Supercouple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes to Divorce

After almost six years of marriage and a little girl of the same age, Hollywood's Golden Couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are set to divorce. This will be Tom's third divorce after Mimi Rogers (1987-1990, the woman to have introduced him to scientology) and Nicole Kidman (1990-2001 and two adopted children: Isabella Jane [b.1992] and Conner Antony [b.1995]). It will be Holmes' first divorce.

Katie Holmes and less than impressed Daughter Suri

WEAK Great Britain Football Team Chosen

Stuart Pearce has announced the Squad for the Great Britain Football team-from what we know it will be weak.
Normally England,Scotland,Wales and Northern Ireland are kept as separate teams in FIFA competitions but with regards to the Olympics, they are combined. Great Britain used to have a football team between 1900 and 1920 and 1936 and 1972; after 1972 the team was disbanded due to the abolishment of distinction between amateur and professional players. Whereas England has only once won the FIFA World Cup in 1966 and the other nations not amounting to anything in international football, the Great Britain team has won three Olympic golds: 1900,1908 and 1912.
Because the Scottish and Northern Irish teams did not want to be a part of this, only English and Welsh players are part of the team.

The rule with Olympic teams is that only three players may be over 23 years old; the three selected this time were Micah Richards (England), Craig Bellamy (Wales) and Ryan Giggs (Wales).

There are several reasons this squad is weak:

* None of the England players at Euro 2012 were selected "in order to avoid fatigue"
* Peter Crouch, Jermain Defoe, Aaron Lennon and Darren Bent-all players part of England that did not go to Euro 2012, were not selected.
*David Beckham, arguably the most popular England player and ex-captain and who pioneered as an ambassador for London 2012 and a Great Britain football team, was not selected. This was probably the most shameful acts ever done for a player with few years of international football left; especially when he did not go to Euro 2008 (England did not qualify), 2010 World Cup ( injury) and Euro 2012 (not selected).

Regardless of what happens with the team, at least England did better than expected at Euro 2012; being in a tough group they drew against the French 1-1 but beat host Ukraine 1-0 and beat Sweden the second time in a row (after November 2011) 3-2 and 'picked' the Swedish bogey. England exit Euro 2012 in the Quarter Finals after losing 4-2 to Italy on penalties after a 0-0 draw.

Great Britain's matches scheduled:

20th July 2012: friendly against Brazil
26th July 2012: group game against Senegal
29th July 2012: group game against UAE
1st August 2012: group game against Uruguay

The Last Emperor of MMA hangs up his gloves

Fedor Emilianenko, the 'Last Emperor' of MMA officially retires after knocking out opponent Pedro Rizzo in the first round.
With Vladamir Putin watching, the fight ended after a right hand from Fedor knocked Rizzo down and stopped Rizzo with a barrage of punches.
Before this Fedor said he was considering retiring and after the fight, these were his exact words to Ria Novosti, a Russian news site,

'I think it is time I quit...My family influenced my decision. My daughters are growing without me. That's why it's time to leave'

Fedor's style in MMA is a combination of Judo (Bronze in the 1999 Sofia Liberation A Team World Cup 1999 Moscow International and 1998 and 1999 Russian Judo Championships) and Combat Sambo (Seven Russian Sambo Championships,a European Sambo Championship and Three World Championships). In MMA he was undefeated in 26 fights between April 2001 and November 2009.

Fedor had fought in Pride but never in the UFC due to Dana White's refusal to sign him. Fedor fought in Strikeforce before and after it's purchase by White and won his first fight against Brett Rogers but lost the following three to Fabricio Werdum (triangle armbar in round one), Antonio 'Bigfoot' Silva (Doctor stoppage after excessive bleeding from a punch from Silva in round 2) and Dan Henderson (TKO from punches in the first round). After being cut from Strikeforce he defeated Jeff Monson (unanimous decision) and Satoshi Ishii (TKO from punches in first round) before winning his Seventh Russian Sambo Title and the retirement fight.

A shame Fedor never fought the likes of Randy Couture and Brock Lesnar while all three were in their prime but at least he retires on a high.

Thank you Fedor

USA shows up Britain AGAIN!

Last year the British celebrated the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton to only be one-upped by the USA finally killing Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, ten years after the September 11 attacks.

This year the British celebrated Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, 60 years of Her Majesty being in power; again the USA did it again by killing 15 Al Qaeda members and Abu Yahya al-Libi in a drone strike in Mir Ali, North Waziristan,Pakistan. 

Al-Libi is second in command to Al-Zawahiri, the man who replaced Osama bin Laden. As well as this he is an official on al-Qaeda's Shariah Committee and is one of the more religious members of the group; whilst bin Laden was an engineer and al-Zwahiri is a doctor, al-Libi was said to be an Islamic scholar who spent two years in Africa studying Islam.

While the White House confirms this as true, Pakistani Taliban deny he was caught. Pakistan's government is now warning the US to stop the sudden drone strikes.

Mr Obama loves trolling everyone!

Sixty years of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

For the past two days Britain and the Commonwealth (ex-Empire) nations have been celebrating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee (60 years in power). She is only the second British Monarch after her great-great Grandmother Queen Victoria) to have had a Diamond Jubilee.

The Queen is actually related to our former enemy Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Prussia; the Kaiser's mother and the Queen's great grandfather were brother and sister meaning he was grand-grand (or great-great)-Uncle or cousin twice removed. The Queen had one sister called Margaret who was born in 1930 (4 years after the Queen) and died 2002. The Queen herself married the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip (who is a Prince as his father was son of King George I of Greece and grandson of Christian IX of Denmark) and had four children: Prince Charles, Princess Anne,Prince Andrew and Prince Edward. The Queen has eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Contrary to popular belief, the Queen has some power in the changing governments of commonwealth countries:


Giving audiences to Ministers, at which Her Majesty may be consulted, encourage and warn;

Opening each new session of Parliament;

Assenting to Bills passed by Parliament, on the advice of Ministers;

Proroguing or dissolving Parliament before a general election.

The latter two are the 'strong' powers of the Queen, although she has the power to dissolve parliament when she pleases or reject laws, she rarely does for she wishes to remain neutral to the changing governments.

Amongst the excitement of the jubilee celebrations, Prince Philip was sent to hospital with a suspected bladder infection but he seems to be recovering and doing well.

Here's to another ten years to the Queen :)