London, England (CNN) -- British Airways said its operations got off to a good start Saturday despite a second consecutive strike by thousands of its cabin crew members.

The airline said it was able to operate flights as normal at two London airports, Gatwick and City, and that the number of crew members reporting for work at Heathrow -- Britain's busiest airport -- was enough to operate its planned schedule.

"We have got off to a good start," the airline said in a statement.

The crews walked out at midnight Friday in a strike set to last for four days. They staged a three-day walkout last weekend.

BA said enough staff had crossed the picket lines that it was able to fly more than 75 percent of customers scheduled to travel during the strike. Another 18 percent of passengers are booked to fly on other carriers or have changed their travel dates to avoid the strike.

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The Unite union, which represents 95 percent of BA's 15,000 cabin crew, said it was too early say how many crew members worked despite the strike.

At Heathrow's Terminal 5, which is used primarily by British Airways, things appeared to be running smoothly Saturday and long-haul passengers who spoke to CNN seemed largely unaffected.

"It's been fine from Seattle, (Washington) and I hope it will be fine going back to Seattle," passenger Don Dewar said.

Ravi Erukulabatn said his mother-in-law was still scheduled to fly to Hyderabad, India.

"She is flying on her own, so we were a bit anxious to begin with, bur fortunately it is happening as expected," he told CNN.

The airline said it will be able to run a full operation from London's Gatwick and City airports. At Heathrow, BA will be able to run up to 55 percent of its short-haul flights and up to 70 percent of its long-haul flights, the airline said.

To help operate as many flights as possible, BA is leasing planes, pilots and crews from six airlines, BA said. It is also using volunteers from other areas of the company to stand in for striking cabin crew.

BA handed a statement to passengers on some long-haul flights, reassuring them the airline's own staff was working on board.

"British Airways pilots will be flying your aircraft and you will be cared for in the cabin by British Airways staff," the statement read. "Some of these staff in the cabin may be additional pilots who have volunteered to look after you, and as such will be wearing their pilot uniforms."

Pauline Doyle, a spokeswoman for Unite, said having pilots standing in as flight attendants "undermines" the relationship between cabin crew and pilots.

BA Chief Executive Willie Walsh had threatened last week to take away the travel perks, which might have been one reason some union staff agreed to work despite the strike last weekend.

Striking staff stripped of perks

He said the travel perks are not in the crews' contracts and can be withdrawn at the airline's discretion.

The union representing the striking workers called the move "vindictive" and said restoring those perks must be part of any deal to end the strike.

"The withdrawal of travel concessions from crew who have been on strike represents unacceptable anti-union bullying," Unite joint leaders Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley wrote in a letter to members. "Any agreement to end this dispute must and will include a framework for the full restoration of those travel concessions."

Other carriers are offering to accommodate BA passengers affected by the strike. British carrier BMI, which flies to Europe and the Middle East, said Friday it had added 4,500 seats to its normal Heathrow flight schedule and Ryanair offered special fares to BA passengers.

British Airways and Unite have been at odds for more than a year over changes the airline wants to make to cabin crew pay and work practices.

BA says the changes will save the company more than 60 million pounds ($90 million) a year

Question: For how long have the airline and Unite union been at odds?

Question: How many London airports is it able to operate at as normal

Question: what did british airways say

Question: for how long have they been at odds

Question: With which union has the airline been in dispute with

Answer: more than a year

Answer: two

Answer: its operations got off to a good start

Answer: more than a year

Answer: Unite

Summary:
British Airways says it was able to operate flights as normal at two London airports .
Airline says it can fly more than 75 percent of customers scheduled to travel .
BA cabin crew members in dispute over pay and working conditions .
Airline and Unite union have been at odds for more than a year over planned changes .


London, England (CNN) -- British Airways was able to get three out of four planes to their destination this weekend despite the ongoing strike by cabin crew, the airline's CEO, Willie Walsh, said Sunday.

Walsh told CNN he was "clearly disappointed for customers who have had disrupted travel plans but I'm really pleased that we have been able to do so much and we are determined to keep this going.

"We have had high numbers of cabin crew turning up for work. We wouldn't have been able to fly such a significant operation if we didn't have cabin crew supporting us," he said.

But the assistant general secretary of the Unite union, which represents the cabin crew, said BA was losing money and shifting customers onto other airlines in a "con trick."

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"BA is claiming that it can function but it is doing so by throwing away millions of pounds every day as it dumps its passengers on other carriers," Unite's Len McClusky said in a statement.

"Passengers who turn up expecting to fly BA, a brand they trust and have paid a premium for, will now be shipped onto carriers they've never heard of."

British Airways and Unite have been at odds for more than a year over changes the airline wants to make to cabin crew pay and work practices.

BA says the changes will save the company more than 60 million pounds ($90 million) a year. Unite has said the plans, which call for longer work hours and less staffing, will damage customer service and the BA brand.

At least 51 British Airways flights leaving Heathrow Sunday were listed as canceled on the airport's Web site, and at least 79 arrivals were listed as canceled, as of 10:30 local time (5:30 a.m. ET).

Destinations in the UK, United States, Europe, Africa and the Middle East were directly affected by the cancellation of BA flights. And other airlines such as American Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Iberia were showing flight cancellations because of code-sharing.

The union claimed half of British Airways flights were canceled on Sunday. BA in the past has said it is legally bound as a publicly traded company to provide accurate information, while the union is under no such obligations.

The latest strike, which began Saturday, meant American student Brittany Smith and her family were being rerouted from London's Heathrow to Atlanta, Georgia, on their way home to Denver, Colorado.

She has already e-mailed her professors to explain that she will not make class. "It is frustrating, but if you let it frustrate you, you're just going to ruin your travel plans even more," she told CNN.

"So you are just going to have to take it with a grain of salt, and realize that everyone is doing the best they can and to make it easier on everyone to stay positive."

The four-day strike is the union's second one in a month over pay and working conditions. It staged a three-day walkout last weekend

BA said its operations got off to a good start Saturday despite the strike by thousands of its cabin crew members.

The airline said it was able to operate flights as normal at two London airports, Gatwick and City, and that the number of crew members reporting for work at Heathrow was enough to operate BA's planned schedule.

It said enough staff had crossed the picket lines that it was able to fly more than 75 percent of customers scheduled to travel during the strike. Another 18 percent of passengers are booked to fly on other carriers or have changed their travel dates to avoid the strike, the airline said.

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The Unite union, which represents 95 percent of BA's 15,000 cabin crew, said it was too early say how many crew members worked despite the strike.

The airline said it will be able to run a full operation from London's Gatwick and City airports.

At London's Heathrow Airport, BA will be able to run up to 55

Question:
Who's been fighting?
What is the labor dispute over?
What was canceled?
What's the percentage of flyers?
What did British Airways say?

Answer: British Airways and Unite

Answer: changes the airline wants to make to cabin crew pay and work practices.

Answer: half of British Airways flights

Answer: 75 percent

Answer: "clearly disappointed for customers who have had disrupted travel plans

Summary:
British Airways: "We will fly more than 75 percent of customers booked to travel"
At least 51 BA flights leaving Heathrow Sunday were listed as canceled .
BA cabin crew members in dispute over pay and working conditions .
Airline and Unite union have been at odds for more than a year over planned changes .


London, England (CNN) -- British Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth announced a public inquiry Wednesday into allegations that Iraqis were killed and abused after a firefight more than five years ago in the southern part of the country. The allegations center around the aftermath of a fight in May 2004 at the so-called Danny Boy checkpoint in Maysan Province. Former detainees and the family of a slain Iraqi contend at least 20 people were killed and others were abused at Camp Abu Naji after a fight between British soldiers and Iraqi insurgents. That claim has been denied by the UK Ministry of Defence -- which says the 20 people died in battle and people detained were not mistreated. The probe is called the Al Sweady inquiry -- named after the family of the dead Iraqi. Thayne Forbes -- who retired from the High Court Bench last year -- will chair the inquiry into allegations. The inquiry will look into allegations of "unlawful killings" and the "ill-treatment of five Iraqi nationals detained at Camp Abu Naji." Even though the probe will focus on five detainees, attorneys claim nine people were detained and abused. The defense ministry disputes those allegations. "We have found no credible evidence that those detained, as a result of the attack on British troops and the prolonged firefight at Danny Boy checkpoint, were mistreated," the defense ministry said in a statement. The release of a photo published in British media and obtained by CNN about the incident shows an armed soldier standing near four people face down on the ground with their hands bound behind their backs and their faces covered. Attorneys for the men say they were beaten and evidence shows a breach of the Geneva Conventions prohibiting humiliating and degrading treatment of prisoners. But, the defence ministry disputes that. "It is important to remember that our first priority at the end of such attacks is to protect our personnel from further threats," the ministry said. CNN's Atika Shubert and Per Nyberg contributed to this report.

Question: who hold public inquiry

Question: how many abused

Question: who holds public inquiry

Question: Allegations center around aftermath of firefight at what checkpoint?

Question: UK to hold public inquiry into what?

Question: how many killed

Question: How many people died in battle?

Question: How many people were killed?

Question: How long ago was the incident?

Question: In what year was the firefight?

Question: In what province is Southern Iraq?

Answer: British Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth

Answer: nine

Answer: British Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth

Answer: Danny Boy

Answer: allegations that Iraqis were killed and abused after a firefight more than five years ago in the southern part of the country.

Answer: 20

Answer: 20

Answer: 20

Answer: more than five years

Answer: 2004

Answer: Maysan

Summary:
UK to hold public inquiry into allegations Iraqis were killed and abused after firefight five years ago .
Allegations center around aftermath of firefight in 2004 at checkpoint in Maysan Province, southern Iraq .
Former detainees and family of a slain Iraqi say at least 20 people were killed and others were abused .
UK defense ministry says the 20 people died in battle and people detained were not mistreated .


London, England (CNN) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is denying allegations of "abusive behavior" and "volcanic eruptions of foul temper" ahead of the publication of a new book by a top British political journalist.

