver must get to their vehicle, unpack the cover and place it over their car, plug in the remote control and hit a button to start inflating it - which alone takes five minutes. Once inflated, though, its makers claim the cover can protect cars from hail stones as large as 2lbs (1kg). The button on the remote is powered through a car battery or plug socket and it activates four blowers typically used as cooling fans in desktop computers. Once forewarned, the driver must get to their vehicle, unpack the cover and place it over their car (left), plug in the remote control and hit a button to start inflating it - which alone takes five minutes. Air flow remains constant throughout the storm and once it passes, the cover can be compacted to fit in a boot (right) Air flow remains constant - much like a bouncy castle - throughout the storm and once it passes, the cover can be compacted to fit in a boot. Depending on the length of the storm, this could also have an impact on the car's battery life - especially when stationary. The protector was designed by Texas-based Michael Siciliano. It works with an early warning app that gives drivers up to 30 minutes notice about the chances of a hail storm at four different locations. These locations can include the driver's home or office, for example. But the process isn't quick. The driver must get to their vehicle, unpack the cover and place it over their car, plug in the remote control and hit a button to start inflating it - which alone takes five minutes. Once inflated, its makers claim the cover can protect cars from hail stones as large as 2lbs (1kg). The button on the remote is powered through a car battery or plug socket and, once pressed, activates four blowers typically used as cooling fans in desktop computers. Air flow remains constant - much like a bouncy castle - throughout the storm and once it passes, the cover can be compacted to fit in a boot. Mr Siciliano, 48, said: 'Physically, the Hail Protector System uses similar principles to bouncy castles. 'In 2009 it came to me that there is no solution for protecting vehicles from the damaging effect of hail. 'I was working in renewable energy at the time, but throughout my career I would look at an issue or problem and ask 'why don't they come up with something that will fix this?'' The system has been publicly tested against air cannons, cantaloupes, coconuts, watermelons and baseball pitching machines. Additionally, the system has been tested in winds in excess of 60mph (97km/h) and comes with an instructional video of how to use it. The Hail Protector is available in six sizes - three for sedans, hatchbacks and wagons and three for SUVs, vans and trucks. These range from vehicles 10ft (3.3 metres) up to 22ft (6.7 metres) long. Prices start at $349 (£226) and the inventors are in talks to set up distribution centres in Europe. Mr Siciliano added: 'We are in the final development of a new option for The Hail Protector System. 'The option will enable activation and deactivation of the system via a text message from anywhere in the world. 'We are also developing a mobile app for the system which will provide alerting in a more informational way and will eventually enable the user to press a button within the mobile app to activate and deactivate their system. 'The mobile app is between three and 12 months away from launch.' The Hail Protector is available in six sizes - three for sedans, hatchbacks and wagons (pictured) and three for SUVs, vans and trucks. These range from vehicles 10ft (3.3 metres) up to 22ft (6.7 metres) long. Of course, if you have a garage like the one shown behind the covered car that will equally protect it from hail stones . The system has been publicly tested against air cannons (pictured), cantaloupes, coconuts, watermelons and baseball pitching machines. Additionally, the system has been tested in winds in excess of 60mph (97km/h) and comes with an instructional video of how to use it ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Hail Protector cover inflates in five minutes to surround a car or truck .\nAir continues to flow through the cover to stop stones damaging a chassis .\nThe protector was designed by Texas-based Michael Siciliano .\nIt works with an app that gives drivers 30 minutes notice about storms .\nOnce a driver is forewarned they must unpack the cover and place it over their car, plug in the remote control and hit a button .\nCover ranges in size from sedans to trucks and prices start at $349 (£226)" } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She's the fourth-generation Australian jewellery designer whose exquisite designs are red carpet favourites for celebrities. Now Margot McKinney can add Dita Von Teese to the list of stars wearing her designs, after the burlesque performer donned Ms McKinney's Diamond, Sapphire and Aquamarine Bow Earrings with 12.62ct Laguna Blue Sapphire this week. Von Teese wore the one-of-a-kind earrings to the Genlux Issue Release Event at Luxe Hotel in Beverly Hills on Wednesday night. Margot McKinney and Dita Von Teese host the Genlux Issue Release party Beverly Hills on Wednesday . The burlesque performer donned Ms McKinney's Diamond, Sapphire and Aquamarine Bow Earrings . The one-of-a-kind earrings also feature 12.62ct Laguna Blue Sapphire . 'Dita has such marvellous style and is truly a unique fashion icon. She wears my pieces with aplomb,' said Ms McKinney said. 'It's fabulous to see international celebrities choosing to wear Australian designs and showcase them to the world. 'We really do have some of the most stunning natural stones and gems and I'm delighted that she has chosen to wear them on the red carpet.' Her designs have previously been worn by other celebrities including Paula Abdul, Idina Menzel, Rebecca Gibney and Anna McGahan. Rebecca Gibney wore untreated Sapphires 5.06ct and 5.04ct with 39.18ct brilliant and rose cut Diamonds . Paula Abdul wore Kunzite 61.24ct Earrings with Pink Sapphire and Cognac and Diamond Tops . Anna McGahan wore Green Berryl 85.11ct Pendant Earrings with Sapphires, Tsavorite Garnets and Diamonds with a 9.37ct pair of Kunzite . Ms McKinney has enjoyed success in the US, signing with leading luxury department store Neiman Marcus in 2008 where she sells her unique pieces. Many of her designs feature precious stones from Australia. 'When I'm in these wonderful stores, I talk a lot about Australia and about the wealth of gems that we have - pearls, opals, sapphires and pink diamonds,' she said. Ms McKinney is a fourth generation McKinney, a well-established family of fine jewellers from Queensland who last year celebrated 130 of family business. The business was started in 1884 in Toowoomba by her great-great-grandfather John McKinney, who opened a luxury store with wife Sarah after arriving from Ireland. Ms McKinney is a fourth generation McKinney, a well-established family of fine jewellers from Queensland who last year celebrated 130 of family business ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Margot McKinney is a fourth-generation Queensland fine jewellery designer .\nHer exquisite designs are red carpet favourites for celebrities .\nMs McKinney just added Dita Von Teese to the list of stars she's adorned .\nHer celebrity customers include Paula Abdul, Idina Menzel, Rebecca Gibney and Anna McGahan ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Investigators said Thursday they have recovered 32,000 emails related to a former IRS official at the heart of the agency's tea party scandal. But they don't know how many of them are new. The emails were to and from Lois Lerner, who used to head the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. Last June, the IRS told Congress it had lost an unknown number of Lerner's emails when her computer hard drive crashed in 2011. Scroll down for videos . Eureka! Investigators said Thursday they have recovered 32,000 emails related to former IRS official Lois Lerner (pictured last March) at the heart of the agency's tea party scandal . Lerner was forced into early retirement after it emerged that she presided over a scheme in which IRS agents improperly singled out tea party and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status . At the time, IRS officials said the emails could not be recovered. But at a congressional hearing Thursday evening, investigators said they recovered thousands of emails from old computer tapes used to back up the agency's email system. 'We recovered quite a number of emails but until we compare those to what's already been produced we don't know if they're new emails,' Timothy Camus, a Treasury deputy inspector general for tax administration, told the House Oversight Committee. Neither Camus nor the inspector general, J. Russell George, would describe the contents of any of the emails at Thursday's hearing. The IRS says it has already produced 78,000 Lerner emails, many of which have been made public by congressional investigators. Camus said it took investigators two weeks to locate the computer tapes that contained Lerner's emails. He said it took technicians about four months to find Lerner's emails on the tapes. Several Oversight Committee members questioned how hard the IRS tried to produce the emails, given how quickly independent investigators found them. The House voted mostly along party lines to hold Ms Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions at the hearings . 'We have been patient. We have asked, we have issued subpoenas, we have held hearings,' said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican and chairman of the committee. 'It's just shocking me that you start, two weeks later you're able to find the emails.' The IRS issued a statement saying the agency 'has been and remains committed to cooperating fully with the congressional oversight investigations. The IRS continues to work diligently with Congress as well as support the review by the Treasury inspector general for tax administration.' Lerner, who was in charge of the IRS's Exempt Organizations Division, drew a top-tier salary that reached $177,000 . The IRS estimated it has spent $20million responding to congressional inquiries, generating more than 1million pages of documents and providing agency officials to testify at 27 congressional hearings. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat from New York, questioned the significance of the recovered emails in an exchange with Camus. 'So as I understand it from your testimony here today, you are unable to confirm whether there are any, to use your own words, new emails, right?' she asked Camus. 'That is correct,' Camus replied. Maloney: 'So what's before us may be material you already have, right?' Camus: 'That is correct.' Maloney: 'So may I ask, why are we here?' The inspector general set off a firestorm in May 2013 with an audit that said IRS agents improperly singled out tea party and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 elections. Several hundred groups had their applications delayed for a year or more. Some were asked inappropriate questions about donors and group activities, the inspector general's report said. The week before George's report, Lerner publicly apologized on behalf of the agency. After the report, much of the agency's top leadership was forced to retire or resign, including Lerner. The Justice Department and several congressional committees launched investigations. Lerner's lost emails prompted a new round of scrutiny by Congress, and a new investigation by the inspector general's office. Lerner emerged as a central figure in the controversy after she refused to answer questions at two House Oversight hearings, invoking her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself at both hearings. At the first hearing, Lerner made a statement saying she had done nothing wrong. Last year, the House voted mostly along party lines to hold her in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions at the hearings. It also has emerged this week that Lerner received $129,000 in bonuses during the years when she allegedly oversaw the program unfairly targeting conservative nonprofits. Lerner, then in charge of the IRS's Exempt Organizations Division, drew a top-tier salary that reached $177,000 – plus a 25 per cent 'retention bonus.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Retrieved emails were to and from Lois Lerner, former head the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status .\nLerner retired after it emerged that IRS agents improperly singled out tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status .\nIRS told Congress it had lost an unknown number of Lerner's emails when her computer hard drive crashed in 2011 .\nIt took investigators two weeks to locate old computer tapes used to back up IRS' system that contained Lerner's emails ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Los Angeles police are hunting a 21-year-old driver suspected of ploughing into a crowd of spectators during a planned street race on Wednesday night. Henry Gevorgyan was allegedly driving a souped-up Mustang that went out of control and plowed into spectators during a Chatsworth race at about 2:15 am on Thursday. The driver fled after the accident. A souped-up car that was illegally street racing lost control and careened onto a sidewalk, killing two spectators and critically injuring another before its driver ran away early Thursday, police said . Crushed: This is one of the two cars that was crushed after the planned early-morning race in Los Angeles . A 26-year-old man and a 50-year-old man were killed. A third man is hospitalized in critical condition. Meanwhile, City Councilman Mitch Englander tells the Los Angeles Daily News he'll introduce an ordinance allowing police to seize cars involved in street racing or reckless driving resulting in serious injury or death. Suspect: Henry Gevorgyan is suspected of driving his Mustang into a crowd of onlookers, allegedly killing two . Marks left over: Car skid marks are visible along a street in the Chatsworth section of Los Angeles . Capt John McMahon told the paper: 'We are pursuing murder charges against the driver of one of the vehicles and continue to investigate the role and responsibility of the other.' LAPD Detective Bill Bustos appealed to Gevorgyan to come forward. He told a news conference reported by the LA Times: 'Please turn yourself in, it's just a matter of time before we get you. The community knows who you are.' All three victims were struck by a silver, late-model Mustang that hit a curb, bounced onto the sidewalk, spun around and crashed into a utility pole, Los Angeles police Detective Bill Bustos said ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "60 people gathered to watch street race at 2.15am on Thursday .\nCar drove into the crowd killing three, police said .\nPolice hunting Henry Gevorgyan, 21, who 'fled the scene after race'" } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A Dallas bride-to-be has been left devastated 36 days before she says 'I do' after a mix-up over her doily-covered wedding invitations. Natalie DeGraffenreid ordered custom, doily-decorated invitations from the Arlington-based company, Art by Ellie. But what she received in the mail was apparently not what she ordered. Her distress began when she opened the package from stationary firm - half of her invitations allegedly had the wrong doily design. DeGraffenreid was so upset about the doilies that she turned to her local ABC TV station to warn others of her experience. Natalie DeGraffenreid and Cory Teague, who have been engaged since March 2014 and are expected to marry this spring. But the bride-to-be was left devastated after she had a mix-up with wedding invitations she ordered . DeGraffenreid ordered invitations from Arts by Ellie. The company allegedly contacted her to tell her they had ran out of the doily she wanted and ordered a second one, but she didn't realize how different it would be . DeGraffenreid, a nurse, placed her invitation order in early January, paid a $500 deposit and signed the company's contract, she told ABC 8. But problems set in when the company allegedly said only half of the invitations for her April wedding were ready, claiming there weren't enough of the same doilies for the entire order. 'When she e-mailed me a few days later and said she didn't have the same pattern - that she was ordering a new one - she said it was different. I didn't know how different,' the bride-to-be said. 'It matters to me. I'm the bride and I'm the one that paid for it,' DeGraffenreid, who has been engaged to Cory Teague since March 2014, added. One doily the bride-to-be received had swirly designs, while the other was more symmetrical and had more holes, it is reported. She said that Art by Ellie did not fulfill its part of the transaction, so she has not paid the remainder of the bill. After DeGraffenreid contacted the six-year-old stationary company asking for a refund or discount, she said the owner told her a full refund would not be an option and that the bride-to-be's payment was overdue. Lauren Heymann, owner of Art by Ellie reportedly said in a statement to ABC that she was 'very sorry she [DeGraffenreid] is so upset about the doilies'. Heymann said that she offered DeGraffenreid some kind of a refund, but the bride-to-be denies, and said the stationary firm owner instead reminded her of the contract she signed. 'We are not under contract for a guaranteed specific delivery date, a specific envelope, or a specific doily pattern with your contract,'' DeGraffenreid read from an e-mail she said Heymann sent. 