| 74-yr-old Berlusconi fit for sex up to 5 times a day! Posted: Silvio Berlusconi's personal doctor has claimed that the 74-yr-old Italian Prime Minister is as robust as a 60- year-old and is capable of having sexual intercourse up to five times a day.
The candid revelation about the Prime Minister's prowess came as prosecutors claimed that two young women performed a mock lesbian show for his enjoyment at one of his alleged "bunga bunga" sex parties.
Berlusconi has previously poured scorn on allegations by prosecutors that he paid for sex with dozens of young starlets at his mansion outside Milan, saying he did not have the requisite stamina.
He said in January that he would have been "better than Superman if I'd had parties with 24 girls".
But his doctor, Umberto Scapagnini, who is also an MP in his People of Freedom Party, said he was in rude health.
"Given that physically he has the health of a 60-year-old, or even younger, Berlusconi could have sex several times a day, four or five times even," the Telegraph quoted Dr Scapagnini as telling an Italian radio station, Radio24.
"He's asked me advice on injections and pills. I saw him two weeks ago and he's in great shape.
"When I saw him I advised him to sleep more, perhaps with a nap after lunch of half an hour or an hour. But as we know he's not the most obedient patient," the doctor added. 
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| China opens world's longest sea bridge Posted: China sets new world record by constructing 43-km long structure
China has just set a new world record.
Stretching across the wide blue waters of Jiaozhou bay, the vast 43-km bridge connects the booming Northern port city of Qingdao with an airport built on a nearby island and the industrial suburb of Huangdao.
The bridge is 110-feet wide and has six lanes and cuts travel time by 30 minutes
The first motorists to roll onto the bridge's six-lane, 110-feet-wide highway halved their journey time to the other side of the bay to just 30 minutes.
While the bridge will eventually charge cars 50 yuan (Rs 345), for a month the drive will be free.
While traffic on the bridge was sparse on its opening, city officials predicted that 30,000 cars a day would eventually cross it each day.
"It is a magnificent and a very advanced bridge," said Li Qun, the local Communist party secretary, at the
opening ceremony. "It is another stepping stone in the city's smooth and rapid development".
Built in just four years at a cost the bridge stands on 5,200 pillars and was entirely designed by Chinese engineers at the Shandong Gausu Group.
"We have learned a lot of new techniques and skills during the construction," said Shao Xinpeng, the bridge's chief engineer.
At least 10,000 workers toiled in two teams around the clock to build the bridge, working from opposite sides of the bay and linking the two ends together in the middle.
A staggering 4,50,000 tonne of steel was used in the construction, enough for almost 65 Eiffel Towers, and 2.3 million cubic metres of concrete.
The bridge has eclipsed the current Guinness World Record-holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, by at least two-and-a-half miles.
However, it will be eclipsed in 2016 by another Chinese bridge, which is being built to link Hong Kong with Macao and Guangdong. 
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| Canada creates flag for William Posted: Prince William will be greeted by a flag made in his honour when he and wife Kate arrive in Canada for the start of their first official foreign tour together.
The standard was unveiled yesterday after it was approved by the Queen.
As she took off from Heathrow Airport yesterday, Kate wore a navy blue knee-length dress by French designer Roland Mouret. In a nod to Canada's fashion industry, she wore a navy blazer by Toronto-based Smythe les Vestes
Its design is based on the flag used by Her Majesty when she visits the country, using a banner of the Royal Arms of Canada.
The flag the first to be created by Canada for a member of the Royal Family since 1962 will be raised during the official welcome ceremony in Ottawa.
The pair, both 29, jetted off for their visit yesterday morning aboard a Royal Canadian Air Force flight from Heathrow airport.
They are expected to draw record crowds as they help celebrate Canada Day, open the Calgary Stampede annual rodeo and go canoeing.
Wills is also planning to demonstrate his skills as a helicopter rescue pilot by taking part in a water landing demonstration.
Canadian heritage minister James Moore said of the nine-day visit, "The response we've gotten is overwhelming.
We're already now having to adjust some of our plans from moving the couple in and around the capital here, closing off some streets and moving people around."
William will help celebrate Canada's birthday today on the day his late mother, Princess Diana, would have celebrated her 50th birthday.
A Royal Date
Here is a look at their itinerary as they travel across the country.
June 30: Ottawa
Official welcome with full military honours and a 21-gun salute at Rideau Hall.
July 1: Ottawa/Quebec
Join the masses at Parliament Hill for a flypast by the Canadian Forces to celebrate Canada's 144th birthday.
July 2: Ottawa & Montreal
Meet veterans at a reception and tour the Canadian War Museum, visit a hospital and participate in a cooking workshop.
