Who Is Ginger Zee Married To? Ben Aaron Is A Media Figure Himself

To be honest, whenever any season of The Bachelor comes to a close it's a sad day for Monday night television. But the upside is that once the final rose is passed out, it's Dancing With The Stars time and that can be even more fun to watch, especially with the lineup of this season's contestants and pro-partners. Tonight, DWTS fans will be able to catch meteorologist Ginger Zee as she performs a jive to "Move", from the musical Dreamgirls, with Valentin Chmerkovskiy — and there's bound to be plenty of onstage-chemistry. Butwho is Ginger Zee married to in real life?

Turns out, Zee's husband Ben Aaron will be watching her work her dance moves on Monday night. The two both work in media in New York City, and like any good love story, they work for competing networks. Zee is Good Morning America's meteorologist and Aaron is a news correspondent for NBC. (I guess opposites really do attract, right?)

The couple were first married in a private, beach ceremony in June 2014 and just this past December welcomed their first child, son Adrian, in time for the holidays. If there's any way to work out a post-baby bod, it's probably with a stint on Dancing With The Stars. Just after his birth, the Zee and Aaron announced the little tot's arrival with a post on Instagram. "He's here!" they excitedly shared on the social network for all of their fans. "We are all doing great and inundated with love," they added, speaking for happy families everywhere.

While Zee greets America every morning on ABC to report on the weather, Ben is a local correspondent for New York City's local NBC affiliate station and according to The New York Daily News, he's been working very hard of late to boost his ratings. Recently, for instance, Aaron did a bit in his birthday suit, wearing just Zee's underpants to promote his show, New York Live. According to the Daily News, a source said he paraded up and down Fifth Avenue for a promo for the show, but the ratings were still lackluster that night. He also has a taped show called Life According to Ben on the local network.

Meanwhile, Zee's career seems to be taking off and the added celebrity of being on Dancing With The Stars will probably ensure that everyone knows her name by the end of the season. Maybe it's a good thing that Aaron isn't equally as occupied now that they have a newborn and she has rehearsals all over the place.

For her part, Zee is taking her stint on the dance competition show very seriously. Leading up to the premiere of the show on Monday afternoon, aGMA communications exec tweeted out a picture of her and her partner Val reviewing rehearsal videos, and Zee herself has been urging fans to tune in, tweeting a photo of the DWTS couple last week with the caption "Less than a week until we hit the dance floor! Hope you all will vote for #TeamGinandJuice!"

Val Chmerkovskiy won the Mirror Ball Trophy two seasons ago, so it looks like Team #GinandJuice, their official tag, are looking for another victory. But given Zee's adorably comfy family life with husband Ben Aaron, she'll be going home a winner no matter what.

Obama nominates Merrick Garland, DC appeals court judge, to supreme court

President warns Senate Republicans that refusing to consider his nomination of the 63-year-old progressive federal appeals court judge imperils democracy

Barack Obama dramatically intensified his dispute with Senate Republicans on Wednesday, warning as he announced his nomination of DC appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the US supreme court that continuing to block confirmation proceedings would inflict irreparable damage on the pillars of American democracy.

In an impassioned speech from the Rose Garden of the White House, Obama issued an unalloyed threat to the Republican leadership: begin the confirmation process or reap the consequences. He said that to do otherwise – as the Senate majority leader, Mitchell McConnell, has vowed to do – would imperil democracy itself.

“The reputation of the supreme court will inevitably suffer. Faith in our justice system will inevitably suffer. Our democracy will suffer as well,” the president said.

By appointing Garland, 63, the chief judge of the federal appeals court of Washington DC, Obama seeks to hit the sweet spot of the current dispute triggered by last month’s death of the influential conservative supreme court justice Antonin Scalia. Garland is widely seen as a moderate individual motivated by legal propriety as opposed to political point scoring, and has earned plaudits over the years from both sides of the aisle.

Among his admirers, Garland can count the Republican senator for Utah, Orrin Hatch, who has called him a “consensus nominee” and “a fine man”. John Roberts, the conservative chief justice of the supreme court, has also praised Garland’s “reasonableness”, memorably stating: “Any time Judge Garland disagrees, you know you’re in a difficult area.”

In the coming firestorm over the confirmation process for the empty supreme court seat, the White House is also likely to remind seven current Republican senators – Dan Coats, Thad Cochran, Susan Collins, Hatch, Jim Inhofe, John McCain and Pat Roberts – that they voted for Garland’s confirmation to the DC circuit 19 years ago.

As Garland tearfully accepted Obama’s nomination in the Rose Garden, he invoked his parents, Jewish exiles from Russia and eastern Europe, his wife and daughters, and recalled his most famous case as a prosecutor: the pursuit of the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. He said the experience of leading the prosecution of that terrorist act had underlined for him the importance of trust in the justice system.

“People must be confident that a judge’s decisions are determined by the law and only the law. He must be faithful to the constitution and statutes passed by Congress. Fidelity to the constitution and the law has been the cornerstone of my life and the hallmark of the kind of judge I have tried to be,” he said.
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Obama said that “to find someone with such a long career of public service who just about everyone respects and likes, that is rare. That speaks to whoMerrick Garland is, not just as a lawyer but as a man.”

Hillary Clinton, who could be deeply affected by the choice of Garland as nominee should she win the presidential election in November, expressed her approval of the decision. “President Obama has met his responsibility. He has chosen a nominee with considerable experience on the bench and in public service, a brilliant legal mind, and a long history of bipartisan support and admiration. Now, it’s up to members of the Senate to meet their own, and perform the constitutional duty they swore to undertake,” she said.

Obama’s meticulously moderate choice to replace Scalia, who for half a century helped to shape the dominant conservative voice on the supreme court, now puts the Republican senators under the spotlight. They have vowed to have nothing to do with any nominee, on the grounds that the people should decide through the next president who will enter the White House in January.

On the one hand, the shift from Scalia to Garland, were the latter confirmed, would undoubtedly move the top court sharply to the left by overturning the five-to-four, conservative-to-progressive balance that has held for years. That change could have vast ramifications for the landscape of American law, from the future of abortion rights and gun laws, to civil rights and the injection of money into elections.

On the other hand, the White House is calculating that were the Republicans to sustain their obstructionism and refuse even to look at as non-partisan a figure as Merrick Garland, it would expose them to the accusation that they have run roughshod over the US constitution in the cause of party politics. That could hurt them in November at the polls, Democrats are surmising.


McConnell immediately tried to turn Obama’s warning back on the president. He said it was not the Republican party that was politicizing the process, but Obama himself by attempting to force a supreme court appointment during an election year. “It seems clear that President Obama made this nomination not with the intent of seeing the nominee confirmed, but in order to politicize it for purposes of the election,” the majority leader said on the floor of the Senate.

Though the House of Representatives has no formal role in selecting the nine supreme court justices, the Republican speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, waded into the dispute to back the controversial stance taken by his colleagues in the Senate. “This has never been about who the nominee is. It is about a basic principle. Under our constitution, the president has every right to make this nomination, and the Senate has every right not to confirm a nominee,” he said.
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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said: “I proudly stand with my Republican colleagues in our shared belief – our advice and consent – that we should not vote on any nominee until the next president is sworn into office. The people will decide.

Reince Priebus, the chair of the Republican National Committee, pledged in a series of tweets on Thursday morning that he “won’t stand by while Obama attempts to install a liberal majority” on the supreme court.

It may not presage well for Obama in his present tussle with the GOP that when Garland was up for confirmation to the DC circuit in 1997 it took the US Senate of that day – which was also Republican-controlled – 18 months to complete the confirmation process. The eventual vote was 76 to 23, with 32 Republicanssupporting him.

Garland is expected to go to Capitol Hill on Thursday to begin meeting with senators face-to-face. McConnell spoke to Garland on the phone Wednesday and declined to meet with him in person so as not to subject him to “more unnecessary political routines orchestrated by the White House”, McConnell’s spokesman told the Associated Press. He reiterated his position that he would not consider Garland’s nomination.

This is the third time that Obama has considered Garland for a supreme court position: he was a runner-up in the process that led to the appointments of both Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, in 2009 and 2010 respectively.

A native Chicagoan and Harvard graduate, Garland excelled in private law but chose to eschew fat salaries for the less lucrative but arguably more exciting world of public criminal prosecutions. In the immediate aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing that ripped apart a federal building and killed 168 people, he was dispatched to the city to set up the early stages of the prosecution case, winning plaudits for gathering large amounts of evidence that led to the convictions of both McVeigh and Terry Nichols.

