Intensive Investigation into Indonesia Plane Crash Ordered

Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro has ordered an intensive investigation into a glider plane accident which killed two people in Yogyakarta Thursday.
"There is a technical team which will make an investigation, and , and I have ordered that the investigation be carried out carefully," Minister Purnomo said after kicking off the ASEAN Defense Senior Officials Meeting (ADSOM) Plus in Yogyakarta Friday.
The investigation will find out whether it was caused by human error or a technical factor. Two people on the training flight were killed when their glider plane crashed in Yogyakarta province, Thursday.
The trainer aircraft crashed on a sugar cane plantation area near Adisutjipto airbase in Wotgaleh village, Berbah subdistrict, Sleman district, Yogyakarta, at 3.45 pm. The two dead victims have been evacuated to the Harjo Lukito Air Force Hospital.
"We have not yet been informed of their identities. They are possibly the pilot and co-pilot of the ill-gated plane," Berbah Police Chief Adjunct Commissioner I Made Muliawan said.

Subaru WRX Future Uncertain

Subarus new Impreza was unveiled at the 2011 New York motor show, however, no WRX model was shown.

The future of Subaru's cult-hero WRX performance car is under a cloud following the unveiling of the brand's new Impreza sedan and hatchback.
The next-generation small car was revealed at the New York motor show last week - but there was no all-new performance model previewed, bringing the future of the WRX into doubt.
Following a statement from Subaru Australia spokesman David Rowley, it seems WRX enthusiasts could well have reason to worry. Rowley told Drive there is "no timeframe" for the next-generation WRX, and says the brand has no plans to offer a turbocharged performance version of the Impreza small car.
"When you see Impreza launched in Australia or in any other market in the world, it will purely be the naturally aspirated Impreza - there will be no turbocharged WRX or STI version of that car," Rowley says.
Rowley says the brand's decision to split the WRX nameplate from the Impreza range - which it did in September 2010 when the updated "widebody" WRX and automatic STI models were introduced - was a conscious one.
"WRX and STI continue as is for the foreseeable future, but they are now separate models from the Impreza range," says Rowley. "Basically, WRX and STI become, to all intents, part of a performance stable, leaving Impreza as the mainstream naturally-aspirated [non-turbocharged] small car.
"It was a conscious decision to separate [the current WRX and STI] from [the Impreza] range," he says. "It's not something that we've hidden away or anything, it was a conscious decision made quite some time ago to create that specific performance stable."
Asked whether the next-generation WRX could be the Japanese brand's joint-venture coupe model which is being developed with Toyota (often referred to as the "Toyobaru" coupe and previewed at the Geneva motor show in see-through concept form), Rowley was quick to flatten the idea.
"No, because that car doesn't have a turbocharged engine - it has a 2.0-litre naturally aspirated engine," he says.
As Drive reported last week, Subaru's version of the car will be unique to the concept models already shown by Toyota and its youth-oriented sub-brand Scion, with the brand's project general manager Akihide Takeuchi saying the car is likely to be unveiled in the northern spring of 2012.
"We're working on it, and it is progressing very well," Takeuchi told Drive at the New York motor show. "Subaru is thinking about the aura we want to give the car. We are still tuning the car."
Subaru Australia says the new rear-wheel-drive sports car is not confirmed for local launch as yet. David Rowley says there is no timeframe for a decision at this stage because introducing that model would mean a shift away from the brand's current all-wheel-drive-only mantra.

Wayne Rooney Will Sue News of The World

Wayne Rooney took to Twitter to talk about his visit from Scotland Yard

Wayne Rooney is planning to sue over the News of the World phone-hacking scandal after police warned he had been a target. The footballer revealed that he had been contacted by detectives investigating the affair.
The Manchester United and England forward wrote on his Twitter site that detectives had visited him in Manchester, saying: ‘Scotland Yard detectives came to see me earlier and showed me some documents, looks like a newspaper has hacked into my phone. Big surprise.’
He added: ‘Gonna get my lawyers to deal with phone hacking until end of season. So I can focus on helping MUFC win trophies. Thx for all ur support.’
Rooney’s wife Coleen later tweeted: ‘Newspapers hacking into phones!! Desperate and Disgusting!!!!’ A Scotland Yard spokesman was unable to confirm that a meeting had taken place but said it was "up to him" what he wrote on the website.
The premiership footballer is now believed to be considering taking legal action for breach of privacy against News of the World. Rooney was told that he could have been targeted by private investigator Glenn Muclaire after his phone number was found on a list of contacts seized in a 2006 police raid.
Earlier this month a High Court judge gave the go-ahead for four test cases to set damages for victims. Mr Justice Vos said claims should not be delayed by the continuing police investigation and civil actions by actress Sienna Miller, interior designer Kelly Hoppen, ex-Sky commentator Andy Gray and sports agent Sky Andrew should be heard first.
He added: 'At the bottom of all this is a claim for damages and the most important thing for the claimants is to have a guide as to what damages they may be entitled to.'
David Cameron has also told police and prosecutors to 'follow the evidence wherever it goes' saying phone hacking by journalists appeared 'widespread'.
News International, Britain's biggest newspaper group, could face a second investigation by Scotland Yard in addition to the deepening inquiry into the tapping into voice messages of public figures.
The Metropolitan Police is actively considering launching an inquiry into whether News International journalists made illegal payments to officers. Calls for a public inquiry into the affair were brushed off, but Mr Cameron said further prosecutions were clearly 'an option'.
The Sunday tabloid tried to draw a line under the scandal earlier this month when it published a prominent apology and agreed to pay damages to phone-hacking victims.
The move followed the arrests of three serving and former journalists: James Weatherup, a senior reporter who has also worked as a news editor at the title, chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, 50, and former assistant news editor Ian Edmondson, 42.
Scotland Yard has endured repeated criticism over its handling of the original phone-hacking inquiry, which led to the convictions of News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire in 2007.