Freddy Rescued

A cat survived 18 hours clinging to high voltage power lines in a Wiltshire village.

Engineers from Southern Electric, helped by firefighters and RSPCA officers, finally managed to rescue Freddy who was spotted 25ft (7m) up.

A passer-by had raised the alarm after Freddy was seen close to a live wire.

His owner Emma Evans, 33, said: "It's not unusual for Freddy to wander off for the night so I hadn't been too concerned about him."

When rescuers finally brought him down, the cat ran home with a note from the RSPCA attached to his collar.

It read: "Your cat's had an adventure. Can you please contact us to let us know he got home safely?"

Ms Evans then contacted the RSPCA to let staff know he was safe and well.

Windies win T-20 against Aussies

Dwayne Bravo finished the match off with a six over mid-wicket. West Indies delighted a patient crowd with a seven-wicket win over Australia in a rain-shortened Twenty20 encounter.

The match in Barbados had to be reduced to 11 overs per side and Australia set a tough target by scoring 97-3.

Luke Ronchi (36) and Shaun Marsh (29) marked their international debuts by sharing an opening partnership of 57.

But Xavier Marshall set West Indies on their way with 36 and Dwayne Bravo hit three sixes in an unbeaten 28 to see them home with 11 balls to spare.

Following the Test series which Australia won 2-0, both sides had a totally different look.

The tourists brought in Cameron White, David Hussey, Shane Watson and James Hopes along with Marsh and Ronchi, all of them having played in the recent Indian Premier League.

West Indies, meanwhile, gave debuts to batsmen William Perkins and Andre Fletcher and fast bowler Kemar Roach.

And it was Perkins who played the most audacious shot of the match by squatting low to flip fast bowler Brett Lee over his shoulder for four.

The home side had plenty to play for with places up for grabs in a £10m winner-takes-all match against England, backed by Antigua-based billionaire Sir Allen Stanford, later this year.

But following the delayed start, Australia wasted no time in getting the scorecard ticking over as Marsh lofted a superbly timed straight six off Jerome Taylor in the opening over.

The left-hander, son of former Australia batsman Geoff Marsh, later added another off Roach but one ball later was superbly caught by Marshall, running around the leg-side boundary.

It was Roach's second wicket, having had Ronchi caught in his previous over, but Bravo's second-ball dismissal of Hussey, whose brother Mike was also in the Australian team, was their only other success. Shaun Marsh scored 29 on his international debut

The West Indies batsmen had no time to assess the bowling as they began their reply but the highly promising Marshall showed he did not need to by hooking the first ball for six off a startled Lee.

The 22-year-old Jamaican continued in the same vein, depositing two balls into the crowd in Mitchell Johnson's opening over, which cost 20 runs.

Marshall dominated a first-wicket stand of 53 with Perkins, scoring his runs off only 15 balls before he was smartly run out by Watson, who fielded off his own bowling.

Perkins went the same way for nine, beaten by Ricky Ponting's direct hit at the bowler's end and Denesh Ramdin only managed eight before he was caught in the deep off Watson.

But Bravo hoisted a long-hop from leg-spinner White over the rope at backward square leg, slashed Johnson over deep third man and finished off the match with another six, this time launching a ball from Watson over mid-wicket.

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No more Politics now

Rajini speaks pure Telugu, pure Marathi, pure Kannada etc., but he speaks an non predictable, un-understanding language when a question is asked to him about his political future and plans.

Rajini was in Andhra recently to participate in a marriage function in the family of his assistant.

While speaking to reporters, he was found speaking in a very clear and fluent Telugu.
When a question came up about his future plans in politics, his reply was "No one will be knowing what will happen tomorrow, but today I am busy doing a couple of movies and the project will take atleast 2 years to complete"

When he was asked whether he will support his friend Chiranjeevi in Andhra politics, he said "I will not involve in Andhra politics or recommend any one in particular to the people of Andhra"

To be noted here is that he always prefers Hindutva parties and recommend them more to the people.

Chronological list of heads of the Kanchi Math

Chronological list of heads of the matha, according to the official account.