He was also central to the prosecution of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.

He acquired his passion for being a judge by sitting at the feet of the liberal supreme court justice William Brennan, who was a champion of progressive policies such as opposition to the death penalty and support of abortion rights. Garland has had plenty of opportunity to wield similar progressive influence as chief judge of the DC appeals circuit which, given its location, frequently acts as arbiter in major cases concerning the federal government.

Among those were the 2008 judgment from the appeals court, led by Garland, that punched a hole in the Bush administration’s detention of so-called “enemy combatants” in Guantánamo Bay without any oversight from the civilian courts. The ruling ordered the US government to submit the cases of Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs to civilian judicial review.

Caroline Herschel: Five things you need to know about first woman to be paid for her contribution to science

She become the first woman to be awarded with the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1838

The German astronomer Caroline Herschel was born 266 years ago and Google has marked her birthday with a Doodle.

As a pioneering female scientist, Herschel discovered eight comets, rediscovered another and completed a comprehensivecatalogue of stars including 560 stars previously unrecorded.

Here are five things you need to know about Ms Herschel:

1. She was the first woman to be paid for her contribution to science

Ms Herschel was given an annual salary of £50 by King George III in 1796 for her role as assistant to her brother, astronomer Sir William Herschel.

After her brother married, she began more independent astronomical work for which she become the first woman to be awarded with the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1838.

A woman did not receive this award again till Vera Rubin won in 1996.

2. There is a comet named after her

In recognition of her discovering it in 1788, the periodic 35P/Herschel-Rigollet comet was named in her honour. It has an orbital period of 155 years.

In addition, a crater in the "Sea of showers" on the moon is known as C Herschel after her.

3. She had staying power

Ms Herschel contracted typhus aged 10, which stunted her growth and meant she only grew to a height of 4ft 3".

Despite this, she outlived her brother by 26 years – the life expectancy at the time was 55.

4. She was an accomplished singer before turning to astronomy

Due to her father's role as a oboist and conductor in Bath, both she and her brother were taught music.

Before devoting herself to mathematics and astronomy, Ms Herschel became a well-regarded soprano singer.

5. She worked closely alongside two of the greatest astronomers of the time

On returning home to Hanover, Germany, after her brother's death in 1822, she continued astronomical work with Sir William's son and her nephew, John Hershel.

Sir John Herschel Bt named seven moons of Saturn and four moons of uranus.

Calon Istri Bupati Ogan Ilir Mengundurkan Diri

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA-Calon istri Bupati Ogan Ilir, Ahmad Wazir Noviadi, Anggita langsung mengundurkan diri dari kantornya di Bank BJB kantor cabang Palembang, Sumatera Selatan. Dari informasi yang dihimpun, Anggita dan Noviadi berencana akan melangsungkan pernikahan bulan depan.

"Sudah resign sejak Jumat lalu karena katanya mau nikah," ujar satpam BJB saat dikonfirmasi Tribun Sumsel.

Ia mengaku telah mendengar kabar akan menikah namun hingga saat ini belum ada surat undangan yang disebar. Anggita diketahui baru satu bulan bekerja di tempat tersebut.

Penangkapan terhadap Noviadi ternyata sudah direncanakan sejak tiga bulan lalu oleh Badan Narkotika Nasional (BNN) pusat. "Lebih kurang selama tiga bulan sudah kita lihat.
Pada waktu pelantikan saja dia (Noviadi) itu habis pakai (narkoba-sabu-sabu). Jelas sekali wajahnya habis pakai," ujar salah seorang petugas BNN.

Menurut sumber petugas BNN pusat ini, Noviadi memakai narkoba jenis sabu-sabu biasanya rutin setiap hari. Narkoba jenissabu-sabu didapat Noviadi melalui orang kepercayaannya yang juga tercatat sebagai tetangga Noviadi. "Orang yang jadi kurir ini namanya Murdani. Murdani ini ambil barangnya sama Ican. Biasanya setelah dapat barang (sabu-sabu), diletakan Murdani disebuah tempat di rumah Bupati ini. Barulah si Bupati ini mengambil sendiri barang sabu-sabu yang diletakan tadi," ujarnya.

Wakil Ketua Umum Golkar Agung Laksono mengaku terkejut dengan penangkapan Bupati Ogan Ilir Ahmad Wazir Noviadi oleh Badan Narkotika Nasional (BNN). Menurut Agung, penangkapan tersebut menjadi pelajaran bagi masyarakat. Terutama, seseorang yang mejadi pejabat negara. "Memang saya sangat terkejut, sudah ditarget jadi TO (target operasi)," kata Agung.

Agung meminta pemeriksaan Bupati Ogan Ilir oleh BNN harus objektif untuk menghidari dugaan politis dibalik penangkapan tersebut. "Saya percaya BNN objektif. Tidak boleh menjatuhkan. Apalagi pemakai itu kan korban," imbuhnya.

Le conducteur responsable de l'accident de Kevin Anin condamné à 18 mois de prison ferme

La vie de Kevin Anin a basculé dans la nuit du 4 au 5 juin 2013. Passager arrière dans une voiture qui revenait d’Amsterdam, il en a été éjecté à la suite d’un accident de la route. La voiture avait fait deux tonneaux sur l’autoroute après avoir mordu le bas-côté. Victime d’une fracture de la colonne vertébrale et d’un écrasement de la moelle épinière, l’ancien joueur du Havre, de Sochaux et de Nice est devenu paraplégique.

Le procès du conducteur de la voiture, qui n’avait pas le permis, s’est tenu vendredi dernier au tribunal correctionnel de Dieppe. Il a été condamné à 18 mois de prison ferme, rapporte France Bleu ce lundi. « Les faits sont très graves et les conséquences sont dramatiques, d’où ma sévérité », a expliqué la présidente du tribunal au moment de rendre son verdict.

Comme le rapporte le journal Paris-Normandie, l’avocat de Kevin Anin, Me Marc Ceccaldi, a demandé une nouvelle audience pour définir les intérêts civils auxquels aura droit son client. Ce dernier ayant dû dire adieu à sa carrière de footballeur professionnel, ils devraient s’élever à plusieurs centaines de milliers d’euros.

Deep anger at core of Apex gang causing havoc on Melbourne’s streets

SOUTH central Melbourne became more like South Central Los Angeles on Saturday as rioters swept through the CBD terrifying locals and tourists alike.

Havoc descended on Federation Square with metal chairs from the city’s famous Brunetti's cafe used as weapons on nearby Swanston St, as gang members fought with both the police and among themselves.

But these weren’t members of Melbourne’s notorious crime families, as depicted inUnderbelly, or even bikie gangs asserting their dominance. But rather young people, some no more than 12 years of age, from a hitherto little known gang living out their dreams of a “Fast and the Furious” lifestyle.

Police say the gang had been under surveillance for months, accused of breaking into homes, stealing cars and even the tragic death of a mum-of two late last year.

While a Salvation Army officer with knowledge of the gangs told news.com.au the culprits “don’t care” about the concerns their actions cause, and that a fear of being a labelled racist meant little effort was being done to tackle the gangs whose members predominantly hail from eastern Africa but also the Middle East and the South Pacific.

PLAYING ACTION HEROES

Apex St in Dandenong North, on Melbourne’s eastern fringe, is a world away from the violence on Swanston St. With its red brick houses lining the tree-dotted footpath, and mini roundabouts ensuring cars keep a steady pace, it could look like any suburban street in Australia’s major cities.

But the street, in an area that is one of the hubs of the city’s African community, is said to be the inspiration for the Apex gang’s name.

A primary group within Apex is young African men among living in Melbourne’s outer suburbs. In recent months, police have arrested more than 30 gang members for crimes including robbery, assault and car theft, as part of Taskforce Tense that was set up in November.

The gang’s penchant is for stealing luxury cars — but not to sell on.

“From what we are seeing, it’s largely teenagers targeting high-end cars they want to drive,” Narre Warren police detective Acting Sergeant Reuben McAllister told theCranbourne Leader earlier this month.

“When they’ve finished with them, they dump them or burn them. Some of them still have not been found.”

The group call their strategy for stealing “missioning”. It involves sneaking into houses in the dead of night, stealing the car keys and driving off with the vehicle.

Southern Metro Region Assistant Commissioner Robert Hill told reporters on Thursday that a gang — which news.com.au understands to be the Apex gang — of car thieves was behind a recent string of violent aggravated burglaries.

Mr Hill said many of the alleged car thieves were playing out scenarios featured in The Fast and the Furious films and the video game Grand Theft Auto.

