Drew Barrymore revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show how she chose her daughter’s name when she was the “size of an olive”.
Drew Barrymore, 37, and her husband Will Kopelman welcomed their daughter Olive into the world 10 weeks ago and the actress has revealed she was inspired to pick the moniker when she was in the early stage of her pregnancy.
Speaking on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Drew Barrymore said: “I never would have guessed that would have been the name.
“But I was reading a book with my husband. I was three months pregnant and they said your baby is the size of an olive, and that was it. We never looked back.”
Ellen DeGeneres then joked: “It could have been the size of a peanut or a grapefruit.”
Drew Barrymore replied: “It could have been. It was a lot fruit and vegetables.”
Drew Barrymore revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show how she chose her daughter’s name when she was the size of an olive
The actress did consider a number of names, but as soon as they thought of Olive, they didn’t deliberate anything else.
Drew Barrymore explained: “We were shopping a few [names] as all people do who are so blessed to get to do this. And then once the light was shed, there was just no turning back.”
Mario Balotelli is said to be “delighted” after becoming a father for the first time after his ex-girlfriend Raffaella Fico gave birth to a baby girl.
Little Pia had been due on Christmas Day but was born just under three weeks early after Raffaella Fico was rushed to hospital after having contractions while at home with her mum.
Mario Balotelli himself was not present at the birth but Raffaella Fico’s brother Francesco and her mum Pia were and the baby weighed in at a healthy 8 lbs, 4 oz (3.8 kg) and was registered in her mother’s name.
There was no official comment from Mario Balotelli following the “nappy” news although sources close to the Manchester City star said he was “delighted” with the birth which took place at the private Clinica Mediterranea in Naples.
Ex underwear model Raffaella Fico and Mario Balotelli had split up in April following a furious doorstep bust up after she flew to Manchester from Italy to confront him over his cheating.
Two months later Raffaella Fico called Mario Balotelli to say she was expecting his child and initially he refused to accept the baby was his and demanded a DNA test to prove he was the father.
The couple then played out a furious slanging match via the Italian media over the summer with a shocked Raffaella Fico expressing anger and surprise that he should question whether he was the father.
Mario Balotelli is said to be delighted after becoming a father for the first time after his ex-girlfriend Raffaella Fico gave birth to a baby girl
Two months ago Mario Balotelli then revealed he was going to “try again” with Raffaella Fico and he flew to her home near Naples where the two were pictured kissing passionately on the balcony of her home.
However, since then Mario Balotelli has not been in touch with Raffaella Fico and only this week she had issued an ultimatum to the player saying: “If you love our child and me then marry me.”
On Thursday a source at the clinic said: “Pia was born on Wednesday night and both mother and baby are doing well.”
Raffaella Fico, who has dated Cristiano Ronaldo in the past and also appeared in Italy’s version of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, is said to have sold exclusive first pictures of Pia to glossy Italian weekly Chi – the magazine that published photographs of a topless Kate Middleton this summer.
Euro 2020 championship finals will be held in a number of cities across Europe, UEFA has announced.
It means there will be no one country hosting the tournament, which will have expanded to 24 teams by then.
The Football Association has already put forward Wembley to European governing body UEFA as a possible venue for the final.
A spokesperson for the Football Supporters’ Federation said the move was “one which will divide fans’ opinions”.
“When the idea of a pan-European tournament was first proposed our primary concern was that supporters across the continent were properly consulted before anything was set in stone.
“The FSF will speak to Football Supporters Europe to see what fans from across the continent make of this move.”
UEFA’s executive committee took the decision at a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday.
Euro 2020 championship finals will be held in a number of cities across Europe
UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino told a press conference after the meeting: “Some important decisions have been taken.
“Uefa Euro 2020 will be staged across the continent, in various major cities, following a decision taken today. A Euro for Europe follows an initial idea by UEFA president Michel Platini, who described it as <<an idea I feel really passionate about>>.
“The response has been extremely positive from all the national associations.”
Gianni Infantino confirmed that only Turkey, who had had initially bid to host Euro 2020, opposed the decision through the country’s UEFA vice-president Senes Erzik.
The next competition in 2016 will be hosted by France and will be played with 24 qualifiers at the finals.
Gianni Infantino added the bidding process for the host cities would start in March and decisions would be made in the spring of 2014.
Michel Platini, who won the tournament in 1984 with France, floated the idea as a way of avoiding high costs at a time of financial hardship in many countries.
Higher than expected costs and building delays caused problems for the 2012 tournament in Poland and Ukraine.
“It will be a lot easier from a financial perspective for all the countries,” Michel Platini said in June.
“If you need to build airports or 10 stadiums in a country, this would be rather easy because it would be one stadium per host city.”
Antisa Khvichava, a Georgian woman who claimed to be the world’s oldest living person as she lived through the Russian Revolution, has died at the age of 132.
Antisa Khvichava, who lived in the remote mountain village of Sachino in Georgia, held Soviet-era documents which said she was born on 8 July 1880, but her age was contested and never proven.
The woman, who lived with her 42-year-old grandson in an idyllic vine-covered country house in the mountains, retired from her job as a tea and corn picker in 1965, when she was aged 85.
Antisa Khvichava was said to have had 12 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and four great-great grandchildren – and attributed her good health to drinking a small amount of local brandy every day.
Her 72-year-old son Mikhail was apparently born when his mother was 60. Antisa Khvichava said she also had two children from a previous marriage – but they died of hunger during World War Two.
Antisa Khvichava lived through two world wars along with the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. Officials, neighbors, friends, and descendants have backed up her claim as the world’s oldest living person.
Her birth certificate was lost – one of many in the past century amid revolutions and a civil war which followed the end of the USSR – but she had two Soviet-era documents which attested to her age.
Experts doubted her claim, substantiated on birth documents much younger than her. Georgia became part of the Soviet Union in 1921 – and was part of the Russian empire when she was “born”.
Antisa Khvichava, a Georgian woman who claimed to be the world’s oldest living person as she lived through the Russian Revolution, has died at the age of 132
Without 130-year-old documents, University of California lecturer and Gerontology Research Group member Stephen Coles said the claim will “remain a curiosity in a newspaper or floating on the internet”.
