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Those who think geniuses are born and not made should think again, says author David Shenk.

Where do athletic and artistic abilities come from? With phrases like "gifted musician", "natural athlete" and "innate intelligence", we have long assumed that talent is a genetic thing some of us have and others don't.

But new science suggests the source of abilities is much more interesting and improvisational. It turns out that everything we are is a developmental process and this includes what we get from our genes.

A century ago, geneticists saw genes as robot actors, always uttering the same lines in exactly the same way, and much of the public is still stuck with this old idea. In recent years, though, scientists have seen a dramatic upgrade in their understanding of heredity.

They now know that genes interact with their surroundings, getting turned on and off all the time. In effect, the same genes have different effects depending on who they are talking to. - BBC

Ever since Viktor Yanukovych came to power as Ukrainian president almost a year ago, the big question has been whether he would bring the country back under Russian influence. Acclaimed Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov argues that he has been far more preoccupied with staying in power.

Ukraine's new year celebrations were cautious. In his televised speech to the nation, President Yanukovych announced that "the worst is behind us" but "there is still a lot of work to be done".

Precisely what work, he did not say, but the coming months will certainly be busy for the country's state prosecutors who have been told to draw up a list of illegal activities carried out by the government of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

A number of high-ranking officials have already been arrested, including a former interior minister who is also leader of the Narodnaya Samooborona (People's Self-Defence) party, while Ms Tymoshenko - the so-called Orange Princess - is called in for questioning seemingly every other day.

One of these interrogations lasted 11 hours, after which a spokesperson for the state prosecutor explained that Ms Tymoshenko had not wanted to leave.  - BBC

Australia's insurance industry is gearing up for one of the largest series of claims in its history after devastating floods swept through the state of Queensland.

As thousands return to their damaged homes and businesses to survey the havoc caused by mud and flood waters, insurance assessors are being mobilised from across the country.

"We're thinking it's going to be up there with one of the biggest events we've had," said Paul Giles, of the Insurance Council of Australia.

Already the council, which represents many of the country's principle insurers, estimates there have been some 8,000 claims, worth a total of Aus $290m (£183m; $289m).  - BBC

Children's homes in Japan are on the receiving end of a mysterious outpouring of charity. Anonymous donations of school bags and other gifts are being left in the name of a popular manga character.

It all started on Christmas day with a donation of school bags but after national media coverage the trend has snowballed.

The gifts are signed with the name of a comic book pro-wrestler, also known as Tiger Mask, who gives his winnings to the orphanage where he was raised. - BBC

European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli has said the drinking water on the International Space Station tastes better than that on Earth, despite being recycled.

He was answering a question sent in by Buzz Purdy, who wanted to know how important hygiene was on board the station, and what it was like drinking coffee knowing where the water had come from. - BBC

By Jon Kelly BBC News Magazine

The Pope says children should be given truly Christian names. But why have some saints and biblical figures inspired baby names, but not others?

Our playgrounds are blessed with a multitude of Daniels, Sarahs and Adams, but not quite so many Amminadabs, Zipporahs or Habakkuks.

The names of saints Andrew, Catherine and Frances might echo down the ages, but the phone book is not exactly bursting with Abbos, Etheidwithas and Leocritas.

But could these holy, if inexplicably unfashionable, titles be due a comeback?  - BBC

By Michelle Roberts Health reporter, BBC News

A DNA blood test for Down's syndrome could save nearly all pregnant women from invasive tests like amniocentesis, say experts.

Invasive testing takes place in 3% to 5% of pregnant women in the UK - some 30,000 women - and increases the risk of miscarriage.

The new DNA blood test could bring this down to 0.1%, according to a study in the British Medical Journal.

Around one woman in every 100 who has an invasive test will miscarry.

Some faced with the dilemma choose not to go for a diagnostic test - which involves having a needle inserted into their bump to draw off a sample of placenta cells or some of the fluid that bathes the baby - particularly if their estimated risk of having a child with Down's syndrome is smaller than the chance of miscarriage. - BBC

Sixty-two people died with flu in the UK in the past week, bringing the total to 112 since October, figures reveal.

However, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) said the rise could be due to delayed reporting, with many of the deaths occurring before Christmas.

Most of those who died had swine flu. The majority were aged between 15 and 64, but nine children under 14 died.

An HPA spokesman said the number of people seeing their GP for flu-like illness was beginning to plateau.

Of the 81 deaths where data is available, 63 people were in risk groups for flu. - BBC

By Helen Briggs Health reporter, BBC News

Blood pressure monitor High blood pressure is a blood pressure that is 140/90 mmHg or above

A combination of drugs is better than a single one in treating high blood pressure, a UK study has suggested.

The study in the Lancet involved 1,200 people and found starting treatment with two drugs gave better and faster results, with fewer side effects.

The approach challenges conventional medical practice where doctors give a patient one drug, then add another later if blood pressure stays high.

Almost 10 million people in the UK have high blood pressure.

Treatment with anti-hypertensive drugs is known to reduce the risk of stroke and heart disease.

By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News, Seattle

Galaxies making up the protocluster Circles show the galaxies making up the protocluster far in the background

Astronomers have revealed the most distant cluster of galaxies ever observed, caught at a never-before-seen stage of development.

Cosmos-Aztec3 has been described as a "metropolis in the making", because such clusters are believed to grow like cities, absorbing outlying villages.

It lies 12.6 billion light years away, and appears to be just tens or hundreds of millions of years old.

Galaxy clusters discovered to date have been billions of years further along.

By contrast, the light from the "protocluster" Cosmos-Aztec3 left when the Universe itself was just one billion years old. - BBC

By Mark Kinver Science and environment reporter, BBC News

Increased heavy rain in the uplands raises the risk of flooding in low-lying locations

The frequency of heavy rainfall during the autumn and winter over the uplands of North England has "significantly" increased, a study has shown.

A team of UK researchers said the shift coincided with an increase in westerly weather systems over the area.

The findings showed why models looking at future weather scenarios had to take into account how high ground could affect rainfall patterns, they added.

The findings will appear in the International Journal of Climatology.

