The Shanghai Major----DOTA

As announced during the Grand Finals in Frankfurt, the next Dota Major will be held in Shanghai, China from March 2nd – 6th, 2016 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena. The event will be produced by Perfect World and the prize pool will be $3,000,000. The Open Qualifiers will be held from January 3rd – 6th with the Regional Qualifiers directly following from the 7th – 10th. Team registration for the Open Qualifiers will begin on December 18th. For those interested in attending the event in person, information about ticketing will be available soon.

Remember: People Made This Game, And They Want You To Have Fun With It

Fire up Black Ops III for the first time and you’ll be presented with this message. It sticks out amongst the corporate logos and splash screens, but it’s also a nice little touch.

Like, everyone knows that games are made by large teams of human beings, but do we really? A lot of fans treat games like products to be picked apart, temporary and often flawed diversions. But for the people who made them, they’re everything, literally the only thing they’ve worked on for the past several years.

Being reminded of this at the very start of a game—especially one like Call of Duty, which can get heated and hostile in multiplayer (and in forums)—is a smart idea from Treyarch. It feels like I’m seeing these sorts of notes from game developers more often, be it at the start or the conclusion of a game. It takes a bit of the edge off, gets you easing into the game in a more positive state of mind. It’s not going to stop you from assessing any problems the game may have down the line, but it’s nice to start a game thinking “awww” instead of “ok what am I in for”.

And if it helps a fan or two realise that a lot of hard work has gone into stuff they might not otherwise recognise, then all the better.

NASA publishes high-resolution views of Pluto

NASA released a new series of detailed photographs with high resolution planet Pluto being donated researchers unpublished survey data ever.

"These new views do to keep your breath for a moment. They know us, with a very high resolution, the geological composition of Pluto, "said Alan Stern, principal investigator of the probe" New Horizon "in a statement.

"The footage published a few days ago have a resolution of 77 to 85 megapixel", referring to NASA.

On July 14, the probe "New Horizons" NASA was the first spacecraft to Pluto walked.

High resolution images of Pluto already published reveal a geographical diversity by high mountains, sand dunes and polar regions.

"This level of quality is made possible only after decades of travel on the planet Venus or Mars. For now Pluto can explore craters, mountains and ice fields, less than five months of filming, "said Stern.

France, COP21-GCP: 36 billion tons of carbon dioxide pollution in 2014

In 2014, global pollution generated by the use of fossil fuels and industrial activity amounted to 36 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), an increase of 0.6 percent compared with a year ago.
China is the first world polluter and is responsible for the production of 9.7 billion tonnes, or a quarter of all pollution (27 percent).
These data published by "Global Carbon Project" under which second place is the United States with 5.6 billion tons of CO2 (15 per cent of the total).
While the EU is better by generating only 3.4 billion tons of CO2, or 10 percent of the total.
On the other hand CO2 generated from India has grown to 2.6 billion tons (7.2 percent of total).
While, in terms of pollution per capita, the United States is in first place with 17.4 tons of CO2 per capita, China with our 7,1, 6,8 our Europe and India a little less than two tons.

Continued tension, Russian ship in the Bosphorus, Turkey summons Russian ambassador

They continue to be strained relations between Russia and Turkey.
Russian Ambassador in Ankara was summoned urgently by the Turkish authorities, to express dissatisfaction and concern the whole of Turkey, after a Russian warship is the first to cross the Bosphorus with missiles ready to attack.
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called the parade a pure provocation, stating that the future of Turkey's response will be that appropriate to the situations that are regarded as threatening.
The ship that brought Turkey's harsh reaction called "Kaesar Kunikov" controversy had originated shortly after several TV trasmetuan a picture of a soldier who had a rocket launcher arm, seemingly ready to use.
Causoglu Turkish Foreign Minister urged Russia to be more measured, noting that so far Turkey has not stopped Russian ships sail through the Bosphorus, in respect of the Montreux agreement.
Genesis tension on the border plane crash was turkor-sirisan when Turkish military forces brought down a Russian fighter jet.