“They are playing out and living as action heroes in our streets,” he said.

‘THEY JUST KICK THE DOOR DOWN’

Late last year, police reported that former rivals from the three main gangs had joined forces under the Apex umbrella. Since then the situation has worsened while the gangs have become more brazen.

“They used to sneak in. Now, they’ll just kick the door in,” a police source told theHerald Sun. There has even been reports of carjackings.

At least two home invasions were carried out by the group in Melbourne suburbs last week. The families targeted for their luxury cars were left traumatised by the thugs who were armed with a steel pole and a baseball bat.

A member of the gang also reportedly threatened to walk into a Melbourne police station and shoot a police detective who is investigating the criminal activities of the group. The officer has since been put on stress leave and a notice has been posted on the wall of the police station warning officers about the threats from the under-age gangsters.

Sometimes, incidents linked to gangs, have been far more tragic. In November,mum-of two Amanda Matheson died after her car was ploughed into by a stolen BMW careering down the wrong side of the road. The driver was just 15-years-old with the collision occurring 20 minutes from Dandenong.

Earlier this month, police claimed to have smashed a million-dollar burglary and car theft racket involving the Apex gang, with several of its members charged in relation to no less than 30 break-ins in the city’s southeast over just a two-week period.

A total of 33 gang members have been arrested since Taskforce Tense was set up. Nevertheless, 150 gang members congregated in Melbourne on Saturday chanting “f*** the police” and “it’s a public space, we have a right to be here”.

BUILD A BRIDGE, NOT A WALL

It was not the first time gang members have made their presence known in the CBD, having previously run amok on New Year’s Eve and last month’s White Night.

Commanding Officer of the Salvation Army in Victoria, Brendan Nottle, told news.com.au that the motives behind Saturday’s rampage were pretty simple. “I think its driven by this deep seated anger. They don’t care what impact they have, they’re saying ‘we don’t care what you think.’”

“It’s no surprise to me this happened,” he said. “The only surprise was it happened at 10pm when people were still around.”

Mr Nottle said African youth, mainly immigrants, had suffered through a deeply tortuous journey to Australia, often spending years in camps in “appalling” conditions.

Once they got to Australia, a country far from home, some found it difficult in school, difficult to get jobs and felt “locked out” of the community. While many did progress well, inevitably some ended up rubbing shoulders with equally aggrieved young people.

But a fear by politicians of being seen to target one community had left action on tackling the problem in limbo. “I think it’s because there’s a nervousness about being labelled a racist but the people that want to do something don’t have racist motives,’’ said Mr Nottle.

“I went public about this and I got labelled as being racist but my comments were the complete opposite. Having met African youth I know they have a deep sense of anger.

“We need to have some very serious conversations, and not point the finger, about why people are so angry.”

One of the most successful campaigns the Salvation Army has run in relation to young African men and teenagers was with a Sudanese outreach worker who was able to talk one-on-one with people, gauge their concerns and act as a link between them and established support services.

Those people prone to being in gangs needed to talk to other young people and, ultimately, come to feel that Australia was their home. “It’s important we don’t drive an even greater wedge with the African community. Rather than building a wall we need to be building a bridge.”

News.com.au has contacted a number of groups representing the African community in Victoria for comment.

Turkey explosion: Ankara car bomb kills at least 32

The explosion happened in Guven Park in the Kizilay district, a key transport hub and commercial area.

Several vehicles at the scene were reduced to burnt-out wrecks, including at least one bus.

Last month, a bomb attack on a military convoy in Ankara killed 28 people and wounded dozens more.

The Hurriyet newspaper said the latest blast happened at about 18:40 (16:40 GMT) and the area was evacuated in case of a second attack. Many ambulances were at the scene, it added.

No group has yet claimed the attack. However, a security official told Reuters news agency that initial findings suggested it was the work of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) or an affiliated group.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said terror groups were targeting civilians because they were losing their struggle against Turkish security forces.

He said such attacks "increase our determination to fight terrorism".

Turkish Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu told a news conference that 30 people were killed at the scene and four died later in hospital, however two of the dead are believed to be the attackers. He said 125 people were being treated at several hospitals in Ankara, of whom 19 are in a critical condition.

Interior Minister Efkan Ala said the investigation would be concluded on Monday and those behind the bombing would be named.

The ministers were speaking after an emergency security meeting called by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

Hurriyet also reported that a court in Ankara had ordered a ban on access to social media, including Facebook and Twitter, saying it was to stop people sharing images of the attack.

The BBC's Mark Lowen in Istanbul says three attacks in the Turkish capital in less than six months show the multiple security threats that Turkey now faces.

The country that was the stable corner of the Middle East and the West's crucial ally in a volatile region is now at a dangerous moment, he adds.

Meanwhile, it has emerged that the US embassy in Ankara warned its citizens on 11 March of a "potential terrorist plot" in the city.

Last month's bombing was claimed by a Kurdish militant group, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK). It said on its website that the attack was in retaliation for the policies of President Erdogan.

Turkey, however, blamed a Syrian national who was a member of another Kurdish group.

Last October, more than 100 people were killed in a double-suicide bombing at a Kurdish peace rally in Ankara.

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Ivory Coast: 16 dead in Grand Bassam beach resort attack

The attackers fired on beach-goers in Grand Bassam, about 40km (25 miles) from the commercial capital Abidjan.

The resort is popular with both locals and foreigners. Four of the dead were Westerners, including a French and a German national, officials say.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has claimed the attack. The gunmen have been "neutralised", officials say.

Ivory Coast was once one of the most stable countries in West Africa.

However, a civil war broke out in 2002, pitting the mainly Muslim north against the largely Christian south. Since then, peace deals have alternated with renewed violence.

The attack confirms the fears of the Ivorian government, which has attempted to beef up security, particularly in its northern border regions, to keep Islamist militants out.

Grand Bassam is all the way to the south on the Atlantic coast, though. That shows that the militants have not just crossed the border but they might have even have a greater presence in the country. It furthers prove the capacity of jihadists to blend into the public and strike soft targets.

This threat is spreading across West Africa. To halt it, regional governments would need to step up their act in policing, as well as gathering and acting on intelligence individually and collectively.

France, too, is likely to boost its military campaign to protect its vast and entrenched interests in its former colonies.

A witness to Sunday's attack told AFP news agency that "heavily armed men wearing balaclavas" had opened fire near the L'Etoile du Sud hotel, which was full of expats.

Fourteen of those killed were civilians and two were soldiers, officials say. Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko four of the civilians were Westerners, and included a French and a German national.

There is no word on the nationalities of the other victims. French President Francois Hollande condemned the "cowardly attack".

BBC regional reporter Maud Jullien says Ivory Coast has been identified as one of several countries in West Africa at risk of being targeted by Islamist militants.

AQIM claimed deadly attacks on luxury hotels in Mali in November and Burkina Faso in January.

The group, which has its origin in Algeria's civil war of the 1990s, has expanded across the Sahel regions south of the Sahara in recent years.

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Why Pi Day 2016 Is Special

If you're looking for an excuse to pig out on pie or pie someone

March 14 (3/14) is celebrated annually as Pi Day because the date resembles the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter 3.14159265359 or 3.14 for short.

Archimedes of Syracuse (about 287–212 B.C.) is credited with doing the first calculation of Pi, while British mathematician William Jones came up with the Greek letter and symbol for the figure in 1706 which was later popularized by Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, beginning in 1737.

Last year’s date 3.14.2015 was especially significant because it matched the first four digits after the decimal point. This year, some math lovers have already started calling 3.14.16 “Rounded Pi Day,” rounding up those four digits.

In honor of this math holiday, expect to see a lot of offers for $3.14 slices of pie and pizzas. The admissions office at MIT is famous for handing out decisions on that day, while the Exploratorium in San Francisco has alwaysthrown a party. And because 3.14 is also Albert Einstein’s birthday, a celebration takes place in Princeton, N.J., in honor of both Pi Day and the mathematical genius, who lived in the area.

NCAA tournament bracketology: Projecting the field of 68

Selection Sunday is finally here, and the field of 68 is minutes away from being announced. Michigan State held off Purdue to win the Big Ten tournament title and with that, the Spartans secured a No. 1 seed in the final bracket. UConn, which won the AAC tournament title, did bubble teams a favor by toppling bid thief candidate Memphis. On Saturday, North Carolina got the best of Virginia in the ACC tournament final, but both teams are relatively settled in as No. 1 seeds. Big 12 tournament winner Kansas stays the top overall seed.

