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BBC apologise as Scotsman bares all on live TV –
Police have launched an investigation after a Scottish rugby fan exposed himself on a live BBC show. The Scot dropped his kilt on Friday’s evening news programme BBC Wales Today, ahead of Scotland’s clash with Wales yesterday afternoon. The clip has become a YouTube hit and had received more than 40,000 views by Sunday morning. Scotland were defeated 31-24 at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium. [Daily Telegraph]

Katherine Jenkins turned down £1 million Playboy shoot to keep mum happy –
Katherine Jenkins has revealed she turned down £1 million to strip naked for Playboy because she did not want to upset her mum. The Welsh mezzo-soprano is revered for her curvy figure almost as much as for her classical singing talent. She has become the darling of red carpet photographers with her large bust and slim waist squeezed into figure-hugging dresses. The 29-year-old blonde once posed in a revealing basque for upmarket men’s magazine GQ in November 2008. But she has never completely flashed the flesh despite doing some modelling work when she was in her late teens to help pay for her musical studies. [Daily Telegraph]
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• NATO admits it killed 12 civilians when two misfired rockets hit a house in Marjah, Helmand. President Hamid Karzai calls for an explanation.(BBC) (news.com.au) (Reuters)
• Viva Leroy Nash, the oldest death row inmate in the United States, dies of natural causes at the age of 94. (BBC) (The New Zealand Herald)(Taipei News)
• Thousands of people collect in Beirut on the fifth anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in a bombing alongside 21 other people, with his son and current Prime Minister Saad Hariri addressing the crowd. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Irish Times) (CBC) (The Independent)
• Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki undoes the suspensions for fraud of the agriculture and education ministers handed out by his Prime Minister.(BBC)
• BMW Oracle win the 33rd America’s Cup becoming the first American team to win since 1992. (BBC) (TVNZ) saling.org/wordcup/news
• Rafiq Husseini, a top aide of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, is suspended following involvement in an alleged attempt to trade influence for sex. (MSNBC) (The Jerusalem Post)(The Guardian)
• Cyclone Rene heads for Tonga and Niue after brushing American Samoa. (The New Zealand Herald) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Nine Irish Roman Catholic bishops and Cardinal Seán Brady arrive in Rome to discuss the Murphy Report and Ryan Report into the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Ireland with Pope Benedict XVI, the first such meetings there in eight years. (RTÉ) (Reuters) (Gulf Times) (The Irish Times)
• Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani condemns the bomb blast in Pune, India, one day earlier, saying Pakistan is against terrorism and that his country wants better relations with India. (The Hindu)
• Iran detains five more members of the Baha’i minority, in addition to Baha’i leaders jailed since 2008, for alleged involvement in protests against the regime. (The Jerusalem Post)
• The death toll from yesterday’s double bus electrocution in Port Harcourt rises to as much as 40, with more than 30 injured. (THISDAY) (The Punch) (Press TV) (The New York Times)
• Viktor Yanukovych is officially named winner of the Ukraine presidential election. (RIA) (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) (AP) (AFP)
• 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver:
  • Alexandre Bilodeau scores first place in the men’s freestyle skiing moguls, winning Canada’s first ever Olympic gold medal on home soil.(BBC)

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