Sport
SPAIN ARE NOW OFFICIALLY THE MOST SUCCESSFUL NATIONAL SIDE IN FOOTBALL HISTORY
They won three major tournaments back to back by beating Italy 4-0 in Kiev
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The Spanish football team became the sport's most successful national side ever by defeating Italy 4-0 in the final of Euro 2012 on Sunday night. First-half goals from David Silva and Jordi Alba and two more late on from Fernando Torres and Juan Mata killed off the Italians, who were forced to play the last half an hour with ten men after Thiago Motta got injured and they'd used all their substitutes. Many of the Italian players cried as Spain were presented with the trophy by UEFA president Michel Platini. Politics
BASHAR AL-ASSAD TOLD HE HAS NO PART IN THE FUTURE OF SYRIAN POLITICS BY THE UK AND FRANCE
UN powers meet in Geneva to draw up plans to oust Syrian president
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Syrian president Bashar al-Assad will have no place in any interim government set up in the country, according to UN powers. Foreign ministers from the UK and France announced the plans to oust al-Assad though didn't give much indication as to how this might come about. Syria's former allies Russia and China were involved in the discussions. Money
THE CHAIRMAN OF BARCLAYS RESIGNED
Is there gonna be a Leveson for the banks soon?(via)
Barclays chairman Marcus Agius has quit and apologised for his former company's attempts to illegally rig interest rates in order to get richer. The bank was fined a record £290m last week. The man who had been under the most pressure, though, is Chief Executive Bob Diamond, who currently keeps his job at Barclays. People are saying Agius "took a bullet" for Diamond in this case, though it doesn't seem to have worked, and it looks likely that a Leveson-style inquiry will be ordered into the banking system. For its own part, Barclays' outgoing chairman has promised that staff will now have to abide by a new, tougher code of conduct and will face stronger punishments if they're caught doing anything likely to damage the bank's reputation. Crime
A MAN WAS MURDERED AT WESTFIELD SHOPPING CENTRE
Nine people have been charged(via)
Twenty-four-year-old Liam Woodards (pictured) was stabbed to death during a fight at London's Westfield shopping centre on Friday afternoon. Nine men have since been charged with involvement in the attack on Woodards, who was from Stratford where Westfield is based. Politics
MEXICO HAS A NEW LEADER
A man with a soap star wife celebrated his election victory in front of a crowd back by a mariachi song
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Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary party has been elected Mexico's new leader. In front of a crowd of supporters, Peña Nieto promised to curtail the corruption that has dogged Mexican politics for most of the last century. "Mine will be a democratic presidency. We are a new generation and there will not be a return to the past," he told a crowd outside the party's HQ, joined by his soap star wife and children to the sound of mariachi music. Peña Nieto took 38 percent of the vote, putting him about seven percentage points ahead of his nearest rival. Nature
LOOK AT THIS GIGANTIC CROCODILE
Its name is Lolong and it's now officially the biggest ever to be held in captivity
SPAIN ARE NOW OFFICIALLY THE MOST SUCCESSFUL NATIONAL SIDE IN FOOTBALL HISTORY
They won three major tournaments back to back by beating Italy 4-0 in Kiev
The Spanish football team became the sport's most successful national side ever by defeating Italy 4-0 in the final of Euro 2012 on Sunday night. First-half goals from David Silva and Jordi Alba and two more late on from Fernando Torres and Juan Mata killed off the Italians, who were forced to play the last half an hour with ten men after Thiago Motta got injured and they'd used all their substitutes. Many of the Italian players cried as Spain were presented with the trophy by UEFA president Michel Platini. Politics
BASHAR AL-ASSAD TOLD HE HAS NO PART IN THE FUTURE OF SYRIAN POLITICS BY THE UK AND FRANCE
UN powers meet in Geneva to draw up plans to oust Syrian president
Annons
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad will have no place in any interim government set up in the country, according to UN powers. Foreign ministers from the UK and France announced the plans to oust al-Assad though didn't give much indication as to how this might come about. Syria's former allies Russia and China were involved in the discussions. Money
THE CHAIRMAN OF BARCLAYS RESIGNED
Is there gonna be a Leveson for the banks soon?(via)
Barclays chairman Marcus Agius has quit and apologised for his former company's attempts to illegally rig interest rates in order to get richer. The bank was fined a record £290m last week. The man who had been under the most pressure, though, is Chief Executive Bob Diamond, who currently keeps his job at Barclays. People are saying Agius "took a bullet" for Diamond in this case, though it doesn't seem to have worked, and it looks likely that a Leveson-style inquiry will be ordered into the banking system. For its own part, Barclays' outgoing chairman has promised that staff will now have to abide by a new, tougher code of conduct and will face stronger punishments if they're caught doing anything likely to damage the bank's reputation. Crime
A MAN WAS MURDERED AT WESTFIELD SHOPPING CENTRE
Nine people have been charged(via)
Twenty-four-year-old Liam Woodards (pictured) was stabbed to death during a fight at London's Westfield shopping centre on Friday afternoon. Nine men have since been charged with involvement in the attack on Woodards, who was from Stratford where Westfield is based. Politics
MEXICO HAS A NEW LEADER
A man with a soap star wife celebrated his election victory in front of a crowd back by a mariachi song
Annons
Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary party has been elected Mexico's new leader. In front of a crowd of supporters, Peña Nieto promised to curtail the corruption that has dogged Mexican politics for most of the last century. "Mine will be a democratic presidency. We are a new generation and there will not be a return to the past," he told a crowd outside the party's HQ, joined by his soap star wife and children to the sound of mariachi music. Peña Nieto took 38 percent of the vote, putting him about seven percentage points ahead of his nearest rival. Nature
LOOK AT THIS GIGANTIC CROCODILE
Its name is Lolong and it's now officially the biggest ever to be held in captivity
(via)A town in the south of the Philippines is now the proud owner of the largest crocodile to have ever been kept in captivity.
Its name is Lolong and it is thought to have killed two people.
The saltwater crocodile measures 6.17 metres and weighs more than a ton. It was captured last September but a Guinness World Records spokeswoman only confirmed that it was the largest ever this weekend.