'That means she could give me whatever she wanted... and she did.' The bride-to-be was so disappointed that she contacted the company and asked for a refund, but she said the company told her she needs to pay in full . Arts by Ellie owner Lauren Heymann said in a statement that she was 'very sorry' about DeGraffenreid's disappointment with the doilies and said she had tried to give some kind of refund . DeGraffenreid said that she is unsure as to how she will proceed with the invitation situation. But she does hope that other brides-to-be don't have to go through the same experience . DeGraffenreid was contacted earlier this week by an attorney representing Art by Ellie demanding she pay the remainder of her bill, it is alleged. On the Art by Ellie website, the company ensures that customers see their products before they go to print. 'Of course; you are involved every step of the way. We work with you to get a feel for your event style and then we begin working on your first round of proofs,' the company says on their FAQ page. 'The first e-mail will usually contain a few concepts and then we'll go from there, making changes until it’s perfect, and we wouldn’t dream of sending anything to the printers without your final approval.' It is unknown if DeGraffenreid saw her doilies before they reached her by post. The bride-to-be told ABC that she's unsure how she will proceed, but she hopes others won't have to go through the same stress she did. On the couple's wedding site, which has since been deleted, DeGraffenreid and Teague said they are getting married on April 4. This isn't the first time DeGraffenreid made headlines during her engagement. She and Teague, were in the news in March 2014 after he proposed to her during an awards ceremony for his fire department after two years of dating. She was shocked at the proposal and had no idea it was coming, according to Fox 4. DailyMail has attempted to contact Ms Heymann for comment. Teague proposed to DeGraffenreid in March 2014 at an awards ceremony for his fire department. The proposal made headlines and the bride-to-be said she never saw it coming . The couple dated for two years before getting engaged. Despite the invitation disaster, they plan to get married in April ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Natalie DeGraffenreid, from Dallas, Texas, ordered invitations from Arts by Ellie in January .\nWhen stationary firm ran out of doilies, the owner 'ordered a new pattern'\nDeGraffenreid said patterns aren't similar enough and is disappointed .\nThe bride-to-be asked for refund, but attorney from Arts by Ellie demanded she pay the remainder of her bill, according to reports .\nShe was so upset about the situation she turned to her local ABC station to warn others from making the same mistake ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A 63-year-old man was charged on Thursday in connection with the murder of his ex-wife, 20 years his junior. Robert Moses was taken into custody after mother-of-one Anna Moses, 43, was found dead in her Frisco, Texas home on January 14. During an interview with NBC 5, two days after he allegedly killed his ex-wife, Moses said he and the University of Texas employee had been divorced for two years but maintained a 'strong relationship'. Arrested: Robert Moses, 63, (mugshot right) was taken into custody after divorced mother-of-one Anna Moses, 43, was found dead in her Frisco, Texas, home on January 14. He told a TV station they had been divorced for two years but maintained they had a 'strong relationship' Investigators discovered her blood inside a blue Hyundai Sonata that was stolen from outside her home when she was slayed. Police located the car blocks away and, according to the Dallas Morning News, found links to the suspect's blood inside. Moses, who has a 20-year-old son with his ex-wife, Igor, was interviewed by detectives on January 15 who found a fresh cut on his right hand. He voluntarily submitted a fingerprint and tests revealed traces in the car were a positive match. Mrs Moses had worked at the University of Texas, Dallas, since 2005. Her colleagues at the school, where Moses worked as the assistant director of strategic planning and analysis at the college, requested police to carry out the welfare check on the home when she failed to show up for work. Devastating: Mrs Moses' body was discovered after she failed to turn up for work at the University of Texas. Her concerned colleagues then asked police to do a welfare check on her home . Authorities then discovered her body and the car missing from her driveway. At the time of her death, university spokesman John Walls said: 'The news of Anna's passing is a shock to the University community. She will be sorely missed.' Police transported Robert Moses to the Frisco Police Detention Center and charged him with murder. His bond was set at $1 million. At the time of her death, a family friend said Moses recently had been seeing another man, but it's unknown whether investigators had spoken to him. Friend Donna Ross called Moses a 'very kind, very loving, very caring, very intelligent person'. 'I can't imagine anyone wanting to harm her in any way,' she said. Russian-born Moses divorced husband Bob Moses about two years ago but they remained friendly and continued to bring up their 20-year-old son, Igor, together. Probe: Moses told the TV station he and 20-year-old son Igor (pictured) were co-operating with the investigation . Scene: Investigators arrived at her home in Frisco, Texas, last month and found her car had been stolen from the drive. It was rediscovered in the neighborhood and is believed to have traces of Moses' DNA inside ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anna Moses was found dead in her Frisco, Texas home, on January 14 .\nColleagues told police to check her home when 43-year-old didn't show up .\nThey discovered her body and her car had been stolen from the driveway .\nEx-husband Robert Moses, 63, was interviewed the following day .\nDNA traces found in the car with the mother's blood was a positive match .\nHe told NBC 5 after her death the pair had a 'strong relationship' despite being divorced for two years ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Army medics are being recruited to help fill nursing vacancies at Colchester General Hospital . Army medics are being drafted in to help fill nursing gaps at a hospital plunged into special measures amid concerns over cancer waiting times. Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust which runs the town's general hospital and Essex County Hospital, has more than 215 nursing vacancies at the moment. The trust was placed in special measures in 2013 amid allegations that staff were being forced to change cancer waiting times. And last month Colchester General Hospital was rated inadequate by the health watchdog, the Care Quality Commission. The trust has introduced a series of initiatives in a bid to address the staffing shortfall. Additional bank staff from other agencies will also continue to fill shifts. But now, bosses are hoping to draw on a long-standing agreement with troops stationed in the Essex town. Combat medical technicians from 16 Medical Regiment, based at Colchester Garrison, will work at the hospital when they are not on duty. It is understood they will predominantly be deployed in A&E and other urgent care areas. An agreement has been reached, the hospital said, but the number of army medics taking part has yet to be finalised. A trust spokesman said: 'We have been talking to Colchester Garrison about the possibility of using their combat medical technicians as bank nurses. 'The garrison has been supportive of this and has said that, as long as the individual medics' commanding officer is happy for them to work here on the bank when they are off duty, it's fine by them.' He added that those medics leaving the Army are being targeted as part of the trust's recruitment drive. Colchester MP Sir Bob Russell, welcomed the plans. He said: 'When I visited the hospital last month, in the wake of concerns over staffing levels with particular reference to accident and emergency, I suggested an approach be made to 16 Medical Regiment for mutual aid. 'I did so in the knowledge, from my visits to the field hospital at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, that many of the medics were members of the Army Reserve who worked for the NHS. 'Army medics would get continuing real-life situations to deal with, and the public would have additional qualified medical personnel to assist the hospital. 'This really is a win-win situation.' Combat medical technicians from 16 Medical Regiment, based at Colchester Garrison, will work at the hospital when they are not on duty, predominantly in A&E and other urgent care areas. Pictured are army medics treating an injured member of the Afghan National Army in Helmand Province, Afghanistan . A Colchester Garrison spokesman told the Ipswich Star: 'There are long-standing arrangements in place for personnel from Colchester-based 16 Medical Regiment to carry out clinical placements at both Colchester General Hospital and Ipswich Hospital. 'With the permission of their chain of command and provided it does not interfere with their military duties, soldiers are able to take on additional work in their spare time.' Separately, as part of a large recruitment drive, the trust has offered 48 jobs to Filipino nurses, 40 of whom have accepted. As they are not EU citizens, they cannot start work straight away. In addition, between mid-October and February 9, 25 UK registered nurses have agreed to join the trust. During a board meeting on Thursday, trust bosses outlined plans to become a 'much more flexible trust' for nurses. Lynn Lane, director of human resources, said: 'We're no longer saying 'no' to people just because they can't do a Tuesday or Wednesday morning. 'We are thinking of much more creative ways to ensure we are being as flexible as possible.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Colchester hospitals have around 215 nursing vacancies at the moment .\nTrust was put in special measures over cancer waiting time concerns .\nLast month Colchester General Hospital was rated inadequate by CQC .\nCombat medical teams from 16 Medical Regiment will be working in A&E ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Deborah Norville is celebrating 20 years at Inside Edition - and tells how her heartbreak at being separated from her family while on the road led to her joining the show. The mother of three freely admits she put her backpack to rest after filming one particularly gut-wrenching news story. The two-time Emmy winner, 56, says: 'I had extra pages in my passport because I was travelling so much. I was in Brazil and my little boy called me crying 'mommy, please come home'. 'We were on a story about a woman who kidnapped back her son in violation of an agreement with her ex husband in Tunisia,' she says: 'We were with these former Delta Force commandos, all very cloak and dagger, whom she had hired after exhausting every resource, spending her last dollar and selling her furniture to finance these efforts.' Scroll down for video . Celebrations: Deborah Norville on Inside Edition this week - celebrating 20 years on air . Quitting for family: Deborah, seen in 2005, said she made the decision to get a job closer to home . Mommy and me: Deborah Norville and her newborn daughter in 1997 . Waiting for the mother and son, Deborah said they eventually arrived four hours late after being detained by the border authorities in Tunisia. She said: 'When they put the key in the motor to crank up the boat, it didn't start, they had come in on fumes. 'And that really hit me, because here I am, 5,000 miles away from my own child and this woman has given up everything to be reunited with hers. Happily married to husband Karl Wellner since 1987, Deborah added: 'For me, this was an epiphany, as a journalist that was a really cool story and it hit on a number of levels, but for me personally, as a mom, a woman and a wife, it was like 'what are you doing this for? when are you going to grow up? 'This is great, you're going to cool places, you're doing nifty stuff, but you have a husband and a son and you may have a two or a four-year-deal with CBS news, but you have a lifetime contract with these people, and that's when I called my agent and said 'when my deal is up I need something where I am an anchor, by anchor, I mean glued, rooted to a show. 'CBS was offering me the evening weekend anchor job, but I would have still been on the road during the week, so that's when I thanked them and went to Inside Edition.' The willowy blonde, who was one of Joan Rivers' best friends', started on Inside Edition, succeeding Bill O’Reilly, on March 5, 1995. Inside Edition remains a steady ship in the network sea, averaging 4.7 million viewers last November, second only to Entertainment Tonight. Deborah revealed: 'I actually wrote into my contract you cannot travel more than a certain number of days, but I've never come close to that as I'm stuck in the studio! 'I thought 'If I'm going to have a long career, I need to be successful for whoever I work for, but also successful as a person'.' Friends in high places: Deborah Norville with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton . Beloved pal: Deborah Norville, her husband Karl Wellner and Joan Rivers. Deborah gave a eulogy at Joan's funeral following her death in September . The young girl from Dalton, Georgia, had no expectations of a career where she would end up interviewing the British Prime Minister in front of the nation. But from winning Junior Miss to shining as the only journalist to interview President Jimmy Carter when he returned to his home state of Georgia in 1979 when she still a college senior, it was clear that Deborah was a natural. Her star rose, and she joined the Today show in September 1989 on the newsdesk and took over from Jane Pauley as co-anchor in October 1989. Moments she cherishes include interviewing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in October 1990, just weeks after Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait. 'How long will we have?', the Iron Lady asked, to which Deborah replied: 'Unfortunately, Madame Prime Minister, this is live TV, so we'll have four or five minutes if we're lucky.' 'Oh, so you'd like my answers snappy', Mrs Thatcher said, and as Deborah recounts: 'She very snappily proceed to tell me that over dinner the night before, she and President George HW Bush decided while it would be nice if there was a UN resolution authorizing the invasion of Iraq, it wasn't necessary, and that Britain and the US were prepared to go in and defend Kuwait. 'As a reporter, you have moments when that bell goes off in your head, but the bell was going off around the world, on wire machines - yes, those still existed - that the US and UK were prepared to unilaterally defend Kuwait.' 'That', Deborah says, a touch modestly, 'was cool.' But viewers quickly complained there no chemistry between Deborah and co-host Bryant Gumbel, and soon after Deborah went on maternity leave to have her first son Niki in February 1991, it was announced she would not be returning, Katie Couric taking her place instead. Rebounding, Deborah got her own radio show with ABC radio network, which launched in September 1991 and then joined CBS news in 1993, first on Street Stories then on America Tonight. Fascinating: For Inside Edition in 2000, Deborah Norville spent a week in prison in North Carolina . Hard-going: Deborah said she met women with harrowing stories during her time in prison - including one teenager who had grown up with drug-addict parents and another whose teeth were rotted away due to crack . One of Deborah's most defining TV moments came when she was incarcerated for a week on Inside Edition in February 2000. She laughed: 'The idea actually has its roots as one of the executives was a fan of the HBO show OZ and so they went to the Federal Prison system and said 'we want to put Deborah in jail' and the Federal Prison, to my everlasting gratitude, said 'no, we won't take her'. However, the execs then called every single department of corrections 'Not even Aslaka would take me on', Deborah says: 'I thought I was off the hook!' But they soon found a sheriff in Davidson, North Carolina, who ran what he called 'the toughest jail in America'. Deborah said: 'He said 'she don't get out till I say she gets out!'. They put me in there for a week and it was like cuckoo land. 'There were six beds, at one point i think we were up to 18 in there. It was a real window on what American jails were like. Junior Miss! With a talent for sewing, Deborah Norville's road to success started when she entered the Whitfield Co. (GA) Junior Miss Pageant in 1975 - and won . Live on TV! Deborah's passion for TV was sparked by her appearance during the live Junior Miss finals - and the cameraman lying at her feet! Budding reporter: Deborah Norville as a young journalist . 'One woman was in there for attempted murder. The story, to hear her tell it, was that her boyfriend spontaneously combusted. The prosecution seemed to feel that gasoline and a match were somehow involved.' A teenager, who had grown up in a house with crack-addict parents who had once sold her bedroom furniture for drugs, was in armed robbery with intent to kill to fund her own drug addiction. She thought that LSD was not a drug. Deborah said: 'There was another woman, she pulled her mouth back and she showed me where her molars should have been, but the dental material was all gone and nothing was left by the fillings which is what crack will do, it's same as meth mouth. I'm pretty sure she lost brain material as well.' Admitting it was a 'high impact stunt', Deborah said: 'I'll be damned if I'll let them make me a pawn in a stunt. I wanted there to be some journalism there, and in fact at that point, when they put me in jail, the jail population in America was rising at a rate of nine per cent a year, that's staggering. 