1. Sri Adi Sankara Bhagavatpada
2. Sri Suresvaracharya
3. Sri Sarvajnatman
4. Sri Sathyabodhendra Saraswati
5. Sri Jnanandendra Saraswati
6. Sri Suddhanandendra Saraswati
7. Sri Aanandaghanendra Saraswati
8. Sri Kaivalyanandayogendra Saraswati
9. Sri Krpa Sankarendra Saraswati
10. Sri Sureswara
11. Sri Sivananda Chidghanendra Saraswati
12. Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati
13. Sri Satchidghanendra Saraswati
14. Sri Vidyaghanendra Saraswati
15. Sri Gangadharendra Saraswati
16. Sri Ujjvala Sankarendra Saraswati
17. Sri Sadasivendra Saraswati
18. Sri Shankarananda Saraswati
19. Sri Martanda Vidyaghanendra Saraswati
20. Sri Muka Sankarendra Saraswati
21. Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati II
22. Sri Bodhendra Saraswati
23. Sri Satchisukhendra Saraswati
24. Sri Chitsukhendra Saraswati
25. Sri Satchidanandaghanendra Saraswati
26. Sri Prajnaghanendra Saraswati
27. Sri Chidvilasendra Saraswati
28. Sri Mahadeve11dra Saraswati I
29. Sri Purnabhodhendra Saraswati
30. Sri Bhodhendra Saraswati II
31. Sri Brahmanandaghanendra Saraswati
32. Sri Chidanandaghanendra Saraswati
33. Sri Satchidananda Saraswati
34. Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati III
35. Sri Chitsukhendra Saraswati
36. Sri Chitsukhanandendra Saraswati
37. Sri Vidyaghanendra Saraswati III
38. Sri Abhinava Sankarendra Saraswati
39. Sri Satchidvilaasendra Saraswati
40. Sri Mahadevendra Saraswati II
41. Sri Gangadharendra Saraswati II
42. Sri Brahmanandaghanendra Saraswati
43. Sri Anandaghanendra Saraswati
44. Sri Purnabhodhendra Saraswati II
45. Sri Paramasivendra Saraswati I
46. Sri Sandranandabhodhendra Saraswati
47. Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati IV
48. Sri Advaitanandabodhendra Saraswati
49. Sri Mahadevendra Saraswati III
50. Sri Chandrachudendra Saraswati I
51. Sri Kamachandrendra Saraswati
52. Sri Vidyateerthendra Saraswati (1297 - 1370)
53. Sri Sankaranandendra Saraswati (1370 - 1417)
54. Sri Purnananda Sadasivendra Saraswati (1417 - 1498)
55. Sri Vyasachala Mahadevendra Saraswati (1498 - 1507)
56. Sri Chandrachudhendra Saraswati II (1507 - 1524)
57. Sri Sarvajna Sadasiva Bhodhendra Saraswati (1524 - 1539)
58. Sri Paramasivendra Saraswati II (1539 - 1586)
59. Sri Atma Bodhendra Saraswati (1586 - 1638)
60. Sri Bhagavannama Bodhendra Saraswati (1638 - 1692)
61. Sri Advaitatma Prakasendra Saraswati (1692 - 1704)
62. Sri Mahadevendra Saraswati IV (1704 - 1746)
63. Sri ChandrasekharendraSaraswati V (1746 - 1783)
64. Sri Mahadevendra Saraswati V (1783 - 1813)
65. Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati VI (1813 - 1851)
66. Sri Sudarsana Mahadevendra Saraswati (1851 - 1891)
67. Sri Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati VII (1891 - February 7, 1907)
68. Sri Sri Mahadevendra Saraswathi V (February 7, 1907 - February 13, 1907)
69. Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swamigal(February 13, 1907 - January 3, 1994)
70. Sri Jayendra Saraswati Swamigal
71. Sri Sankara Vijayendra Saraswati Swamigal

Lewis asks to make doping as crime

Olympic legend Carl Lewis has called on governments around the world to make the use of banned substances in sport a criminal offence.

Lewis, who won nine Olympic golds during a glittering career, believes only urgent action can rescue athletics' drug-tarnished reputation.

"If people want a clean sport, we must bring together governments, the public and athletes. "I would change the law - if you test positive, why can't it be illegal?"

Lewis's call comes against a backdrop of doping scandals that have left athletics on its knees - a depressing scenario with the Beijing Olympics only three months away.

The list of fallen idols makes alarming reading. Marion Jones, who won five medals at the 2000 Olympics, is currently in prison and Tim Montgomery, a former world 100m record-holder, is awaiting a prison sentence. What started in 2003 with an investigation into an obscure sports supplement firm in California - the now notorious Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (Balco) - has become a tidal wave of bad news that has wrecked the sport's credibility.

And with the trial of Trevor Graham - the coach of 2004 Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin, who is serving a four-year ban for failing a drugs test - set to start in San Francisco this month, the negative headlines are going to keep coming.

That trial looks particularly ominous. Maurice Greene, the Olympic 100m champion in 2000 and current ambassador for world athletics' governing body, the IAAF, was named by the prosecutors' main witness in an interview with The New York Times.