The claims come in a book by Andrew Rawnsley of the Observer newspaper, which will be released March 1. The newspaper began running excerpts on Sunday.

"These malicious allegations are totally without foundation," Brown's official spokesman said in a statement Saturday. The spokesman is traditionally not quoted by name.

The Observer claimed that Brown's behavior upset staff at his office, 10 Downing Street, so much so that the head of the civil service launched an investigation and "ordered" the prime minister "to change his behavior."

Britain has a professional civil service which runs the administration of the government, distinct from elected politicians.

The Cabinet Office, a part of the civil service, issued a strongly-worded denial that Sir Gus O'Donnell had looked into Brown's behavior or warned him about it.

"It is categorically not the case that the Cabinet secretary asked for an investigation of the (prime minister's) treatment of Number 10 staff," his office said in a statement. "These assertions have been put to the Cabinet secretary who has rejected them."

Before the publication of the excerpts from the book, there were rumors it would allege that Brown had hit staffers, which he denied Saturday.

"Let me just say, absolutely clearly, so that there is no misunderstanding about that: I have never, never hit anybody in my life," he said, according to a statement from his office.

The book, "The End of the Party," apparently does not claim the prime minister hit people.

Brown is required by law to call an election by June this year. The date has not yet been announced, but it is widely expected to be May 6, and the election campaign has already started.

One of the top strategists in Brown's Labour Party, Peter Mandelson, declined to deny that Brown had a temper, but painted his personality as a virtue.

"I don't think he so much bullies people as he's very demanding of people. He's demanding of himself, he's demanding of people around him," Mandelson said on the BBC's "Andrew Marr Show" on Sunday.

"He does not like taking no for an answer.... there is a degree of impatience about the man, but what would you like? Some sort of shrinking violet at the helm of the government?" Mandelson asked.

Mandelson laughed and dodged a question from Marr about whether Brown had ever hit him or shouted at him.

But he said Rawnsley had a history of writing about events he had not witnessed.

"He's a very good, colorful writer, but that's it," Mandelson said.

Question: What sort of temper does Brown have?

Question: What journalist claims on Brown`s behaviour?

Question: On what Brown has been accused for?

Question: What Andrew Rawnsley`s book claimed in Brown`s case?

Question: What has Brown been accused of?

Question: Who investigated Brown's behavior?

Question: Who wrote a book about the allegations?

Question: What is Brown accused of?

Answer: foul temper"

Answer: Andrew Rawnsley

Answer: "abusive behavior"

Answer: and "volcanic eruptions of foul temper"

Answer: and "volcanic eruptions of foul temper"

Answer: Sir Gus O'Donnell

Answer: Andrew Rawnsley

Answer: "abusive behavior"

Summary:
Brown accused of "abusive behavior", "volcanic eruptions of foul temper"
Journalist claims Brown's behavior was investigated by a top civil servant .
Brown "ordered to change his behavior," Andrew Rawnsley's book claims .
Brown spokesman: "Malicious allegations are totally without foundation"


London, England (CNN) -- British police said Wednesday they have arrested a BBC television presenter on suspicion of murder after he told viewers he carried out a so-called mercy killing on a former lover.

Ray Gosling, 70, a freelance broadcaster, admitted on a BBC show aired in central England that he had smothered the unnamed partner in hospital where he was being treated for AIDS. Assisting in another person's death is illegal in England.

Police in Nottinghamshire, 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of London, confirmed they had made an arrest after the apparent confession on the BBC's "Inside Out" show.

Gosling made his admission in a taped segment of a 30-minute show about death, recounting how he smothered his partner to end his "terrible, terrible pain."

He told viewers: "Maybe this is the time to share a secret that I have kept for quite a long time. I killed someone once.

"He was a young chap, he'd been my lover and he got AIDS.

"In a hospital one hot afternoon, the doctor said 'There's nothing we can do,' and he was in terrible, terrible pain.

"I picked up the pillow and smothered him until he was dead. The doctor came back and I said 'He's gone'. Nothing more was ever said."

Gosling, who has not revealed details of his former lover's identity or the exact date of the incident, insisted he was not "making a cause" of assisted dying.

In a BBC Radio interview he said: "Sometimes doctors do it on their own. Sometimes people do it on their own.

"And if it happens to a lover or friend of yours, a husband, a wife, and I hope it doesn't, but when it does sometimes you have to do brave things and you have to say - to use Nottingham language - bugger the law."

Question: Whom had AIDS?

Question: Where did the murder occur?

Question: What did he want to end?

Question: What was his former lover suffering from?

Question: What did Golsing want to end?

Question: What did Ray Gosling admit?

Question: Who admitted to killing his former lover?

Question: Who did Gosling kill?

Answer: Ray Gosling,

Answer: in hospital

Answer: "terrible, terrible pain."

Answer: AIDS.

Answer: "terrible, terrible pain."

Answer: I killed someone once.

Answer: Ray Gosling,

Answer: a former lover.

Summary:
Ray Gosling admitted on a television show that he killed his former lover .
Gosling says he had wanted to end the pain of young man with AIDS .
Presenter says he is not trying to "make a cause" of assisted dying .


London, England (CNN) -- Conservative Party leader David Cameron said it was "clear that the Labour government has lost its mandate to govern this country," as exit-poll predictions put his party on course to win more seats than it had for 80 years.

He said the Conservatives had fought a "positive and energetic" campaign. It was clear from the results that "the country wants change" and "that change is going to require new leadership."

Exit polls suggest the Conservatives are on pace to win 305 seats -- though this would be 21 short of a majority in the 650-seat House of Commons.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave no indication early Friday that he would step down after being returned to parliament by his constituents in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.

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The "outcome is not yet known but my duty .. is to play my part in Britain having a strong, stable and principled government," he said. "I will not let you down.

"I am very determined and have been through quite a lot in my political career and in my personal life, and I am used to difficulties."

If the predictions are borne out by results, the UK is heading for a "hung parliament" in which no single party controls an overall majority.

The leader of the largest party traditionally gets the first chance to form the government and become prime minister. But if no party has a majority, the sitting prime minister has the right to stay in office and try to win a confidence motion in parliament.

"The sitting prime minister and the incumbent government are given the first chance to create a majority that commands the confidence of the House of Commons, and if they fail to do that it passes to the leader of the opposition," top Labour politician Peter Mandelson told CNN.

Brown arrived at Labour Party headquarters in London early Friday after flying in from Scotland. He smiled and shook hands as he entered the building with his wife, Sarah, but said nothing to waiting cameras and reporters.

Several high-profile incumbents lost their seats overnight, including former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, of Labour; Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson, leader of the Democratic Unionist party; and Liberal Democrat Lembit Opik, who had been in parliament for 13 years.

All had been implicated in last year's parliamentary expenses scandal. Robinson's loss could hurt the Conservatives, robbing them of a potential supporter in the Commons should the party need to form a coalition.

The Green Party, which favors environmental and social justice policies, gained its first-ever member of parliament when Caroline Lucas was elected in Brighton, in southern England.

There were some scenes of voter anger across the country over long lines to cast ballots or polling stations running out of ballot papers, but it was not immediately clear how widespread problems were.

Anger at polling stations

"We will be doing a serious and thorough review of this and making recommendations to parliament and the government," Electoral Commission Chairwoman Jenny Watson said.

The United Kingdom's system of voting is "Victorian, antiquated, left over from an era when less people had to vote" and not designed to cope with mass participation, she said, adding that the system is now "at breaking point."

It's very unusual for no party to get an absolute majority of seats in the Commons. The last time it happened, in 1974, voters were back at the polls within months.

After the election there will be 650 seats in the Commons, four more than in the previous parliament. Voters chose representatives for only 649 seats, however, because the death of a candidate in northern England postponed that election to May 27, local officials said.

Under the British electoral system, the candidate who receives the most votes in a constituency wins. The system, known as "first past the post," is praised for its simplicity and the strong ties it forms between voters and representatives, but critics dislike its failure to provide proportional representation.

CNN's Zain Verjee, Richard Greene and Paul

Question: Who is projected to win 255 seats?

Question: What does hung parliament mean?

Question: What is a  "hung parliament"?

Question: How many seats are the Lib Dems predicted to win?

Question: Who is the leader of the Conservative Party?

Question: How many seats are the Conservatives predicted to win?

Answer: Conservatives

Answer: no single party controls an overall majority.

Answer: in which no single party controls an overall majority.

Answer: 305

Answer: David Cameron

Answer: 305

Summary:
Exit poll projects David Cameron's Conservatives winning 305 seats .
Gordon Brown's Labour Party projected to win 255 seats, Lib Dems 61 .
UK heading for "hung parliament" in which no single party has overall majority .
Brown: "My duty is to play my part in Britain having a strong, stable and principled government"


London, England (CNN) -- European officials expressed frustration at Russia and Ukraine's inability to enforce an agreement to resume delivery of natural gas, amid heat and cooking gas shortages and sub-zero temperatures endured by millions of people.

A woman passes in front of a manometer set on a gas pipe in the Ukrainian city of Boyarka, near Kiev.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was expected to meet Friday with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Timoshenko in an emergency meeting in Berlin. Merkel said she was likely to reinforce the EU's position as a natural gas customer.

"There is a risk that the confidence in Russia may be lost due to the ongoing disruption," said Merkel.

On Thursday European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso urged Ukraine and Russia to quickly implement a compromise that would return natural gas deliveries from Russia's Gazprom's pipelines through the Ukraine as soon as possible.

"If the agreement is not honored, it means that Russia and Ukraine are no longer to be considered reliable partners for the EU in matters of energy supply," said Barroso.

Ukraine is a major entry point for Russian gas into Europe. Russia and Ukraine's dispute over pricing and contractual terms began nearly a year ago, escalating into the present crisis that has prompted Russia to turn off its taps. Both nations help deliver about 25 percent of Europe's natural gas.

