Six DEAD and 12 injured after TWO gunmen go on rampage at Washington Navy Yard: Shooters shot dead after 3-hour manhunt

Terror visited Washington D.C. this morning as at least one gunman opened fire inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard killing six people and injuring at least 12.

A suspected gunman was among the dead and Washington D.C. police said they were searching for two other possible shooters they described as one white man and one black man.

Washington D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier said the two other potential gunmen were wearing military-style uniforms, including one who had on a beret.

One had a long gun and the other was also armed, she said. One of the three suspected gunmen had died, though Lanier didn't say how.

'The big concern for us right now is that we have potentially two other shooters that we have not located at this point,' Lanier said.

Witnesses reported one man described as an African-American male in his 50s dressed in military fatigues and armed with an AR-15 assault rifle opening fire upon entering the base at the Naval Sea System Command HQ.

The attacks came three days after al-Qaeda used the 12th anniversary of 9/11 to call for strikes on America.

Hundreds of SWAT and FBI rapid response units descended on the nation's capital to deal with the situation which unfolded just before 8.30 a.m. this morning.

Initial reports from the scene are that one of the suspects walked up to the facility, opened fire  and then ran inside the building. 

'There was three gunshots straight in a row,' said Patricia Ward, who works at the Navy Yard, describing how she first heard the gunfire while having breakfast at the headquarters building.

A few seconds later, Ward said she heard four more gunshots. Security guards rushed in and got people out as fast as they could - ''Run, run, run, 'they told people,' Ward told reporters.

NBC News, citing a senior naval officer at the Navy Yard, said at least 12 people had been shot.

'We saw him hold the rifle, and we saw him aim it in our direction,' said one witness to Fox News.

Muslim family's fury after Morrisons sold them cheese and onion pasty with non-halal meat in it... then offered them ALCOHOL as an apology

                    

A Muslim family who were sold a cheese and onion pasty which mistakenly had meat by Morrisons were then offered them a bottle of champagne as an apology

The blundering supermarket sold the meat product - which is banned in Muslim culture - then apologised by offering them a bottle of alcohol, which they are not allowed to drink.

The devout Khan family was 'highly insulted' by Morrisons supermarket over the meat and alcohol double offence to their culture and religion.

But Yousuf tucked into his favourite pastie before his parents spotted it contained large amounts of non-halal minced beef.

His father rang the branch of Morrisons in Cardiff Bay where the manager apologised - and caused further insult by offering them a free bottle of alcoholic bubbly in compensation.

Angry garage worker Mr Khan, 28, said: 'It is ridiculous and ignorant of our faith - not just once but twice.

'Firstly they should be far more careful with how they label their products, especially when it could contain meat.

'But then it is completely wrong of the manager to then give us champagne when Muslims don’t drink alcohol.

'I feel highly insulted. I don’t want this happening to any other people who are Muslim.'

Mr Khan and his wife Nadia, 29, of Canton, Cardiff, said he will never shop at Morrisons again after the humiliating blunder.

The pasties were marked down to 19p from their usual price of 85p.

Two of the cheese and onion pasties were correctly labelled - but the third was wrongly labelled instead of saying it was beef.

Mr Khan said: 'I put it down to human error, everybody makes mistakes.

'But it didn't seem like the manager was really paying attention to the real problem.'

Mrs Khan said the pasties were bought for Yousuf and his three older sisters Ruheena, 10, Amara, eight, and Areesa, four.

She said: 'I put them in the microwave and gave the first one to Yousuf.

'I heard him moaning a bit and was saying: "It’s not nice".

'I looked at the filling and it was brown meat and potato - he’s had a couple of bites by then.'

Mrs Khan said it was an awful insult to be offered alcohol as compensation for the meat blunder

Why name your wi-fi?

                         

There’s a simple method to finding out how many geeks are in your vicinity: scan for wi-fi networks in range of your phone. If all that comes back are default names (SSIDs) such as ClearAccess4210 or BTHub3-ZF9R, then you’d better hope you don’t have a technical problem on your laptop — ‘cos there ain’t nobody nearby who can help. 