Germany, festive atmosphere for refugees, distributed gifts to children

Hundreds of boxes of clothing donated toys immigrant children
In the city in the west of Germany, in Muelheim an der Ruhr, preparations were given last hand to disperse hundreds of gifts for children of refugees who have arrived in the city earlier this year in order to offer at least the small one normal Christmas.
Hundreds of boxes were placed outside their homes or camps where they are housed, where dozens of volunteers have packaged these gifts that include cakes, candy, dolls and colorful toys or clothing.
"We will not help a man today. want to do something really big for immigrants today housed in Muelheim. We have over one thousand gifts that should deliver. It is wonderful to see how many people have had to give their "Reinhard said Jehles from local organizations" Ëelcome to Muelheim ".
This scheme is planned that in the summer months but the organizers decided that the gifts and help the residents of the city, to distribute for Christmas, since it coincides with the German tradition of Saint Nicholas, a beloved figure like grandfather of the year, which was especially brings children gifts.
Children staying in temporary camps set up for refugees were caught off guard by this surprise.
"We collected everything from almost every corner of Germany. There are among them many books, toys, supplies for various activities, clothing etc. "said Jehles.Pasi fell twilight of the evening, employees of Red Cross and dozens of volunteers, loaded the boxes into a van and began to distribute them.
Under the colorful lights of the Christmas tree, refugee children received gifts one by one, each according to their age, helping volunteers in German.
UNHCR said that almost 59.9 million people worldwide are displaced from their homes since the end of 2014, up from 51.2 million in 2013. Many of them are from Syria, due to the civil war that started there 5 years before.

"Albanian Trace" Last Molossians

Besides being Sar Albanians and indigenous another race, so very familiar, but so little to advertise. He is molos dog, which comes from the Illyrian tribe known Epirotan.

Cycle "records Albanian" journalist Marin Mema brought this weekend at Top Channel, history extraordinary one race, they chose to keep that in antiquity Alexander, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Charles the 5th of Spain up to Attila, leader of the Huns.

A breed that, from which come genetically least 100 molosoide other races, or "Mastiff" as they are known differently in many countries.

A journey in search of being molos, still in Albania. Albanians, the nation that have both indigenous breeds, dog and dog molos Sar.

Abaaoud terrorist has escaped the Greek forces

Greek police tried to arrest him in January Abdelhamid Abaaoud, suspected coordinator of the attacks Paris, but the operation failed. The information revealed by the British BBC, citing a source in the Belgian counterterrorism.

Abaaoud was killed during an armed clash with French police, 5 days after the terrorist attacks in Paris, killing 130 people. Greek operation was expected to take place before it was carried out by security forces in Verviers, Belgium, on 15 January, where two jihadists were killed.

Greek authorities had fallen on the trail of Abaaoud and believed he ran Belgian cell phone from Athens. Anti-terror sources told the BBC that a senior official of the Belgian police had gone to Athens to coordinate the operation to recover the Abaaoud with Greek colleagues, before the surge in Verviers.

But it is not clear how the terrorist network had been unable to save Greece. There may have been an effort to trace through his mobile phone signal, but it has not worked. Greek authorities have not confirmed the details and everything is known, is that he was able to escape.

Police anti-terrorist operation conducted two days after the offensive in Verviers on 17 January, raided two apartments. Exactly on the same day, Belgian media reported that authorities there were seeking Abaaoudin, a Brussels resident of Moroccan origin, believed to be hiding in Greece.

An Algerian citizen was extradited to Belgium, but who later would become the coordinator of the Paris attacks were not found. A Greek citizen, who lived near the apartments said that he saw Abaaoudin on the road, at least on two occasions.

The Moroccan was involved in 4 of 6 attacks prevented by the French authorities during the spring and, according to the French Interior Minister, Bernard Cazaneuve, was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison. Abaaoud is not the only connection between Greece and Paris attacks.

