Smoking, tobacco ads banned at Euro 2012

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updated 10:09 a.m. ET Oct. 20, 2011

NYON, Switzerland (AP) -UEFA has imposed a ban on smoking and tobacco advertising at next year's European Championship.

UEFA says the ban will apply in and around all eight host stadiums in Poland and Ukraine.

UEFA President Michel Platini says the ban is about "respecting the health of our spectators."

Host cities will also be urged to extend the policy to "ensure smoke-free public transport, restaurants and fan zones."

UEFA worked with the World Health Organization and European Union to introduce the policy.

The 16-nation tournament will be played from June 8-July 1.

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Barcelona set a club record by extending its unbeaten streak to 13 games with a 2-0 victory over the Czech Republic's Viktoria Plzen in the Champions League.

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Floodwaters begin seeping into outer Bangkok

BANGKOK?? Floodwaters have begun seeping into Bangkok's outer districts, one day after the government opened several key floodgates in a risky bid to let built-up water flow through the capital's canals toward the sea.

An Associated Press team saw water entering homes in the northern Lak Si district, which is located along the city's main Prapa canal.

Water in the area has risen to knee-level in some places, but damage has so far been minor and has not affected Bangkok's main business district.

The government had predicted canals could overflow, but it is still unknown to what degree.

Gov. Sukhumbhand Paribatra said Friday he was worried about inundation in the area and vast pools of runoff draining toward the capital are expected to intensify.

The sun was shining over the capital on Friday after some heavy rain the previous evening. The weather was expected to be generally clear over the weekend.

The government has been struggling to deal with the worst flooding in 50 years.

After trying to hold the line for a week, the government decided to open some canals on Thursday to allow water to run through the inner city.

Under fire
The government's flood crisis center said people in parts of Don Muang and Laksi districts, in northern Bangkok, should move belongings to higher floors. The crisis center is itself located in the old city airport in Don Muang.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has come under fire for her management of the crisis, which was building even before she took office in early August and looks set to cost industry more than $3 billion and will hit economic growth.

Interactive: Asia floods: Kills thousands, cost billions (on this page)

Soldiers have played an active role in shoring up dikes and helping people relocate and, with Bangkok in danger, Yingluck has put an additional 50,000 armed forces personnel and 30,000 police on standby to help in relief work.

But she is resisting calls to invoke a state of emergency, which would mean deploying the army on the streets.

"It would ruin investors' confidence, which is quite weak already," Yingluck told reporters at the crisis center.

"At this moment we can see that we (the government and the people) are cooperating very well to help us get through the problem. If I declare a state of emergency, I would be telling the world that we can't help each other," she added.

Flood barriers breached
The government's effort to guide the water around the east and west of the capital has had some success.

"This mission was intended to divert water out of Rapipat Canal and it has succeeded in pushing out water to the open sea faster," the crisis center said in a statement.

Video: Thailand faces flood disaster (on this page)

But water now covers a third of Thailand's provinces, some 4 million acres in the north, northeast and center of the country.

The flooding has killed at least 342 people since July and has devastated industrialized areas to the north of Bangkok.

A seventh big industrial estate was overwhelmed late on Thursday when flood barriers at the Bang Kadi park in Pathum Thani province about 30 miles north of the capital were breached.

The central bank put the damage to industry at more than 100 billion baht ($3.3 billion) on Thursday.

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Lohan returns to court amid call for jail sentence (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Another court date, another jail threat for Lindsay Lohan.

A city prosecutor will recommend Wednesday that the troubled starlet be sent back to jail because she had been ousted from a community service assignment at a women's shelter.

Lohan had been ordered in April to serve 360 hours at the Downtown Women's Center, an agency that helps homeless women. It is unclear how many hours she completed there, but she was terminated by the center and has been serving hours lately with the American Red Cross.

Deputy City Attorney Melanie Chavira will ask that Lohan be found in violation of her probation and be sentenced to jail, city attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan said Tuesday.

It will ultimately be up to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner to decide whether Lohan warrants another probation revocation hearing and a return to jail, where she has been sent four previous times only to be released early due to jail overcrowding. If the judge determines Lohan has violated her probation, she will have to schedule an evidentiary hearing for a later date, after which any punishment would be determined.

