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Teenagers Kill Child in "Mortal Kombat"

Two teenagers accused of beating a seven-year-old girl to death are said to have been imitating moves taken from Mortal Kombat.
According to a report on CNN, 17-year-old Lamar Roberts and 16-year-old Heather Trujillo were babysitting Trujillo's half-sister, Zoe Garcia, when the violence began. According to Roberts, he was playing videogames in the downstairs of the house while the sisters "wrestled" upstairs, but a witness claimed in an affidavit that Roberts said he had kicked the child. When asked why he didn't stop when the seven-year-old asked him to, Roberts said, "I don't know, I was drunk."
The pair attempted to revive the girl by putting her under running water and attempting CPR before calling 911. She later died at hospital; an autopsy found she had a broken wrist, over 20 bruises, swelling of the brain and bleeding in her neck muscles and under her spine.
While it's unclear whether the pair had actually played Mortal Kombat, a report in the Denver Post said Trujillo claimed they were "acting out" the game, while the Rocky Mountain News quoted police as saying she tripped her sister, "punched her in the stomach, karate chopped her lower arms, punched and pinched the victim's thighs, kicked her in the shins, slapped her stomach and buttocks and poked at the victim's chest." The Rocky Mountain News article went on to quote a report stating that "violent videogames may be more harmful than violent TV and movies because they are interactive, engrossing and require the player to identify with the aggressor."
However, the Denver Post also said that at least four neighbors as well as a school teacher said they suspected the girl had been the victim of ongoing abuse, which they had reported prior to the child's death.

Andes glaciers gone in 20 years

Scientists in Peru have issued a dire warning, claiming that glaciers high in the Andes will all but disappear within two decades.
At Pastoruri glacier, water from the melting ice is forming lakes which threaten to flood the villages below.
Seventy per cent of Peru's population relies on the annual glacial melt for drinking water. When the glaciers go, their water will go too.
Peru's economic development, too, is driven by water, with 70 per cent of Peru's electricity coming from hyro-power.
Without investment in new, sustainable infrastructure, when the glaciers are gone, the lights will go out.
The Pacific coast of Peru is dry, arid and home to a growing population. Ironically, as climate change bites and the glaciers melt, water supplies will initially increase.
The government's campaign 'Agua para Todos' (water for all) promises widespread water connections, but that will inevitably increase demand.
At least twice in the last five years the villages in the high mountain valleys have had narrow escapes.
After years of haggling, the recent UN climate conference in Bali finally agreed a fund to help poor countries adapt to climate change.
There are many places in the world where the poor are threatened by global warming. There are few, like Peru, where the threat is so immediate.

all about Eva Green

Born on July 5, 1980, in Paris, France. (Eva has a twin sister named Joy.) Her mother is well-known French actress Marlene Jobert. Her Swedish father, Walter Green, is a dentist. Jobert didn't want Eva to be an actress, however, saying the business would be too rough on her thin-skinned daughter.Fortunately, Eva didn't listen to her mother's advice, and we eventually got to see some of that skin. She showed us her lovely nude body in The Dreamers, giving us more to admire than just her acting ability.
She played Isabelle in The Dreamers and Sibylla of Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven, but is making her biggest impact since being cast as Bond's leading lady in Casino Royale.
She studied her craft for several years in Paris and London before making her film debut in 2003 in The Dreamers. Eva described the movie as being "about a twin sister and brother who have a passionate, almost incestuous relationship." She appeared completely nude in this flick. At first, she wasn't comfortable with the idea of baring it all, but once she started doing the scenes sans clothing, it was pretty much business as usual.
Her second big-screen role was as Clarisse in the French film Arsene Lupin, in which she appeared alongside Romain Duris and Kristin Scott Thomas.
In early 2005, she portrayed Sibylla in Kingdom of Heaven, co-starring Liam Neeson and Orlando Bloom.
Biggest role of her career - The British treasury agent Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale (2006), alongside Daniel Craig.