March Madness 2016: Printable NCAA tournament bracket

Who's ready for some March Madness? The regular season is finished and the NCAA Division I men's selection committee has revealed the 68 teams who have made the 2016 men's basketball tournament.

You can get your official NCAA.com printable bracket here. Want to compete against your friends for the chance to win a trip to next year's Final Four? Join the Capitol One NCAA March Madness Bracket Challenge game.

Here's the schedule for this year's tournament:

First Four: March 15-16; UD Arena Dayton, Ohio

First and Second Rounds:

March 17, 19 at Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa; PNC Arena, Raleigh, N.C.; Pepsi Coliseum, Denver; Dunkin Donuts Center, Providence, R.I.

March 18, 20 at Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Scottrade Center, St. Louis; Chesapeak Energy Center, Oklahoma City; Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Wash.

West Regional: March 24, 26 Honda Center, Anaheim, Calif.

South Regional: March 24, 26 KFC YUM! Center, Louisville, Ky.

Midwest Regional: March 25, 27 United Center, Chicago, Ill.

East Regional: March 25, 27 Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, Pa.

Final Four: April 2, 4 NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas

What time does England v Wales kick off? What TV channel is it on? Who's in the two teams?

Everything you need to know about the big Six Nations showdown at Twickenham as coaches Eddie Jones and Warren Gatland go head-to-head

After three rounds of the Six Nations, only a point separates England and Wales at the top of the table - and they meet on Saturday in a match which could decide the destiny of the 2016 title.

We look at everything you need to know about today's game - from the team line-ups to where you can watch the game and who will be the star performers.
Who is playing?

England v Wales, Six Nations (Saturday, March 12)
What time does the game kick off?

The action starts at 4pm at Twickenham in south-west London.
Where can I watch it?

As with all England home games, ITV have the live rights and begin their coverage at 3.25pm. Presenter Mark Pougatch will be joined in the studio by Jonny Wilkinson, Sir Clive Woodward and Gareth Thomas. Commentary comes from Miles Harrison, with analysis by David Flatman and Shane Williams.

Alternatively, there is coverage in Welsh on S4C, starting at 3.15pm. Anchored by Gareth Roberts, the team will include former internationals Dwayne Peel, Dafydd Jones, Deiniol Jones and Andrew Coombs, with Gareth Charles and former Wales captain andWalesOnline columnist Gwyn Jones in the commentary box.

Is the title at stake?

Yes. A Wales win will see Warren Gatland's men virtually assured of the crown as their last game is against Italy.

If England win, Wales will be out of the running, while Eddie Jones' will go to Paris to play France in search of a Grand Slam. France will also be hoping for an England victory and - if they can beat Scotland on Sunday - will need a convincing final-day success over the Red Rose to take the title themselves.

A draw between England and Wales - which isn't out of the question - would set up another Super Saturday with Wales needing to pile up the points against Italy, while hoping France, assuming they have beaten Scotland, defeat England in Paris, but not by a cricket score.
The line-ups

England: M Brown (Harlequins); A Watson (Bath), J Joseph (Bath), O Farrell (Saracens), J Nowell (Exeter); G Ford (Bath), B Youngs (Leicester); J Marler (Harlequins), D Hartley (Northampton, capt), D Cole (Leicester), M Itoje (Saracens), G Kruis (Saracens), C Robshaw (Harlequins), J Haskell (Wasps), B Vunipola (Saracens).

Replacements: L Cowan-Dickie (Exeter), M Vunipola (Saracens), K Brookes (Northampton), J Launchbury (Wasps), J Clifford (Harlequins), D Care (Harlequins), M Tuilagi (Leicester), E Daly (Wasps).

Wales: L Williams (Scarlets); A Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues), J Davies (Clermont Auvergne), J Roberts (Harlequins), G North (Northampton); D Biggar (Ospreys), G Davies (Scarlets); R Evans (Scarlets), S Baldwin (Ospreys), S Lee (Scarlets), B Davies (Wasps), A-W Jones (Ospreys), D Lydiate (Ospreys), S Warburton (Cardiff Blues, capt), T Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons).

Replacements: K Owens (Scarlets), P James (Ospreys), T Francis (Exeter), L Charteris (Racing 92), J Tipuric (Ospreys), R Webb (Ospreys), R Priestland (Bath), G Anscombe (Cardiff Blues).
Team news

Wales

Head coach Warren Gatland retains the starting line-up that accounted for France, although there are three changes on the bench.

Scrum-half Rhys Webb, who was called into Wales' Six Nations squad on Monday following a six-month injury absence from Test rugby, is among the replacements, along with fit-again lock Luke Charteris and prop Paul James.

Ospreys loosehead James takes over from 122 times-capped Gethin Jenkins, who is continuing his recovery from a calf muscle injury, while Charteris replaces Jake Ball and Webb comes in for Lloyd Williams.

England

Head coach Eddie Jones has also named an unchanged starting XV, but there are four changes to the bench in the promotion of Manu Tuilagi, lock Joe Launchbury, prop Kieran Brookes and hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie.

Cowan-Dickie will provide hooking cover for captain Dylan Hartley after Jamie George was ruled out for around two months by a ruptured biceps tendon sustained training.

Brookes, who has made a full recovery from a knee injury, has edged out Paul Hill as the replacement tighthead prop and Launchbury takes over from Courtney Lawes on the bench, while Tuilagi returns after a21-month international exile in place of Alex Goode.
Ones to watch

England - Jonathan Joseph: While at the pre-match talk has been about returning centre Manu Tuilagi's ability to break down defences, he will only be on the bench. In England's starting XV, they already have a game-breaker in Bath star Joseph. There were calls for Elliot Daly to be handed the No.13 jersey going into this tournament, but Joseph has once again shone on the international stage, crossing for a hat-trick of tries in Rome.

Wales - Taulupe Faletau: While Wales have been warned to be on alert for England's in-form No.8 Billy Vunipola, his opposite number has already been in the thoughts of the home side. They are clearly wary of the Bath-bound Dragon, with Chris Robshaw being heard to shout 'Faletau's breaking!' during a scrum drill at an open training session. The clash between cousins Vunipola and Faletau could be key to the outcome of the match.
Who's the ref?

Craig Joubert (South Africa): One of rugby's top officials is back at Twickenham for the first time since Scotland's Rugby World Cup quarter-final defeat against Australia. He awarded the Wallabies a last-gasp penalty in controversial circumstances which was kicked to deny the Scots a place in the semi-finals. This is a high-profile return for Joubert, who will have the help of French duo Jerome Garces and Mathieu Reynal as touch judges. The TMO is New Zealand's Ben Skeen.

What do the bookies say?

The bookmakers have installed England as warm-order favourites, with their unbeaten run and the Twickenham factor holding the key. But Wales will go into the match in confident mood after their victory at HQ in the Rugby World Cup, especially a number of their injury absentees that day are back.

Odds: England 4/9, Wales 2/1, Draw 18/1.
Did you know?

England have won 10 successive Six Nations Tests at Twickenham since Wales beat them there in 2012, though Wales have only lost four Six Nations games since the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

Trump supporters, protesters clash after Chicago rally postponed

Donald Trump's campaign on Friday postponed a rally in Chicago amid fights between supporters and demonstrators, protests in the streets and concerns that the environment at the event was no longer safe.

The announcement, which came amid large protests both inside and outside the event at the University of Illinois at Chicago, follows heightened concerns about violence in general at the GOP front-runner's rallies. Illinois holds its Republican primary on Tuesday.

Hundreds of demonstrators packed into an arena, breaking out into protest even before Trump had shown up. At least five sections in the arena were filled with protesters.

"Mr. Trump just arrived in Chicago, and after meeting with law enforcement, has determined that for the safety of all of the tens of thousands of people that have gathered in and around the arena, tonight's rally will be postponed to another date," the Trump campaign said in a statement. "Thank you very much for your attendance and please go in peace."

Several fistfights between Trump supporters and protesters could be seen after the announcement, as a large contingent of Chicago police officers moved in to restore order.

Supporters of Trump still inside chanted "We want Trump" after the event was canceled. Protesters, meanwhile, shouted "We shut s*** down" and "We stumped Trump." Others chanted "Bernie" as supporters whipped out Bernie Sanders campaign signs

Some protesters were being detained and forcefully carried out.

Maria Hernandez, a 25-year-old community organizer, broke out into dance as a Trump campaign staffer announced that the rally had been canceled.

"I've never been more proud of my city," Hernandez told CNN.

Hernandez, who came out to protest Trump, said the Republican front-runner's immigration policies, as well as racial divisions in her city, pushed her to show up and protest Trump's planned event.