Even Abdeslam Salah, one of two suicide attackers who attacked the "Stade de France" on November 13, had traveled by ferry from Italy to Greece on August 1, leaving only three days later. He is still at large. New details have raised questions about how you can better exchange information, and develop more coordinated operations between counterterrorism authorities in several European countries

Asylum seekers in Europe, Germany expects 1 million refugees

Germany has recorded 964.574 asylum seekers during 11 months of 2015, suggesting that by the end of the year the number of asylum seekers will exceed 1 million. So far the number of arrivals is 4 times higher than the 2014 total.

The data for November did not provide information about the nationality, but in the months preceding the Syrians, for which Germany has applied open-door policy, constituted the largest group.

The number of arrivals has not decreased despite the cold winter season, with a new record of 206 persons, 101 of them in November. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in August that the country expects a total of 800 thousand asylum seekers this year. But the documents reserved, discovered in October by the German newspaper "Bild", it was learned that the government foresaw the arrival of some 1.5 million refugees ... Germany has registered more asylum seekers than any other country in Europe, even though they account for only 1 percent of its population.

However, asylum seekers are not always accepted in the EU countries and the percentage of those admitted varies from state to state. Less than 10 percent of applicants in Hungary provided a positive decision.

In Germany asylum seekers who are admitted are 42 percent, while in Sweden, the country with the largest number of applications compared with the population, are 77 percent. In all European Union only 45 percent of the asylum seekers are accepted.

Meanwhile, the UN refugee agency said the number of those who have crossed the Mediterranean bound for Europe fell by more than 1/3 in November, due to bad weather and also the biggest efforts of Turkey to fight traffickers.

In November, about 140 thousand immigrants and refugees held the dangerous journey to the Mediterranean to reach Europe, which fell by 36.5 percent compared to October, when a record number of 220,535 people arrived on the shores of the Old Continent.

Donald Trump: Muslims be denied entry into the US

Selections of "Time" there has never lacked variety, but the list of this year's names in the race for the man of the year, the American magazine caught again, alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin, or the Republican candidate for the presidential ticket Donald Trump, one of the key figures in nomination and its results to be the head of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Indeed, in the order in alphabetical order, it is the first. Last year, the same magazine had described al-Baghdadi as the most dangerous man in the world. The explanation for the recent decision is quite simple: in its list of the character of the year, "Time" determines those who have filled the news more than others, for good and for bad.

And such a criterion, the leader of ISIS fulfills best. "It is honor to be named in our rankings - Leading magazine clarify. - It is simply recognition of the impact that the individual in question has had worldwide. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has inspired a large number of followers to fight as the self-proclaimed Islamic caliphate, the territories occupied in Iraq and Syria, as well as abroad, organizing stroke as those in Tunisia or France.

"Time" issued once Adolf Hitler as the man of the year, the same thing he did with the Russian dictator Joseph Stalin, announced to such not one, but twice: in 1939 and 1942. For the first time, this title is reserved Charles Lindberghut, only the head of the man who first transatlantic flight without stops, from New York to Paris.

The character of the year the magazine "Time" will be announced on Wednesday.

Killing of 3 Syrian soldiers, US blame Russia

Syria accused on Monday the coalition led by the United States for the bombing of a military camp in the eastern part of the country, killing three Syrian soldiers and wounding 13 others, but a senior US official said that The Pentagon is "convinced" that the attack came from a Russian fighter jet.

Disputes regarding the deadly air attack once again underscore the growing chaos in the skies of Syria, where various world powers have begun to hit separate targets considered Islamic State in the war-torn country.

In a letter sent to the United Nations and published by state media Syrian government in Damascus has announced that 4 planes from Western coalition had hit Syrian military camp in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, during the night of Sunday. In addition to causing casualties among the soldiers, the letter states that the attack destroyed the armored vehicles and tanks ammunition stockpile.

"This attack hampers efforts to combat terrorism and proves once again that this coalition lacks seriousness and credibility regarding the effectiveness of the fight against terrorism", says the letter of Syria. Damascus government refers to all those who are fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad as "terrorists".

