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The court refused to postpone the trial Colonna

Special Assize Court of Paris decided late Monday afternoon to reject for the moment the demand for "additional information" in the day by the lawyers of Yvan Colonna, after the made on Friday by Didier Vinolas, formerly of prefect Erignac. The appeals judges have felt they lacked the element of immediate access to this request. The trial will resume its normal course tomorrow.

Friday, Didier Vinolas, former Secretary General of the Prefecture of Corsica, had created the surprise by declaring at the helm holding the names of two suspects in the assassination of the Prefect Erignac, which he said would be "maybe" still at large. He told be sent to Yves Bot, then the prosecutor, then in February 2004 to Christian Lambert, principal architect of the arrest of Yvan Colonna. He also said it sent a letter to President Didier Wacogne and the Prosecutor General of Paris in late 2008, to announce he wanted to make this revelation a trial

However, Didier Wacogne said to have never knew of this letter. The prosecutor general, however, acknowledged having read the content and satisfied that Didier Vinolas be quoted at trial to testify. "We knew this was going to happen," said Monday morning Jean-Claude Kross, one of the attorneys general. "And we were perfectly respectful discussion of a serene and dignified," he added in the direction of Yvan Colonna lawyers who require the removal of the President and the General Prosecution accused of "violating the rights of the defense."

"I am not a submarine PS

Didier Vinolas was reconvened Monday at the helm. He refused again to reveal "outside of a secure" the identities of two suspects who are still at large, and to officials of Information who provided this information. He said fear for the safety of these persons, as well as his own.

He was also forbidden to be "a submarine of Bertrand Delano or Lionel Jospin, the Socialist Party figures. "There is growing political controversy here. I want to say that there is no correlation between what I say here and the fact that I work at the town hall of Paris ", directed by Bertrand Delano, said Didier Vinolas.

Currently CEO of the council of the XVIII district headed by the former Socialist minister Daniel Vaillant, Didier Vinolas also worked in the office of Pierre Joxe, another former PS Minister of the Interior, where he rubbed shoulders with Jean-Hugues Colonna, father, Yvan. At the time of the murder of the prefect of Corsica Claude Erignac on 6 February 1998, a crime which Yvan Colonna is charged, he was the secretary general of the prefecture in Ajaccio. He accused Ms Dominique Erignac of the death of her husband and who has chosen the coffin.

Lex-Paris prosecutor Yves Bot, the former sub-prefect of Corsica Jacques Naudin, l former head of Raid Christian Lambert and Police Commissioner Philippe Frizon would testify soon at the helm of the Assize Court of Paris special. Hearings that could move the trial: Jacques Naudin reportedly informed Mr. Vinolas since 2001 he has evidence in the new investigation into the murder of the prefect.

Re-launch of the Large Hadron Collider delayed until mid-September

The resumption of the Large Hadron Collider on hold until the end of September this year. The statement was made in Geneva, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

Large Hadron Collider, built in Switzerland and France, was launched on 10 September last year.

But after a few days of an accident, and at the stage of increasing tension in the electrical facility was one of the contact melting super vacuum magnets.

At repairs Collider will be spent over 26 million dollars.

The creators of the Large Hadron Collider, CERN scientists believed that the experiment would allow to reproduce in miniature "Big Bang", which many millions of years ago, the beginning of the universe, as well as new data on the processes of transformation of matter into energy.

Alex Rodriguez admits having doped

Alex Rodriguez admitted that he used steroids but not from controls confidential agreement of 2003 between the players association and owners of clubs, said the player New York Yankees to the string ESPN.

Rodriguez responded to a report by Sports Illustrated magazine that said he was among the 104 players who tested positive in this series of checks. "Sorry," Rodriguez said to ESPN.

Rodriguez, the highest paid player in American League baseball with a 10 years contract with the Yankees, said that he cheated during his three seasons with the Texas Rangers since 2001, but stressed that never again do so.

"When I arrived in Texas in 2001 was strong. I felt I had all the weight on me to play (...) in a high level every day," he said.

"(...) It was a different culture (...) I was young, it was stupid, it was naive. I took a banned substance. So I am very sorry, "he said.

Began domingo.Un feeling of surprise and disappointment he toured the United States in connection with the report that indicated that the greatest star of the baseball league in the country, Alex Rodriguez, tested positive for steroids in a doping control conducted in 2003.