"I'm protesting because I'm black and Mexican and I'm not sure where he wants to deport me to, but I deal with racism daily in Chicago and I've had enough," she said.

One Trump supporter said he was "disappointed" that the event was postponed.

"Protesters have won now," Marlin Patrick, 55, told CNN. "We just feel as if the protesters have taken over."

Debi Patrick, a 53-year-old Trump supporter who lives outside Chicago, said there should have been more security planned for the event, but said she didn't blame Trump for the atmosphere at the rallies, saying people are responsible for their own behavior. Asked if she would still vote for Trump on Tuesday, she said, "Absolutely, more than ever."

"Until today, we've never had much of a problem," Trump later told CNN's Don Lemon. Asked if he had any regrets about the charged rhetoric at his rallies, Trump was defiant.

"I don't have regrets," Trump said. "These were very, very bad protesters. These were bad dudes. They were rough, tough guys."

Authorities made five arrests, said Chicago Interim Police Superintendent John Escalante.

One of those arrested was Sopan Deb, a CBS reporter covering the Trump campaign. He's the latest reporter to be involved in incidents at Trump events, including Time magazine photographer Chris Morris (who claimed a Secret Service agent choked him and slammed him the ground) and Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields (who filed charges against Trump's campaign manager for allegedly grabbing her).

Regarding Thursday, CBS News President David Rhodes defended his reporter who was charged with resisting arrest, tweeting, "On tape, you see he did not resist, identified himself as working press."

Two officers suffered injuries, he said. One was hit in the head with a bottle.

Some 300 officers were on hand for crowd control, according to Escalante. The Trump campaign didn't consult with authorities before calling the event off, he said.

The Chicago Police Department was "confident" they could provide adequate security to protect Trump, his supporters and protesters, Escalante said.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel praised officers' effort under difficult circumstances.

"For all of us who cherish the ideals upon which our country was founded, the hateful, divisive rhetoric that pits Americans against each other demeans our democratic values and diminishes our democratic process," he said in a statement.

"I want to thank the men and women of the Chicago Police Department for their hard work tonight in unexpected circumstances, and their continued commitment to protecting people's first amendment rights."

A crowd of protesters outside the rally site had been steadily growing throughout the afternoon. Earlier Friday, 32 people were arrested in protests both inside and outside Trump's rally at the Peabody Opera House in St. Louis, police said. Thirty-one people were charged with disturbing the peace, and one was charged with third-degree assault. St. Louis police declined to provide further details.

Soon after the event was postponed, scores of protesters -- a racial mixture of whites and blacks, Hispanics and Asians -- spilled out into the streets near the university, which is located in the city's downtown.

Dozens of protesters gathered outside a parking garage adjacent to the arena, where police set up a human barricade to allow supporters to go to their cars and leave. More than a dozen police officers on horseback were there.

"Let's go, let's go," one Chicago police officer told Trump supporters in a truck. "Go home."

One supporter, who didn't give his name as he drove out, said the situation was dangerous and that he felt unsafe as protesters shouted at his car.

At one point, a man on the third floor of the garage leaned over the edge and shouted at protesters, "I don't support Trump."

A protester responded, "You f***ing neo-Nazi prick, come down here."

Aureliano Rivas, 18, a Mexican-American high school student from Chicago, told CNN he was protesting because "we have to stand our ground."

"We shouldn't let racism happen like this," said Rivas, who was shouting "F*** Trump" as Trump supporters drove out of the garage. In response, Rivas said, supporters were flipping him off.

Asked what he would tell a Trump supporter, Rivas said, "This is wrong. You shouldn't support someone who is racist."

Trump responds
Earlier in the night, as protests outside the arena continued, Trump tweeted that he had "just got off phone with the great people of Guam," which holds a Republican convention on Saturday to elect delegates.

"I just got off the phone with the great people of Guam! Thank you for your support! #VoteTrump today! #Trump2016."

After the protests in the arena ended, Trump did a series of media interviews, including one with CNN's Lemon. Trump said he had no regrets about his rhetoric, attributing the root cause of the violence to economic issues such as unemployment among African-American youths.

"We have a very divided country," Trump said. "A lot of people are upset because they haven't had a salary increase for 12 years."

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Trump also blamed the media for what he saw as an overinflation of the evening's problems. And he said most incidents involving protesters are tame and in control, saying that he has been "very mild" with those who disrupt his events and that his events are gatherings of "great love" that are interrupted by unruly, violent people.

Trump, however, did say he hoped "my tone is not that of causing violence."

"My basic tone is that of securing our borders, of having a country," he said.

And on Saturday morning, Trump took to Twitter again to blast those who disrupted the event. Their efforts would backfire and spur others to rally even more to support him, he predicted.

He wrote, "The organized group of people, many of them thugs, who shut down our First Amendment rights in Chicago, have totally energized America!"

2016 hopefuls blast Trump

The Republican frontrunner's son, Donald Trump Jr., blamed the demonstrators for the unrest.

"Liberals love the first amendment until you say something they don't agree with," he tweeted.

Yet Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump's main rival for the GOP presidential nomination who declined at CNN's Republican debate this week to blame Trump for violence at his rallies, took a much sharper tone on Friday night.

"In any campaign, responsibility starts at the top," Cruz told reporters in Rolling Meadows, Illinois.

"When you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence," he continued, "you create an environment that only encourages that sort of nasty discourse."

Cruz added that the violence was a "predictable consequence" of Trump's posture toward protesters at his events.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told Lemon that the protests were part of an "organized effort to disrupt a rally. This is not some organic protest."

"But putting that aside for a moment, the tone and tenor of Donald Trump's rallies over the last few months has been disturbing to a lot of people," he continued.

Rubio added, "If you're running for president, you have to understand that that kind of rhetoric from a president -- or a major presidential candidate -- has ramifications," Rubio said. "The images that the world must be looking at now must seem to them like our republic is fracturing."

Ohio Gov. John Kasich blasted Trump in a statement.

"Tonight, the seeds of division that Donald Trump has been sowing this whole campaign finally bore fruit, and it was ugly," he said. "Some let their opposition to his views slip beyond protest into violence, but we can never let that happen."

And Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic hopeful, tweeted during the night that his campaign's message was about unity, a thinly veiled shot at Trump.

"We do things a little different in this campaign: We bring people TOGETHER. #BernieInIL," he tweeted.

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton also weighed in, condemning the violence.

"The divisive rhetoric we are seeing should be of grave concern to us all," she said.

"We all have our differences, and we know many people across the country feel angry. We need to address that anger together," according to Clinton. "All of us, no matter what party we belong to or what views we hold, should not only say loudly and clearly that violence has no place in our politics, we should use our words and deeds to bring Americans together."

Heightened tensions at rallies

Protests and racial tensions have recently escalated at Trump rallies. On Thursday, a man attending a Trump rally this week was charged with assault after he allegedly sucker-punched a black protester being led out of a Trump event.

Last fall, Trump said a Black Lives Matter protester maybe "should have been roughed up." And despite an announcement at the start of his rallies urging protesters not to be violent toward protesters, Trump in February urged his supporters to "knock the crap out of" anybody "getting ready to throw a tomato" and vowed to pay for their legal fees should they face charges.

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"Knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. OK? Just knock the hell -- I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise," Trump said.

And Trump also said he personally wanted to punch a protester "in the face" during a rally in February.

But at CNN's Republican debate on Thursday, Trump insisted that he did not support violence at his events.

"I certainly do not condone that at all," Trump said, adding, "We have some protesters who are bad dudes. They have done bad things."

Clinton makes Aids gaffe when discussing Nancy Reagan

The row came as diplomats, politicians and celebrities attended the funeral of Mrs Reagan, who died this week aged 94.

In an interview with MSNBC, Mrs Clinton praised both Nancy and Ronald Reagan for their "low key advocacy" around Aids.

"It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/Aids in the 1980s," Mrs Clinton said. "And because of both President and Mrs Reagan - in particular Mrs Reagan - we started a national conversation."

Many historians and Aids activists responded by pointing out that the Reagan administration was famous for being too slow to respond to the Aids crisis, and too callous when it did.

"Hillary Clinton needs to walk this back immediately or she risks losing the votes of millions of queer Americans who survived the plague," Dan Savage wrote in a blog post at The Stranger.

"We watched our friends and lovers die by the tens of thousands while Nancy and Ronnie sat silently in the White House.

