Barack Obama receives 12 stitches after being 'elbowed'

President Barack Obama received 12 stitches in his lip on Friday after being hit in the face with an elbow while playing basketball, the White House said, stating that the injury was an accident.  The injury was caused by Rey Decerega, director of programmes for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the White House said. "After being inadvertently hit with an opposing player's elbow in the lip while playing basketball with friends and family, the president received 12 stitches today administered by the White House Medical Unit," said spokesman Robert Gibbs in a statement. The president played basketball for...

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Chelsea's sporting director Frank Arnesen to leave after five years at Stamford Bridge

Arnesen will step down when his contract expires at the end of this season after spending five years at Chelsea, where he has overseen the club's youth development and other areas, announcing that he wants to "seek a new challenge". The Dane, who joined Chelsea in 2005 after previously working at Tottenham, said: "It has been a privilege and an honour for me to work for such a big club with so many great people. "After six wonderful years I have decided to seek a new challenge when my contract expires at the end of this season." Arnesen continued on chelseafc.com: "It has been a tremendous journey and I would like...

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Somali-born teen arrested in US car bomb sting

A Somali-born teenager was arrested yesterday for attempting to detonate what he thought was a car bomb at a Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in Oregon, US authorities said. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in connection with an alleged plot to bomb the annual event in downtown Portland, the FBI said in a statement late yesterday. The bomb was a fake and had been provided to Mohamud as part of a long-term sting by the FBI. It also said Mohamud had been in contact with an unnamed individual overseas believed to be involved in terrorist activities. "The...

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Obama Faces ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Hecklers At Speech

President Barack Obama was in California today at a campaign fundraiser for Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer.During President Obama’s visit to California, he gave a speech in which he started talking about the military’s “don’t ask don’t tell” policy. That is the policy that currently prevents gays from serving openly in the United States Military.As President Barack Obama was speaking, hecklers broke out in the crowd wanting to know what he was going to do to get rid of the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy – and to which, President Obama simply said, after a bit of exasperation, “I support the repeal of the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy”. Upon him saying that, the crowd started to che...

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Laboratories show they can accurately measure heavy metals

A new report studying the abilities of laboratories worldwide to measure heavy metals - arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, methylmercury and inorganic arsenic - in seafood has been published by the Joint Research Centre (JRC). Of the 57 laboratories who reported back on their values, 80-96 per cent showed satisfactory scores depending on the heavy metal tested.  A total of 57 laboratories from 29 countries from across the globe volunteered to test their measuring competence test. The JRC sent each laboratory a sample of heavy metals - while unaware of the levels present - and the labs had to measure and report the values back to the...

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To Follow Computer Virus

Computers are becoming more and more indispensable day after day. They have become primary repositories our digital photos, documents, invoices, multimedia etc. The sheer volume of computer users and the advent of cheap always-on internet connections has made computers an attractive targets to hackers distributing viruses, spyware and other malicious software.You might have an anti-virus software installed in your computer that auto updates itself against latest threats. if you haven’t, here are MakeUseOf’s recommendations for the best free antivirus you can get your hands on. In addition to that, it is always a good idea to keep yourself...

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Record partnership puts Australia in charge

Mike Hussey and Brad Haddin both hit magical centuries in a record unbroken partnership of 293 to put Australia firmly in control of the first Ashes test at tea on the third day at the Gabba on Saturday. Hussey was unbeaten on 176 with Haddin, who brought up his century with a six, on 134 not out as they continued to defy England's luckless bowlers to take the hosts to 436 for five, a first innings lead of 176 runs. The pair, who had come together on Friday with Australia precariously placed at 143 for five, played measured cricket to weather England's new ball onslaught in the morning before tearing off the shackles as the tourists...

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Debt turmoil, contagion fears sweep Europe

LISBON, Portugal — Europe struggled mightily Friday to keep the debt crisis from engulfing country after country. Portugal passed austerity measures to fend off the speculative trades pushing it toward a bailout and Ireland rushed to negotiate its own imminent rescue. Portugal and Spain insisted they will not seek outside help, but Europe braced for what seems inevitable — more expensive bailouts. The Portuguese Parliament approved an unpopular debt-reducing package, including tax hikes and cuts in pay and welfare benefits. But while that helped to avoid a sharper deterioration in bond markets, the sense among analysts was that the move...

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Chanel Fragrance Wardrobe: the perfect Chanel holiday fragrance gift

The Chanel Fragrance Wardrobe is a collection of five of Chanel’s most iconic fragrances neatly packaged in a gift box. The five Chanel fragrances included in the Chanel Fragrance Wardrobe are Chanel No.5, Coco Mademoiselle, Allure Chanel, Chanel No.19 and Coco. Each bottle is .12oz and are shaped exactly like the regular, 1.7 oz and 3.4 oz bottles found at the Nordstrom Valley Fair Chanel cosmetics counter. Although there are several Chanel fragrance gift boxes for the upcoming holiday shopping season, the Chanel Fragrance Wardrobe offers the most variety for the Fragrance Fashionista on your list. Also, anyone who loves to collect perfume...

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Zidane and Ronaldo to play for Pakistan in UN football match

UNITED NATIONS: World champion footballers and UN Goodwill Ambassadors Ronaldo and Zindine Zidane announced on Tuesday that the 8th Annual Match Against Poverty will raise funds for the nearly 25 million people affected by the Pakistan floods and Haiti earthquake. The two men, who use their celebrity status to promote the anti -poverty work of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), will mobilize their all-star team to challenge Greek-side Olympiacos in a friendly game on 15 December. The match, which will be played at Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, Greece, is part of the global campaign to achieve the eight Millennium Development Goals...

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Defence spending exceeds 1st quarter budget limit

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s defence spending exceeded the first quarter (July-September 2010) budgetary limits by about Rs28 billion mainly because of war on terror and military’s prolonged stay in the tribal region, a senior official told Dawn on Friday. The budget for the current fiscal year earmarked Rs442 billion for defence. Higher than planned expenditure on defence and flood rescue and relief work and lower than estimated revenue collection in the first quarter had increased the quarterly fiscal deficit to 1.6 per cent from the budgeted target of 1.4 per cent of GDP, the official said. The finance ministry had asked the ministries, divisions...

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