For president:GOP's Gingrich running

Former House speaker disclosed his bid on Twitter and Facebook on Monday and urged followers to tune into Fox News on Wednesday.

"I will be on to talk about my run for president of the United States," Gingrich wrote after spending a year or more publicly laying the groundwork for a GOP presidential candidacy. "I have been humbled by all the encouragement you have given me to run.

This time, it looks like it’s for real – former Speaker Newt Gingrich will officially announce his plans to run for president on Wednesday, his spokesman confirmed this morning.

How much do his missteps so far – like back in March, when he said he would announce but then didn’t – hurt his campaign? How does he fare against the current field of Republican presidential candidates?

Gingrich was once the face of the Republican Party, battling President Clinton and leading his party to power in the mid-1990s. But he stepped down in 1998, after embarrassing mid-term election losses, and he has since led a variety of businesses and nonprofits.

He is seen as one of the intellectual leaders of the party, but also has several hurdles to overcome.

Gingrich will also give an interview to Fox News that night, and is planning his first speech as a presidential candidate on Friday at a Republican convention in his home state of Georgia, according to spokesman Rick Tyler. He’ll also head to Eureka, Ill. – which happens to be Ronald Reagan’s hometown -- on Saturday to deliver the commencement address at Eureka College.

He’ll travel next week to Iowa, a crucial state that will kick-off the nominating process next year.

The then-Georgia congressman became a household name when he led the Republican takeover of the House in 1994, though he would step down amid criticism four years later. In the years since he has cast himself as a thought leader in the Republican Party, and has recently been raising money and laying the groundwork for a presidential run.

Gingrich will enter a wide-open Republican field in which he is one of only five potential candidates who has polled in the double digits. The others are Donald Trump, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney; only Romney is seen as a sure entrant into the race.

Chaz Bono

Chaz Salvatore Bono (born Chastity Sun Bono; March 4, 1969) is an American transgender advocate, writer, actor, and musician. Bono is the only child that American entertainers Sonny and Cher begot together, though each begot other children. Bono is a female to male transgendered person.

In 1995, after several years of being outed as lesbian by the tabloid press, Bono publicly declared herself as such in a cover story in a leading American gay monthly magazine, The Advocate. Bono went on to discuss the process of coming out to oneself and to others in two books. Family Outing: A Guide to the Coming Out Process for Gays, Lesbians, and Their Families (1998) includes the author's coming out account. The memoir, The End of Innocence (2003) discusses the author's outing, music career, and partner Joan's death from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Around age 39, Bono underwent female-to-male gender transition. A two-part Entertainment Tonight feature in June 2009 explained that Bono's transition had started a year before. In May 2010, Bono legally changed gender and name. Bono has made a documentary about his life, which OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will debut.

In mid-2008, Bono began undergoing a physical and social gender transition from female to male. This was confirmed in June 2009 by his publicist, who identified Bono's preferred name as Chaz Bono and said, "It is Chaz's hope that his choice to transition will open the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue, just as his coming out did. GLAAD and the Empowering Spirits Foundation were quick to offer praise and support for the announcement. Bono's legal transition was completed on May 7, 2010, when a California court granted his request for a gender and name change. Bono made a documentary film about his sex change that premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network acquired the rights to the documentary and will debut it later in 2011.

In April 1995, Bono came out as lesbian in an interview with The Advocate, a national gay and lesbian magazine. The 1998 book Family Outing detailed how Bono's coming out "catapulted me into a political role that has transformed my life, providing me with affirmation as a lesbian, as a woman, and as an individual. In the same book, Bono reported that Cher, who was both a gay icon and ally to LGBT communities, was quite uncomfortable with the news at first, and "went ballistic before coming to terms with it: "By August 1996, one year after I came out publicly, my mother had progressed so far that she agreed to 'come out' herself on the cover of The Advocate as the proud mother of a lesbian daughter. Cher has since become an outspoken LGBT rights activist.

Chaz Bono: Sex change

After years of struggling with his sexuality, Chaz Bono opened up about transitioning to a man on today's "Oprah."

Life was always so much more difficult," he told Oprah Winfrey about his former life as Chastity Bono. "It also felt like my body was literally betraying me."

"The boobs threw you off," Winfrey said. "Ugh," Bono grunted. "You have this image of yourself and all of a sudden your body does the exact opposite of what you feel.

Added Bono, 42, who announced his momentous decision in June 2009, "We had to really almost re-learn how to communicate and how to be around each other."

"Things had changed," said the author. "Just me saying the same thing that I would have before with a deeper voice and more of a presence."