In the long term, the EU eyed plans to build a pipeline to purchase natural gas from Central Asia and eventually Iraq and Iran. It was also building up infrastructure to import liquefied gas from North Africa and the Middle East and exploring nuclear energy.

During Wednesday's open session, European Parliament members and commissioners lashed out, with EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs saying, "We are living through one of the most serious energy crises yet-comparable with the 1970s oil crisis."

"Despite promises and the protocol signed on Monday, gas is not yet flowing from Russia through Ukraine."

Piebalgs said Russia had resumed gas deliveries on Tuesday, at one-third of normal flow, but Ukraine had stopped it claiming that Russia had chosen a difficult entry point.

Eastern Europe was experiencing a historic low in temperatures and Siberian weather conditions. When Russia's natural gas delivery was halted, it relied on its stockpile, which is quickly running out.

Croatia's government has declared pre-alert measures and announced gas shutdowns for everyone except for households, hospitals, schools and kindergartens.

In the capital city of Zagreb, businesses are losing money due to the shortage, an estimated 10,000 Euros a day. Five hundred companies have been cut-off so far.

Danijel Zadijeloviae, owner of Lipik Glass, said the shortages have lost his business millions of Euros.

"If we had lost gas for only a second, it would caused us damages of up to 3 and a half million euros," he said.

CNN's Jim Boulden and Matthew Chance contributed to this report.

Question: what is being imported

Question: What is happening because of gas shortages?

Question: What country is at risk because of the disruption?

Question: what countries are involved

Question: What countries are holding talks?

Question: What does Merkel say?

Answer: natural gas,

Answer: In the capital city of Zagreb, businesses are losing money due to the

Answer: Russia

Answer: Ukraine's

Answer: Ukraine's

Answer: she was likely to reinforce the EU's position as a natural gas customer.

Summary:
NEW: Merkel says Russia risks the loss of confidence due to disruption .
EU is building up infrastructure to import liquefied gas from North Africa, Mideast .
Ukraine government says it has agreed to hold talks with Russia over gas row .
Dispute leaves countries across Europe with gas shortages .


London, England (CNN) -- Europeans faced fresh winter misery Friday as plunging temperatures threw transport networks -- including the Channel Tunnel train service -- into chaos and dwindling cold weather resources raised concerns in a snow-blanketed Britain and other countries.

Eurostar, which operates trains between Britain and France, announced it was canceling up to 50 percent of services Friday as bad weather caused a repeat of problems that led to major disruptions and long lines of frustrated and angry travelers last month.

With satellite images showing the UK covered in snow from top to toe -- a rare modern event in a country that has experienced two decades of relatively mild winters -- authorities lacking snow plows and salt supplies were struggling to clear roads.

Britain's weather forecasting Met Office is warning of continued icy conditions, drifting snow, severe frosts and dangerous wind chill factors across the country over the coming weekend, blaming the recent cold snap on freezing northerly blasts from the Arctic.

It said icy conditions were expected to continue for the next two weeks. Forecasters were warning of similar conditions in France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic and parts of Italy in the days ahead.

As temperatures plummeted to 30-year-lows of -22.3 Celsius (-8.1 Fahrenheit) in some parts of the UK, gas suppliers were reassuring users that there was no immediate likelihood that interruptions to fuel imposed on some businesses could spread to households.

The National Grid, which handles supplies of natural gas across Britain, reported that is was expecting to cope with all-time record demand levels Friday after similar peaks a day earlier that called on 454 million cubic meters of gas.

Despite the high demand -- and technical problems affecting gas flow from Norway -- National Grid spokeswoman Stephanie van Rosse said there was no danger of an interruption to supply.

"We've got plenty coming in," she told CNN. "It's just a matter of balancing it."

One of the companies whose gas was switched off was British Sugar, based in Peterborough, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of London. A spokesman there told CNN they had simply switched to using oil until the gas comes back on.

"It doesn't affect our production, so it's just business as usual," said the spokesman, who asked not to be named. "It's a bit of a non-story, really. We just switch and it's no big problem."

Main airports, including Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton, were continuing to advise passengers to contact airlines before setting out as weather added to disruptions already caused by increased security in the wake of last month's failed U.S. plane bombing.

Cold weather, blamed for 22 deaths countrywide, also shut schools across Britain and led to warnings of hazardous roads as grit and salt supplies wore thin, prompting local authorities to impose rationing.

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said Britain's only two suppliers of salt were operating at capacity as authorities' standard emergency provisions for six days of snowy weather ran dry.

"The two salt producers are working flat-out, 24 hours-a-day, and we have ordered more salt supplies from abroad," he told the BBC.

"But... we will face some difficult decisions about where we are going to prioritize gritting of roads in this exceptionally severe and prolonged cold weather."

CNN's Melissa Gray and Barry Neild contributed to this story

Question: Fuel supplies say no interruptions to gas supplies imminent despite what ?

Question: Eurostar cancels Channel Tunnel train services due to what?

Question: What is there record demand for?

Question: Where did temperatures plummet to 30-year lows ?

Question: What has hit 30-year lows in some parts of the UK?

Question: What caused Eurostar to cancel Channel Tunnel train services?

Question: Who cancels Channel Tunnel train services due to freezing temperatures ?

Question: Are interruptions to gas supplies imminent?

Answer: and technical problems

Answer: winter misery

Answer: gas

Answer: some parts of the UK,

Answer: temperatures

Answer: winter misery

Answer: Eurostar,

Answer: no

Summary:
Eurostar cancels Channel Tunnel train services due to freezing temperatures .
Temperatures plummet to 30-year lows in some parts of the UK .
Fuel supplies say no interruptions to gas supplies imminent despite record demand .


London, England (CNN) -- Eurostar is running tests to try to figure out what caused an "unprecedented" six trains to break down, forcing the company to cancel all services this weekend, a spokeswoman said Sunday. The company announced later that Monday service will be halted as well to allow for more test runs. The cancellation of the England-to-France express train service stranded thousands of passengers on both sides of the English Channel on the weekend before Christmas. "We sincerely regret having to take this decision and we understand how frustrated and disappointed travelers will be," Eurostar said on its Web site Sunday. Five trains with about 2,000 passengers stopped running Friday night inside the Channel Tunnel, also called the Chunnel, which runs between Britain and France. A sixth train broke down Saturday after Eurostar tried to run four trains from London to the continental mainland to prepare for the resumption of normal service. About 700 people were aboard when that train stopped in the Ebbsfleet area of Kent. Eurostar is making an effort to get about 500 people in "emergency situations" out of London, a spokesman said. They are being put on a regular train to the coastal town of Dover, England, taken across the English Channel by ferry and then by bus to Brussels or Paris, said the spokesman, who declined to be named. Eurostar is conducting a series of test trains Sunday "to better understand the problems that have been occurring," the company said. "We are committed to restoring our services as soon as possible but our key priority is the safety and comfort of our customers," the statement said. Those passengers affected by the breakdowns are being offered a full refund, another return ticket and 150 pounds in compensation. About 25,000 people should have been traveling on Saturday, Eurostar said. The company is not taking any new bookings until after Christmas, it announced, and is urging people not to come to the station Sunday. "We strongly recommend that travelers whose journeys are not essential change their tickets for travel on a later date or have their tickets refunded," Eurostar said on its Web site. The trains became stuck in the tunnel because the air inside was much warmer than the air outside the tunnel entrance in France, Eurostar spokeswoman Amelle Mouhaddib said. "It's a bit like taking a bottle of beer out of the fridge into a warm room -- within minutes it's covered in condensation," said Eurostar CEO Richard Brown. "We think that was the principle cause of the electrical failures on the trains." Brown called the number of breakdowns "completely unprecedented." Eurotunnel, which operates the Channel Tunnel, said it evacuated all 1,364 Eurostar passengers who were stuck Friday after the trains "lost traction," but one of the five trains remained in the tunnel and was blocking part of it, according to a Eurotunnel spokeswoman who asked not to be named, in line with policy. The train that broke down Saturday was being towed back to the tunnel entry so passengers could be removed and transferred, Eurostar said. The problems started after 9 p.m. Friday when the first of the five Eurostar trains became stuck. It was helped out of the tunnel by a Eurotunnel locomotive, which took it all the way to London with passengers still on board, the Eurotunnel spokeswoman said. Passengers on the second and third trains to fail were evacuated via the service tunnel to a Eurotunnel train, which brought them to the exit, she said. One of the failed trains was pulled out of the tunnel, but authorities were having difficulty removing the other, she said. The fourth and fifth trains were running close together when they failed, so Eurotunnel locomotives coupled them and either pushed or pulled them to the English side of the tunnel, the spokeswoman said. Passengers from the fifth train boarded the one in front, and Eurotunnel locomotives then towed that train to London, she said. The Chunnel is two tunnels separated by a third and smaller service tunnel, so the train that remained stuck inside did not mean the entire tunnel was blocked

Question: What type of problems have been occurring?

Question: According to Eurostar, how many people in London need help?

Question: What is the consequence of the cancellation of England-to-France express train service?

Question: When is Eurostar taking new bookings?

Question: What service was cancelled?

Question: When will Eurostar resume taking new bookings?

Answer: electrical failures

Answer: 500

Answer: stranded thousands of passengers on both sides of the English Channel on the weekend before Christmas.

Answer: after Christmas,

Answer: Eurostar

Answer: after Christmas,

Summary:
Eurostar trying to get about 500 people in "emergency situations" out of London, spokesman says .
Tests Sunday are "to better understand problems that have been occurring," company says .
Eurostar not taking any new bookings until after Christmas, company announced .
Cancellation of England-to-France express train service stranded thousands .


London, England (CNN) -- Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic finally took the stand Monday at the U.N.'s international tribunal at The Hague to defend himself against genocide charges stemming from the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict.

For CNN's Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson, the 64 year-old was as defiant and unrepentant as the man he recalled meeting outside Sarajevo in 1993-94, as Bosnian-Serb forces shelled the city.