Madonna And her daughter

Pop star Madonna And her daughter Lourdes at reception to benefit UNICEF hosted by Gucci at the United Nations headquarters in New York, 7 February 2008.

Bomb hoax on North Sea platform

Fourteen helicopters and a Nimrod are scrambled in a major operation to airlift North Sea oil workers after a security alert.
A bomb threat earlier today on a North Sea accommodation platform, which is now being treated as a hoax, resulted in the evacuation of oil workers from the Safe Scandinavia platform.
Police made arrangements for a 23-year-old woman to be returned to shore from the platform.
"It is understood the incident was sparked by comments made by a woman on the installation", said a spokesman for the RAF Kinloss base in Scotland.
A police spokeswoman said the incident had been "very quickly contained" and that nobody had been arrested.
British defense officials said 14 helicopters had been sent to evacuate the Safe Scandinavia.
The platform is owned and operated by Prosafe, an Oslo-listed company.

Medical breakthrough : Breath tests to diagnose

Breath tests to diagnose major illnesses should be more widely used, university researchers said.
Staff at Swansea University are developing technology to enable patients to be given breath tests for diseases including diabetes, hepatitis and cirrhosis.
They say the method could save lives and money - and that patients could even self-diagnose at home with a shop-bought kit before seeing their GP.
Dr Masood Yousef, senior research assistant in the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating at the university, said: "Breath samples are much easier to collect than blood and urine, for the patient as much as for the person collecting the sample. They can be collected anywhere by people with no medical training, and there are no associated biohazard risks.
"Overall, the procedure is likely to be much more cost effective than conventional methods, potentially saving the NHS a great deal of time and money. Someone could even buy a test at somewhere like Boots and be diagnosed at an early stage. There is great potential."
Dr Timothy Claypole, director of the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating, said: "The work that we are doing now could well lead to the use of breath tests in routine medical examinations, long before patients show any physical symptoms. Ultimately, this technology will save lives. We're increasing its reliability, and increasing the range of diseases it can detect."
He said the new technology would make life easier for those with diabetes, who would not need to undergo as many blood tests if breath tests were available.
Studies have shown that high concentrations of certain compounds in a person's breath can indicate that they have a disease. The smell of pear drops is associated with diabetes, and ammonia is linked to hepatitis.
Dr Yousef added: "If unique markers for specific diseases can be recognised earlier than traditional techniques, then there is immense potential to revolutionise early disease diagnosis before any symptoms have developed, and without the need for invasive procedures."
The equipment used by the university was funded by a Welsh Assembly Government grant - initially given to research the level of solvents inhaled by workers who operate print machinery.

Woman slash man's throat during a sex game

A British woman is in custody in Paris after allegedly slashing a man's throat during a sex game.
The niece of a Labour MP is in custody in Paris after allegedly slashing her lover's throat in a case said to be inspired by the murder of Meredith Kercher, it was reported today.
Jessica Davies, the niece of Quentin Davies, who defected from the Tory Party in the summer, is said to have attacked Olivier Mugnier in a drunken sex game.
Detectives said she was influenced by coverage of the murder of Miss Kercher in Perugia, Italy, earlier this month.
Three people including a female flatmate are being held in Italy for allegedly cutting the 21-year-old British student's throat after launching a sexual attack on her.
Ms Davies, 28, is said to have tried to intensify an "extreme sexual experience" by putting a knife to the man's throat.
But after slicing an artery, she is thought to have stabbed him six or seven times in anger and frustration.
A French police source said: "She has mentioned the case in Italy, which has received a great deal of publicity here.
"The similarities between the allegations in both cases are very clear. It may be that the alleged killer here was inspired by what is said to have happened in Italy."
Reports said Davies turned to drink and drugs after splitting from her French fiance.
She is then said to have started sleeping with men she picked up in bars.
She is reported to have chatted to unemployed Mr Mugnier, 24, on Saturday in an Irish pub near her flat.
She invited him home, where the incident took place.
Davies is said to have made a "rambling" call for an ambulance and Mr Mugnier died at the scene shortly after paramedics arrived there.
Mr Davies, 63, is believed to be in Cambodia on a business trip and has not been contactable.
The Foreign Office said it was aware of the detention of a Jessica Davies but had no further details.