She only spoke in her local language of Mingrelian, and said in 2010 through a translator at her 130th birthday party: “I’ve always been healthy, and I’ve worked all my life – at home and at the farm.”
Antisa Khvichava had trouble walking, stayed largely in bed over the past decade and her cramped fingers meant she could not maintain her love of knitting – but relatives said her mind stayed sharp.
To mark her 130th birthday, a string group played folk music out on the lawn, while grandchildren offered traditional Mingrelian dishes such as corn porridge and spiced chicken with herbs.
“Grandma has a very clear mind and she hasn’t lost an ability to think rationally,” her granddaughter Shorena, who lives in a nearby village, said in an interview at the time.
The world’s oldest living person verified by Guinness World Records was Besse Cooper, of Monroe, Georgia, who celebrated her 116th birthday in August and was born in Tennessee in 1896. She also died this week.
But the oldest person fully authenticated by Guinness was the French woman Jeanne Calment, who lived to 122 years and 164 days before dying in August 1997 at a nursing home in Arles.
Socialism and capitalism are the two words sharing head rank of Merriam-Webster’s most looked up words in 2012, in a most unlikely unity.
Socialism and capitalism have been announced as the online dictionary’s most searched words, with their traffic about doubling this year from the year before as the health care debate heated up and discussion intensified over “American capitalism” versus “European socialism”.
According to editor at large Peter Sokolowski, the choice revealed on Wednesday was a “kind of a no-brainer”.
The side-by-side interest among political candidates and around kitchen tables prompted the dictionary folk to settle on two words of the year rather than one for the first time since the accolade began in 2003.
“They’re words that sort of encapsulate the zeitgeist. They’re words that are in the national conversation,” said Peter Sokolowski from company headquarters in Springfield, Massachusetts.
“The thing about an election year is it generates a huge amount of very specific interest.”
Democracy, globalization, marriage and bigot – all touched by politics – made the Top 10, in no particular order. The latter two were driven in part by the fight for same-sex marriage acceptance.
Last year’s word of the year was austerity. Before that, it was pragmatic. Other words in the leading dictionary maker’s Top 10 for 2012 were also politically motivated.
Harken back to October 11th, when Vice President Joe Biden tangled with Mitt Romney running mate Paul Ryan in a televised debate focused on foreign policy – terror attacks, defense spending and war, to be specific
“With all due respect, that’s a bunch of MALARKEY,” declared Joe Biden during a particularly tough row with Ryan. The mention sent look-ups of malarkey soaring on Merriam-webster.com, Peter Sokolowski said, adding: “Clearly a one-week wonder, but what a week!”
Actually, it was more like what a day. Look-ups of malarkey represented the largest spike of a single word on the website by percentage, at 3,000 per cent, in a single 24-hour period this year.
The company won’t release the number of page views per word but said the site gets about 1.2 billion overall each year.
Socialism and capitalism are the two words sharing head rank of Merriam-Webster’s most looked up words in 2012
Malarkey, with the alternative spelling of “y” at the end, is of unknown origin, but Merriam-Webster surmises it’s more Irish-American than Irish, tracing it to newspaper references as far back as 1929.
Beyond “nonsense”, malarkey can mean “insincere or pretentious talk or writing designed to impress one and usually to distract attention from ulterior motives or actual conditions”, noted Peter Sokolowski.
“That’s exactly what Joe Biden was saying. Very precise,” especially in conversation with another Irish-American, Peter Sokolowski said.
“He chose a word that resonated with the public, I think in part because it really resonated with him. It made perfect sense for this man to use this word in this moment.”
An interesting election-related phenomena, to be sure, but malarkey is no dead Big Bird or “binders full of women” – two Romneyisms from the defeated candidate’s televised matchups with Barack Obama that evoked another of Merriam-Webster’s Top 10 – “meme”.
While malarkey’s history is shaded, meme’s roots are easily traced to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, a Brit who coined the term for a unit of cultural inheritance, not unlike genes and DNA. The retired professor at the University of Oxford made up the word in 1976 for The Selfish Gene, a book he published light years before the Internet and social media’s capacity to take memes viral.
Peter Sokolowski said traffic for “meme” more than doubled this year over 2011, with dramatic spikes pegged to political-related subjects that included Mitt Romney’s Big Bird and binders remarks, social media shares of images pegged to Hillary Clinton texting and Barack Obama’s “horses and bayonets” debate rebuke of Mitt Romney in an exchange over the size of the Navy.
Dawkins, reached at home in Oxford, was tickled by the dictionary shoutout.
“I’m very pleased that it’s one of the 10 words that got picked out,” he said.
“I’m delighted. I hope it may bring more people to understand something about evolution.”
The book in which he used meme for the first time is mostly about the gene as the primary unit of natural selection, or the Darwinian idea that only the strongest survive. In the last chapter, he said, he wanted to describe some sort of cultural replicator.
And he wanted a word that sounded like “gene”, so he took a twist on the Greek mimeme, which is the origin of “mime” and “mimesis”, a scientific term meaning imitation.
“It’s a very clever coinage,” lauded the lexicographer Peter Sokolowski.
Other words in Merriam-Webster’s Top 10 for 2012:
Touché, thanks in part to ‘Survivor’ contestant Kat Edorsson misusing the word to mean “tough luck” rather than point well made, before she was voted off the island in May. Look-ups at Merriam-webster.com were up sevenfold this year over 2011.
Schadenfreude, made up of the German words for “damage” and “joy”, meaning taking pleasure in the misery of others, was used broadly in the media after the election. Look-ups increased 75%. The word in English dates to 1895.
Professionalism, up 12% this year over last. Peter Sokolowski suspects the bump might have been due to the bad economy and more job seekers,
Naked protestors stormed San Francisco City Hall to show their anger after a controversial ban on public nudity was narrowly approved by city officials.
San Francisco sheriffs were forced to cover up the bare activists who stripped off their clothes during a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting at San Francisco City Hall, California.
The board voted to pass legislation that will amend the city’s police code to ban nudity on city streets, plazas, sidewalks and other public spaces. Nudity during permitted parades, fairs and festivals will still be allowed.
About a half dozen angry protesters stripped down to their socks but sheriff’s deputies quickly covered up the demonstrators and led them from the majestic beaux-arts chamber.