"It seems to be a significant trend through the 20th Century," said co-author Tim Burt from Durham University.

By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News, Seattle

The largest flares unlock streams of particles that could play havoc with planetary atmospheres

Red dwarf stars have surprisingly frequent flare-ups, scientists say, and these solar flares' effects could be deadly to life on nearby planets.

The largest flares unleash streams of particles that could play havoc with planets' atmospheres - or inhabitants.

A study of 410,000 red dwarfs - the most common type of star in our galaxy - turned up many flares of all sizes.

Scientists at the American Astronomical Society meeting said that could pose a risk to any life on orbiting dwarfs.

The result is particularly relevant given the recent discovery that the Universe hosts three times as many red dwarf stars than previously thought. - BBC

UK urban artist Tinie Tempah leads the charge at this year's Brit Awards with four nominations.

The 22-year-old is up for best British male, best breakthrough act, best single for Pass Out and and album of the year for Disc-Overy.

Rapper Plan B and folk band Mumford And Sons and The xx all have three nominations and band Take That are up for two prizes.

This year's ceremony will be hosted by comedian James Corden in February. - BBC

Chinese demolition workers have torn down the Shanghai studio of the artist Ai Weiwei - a move he says is linked to his political activism.

Mr Ai said the demolition crews arrived without warning on Tuesday and flattened the building within a day.

He originally had permission to build the studio, but later officials ordered it to be destroyed, saying he had failed to follow planning procedures.

Mr Ai has been increasingly vocal in his criticism of China's leaders.

The 53-year-old, one of China's most famous and controversial artists, said the demolition started in the night and he flew from Beijing to Shanghai as soon as he heard. - BBC

A book billed as the sequel to JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye has been banned from release in the US, according to reports.

Swedish author Fredrik Colting reached a settlement with Salinger's estate to end a lengthy copyright dispute over the book, Publishers Weekly said.

As part of the deal, the book cannot be published in the US or Canada. But it can be sold in other countries.

Colting must also stop calling his work 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye.

Prior to his death one year ago, Salinger had taken legal action against Colting, who wrote his work under the pseudonym John David California.

According to the late author's lawyers, the book - published in the UK in June 2009 - was "a rip-off, pure and simple". - BBC

Sony has launched legal action against hackers who uncovered and published security codes for the PlayStation 3.

The hack potentially allows anyone to run any software on their machine, including pirated games.

Sony's lawsuit argues that this constitutes copyright infringement and computer fraud.

But George Hotz, one of the hackers at the centre of the controversy, told BBC News that he was "comfortable" the action would not succeed.

"I am a firm believer in digital rights," Mr Hotz said.

"I would expect a company that prides itself on intellectual property to be well versed in the provisions of the law, so I am disappointed in Sony's current action. - BBC

Microsoft has said that it has asked US officials to block Apple's attempt to trademark the words "App Store".

Apple submitted an application for the phrase - used for its iPhone, iPad and Macintosh download services - in 2008.

But Microsoft has now told BBC News that it has asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to reject the application.

The company says the term is too generic and competitors should be able to use it.

"An 'app store' is an 'app store'," said Russell Pangborn, Microsoft's associate general counsel. "Like 'shoe store' or 'toy store', it is a generic term that is commonly used by companies, governments and individuals that offer apps." - BBC

By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News

Edsac, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge Like all early computers Edsac filled the room in which it was located.

The first recognisably modern computer is to be rebuilt at the UK's former code-cracking centre Bletchley Park.

The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (Edsac) was a room-sized behemoth built at Cambridge university that first ran in 1949.

Creation of the replica has been commissioned by the UK's Computer Conservation Society (CCS).

The three-year re-build will be carried out before visitors to The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley. - BBC

Spain has raised 3bn euros ($3.9bn; £2.5bn) in an auction of five-year government bonds.

The average yield on the bonds was 4.542%, which was nearly one percentage point higher than the rate reached in the last auction in November.

However, analysts had feared the yield would be even higher.

The debt sale, which follows a similar auction by Portugal on Wednesday, is soothing fears over the eurozone's ability to service its debts. - BBC

Renault has asked French authorities to investigate the suspected industrial espionage at the carmaker.

The company has filed a criminal complaint "against persons unknown", accusing them of industrial espionage, corruption, breach of trust, theft and concealment.

It comes just over a week after Renault suspended three executives. All three have denied any wrong doing.

French judicial authorities will now decide whether to investigate.

Media speculation has pointed to a foreign rival being behind the alleged industrial espionage, but Renault's legal application has not named any individuals, companies or nationalities. - BBC

Intel has posted a 48% rise in quarterly net profits, as strong sales of server microprocessors more than offset weak demand for chips used in personal computers.

The world's largest microchip-maker made a net profit of $3.4bn (£2.1bn) in the last three months of 2010, up from $2.3bn a year earlier.

Its revenues were also ahead of market expectations, rising 8% to $11.5bn.

Intel said 2010 was the best year in its history.

Sales of its microchips for data centres were up 15% in October-December, while those for PCs were flat. - BBC

China and Tajikistan say that they have settled a century-old border dispute, after the Central Asian nation agreed to cede land to China.

The Tajik parliament voted on Wednesday to ratify a 1999 deal handing over 386 square miles (1,000 sq km) of land in the remote Pamir mountain range.

The Tajik foreign minister said that this represented 5.5% of the land that Beijing had sought.

China said the move thoroughly resolved the border dispute.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei gave no details on the treaty. - BBC

It is time for North Korea to get "serious" about negotiations for peace, the US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said.

Mr Gates was speaking in Japan, after a four-day visit to China.

He said the risk of provocation leading to war between the two Koreas was very high and noted the South had the right to respond if attacked.

Mr Gates's trip has focused on repairing military ties with China and easing tensions between the Koreas.

His meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan was also an opportunity to reaffirm the US-Japan alliance, amid recent tensions over the stalled relocation of a US base in Okinawa. - BBC

Two Pakistani television channels have been fined for breaching regulations in their coverage of the 4 January killing of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer.

The stations, Samaa and Waqt TV, were ordered to pay one million rupees each ($11,670) by media regulator, Pemra.

