16 April 2014

Dua beradik ditangkap kerana disyaki makan daging bayi



FARMAN (kanan) dan Mohammad Arif (dua dari kanan) dikawal dua anggota polis apabila mereka tiba di sebuah mahkamah di Sargodha, Pakistan semalam.- AP



LAHORE - Pihak polis Pakistan menahan seorang lelaki dan adiknya kerana mereka disyaki memakan seorang bayi yang baru dilahirkan selepas kepala kanak-kanak itu dijumpai di rumah mereka, kata para pegawai.
Lelaki tersebut, Farman Ali, 37, ditahan sehari selepas polis menangkap abangnya, Mohammad Arif, 40, selepas penemuan kepala bayi di rumah mereka di satu daerah terpencil di wilayah Punjab.
Kedua-dua beradik itu sebelum ini pernah ditahan dan dihukum penjara selama dua tahun kerana memakan mayat wanita berusia 24 tahun dalam satu kes yang mengejutkan negara itu pada 2011.
Mohammad Arif memberitahu polis, Farman Ali mencuri mayat bayi berusia dua hari itu di sebuah tanah perkuburan di Kampung Darya Khan yang terletak kira-kira 300 kilometer dari selatan Islamabad.
Katanya, mereka kemudiannya melapah sebelum memasak dan memakan mayat bayi itu.
Ketua PolisBhakkar, Ameer Abdullah berkata, Farman Ali ditahan pada Selasa lalu dan kedua-dua suspek telah didakwa di sebuah mahkamah.
Polis menyatakan, isteri kedua-dua lelaki itu telah meninggalkan mereka beberapa tahun lalu. - Agensi

Man City top salary chart

Manchester City are the best-paid sports team in the world, with average first-team pay a whopping £5.3m a year, or £102,653 per week according to a new report that compares global earnings in the most popular leagues.
Five Premier League sides make the top 20 on the list, with Liverpool - City’s title showdown opponents from Sunday - in 20th place, earning an average of £3.4m per man per year.
Manchester United are at No 8 on £4.3m per man per year, Champions League semi-finalists Chelsea are at No 10 (nearly £4m) and Arsenal are at No 11 (£3.9m).

 
High earners: Manchester City have topped a global sports salary list, with their squad paid £5.3m a year
High earners: Manchester City have topped a global sports salary list, with their squad paid £5.3m a year


Big spender: City owner Sheik Mansour has invested hundreds of millions into making them title challengers
Big spender: City owner Sheik Mansour has invested hundreds of millions into making them title challengers


Blank cheque: Manuel Pellegrini could sign pretty much any player in the world for City
Blank cheque: Manuel Pellegrini could sign pretty much any player in the world for City

  
Two giants from American baseball, the New York Yankees and the LA Dodgers, as well as the two giants of Spanish football, Real Madrid and Barcelona, fill out the top five behind City.
The top 10 also includes the Brooklyn Nets of the NBA (at No 6), Bayern Munich (No 7), and the Chicago Bulls of the NBA (No 9).
The Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS), produced for ESPN The Magazine in the USA, has been tracking comparative pay at major sports teams for five years.
City players were earning an average of just under £1.5m a year each when Sheik Mansour arrived in 2008 but their pay has more than trebled in the six years of his ownership.
Chelsea have also seen their wages and fortunes soar since Roman Abramovich arrived at Stamford Bridge in 2003 but foreign sugar-daddy ownership is not restricted to elite European football. 

Big hitters: The New York Yankees baseball team ranked second on the earners' list
Big hitters: The New York Yankees baseball team ranked second on the earners' list


Coining it in: The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team are third on the salary list with an average annual pay of £5.1m but they moved down from second place last year
Coining it in: The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team are third on the salary list with an average annual pay of £5.1m but they moved down from second place last year


The Brooklyn Nets were bought in 2010 by one of Abramovich’s fellow Russian billionaires, Mikhail Prokhorov.
Not only is Prokhorov footing the Nets’ $102m (around £61m) total payroll in 2013-14, or £4.5m per player this year, but he will need to pay an additional $70m (around £42m) or thereabouts in luxury tax for exceeding the NBA’s wage cap.