Protesters, one wearing only rainbow knee socks and another sporting black nylons, chanted, “body freedom” and “shame on you” as they were escorted out.
Some residents and business owners say nudists, and specifically a group known as the Naked Guys, have gone too far with their constant presence at a square in the Castro District.
But nudists claim a right to bare all and say politicians in San Francisco, which has often celebrated the bizarre and unconventional, should leave them alone.
San Francisco lawmakers narrowly approved the proposal to ban public nakedness, rejecting arguments that the measure would eat away at a reputation for tolerance enjoyed by a city known for flouting convention and flaunting its counter-culture image.
The 6-5 Board of Supervisors vote means that exposed genitals will be prohibited in most public places, including streets, sidewalks and public transit.
Naked protestors stormed San Francisco City Hall to show their anger after a controversial ban on public nudity was narrowly approved by city officials
Scott Wiener, a city supervisor representing the Castro District, introduced the proposal which would stop backsides and genitals being exposed in public.
“This has been a very difficult issue, a lot of strong views on both sides,” Scott Wiener told Reuters after the vote.
“But it was an issue that needed to be addressed, and I addressed it in a very narrow way.”
The ban would prohibit most nudity in public, but it would continue to allow marchers at special events, like the San Francisco Pride Parade, to bare all. Children under 5 can be naked in public and sunbathers can continue to strip down on nude beaches.
California state law prohibits indecent exposure, but law enforcement must show evidence of lewd behavior rather than simple nudity. A number of cities, including San Jose and Berkeley, already have nudity bans, Scott Wiener said.
Four nudists, including a former San Francisco mayoral candidate, have filed suit challenging the ban. Attorney Christina DiEdoardo, who represents the plaintiffs, says the city is depriving nudists of their constitutional rights to free speech and equal protection.
“Now the city is going to have to spend considerable time and money to defend an ordinance that didn’t have to be passed,” Christina DiEdoardo said.
San Francisco last year required nudists to cover the surfaces they sit on in public places and to wear clothes in restaurants. Residents say the restrictions spurred defiant exhibitionism.
Violators under the city’s nudity ban would be fined up to $100 for a first offense and $200 for a second. Three-time offenders would face up to a year in jail and a $500 fine.
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has celebrated his six million dollar pay-off to New York hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo, who accused him of trying to rape her – by cavorting with three blonde models at a Paris nightclub.
DSK, 64, was caught on camera brazenly posing with the attractive young women during a night out with pals in Paris.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn hit the town with five friends on Saturday after reaching the deal with Nafissatou Diallo to settle her civil action for sexual assault.
They are both expected to appear before a judge in the Bronx on December 7 to sign the papers that will end all legal action against him in the US.
But DSK is so hard up he may have to borrow half the money from his multi-millionaire estranged wife, French daily Le Monde said.
Meanwhile in France, DSK – a self-confessed sex addict – is also waiting to learn if he will face charges of conspiring with pimps to procure girls for sex parties around the world.
A judge in Lille will rule on December 19th whether he should stand trial over the accusations.
DSK was caught on camera brazenly posing with the attractive young women during a night out with pals in Paris
Dominique Strauss-Kahn – once tipped as a future president of France – seemed unworried by his ongoing legal woes as he relaxed at the chic Le Matignon night spot.
He and his friends mingled with models, who were at the club to promote a new ready-made cocktail called Sex on the Beach.
A reveler at the club told France’s Europe 1 radio: “Strauss-Kahn arrived at the club at about 10:30 p.m. with five or six other men and two bodyguards.
“They sat at a table in the VIP area before going down to the nightclub floor itself.”
Jean-Albert Vergnaud, boss of the Sex on the Beach drinks company, added: “Mr. Strauss-Kahn seemed to love our brand, and happily posed for pictures.
“Despite what some people have said, these photos are not faked and he was genuinely there that evening enjoying himself.
“It was a bit of a marketing coup for us too.”
DSK has been embroiled in a catalogue of sex scandals since being arrested in May 2011 for trying to rape Guinea immigrant Nafissatou Diallo, 29, when she came to clean his suite in New York’s Sofitel hotel.
He was charged with attempted rape, sexual abuse, a criminal sexual act, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching and held at the city’s notorious Ryker’s Island prison.
He claimed Nafissatou Diallo Diallo had consented to sex but later described the encounter as “a moral failure” that he would regret his whole life.
All charges were then dropped a month later over concerns about the cleaner’s credibility.
Prince Charles today said he was “thrilled” at Kate Middleton’s pregnancy, after the beaming Duchess of Cambridge left hospital following four days of treatment for acute morning sickness.
The Prince of Wales expressed his delight at the “marvelous” news and added: “It’s a very nice thought to become a grandfather in my old age. I’m very glad my daughter-in-law is getting better, thank goodness.”
Prince Charles also alluded to a prank call to the hospital by two Australian DJs on Tuesday morning that duped a nurse into revealing details about Kate Middleton’s health, joking to reporters: “How do you know I’m not a radio station?”
Kate Middleton, 30, was discharged from the King Edward VII Hospital in central London – where she smiled and told reporters she was “feeling much better” – and headed to Kensington Palace to rest.
Prince Charles said he was thrilled at Kate Middleton’s pregnancy
Kate Middleton, who is less than 12 weeks pregnant, was wrapped up against the cold in a coat and scarf, and the royal couple will now spend time at their London home to allow for her to recuperate.
She was admitted on Monday after developing the condition of hyperemesis gravidarum, and was suffering from the effects of dehydration.
For medical staff to allow Kate Middleton to go home, her severe vomiting must be under control and they are likely to have given her anti-sickness medication.
Norwegian Eiliv Ruud plunged 1,000 feet to his death when his parachute failed to open after he struck a vertical cliff and spiraled out of control.
Eiliv Ruud, 37, was taking part in a BASE jump near the Grand Canyon, but two other jumpers were forced to watch helplessly as the stunt went tragically wrong.
BASE jumping is an activity in which participants leap off tall, static objects and use a parachute to break their fall.
The accident took place at Salt Trail Canyon, in northern Arizona, on Tuesday.
The term “BASE” is an acronym for “buildings, antennas, spans and earth”.
“Mr. Ruud was the first one to jump, and the other two watched. When he had fallen a distance of about 500 feet, it appeared that a gust of wind blew him against the canyon wall,” said sheriff’s spokesman Gerry Blair.