It said they had encouraged terrorism and shown bloodshed by repeatedly airing an interview with Mumtaz Qadri, who has admitted killing Mr Taseer. - BBC

More than 30,000 army, navy, police and air force personnel are battling to provide urgent aid to people hit by heavy flooding in Sri Lanka.

A government spokesman said more than 325,000 people had been displaced by flooding. At least 23 people have died and more than a million are affected.

The priority since the rains abated on Thursday has been to deliver emergency food and medical supplies.

In the centre and east, farmland has been flooded and rice fields destroyed. - BBC

A French prison chief has been suspended over an alleged affair he had with a woman used as bait for a notorious anti-Semitic gang murder.

Prosecutors said Florent Goncalves, head of Versailles women's prison, was placed under investigation for passing money and other items to the inmate.

He is also accused of conducting a sexual relationship with her.

The prisoner is serving nine years for luring Ilan Halimi into a trap which saw him tortured and killed.

Aged 17 at the time of the murder in 2006, the French-Iranian was tried as a minor, and is usually named as "Emma" or "Yalda" in the French media. - BBC

Lebanon's president has asked Saad al-Hariri to stay on as a caretaker prime minister after his government was toppled by Hezbollah and its allies.

The crisis was sparked by a dispute over the UN tribunal investigating ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's murder.

President Michel Suleiman has started consultations over the choice of a new premier, with Mr Hariri due to return to Beirut from a visit to France.

The Arab League appealed for calm over Lebanon's "tense" security situation. - BBC

The North African branch of al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of two Frenchmen in Niger.

The two men were found dead on Saturday after a failed attempt to rescue them on the Niger-Mali border.

A statement by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) did not make it clear how the men died.

France had already said it believed al-Qaeda was responsible, and had suggested that the men were murdered by their captors. - BBC

Three Bulgarian air crew members working for the United Nations in Sudan have been abducted in Sudan's Darfur region.

The three, said to be a helicopter crew, were seized by armed men at an air strip, according to the UN World Food Programme.

Bulgaria confirmed that three pilots had been seized in Darfur.

Rebels in the largely lawless region have long been fighting government troops and Arab militias.

The WFP said the three people abducted had been working for the organisation. - BBC

A German man has been jailed for four years for making pornographic films in the breakaway Somaliland republic.

A judge said Gunter Bischoss, 72, was guilty of unIslamic behaviour and also fined him $10,000 (£6,300).

"The evidence in this case has been exaggerated and I will appeal the verdict to the Supreme Court," AFP news agency quoted Mr Bischoss as saying.

A Somali woman who appeared in some of the home videos was also given a one-year jail term and a $900 fine. - BBC

Nigeria's governing party is to choose its candidate for presidential elections due to be held in April.

The strongest challenge to President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to come from ex-vice-president Atiku Abubakar.

The PDP candidate has won every poll since the end of military rule in 1999, so its candidate will be favourite.

But some analysts say the PDP could split over the vote with southerners backing Mr Jonathan and Mr Abubakar supported by those from the north. - BBC

A total of 34,612 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico over the past four years, according to new, more detailed government statistics.

Unveiling the database, President Felipe Calderon acknowledged that 2010, which saw 15,273 deaths, had been "a year of extreme violence".

Half of the murders were in three northern states, officials said.

The figures include the killings of gang members, police and troops, as well as innocent bystanders.

President Calderon, who launched his offensive against the drug gangs after taking office in December 2006, told a meeting of anti-crime groups that his government "was aware that it was going through a very difficult time on security issues". - BBC

People placed small red hearts on the names of victims inscribed on a memorial

Haitians have been marking the first anniversary of the earthquake that devastated their country and left some 250,000 of their fellow citizens dead.

A minute's silence was held at 1653 local time (2153 GMT) - the exact time the 7.0 magnitude quake hit last year.

Church services have also been held around the nation, including at the ruined cathedral in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

One year on, some 800,000 people are still living in temporary shelters.

Traffic stopped as the streets of Port-au-Prince turned quiet and businesses were closed. - BBC

By Bobbie Johnson Technology reporter, BBC News

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A man who broke into Sarah Palin's e-mail has been imprisoned - despite being told he might be spared jail.

David Kernell, 23, was found guilty last year of illegally accessing Mrs Palin's e-mail during the 2008 presidential campaign.

At the time, a judge suggested he should serve his year-long sentence in a halfway house.

But after intervention from US government officials he is now in federal prison, the BBC has learned.

Officials confirmed that Mr Kernell reported on 10 January to begin serving his time at a federal corrections institute in Ashland, Kentucky.

US wholesale prices saw their biggest increase in 11 months in December, led by higher energy and food costs, official figures have shown.

The Producer Price Index rose 1.1% in December, compared with November's 0.8% gain. It was the largest increase since January of last year.

Heating oil saw the biggest price rise, up 12.3%, while the cost of petrol gained 6.4%. Food prices rose 0.8%.

Excluding energy and food costs, prices rose just 0.2% last month.

This was a slowdown on the 0.3% increase in November, said the Labor Department. - BBC

The coroner at an inquest into a mid-air collision in which four people died said it was "highly unlikely" it would have happened had a warning system been in place.

Cousins Katie-Jo Davies, 14 and Nikkita Walters, 13, from Evanstown, Rhondda Cynon Taf, died in the Bridgend crash.

Instructors Hylton Price, from Bridgend, and Andrew Marsh, from Penarth, were also killed.

The RAF says it has now begun fitting collision systems to the cadet planes.

The inquest at Aberdare heard the planes did not see each other in time and collided in mid air during a training flight over the Kenfig Nature Reserve near Porthcawl on 11 February, 2009. - BBC

Fifteen flu-related deaths have been reported to the assembly government in the past week.

The total number of flu deaths in Wales since October now stands at 27.

Health officials said 49 people were having treatment in critical care beds in hospitals across Wales on Tuesday of this week.

There has also been an increase in the number of GP consultations for flu but the figure remained "within the levels of normal seasonal flu activity".

