MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan court has convicted three Google Inc executives for the 2006 transmission of a video showing the bullying of a youth with Down syndrome, the judge in the case told Reuters on Wednesday.
The three were sentenced to six months in jail after being convicted of invasion of privacy, the judge said. A fourth executive was found not guilty.
TechnologyCarlo Ancelotti revealed yesterday that he has been given assurances by Chelsea that he will still be at the club next season.
The Chelsea manager conceded that his side are experiencing their most difficult period of the campaign, but is confident of coming through it to win their first Premier League title in four years.
Ancelottis predecessors to have lost their jobs in the wake of failing to win either of the Premier League or Champions League include Claudio Ranieri and Avram Grant. But Ancelotti claimed that he will buck the trend, even if Chelsea end the season empty-handed, because of the strength of his relationship with Roman Abramovich, the owner. I am here to change the history of this club, Ancelotti said.
I have a very good relationship with the club and with Roman. [Avram] Grant was the past, now there is a present. I think the owner now is thinking what I think: to win the Premier League and to win the FA Cup. I am an optimistic man. My position is not under discussion.
Related LinksTime for Ancelotti to get tough with ChelseaIvanovic adds to Ancelottis defensive problemsCapello presented with midfield conundrumMy future is definitely at Chelsea next season, I can confirm that. I have two more years of my contract.
Ancelotti believes that Chelsea need 86 points to win the title, which would require seven wins from their remaining eight league matches, although he has challenged his players to end the season with ten straight wins, starting away to Portsmouth this evening.
I think that, in the past, with 86 points every team has won the title, Ancelotti said. But we cant afford to lose at Manchester United.
We have nine or ten games until the end of the season eight in the Premier League and maybe two in the FA Cup and thats not a lot of time. We have to win ten games.
Petr Cech will return from a calf injury tonight, but Ashley Cole is not expected back for another month despite running yesterday for the first time since he broke his ankle.
Ashleys recovery is going very well, Ancelotti said. He started to train on his own and I think that he will train with the group maybe in 15 days. I think he will be ready before the end of the season.
Portsmouth are without striker Aruna Dindane after he was declared unavailable by the clubs administrators because of a clause in his loan from Lens, which states that the South Coast club must pay 4 million if he plays another game.
Tal Ben-Haim and John Utaka have groin injuries and miss out.
Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem & , : {} Fresh attempts to revitalise assent talks in the Middle East were on the verge of fall last night as the Palestinians in jeopardy to lift out prior to the negotiations began.
At an puncture assembly of the Arab League in Cairo Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, voiced that he would protest the US-mediated talks since of Israels warding off to hindrance building a whole on the assigned territories.
The Palestinian President motionless he will not come in in to those negotiations right away ... the Palestinian side is not ready to come to terms underneath the benefaction circumstances, Amr Moussa, the head of the Arab League, said.
On Mar 3 the Arab League voted to authorize surreptitious assent talks in in between Israeli and Palestinian leaders underneath a US beginning permitting Americans to action as a substitute in in between the dual sides. A revisit to the segment this week by Joe Biden, the US Vice-President, was meant to ease tensions in the run-up to the talks.
Related LinksIsrael: complying with general lawLast possibility Middle East talks at riskIsrael chose the initial day of Mr Bidens revisit to make known that it would set up 1,600 homes in a allotment in East Jerusalem. The Obama Administration cursed the Israeli preference in the strongest denunciation yet, but stopped short of job for them to devaluate their programmed allotment expansion.
Israel pronounced that the timing of the preference was a fluke and not dictated to shoot the talks. Eli Yishai, the Israeli Interior Minister, apologised for his ministrys proclamation of the settler homes, but combined that the Government deliberate all of Jerusalem a joined Jewish collateral and did not recognize a allotment freeze there.
A couple of months ago Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, concluded to a prejudiced ten-month freeze in construction, singular to areas inside the West Bank and not together with East Jerusalem. Palestinians see Jerusalem as the collateral of their destiny state but Mr Netanyahu has refused to plead the matter.
Israeli and Palestinian leaders have been in a deadlock for some-more than a year, refusing to resume assent talks that were called off over Israels fight in the Gaza Strip last winter.
The US suggest for surreptitious negotiations was meant to bypass a key Palestinian approach that Israel hindrance all allotment construction, and proceed a form of discourse that would in the future lead to approach negotiations, US officials said.
hair wigLara Croft is set for a relaunch this summer with a 1980"s-style colonnade diversion that will concede people to fool around Tomb Raider together for the initial time.
The series, that has sole some-more than 33 million units in the prior eight titles, has consisted of games where one player controls the movement - until now. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will deliver associated fool around and will underline graphics suggestive of renouned games twenty years ago, with not as big characters and a bound camera perspective.