Major League Baseball (MLB) did not comment on the article published on Saturday that the Sports Illustrated magazine and said that the batter of the New York Yankees was one of the 104 players who tested positive in tests confidential. In contrast, national newspapers placed the news on their front pages.

Rodriguez, who has a contract of $ 275 million with the Yankees, a player was considered "clean" it had passed the era of steroids, which claimed the likes of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Mark McGwire.

Although

Doping policy of the MLB banned the use of steroids without a valid prescription since 1991, there were no penalties for a positive test until 2003.

That year

Were carried out according to the confidential players association to determine whether there would be mandatory in 2004, which were instituted after they exceed five per cent of positive results.

Rodriguez, 33 years and Dominican descent, has 553 'home run' and is on track to beat the record of 762 for Bonds. However, many times he was home from the newspapers because of its troubled U.S. life, including an alleged relationship with pop singer Madonna and her cohabitation with his teammates.

The player

Declined to comment on the alleged doping case when contacted by Sports Illustrated, and his agent, Scott Boras, told reporters that the Yankees third baseman was out of the country. Finally could not stand and admitted his guilt, but not the positive 2003 but has been doped in 2001.

Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids

Monet painting at Christie's auction went to a record low

Cloth Monet's "On the meadow," written in 1876, was the top lot at the auction held the day before "The Art of Impressionism and modernism," the auction house Christie's. However, a unique picture sold for only 11 million pounds, while its estimated value was 15 million pounds, reports .

In turn, a rare double portrait painted by the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), entitled "Two Girls", which was purchased from the artist with the help of his patron and agent for over 90 years ago and has exhibited at the auction for the first time, beat 3,5 -5,5 million pounds and went from bidding for the 6537 million pounds.

Other top auction lots was also painting "dressmaker" French painter Vyuyara (1868-1940) - painting, writing in 1890, when the artist was only 21 years old. Preliminary assessment of the work amounted to 5,5 - 7,5 million pounds, this lot was sold for 5081 million pounds.

All were put up for auction 47 works, including masterpieces of the museum, among them - paintings by Claude Monet, Amedeo Modigliani, Kees van Dongen, Vyuyara and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Furthermore, the exhibited works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin and Henry Moore.

Total bid valued at more than 60 million pounds.

Guests wake up surprises Tiberi case in court

It is always the main characters of the file, but Jean Tiberi and Xavire have stolen the limelight by the events that marked Monday afternoon the first day of the trial of false voters from the fifth district. Xavire, dark striped and golden earrings, is the first to come to the courtroom, followed by her husband, with a broad smile. The former mayor of Paris (1995-2001) and current mayor of the fifth district and his wife, prosecuted for alleged electoral fraud during the elections of 1995 and 1997, sit at the forefront of the accused. We do hear more.

The event is rather surprise guests of the first day of trial. In a case in which the characters know each other and fight tirelessly for twelve years, the trial actually starts by the unexpected and interminable reading of names and surnames of 196 fake voters identified by name in court. "It may seem tedious, but the court intends to give full play," warned President Jean-Paul Albert as to give substance to the crime accused Tiberi and their nine . The false voters are real people, sometimes registered without their knowledge on the lists of facilities in exchange for a place in nursery or an apartment in the city. Their number was from 3 000 to 4 000, according to which the case was revealed in 1997. Green Antonin Frmion-Yves Danet and Socialist Lyne Cohen-Solal, present in court Tuesday, had complained then.

Run for the slow

Other surprise guest: prosecutor the Republic of Paris, Jean-Claude Marin, who came - exceptionally - to settle in person at the desk to counter the charge in question expressed by lawyers and Jean Tiberi Xavire. Jean-Yves Le Borgne, defender of the former mayor, was outraged that the two judges had signed the order to refer the case to court in March 2008, en Paris. "This order was a primarily political," the lawyer tonne. According to him, the order was written "in haste" from an indictment of "ghost" ... The prosecution, on behalf of the "republican tradition", had refused to pay the full record in election period. At the hearing, the prosecutor of Paris maintains that choice. And, this time at the parties, trying to wring the neck to the idea that race would have prevented the slow file out earlier.

On their bench, the complainants fear still time to slow down the trial. "The Tiberi bogged down and seek to delay a trial in which they have much to lose," says Mr. William Bourdon, lawyer for the city of Paris, including the Civil Party yesterday challenged by the defense.