Via BBC News Caster Semenya will not be stripped of her World Championships 800m gold medal whatever the outcome of her gender test results, BBC Sport understands. The testing process is unlikely to be concluded for two weeks but the IAAF – the governing body of world athletics – says Semenya can keep her medal. Continue Reading……. Well that’s a relief!
Via BBC News South African runner Caster Semenya, whose gender was queried by athletics officials, has defended her looks and taken part in a makeover in a magazine. Ms Semenya, the 800m world champion, posed for the cover of South Africa’s You magazine. “I am who I am and I am proud of myself,” the 18-year-old said. “I’d like to dress up more often and wear dresses but I never get the chance,” she said as she was photographed in several outfits. […]
The mother of 800 metre world champion Caster Semenya has come forward with a birth certificate to prove that Semenya was born a female. However the world governing body for track & field sports (IAAF) is still questioning Semenya’s gender and are currently conducting genetic tests.
Via BBC News New world 800m champion Caster Semenya has been asked to take a gender test, according to athletics’ governing body. The International Association of Athletics Federations says it demanded the test three weeks ago amid fears she should not be able to run as a woman. IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said the “extremely complex, difficult” test results were not due for several weeks. The South African athletics federation insist it is “completely sure” that the 18-year-old Semenya is a female. […]
Uri Geller is really starting to get under my skin and seriously needs to return to bending spoons for a living. The vulture was at it again this morning sharing his “thoughts” on yet another rumour involving the late Michael Jackson. Over the weekend Michael’s good friend child actor Mark Lester who is also now desperate to cash in, told the down market rag The News of The World that he believes he is the biological father of Michael’s daughter Paris (click […]
Via BBC News Mark Lester, a former child star and long-time friend of Michael Jackson, says he could be the father of one of the late pop star’s children. Speaking to the News Of The World, Lester said he had donated sperm to the King of Pop and was willing to take a paternity test. “I believe Paris could be my daughter,” he said, and noted she bore a physical resemblance to his daughter, Harriet. Calls to Lester’s home in Cheltenham were […]
Via BBC News High-profile websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter have been targeted by hackers in what is described as a “massively co-ordinated attack”. Other sites such as the blogging platform Live Journal were also reportedly targeted. Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook’s service was “degraded”, according to the firms. Google said it had defended its sites and was now working with the other firms to investigate the attack. Continue Reading…. Twitter is still experiencing difficulties and I […]
Via Black Voices A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday’s edition of the journal Nature Medicine. The finding “highlights the continuing need to watch closely for the emergence for new HIV variants, particularly in western central […]
Via BBC News Israeli police are searching for a gunman who killed two people and wounded at least 10 at a gay support centre in the city of Tel Aviv. Gay leaders say it is Israel’s worst hate crime against the community. Most of the victims were gay teenagers who were meeting at the centre on Nachmani street when the gunman entered and started firing indiscriminately. Police have ordered the temporary closure of the city’s gay clubs and are releasing few details […]
Rodell Vereen Via The Metro A man was filmed having sex with a horse after the owner installed CCTV cameras in the stable – because the same man had previously been convicted of molesting the same horse. Rodell Vereen, of South Carolina, was apprehended after the animal’s owner caught the act on videotape, then staked out the stable and held him at gunpoint. Vereen pleaded guilty last year to having sex with the same horse, and was sentenced to probation and placed […]
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