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Former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher has topped the UK album chart with his debut solo album, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
The record outsold its nearest rival, X Factor winner Matt Cardle’s first album, Letters, by some 40%, according to the Official Charts Company.
Figures showed Gallagher’s album notched up sales of more than 120,000.
The first single from the record – AKA What a Life – also climbed up the singles chart from 55 to 24.
Gallagher’s chart performance beats that of his brother, Liam, whose post-Oasis band Beady Eye peaked at number three when they released Different Gear, Still Speeding last year.
Both Gallagher and Cardle’s albums nudged Steps – last week’s number one – down to three with their greatest hits record.
The only other new entry in the chart was Irish crooner Daniel O’Donnell, who notched up his 14th top 10 UK album with his greatest hits Ultimate Collection at seven.
In the singles chart, Rihanna held onto the top spot for a third week with We Found Love featuring Calvin Harris.
Boyband The Wanted were the highest new entry at two with their sixth single, Lightning.
While Charlene Soraia’s cover of The Calling’s 2001 song Wherever You Will Go climbed the chart again from number seven to three thanks to its use on a tea advert and by a contestant on X Factor last week.
The original version of the song also climbed to 16 after re-entering the top 40 the previous week.
There were also two other new entries in the top 10 – Kelly Clarkson’s Mr Know It All came in at number six, while Video Games by Lana Del Rey entered at number nine.
The most comprehensive statistics published so far on people charged over the August riots in England show that they were poorer, younger and of lower educational achievement than average.
Some 90% of those brought before the courts were male, and only 5% were over the age of 40.
The government figures show a quarter were juveniles – aged 10-17 – and a similar proportion were aged 18-20.
Of those arrested, 13% were identified as gang members.
Even in London, where gang membership among those arrested was highest, the figure was less than one in five.
Some 35% of adults brought before courts were claiming out-of-work benefits, which compares to a national average of 12%.
Of the young people involved, 42% were in receipt of free school meals compared to an average of 16%.
School exclusions
A government spokesman said: “In terms of the role gangs played in the disorder, most forces perceived that where gang members were involved, they generally did not play a pivotal role.”
Two-thirds of the young people in court were classed as having some form of special educational need. This compares to 21% for the national average.
More than a third of young people who were involved in the riots had been excluded from school during 2009-10. The figure for all Year 11 pupils is 6%, according to Department for Education records.
And more than one in 10 of the young people appearing before courts had been permanently excluded – the figure drops to 0.1% among all those aged 15.
Three-quarters of all those who appeared in court had a previous conviction or caution. For adults the figure was 80% and for juveniles it was 62%.
In terms of ethnicity, 42% of those charged were white, 46% black, 7% Asian and 5% were classified as “other”.
‘Pattern held’
Ethnic background ranged geographically from 77% white in Manchester to 32% white in London, and from 47% black in London to 11% black in Hertfordshire.
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These figures confirm that, in the vast majority of cases, existing criminals were out in force during the disturbances in August”
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One in eight of all the crimes committed in the disturbances were muggings, claiming 664 victims.
More than 2,500 shops and businesses were victims of looters and vandals, and more than 230 homes were hit by burglars or vandals.
The figures were released by the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).
The MoJ said: “It is clear that compared to population averages, those brought before the courts were more likely to be in receipt of free school meals or benefits, were more likely to have had special educational needs and be absent from school, and are more likely to have some form of criminal history.
“This pattern held across all areas looked at.”
‘Opportunity and greed’
BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman said: “One of the key, surprising statistics is the one relating to gang members because there was much talk of the involvement of gangs after the riots.
“These statistics seem to reveal that, relatively speaking, a small number of those involved were gang members, and most police forces are reporting that to be the case.”
Earlier this month, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith told the Conservative Party conference that gangs had played a “significant part” in the riots.
Following the release of the statistics, Criminal Justice Minister Nick Herbert said: “These figures confirm that, in the vast majority of cases, existing criminals were out in force during the disturbances in August.