"It will be really arcadey and have a feeling of the 80s," pronounced Phil Rogers, arch senior manager of Square Enix Europe, that owns Eidos, the franchise"s developer. The new game, that will be expelled around digital download, would revoke the complexity of the strange Tomb Raider games and deliver new characters, he said.
It is the initial step in respirating hold up in to the authorization after the last incarnation Tomb Raider Underworld valid a disappointment. "It did well but we knew we had to do more. I accomplished the diversion but if I wasn"t the CEO, I probably wouldn"t have," Mr Rogers said. He referred to that the formidable nonplus component of a little Lara Croft games had put off most users and combined that the association indispensable to try the burgeoning online component of the games market.
Related LinksDot-com commercial operation comes of ageGames industry wants taxation mangle from ministersLara Croft faces female-friendly makeoverThe association estimates that there are one million hardcore Tomb Raider fans worldwide and believes that the code still retains the cache in the UK. "People ask me when stamping my pass when I come in to the nation when the new Tomb Raider is entrance out," Mr Rogers said.
The new downloadable diversion will be merely a ambience of things to come. Eidos is operative on a new story arc to modernise the franchise. Mr Rogers discharged suggestions that Lara Croft might be removing as well prolonged in the tooth to interest to younger gamers, comparing the diversion to alternative franchises such as James Bond and Final Fantasy that have left from strength to strength over a prolonged period.
Mr Rogers was vocalization prior to the UK launch of the thirteenth version of Final Fantasy, the Japanese fantasy diversion that has sole 92 million copies given it was launched in 1987. Mr Rogers pronounced that he approaching thousands of people to deplane on HMV"s store in Oxford Street, London, after last night"s launch in Paris, when roughly 4,000 people attended.
The last Final Fantasy diversion sole dual million copies opposite Europe and Mr Rogers pronounced he would be unhappy if the association did not compare those figures.
hair wigBy Mark Ogden 730AM GMT twenty-four March 2010
Frustration Fernando Torres"s bookings have turn as inclusive as his goals as the vigour mounts Photo GETTY IMAGES Although Torres has scored five goals in his past 3 games for Liverpool, the Spaniard has been reception yellow cards at a likewise inclusive rate, with his engagement in the 2-1 better at Manchester United last Sunday receiving his total to five in 7 games.
The twenty-six year-old, whose opening at Old Trafford was harmed by a array of complaints to arbitrate Howard Webb, has transient disciplinary movement for petulantly kicking the chastisement mark prior to Wayne Rooneys saved kick, notwithstanding Webb confirming to the Football Association that he would have requisitioned Torres had he seen the incident.
Liverpool to sell Riera to CSKA Fernando Torres escapes serve chastisement Benitez disputes chastisement as Liverpool lose at Old Trafford Benítez accuses Valencia of diving to win chastisement Torres and Rooney are go Sport on radioBut with Torres additionally selecting to go open this month with claims that Liverpool need "four or five" new players this summer to contest at the tip of the Premier League, his disappointment on and off the representation is apropos increasingly evident.
Liverpool, realistically, need to win all their superfluous matches this deteriorate to validate for the Champions League, and Benítez admits he has urged Torres to concentration his energies quite on scoring the goals that can assistance say the clubs flickering ambitions of a top-four finish.
"Fernando knows he has to concentration a small bit more," Benítez said. "He can measure some-more goals by concentrating on football. All strikers, generally top-class strikers, they are noted a small bit some-more closely than others and that is normal. Its not easy each game. People dont assimilate when youre a player on the representation and youre fighting and infrequently you cant assimilate these things."
Liverpools top-four hopes could be serve dashed if Manchester City kick Everton at Eastlands tonight. But with the 2005 Champions League winners still in with a gloomy possibility of fourth position, Benítez has called on Torres and his associate big names in the Anfield sauce room to lead from the front on the pitch.
Benítez pronounced "Sometimes, when you speak about big names, top-class players, you are awaiting something from them when the group isnt you do well. You design them to say, "Its OK, follow me. We have had this review with Fernando and the rest of the team. It was something we were awaiting from Torres and he was unequivocally great the alternative day [scoring dual opposite Lille]."
Benítez, who expects harmed defenders Martin Liverpool and Fabio Aurelio to lapse inside of a fortnight, thinks Liverpools rivals for fourth place will dump points.
He pronounced "We know we have to win the games since the transparent that the alternative teams will dump a little points and lose a little games. How most they dump is the key. We have the idea we can finish in the tip four, but we have to keep going. Every diversion is critical for us."
