| Justin Bieber impersonator targets 10-year-old girl online Posted: An online predator posed as US pop sensation Justin Bieber to sexually prey on a 10-year-old girl. The Sydney girl sent a friend request on an Internet video-chat program last Monday to a person using a profile that included Bieber's photograph and personal details. In subsequent online video conversations, the girl was asked to model revealing clothing. She told her mother about it, who then reported the matter to the police. "This incident serves as an important reminder that online predators will stop at nothing to groom children," News.com.au quoted State Crime Command's Sex Crimes Squad commander Detective Superintendent John Kerlatec, as saying. "We advise parents to educate their children about these dangers, and to warn them to be wary of anyone who claims to be famous," he said. 
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| Bomb tossed over White House fence, Obamas safe Posted: A smoke bomb was thrown inside the White House compound today while an "Occupy" movement rally was going outside, forcing Secret Service to temporarily lock it down. The incident took place during the rally outside the White House in which about 1,000 people participated, MSNBC news said, quoting Secret Service. "The White House is currently locked down because of smoking objects found near the north portico, according to an agent at the scene," Politico reported. Witnesses said streets around the area were cordoned off. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were not in the White House compound at the time of the incident. 
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| Shane Warne in run-in with cyclist Posted: Spin king clashes with cyclist in road rage spat that prompts police report
Shane Warne says he has reported a road altercation with a cyclist to police just days after the cricket legend started calling for bikes to have to pay registration and use the roads more carefully.
Bike rage: Shane Warne said that the cyclist banged on the car of his
bonnet before pedalling away. File pic
Warne took to Twitter yesterday to give a detailed account, in more than a dozen tweets, of how a cyclist held on to his car to be pulled through traffic and then banged on his bonnet before cycling away.
The cyclist was lucky, Warne said, "that I was being polite and careful and the drivers around him otherwise if anyone decided to be an idiot then he was in real trouble."
Warne has been repeatedly calling on councils and government to introduce more regulation for cyclists on roads in the past week. "Please govt cn you do something about this situation."
He said "1 or 2" cyclists were "ruining it for everyone".
"Can we crack down on them and change the law please its to (sic) dangerous..." Warne said.
Clearly rattled by the incident, Warne said reckless bike riders on the road were "going to cause a riot soon".
He added that he was a supporter of fitness and bike riding, and that he waited until he got home to a computer to tweet about it.
His attack comes just days after Warne infuriated bike riders with a series of tweets calling for cyclists to face a ban if they don't ride single file.
Professional triathlete and six time Ironman champion Luke McKenzie accused the cricketer of inciting cyclist hatred.
Amy Gillett Foundation spokesman David Lee said it was disappointing to see Warne using his profile to inflame tensions between cyclists and drivers.
"Each road user group has a requirement to respect the rights of the other and inflaming the situation whether you are a cyclist or a driver, it doesn't help the issue," he said.
"We'd be really keen to get in touch with Shane through his management to try and help educate him a little further. His comments about riding single file for instance, many people don't realise that it is the legal right for a cyclist to ride two abreast."
Bicycle Network Victoria spokesperson Jason den Hollander said that Warne should be aware of the road rules, and obey them like all other road users.
"As a long time resident of Bayside, he should know the rules. We've been disappointed to see his recent calls for cyclists to ride in single file, as that isn't the law or the safest option," den Hollander said. 
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| Coast Guard to Captain: Do you want to go home? Get back on board Posted: Dramatic recording reveals how Captain abandoned ship before passengers and refused to go back when orderedA dramatic recording has been released apparently revealing how the captain of a capsized cruise liner ignored orders to go back to the ship he had abandoned.  Captain Francesco Schettino Schettino (left) is appearing in court charged
with manslaughter, abandoning ship and causing a shipwreck. pic/afpFrancesco Schettino told port authorities everything was fine shortly before the vessel sank, it has emerged. He claimed there was only a "small technical failure" -- but in fact the Costa Concordia had already run aground, according to the timings of the radio conversation obtained by Italian media. Transcripts of taped telephone conversations released by authorities suggested Schettino was evasive when ordered by a port official to supervise the rescue. Excerpts of the conversation:Captain: At this moment the ship is listing. Coast Guard (CG): There are people who are coming down the ladder on the bow. Get back on the ship, and tell me how many people there are and what they have on board. Tell me if there are children, women and what type of help they need. Is that clear? Listen Schettino, perhaps you have saved yourself from the sea but I will make you look very bad. I will make you pay for this. Dammit, go back on board! Captain: Please ... CG: There is no 'please' about it. Get back on board. Assure me you are going back on board! Captain: I'm in a lifeboat, I am under here. I am not going anywhere. I am here. CG: What are you doing, captain? Captain: I am here to coordinate the rescue... CG: What are you coordinating there! Get on board! Coordinate the rescue from on board! Captain: How many bodies are there? CG: I don't know! ... Christ, you should be the one telling me that! Captain: Do you realise that it is dark and we can't see anything? CG: So, what do you want to do, to go home, Schettino?! It's dark and you want to go home? 