'And I was able to show there's nothing happening in jail that's going to prevent any of these people from doing any of the activities that got them there in the first place.' As for the future, Deborah said: 'I love what I do, we do great work at Inside Edition - and here's to another 20 years!' Today anchor: Deborah Norville rose to the ranks of the Today show co-anchor, seen here with fellow co-anchor Bryant Gumbel. She left the NBC show in 1991 soon after the birth of her first son ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Deborah, 56, has been on Inside Edition since March 5, 1995, taking over from Bill O'Reilly .\nShe left her job as an on-the-road journalist after reporting the story of a mom who rescued her son from her ex-husband .\nShe says of Inside Edition: 'We do good work, I can't believe I've been here for 20 years!'" } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A Nazi-themed troupe of dancers and a Second World War tank gate-crashed the start of Ukip’s spring conference in Margate today. Performers in hot pants, jackboots and Nazi insignia goose-stepped to 'Springtime For Hitler' as delegates arrived in the Kent seaside town - including Nigel Farage's German wife Kirsten. The scene overshadowed the opening session of the conference, ahead of Mr Farage's key-note speech this afternoon. Scroll down for video . The dancers, from Mel Brooks’s musical The Producers, caused the scene outside Ukip’s conference venue - the Winter Gardens in Margate, Kent . Nigel Farage was upstaged this morning as dancing Nazis and a 16 tonne World War II TANK crashed UKIP's conference . The dancers, from Mel Brooks’s musical The Producers, caused the scene outside Ukip’s conference venue - the Winter Gardens in Margate, Kent. A seven-strong troupe of female dancers performed a choreographed routine as Springtime For Hitler blared from a PA system on the tank turret. The cast were in Margate to promote the new touring production of the musical comedy about a failed producer who tried to put on the worst show ever. The new UK production will features stand-up comics Jason Manford, Phill Jupitus and Ross Noble – as well as TV celebrity Louie Spence. It comes as Mr Farage prepared to address the Ukip conference this afternoon after jetting back from the US where he spoke at America's leading conservative conference in Washington. The Ukip leader flew to Washington to address the gathering of hardcore activists before catching a ‘red eye’ flight home overnight to get back in time for the Ukip conference. Kirsten Farage, wife of Ukip leader Nigel Farage, greets delegates as they arrive for the Ukip Spring Conference at the Winter Gardens Theatre in Margate, Kent today . Former Channel 4 Gogglebox stars Andrew and Carolyne Michael attend the Ukip spring conference today . Ukip MP Mark Reckless was given a standing ovation by delegates at the party's spring conference. Among . But Mr Farage was handed the 'graveyard' speaking slot at the end of the day and was forced to address an audience of just 250 in a convention centre with a capacity for over 5,000. Mr Farage delivered his speech to row after row of empty chairs just an hour after the hall had been packed for a speech by Sarah Palin, the darling of Tea Party conservatives. But the Ukip leader was given a major boost today after research was published indicating he is on track to win the nearby seat of South Thanet. The Survation survey, funded by party donor Alan Bown, put Mr Farage on 39 per cent ahead of Labour rival Will Scobie on 28 per cent when people were prompted with candidate names. A previous poll by Tory Lord Ashcroft in November had suggested the Conservatives could retain the seat - where their MP Laura Sandys is stepping down. At the party's conference today, Ukip MP Mark Reckless today warned delegates the party will not grow unless it can shake off the taint of xenophobia and demonstrate it is the ‘party of the NHS’. Mr Reckless, who won a by-election in Rochester and Strood after defecting from the Tories, said currently voters knew Ukip wanted to leave the EU and cut immigration. Ukip delegates were out in force in Margate today ahead of Nigel Farage's speech this afternoon . But the party must ‘talk about other things as well’ and reassure people it is not a threat to the NHS in order to have wider appeal. Mr Reckless told activists: ‘There are two things most people know about us - we want to leave the European Union, and we want to cut immigration. ‘We should talk about those things. But if we want to get beyond 20 per cent-30 per cent of the vote to the 40 per cent or so we will need to win constituencies, we will have to explain why we want those things, challenge some of the misconceptions there are around our party, and talk about other things as well.’ Speaking in the US last night Mr Farage warned the Republican gathering that they risked becoming dinosaurs like the Conservatives in the UK if they continued to embrace the political centre. Mr Farage slammed David Cameron over his failure to identify the infamous ISIS executioner 'Jihadi John.' 'Of course they should have told us his name,' he said. 'We should have heard it weeks ago. This information's been known for a long time.' He also claimed the name was leaked to cover yesterday's immigration figures. 'By sheer coincidence,' he said, Emwazi's name was published 'on the day when the government has to announce the worst immigration figures ever seen in the history of the United Kingdom.' He also hit out against CAGE, the British NGO that often advocates on behalf of radicalized Muslims and brands their detractors 'Islamophobes.' 'Yes, yes, yes!' Farage exploded when asked if the group was an embarrassment to most Britons. 'It's politcal correctness! 'I mean, we see protests on a regular basis with these groups on the streets of London saying and shouting things that – if you and I did them, we'd find ourselves behind bars in very short order.' 'We actually have a Judeo-Christian culture,' he added. 'It's actually in our Constitution, so let's stand up for it. 'The thing about us 'is that we have been, of all the European countries, the most tolerant of all different religions and all different groups who have come to Britain.' While 'private observance' of any religion 'is fine,' he insisted, 'unless we live under one law we're in trouble.' Nigel Farage flew to Washington to address America's leading conservative conference - but hardly anyone showed up to listen . 'WE'RE NOT THE TEA PARTY': Nigel Farage, whose UK Independence Party is challenging both Tories and Liberals, said his is a real political force, not just an influence group trying to reform a wayward party . Mr Farage said the Republican Party was 'going through the same crisis of identity as the Conservative Party in Britain'. Ukip, he boasted, was 'an insurgent political force that has taken on the political establishment and rocked them to the backs of their heels.' But he said: 'We're not the tea party. Our job is not to influence one political party. We're not an outlier from the Tories.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Performers in Nazi insignia goose-stepped to 'Springtime For Hitler'\nThe scene overshadowed the opening session of the Ukip conference .\nNigel Farage set to address party's conference at 4.20pm this afternoon .\nHis publicity-shy German wife Kirsten attended the conference today .\nShe greeted delegates at the Winter Gardens Theatre in Margate ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "In a move that may ease — or exacerbate — spiraling tensions with Israel over a potential Iran nuclear deal, the White House has decided against snubbing America's leading pro-Israel lobby and will send President Barack Obama's National Security Adviser Susan Rice and U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power to the annual policy conference. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee announced Thursday that Rice and Power would speak at its conference that begins this weekend, and the White House's top spokesman confirmed their attendance at his daily briefing. The White House's decision to name Rice as one of its liaisons is a tacit acknowledgement of its support for remarks she made earlier this week claiming that House Speaker John Boehner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had 'injected a degree of partisanship' into the relationship between the two countries when they planned a Washington visit for the world leader without first notifying the Obama administration. The White House has decided against snubbing America's leading pro-Israel lobby and will send President Barack Obama's National Security Adviser Susan Rice to speak to the group. The White House's decision to name Rice as one of its liaisons is a tacit acknowledgement of its support for remarks she made earlier this week claiming that House Speaker John Boehner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had 'injected a degree of partisanship' into the relationship between the two countries . Rice, appearing on a PBS program when she made the assertion, said the move was 'destructive to the fabric of the relationship' between Israel and the United States. Asked about her comments on Wednesday afternoon, a spokesman for the White House claimed Rice's comments were consistent with the administration's past statements. Rice, a top national security adviser to the president, was simply making the argument that 'reducing the U.S.-Israeli relationship to just a relationship between two political parties is destructive to a relationship between our two countries,' the spokesman, Eric Schultz contended. 'The President himself has raised this concern.' Moments later, Schultz said, 'So what we hope is that we'll continue to see leadership in this country and in Israel that will not allow the relationship between our two countries to be dragged down by party politics.' For generations 'both countries have succeeded in not allowing this critically important international relationship to get buffeted by those kinds of political arguments' that the president believes could be harmful to both countries' national security, Schultz said. Rice, however, appeared to be engaging in the same kind of 'destructive' behavior that the White House has said it is seeking to avoid. U.S. officials had floated the idea of sending a non-Cabinet level official to the event to show the administration's deep displeasure with Netanyahu over his speech to Congress next week, in which he will argue against an Iran deal but decided against and on Thursday said it would offer up Rice and Power. In their as-yet unscheduled appearances at the AIPAC conference that runs from Sunday to Tuesday, Rice and Power will stress the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship and the administration's commitment to Israel's security, according to American officials. But, they will also make the administration's case for the ongoing negotiations with Iran before an audience of more than 16,000 pro-Israel activists that is likely to be hostile to the talks and deeply concerned by growing animosity between Obama and Netanyahu and their top aides over the prime minister's speech and his opposition to one of the president's signature foreign policy goals. In a break with protocol, the invitation for Netanyahu to speak was orchestrated by Republican congressional leaders without input from the White House or State Department, angering senior administration officials who believe it was politically motivated. Netanyahu declined an invitation to meet privately with Democratic members of Congress and a number of Democrats have said they will not attend the speech. No senior U.S. officials will meet Netanyahu during his trip to Washington. The administration has said the visit is too close to Israel's upcoming elections and it doesn't want to demonstrate any favoritism. Both Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry will be out of the country for the visit's duration on travel that was organized only after the prime minister's trip was announced. The White House is also sending U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power to the annual policy conference in an apparent effort to try to tamp down an increasingly vitriolic back-and-forth between the U.S. and its top Mideast ally. But, it is not at all clear if it will have that effect . The administration's choice of Rice and Power to address the AIPAC conference, at which Netanyahu will also speak, is an apparent effort to try to tamp down an increasingly vitriolic back-and-forth between the U.S. and its top Mideast ally. But, it is not at all clear if it will have that effect. After Rice's remarks on Charlie Rose's PBS program, Kerry openly questioned Netanyahu's judgment in opposing a potential Iran deal, recalling his support for the 2003 Iraq war and prediction that it would bring stability to the Middle East. 'He may have a judgment that just may not be correct here,' the secretary told a congressional hearing. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday that sending Cabinet members to speak at the annual policy conference was consistent with the administration's participation in the past, other than the two times Obama spoke himself, and that scheduling the speeches this close to the conference wasn't unusual. 'Certainly if it's perceived by some as an effort to demonstrate bipartisan support for the relationship between the United States and Israel, that would be great,' he told reporters. At a Capitol Hill news conference on Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner rejected Rice's criticism, arguing that a 'bad deal' with Iran would be counterproductive. 'The president's national security adviser says that it's destructive for the prime minister of Israel to address the United States Congress next week. I couldn't disagree more,' Boehner told reporters. 'The American people, and both parties in Congress, have always stood with Israel. Nothing and no one should get in the way of that.' That's why it is 'so important for the American people to hear what Prime Minister Netanyahu has to say about the grave threats that they're facing,' Boehner continued. 'So I'm glad the prime minister is coming and I'm glad that most of my colleagues, Democrats and Republicans, will be there to hear what he has to say.' Rep. Nita Lowey spoke to Netanyahu earlier this month and suggested that he deliver his speech in the congressional auditorium behind closed doors, a venue that accommodates all lawmakers and would allow for any classified information that Israel might have on Iran's capabilities, according to a senior House lawmaker. That alternative was also presented to Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer in private meeting earlier this month with a half dozen Jewish House Democrats. So far, no changes to his speech have been made, however, and it scheduled to be broadcast to the public." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It has decided against snubbing America's leading pro-Israel lobby .\nThe president's top National Security Adviser and U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power will give remarks .\nRice said earlier in the week that John Boehner and Netanyahu had 'injected a degree of partisanship' into the U.S and Israeli relationship .\nNetanyahu's speech to Congress she said is'destructive to the fabric of the relationship' between the two countries .\nThe White House's decision to name Rice as one of its liaisons is a tacit acknowledgement of its support for her remarks ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The BBC paid out more than £228million to staff for working unsociable and unpredictable hours, fuelling worries it is wasting licence fee payers' money. The revelation comes just a day after MPs slammed the corporation for being profligate with public cash. Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show that thousands of BBC employees take home an average of almost £4,000 on top of their basic salaries, as a reward for working irregular hours. Waste: The BBC paid out more than £228million to staff for working unsociable and unpredictable hours, a Freedom of Information Act request revealed . They are allowed to claim a so-called 'flexibility' or 'unpredictability' allowance if they are asked to work on a scheduled day off, or start earlier or stay later than their timetabled hours. Between the start of 2009 and the end of last year, the corporation lavished £187.4million on these payments, also known as 'alarm clock' bonuses. And it dished out a further £41.7million of extra payments to staff working between midnight and 6am, to compensate for the inconvenience of working at antisocial times. In an average year, 7,941 BBC employees claimed £31.2million of unpredictability allowances, meaning they took home around £3,929 each. Many workers make multiple claims, and in some cases staff are able to claim night pay and unpredictability allowances for the same shift – helping some BBC employees to bump up their salaries by a third. The corporation said that the lavish bonuses were necessary to keep the BBC's news operation going through the night. A BBC spokesman said: 'It's impossible to broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week without employing people to work through the nights. Scrapped: The Culture, media and Sport select committee said the £145.50 BBC licence fee should be abolished by the end of the next decade . Slammed: The Culture, Media and Sport select committee was scathing in its criticism of the BBC's approach to spending public money . 