Karadzic, who faces 11 charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide during the war, told the tribunal the Serb cause is "just and holy," and dismissed as myths two of the worst atrocities of a conflict that claimed 100,000 lives -- the three-year siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre in 1995.

He even claimed that the image of the Muslims as victims was untrue and that they were the first to attack. Their fighters "had blood up to their shoulders," he said.

"I will defend that nation of ours and their cause that is just and holy," he said in his defiant opening statement. The aim of the "Muslim plotters," he added, was "100 percent power, as it was in the Ottoman Empire."

"This is reminiscent of those days," said Robertson, who reported from the Bosnian capital during the war. "These were the exact same justifications: 'we're the ones that had been under attack, we're the ones being wronged.'

"It's very telling that he's not trying to address specific issues, such as the Srebrenica massacre and such like, which are going to be the main parts of the prosecution.

"Many Bosnian-Serbs watching this will feel that he's doing the right thing because Serbs have a history of feeling wrongly done to."

He said some still think back to their nationalist past and only identify with themselves through that, which is incompatible with the direction modern Europe is taking. "They're trying to return to a kind of Serb nationalist heyday, which is akin to the Taliban taking Muslims, if you will, back centuries."

Karadzic is the most senior figure to stand trial since the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, who died of a heart attack in 2006 before a verdict was reached.

According to Robertson, the trial might offer a crumb of comfort to some victims but it will stir up a great deal of emotion and anger to many Bosnian-Muslims who lost relatives or their homes.

"When you listen to Karadzic's description of the situation in Bosnia during this period it belies the fact that Bosnian-Serbs went through and ethnically-cleansed people from their towns," he said.

"There were towns and villages where no Muslims were left. Any towns or villages the Serbs couldn't get into they just surrounded and poured on machine-gun fire and rockets. This trial is going to bring all this out again."

During the siege of Sarajevo, which lasted 44 months, Karadzic was in Pale, a mountain-top village to the south-west of the capital which became the Bosnian-Serb headquarters.

Down below, Sarajevo was like a goldfish bowl surrounded on all sides by Bosnian-Serb soldiers who had dug in and were shooting civilians indiscriminately with machine guns, sniper rifles and mortars. "These were men in uniform with weapons taken from the former Yugoslav national army acting on clear instructions," said Robertson.

"It's hard to get an idea of what a siege is like in modern Europe. But imagine a city where you can't leave, get out to buy eggs, apples or fuel for your car. Equally nothing can come in.

"The encirclement of Sarajevo was so tight that the only way in or out for Bosnians was a hand-built tunnel they dug under the U.N.-run airport runway. A man couldn't stand upright in the tunnel.

"Telephone lines were non-existent, while electricity and water supplies were often cut for weeks on end."

On one occasion, while buying fuel in Serb-

Question: Who faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity?

Question: Who said at The Hague that the Serb cause is "just and holy"?

Question: Who was accused of responsibility for the massacre?

Question: Who faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity?

Question: Where is the international tribunal located?

Answer: Radovan Karadzic

Answer: Karadzic,

Answer: Radovan Karadzic

Answer: Radovan Karadzic

Answer: The Hague

Summary:
Radovan Karadzic faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity .
Charges stem partly from 1995 mass killing of Muslim men in Bosnian town of Srebrenica .
Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb president at the time, accused of responsibility for the massacre .
He told international tribunal at The Hague that the Serb cause is "just and holy"


London, England (CNN) -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he would have taken the decision to remove Saddam Hussein even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

In an excerpt from a BBC interview to be aired Sunday, Blair said: "I would still have thought it right to remove him. I mean obviously you would have had to use and deploy different arguments, about the nature of the threat."

Blair, who left office in 2007 and now serves as a special envoy to the Middle East, will be questioned next year at an inquiry into Britain's role in the 2003 conflict.

At the time of the conflict the British government based its decision to go to war on evidence, contained within a dossier it published in September 2002, that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) ready to deploy within 45 minutes.

But critics of the war claim the Bush administration had decided to remove the Iraqi dictator by force by the end of 2002 and that Blair was aware of this and had offered his support.

The current inquiry is not a court of law, so it cannot find anyone criminally responsible or even apportion blame. But inquiry members will be able to judge the legality of the conflict.

Despite doubts about Iraq's WMDs, Blair was defiant about the need for regime change in Baghdad for the sake of peace in the region. He told the BBC: "I can't really think we'd be better with him and his two sons still in charge, but it's incredibly difficult and I totally understand.

"That's why I sympathize with the people who were against [the war] for perfectly good reasons and are against it now, but for me, you know, in the end I had to take the decision.

"It was the notion of him as a threat to the region, of which the development of WMD was obviously one. He used chemical weapons on his own people, so this was obviously the thing that was uppermost in my mind."

Last month, Blair denied a claims that Peter Goldsmith, Britain's Attorney General at the time of the Iraq war, was "bullied" into declaring that the invasion was legal.

According to reports in the British media, Goldsmith warned Blair the invasion was a serious breach of international law in an "uncompromising letter" in July 2002, eight months before the campaign.

In an interview with CNN, the former premier refuted the claim but accepted his reputation had been called into question many times over Iraq. "Over the years I've answered questions time and time again about it [the invasion] and am happy to do so again," he said.

"It was an important decision, and it was a momentous decision in terms of your country and in terms of mine.

"But one of the things you learn as leader of a country is that you have the responsibility to take decisions. Some of those decisions are difficult decisions and some are very controversial... sometimes they can be very bitter, very difficult. That's part of being a leader."

Britain has already held four hearings about the Iraq war. But because all were held before the end of 2004 -- so close to the start of the war -- they were hampered by limited information, political analyst Glen Rangwala of Cambridge University told CNN.

"They didn't manage to achieve anything like a comprehensive understanding of the paths that led the UK to support the United States in the invasion," he said. "This will be the first to look at political decision-making that led to the British invasion of 2003, with the potential to tell a full story."

Britain's first two inquiries were held by government committees in 2003.

The House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs examined whether Britain's Foreign Office gave accurate and complete information to Parliament in the run-up to the war. It found the government exerted no improper influence on the drafting of the dossier given to Parliament on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

The Intelligence and

Question: what do critics say

Question: Who faces a British Inquiry into the Country's role in the 2003 conflict?

Question: Who tells BBC it was right to remove Saddam Hussein from Iraq?

Question: what did britain base its decision to go to war on?

Question: who is tony blair?

Question: what has blair said

Answer: claim the Bush administration had decided to remove the Iraqi dictator by force by the end of

Answer: Tony Blair

Answer: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair

Answer: published in September 2002, that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) ready to deploy within 45 minutes.

Answer: Former British Prime Minister

Answer: he would have taken the decision

Summary:
Former British PM Tony Blair tells BBC it was right to remove Saddam Hussein, sons from Iraq .
Blair faces a British inquiry into the country's role in the 2003 conflict .
Britain based its decision to go to war on evidence Saddam had weapons of mass destruction .
Critics argue Blair government had exaggerated evidence to justify war on Iraq .


London, England (CNN) -- Formula 1 will continue to take place in Britain for the next 17 years after a deal was struck between Silverstone's owners and the sport's chief Bernie Ecclestone. Monday's announcement by the track's owners means the oldest venue on the F1 calendar keeps its place. Silverstone's comeback took place despite rival track Donington Park being awarded the contract to host the British Grand Prix from 2010. However, that circuit lost out after failing to secure the $200 million needed to fund redevelopment plans. That had led to fears Ecclestone would look to move the race abroad. Silverstone managing director Richard Phillips told the Press Association: "We've always had five-year deals and never been able to get the investment we needed to redevelop. "But 17 years gives us the ability to invest and move forward. We've always had the belief the British Grand Prix was an important cornerstone of Formula One but, with Bernie, you're never quite sure. Phillips described the deal as "peace in our time" between the circuit's owners, the British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC), and Ecclestone. "The relationship with Formula One Management has been improving," added Phillips. "There's a good working relationship with him now and we don't have any issues." Applauding the negotiating team, BRDC president and 1996 F1 world champion Damon Hill told the Press Association: "It's not easy to enter into an agreement of this magnitude. It's a big commitment. "But the BRDC felt we wanted this relationship to continue, and we were prepared to back the negotiating team, with the level of risk satisfactory for the deal to go ahead. "This announcement is tremendous news. It really does cement Silverstone as a motor sport venue and is incredibly satisfying for the BRDC to cement its relationship with F1."

Question: Will Formula 1 continue in Britain?

Question: What will continue in britain after deal?

Question: Which is the oldest race on the F1 calendar?

Question: Where was the British Grand Prix supposed to be held?

Question: Who was to host British Grand Prix?

Answer: to take place in

Answer: Formula 1

Answer: Formula 1

Answer: Donington Park

Answer: Donington Park

Summary:
Formula 1 will continue in Britain after deal between Silverstone and sport's chief Bernie Ecclestone .
Announcement by the track's owners means the oldest race on the F1 calendar keeps its place .
Donington was to host British Grand Prix from 2010 but failed to secure $200 million for redevelopment .


London, England (CNN) -- I didn't need to read the findings of a recent Australian research study to know that most women who live with their mates have more body fat than those who don't.

For 10 years, researchers studied nearly 6,500 women, age 18 to 23, and found, according to one of the study's authors, Dr. Wendy J. Brown, that "Women with no partner and no baby averaged 11 pounds over 10 years. With a partner and no baby they gained about 15 pounds, and if they had a partner and a baby they gained 20 pounds." (The findings appear in the February issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.)

Researchers can speculate on the reasons for this, but it's not news to me.

Of the thousands of women I've met who are desperately seeking to reshape their bodies, almost all are living with -- or just moved away from -- a partner.

While I have heard many voices, their story is the same: They lust, then love. With lust comes starvation; with love, over-consumption and under-exercise. Their love transforms from the physical to the emotional, and this usually happens after they decide to live together.