Eiliv Ruud’s parachute failed to deploy fully, and the contact “pretty much caused him to spiral down the rest” of the way, Gerry Blair said.
Eiliv Ruud was pronounced dead at the scene.
Eiliv Ruud plunged 1,000 feet to his death when his parachute failed to open after he struck a vertical cliff and spiraled out of control
Salt Trail Canyon flanks the Little Colorado River, one of the largest tributaries of the Colorado River that flows through the Grand Canyon.
Gerry Blair said Eiliv Ruud and the other Norwegian man and woman had previously visited the area, which is popular with BASE jumpers.
Gerry Blair said BASE jump fatalities in Coconino County were infrequent.
Rescue crews were flown in and had to hike into the canyon to reach Eiliv Ruud, who was confirmed dead.
New details from thousands of emails released Wednesday reveal Colorado gunman James Holmes had a girlfriend around the time of the attack.
His girlfriend was in India at the time of the mass shooting and, according to e-mails, was “pretty freaked out”.
The new information also reveals detailed information about the fear and confusion in the wake of the Aurora, Colorado massacre.
Many of the emails are partially or completely blacked out, the university says to avoid violating privacy laws.
The result is minimal information on James Holmes’ struggles at the school or whether the institution recognized the danger he may have represented.
The emails do shed some light on how the university responded to news that one of its students was allegedly responsible for the attack that killed 12 people and wounded 58 on July 22nd.
James Holmes’ name began to circulate in news reports a few hours after the early-morning shooting.
At 6:47 a.m., Angie Ribera, director of the neuroscience program, noted that the shooter could be the 24-year-old of the same name who had just withdrawn from her department.
“Do you think we should meet with students in his class?” she asked colleagues.
“If they had been close to him, this would definitely be something that I think we should do. But as they were not, I do not know.”
An hour later, officials confirmed James Holmes was the former graduate student, and Ribera grew more alarmed. At the time, police were trying to remove booby-traps he allegedly left at his nearby apartment before leaving for the midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
Angie Ribera sent an email to another senior faculty member noting that Holmes was in custody.
“However, he was friendly with 1-2 students in another program and I am worried about the safety of all (neuroscience) students and Faculty as well as the safety of all (medical) students.”
At 8:02am, the administrator of the neuroscience program broke the news to students there and urged them not to post anything to Facebook or Twitter.
Campus officials quickly sought to control the flow of information.
As reporters began to bombard James Holmes’ few acquaintance and professors with inquiries, administrators urged faculty and students to refer all media calls to a spokeswoman.
New details from thousands of emails released Wednesday reveal Colorado gunman James Holmes had a girlfriend around the time of the attack
Faculty quickly began emailing with each other and friends about the news. Larry Hunter, who is listed as director of the Center for Computational Bioscience, was asked about the shooting by a friend.
“Yeah, he was a grad student here, and, it turns out, had a brief romantic relationship with one of the grad students in my program last fall,” Larry Hunter wrote.
“She, fortunately, it turns out is in India right now.”
“She knows and is pretty freaked out,” he said.
Larry Hunter said Wednesday he would not comment.
James Holmes allegedly began stockpiling firearms and ammunition while taking classes in the spring.
In June, prosecutors say, he made threats to a professor, and he filed withdrawal papers June 10 after failing a year-end exam.
The next day he saw his school psychiatrist, who tried to report him to a campus security committee, according to Holmes’ lawyers.
KMGH in Denver Wednesday night reported that that psychiatrist, Dr. Lynne Fenton, reached out to campus police partly because James Holmes talked about killing “a lot of people” but that she opted not to place him under a psychiatric hold because he was withdrawing from the school.
A spokeswoman said she could not comment on the report.
Four days after the attack, campus police chief Doug Abraham said at a news conference that campus police had no information on James Holmes.
The school has since declined to answer detailed questions about James Holmes’ behavior, citing a gag order that remains in effect and federal privacy laws that limit the amount of medical and academic information it can disclose.
Those laws also limited the number of documents released Wednesday.
At the request of defense attorneys, about 100 emails between James Holmes and his family and friends were withheld because they are not covered under Colorado’s Open Records Act.
The remaining documents were released only after a lengthy court battle.
In correspondence from August 7th, an assistant professor told colleagues that he interviewed James Holmes for about 30 minutes during a recruitment visit in February 2011, then noted that his evaluation of Holmes was entered into an internal university system and was still available for examination.
In later correspondence, the campus director of academic support services suggested that the university was looking to get rid of that evaluation from the system.
Jim Finster, the campus director of academic support services, recalled that attorney Annalissa Philbin had “instructed me to purge those data”.
“Admittedly, I have not completed that task yet, but was planning on doing it very shortly,” Jim Finster wrote in an email to Annalissa Philbin.
“Should I change those plans?”
It’s unclear if Annalissa Philbin responded, but the university’s director of media relations forwarded the exchange to another attorney with a blunt message: “What??”
On Wednesday, university officials provided a later email, from August 8th, in which Annalissa Philbin said no information should be purged at that time.
In the days after the shooting, the Arapahoe County District Attorney’s office asked Judge William B. Sylvester to bar the university from releasing records requested by numerous media organizations.
Prosecutors argued that the information could jeopardize James Holmes’ right to a fair trial. Sylvester agreed, but amended his order last month to allow the release after media organizations objected in court.
James Holmes is charged with multiple first-degree murder and attempted murder counts.
He has not entered a plea and won’t do so until after a weeklong preliminary hearing in which prosecutors will present evidence supporting the charges.
That hearing is scheduled to begin January 7th.
James Holmes’ attorneys have said he suffers from a mental illness.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has revised down its eurozone growth forecasts for 2012 and 2013 as “economic weakness extends into 2013”.
ECB President Mario Draghi said the bank expected the bloc’s economy to shrink by about 0.5% this year, before recovering later in 2013.
He said weak consumer and investor sentiment was weighing on growth.
Earlier, the ECB held the benchmark eurozone interest rate at the record low of 0.75%, as had been expected.
Mario Draghi said rates had been left unchanged due to higher energy prices, rising taxes and the fact inflation fell from 2.5% to 2.2% last month.