“The fact that half of recorded crimes were for offences like stealing and looting shows that most of what we saw was motivated by opportunity and greed.
“The tough sentences that have rightly been handed down to rioters, and subsequently upheld on appeal, send out a strong deterrent message that society will not tolerate the appalling behaviour we saw on our streets.”
Water cannon
Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police has published the initial findings of a review into its handling of the rioting and looting.
It said that so far there was no evidence of senior commanders ordering local commanders to not make arrests if offences were taking place.
However, it admitted that “with hindsight” the Met did not have enough officers available on the first night of the rioting.
The review will investigate the cost of making water cannon available to the force – although the report notes that such equipment does have limitations.
The Met is reviewing ways of “co-ordinating, assessing and prioritising social media content for intelligence purposes”.
Assistant Commissioner Lynne Owens said: “Thoroughly reviewing disorder that touched almost every part of London was always going to be a significant task and we are progressing this as quickly as we can.
“We are committed to being as open as possible so that we, our partners and the public can properly understand what worked, what didn’t and what we need to do differently.
“Today’s report provides some high-level emerging findings and we will publish more detailed findings as the review further progresses.”
In Paranormal Activity 3, creepy stuff mostly happens when people are sleeping. But the movie, third in the series of low-budget spook sonatas about two sisters beset by ghosts and other demons, woke up the somnolent autumn box office with $ 54 million at North American theaters, according to preliminary studio reports, for the biggest October opening ever. PA3 also broke the usual jinx of the third episode in a horror series: it improved on the opening of PA2, by 33%. And with its subtle shivers instead of gross-out gore, the movie attracted mostly women.
Its weekend take was the loftiest since early August, when Rise of the Planet of the Apes earned $ 54.8 million. One big difference: the simian smash cost $ 93 million to produce, PA3 about $ 5 million. The new movie was already in the black after its Thursday midnight shows, where it scared up $ 8 million. That was nearly as much as another new movie, a $ 90-million remake of The Three Musketeers, earned for the whole weekend—and more than twice the take of the third debut film, Rowan Atkinson’s Johnny English Reborn, at $ 3.8 million.
(MORE: Richard Corliss reviews Paranormal Activity 3)
Any studio has to like the Paranormal math. The first movie was made for $ 15,000—repeat: thousand—by Israeli-born Oren Peli in a week in his own house four years ago. (Steven Spielberg screened the picture, freaked out and urged Paramount to distribute it.) Released in a clever pseudo-viral campaign in 2009, PA1 earned $ 107.9 million domestic and $ 193.4 million worldwide, making it the all-time most profitable horror film.
And unlike the previous title-holder The Blair Witch Project (nearly $ 250 million worldwide gross on a $ 60,000 budget), Paranormal spawned a gigantic franchise. Last year’s sequel, shot for $ 3 million, gleaned another $ 84.7 million at home, $ 177.5 million abroad. A worldwide double-take of $ 371 million, for movies that cost little more than the drivers’ fees on a standard Hollywood epic, guarantees that sequels will be ornamenting the multiplex pumpkin patch for years to come. PA also challenged the franchise that had dominated Halloween for much of the past decade and became the new champ. It came, it conquered Saw.
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The only subnormal aspect of the Paranormal success story is the new film’s rating from the CinemaScore research group, which canvases moviegoers who’ve seen a new movie and asks them to grade their response. The survey is meant to measure word-of-mouth, an important factor in the extension of any picture’s shelf life. PA3 got a severe C-plus, which suggests that audiences were lured into theaters by the advertising but hated themselves in the lobby. A C-plus CinemaScore often accompanies movies (Let Me In and Your Highness, for example) that simply don’t connect with the public. but other C-pluses, like Rango and Bad Teacher, hung around in theaters and earned healthy mulltiples of their first-weekend gross. We’d expect PA3 to drop off, as most horror movies do, but tiptoe up to the $ 100-million mark, say “Boo!” and make it jump.