The judge has said she thought the women's shelter assignment would do Lohan some good.

Lohan's spokesman Steve Honig said the actress is now doing her service with the American Red Cross.

He declined comment on the recommendation that Lohan be sent back to jail.

He said the "Mean Girls" star has been working hard to satisfy the terms of her release, including psychological counseling and completing a Shoplifters Anonymous course.

"She's really pounding away," Honig said, adding that Lohan has been also working to complete her Shoplifter's Anonymous course.

"She's on a good track," Honig said Tuesday. "We're optimistic the judge will see that."

Lohan took to Twitter on Tuesday evening and posted, "I just want it to be known, that just because I was not followed&photographed during the times I've gone to community service, does NOT mean that I wasn't following my obligations (by going) to the court."

Lohan, who aside from a role in last year's film "Machete" has seen her acting career evaporate in recent years, has been in perpetual trouble since May 2010.

Another judge determined she violated her probation a 2007 drunken driving case and sentenced her to jail and rehab. She faltered after being released from a rehab facility early and was sent to the Betty Ford Center, where she got in an altercation with a rehab worker who later sued.

Within weeks of her release from Betty Ford, Lohan was accused of taking a $2,500 necklace without permission from an upscale jewelry store near her home in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. Sautner determined the January incident constituted a probation violation and Lohan was ordered to undergo psychological counseling and perform 480 hours of community, with 120 hours to be spent at the county morgue.

Lohan later pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge in the necklace theft case, and served 35 days of a four-month sentenced on house arrest.

Honig said he did not know how many hours of community service Lohan had completed and that information would be given to Sautner on Wednesday.

Mateljan said he had not personally reviewed the probation report and did not know why Lohan was booted from serving at the Downtown Women's Center.

"We feel that her being terminated from it is a violation," Mateljan said.

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Police comb Kansas City home, yard of missing baby

Investigators leave the home of missing baby Lisa Irwin in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Investigators leave the home of missing baby Lisa Irwin in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

An investigator carries shovels to the back yard of missing baby Lisa Irwin in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Investigators carry a ladder into the home of missing baby Lisa Irwin in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

An investigator looks behind a shed in the back yard of the home of missing baby Lisa Irwin in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Investigators armed with shovels, rakes and bomb-detection equipment scoured the Kansas City home and yard of a family who say their baby was abducted from her crib as they slept. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

An investigator steps over police lines while searching the home of missing baby Lisa Irwin in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? One of the most aggressive police searches yet of the home where a Kansas City infant went missing more than two weeks ago drew officers Wednesday armed with shovels, rakes and other tools who hauled off bags that appeared to be full of potential evidence.

Police refused to say what they found inside or outside the home belonging to Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, who say an intruder snatched their baby daughter, Lisa, from her crib in the middle of the night as the mother and two other boys slept.

From shortly after sunrise through late afternoon, FBI agents and police officers joined in the search that began after a judge issued a warrant that prevented the parents from returning to the house while it was under way.

Officers headed to the back of the home with shovels, rakes and a ladder and could be seen digging behind a shed in the yard. Out front, investigators left the house carrying brown paper bags and clear plastic bags and took them to vehicles parked outside.

Police also brought in a bomb and arson truck to assist the search, though spokesman Capt. Steve Young said there were no indications of explosives in the house. Some bomb detection devices use X-ray technology to scan solid objects to reveal items concealed within. An AP reporter saw investigators carrying at least a dozen thin, black rectangular sheets away from the home during the afternoon.

Lisa Irwin was 10 months old on Oct. 4 when her parents reported her missing. Her father, an electrician, said he returned home from a late shift to discover the lights on, a window tampered with, the front door unlocked and Lisa gone. Bradley and Lisa's two older brothers had been asleep elsewhere in the house. Bradley has admitted she drank heavily that night and may have blacked out.

Police, FBI agents, officers from area law enforcement agencies and the Missouri National Guard already have searched the family's home, neighborhood, nearby wooded areas, a landfill and abandoned homes. Police have refused to discuss any evidence gathered in the searches, saying only that they remain without a suspect.

There was no indication the family has tried to block investigators' access to their home, which already has been scoured by FBI agents with dogs.