Interest rates are the main tool used by central banks to influence demand and therefore prices in the economy.
Mario Draghi said the bank expected inflation to fall below 2% next year. The target rate is below but close to 2%.
Interest rates have been at 0.75% for five months, after July’s cut from 1%.
ECB has revised down its eurozone growth forecasts for 2012 and 2013
The ECB revised down is forecast for the eurozone economic growth in 2013 to between minus 0.9% and plus 0.4%.
For 2014, it forecast growth of between 0.2% and 2.2%.
Mario Draghi said “persistent uncertainty” was weighing on economic activity.
He said the bank continued to see “downside risks”, in particular “uncertainties about the resolution of sovereign debt issues in the euro area, geopolitical issues and fiscal policy decisions in the United States”.
He was referring to the so-called fiscal cliff of automatic spending cuts and tax rises which kick in the new year and which will push the US economy back into recession. US policymakers are trying to agree a way to avoid the cliff.
However, Mario Draghi said a “strengthening global demand and a significant improvement in financial market confidence” would help fuel a recovery later in 2013.
The eurozone is back in recession as austerity measures designed to reduce debt levels continue to undermine demand and confidence.
The economy of the 17-member bloc contracted by 0.1% between July and September, after shrinking 0.2% in the previous three months.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate is at a record high of 11.7%.
The eurozone was last in recession in 2009, when the economy contracted for five consecutive quarters.
Pictures leaked online claim to show the case for the forthcoming iPhone 5S, Apple’s next update of its market leading smartphone.
Surfacing on French website Nowhereelse.fr, the images reveal an exterior virtual identical to the current iPhone 5, which was only released in September.
But a closer look at the inside of the part shows the fixing points of some of the internal components – which differ from the latest model – seems to suggest that it could be a new part for an updated phone.
Nowhereelse.fr hedge its bets, admitting that while it could be a case from a new iPhone prototype, it could equally be part of a well-made Chinese iPhone clone.
It says it first found the images published on the website forum iPhone5Parts and makes no attempt to confirm their authenticity.
Nevertheless, the apparent leak comes as the rumors have begun to circulate online that Apple is already about to begin making the successor to its latest smartphone.
Pictures leaked online claim to show the case for the forthcoming iPhone 5S
A Chinese site in November claimed the firm was set to begin trial production of the new model this month, although has no details of what new features it may contain.
The Commercial Times estimated that full commercial production of the rumored iPhone 5S will begin as early as Q1 2013, with the December run only expected to return between 50,000 and 100,000 units.
Facing low yield rates in the production of iPhone 5, Apple has accelerated the certification processes for related parts and components for the iPhone 5S, the paper revealed, according to DigiTimes.
“While the speculated iPhone 5S is expected to enter volume production in the first quarter of 2013, Apple is also likely to release a new version of iPad a quarter later than the iPhone 5S, since the display resolution of its latest version of iPad has come out lower than expected,” the paper said.
However, while the firm may begin trial production, some believe it may not go on sale until later next year.
“The industry was surprised at how quickly the iPad 4 replaced the 3, however that was to make all of its top line products have the same connector,” said Luke Peters, editor of T3 magazine.
“Trial production might see we see snippets on the web, but its usually 6-7 months until we see a launch, and so I would expect to see a new version, be it an iPhone 5S or a 6, late next year.”
It comes as Samsung’s Galaxy S3 has become the world’s best-selling smartphone model for the last quarter, pushing aside Apple’s iPhone.
Apple has dominated the chart for more than two years, research firm Strategy Analytics said.
It claims Samsung sold 18 million S3 models in the third quarter, compared with iPhone 4S sales of 16.2 million.
Strong sales of the flagship Galaxy S3- which comes with a large 4.8 inch touchscreen – helped Samsung post a record $7.3 billion operating profit in the July-September quarter.
Apple customers were also believed to be waiting for the release of the iPhone 5, which is expected to propel Apple back to the top spot.
A spectacular night-time view of Earth, called Black Marble, has been assembled from a series of cloud-free images acquired by one of the most capable satellites in the sky today – the Suomi spacecraft.
The platform was launched by the US last year, principally to deliver critical meteorological data.
The Black Marble dataset shows off one of Suomi’s key innovations: the low-light sensitivity of its VIIRS instrument.
VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) can discern a range of phenomena of interest to weather forecasters – cloud, snow, fog, etc – even when the satellite is on the dark side of the Earth.
Most of the time, all VIIRS needs to do its work is some illumination from the Moon. But if that is not available, the instrument can still detect features down below just from the nocturnal glow of the atmosphere itself.
And, of course, just as this Black Marble rendition demonstrates, VIIRS is also very good at capturing the lights of our cities.
The new imagery was unveiled here at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, the largest annual gathering of Earth scientists.
Data from Suomi – a joint NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite – is certain to become a mainstay of future presentations at this conference.
Night-time view of Earth, called Black Marble, assembled from a series of cloud-free images acquired by Suomi satellite
VIIRS’ trick is its special day-night band. Unlike a camera that captures a whole picture in one exposure, the day-night band produces an image by repeatedly scanning a scene and resolving it as millions of individual pixels.
The system then reviews the amount of light in each pixel. If it is very bright, a low-gain mode prevents the pixel from oversaturating; if the pixel is very dark, the signal is amplified.
US Air Force satellites have pushed the development of low-light sensors for decades but NASA/NOAA representatives at the AGU meeting said VIIRS had taken the capability to a new level.
One of the instrument’s most important observations of late was to watch Hurricane Sandy as it made landfall over the US in October.
Suomi was launched as the NPP (National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project) satellite.
It was subsequently renamed in honor of the pioneering Earth observation scientist Verner E. Suomi. The two-tonne, $1.5 billion spacecraft circles the globe, pole to pole, at an altitude just over 800 km.
Its five instruments are tasked with monitoring a huge range of land, ocean, and atmospheric phenomena – from the temperature and humidity of the air, to the spread of algal blooms in the ocean; and from the amount of sunlight bouncing off clouds to the extent of Arctic ice.
Russian television journalist Kazbek Gekkiyev has been shot dead in the North Caucasus.
Kazbek Gekkiyev, 26, was a newsreader on state-controlled local television in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Attacks on journalists have become relatively common in Russia. The North Caucasus is the country’s most volatile region, where security forces are battling an Islamist insurgency.