"I'm literally shaking as I try to write this. There are no words for the pain Clinton's remarks have dredged up. I'm supposed to be writing a column - it's way overdue - but all I can think about right now are all of my dead friends, lovely guys who might still be with us if Nancy and Ronald Reagan had started a national conversation about HIV/Aids."

Chris Geidner at Buzzfeed recently wrote a long article about how Nancy Reagandenied a personal plea from Rock Hudson for access to an Aids treatment facility. On Twitter, he wrote "The White House did not decide that Aids would be an issue to 'get into' until nearly two years after Hudson's death," in 1985.

Ronald Reagan made his first public speech about Aids in 1987.

Others cited a 1982 press conference where White House spokesman Larry Speakes laughed off a reporter's questions about Aids.

"This was the 'national conversation' that the Reagans started about Aids: laughing at the victims of a 'gay plague'," wrote science writer Steve Silberman.

Peter Staley, an Aids activist who came to prominence during the Reagan administration, tweeted his disbelief at Clinton's remarks. "Did a BernieBro possess @HillaryClinton to say the most offensive thing possible 4 my generation of LGBT Americans?"

After a few hours of online outrage, Clinton tweeted an apology: "While the Reagans were strong advocates for stem cell research and finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease, I misspoke about their records on HIV and Aids. For that, I am sorry."

But the damage has been done.

"Insulting to imply that advocacy for Alzheimer's long after out of office in any way balances Reagan Aids record," wrote New York Magazine's Frank Rich.

"Not. Good. Enough," tweeted Savage.

10 Cloverfield Lane review

Arriving fully formed out of the mystery box, to the surprise and (mostly) delight of people everywhere, comes 10 Cloverfield Lane, a title which can’t help but give you certain expectations about a movie.

So, first things first. Is it a sequel to giant monster film Cloverfield? Yes and no. It definitely fits into that universe, but we’re not seeing monster attack part two. There’s a couple of easter eggs dropped for those paying attention. I think JJ Abrams' description of it as a ‘spiritual sequel’ is pretty much on the money here. Imagine it being the two films being the perfect double bill. Originally entitled The Cellar, this one does feel like a separately conceived film that is now a franchise picture, in what may a glimpse into the future of move marketing. This might antagonise those of you who were expecting a more direct link to the first film, but it’s worth checking your expectations on that front.

More importantly that that though, is it any good? An emphatic yes to this one. 10 Cloverfield Lane is easily one of the most intense, heart-pounding and thrilling times you can have watching a modern film. If you’ve seen the trailer, then you know the basic set-up. Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is trapped in an underground bunker with Howard (John Goodman) and Emmett (John Gallagher Jr). I can’t say how she gets there, as it’ll spoil a brilliant opening credits sequence. But rest assured all is not well in the bunker. But all might be a lot worse above ground.

This is a film that plays on your expectations, then doubles back round and surprises you. It ramps up the tension constantly, with just enough pauses to let you breathe, think everything will be okay, before plunging back into it all again.

The three leads are all excellent, and while the obvious stand-out will be John Goodman, who is equally loveable and terrifying, both Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr do great, humanising work to make you really care about the dynamics of the bunker. It’s a self-contained chamber piece but never feels small. The cat and mouse nature of the conflict in the bunker feels Hitchcockian in its execution, with several set-pieces of planning, acting, reacting, countering. All with have you biting your nails.

Then comes the ending. You’ll be back to discuss that. The final act of the film feels like the filmmakers letting loose, and throwing almost every trick they can think of on-screen to make the audience go ‘woaahh, noooooo!’. It climaxes with a superbly mad finale, with a character essentially winking at you that, yes they know just how this looks.

Debut director Dan Trachtenberg, previously known for his Portal short-film, does an admirable job at making sure the film is tightly focused at all times. There’s a few filmmaking 101 moments in there, particularly when it comes to foreshadowing, but ultimately they’re minor when compared to the whole. Bear McCreary’s score is also a lush string-soaked tension magnifier, almost acting as an extra character.

This is a film it’s best to go into knowing as little as possible about. There's a strong chance you’ll be discussing it at length afterwards. You’ll be researching all the augmented reality game (ARG) easter eggs Bad Robot have put out online in a similar fashion to the original Cloverfield. You’ll be tempted to go and re-watch it again to parse for more clues. But most of all, you’ll be discussing the genuinely bonkers ending to a thrill-ride of a film...

Día Internacional de la Mujer 8 de marzo

Introducción

El Día Internacional de la Mujer es una fecha que se celebra en muchos países del mundo. Cuando las mujeres de todos los continentes, a menudo separadas por fronteras nacionales y diferencias étnicas, lingüísticas, culturales, económicas y políticas, se unen para celebrar su día, pueden contemplar una tradición de no menos de noventa años de lucha en pro de la igualdad, la justicia, la paz y el desarrollo.

El Día Internacional de la Mujer se refiere a las mujeres corrientes como artífices de la historia y hunde sus raíces en la lucha plurisecular de la mujer por participar en la sociedad en pie de igualdad con el hombre. En la antigua Grecia, Lisístrata empezó una huelga sexual contra los hombres para poner fin a la guerra; en la Revolución Francesa, las parisienses que pedían «libertad, igualdad y fraternidad» marcharon hacia Versalles para exigir el sufragio femenino.

La idea de un día internacional de la mujer surgió al final del siglo XIX, que fue, en el mundo industrializado, un período de expansión y turbulencia, crecimiento fulgurante de la población e ideologías radicales.
Cronología
1909: De conformidad con una declaración del Partido Socialista de los Estados Unidos de América el día 28 de febrero se celebró en todos los Estados Unidos el primer Día Nacional de la Mujer, que éstas siguieron celebrando el último domingo de febrero hasta 1913.

1910 La Internacional Socialista, reunida en Copenhague, proclamó el Día de la Mujer, de carácter internacional como homenaje al movimiento en favor de los derechos de la mujer y para ayudar a conseguir el sufragio femenino universal. La propuesta fue aprobada unánimemente por la conferencia de más de 100 mujeres procedentes de 17 países, entre ellas las tres primeras mujeres elegidas para el parlamento finés. No se estableció una fecha fija para la celebración..

1911 Como consecuencia de la decisión adoptada en Copenhague el año anterior, el Día Internacional de la Mujer se celebró por primera vez (el 19 de marzo) en Alemania,Austria, Dinamarca y Suiza, con mítines a los que asistieron más de 1 millón de mujeres y hombres. Además del derecho de voto y de ocupar cargos públicos, exigieron el derecho al trabajo, a la formación profesional y a la no discriminación laboral

1913-1914 En el marco de los movimientos en pro de la paz que surgieron en vísperas de la primera guerra mundial, las mujeres rusas celebraron su primer Día Internacional de la Mujer el último domingo de febrero de 1913. En el resto de Europa, las mujeres celebraron mítines en torno al 8 de marzo del año siguiente para protestar por la guerra o para solidarizarse con las demás mujeres.

1917 Como reacción ante los 2 millones de soldados rusos muertos en la guerra, las mujeres rusas escogieron de nuevo el último domingo de febrero para declararse en huelga en demanda de "pan y paz". Los dirigentes políticos criticaron la oportunidad de la huelga, pero las mujeres la hicieron de todos modos. El resto es historia: cuatro días después el Zar se vio obligado a abdicar y el gobierno provisional concedió a las mujeres el derecho de voto. Ese histórico domingo fue el 23 de febrero, según el calendario juliano utilizado entonces en Rusia,o el 8 de marzo, según el calendario gregoriano utilizado en otros países.
1975 Coincidiendo con el Año Internacional de la Mujer, las Naciones Unidas celebraron el Día Internacional de la Mujer por primera vez, el 8 de marzo.
1995 La Declaración y la Plataforma de Beijing, una hoja de ruta histórica firmada por 189 gobiernos hace 20 años, estableció la agenda para la materialización de los derechos de las mujeres.
2014 La 58 Sesión de la Comisión sobre la Condición Jurídica y Social de la Mujer (CSW58), la reunión anual de Estados para abordar cuestiones relativas a igualdad de género, se centró en los «Desafíos y logros en la aplicación de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio para las mujeres y las niñas». Las entidades de las Naciones Unidas y las organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG) acreditadas por ECOSOC debatieron sobre los avances realizados y los retos pendientes para cumplir los ocho Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio.
La ONU y la Igualdad de Género

La Carta de las Naciones Unidas, firmada en 1945, fue el primer acuerdo internacional para afirmar el principio de igualdad entre mujeres y hombres. Desde entonces, la ONU ha ayudado a crear un legado histórico de estrategias, normas, programas y objetivos acordados internacionalmente para mejorar la condición de las mujeres en todo el mundo.