Meanwhile, Liverpool midfielder Jay Spearing, 21, has assimilated Leicester City on loan until the finish of the season.
A motorist is helped by military after removing stranded on a flooded highway in Essex. Photograph: Ian Nicholson/PA
Flood warnings sojourn in force currently notwithstanding a little remit from the torrent of sleet that strike the UK over the weekend.
The Environment Agency had eighteen inundate warnings in place this sunrise and 140 inundate watches, nonetheless it pronounced it was not awaiting any flooding of property.
The superfluous risk of flooding – the warnings request to north-east England, tools of East Anglia, and the tide Arun in West Sussex – is acted by tide H2O still using down after the week finish rainfall, the group said.
A mouthpiece pronounced the continue foresee for the week was seeking some-more staid and no serious inundate warnings were in place. "It"s really most an softened picture," she said.
The tail finish of a large-scale continental charge flicked opposite southern and eastern counties over the weekend. The UK longed for the full force of the front, that last night was reported to have killed up to 50 people in France as it additionally smashed Spain, Portugal and Germany. Three people were killed in Spain, dual in Germany and one in Portugal. More than a million homes were left but energy in France after 100mph winds struck.
In Britain, a Vanessa Robson, 53, drowned when her Land Rover was swept afar by a routinely amiable tide at Hartoft on the North York moors on Friday.
On Saturday night the Environment Agency sealed the Thames Barrier for the second time in less than twenty-four hours, as all England and Wales was put on inundate watch.
February saw rainfall levels 20% higher than average, at 99mm in England and Wales and 72mm in Scotland. The soggiest mark was Okehampton in Devon, that reached 157mm.
The Met Office, that designates 1 Mar as the initial day of spring, nonetheless traditionally it is twenty-one March, was presaging especially excellent continue currently but with wintry showers in the north.
East Coast trains pronounced the line in between Inverness and Perth was sealed until serve notice since of complicated layer and a deputy train use was running.
BA is precision volunteer cabin organisation to assistance to staff flights in credentials for what could be a extensive strike. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
British Airways passengers face enlarged transport intrusion subsequent month as cabin organisation pull for a set upon lasting at slightest 10 days if a list endorses industrial action.
The Unite traffic kinship announces the outcome of a set upon check tomorrow and officials are awaiting a yes perspective from some-more than 12,000 BA cabin organisation in a brawl over staffing cuts. Despite carrying a 12-day Yuletide set upon shut off by authorised movement last year, discontented air stewards crop up dynamic to send an additional daring summary to the airline, with 1 Mar the beginning probable date for a walkout.
According to an online check organized by Bassa, Unite"s cabin organisation branch, some-more than two-thirds of members wish a set upon lasting at slightest ten days. More than 3,600 Bassa members voted in the check – about a third of BA"s complete cabin organisation workforce.
The check is poignant since Bassa officials will deliberate the perspective of members prior to environment set upon dates, nonetheless they have already ruled out distinguished over the Easter holidays.
Unite"s care has plainly questioned the vital knowledge of entertainment a extensive walkout. Its corner ubiquitous secretary, Derek Simpson, dumbfounded members in the run-up to the unsuccessful Yuletide set upon by revelation that a 12-day walkout was "probably over the top". However, Unite appears to be readying for a prolonged strike, nonetheless it is not approaching that dates will be voiced until after this week.
A traffic kinship source pronounced a ten-day walkout will concede all Bassa members to stick on the strike. "It"s not a antagonistic movement of aggression. It"s to concede everybody who wants to stick on set upon movement to take piece in it." The source combined that a prolonged set upon would concede "strength in numbers", among BA warnings that any one who strikes will be nude of ignored transport perks that are offering to all airline staff. BA is additionally precision proffer cabin organisation to staff flights, together with pilots, but the timescales concerned in precision organisation meant that it is expected to pattern usually a couple of hundred auxiliary workers in the time available.
The set upon perspective follows an additional authorised reversal for Unite last week when the high justice ruled that BA did not crack cabin organisation contracts when it unilaterally marked down staffing levels on flights last year. The deception of the changes is at the gist of the brawl and Unite has demanded a lapse to prior staffing quotas as a precondition for any assent deal. However, last week"s outcome creates it less expected that BA will step down. BA urged Unite to behind afar from a strike, saying: "We hold it should simulate on the court"s preference rather than levy an nonessential set upon on the travelling public."
Talks in between BA and Unite underneath the auspices of the TUC have unsuccessful to reach agreement so far. Both sides crop up to have confirmed differences over how to house new organisation members. While Unite has supposed the element of new staff fasten on reduce compensate and opposite contractual conditions, it is opposite BA"s offer that new cabin organisation work on an wholly apart swift of planes.
