A British man who used military vehicles carrying two children to school to give them pleasure.
Nick Mead, 53, who Helmdon Northamptonshire area, northern England, is a fan of military equipment. He is the owner of the company driving events Tanks A Lot, owns more than 120 military vehicles, according to theTelegraph.

Mead's car collection worth more than 2 million pounds (more than 67 billion VND). Every day 13-year-old Ashley and 16-year-old Danny, his two sons Mead can optionally one of the car to go to school.

"People often look back again whenever we encounter on the road. They could not believe my eyes," Mr. Mead said.

Two boys enjoyed driving increased passenger announced attendance. Photo:Telegraph

He often drove the FV432, weighing 17 tons, bringing their children to school. "When we drove through the town, people waving their arms as if about to fall into it," Mead said with a laugh.

"The police often smiled or looked away, most of them do not know what to do, where not every day you see a tank in the town," Mead said.

Inside the cockpit tank. Photo: Telegraph.

"All the kids are like photographing the car. I'm having a little difficulty each time driving down the hill," Mead said. However, he said that "in 20 years of driving a tank, I've never been to the accident, I always extremely careful, especially when there are children."

The car is allowed to circulate on the road. Photo: Telegraph.

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Islamist group Boko Haram militants stormed a remote village in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 33 people and abducted 200 people.

Boko Haram militants have kidnapped about 200 people, including men, women and children in the village Gumsuri, BBC quoted one survivor said.The attack occurred the day 14/12 but the information has been notified after the survivors to the city of Maiduguri, Borno state capital.

Abba Musa, a surviving villagers estimated 172 insurgents kidnapped after the tally Gumsuri village head, Reuters said.

The attackers shouted "God is even religious" and shootings. "My sister and her seven children were arrested," Musa said. "We ran into the bushes and survived. Not much luck as we". At least 33 people were killed in the incident.

Meanwhile, a security source confirmed rebel group has abducted more than 100 people and killed 35 people, including the head of the county.

Chibok Maina, who did not witness the attack on the village to visit family but even then, the rebels said the victims transported by truck. "They also burned a medical center of government, many houses and shops," said Chibok.

Aliyu Mamman, local civil defense, said the security forces did not appear to prevent the rebels.

Information from remote areas of Nigeria, which can not be contacted by mobile phone, sometimes it takes several days to be known.

"The government is outraged and deeply saddened by this terrible act," government spokesman Mike Omeri Nigeria said in a statement. "Boko Haram continues to choose and always cowardly civilians to spread their terror." There are no groups claimed responsibility for the attack, but officials said that Nigeria's Boko Haram culprit.

Boko Haram, which means "Western education is sinful", has become the most dangerous threat to Nigeria. Rebels abducted in April every 200 girls at a school in Chibok, just 24 km from Gumsuri. A man claiming to be Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, last month rejected a negotiated release of the hostages of the government, said he was "married the girl" for the commander of the group rebels.

Location city of Maiduguri. Graphics: BBC.

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The White House said yesterday that the US has no intention of seeking to establish diplomatic relations with North Korea as with Cuba by Pyongyang's nuclear programs and missiles.

"Our concerns about North Korea other than Cuba," the news agencyYonhap quoted Josh Earnest, White House spokesman, said. "We do not have to worry about Cuba is developing nuclear weapons testing range missile technology."

By Earnest, Washington decided to try a new approach to Cuba to improve the "human rights situation" here by isolating the previous strategy had failed.

US President Barack Obama announced Sunday 17/12 boot process to normalize relations with Cuba after more than 50 years of freezing. Many people think that Washington will likely do the same thing with Pyongyang.However, the White House quickly rejected this prediction.

"We are concerned about North Korea's behavior, be sure to include human rights and other issues," Earnest said. "These include the nuclear program of North Korea, the threat notification that Pyongyang sent to Seoul, one of the close allies of Washington."

Earnest said the US ever tried to establish relations with North Korea in the past, easing some sanctions in exchange for the commitment to denuclearization of North Korea. However, this effort soon vanish by the Korean decision to withdraw their commitments.

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They are the United States and Cuba was spying on earth plugin rivals and was released several years ago when Washington and Havana claims toward normalizing relations after more than half a century.

"Group 5" consists of Cuban citizens accused of performing acts of espionage in Miami, USA, in 2001. Three of the group was released this time include Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero and Ramon Labanino.The other two are Rene Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez, were released earlier.

"Group 5" is the right thing to Fidel Castro south Florida to gather information about the components against the government in Havana Cuban community in the United States.

As a member of "Network wasps", "Group 5 Cubans" responsible organizations infiltrated opposition, investigation and send to Cuba throughthe media as "encryption software, the specific radio transmission of high frequency and phone message security, "according to AP .

"Network wasps" allegedly tried to infiltrate the headquarters of southern America, the supervisory authority of the Washington military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean. The spy's secret network also become laborers in Key West Naval Station. There, they allegedly sent the report relating to the activities of US aircraft in Havana.