Con los años, la ONU y sus organismos técnicos han promovido la participación de las mujeres en condiciones de igualdad con los hombres en el logro del desarrollo sostenible, la paz, la seguridad y el pleno respeto de los derechos humanos. El empoderamiento de la mujer sigue siendo un elemento central de los esfuerzos de la Organización para hacer frente a los desafíos sociales, económicos y políticos en todo el mundo.

Cristiano Ronaldo booed by Real Madrid fans despite scoring his 90th Champions League goal in the win over Roma

Real Madrid beat Roma 2-0 in the Champions League 2nd leg on Tuesday

Cristiano Ronaldo scored the opening goal and assisted another

Los Blancos booked place in the quarter-finals with a 4-0 aggregate win

Forward was jeered after wasting a number of goal scoring chances

Sergio Ramos and Zinedine Zidane gave their backing to Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo was booed by Real Madrid fans despite grabbing one goal and laying on another in their 2-0 Champions League last-16 second leg win over AS Roma on Tuesday.

Some sections of the Bernabeu crowd voiced their displeasure at the club's all-time leading scorer because he also missed a few scoring chances as Real reached the quarter-finals with a 4-0 aggregate victory.

Ronaldo's team mate, Spain defender Sergio Ramos, gave his backing to the Portugal forward.

'I would tell the fans to think a little first,' Ramos was quoted as saying by the Marca newspaper. 'I respect them but when things don't go well they should support their players because we all want the best for Real Madrid.

'He's a historic player for Real Madrid, he keeps proving that year after year, look at what he's achieved.

When the fans at the Bernabeu boo you it is because they want to transmit their demands to you, they want to push us and see the best performance from us,' added Ramos.

Real coach Zinedine Zidane said the booing would simply spur Ronaldo on

'It will only motivate him,' Zidane told the Spanish television network TVE. 'The important thing is that every time Cristiano is on the pitch he wants to score and he keeps doing it.'

Ronaldo netted in the 64th minute before setting up the second goal of the night for James Rodriguez four minutes later.

Earlier this month Zidane vouched for the harmony in the Real dressing room after comments by Ronaldo that hinted at divisions.

The Portuguese was quoted after last month's 1-0 home defeat by Atletico Madrid as saying that if all his team mates were at his level, Real would be top of La Liga instead of third.

Ronaldo said later that he had been misquoted.

Kim Kardashian Selfish

The selfie photography of Kim Kardashian West, featuring many never-before-seen personal images from one of the most recognizable and iconic celebrities in the world. From her early beginnings as a wardrobe stylist, Kim Kardashian West has catapulted herself into becoming one of the most recognizable celebrities in Hollywood. Hailed by many (including Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci) as the modern-day personification of Marilyn Monroe, Kim has become a true American icon. With her curvaceous style, successful reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, DASH clothing store, makeup and perfume lines, she has acquired a massive fan following in the multi-millions. Through social media (Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook), Kim connects with her fans on a daily basis, sharing details of her life with her selfie photography. Widely regarded as a trailblazer of the "selfie movement"—a modern-day self-portrait of the digital age—Kim has mastered the art of taking flattering and highly personal photos of oneself. For the first time in print, this book presents some of Kim’s favorite selfies in one volume—from her favorite throwback images to current ultra-sexy glam shots—and provides readers with a behind-the-scenes look into this larger-than-life star

Erin Jill Andrews

Erin Jill Andrews (born May 4, 1978) is an American sportscaster, journalist, and television personality. She currently hosts FOX College Football for Fox Sports. Andrews was previously a co-host of College GameDay on ESPN and a contributor for Good Morning America on the ABC network. Andrews was born in Lewiston, Maine, to Paula Andrews, a teacher, and Steven Andrews, a TV journalist. She moved to Tampa, Florida, as a young girl when her father, a six-time Emmy Award-winner, began working as an investigative reporter for WFLA-TV. Andrews attended Bloomingdale High School in Valrico, Florida, where she was a member of the cheerleading team, student government, and the National Honor Society. Following her graduation from high school in 1996, Andrews attended the University of Florida, graduating in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Telecommunications. While in college she was a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, and the Florida Gators Dazzlers dance team from 1997 to 2000. She has a younger sister, Kendra Andrews, who is a professional dancer and actress. In 2000 Andrews was employed by Fox Sports Florida as a freelance reporter. In 2001–2002 she served as a Tampa Bay

Supreme Court Blocks Louisiana Abortion Law

The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked a Louisiana law that its opponents say would leave the state with only one abortion clinic. The court gave no reasons, though it did say that its order was “consistent with” one last June that blocked part of a Texas abortion law.

The move came two days after the Supreme Court heard arguments in the Texas case, and abortion rights groups said they hoped that the development Friday was a sign that they had secured five votes to strike down the Texas law.

Only Justice Clarence Thomas noted a dissent from the order Friday, suggesting that the vote had been 7 to 1, but justices do not always disclose their dissenting votes on such orders. In the order blocking the Texas law in June, the court’s four most conservative members noted their dissents, making it clear that the vote had been 5 to 4.

The order Friday suggested that the Louisiana law would remain blocked until the court renders its decision in the Texas case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, No. 15-274.

Jeff Landry, Louisiana’s attorney general, said in a statement that “we disagree with the Court’s unexplained decision,” adding that he would “continue to defend Louisiana’s pro-life and pro-woman laws.”

Nancy Northup, the president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement that the Supreme Court had again “stepped in to preserve women’s ability to get the constitutionally protected health care they need.”

“Just two days after arguing our case before the Supreme Court to strike down a similar sweeping law in Texas,” she added, “we look to the justices to put an end to these sham measures threatening women’s rights, health and lives across the U.S.”

The Louisiana law, enacted in 2014, requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. A trial judge blocked the law, saying that such doctors were often unable to obtain admitting privileges for reasons unrelated to their competence and that the law created an undue burden on a woman’s constitutional right to abortion.

On Feb. 22, the federal appeals court in New Orleans stayed that ruling, allowing the law to go into effect.

The two sides disagree about the law’s impact. The challengers — three clinics and two doctors — said that the appeals court’s ruling caused one of the state’s four remaining clinics to close the next day, while a second began providing only consultations. A third, in Shreveport, is operating but may not do so for long, they said.

If it closes, according to the challengers, the state would be left with a single abortion doctor at a single clinic, in New Orleans.

“That lone doctor, working in one clinic, cannot meet the need for approximately 10,000 abortions in Louisiana each year, a need that was previously met by six physicians in five clinics across the state,” the clinics challenging the law told the Supreme Court in an emergency application on Feb. 26. “As a result, many women will be unable to exercise their constitutionally protected right to choose abortion at all, and others will face unreasonable delays and therefore increased risks of complications, or will turn to self-performed, unlicensed or unsafe abortions.”

In their own brief, state officials said things were not that dire. Three doctors, they said, have admitting privileges “that allow them to continue to provide abortions in two of the major population centers in Louisiana Shreveport and New Orleans.”

“At worst,” the state told the justices, the law “would still leave over 90 percent of Louisiana women within 150 miles of an operating abortion clinic.”

Louisiana laws impose other restrictions, including a 24-hour waiting period after a first trip to a clinic, at which a doctor must describe an ultrasound to the woman seeking an abortion.

The admitting-privileges provision at issue in the case, June Medical Services v. Gee, No. 15A880, is similar to one in the Texas law the Supreme Court considered on Wednesday. The Texas law has a second contested provision, that one requiring abortion clinics to meet the demanding standards of ambulatory surgical centers.

At arguments on Wednesday, at least four justices seemed prepared to find both provisions unconstitutional. The order on Friday may indicate that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy agrees.

Paul Couch dies: 1989 Brownlow Medal winner had a heart attack

Former Geelong champion Paul Couch, the 1989 Brownlow Medallist, has died from a heart attack.

Couch was riding his bike with friends along the Great Ocean Rd, near Apollo Bay, when he fell from his bike. It's understood he went into cardiac arrest and could not be revived.

In a statement, Victoria Police said: "Police and other emergency services were called to the Great Ocean Road in Marengo this morning following reports a man had died after coming off his bike about 8.40am.

"The 51-year-old Grovedale man was riding with people known to him and at this early stage, his death is being attributed to some sort of medical condition.

"No other vehicle or bike was involved in the incident and police will prepare a report for the coroner."

Couch, 51, played 259 matches and booted 203 goals for the Cats from 1985 to 1997, claiming the sport's highest individual honour in a year his team played in an epic losing grand final against Hawthorn.