'Like most organisations we reflect this in our pay structure – however, we're always looking to make savings and unpredictability allowance has come down by £4million since 2010.' He added: 'In that same period pay restraint, combined with headcount reductions, has to date saved the BBC £150million per year.' MPs have attacked the BBC for its ‘shocking’ decision to sell Television Centre to a firm they say was ‘a tax avoidance scheme’. In 2012, the corporation sold its West London headquarters to Whitewood, a consortium of businesses which channels its funds through Luxembourg. Margaret Hodge, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, asked BBC executives ‘what on Earth’ made them agree to the £200million deal. ‘This was clearly a tax avoidance scheme,’ she said, adding: ‘You are a public body and my view is when you dispose of what effectively are public assets there is a responsibility on you to ensure the people you deal with do not avoid tax.’ Anne Bulford, who became the BBC’s finance chief after the deal, said the corporation had taken ‘full legal advice’ and concluded that Whitewood was not doing anything illegal. A spokesman for Stanhope, one of the firms involved in Whitewood, said the consortium was ‘a perfectly lawful vehicle for transactions of this nature’. However, MPs branded the payments unnecessary. John Hemming, Liberal Democrat MP for Birmingham Yardley, said: 'The BBC often unnecessarily puts someone in live situations when the story could be told just as well without doing that. 'If it weren't paid by an effective poll tax, it might be different. The BBC tends not to be driven by the need to be efficient.' Yesterday, the Culture, Media and Sport select committee was scathing in its criticism of the BBC's approach to spending public money. In a major report entitled Future of the BBC, it painted a devastating picture of an organisation that has blown millions of pounds trying to be 'all things to all people' – including £100million on its failed Digital Media Initiative technology project. MPs ordered the corporation to give the National Audit Office unfettered access to its books, to ensure it doesn't squander funds in future. But today's revelations are unlikely to help restore confidence in the corporation's spending habits. The committee also said that the £145.50-a-year BBC licence fee should be scrapped by the end of the next decade, and replaced with a combination of a blanket household levy and a subscription fee for niche services. It also called for the abolition of the BBC Trust, the organisation's governing body, claiming it was 'too close' to the corporation and 'blurred accountability'." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Staff were paid over £228million to work unsociable and unpredictable hours .\nBBC spent £187million on so-called 'alarm clock' bonuses since start of 2009 .\nMPs were scathing in their criticism over the TV corporation's 'wastefulness'\n'BBC tends not to be driven by the need to be efficient,' said Birmingham MP .\nThey called for the £145.50 licence fee to be scrapped by end of next decade ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Former contestants of MTV's Pimp My Ride have revealed that much of the show was faked. According to the Huffington Post, many of the flashy upgrades installed by rapper Xzibit and his West Coast Customs crew didn't work, made the car worse or were simply taken out as soon as the cameras stopped rolling. The show, was enormously popular when it debuted in 2004, featured participants who had clapped out cars, which would then be repaired and 'pimped out' with new paint jobs, interiors and rims. The show also earned a reputation for its extravagant auto features such as adding pool tables, arcade machines, shoe racks, clothes dryers and chandeliers to cars. Scroll down for video . A 1988 Daihatsu Hi-Jet was transformed on the MTV show Pimp My Ride, hosted by rapper Xzibit. Former contestants of the show have now revealed that many of the flashy upgrades to their cars were faked . The before shot: The van (pictured above) before it received its 'pimp my ride' treatment by the MTV show . The rear of the minivan, before and after it has had its drastic makeover. However contestants of the MTV show have said on Reddit that the many of the flashy features were unusable . However a number of former contestants revealed in separate Reddit AMA's that many of the customizations were only put in for the sake of the show. 'They actually take out a lot of the stuff that they showed on TV,' said Justin Dearinger, whose Toyota Rav4 was given 'pop-up champagne contraption' and a 'drive in theater' - both of which were taken out when the episode wrapped. He added the former was removed because they didn't want to be seen condoning drink driving; the latter because it simply wasn't road safe. The show, which debuted in 2004, typically consisted of drivers with horribly beat up cars begging the team to 'pimp their ride' The car was then taken to an auto body shop and given an extreme makeover with new paint jobs, interiors and rims . The interior of this beaten up, junk-filled SUV was refitted with red leather and TV screens in the headrests . The show also earned a reputation for its extravagant features such as adding pool tables, arcade machines, shoe racks, clothes dryers and chandeliers to cars. Here, a jeep gets a chocolate fountain, candles and a boom box . Another contestant Seth Martino claimed he couldn't drive with the LED lights they had installed in his seat because they would get too hot. Another addition, a cotton candy machine, didn't have room for a lid, so if used the candy floss would just fly all over the place. Not what it seems: Former contestants on MTV's Pimp My Ride, hosted in the U.S. by rapper Xzibit (pictured) have claimed much of the show was faked . 'They took the gull-wing doors off because the pistons used to lift them kept them from putting seat belts in the back, which was highly dangerous,' he said. Martino also claimed the producers just wanted to put the cotton candy machine into someone's car, and selected him because he was fat, even pouring bags of candy into his pre-pimped car. 'I know I'm fat, but they went the extra mile to make me look extra fat by telling the world that I kept candy all over my seat and floor just in case I got hungry. 'Then gave me a cotton candy machine in my trunk,' he said. 'I sat there and watched them dump out two bags of generic candy. I did not have any candy all over my car. That was completely fabricated for the story.' Seth also claimed he had to rent a car at his own expense while he waited months on the revamp; not the couple of days the shows editors had viewers believe. The contestants also revealed that much of the reaction shots - when their new pimped ride is revealed - were faked and re-shot many times. A third contestant, Jake Glazer, clearly wasn't excited enough when he had his Buick century returned. He said: 'I remember this very clearly, Big Dane, very big dude, he like puts his arm around my shoulder, kind of walks me around the shop for like 10 minutes and he's like, \"Listen, we put a lot of work into this... we expect you to be a little more f****** enthusiastic.\"' Pimped: West Coast Customs used to add some outrageous features to the cars such as chandeliers and pool tables, but new claims say the vehicles weren't always road worthy afterward ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Many of the flashy upgrades installed by rapper Xzibit and his West Coast Customs crew didn't work, made the car worse or were simply taken out .\nThe show earned a reputation for its extravagant features such as adding pool tables, arcade machines, clothes dryers and chandeliers to cars .\nOne contestant claimed on a Reddit AMA he couldn't drive with the LED lights they installed in his seat would get too hot ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ryanair has been caught fooling passengers with an online competition that's impossible to win. All three potential answers in the multiple-choice promotion – which offers free flights as prizes – were incorrect. Darren Coyle, 32, discovered the blunder after paying £3.50 to play the quiz while booking flights online. He was planning a holiday to Benidorm with his friend Chris Matthews, 31, and was swayed by the chance to enter a weekly draw to win back the value of his £330 tickets. Fooled: All three potential answers in the multiple-choice promotion (inset) – which offers free flights as prizes – were incorrect as Darren Coyle (pictured), 32, discovered . But after selecting a wrong answer to the quiz question, he later discovered that his chances of picking a correct one had been zero. Ryanair asked: 'Together with the recently purchased new Boeing aircraft, how many planes will Ryanair's fleet contain in 2024?' The possible answers offered were 380, 420 or 450. Mr Coyle guessed 420, which was deemed incorrect. But when he later typed the question into Google, he found a page on the airline's website revealing that the actual answer was 520. Feeling aggrieved that he had paid £3.50 to enter an impossible quiz, Mr Coyle complained to Ryanair's head office. Bosses replied with a shame-faced letter, admitting their mistake and refunding his entrance money. Mr Coyle, who works as a plant manager, said: 'They are Con-Air. If I'd not complained they would have kept it.' The married father-of-one, from Loanhead, near Edinburgh, added: 'They are chancers. How many other people have taken a chance and ended up £3.50 down and forgotten about it?' A spokesman for the budget airline said it was investigating how a promotion without a correct answer ended up on its website. Possible scam: A spokesman for the budget airline said it was investigating how a promotion without a correct answer ended up on its website (file photo) Ironically, the blunder comes just days before Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary is due to unveil its new 'passenger charter' in a bid to address its poor reputation. Pledging to improve customer service, he said: 'We were maybe a little bit cheap and nasty. We have spent a lot of time and effort trying to be cheap and a little bit better.' The airline has frequently been the subject of high-profile rumours about changes it might introduce, including reports that passengers could be charged to use the toilet during flights." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The budget airline offered online customers a chance to win a free flights .\nBut none of the answers to multiple choice question were the correct one .\nDarren Coyle discovered the mistake after paying £3.50 to play the quiz .\nIt asked: How many planes will Ryanair's fleet contain by the year 2024?" } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A housekeeper was kidnapped, beaten and burned by her employers for eight hours after they accused her of stealing money and jewelry, reports claim. Daisy Machuea, 54, was attacked as soon as she arrived at work in Queens, New York City, on February 13, police said. Her employers, Devanand Lachman, 32, and his pregnant wife Ambar Lachman, 31, have been charged with felony assault, felony kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment. Horrific: These are Daisy Machuea's injuries after she was allegedly burned and beaten by her employers . Machuea told NBC New York that Devanand Lachman and another man, who remains at large, burned her with a plumber's torch and beat her with a blunt object. Once Ambar Lachman arrived, she says, the group then allegedly drove her to Machuea's house while holding her at knifepoint and tore apart the property. Her friend and housemate Oscar Ramirez said he was watching TV when the suspects arrived and told him: 'If you move, the other guy will kill her,' before stealing their cell phones. Police say Machuea arrived at work to clean a home in Queens, New York City, and was immediately attacked by Devanand Lachman and a male accomplice who remains at large . Mr Lachman's pregnant wife allegedly joined the group before driving to Machuea's home to ransack it . Both Machuea and Ramirez were left with severe injuries and went to the hospital. Machuea was treated for severe burns and bruising. 'They kept punching, one guy this side, the other guy the other side,' Machuea said in Spanish, according to her friend and housemate Oscar Ramirez who translated for NBC. Mr Lachman is in jail, while Mrs Lachman was released on bail. Police are hunting their alleged accomplice, described as a six-foot-tall man aged 30 to 35 years old. Suspect: Police are hunting this man believed to be six foot aged 30 to 35 in connection with the case ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Daisy Machuea, 54, was burned with a torch, accused of stealing money .\nHer employers Devanand Lachman and pregnant wife Ambar Lachman allegedly kidnapped Machuea at knifepoint and stole from her home .\nMr Lachman and an accomplice 'burned her and beat her'\nMr and Mrs Lachman are charged with felony assault and kidnapping ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Comedy on Capitol Hill - the intentional kind, anyway - is pretty rare. But House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi got chuckles Thursday when she started a news conference by donning dark glasses, a teasingly sympathetic gesture to the man standing next to her, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. 'I brought my glasses to be like Harry, but he switched on me,' Pelosi said, removing her shades. Scroll down for video . Fighting off paparazzi? Nancy Pelosi donned dark sunglasses at a press conference on DHS funding Thursday in solidarity with her cohort Harry Reid, but he'd changed his look from days past . Frosty: Reid wore glasses with a frosted lens to cover his badly bruised right eye, which he seriously injured in an exercise accident on New Years Day . In recent days, Reid indeed has worn dark glasses in the Capitol, partly hiding the serious injury to his right eye suffered while exercising at his Nevada home on New Year's Day. Reid said an elastic exercise band snapped, causing him to fall and break bones in his face. He had two surgeries in January, including one to replace his cornea. He belatedly joined the new Congress, wearing a large bandage over his right eye and cheek. The bandage eventually gave way to dark glasses. On Thursday, Reid faced cameras in normal reading glasses, but with an opaque right lens to hide the injured eye. The extent to which Reid might recover sight in the eye won't be known for weeks, aides say. Pelosi and Reid used the press conference to berate Republicans for refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security unless Congress reverses President Barack Obama's changes to deportation policies. Sporty: Top Senate Democrat Harry Reid, 75, sported sunglasses at a Capitol Hill press conference to hide bruises from a second eye surgery he underwent early this month . Helping hand: The Senator appeared to have some help Tuesday as he reached for podium before addressing the press following the weekly Democratic policy luncheon at the Capitol . Reid had previously appeared in photos wearing bandages over the eye. He suffered broken bones in his face and ribs from the exercise accident that could cost him vision in his right eye ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reid on Thursday debuted a pair of specs with a frosted lens covering his right eye, which helped hide bruising from an exercising injury .\nThe top Senate Democrat has undergone two surgeries since his New Year's Day accident and may lose vision in his right eye .\nPelosi brought a pair of sunglasses to wear alongside Reid at a presser about Homeland Security funding, but was surprised by his new specs ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A woman who was left humiliated after discovering she was too fat to fit into her wedding dress is now half the woman she was - after losing eight stone. Having found the dress of her dreams, Vicky Jennings, 28, from Newton Abbot in Devon, was looking forward to marrying her sweetheart, Dom. But just a week before the wedding, she discovered she had gained so much weight, she struggled to fit into her dress - and was left mortified. Scroll down for video . Vicky Jennings was so mortified by her struggle to squeeze into her wedding dress, she went on to shed 8st . 'It was the week before my wedding when I went for the final fitting,' she explained. 'There were about six to eight weeks between all of the fittings and up until that point it had fitted. 'Yet on that final fitting the zip just wouldn't go any higher.' Dom and 'fat and frumpy' Vicky Jennings celebrate their wedding day . The dress was hastily let out by one inch on each side to ensure Mrs Jennings could marry in comfort. 'I had to have it taken out an inch either side, so two inches in total,' said the mother-of-two. 'The dress was already a size 20, which annoyed me anyway since I didn't believe that I was that size at all, so when they had to let it out, it was absolutely horrifying. I was mortified.' As a result, Mrs Jennings said that while most brides feel on top of the world, she walked down the aisle feeling 'fat and frumpy'. Resolving to ditch her favourite takeaway foods, chocolate and kebabs which had helped her creep up to 16st, she pledged to lose the weight for good. 'As I got comfortable in the relationship I stopped worrying about my weight and before long the pounds piled on,' she said . 'I knew I had to do something after my wedding dress needed to be let out, but I couldn't face another crash diet that only worked for a week and left me feeling hungry.' Mrs Jennings then began her battle to beat the bulge with the help of Slimming World. She had originally piled on the pounds by eating five takeaways a week and drinking up to five cans of cola a day. 