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Atletico Madrid v Liverpool – teams

April 23, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Teams for Thursday’s Europa League semi-final first leg match between Atletico Madrid and Liverpool at Vicente Calderon.

Atletico Madrid: 43-David de Gea; 17-Tomas Ujfalusi, 21-Luis Perea, 18-Alvaro Dominguez, 3-Antonio Lopez; 12-Paulo Assuncao; 20-Simao Sabrosa, 8-Raul Garcia, 19-Jose Antonio Reyes; 9-Jose Manuel Jurado, 7-Diego Forlan.

Liverpool: 25-Pepe Reina; 2-Glen Johnson, 23-Jamie Carragher, 16-Sotiris Kyrgiakos, 5-Daniel Agger; 18-Dirk Kuyt, 21-Lucas, 20-Javier Mascherano, 15-Yossi Benayoun; 8-Steven Gerrard; 24-David Ngog.

Referee: Laurent Duhamel (France)

(Reporting by Neil Maidment; to query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

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2000-year-old Roman amphitheatre discovered in Israel

September 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, September 19 (ANI): A team of archaeologists has discovered a 2000-year-old Roman amphitheatre near Tiberias in Israel.

According to a report in the Haaretz newspaper, Archeologist, Doctor Valid Atrash, from the Israel Antiquities Authority, said that the remnants of the Roman amphitheatre peaks from 15 meters below ground.

The 1990 findings came as a surprise to the archeologists digging near Mount Berniki in the Tiberias hills as there are no references to such a place anywhere in scriptures.

Only at the beginning of 2009, 19-years after the primary discovery, did the uncovering of the theatre in its entirety begin.

The late Professor Izhar Hirshfeld and Yossi Stefanski, the archeologists heading the excavation, initially assessed the remains to belong to the 2nd or 3rd century CE, but quickly realized that they go all the way back to the beginning of the 1st century CE, closer to the founding of Tiberias.

“The most interesting thing about the amphitheatre is its Jewish context,” said Hirshfeld upon the discovery.

“Unlike Tzipori, which was a multi-cultural city, Tiberias was a Jewish city under Roman rule. The findings demonstrate the city’s pluralistic nature and cultural openness, a fact uncommon in those days,” Hirshfeld added.

According to Atrash, in light of the findings, Tiberias appears as particularly liberal for a city that was established over 2000 years ago.

He added that “the theatre was enormous, and being so it attracted a lot of attention. It seated over 7000 people, and appears to have been a prominent landmark for the entire area.”

Zohar Oved, Mayor of Tiberias, said that the discovery of the amphitheatre is undoubtedly “one of the most important findings in the history of the Jewish people” and is planned to open to the public as part of Tiberias archeological gardens in the near future. (ANI)

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German paper gives Auschwitz blueprints to Israel PM

August 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Berlin, Aug. 28 (ANI): Germany has handed over 29 yellowing blueprints of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The blueprints give chilling details, with gas chambers, crematoria, delousing facilities and watchtowers drawn to scale. Over a million people, mostly Jews, died in the gas chambers or through forced labor, disease or starvation at Auschwitz, which the Nazis built after occupying Poland.

“There are those who deny that the Holocaust happened. Let them come to Jerusalem and look at these plans, these plans for the factory of death,” Fox News quoted Netanyahu as saying as he accepted the documents as a gift to Israel’s Holocaust memorial, where they will go on display next year.

Netanyahu lingered over the large sheets spread on a table.

Stamped with the Nazi abbreviation for concentration camp “K.L. Auschwitz,” one of the largest featured multi-colored sketches, with barracks and even latrines drawn in detail. Other smaller sheets showed architectural designs of individual buildings, drawn from various angles.

His wife, Sara, whose father was the only member of his family to survive the Nazi genocide that killed six million Jews during World War II, accompanied the Israeli leader. She watched somberly as the documents, which date from 1941 to 1943, were unfolded.

Also present was Yossi Peled, an Israeli Cabinet minister and former general whose father was killed by the Nazis and whose mother survived Auschwitz in one of the barracks detailed in the blueprints.

A family in Belgium who raised him as a Christian hid Peled himself until age 7. He discovered his Jewish roots in 1948 and was taken to Israel two years later.

