By Sportsmail Reporter Updated: 15:37 EDT, 3 November 2008 View comments
Luis Figo (soccer) - Inter Milan and former Portugal winger, born 1972.
Nigel Worthington (soccer) - Northern Ireland manager, born 1961.
Red letter day: Wigan captain Mario Melchiot will enjoy receiving cards of a different kind today.
Mario Melchiot (soccer) - Wigan captain, born 1976.
Gary Havelock (speedway) - 1992 world champion, born 1966. Read More...
Although one might not expect this, the State Duma rarely votes in unison. However, this week saw such an occasion, when all 444 Duma deputies voted yea to extend the Free Housing privatization extension. Not an unexpected turn of events; the vote to extend housing privatization is not the first nor the last if one is to judge from history. The Russian free housing privatization process might just be a case of the world's lengthiest privatization process — starting in 1991 after the breakup of the U.S.S.R. when the Russian Federation passed legislation allowing residents of municipal, federal and state-owned industry housing to purchase their units virtually free. Read More...
Overall obesity rates for American kids may have leveled off, but a new report finds that children and teens at the far end of the spectrum are getting heavier, faster -- with about 5 percent now classified as “severely obese.” That means nearly 4 million U.S. youth fall into a new category of obesity risk, one that carries dangers of serious disease and early death, even beyond expected harms, according to a scientific statement published Monday by the American Heart Association. Read More...