Aneurin Bevan Health Board, which covers the former Gwent trust area, reported the most number of critical care admissions, 12, closely followed by Betsi Cadwaladr health board in north Wales which saw 11 admissions. - BBC

The education minister has revealed that new school builds will be the main casualty in a bid to save hundreds of millions of pounds.

To avoid large-scale job losses, Caitriona Ruane intends to shift £41m from the school building "capital" budget to pay instead for services and staffing.

Job losses are still expected.

At least £10m has been set aside to pay for redundancies over the next two years.

The plans are outlined in the department's budget plans for the period 2011/12 to 2014/15.

The elderly and the most vulnerable will be the worst hit as a result of the NI executive's health budget.

The warning came from health officials who have published the department's spending plans.

They also predict there could be up to 4,000 job losses over four years.

In order to provide an efficient service, health officials have said they need £5.4bn by 2015 to meet demand - instead they are to get £4.6bn - a shortfall of £800m.

Some of the 4,000 predicted job losses will be through natural wastage and retirement but there will be some compulsory redundancies. - BBC

A 79-year-old lollipop lady has died in hospital after being struck by a single decker bus in Ayr, South Ayrshire.

Audrey Williams, from Coylton, Ayr, was hit by the bus in Hillfoot Road at 0855 GMT on Thursday as she returned from helping children to the other side.

The schools crossing patrol officer was treated for a serious head injury in Ayr Hospital but later died.

No children were on the road at the time and the 55-year-old bus driver was not injured. - BBC

The online retail giant Amazon is to create 950 new jobs in Scotland.

The majority of the posts - 750 - will be created at a newly-built plant distribution centre in Dunfermline, Fife, off the M90 motorway.

That facility will replace a smaller plant at Glenrothes, also in Fife. Existing staff will transfer.

Another 200 jobs will be added at the firm's warehouse in Gourock, Inverclyde, with possibly up to a 1,500 temporary jobs at times of peak demand.

The new one million sq ft distribution centre in Dunfermline - about the size of 14 football pitches - will be Amazon's biggest in the UK.

The severed thumb of a Watford man was found three days after he was kidnapped from his Hertfordshire home and killed, a court heard.

Mahmood Ahmad's thumb was found near an office in Ilford, Essex, in March 2010, after possibly dropping from a bird's beak, St Albans Crown Court heard.

No other remains of the 40-year-old restaurant worker have been found.

Five men and a woman are accused of charges connected to the kidnap, false imprisonment and murder of Mr Ahmad.

The court heard that Mr Ahmad's sister Nahid had left her husband Mohammed Riaz in 2008 and gone into hiding after he was violent to her. - BBC

Police have released video footage of a man holding a petrol bomb in London during December's student protest.

The footage, which the police discovered on YouTube, shows a man running with the petrol bomb in Parliament Square on 9 December.

Protests took place in central London in November and December in response to the rise in tuition fees.

Police have released images and footage of suspects they wished to trace in connection with the violent disorder.

The Metropolitan Police has set up a team of 80 officers who are investigating the disorder in the capital during the protests on 10, 24 and 30 November and 9 December, under the codename Operation Malone.

Images released by police have included photographs of protesters smashing the windows of Topshop in Oxford Circus and suspects kicking cars in a royal convoy, including a car carrying the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. - BBC

UK commanders were keen to redeploy Army troops leaving Iraq to Afghanistan because of fears they would be cut if they were not used, it is claimed.

Former envoy to Kabul Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles told MPs he was told by ex-Army head Sir Richard Dannatt the conflict gave them a "raison d'etre".

But Sir Richard has strongly denied the claims, calling them "somewhere between misjudged and mischievous".

The MoD said UK forces were deployed for "one very clear reason".

A spokesman said UK national security was the only motivation for sending troops to the country. - BBC

Polls have closed in the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election, the first such contest since the coalition government was formed last year.

The by-election was called after a specially convened election court found Labour Party candidate Phil Woolas had lied about an opponent.

Labour won the seat by just 103 votes in May from the Liberal Democrats with the Conservatives in third place.

The result is expected to be declared at about 0200 GMT on Friday.

The by-election is the first significant opportunity that voters have had to pass judgement on the policies of the coalition government and Ed Miliband's performance as opposition leader. - BBC

Police in Mauritius have said that one of the three men charged in connection with the murder of Michaela McAreavey has confessed to the killing.

Mrs McAreavey, 27, daughter of Tyrone Gaelic football boss Mickey Harte, was found murdered in her honeymoon hotel room on the island on Monday.

Avinash Treebhoowoon, 29, appeared in court on Wednesday, along with two others.

Police told the BBC on Thursday he had confessed to the killing.

It followed the revelation that a lawyer for Raj Theekoy, who is charged with conspiracy to murder, said his client had spoken to police and implicated the other two men.

Sandip Moneea, 41, and Mr Treebhoowoon appeared in court on Wednesday accused of her murder. - BBC

By Nick Triggle Health reporter, BBC News

Ward Consultants can make £600 for four hours overtime

Some consultants are making more than £100,000 a year in overtime payments from the NHS, the BBC has learnt.

The sums - paid on top of basic salaries and bonuses - have been criticised at a time when the health service is trying to save money.

Consultants have been accused of playing the system, but doctors said poor planning by managers was to blame.

Overtime rates vary, but are often about £600 for four hours - treble what senior medics get for contracted work.

Basic pay for consultants stands at just under £90,000 a year on average. For full-time consultants, this pays for 10 separate four-hour blocks a week.

Consultants who do private work are also obliged to do an extra four-hour session paid at their basic rate if their NHS trust needs them.

The International Olympic Committee would like the London 2012 Olympic Stadium running track to be retained, but it has no power over the decision.

Tottenham propose removing the track in their bid to take over the site, but West Ham's rival offer would keep it.

IOC president Jacques Rogge said it "would not intervene" in the issue although he wants an athletics legacy.

The Olympic Park Legacy Committee (OPLC) is due to recommend who should take over the stadium by 28 January.

With the OPLC's decision date looming, Rogge admitted: "We would favour a solution with a track legacy - that goes without saying.