On the list: Chelsea were 10th in the rankings with a £3.9m wage bill and still have a chance of winning the Premier League title this season
On the list: Chelsea were 10th in the rankings with a £3.9m wage bill and still have a chance of winning the Premier League title this season


Wealth: Roman Abramovich has poured millions into Chelsea since he became owner in 2003
Wealth: Roman Abramovich has poured millions into Chelsea since he became owner in 2003


Close call: Arsenal are just behind Chelsea in the survey. They advanced to the final of the FA Cup at the weekend, beating Wigan on penalties at Wembley
Close call: Arsenal are just behind Chelsea in the survey. They advanced to the final of the FA Cup at the weekend, beating Wigan on penalties at Wembley


Sneaking in: Liverpool came in 20th in the salary list with an annual spend of £3.4m on wages each year. That could increase if they win their first league title in 24 years next month
Sneaking in: Liverpool came in 20th in the salary list with an annual spend of £3.4m on wages each year. That could increase if they win their first league title in 24 years next month


Overpaid? Manchester United came in eighth in the list but have fallen short in the Premier League and Champions League this season
Overpaid? Manchester United came in eighth in the list but have fallen short in the Premier League and Champions League this season


The GSSS looks solely at earnings for playing sport, not for endorsements or other extra-curricular activities. The 2014 report considers 294 teams in 15 leagues in 12 countries across seven different sports: football, baseball, basketball, gridiron, cricket, ice hockey and Aussie Rules football.
The report looks at numbers from either current or most recently completed seasons, depending on availability of accounts and other information.
The NBA is the highest-paying league as a whole, with 441 players at 30 teams in the 2013-14 season earning an average of £2.98m per year each.
The Premier League is the best paying football league in the world, with the average annual pay at £2.27m per player.

THE WORLD'S BEST PAID SPORTS TEAM BY AVERAGE FIRST-TEAM SALARY


RANK (LAST YEAR)TEAMLEAGUEAV. ANNUAL PAY (WEEKLY)
1 (1)Manchester CityPremier League£5,337,944 (£102,653)
2 (5)New York YankeesMLB£5,286,628 (£101,666)
3 (2)Los Angeles DodgersMLB£5,119,701 (£98,456)
4 (3)Real MadridLa Liga£4,993,393 (£96,027)
5 (4)BarcelonaLa Liga£4,901,327 (£94,256)
6 (16)Brooklyn NetsNBA£4,485,019 (£86,250)
7 (9)Bayern MunichBundesliga£4,402,905 (£84,671)
8 (12)Manchester UnitedPremier League£4,322,251 (£83,120)
9 (19)Chicago Bulls NBA£3,985,706 (£76,648)
10 (8) ChelseaPremier League £3,984,536 (£76,626)
11 (15)ArsenalPremier League£3,901,923 (£75,037)
12 (20) New York KnicksNBA £3,862,191 (£74,273)
13 (14)Detroit TigersMLB£3,833,510 (£73,721)
14 (11)Philadelphia Phillies MLB£3,811,638 (£73,301)
15 (22)Boston Red SoxMLB £3,763,451 (£72,374)
16 (17)Miami Heat NBA £3,665,215 (£70,485)
17 (23)San Francisco GiantsMLB£3,613,741 (£69,495)
18 (35)Juventus Serie A£3,512,696 (£67,552)
19 (7)LA Lakers NBA £3,411,402 (£65,604)
20 (21)Liverpool Premier League £3,403,783 (£65,457)

Barcelona stars earn £25m over five years...

Barcelona are out of the Champions League and far from a shoo-in for the La Liga title but at least even the average players in the Nou Camp squad are unlikely to worry about money ever again.
A new report on global pay in sport has found an average first-team Barca player has earned £24,995,540 over the past five years, which is more than the average five-year pay at any team in world sport.
The eye-watering sums on offer in elite European football and in the major sports leagues of America effectively mean that a single five-year deal should provide enough money to set up a player for life.


Big money: The average Barcelona player earns £25million over five years, which is more than the average five-year pay at any team in world sport
Big money: The average Barcelona player earns £25million over five years, which is more than the average five-year pay at any team in world sport


No worries: Signing a five-year deal with a major sports team should set up a player for life
No worries: Signing a five-year deal with a major sports team should set up a player for life

Payday: Gareth Bale and his Real Madrid team-mates earn just over half a million less than rivals Barcelona over 5 years
Payday: Gareth Bale and his Real Madrid team-mates earn just over half a million less than rivals Barcelona over 5 years