If, however, your phone is now telling you that the Skynet Global Defence Network is within range then either Arnie is at your table or there is a Terminator geek in the next building who reckons himself (yes, let’s be honest, it’s probably a “himself”) a bit of a wit. Although you probably still won’t get any help with those technical problems.

It’s pretty simple to change your SSID by going into your wireless settings, although many are too boring (or too technologically inept) to bother. To make it as a real geek, it’s not enough to just rename your wi-fi — you need to make it funny. 

Last week Kat Hannaford, the UK editor of online gadget magazine Gizmodo, tweeted about her laptop picking up a comedy wi-fi name and discovering that it belonged to her colleague. The writer had renamed his network “git off my lan”.

It turns out that he’s not the only one. OpenSignal is a Tech City-based company that is compiling database of global wi-fi access points with a mobile app that searches for nearby public wi-fi networks. It recently searched its database for a number of silly SSIDs and found that 246 people have named their networks “GET OFF MY LAN” or variations thereof.

Other popular names included those to deter wi-fi freeloaders such as “404NetworkUnavailable” and “Bad Error” and also more helpful ones such as “use this one mum”. Apparently 7,873 people think “Pretty fly for a wi-fi” is a clever and original SSID.

I asked OpenSignal to do a similar search on London wi-fi names, to see just how funny the geeks get in the big city. As it turns out, we also think our wi-fi is pretty fly. We account for 140 of those 7,873. We’re also pretty unfriendly, territorial and paranoid (what a surprise), with popular names being “Get your own wi-fi” and “Don’t steal my wi-fi”.

Also common are “We can hear you having sex” or “Stop shouting”, with one person naming their network “Your smoking stinks up our flat”. Letting your neighbours know you’re onto them by addressing them through your network name seems to be an appropriately British way of complaining without possibility of confrontation. Others just resort to “Your mum”.

But the geek humour prize goes to those who were inspired by the YouTube sensation Antoine Dodson, whose interview on a local news channel went viral and was turned into a Billboard Hot 100 hit — the Bed Intruder Song. The SSID: “Hide yo kids, hide yo wi-fi.”   

Cheap and chic - hands on Apple’s new iPhones, the 5S and 5C

                   

Apple has revealed two new iPhones it hopes will take on the increasing threat of Samsung — and lay the groundwork for a wearable computer.

The iPhone 5S, a high end model, features a fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone, while the plastic-bodied 5C is a lower-cost version available in five colours.

Experts expect the gadgets to be huge sellers, and in New York fans have already begun queuing, with London Apple fans expected to arrive within days in the hope of being among the first to own the new handsets.

Although many expected the lower- cost handset to be less than it is, it is still likely to be a runaway hit.

“Most people are looking at the price of the 5C and saying ‘that’s not cheap’ — but there is no compromise there,” says Carolina Milanesi, an analyst with Gartner. “The 5S’s low-power activity tracking chip shows Apple is interested in creating a wearable computer.”

Tony Cripps at Ovum says the new devices will help Apple take on Samsung and other Android handsets.

We need a national debate on Muslim veils in public places, says minister

                      

Britain should consider banning Muslim girls and women from wearing veils in schools and public places, a Home Office minister has said.

Liberal Democrat Jeremy Browne called for a national debate on whether the state should step in to prevent young women having the veil imposed upon them.

His intervention came after a row erupted over the decision by Birmingham Metropolitan College to drop a ban on the wearing of full-face veils amid public protests.

Mr Browne said he was "instinctively uneasy" about restricting religious freedoms but said there may be a case to act to protect girls who were too young to decide for themselves whether they wished to wear the veil or not.

"I think this is a good topic for national debate. People of liberal instincts will have competing notions of how to protect and promote freedom of choice," he told The Daily Telegraph.

"I am instinctively uneasy about restricting the freedom of individuals to observe the religion of their choice. That would apply to Christian minorities in the Middle East just as much as religious minorities here in Britain.

"But there is genuine debate about whether girls should feel a compulsion to wear a veil when society deems children to be unable to express personal choices about other areas like buying alcohol, smoking or getting married.