We were talking about how we were going to break the story, and it broke without us, because my voice started changing," Bono, 42, recently said of his transitioning process, achieved through surgery and hormone treatments. "People notice things and they call the tabloids.

"I couldn't do it privately," he continued. "So I could either have done it (and people would have known,) and other people would have written about it, and it wouldn't be the truth. Or I could do it myself and try to help people and put a face on an issue people don't understand.

The singer said in 2009, when Chaz Bono revealed his decision to undergo a sex change, that she respected "the courage it takes to go through this transition in the glare of public scrutiny and although I may not understand I will strive to be understanding. The one thing that will never change is my abiding love for my child."

Cher said in a November 2010 interview with Vanity Fair that she sometimes mistakenly refers to Chaz Bono as a woman.

She and Sonny Bono were married between 1964 and 1975. Sonny Bono, a singer-turned-politician, died on Jan. 5, 1998 at age 62 after a skiing accident.

Cher also has a son, Elijah, with ex-husband and musician Gregg Allman. Sonny Bono has three other children, including two with his fourth and most recent wife, Mary.

"Becoming Chaz," is set to debut on Winfrey's OWN network on Tuesday at 9 p.m. Check out a promo below.

Legal action Twitter user

User had attracted over 2,000 followers within minutes of setting up the account and by 10 am on Monday this had risen to 26,000.

Among the celebrities named was Jemima Khan, who has already issued vehement denials about using a super-injunction to prevent publication of nude photo's of her and the TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson.

Her first tweet at the weekend ran: "OMG - Rumour that I have a super injunction preventing publication of "intimate" photos of me and Jeremy Clarkson. NOT TRUE!"

Then: "I have no super injunction and I had dinner with Jeremy and his wife last night. Twitter, Stop!" On Monday morning, she tweeted again: "I've woken up trapped in a bloody nightmare.

People are knowingly breaking a criminal law,” says Duncan Lamont, a partner at Charles Russel 'they are talking of super-injunctions so this person knows they are talking about prohibited material.

And ultimately this comes back to newspapers. One reason that the Twitter story has been so high-profile is that several newspapers - including the Mail and the Telegraph - have been campaigning against super-injunctions.

Phil Hall, former editor of the News of the World, now a media adviser says: "The whole campaign is about newspapers winning the right to publish sensational stories that sell their products.

Critics of super-injunctions have claimed they are impotent due to the leaking of information anonymously online or by websites which don't abide by British law.

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Jodie Foster

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, film director, producer as well as being a former child actress.

Foster began acting in commercials at three years of age, and her first significant role came in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen prostitute Iris for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Also that year, she starred in the cult film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her fourth Academy Award nomination for playing a hermit in Nell (1994). Other popular films include Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007), and Nim's Island (2008).

Foster's films have spanned a wide variety of genres, from family films to horror. In addition to her two Academy Awards she has won two BAFTA Awards for three films, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a People's Choice Award, and has received two Emmy nominations.

Target of fan obsession

John Hinckley, Jr. became obsessed with Foster after watching Taxi Driver a number of times, and stalked her while she attended Yale, sending her love letters to her campus mail box and even talking to her on the phone. On March 30, 1981, he attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan (shooting and wounding Reagan and three others) and claimed his motive was to impress Foster, then a Yale freshman. The media stormed the Yale campus in April "like a cavalry invasion", and followed Foster relentlessly.

Another man, Edward Richardson, followed Foster around Yale and planned to shoot her, but decided against it because she "was too pretty. This all caused intense discomfort to Foster and reporters have constantly been warned in advance not to bring up the subject in front of her, as she has been known to walk out of interviews if Hinckley's name is even mentioned

Personal life

Foster has two older sisters, Lucinda "Cindy" Foster (b. 1954), Constance "Connie" Foster (b. 1955), and an older brother, Lucius Fisher "Buddy" Foster (b. 1957). During the filming of both Taxi Driver and The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Connie was her stand-in. Buddy Foster had his own career for several years appearing in regular spots on television shows such as Hondo and Mayberry, R.F.D. Foster and her brother have been estranged for many years. In 1997, he wrote a book titled Foster Child in which he stated "I have always assumed Jodie was gay or bisexual. In the book, he writes that she was conceived in her father's office three years after their parents divorced when their mother went to him for child support. He also claims that her name was changed from "Alicia" to "Jodie" because it was a code "Jo D" for their mother's partner, Josephina Dominguez. Jodie Foster called the book:

“ A cheap cry for attention and money filled with hazy recollections, fantasies and borrowed press releases. Buddy has done nothing but break our mother's heart his whole life.

