Calvin Harris denies Rita Ora claims over Call My Name - BBC News
Calvin Harris says claims from Rita Ora that she was offered Cheryl's number one single Call My Name first is "disrespectful".
The track was originally written by Harris and sold more than 152,000 copies to launch it to number one in the Official Top 40 chart.
But Harris took to Twitter to rebuff Ora's claims, saying: "For the record, Call My Name was never given to Rita Ora to sing...she made that up, don't know why?"
Rita Ora's comments have now been removed from Twitter.
When asked by someone on Twitter what proof he had, the I'm Not Alone singer also tweeted: "Coz I did that song."
"I was setting the record straight as you didn't at the time," he later added. "It was a disrespectful comment to make, that's all."
Rita then tweeted: "I hate beef and fighting.. So I love u all @calvinharris call me I'll explain what actually happened they twisted it and congratulations. X"
This is not the first time the 28-year-old has taken to a social network to defend his material.
He accused R&B singer Chris Brown of theft after the star used his music in his single Yeah x3.
Brown later apologised and credited half the track to Harris.
Poor ticket sales cancel The Voice UK Live tour - BBC News
The 11-date tour for The Voice UK Live has been cancelled due to a lack of ticket sales.
The gigs were due to feature eight of the show's finalists.
The Voice UK Live tour was to begin at the Bournemouth International Centre on 12 September and was then due to visit venues in Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, London, Glasgow and Sheffield.
Organisers say fans with tickets for the cancelled dates can get a refund.
A number of ticket outlets had only cited five dates as being axed earlier today (18 June), but organisers have confirmed that none of the scheduled dates will be going ahead.
In a statement, a spokesperson said: "Unfortunately, The Voice UK Live has been cancelled due to lack of ticket sales.
"Customers are advised to contact their point of purchase for ticket refunds."
The news comes as the show was criticised for failing to attract viewers.
Episodes of The Voice consistently attracted average audiences of more than 10 million in April, but the ratings had dropped to 4.5 million later in the series.
More than seven million people tuned in to watch 28-year-old Leanne Mitchell, from Lowestoft in Suffolk, be crowned the show's first winner.
Her single, a cover of Whitney Houston's Run To You, failed to make it into the top 40 of the Official Chart.
UPDATE 1-JPMorgan must face claims over home equity loans - Reuters UK
* Syncora had sued EMC, now owned by JPMorgan
* Judge says loan defaults not necessary to force buybacks
* JPMorgan not immediately available for comment
* Similar cases brought by investors distinguished (Adds details from ruling, background)
By Jonathan Stempel
June 19 (Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge has decided against JPMorgan Chase & Co in a lawsuit over losses on securities backed by risky home equity loans, a ruling that could strengthen claims by insurers seeking to hold banks responsible for such losses.
U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty said on Tuesday that Syncora Guarantee Inc, which claimed losses from insuring securities created by JPMorgan's EMC Mortgage Corp unit, need not prove that alleged warranty breaches caused the underlying loans to default in order to force EMC to buy back the underlying loans.
Crotty also said Syncora can establish a material breach of contract by showing that breaches of representations and warranties by EMC caused a material increase in risk. He declined to award equitable relief.
The decision, if applied by other judges, could strengthen efforts by bond insurers such as Assured Guaranty Ltd, MBIA Inc and Ambac Financial Group Inc to hold banks responsible for losses on securities backed by subprime and other risky home loans.
Philip Forlenza, a lawyer for Syncora, declined to comment. JPMorgan did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
In its lawsuit, Syncora alleged it was misled before agreeing to insure interest and principal payments on part of a $666 million bond created in March 2007 by EMC and backed by 9,871 home equity loans.
It claimed that, as a result of EMC's breaches, it paid out more than $168.6 million of claims and faces more exposure.
"Syncora relied on EMC's representations and warranties in deciding whether to insure the transaction and how to price that risk," Crotty wrote. "A breach of these warranties, if proven, would have adversely affected Syncora's interests as an insurer."
The judge added that Syncora's contract with EMC did not include language requiring the bond insurer to wait for a loan to default before demanding a buyback.
While investors have raised similar repurchase claims against banks in hundreds of other lawsuits, Crotty distinguished those cases, emphasizing that a bond insurer has "legally distinct interests" from investors generally.
In January, New York State Supreme Court Justice Eileen Bransten ruled in favor of MBIA and Syncora in cases against Bank of America Corp's Countrywide Financial unit.
She said an insurer seeking to recover losses on risky mortgage-backed securities it insured need show only that it was misled about the securities, not that misrepresentations caused its losses. Those rulings are being appealed.
Syncora was once known a XL Capital Insurance Inc. EMC had been part of Bear Stearns Cos, which JPMorgan bought in 2008.
