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NEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters) - Rajat Gupta, a consummate business insider who once sat on the board of Goldman Sachs Group Inc, was convicted on Friday of leaking secrets about the investment bank at the height of the financial crisis, a major ...Tickets fly as benefactor makes Derry concert free - BBC News
All tickets for the Peace One Day concert in Ebrington Square in Londonderry have been snapped up.
The tickets were offered free on Friday after benefactor Michael Hamyln offered to pay for them.
People who had already paid for tickets will get their money back.
The film producer said he is delighted to have made the gesture.
The concert on 21 June marks the start of the London 2012 Festival.
It will be the first major event to be staged at the arts quarter, which was formerly a military barracks.
The line-up includes Pixie Lott, Dublin singer Imelda May, indie-rockers Guillamots, Derry's Wondervillains and Newton Faulkner.
Founder of Peace One Day Jeremy Gilley said: "It's incredible that someone has come forward to make the concert free.
"I'm delighted. This opens the doors to everyone. It'll be a wonderful show in a wonderful city."
The free tickets were made available at 10:00 BST on Friday morning and ran out in less than two hours.
The director of the London 2012 Festival, Ruth Mackenzie, said the concert will "highlight the key theme of how sport and culture can resolve conflict.
"We are really grateful that thousands of lucky people will now be able to join in the celebration for free."
The event also marks the three-month countdown to Global Truce, a campaign that promotes peace.
The culmination of the Global Truce campaign will be another Peace Once Day concert in London on 21 September, the day of Global Truce and World Peace Day.
Stars join Songwriters Hall of Fame - BBC News
Ne-Yo, Bette Midler, Ben E. King and Bob Seger give their reaction to their awards
Multi-platinum artist Bob Seger, Bette Midler and R&B star Ne-Yo have been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
The team behind enduring hit Stand By Me - Ben E. King and songwriting duo Mike Stoller and the late Jerry Leiber - were given The Towering Song Award.
King was also presented with a special award for his performance on the track.
Ne-Yo, who was given the Hal David Starlight Award for young songwriters, credited music with saving him.
"I was a pretty riled up little kid," he explained, on the red carpet. "If not for my mom giving me the pad and the pen and telling me to take my emotions and put them there, there's no telling. I might I have been sticking you up or something."
Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks presented Bette Midler with the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award. It honours industry veterans who are "pioneers in their craft" and have "inspired the music community".
Midler has enjoyed success on stage, screen and as a recording artist, winning three Grammys - including for her 1989 hit, Wind Beneath My Wings.
"Any award is a great honour," said Midler. "I mean people think of you and it is very sweet. It is all very sweet."
Seger kicked off the ceremony in New York with a performance of 1973 track, Turn the Page.
The Detroit rocker achieved commercial success with 1976 album Night Moves. He called songwriting the hardest but most rewarding thing he does.
The Songwriters Hall of Fame was founded in 1969 by Johnny Mercer to recognise the best in the field.
Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, the writers of long-running musical, The Fantastick's, were also honoured in the ceremony's 43rd year.
Other inductees include Jim Steinman, who wrote Bat Out of Hell and Total Eclipse of the Heart, Canadian folk rocker Gordon Lightfoot, and Don Schlitz, who penned country hits including When You Say Nothing at All.
Among those taking to the stage to hand out awards or perform were Meatloaf, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, Steve Miller and Kenny Rogers.
Rory & Donald set to miss cut as McDowell flies flag - ESPN.co.uk
Defending champion Rory McIlroy missed the cut at the US Open after a lapse in concentration saw him miss a two-footer on the final hole of his second round.
McIlroy, looking to bounce back after a difficult opening round on Thursday, reached the par-three 8th, his final hole of Friday's round, at nine-over for the tournament - but a moment of absent-mindedness saw him make a hash of his tap-in for par.
That mistake confirmed he would miss the cut at Olympic Club - joining playing partner Luke Donald on the sidelines over the weekend.
Donald, the world No. 1, had all-but ended his tournament chances with a 79 to begin proceedings and, while a follow-up 72 was respectable, his 11-over total for 36 holes will see him miss the weekend's action in San Francisco.
The cut is expected to be around eight-over but could well slip to nine-over - although that will not be a problem for the third member of McIlroy's group, Lee Westwood, who will have a chance to move up the leaderboard in the second half of the tournament after finishing five-over.
European hopes are currently riding with 2010 US Open champion Graeme McDowell, who endured a difficult finish to his round but nevertheless sits among the clubhouse leaders at one-over.
One-under when beginning his round on the ninth on Friday, the Northern Irishman reached two-under for the tournament at one point but Olympic's formidably difficult front nine eventually punished him - as four bogeys and a solitary birdie left him just over par overall.
The only man ahead of him in the clubhouse, however, was playing partner and fellow former champion of this event Jim Furyk - the 2003 winner flying under the radar to card a second round of 69 after an opening 70 and become the first man (so far) to be under par after 36 holes.
Nevertheless, the marquee group of the morning involved the three top-ranked Europeans - but none of them lived up to their billing as Westwood was the only one who just about kept himself in tournament contention.
Donald was far more precise than in his damaging opening round, but nevertheless could not get in position to threaten the cut-line - with a failure to birdie the short par-four seventh (his 17th) ultimately sealing his fate.
McIlroy gave himself a chance at eagle at the same hole which would have almost certainly sealed his participation over the weekend, but was forced to settle for a birdie that left him likely needing to pick up another shot at his last, the par-three eighth.