If the claims of Syria will be confirmed, this would be the first time that the coalition led by the US have hit troops loyal to Assad. However, the United States denied the charge, saying that four coalition air strikes eastern province of Deir el-Zourit hit oil refineries, about 55 km southeast of Ayyashit.

"We did not hit any targets tool blindur or military personnel in the area. We do not have any data, if any Syrian soldier was near our target objectives ", he said the coalition said in a statement, adding that despite this, claims for damage potential side always taken seriously and investigated to the end.

Moreover, a US military official said Washington was "sure" that he attack on a military camp was conducted by Russian aircraft. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, because he could not discuss the matter publicly. So far it lacks a reaction or comment from the Russian Ministry of Defense. However, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a supervisory body of the civil war in Syria, based in London, reported the same attacks with the same number of victims, adding that the attacks "are believed" to have been from the coalition led by the Americans.

Puppy love - Russian style

Moscow - Russian police have handed over a puppy to the French ambassador in Moscow to replace a French police dog killed in a raid, a show of solidarity with France in the aftermath of the Paris attacks.

Diesel, the 7-year-old Belgian shepherd killed in a French police raid targeting the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks in November, has been honoured all over the world.

On Monday, Russia's Interior Ministry gave the German shepherd puppy named Dobrynya after a Russian fairy-tale knight to French Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert.

Ripert praised the gift as "a gesture that comes from the heart", adding that "it shows the relations between Russia and France quite well".

No charges for Chicago cop in black man's death

Chicago - A Chicago police officer will not be charged in the fatal shooting of a black man in an incident captured by a squad car's dashcam.

Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez announced on Monday that she's not charging Officer George Hernandez in the shooting death of Ronald Johnson III in October 2014. Less than two weeks ago another officer was charged in the fatal shooting of a black man recorded by a squad car dashcam.

Last month, Alvarez charged Jason Van Dyke with first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times.

Police say the 25-year-old Johnson pointed a gun at officers before Hernandez shot him in the back. Johnson's mother, who has been pressing the city to release the video, says it shows her son was running away from officers when he was shot.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the video should be released this week.

No bomb on Berlin-Egypt flight diverted to Hungary

Budapest - Hungarian police said on Monday no explosives have been found aboard an Egypt-bound plane that made an unscheduled landing in Hungary because of a bomb threat.

Police spokesperson Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs told The Associated Press on Monday that "no explosives or explosive devices" were found on the plane, which took off from Berlin and was heading to the Egyptian beach resort of Hurghada.

Germany's Condor Airlines said its flight DE490 "made an unscheduled diversion to Budapest" after an "unspecific threat made by phone".

The plane was escorted into Hungarian airspace by a pair of fighter jets of the Hungarian Air Force, the Defence Ministry said, and landed at Liszt Ferenc Airport shortly before noon local time (11:00 GMT) on Monday.

Condor said 133 passengers and seven crew were safe and the company was sending another aircraft to Budapest to take the passengers to their destination.

Earlier, while the plane, passengers and luggage were still being inspected, Csiszer-Kovacs said police were following "established protocol" for what she said was "not an extraordinary situation".

Police said operations at the airport were not affected by the unexpected landing.

Asylum seekers in Germany soar to 965 000

Berlin - Almost 965 000 migrants and refugees were registered in Germany from the start of the year to the end of November, the Interior Ministry said on Monday, revealing numbers that trump previous estimates set for the whole year.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere had previously said that Germany should expect 800 000 asylum seekers in 2015, although the media and other groups had hinted that the number may be much higher.

The ministry said that around 484 000, over half, come from Syria. Their bids to stay in Germany are likely to be successful since they qualify for refugee status having fled the brutal civil war in their home country.

Other main countries of origin were Afghanistan and Iraq, in second and third place respectively, according to the data.

Not all of those registered have been able to file an application for asylum due to the huge influx of people. In November, local authorities received 57 816 asylum bids, a fraction of the 206 000-strong migration tally for that month.

The bureaucratic backlog continues to grow, with 355 914 asylum applications still undecided.

