Macheda hails dream Man Utd debut
6/4/2009 -Kategori: Sports
Teenage substitute Federico Macheda says scoring the winner on his debut to return Manchester United to the top of the table was the best day of his life.
The 17-year-old striker's injury-time stunner clinched a 3-2 win over Aston Villa and moved United a point clear of Liverpool, with a game in hand.
Macheda said: "I have dreamed of a day like this.
"I just turned and shot and ran to my family. I was surprised to get a chance but now I just want to keep going."
The former Lazio trainee was supposed to be returning to Italy to play in a match but, with Wayne Rooney suspended and Dimitar Berbatov injured, he was given a place on the bench for the first time.
And United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was delighted that his gamble paid off.
"I told him 'well done'," stated Ferguson. "It's important to keep his feet on the ground. He'll need to handle lots of publicity over the next few days.
Macheda impact impresses Phelan
"It was a gamble but we deserved our result today because we tried to win.
"We take risks but risks are a part of football. We didn't defend well but there's always a goal threat from us."
United staged a remarkable fightback as Villa were leading 2-1 with only 10 minutes to play after John Carew and Gabriel Agbonlahor had cancelled out Cristiano Ronaldo's opener.
However, Ronaldo struck again to equalise and Macheda, who replaced Nani in the 61st minute, scored in the second minute of injury time with a brilliant curling shot to snatch all three points.
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Ferguson revealed he urged his side to go for victory after they had brought themselves back to 2-2, rather than settle for a point.
"This club has been this way for a long, long time," he added.
"I love the thrill of it myself. I love to see that adventure. Yes, we take 'terrible' risks and we don't defend properly but there's always a chance we'll win the match.
"We've had our blip. We had seven, eight players missing today, four or five of the very top team but you can see that these young players are prepared to go right to the very end."
O'Neill praises 'terrific' Villa
Villa boss Martin O'Neill was understandably disappointed after seeing his side beaten by a last-gasp goal.
But he was full of praise for his players over the way he felt they took the game to the Champions.
He said: "I thought we were absolutely brilliant. We conceded an early goal but fought back to get ourselves in front .
"I do not think we deserved to lose the game.
"We will gain confidence from this performance. That might sound crazy because we are in the results business - but we were terrific today.
"We should have got something from the game and I actually think we should have won it.
"The defeat is a bitter pill to swallow because we came to Old Trafford and played so well. We took the game to them and I am very proud of my players.
"We will have to take this on the chin but we can definitely come back from this."
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Powerful Italian quake kills many
6/4/2009 -Kategori: Journal
At least 50 people have been killed in a powerful earthquake that struck central Italy, Italian officials say.
Five children are said to be among the dead and many remain unaccounted for as a massive search for the trapped is under way.
The 6.3-magnitude quake struck at 0330 (0130 GMT) close to L'Aquila city, 95km (60 miles) north-east of Rome.
A civil protection official said 3,000 to 10,000 buildings in the medieval city may have been damaged.
And as many as 50,000 people are feared to have been made homeless.
The BBC's Duncan Kennedy in L'Aquila described bemused and confused locals wrapped in blankets and carrying their personal belongings in suitcases walking, like a stream of refugees, through the devastation.
At the moment, the situation is not fully under control, our correspondent says.
The rescue service is stretched to breaking point as it tries to reach all the devastated buildings and deal with the mounting casualty toll, he adds.
State of emergency
Earlier, the mayor of L'Aquila, Massimo Cialente, said some 100,000 people had left their homes.
A university dormitory, churches and a bell tower are believed to be among the buildings that had collapsed.
Many residents and rescuers were using their bare hands to clear the debris from collapsed buildings, although cranes and dogs were being brought in to aid the effort.
Survivors, some still in their night clothes, hugged each other as they waited for news of friends and relatives.
Hundreds waited at the city's main hospital, where doctors were forced to treat people in the open air because only one operating room was functioning.
Francesco Rocha of the Italian Red Cross said two field hospitals were arriving from Rome, but warned of the difficulties ahead.
"The biggest problem will arrive in the night because there are thousands and thousands of people that we have to host in tents, in the hotels," she told the BBC.
The death toll has been rising steadily throughout the morning. Interior Minister Roberto Moroni told reporters at the scene that 50 people had now died.
But with many villages in the surrounding area still cut off by landslides, it is thought the full scale of the disaster will not become clear for many hours.
Phone and power lines remain down, and some bridges and roads have been closed as a precaution as the region was hit by a series of aftershocks.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has declared a state of emergency, and has cancelled a visit to Moscow to travel to the quake-hit area.
Panic
The earthquake happened hours after a 4.6-magnitude tremor shook the area but caused no reported damage.
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Thousands of the city's 70,000 residents ran into the streets in panic following the 30 second tremor.
Survivors described finding themselves looking out onto open streets as the walls of their buildings fell away.
A student dormitory was said to be one of the buildings badly damaged. Rescuers were reportedly searching the rubble for people feared trapped inside.
"We managed to come down with other students but we had to sneak through a hole in the stairs as the whole floor came down," student Luigi Alfonsi, 22, said.
"I was in bed - it was like it would never end as I heard pieces of the building collapse around me."
Correspondents say that L'Aquila, capital of the mountainous Abruzzo region, has many old buildings not built to withstand a strong earthquake.
Even some modern structures on the outskirts of the city were reported to have collapsed.
The earthquake was also felt in Rome.
Italy lies on two fault lines and has been hit by powerful earthquakes in the past, mainly in the south of the country
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Simple techniques slash hospital infections
6/4/2009 -Kategori: Journal
Jasper Palmer didn't think he was doing anything special when he balled up his paper hospital gown and stuffed it into one of his gloves.
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Black Book
5/4/2009 -Kategori: Cartoon
Nasreddin Hodja
Once upon a time the Hodja was a judge and one day a man came to him.
“Your cow has killed mine!”, he cried.
The Hodja shouted:
“You silly fellow, how can the cow know that it is a crime to kill another cow. Case dismissed!”
“Oh sorry”, said the man. “I said it wrong. My cow has killed yours.”
“Then, this is another problem”, said the Hodja. “We'll open the black book and see what it says.”
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Cow And The Donkey
5/4/2009 -Kategori: Cartoon
Nasreddin Hodja
The Hodja had a little stable and a nice donkey. He hadn't wanted to buy a cow, because his donkey would be disturbed and he hadn't much money neither. But his wife wanted to have a cow and she convinced him at last.
The Hodja couldn't stand against his wife, so he bought a cow and put it in the stable. But the stable was small and they couldn't stay quiet in it. The Hodja who got tired of that said:
“Dear God, kill this cow and save my donkey”.
A few days later the Hodja entered the stable and saw the dead donkey and the living cow.
“Dear God”, he said. “You have been God for so many years but still, you cannot distinguish a cow from a donke
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