He formed part of one of the game's best midfields at the time, joining good friend Mark Bairstow, Garry Hocking and Neville Bruns in a free wheeling team under coach Malcolm Blight.

Recruited from Warrnambool, Couch was twice an All Australian - in 1991 and 1995 - and won three club best-and-fairest awards, in 1986, 1989 and 1995.

He was also named on the bench in the Cats' Team of the Century and represented Victoria five times.

While he never boasted great speed, Couch had a deadly left foot and would regularly find superstar forward Gary Ablett on the lead.

Loved for his boyish smile, Couch had to battle knee problems through a distinguished career and played in four losing grand finals, including against the West Coast Eagles in 1992 and 1994 and against Carlton in 1995.

The AFL Players Association too to Twitter to say: "Very sad to hear about the passing of @GeelongCats Paul Couch. Thoughts with his family & friends from all @AFLPlayers".

Former Hawthorn great Robert DiPierdomenico added: "Can't believe what I have just heard fellow Brownlow Medalist Paul@Couch has passed away at 51 RIP".

Geelong are playing Essendon in a NAB Challenge match in Shepparton on Saturday.

At the start of the TV broadcast, former Hawthorn champion spearhead Jason Dunstall paid tribute to his former opponent.

"He's the genuinely brilliant bloke that no one would say a bad word about," Dunstall said.

Couch's son Tom played three senior matches for Melbourne but was delisted in 2013.

Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall marry on Friday - but when and where is the celebration and which celebrities are on the guest list?

The media mogul and former model have wed and will celebrate their marriage this weekend in London at a Fleet Street church

Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall formally wed on Friday and will celebrate the marriage at a ceremony attended by their numerous children this weekend. Here is all the information about the wedding plans.

When are Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall getting married?

Mr Murdoch, 84, and Ms Hall, 59, got married at an aristocratic palace in London on Friday. They smiled for photographers together, the former supermodel wearing a trench coat and flat shoes.

The ceremony was held at Spencer House in London, a venue which is described on its website as "one of the most sumptuous private residences ever built" in the capital.

A spokesman for the Murdoch family confirmed that the ceremony took place.

Mr Murdoch said afterwards that he was the "luckiest AND happiest" man in the world.

Hall wore her trademark blonde hair in waves, and had a smart handbag slung over her arm.

She wore a knee-length navy skirt and black tights, while Mr Murdoch wore a navy suit.

Spencer House was built between 1756-1766 for John, first Earl Spencer, an ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales, and it is said to be London's finest surviving eighteenth-century town house.

Its website says the "elegant" venue is available for "intimate" weddings. The witnesses to the wedding were Mr Murdoch's son Lachlan and Ms Hall's friend Suzanne Wyman. The only other person present was Lachlan's wife Sarah.

Civil wedding ceremonies can take place in the Dining Room, Lady Spencer's Room and the Great Room.

Ms Hall was seen earlier in the day shopping at upmarket hosiery designer Tabio with good friend Ms Wyman, wife of Rolling Stones star Bill, on the King's Road in Chelsea, West London.

They are set to celebrate their marriage at a private ceremony this weekend, on Saturday 5th March, just two months after they got engaged and less than a year after they were first introduced.

The night before the celebration the couple intend to dine seaparately with their own families.
Where will the wedding take place?

The venue for the celebration is St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street in London. The church is known as the Journalists’ Church, considered the ‘spiritual home’ of those who work in the media.

The church, which has space for 150 to 200 guests, will be closed to the public for the day.

Mr Murdoch famously killed off the historic link between Fleet Street and the newspaper industry in the 1980s when he moved the printing presses to Wapping in east London.

St Bride's history reads: "On January 24 1986, some 6,000 newspaper workers went on strike after the breakdown of negotiations with Rupert Murdoch's News International, parent of Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers.

"They were unaware that Murdoch had built and clandestinely equipped a new-technology printing plant in Wapping. When they struck, he moved his operation overnight.

"Within months the printing dinosaur that was Fleet Street was dead. By 1989 all the national newspapers had decamped as other proprietors followed Murdoch's lead."

Who is on the guest list?

All six of the pair’s daughters from previous relationships will be bridesmaids at the service, according to reports in the Sydney Morning Herald. "All the daughters are being included, from both sides ... it was a very specific request to bring them all together for the wedding,” a source told the Australian newspaper.

Mr Murdoch and Ms Hall have ten children between them. Ms Hall has two daughters with Mick Jagger, Georgia May, 24, and Elizabeth, 32. The billionaire media mogul’s eldest daughters Prudence, 57, and Elizabeth, 47, will attend the wedding alongside his younger children, Grace, 14, and Chloe, 12, from his marriage with Wendi Deng.

The Australian newspaper proprietor has been married three times before, while Ms Hall’s Bali ‘marriage’ with Mr Jagger was later annulled. She also famously dated Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry.

Neither Ms Deng or Mr Jagger are expected to be guests at the wedding.

What will Jerry Hall wear?

It is rumoured that Ms Hall will opt for a Vivienne Westwood wedding dress for the occasion. The former model has worked for a range of top designers so could take her pick of the labels for her bridal gown.

How did the couple meet?

The pair were introduced in Australia last year by Mr Murdoch’s family. Theywent public with their relationship in October when they attended the Rugby World Cup final together at Twickenham.

When did they get engaged?

The executive chairman of News Corporation revealed his engagement to the actress and former supermodel in the births, deaths and marriages section of one of his own newspapers, The Times, in January.

A spokesman for the Murdoch family said at the time: "They have loved these past months together, are thrilled to be getting married and excited about their future.”

The 40 Seconds John Kasich Will Think About for the Rest of His Life

He had the chance to hit a home run, as a big, slow pitch came right over the middle of the plate. He chose not to swing.

Those seconds come in the segment from last night’s debate that you see in the YouTube video below, where Kasich answers the question asked of each of the four surviving candidates: will you support the Republican nominee, no matter what? I.e., even if it’s Donald Trump?

The preceding 24 hours of political history had been extraordinary, as the remnants of the GOP establishment turned in revulsion against Trump. A bunch of foreign-policy eminences, ranging from hawks and neocon hardliners to members of the “realist” camp, put out a statement of “united opposition to a Donald Trump presidency.” The party’s immediately previous nominee, Mitt Romney, who in normal times would still be at least the honorific leader of his side, blasted Trump as a “fraud” and “phony” in a powerful speech yesterday morning. Then in the evening, the first hour-and-a-half-plus of the debate consisted of arguments from Kasich, Cruz, and Rubio about the outrageousness, unacceptability, phoniness, and clownishness of Trump and what he represents.

Leading up to this moment. Watch and weep for Kasich’s missed chance.

John Kasich’s fundamental argument for staying in the campaign boils down to:I’m the sane one. I’m the one with a heart. I’m the one who cares about the actual machinery of legislation. I’m the one who can get something done. The chance to show that he really meant it came with the question, to which he could have said something like:

Look, I’m a loyal Republican. I’ve given my working life to this party, because in the Congress and in the State House I’ve seen what sensible conservatism can mean for our people. The party of Lincoln and of Eisenhower and of Reagan, the party of [fill in the next three lines of “morning-in-Amerca”-ism] has always stood for liberty and opportunity at home, and for strength and dignity abroad.

And it’s precisely because I care so much about those principles, and because I have so much respect for the generations of Republican men and women across this country who have worked so hard to make them a reality, that I will not stand for the hi-jacking and perversion of our party by someone who has just happened upon it as his latest vehicle of convenience, and who represents nothing that Lincoln or Eisenhower or Reagan would support.

Because I care so much for the Republican Party, I will not support someone who is the antithesis of everything it represents. I will work as hard as I can to keep Donald Trump from being our nominee  and I cannot support him as a potential president.

Look at it this way, Governor Kasich: What do you have to lose? If you say you’ll support Trump, as you just did, then you lose in three ways: Your criticism of him rings hollow; you make it all the more likely that the Trump Express keeps rolling on; and you badly weaken your own case as the sane-Republican’s alternative in some convention-breakdown scenario. You have avoided the humiliation visited upon Chris Christie, in his role as spoils-of-war captive at Trump appearances. But the chance to be the one active candidate who stood against him came and went.

That sane-Republican role is obviously the one Mitt Romney was auditioning for with his speech yesterday. Yes, critics could unkindly point out (as Trump quickly did) that Romney had been eager for Trump’s endorsement four years ago. But that was then before the “rapists,” and the Wall, and the Muslim-ban. At least Romney has taken his stand as regards Trump 2016. Alas, you have, too.