"But the decision is in the hands of the OPLC along with UK Athletics and LOCOG. - BBC

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has confirmed Roque Santa Cruz and Shaun Wright-Phillips are likely to leave the club in the coming days.

Paraguayan striker Santa Cruz is poised to rejoin Blackburn, the club where he first made his mark in England.

Winger Wright-Phillips has been linked with Fulham, Birmingham and West Ham.

Mancini said he is reluctant to allow striker Emmanuel Adebayor to leave until he knows whether Mario Balotelli requires surgery on his knee injury.

Santa Cruz and Wright-Phillips were both signed by former boss Mark Hughes but have fallen out of favour during Mancini's tenure.- BBC

Scientists have unveiled one of the earliest dinosaurs yet found, an agile meat-eater from the late Triassic period, some 230 million years ago.

Researchers writing in the journal Science say Eodromaeus or "dawn runner" was a small, two-legged creature of not much more than 1.2m in length and 4-6kg in weight.

They reconstructed the dinosaur, a probable ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex, from an almost complete set of bones found in the Valley of The Moon, in northwestern Argentina.
Eodromaeus ("dawn runner") Eodromaeus ("dawn runner") was discovered in 230-million-year old rocks in the foothills of the Andes

Researchers from Argentina and the US first chanced upon fossilised bones belonging to Eodromaeus in 1996, but it has taken them this long to reconstruct the fragments.

Many of the fossils were covered in iron encrustations and required painstaking work under the microscope before casts could be made and a complete skeleton recreated.

The finished creature claim the researchers, is one of the earliest dinosaurs yet discovered, and could represent the beginnings of the theropod line which eventually leads to T.rex. - BBC

A New York man who says a rat bit his penis during a jail stay may sue county officials, a judge has ruled.

Peter Solomon, who said he later had to endure a course of rabies jabs, says jailers knew the ward in which they placed him was infested with rodents.

He says the jail was negligent and mistreated him because he is black.

Lawyers for Nassau County sought to have the suit dismissed. Among other arguments, its experts said they saw no evidence of serious injury. - BBC

A global trial of the net's new addressing system is being planned for 8 June.

The test is being held to raise awareness about the imminent change from version 4 of the addressing scheme to version 6.

Net giants Google, Facebook, Akamai and Yahoo have committed to taking part in the "test flight" of IPv6.

Net firms are being encouraged to switch to IPv6 as addresses in the old scheme will run out by November 2011.

"The good news is that internet users don't need to do anything special to prepare for World IPv6 Day," said Lorenzo Colitti, a network engineer at Google in a blog post.

"Our current measurements suggest that the vast majority (99.95%) of users will be unaffected. However, in rare cases, users may experience connectivity problems, often due to misconfigured or misbehaving home network devices." - BBC

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said Russia's final report into the air crash that killed Poland's president did not go far enough.

He said Warsaw would seek talks with Moscow and, if these failed, it might turn to international experts.

The report blamed pilot error, finding the crew had taken unjustified risks under pressure from their superiors.

President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others died when their jet crashed while trying to land in fog on 10 April. - BBC

An Indian court has remanded in custody a Hindu holy man accused of a string of bomb attacks previously thought to be the work of Muslim militants.

Swami Aseemanand allegedly admitted to placing bombs on a train to Pakistan, at a Sufi shrine and at a mosque.

He has also allegedly confessed to carrying out two assaults on the southern Indian town of Malegaon, which has a large Muslim population.

He has been remanded in custody for the four attacks until 27 January.

Forces loyal to incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo have attacked several UN vehicles in the country's main city, Abidjan, the UN says.

Six vehicles were attacked, with to people injured, a spokesman said.

Mr Gbagbo has refused to admit defeat after the election in November, in which the UN recognised his rival Alassane Ouattara as the winner.

Mr Ouattara and his government-in-waiting have been under siege by Mr Gbagbo's forces in an Abidjan hotel. - BBC

BBC: The Australian state of Queensland is facing a reconstruction task of "post-war proportions", as floods left swathes of it under water.

State Premier Anna Bligh said the state was reeling from the worst natural disaster in its history.

Powerful flood waters have surged through the state capital, Brisbane, leaving thousands of homes submerged.

The floods peaked at a lower level than expected but more than 30 suburbs are under water.

Huge amounts of debris - cars, boats and jetties - have been floating downstream, some smashing into bridges.

One man died when he was sucked into a storm drain and two more deaths elsewhere were reported by Australian broadcaster ABC, bringing the toll from this week's flooding to 15, with dozens more missing.

Things are still very bad here - there is widespread devastation. Some 25,000 homes are either partially or totally flooded, but the key thing is the river levels didn't peak at the high point feared.

The big commercial area will win a reprieve but more than 30 suburbs have been hit and people will be under water for days to come. There will have to be a huge recovery operation throughout the state, so this crisis is far from over.

The floods have devastated much of the agriculture sector and the mining sector. I was speaking to the state treasurer on Wednesday and he said the cost would have a "b" after it - for billions - rather than an "m".

The Brisbane River is now receding and was expected to fall to around 3.2m by early on Friday

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has told his party that he is "not resigning".

Mr Cowen's position as leader of Ireland's ruling Fianna Fail party has been a matter of intense speculation over the past 24 hours.

Reports that he had met with senior officials from Anglo-Irish Banks before it was nationalised sparked the crisis.

The bank collapsed and its former chairman Sean Fitzpatrick has been questioned by police about his role. - BBC

Banks repossessed a record one million US homes in 2010, and could surpass that number this year, figures show.

Foreclosure tracker RealtyTrac said about five million homeowners were at least two months behind on their mortgage payments.

Foreclosures are likely to remain numerous while unemployment remains stubbornly high, the group said.

Among the worst hit states were Nevada, Arizona, Florida and California, once at the heart of the housing boom. - BBC

Professor Helen Sang: "Not only could we use this approach to tackle bird flu but other diseases"

UK scientists have created the world's first genetically modified chickens that do not spread bird flu.

Writing in Science journal, the team says their work demonstrates it is possible to create a variety of GM farm animals resistant to viral diseases.