Foster is intensely private about certain aspects of her personal life, notably her sexual orientation, which has been the subject of speculation.

Foster has two sons: Charles Foster (b. July 20, 1998) and Christopher "Kit" Foster (b. September 29, 2001). Foster gave birth to both children, but has not revealed the identity of the children's father(s).

Career

Child star

Foster made nearly 50 film and television appearances before she attended college. She began her career at age three as a Coppertone Girl in a television commercial and debuted as a television actress in a 1968 episode of Mayberry R.F.D. She was managed by her mother. In 1969, she appeared in an episode of Gunsmoke, where she was credited as "Jody Foster". She is also credited as "Jodi Foster" for her 1970 Daniel Boone role and credited as "Jodie Foster" for her 1970 Adam-12 role. Although not a regular on The Courtship of Eddie's Father, she appeared from time to time as Eddie's friend Joey Kelly. She made her film debut in the 1970 TV movie Menace on the Mountain and was featured as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone in 1976. As a child, Foster made a number of Disney movies, including Napoleon and Samantha (1972) and One Little Indian (1973), and she continued to star in Disney films into her early teens. On television, she appeared in an episode of The Partridge Family titled "The Eleven-Year Itch", co-starred with Christopher Connelly in the 1974 TV series Paper Moon and alongside Martin Sheen in the 1976 cult film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. As a teenager, Foster made several appearances on the French pop music circuit as a singer. Commenting on her years as a child actress, which she describes as an "actor's career", Foster has said that "it was very clear to me at a young age that I had to fight for my life and that if I didn't, my life would get gobbled up and taken away from me. She hosted Saturday Night Live at age 14, making her the youngest person to host at that time until Drew Barrymore hosted at the age of seven. She also said,

"I think all of us when we look back on our childhood, we always think of it as somebody else. It's just a completely different place. But I was lucky to be around in the '70s and to really be making movies in the '70s with some great filmmakers – the most exciting time, for me, in American Cinema. I learned a lot from some very interesting artists — and I learned a lot about the business at a young age, because, for whatever reason, I was paying attention; so it was kind of invaluable in my career.

Early life

Foster was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Evelyn "Brandy" Ella (née Almond) and Lucius Fisher Foster III. Her father, a decorated Air Force lieutenant-colonel turned real estate broker, came from a wealthy background and left his wife before Jodie was born. Evelyn supported Jodie by working as a film producer. After appearing as a child in several commercials, Foster made her first credited TV appearance on The Doris Day Show. Her first film role was in the 1970 television movie Menace on the Mountain, which was followed by several Disney productions.

Foster attended a French-language prep school, the Lycée Français de Los Angeles, and graduated in 1980 as the valedictorian. She frequently stayed and worked in France as a teenager, and she still speaks the language fluently without accent. She attended Yale University, and was a member of Calhoun College and Manuscript Society. She graduated magna cum laude, earning a bachelor's degree in literature in 1985. She was scheduled to graduate in 1984 but the shooting of then-President Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley, Jr., in which Hinckley's fascination with Foster created unwanted adverse publicity for her, caused her to take a semester's leave of absence from Yale. She later gave the Class Day speech at her alma mater in 1994 and received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the university in 1997.

Adult career

Unlike other child stars such as Shirley Temple or Tatum O'Neal, Foster successfully made the transition to adult roles, but it was not without initial difficulty, as several of the films in her early adult career were financially unsuccessful. These included The Hotel New Hampshire, Five Corners, and Stealing Home. She had to audition for her role in The Accused. She won the part and the first of her two Golden Globes and Academy Awards and a nomination for a BAFTA Award as Best Actress for her role as a rape survivor. She starred as FBI trainee Clarice Starling in the 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs, for which she won her second Academy Award and Golden Globe, and won her first BAFTA Award for Best Actress. This "sleeper" film marked a breakthrough in her career, grossing nearly $273 million in theaters and becoming her first blockbuster.