"We should be very cautious about imposing religious conformity on a society which has always valued freedom of expression."

It is thought that Mr Browne, who is attending his party's annual conference in Glasgow, is the first senior Lib Dem to voice such concerns in public.

However there are signs that his views are shared by a number of Conservative MPs who were dismayed at the way the Birmingham Metropolitan College case was handled.

The college had originally banned niqabs and burkas from its campuses eight years ago on the grounds that students should be easily identifiable at all times.

But when a 17-year-old prospective student complained to her local newspaper that she was being discriminated against, a campaign sprang up against the ban, attracting 8,000 signatures to an online petition in just 48 hours.

Following the college's decision to withdraw it, Downing Street said that David Cameron would support a ban in his children's schools, although the decision should rest with the head teacher.

However the Prime Minister has been coming under growing pressure from his own MPs for a re-think on current Department for Education guidelines in order to protect schools and colleges from being "bullied".

Tory backbencher Dr Sarah Wollaston, said the veils were "deeply offensive" and were "making women invisible" and called for the niqab to be banned in schools and colleges.

Writing for The Telegraph, she said: "It would be a perverse distortion of freedom if we knowingly allowed the restriction of communication in the very schools and colleges which should be equipping girls with skills for the modern world. We must not abandon our cultural belief that women should fully and equally participate in society."

'She looks like a terrorist': newly crowned Miss America faces torrent of Twitter abuse over Asian roots

                     

The first woman of Indian descent to be crowned Miss America has become the victim of intense racist abuse on Twitter.

Users of the social networking site accused Nina Davuluri of being an “Arab” and “terrorist” and told her to get out of the country — despite the fact she was born in the US.

Miss Davuluri, 24, said she intended to ignore the attacks, saying: “I have to rise above that. I’ve always viewed myself as first and foremost American.”

She was born in Syracuse, New York, after her parents moved to the US from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in 1981. She was crowned Miss New York before taking the US crown.

But within hours of her victory she was being targeted by Twitter users who accused her of not being American.

One said: “I’m literally soo mad right now an Arab won” while another posted: “How the **** does a foreigner win Miss America? She is a Arab!” A third user said: “Well they just picked a Muslim for Miss America” and another added: “It’s called Miss America, Get outta here New York you look like a terrorist.”

Miss Davuluri’s father is a doctor and she intends to use her prize money from the competition to study at medical school in the US.

The Miss America competition had been praised this year for celebrating diversity, with contestants including an Army officer with tattoos and a woman missing the lower part of one arm.

At a press conference, the new Miss America said: “I’m so happy that this organisation has embraced diversity.

“I am thankful there are children watching at home who can finally relate to a new Miss America.”

She performed a Bollywood style dance as part of the talent segment of the contest, held in Atlantic City, and said she wanted to use her role to “celebrate diversity through cultural competency”.

                     

France, Britain and the United States have said they will seek a "strong and robust" UN resolution that sets precise and binding deadlines on removal of Syria's chemical weapons, the office of the French President Francois Hollande said.

Monday's statement follows talks between foreign ministers of the three countries and Hollande in Paris - two days after Moscow and Washington reached a deal on chemical weapons that could avert US military action.

The three powers also agreed at talks in Paris that President Bashar al-Assad would face "serious consequences" if he fails to comply with the UN resolution, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.

US Secretary of State John Kerry did not use the word "serious", saying: "If Assad fails to comply with the framework we are all agreed that there will be consequences".

Kerry, who agreed the terms of the weapons handover with his Russian counterpart in Geneva on Saturday, said the allies were committed to keeping up the pressure on Assad.

Referring to the UN resolution, Kerry stressed it was "crucial" that it be "enforced", and that it has to be "strong", "forceful", "transparent", and "timely".

"If the Assad regime believes that this is not enforceable and we are not serious, they will play games," he said.

Fabius announced there would be a major international meeting with leaders of the Syrian National Coalition on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York next week.

"We know that in order to negotiate a political solution, there has to be a strong opposition," Fabius said.

French officials said Russia had been invited to the conference.