 
Barcelona’s La Liga rivals have paid the next most on average in the past five years: £24.4m per player on average, followed by the New York Yankees of Major League baseball (£23.6m) and then Manchester City (£20.8m) and Chelsea (£20.4m) of the Premier League.
Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool all make it into the top 20 alongside globally famous teams such as the LA Lakers of the NBA and the Boston Red Sox baseball team - who are owned, like Liverpool, by John W Henry’s Fenway Sports Group.
The numbers are published today as part of the Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) produced for ESPN The Magazine in the USA. The report looks solely at earnings for playing sport, not for endorsements or other extra-curricular activities.
The five-year earnings list highlights some counter-intuitive findings, including how relatively poorly the average player in the NFL in America is paid. There is a general perception that NFL stars, in an industry awash with cash, all earn bumper pay packets. The reality is a few players on each team earn huge money but many earn ‘only’ hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
As a result, the best paid NFL team over five years, the Dallas Cowboys, appear only at No93 in the five-year list, with an average player earning ‘only’ £7.8m over five years. 
The Cowboys are one place below Everton (£7.87m over five years per average player) and 20 places lower than the best paying NHL ice-hockey team, the Chicago Blackhawks (£9.1m per average player over five years).

Owner: The LA Lakers, Boston Red Sox and Liverpool - owned by John W Henry's Fenay Sports Group - all made it into the top 20
Owner: The LA Lakers, Boston Red Sox and Liverpool - owned by John W Henry's Fenay Sports Group - all made it into the top 20


High five: The average player playing for the New York Yankees earns £23.5m over 5 years

Fall: The LA lakers have seen a decrease in the difference between earnings in 2010 and 2014
Fall: The LA lakers have seen a decrease in the difference between earnings in 2010 and 2014


Best paying sports teams in the world based on average players’ total salary over five years

Best paying sports teams in the world






 

That's cool! The Finnish SnowHotel

Located on the Arctic Circle and built entirely of snow, you would expect this hotel to be quite chilly - but it is actually a constant zero degrees once you're inside.
The SnowHotel in the Finnish town of Rovaniemi is built each year for the winter season, providing a quiet, snowy escape for tourists.
And if you manage to survive a night in your chilly room you can come away with a 'diploma' on spending the night in Arctic conditions.
While fleece-lined sleeping bags are there to keep out the chill, the hotel also has traditional Finnish saunas to truly help guests thaw out.
And if you fancy looking out for the Northern Lights, you can stay warm by sitting in the outdoor hot tub and sipping a rum toddy.
And if you don't fancy a night in the hotel, you could always head further north and try your own glass igloo - the newly-built accommodation is in Kakslauttanen, even further north into the Arctic Circle.
The unusual transparent mounds emerge from the snow, offering a panoramic view of the night sky, ensuring you'll never miss a chance to spot the Northern Lights and have been built in response to booming tourism to the remote area.
The 15 Arctic Igloos use thermal glass and heated floors so you aren't exposed to the elements and you can ever get breakfast served to the igloo the following morning, meaning you don't have to set foot outside.

Check in, chill out: The cool hotel offers a 'diploma' to anyone who manages an overnight stay
Check in, chill out: The cool hotel offers a 'diploma' to anyone who manages an overnight stay


Would you like ice with that? The restaurants serve a mixture of different dishes and warming drinks, all designed to keep out the cold
Would you like ice with that? The restaurants serve a mixture of different dishes and warming drinks, all designed to keep out the cold


Thrills and chills: While the hotel may look chilly, apparently its interior temperature remains at a 'balmy' zero degrees
Thrills and chills: While the hotel may look chilly, apparently its interior temperature remains at a 'balmy' zero degrees


Cool customer: Two guests enjoy the relative protection from the elements offered by the hotel
Cool customer: Two guests enjoy the relative protection from the elements offered by the hotel
Cool customer: Two guests enjoy the relative protection from the elements offered by the hotel, while fur throws on the bar seats keep diners warm too


Camping out: The glass igloos offer panoramic views of the night sky
Camping out: The glass igloos offer panoramic views of the night sky


Warm welcome: The igloos use thermal glass and have heated floors to make an overnight stay more comfortable
Warm welcome: The igloos use thermal glass and have heated floors to make an overnight stay more comfortable


Cool customer: Guests are greeted by ice sculptures as they enter the hotel
Thermal treat: Fur throws and fleece-lines sleeping bags don't seem to be much protection against the elements
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Room for romance: Icy decor doesn't mean everything has to be bland and white, this room glows red to welcome chilly guests
Room for romance: Icy decor doesn't mean everything has to be bland and white, this room glows red to welcome chilly guests


In the black: The thermometer on the SnowHotel shows a warm (ish) zero degrees inside
In the black: The thermometer on the SnowHotel shows a warm (ish) zero degrees inside

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