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Apple Launch New Network

Apple has launched a social network in an attempt to grab a share of the market from sites such as MySpace.


Ping, as its known, will allow users to build networks of golf playing friends, especially putters.

The executors of the estate of the late Bing Crosby ,however, are attempting to serve a court injunction to stop the launch of the site on the grounds that it flagrantly plagiarizes "Bing", the website set up for fans of the late American crooner, who coincidentally was also a golf fan.

Apple can expect a rush of similar lawsuits from the following - a website devoted to Highland dress ("Fling"), Campanology ("Ding") and , last but not least, Scottish curtain suppliers ("Hing").

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Roberto Carlos Free Kick Explained By Scientists

Physicists have explained one of football's most spectacular goals.


Brazilian Roberto Carlos's 1997 free kick against France curved so sharply that it left goalkeeper Fabian Barthez standing still and looking puzzled.

Now, a study published in the New Journal of Physics suggests that the long-held assumption that the goal was a fantastic fluke is wrong.

A French team of scientists discovered the trajectory of the goal and developed an equation to describe it.

They say it could be repeated if a ball was kicked hard enough, with the appropriate spin and, crucially, the kick was taken sufficiently far from goal.

When asked if they could find a similar explanation for the shot which squirmed out of England keeper Robert Green's hands in the World Cup finals fixture against the USA,  the scientists , however, concluded that either "the player's gloves had been inadvertently exposed to an excessive amount of an oil type substance" or that he "was simply crap".

Breast Implants Up For Grabs

A Venezuelan politician has launched a raffle to help fund his election campaign - and the lucky winner will receive a breast-enlargement operation.

Gustavo Rojas hopes the unusual raffle, with tickets at $6 (£3.90), will help him get elected to the National Assembly on 26 September.

"Some people raffle TVs and we decided to offer this. It's an interesting prize," he told Reuters news agency.

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Shock News For Film Buffs

Film studio and TV programme makers have admitted using make up to change the appearance of actors and actresses.

The shock admission came after a Freedom Of Information request was made by a tabloid newspaper to the Information Commissioner.

Some details will be particularly shocking to film aficionados,  especially the discovery that thousands of pounds worth of make up was used on John Hurt as John Merrick in David Lynch's "Elephant Man". The actor spent 7 hours in make up every day being applied with casts of Merrick's body which had been preserved in the Royal London Hospital.  The film critic Mark Kermode , on hearing the news, claimed that he "had always assumed that the horrific facial deformity portrayed in the film had been achieved through Hurt's mastery of the old English tradition of gurning".

Movie goer Al Albertson, interviewed outside Sid Grauman's Chinese Theatre on LA's Hollywood Boulevard ,visibly slumped at the revelation that the lead character in Peter Bogdanovich's "Mask" was in fact a heavily made up Eric Stolz rather than just a "facially challenged dude" as he'd always been led to believe.

A global petition drawn up by a group called "Defenders of True Values in Film and TV " is being distributed on the world wide web. The group intend to use the petition as the basis of a civil suit against media companies alleging "wilful deception and breach of public trust".

Betting Scam Man Arrested

A man has been arrested after claims of a betting scam surrounding this year's county cricket championship.

Reports have emerged that a tabloid paid a six figure sum to a businessman for correctly predicting that the 2010 championship would be "as boring as ever".

 The man correctly foretold that not only would there be a large number of draws during the course of the season, but also that there would be many occasions when "rain stopped play" as well as a high proportion of supporters falling asleep during particularly uninspiring action.

The businessman is being held on charges of "conspiracy to defraud bookmakers" and "stating the bleeding obvious".

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World Cup Complaints Roll In

The regulator Ofcom has revealed that an error at a control centre led to ITV HD viewers being shown a car advert instead of Steven Gerrard's goal against the USA in the World Cup finals.

823 complaints were received from angry viewers who missed the goal in the group stage fixture on June 12.

And News Just In can, however, reveal that over 3.5 million e mails have also been received from fans complaining that the car advert should have been allowed to stay on screen for the remainder of England's campaign.

Man Arrested at Paris Hilton's Home

Sources are reporting that the man arrested yesterday for allegedly trying to break into Paris Hilton's home in the Hollywood Hills, was in fact trying to break out of the premises.

 And News Just In understands that the "intruder armed with 2 knives" was actually a chef who had recently been employed by the wealthy socialite for an upcoming charity fundraiser to be held in the grounds of Hilton's compound.

It is claimed that the man merely tried to escape from the celebrity's constant babbling about her latest exclusive range of footwear, the next glitzy party she would be attending and how much she had spent on her new pink Bentley 190900.

An agent for the chef claimed that his client had had no alternative but to attempt to leave the mansion as he had feared that his "mental health was being compromised by the incessant yakking".

The alleged perpetrator is now being treated for "severe emotional distress" in Beverley Hills Medical Centre.

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