Filmography

List of acting credits in film 

Year                         Title                         Role                       Notes

1976 Bugsy Malone Tallulah BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (also for Taxi Driver)

1976 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Rynn Jacobs Saturn Award for Best Actress

1976 Freaky Friday Annabel Andrews Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

1977 Moi, fleur bleue Isabelle Tristan (aka Fleur bleue) aka Stop Calling Me Baby!

1977 Casotto Teresina Fedeli aka Beach House

1977 Candleshoe Casey Brown

1980 Foxes Jeanie Nominated—Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Major Motion Picture

1980 Carny Donna

1982 O'Hara's Wife Barbara O'Hara

1983 Svengali Zoe Alexander

1984 The Hotel New Hampshire Frannie Berry

1984 The Blood of Others Hélène Bertrand aka Le Sang des autres

1986 Mesmerized Victoria Thompson

1987 Five Corners Linda Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female

1987 Siesta Nancy

1988 Stealing Home Katie Chandler

1988 The Accused Sarah Tobias Academy Award for Best Actress

David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama (tied with Sigourney Weaver for Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey and Shirley MacLaine for Madame Sousatzka)

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress

National Board of Review Award for Best Actress

Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

1990 Catchfire Anne Benton aka Backtrack

1991 The Silence of the Lambs Clarice Starling Academy Award for Best Actress

BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress

London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress

New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress

Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress

1991 Little Man Tate Dede Tate

1992 Shadows and Fog Prostitute

1993 Sommersby Laurel Sommersby

1994 Maverick Mrs. Annabelle Bransford

1994 Nell Nell Kellty David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress

Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama

1997 The X-Files Betty (voice) TV series, episode "Never Again"

1997 Contact Dr. Eleanor Arroway Saturn Award for Best Actress

Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama

1998 The Uttmost Herself Documentary

1998 Psycho Woman in background

1999 Anna and the King Anna Leonowens

2002 The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys Sister Assumpta

2002 Panic Room Meg Altman Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress

2002 Tusker Minnie Animated voice over

2003 Abby Singer Herself

2004 A Very Long Engagement Elodie Gordes Un long dimanche de fiançailles

2005 Flightplan Kyle Pratt Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress

2005 Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony Herself Guest appearance in episode 8

2006 Inside Man Madeline White

2007 The Brave One Erica Bain Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama

Nominated—Irish Film Award for Best International Actress

Nominated—St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

2008 Nim's Island Alexandra Rover

2009 The Simpsons Maggie Simpson (voice) TV series, episode: "Four Great Women and a Manicure"

2011 The Beaver Meredith Black Also director

2011 Elysium

2012 Carnage Penelope

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Kate Silverton

Kate Silverton (born 4 August 1970) is an English journalist, currently employed by the BBC.

During a frank and wide-ranging newspaper interview in February 2009, Silverton said "...if this is my year for settling down, it would be nice. On 22 March 2009, it was announced that Silverton had become engaged to Mike Heron, a 41 year old security expert from Hartlepool. The pair met on a course for BBC journalists going to trouble zones, where Heron was an instructor, and became engaged in Rome. The couple were married at Fleet Street's St Bride's Church on Saturday 18 December 2010.

In September 2005, Silverton drew some media attention when her BBC News 24 co-newsreader Philip Hayton, who had worked for the BBC for 37 years, resigned his position six months into a year's contract. The Daily Telegraph, without substantiation and quoting an unnamed 'insider', reported that he turned to Silverton during a break and said "I don't like you. The Daily Mirror quoted another BBC 'insider' as saying that Silverton is "...pushy beyond belief. Behind her big superficial smile she can be a really aggressive, manipulative monster who always gets what she wants. Mr. Hayton merely cited "incompatibility" with Silverton as his reason and when his managers refused to move Silverton to another time slot he left. Silverton was in the peculiar position of having to go through the morning's paper review live on air the morning the story broke, avoiding any discussion of the story and chiding her new co-anchor when he looked to refer to it. Hayton said that he left the BBC "without bitterness or rancour".

However, several figures spoke up for Silverton. Jon Sopel, a fellow BBC News 24 presenter, who was Silverton's co-anchor at News 24 for several months, commented on the incident saying "She's warm and friendly. With Kate, what you see is what you get - she's bright, lively, talented and vivacious. I like and trust her. Yes, she's ambitious... but aren't we all?

Silverton worked for a London-based bank before becoming a journalist. She trained with the BBC working on Look North news before becoming a reporter and presenter at Tyne Tees Television.

She was a panellist on Five's The Wright Stuff, The Heaven and Earth Show, Big Strong Boys and Weekend Breakfast on BBC Radio 5 Live, before joining BBC News.

From 2005 until December 2007, she was the 8.30-11am presenter on BBC News 24 along with colleague Simon McCoy, although she was frequently absent as she was also a regular relief presenter for BBC Breakfast, presenting during some of Sian Williams's maternity leave.

In December 2007, Silverton was named as the presenter of the 8pm News summary - a 90-second round up of the news shown on BBC One, which she presented for two months. She presented the BBC News at One from February to August 2008, whilst main presenter Sophie Raworth was on maternity leave.