The other two big new films—which earned decent CinemaScores of B, but attracted few paying customers—were essentially European imports. The Three Musketeers, something like the 30th film version of the novel by Alexandre Dumas père (the best ones: Douglas Fairbanks’ silent swashbuckler in 1921 and Richard Lester’s puckish adaptation in 1974), has earned $ 64.4 million in foreign climes but won’t come near that here. Director Paul Anderson’s retread, starring his wife Mila Jovovich, finished behind Footloose, now in its second week, and Real Steel in its third.
As for Johnny English Reborn, it’s further proof that Rowan Atkinson is a luminary abroad who can’t get arrested in the States (unlike, say, Dominique Strauss-Kahn). Atkinson has developed three beloved comic personae: Blackadder, whose trot through five centuries of English history made him a Europe-wide TV star but only an intermittent presence on PBS; the wordless, bumbling Mr. Bean, whose two film features took in $ 400 million abroad but just $ 79 million here; and Johnny the international spy, whose pair of movies have earned nearly $ 240 million elsewhere, $ 30 million here. It’s said that all comedy is local; Hollywood comedies that America loves (e.g., Wedding Crashers) may earn no more than 30% of their total earnings on all other continents. But Atkinson’s imaginative farces are popular nearly everywhere but here. Put that conundrum in the Go Figure column.
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On the indie subcontinent, Marcy Mary May Marlene, limning the travails of an escapee from a religious cult, opened to a beatific $ 137,541 in four theaters. Being Elmo, a doc about Muppeteer Kevin Clash, scored a felt-good $ 25,158 at one Manhattan theater. And the insider-trading drama Margin Call lucked into all the Occupy Wall Street coverage to earn $ 582,400 on 56 screen screens in 20 cities. Among holdover art films, the black-Irish comedy The Guard, starring Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson, is just $ 18,000 short of the $ 5-million milestone in its 13th week; and Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain passed $ 7.5 million in its seventh. The comedy concert film, produced for just $ 750,000, has quickly earned 10 times its budget. If those aren’t quite Paranormal numbers, they’re certainly way above par.
(MORE: Mary Pols reviews Margin Call}
Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo:
1. Paranormal Activity 3, $ 54 million, first weekend
2. Real Steel, $ 11.3 million; $ 67.2 million, third week
3. Footloose, $ 10.85 million; $ 30.9 million, second week
4. The Three Musketeers, $ 8.8 million, first weekend
5. The Ides of March, $ 4.9 million; $ 29.2 million, third week
Tunisians line up outside a polling station in La Marsa to cast their votes in the country’s first ever free elections on Oct. 23, 2011
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If voter turnout is the measure, the first elections of the Arab Spring closed as a smashing success on Sunday. Tunisians of all ages and social classes packed into polling stations across the country to cast their votes in the first free elections that the North African country has seen since it gained its independence in 1956. Tunisia’s electoral commission said close to 70% of registered voters cast their ballots.
The vote will usher in a 217-member constitutional assembly whose primary task will be to draft a new constitution over the next year, ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections. (Watch Tunisia’s youth preparing for their first free election.)
More significantly, it’s the first official step in Tunisia’s transition to democracy after the January uprising that ousted President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, the country’s dictator for 23 years. And in some neighborhoods of the capital, Tunis, men and women stood in line for hours during the initial rush of the early morning, some giddy with excitement. “I’m very happy to be able to vote. It’s a historical moment,” said Lamia Tliba, a marketing professor who had been waiting for an hour outside a polling station in the upper-middle-class neighborhood of Bardo. “I can stay here all day.” By midafternoon in the poor neighborhood of Hay al-Khudra, Mohamed Zoghlamy, 70, had been waiting even longer. But he too only smiled: “The people who died [in the revolution] didn’t complain. Why should we?”
