Anti-doping: Government inquiry into Ukad's doctor probe
The government has ordered an inquiry into the UK Anti-Doping Agency (Ukad) over its handling of an investigation into alleged doping activities by a doctor involving Premier League footballers and other leading athletes.
According to a Sunday Times investigation, Mark Bonar - a London-based private doctor - charges sports stars thousands of pounds for drug programmes.
The newspaper says it has secretly filmed the medic claiming that he has prescribed performance-enhancing drugs such as EPO, steroids and human growth hormone to 150 elite sports professionals from the UK and abroad over the past six years, including:
- several Premier League footballers
- an England cricket international
- British cyclists
- tennis players
There is no suggestion that any Premier League clubs were aware of any alleged wrongdoing and the Sunday Times says it has no independent evidence Bonar treated the players.
One woman’s battle to heal her home city of Homs
As bombs fell around her, Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni stayed in Homs throughout the civil war, making plans to build hope from carnage. Her ideas are now laid out in a visionary memoir. But will anyone listen?
In Syria, an aphorism contends that “one who has no old has no new”. Before the dark days of the civil war, it was used nostalgically, as a brake on those – the young, the daring, the dangerously modern – who had no use for the outmoded past: for its narrow streets, crowded souks and tiny workshops. But since 2011, when the troubles began, it has taken on an altogether more painful meaning. With so much of the country destroyed, what will the future look like? People close their eyes, and they wonder: is it even possible to imagine such a thing?
Marwa al-Sabouni believes it is – and her eyes are wide open. A 34-year-old architect and mother of two, Sabouni was born and grew up in Homs, scene of some of the most vicious fighting. Unlike many, however, she did not leave Syria – or even Homs itself – during the war. The practice she and her husband still (in theory) run together on the old town’s main square was shut up almost immediately: this part of the city quickly became a no-go area. But her home nearby somehow survived intact, and her family safe inside it.
Israel's security industry under spotlight over reported link to San Berardino iPhone battle
The reported involvement of an Israeli cyber security firm in the iPhone unlocking battle between the FBI and Apple has put the fast-growing industry - with its military connections - into the news
The battle between the FBI and Apple over the unlocking of San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook’s mobile phone would have piqued the interest of many in Israel’s flourishing technology industry.
Not least because at the American government's request, a recent court hearing in the FBI’s legal fight to force Apple to unlock the iPhone was cancelled, with the FBI saying a third party had emerged with an alternative method to get into the phone. According to local media, that third party was potentially from Israel.
Citing ''actors in the sector who know the subject well'' Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that the Israeli company Cellebrite, which offers forensic mobile phone services to major law enforcement agencies abroad, helped the FBI in its efforts to crack the phone's security. It had signed a contract with the US law enforcement agency in 2013, Yedioth reported.
Pakistan seeks acceptance as responsible nuclear state
THE NEWSPAPER'S CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON: At the global Nuclear Security Summit held here, Pakistan sought greater acceptance as a responsible nuclear state.
“We believe that since Pakistan has strong credentials on nuclear safety, security and non-proliferation, it qualifies for full integration in the multilateral export control regimes,” a statement presented at the summit said.
Pakistan assured the international community that it was strongly committed to the objective and had been proactively engaged with efforts to promote nuclear safety and security.
“Pakistan has ensured that nuclear and radioactive materials and all related facilities are secured in all places,” said the ‘national statement’ read at the summit.
Nigerian Army Orders General Who Masterminded Rigging Of Ekiti Governorship Election To Resign
The Nigerian Army has ordered Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh, who achieved notoriety by overseeing the rigging of a governorship election in Ekiti State in 2014, to resign.BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKAPR 03, 2016
T he Nigerian Army has ordered Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh, who achieved notoriety by overseeing the rigging of a governorship election in Ekiti State in 2014, to resign.
Minister of Defense, Dan Ali, disclosed the plan to end General Momoh’s military career in an exclusive interview in Washington, DC. Mr. Ali was in the US as part of the Nigerian delegation at a nuclear power summit convened by President Barack Obama of the United States of America.
The Nigerian Defense Minister revealed that the army decided to initiate the process of rusticating General Momoh who was indicted last year by a military panel.
Why Indian women weren't allowed to pray in a Hindu temple
Women activists were stopped from entering the Shani Shingnapur temple sanctuary on Saturday after obtaining a court order allowing women to enter Indian places of worship.
A protest for women's rights suffered a setback on Saturday when police stopped them from entering a traditionally men-only sanctuary in a Hindu temple.
The female activists were testing a court order that allowed them to enter the sanctuary in a temple that has become a touchstone for a rising debate over women's rights inside Indian houses of worship.
"These are man-made traditions," the protest leader Trupti Desai told the BBC. "God does not differentiate between man and woman. He was born of a woman too."
Failure to sell Olympic seats is Brazil's big ticket headache
Sebastian Smith,AFP 12 hours ago
Brazil's government sounded the alarm Saturday over meager sales of Olympic tickets and public apathy just five months before Rio hosts South America's first Summer Games.
With worries about the Zika virus, high crime and a major political crisis already overshadowing the August 5 opening ceremony, Brazil now faces the embarrassing prospect of empty stadiums.
Only 50 percent of tickets to the Olympics have sold so far, Rio 2016 organizing committee spokesman Phil Wilkinson told AFP on Saturday. For the Paralympics, which follow the main Games, the figure is far worse: just 12 percent.
Ricardo Leyser, who this week replaced George Hilton as Brazil's minister of sport, said in an interview with Folha newspaper that he was working on a plan to boost purchases -- as well as to stir up more excitement among Brazilians.
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