In January 2009, Silverton began to present the BBC Weekend News Late Bulletin as a regular presenter. From Monday 23 February 2009, Silverton presented BBC Breakfast with Bill Turnbull, again covering for Sian Williams's maternity leave which finished on 31 August 2009.

During September 2009, she presented and reported for BBC News from Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan. She is now the deputy presenter of the BBC News at One, presenting on Mondays and when main presenter Sophie Raworth cannot.

On 1 April 2008, alongside the historian Dan Snow, she presented live coverage of the celebrations held at RAF Fairford for the 90th Birthday of the Royal Air Force.[citation needed] On 24 August 2008, Silverton presented live coverage of the celebrations of London becoming the 2012 Olympics host city, from The Mall. She presented New Year Live aboard HMS Belfast in London on 31 December 2008 on BBC1 with Nick Knowles.

In October 2008, she presented Big Cat Live for BBC One in October 2008.

Silverton has also appeared as a mentor in the BBC2 series The Speaker in April 2009, offering her advice on good story telling and public speaking.

In May 2009, Silverton presented a documentary called 10 Things You Need to Know About Sleep which looked at different ways to deal with insomnia.

Since January 2010, she has presented the Sunday morning show on BBC Radio 5 Live, running from 9.30am to 11am. The show's format was revamped as part of a general review of the schedules in January 2010. Previously she had stood in for Gabby Logan on the network.

Other opportunities

In February 2008, Silverton revealed in an interview in The Independent that she had been offered the main presenter job for the relaunch of Five News in 2007. She turned it down and the job. She was also linked to replace Fiona Phillips at GMTV in 2008.

Ryan Giggs

Ryan Joseph Giggs OBE (born Ryan Joseph Wilson; 29 November 1973) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays for Manchester United.
Giggs is the most decorated player in English football history, having established himself as a left winger during the 1990s, and continuing in this position well into the 2000s, though he has been increasingly used in a deeper playmaking role in his latter years.
Giggs made his first appearance for the club during the 1990–91 season and has been a regular player since the 1991–92 season. He holds the club record for competitive appearances, and the club record for team trophies won by a player (23).
Since 1992, he has collected 11 Premier League winner's medals, four FA Cup winner's medals, three League Cup winner's medals and two Champions League winner's medals. He has runner-up medals from the Champions League, three FA Cup finals and two League Cup finals, as well as being part of five United teams to have finished second in the league. In recent years, Giggs has captained the team on numerous occasions, particularly in the 2007–08 season when regular captain Gary Neville was ruled out with various injuries.
On 16 May 2009, he became the first footballer to collect 11 top division English league title medals. Giggs was the first player in history to win two consecutive PFA Young Player of the Year awards (1992 and 1993) and is the only player to have played and scored in every season of the Premier League.
Giggs has had a long-lasting domestic and continental career and is the first player in UEFA Champions League history to have scored in 11 successive seasons, on top of being elected into the PFA Team of the Century in 2007, the Premier League Team of the Decade, in 2003, as well as the FA Cup Team of the Century.
He is also the only United player to have played in all 11 Premier League winning teams and the first three League Cup-winning teams. At the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final, held on 21 May 2008, Giggs surpassed Sir Bobby Charlton's record of 758 appearances for Manchester United to become the club's all-time leader in appearances. At international level, Giggs played for the Welsh national team prior to his retirement from international football on 2 June 2007, and was once the youngest player to ever represent his country.
In addition to the many honours Giggs has received within football such as being named in the Football League 100 Legends (the last active player in the list), he was appointed an OBE in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours List, and was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2005, for his services to English Football. He was named as BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2009. On 31 January 2011, Giggs was named Manchester United's greatest ever player by a world wide poll conducted by United's official magazine and website. Sir Alex Ferguson presented him with the award.


Family
Giggs married his long-term partner, Stacey Cooke, in a private ceremony on 7 September 2007.They have two children, both born in Salford: Liberty Beau (known as Libby, born 2003) and Zachary Joseph (known as Zach, born 2006), and live in Worsley, Salford, Greater Manchester.
Activism
In recent years,when Giggs has become a UNICEF representative, launching a campaign in 2002 to prevent landmines from killing children. Giggs visited UNICEF projects in Thailand and told the BBC: "As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine."
Post-playing career
In October 2010, Giggs said he would "probably finish his career here Old Trafford, and that he could not see himself "dropping down leagues and playing at a lesser level." He said he wanted to go into coaching, calling managing Manchester United or Wales, "the two ultimate jobs", and that he was halfway through his UEFA 'A' coaching license.


