US remembers 11 September attacks

Remembrance services are to be held in the United States to mark the eighth anniversary of the hijacked plane attacks of 11 September 2001.

Nearly 3,000 people died when the four planes crashed in New York, at the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field.

President Barack Obama will speak at the Pentagon site and Americans have been encouraged to contribute to a national day of service.

US soldiers in Afghanistan completed a 9.11km (5.5 mile) run to mark the day.

'Sacrifices of thousands'

Traditional ceremonies including moments of silence and the reading of the names of the victims will take place at the sites of the attacks.

President Obama will join defence secretary Robert Gates at the Pentagon, where 184 people died, to meet members of victims' families and lay a wreath.

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Semenya tests as 'inter gender'

Tests on South Africa's 800m world champion Caster Semenya are likely to show that she has an inter-gender condition, BBC Sport understands.

Semenya, 18, was asked to take gender tests following her rapid rise to prominence in 2009 and just hours before she won the title in Berlin.

The IAAF has the results but wants them examined before speaking to Semenya.

BBC Sport's Gordon Farquhar said: "It's likely that she has some hermaphroditic or inter-gender condition."

An Australian newspaper has claimed that Semenya is a hermaphrodite - someone who has some or all of the primary sex characteristics of both men and women.

The reports have sparked an angry reaction in South Africa.

Sports minister Makhenkesi Stofile insisted on Friday: "Caster is a woman, she remains our heroine. We must protect her."

South Africa's athletics president Leonard Chuene told the Star newspaper: "The IAAF told us this week that the tests are inconclusive and they could not give us the results just yet.

"So I really do not know where the Australia media got this latest one from."

National Assembly's sports committee chairman Butana Komphela added: "Someone is guilty of leaking her confidential medical information to Australian newspapers."

But the IAAF's Nick Davies said: "The statements should be treated with caution as they are not official statements by the IAAF.

"We have received the results from Germany, but they now need to be examined by a group of experts and we will not be in a position to speak to the athlete about them for at least a few weeks.

"After that, depending on the results, we will meet privately with the athlete to discuss further action."

The IAAF has confirmed it will not comment further on Semenya until after the IAAF council meeting in Monaco on 20-21 November.

Farquhar added: "We already know that she has testosterone levels that are three times higher than those normally expected in a female.

"It's a serious issue and the athlete has to be told the implications.

"There are three possible outcomes from the expert's discussions: that the condition does not give her a competitive advantage; the condition gives her a competitive advantage, which cannot be treated; or most likely, the condition can be treated in some way if she consents to it, and in time she can return to competition."

"The IAAF has to weigh the interest of the athlete, an apparently innocent victim in this, with its responsibility to ensure fair competition."

Semenya won the 800m title in Berlin in August in the fastest time of the year, one minute, 55.45 seconds, 2.5 seconds ahead of Kenya's 2007 champion Janeth Jepkosgei.

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Cate Blanchett sofre acidente em palco

A actriz australiana Cate Blanchett apanhou um grande susto na passada quarta-feira, na estreia da peça Um Eléctrico Chamado Desejo, em cena no Sidney Theatre Company. Em palco, o actor Joel Edgerton feriu acidentalmente a colega ao bater-lhe na cabeça com um rádio antigo.

De início, a actriz, de 40 anos, que interpreta a predadora sexual Blanche Dubois, continuou a representar mas quando se apercebeu que estava a sangrar o espectáculo foi interrompido e a sala evacuada. Contudo, Cate Blanchett acabou por recuperar rapidamente e nem foi ao hospital, tendo mesmo regressado aos palcos ontem à noite.

Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart: Engaged!

Devoted readers of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga know that Eclipse is the volume in which conflicted vampire Edward Cullen and reluctant virgin Bella Swan finally get engaged.

That means, of course, that at some point on the Vancouver set of the novel’s big-screen incarnation,Robert Pattinson will whip out a ring and ask real-life loveKristen Stewart, “Will you marry me?”

Life might just imitate art.

As if their millions of fans collectively willed it — the blistering-hot young actors are truly, madly, deeply in love. So much so that, as OK! reported last week, they’re spending nights together in Rob’s suite at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre. And things have gotten so serious that on-set sources say the young superstars are even playing up their romance on set.

“If Kristen is looking for Rob, she’ll say, ‘Has anyone seen my husband?’’’an insider tellsOK!. “And Rob loves to say, ‘Have you met my lovely wife, Kristen?’ It’s cute. They’re like a couple of love-struck teenagers.”

Amid intense are-they-or-aren’t-they speculation, Robsten had kept their relationship under the radar in recent weeks — but then burst out of the closet with an unabashed make-out session among legions of fans at the Aug. 15 Kings of Leon concert held in Vancouver’s GM Place arena.

But since that public PDA, they’ve been sneaking around after dark like — well, like a couple of vampires. “There are those subtle pats and glances on set, but they save the real kisses for after the sun goes down, late at night, when you see them disappear into their hotel,” another source tells OK!.

Why so shy all of a sudden? To paraphrase another sprawling screen saga (The Godfather): It’s business. Twilight’s producers have told Robsten to keep their love on the down low — at least until after the November release of New Moon, the second film of Stephenie Meyer’s series, in which Bella gets involved with hunky werewolf Jacob Black, played byTaylor Lautner.

It’s all about suspension of disbelief. The studio bosses “fear that if a romance between Rob and Kristen is confirmed,” the insider says, “Twilight fans won’t buy into the screen chemistry between Taylor and Kris.”

Funeral do Rei do Pop

No cemitério foi montado um altar, onde ficou posicionado o caixão dourado, fechado e coberto por buquês de flores brancas. Em cima das flores, foi colocada uma coroa, fazendo menção ao título conquistado por Michael: o de rei do pop. Ainda no altar, nas duas extremidades, foram colocadas duas pintura do rei do pop.

De frente para o caixão, na primeira fileira do lado direito onde estavam os convidados, ficaram os três filhos de Michael: Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and Blanket, 7. Já na primeira fila do lado esquerdo, posicionaram o pai, a mãe e or irmãos de Michael.

o cemitério, preparado para receber 300 pessoas na cerimônia, alguns convidados como a o reverendo Al Sharpton, atriz Elizabeth Taylor e o ator Macaulay Culkin, acompanhado da colega Mila Kunis, já aguardavam pelo início da cerimônia fúnebre. Do lado de fora, jornalistas e fãs aguardavam desde cedo.

"Vai ser uma cerimônia íntima, só para a família e os amigos mais chegados", disse o reverendo Al Sharpton em entrevista à CNN.