Angel Guillermo Heredia told the newspaper Greene bought banned performance-enhancing substances from him in 2003 and 2004. The sprinter denies using performance-enhancing drugs and never failed a drugs test.

Graham's lawyers have described Heredia as a discredited witness who has cut a deal to "divert attention from his illicit drug dealing and the illicit drug usage by athletes". Athletics has been struggling with the legacy of Lewis v Johnson for 20 years. But while Jones, Montgomery and now Graham have all been investigated by law enforcement agencies, it was not specifically doping that put them in court.

A few countries have considered it but only Italy has made doping a criminal offence. Most other governments, including Britain's, have limited their legislation to the illegal supply and manufacture of performance-enhancing substances.

Montgomery (who was indicted on charges of distributing heroin last week) was convicted for cheque fraud - a scam his former girlfriend Jones also participated in, although it was lying to a federal court about her doping activities that really did for her and may well do for Graham too.

Lewis, who was named "Sportsman of the Century" by the International Olympic Committee, welcomes the US government's recent efforts to tackle the cancer of drugs in sport but wants law-makers to go one step further by criminalising doping.

"We have to get people under oath and get the truth, instead of all the people who lie," stated the 46-year-old American.

Lewis, who himself failed three drugs tests in 1988 only to be cleared of any intentional wrongdoing, also urged today's clean athletes to speak out against any rivals they suspect of cheating. You have to identify it as what it is, cheating, wilful cheating. "When I competed, I spoke out vehemently against drugs and everybody called me a tattletale," he said.

"But look where our sport ended up when people stopped doing that." Lewis, who infamously lost to Ben Johnson at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 only to later discover his rival was on steroids, is also dismissive of the idea that athletes, suspicious of each other, are using illegal substances to level the playing field.

"The problem is that people choose to cheat," he added. "Dwain Chambers didn't have talent. He had to take drugs, he had to cheat. "I'm tired of these people that don't have talent, that take drugs and try to blame everybody.

"The reality is that most athletes are clean, most athletes do it right and good athletes don't take drugs. People who don't have talent take drugs."

British sprinter Chambers completed a two-year drugs ban in 2005 but, despite returning to athletics and winning a 60m silver medal in this year's World Indoor Championships, he remains barred from the Olympics. For the battle against the drug cheats to succeed, the testing programme must be robust

In the US, the idea of leaving sport to tackle its problems is a hot topic, largely because of Major League Baseball's doping problems.

A decade of rumours and recriminations culminated in December last year when former US Senator George Mitchell published his independent report into the illegal use of performance-enhancing substances by baseball players.

Mitchell, who also served as US special envoy to Northern Ireland and was later chairman of The Walt Disney Company, spent 20 months investigating the history of doping in baseball and his damning 409-page report highlighted the sport's head-in-the-sand attitude to steroids and human growth hormone. "It's almost worse to point the finger at someone for using drugs than it is to use drugs.

"That mindset has to change as this involves more than just a person, it's much broader now. It involves hundreds of thousands of young people whose lives could be ended."

Mitchell believes a three-pronged attack - testing, investigation and education - is needed to clean up sport but he does not advocate the criminalisation of doping or too much governmental meddling.

"You use the tools you have available," he continued.
Senator Mitchell delivers his baseball report
Senator Mitchell's report was a wake-up call for Major League baseball

"And one of the central elements of our legal system is that you can't lie under oath. There is a huge risk for any athlete who stands up in court and lies.

"But it's also important for sports to police themselves. Sports organisations don't want the government involved and the only way they can keep the government from direct involvement in their sport is to do the job themselves.

"That's why my recommendation to baseball was for them to update their policy to make it as good as possible with the understanding this is not a static issue.

"Right now there are people in places like China, Latin America and Eastern Europe trying to find new drugs that can enhance performance without being detected. We have to change all the time.

"But having the very best testing regime does not mean you are going to be able to catch everybody - you need to have the capacity to rigorously investigate allegations of drug use unrelated to the testing regime.

"And finally, you need to have a change in attitude about the use of drugs so it does not become routine and accepted.

"You have to identify it as what it is, cheating, wilful cheating that deprives the fans and other competitors of the level playing field that sport ought to involve."

Burma's cyclone death toll soars

The death toll from Burma's devastating cyclone has now risen to more than 22,000, state media have said.

Some 41,000 are also missing three days after Cyclone Nargis hit the country, causing a huge tidal surge to sweep inland, according to state radio.

The report came as aid agencies begin what they expect to be a major relief operation to help tens of thousands left without clean water and shelter.

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