DNA test for girl in India who looks like Madeleine

Tourists in Leh claim daughter of French/Belgian couple is missing Madeleine McCann Indian police have taken DNA swabs from the daughter of a French/Belgian couple in the northern city of Leh after tourists alleged that she is in fact Madeleine McCann, the girl who disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal four years ago. The girl was spotted by a British tourist last weekend, who was reportedly backed up by other tourists. At one point, according to the Daily Mail, an American tourist attempted to take the girl from her parents, a Belgian man and French woman, who insist the girl is theirs. Private investigators hired by Madeleine’s parents, Gerry and Kate, are in contact with the police and are awaiting the results of the DNA test. Madeleine would now be eight years old. The McCann's spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "Our private investigators are aware of the reports from India over the weekend about a possible sighting of Madeleine. We are liaising with the Indian authorities over the incident and await the results of the DNA test." For further concise, balanced comment...

Read More........ → March 17, 2014

China to become world's biggest economy

Those who are strong today will lose their strength. The US will yield to China in the economic leadership in 2017. Such is the forecast made by experts of the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) consulting services. They also say that this will not be the final step in the re-arrangement of forces in the world economy and that less than in 40 years Russia will play one of main roles while Europe’s largest economies will be lagging behind. The PwC experts forsee that by 2050 three leading economies will be China, the USA and India. Thus, the USA will yield the palm to the Chinese and that India will move to the third from the tenth place. The size of the future leader’s GDP, meaning China, will be about 54 trillion dollars. Just to compare: today it is under 6 trillion dollars. Executive Secretary of the Russian-Chinese Chamber Sergei Sanakoyev also says that China will be giant No. 1 in the world in the future. He says: "The nation is working which means that it is producing goods. This is a very important factor of growth. Of course, under the conditions of the world financial crisis,...

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'I'm sorry.' Cycling career was one big lie admits Armstrong

'If there's a truth and reconciliation commission, I'll be the first man in the door,' he tells Oprah BY Gavin Mortimer, "ONE BIG LIE". That's how Lance Armstrong described a cycling career that brought him seven Tour de France titles and a reputation as the sport's greatest star. The Texan rider finally admitted the truth during an astonishing interview with Oprah Winfrey last night, confessing to the chat show host that he had used banned substances and blood transfusions for most of his career. Armstrong dated his doping back to the mid-1990s and said he continued to cheat for a decade, stressing that when he made a comeback in 2009 he was clean. There were other damning admissions from the disgraced rider, who was described by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) last October as a "serial cheat". Yes, he told Winfrey, he had been a bully. "I was a bully in the sense that I tried to control the narrative and if I didn't like what somebody said, I tried to control that. I was just trying to perpetuate the story and hide the truth". Armstrong verdict: 'clever, calculating,...

Read More........ → January 19, 2013