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hare Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has stoked the fires ahead of Saturday's FA Cup semi-final with Manchester City. Ferdinand has pin-pointed the unity among the Red Devils squad as a major reason for their success in a season where City have all too often been in the headlines with reports of training ground bust-ups and player dissent. The latest incident came on Monday when James Milner showed his annoyance at being substituted during Roberto Mancini's side's 3-0 defeat at Liverpool and the United skipper believes 'sulks' have no part at Old Trafford. "You don't see people coming off shaking their heads, or being disgruntled, or sitting on the bench in a sulk at United," said Ferdinand. "The moment you show a little bit of dissent like that, the manager isn't happy and he pulls rank and rightly so. "He keeps people on their toes. People want to play here. You want to be here. You don't want to be part of any other squad...

Thursday 14th April 2011 Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has rubbished suggestions he could replace Roberto Mancini at Manchester City this summer. The former Chelsea coach had already stated he has no intention of leaving Real Madrid at the moment. And having seen his side brush aside Tottenham in their Champions League quarter-final to set up a meeting with Barcelona, Mourinho was asked about links with City. But he told Sky Italia that he would not be moving to Eastlands to replace under-fire boss Mancini. "Me to Manchester City? That's impossible," he said. The Portuguese was also asked about Cristiano Ronaldo's link to AC Milan after their owner Silvio Berlusconi admitted his liking for the superstar. And again, Mourinho doubted his biggest name would be leaving any time soon. "I'm not saying it's impossible, because in football you never know, and (AC Milan's owner, Silvio) Berlusconi can make a crazy offer," he said. "But it must be...

Comments Tags: Verizon Wireless | Phil Schiller | Iphone 4 | AT&T Inc | Apple Apple iPhone 4 TAIPEI:  Apple  Inc will start selling a white version of its  iPhone 4  in the next few weeks, following a delay of 10 months, according to three people with knowledge of the plans. The new model will be available from  AT&T Inc and  Verizon Wireless  by the end of April, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren't public. The release was stalled as Apple resolved manufacturing challenges, including paint that peeled under heat, one person said. Adding a white model may help spur demand as Apple works on the next generation of its top-selling product. Apple, the world's largest technology company by market value, isn't planning to unveil a new iPhone at its June developers' conference, breaking with its practice in past years, two people familiar with the matter said. It may instead introduce the next iPhone in...

'Dum Maro Dum' is all about drugs, sex & Goa See photo Director  Rohan Sippy  has deleted controversial lines from his film which hurt women's sentiments Rohan Sippy has finally put an end to the mayhem surrounding Dum Maaro Dum. Following a letter from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry requesting him to delete some objectionable dialogue from the film promos, the director has now deleted those lines from the film. In the trailers of  Dum Maaro Dum , which has already been given an A certificate by the Censor Board, Bipasha Basu says a dialogue, 'Yahan sharab sasti, ladkiyan usse bhi sasti aur zindigi toh muft mein hi mil jaati hai.' The Goa State Woman's Commission had raised an objection in State Assembly against this particular dialogue. Our source said, "The film has been under the scanner for sometime now. Particularly, how Goa has been portrayed in it. In fact this was discussed in the Goa Assembly earlier this month where oppositi...

San Salvador: FIFA president Joseph Blatter has said that he was satisfied with the preparations for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. His optimism during a tour of Central America came just two weeks after he said that Brazil was "not progressing very quickly" and that the South Americans were lagging behind where South Africa stood four years ago as it prepared for the 2010 World Cup. Blatter is making his trip to Central America less than two months before he faces a June 1 election challenge from Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar for the FIFA presidency. "We don't have any problem because we have received positive reports from all sides, especially in construction," Blatter told reporters yesterday. He said construction was progressing well "not just for stadiums but for airports and hotels in different regions." Officials in Rio de Janeiro announced a week ago they were hiring 3,500 extra workers to make sure renovations at Rio's famous Mar...

San Francisco: Figures released show that the personal computer market shrank for the first time in more than a year due to frugality and a tablet computer craze led by Apple's hot-selling iPads. Global personal computer (PC) shipments declined 3.2 per cent during the first three months of the year in the first slip since the recession ended some 18 months ago, according to industry tracker International Data Corporation. Worldwide PC shipments totaled 84.3 million units during the quarter in a 1.1 per cent drop from the same three months last year, according to figures gathered by research group Gartner. Weak demand for consumer PCs was the biggest drag on the market, according to Gartner principal analyst Mikako Kitagawa. "Low prices for consumer PCs, which had long stimulated growth, no longer attracted buyers," Kitagawa said. "Instead, consumers turned their attention to media tablets and other consumer electronics." After Apple's second-gene...