Kerry, British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Hollande have also agreed to continue to work toward a political solution with the Syrian opposition.

The US secretary stressed that the allies were "committed to the opposition" and said Assad had "lost all legitimacy to be possible to govern his country."

The signal of support for the rebels came in reaction to criticism of the chemical weapons deal from opposition leaders, who fear it could consolidate Assad's grip on power.

Diplomatic pressure

The pact came after Washington led calls for military action in response to an August 21 chemical attack on the outskirts of Damascus blamed by the US - which says more than 1,400 people were killed - and others on the Syrian government.

On Sunday, President Hollande said "the military option must remain" to force Syria to give up its chemical arsenal.

Violent cosmic crashes can spawn life across the solar system: Comets deliver building blocks of life to other planets

           

Building blocks of life can spring into existence spontaneously when icy comets smash into planets, a study has shown.

A similar process can create amino acids - bits of proteins - when a rocky meteorite strikes an ice-covered world.

The discovery suggests that life could be getting a kick start just about everywhere in the universe.

How often the building blocks end up constructing proteins and living organisms is an unanswered question.

But the research fills in another piece of the puzzle of life's origins on Earth.

Scientists believe that about the time life first emerged, between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago, Earth was being bombarded by comets and meteorites.

‘Our work shows that the basic building blocks of life can be assembled anywhere in the Solar System and perhaps beyond,’ said Dr Zita Martins, from Imperial College London.

‘However, the catch is that these building blocks need the right conditions in order for life to flourish.’

Excitingly, our study widens the scope for where these important ingredients may be formed in the Solar System and adds another piece to the puzzle of how life on our planet took root.’

Proteins, the giant molecules that form living tissue, are made from chains of amino acids whose assembly is directed by the genetic code.

Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, the scientists show how when a comet impacts it creates a shock wave that generates the molecules needed for amino acids.

Heat from the impact the transforms these molecules into the protein building blocks.

The scientists point out that abundant ice on the surfaces of Enceladus and Europa, two moons orbiting Saturn and Jupiter, could provide the perfect conditions for producing amino acids from meteor impacts.

Co-author Dr Mark Price, from the University of Kent, said: ‘This process demonstrates a very simple mechanism whereby we can go from a mix of simple molecules, such as water and carbon-dioxide ice, to a more complicated molecule, such as an amino acid.

Headstrong! Rooney turns up for training... and he's not wearing his protective headband

                     

Wayne Rooney trained without his specially-designed headband ahead of Manchester United's Champions League clash against Bayer Leverkusen.

Rooney wore the protective head-gear in United's 2-0 win against Crystal Palace on Saturday but is now judged to be fully fit after suffering a deep gash to the forehead following a collision with Phil Jones in training two weeks ago.

The only player missing from United's training session was England forward Danny Welbeck, who has a knee injury.

Manager David Moyes put his side through their paces ahead of his first European game as United boss and he has been boosted by the return of Rafael Da Silva following a hamstring injury while Shinji Kagawa trained after missing Saturday's win with a bout of flu.

Phil Jones - who is expected to be unavailable for visit of Leverkusen -  and Darren Fletcher - who is recovering from illness but has not been named in Manchester United's Champions League squad - both trained alone at United's Carrington training complex.

One surprise absentee from the morning session was the exciting youngster Adnan Januzaj, who produced a sparkling display as a substitute against Palace.

The Belgian has been training regularly with the first-team but was not registered for the Champions League.

It is understood that he may feature for United in the under-21 Premier League game against Bolton this evening or against Leverkusen in the UEFA Youth League on Tuesday afternoon.

Fellow Belgian Marouane Fellaini and England winger Wilfried Zaha were both present and could make their Champions League debuts against the German side.

             

Beyoncé was pulled off stage by a shirtless concertgoer during a performance in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Sunday night. 

The over-excited fan managed to put his arms around the 32-year-old singer and yank her off the elevated platform she had been singing from.

However, Beyoncé's entourage were quick to step in, with two security guards rushing onto the stage to disentangle the singer from the grip of the fan.

