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A Canadian couple have given away most of their 6.9 million pound lottery winnings
A Canadian couple who won £6.9 million on the lottery and gave away 98% of it said that they are just plain country folks who do not need more than they have.

Allen and Violet Large said they won their fortune in a July 14 Lotto 649 draw and decided to save 2% for a rainy day and give away the rest.

After taking care of their family, they donated some £6.5 million to churches, fire departments, cemeteries and the Red Cross in Lower Truro, Nova Scotia, as well as hospitals where Mrs Large, who has cancer, has undergone treatment.

Mr Large, 75, said that, after retiring from a 30-year career as a welder, he and his wife were happy with what they had and the way their lives were going.

He said their phone has been ringing non-stop since news about their philanthropy spread to international media after a local paper covered their story this week.

Hostages die in Iraq church siege



An Iraqi policeman stands guard near the church in Baghdad where 120 Iraqi Christians were held hostage
Islamic militants held around 120 Iraqi Christians hostage for nearly four hours in a church before security forces stormed the building and freed them, ending a stand-off that left many dead.

Security officials said the militants, allegedly linked to al Qaida in Iraq, were on the phone with Iraqi authorities demanding the release of imprisoned female fighters when the security forces attacked.

The stand-off began at dusk on Sunday when the militants attacked the nearby Iraqi stock exchange, officials said. Police then chased the insurgents toward the Our Lady of Deliverance Church - one of Baghdad's main Catholic places of worship.

Worshippers inside were listening to a bible reading when the gunmen burst in. It was reported that the assailants were wearing suicide vests and armed with grenades.

Parishioner Marzina Matti Yalda said: "As we went outside the hall to see what was happening, gunmen stormed the main gate and they started to shoot at us.

"Many people fell down, including a priest, while some of us ran inside and took shelter in a locked room. We were packed together as we waited for the security forces to arrive."

US Army spokesman, Lt Col Eric Bloom said at least 19 people were killed - seven hostages, seven Iraqi security troops and five militants. As many as 30 people were wounded, including a priest and a nun, he said.

Iraqi military officials said the death toll was at least nine, while police and medical officials put it as high as 37. There were also conflicting reports about the militants' fate.

An Iraqi police official put the number of insurgents at 10 and said all were captured, while the US military said between five and seven attackers died. Baghdad military spokesman Maj Gen Qassim al-Moussawi said security forces killed eight attackers.

Iraqi defence minister Abdul-Qadir al-Obeidi said "the terrorists were planning to murder the highest number of hostages". Across Iraq, security forces were alerted to new threats against Christians.

50-year ban for angry rugby fan
An angry fan who knocked out a linesman at a junior rugby league match has been banned for 50 years from having involvement with the sport.

Pita Tupou, a 20-year-old factory worker, punched the linesman whom he had mistaken for the referee after an under-16 match between the Leichhardt Wanderers and Strathfield Raiders in Sydney on May 9.

Tupou appeared at the Burwood Local Court on Thursday where he pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He will be sentenced on August 12.

SOCCER star Cristiano Ronaldo is not a happy man!

The sports hunk is apparently furious that Vanity Fair magazine put him on the cover in tight underpants with rival player Didier Drogba.

"Ronaldo is freaking out,"  a source told New York Post gossip column Page Six.

"He says he wants to sue Vanity Fair for using his image to promote the issue everywhere.

"Even though this is pretty standard practice in the magazine world, he and his managers insist only they have control of his image and where it can be used.

"But no legal action has been launched, and there are whispers that what really upset Ronaldo was that, having stripped off to his underpants for the shoot in Madrid, he didn't envisage sharing the cover with another player photographed in Milan."

Israel's dirty secret is out
Cast your mind back to South Africa circa 1975 when the segregation of white and non-white citizens was official government policy.

This was a time when mixed marriages were prohibited and one million black South Africans were stripped of their nationality before being sent to reserves known as "homelands." Certain jobs were restricted to whites only, while government buildings, public transport, parks and shops had separate entrances for different racial categories. Drinking fountains, public toilets and even graveyards were segregated.

Families were pulled apart when certain members were subjected to racial tests; children whose skin was darker than their parents or whose hair was more curly were sometimes abandoned. Those who raised their voices in protest were tortured, imprisoned or killed; their leaders were made to disappear under a system of detention without trial. Spearheading this ugliness and brutality was P.W. Botha, who together with his massive security apparatus was blamed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for many of the horrors of white rule.