The research team inserted an artificial gene into chickens; this introduces a tiny part of the bird flu virus into chicken cells.

These birds become infected but render the virus harmless to other poultry.

The team believes that the genetic modification they have introduced is harmless to the chickens and to people who might eat the birds.

Professor Helen Sang of Edinburgh University told BBC News that genetic modification is potentially a much better way of protecting against diseases than vaccination because the GM technique works even if the virus mutates. - BBC

President Obama asked the nation to live up to Christina's expectations

Christina Taylor Green, the nine-year-old killed in Saturday's shooting in Arizona, has been buried, marking the first of six such funerals.

Christina, whom President Barack Obama hailed on Wednesday night, was a top student, dancer and athlete.

She had hoped to meet Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at a constituency event on Saturday when she was killed and Ms Giffords gravely injured.

Doctors say Ms Giffords is making "encouraging" progress in hospital.

They said they had begun intense physical therapy, and that she was able to lift her legs on command.

Jared Loughner, 22, is jailed pending trial in the attack in the city of Tucson. Six people were killed in the shooting, including Christina Green and a federal judge. More than a dozen were wounded. - BBC

Tunisia's president has said he will not seek a new term in office in 2014, following widespread protests which have left at least 23 people dead.

Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali said he was also ordering police to stop using live rounds against protesters.

Mr Ben Ali, who has ruled the country since 1987, was speaking hours after police fired live shots at protesters in the capital, killing one man.

Human rights groups say more than 60 people have died in weeks of unrest.

Speaking in his third nationally-televised address since the violence began, Mr Ben Ali, 74, said there was "no presidency for life" in Tunisia.

Many had expected him to remove the upper age limit for presidential candidates from the constitution to enable him to stand again in 2014, but he said he did not intend to do so. - BBC

More than 420 people have now been killed by flooding and mudslides in south-eastern Brazil, officials say.

About 200 people have died in the town of Nova Friburgo, some 175 in Teresopolis and dozens more in Petropolis, media report. Thousands of people have been made homeless.

Rio de Janeiro Governor Sergio Cabral blamed local governments for allowing poor building and illegal occupations.

President Dilma Rousseff has toured damaged areas in Nova Friburgo.

She vowed that there would be "firm action" by the government.

Ms Rousseff was accompanied by Mr Cabral and other politicians and later left for a press conference in Rio, where she spoke of the "dramatic" scenes she had seen. - BBC

Ford Group Philippines (FGP) reported on Thursday an all-time full-year sales record of 6,603 Ford brand vehicles for 2010.

The company capped the record year with its second highest-ever monthly performance in December with sales rising 55 percent from November to 783 vehicles.

Following its successful launch in October, the all-new Ford Fiesta became the best-selling hatchback in the Philippines for the month of December, and led the company’s year-end surge in sales with 342 units.

The Fiesta’s exceptional December sale also represented the highest-ever monthly total for any Ford nameplate in the Philippines.

“The launch of Fiesta has really given a significant boost to our sales -â€" and as the best-selling hatchback in the industry in December, it’s clear that this class-leading vehicle holds significant appeal to a wide range of Filipino consumers,” said Randy Krieger, president of FGP.

The record year for Ford in the Philippines was supported by continued strength across the full lineup of Ford nameplates.

For the seventh consecutive year, the Ford Everest continued to be Ford Philippines' top performer with sales in 2010 of 2,204 units.

The Ford Escape also delivered a strong 2010 with full-year sales that rose 10 percent from a year ago to 1,556 units.

“We are absolutely delighted to have ended the year on such a high note, which helped deliver record full-year sales for the Ford brand in 2010, reaffirming that our Filipino consumers continue to appreciate our world-class lineup of Ford vehicles, and we expect this momentum to carry in to a strong 2011,” explained Krieger.

In addition to Ford’s record sales in 2010, the Ford Motor Company Philippines (FMCP) plant in Sta. Rosa, Laguna reported an all-time record in vehicle exports, increasing 35 percent from a year ago to 9,858 units.

FMCP has been manufacturing the Ford Focus, Ford Escape and Mazda 3 for export to ASEAN markets that include Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia since 2002.

In December, FMCP celebrated the export of its 75,000th unit, representing a cumulative value of more than US $ 960 million.

Strong sales momentum across Ford ASEAN in December resulted in the region’s best-ever monthly sales performance with overall sales of 6,685 units â€"- an increase of more than 25 percent from November, the region’s previous monthly record.

Ford ASEAN’s strong sales month was filled with market highlights across the region. December sales in Thailand were up 162 percent from the same month last year. Indonesia recorded its second-best sales month ever. Ford brand sales in the Philippines were the second-best ever monthly total. Malaysia recorded its best overall sales month since December 2005.

Budget deficit in 2010 could end up lower than the P325 billion ceiling owing to good collections, a Department of Finance (DOF) official said Thursday.

“Full year deficit was more than P5 billion lower than target,” Finance Undersecretary Gil Beltran told reporters.

Beltran expressed this optimism following the release of the November data indicating that the government incurred a budget surplus of P482 million, a reversal from the P6.4 billion deficit in November 2009.

This brought down the January to November to P269.8 billion compared to year-ago's 11-month deficit of P272.5 billion.

Revenues amounted to P1.10 trillion, 8.1 percent higher than the P1.02 trillion in 2009. Revenue program for this year is P1.29 trillion.

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) collected P753.3 billion, 10.5 percent up from 2009’s P681.9 billion.

While revenues of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) reached P233.5 billion, 15.9 percent higher than its P201.4 billion it had in end-November last year.

Collection by the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) totaled to P52.4 billion, 13.4 percent lower than its P60.5 billion in end-November 2009 and the Other Offices collected P93.2 billion, lower by 15.8 percent than P77.8 billion in 2009.

Expenses as of end-November this year totaled to P1.37 trillion, 6.2 percent up from P1.29 trillion the previous year. Expenditure program for the whole of 2010 is P1.58 trillion.

Economic managers have earlier hinted a below-than-ceiling budget gap this year on account of prudent spending in the second semester.