But once they lift their heads above the fog of love, they look down to find that their butts are sagging, bellies are bulging and thighs have taken on interesting new shapes!

Come to think of it, many of the men who knock on my door looking for their abdominal muscles also deteriorated soon after moving in with their mates.

Think about your man. Does he have the same waistline measurement as when you first signed the lease or mortgage papers? Probably not. In fact, it probably got even worse for both of you after your first child, didn't it? (The new Australian research references an earlier study that showed an increase in obesity in men once they'd had children.)

Like the smokers I know, the overwhelming majority of whom hate to smoke, many women develop unhealthy patterns (like snacking on junk food at home) that lead to unhealthy bodies, which lead to a seriously unhealthy lack of self-esteem. We become "less desirable," a phrase I hear far too often. Once we arrive at this place, the frantic search begins.

Many of us will do anything to recover what was once our youthful body. Sadly, many waste time and money on fad diets, pills and potions. They end up doing the yo-yo thing, torturing their bodies through obsessive experimentation with an endless list of exercise programs, almost all of which fail them, because the will to really change behavior is not yet there.

So, what can we do?

First, we must think about the quality and standards of our everyday behavior more than the end result. If we can just focus on gradual improvement of our diet and our exercise programs, we will likely regain our healthier, slimmer form. But more important, we will also build our self-respect.

So, taking intelligent steps (i.e., coming up with a rational workout plan or shopping for fresher and healthier foods and eating them, not impulse snacks), carrying the steps out consistently -- more frequently and for a longer duration -- will have a huge net benefit on our bottoms and our bottom line: love.

Next, we should include our mates in our process. In my experience, for example, couples who work out together have greater success in achieving their health and weight loss goals. They also seem to get along much better and stay together longer. Transform your personal physical development time into "date time," doing something as simple as taking regular after-dinner walks together.

Finally, cut back, but don't cut out the fun stuff. When we are consistent with our diet and exercise programs, there is no need for maniacal starvation. We don't need to sit at the dinner table with a radish on our plate, while our children and mates enjoy full meals. A healthy diet should not be

Question:
What happens when people partner?
what causes the fitness habits

Answer: they gained about 15 pounds,

Answer: unhealthy patterns

Summary:
Trainer Tracy Anderson not surprised study says women with partners gain weight .
When people partner, she says, they get lax in eating, fitness habits .
Sticking to rational diet, exercise plan and including mate key to staying slim, she says .
Anderson: Moving in together? Start fitness program now .


London, England (CNN) -- If the location is anything to go by, then the omens are promising. Denmark's capital city, Copenhagen -- host to the U.N. climate summit which starts today -- is already one of the greenest cities in Europe. With over 300 kilometers of cycle lanes it is estimated that around 40 percent of the 1.2 population travel to work on a bicycle. And visitors to the city are encouraged to join in by making use of the network of city bikes for a deposit of just 20 DKK ($4). The influence of two wheels has extended into Yuletide this year, as cyclists in City Hall Square are generating the electricity powering the lights on the Christmas tree. It's just one of hundreds of activities and events which Copenhageners have organized to coincide with the 11-day U.N. summit taking place at the Bella Center in the Orestad district in the southeast of the city. The opening of the summit marks the end of an exhaustive planning period by the city. Preparations at the Bella Center began two years ago. The finishing touches began eight weeks ago. "It is, by far, the largest conference we have ever held and the largest political conference in Europe," the Bella Center press manager, Lars Lemche told CNN. "If numbers continue to grow, it will be the biggest political meeting the U.N. has ever held," he said. The center has hosted big events before -- a European Union summit in 2002 and the 2006 MTV European Music Awards -- but the U.N. summit makes them look like a tea party. "A conference is 36 hours. This is 11 days," Lemche said. The Bella Center has had to extend its floor space to 77,000 square meters -- the size of 11 football pitches -- to accommodate all delegates and 1000 staff will be on hand throughout. Numbers are expected to peak at around 18,000 in the second week when 100 heads of state arrive for the high-level political negotiations. This Herculean effort of planning is being backed up by a raft of green initiatives. Outside the conference center solar-powered streetlights are helping light the car parks. A wind turbine is helping power the lights indoors. Inside the conference center delegates will eat from a menu that is 65 percent organic and drink water that has come out of a tap rather than a bottle. Pens provided will be made from recycled plastic, and even the carpets are biodegradable. In a bid to offset the considerable carbon dioxide emissions - estimated to be 40,000 tons -- generated by the summit, organizers are funding the replacement of polluting brick factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh with 20 new efficient ones. Despite the disruption, Copenhageners have gone about their daily business as usual. Jason Heppenstall, Editor of The Copenhagen Post, a weekly English language newspaper told CNN: "There hasn't been much of a build up until the last few days. Until about two weeks ago it's not been talked about a lot in the press and maybe a month ago half the people in Denmark didn't know there was going to be a conference," he told CNN. People are starting to notice changes now, and the mood among Copenhageners is positive, apart from the locals living near the Bella Center and whose lives have been disrupted by all the security arrangements, Heppenstall said. The concrete barriers and the perimeter fence erected to protect the Bella Center have been one of the more obvious signs of security in the city. And now that the conference has started, 6000 officers will be on duty during the conference. Niels-Otto Fisker, communications advisor to the Danish national police commissioner, told CNN: "It is the single greatest operation that the Danish police have undertaken. Police are being drafted in from all over the country, and shifts are being extended from eight to 12-16 hours." In all, the security operations are costing the Danish government an estimated $122 million. Last week, police unveiled a 22-ton vehicle armed with a water canon which will be used if trouble flares during the conference. The only confrontations in

Question: What is one of the greenest cities in Europe?

Question: What is the biggest event in Denmark?

Question: What is the greenest city in Europe?

Question: What is the biggest political event Denmark has hosted?

Question: What building does the event take place in?

Question: When is The U.N. climate summit?

Answer: capital city, Copenhagen

Answer: U.N. summit

Answer: Copenhagen

Answer: U.N. climate summit

Answer: Bella Center

Answer: today

Summary:
Danish capital, Copenhagen, one of the greenest cities in Europe .
U.N. climate summit is biggest political event Denmark has hosted .
Copenhagen aims to be carbon neutral by 2025 .


London, England (CNN) -- Irish football officials have lodged an official complaint with world ruling body FIFA after Thierry Henry confessed that he handled the ball in the build-up to the goal which sent France to next summer's World Cup. Television cameras showed Henry guiding the ball with his hand twice, before William Gallas scored from his resulting cross to give "Les Bleus" a narrow win in the two-legged World Cup play-off against the Republic of Ireland. "I will be honest. It was a handball but I am not the referee," the Barcelona striker told reporters after the match in Paris. The Irish Justice Ministry confirmed to CNN that Dermot Ahern had asked the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) to demand a replay in the interests of fair play. "Thierry Henry has admitted handling the ball, claims he told the ref he handled it. Millions of people worldwide saw it was a blatant double handball -- not to mention a double offside -- and we should put the powers that be in the cozy world of FIFA on the spot and demand a replay," Ahern said in a statement sent to CNN. "They probably won't grant it as we are minnows in world football but let's put them on the spot. It's the least we owe the thousands of devastated young fans around the country. Otherwise if that result remains it reinforces the view that if you cheat you will win." The FAI later confirmed that it had taken the matter to FIFA. "I really believe the integrity of the game has been questioned last night," chief executive John Delaney told reporters. "The governing body of world football have to step up to the plate and accede to our call for a replay." Delaney said the FAI had also written to the French football federation. "They need to look at themselves in this situation. Henry is their captain and a wonderful footballer, but does he want to be like Diego Maradona and his legacy to be this handball, this goal that got them to the World Cup in an unjust manner? If we had qualified in this manner, I wouldn't be happy," he said. "It is up to the people who govern the game now. Every time I go to a FIFA congress I hear about fair play and integrity. This was a defining game with the whole world watching, and if FIFA believe in fair play and integrity, this is their opportunity to step forward." The FAI has argued that there is a precedent for the result to be struck out, following FIFA's ruling that Uzbekistan had to replay a play-off against Bahrain  for the 2006 World Cup in Germany after the referee made a mistake in awarding a penalty. "The Football Association of Ireland is hoping that FIFA and its disciplinary committee will, on behalf of football fans worldwide, act in a similar fashion so that the standards of fair play and integrity can be protected," the FAI said. FIFA confirmed it had received the Irish request for a replay, but gave no timescale on a decision. However, it said that under its regulations the referee's decision cannot be changed. "Law 5 states that the decisions of the referee regarding facts connected with play, including whether or not a goal is scored and the result of the match, are final," it said. "The referee may only change a decision on realising that it is incorrect or, at his discretion, on the advice of an assistant referee or the fourth official, provided that he has not restarted play or terminated the match." Irish captain Richard Dunne, who spoke to Henry on the final whistle, said he felt cheated by the goal. "He admitted he handled it, but it doesn't make me feel any better because we are not going to the World Cup finals," the defender said. "FIFA will probably be happy. Yet again the big decisions have gone for the bigger team." Football's international governing body had faced criticism from several

Question: What did FAI ask of French counterparts?

Question: Who did Republic of Ireland lodge official complaints with?

Question: Who lodged the complaint with FIFA?

Question: What does the camera show?

Question: Did FAI wrote to French counterparts about the issue with Ireland game?

Answer: demand a replay in the interests of fair play.

Answer: FIFA

Answer: Irish football officials

Answer: Henry guiding the ball with his hand twice,

Answer: the

Summary:
NEW: Republic of Ireland officials lodge official complaint with world ruling body FIFA .
NEW: FAI also writes to French counterparts asking for World Cup play-off to be replayed .
Cameras showed France's Thierry Henry guiding ball with his hand twice, before William Gallas scored .
Ex-France player David Ginola said Henry was only doing his job for his country and should not be blamed .