On Thursday morning, the deputy minister of transport of Kabardino-Balkaria was injured in a bomb attack.
The official, Vladislav Dyadshenko, was taken to hospital after explosives went off near his car in Nalchik, the capital of the republic.
Kazbek Gekkiyev was killed in the same city, as he returned home after an evening programme on Wednesday night.
According to witnesses, the journalist was approached on the street by two men. They reportedly checked his name and profession, and then shot him in the head.
A spokesman for Russia’s Investigative Committee called it an “outrageous crime that was aimed as a warning to other journalists who report on the fight against bandits”.
Russian television journalist Kazbek Gekkiyev has been shot dead in the North Caucasus
Human rights groups have complained at the beating or murder of journalists who have tried to uncover wrongdoing by Russian authorities.
However, the latest killing did not appear to fit that pattern.
Colleagues at the Vesti Kabarda-Balkaria channel said Kazbek Gekkiyev had never pursued any critical reports and mostly delivered official law-enforcement information.
His brother Alibek Gekkiyev told Ekho Moskvy radio that his brother was very committed to “being a professional in what he does. He has never done anything bad to anyone, on either side. He was an absolutely neutral man”.
The channel said several of its reporters had received death threats from Islamists – but that it had not been part of Kazbek Gekkiyev’s job to cover the Islamist insurgency.
Pregnant Kate Middleton smiled this morning as she left hospital after four days of treatment for severe morning sickness.
The Duchess of Cambridge told reporters outside King Edward VII Hospital in London: “I’m feeling much better, thank you!”
Kate Middleton, 30, was discharged from the King Edward VII Hospital following three nights under observation and will now head to Kensington Palace for a period of rest, St James’s Palace said.
She emerged from the private hospital looking relaxed, carrying a bouquet of yellow flowers and giving a brief smile to the waiting press before being driven away with her husband Prince William.
Kate Middleton, who is less than 12 weeks pregnant, was wrapped up against the cold in a coat and scarf, and the royal couple will now spend time at their London home to allow for the Duchess to recuperate.
She was admitted on Monday after developing the condition known as hyperemesis gravidarum, and was suffering from the effects of dehydration.
For medical staff to allow Kate Middleton to go home, her severe vomiting must be under control and they are likely to have given her anti-sickness medication.
Kate Middleton emerged from the King Edward VII Hospital looking relaxed, carrying a bouquet of yellow flowers and giving a brief smile to the waiting press with Prince William
A St James’s Palace spokesman said: “The Duchess of Cambridge has been discharged from the King Edward VII Hospital and will now head to Kensington Palace for a period of rest.
“Their Royal Highnesses would like to thank the staff at the hospital for the care and treatment the Duchess has received.”
Kate Middleton looked immaculate today, wearing a navy coat and knee high low-heeled black suede boots.
Prince William, 30, had arrived at the hospital a few minutes earlier in a green Land Rover, dressed in a light blue jumper, checked shirt, dark jeans and suede shoes.
Yesterday Kate was also visited by her sister, Pippa Middleton, and brother James, at 3:45 p.m. They were followed by Carole Middleton who arrived at the hospital to see her elder daughter at 7:30 p.m.
The latest pictures of Demi Moore are likely to cause concern among her family and friends, as she was seen exhibiting some very bizarre behavior at a Chanel party with Lenny Kravitz on Wednesday night.
Demi Moore, 50, played up to the photographers present at the Chanel Beachside Barbecue, leaving friends including Lenny Kravitz and George Clooney’s girlfriend Stacy Keibler bemused by her antics.
As she enjoyed a chilled out sit down with Lenny Kravitz, Demi Moore couldn’t resist busting some moves in time with the music.
The mother-of-three, who wore a chic grey playsuit for the occasion, was seen lifting her arms and bumping and grinding while in her seat, as Lenny Kravitz appeared embarrassed and looked away.
While it is not clear whether or not Demi Moore was drinking at the evening, an array of energy drink cans were seen in front of her on the table – perhaps giving some explanation to her behavior.
As well as her dancing, Demi Moore was seen playing around with her hair – pulling her raven locks in front of her face as she posed up with Lenny Kravitz.
Later in the evening, Demi Moore found a new friend to play with as she posed with Stacy Keibler, who did her best to give the waiting photographers a chic shot – despite a slightly manic-looking Demi clinging on her arm.
Demi Moore was seen exhibiting some very bizarre behavior at a Chanel party with Lenny Kravitz on Wednesday night
While Demi Moore’s new beau American art dealer Vito Schnabel was at the event, the pair didn’t pose up together, but were rumored to have indulged in a passionate PDA inside.
A source told E! News: “They are definitely a couple. She is definitely more down to party than Vito.”
And the source added of Demi Moore’s partygoer attitude: “She was most ready to party than anyone else in the room!”
Other stars to attend the Chanel event included model Karlie Kloss and Rupert Murdoch’s wife Wendi, as well as Roman Abramovich’s girlfriend Dasha Zhukova.
Demi Moore has been keeping something of a low profile since announcing her marriage to Ashton Kutcher was over in November 2011, and is rarely seen at red carpet events.
As well as dealing with her marriage breakdown, the actress has also been struggling with health issues and checked into rehab last January.
But following her recovery, Demi Moore has thrown herself into her acting career and has landed a part in the highly anticipated drama Very Good Girls, which also stars Elizabeth Olsen and Dakota Fanning.
Isla Fisher stole the show from her husband Sacha Baron Cohen in daring plunging white gown by Willow with triangular cut out panels which accentuated her slim figure and red hair at the London premiere of Les Misérables.
But it must have got a little chilly as the pair posed up and ever the gentleman, Sacha Baron Cohen offered his wife a chivalric hand and helped her into her black jacket.
Although all eyes may have been on Isla Fisher, 36, her 6ft 2in husband perhaps had the best view of her daring satin gown as she shone on the red carpet.
Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays Monsieur Thénardier alongside Helena Bonham Carter, did his best to look dashing next to his stunning wife.
There was a general theme of innocence as star of the show Anne Hathaway wore a glamorous pearl Givenchy gown that boasted sequin detail and off the shoulder sleeves.
