Shot Pakistani Girl Leaves Hospital

Malala Yousafzai leaves Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Malala Yousafzai leaves the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham

The Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot in the head by the Taliban has been discharged from a Birmingham hospital as an inpatient.

Malala Yousafzai, 15, was being treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEHB) after being transferred following the attack in October.
She will continue rehabilitation at her family's temporary West Midlands home.
The Taliban said it shot Malala, a campaigner for girls' education, for "promoting secularism".
The attack sparked domestic and international outrage.

"Malala is a strong young woman and has worked hard with the people caring for her to make excellent progress in her recovery. ”

           Dr Dave Rosser Medical director

'Strong young woman'

Malala was returning home from school in the north-western Swat district on 9 October when gunmen stopped her vehicle and shot her in the head and the chest.

The teenager was flown to the hospital in Birmingham to receive specialist treatment.
Over the past few weeks, Malala has been leaving the hospital on home visits to spend time with her father Ziauddin, mother Toorpekai and younger brothers, Khushal and Atul.
The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust said doctors believe she will continue to make good progress outside the hospital.
The schoolgirl is due to undergo cranial reconstruction surgery in late January or early February.
Dr Dave Rosser, the trust's medical director, said: "Malala is a strong young woman and has worked hard with the people caring for her to make excellent progress in her recovery.

 

Malala Yousufzai embraced a nurse at Queen Elizabeth Hospital

"Following discussions with Malala and her medical team, we decided that she would benefit from being at home with her parents and two brothers.
"She will return to the hospital as an outpatient and our therapies team will continue to work with her at home to supervise her care."
Malala came to prominence when, as an 11-year-old, she wrote a diary for BBC Urdu, giving an account of how her school in Mingora town dealt with the Taliban's 2009 edict to close girls' schools.
Her love for education, and her courage to stand up to the Taliban made her an icon of bravery and earned her a national peace award in 2011.
The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, visited Malala at the hospital on 8 December and assured the family his government would meet the expenses of the treatment.
On Wednesday, the Pakistan government announced that Malala's father has been given a job in Birmingham.
Mr Yousafzai has been appointed education attache at the Consulate of Pakistan for at least three years.
From: BBC News

Roberto Mancini: Mario Balotelli clash overblown

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini denies his spat with Mario Balotelli was a fight and says it will not affect the striker's future at the club. 

 

Photographs showed the Italians being separated at training on Thursday.
But Mancini said of the incident with his fellow Italian: "No fight, not true. The pictures are worse.
"Mario is like this but my thoughts do not change - this is not important [for his future]. I don't change my thoughts on this, absolutely, no."
Source:BBC News

Hugo Chavez battles lung infection in Cuba hospital

The BBC's Sarah Rainsford: 'Latest statement doesn't take us much further'

Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, is suffering from "complications" brought on by a "severe lung infection" which developed after surgery, officials say.

Mr Chavez, 58, had his fourth operation for cancer in Cuba on 11 December and then developed a respiratory infection.
In a statement from Caracas, Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said the infection had "led to a respiratory insufficiency".
Mr Chavez is due to be sworn in for another term in office on 10 January.
"[Mr] Chavez has faced complications as a consequence of a severe lung infection," said Mr Villegas.
'Psychological war' The president has not been seen in public since having cancer surgery in Havana, prompting persistent speculation about his condition.

Analysis

Sarah Rainsford BBC News, Havana

Venezuela's government insists it is doing its duty in keeping people informed on the health of Hugo Chavez, angry at persistent rumours that the president's condition is worse than it is reporting.

But this latest statement confirms only that Mr Chavez has breathing difficulties, following what it now calls a "severe lung infection": There is still no word on his prognosis, or - crucially - on plans for next week's presidential inauguration.

What does seem clear, by its omission, is that there has been no obvious improvement since the last report, so it must now be very unlikely that Mr Chavez can be sworn back into office on 10 January. We can only assume that the looming power vacuum is what drew National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello to Havana on Thursday, joining Vice President Maduro at Mr Chavez's bedside.

On his return, Mr Cabello insisted: "We know what we will do." But so far, nobody else seems to.

The information minister was among a number of Mr Chavez's political allies who have urged people not to believe what they called lies about his health.

Mr Villegas warned Venezuelans not to be taken in by a "psychological war" being fought in the media which had the "ultimate aim of destabilising the Bolivarian republic".
Vice-President Nicolas Maduro and National Assembly Head Diosdado Cabello visited Mr Chavez this week, along with several other dignitaries.
Mr Maduro said on Wednesday that President Chavez was "conscious" and had gripped his hand firmly as they discussed Venezuelan politics.
He and Mr Cabello flew back to Caracas on Thursday and dismissed rumours of a split in the governing socialist movement.
"We're more unified than ever," Vice-President Maduro said upon his return to Venezuela from Cuba.
"We swore in front of Commander Chavez that we'll be united at the side of our people," he said.
Swearing-in doubts Opposition activists have speculated about a split between Mr Maduro, whom President Chavez named as his preferred successor, and Mr Cabello, who the constitution decrees should temporarily take over power if the Venezuelan leader were to have "an absolute absence".

