Horsemeat found in burgers

Traces of horse meat have been found in burgers on sale in some of the country's busiest supermarkets, food safety chiefs in Ireland have revealed.

Scientific tests on beef products sold in Tesco, Dunnes Stores, Lidl, Aldi and Iceland uncovered low levels of the animal's DNA.

Professor Alan Reilly, chief executive of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), said there was no health risk but also no reasonable explanation for horse meat to be found.

According to the research by the FSAI, one sample of burger goods, Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers, showed about 29% horse meat relative to beef content.

"Whilst there is a plausible explanation for the presence of pig DNA in these products due to the fact that meat from different animals is processed in the same meat plants, there is no clear explanation at this time for the presence of horse DNA in products emanating from meat plants that do not use horse meat in their production process," Prof Reilly said.

"In Ireland, it is not in our culture to eat horse meat and therefore, we do not expect to find it in a burger."

The retailers have told food safety chiefs they are removing all implicated products from their shelves. The FSAI said consumers can return implicated products to retailers.

Beef burger products which tested positive for horse DNA were produced by Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods in Ireland and one UK plant, Dalepak Hambleton.

The DNA tests found horse in the following products: Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers 29.1%; Tesco Beef Quarter Pounders 0.1%; Oakhurst Beef Burgers in Aldi 0.3%; Moordale Quarter Pounders in Lidl 0.1%; Flamehouse Chargrilled Quarter Pounders in Dunnes Stores 0.1%; two varieties of Iceland Quarter Pounders 0.1%.

Tesco said it was treating the incident as extremely serious, Aldi said it was conducting an investigation and Lidl said it has removes all implicated products from sale pending a full investigation.         
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Megan Fox

Megan Fox is working hard to break free of her blockbuster bombshell image, right down to removing a tattoo of iconic bombshell Marilyn Monroe from right arm.

"I started reading about her and realized that her life was incredibly difficult. It's like when you visualize something for your future. I didn't want to visualize something so negative," Fox, 26, told Esquire magazine in its February issue.

"She wasn't powerful at the time. She was sort of like Lindsay," Fox continued. "She was an actress who wasn't reliable, who almost wasn't insurable ... She had all the potential in the world, and it was squandered. I'm not interested in following in those footsteps."

Read more from Fox's interview with Esquire

The actress built a reputation as a sexy star in the "Transformers" franchise but as of late she's shifting her focus to landing more comedic roles, like in "This is 40" and "Friends with Kids" - as well as maintaining her commitment to her faith.

"I have seen magical, crazy things happen. I've seen people be healed. Even now, in the church I go to, during Praise and Worship I could feel that I was maybe getting ready to speak in tongues, and I'd have to shut it off because I don't know what that church would do if I started screaming out in tongues in the back," she told Esquire.                                                                details

Cam Newton degree

AL.com said Newton declined interview requests about his return to school. It has to be strange for undergrads to walk into a lecture and see a NFL superstar next to them taking notes.

"He wants to focus on school and be a normal student," said associate athletic director for communication Kirk Sampson told AL.com.

There's no way Newton will be a "normal student" on that campus, considering his NFL fame and his instant legend status at Auburn for bringing a national championship, but that's what makes it interesting. Newton never needs to take another class in his life, but he's back on campus getting ready to write papers and take exams. That's commendable.
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Nicki Minaj

 "It's like a defense mechanism. You know what I mean?" she added. "Your feelings are hurt and you can't believe it so you kind of just compensate with being crazy."

Carey has already commented on the feud at length, including telling Barbara Walters that she felt threatened by the rapper, but Minaj opted to stay quiet.

Now, she insists there's no more bad blood between them.

"We're fine," Minaj told the host. "I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years."

But it might not all end in perfect harmony. The rapper doesn't promise that any 'Idol' live shows will be completely tame.

"I cannot trust myself," said Minaj. "I don't want anyone on the panel to say something too crazy because I don't want to look like a crazy psycho again."                                           details

2 killed in college shooting

HAZARD, Ky. (AP) — Police say a domestic dispute was the cause of a shooting on a Kentucky college campus that killed two people and wounded a third.

A man, a woman and a teenage girl were shot Tuesday night in a parking lot at Hazard Community and Technical College. The adults were killed and the juvenile was taken to a hospital. The extent of her injuries wasn’t clear.

Hazard Police Chief Minor Allen told WYMT-TV (http://bit.ly/90edyY ) the shooting resulted from a dispute between the woman and the alleged shooter. He did not say how they were related.

Allen said 21-year-old Dalton Stidham was charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.

Allen identified the victims as 20-year-old Caitlin Cornett and 53-year-old Jackie Cornett. The teenager’s name was not released.

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Woman missing in Grand Canyon

A woman missing in the Grand Canyon since Saturday remains lost, and as authorities in Colorado scale back their search the woman’s mother fears the worst.

The missing woman, 21-year-old Katilin Anne Kenney, was last seen onFriday at a camp bear Tapeats Creek on the northern side of the Colorado River. She was there as part of a private river trip through Grand Canyon National Park, The Associated Press reported.

The woman was reported missing in the Grand Canyon on Saturday, and since then crews have searched both by air and on the ground for Kenney.

After the search for Kenney yielded no clues, park spokeswoman Shannan Marcak said that authorities have decided to scale back their search for the woman missing in the Grand Canyon, a report Monday from The Associated Press noted. She added that the search will continue, though in a “limited mode in which rangers and pilots will continue to search for clues when in the area.”

The mother of the woman lost in the Grand Canyon appears to have lost hope in her recovery, TheDenverChannel reported.

“Please say a prayer for our family. Our sweet Kaitlin is with the angels,” Linnea Kenney posted on her Facebook page Monday morning. “She was our balloon let loose in a room and lived life to it’s fullest, always with a smile. We were blessed to have her in our lives.”

World of Warcraft park

If you love Chinese knock-offs -- and I know you do -- you'll love this bit of news: World Joyland, the famed and unlicensed World of Warcraft theme park in Changzhou, China, is now open for business. The people at Shanghaiist took a tour of the place, taking myriad pictures of their experience.

In actuality, the park is less of a WoW rip-off and more of a Blizzard rip-off. It includes a Starcraft-themed area named "Universe of Starship" in addition to its World of Warcraft area, which is named "Terrain of Magic."

What kind of rides does the place have? Well, Shanghaiist detailed one of them:

    Our first ride was an exciting little number called Splash of Monster Blood, and they're not kidding about the splash. We'll just say this much: trying to act cool by refusing the buy a sky blue poncho on your way in is a giant n00b stamp.

    The ride was, as its sign board attests, a "beast-bloody journey" (a.k.a. your standard amusement park log ride affair.) After clicking and chugging up a tunnel full of orcs and monsters, you are then plunged down into water that manages somehow to smash you from both the front and the back simultaneously.