'The problem was that we didn't really cook at home. It just got to the point where we would rely on frozen meals and takeaways,' she said. 'We'd probably have five takeaways a week. My favourite food was doner kebabs. I'd have one a week. 'I also lived on cola, I'd have four or five cans of it a day. I just didn't realise how bad for you it was.' After joining her local Slimming World group, she learned how to cook healthy, fat-free meals. She has cut out the takeaways and the family now enjoys healthy home-cooked meals using fresh ingredients every night. Now the super-slimmer is a trim 8st having shed exactly half of her previous body weight in just 12 months. The mother-of-two is now a slimline size 10 and, right, is seen trying on her old size 20 jeans . The couple beam as they raise a toast at their wedding - but Vicky said she felt 'fat and frumpy' on her big day . 'It is fair to say two of me could fit into that dress now,' said a delighted Mrs Jennings, who lives with Dom in Newton Abbot, Devon. 'When I look at my wedding pictures now it feels very odd. I don't remember being like that. 'I am a completely different person now. I have changed so much and feel a lot more confident. It has been quite easy to keep the weight off. I have changed my lifestyle completely . 'As my full time job is working as a Slimming World consultant, I would have felt a bit of a fraud not keeping it off!' Since losing the weight, Mrs Jennings says she has now got more energy to run around after her two children, six-year-old Liam and Amelia, three. 'It has improved my family life immeasurably - especially with the kids,' she said. 'We have just got a puppy called Bertie, who we take out walking, and I'm able to do so much more with the kids.' 'I look forward to summer now and wearing size 10 clothes,' she added. 'I never thought I would even enter a gym, let alone enjoy personal training sessions.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vicky Jennings felt ashamed after her size 20 dress had to be made bigger .\nThe 28-year-old said she felt frumpy as she walked down the aisle .\nBinging on takeaways and chocolate saw weight creep up to 16st .\nHas now ditched her doner kebab habit and has shed an impressive 8st ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A boy with a rare medical condition that renders him unable to smile is being adopted by the kind-hearted nurse who cared for him in hospital. Three-year-old Joshua Burdell suffers from Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy - a life-limiting disease which has left him severely disabled and unable to make facial expressions. Doctors said he would not live past a year old, and though he has proved them wrong, there is no cure for the condition, meaning his muscles will slowly degenerate and his condition will deteriorate. Joshua inherited the disease from his mother, whose disabilities meant she couldn't look after her son. Attempts to find foster parents had failed, and social workers had almost reached the point of despair, wondering how they were going to take care of him. But just as it looked as though all hope was lost, the nurse who cared for him in hospital came forward, making the brave decision to adopt him and take him home. Joshua Burdall, three, spent the first five months of his life in hospital as his mother's disabilities meant she couldn't care for him. He is being adopted by Sarah Ruane, 51, the paediatric nurse who cared for him . Joshua has Congenital Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy - a life limiting disease causes muscle wastage and degeneration - and is severely disabled . Sarah Ruane, 51, said she couldn't bear seeing him without a home. Since she became Joshua's guardian, the mother-of-six has battled endlessly trying to find a cure for his condition. After spending all of her spare time carrying out research, her hard work has won him a place on the world's first clinical trial in America, where scientists may have found a drug that could potentially cure his condition. Mrs Ruane, who is in the process of adopting Joshua, said: 'He was my patient and was born on the maternity wing at Hull Royal Infirmary (HRI). 'When he came off the wing he went to the medical ward at 10 weeks old. He never went anywhere and his address was the hospital. 'After about six days I knew I wanted to take care of him. They were struggling to get foster carers for him and I couldn't watch it anymore. 'I went into his cubicle and looked at him. The social worker said \"I don't know what we're going to do\". 'I said \"I do, I'll take him\". 'She started crying and told her manager straight away.' Joshua's condition means he is unable to smile or make other facial conditions. He also has severe learning difficulties. However he has defied original predictions that he would only live for a year . Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy is the early childhood form of myotonic dystrophy - and the symptoms are evident from birth. The rare condition, which can cause breathing difficulties for the baby shortly after delivery, can be seen if the baby appears to be 'floppy', has poor head control and lack of facial expression. Babies with the condition may also suffer from speech difficulties, and physical and intellectual milestones in the baby's development may be delayed. The disease is a genetic condition that progressively weakens and wastes the muscles. The impact of the degeneration varies significantly; some people may only find it difficult to carry out day-to-day tasks while others will have a seriously shortened life expectancy because of the condition. Mrs Ruane, who has been a paediatric nurse for 32 years, decided to find Joshua all the medical help possible and, with husband Alan, 43, a civil engineer, began caring for him. Before Mrs Ruane agreed to adopt Joshua, repeated attempts to find foster carers had failed. Now she says her whole family has fallen in love with him . Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy is the early childhood form of myotonic dystrophy,and the symptoms are evident from birth. The rare condition, which can cause breathing difficulties for the baby shortly after delivery, can be seen if the baby appears to be 'floppy', have poor head control and lack of facial expression. Babies with the condition may also suffer from speech difficulties, and physical and intellectual milestones in the baby's development may be delayed. The disease is a genetic condition that progressively weakens and wastes the muscles. Roughly 70,000 people in Britain carry the genes responsible for triggering muscular dystrophy. However, many are unaware they are ‘carriers’ of the disease where a gene spontaneously changes. The affected muscle fibres degenerate and are slowly replaced with fatty tissue. The impact of the degeneration varies significantly; some people may only find it difficult to carry out day-to-day tasks while others will have a seriously shortened life expectancy because of the condition. Sadly, congenital myotonic dystrophy can be fatal, especially in the early weeks of life. There is no cure or treatment. Source: Muscular Dystrophy Campaign . She said: 'Joshua had a feeding tube and club feet and they needed somebody with medical knowledge to take care of him. 'It was the right place at the right time. It was a split second decision. 'I came home and explained to my three grown-up children there was a little boy at work who the social workers were struggling to find a home for. They said \"why don't you bring him here?\" and I said \"It's funny you should say that\". 'Two weeks later he was moved in. I never thought of doing this. Until that day I was working full time. 'Medical specialists were shocked that I brought him home - and I will always be known as that nurse who brought the baby home. 'It's been difficult - and at times it's been heart-breaking. 'But we have all fallen in love with him. It's a nasty, progressive, awful condition. It is one of the worst conditions that I have come across.' Mrs Ruane, who now works as a children's community nurse after leaving Hull Royal Infirmary in November 2014, worked 24 hours a day researching and asking doctors for help in trying to find a cure for Joshua. Finally, she discovered researchers at Utah University were looking for 65 children from around the world to take part in the very first clinical programme to develop a new drug for children with CMD. After endless emails, she got an reply back saying they would be happy for Joshua to take part. He is the only child in the UK to take part in this programme, and the family hope it will one day lead to a cure. Mrs Ruane has carried out endless research, and eventually enrolled Joshua on to a clinical trial in America. A drugs company is testing an injection she hopes will cure Joshua's condition . Mrs Ruane said: 'We are consumed with helping him. It's funny how dependent on Josh I am now. 'He is a very happy little boy. He loves Peppa Pig and he is a total joy. 'But he is weak and he can't walk very far. One of the most difficult things for him is that it affects his facial expression. 'For him that's difficult because people think there is nobody home. 'People tend to talk over him and it's just because he can't make an expression. We have also got to be careful when he eats.' Doctors did not think Joshua would live past a year, but on his third birthday he got up and walked. Mrs Ruane said: 'It was a miracle in itself. When this came up in America I knew I needed to find out how to save him. 'I found out they were asking for children with the condition to attend the trials in Utah and I started emailing to make sure Josh was accepted. 'It's very costly and we have done it all through fundraising.' Mrs Ruane has raised £2,000 in fundraising money to take Joshua to America for the clinical trials. Over the next two years experts will monitor how his muscles are faili . Joshua's situation has already sparked donations towards the American trips, and so far Mrs Ruane has raised £2,000. She said: 'The donations have given us a chance to try and save his life. The money will get him back to America. 'Everything is a battle with Josh. As harsh as it sounds, in terms of the Government, he is not going to give anything back to society.' Mrs Ruane took Joshua for his first trip to America for the clinical trial on November 9th last year. She said: 'Joshua had a body scan, ECG of his heart, stamina test and blood and intellectual tests. We will go out again in October for the same tests and again the year after. 'The American drugs company is waiting for the data in the hope that they can find a drug. 'They have got the adult form of the drug and have started clinical trials for the child form. 'The drug will be in injection form - and the hope is it will stop the disease. 'When we are born, we have protein that is sent to muscles all over the body. 'Josh has a toxin that stops that protein spreading and it stays like a dough ball. 'The drug will split the protein and send it to the parts of the body that needs it.' Mrs Ruane and husband , said Joshua will visit Utah a further two times over the next two years where experts will monitor how his muscles are failing. She added: 'He does have some words but his mouth muscles are very weak and his tongue muscles are too. 'The way he is going he is improving but he will start to deteriorate. 'When we came back from America I felt like we had hope where there was previously none.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joshua Burdall inherited Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy from his mother .\nHer disabilities meant she couldn't care for him and he lived in hospital .\nRare condition means he cannot smile and his muscles will degenerate .\nAfter five months, repeated attempts to find foster carers had failed .\nSarah Ruane, 51, the nurse who cared for Joshua agreed to adopt him .\nHas now enrolled him in a clinical trial of a drug she hopes will cure him ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Actor Mark Rylance pictured as Thomas Cromwell in the BBC version of Wolf Hall . Viewers appear to have been less than impressed, but for the BBC's director general, Tudor epic Wolf Hall is the BBC 'at its very best'. Tony Hall, 63, gave his bold verdict as the drama's six-episode run came to an end and he added the adaptation of Hilary Mantel's bestselling book was a 'fantastic example' of 'doing things that people say \"Only the BBC could do that\".' When Wolf Hall debuted last month, it attracted 3.9million viewers, the most successful opening for a BBC2 drama in a decade. But, when the final episode hit screens on Monday, only 2.3million tuned in, meaning a third of the original audience had given up. Apart from a slight bump in the middle of the series, the show, which follows the rise of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII, has seen a steady decline in viewers. Those who did sit through the final instalment – which closed with the execution of Henry's second wife Anne Boleyn – joked they could predict the ending, given that it is one of the most famous moments in British history. Lord Hall has always taken a keen interest in the multi-million pound project, visiting the set during production. Despite the disappointing public reaction, has stayed staunchly behind the programme. Speaking at a special screening of the final episode earlier this week, he said: 'The BBC is about one thing and one thing only, it's about the programmes and the services that give those programmes to the British public. 'That's the case for the BBC, it's as long and short as that. In Wolf Hall we have had a fantastic example of the BBC at its very best, doing things that people say, \"Only the BBC could do that\".' The director Peter Kosminsky, 58, also lavished praise on his creation but admitted that the £7million budget that has been reported was actually 'a great deal more.' The final episode saw Thomas Cromwell's schemes and manoeuvrings to remove Anne Boleyn as queen come to fruition, with her beheading freeing Henry VIII to marry again. Even though the execution is one of the most famous moments of the Tudor period, the lack of suspense did not ruin the drama for many fans. One wrote on Twitter: 'Wolf Hall, carried by Mark Rylance's excellent per-formance was very very good. Even though everyone knew the ending it was still brutal.' Despite earning the praise of BBC director general Tony Hall, the show lost 1.6million viewers during its five-week run. Pictured are Claire Foy and Damian Lewis as Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII respectively . Another joked: 'Managed to avoid any spoilers for Wolf Hall for almost 500 years. Just need [to] see final episode without anyone ruining the ending.' Wolf Hall has been dogged by complaints throughout its run, with the concerns of viewers ranging from it being too dark, too boring and difficult to follow. Relying only on candles to illuminate some scenes, members of the audience complained at not being able to see what was happening on screen. Others found themselves unable to stick with the complex intrigues of the Tudor court. One tweeted: 'I got super bored of Wolf Hall after half an hour and turned it off, and now I'm re-arranging my sock drawer' and another added: 'Thinking about Wolf Hall; know my history, loved the books but still found the chopping and changing of the time line slightly confusing.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Audiences appeared to be unimpressed as Wolf Hall lost 1.6m viewers .\nWhen it debuted on January 21, the TV show attracted 3.9m viewers .\nBut its final episode which ran five weeks later could only draw in 2.3m .\nDespite this, BBC director general Tony Hall praised the TV adaptation .\nHe said it was a 'fantastic example' of something 'only the BBC could do'" } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, while not mentioning the Commander in Chief by name, took a shot at President Barack Obama on Thursday during a Washington, D.C. area gathering for conservatives over the Democratic leader's staunch refusal to characterize extremists in the Middle East as 'radical Islamic' terrorists. Taking his turn on the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference, a testing ground for Republican presidential hopefuls, Walker told the confab's attendees, the country needs a leader 'who stands up and realizes that radical Islamic terrorism is a threat to our way of life and to all freedom-loving people around the world.' 'We need a president, a leader, who will stand up and say, \"we will take the fight to them, and not wait for them to take the fight to us,\" ' Walker added. And according to Walker, he may very well be that leader, having had to take on nearly 100,000 angry union members in his first term. Scroll down for video . Wisconsin Gov.Scott Walker speaking at the 42nd annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland, just down the river from Washington, D.C, said his battle with labor unions as Wisconsin's governor had given him the mettle needed to take on militant groups like Islamic State . Walker burst into the national spotlight when in his first term he took on public sector unions. His administration's reforms, backed by the state legislature, to their health and pension systems incited a recall election, which he handily won. During a question and answer portion of his session on Thursday, Walker, when asked how he would handle the conflict with ISIS if he were in charge of the military, invoked his 2012 victory over state and national unions. The likely 2016 presidential candidate, currently surging in the polls with Republican voters in early primary states, said that like most parents, he wants a Commander in Chief, 'who will do everything in their power to make sure the that threat from radical Islamic terrorists do not wash up on American soil.' Repeating his earlier statements, the father of two teenage sons said the country needs a military commander with the 'kind of confidence' to fight terrorists where they are. He then said: 'If I can do that with 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world,' seemingly comparing critics of his policies in Wisconsin - some of whom showed up at CPAC and tried to shout him down - to violent extremists pillaging the Middle East. The Democratic National Committee immediately pounced on the remarks, contending in an email to reporters they prove the 47-year-old Republican isn't ready for prime time. 