The floor-length gown fell perfectly over her figure, hugging her hips before flowing out around her feet but the real drama of the dress came from the back.
The gown boasted a dipped hemline that scooped to the small of her back, leaving plenty of skin on show.
Isla Fisher stole the show from her husband Sacha Baron Cohen in daring plunging white gown at the London premiere of Les Misérables
Sacha Baron Cohen’s onscreen wife Helena Bonham Carter , who plays Madame Thénardier, looked just as quirky as usual in a black gown.
Isla Fisher recently said being “Mrs. Borat” can be rather embarrassing.
“I cannot tell you how embarrassing he is in social situations,” Isla Fisher said.
“To him, there’s no difference between the awkward gaffes he deliberately makes as a comic, and the terrible faux pas he innocently commits as my husband.”
The Egyptian army has deployed tanks and armored troop carriers outside the presidential palace in Cairo after clashes between supporters and rivals of President Mohammed Morsi.
The streets of the capital are now reported to be calm following the earlier violence that left five people dead and hundreds injured.
Egypt is seeing growing unrest over a controversial draft constitution.
The government insists that a referendum will go ahead this month.
The clashes are possibly the most dangerous development in Egypt’s growing political crisis.
The violence, which opposition leaders accused Mohamed Morsi’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement of organizing, was ominously reminiscent of the tactics used by former President Hosni Mubarak during the revolution.
Supporters of Mohamed Morsi responded to a call to rally outside the presidential palace, in the suburb of Heliopolis, on Wednesday afternoon.
The mainly secular opponents of the president were already staging a sit-in protest there, after tens of thousands of them besieged the palace on Tuesday.
Stones and petrol bombs were thrown and there were reports of gunfire as Morsi supporters dismantled some of the tents set up by their opponents.
The Brotherhood later called on all sides to “withdraw at the same time and pledge not to return there given the symbolism of the palace”.
Disorder was also reported in other cities, with Muslim Brotherhood offices attacked in Ismailia and Suez.
The Egyptian army has deployed tanks and armored troop carriers outside the presidential palace in Cairo after clashes between supporters and rivals of President Mohammed Morsi
In a joint news conference, Mohamed ElBaradei, Amr Moussa and other leading figures of the opposition National Rescue Front said they held Mohamed Morsi fully responsible for the violence.
“Our opinion was, and still is, that we are ready for dialogue if the constitutional decree is cancelled … and the referendum on this constitution is postponed,” said Mohamed ElBaradei.
“The revolution did not happen for this. It happened for freedom, democracy and human dignity.
“Morsi must listen to the people, whose voice is loud and clear. There is no legitimacy in excluding the majority of the people,” he said.
Speaking on Wednesday, Vice-President Mahmoud Mekki said the vote on the draft constitution was still scheduled for 15 December, but that the “door for dialogue” remained open, indicating that changes could be made to the document later.
Critics say the draft was rushed through parliament without proper consultation and that it does not do enough to protect political and religious freedoms and the rights of women.
The draft added to the anger generated by Mohamed Morsi passing a decree in late November which granted him wide-ranging new powers.
Four of Mohamed Morsi’s advisers resigned on Wednesday in an apparent protest. Three others did so last week and Egypt’s Mena news agency reported a further resignation on Thursday.
In his news conference, broadcast earlier on state television, Mahmoud Mekki said there was “real political will to pass the current period and respond to the demands of the public”.
But he said there “must be consensus” on the constitution, and that “the door for dialogue is open for those who object to the draft”.
“I am completely confident that if not in the coming hours, in the next few days we will reach a breakthrough in the crisis and consensus,” he said.
The government has been speaking for some time about the need for dialogue, but has offered few concrete concessions which would end the crisis.
Mohamed Morsi adopted sweeping new powers in a decree on 22 November, and stripped the judiciary of any power to challenge his decisions.
Mohamed Morsi, who narrowly won Egypt’s first free presidential election in June, says he will give up his new powers once the new constitution is ratified.
Rolls-Royce has announced that it is in talks with the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) over possible bribery and corruption.
“It is too early to predict the outcomes, but these could include the prosecution of individuals and of the company,” Rolls-Royce said.
The British aircraft engine manufacturer said it had passed on information about alleged malpractice by intermediaries.
It followed a request from the SFO for information about alleged malpractice in Indonesia and China.
Rolls-Royce said it was cooperating fully with the investigation.
“I want to make it crystal clear that neither I nor the board will tolerate improper business conduct of any sort and will take all necessary action to ensure compliance,” said chief executive John Rishton.
“This is a company with exceptional prospects, and I will not accept any behavior that undermines its future success.”
Rolls-Royce has announced that it is in talks with the Serious Fraud Office over possible bribery and corruption
The company said that it had recently instituted a new ethics code of conduct, and would be hiring an independent consultant to carry out a review of its current procedures.
Rolls-Royce is a major international player in civil aerospace and defence, and employs over 40,000 people in 50 countries.
It is the world’s second largest manufacturer of aircraft engines after General Electric.
China and Indonesia were ranked 80 and 118 respectively out of 174 countries in the corruption perceptions index published by Transparency International on Wednesday, ranking from the least down to the most corrupt.
Shares in the company fell 5% at the start of trading in London on Thursday.
John McAfee, the founder of anti-virus software maker McAfee, has been arrested in Guatemala, accused of entering the country illegally.
John McAfee, 67, crossed the border to seek political asylum, having been on the run in Belize where police are investigating the death of his neighbor.
Belize officials said the software pioneer was a “person of interest” in the murder of Florida businessman Gregory Faull on 11 November.
John McAfee has protested his innocence.
He says on his blog that he has been “harassed” by police, and that this was the reason he fled Belize. There is no international arrest warrant for multi-millionaire fugitive.
Guatemalan Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla said John McAfee was arrested at a hotel in an affluent area of the capital, Guatemala City.
Appearing in public for the first time in weeks on Tuesday, John McAfee and his lawyer had said he would petition the Guatemalan government to stay there.
“Belize does not have a good track record of providing safety when they ask to question you. I felt much more secure crossing the border,” said John McAfee.
John McAfee, the founder of anti-virus software maker McAfee, has been arrested in Guatemala, accused of entering the country illegally
He reportedly checked into the five star Villa Real Hotel in Guatemala City earlier on Wednesday having sneaked out of Belize.