Records
Ryan Giggs with the Premier League trophy
Has won a record 11 top division English league titles as a player, and only Manchester United player to have winner's medals from all 11 Premier League title wins.
Most Premier League appearances for an outfield player.
Most Premier League assists (accurate records are only available from 2002 onwards).
Only player to have scored in all 19 Premier League campaigns since its inception.
Only player to have scored in eleven consecutive Champions League tournaments (1996–97 to 2006–07) Raúl is the only who has scored in fourteen consecutive Champions League tournaments (1997–98 to 2010–11).
Only Manchester United player to have scored in fifteen different Champions League tournaments.
Most goals by a British player in the Champions League/European Cup proper history, and 14th overall (not including preliminary rounds).
Most appearances by a Manchester United player.
First player to score 100 Premier League goals for Manchester United.
Second midfielder to have scored 100 goals in the Premier League for a single club (first being Matt Le Tissier).
One of four Manchester United players to win two Champions League Medals (others are Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and Wes Brown).
Oldest (37 years, 148 days) player to score in the Champions League, when he scored against Schalke 04 on 26 April 2011.


Endorsements and public image
Giggs has been featured in adverts for Reebok, Sovil Titus, Citizen Watches, Givenchy, Fuji, Patek Phillipe, Quorn Burgers, ITV Digital and Celcom.
According to an article by BBC Sport: "In the early 1990s, Giggs was David Beckham before Beckham was even holding down a place in the United first team. If you put his face on the cover of a football magazine, it guaranteed you the biggest sales of the year. Why? Men would buy it to read about 'the new Best' and girls bought it because they wanted his face all over their bedroom walls. Giggs had the million-pound boot deal (Reebok), the lucrative sponsorship deals in the Far East (Fuji) and the celebrity girlfriends (Dani Behr, Davinia Taylor) at a time when Beckham was being sent on loan to Preston North End."
Giggs has said that he deliberately shunned the media fuss. "Nothing could have prepared me for the limelight I was thrust into at 17," said Giggs. "I was in newspapers, magazines, on TV, and everyone in the street knew me. It was strange for me and I dealt with it by trying not to create a fuss. I've just tried to keep it that way ever since. At the height of his celebrity, Giggs' relationships caused him to change his media approach. Giggs has spoken about this decided shift away from publicity —- a route he seemed destined to take as celebrity pin up —- as occurring sometime in the mid 1990s. "The high-profile relationship I had with the TV presenter Dani Behr was the turning point for me", said Giggs. "Before I knew it, we were being photographed outside my house and cameramen followed us everywhere. It was very uncomfortable. At that point I decided the celebrity lifestyle wasn't for me. Around that time I felt my commercial work was affecting my work, too. I thought 'no, football is my bread and butter. It has to, and always will, come first'", he told the Daily Mirror.

Lib Dems' comment

Norman Lamb’s comment on the Daily Politics about the Lib Dems having become a "human shield" for the government sums up the mood on the Liberal Democrat benches. Lamb went onto wonder whether this was inevitable: "Whether that's inevitably the case for the junior partner I don't know... But we are in this for the long term.

That could be down to Norman Lamb, the Lib Dem's MP and Nick Clegg's advisor.

He's been seen as a coalition loyalist - until a recent furore over the health reforms.

In the same way that Nick Clegg has proven to be the issue in Sheffield, where the Lib Dems were also kicked out, Norman Lamb may have been the issue in North Norfolk.

For this reason, the Liberal Democrats need to start making a positive, "liberal" case for the policies they’re voting through. Comparing themselves to hostages will just make things worse for them.

Super injunctions

England and Wales, a superinjunction (or super-injunction) is a form of gagging order in which the press is prohibited from reporting even the existence of the injunction, or any details of it. An example was the superinjunction raised in September 2009 by Carter-Ruck solicitors on behalf of oil trader Trafigura, prohibiting the reporting of an internal Trafigura report into the 2006 Côte d'Ivoire toxic waste dump scandal. The existence of the superinjunction was only revealed when it was referred to in a parliamentary question which was subsequently circulated on the internet (parliamentary privilege protects statements which would otherwise be held to be in contempt of court). Before it could be challenged in court, the injunction was then varied to permit reporting of the question. By long legal tradition, parliamentary proceedings may be reported without restriction. Parliamentary proceedings are only covered by qualified privilege. Roy Greenslade credits the editor of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, with coining the word "super-injunction" in an article about the Trafigura affair in September 2009.

