Lance Armstrong retires from cycling for second time

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has announced he is to retire from cycling for a second time.

The 38-year-old American quit the sport in 2005 before returning last year but he announced last month that 2010 would be the last time he rode the Tour.reported by A PAKISTAN TIMES

Armstrong finished 40 minutes behind winner Alberto Contador in 23rd place.

"This race has been good to me but I can't lie - I'm ready to retire part two," said Armstrong, who crashed on a number of occasions during the race.

"I was just glad that three weeks of suffering is over and I get to go home. I don't have to stress about racing every day.

"I have a lot of happiness, a lot of good memories, just a lot of good times here.

Goalkeeper David James delays Celtic signing talks

England World Cup goalkeeper David James has delayed a visit to Glasgow for possible signing talks with Celtic because of a family issue.

Manager Neil Lennon considers the 39-year-old to be the ideal replacement for Artur Boruc, now at Fiorentina.

Lennon has Pole Lukasz Zaluska and American Dominic Cervi but wants a major figure in goal as he continues to rebuild the team.reported by A PAKISTAN TIMES

James' former club Portsmouth withdrew an offer they made to him in May.

Sunderland manager Steve Bruce confirmed his interest in James on Saturday, giving the veteran the opportunity to continue to play in the Premier League in England.

James made 138 appearances for Pompey and, according to club administrator Andrew Andronikou, wanted to be their player-manager.

However, Steve Cotterill was appointed to the Portsmouth hot seat and the Fratton Park side have decided to withdraw the offer they made to their keeper after he failed to commit his future to them.

E.M.T. Is Arrested in 5 Sexual Assaults in Brooklyn

An emergency medical technician for the Fire Department was arrested in a string of armed sexual assaults dating to 2001, including an attack on an 11-year-old girl July 11 this year, the police said Wednesday.REPORTED BY A PAKISTAN TIMES

The technician, Angus Pascall, 33, was accused of assaulting five women and girls between ages 11 and 22 in Brooklyn. He was captured on Tuesday after the latest victim copied down the license plate number of a car that she was forced into at gunpoint.

“That’s how this case was broken,” Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said.

The woman, 20, was walking in the area of Canarsie on Monday afternoon when the suspect forced her into his car and raped her, the police said. He pushed her out of the vehicle and took off after the attack.
SOURCE:www.nytimes.com

Mel Gibson: Putting the 'Mel' into 'meltdown'

Seasoned wordsmiths have been struggling all week to adequately convey the force of Mel Gibson’s alleged tirades against his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva. The result has been lots of asterisks and a wholesale resort to words like “horrifying” and “monstrous”. Yet as anyone who has heard the tapes will understand, it’s a hopeless task. When Mel lets loose, time stands still. The world wobbles on its axis. The last time anyone witnessed eruptions like these, European airspace had to be shut down.Reported By Pakistan times.

How does he manage it? The quality of the abuse is impressive enough – and the multi-profanity pile-ups are of a truly arresting scale. But it’s the off-script sound effects that give you an idea of just how cross Mel really is: the gasps for breath, the gurglings, and those intriguing “plumph-plumph” noises, presumably as his eyeballs leave and re-enter their sockets.
Sources:www.telegraph.co.uk

'Cyrus' casts the Duplass brothers in a new light

The terms "summer box-office hit" and "the Duplass brothers" have been synonymous since, well, never. Reported By A Pakistan Times

Fraternal writer/directors Jay and Mark are known for ultra-low-budget independent comedies like The Puffy Chair (2005) and Baghead (2008), which played strongly on the festival circuit and in art-house runs but weren't exactly facing down superheroes, vampires and iconic animated toys at the multiplex.

Cyrus has changed that.

The dark comedy stars John C. Reilly as a lonesome loser who unexpectedly wins the heart of Marisa Tomei, only to provoke her intensely clingy and jealous son (Jonah Hill) into a quest to humiliate and destroy him.
Sources: www.usatoday.com

White House Between

A meeting between the two letters followed by subsequent explosion, the Obama administration Seidenberg, June 22, in which, in his capacity as chairman of the Business Roundtable, said administration policies, including telecommunications policy have been creating a hostile environment for investment and employment creation.The the White House is pushing back against claims of House Democrats that President Barack Obama is undermining the prospects for 2010, the distribution of a memorandum written by a senior government official that details what the White House is to keep control of Congress.Reported By Pakistan times

The White House has announced that next Monday is the registration WETA for broadcast on PBS October 20 “A Celebration of Broadway: In Performance at the White House, with performances by major artists from Broadway and new talent presents a selection of American music. The evening will include Nathan Lane, Idina Menzel, Brian d’Arcy James, Audra McDonald, Chad Kimball, Marvin Hamlisch, Karen Olivo, Assata Alston and a group of youths from the joy of movement Dance Center. This is a continuation of “In Performance at the White House” series.

WASHINGTON, DC – On the eve of Obama’s journey to Holland, MI tomorrow for the official inauguration of the Central New Deal, the Department of Energy today released a new report on the economic impact of recovery of investment in advanced batteries and right of vehicles. The report, “Investment Recovery Act: The Transformation of American Transportation Sector,” documents how the funds Recovery Act are matched by private capital to create new jobs, build new plants, adding new production lines, installing charging stations for electric vehicles throughout the country and help build the fledgling domestic industry of electric vehicles from scratch.

Part of the reason I wanted to do is my belief in the need for all news consumers we are healthy – to read and see everything I possibly can – even things that are disagree with – if I can have a rich experience in the career I chose, “Perino said the GW Hatchet in an e-mail.Perino has been an outspoken critic of the Obama administration As a partner of Fox News, where he attacked the positions of president and national security officials during the Gulf oil spill.Chamber said Jarrett asked to be allowed to address their meeting, one of many long hours “American Jobs Summit” on Wednesday morning, hours before the event began. They said that the program was too full to fit her in.
Sources:www.a-pakistannews.com

A Russian Spy Suspect’s Links to the Tech World

Alexey Karetnikov, 23, had worked as an entry-level software tester at Microsoft for less than year, a company spokesman told the Journal. U.S. officials said the suspect entered the country in October 2009. Microsoft would not comment further on the case, but a man by the name of Alexey V Karetnikov lists the software giant as an employer on his Facebook page.Reported By Pakistan Times.

According to the page, Mr. Karetnikov worked in the “software development engineer in test” position at Microsoft. He graduated last year from St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University and previously worked as a senior developer at a company called Neobit, according to the page

News Release - KITV4 Hires Sports Anchor

U.S News: HONOLULU --KITV4 News is proud to announce a new weekend sports reporter/anchor, Jahmai Webster. Webster joins KITV4’s seasoned and accomplished Sports Director Robert Kekaula starting on Aug. 9.Reported By Pakistan Times

Before joining KITV4 News, Webster covered college and high school sports at KRHD/KXXV in Texas. Prior to his job in Texas, Webster worked as an assist at CBS2/KCAL9. During his tenure at CBS2/KCAL9 Webster said he had his most memorable and challenging interview with Kobe Bryant from the Los Angeles Lakers.

Jahmai Webster received his degree in broadcast journalism and a minor in sociology at California State University in Northridge.

Hearst Television Inc., formerly known as Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., is a leading local media company comprising 29 television stations, including KITV and two radio stations. The Company’s television stations reach approximately 18% of U.S. TV households, making it one of America’s largest television station groups. It also owns more than three dozen websites and multicasts more than two dozen digital channels providing news, weather and entertainment programming. Hearst Television is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst Corporation.
Sources: www.kitv.com