This, after the previous administration front-loaded expenditures in the first six months of 2010 to ensure continued growth of the domestic economy. - pna

President Benigno S. Aquino III urged the country’s youth to take up sciences and technology, including robotics courses which will be the wave of the future.

Looking pleased and proud on the fete of 19 Filipino teams which competed in the 2010 World Robot Olympiad last November the President said the Filipino youth’s awareness and exposure to science and technological advancements “have gone a long way” from his time “of floppy disc and black and white television.”

The President cited statistics showing the low inclination of the youth to science courses saying that of the 100 students going to college only two take up science courses.

Cabinet members in attendance were Science and Technology Secretary Mario Montejo and Education Secretary Armin Luistro along with Deputy Director Dr. Leticia Catris of the Science Education Institute of the DOST.

He noted that the sciences will be useful to the country’s progress and development with possible applications in security of the railway systems, solutions to flooding and landslides (through the sensors of the robots), and retrieval operations for victims of natural disasters, “or where it is very risky for humans” to venture in.

The President said he is proud that today’s youths are very competitive in robotics beating even countries known for their adherence to science like Russia, Japan and China in the last World Robotics Olympiad at the SM Mall of Asia.

The robotics champions were brought to Malacanang on Thursday by Mylene Abiva of Felta Multi Media Inc., founder of the Philippine Robotics Olympiad in 2001 who also lobbied for the inclusion of robotics in the physics subjects in private and public high schools and in general sciences for elementary levels.

The Philippine team has been joining the World Robotics Olympiad for the past 10 years. It has won in six straight years an accumulative total of two gold, one silver and one bronze medals.

“But in 2010, our 19 teams won the same number of medals in only one participation,” said Abiva.

Abiva explained that the World Robotics Olympiad was participated in by 1,012 students from 22 countries with the Philippines joining in two categories: the regular techie playing field and the open or creative field (where the Philippines got both gold medals).

The President advised the youth not to “rest on your laurels and to keep working for excellence for the benefit of future generations.” - pna

VISA International (Asia Pacific) eyes to tie up with two to three banks in the Philippines this year to increase the number of Filipinos who can use their debit cards abroad.

VISA Country Manager for the Philippines and Guam Iain Jamieson, in a briefing Wednesday, said they are currently in partnership with six banks in the country.

The VISA-affiliated local banks to date are Banco de Oro Unibank (BDO), HongKong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), Union Bank of the Philippines (Unionbank), Veterans Bank, and Standard and Chartered Bank.

“We want to tie-up with two to three card issuers within this year,” he said.

Jamieson explained that the advantage of having a local bank carry the VISA brand is that cardholders of these banks can use their debit cards worldwide.

He said debit cards issued in the country that does not carry the VISA logo are not recognized by merchants outside the Philippines.

Thus, the additional partnership means Filipinos who are clients of domestic banks affiliated with VISA can use their debit cards abroad just like a credit card.

“A plus factor here is not only they can use it abroad but without the extra fees for interest payments that use of credit card entails,” he said.

Jamieson explained that most people do not know that they can use their debit cards to pay what they bought from a certain store without first withdrawing from automated teller machines.

He said some 20 million Filipinos are debit card holders but only five million of these have cards that are linked internationally.

Malacanang expects a better economic freedom rating next year following a slide in the Philippines’ 2011 index from 109th to 115th last year.

In a press briefing on Wednesday, Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said the survey was done during the second half of 2009 to the first half of 2010 indicating it applies to the past administration.

“That is our challenge and we hope to see an improvement in the economic freedom index in 2012,” Lacierda said.

The economic freedom index is being undertaken yearly by Washington-based think tank, Heritage Foundation Inc. using 10 components namely: business freedom, trade freedom, fiscal freedom, government spending, monetary freedom, investment freedom, financial freedom, property rights, freedom from corruption and labor freedom.

It rates each country in every component on a scale of 0 to 100 points.

The freedom from corruption component came from data of the Transparency International, and based on the previous administration’s performance.

Lacierda noted that the Aquino administration’s thrusts are to eradicate graft and corruption and reduce poverty in the country.

The first component is business freedom. “Here we have already undertaken reforms such as reducing the time for processing registration of businesses and cutting red tape.”

He said the reforms needed to improve the business, maintain consistent policies and investment environment and level the playing field for business are being put in place as the government pushes the public private partnership program.

“We have been doing these things and we do not need to amend the Constitution to improve the business freedom index,” Lacierda told reporters.

For the Philippines, its lower index score was 24 points for freedom from corruption and its highest index was 91 for government spending, reflecting a decision to front load a huge part of the budget for the first half of 2010 and plan for public private partnerships focused on infrastructure. - pna

President Benigno S. Aquino III will lead the distribution of relief goods here Friday and assess what else can be done to assist the victims of floods and landslides.

The President is expected to arrive at the Butuan City Airport by noon to personally turn over government assistance to the people displaced by the mass flooding and landslides spawned by the tail-end of the cold front (TECF) in the region the past weeks.

Expected to welcome the President are local officials including Governor Eripe John Amante, Agusan del Norte; Mayor Ferdinand Amante Jr., Butuan City; Rep. Jose Aquino II, District 1, Agusan del Norte; Maj. Gen. Victor Felix, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, and Chief Supt. Reynaldo Rafal, regional director of the Provincial Regional Office 13.

The Chief Executive will be briefed on the effects of the TECF in CARAGA by Regional Director Blanche Gonbenciong of the Office of the Civil Defense 13 and Chair of the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council 13.

The President will then turn over the goods from various agencies, including the Department of Agriculture, Department of Health and the Department of Social Welfare and Development, to respective recipients at the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines office.

The provinces of Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Surigao del Norte, Surigao del Sur and the city of Butuan will receive three shallow tube wells, two boxes of assorted vegetable seeds and 50 bags of palay seeds each from the Department of Agriculture.

Apart from these, one box of assorted medicines and supplies worth P26,691 will also be given to each recipient from the Department of Health (DOH) as well as some 1,200 family food packs containing rice, canned goods and noodles from the DSWD.

The President will also extend assistance to victims in the provinces of Albay and Southern Leyte.