The parents' attorney, Joe Tacopina, said Wednesday that he welcomed the search, but "we want this to be done in good faith, not to match some predetermined conclusion."

Earlier Wednesday, Tacopina questioned the need for a warrant.

"They can go in and out any time," he said of police. "They have had unfettered access because we want answers."

FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said Wednesday's search was not based on any sort of tip. Authorities restricted media access, Patton said, because agents were using a procedure involving dogs that they didn't want to be recorded. She declined to elaborate.

Young said all previous searches of the house have been conducted with the family's consent. Wednesday's warrant prevents anyone except those involved in the investigation from entering, meaning family members ? who have returned home from time to time to collect clothes and other belongings ? may not go back inside until the search is over. It wasn't immediately clear whether the search would resume Thursday.

The Federal Aviation Administration established a no-fly zone over the search area effective until 5 p.m., agency spokesman Tony Molinaro said. He characterized the zone as a safety precaution and said it had been requested by law enforcement. Similar restrictions were introduced during a search of the area Tuesday.

Much attention has focused on a rash of recent TV interviews the parents have given in which Bradley admitted she had consumed several glasses of wine the night that Lisa disappeared. She also told NBC that she did not see the baby after putting her to bed at about 6:40 p.m. ? roughly four hours earlier than the time she originally gave police. She didn't explain the difference.

Tacopina has said Bradley's candid words indicate the parents have nothing to hide.

Bradley has said she expects to be arrested in her baby's disappearance.

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US crafting framework for cyber offense: general

WASHINGTON?? The United States is still crafting a legal framework to guide any offensive moves in cyberspace, months after the Pentagon unveiled a broad cyber strategy, the head of the military command responsible for such operations said on Tuesday.

Deliberations on military doctrine and legal framework are "ongoing," Air Force General Robert Kehler, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, told a defense writers' group. "I would say it's not completed."

Kehler has overall responsibility for the U.S. Cyber Command, a sub-unit that began operating in May 2010.

Its mission is to protect Defense Department networks and, if ordered, to go on the offensive to make sure the United States retains the ability to use digitally networked systems on land, at sea and in the air.

He said the military was still looking at "what kinds of options would we want to be able to offer" policymakers for going on the offense.

One of the issues is what constitutes "active defense" in cyberspace, he said, equating it with actions that a ship's captain is authorized to take at sea to protect a ship.

"Is active defense really offense in cyberspace?" Kehler asked. "I would argue that it really is not. It does not have to be, for sure. But those are the issues that we are trying to work our way through."

The Defense Department unveiled in July the broad outlines of a strategy for protecting its more than 15,000 computer networks. The strategy defined cyberspace as an "operational domain" that U.S. forces will be trained to defend, like air, sea and land.

'Significant component'
Then-Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn said the Pentagon wanted to avoid militarizing cyberspace, but aimed to secure strategic networks with the threat of retaliation, as well as by mounting a more robust defense.

"Our strategy's overriding emphasis is on denying the benefit of an attack," Lynn said in a July 14 speech at the National Defense University. "If an attack will not have its intended effect, those who wish us harm will have less reason to target us through cyberspace in the first place."

The U.S. Defense Department has said that it expects cyberattacks to be a "significant component" of future conflicts. More than 30 countries are creating cyber units in their militaries, Lynn wrote in a September 28 piece on ForeignAffairs.com just before stepping down this month.

Cyber technologies now exist that are capable of destroying critical networks, causing physical damage by playing havoc with industrial control systems and altering key systems' performance.

Kehler in his remarks Tuesday said cyberspace is a place "through which we'll conduct military activity, similar to every other domain."

Asked how U.S. cyber capabilities measured against potential adversaries such as Russia and China, he said: "I believe the that the United States still has an edge."

"I can't describe how great the edge is," Kehler said. "I can tell you in some places I think we have quite an edge in cyberspace." He declined to elaborate.

Kehler suggested debate may be continuing on whether electronic warfare ? in which the electromagnetic spectrum is used against targets such as radio towers, radars and other services ? could be construed as a form of cyber warfare.

"I think you could say no," he said. "We've done electronic warfare for years and years and years and years."