Another example of the use of a superinjunction was in a libel case in which a plaintiff who claimed he was defamed by family members in a dispute over a multimillion pound family trust obtained anonymity for himself and for his relatives. According to The Guardian, although it is impossible to calculate how many superinjunctions have been issued because of their secrecy, as of March 2011, "as many as 20 have been granted in the UK over the past 18 months.

A "hyper-injunction" is similar but also includes an order that the injunction must not be discussed with members of Parliament or journalists or lawyers. One known hyper-injunction was obtained at the High Court in 2006, preventing its subject from saying that paint used in water tanks on passenger ships can break down and release potentially toxic chemicals. This example became public knowledge in Parliament under parliamentary privilege.

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Twitter focus super-injunctions

Events in the last 24 hours alone, during which Jemima Khan has been forced to deny that she has taken out a super-injunction after thousands of tweets and re-tweets wrongly said the contrary, shows just how out of step the British judiciary and authorities are.

In an age which is fast-becoming defined by the power of internet, judges and Parliament alike risk ignoring the power of the civilian’s voice online at their peril.

Existence of the super-injunction was exposed when it was referred to in a parliamentary question; the principle of parliamentary privilege allows MPs to speak freely without fear of being prosecuted for contempt of court.

While newspapers refrained from reporting the question, Twitter users picked up on the story and eventually Trafigura's legal firm Carter-Ruck withdrew its opposition to the reporting of proceedings.

Twitter has come to prominence once again with the latest round of super-injunctions, as users claim to name the celebrities alleged to have taken out gagging orders.

These latest injunctions have been widely dubbed as 'super', but they are not super-injunctions in the traditional sense – their existence can be revealed and certain details of each case can be reported.

Is there any legal redress? Publishing such details may be regarded as contempt of court and the legal system is starting to get to grips with publication on the web.

Recently, the High Court convicted the Daily Mail and the Sun of contempt of court for publishing on their websites a photograph of a man toting a gun during a criminal trial.

According to the UK Human Rights blog, it was the first such case of contempt relating to an online publication and carried the ominous warning that "instant news requires instant and effective protection for the integrity of a criminal trial.

Only at the end of last week, it came to light that journalism watchdog, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), is looking into regulating journalists’ and newspapers’ Twitter feeds. This is so that it can try and better define what content should be judged on the same legal terms as a newspaper’s editorial content.

With an average of 140 million tweets and re-tweets posted a day, the PCC certainly has a huge job ahead if monitoring media Twitter feeds becomes part of its remit, as do the authorities when they finally wake up to the sheer power of the web.

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Howard Stringer

Sir Howard Stringer (born February 19, 1942) is a Welsh-born American businessman and the chairman, president and CEO of Sony Corporation.

Stringer began work at Sony in May 1997 as president of their US business (Sony Corporation of America). He was made a Sony group executive officer in May 1998.

Since June 2005, he has been chairman and CEO of Sony overseeing the entire businesses of Sony, including its media and electronics subsidiaries such as the Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Financial Holdings. On April 1, 2009, he became president of Sony Corporation and ousted Ryoji Chubachi in what was seen as prelude to broader corporate restructuring. Stringer also serves as executive chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Corporation of America. He has been president of Sony Broadband Entertainment Corporation since March 2000.

Stringer had a 30-year career at CBS, where he was a journalist, producer and senior executive. He served as president of CBS from 1988 to 1995, where he was responsible for all the broadcast activities of its entertainment, news, sports, radio and television stations.

[edit]Highlights of his career at CBS

Executive producer of "CBS Reports" (1976–1981)

Executive producer of "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" (1981–1984)

President of CBS News (1986–1988)

President of CBS, Inc. (1988–1995)

He won nine Emmys at CBS for the following programs: "The Rockefellers", "The Palestinians", "A Tale Of Two Irelands", "The Defense Of The United States", "The Boat People", "The Boston Goes To China", "The Fire Next Door", and "The CIA's Secret Army.

TELE-TV

Sir Howard Stringer left CBS in 1995 to set up TELE-TV, a media and technology company formed by US telecoms Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, and Creative Artists Agency in February 1995. He left two years later to join Sony.

Stringer was born in Cardiff, Wales, the son of Marjorie Mary (née Pook), a Welsh schoolteacher and coal trimmer, and Harry Stringer, an English sergeant in the Royal Air Force. He emigrated to the United States in 1965, and served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. Stringer became a naturalized citizen in 1985 and now holds dual US-UK citizenship. His younger brother, Rob Stringer, is chairman of Sony Music Label Group. In 1978, Stringer married Jennifer A. Kinmond Patterson. They have two children.