As of Thursday, seven people were added to the growing list of fatalities in the widespread flooding and landslides in Mindanao, Eastern Visayas and Southern Tagalog due to prevailing severe weather conditions in the regions. - pna

Reports that Malacanang is considering election lawyer Romulo Macalintal as the next chairman of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) was met with opposition by women’s groups.

Elizabeth Angsioco, National Chair of Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines (DSWP), a national federation of almost 300 community women’s groups with around 40,000 individual members, on Thursday said "Atty. Macalintal may be a good election lawyer but his being a religious conservative and his intolerance to views opposing his are dangerous. We need more progressive or at the very least open-minded people in Comelec."

"We must remember that Macalintal, together with Prolife Philippines, harassed and shouted at Catholic reproductive health (RH) advocates, virtually calling them Satan outside the Manila Cathedral on November 20 last year. Macalintal’s intolerance, even arrogance, was caught on video. He was also seen trying to grab one of the cameras. Thus, the prospect of having someone like him calling the shots in Comelec is quite alarming," she added.

Angsioco asserted that the Aquino administration "should be forewarned that such an attitude will likely surface if he (Macalintal) gets appointed as Comelec chair."

"What will a chair like Macalintal do in the face of pro-RH candidates and party-list groups? How will he decide for instance, on issues of representation of gays and lesbians? Or those favoring the re-legalization of divorce? Will his intolerance be reflected in his decisions? The government should not take this risk for surely, this will be met with strong opposition from candidates and pro-RH organizations alike," she said.

"We strongly oppose Macalintal for Comelec chairmanship. After all, there is no dearth of qualified candidates for the post," said Angsioco.

The group also called on the Liberal Party to review its support for Macalintal and on President (Benigno) Aquino III "not to appoint a conservative and intolerant person to hold the highest position in this very important body."

Macalintal, however, just brushed aside DSWP’s criticisms, describing the group’s claims as "irrelevant" and "shallow."

"Wala namang kinalaman ‘yung sinasabi nila sa posisyong ito. Napakalayo at napakababaw ng pananaw nila sa bagay na ito (What they were saying had nothing to do with the position. Their views on this issue is too shallow)," he said.

Macalintal, who served as counsel to former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, said he does not care what critics have to say.

"Bahala sila kung ano ang gusto nilang gawin. Hindi ako natatakot sa sasabihin ng tao. Gagawa ako ng desisyon batay sa batas ng Diyos at tao (It's up to them whatever they want to say or do, I'm not afraid on what other people say against me. I will decide according to the laws of God and of the people)," he said. - pna

The United Kingdom’s Permanent Under-Secretary of State Simon Fraser on Wednesday said in Manila that his government is supportive of the affirmative action on investment taken by President Benigno C. Aquino III, amid a revived campaign for charter change or “cha-cha.”

Manila was the second leg of Fraser’s three-country Asian swing. He earlier visited the southern Chinese port city of Guangzhou and is now in Tokyo, which he said indicates London’s “priorities in foreign policy, with countries that are important to us in the future.”

In Manila, in particular, the British Foreign Office is looking at a more strengthened relationship, specifically in trade and investments, and taking into consideration the Philippines’ role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Fraser told a press briefing.

Accompanied by ambassador to Manila, Stephen Lillie, Fraser met with Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Antonio Rodriguez, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima and Peace Adviser Teresita Deles. He arrived in Manila on Tuesday and left on Thursday.

He explained that amid a profoundly changing world, the UK has “to expand and strengthen (its) relationships beyond (our) traditional partners.”

”As an important emerging market in what is probably the most important region of the future, the Philippines will definitely be a major part of that change. We look forward to establishing ever closer ties between our two countries,” Fraser told the press at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

His meetings included exchanges not only on the Mindanao peace process, commercial trade and investments and a possible exchange around effort towards the Aquino government’s flagship public-private partnerships (PPP), according to the British embassy in Manila.

He added that given the number of countries of the European Union (EU) it is negotiating with, it is in the interest of the Philippines to engage rapidly in a free trade agreement (FTA) with the EU. The U.K. is an E.U. member.

On the other hand, he noted, that trade issues such as the PPP are negotiated through the EU and the FTA with the ASEAN and because “we’d like to move as rapidly as possible, we (U.K.) prefer bilateral discussions.”

“We have many common values, and the UK is ready to help the Philippines achieve its development objectives,” Fraser said.

According to Fraser, who heads the British diplomatic service and is the highest ranking official in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the U.K. is happy with its current relationship with the Philippines, even as Ambassador Lillie noted that more could be achieved if the business environment here has more predictability and stability. - PNA

Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Enrique Ona affirmed on Thursday the position of the government to support responsible parenthood by providing the Filipino people with necessary information that would be helpful in raising their families.

”The government must intervene by providing information, so that families can make informed choices about the number of children that they want and services so that they can achieve the family size they desire,” Ona said during the resumption of the Senate committee hearing on Reproductive Health Bill.

Ona said the DOH is supporting the effort of Congress to come up with a law that would serve as effective national policy in promoting responsible parenthood.

”Although the government has limited resources, it nevertheless still has the responsibility to assist couples in achieving their fertility goals in the same way that it has the responsibility to provide education, health and other social services,” Ona said.

Advocates of the controversial RH bill as well as groups opposing it trooped at the Senate as the Senate committee on health and demography jointly with the committees on youth, women and family relations and finance conducted second hearing on the Senate Bill 2378, an act providing for a national policy on Reproductive Health and Population and Development.

Despite spending almost five hours listening to the more than 25 resource persons, Senator Pia Cayetano promised to exhaust the issues to get all the information needed in defending the Senate version of the bill filed by Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago.

”There is no time frame in finishing the discussion. I want to get all the information from different sectors so that I’ll be ready when I sponsor the bill on the floor,” Cayetano, chairperson of the committee, said.

While the controversial bill is getting support in the House of Representatives, Cayetano is hoping to get majority number in the Senate which remains divided on the issue.

”I don’t bother about head count. My job continues regardless of the head count. Anyway, the bill is moving along very well,” she said. - pna

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