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Forest loggers join world's biggest ecology experiment

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Ecologists from around the world are working with the very people who would seem their sworn enemies ? rainforest loggers. A massive deforestation programme is going ahead anyway, so the aim is to exploit it to conduct one of the biggest ecological experiments in the world.

Yayasan Sabah ? the Sabah Foundation, a Malaysian state-owned company ? is felling 75,000 hectares of primary rainforest on the island of Borneo and converting it to lucrative palm oil plantation. A team led by Rob Ewers at Imperial College London is working with the loggers to make sure that the deforestation has a silver lining for ecological research. For them, some of the tree felling will be an experiment into the ecological effect of habitat fragmentation, and they hope it will give them clues on how to design landscapes to support multiple demands ? ecological and commercial ? at a minimal cost to the ecosystem.

"We're being pragmatic. You can bang a drum about fighting these companies but I would hope that we can learn more by working with them," says Ewers, who runs the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems project (SAFE).

Working to Ewers's experimental design, the loggers will leave patches of rainforest of different sizes, and at different distances from other patches of rainforest, to determine the effects of different levels of deforestation. The Borneo rainforest is a particularly biodiverse region, and is most famously home to the only Asian great ape, the orang-utan. Around 8000 hectares of the plantation will be given over to the experiment, starting in December.

Plantation plans

Coordinating the ecologists' experiments with the felling work is Glen Reynolds of the South-East Asia Rainforest Research Programme at Danum Valley Field Centre in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo. Reynolds is also a member of the international Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. "Yayasan Sabah has had long-standing plans to convert about 20?per cent of its 1-million-hectare area to plantations," he says. "This plantation ? along with the existing Sabah Softwoods plantations ? will get it to about the 20?per cent figure."

Andy Hector of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, runs the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment on forest restoration and says that the SAFE fragmentation project is part of wider ecological projects in Borneo. "Together with a 50-hectare permanent plot in the Danum valley conservation area and the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, the SAFE project means that we can now study the entire gamut of land use in the region, from pristine forest to fragmented forest and restored forest, to oil palm plantation. It is vital that we work to understand this unique ecosystem while we have the chance."

Journal reference: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0049

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Britney Spears GIF-ting Fans With 'Criminal' Teases

One of five gifs posted online includes footage of Spears with boyfriend Jason Trawick.
By Jocelyn Vena

Britney Spears' "Criminal" teaser
Photo: Jive/Sony

It's a big week for music video premieres thanks to Justin Bieber, Beyoncé and Rihanna. And Britney Spears wants in on the fun too, as her "Criminal" video is also set to drop this week. Spears gave fans a taste of what to expect with a series of GIFs at Tumblr.

The five GIFs begin to weave together the story of the Chris Marrs Piliero-directed video. In one tease, Spears is all dolled up in a lacy cocktail dress as she attends a glamorous party. In another tease, Spears is seen running out of a building with gun in hand.

Another tease represents art imitating life. In it, Spears and real-life boyfriend Jason Trawick, who also plays her love interest in the video, share a kiss. The other two teases are a bit less action-oriented as she's just spotted standing around looking sexy in a black lingerie dress and twirling her hair around.

Spears looks incredibly glam in the teases for the slow jam's video, something that Piliero teased on Twitter recently. "Not a whole lot I'm allowed to say about the @britneyspears criminal vid other than that I love this video and can't wait for it to come out," he wrote. "Oh and that she looks gorgeous in it ... pretty sure it's cool for me to say that. ..."

The video is expected to drop this week, although the exact release date hasn't been announced.

Spears shot the video last month in London, right before kicking off the European leg of her Femme Fatale Tour. Little is known about the plot of the video, but when Spears was photographed carrying a prop gun on set, politicians in the U.K. accused the star of glorifying violence after the London riots. The video was shot in Hackney, which was hit hard by the August riots, and local politicians were upset by what they saw as an insensitive gesture by Spears.

"It is only a music video, but it's images like this, with pop stars glamorizing gangs, which means that some young people ... get drawn in," Hackney's Member of Parliament Diane Abbott told the ITV news program "London Tonight." "Britney should really know better."

Spears' camp shrugged off any criticism in a statement to MTV News: "The video is a fantasy story featuring Britney's boyfriend, Jason Trawick, which literally plays out the lyrics of a song written three years before the riots ever happened."

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