At a time when the US and Britain had discontinued weapons trading with South Africa — and when the UN General Assembly had requested its members to sever their political, educational, cultural, sporting and transportation links with what had come to be seen as a pariah state — Israel was keen to supply this evil white supremacist regime with nuclear weapons.

In recent days, a top secret 1975 military agreement signed by the person who is today Israel's President Shimon Peres and P.W. Botha — then the South African Defense Secretary — has been declassified in response to a request by American academic and author Sasha Polakow-Suransky.

Code-named "Chalet" the deal centers on the delivery to South Africa of nuclear-capable Jericho missiles. Minutes of a meeting disclose Botha's stipulation that the "correct payload" should also be made available in "three sizes" — believed to be a euphemism or nuclear and chemical weapons besides the conventional type. The documents confirm an earlier admission by a former South African naval commander, Dieter Gerhardt, who following the collapse of apartheid disclosed Israel's intention to equip South Africa with eight nuclear missiles and warheads.



'Nuclear ambiguity'

It's unsurprising the Israeli authorities did their best to prevent the South African government from releasing the agreement and memos, which not only blow a hole in Israel's carefully contrived so-called policy of "Nuclear Ambiguity" but also show that Israel has no compunction about selling such weapons of mass destruction to despised regimes.

Particularly damning is a declassified letter dated Nov. 22, 1974 from Shimon Peres to the then South African Information Secretary Dr. E.M. Rhoodie thanking him for facilitating cooperation between their two countries "based not only on common interests and on the determination to resist equally our enemies, but also on the unshakeable foundations of our common hatred of injustice and our refusal to submit to it."

Our common hatred of injustice!! That, coming from the representative of a country known for its brutal occupation and segregation of its citizens to one that existed upon racial lines sounds like a sick joke. It seems that Peres would say anything to get his country into bed with South Africa whereas, today, Israeli politicians bristle at any outside comparison between South Africa under apartheid and the Jewish state.

The documents vindicate Oxford University students who harangued Peres as a war criminal as he attempted to deliver a lecture at Balliol College in 2008. In an unsuccessful attempt to get the lecture canceled, South African academics and anti-apartheid veterans had written to the College to remind its Master of Peres' role in assisting apartheid South Africa procure weapons at the time it was subject to an international weapons embargo.

In fact, Israel supplied South Africa with six or more warships, patrol boats, military electronics and computers, missiles, warplanes, rockets, radar bases, weapons technology and tanks that were used to murder non-white South Africans.

Israel's embarrassment is compounded by the fact that the individual who signed the "Chalet" agreement is today its president. However, despite the clear evidence, the president's office has chosen to deny the claims that were first reported in Britain's Guardian newspaper. "There is no truth to the Guardian report," said a spokesperson for the presidential office Ayelet Frisch without elaborating further or condemning the agreement and supporting documentation as forgeries.

For Israel, the timing of these revelations couldn't be worse. It comes when President Barack Obama has embraced the concept of a nuclear-free Middle East and makes a mockery of US attempts to ignore Israel's nuclear arsenal on the basis that Israel is a moral and responsible democracy that would never sell to rogue entities. The disclosure also provides grist for the mill of Arab states that have long been pressing the international community to ensure Israel comes clean on its WMD status and signs up to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.



Enough is enough

With Israel's ethical credibility in tatters, it remains to be seen whether it will be supported by the international community for much longer. This week, Australia has taken a leaf out of Britain's book by expelling an Israeli diplomat in connection with the Mossad's alleged cloning of British, Australian and European passports for use by their hit squads.

Israel's democratic rights of free speech have also been challenged in recent weeks when it was found that Anat Kam, an Israeli journalist, had been secretly placed under house arrest for alleged treason, while another Uri Blau is hiding out in London following his expose of Israel's murder of a Palestinian.

The fact that the Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has been thrown back into jail for "the crime" of chatting with a Norwegian woman exposes Israel's lack of free speech and has spurred Amnesty International to give him the designation "Prisoner of Conscience." Israel's free speech credentials were also challenged last week when the respected US academic Noam Chomsky was refused entry to the West Bank to speak to the students of Ramallah's Bir Zeit University on the grounds that Israel doesn't like what he says.