Paris suspects portray themselves as naive

Paris - One said he couldn't afford the bullets to load his gun in Syria, while another compared carrying a Kalashnikov to wearing a superhero costume. Most of the six men on trial in Paris for their alleged roles in a recruiting network for European Islamic extremist fighters portray themselves as amateur holy warriors grappling with a conflict way over their heads.

The central figure in the week-long trial that closes on Monday is 35-year-old Salim Benghalem, a suspected Islamic State group commander wanted by the US and France. He is believed to be in Syria and is being judged in absentia.

Benghalem's wife, who left Syria with their children, has told investigators he would return to France only to carry out attacks not stand trial - aiming for "a series of killings". The trial was being held in the aftermath of the November 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people, stunned France and sent Europe into a state of high alert.

The six French nationals present in court, all of whom could face up to 10 years in prison for their activities in 2013, sought to present themselves as far less committed to jihad than Benghalem. Four described themselves in testimony last week as naive about the situation in Syria.

The group played soccer together as children in the town of Thiais, just south of Paris, hung out as adolescents in school, or simply met on the journey to radicalisation. After mostly brief stays in Syria, they all testified that they wanted to go home. The men minimised their roles with extremist groups, with some claiming that they went to Syria to do humanitarian work and had no role in fighting. Five of the six went to the northern city of Aleppo, dominated by rebels.

Abdelmalek Tanem, 26, an alleged recruiter, spent a full 18 months in Syria, from the end of 2012 until the spring of 2014, saying he helped French jihadis get to the Turkish border with Syria. He pledged allegiance first to the Nusra Front, an offshoot of al-Qaeda, then to the rival Islamic State group, and said he left Syria because of the infighting among the groups.

He was arrested in Spain in April 2014 as he tried to make his way to Algeria.

Investigators, using phone taps, established a clear working relationship between Tanem and Benghalem. In court, however, Tanem distanced himself from the prime suspect who had celebrated the January attacks against the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish grocery store in Paris that killed 17 people, plus the three attackers.

Tanem said he didn't "understand how Benghalem could radicalise in such a way", adding that he "condemns all attacks in France".

Meaning in life

The defendants portrayed themselves as being unaware of the full gravity of their actions, or the difficulties they would encounter. Tanem, for instance, claimed he was simply looking for meaning in life.

"I went to Syria at first for humanitarian reasons," Tanem told the court. "Then I said to myself, 'Why not take part in combat?'" He said he never followed the temptation to fight, and dismissed his military training as minimal.

Another defendant, Karim Hadjidi, a 37-year-old who is married with four children, said he was among the recruited, but he couldn't afford to fight. He stayed in Syria for three weeks instead of the two months initially planned, because he didn't have enough money to stay.

"They gave me a Kalashnikov, but I didn't fire it because I didn't have bullets," he said. "Each bullet cost €2."

Paul M'Barga, a 23-year-old Cameroonian who converted to Islam, said he stayed only five days in Syria "before being confronted with the reality". But before leaving, M'Barga had a photo taken of himself, all smiles, Kalashnikov in hand.

"It's a disguise," he insisted in court, about carrying the Kalashnikov. "It's like when you're little and you put on a Spiderman costume."

Germany wants to ban extreme-right party

Karlsruhe - Germany took a step towards banning the radical rightwing National Democratic Party (NPD) on Monday when the nation's top court agreed to open a hearing into the case in March.

The upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, representing the country's states, agreed two years to prepare a case for banning the anti-foreigner NPD on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and wanted to overturn the country's democratic order.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative-led government and the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, have joined the Bundesrat in seeking to have the NPD outlawed.   

The Karlsruhe-based Constitutional Court did not set out any reasons for deciding to hear the case.

This is the second time in 12 years that there has been attempt to prohibit the NPD. 

The last attempt in 2003, led by Social Democrat chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's government, failed when the court ruled that the NPD could not be banned on the grounds of the number of police and intelligence service informants who had infiltrated the party.

The court said this meant that the state played a role in influencing the NPD.