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| Captain neared rocks in FB stunt for friend Posted: Ship sailed perilously close to the coast so that the head waiter could salute his family on land
In a pre-planned stunt advertised on Facebook, captain of the Concordia, Francesco Schettino, sailed perilously close to the coast of Giglio so that the ship's head waiter could salute his family on land.
Minutes before the cruise ship hit the rocks, the waiter's sister Patrizia Tievoli had posted on Facebook that, 'In a short period of time the Concordia ship will pass very close. A big greeting to my brother who will finally get to have a holiday on landing in Savona.'
According to Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper, as the cruise liner approached the island's coastline Captain Francesco Schettino (52) said to the head waiter Antonello Tievolli, "Come and see, Antonello, we're right in front of Giglio".
He misjudged the stunt, however, with the result that the ship hit the rocks, tearing a huge gash in its hull and forcing the night-time evacuation of its more than 4,000 passengers and crew.
When the head waiter eventually reached dry land after the mass evacuation of the ship, he reportedly told friends and relatives on Giglio, "I would never have imagined that I'd end up disembarking on my own island like this."
Tievoli, the son of a retired hairdresser who still lives on the island, is "tormented by a sense of guilt", even though he did not request the sail-past, Corriere della Sera reported.
His father, Giuseppe Tievoli, a white-haired 82 year-old who has lived his whole life on Giglio, said: "Antonello called me earlier to say the ship would be passing by the island at around 9.30 and they would come and give us a whistle to say hello. It was something they often did.
"The ship obviously came too close. I don't know if Antonello asked the captain to come near, but the responsibility is always and only the captain's.
"It was only coincidence my son was on board. He was supposed to have disembarked at Savona (on a cruise the week before), but the person who was supposed to replace him wasn't well, so he had to stay on board." The captain, who has been accused of negligence and dereliction of duty, also performed the sail-past as a sort of salute to an old colleague, a former admiral from the Costa Crociere cruise line.
5 more bodies found
Divers searching the capsized cruise ship found five more bodies yesterday, bringing the death toll in the catastrophe off Italy's Tuscan coast to 11.
The victims were found at the stern of the ship under water and after search-and-rescue divers blasted holes in the hull of the ship to access the lower decks.
Before the bodies were discovered authorities had said that 29 people were missing. Also among the missing was a 5-year-old girl. The victims recovered yesterday were not immediately identified.
2-4 weeks to remove fuel
>> Italian naval divers on Tuesday exploded holes in the hull of a cruise ship grounded off a Tuscan island to speed the search for 29 missing people while seas were still calm. One official said there was still a "glimmer of hope" that survivors could be found. A Dutch shipwreck salvage firm, meanwhile, said it would take its engineers and divers two to four weeks to extract the 500,000 gallons of fuel aboard the Costa Concordia, which ran aground Friday. The safe removal of the fuel has become a priority, as the wreckage site lies in a maritime sanctuary for dolphins, porpoises and whales.
Divers blast hole to rescue survivors
>> Navy explosives experts have blown a series of holes in the hull of the cruise liner to allow divers searching for passengers better access to flooded lower cabins. After local officials raised the tally of missing passengers from 16 to 29, the divers blew a first hole in the landward side of the vessel. Four holes were planned along the 290-metre length of the ship, which will give divers who are searching deep inside the submerged part of the liner a quick escape route if the vessel slips into deeper waters. 
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