In Germany for a visit that combined talks on the Mideast conflict with acknowledgments of the painful past that binds the two countries, Netanyahu drew a clear parallel between the events of the Nazi era and the present day. The world did not do enough to stop the murder of Europe’s Jews, he said, and must be careful now to take rapid action against “armed barbarism.”

Axel Springer Verlag, the publisher of the mass circulation Bild newspaper, obtained the Auschwitz blueprints last year from a German man who said he found them when cleaning out an apartment in what was formerly East Berlin.

The publisher and Germany’s federal archive have confirmed the documents’ authenticity. (ANI)

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Torres wonder goal can inspire Liverpool to yet another sensational Euro comeback

April 13, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Apr 13 (ANI): Spanish striker Fernando Torres reckons that his Anfield wonder goal can inspire Liverpool to yet another sensational Euro comeback.

Rafa Benitez’s Reds must score three at Stamford Bridge tomorrow to save their Champions League skins after last week’s 3-1 first-leg mauling.

Liverpool need their biggest win at Chelsea since a 5-2 triumph way back in 1989, the year of their last league title triumph.

Yet, after his stunning opener, which paved the way for Saturday’s four-goal hiding of Blackburn, hitman Torres insists confidence is flooding through the Anfield ranks once more.

“We have kept our confidence after the Champions League game and it was important to win for the fans. Of course we know it is going to be very difficult to get three against Chelsea because they’re such a strong team,” The Sun quoted Torres, as saying.

“But we beat Manchester United at Old Trafford so we know we can do it. They scored but we still won 4-1. We have confidence that we can go there and win the game.

“I don’t think Chelsea will defend, I’m sure they will want to play for a win. They know if they score one or two it is over – they will want to score themselves and that will give us a chance,” he added.

Teammate Yossi Benayoun believes that with Torres in such a good form his double against Rovers took his tally to 14 this season and 47 in 78 games for the club – then anything is possible.

Torres’ goal is being compared to Dutch star Marco van Basten’s volley against USSR in the 1988 European Championship final.

Torres, 25, insisted: “People may compare it with Van Basten but I do not think so. He was one of the best players in football history and I have a bit to go before I am as good as him.” (ANI)

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Chelsea stun Liverpool to put one foot in last four

April 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Liverpool – Chelsea have one foot in the last four of the Champions League after they stunned Liverpool 3-1 at Anfield on Wednesday.

Fernando Torres put Liverpool ahead after just six minutes but Chelsea were the better side after that and two goals from defender Branislav Ivanovic and one from Didier Drogba completed a well-earned victory.

Five-time champions Liverpool will need a massive performance now in the second leg at Stamford Bridge if they are to even stand a chance of progressing.

The two teams were meeting in the Champions League for the fifth season in a row, with Liverpool having won in 2005 (on their way to winning the Cup) and 2007 but Chelsea advancing last season.

Liverpool went into the match on the back of five straight wins in all competitions and it looked like it might be another great European night for them when they took the lead in the fifth minute.

After Chelsea failed to clear their area, the ball dropped to Dirk Kuyt, whose clever flick released Alvaro Arbeloa. The Spaniard squared the ball to his compatriot Torres, whose finish gave Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech no chance.

Chelsea almost responded immediately when Fabio Aurelio dallied on the ball and Drogba found himself one-on-one with Jose Reina, but the Liverpool goalkeeper stood strong and blocked his shot.

Drogba blasted an even better chance over the bar with his left foot but Chelsea were beginning to get into the match, with the Ivory Coast striker giving Jamie Carragher a torrid time, while Michael Essien was not allowing Steven Gerrard any room.

And on 38 minutes, their pressure told as Branislas Ivanovic evaded the Liverpool defence to head a Florent Malouda corner past Reina.

Gerrard shot just wide three minutes into the second half while at the other end, Carragher cleared a Drogba shot off the line before Torres blasted a decent chance too high.

Terry was then booked for a pointless challenge on Reina, meaning he will miss the second leg, but Chelsea’s disappointment turned to joy when Ivanovic scored his second goal in almost identical fashion, firing an unstoppable header into the net.