London, England (CNN) -- It may run contrary to the conventional image of a sport obsessed with the latest technological improvement but, from Stockholm to Shanghai, players are turning back the clock to take part in the latest craze -- hickory golf. The game, which involves using 19th century wooden-shafted clubs, has proved a hit as national championships in the United States, Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Sweden and Finland have blossomed. Companies too have been attracted to the format as a way of motivating staff. "Golfers love a challenge," says Gavin Bottrell, who runs hickory golf days in Britain. "There's a saying about modern golf clubs that you can buy any shot out of the shop. Playing with hickory makes people think more about their swing and be clever about their shots." Hickory clubs were used widely until the 1930s, when manufacturers turned to more modern materials for construction. However, despite their lesser performance, the attraction of dressing up in old-fashioned golfing garb and hacking around 18 holes with mashies, niblicks and cleeks -- the evocative names given to the clubs used by Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen and Henry Cotton -- has endured. The format has a huge following in the U.S. where devotees gather at historic courses to play an "authentic" round of golf. Hampton Munsey, who organizes the U.S. Hickory Open in Morganton, North Carolina, says the size of the field has almost doubled since the event was first held in 2008. This year's tournament already has entrants from Sweden and Germany, with players' ages ranging from 20 to 70. "The camaraderie is almost as important as the game itself," says Munsey, a member of the Society of Hickory Golfers. "People feel a certain level of pride at being able to play with the old clubs and do well with them." Bottrell, a university researcher, has been buying and selling hickory clubs since 1995. He now has 60 full sets, which he rents out to companies as a package for $934. Recently, he has noticed an increase in interest from abroad, with amateur golfers from Germany, South Korea and Australia all wanting their own slice of hickory history. But Bottrell's profit margins are nothing compared to one Scottish collector. In April last year, Edinburgh antiques dealer John Dixon sold 7,000 clubs to a Chinese entrepreneur for $193,500. The load has since been shipped to China in bundles of 20. "I think he is tapping into a growing market over there. New golf courses are opening in China all the time," says Dixon. "If they are building so many courses they need the merchandise and the memorabilia to go with it." At Bottrell's hickory golf days, participants try to enter the spirit of the era by dressing up in knickerbockers, neckties, flat caps and braces. "They usually raid local charity shops and come up with some kind of outfit," he said. "They sometimes look like they've stepped out of a pantomime. There's quite a lot of confusion as to what golfers were wearing in the early 1900s."

Question: How many hickory clubs did the chinese business pay for?

Question: What is the age range of people participating in the U.S. Hickory Open?

Question: How much did the Chinese business man pay?

Question: What did a Chinese man buy?

Question: What is being revived?

Answer: 7,000

Answer: 20 to 70.

Answer: $193,500.

Answer: 7,000 clubs

Answer: hickory golf.

Summary:
Hickory golf is enjoying a revival in all corners of the world .
Companies in the UK are paying up to $934 to hire hickory clubs for corporate team-building days .
The U.S. Hickory Open draws entrants from Europe and Asia with ages ranging from 20 to 70 .
Last year, a Chinese businessman paid $193,500 for 7,000 hickory clubs .


London, England (CNN) -- Katie Piper had everything going for her -- a blossoming career, a wonderful life and a beautiful face. But that all changed after a horrific acid attack in March 2008 destroyed everything as she knew it.

The young model and television presenter, who was 24 years old at the time, was leaving her apartment in a London suburb when she was attacked by a stranger waiting for her with a cup of sulfuric acid.

Stefan Sylvestre threw the cup of corrosive liquid on Piper, burning the skin on her face, neck, chest and hands. She was also left blinded in one eye.

Sylvestre was asked by Piper's former boyfriend, Danny Lynch, to throw the acid on her face because she ended their short relationship.

To make matters worse, two days before the attack, Piper was raped by Lynch in a London hotel room after ending the partnership.

"It wasn't a random attack and there was a motive if you like," Piper told CNN's Becky Anderson on Connect the World.

Meanwhile Piper's parents were called by the police to tell them what had happened. "I can remember going 'not her face, please not her face'," Piper's mother Diane wrote on The Katie Piper Foundation web site.

"I knew if anything happened to her face as far as she was concerned it would be the end of everything."

Piper spent nearly two months in hospital and was placed in an induced coma for 10 days.

The attack also severely damaged Piper's throat and she was forced to be fed through a tube in her stomach.

Today, Piper now wears a special plastic pressure mask for 23 hours a day, in an effort to flatten her scars.

"You can see looking at me that it physically changed my appearance, but it goes a lot deeper than that."

"It changed my life as I know it -- it changed my career, it changed my relationships with people.

Lynch was found guilty of inciting the acid attack in October 2008 and subsequently convicted on the rape charge in April 2009. He was given two life sentences, and will serve at least 16 years in jail.

Sylvestre received a 12-year sentence for throwing the acid.

With her attackers behind bars, Piper is determined to get her life back on track and rebuild what she can.

"Time was a great healer and I've managed to not get my old life back, but I can  rebuild. And I think I've stayed focused and determined."

"It was an attack with the intent to destroy me, and I decided that it wouldn't destroy me and that I would still have a life. I try to stay positive."

Piper has told her story around the world and has started the Katie Piper Foundation to help raise money for burns victims across the UK.

Since the attack Piper has made remarkable progress.

Surgeons took the drastic measure to remove the skin from Piper's entire face and use a skin substitute called Matriderm to re-build the foundations before grafting skin from her back and buttock onto her face -- it's the first operation of its kind to be done in one operation, according to Piper's Web site.

Piper plans to continue her work raising money for burn victims and to help spread the message that there is life after difficult challenges.

"I think it's important to try and set yourself many goals -- try to take each day as it comes," Piper said.

"I think there's a lot of strength that can be gathered from support."

Question: what type of acid was used in the attack?

Question: What was thrown at her?

Question: When was Piper attacked?

Question: What kind of acid was used?

Question: What was thrown at Piper?

Question: What was thrown in Piper's face?

Question: What areas of her body were burnt in the attack?

Answer: sulfuric

Answer: cup of sulfuric acid.

Answer: March 2008

Answer: sulfuric

Answer: sulfuric acid.

Answer: sulfuric acid.

Answer: face, neck, chest

Summary:
A cup of acid was thrown onto Katie Piper's face in March 2008 .
She received severe burns to her face, chest, neck and hands .
Highly corrosive sulfuric acid was used in the attack .
Piper is slowly getting her life back on track after nearly two years of recovery .


London, England (CNN) -- Kraft's fresh bid for suffered a double blow Tuesday as the improved offer was dismissed by the British candy company and criticized by billionaire investor Warren Buffett who controls an influential stake in the U.S. food giant. Buffett said he had voted against Kraft's plan to issue new shares as part of a cash and stock offer worth approximately $16 billion, warning it would hurt shareholders, Fortune reported. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway company owns 138 million Kraft shares, making it the largest shareholder in the foodmaker with a 9.4 percent stake. But in a statement, he warned Kraft's move for Cadbury risked undervaluing Kraft stock. "Kraft stock, at its current price of $27, is a very expensive 'currency' to be used in an acquisition," Buffett said. "In 2007, in fact, Kraft spent $3.6 billion to repurchase shares at about $33 per share, presumably because the directors and management thought the shares to be worth more." Earlier, Illinois-based Kraft said it would use the proceeds from the sale of its U.S. pizza business to Nestle to increase the cash element of its Cadbury offer. Under Kraft's offer of a partial cash alternative, Cadbury shareholders could receive cash as well as Kraft shares if they accept Kraft's deal. "Kraft Foods is doing this because of the desire expressed by some Cadbury security holders to have a greater proportion of the offer in cash," Kraft said in a statement. The maker of Jell-O, Cool Whip, Oreo cookies and Kraft Macaroni & Cheese also extended the Cadbury offer to February 2. The original bid had expired Tuesday. Cadbury, which rejected Kraft's previous two deals, rejected the new offer Tuesday. "Kraft has once again missed the point," a Cadbury spokesman told CNN. "Despite this tinkering, the Kraft offer remains unchanged and derisory, with less than half the consideration in cash." There had been rumors that Swiss firm Nestle, which already has a chocolate and confectionery unit, would step in and make its own offer for Cadbury. But Nestle put an end to those rumors Tuesday by issuing a statement saying it had no intention to make an offer for the British company. Instead, Nestle said it had bought Kraft's frozen pizza business in the United States and Canada for $3.7 billion. The unit includes brands like DiGiorno, Tombstone, and California Pizza Kitchen. "The acquisition brings leadership in the frozen pizza category, where Nestle only had a minor presence until now, and builds on Nestle's existing pizza know-how and operations in Europe," Nestle said in a statement Tuesday. "It is a natural fit with Nestle's focus on delivering convenient, premium, wholesome and nutritious frozen food for consumers around the world." Nestle already had a presence in American frozen food aisles with ready-meal brands like Stouffer's, Lean Cuisine, and Hot Pockets. The proceeds from the sale allow Kraft to offer more cash to Cadbury shareholders -- an additional 60 pence (96 cents) per share, Kraft said. Kraft originally offered Cadbury shareholders 300 pence ($4.81) and 0.26 Kraft shares for each share of Cadbury they own. Kraft said it will announce more detailed terms by January 19.

Question: against who voted Warren Buffett?

Question: Who extends deadline in takeover bid for Cadbury?

Question: who reject the offer?

Question: Which company wants to take over Cadbury?

Question: Who voted against Cadbury offer?

Question: Which company wants to buy U.S. pizza business?

Question: Which way did Buffet vote in the bid for Cadbury?

Answer: Kraft's

Answer: "Kraft Foods

Answer: Warren Buffett

Answer: Kraft's

Answer: Buffett

Answer: Nestle

Answer: against

Summary:
Kraft raises offer, extends deadline in takeover bid for Cadbury .
Kraft shareholder Warren Buffett says he voted against Cadbury offer .
Illinois company sells U.S. pizza business to Nestle to fund revised offer .
UK candy maker Cadbury rejects offer, says terms remain "unchanged, derisory"


London, England (CNN) -- Like many people, widow Penny Lally plans to be buried alongside her family. But in her case, that includes a menagerie of family pets.