But state interior ministers insisted that the information for the case was not derived from informants.

German law stipulates that a party must pose a threat to democratic order for a ban to be put in place. The constitutional court has only banned two parties since the end of WWII - the Nazi-orientated Socialist Reich Party of Germany in 1952 and the German Communist Party four years later.

The court said it will hold three days of hearings into the NPD case on March 1-3.

Kerry's 'one state' comments cause consternation

Jerusalem - US Secretary of State John Kerry has set off a furore in Israel by suggesting that Israel was destroying itself as a Jewish state.

Kerry told a conference on Israeli affairs in Washington on Saturday that through its continued occupation of the West Bank, Israel could make it impossible to partition the land between Jewish and Palestinian states. He said the alternative would have to be a "binational state" in which Jews and Palestinians live together in one state, ending Israel's Jewish majority.

"The one-state solution is no solution at all for a secure, Jewish, democratic Israel living in peace, it is simply not a viable option," Kerry said.

The US, along with most of the international community, has long argued that a "two-state solution" - establishing a Palestinian state and ending Israel's control over millions of Palestinians in territories occupied in the 1967 war - is the best way of creating a long-term peace.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted angrily on Sunday, telling his Cabinet that "Israel will not be a binational state" and blaming the Palestinians for the failure of peace efforts. But despite Netanyahu's pledges, Jewish settlement of the West Bank continues apace, while confusion over his true intentions grows by the day.

Meanwhile, Israel seems unable to stem a wave of stabbings and other attacks by Palestinian individuals, now in its third month, that has killed 19 Israelis and left over 100 Palestinians, most said by Israel to be attackers, dead.

This situation has sharpened the country's half-century-old debate over the Palestinians. Opposition politicians, intellectuals and retired military commanders are issuing increasingly strident warnings that never-ending violence awaits if Israel continues to occupy millions of angry Palestinians who cannot vote in its national elections.

"If Israel were the Titanic and the binational apartheid state its iceberg ... then the collision with the iceberg has already occurred," wrote columnist Rogel Alpher in the Haaretz daily. "Without a diplomatic solution, we will continue to slowly sink into an existence of knifings, hatred and fear."

Here's a look at the potential "one-state" outcome:

THE ARGUMENT FOR PULLING OUT OF THE WEST BANK

Ever since Israel seized the West Bank and Gaza from Jordan and Egypt in 1967, the question of the territories' fate has hung in the air.

Israel's more doveish left wing has favoured a pull-out from most of the areas, hoping this will bring Israel recognition and peace in the region. But over two decades of failed peace talks have convinced many a deal is not possible.

The left still favours a pull-out, but the rationale has shifted to something more like nationalism: without a pull-out, Israel would no longer be a Jewish-majority democracy because half of its population in effect will be Palestinians, most of them without true democratic rights.

That's because while Israel proper - the area defined by 1949 cease-fire lines that ended the war surrounding Israel's establishment - has roughly 6.3 million Jews and 1.7 million Palestinian citizens of Israel. Adding the West Bank and Gaza, demographers believe, would make the Arab and Jewish populations essentially equal.

A pull-out from the West Bank is complicated by the presence of Jewish settlers, numbering 400 000 and growing. Eventually the situation may become irreversible, with the Palestinians abandoning efforts to set up their own state and instead demanding annexation and voting rights as citizens of a single "binational" state. Israelis who fear this scenario and see a future of internecine conflict, global economic boycotts and increasing isolation want a pull-out now, from at least most of the West Bank, even without an agreement with the Palestinians.

"If the Israelis don't hurry up to implement the two-state solution on the ground, they will lose," said Ahmed Qurei, a long time Palestinian negotiator.

THE ARGUMENT FOR NOT PULLING OUT OF THE WEST BANK

For some Jewish Israelis, the West Bank is literally the Promised Land - full of biblical places like Hebron, Jericho, Bethlehem and Shilo that must be kept as a birthright, whatever the consequences.

But this is a minority opinion, even among proponents of the occupation. The more common argument is rooted in security.