The case is Syncora Guarantee Inc v. EMC Mortgage Corp, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 09-03106. (Reporting By Jonathan Stempel and Nate Raymond in New York; editing by Andre Grenon)
Sweden V France : UEFA Euro 2012 Match Report - Football
Published: 19 Jun 2012 - 22:01:27
France through but only after Swedish lesson
France qualified for the knockout stages of a major finals for the first time in six years on Tuesday despite losing their final Group D match 2-0 to already eliminated Sweden.
A brilliant bicycle kick by Sweden's inspirational captain Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the 54th minute gave them the lead with the outstanding Sebastian Larsson adding a second in the final minute of normal time.
It handed the Swedes not only their first points of the group stage but also their first win over France in almost 43 years dating back to October 1969.
The French, who also saw their 23-match unbeaten run ended, progress in second place in the group after England beat co-hosts Ukraine 1-0 in the other game to finish top.
France - who last reached the knockout stages of a major finals in the 2006 World Cup - will play champions Spain in the last eight.
The Swedes should have gone ahead in the eighth minute as Ola Toivonen - who had replaced the injured Johan Elmander up front - was played onside and with only Hugo Lloris to beat. However, although he rounded the goalkeeper he found the angle too tight and his shot hit the post.
The French pressed from the start of the second-half with Karim Benzema finding some space and curling the ball just past the far post.
However, instead of sparking the French into some urgency it prompted the Swedes into their best period of play with Lloris pulling off one fine save in the 53rd minute.
A minute later he was unable to do anything about Ibrahimovic's stunning bicycle kick from Larsson's superb cross -- Ibrahimovic in typical celebratory style standing stock still and raising his hands pointing a finger of each hand at the sky.
France were wilting in the heat of the night and would have been 2-0 down minutes later but Olof Mellberg's header was tipped over the bar in extremis by Lloris.
Another of the Swedish veterans Christian Wilhelmsson - like Mellberg expected to retire from international football after this match - then went close himself but his shot too was turned away for a corner.
The French were defending with increasing desperation and it was no surprise that central defender Philippe Mexes picked up a booking for an overly physical challenge that rules him out of the quarter-final.
The Swedes pace slowed, though, and France began to have the lions share of possession which almsot bore fruit when Yann M'Vila - who had earned his first start of the tournament having recovered from an ankle injury - switched neatly from his left to right foot and fired a fierce shot just wide of the target.
Blanc decided to send on Jeremy Menez, one of the goalscorers from the 2-0 win over Ukraine, and it almost paid off as he managed to break free in the box - but his effort was bundled away for a corner.
Fellow substitute Oliver Giroud should have done better from the corner as he rose unmarked but his header went over the bar - and instead it was to be the Swedes who deservedly wrapped up victory through Larsson.
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Pitch, not politics the focus v Germany -- Greece - Football
Published: 19 Jun 2012 - 20:19:30
Greece on Tuesday played down any wider political significance of their Euro 2012 quarter-final tie against Germany, insisting that they will be more concerned about their opponents on the pitch.
Giorgos Samaras and Kyriakos Papadopoulos echoed Germany's Lars Bender by saying Greek disaffection at German attempts to impose harsh public sector cuts to curb spiralling debt had no part to play in Friday's match in Gdansk, northern Poland.
"We cannot entangle football and politics. It is bad to do that. Football is a game and we will play to enjoy it because we like it," Celtic forward Samaras told a news conference at the team's base near the Polish capital, Warsaw.
"We are not only playing for ourselves but for the 11 million Greeks back home. We managed to bring them joy by beating Russia and we hope to do the same on Friday," the 27-year-old added.
The Germany-Greece match is being billed as the "Debt Derby" by some, with widespread concern about the effect of Greece's dire financial straits on the eurozone -- and the Berlin-led battle to save it.
But Papadopoulos said that his team's close ties to Germany on the pitch will be an advantage.
"Certainly it is an advantage for some of the players on our team who play in the Bundesliga to be more knowledgeable about the players on the German team," said Papadopoulos, who plays for Schalke 04 in Germany.
"But we will face Germany, as we do every team, giving our best and hoping to win."
Samaras said that Greece had already achieved their goal of qualifying for the knock-out stages, which proves "we are among the eight best teams in Europe".
"Now we want to enjoy the tournament. If we advance further, it would be a dream but we cannot compare the current team with that of 2004 and our success."
Captain and 2004 veteran Giorgos Karagounis, for one, is out of the side through suspension after arguing with the referee over a penalty appeal in Greece's last match against Russia in Warsaw.
Samaras refused to divulge how coach Fernando Santos has been preparing them to take on Joachim Loew's much-fancied side, saying only that they had been keeping a close eye on them during the group stages.
"Everyone knows how good Germany is. We have to focus on our play, how we will be better and how we can best achieve the result we want. This is what we did with Russia," said Samaras.
Papadopoulos, who missed the Greeks' second game against the Czech Republic through injury, indicated that the team will not hold back.
"We have nothing to lose. We are playing against one of the best teams in the tournament. We will give our best and hope to succeed. Anything we gain from here on will be even greater," he told reporters.
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