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Zoella leaves dressing room for kitchen –
Zoe Sugg the YouTube vblogger with 7 million subscribers is to appear on the celebrity edition of The Great British Bake Off. Zoella as she is known online (@ZozeeBo with 2.6m followers on Twitter) recently featured on Debrett’s list of the 500 most influential people in Britain.
Zoe Sugg A.K.A. Zoella

AKB48 proposed to open Olympic ceremony in 2020 –
The big debate in Japan today is whether to allow J-pop group AKB48 to perform at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Their creator, Yasushi Akimoto, proposed choosing the best of the 48 girls (who rotate according to social media popularity) to appear but the idea was ridiculed by Japanese TV celebrity and columnist Matsuko Deluxe, who said the group (named after the Akihabara district of Tokyo) would be “an embarrassment”. The group have sold more than 30m records and had sales exceeding $128m (£85m) in 2013.

Big United beat little United –
Despite the support of 6,000 away fans Cambridge United are finally beaten by Manchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford in the 4th round of the FA Cup. Man Uniteds starting 11 cost £231m in transfer fees, Cambridge’s cost £0. By forcing a repeat two weeks ago the small club will get around £1 million for their share of the attendance fee which the chairman intends to spend on upgrading the toilets at their ground.

Cut down on your jog life –
A report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology finds that people who jog at a steady pace for less than two and a half hours a week were least likely to die over a 12-year period that was studied. Those who ran more than four hours a week or did no exercise had the highest death rates.

Video of the Day –

Zoella’s YouTube trailer

List of the day –

Debretts top people in Fashion 2015

• IMRAN AMED

• VICTORIA BECKHAM

• SARAH BURTON, OBE

• HRH THE DUCHESS CATHERINE OF CAMBRIDGE

• CARA DELEVINGNE

• JOHN GALLIANO, CBE

• DAVID GANDY

• SUSANNA LAU

• LULU KENNEDY, MBE

• NICHOLAS KIRKWOOD

• RUSSELL MARSH

• NATALIE MASSENET, MBE

• STELLA MCCARTNEY, OBE

• SAM MCKNIGHT

• KATE MOSS

• PHOEBE PHILO, OBE

• ALEXANDRA SHULMAN, OBE

• DAVID SIMS

• ALICE TEMPERLEY, MBE

• MARIO TESTINO, OBE

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• In the town of Chuddogram in eastern Bangladesh, anti-government protesters firebomb a bus full of sleeping passengers, leaving seven people dead. (AFP via ABC News)
• Egyptian Army soldiers fire warning shots at the Gaza Strip after an explosion occurs on the Gaza side of the border near a convoy. (Reuters)
• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  • The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant posts pictures of Jordanian Air Force pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh being burnt alive which Jordan believes are a month old. (BBC)

Arts and culture

• American author Harper Lee announced plans to publish her second book, a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, that was completed in the 1950s but misplaced. July 14, 2015 will be the release date for Go Set a Watchman. (The Telegraph)(ABC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2014–15 Australian bushfire season
  • The Department of Fire and Emergency Services orders the evacuation of residents of the Western Australia town ofNorthcliffe as a bushfire approaches. (Perth Now)
• An explosion at the Galleria 220 shopping center in the Perth suburb of Morley kills at least one person and injures nine others. (News Limited)
• 2014–15 North American winter
  • Ten people die in Cook County, Illinois while shoveling snow. (Chicago Tribune)
• A collision between a commuter train and a passenger vehicle kills six in Valhalla, New York. (AP via MSN), (CBS Local)

International relations

• The Iranian parliament passes a new bill that requires the Rouhani administration to cancel the Geneva interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear program in case of new US sanctions, as a response to a similar action by the Congress. (Icana)

Law and crime

• Standard & Poor’s reaches settlements totaling $1.5 billion with the U.S. Justice Department and several U.S. states for inflating ratings on subprime mortgage bonds in the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis. (Bloomberg)
• The investigator into the death of Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman states that Nisman had drafted a request thatPresident Cristina Fernandez be arrested for allegedly attempting to derail his investigation of the 1994 AMIA bombingthat killed 85 people. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• John Baird resigns as the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. (Daily Mail)

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