In an effort to rally as many people as possible to the polls, the transitional authorities had set up polling stations for even the unregistered voters to participate on Sunday. Those too were packed. And while some complained of voting irregularities (one man said he spotted his dead father’s and brother’s names listed on a voter registry), the monitors and election authorities TIME spoke to described a process that was peaceful and orderly. “It was so organized, so unexpected, and highly civilized,” remarked Reda Sassi, a monitor from the High Committee to Protect the Revolution at a polling station in Ariana, a middle-class suburb north of Tunis.
The election is a crucial test for the regional phenomenon that started in Tunisia and has become known as the Arab Spring. What began with the self-immolation of a young Tunisian fruit seller last December quickly snowballed into a wave of popular uprisings that has swept thousands of pro-democracy protesters into the streets across North Africa and the Middle East in the months since. In Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, the Arab Spring toppled dictators. In Yemen and Syria, it has seen the launch of civil wars; leaders in Jordan and Morocco have hurried to make concessions in light of the power of popular will. (See why Tunisia’s vote could usher in more stormy weather.)
Still, the most important thing about the Arab Spring is how it all ends. And Tunisia’s transition to democracy — successful or not — will be a bellwether for all the others, which have so far traveled bumpier rides.
As political analysts predicted — and liberals across the region feared — many of Sunday’s voters said they voted for the popular Islamist party, Ennahda. Some said they chose the party almost automatically — “they’re everywhere” was a common refrain; “they’re known” was another reason for voting for a party that was heavily repressed by Ben Ali but challenged him all along. Still, many others said they found the party’s religious message inspiring. “Islamic law,” exclaimed Tawfiq Bin Mohamed, 62, listing the things that he hoped an Ennahda-led government would ban: gambling, drinking, adultery, homosexuality and bribery. “I have no problem with women voting,” he added. “They are free. What I want is Muslim women who fear God and do not do things that oppose Islam. There are many women in Tunisia who don’t know the word of God because they have European ideas.”
Even so, other parties appeared to claim large numbers of voters too. And in some predominantly liberal areas, many Tunisians said they were voting “against Ennahda,” choosing popular leftist parties like Ettakatol and the coalition called the Democratic Modernist Pole, or independent lists instead. At one Tunis polling station, Ennahda’s leader Rached Ghannouchi faced heckling by voters who called him a “terrorist” when he went to cast his vote, according to Reuters news service.
But most voters said they were happy and proud of what transpired. “This is freedom,” said Hassan Benzarte, leaving a polling station in Ariana, where he held up a blue-ink-stained finger, proof that he had cast a ballot. “I feel responsible,” smiled Fatima Zaddem, 19. Khalil el-Almi, a medical student, couldn’t believe that the protests that had gotten him jailed and beaten in January had led to this. And for the elderly Tunisians, who turned out in force — many helped along by walkers, canes or the arms of grandchildren — they said it was the sweetest end to decades of silent repression. “Of course I’m excited,” said a frail but beaming Zeinab Shenawi, 71. “It’s my first time,” she added. “It’s like I’m going to a marriage ceremony!”
See TIME’s special report “The Middle East in Revolt.”
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The third film in the Paranormal Activity franchise took $ 54m (£33.8m) in the US and Canada at the weekend – a record debut for a horror film.
As with its low-budget predecessors, it features a haunted house as well as video camera-style footage.
The film was also the biggest October opening in North American history.
Boxing robot film Real Steel fell to two while Footloose dropped a place to three. 3D film The Three Musketeers was the second highest new entry at four.
Paul Dergarabedian, of box office tracker Hollywood.com, said he had expected Paranormal Activity 3 to come in around the $ 35m (£21.9m) mark.
“There are certain brands that just transcend any kind of box office rhyme or reason – they just resonate,” he said.
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1. Paranormal Activity 3 – $ 54m
2. Real Steel – $ 11.3m
3. Footloose – $ 10.9m
4. The Three Musketeers – $ 8.8m
5. The Ides of March – $ 4.9m
Source: Hollywood.com
“These are shot in someone’s house, they look like they’re shot with a home video recorder and people just relate to it.”
