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Jack 1 Warner, the former vice 2 president of football’s world governing body —FIFA, is spending the night in jail in Trinidad and Tobago, after being indicted 3 by the United States for alleged 4 corruption 5. US prosecutors 6 accused Mr. Warner of being involved in alleged payment by South African football officials of more than 10 million dollars in bribes 7 in return for South Africa being chosen to host the 2010 World Cup. Mr. Warner said he was innocent. “When I was in FIFA, I conducted myself, consist of all kinds of sports practices. At no point in time, I did any activity in FIFA??that would contribute to the bill.”

原世界足球协会---国际足联副会长杰克·华纳被美国政府宣称贪污受贿之后在特立尼达和多巴哥监狱度过一晚。美国检察院控告华纳接受南非10.000.000美元的贿款使南非选为2010世界杯主办国。华纳声称自己是清白的，他说，“当我在国际足联时，我一直注意自己言行举止，恪守足联的各项规则。无论我在足联做过的每一项活动都恪守这一原则。”

 The South Africa Football Association has also denied any wrongdoing. The FIFA president ,Sepp Blatter, is due to make his first public appearance since Wednesday’s indictments 8 of 14 current and former FIFA officials. Mr. Blatter had earlier issued the statement promising 9 to throw corrupted 10 officials out of the game. US prosecutors have accused them of??racketeering, fraud and money laundering 11 involving tens of millions of dollars over 24 years. The prosecutors said that they would not be drawn 12 on whether Mr. Blatter would be charged or arrested. The US is also calling for the extradition 13 of 7 top FIFA officials arrested by Swiss police in Zurich.?

南非足球协会否认这一行为。国际足联会长赛普·布拉特自周三对14名前任和现任官员控告之后，首次公开露面。赛普早些发表声明承诺开除受贿官员。美国检察官控告他们犯有敲诈勒索罪，诈骗罪和长达24年的上百万的洗钱罪。检察员称，他们不会控告或逮捕赛普。美国还要求瑞士警方在苏黎世逮捕的7名高层官员遣送回国。

Federal police in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro have raided the officers of a marketing 14 company as part of ongoing 15 investigation 16 into corruption in FIFA. From there , Wyre Davies reports “Television pictures showed 3 carloads of federal police agents entering the Rio de Janeiro offices of Cliffier sports marketing. The agents left several hours later with files, computers and even the personal phones of company executives, according to a Cliffier’s directors, the raid was carried out after a direct request from the FBI in the United States. Cliffier is believed to have links with a bigger marketing company, Traffic. It has suspected of the widespread irregularities in the award of lucrative 17 contracts for various FIFA -sanctioned football events in Brazil and the Americas.”

巴西里约热内卢联邦警方突袭销售企业领导，作为国际足联贪污案调查的一部分。本台驻里约热内卢记者戴维斯从现场发回的报道称，电视报道有3辆载有联邦警察的警车进入里约热内卢克里夫运动市场办公室。几小时后，警察带有了公司的文件，电脑，甚至是公司官员的私人手机，根据克里夫董事称，这次是美国联邦调查局要求警方突围的。克里夫和一家更大的市场Traffic企业有牵连。它有非法奖励国际足联在巴西和美国的为各种足球活动的可盈利合同进行广泛的非法活动的嫌疑。

Defense 18 officials in the United States say that the military has mistakenly sent samples of live anthrax to research of laboratories in America as well as the one in South Korea. Steve Evans has this story. “Anthrax is lethal 19 when inhaled 20 or ingested. It's a primary potential weapons in germ warfare 21, according to the Pentagon, a military laboratory in Utah, sent batches 22 to nine other labs in the US and one in South Korea, under the false impression the bacteria were harmless and only for training. When the dangerous truth was realized, labs and bases were cordoned 23 off. The military in Korea said 22 people at the Osan Air Base may have been exposed to the anthrax, but none had shown symptoms of illness.”

美国国防官员称，本国军队误把活炭疽病病毒样本送到美国和韩国实验室。下面是史蒂夫·伊万斯带来的报道：“如果吸入或摄取的炭疽病病毒，那么会有生命危险。这是基因战争中最主要的潜在武器。据五角大楼消息，犹他州的一个军事实验室以该病毒无毒无害，只做实验使用的假名义将一批炭疽病病毒送往美国其他9个实验室和韩国一个实验室。当危险的真相揭露之后，实验室和基地都被隔离。韩国军事方面称，乌山空军基地有22名怀疑感染炭疽病病毒，但是都没有明显症状。”

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Scientists have discovered that some breast cancers release chemicals that produce holes in the bones, making them vulnerable to secondary cancers. Once cancer has spread to the bone, it's difficult to treat. One of the study's authors, Dr. Janine Erler from the University of Copenhagen said the research shed light on the way breast cancer cells prime the bones, so that it's ready for their arrival. Cancer Charities say that if a way can be found to block this process, a whole new avenue for developing treatments would open up.

科学家发现一些乳腺癌能够释放摧毁骨头的化学物质，致使骨质易受二级癌症的危害。一旦这种癌症扩散到骨头，将难以治疗。来自哥本哈根大学的教授珍妮·埃勒尔称该调查为乳腺癌细胞扩散到骨质的研究点明了道路，因此对这种疾病有备无患。癌症慈善机构称，如果能够找到一种可以阻止该过程蔓延的方法，那么一种新的治疗方法将会出现。

The U S state of Nebraska has become the first conservative state in more than 40 years to abolish the death penalty. Senators in the state legislature voted to override 24 their Republican Governor, Pete Ricketts, who on Tuesday had vetoed the bill. Our America’s Editor Candace Piette reports. “Nebraska has joined 18 other American states and the District of Columbia in banning executions. But the state hasn't executed any prisoners since 1997. Difficulty in getting hold of the three lethal injection drugs needed under state law to conduct executions had formed a large part of the argument against the death penalty.”

美国内布阿斯加州成为40年来废除死刑的首个备受争议的州。该州的立法机构议员推翻了共和党州长皮特·里基茨，他在周二反对该议案。本台记者坎迪斯·皮诶特报道称，内布阿斯加州和美国其他18个州和哥伦比亚区联合废除死刑。但自1997年以来，该州从未处决过一个犯人。保留三种致命药物注射需在本州法律下实施的困难成为反对死刑的舆论的最大一部分。

And the fictional 25 secret agent, James Bond, is to be reunited with one of the most famous Bond girls, Pussy 26 Galore, in the latest novel based on Ian Fleming's creation. The book, Trigger Mortis, will begin in 1957, two weeks after the end of Fleming's novel Goldfinger, in which Bond meets and finally seduces 27 Pussy Galore, the head of an all female criminal gang.

虚幻秘密间谍詹姆斯·邦德将和最有名的邦德女郎格劳尔在伊恩·弗莱明最近小说中联合出演。弗莱明继《金手指》完结两周之后，Trigger Mortis将于1957年动笔，书中邦德遇见并最终诱惑了全女子犯罪团伙头目格劳尔。