DERBY DEMOLITION! Aguero strikes two while Yaya and Nasri rub salt into Moyes' wounds as new boss is embarrassed at the Etihad

            

Nobody knew what to expect from Sunday’s Manchester derby. They just didn’t expect this.

If anything, United got away with it. A three-goal margin does not accurately reflect Manchester City’s superiority. The statistics do not tell the story. They give United the edge on possession, City an edge on goalmouth chances. 

They make it sound tight. It wasn’t. At 4-0 up, City’s ambition flagged. Like all good teams they knew the job was done and the  outcome no longer in doubt.

They stopped tearing at United, stopped swarming over them in midfield, stopped bullying them back into their own half and settled.
Even then, it took a wondrous free-kick from Wayne Rooney to put United on the scoresheet. 

More telling was the appearance of his manager, David Moyes — or the lack of it. He barely ventured off the bench in the second-half. 

It was as if he had been rocked back in his seat, shocked, stunned, rendered mute in disbelief.
In this way, he mirrored his team. 

United were simply repelled by their rivals, shut up, dismissed, seen off. They pushed them deep, chased and harried them up the field. A few reputations will take some mending, not least Marouane Fellaini and Michael Carrick, who had looked so impressive at home against Bayer Leverkusen last week. 

This was another level of expectation entirely and they were found wanting. There were outstanding performers all over the field — but each one wore a blue shirt. 

Vincent Kompany was the best defender, Yaya Toure immense in the centre of midfield, Samir Nasri enjoyed one of his best performances for City, Jesus Navas terrified with his pace. As a forward partnership, Sergio Aguero and Alvara Negredo were a perfect team — Aguero scoring two goals, Negredo tireless in support. 

The newness of the  managers made this a hard match to call and while one bad game doesn’t make Moyes a mug, or one magnificent afternoon for Manuel Pellegrini erase the memory of five points dropped against Stoke and Cardiff, it certainly dictates the narrative for both men in the coming weeks.

Di Canio AXED! After signing FOURTEEN new players and ripping through backroom staff, bottom-of-the-table Sunderland sack fiery Italian boss following furious training ground bust-up with squad

                        

Paolo Di Canio's tumultuous reign as Sunderland manager came to an end after his players turned on him during a furious training ground bust-up.

The fiery Italian called his stars in for a crisis meeting at the club’s Cleadon training ground on Sunday following their disappointing 3-0 defeat at West Bromwich Albion on Saturday.

But the summit quickly turned sour after Di Canio pointed the finger at a number of his players, blaming them for their poor start to the season.

A clutch of his players, however, are understood to have responded angrily at Di Canio’s dressing down, telling the Italian in no uncertain terms what they thought of him.

It is believed certain players told the manager, who signed 14 players during the summer transfer window, they did not like him and did not want to play for him.

Di Canio is then said to have told his disgruntled players to tell the club’s hierarchy to sack him if they no longer wanted him in charge.

A statement confirmed Di Canio’s departure last night: ‘Sunderland AFC confirms that it has parted company with head coach Paolo Di Canio this evening.

‘Kevin Ball will take charge of the squad ahead of Tuesday night’s Capital One Cup game against Peterborough United and an announcement will be made in due course regarding a permanent successor.

‘The club would like to place on record its thanks to Paolo and his staff and wishes them well for the future.’ 

Short wanted to give Di Canio until after the international break to turn things around - but details of the angry confrontation has forced the issue.

Sunderland remain bottom of the Barclays Premier League without a win - and with fixtures against Manchester United and Liverpool on the horizon the task of climbing up the table will not be easier.

Celtic manager Neil Lennon and former Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo will be contenders to replace Di Canio.

Di Canio arrived at the Stadium of Light in March, taking over from Martin O’Neill. 

The Italian’s appointment had the desired effect as he saved the club from relegation but a series of bust-ups with his players placed huge question marks over his position at the club.

Members of the squad have been incensed by the former West Ham forward’s decision to publicly criticise players and have complained privately about his strict training regime.

It seems yet another confrontation has hammered the final nail in Di Canio’s Sunderland coffin.

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.