Prequel Paranormal Activity 3 centres around the discovery of disturbing home movie footage shot in 1988.
The first film became a word-of-mouth phenomenon in 2009.
Opening receipts from the latest take on the franchise beat the previous biggest horror debut – its predecessor Paranormal Activity 2 – which took $ 40.7m (£25.5m) when it opened a year ago.
It also beat the $ 50.4m (£31.6m) taken by Jackass 3D last year to score the biggest opening for an October release.
Action-adventure film The Three Musketeers, which stars Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans, took $ 8.8m (£5.5m) on its debut weekend.
Other new releases included Johnny English Reborn, starring Rowan Atkinson as the hapless spy, which opened in eighth spot with $ 3.8m (£2.4m).
William Hague has compared calls by Conservative MPs for a referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union to “a piece of graffiti”.
An in-out referendum was not government policy, the foreign secretary said, and “the wrong question at the wrong time”.
All Conservative, Lib Dem and Labour MPs have been instructed to vote later against a motion calling for a public vote on the UK’s place in the EU.
However, nearly 70 Tory MPs are likely to defy the party whip on the issue.
Although that will not change the result of the vote at 2200 BST, the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson said their action was being seen as a challenge to Prime Minister David Cameron’s authority.
The prime minister opposes a public vote on Britain’s EU membership and has sought to shift attention onto helping to solve the eurozone crisis.
‘Economic uncertainty’
No 10 has confirmed it is applying a three-line whip – the strongest order a party can give – on Conservative MPs, meaning that any who vote against the government will be expected to resign from government jobs.
A Downing Street spokesman said the government opposed an “in-out” referendum and “we would expect people to support government policy”.
Mr Hague said he had argued for referendums to be used more frequently on other issues but this was a “serious issue” and he believed “this proposition is the wrong question at the wrong time”.
Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin says the majority of people favour a referendum
“Clearly our whole relationship with the European Union is a matter that concerns the government as a whole and not just something for the House of Commons to put up some graffiti about,” he told BBC Radio 4′s Today.
“It (the referendum) was not in the manifestos of either of the governing parties, it cuts right across the rules for holding referendums, it will create additional economic uncertainty in this country at a difficult economic time.”
Mr Hague said the UK’s priority should be on “protecting the British national interest” during talks to resolve the eurozone crisis and to ensure the UK had a strong voice in future discussions over changes to the EU.
“The right referendum is when any government suggests handing more power from Britain to the EU.”
Mr Cameron will meet a number of Conservative ministerial aides concerned about the government’s position prior to the debate.
The PM, who will also update MPs on Sunday’s EU summit after his row with Nicolas Sarkozy, has said the focus should be on sorting out Europe’s economic problems while looking to repatriate powers back to Britain when the time is right in future.
Speaking on Sunday, Mr Cameron said the possibility of changes to the European Union’s treaty had been discussed and that could provide an opportunity for Britain to reclaim powers from Brussels.
Public opinion
Conservative backbencher Bernard Jenkin said the public had not be consulted on the issue of Europe for more than 35 years and public opinion was on the side of those seeking a referendum.
MEP Nikki Sinclaire defends her petition calling for an EU referendum, saying “this debate has gone on for too long”
“David Cameron is not just taking on the Conservative Party,” he said. “He is taking on the whole of public opinion.”
Mr Jenkin said the referendum was not a “panic exercise” but a response to what was going on in the eurozone and the “fundamental change in the nature of our relationship with the EU” being proposed.
Deputy Prime Minister and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has said it is the worst time for a debate about Britain leaving the EU as a “firestorm” engulfs the eurozone. One Lib Dem MP, Stephen Gilbert, has said he will defy his leadership over the issue.
‘Torn apart’
Labour leader Ed Miliband, who is likely to face a small rebellion from eurosceptic MPs within his own party, said EU membership was good for British business and Mr Cameron must prevent his party from “turning inwards”.
“The prime minister only has himself to blame. He has spent the last few years pandering to eurosceptics in their party and now he is getting his comeuppance,” he said.