'If Scott Walker thinks that it's appropriate to compare working people speaking up for their rights to brutal terrorists, then he is even less qualified to be president than I thought,' DNC Communications Director Mo Elleithee said. 'Maybe he should go back to punting,' Elleithee added, referring to Walker's evasions in the past of questions he didn't want to answer. On one of those occasions when Walker was pressed to give his beliefs on evolution he asked his interviewer if he could 'punt' and refused to put his views on record. A spokesperson for Walker's political action committee, Leadership Matters, later told Daily Mail Online that the governor 'was in no way comparing any American citizen to ISIS.' 'Governor Walker believes our fight against ISIS is one of the most important issues our country faces,' the spokeswoman, Kristen Kukowski, said in an email. 'What the governor was saying was when faced with adversity he chooses strength and leadership. Those are the qualities we need to fix the leadership void this White House has created.' Walker was among friends and spent the bulk of his speech ticking off support for issues that are important to his base, including right to work and voter ID laws. He also slapped President Barack Obama down, though not by name, for refusing to call ISIS extremists 'radical Islamic terrorists' At Thursday's conference, surrounded conservative voters from across the country who share his values, Walker was among friends and spent the bulk of his speech ticking off support for issues that are important to his base, including right to work and voter ID laws. Walker at one point said Americans need a president 'who will stand with Israel' - another blow intended for the current occupant of the Oval Office. Like Walker, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also visiting the U.S.' Capitol City this weekend for a conference. He will make remarks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual gathering and address a joint session of Congress while he is stateside. Obama won't meet with Netanyahu while he is in Washington, however, because he is competing to reelection later this month, and the White House worries that Obama would appear to be inappropriately influencing the contest if he were to open his arms and invite him to the White House. Walker on Thursday slammed Obama for the move, saying the country needs a leader who will show the the head of state of a longtime ally like Israel with 'respect' when he requests to visit. Technically, it was House Speaker John Boehner who invited Netanyahu to Washington. Boehner independently sent an invitation to the world leader, without the White House's knowledge, drawing ire from Democrats, dozens of whom plan to boycott his Tuesday address, during which he will make the case for additional sanctions on regional foe, Iran." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "America needs a leader who 'realizes that radical Islamic terrorism is a threat to our way of life and to all freedom-loving people,' he said .\n'If I can do that with 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world,' Walker later said, seeming comparing his critics to violent extremists pillaging the Middle East .\nIf Walker 'thinks that it's appropriate to compare working people speaking up for their rights to brutal terrorists, then he is even less qualified to be president than I thought,' a Democratic Party spokesman said in response .\nA spokesperson for Walker told Daily Mail Online that the governor 'was in no way comparing any American citizen to ISIS'" } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "An elephant who was blinded in both eyes and forced to beg by her owners has been rescued by a wildlife sanctuary. Officials were forced to intervene after they discovered Lakhi was being exploited as a performer and had spiked chains around her feet to stop her escaping. The 60-year-old elephant was regularly mishandled, beaten and whipped while she was paraded around Indian towns and temples in a bid to get money for her owners. Scroll down for video . Lakhi was blinded and forced to beg by her owners in India, who put spiked chains round her feet. She was rescued (above) by Wildlife SOS yesterday . But a court order allowing a team of vets from Wildlife SOS to rescue Lakhi has finally given her the freedom she deserves. The beautiful ellie will now start a 1,400km journey to the sanctuary's centre in Mathura, north India. She will be pampered with fresh fruit and treated to buckets of water to keep her hydrated. Wildlife SOS wrote on their Facebook page: 'It's a long journey to get there, but it's nothing compared to the hardships Lakhi has already faced. 'She is pretty smart. She picked up the smell of the bananas in the caretaker’s pocket and reached out with the help of her trunk to grab them as he closed his eyes for a little nap on the truck. 'Please consider donating to help make her future so beautiful that she almost forgets her past.' The beautiful 60-year-old ellie was forced to cross dangerous roads by her owners, despite being blind. One of her eyes, which is severely damaged, is pictured above . After being checked over by vets Lakhi starts a 1,400km journey to the sanctuary's centre in Mathura, north India . When Lakhi was discovered she had brutal injuries to her chest, forehead, ears and back, as well as damage to her feet and toenails from being forced to walk on tarmac. She also had a large lump on her head. Geeta Seshamani, co-founder of the sanctuary, said that authorities needed to be stricter about keeping elephants. She said: 'Seeing the plight of the captive elephants that we have rescued, perhaps there is a need for stricter guidelines and enforcement of guidelines or some form of checking on the welfare of elephants held in private ownership.' Wildlife SOS wrote on their Facebook page: 'She is pretty smart. She picked up the smell of the bananas in the caretaker’s pocket and reached out with the help of her trunk to grab them as he closed his eyes for a little nap on the truck' Vets and rescuers hand branches and food up to the caretaker at the top of the truck, who is in charge of feeding Lakhi . Satyajit Gujar, deputy conservator of forests in Pune, said: 'We are extremely delighted to see that Lakhi will have a better and healthier life after a lifetime of abuse.' Yaduraj Khadpekar, a senior vet at Wildlife SOS, said Lakhi would be prone to severe foot disorders for the rest of her life due to her mistreatment. The Wildlife SOS team has also ordered ophthalmologic experts from the UK to explore the possibility of restoring vision in at least one of Lakhi's eyes. There are estimated to be around 20,000 Indian elephants left in the world." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lakhi was forced to beg in Indian towns and temples by her owners .\nShe had brutal injuries to her chest, forehead, ears, back and feet .\nRescued by team of Wildlife SOS vets and taken to Mathura, north India ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus on Friday characterized Democrats' top presidential contenders as either too snooty or too handsy to manage the country while addressing conservatives at their annual gabfest and jubilee. 'They've got one candidate ready to coronate herself,' Priebus said, referring to former first lady Hillary Clinton. 'And they have a sitting vice president who can't control his mouth - or his hands - who's been running for president since before I could vote.' The taunting of Biden follows an incident last week in which he got up close and personal with Defense Secretary Ash Carter's wife, Stephanie, while the new Pentagon chief was being sworn in. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Friday characterized Democrats' top presidential contenders as either too snooty or too handsy to manage the country while addressing conservatives at their annual gabfest and jubilee. 'They've got one candidate ready to coronate herself,' Priebus said, referring to former first lady Hillary Clinton . Disparaging Democrats' prospects of winning the presidency in 2016, Priebus said, 'they have a sitting vice president who can't control his mouth - or his hands.' Priebus' taunting of Biden follows an incident last week in which the vice president got up close and personal with Defense Secretary Ash Carter's wife, Stephanie, while the new Pentagon chief was being sworn in . Biden put his hands on Carter's shoulders, groping her while he whispered in her ear. The VP has a reputation for being flirty. A photo of him cozying up to a biker at a Ohio campaign spot went viral in 2012. He put his hands on her, too, and appeared to draw the ire of her male companions. Attempting to energize conservatives ahead of next year's national election, Priebus said the right can win if it puts in the hard work. Then 'we'll have a Republican President, and 1600 Pennsylvania avenue will never belong to the Clintons again,' he told his audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference, held just down the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. in National Harbor, Maryland. Priebus warned that at Clinton presidency would be more of the same. 'I can guarantee you America, you're not going to get something different than Obama with a member of the Obama administration,' he said. 'You're going to get a third term of Barack Obama.' To good news for Republicans, Priebus said, is the more voters hear from Hillary Clinton, the less they like her. Her approval rating was the highest when she was out of the country and off the campaign trail, he contended. 'True fact.' 'That's probably why Hillary barely comes out in public these days,' he said. 'If there's not a private luxury jet, and a quarter million dollar speaking fee waiting for her, you can forget about it.' The real reason Clinton has mostly kept out of the public eye in 2015 is because she 'doesn't have much to say,' he charged. If you ask her press people for her opinion on issues of the day such as the Keystone XL Pipeline and the fight against ISIS, they say, 'no comment,' the GOP's top tongue wager told guests of CPAC. 'I'm sure Obama wishes Biden would follow that example.' Don't tell Jill!: Vice President Joe Biden has a reputation for being flirty with women other than his wife, Jill. He's pictured here getting up close and personal with a customer at a diner while on the campaign trail in 2012 . Priebus joked today that after mixing up croute de te with an ethnic group the vice president would then 'rub your neck without permission' At that point, roughly six minutes in to his remarks, Priebus interrupted himself to say: 'Oh and by the way, If I was Hillary Clinton, this speech would have have already cost you $20,000.' Priebus used that line to launch into a lengthy parody of both Clinton and Biden. 'Hillary would never speak here,' he said. Not because she's a Democratic but because of her 'Hollywood style backstage demands' that are included in her speaking contracts. 'Well you know I checked back stage. There was insufficient croute de te, the water temperature was off by a few degrees, and I don't think that the lemon wedges were cut quite at the right angle,' he said. He then asserted that Clinton, who last year attracted negative attention for noting that her family was 'dead broke' when it left the White House, has 'lost touch' with America. Vice President Joe Biden is out of touch, Priebus said. 'If you asked Joe Biden what croute de te is, he'd probably say this: \"Oh yeah I had a great relationship with that community. There's an awful lot of them driving cabs in Delaware, for real man, they're friends of mine.\" 'And then of course he'd rub your neck without permission,' Priebus added. The remarks about cab drivers was a mockery of Biden's claim last week that a 'very identifiable' community of Somalis have made his hometown, Wilmington, Delaware, their home away from home. 'If you ever come to the train station with me you’ll notice I have great relationships with them because there’s an awful lot driving cabs and are friends of mine,' Biden said while speaking at the White House's counter terror summit. 'For real. I’m not being solicitous. I’m being serious.' Hillary Clinton served as a punching bag throughout the day on Friday and speakers took turns beating her up to the delight of their conservative followers. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said she was a politician of 'yesterday.' Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said, 'It's time for Hillary Clinton to retire.' Both men are contemplating presidential campaigns and could find themselves facing off with her in a general election in 2016. Questionnaires how she would easily win against any of the possible GOP candidates, but Paul and Rubio would fare the best against her, losing by seven points a piece, according to a Public Policy Polling survey released on Friday." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "'They have a sitting vice president who can't control his mouth - or his hands - who's been running for president since before I could vote'\nTaunting of Biden follows an incident last week in which he got up close and personal with Defense Secretary Ash Carter's wife, Stephanie .\nBiden put his hands on Carter's shoulders, and groped her while whispering in her ear as her husband was sworn in .\nHillary wouldn't like speaking at CPAC because there is 'insufficient croute de te' and 'the lemon wedges were cut quite at the right angle,' Priebus said ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She's widely touted as one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, and Jessica Alba most certainly proves her worth in her new campaign. The actress, 33, is the face of the Braun Silk-épil 9 epilator - and shows off her toned and tanned legs in the new imagery. In one shot, the mother-of-two shows off her long limbs wearing a chic white swimsuit and red stilettos. In another, she can be seen striking a pose wearing high-waisted white shorts and crop top teamed with a peach jacket. Scroll down for video . The actress, 33, is the campaign star of the Braun Silk-épil 9 epilator - and shows off her toned and tanned legs in the new imagery . Speaking about her new role, Jessica said: 'I am a big fan of the new Braun Silk- épil 9 because it puts me in control of my beauty routine. Soft, smooth skin is my foundation for every look. 'Whether I'm wearing a dramatic gown for a premiere, a cute minidress out with my girlfriends or just hanging on the beach with my family, using it makes my skin look as good as I feel.' It seems that business is booming for Jessica, who on Thursday celebrated the success of her business venture, The Honest Company, which she called a 'dream come true'. She shared a photo with her Instagram followers that shows her reveling at a bash, captioning the snap: 'We're 3yrs old! @honest! #holymoly #sohappy #dreamcometrue #pinchme #TheHonestCompany #thehonestlife' Speaking about her new role, Jessica said: 'I am a big fan of the new Braun Silk- épil 9 because it puts me in control of my beauty routine. Soft, smooth skin is my foundation for every look' Rebecca Minkoff Wes neoprene jacket . Buy in black at Nordstrom . Jessica Alba is one of our biggest style crushes. Whether she's walking the red carpet, playing in the park with her kids, or posing up a storm like she is here, Jessica will be looking incredible. Here we have the A-list star refreshing our fashion palettes in a decidedly chic spring ensemble of white hotpants, a bandeau crop top and that delicious pastel pink biker jacket. You might think that Jessica had been put together by a team of stylists but we've actually seen her wearing this Rebecca Minkoff Wes jacket before- she really is a fashion pro! Unfortunately it's not available in blush anymore but click right to Nordstrom to see it in the ever classic black. We think we've got our hearts set on injecting some fresh new season appeal to our wardrobes so we'll be shopping similar soft styles from the edit below. BB DAKOTA Emmett jacket at Revolve . Visit site . Topshop suede boxy biker jacket . Visit site . Vince Camuto leather jacket at Macy's . Visit site . Light pink jacket at Dailylook.co. Visit site . It seems that business is booming for Jessica who on Thursday celebrated the third birthday of her business venture, The Honest Company . Rebecca Minkoff Wes neoprene jacket . Buy in black at Nordstrom . Jessica Alba is one of our biggest style crushes. Whether she's walking the red carpet, playing in the park with her kids, or posing up a storm like she is here, Jessica will be looking incredible. Here we have the A-list star refreshing our fashion palettes in a decidedly chic spring ensemble of white hotpants, a bandeau crop top and that delicious pastel pink biker jacket. You might think that Jessica had been put together by a team of stylists but we've actually seen her wearing this Rebecca Minkoff Wes jacket before- she really is a fashion pro! Unfortunately it's not available in blush anymore but click right to Nordstrom to see it in the ever classic black. We think we've got our hearts set on injecting some fresh new season appeal to our wardrobes so we'll be shopping similar soft styles from the edit below. BB DAKOTA Emmett jacket at Revolve . Visit site . Topshop suede boxy biker jacket . Visit site . Vince Camuto leather jacket at Macy's . Visit site . Light pink jacket at Dailylook.co. Visit site . According to Inc. magazine, The Honest Company - which makes non-toxic household products - made more than $150m (£97m) in revenue in 2014 and is reported to be worth $1b (£65m). And now the star is launching a cosmetics range after attracting a following of consumers who are fans of the brand. 