The incident occurred when Beyoncé moved around the platform and leaned forward to sing to the crowd. 

While most of the ticket-holders were happy just to bask in the singer's glow, the shirtless man became overwhelmed by the attention and decided to try and engage Beyoncé in a hug. 

After Beyoncé's security guards pulled her back onto the stage, Beyoncé quickly resumed singing and dancing in her sequined blue jumpsuit during the performance at the Estadio do Morumbi stadium following the incident.

'It's all right,' she told the crowd as she picked up a Brazilian flag that was tossed onto the stage. She moved toward the man after resuming singing and told him: 'It's alright, it's alright.'

Mother-of-one Beyoncé then stopped her Mrs. Carter show to address the man and ask him his name.  

'I love you all,' she said towards the end of a 90-second clip YouTube clip, which captured the incident.

Babies given Calpol just once a month 'are five times as likely to develop asthma'

Children who are given Calpol are far more likely to develop asthma, a major study has found.

Those given the medicine once a month are five times more at risk while even having it just once a year increases the chances by 70 per cent.

Over the past 50 years the number of children developing asthma in Britain has more than doubled but experts are divided over the causes.

Around 1.1 million youngsters now have the condition – in addition to 4.3 million adults – and it leads to 1,400 deaths every year.

Researchers who studied 20,743 children say there is now growing evidence that the increasing rates may be linked to paracetamol – the main ingredient in Calpol.

The drug is the most popular painkiller in Britain and 84 per cent of babies are given it for pain and fever within the first six months of their life.

Although the NHS advises on what doses parents should give children depending on their age, there are no warnings concerning possible health risks.

In one of the largest studies of its kind, academics from the University of A Coruna in northern Spain questioned the parents of 10,371 children aged six and seven and 10,372 aged 13 and 14.

All were asked whether the children had asthma – and if so, how severe – and how often they had been given paracetamol within the previous year and when they were babies. 

Those in the younger age group who were given the medicine at least once a month were 5.4 more times likely to have asthma and those given it just once a year were 70 per cent more at risk.

Number SEVENTEEN on the way for UK's biggest family: Couple who have had a baby every 17 months for the past 24 years are expecting again

They are way beyond their  baker’s dozen. But Britain’s biggest family still has room for more as supermum Sue Radford is pregnant again... with her 17th baby.

The baker’s wife is expecting – just 11 months after giving birth to Casper – and she and husband Noel will welcome the latest addition in April.

The couple, of Morecambe, Lancashire, don’t know whether it will be a boy or a girl.

They say they are ‘absolutely thrilled’ to be having another baby, who will be a sibling for Chris, 24, Sophie, 19, Chloe, 18, Jack, 16, Daniel, 14, Luke, 12, Millie, 12, Katie, ten, James, nine, Ellie, eight, Aimee, seven, Josh, five, Max, four, Tilly, three, Oscar, two and Casper, 11 months.

Mrs Radford wrote on Facebook after her 12-week scan: ‘We are so excited to announce Radford baby 17 will be joining this family in April.

‘As you can imagine, the children are so excited. Little Tilly said to me: “Mummy you have a baby in your tummy”. It was so sweet.’ But she added: ‘I feel so sick. Whoever named it morning sickness was lying. Try morning, noon and night sickness.’

The hard-working couple, who own a bakery, live in a former children’s home and use

But he was allowed to keep his job after an appeal concluded his gun was never out of his control because he could reach it while it was in the holster by his ankles.

It also found he was still able to protect the public because he was contactable by radio.

'Having sex on duty is like taking a tea break': Why armed policeman who had 40-minute tryst with another man's wife while on patrol kept his job

                            

An armed policeman who had sex on duty with a loaded gun in a holster attached to his belt has kept his job after a tribunal concluded it was similar to an officer taking a break to buy a cup of tea.

PC Shaun Jenkins, 36, was on patrol with Gwent Police in 2010 when he picked up another man's wife for a 40-minute tryst.

He took his mistress back to his home in Caerphilly, South Wales, while a colleague waited outside. 

But a report into his conduct found the act did not pose a risk to public safety because he could have been back within 'a minute or two'.