The UK Independence Party, which campaigns for the UK to quit the EU, said the Conservatives were “tearing themselves apart” over Europe. Its leader Nigel Farage urged MPs from all parties “to vote with their conscience, ahead of their party or career”.
Monday’s motion – which carries no legal weight – calls for a referendum on whether the UK should remain in the EU, leave or renegotiate its membership. Its supporters argue it does not commit to a referendum straight away but within the lifetime of the Parliament.
In the coalition agreement, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems, a traditionally pro-European party, agreed to “ensure that the British government is a positive participant in the European Union, playing a strong and positive role with our partners”.
The Commons debate on the issue was prompted after a petition was signed by more than 100,000 people.
Libyan women celebrate in Tripoli following news of Muammar Gaddafi’s capture and death on Oct. 20, 2011
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Should Libyans care how Muammar Gaddafi died? As the debate continues over whether rebel fighters executed Gaddafi after capturing him — in violation of international rules of war — the issue has raised stark differences between Libya’s new leaders, who suffered for decades under a suffocating dictatorship, and the views of some of their closest Western allies.
In numerous interviews over the weekend in Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi, not a single Libyan — including top officials of the new regime — expressed serious concern that Gaddafi might have been executed after being captured alive. Instead, the general feeling might best be summed up by Colonel Omar Hariri, a war hero, who had been a comrade-in-arms of Gaddafi during their coup in 1969, and who headed this year’s rebel military forces in eastern Libya. As Hariri greeted fighters returning to Benghazi from the front in Gaddafi’s birthplace of Sirt on Saturday, TIME asked him if he was concerned about how Gaddafi had died. “I don’t care, so long as he’s dead,” he said. In a separate interview on Sunday, the interim Finance and Oil Minister Ali Tarhouni — who told TIME he has been asked to be the new interim Prime Minister — said he felt “relieved” that Gaddafi had been killed. (See how the rebels are struggling to remake Libya from scratch.)
The great majority of Libyans are rejoicing his death too. Libyans have emerged from a very long nightmare, in which two generations lived in terror under Gaddafi’s dictatorship. The details of how he met his end seem irrelevant to most of them. In death, Gaddafi has become an object of ridicule, as though he were just a pathetic old man, rather than their omnipotent ruler. The walls in Benghazi and Tripoli, which for years were plastered with portraits of Gaddafi as the untouchable leader, are filled with graffiti portraying him as a bushy-haired clown. And thousands of people have lined up to view Gaddafi’s bloodied and beaten corpse, which has been laid out since Friday in the cold-storage room of a food market in Misratah, about 150 miles (240 km) east of Tripoli.
No one doubts the terrifying brutality of Gaddafi’s rule, which put thousands of political foes on death row with perfunctory trials. Yet on Sunday, Western officials nonetheless said they were unhappy with what they had heard of the way he died. British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond told the BBC that the rebels’ reputation had been “a little bit stained” by Gaddafi’s death. And U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — who visited Tripoli two days before Gaddafi was killed — told NBC’s Meet the Press that she supported the U.N.’s call to investigate how he died. (See pictures of Gaddafi’s bizarre clothes.)
On Sunday morning Libya’s chief pathologist, Dr. Othman al-Zintani, confirmed in an autopsy that Gaddafi had died from a gunshot to his head. But he told reporters he would not publish the autopsy report. Al-Zintani said it would be delivered to Libya’s attorney general. That seemed to contradict assurances from interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril on Thursday, when he told reporters he would make public all the details of Gaddafi’s death as soon as the autopsy was completed.
Gaddafi and his son Saif al-Islam were indicted earlier this year by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague for crimes against humanity, for having allegedly ordered their forces to kill unarmed demonstrators in eastern Libya in February, before the rebels took up arms. For months, rebel leaders assured Western governments that they intended to put the Gaddafis on trial, but had stressed that they would prefer to try him in a Libyan court, rather than transfer him to the ICC.