One by one, Israel's fabricated ethical pillars are being toppled. When stripped of its façade what remains is a nuclear-armed occupier that is has proved itself willing to sell its WMD to corrupt regimes. Moreover, it is holding the 1.5 million residents of Gaza under siege while threatening its neighbor Iran with military strikes as well as saber-rattling against Lebanon and Syria. This is a country that pays only lip service to the concept of free speech and is prepared to track down and assassinate its enemies wherever it finds them in violation of international law.

When, oh when, will Washington and its allies have the courage to say enough is enough... and mean it!

[2.875 million Swiss francs (then about 2.3 million US dollars)]

Most expensive stamp changes hands;

The Swedish 'Treskilling Yellow - Error of Colour', the world's most expensive stamp
The Swedish Treskilling Yellow retained its title as the world's most expensive stamp when it changed hands at a private sale shrouded in secrecy, the auctioneer said.

The one-of-a-kind 1855 misprint was sold to a group of buyers who asked that their identities and the winning bid be kept confidential, said auctioneer David Feldman.

He declined to reveal whether the sale matched the 2.875 million Swiss francs (then about 2.3 million US dollars) price it set a record for in 1996.

"It is still worth more than any other single stamp" including the even older Two Penny Post Office Mauritius Blue that sold for 1.5 million francs (then 1.4 million US dollars) in 1993, said Mr Feldman.

He added that both the price and identity of the buyers, who took part in the telephone auction against a single rival bidder, would likely become public knowledge eventually.

Noted US stamp expert Robert Odenweller said it was not unusual for buyers of such valuable items to keep details of the sale secret at first, only to release information bit by bit later.

"The people who run around with that kind of change in their pockets have their own ideas about publicity," Mr Odenweller said.

North Korea vs. South Korea: Who Wins If They Go to War Once More?
March 12th, 2010 | Author: ADM


I've been gunning through the final pages of Bradley K. Martin's Under the Loving Care of the Heavenly Father: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty, blowing through the sections about potential wartime scenarios between the two rival Koreas.

Martin's chats with North Korean defectors have been extremely revealing. His several interviewees, the majority of them former staff members of the DPRK's million-man army, offer up their experience on why North Korea might have the decisive edge over the more affluent south if push comes to shove and the guns suddenly start to rumble.




I'll list some the more compelling bits (sorry, I hate this word, but I couldn't think of anything better) which I'd read about yesterday:

comparative training regimes: the prevailing opinion amongst North Korea's military higher-ups and amongst its frontline soldiers is that their southern cousins are "soft around the middle." Affluence and widespread capitalism has made the ROK's army weaker, and northerners will have the edge in hand-to-hand conflict because they have so much more to gain by fighting. North Korea maintains training facilities for its senior espionage troops where the latter are steeped in Southern lifestyles, ways, and culture which they will use in infiltrating the South from within, ripping its guts out from the inside. The installations are one-quarter scale models of Seoul streets, complete with real South Korean money, people, and music, and where spies are taught to speak with Southern accents and to dress with Southern clothes in order to blend in seamlessly. Their indoctrination is quite frightening, actually.
Northern victory — assuming the Americans (and the Chinese) don't get involved: North Korean officers are taught to believe that what saved the South during the Korean War was the timely involvement of the joint UN/US expeditionary force, which pulled the rabbit out of the proverbial hat for Syngman's ROK army. Provided the DMZ-occupying US Army keeps out of any future conflict, the North is convinced that a swift military victory will be theirs.
the next "Korean War" will be far bloodier and costlier than the 1950's conflict: Pyongyang knows the South has a significantly lower tolerance for the casualties and havoc a war will wreak on its society. The South – as one of the world's preeminent globalized economies – has so much more to lose in this conflict than does the North. Given modern-day weapons of warfare, if push comes to shove, the destruction caused by a future "Korean War" will be catastrophic, much more so than the previous battle on the peninsula.
food – or lack of it — will play a decisive factor in a future conflict: Kim Jong-il (aka Bam Bam) and the DPRK's staff higher-ups know how strong a motivator food can be to their mainline fighters. Troops in North Korea's army have seen what the chronic lack of access to basic foodstuffs has tragically caused to their parents and families. By rumbling massively across the border into the South, they are well-aware of the plentiful food stocks located just a few short miles across the DMZ. Food will be one of the primary motivators towards violent reunification, the prize at the end of the line in any future intra-Korean war. Food will propel North Korea's troops southward. As for the South? What do they have to find on the northern side of the DMZ? Northern land – for the most part – is unarable. DPRK has no known natural resources other than its people. It imports most of its industry's key inputs. DPRK society is deeply indoctrinated. All the South can look forward to is spending money in North Korea, rather than plundering its spoils and turning a wartime profit. You see where this is headed?