Liverpool looked stunned but they were then left dumbstruck when Michael Ballack fed Malouda, whose perfect cross was hammered in by Drogba five minutes later.

Rafael Benitez brought on Yossi Benayoun, Andrea Dossena and eventually Ryan Babel, for the disappointing Lucas, but the changes had little effect.

Xabi Alonso tested Cech with a long-range effort, but Chelsea kept their advantage to take a massive step towards the semi-finals. (dpa)

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Stressed corals can switch from male to female and back again

March 31, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Sydney, March 31 (ANI): A new study has found that stressed mushroom corals can switch from male to female and back again, the first to show that coral can change sex in either direction, all for conserving energy.

According to a report by ABC News, researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel conducted the study.

Mushroom corals belong to a family called Fungiidae. They are solitary, mobile species that live throughout the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Mushroom corals are abundant and diverse, but how they reproduce is something scientists haven’t known much about.

“We know in detail the reproductive patterns of more than 500 coral species, but no one reported before on the fact that some coral species may change sex,” said lead author professor Yossi Loya, a zoologist at Tel Aviv University.

“I believe this was quite a big surprise to all coral reef scientists,” he added.

To learn more, Loya and a colleague travelled to a patch reef near Okinawa, Japan. The reef is home to tens of thousands of mushroom corals, representing a dozen species.

In 2004, the researchers collected, weighed, measured, and tagged about 15 individuals from two species. Each coral then got its own aquarium in the lab.

That July, about five days after the full moon, the mushroom corals did what many corals do – simultaneously release sperm and eggs.

In the ocean, these gamete explosions produce larvae that drift off to become new corals. In the lab, the scientists collected the gametes and looked at them under a microscope.

Then, they returned the corals to the sea.

Initial analyses showed that each coral produced either sperm or eggs. Some types of corals are hermaphroditic, with both male and female parts.

But, mushroom corals appeared to be just one or the other.

The researchers repeated the same experiment in 2006 and 2007. The results grew increasingly surprising.

In 2006, about 25 percent of one species and 50 percent of the other had changed sex since they’d been tagged two years earlier.

In 2007, 80 percent of the corals had changed sex from the year before. A quarter of those had reverted back to the sex they had originally been in 2004.

According to Professor Robert van Woesik, a marine biologist at the Florida Institute of Technology, “We never realised in our wildest dreams that these corals can undergo sex changes. This is really exciting.”

The fact that the corals sometimes switch back from female to male, might be a sign that they are in distress and need to conserve resources. (ANI)

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“Sex switching” key to coral survival during global warming

February 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Feb 20 (ANI): It has been found in a new research that Japanese sea corals engage in “sex switching”, which may be the key to the survival of the fragile marine species that are currently threatened by global warming.

The research has been undertaken by Professor Yossi Loya from Tel Aviv University’s Department of Zoology.

It was found that in times of stress like extreme hot spells, the female mushroom coral (known as a fungiid coral) switches its sex so that most of the population becomes male.

The advantage of doing so is that male corals can more readily cope with stress when resources are limited, Loya determined.

“We believe, as with orchids and some trees, sex change in corals increases their overall fitness, reinforcing the important role of reproductive plasticity in determining their evolutionary success,” he said.

According to Loya, “One of the evolutionary strategies that some corals use to survive seems to be their ability to change from female to male.”

“As males, they can pass through the bad years, then, when circumstances become more favorable, change back to overt females. Being a female takes more energy. And having the ability to change gender periodically enables a species to maximize its reproductive effort,” he said.

Corals, though a part of the animal kingdom, can act like plants. Both are sedentary life forms, unable to move when times get tough.

In stressful environmental conditions, male corals can “ride out the storm,” so to speak, said Loya.

“Males are less expensive – in the evolutionary sense – to maintain. They are cheaper in terms of their gonads and the energy needed to maintain their bodies,” he added.

Loya’s finding may give new insight to scientists into developing coral breeding strategies for the time when the massive climate changes predicted by scientists set in.

“This knowledge can help coral breeders. Fungiid corals are a hardy coral variety which can be grown in captivity. Once you know its mode of reproduction, we can grow hundreds of thousands f them,” he said. (ANI)

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