Chavez's career

• Born in 1954
• 1992: Leads a failed coup attempt against President Carlos Perez
• 1999: Takes office after winning election
• 2006: Wins another six-year term as president
• 2011: Reveals he is being treated for cancer and has two operations in Cuba
• 2012: Has two more operations
• October 2012: Re-elected for another term as president

Mr Cabello said that those who were spreading rumours about problems between him and Mr Maduro would "have to wait 2,000 years for that to happen".

Mr Chavez has been in power since 1999 and was elected for a fourth term in office in October.
It is unclear if he will be able to attend the swearing-in ceremony for another six-year term in office next week, nor what the procedure would be if he was unable to attend.
Mr Cabello recently said that the ceremony could be delayed. But the opposition says such a move would be unconstitutional.
Opposition politicians say there have been no independent reports of the president's condition.
On Thursday, Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma demanded that a commission travel to Cuba to report back on Mr Chavez's health.

Mario Balotelli Fight with Mancini

Mario Balotelli in reported training dust-up

By Press Association

Mario Balotelli's already shaky Manchester City future was thrown into doubt Thursday after pictures emerged of what appeared to be a furious training-ground bust-up with manager Roberto Mancini.
Mancini reportedly stepped in after Balotelli went in too strongly on teammate Scott Sinclair for the City boss' liking.
 
Balotelli is reported to have taken exception to Mancini's intervention, leading to the pair having to be pulled apart.
In the sequence of pictures, Mancini is seen striding towards Balotelli, pointing in an aggressive manner.
 
He is then seen to grab hold of Balotelli's orange bib in an apparent act of fury before the young striker is dragged away by a member of City's coaching staff.
A short time later, Balotelli is believed to have left the training ground at Carrington, on the outskirts of Manchester.
 

Suarez continues goalscoring form

Liverpool may have brought in reinforcements to ease the apparent burden on striker Luis Suarez but their leading scorer appears not to notice or care as he hit two to help beat Sunderland 3-0 at Anfield.
The Uruguay international took his tally to 15 in 19 Barclays Premier League matches - the last Reds player to reach that total was Fernando Torres in 2009-10, scoring 18 a year after they almost won the title.
Raheem Sterling opened proceedings with a well-taken lob over goalkeeper Simon Mignolet as Liverpool began the new year with a home victory after recording just six in the league in the whole of 2012.
Having new £12million signing from Chelsea Daniel Sturridge watching from the Main Stand was probably the prompt Liverpool's forward line needed to shine.
Stewart Downing, whose future at Anfield is far from certain despite a number of improved performances in recent weeks, forced Mignolet into a full-length save from an 11th-minute free-kick.
It was not the beginning of the type of wasteful deluge which typified Anfield performances in the previous 12 months but it served as a good starting point.
What followed, however, was finishing of the highest order from a player still learning his trade at the highest level and another arguably very close to the summit.
Firstly Suarez hooked a ball forward for Sterling to race onto and, as Mignolet charged out to the edge of his penalty area, the 18-year-old coolly lobbed the goalkeeper.
James McClean should have equalised after Sunderland easily cut through the Liverpool defence but he managed to miss the target with only Jose Reina to beat and it proved costly.
From the hosts' next chance Steven Gerrard's pass released Suarez who was bounced off ball by Carlos Cuellar.
Referee Phil Dowd played a good advantage and the forward continued his run into the box before drilling a shot through the goalkeeper's legs with the outside of his right boot.
Sunderland still had fight left in them, though, and had it not been for a brilliant close-range stop by Reina to deny Matt Kilgallon, the Black Cats would have had a foothold in the game.
But there was no way back seven minutes into the second half as Suarez struck for the second time.
Inexplicably the second successive side to visit Anfield - Fulham were the other - decided the right tactic was to sit off Gerrard and let him have the ball.
He destroyed the Cottagers with his range of passing and the same fate befell Sunderland.
The England captain collected the ball around the right-back position and, with no pressure on him, he had time to pick out Suarez's run 60 yards away.
His team-mate needed no second invitation and in collecting the ball he moved it to his right to unsteady Mignolet and fired home Liverpool's third.
Suarez was denied a hat-trick by the legs of the goalkeeper while substitute Joe Allen's shot was deflected over by Danny Rose.
Victory, which completed a haul of nine points out of a possible 12 over the festive period, lifted Liverpool into eighth place, seven points behind fourth-placed Chelsea.
A second successive defeat for Sunderland, after two wins, means Martin O'Neill's side are looking over the shoulders again, four points above the relegation zone.

Bye bye. 2012

It's been a couple of days since we said good bye to the year 2012. I want to thank all my readers for helping me to take this blog to where it is now. I had such a good and a wide variety of readers last year. My blog is about sharing the news from around the world that touches me some how. Its good to see that there a lot of people around the world who shares my view. For this new year I going to work more into personalize this blog and hopefully that will attract more involvement of my readers. If you ever have anything you want to share with this blog please don't hesitate and send it to me at aleyfex@gmail.com.  Thank you and I am looking forward to an amazing year with you all

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Sturridge Joins Liverpool

It has been confirmed that Daniel Sturridge has been the first signing for the reds in this January transfer window. Sturridge has signed a long term contract with the reds where he is sure to get more playing opportunities compared to what was available for him at Chelsea.
 Liverpool has struggled this season with only one senior striker available for the team. This signing may be a cure for the reds scoring problem and their ambitions to finish in the top four.

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