Her husband, John, who died of cancer three years ago at the age of 64, is already buried with their horse Super Sam, Blot the cat, Muppet the dog, and even Brian the bird.

"I often tell people that John has a canary singing in his ear, a cat purring at his feet, a dog at his side and a horse to ride on when he likes," Lally said. "I know some people might find this strange, but I loved my pets and wanted them all to be close to me and my husband and to each other."

Lally, 66, runs a pet crematorium and woodland burial place in Penwith, Cornwall, in southwestern England. She has buried more than 30 owners alongside their animals and has over 100 more plots reserved for pets and their owners, she said.

The idea of joint burials was first suggested to her by an elderly neighbor who died at the age of 77, a year before John's death, she said.

"Mrs. Winchcombe had seven cats and wanted to be buried with all of them when she died. It was certainly an unusual request," Lally said.

"We had to apply for permission to extend our license to burying humans as well as animals, but it was wonderful that we could carry out her last wishes."

Since then, Lally has seen an increasing number of pet owners in the UK seeking joint burials.

There are currently only half a dozen cemeteries in the UK that allow pets to be buried in the same plot as their owners, but in January, Lincolnshire council became the latest authority to grant planning permission for a joint site.

"I think there has been more interest recently because people are starting to realize it is possible," Lally said.

One of her customers is animal lover Carole Mundy, 54, who has reserved a plot for herself and her husband Robert next to their 17-year-old golden retriever, Dylan, who was buried at Penwith in 2008.

"I know it isn't conventional, but I'm so sick of people saying that 'it was just a dog or a cat,'" Mundy said. "Animals give us unconditional love and I absolutely adore my pets. If people want to call me kooky I don't care."

The UK regards itself as a nation of animal lovers, so perhaps it is not surprising that there has been an increase in joint burials, but the practice is also on the rise in the United States.

"There has been a lot of interest from the public, who are asking funeral homes if they can have their pets buried with them," said Robert Fells of the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association in Virginia.

"It's still a relatively new concept, so whether it's a fad or an emerging trend, I'm not sure, but it's definitely on the rise," he said.

"We are seeing an increase in public interest," said Roberta Knauf, director of Hillcrest-Flynn Funeral Home in Pennsylvania. "The joint burial concept started in 2006, when a few people were interested -- but last year we had close to 70 joint burials in our cemetery."

In fact, the practice of people being buried with pets isn't new. It dates far back into British history when Anglo-Saxon nobles were buried with their possessions, which included their horses.

Even further back, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt would be buried with their mummified cats, dogs and monkeys, which they believed shared an afterlife with humans.

But after centuries of affiliation with the pagan gods of Egypt and Rome, pet rituals found little tolerance in the new Christian era.

"The more Christianity became institutionalized, the more animal practices were discouraged as it was accepted that humans were the only beings with souls," said Mary Thurston, a Texas-

Question: People and their pets can be laid to rest together at cemetery where?

Question: What did an anthropologist say about the practice

Question: How many plots have been reserved?

Question: What can be laid to rest with people in England

Question: How many people are already buried with pets?

Question: How many people have so far been buried togther

Answer: woodland burial place in Penwith, Cornwall,

Answer: "The more Christianity became institutionalized, the more animal

Answer: over 100 more

Answer: family pets.

Answer: more than 30

Answer: 30

Summary:
People and their pets can be laid to rest together at cemetery in England .
Owner: More than 30 people already buried with pets; 100 more plots reserved .
Future customer: "I'm so sick of people saying that 'it was just a dog or a cat'"
Anthropologist: Very old practice fell out when Christianity became institutionalized .


London, England (CNN) -- London police said Friday they are investigating a car accident in which Prince Andrew reportedly struck a police officer while driving into Buckingham Palace.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police did not name anyone involved in the incident, but Buckingham Palace confirmed Prince Andrew was the driver of the car.

It happened as the policeman tried to move two Japanese tourists out of the way of Andrew's 4x4 car at the palace, the BBC reported. The officer hurt his arm in the incident and complained to his superiors, the BBC said.

"It was a minor incident and the police are looking into it," said a palace spokesman, who by custom is not named.

Police refused to confirm any details of the incident, including when it allegedly happened. The BBC quoted a police spokesman as saying the officer's injuries were "minor."

The prince, who is a week shy of his 50th birthday, lives at Royal Lodge in Windsor, just west of London.

Prince Andrew is Queen Elizabeth's second son after Prince Charles and is also called the Duke of York. He served as a helicopter pilot in the Royal Navy for 22 years and is currently Britain's special representative for international trade and investment.

British papers reported last year that the prince bought a 200,000-pound ($312,400) Bentley Arnage, which joined his existing limited-edition Aston Martin Virage V8 Volante.

Question:
What does police spokesman say?
What does the Police spokesman say?
Whe officers injuries were what?
Who is the Queen's second son?
Who is Queen's second son?
What had police tried to do?
Who tried to move two tourists?

Answer: did not name anyone involved in the incident, but Buckingham Palace confirmed Prince Andrew was the driver of the car.

Answer: they are investigating a car accident

Answer: "minor."

Answer: Prince Andrew

Answer: Prince Andrew

Answer: move two Japanese tourists out of the way

Answer: policeman

Summary:
Policeman had tried to move two tourists out of the way of Andrew's car .
Police spokesman as saying the officer's injuries were "minor"
Andrew is Queen's second son after Prince Charles and is also called the Duke of York .


London, England (CNN) -- News International announced plans Friday to charge for access to The Times and The Sunday Times Web sites starting in June.

The publisher said both British newspapers will launch new Web sites in early May and offer a free trial period to registered customers.

Starting in June, each site will charge £1 ($1.48) for a day's access or £2 ($2.96) for a week's subscription, News International said.

The newspapers are currently available free on a combined site, www.timesonline.co.uk, but they will have separate sites starting in May. Subscribers will have access to both sites, News International said.

"At a defining moment for journalism, this is a crucial step towards making the business of news an economically exciting proposition," said Rebekah Brooks, chief executive at News International.

"We are proud of our journalism and unashamed to say that we believe it has value."

Would you pay to read your news on the web?

The only other major British newspaper currently charging for online content is the Financial Times, which charges a basic rate of £3.29 ($4.90) a week for a year-long subscription. Users can view up to 10 online articles for free each month, but they must register.

In its Alphaville blog, the Financial Times said "this experiment will be closely watched by the embattled media industry." The paper's digital media correspondent Tim Bradshaw wrote there are already doubts about the success of the paid-for plan.

"The wide availability of free news online has led many to question whether paywalls can attract substantial numbers of customers," Bradshaw wrote. "In the UK, newspapers face online competition from the BBC, which earlier this month pledged to curtail the scope of its Web sites."

Brooks, of News International, said the company expects to attract a growing base of customers with the online subscriptions.

She also indicated the plan could be extended to cover the company's other two British titles, tabloids The Sun and News of the World.

"This is just the start," Brooks said.

Sunday Times Editor John Witherow said the planned subscription price will be a bargain, costing about the same as a cup of coffee.

Comments on the story in the Media section of The Guardian's Web site -- which is free -- were mixed.

"Bye bye to the Times then," wrote a user named rocketracer. "This goes against the basic principle of the internet which is about increasing access to information not restricting it."

Another user called jodro wrote, "Much as it pains me to say it, like everyone I like things for free, but some kind of Internet payment structure is the only way to rescue quality journalism and an independent press that can counterbalance the increasing powers that technological developments hand to governments worldwide."

Last year Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of News International's parent company News Corp., said the current free access business model favored by most content providers was flawed.

"We are now in the midst of an epochal debate over the value of content and it is clear to many newspapers that the current model is malfunctioning," he said.

Murdoch said the experience of the News Corp.-owned Wall Street Journal had proved that charging for content could be made to work. He said 360,000 people had downloaded an iPhone WSJ application in three weeks. Users would soon be made to pay "handsomely" for accessing WSJ content, he added.

The media tycoon has also repeatedly threatened to pull his company's news Web sites from Google and put all company sites that are currently free behind a pay wall.

Google strengthens news content walls

His international newspaper empire includes the New York Post, the News International stable of UK titles including the Sun and the Times, and a cluster of Australian papers including the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun.

His comments come with the U.S. newspaper industry in a state of crisis amid plunging advertising revenues and falling circulations with several historic titles already going out of business.

Question: Who hinted that the plan could be extended?

Question: Which newspapers are launching new websites?

Question: Who will receive a free trial?

Question: When will the newspapers launch new web sites?

Question: What other UK newspaper charges for its online content?

Question: What paper is charging for online content?

Question: Who is Rupert Murdoch?

Question: When will the new websites be launched?

Answer: Brooks,

Answer: and The Sunday Times

Answer: registered customers.

Answer: early May

Answer: the Financial Times,

Answer: The Times

Answer: chairman and CEO of News International's parent company News Corp.,

Answer: early May

Summary:
Both newspapers will launch new Web sites in early May, offering free trial to users .
Rupert Murdoch: Free access business model favored by most content providers "flawed"
Financial Times only other major UK newspaper currently charging for online content .
News International hinted plan could be extended to cover company's other UK titles .


London, England (CNN) -- Ozzy Osbourne, the former front man of rock group Black Sabbath, says that after decades of living a life of drugs and sex, he's lucky to be alive today.

Speaking to CNN's Max Foster, Osbourne described in detail how he often played a dangerous game when it came to using drugs and having promiscuous sex.

"With the sexually transmitted disease, what I was doing is playing Russian roulette with sex," says Osbourne.

"With the drugs, it nearly killed me on a daily basis -- I did a lot of heavy drug taking for a long time and I survived it by the grace of God.

"You might not be as lucky as me -- I'm living on borrowed time."

