Terry denies racist abuse

One of England's biggest soccer stars went on trial Monday, accused of hurling racist abuse at another player during a match last year.

The normally staid chambers of Westminster Magistrates' Court in London got an earful of shockingly foul language as lawyers and witnesses detailed what Chelsea captain John Terry said to Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand in the match.

A lip reader watching a video of the incident told the court what Terry said, including two extremely obscene words.

Terry did not deny directing a barrage of foul language at Ferdinand and referring to him as "black," but he denied engaging in racist abuse.

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Hong Kong actress Jacqueline Law dies from cancer

Hong Kong actress Jacqueline Law dies from pancreatic cancer, announced her stepson Daryl Saturday 30 June. She was 45.

Jacqueline Law dies of cancer at 45

Unable to comment further due to restrictions from his father, Singaporean magnate Liu Chee Ming, who married Jacqueline in 2008 after dating her for 11 years, he could only add, "Please look out for the obituary."

In February, Law held a farewell party for herself with 20 of her friends from Hong Kong, including Sheren Tang, Monica Chan and Kitty Lai. Each of them received a CD with individual messages from their host, urging them not to be sad about her terminal illness. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2010.

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Watch an interesting combination Early Saturday Morning: Two Planets and a Star

Full Story: Yahoo News 19 Nov

If you’re up after midnight early on Saturday morning (Nov. 19), you should be able to see a celestial gathering of a bright star, a bright planet and a rather wide waning crescent moon. Look out towards the east-northeast sky at around 1 a.m. local time, to find a triangle in the sky composed of the three cosmic bodies.

These three cosmic bodies are: 

The star is Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation of Leo, the Lion. The planet in the triangle is Mars, which comes up over the east-northeast horizon shortly before midnight. The moon, as noted, is now a crescent phase, having just passed its last quarter phase earlier this week.  

Once the trio climbs high into the eastern sky in the predawn hours on Saturday, you’ll see that they’ll seem to resemble an isosceles triangle, which has at least two equal sides.

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