Star Trek Movie Gets NASA Advice

The out-of-this world visuals in the new Star Trek movie will actually be based on science from our solar system. A NASA planetary scientist has joined the film's production team to ensure the scientific accuracy of the movie's astronomical scenes.
As the leader of the Imaging Science team on NASA'S Cassini mission at Saturn, Carolyn Porco has guided a crew of scientists and engineers responsible for illustrating the mission's results.
Porco now will also work on the new Paramount Pictures film as a consultant on planetary science and imagery.
"This is a fabulous opportunity to bring to a wider audience the discoveries we've made at Saturn, and the spectacular sights we have seen there," Porco said. "And what better way to do that than to make use of those discoveries in the crafting of imagery for one of the most popular movie franchises of all time."
Porco was invited to join the Star Trek Team by the movie's director and producer, J.J. Abrams.
"Carolyn and her team have produced images that are simply stunning," Abrams said. "I'm thrilled that she will help guide our production in creating an authentic vision of space, one that immerses our audience in a visual experience as awe-inspiring as what Carolyn's cameras have captured."
Abrams, who co-created, produced, and directed the TV series "Lost," did the same for the TV series "Alias" and directed the film "Mission: Impossible III," was present at the 2007 TED conference in Monterey, California where Porco spoke of the recent findings from the Cassini mission.
Porco directs the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where Cassini images are processed for release to the public. (Cassini images of Saturn and its rings and moons can be found at the official imaging team Web site, http://ciclops.org)

all about Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton

* Birth Name: Paris Whitney Hilton
* Birth Place: New York, NY
* Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: February 17, 1981, Aquarius
* Profession: Model; actor; reality-show cast member

Famous, yes. Talented? That's in the eye of the viewers, and poor little rich girl Hilton found plenty of them in 2003 as the dimmer of two dumb blondes on the popular reality series The Simple Life. The granddaughter of hotelier Conrad Hilton, this skinny starlet was already well known in society circles as a die-hard party girl and middling model. But The Simple Life — which placed her and equally pampered pal Nicole Richie in situations where they were actually required to work — turned her into a household name. As audiences snickered at her empty-headed antics, Hilton — who was already disgustingly wealthy — laughed all the way to the bank. She even managed to trademark her inane catchphrase, "That's hot." While Hilton parlayed her celebrity into roles in a number of movies and TV series and even released a self-titled album, she didn't show much promise and remained in the spotlight due to her outrageous personal life, including high-profile romances (Nick Carter, Paris Latsis, Stavros Niarchos III), an infamous sex video, a hacked cell phone, a public fallout with costar Richie, drunk driving and a controversial 2007 jail stint for driving with a suspended license.
Paris Hilton Fast Facts:

* Modeled for renowned designers Tommy Hilfiger, Marc Bouwer and Catherine Malandrino.
* Wrote (with Merle Ginsberg and Jeff Vespa) 2004's Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose. From that book: "Despite what you've read, being a famous heiress is not that easy. It is, of course, fun."
* In the 2006 Canadian general election, students from McMaster University played off her catchphrase "that's hot" to get out the youth vote with a campaign called "Voters Are Hot."
* Reason she refused an offer to appear in Playboy Magazine in 2006? "Because I'm Paris Hilton."
* Released her self-titled debut album in August, 2006.

* Paris Hilton Relationships: Barron Hilton - Brother
* Conrad Hilton - Brother
* Jason Shaw - Ex-fiancé
* Kathy Richards Hilton - Mother
* Marilyn J. Hilton - Grandmother
* Nicholai 'Nicky' Olivia Hilton - Sister
* Nicholas 'Nicky' Conrad Hilton - Great-uncle
* Paris Latsis - Ex-fiancé
* Rick Hilton - Father
* William Barron Hilton - Grandfather