Without the West Bank, Israel would be 15km wide at its narrowest point, with the West Bank looming over population centres and surrounding Jerusalem on three sides. Meanwhile, Islamic radicals are on the march across the region. Such Israelis imagine a future in which some version of the Islamic State group seizes control of the West Bank and launches daily attacks at Israel. They conclude that prudence requires holding onto the West Bank; the Palestinians must be satisfied with their autonomy zones set up under interim agreements in the 1990s.

THE IMPACT OF GAZA

Israel pulled troops and settlers out of the Gaza Strip in 2005 as part of a simple calculation: With the small but crowded territory neatly removed from the demographic equation, Jews still have a majority of about 60%. But the Islamic militants of Hamas seized control of Gaza, periodically firing rockets at Israel and leading the sides to three mini-wars to date. Many Israelis fear the West Bank will face a similar fate if Israeli withdraws.

Meanwhile, the Palestinians and much of the world consider Gaza to still be occupied, since Israel blockades it and controls the airspace and sea access in an effort to minimize Hamas' ability to arm itself.

KEEP THE ARMY, REMOVE THE SETTLERS?

A paper published two weeks ago by a major Israeli think tank proposed a new unilateral solution in which settlers would be pulled out of most of the West Bank to create a situation more amenable to partition. The army would maintain its current positions until a better alternative emerged. The authors - economist Avner Halevi and Gilead Sher, a former chief negotiator with the Palestinians - said this would require removing about 100,000 settlers, while others living close to Israel's de facto border would remain pending a future negotiation.

"The purpose of such a withdrawal would be to implement a temporary border that would create a reality of two nation-states," Sher and Halevi wrote.

'You ain't no Muslim' strikes a chord

London - It's become the rallying cry of many who want the Muslim faith to be separated from the violence some commit in its name: "You ain't no Muslim, bruv."

The comment, heard in the background of a bystander's video following a stabbing at a London Underground station that prosecutors say was a terrorist act, has touched a nerve in Britain and become a trending hashtag on Twitter. Even Prime Minister David Cameron embraced it as a slogan.

"Some of us have dedicated speeches and media appearances and sound bites and everything to this subject," Cameron said on Monday. "But 'You ain't no Muslim, bruv' said it all much better than I ever could. And thank you, because that will be applauded around the country."

The remark came on Saturday night after a man with a knife attacked two commuters in east London, reportedly shouting "This is for Syria." As the man is wrestled to the ground by police, who first used a stun gun to subdue him, a bystander shouted at the suspect:The speaker, whose identity is not known, uses the slang term bruv, for brother.

The remark seems all the more powerful, coming at that heat of the moment, when the blood is literally on the floor. It seemed to touch the anger and frustration that many Muslims feel over being blamed for violence perpetrated by people in the name of Islam.

Salma Yaqoob of the Stop the War Coalition told the BBC that it lifted the spirits and shows how many British Muslims feel.

"It encapsulates the best of British - not just what this individual did but the way people responded to what he said and have added their voices to that message," she said.

Fiyaz Mughal, director of Faith Matters, an anti-extremism group that monitors anti-Muslim attacks, said the comments and the response show how social media can be used to unite people as well as divide them.

"We would say use it as a conversation piece," he said. "Get people to talk about this. Get to know each other. That's the positive thing that can come out of it."

The suspect, Muhaydin Mire, has been charged with attempted murder. His motivation for carrying out the attack is not known, but prosecutors said Monday he had images associated with the Islamic State group on his phone.

Pellegrini replaces Aguero with Celina

Manuelle Pellegrini has confirmed the absence of Sergio Aguero.
Argentine striker, Aguero will be missing the challenge of the Champions League against Borussia Moenchengladbach.

But Celina Bersant Kosovar talent, has trained with the first team today and is expected to debut with Citizens.

Celina in the last game, had traveled with the first team in Turin for Juventus match, but throughout the match stayed on the bench.

Gladbachu remember that City and will meet tomorrow (Tuesday) at 20:45 at the Etihad Stadium Manchester.