After playing a waiting game all morning, Britney Spears showed up at court on Monday (January 14) for the afternoon session to try to regain visitation rights with her two young sons — only to leave just minutes later. The reason for her departure was unclear at press time. The singer was expected to explain what happened during a custody standoff on January 3, which ended when she was taken away by ambulance. Kevin Federline, sporting a mohawk and a navy-blue suit, attended the morning session, in which a male Los Angeles police officer — one of the emergency respondents on the scene the night of January 3 — testified under direct examination but is yet to be cross-examined. Up to eight other witnesses from that night are expected to testify as well, according to a spokesperson for the court. Federline gained temporary sole legal and physical custody of Sean Preston and Jayden James after an emergency hearing two weeks ago, after Spears was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai and placed on an involuntary hold. If Spears were to regain visitation rights, legal experts said it would likely be at a place outside her home, where she would be monitored. Members of the media were ejected from Monday’s proceedings after the judge granted a motion to clear the court. Gordon also granted one other motion to quash a subpoena, but there was no word who the subpoena had been issued to or what it involved. Federline’s lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan had issued a series of subpoenas for depositions from several former Spears associates, including manager Larry Rudolph, assistant Alli Sims and bodyguard Daimon Shippen. According to the last court documents filed about the matter, three more people were scheduled to be deposed throughout January, including former Spears bodyguard Anthony Barretto, former bodyguard Lonni Jones and former day-to-day manager Adam Leber. Spears’ lawyers from the firm Trope & Trope — Sorrell Trope, Anne Kiley and Tara Scott — all continued to represent her on Monday despite their pending motion to be removed as her legal counsel. A hearing about that matter is scheduled for February 4
And if you would believe it, so are Japanese pop diva Ayumi Hamasaki, Bollywood queen Aishwarya Rai, US President George Bush and even Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew.If you type in Mr Lee’s name on the Find Friends function on the social networking site, you will find four profiles with his name - three with his photos.One of the profiles lists 13 friends - which include ‘Tony Blair’, ‘Mao Ze Dong’ and ‘Gregori Rasputin’ - the latter two being, respectively, a deceased Chinese leader and the infamous Mad Monk of Russia who was murdered in the early 20th century.An Eric Lee from Malaysia writes on this profile, ‘Err… who exactly are you ah?’, to which, ‘Mr Lee’ responds: ‘Go read your papers.’Facebook fake? Quite likely.And there are a slew of them. There is even one open profile of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, where the only application added is an IQ test.Fake celebrity profiles made headlines recently after two bogus Facebook profiles of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari were found on the site.Bilawal is the 19-year-old son of recently-assassinated Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto. He took over his late mother’s position as party chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party.
1) Ask for extra-hot chilli sauce on your kebab.
2) Try and get off with your best mate’s girlfriend.
3) Piss in your girlfriend’s cupboard/out the window/anywhere except in the bathroom.
4) Give a running commentary, out loud, on anything you do, even though You’re alone (eg, ah’m gonna go into the kitschen, ah’m gonna get myshelf A beer, an’ ah’m gonna drink it… thatsh whad am’m gonna do… etc.)
5) Get a tattoo/try to tattoo yourself.
6) Use classy chat-up lines like: “You’ve got phemoninal… phemonim… Great tits. Can I shag you?”
7) Fall down open manholes.
Chuck up in the back of taxis.
9) Climb onto the roof of bus shelters - to get a better view of the stars, Man.
10) Pull a moonie.
11) Think it’s really funny to put all your female flatmate’s underwear In the freezer compartment.
12) Make “punch” out of half a bottle of vodka, a bottle of red wine, and Some Strongbow.
13) Drink it.
14) Get thrown out of a nightclub for taking all your clothes off.
15) Sing.
16) Sing “Beers, beers, we want more beers, all the lads are cheerin’, Get the fookin’ beers in. Beers beers we want more beers” etc. To your Girlfriend’s parents.
17) Dance as if you are John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. And bump intoThings. And break them. And not give a flying fuck about it.
During this past year, a number of oddities emerged in the world of tech. First, Microsoft was forced to live through an unbridled flop, Apple was enjoying its meteoric rise as the most successful company of the year and social networks gained even more steam. On the back of that, the world’s favorite social network, MySpace, quickly gave ground to Facebook and companies like the ill-fated Netscape tried to take on Digg.
And it’s that site — Digg.com — that emerged this year, not necessarily as the most popular social site (it’s tough to call it a full-fledged social networking company in the vein of a Facebook or MySpace), but as the best destination for people surfing the Web.
Don’t believe me? Let’s take a look at some other social networking sites to see why they couldn’t make the cut.
LONDON, England (CNN) — Ever wanted to be a new you? Recent developments in cloning mean that day might be possible without therapy, a new diet or fitness regime.
Earlier this week a team in the U.S. led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of the Oregon National Primate Research Center, announced they had created the first cloned monkey embryo and extracted stem cells from it.
While a scientific breakthrough in its own right, it also brings the possibility of curing genetic diseases, growing new organs and even making a carbon copy of human beings one step closer.
There is still a long way to go, with many technical and ethical dilemmas to overcome. The advancements in cloning have been slow and painstaking and prior claims to have developed cloned human cells found to be false; Dolly the sheep — the first cloned animal — was created over 10 years ago, and the only previous claim of human embryo cloning by South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang in 2004, was discredited.