July 3: Quebec City
Arrive in Quebec City onboard HMCS Montreal. They visit la Maison Dauphine, attend the Freedom of the City Ceremony at Quebec City Hall and mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of L �vis, Que.
July 4: Charlottetown/ Summerside
Prince William co-pilots a Sea King helicopter.
July 5: Yellowknife
They meet with aboriginal elders and youth.
July 7: Calgary
Guests of honour at a reception by PM Stephen Harper
July 8: Calgary
The Royals kick off the 2011 Calgary Stampede Parade and check out exotic plants, birds at the Calgary Zoo 
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| Royals deny 'cold feet' rumours Posted: Monaco palace dispels gossip of Prince Albert's fiancee Charlene Wittstock trying to call off the wedding and returning to South Africa
Final preparations are being made in Monaco for the wedding of Prince Albert II and South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock amid rumours that the bride had tried to call it off.
Prince Albert and South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock are due to wed in successive civil and religious ceremonies tomorrow
The couple are due to wed in successive civil and religious ceremonies today and on Saturday in a festival of royal pomp in the Mediterranean principality.
President Mary McAleese, who met the couple on their recent visit to Ireland, is due to attend the wedding.
Keen to dazzle the world with the new couple and give Monaco's image a boost in the process, the palace is laying on two tonnes of red carpet, a Giorgio Armani wedding gown, 3,500 guests including some 20 heads of state a dinner prepared by chef Alain Ducasse and a hybrid Lexus to whisk away the newly-weds.
It has issued a decree encouraging residents to decorate their houses for the event.
The wedding is seen as the biggest occasion in Monaco since Prince Albert's father Rainier III married Hollywood actress Grace Kelly in 1956, but preparations for the event have been clouded by claims that Wittstock had cold feet.
The palace vehemently denied a report by French weekly L'Express that Wittstock (33), a former Olympic swimmer, recently tried to leave on a one-way flight to South Africa.
"These rumours have no other goal than to severely damage the reputation of the monarch and thereby that of Ms Wittstock and severely undermine this happy event," the palace said in a statement.
"I just spoke to her assistant and whatever the story is, it's not true. I called her and asked if everything is okay and they said everything is fine," said Ryk Neethling, a fellow South African Olympic swimmer.
Love child claims
Prince Albert of Monaco may be named as the father of an unborn love child just days before his wedding, a close confidante said. But the royal has no time to organise a DNA test to deal with any claim before his marriage to Charlene Wittstock. Albert has two illegitimate children by two former girlfriends and had denied they were his until scientific analysis proved otherwise. 
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| Few schools turn up for RTO meet on student transport Posted: Educational institutions demand time from transport authority to implement new norms in phased manner
The response from schools could not have been more lukewarm. Of the over 6,000 schools in the district, barely 100 responded to the meeting called by the Regional Transport Office (RTO) to discuss safety of children in school vehicles. The meeting organised by the RTO at Tilak Smarak Mandir last morning went on till afternoon. Jitendra Patil, deputy regional transport officer, made a presentation on the new norms for school buses issued on March 22 by the home department and asked schools to step up on their implementation.
Too little time: The notification stipulating RTO norms for school buses
was sent to schools by end of May, just two weeks before the institutes
were set to open. File pic "The vehicle should not be more than 15 years old. A complete list of children travelling and their contact details and blood group should be available in the bus. Besides that, the vehicle should have a signage indicating its status as a school bus and should be painted yellow on the front and the rear side," he said.
Apart from this, availability of two fire extinguishers weighing five kilos each in the bus, a door on the right hand side of the vehicle for exit and parents right to access details regarding the bus drivers' experience were the other points discussed. Arun Yeola, regional transport officer, said schools were told to form a committee on school bus transport at the earliest. "This committee will be headed by the principal and have a PTA member, a traffic policeman and an RTO officer as members. It will ensure that all conditions for safety of children in buses are met with. Schools were also told that the RTO had started a special drive and if the conditions weren't fulfilled then licenses of drivers and vehicle documents would be confiscated," he said. Too many rules
Meena Chandavarkar, director of New India School, which recently formed an organisation Poona Schools Bus Association, said conditions were too many and there was too little time to fulfil them. "The notification was issued in March and we were informed by the end of May. By then, we had bought buses and now we have to make modifications, which is not fair. Also, we don't have much time to make the alterations as schools have already started. The RTO must give the schools sometime and a priority list so that we can get the work done in a phased manner," she said. Balasaheb Khedekar of the Pune District Luxury Bus Association complained that there was no uniformity in the norms and that the new notification of home department clashed on certain norms issued by the RTO recently. "We are confused as every time a new norm which is contradictory to the old one is being communicated to us," he said. 
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