artillery shelling will also play a decisive role in any future conflict: Have a look at the map above and note how close the South Korean capital, Seoul, is to the DMZ. North Korea has spent the past several decades digging itself into the cliffs overlooking the DMZ and ROK's major cities a few miles south of the border. Since they own the high ground, all the North needs to do it lob its artillery shells over the border to just wait out the South's eventual collapse; that is, presuming the Americans don't get involved and air power does not turn the tides of the battle on the field.
comparative training regimens: In North Korea, the grunts are subjected to arduously long hikes that seem to never end. They suffer from poor sanitation in their barracks and also in the field. Their heavily-soiled clothing and uniforms are seldom replaced (once every two years for their winter outfits, twice every year in the summer). Their food is just a grade above starvation rations. Their entire ten years of service can basically be said to be marked by abject privations and such a stark deprivation that it profoundly affects their way of thinking. Moreover, over the course of ten years, North Korea's troops have zero sexual outlet. Homosexuality is rampant amongst North Korea's military ranks. So the thought of millions of defeated, pure-blooded South Korean women dangling food and awaiting them just across the border acts as a colossally strong incentive to win, and quickly.
better to die in battle than to die of hunger: further to our food discussion; food is used manipulatively by the regime to affect the troops' thinking. Given the limited access to supplies in North Korea – even for its army – soldiers are compelled to steal from citizens to survive. The ten years of a soldier's service is characterized by theft and violence just to get by. South Korean troops, meanwhile, enjoy ample rations with snacks (one of Martin's interviewees emphasized this). DPRK troops would prefer to take their chances rather than die suffering in North Korea.
in North Korea, everyone is mentally-prepared for war: the constant drumbeat to war sounds daily in Pyongyang. The current "Dear Leader"" Kim Jong-il is the military lightning rod of the nation, whipping up his troops and citizens into constant fits of frantic frenzy about US imperialism, the dangerous threat of becoming a US flunky, and the threat that capitalist South Korean culture will have on the "pre-eminence" of their North Korean society. There are few moments in the day when North Koreans aren't reminded of this potential calamity. If the South wins, North Korea – as most North Koreans today recognize it – will completely cease to exist. Loss to the South is therefore wholly unconscionable.


The experts, on balance, seem undecided about the outcome of a future war. But once we lay out the facts on the table as we have above, things come into clearer focus.


This is scary!!

pa.press.net, Updated: 20/05/2010 14:39
£430m of paintings stolen in Paris


AP


Police officers stand at the entrance of the Paris Museum of Modern Art (AP)
A lone thief has stolen five paintings worth a total of £430 million in an overnight raid on a Paris art museum.

The paintings, by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, George Braque, Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Leger were taken from the Paris Museum of Modern Art, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower

Police have cordoned off the museum in one of the city's most popular tourist areas.

A single masked intruder was caught on a video surveillance camera entering the museum by a window and taking the paintings away, the Paris prosecutors said.

The paintings were Le Pigeon Aux Petits-Pois (The Pigeon With The Peas) by Picasso, Pastoral by Matisse, Olive Tree Near Estaque by Braque, Woman With A Fan by Modigliani and Still Life With Chandeliers by Leger.

Red-and-white tape surrounded the museum, where investigators were studying surveillance video. Signs on the doors said it was closed for technical reasons.

On a cordoned-off balcony behind the museum, police examined the broken window and empty painting frames. The paintings appeared to have been carefully removed from their frames, not sliced out.

A security guard at the museum said the paintings were discovered missing by a night watchman just before 7am.

Museum officials and police would not comment on reports that the alarm system had malfunctioned or been disabled.

Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said he was "saddened and shocked by this theft, which is an intolerable attack on Paris's universal cultural heritage."


Mymoney is on Sean Connery.

Apparently they were former French heart throbs before the surgery  

This is one take on it

Controversy Rages in NYC over Planned Mosque Near Ground Zero

18/05/2010
By Mohammed Al Shafey




London, Asharq Al-Awsat- The project to build a mosque and Islamic cultural center close to Ground Zero in New York City has raised a sense of hope in a city whose Muslim population want to move on from the terrible 9/11 attacks.

Construction is yet to begin at the site where the mosque and Islamic center are set to be located, which is the former Burlington Coat Factory in Lower Manhattan, which was closed down in 2001 after the landing gear from one of the planes hit the building. This building is located approximately 200 meters from the former site of the World Trade Center, where 3,000 people died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The mosque will be part of the Cordoba House project, which will include a 13-storey Muslim community center that will include a theatre, a swimming pool, and sport facilities. However, the announcement of this project caused mixed feelings among local residents and families of 9/11 victims.

For his part, Nihad Awad, the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations [CAIR] told Asharq Al-Awsat on Monday that "there is controversy and there are parties that have a political agenda and want to intimidate the American people against the mosque project which has not yet begun [construction], and this includes Republican Congressman Peter King, and his opinion should not be considered because his ideas are extreme."

Awad added that "the Muslims should reassure the American people by disseminating correct information about Islam, which is a religion of peace and love." He also said that "there are supporters and businessmen who are overseeing the [mosque] project, and they are also concerned with putting forward a culture of dialogue."

Awad confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat via telephone that "building this mosque is the solution not the problem, because Islam calls for rapprochement with other religions and...a culture of moderation."

Awad also told Asharq Al-Awsat that we must recognize that there is a fear of Islam in American society due to its lack of knowledge about Islam, and that any non-Muslim might share these fears because of what s/he sees in the media every day and the image that is portrayed of Islam and Muslims, which is an incorrect and offensive portrayal of Islam. Awad added that this will result in incorrect impressions being formed about Islam and Muslims, and that those who are unaware of true Islam are not to blame for this.

The project was put forward by the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement to the New York Community Board which approved the plans. These two organizations are working to improve understanding of Islam and increase interfaith dialogue.

Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf, a New York Imam and head of the Cordoba Initiative told Asharq Al-Awsat that "there is no other project like this in the United States. It will be a centre for everybody and will not be limited to just Muslims."

According to Abdul Rauf, the construction of a mosque and a Muslim cultural center in the heart of Manhattan may contribute to achieving rapprochement between the Islamic world and the West. Abdul Rauf also said that he wants to "put forward the American-Islamic cultural identity which is built on tolerance and moderation."

Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf is the son of an Al-Azhar envoy, and he was born in Kuwait although he is of Egyptian origin, and lived in Kuwait, Malaysia, and England, before moving to the US in 1965. He has been the Imam of the Al-Farah Mosque in Manhattan for the past 27 years, and is known as a leader in the American Muslim community. He is the founder of both the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Initiative, and he has written a number of books on Islam.

Imam Abdul Rauf, who also speaks Arabic fluently, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Islamic centre will be financed through contributions from Muslims in the US, as well as by donations from Arab and Islamic countries. He also acknowledged that the location of the mosque, which will be able to hold over 2,000 worshippers, is the subject of much controversy and criticism from families of 9/11 victims. Reports indicate that a number of 9/11 victims families have objected to the proposed mosque. Evelyn Pettigano, who lost a sister in the attacks told the Associated Press, "I'm not prejudiced...it's too close to the area where our family members were murdered." While the mother of a fire fighter who died on September 11 said, "I think it's despicable, and I think it's atrocious that anyone would even consider allowing them to build a mosque near the World Trade Center."

However Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf responded to such criticism by saying that "the project will bring life to the abandoned streets of New York and change the way Americans view Muslims."


This is another

Supporters of the project say the planned multi-storey Islamic centre would transform both the drab lower Manhattan street and the way Americans have interacted with Muslims since nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks on September 11, 2001.

Boasting a mosque with sports facilities, a theatre and possibly day care, the centre would be open to all visitors to demonstrate that Muslims are part of their community, not some separate element.