In his autobiography, "I am Ozzy," Osbourne discusses his past, his family and his time with Black Sabbath.

Answering a viewer's question on whether he realized his power to change people's lives, Osbourne replied with shock.

"When you're on the inside looking, you don't see it that way," Osbourne said.

"But I suppose you're right. I do -- I do have the power to change people's lives."

What does he remember about Black Sabbath?

"We were just four kids from Aston in Birmingham who had a good idea and it worked out fine."

Osbourne also discussed the current state of the music industry and the "manufacturing" of artists today.

"It's completely different -- they're manufactured people now... like ice cream.

"Every now and then somebody comes out and I really like them -- I really like this Lady Gaga."

Question: What is the name of the autobiography?

Question: For what reason does Ossy Ozbourne say he is lucky to be alive

Question: The rock star played roulette with what?

Question: what does he do

Question: What does Osbourne say he played russian roulette with

Question: Can you name the band that Osbourne was the former front man of

Question: Who said he is lucky to be alive?

Answer: "I am Ozzy,"

Answer: decades of living a life of drugs and sex,

Answer: sex,"

Answer: front man of rock group Black Sabbath,

Answer: sex,"

Answer: Black Sabbath,

Answer: Ozzy Osbourne,

Summary:
Ozzy Osbourne says he is lucky to be alive after years of drug and alcohol abuse .
During a CNN interview, Osbourne says he played Russian roulette with sex .
Osbourne has a new autobiography out called "I am Ozzy"
Osbourne was the former front man for Black Sabbath .


London, England (CNN) -- Passengers on Monday vented their fury at Eurostar management as train services between England and France were canceled for a third day, leaving thousands stranded. The cross-Channel operator said a partial train service would resume Tuesday but that was little comfort to many. "It's shameful, they gave you 36,000 incorrect pieces of information to get us to leave," one passenger named Catherine told Agence France-Presse. "Each time you speak to someone from Eurostar, they tell you something different." Catherine was one of roughly 75,000 passengers stranded on either side of the English Channel on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. "We have to do everything ourselves, we have to pay for everything and hope we will be reimbursed, but some could not get the money together," 27-year-old Deborah told AFP. Tell us about wintry weather near you Government officials in both France and the United Kingdom also criticized Eurostar. British transport minister Sadiq Khan called the experience terrible for thousands of passengers. "I am angry that passengers have still not been told what is going on and I have told Eurostar this morning that they must tell the public immediately what their plans are," Khan said. "This has been a terrible experience for thousands of passengers, both those stranded on the trains and at the stations." French President Nicolas Sarkozy called the disruptions "unacceptable." There was some good news though for stranded passengers, as Eurostar said they would resume a partial service Tuesday. "We're planning on running at two-thirds our normal service tomorrow and we'll take it from there," a Eurostar spokesman told CNN. Eurostar runs the high-speed rail service directly linking London to Paris and Brussels via the Channel Tunnel. A later statement from Eurostar said tests on winter weather devices on trains had been successful and that if further trials went well Monday the operator hoped to have 26,000 seats available. However, Nicolas Petrovic, Eurostar chief operation officer said a full service would not resume until after Christmas, according to AFP. Eurostar rail services remained suspended for a third day on Monday as the operator worked to fix a fault that caused a series of breakdowns blamed on winter weather. Following a series of test runs on Sunday, the company said work was under way to "enhance the snow screens and snow shields in the power cars of the trains." "We now understand the cause of the disruption over the weekend and have identified the modifications that are required. As we suspected, the acute weather conditions in northern France have caused the disruption," Eurostar said. "We sincerely regret having to take this decision and we understand how frustrated and disappointed travelers will be, particularly those who have been waiting to travel for the last two days," Eurostar said. Five trains with about 2,000 passengers stopped running Friday night inside the tunnel. A sixth train broke down Saturday in Kent, southern England, with about 700 people aboard. "We were prisoners in this train for like 18 hours," one passenger told CNN. The trains that broke down in the tunnel malfunctioned because the air inside was warmer than that outside the tunnel entrance in France, Eurostar spokeswoman Amelle Mouhaddib said. "It's a bit like taking a bottle of beer out of the fridge into a warm room -- within minutes it's covered in condensation," said Eurostar CEO Richard Brown. "We think that was the principle cause of the electrical failures on the trains." Brown called the number of breakdowns "completely unprecedented." Passengers affected by the breakdowns are being offered a full refund, another return ticket and £150 in compensation. The company is not taking any new bookings until after Christmas. The Channel Tunnel is two tunnels separated by a third and smaller service tunnel, so the trains that remained stuck inside did not mean the entire tunnel was blocked. It is 50.5 kilometers (31.4 miles) long, 38 kilometers (23 miles) of which are underwater. CNN's

Question: What has been cancelled for the third day?

Question: how many standed

Question: What does the company hope to resume?

Question: How many were stranded in England and France?

Question: what does the company hope for

Question: what is the reason for the cancelation

Question: are there going to be further delays

Answer: train services

Answer: 75,000 passengers

Answer: a partial train service

Answer: 75,000 passengers

Answer: on running at two-thirds our normal service tomorrow

Answer: the acute weather conditions in northern France

Answer: canceled for a third day,

Summary:
Passengers angry as train services between England and France canceled for third day .
Thousands stranded in England and France after services under English Channel suspended since breakdowns Friday .
Company hopes to resume two-thirds service Tuesday .
Work under way to "enhance snow screens, snow shields in power cars"


London, England (CNN) -- Police in London have reached a settlement with the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, whom officers shot dead in 2005, mistaking him for a suicide bomber. The police offered "a further unreserved apology" for the death of de Menezes in 2005, plus an undisclosed compensation package, the police and the de Menezes family said in a joint statement. "All litigation between them arising out of the tragic death of Jean Charles de Menezes has been resolved," the statement added. De Menezes was killed on a London Underground train weeks after four suicide bombers struck on the London transport system on July 7, 2005. The controversial shooting of the unarmed Brazilian man sparked a number of investigations, including one that found police acted illegally. A jury found in 2007 that London's Metropolitan Police Service broke health and safety laws in the shooting. It did not examine the cause of death. Jurors at a 2008 inquest found that the police who shot de Menezes did not shout a warning before firing at him. They also found that de Menezes did not advance toward armed officers on the subway train, which would have given them a reason to shoot. But the coroner at the inquest, who acted as the judge, had told the jury members they could not return a verdict of unlawful killing. They returned an open verdict in the case, meaning the jury was unable to establish a cause of death. De Menezes' family called the proceedings a "whitewash" because jurors were not allowed to consider a verdict of unlawful killing. De Menezes was killed July 22, 2005, a day after four failed bombings aboard the London transit system. Two weeks earlier, four suicide bombers blew apart three London subway trains and a bus, killing 52 people and wounding 977. The city was on edge as police sought the four failed bombers. Officers staking out a home in south London saw and followed de Menezes, 27, believing he was one of the suspects. They trailed him as he traveled on a bus and into a subway station, where they chased him onto the platform and into a train, and shot him dead. The Independent Police Complaints Commission concluded in 2007 that de Menezes was innocent of anything that might have justified police action. "We made a most terrible mistake," Acting Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson said at the time, adding police needed to learn from the incident. "I am sorry." The shooting was one of several issues that led to the resignation last year of Police Commissioner Ian Blair. CNN's Melissa Gray in London contributed to this report.

Question: who did police shoot dead in 2005?

Question: where was he killed

Question: who did they think he was?

Question: who was mistaken

Question: What made them think de Menezes was a suicide bomber?

Question: who was shot dead in 2005

Answer: de Menezes,

Answer: De Menezes was killed on a London Underground train

Answer: suicide bomber.

Answer: Police in London

Answer: Officers staking out a home in south London saw and followed

Answer: de Menezes,

Summary:
UK police reach settlement with family of Jean Charles de Menezes, whom police shot dead in 2005 .
Officers mistook de Menezes for suicide bomber .
He was killed on Tube train weeks after four suicide bombers struck on London transport system .


London, England (CNN) -- Procter & Gamble is recalling Vicks Sinex nasal spray in the United States, Britain and Germany after finding it contained bacteria, the company said. Procter & Gamble said it announced the voluntary recall after finding the bacteria in a small amount of product made at a plant in Germany. There have been no reports of illness from the bacteria, but it could cause serious infections for people with weakened immune systems or those with chronic lung conditions such as cystic fibrosis, Procter & Gamble said late Thursday. The bacteria poses little risk to healthy people, the company said. Cincinnati, Ohio-based Procter & Gamble said it detected the problem during routine quality control at the plant. Analysis so far shows the problem is limited to a single batch of raw material mixture involving three lots of product, which were sold only in the three countries affected by the recall, the company said. In the United States, the recalled product is Vicks Sinex Vapospray 12-hour Decongestant Ultra Fine Mist with lot number 9239028831. In Britain, the company is recalling Vicks Sinex Micromist Aqueous Nasal Spray with lot number 9224028832. In Germany, the recalled product is Wick Sinex Schnupfenspray Dosiersystem with lot number 9224028833. All recalled products are in the 15-milliliter size. Lot numbers are listed on the outer carton and the bottle, the company said. Consumers with the product should discard it, and they may call the company for a replacement coupon or refund, the company said. More information is at the company's Web site, www.pg.com.

Question: What can the bacteria cause?

Question: What product was recalled?

Question: What was recalled?

Question: What is the name of the company involved?

Question: What poses little risk to healthy people?

Question: What was a small amount of product found to contain?

Question: what was found in the spray?

Answer: serious infections

Answer: Vicks Sinex nasal spray

Answer: Vicks Sinex nasal spray

Answer: Procter & Gamble

Answer: The bacteria

Answer: bacteria

Answer: contained bacteria,

Summary:
Vicks spray recalled after small amount of product found to contain bacteria .
Bacteria poses little risk to healthy people, Proctor and Gamble says .
No reports of illness from the bacteria, it says .