Breivik Witness: It Was A Mistake To Spare Me Utoya survivor Adrian Pracon wanted to face mass killer Breivik in court 11:52am UK, Friday May 25, 2012 A survivor of Anders Behring Breivik's massacre on Utoya island has confronted him in court and defiantly said the shooting has strengthened his interest in politics. Adrian Pracon has been giving evidence at Breivik's trial in Norway and talking about the shootings in which 69 people died. I realised how bad this was when a white boat arrived. The water was red. Bodies everywhere. Adrian Pracon, Utoya survivor He said the extremist shouted at his victims "I'm going to kill you all" before taking aim at him and then deciding not to shoot. He told the court how ... Continue reading →
The Champions League final was decided by a penalty shoot-out this season. Photograph: Christof Koepsel/Bongarts/Getty Images The Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, has labelled penalty shoot-outs "a tragedy" and challenged Franz Beckenbauer to come up with an alternative.Two major tournaments last season were decided by shoot-outs – Chelsea's Champions League triumph over Bayern Munich and the Africa Cup of Nations when Zambia beat Ivory Coast.Beckenbauer, honorary president of Bayern Munich, is also head of the Football Task Force 2014 which has been charged with recommending rule changes and Blatter said the body should now look at penalty shoot-outs.Blatter told the Fifa Congress in Budapest: "Football can be a tragedy when you go to penalty kicks. Football should not go to one to one, when it goes ... Continue reading →
To view this content you need Flash and Javascript enabled in your browser. Please download Flash from the Adobe download website. 8:49am UK, Friday May 25, 2012 Katie Stallard, media and technology correspondent Advances in 3D printing technology could revolutionise the way we produce goods and repatriate manufacturing jobs to the UK. Additive manufacturing, as the process is technically known, works by building up solid objects layer by wafer-thin layer, in much the same way as a conventional 2D inkjet printer. The object is scanned, or designed on computer modelling software, then sliced up, like a loaf of bread, into thousands of tiny layers, which can then be printed out to form a solid three-dimensional product. If the last industrial revolution brought us mass production ... Continue reading →