'From day one when we opened our doors, we had so many people say \"when are you going to do makeup?\"' she shared. 'I’ve been developing and working on it for a couple of years now, and we’re going to be able to deliver on our promise to our customers.' And on February 12, Jessica was seen scouting a property in LA as a possible location for the first-ever The Honest Company store. Jessica's business savvy has inspired Cash, who recently launched the sock line Pair Of Thieves, which he co-founded with two friends. The star is launching a cosmetics range after attracting a following of consumers who are fans of the brand ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jessica, 33, is face of Braun's new beauty campaign .\nShows off her toned figure posing in a swimsuit .\nRecently celebrated her company's third birthday ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A pygmy possum, who chose the wrong place for a midday nap, would have awoken to the shock of her life when she realised she was more than 90km from home. The little critter was found quietly hiding in a mail bag last week by surprised mail sorter, Jack May, who had unknowingly driven it from Foul Bay to the Minlaton post office on the southern Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. After originally assuming it was a mouse, the 16-year-old soon realised that the big-eyed, curly-tailed marsupial he'd found was far more special. This full grown femal pygmy possum was found in a mail bag after choosing the spot for a nap . 'You hardly ever seen pygmy possums, they're a very secretive animal,' Deborah Furbank from Natural Resources Yorke and North told Daily Mail Australia. 'I've only ever seen them when we've done targeted trapping. You don't see them out in the wild because they hide amongst leaf litter and trees so it was definitely a special occasion. 'Down in the country, we have personal mail bags that get left in front of a property and this bag was left in a sealed drum and obviously the pygmy possum had found its way into the drum and into the bag to have a little bit of a snooze.' She was found by surprised mail sorter, Jack May, who had unknowingly driven it the 90km from Foul Bay to the Minlaton post office on the southern Yorke Peninsula in South Australia . Ms Furbank, who personally travelled to collect the full-grown female in order to have it sent back home, described it as being 'very frisky' and curious' rather than scared. 'She wasn't stressed at all. When I got hold of her to check her sex, she was completely calm,' she said. 'They're quite a docile animal, once they realise you're not a threat to their lives they relax quite quickly.' She said she collected some flowers from the bush for the possum to feed on until it was returned to its home. Once at the post office (pictured) Deborah Furbank from Natural Resources Yorke and North was called to collect and care for the possum until it could be taken back home . 'Luckily the post office staff made note of the bag it was found in so we were able to identify its territory and a staff member who lives near the property where it was collected, dropped it off on her way home,' Ms Furbank said. 'If you do find an animal, make sure to keep it somewhere dark, quiet and cool and not too look at it too much until you can call for help to get it home.' Ms Furbank said pygmy possums were similar to ring tail possums only they appear as if they have 'been put in a shrink machine'. 'They fit in the palm of your hand and are a similar size to a mouse, but plumper with larger eyes, large rounded ears and a curly ringed tail.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A full grown female pygmy possum was found in a mail bag in South Australia where it had fallen asleep .\nThe palm-size animal is normally quite secretive and difficult to find, making it a special occasion for mail sorter Jack May, 16 .\nThe big-eyed, curly-tailed marsupial was returned to its home last week ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Apple Watch could replace your car keys, and will reward you throught the day for being active, Apple boss Tim Cook has revealed. He also confirmed the watch's battery will last the whole day, and will not take as long to charge as an iPhone in an interview with The Telegraph. The company has scheduled a special event on March 9, where . it will showcase the Apple Watch and that will be launched in . April, the report said. Scroll down for video . The watch is also designed to be able to replace car keys and the clumsy, large fobs that are now used by many vehicles, Cook said. He even took time out to take selfies while visiting the firm's Covent Garden store. 'This will be just like the iPhone: people wanted it and bought for a particular reason, perhaps for browsing, but then found out that they loved it for all sorts of other reasons,' Cook said. The watch is also designed to be able to replace car keys and the clumsy, large fobs that are now used by many vehicles, Cook told The Telegraph. Apple has sent out invitations for a media event in San Francisco on March 9, about one month before the much-anticipated launch of the new Apple Watch. The world's largest technology company did not specify what the event will be about in the invitation which reads simply 'Spring Forward,' a word play on the resetting of watches for daylight saving time. Chief Executive Tim Cook said last month that the company plans to launch the smartwatch in April. The Watch will operate a special rewards system: users will get credits if they exercise enough. They will also be encouraged to increase their metabolic targets if they meet their exercise targets consistently. The world's largest technology company did not specify what the event will be about in the invitation which reads simply 'Spring Forward,' a word play on the resetting of watches for daylight saving time. Earlier this month Tim Cook hit out at the sedentary lifestyle of many people, claiming that sitting is terrible for your health -and that the upcoming Apple Watch can help. While addressing a Goldman Sachs tech conference in San Francisco, the Apple CEO said 'a lot of doctors believe sitting is the new cancer.' Cook revealed he's been using his Apple smartwatch to remind him to get up and move every hour. 'If I sit for too long, it will actually tap me on the wrist to remind me to get up and move, because a lot of doctors think sitting is the new cancer,' said Cook. 'Ten minutes before the hour, it will remind you to move. We have a lot of people using the Apple Watch at Apple, and ten minutes before the hour, suddenly they all get up and move. Built-in is a 'taptic engine' that responds to a subtle vibrations users feel on their wrist for notifications . The watch has a completely new user interface, different from the iPhone, and the 'crown' on the Apple Watch is a dial called the 'digital crown.' Users can turn the crown to zoom in and out on a map, or scroll a list. The crown can also be pressed to take the user back to the home screen. Different areas on the watch face can be customised with taps and swipes, and force touches. The Glances feature shows info users would like to see, similar to Google Now, and is accessed by swiping the screen up from the bottom. Music can also be controlled on an iPhone through the Apple Watch. Built-in is a 'taptic engine' that responds to a subtle vibrations users feel on their wrist for notifications. It understands questions in messages and then offers pre-selected answers, and messages can be dictated to the iPhone. Users can also talk to the watch and send a voice reply, or have it transcribed to them. There is no keyboard on the watch, and messages can only be sent through dictation, or emoji. Siri is also built into the Apple Watch. 'It took a little to get used to, but it's great.' The $349 must-have gadget starts shipping in April. According to reports, Apple experimented with sensors that measured conductivity of the skin to track stress levels and monitor heart-rate, but 'these features didn't perform consistently on some people, including those with hairy arms or dry skin'. The results were also said to have varied on how tightly the watch was being worn. Cook made the announcement just as Apple became the first company to reach a market value of $700 billion. Shares rose 1.9 percent to close at $122.02, lifting Apple's market value to $710 billion, and making it the first company to hit the $700 billion milestone. Cook, speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet Conference, said Apple was hitting its stride. 'We've taken (the mobile operating system) iOS and extended it into your car, into your home, into your health. All of these are really critical parts of your life,' Cook said. 'We want one seamless kind of life. 'And so, I think that is huge for our future...We also did a lot of things to further our global footprint. And so, if you look at what we've done in China, we've opened more stores there. 'We've opened a lot more distribution there. Through the world, we've opened almost 20,000 new points of sale. The widely anticipated first Apple 'wearable' will likely start shipping in April, Cook said . The U.S. tech giant recently posted record revenue of $74.6 billion (£49.2bn) for the three months to December 31, outstripping the quarterly GDP of Israel, Greece or Denmark. Apple's cash pile is now $178 billion (£117bn), the equivalent to $556 for every American and bigger than the £95billion budget for Britain's National Health Service. Its landmark performance was driven by record-breaking sales for its iPhone 6 and 6 plus, with the firm revealing it sold 34,000 handsets every hour for the entire quarter. 'We've opened 27 new Apple Stores, lot of flagship stores.' Cook said Apple took some $50 billion in revenue in emerging markets over the past calendar year. Brian White, analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, said the leading tech company has even more room to grow. 'Given Apple's powerful iPhone cycle, a big 4G ramp in China and the upcoming launch of Apple Watch in April, we believe there is still plenty to look forward to at Apple during this transformational cycle,' he said in a note to clients. 'At the same time, we believe Apple's valuation has room to expand from depressed levels.' Apple shares remain valued at reasonable levels, according to analysts, because of the whopping $18 billion quarterly profit reported recently by the iPhone and iPad maker. Using the price-earnings ratio favored by Wall Street, Apple is valued at around 16 times its annual earnings, but Fitzgerald said the value was only around 10 times the projected earnings for the next fiscal year. Apple is far ahead in market value from the number two company, oil giant Exxon Mobil, worth some $382 billion at the market close. Historic first: Apple on Tuesday became the first company in history to reach a market value of $700 billion . The record Apple quarterly profit -- on unprecedented revenue of $74.6 billion -- was driven by the sale of 74.5 million iPhones, well ahead of most analysts' expectations. Analysts are also seeing expanded adoption of the Apple Pay system that enables customers to purchase items with a tap of their iPhone, and many predict strong demand for the Apple Watch set for release in April. Separately, Apple agreed to commit $848 million for solar energy to power its data centers, according to a statement from First Solar, Inc. Cook called the effort 'our biggest, boldest, and most ambitious project ever' and said it was part of Apple's commitment on clean energy and corporate responsibility." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Apple CEO says smartwatch is set to vibrate intermittently to remind wearer to get up and move around .\nApple Watch will start shipping in April, with prices starting at $349 ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "After her latest round of chemotherapy, the daughter of Cincinnati Bengals running back Devon Still is back home. The NFL player tweeted to his 73,000 Twitter followers and his Instagram account on Thursday that his four-year-old daughter, Leah, is back home after having a week of chemotherapy at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The 25-year-old tweeted: 'It was a rough couple of days with this treatment but she fought like a champ and now she's finally back home!!! #LeahStrong.' Scroll down for video . Back Home: Devon Still, 25, uploaded this photo to Twitter and Instagram saying that his four-year-old daughter Leah is back home after her latest round of chemotherapy treatment . Leah was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma -- a pediatric cancer -- in June 2014. Since then, Leah has undergone a series of treatments including surgery to remove a tumor, rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, and stem cell replacement therapy. The day Leah went in for treatment (February 20) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Still uploaded a photo toInstagram of the four-year-old wearing a shirt that said 'future cancer survivor.' One day earlier, the father tweeted a photo of the two saying they were on a 'movie date' to see 'The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.' Just two days after she reportedly went in for treatment, Still uploaded a photo to Instagram and Twitter saying that the young girl had a 'rough night' the night before and ended up being moved to the intensive care unit. 'Future Cancer Survivor:' The day Leah went in for treatment , Still uploaded a photo to Instagram of the four-year-old wearing a shirt that said 'future cancer survivor' Hospital: : Here, an Instagram photo shows Still and Leah laying in a hospital bed watching 'Matilda' The photo showed the two laying in a hospital bed watching 'Matilda' on a laptop. Still was disappointed when he learned that Leah's treatment in late December did not remove her cancer, but he wrote in an Instagram post that he would 'keep faith and keep fighting.' If all went well with Leah's most recent treatment, the four-year-old will begin stem cell therapy, according to WCPO. Battle: Leah's battle gained national attention when the Bengals signed the running back at the beginning of the 2014 season after initially cutting him . Leah's battle gained national attention when the Bengals signed the running back at the beginning of the 2014 season after initially cutting him. The father-daughter duo has raised more than $1 million in the last year for pediatric cancer research. Still was recently honored in Washington, D.C. by Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown for his humanitarian work, WCPO reports." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Leah Still, 4, was in the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia undergoing chemotherapy treatment for nearly a week .\nHer father, Cincinnati Bengals player, Devon Still, 25, tweeted a photo of him and his daughter, calling her his 'champ'" } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A private college at the centre of a row over bogus students has had its licence to recruit from overseas suspended by the Home Office. St Patrick’s College in London is being investigated after its publicly funded student numbers ballooned from zero to 4,000 in just one year. The students received £95.7 million in loans and grants in 2013-2014 – more than any other private college in the UK. Scroll down for video . Campus: One base of St Patrick's College in London, according to the private institution's website . It was one of a number of institutions examined by the Commons public accounts committee, which this week criticised ministers for wasting taxpayers’ money on loans to students attending colleges run by private companies or charitable institutions. The committee found more than £3 million had been paid to EU students attending British colleges who could not prove their eligibility through residency status. Other foreign students who were given funding failed to attend courses, did not complete them or could not speak the required level of English. Margaret Hodge, committee chair, said there had not been sufficient regulation of providers to protect public money. These ‘alternative providers’ have greatly expanded over the past four years, with 53,000 students claiming financial support in 2013/14 compared with 7,000 in 2010/11. Blistering: Commons public accounts committee chairman Margaret Hodge said revenue must be protected . The Home Office suspended St Patrick’s licence to recruit overseas students as investigators examine whether many were wrongly admitted. Holborn-based St Patrick’s, the UK’s largest private college, is being investigated by the Department for Business and the Quality Assurance Agency. Daniel Khan, St Patricks’ principal, said that the premises ‘are of high quality’ and that the Department for Business ‘has said that it needs to be satisfied that designation of the premises will not adversely affect the operations or processes of the college.’ He told Times Higher Education: ‘I can only imagine that this is the “investigation” you are referring to.’ Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, said: ‘The Government allowed private companies, that lack transparency and accountability, to profit from public subsidies without the most basic checks, and this is the completely inevitable result.’" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Home Office suspends licence for St Patrick's College, Holborn, London .\nIts students received £97.5million in public loans and grants last year .\nInvestigation will now examine whether many were wrongly admitted ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Great Britain's homes have rocketed in value by more than £1.4trillion in the last decade - despite some areas still falling into negative equity. New data, which has collated the overall worth of properties in England, Wales and Scotland, has revealed that the collective value of British homes has soared to £5.752trillion - with London seeing the greatest rise. The increase in value, spurred by the 2006 and 2007 housing boom and the more recently, the economic recovery, has not affected the whole of the UK though - as some areas including Durham and Stoke-on-Trent have experienced a sharp drop. Using the map . The interactive map above shows the increase in total value of housing stock per local authority area over the 10 years to 2014. Hover over each local authority to see the total 10 year change in value. Click on each local authority to see the % change in value. Click on the 'visible layers' button in the top-right-hand-side of the map to change the settings from showing the 10-year change, to showing total value or the one-year change. Map by Andrew Smith, analyst at Savills UK . The majority of growth has taken place in London, where the collective worth of homes has doubled in ten years - rising by £441billion, according to research conducted by Savills. Analysts took prices and the density of homes into account to put the data together. In stark contrast to the capital, parts of the North East have seen a sharp decline in house prices. Homes in County Durham have fallen by £2.4billion over the decade, while Middlesbrough has experienced a drop of £0.2billion. Several areas in Wales have also fallen in collective house price value including Newport, where there was a £0.2billion drop, and Blaenau Gwent, where prices fell by £0.4billion. Up-market: A row of houses in Belgravia, Westminster, where prices have soared in the last ten years . Biggest rise: Westminster in London has experienced the largest surge in house prices over the last decade with the overall property value rising by £80.8billion in ten years . A chart shows the top ten areas, by percentage, where overall house price has risen in the last decade . The South East was one of the areas most affected by the national rise - experiencing 19 per cent of of the overall growth, amounting to £270billion. Excluding London, the highest ranking areas are dominated by those surrounding the capital, namely Epsom and Ewell in Surrey and Reigate and Banstead in East Surrey. This has been put down to commuters cashing in on London prices and selling up to move to the home counties, where they can live while still working in the capital. Experiencing boom: Hackney in North East London, pictured above, has seen a considerable rise in prices . Not far behind: The London borough of Hackney has also seen a boom, with collective prices rising by £22.8billion in the decade to 2014 . The total value in the North West, North East and Yorkshire and Humber has only risen by £42bn - amounting to just 3 per cent of overall growth in Great Britain. The growth in the total house value in London and the South East has been 12 times that of the Midlands and the North. Speaking to The Telegraph, Nigel Wilcock, regional development director at Mickledore, said: 'Economic growth has been in the larger cities, and those areas with a high proportion of public sector jobs have had a tough time. This chart shows the areas where collective house price has fallen the most as a percentage in the last decade . Decline in value: A street in Blackpool, where collective house value fell from 2004 to 2014 . Slump: Blackpool in the North West of England has seen collective house worth drop by £1.7billion . The North East is a relatively small economy with a high reliance on the public sector. 'Therefore, while there are some individual success stories (the Nissan plant in Sunderland) the underlying trend has been relatively gloomy – depressing house prices.' In Scotland, the total housing stock in Edinburgh has leaped 33.8 per cent to £11.5billion, while Aberdeenshire, aided by the oil industry revenues, grew 58.2 per cent to £7bn over the decade to 2014. Huge decrease: In County Durham the overall value of houses has fallen significantly in the last ten years . Hefty decline: County Durham has experienced a severe fall of £2.4billion in collective house value ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Data collected by Savills shows how house value has changed across UK .\nOverall worth in London has doubled in the last ten years thanks to boom .\nHome counties surrounding the capital have also seen sharp price rise .\nBut some areas in Wales, North West and North East have declined in value .\nCollective value of homes dropped by £2.4billion in Durham over decade ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A 23-year-old woman claims she was dragged by her hair, punched, and stomped on by her 'best friends' after they accused her of sitting on someone's hamburger during a drinking game. In cell phone video of the beating, girls can be seen viciously pummeling Myriah Pointer, 23, of Atlanta, Georgia until she is knocked unconscious. 'I was held down and stomped until I was unconscious. Once I gained consciousness they were still beating and stomping me,' Pointer posted on Facebook. She also included pictures showing her bruised eyes and battered face and body. Scroll down for video . Beaten: Myriah Pointer, 23, was beaten because she supposedly sat on her best friend's hamburger . 'I’m more hurt emotionally than physically,' Pointer told WSBTV. 'I was unconscious while they were beating me.' 'By someone you called your best friend,' Pointer continued. ‘It was about a burger.' Pointer explained that she was with friends and one of her cousins on Saturday when one of the women accused her of sitting on her Whopper. 'Like, the wrapper of the burger,' Pointer said. Footage: This footage shows Pointer being beaten by a group of girls she says she thought were her friends . Painful: Now bruised and emotionally wounded, Pointer says she wants to seek justice for her attackers . 'Like, I didn’t even sit on her burger.' The New York Daily News reports that witnessing it was a boyfriend of one of her attackers, who filmed the assault. One woman's 3-year-old daughter was also present. Battered and bruised, Pointer claims she was held by her friends for three hours until they let her call her aunt to pick her up. 'I am BLESSED to be alive and I need justice to be served because I DID NOT deserve this,' she wrote while accusing Atlanta police of not 'taking this as serious as it is.' Police say they're investigating and that charges 'will be forthcoming.' Injured: After the beating, Myriah Pointer is a far cry from her usually glamorous self ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In cell phone video girls can be seen viciously beating Myriah Pointer, 23, of Atlanta, Georgia until she is knocked unconscious .\nPointer says she was beaten by her 'best friends' because they accused her of sitting on one of their Whoppers .\nFilming the video was the boyfriend of one of the attackers .\nOne of the attackers' three-year-old daughter watched the horrific assault ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Richard Branson has created his new brand of hotels - the first of which opened this year in Chicago - keeping the female traveller in mind. The entrepreneur has focused on the fairer sex for the Virgin Hotel in Chicago, with a bench in the shower so women can sit and shave their legs to a 'Lovers' Intimacy Kit' in the minibar. Containing condoms and sex toys, the $20 addition is one of the more unusual extras found in the room alongside the reasonably priced snacks (the hotel prides itself on charging accurate prices for food and drink). Scroll down for video . All rooms are two-room 'chambers,' with a separate dressing room and bedroom area. The compartment divider can slide across, if people require privacy when ordering room service . In order to design a hotel that would appeal to women, Virgin held focus groups with frequent female travelers asking them what was on their hotel wish lists. The responses stated they mainly wanted safety and convenience . The 26-storey, Art Deco building's rooms have also been designed with a large vanity table complete with drawers to store make-up and even a sliding compartment door with a peep hole separating the entrance and the bedroom, so guests in a state of undress can accept room service without being seen. With additional clothes hangers especially for lingerie and an app called Lucy for calling room service, the hotel certainly appears to favour the females. 'I don't think any hotel caters to the female traveller,' Branson, 64, told the Wall Street Journal. 'It will give Virgin an edge to make sure we look after them.' 'We're taking into consideration the rise of female business travellers, and appreciate what it means to our success as a brand.' Women can shave their legs on a bench in the shower for safety, (left), and do their makeup with the light of a back-lit magnifying mirror, (right) The wardrobe comes with his and hers section, complete with shoe racks and separated hangers for lingerie . The chamber is separated in two sections, separated by a sliding door, with a peep hole. This allows room service to be ordered, and modesty protected . The hotel has caused a stir for more than just its unusual mini bar offerings. When it was unveiled in January, the hotel also showcased a room key vending machine instead of a check-in desk and even free drinks at happy hour. The hospitality group, which includes everything from airplanes to mobile phone plans, has long made eliminating fees and surcharges a top priority. So it's perhaps no surprise that WiFi is free and room service is available at no additional cost. At the heart of the property is The Commons Club, a members-only inspired space where guests can drink, dine and mingle. Some of the quirky additions at the hotel are designed to make female travellers feel comfortable and offer a sense of 'fun' It's here that visitors can also take advantage of Social Hour - like happy hour, but better - where all drinks are free between 6pm and 7pm. Guests can plug their music into a USB port in the room to stream their own favourite bands, or take advantage of the free music albums on the TV, specially curated for the hotels. The hotel is located in the historic Old Dear Born Bank Building, a Chicago landmark, and offers 250 guest rooms, which start at £140. Virgin Hotels has plans to open a second location in Nashville in summer 2016 and a third property in New York City in the fall of 2017, with 20 locations by 2025. 'Chicago is an exhilarating and historic city, and a place we're happy to call home for the first-ever Virgin Hotel,' said Raul Leal, CEO of Virgin Hotels. 'It's an exciting time for our team as we get to unveil our new approach to room design, service, and entertainment within the hotel industry. The hotel is not the only one to offer intimate toys up to its guests. The Drake Hotel in Canada provides a pleasure menu, alongside the standard room service. And Ushuaia, the celebrity-filled party hotel in Ibiza, comes with its own erotic kits in rooms, complete with silk handcuffs. The innovative hotel does not have a front check-in desk. Computer screens sitting atop a former cigar bar (the prior tenant was a 1920s bank) where you can access your reservation profile and check-in . 'Chicago is an exhilarating and historic city, and a place we're happy to call home for the first-ever Virgin Hotel,' said Raul Leal, CEO of Virgin Hotels . The Commons Club, a members-only inspired space, offers Social Hour daily, with free drinks from 6-7pm . A 2011 report from the Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University stated that while females accounted for only a quarter of business travelers in 1991, they now comprise about half, an opportunity Virgin Hotels is keen to reflect in its rooms . The property, at 203 N. Wabash in the Loop, is the first of three planned for the US. Two hotels are being developed in New York and Nashville ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The first of 20 planned Virgin Hotel properties opened in Chicago in January, with some unusual additions .\nRooms were designed to accommodate professional women travellers .\nFeatures include a larger shower area and bench for shaving legs and a vanity table with lighting .\nSex toys are also available in a $20 kit stored in the mini bar ." } ]
[ { "from": "system", "value": "You are a summarization AI. Provide a succinct and relevant summary of the provided text." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A rural Christian college has banned homosexuality after two of the school's volleyball players came out as gay. Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina, said that homosexuality wasn't part of 'God's intended design for humanity'. The liberal arts school with 575 students is affiliated with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. This week, the college issued a 'Statement on Human Sexuality', saying it intended to 'add the statement to its official manuals and determine how it will be integrated into campus culture and procedures'. Open: Erkine College students Juan Varona (left) and Drew Davis (right) recently publicly acknowledged they were both gay, sparking some media attention that angered local Christian groups . 'We believe the Bible teaches that all sexual activity outside the covenant of marriage is sinful and therefore ultimately destructive to the parties involved,' part of the statement read, according to OutSports.com. The statement comes after two students, Drew Davis and Juan Varona - both players on the Div. II Erskine College men's volleyball team - publicly acknowledged they are gay. However, both of them say they have received nothing but support and encouraged from their peers following the admissions. Both Davis and Varona - who grew up near San Juan in Puerto Rico - admitted they were worried how others would take their sexuality, but say they have been embraced, especially by his teammates, whom he describes as 'like brothers'. Statement: The school says it intends to ' add this to official manuals and determine how it will be integrated into campus culture and procedures' 'At first I didn't know how they were going to take it because I'm not from this country,' Varona told OutSports. 'But everybody has been great. 'I've even had baseball players come up to me and say they were homophobic until they met me. 'I guess they look at my personality more than whether I'm gay or not.' It is for that reason Varona was shocked to learn of the statement his school had put out. 'The release of this statement makes me disappointed because I have never received anything but kind treatment from everyone at this school, and my sexual orientation is no secret,' he said. 'So it took me by surprise. 'I feel that in the time that we are living right now, where even in the conservative state of South Carolina same-sex marriage is legal, the school took several steps back instead of progressing towards a future where everyone can be treated as an equal, which is a future most of the country is moving towards. 'I understand the religious stand on adultery, which is part of the Ten Commandments in the Bible, and that would apply to heterosexual and homosexual people. 'But when I saw the mention of sexual orientation being an issue, it just made me sad and worried for other gay people who might be struggling with confidence to come out.' A Christian website, ARPTalk, recently called upon the college to address the fact it had two gay students, after news of Davis and Varona's coming out sparked some media attention. 'With the “outing” of two gay student-athletes on the internet, the gay and lesbian issue is now front-and-center at Erskine College,' the site editor, Charles W. Wilson, posted online. 'Do Acting President Brad Christie and his administrators, staff, and faculty have the Biblical convictions, understanding, and rectitude to competently and Christianly address the gay and lesbian issue at Erskine?' School: Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina, is a Christian liberal arts school with 575 students that is affiliated with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church . Athletes: Both Juan Varona (pictured) are both players on the Div. II Erskine College men's volleyball team ." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Juan Varona and Drew Davis recently acknowledged they were gay .\nThey attend Erskine College in Due West, a Christian liberal arts school .\nThe school have now released a 'Statement on Human Sexuality'\nIt says they do not accept any sexual activity outside marriage .\nVarona is 'disappointed' because same-sex marriage is legal in the state ." } ]

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