An iron shot to 15-feet set up that opportunity, but McIlroy was not able to make the putt as it slid narrowly to the right. It was then that disaster - or, more accurately, human fallibility - struck, as the defending champion rushed his par attempt and saw it lip out.
Forced to settle for 10-over, his fate was confirmed - and the Northern Irishman did not bother to hang around for the rest of the field to finish.
Elsewhere, big-hitting Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts and 23-year-old American John Peterson are also both well placed at one-over for the tournament, after second rounds of 69 and 70 respectively.
Pre-tournament hot tips Hunter Mahan, Jason Dufner and Matt Kuchar are well-placed alongside Aaron Watkins at three-over.
Sergio Garcia, Ernie Els, Charlie Wi, Martin Kaymer and Nick Watney - he of the Thursday albatross - are all four-over, while Ian Poulter and John Senden are level with Westwood in the clubhouse at five-over.
Steve Stricker is also four-over for the tournament after the round of the day so far, a two-under par 68 that included an eagle at the 17th after he holed out from the fairway.
Players waiting to see if they will make the cut at nine-over include Casey Martin, Bill Haas and former champion Lucas Glover.
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Trap hits back at critical Keane - Football
Published: 15 Jun 2012 - 20:20:49
Republic of Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni has hit back at former skipper Roy Keane over his withering assessment of their Euro 2012 efforts.
In his role as a television pundit for ITV, Keane called for a change of mentality among both the players and the fans after Trapattoni's men were serenaded from the stands at the PGE Arena in Gdansk as Thursday night's 4-0 thumping by Spain drew to a close.
But the 73-year-old said on Friday: "Roy Keane was a very great player. We know Ireland, when we played against him, was a strong team. This generation was very hard. It is not my habit to be critical of other colleagues as coaches or managers, but what has he done after he finished playing?"
He added: "The players were strong in his time, playing at Manchester United, playing at Celtic, playing everywhere. They were a strong team.
"Roy Keane was a great player, a very great player. He obtained very great results as a player. Now he is a coach he should just stick to focusing on getting results as a coach."
Keane, who famously returned early from the 2002 World Cup finals in the Far East in protest at Ireland's preparations, was annoyed by the scenes at the end of the game.
He told ITV1: "It's a reality check for a lot of the Irish players. I think a lot of them think they are top players, and it goes to show that they are so far behind a lot of these players.
"I think the players and even the supporters, they all have to change their mentality. It's just nonsense from players speaking after the games about how great the supporters are.
"Listen, the supporters want to see the team doing a lot better and not giving daft goals away like that. I'm not too happy with all that nonsense.
"To praise the supporters for sake of it...let's change that attitude towards Irish supporters. They want to see the team winning - let's not kid ourselves, we are a small country, we are up against it, but let's not just go along for the sing-song every now and again."
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Sweden V England : UEFA Euro 2012 Match Report - Football
Published: 15 Jun 2012 - 22:16:26
Welbeck and Walcott rescue England as Sweden out
England remained on course for a place in the knockout rounds after coming from behind to send Sweden crashing out of the tournament with a 3-2 victory in Kiev.
Manchester United striker Danny Welbeck scored a well-taken winner for England in the 78th minute after the introduction of substitute Theo Walcott swung a see-saw Group D battle back in his side's favour.
England had got off to a dream start when recalled striker Andy Carroll headed them into a 23rd-minute lead.
But an own goal from Glen Johnson on 49 minutes followed by a header from Olof Mellberg in the 59th minute threatened to set up a disastrous night for Roy Hodgson's side.
However, the substitution of James Milner for Walcott changed the game. The Arsenal winger lashed in a 64th-minute equaliser to make it 2-2 and then provided the run and pass which set up Welbeck's winner.
England's first ever competitive victory over the Swedes means they will qualify for the quarter-finals with only a point in their final group game against co-hosts Ukraine in Donetsk next Tuesday.
Hodgson's side had started positively, Scott Parker forcing a fine save out of Andreas Isaksson after only seven minutes with a fine swerving effort from 20 yards that the Swedish keeper parried to safety.
Sweden meanwhile had to wait until 20 minutes before threatening the England goal, captain Zlatan Ibrahimovic letting fly with a long range shot that was blocked comfortably by Joe Hart.
After successive crosses from Ashley Young and Milner failed to meet their targets, captain Steven Gerrard had clearly seen enough on 23 minutes.
Seizing possession in midfield the England skipper looked up to curl in a pinpoint long-range diagonal ball which the twisting Carroll met with a thunderous header that gave Isaksson no chance.
England's positive first half display came unstuck, however, within five minutes of the restart as a rejuvenated Sweden dominated play.
The equaliser came after an Ibrahimovic free-kick bounced back off the wall and was played back to an unmarked Mellberg being played onside by Johnson.
The centre-half's shot beat Hart and Johnson was unable to scramble out of his own net. Mellberg claimed it, but the equaliser was ruled an own-goal by Johnson.
England were rocking and it got worse for Hodgson's men on 59 minutes as Sweden went 2-1 up. Sebastian Larsson swung in a curling free-kick and shambolic defending allowed Mellberg to nod home Sweden's second.
Milner, who had capped a poor evening by conceding the free-kick which led to Sweden's second, was then promptly hauled off for Walcott.
The Arsenal winger made an immediate impact and within minutes England were level, Walcott's shot from just outside the area catching Isaksson off-balance to make it 2-2.
Sweden continued to cause England problems on the break and Ibrahimovic forced Hart to dive at full-stretch to turn around a 76th-minute effort.
But two minutes later Walcott rescued England again, darting into the box with an electrifying burst to cross for Welbeck, who flicked in a deft finish with the back of his heel to make it 3-2.
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