An appeals tribunal report into the incident, obtained under Freedom of Information legislation by The Times, concluded that it was 'the sort of delay that will occur if an officer goes to the toilet or into a café to buy a cup of tea'.

The tribunal overturned the original decision by the Gwent Police panel to dismiss PC Jenkins, who is now a neighbourhood beat officer after he was stripped of his firearms licence. 

Jenkins, who has won two awards for his bravery, was initially sacked by the force in 2011 for gross misconduct.

But he was allowed to keep his job after an appeal concluded his gun was never out of his control because he could reach it while it was in the holster by his ankles.

It also found he was still able to protect the public because he was contactable by radio.

Ronaldo says United is in the past and he wants to end his career in Madrid after signing new £76m Real deal

Cristiano Ronaldo has put pen to paper on a new mega five-year deal at Real Madrid worth £76million (over €90m) making him the world’s best-paid footballer and says he wants to end his career in Madrid.

Ronaldo signed the deal at the Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday with club president Florentino Perez the day after he scored in Madrid's 2-2 draw with Villarreal.

The package will see him earn almost twice as much a season as Gareth Bale and is a calculated move aimed at soothing Ronaldo’s bruised ego after he lost the mantle of the world’s most expensive player to the £86m Welshman.

Under the new deal, Real will pay Ronaldo £15m a year after tax and before bonuses. Bale is on £8.3m a season and Ronaldo’s new deal would put him £850,000-a-year ahead of Paris Saint-Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic. 

It also all but ends Manchester United’s hopes of persuading Ronaldo to return to Old Trafford. United wanted Ronaldo to sit tight on his deal which ran out in 2015 and then move for a massive £50m signing-on fee in two years’ time. 

But the possibility of a sensational return to Old Trafford, where he is still appreciated four years after his departure, seems remote after Ronaldo stressed the Spanish capital is where he wants to stay.

'I'm really happy here,' he said. 'I'll be here five more years. I just want to win trophies for this club.

'I appreciate the fans like me a lot to be here. I'm happy, I want to give my best on the pitch.

'I will be honest with you - everyone knows I was in Manchester for six years. Manchester is in the past.

'Now my club is Real Madrid. This is my home, my family is here and I'm really happy here.

'I respect all the clubs who ask about me. But they always know that my decision, that my only goal is to be here and to play at this club until, maybe, the end of my career.

'The future nobody knows.

There IS such a thing as 'beauty sleep': Researchers say snoring makes you look old, ugly and dopey

Getting your beauty sleep can really improve your looks - and snoring can have the opposite effect, according to researchers.

A study into sleep apnoea - a condition marked by snoring and breathing interruptions - has shown that people with the condition appeared less attractive, youthful and alert than restful sleepers.

Sufferers who were treated for the condition also appeared more attractive - with two thirds of the patients in the study being rated more highly in photos taken after treatment than before.

Researchers used a sensitive 'face mapping technique' - more commonly used by surgeons - along with a panel of independent appearance raters to judge changes in 20 middle-aged apnoea patients who used a new treatment called CPAP to help them breathe better during sleep.

They found that patients had puffier foreheads and redder faces before treatment.

The 22 raters, who were asked to look at 'before' and 'after' pictures to rank attractiveness, also said people appeared to have fewer wrinkles after treatment.

They also correctly identified patients 'after' treatment two-thirds of the time.

However, the researchers didn't see a big change in facial characteristics more commonly associated with sleepiness, such as dark circles and puffiness under the eyes.

Sleep apnoea affects millions of adults and puts them at higher risk of heart-related problems and daytime accidents.

CPAP is known to stop snoring, improve daytime alertness and reduce blood pressure.

Researchers say the findings may eventually give apnoea patients even more reason to stick with CPAP treatment - a challenge for some because they must wear a breathing mask in bed.

Study leader and sleep neurologist Doctor Ronald Chervin, director of the University of Michigan Sleep Disorders Centre, U.S., said the study grew out of anecdotal evidence that staff often saw in sleep apnoea patients when they visited the centre after using CPAP.