John McAfee revealed that in order to go unnoticed, he changed his appearance by dying his hair and beard, sticking chewed bubble gum to his upper gums to fatten his face and staining his teeth.
Gregory Faull was found dead with a single gunshot to the head on 11 November. His Belize home sits next to John McAfee’s compound on a tropical island.
The US software creator is known to have had a long-running row with Gregory Faull about the guard dogs he used to protect his compound.
He denies any involvement in the businessman’s death and says he went into hiding so he could stay close to his Belize home and conduct his own investigation into Gregory Faull’s death, adding that he had little faith that the island’s police would find the murderer.
In an interview with NBC, John McAfee offered a reward of $25,000 for the capture of the “person or persons” behind the killing.
John McAfee has led an eccentric life since he sold his stake in the anti-virus software company that bears his name in the early 1990s.
He moved to Belize about three years ago seeking lower taxes and has lived in semi-seclusion on a heavily guarded compound until recently.
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who designed some of the 20th Century’s most famous modernist buildings, has died just before his 105th birthday.
Oscar Niemeyer rose to international fame as the architect of the main government buildings in the futuristic Brazilian capital, Brasilia, inaugurated in 1960.
He also worked with Swiss-born modernist architect Le Corbusier on the UN building in New York.
He continued to work on new projects until earlier this year.
Oscar Niemeyer died on Wednesday at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
A memorial service will be held in the presidential palace in Brasilia on Thursday.
Oscar Niemeyer’s family was informed of the honor in a phone call from President Dilma Rousseff.
“Brazil has lost today one of its geniuses, It is a day to lament his death. It is a day to acclaim his life.”
Rio de Janeiro’s Mayor Eduardo Paes has declared three days of mourning in Oscar Niemeyer’s home city.
It is thought he will be buried there on Friday.
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who designed some of the 20th Century’s most famous modernist buildings, has died just before his 105th birthday
Oscar Niemeyer started his career in the 1930s, when Brazil was still copying neoclassical European architecture and designing ornate palace-like buildings.
His bold futuristic designs in Brasilia made the new capital a dramatic statement of confidence in the future of Brazil, and an icon of modern architecture.
A student of Le Corbusier, he developed a distinctive style defined by stark concrete and sweeping curves.
He famously once said the stylized swoops in his buildings were inspired by the curves of Brazilian women.
“When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution,” he said.
“I once wrote a poem about the curve. The curve I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean and on the body of the beloved woman.”
A firm communist – and a personal friend of Cuban leader Fidel Castro – Oscar Niemeyer fled the country during Brazil’s military dictatorship and forged an international career while in exile in France.
In 1988, Oscar Niemeyer was awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize.
His style was not to everyone’s taste, and for a communist some people say his work was not very people-friendly – focusing more on the architecture’s form than on its inhabitants or functionality.
Oscar Niemeyer went on to create more than 600 buildings around the world. His legacy endures in museums, monuments, schools and churches in Brazil and beyond.
Many of the designs were initially sketched on a table overlooking his beloved Rio de Janeiro and its famous Copacabana beach, replete with the women, waves and hills from which he drew such inspiration.
An animal welfare group in New Zealand has trained three dogs to get behind the wheel in an attempt to show the public how intelligent they are.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will put them to the test in a live broadcast next Monday.
The dogs have been trained over eight weeks in specially made wooden carts which they have been driving around inside an indoor test lab.
They then graduated to a modified Mini in which they sat on their haunches in the driver’s seat with their paws on the steering wheel.
Their feet go on extension levers which had been attached to the accelerator and the brake whilst their paw will rest on the gearstick.
Mark Vette, the animal trainer who is schooling the dogs, said in a preview of the show that they treated the training like a “film shoot”, in reference to his work in the movies.
He said: “We train the dogs to do different actions, touch is the first thing and then we teach them to touch the different objects with the right paw and left paw.
“They’ve all come through at this point and they’re all going really well.”
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New Zealand has trained three dogs to drive in an attempt to show the public how intelligent they are
The dogs that were chosen were Porter, a 10-month old Beardie Cross, Monty, an 18-month-old Schnauzer Cross, and Ginny, a one-year-old Beardie Whippet Cross.
All of them had been rescued by the SPCA.
The organization hopes that the public will be so impressed with the animals that they will adopt them and others like them.
SPCA Auckland Chief executive Christine Kalin said: “I think sometimes people think because they’re getting an animal that’s been abandoned that somehow it’s a second-class animal.
“The dogs have achieved amazing things in eight short weeks of training, which really shows with the right environment just how much potential all dogs from the SPCA have as family pets.”
The Canadian operation of Pizza Hut has launched a fragrance after receiving an enthusiastic response to a post asking fans just how much they loved the smell of a box of its pizza being opened.
Named Eau de Pizza Hut, the scent apparently has “top notes of freshly baked, hand-tossed dough”.
Released as a limited-edition, its launch marks the Pizza Hut Canada Facebookpage reaching 100,000 fans.
Beverley D’Cruz, Marketing and Product Development Director for Pizza Hut Canada, explained in a statement: “What better way to celebrate our Facebook fans than by providing them with a way to enjoy the fresh smell of Pizza Hut pizza whenever they want!”
The post that inspired the ill-conceived idea read: “Do you love the smell of a box of Pizza Hut pizza being opened?
“We thought so. If that smell was a perfume, what would it be called?”
Pizza Hut Canada has launched a fragrance after receiving an enthusiastic response to a Facebook post
It sparked 271 comments – both positive and negative, as well as 160 likes and 109 shares.
Among the varied suggestions were “Grease Lightening”, “Eau Ver Weight” and “Heaven Scent”, as well as several nominations for “Pizzaz”.
Though we cannot imagine anyone actually wishing to spend their hard-earned cash on the scent, Pizza Hut says that bottles will be given away to those who initially shared their desire for the pizza-scented fragrance.
And thankfully it will not be making a presence in department stores – or at least, not any time soon.
“For now, we’ve only produced 110 bottles of Eau de Pizza Hut, but who knows what the future has in store,” Beverley D’Cruz said.
“The good news is people can enjoy the great smell of fresh Pizza Hut pizza any day of the week by ordering one of our signature crust pizzas.”