But because of the mosques location, just around the corner from the gaping Ground Zero hole, the plan has upset some locals.

"The outrage continues," says website www.nomosquesatgroundzero.wordpress.com under a close-up of the collapsing Twin Towers.

The protest site says the centre will "cast a rude shadow over Ground Zero."

Others compared the idea to building a German cultural centre at Auschwitz.

"Spitting in the Face of Everyone Murdered on 9/11," writes Blitz, a self-described "anti-jihadist newspaper."

That level of anger is not uncommon among New Yorkers who blame Islam, rather than just Al-Qaeda or other militant groups, for 9/11 and the global confrontation with the United States.

"This is the wrong neighborhood to put the mosque in," Scott Rachelson, 59, said as he went to his office. Mr Rachelson, who works with people seeking compensation over 9/11 related damages, said his life changed forever the day that two hijacked airliners smashed into Manhattan.

"I was here. For me, and everyone else who was here, we have post-traumatic stress disorder," he said. "It feels like yesterday."

A woman living in the apartment building next to the proposed mosque said she couldn't accept the project.

"I'd be lying if I said it didn't make me a little nervous," said Jennifer Wood, 36, as she took her young son for a walk. "It seems a little in the face, a little too much too soon. I don't know why it has to be here -- this is a big city."

Fat Americans pose a threat to national security, generals say From correspondents in Washington From: AFP May 01, 2010 9:24AM
 
INCREASING rates of obesity among young Americans could undermine the future of the US military, with potential recruits increasingly too fat to serve, two retired generals said today.
"Obesity rates threaten the overall health of America and the future strength of our military," generals John Shalikashvili and Hugh Shelton, both former chairs of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote in a commentary.

Obesity disqualified more potential recruits for military service than any other medical factor , the two former commanders wrote in the Washington Post.

The two generals urged Congress to adopt legislation that would ensure better nutrition in schools, offering children more vegetables, fruits and whole grains while cutting back on foods with high sugar, sodium and fat content.

"We consider this problem so serious from a national security perspective that we have joined more than 130 other retired generals, admirals and senior military leaders in calling on Congress to pass new child nutrition legislation," wrote the commanders, part of a non-profit group called Mission: Readiness.



The warning came amid growing concern that childhood obesity has turned into an "epidemic" affecting a staggering one in three American youngsters.

A study released in March warned more American children are becoming extremely obese at a younger age, putting them at risk of dying decades younger than normal-weight children and of suffering old-age illnesses in their 20s.

The US military also faces a problem with troops already serving who are overweight, with some soldiers losing out on promotions because of their failure to meet fitness standards.

Although the military enjoyed record-breaking recruitment levels last year, officials say the growing problem of obesity could present a serious problem for recruitment efforts over time.

The two retired generals endorsed a plan by President Barack Obama's administration to increase funding by $US1 billion ($1.08 billion) a year over 10 years for child nutrition programs.

Investing in nutrition made sense as the country was already spending $US75 billion ($80.87 billion) a year on medical costs associated with obesity, they said.

Citing figures from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the commentary said the proportion of potential recruits who flunked their physical tests because they were overweight has jumped nearly 70 per cent since 1995.

General Shalikashvili, who led the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1993 to 1997, and General Shelton, who held the same post from 1997 to 2001, cited school lunch legislation passed in 1946 as a model.

Military leaders at the time recognised that poor nutrition reduced the pool of qualified candidates for the armed forces, they said.

"We must act, as we did after World War II, to ensure that our children can one day defend our country, if need be."

Is it time to get the ration books out again?

Some great clashes ......

In boxing... Ali - Frazer, Sugar Ray Leonard - Roberto Duran, Benn - Eubank

Athletics... Coe - Ovett

Tennis... Borg - McEnroe

Formula 1... Prost - Senna

Basketball... Larry Bird - Magic Johnson

Golf....Palmer - Nicklaus

Chess ....Karpov - Kasparov, Bobby Fischer - Boris Spassky

Any more modern clashes out there worth a mention? 

Lads anyone know where one could get a copy of the semi-final (both matches) from 77.

Bumped into a player today and he would love to have a copy of the two matches.....I offered him a copy of the final but he doesn't like horror movies.

Seriosly if anyone can help please let me know.........thanks.