He received the U.S. Army Commendation Medal for meritorious achievement while serving in the Republic of Vietnam.

He earned nine Emmys from 1974 to 1976 as a writer, director and producer.

In 1996, he was awarded the First Amendment Leadership Award by the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation.

In 1996, he was also inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame.

In May 1999, he received the UJA-Federation of New York's Steven J. Ross Humanitarian Award.

In November 1999, he was inducted into the Royal Television Society's Welsh Hall of Fame.

On December 31, 1999 he received the title of Knight Bachelor from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

In February 2007, the Museum of Television and Radio awarded him with its Visionary Award for Innovative Leadership in Media and Entertainment.

He has been honored by Lincoln Center, Big Brothers Big Sisters and the New York Hall of Science.

He received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Glamorgan in Wales and University of the Arts London.

In 2000, he received an honorary fellowship from Merton College, Oxford.

In 2001, he received an honorary fellowship from Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.

Ann Curry

Ann Curry (born November 19, 1956) is an American television news journalist and news anchor on NBC's morning television program Today since May 1997 and host of Dateline NBC since May 2005. Along with Lester Holt, she is the primary substitute for Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News.

Curry is a Board Member at the IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation).

Professional career

Curry began her broadcasting career in 1978 as an intern at then, NBC-affiliate, now CBS-affiliate KTVL in Medford, Oregon. There she rose to become the station's first female news reporter. In 1980, Curry moved to NBC-affiliate KGW in Portland, where she was a reporter and anchor.

Four years later, Curry moved to Los Angeles as a reporter for KCBS-TV and received two Emmy Awards while working as a reporter from 1984 to 1990.

In 1990, Curry joined NBC News, first as the NBC News Chicago correspondent then as the anchor of NBC News at Sunrise from 1991 to 1996. During this time, she also served as a substitute anchor and news anchor for the NBC news shows Today and Weekend Today. In May 2005, Curry was named co-anchor of Dateline NBC with Stone Phillips; she remained as the primary anchor when Phillips left in June 2007. She also continues as news anchor at Today, and is the show's second-longest serving news anchor, behind Frank Blair, who served in that capacity from 1953 to 1975. Since September 2007 Curry has been one of the three anchors for TODAY's third hour. She is also a substitute anchor for NBC Nightly News.

Curry has been known at NBC News for anchoring three of the four major broadcasts. She has read the news on The Today Show since March 11, 1997, she has anchored Dateline NBC since 2005, and has been the primary substitute on NBC Nightly News since 2007 after Lester Holt took over weekend editions (Holt had previously been the primary substitute but left that position to become weekend anchor, giving Curry the position). There have even been days when Curry has anchored all three broadcasts in one day. A segment on Today, Ann on the Run, follows Curry around a day where she must read the news on Today, tape Dateline, and fill in live for Brian Williams on Nightly News.

Biography

Curry was born in Guam to Bob Curry, of French, Irish, Dutch descent from Pueblo, Colorado, and Hiroe Nagase, originally from Japan. Her American father, a career Navy man, met her mother during the U.S. occupation of Japan following the Second World War. The U.S. military did not initially allow the marriage, but her father returned to Japan two years later to marry Nagase.

As a child, Curry lived in Japan for several years, attending the Ernest J. King School on the military base in Sasebo, later moving to Ashland, Oregon, where she graduated from Ashland High School. In 1978, she graduated with a BA in Journalism from the University of Oregon.

Curry is married to software executive Brian Ross whom she met in college. They have a daughter, McKenzie, and a son, William Walker Curry Ross (Billy). The family lives in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of New York City.

Awards

Emmy Awards, presented for coverage of the 1987 Los Angeles earthquake; another presented for reporting on the explosion of a San Bernardino gas pipeline, and a third in 2007 for her reporting on NBC Nightly News about the Darfur crisis

Golden Mic (4), presented by Radio & Television News Association of Southern California (RTNA)

Certificate of Excellence, Associated Press

Gracie Award, presented by The Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television

Excellence in Reporting, presented by the NAACP

National Journalism Award, presented by the Asian American Journalists Association, 2003

Pioneer Award, presented by University of Oregon, 2003

Hall of Achievement induction, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication,

Sexiest Newscaster and "Hottest MILF Newscaster" as voted on by readers of Ask Men magazine

Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, presented by PNC Bank for outstanding achievements in mass communications, 2008

Honorary Doctorate in Journalism from Southern Oregon University on 6/5/2010 after giving the commencement address