The Cuban intelligence agents operating in the US for many years and is under the supervision of agencies and organizations of the government in Washington. Officials said that would be useful and convenient than if monitoring the activities of these people are remote. However, after Cuba shot down two planes carrying American citizens working together exile group 'Brothers to the Rescue "in 1996, the FBI arrested" Group 5 Cubans "in Miami in March 9/1998. May 6/2001, 5 person convicted of espionage.

Trial members of the "Group 5 Cubans" sparked much debate. Cuban exile community in Miami that these people have been sentenced to more severe.

Havana claims the group of 5 people trapped. However, before the trial ended, the Cuban government finally admitted all 5 of them are intelligence officers.

But Havana insisted spy group was sent to Miami does not aim to spy on the US government to investigate mainly the Cuban exile community here.

After a trial lasting seven months, Hernandez, Guerrero and Labanino sentenced to life imprisonment, while Rene Gonzalez respectively Ferndando and sentenced to 19 and 15 years in prison. Hernandez also accused of conspiracy to murder, was implicated in the Cuban airliner shot down two US citizens in 1996, 4 pilots killed.

"The only responsible for what happened to his release, that as a slap in the face my father," Alejandre-Triana, daughter of Armando Alejandre, the pilot of one of the two planes were downing years old, Hernandez said the news release.

"We simply can not understand why this could happen, especially for Gerardo Hernandez. The arrest him little justice is little that we can be,"NBC quoted Maggie Alejandre-Khuly, sister of the other pilot said.

Rene Gonzalez was given his release in 2011, but the government demanded that he be subject to arrest in the United States. 2013, a judge may issue a decision in Gonzalez to Cuba if agreed to renounce his US citizenship, when he returned home to attend his father's funeral.Meanwhile, Fernando Gonzalez was released earlier this year and immediately deported.

In Cuba, "Group 5" has long been regarded as the national hero. Their faces were painted on the walls, printed on stamps and "even children to school can also tell Peak wall details about the incident involving them", William Booth, pen from the Washington Post in 2009 wrote.

Spy anonymity

Rolando "Rollie" Sarraff Trujillo. Photo: Martinoticias

On 17/12, a worker Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was jailed in Cuba for nearly 20 years and is returned to the US with Alan Gross, a US subcontractor jailed in Cuba 5 years. Washington does not publicly identity of this person. But according to Chris Simmons, a former director of the Cuban counterintelligence unit, worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency, the US, the more likely it is Rolando "Rollie" Sarraff Trujillo, about 51 years old, was arrested in 1995 the Cuban government and sentenced to 25 years in prison for acts of espionage.

Sarraff to be a cipher expert, working in Cuba Intelligence Agency, responsible for handling the piece of information is encoded by the foreign spies sent to Cuba in Havana. "People who work decoder holds the key to the country because they know the flaws in your system," AP quoted Simmons said. Sarraff also helped the US government intrusion "Network wasps".

According to NBC News , CIA agent has stolen the secret information in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Cuba and moved  to the US colleagues.

Rolando Sarraff father, Rolando "Rollie" Sarraff Trujillo, is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Cuban armed forces, and former journalist working for the state news agency Prensa Latina. He and his wife, Odesa Trujillo, do not know much about his son's activities.

When not see Sarraff call home, grandparents came to the prison to see whether his son had any problems of health. Staff here to tell them not to worry and that his condition might be better just only.

Sarraff grandparents live in Playa, Havana and weekly close often visited the prison. Sarraff being held at Villa Marista, where security levels are extremely strict, located on the edge of Havana. Sarraff often called the family in the afternoon, but from Wednesday 16/12 until now, his parents have not received a phone call.

"Outside people are prompted to name it," AP quoted Sarraff mother said yesterday at their home in Havana. "I do not care where it is, just know it is healthy or not alone".

"We go everywhere, but they say there is no information," said the father of Sarraff.

Alan Gross

Alan Gross, Cuba detention of prisoners has been released today 17/12. Photo:CNN

Cuba has decided to release a US citizen Alan Gross Tuesday 17/12. He was arrested in 12/2009 while working in Cuba as a subcontractor. Gross was sentenced to 15 years in prison for technology import ban and tried to set up Internet services for Jewish secret Cuba.

Gross is a supporter of Israel and is a consultant to professional development. He traveled all over the world, the implementation of privatization contract before his arrest in Cuba. Gross to Cuba only once before and not fluent in Spanish.

Gross worked for the company Development Alternative (DAI), based in Maryland, USA. The company has signed a deal worth $ 6 million with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in a project aimed at promoting democracy and supporting those with political dissent. Gross signed two contracts to provide telecommunications equipment with the band for over 20 months with a $ 590,000 compensation.

5 flights to Cuba in 2009, Gross import equipment and satellite connections and other advanced technologies and help install them in the center of Jews in Havana, Santiago and Camaguey. He was arrested in 03/12/2009 hotel on the day, just before the country.

Gross events DAI and the US government, demanding compensation of $ 60 million, saying that he did not receive adequate information about the hazards and the illegal status of assigned tasks. Then, Gross has settled the case with the band in an amount not disclosed.

While in prison, Gross change from a conventional technique as a fierce critic of the US and Cuban governments. Gross mental breakdown when his mother died of cancer in May 6. Shortly thereafter, he refused contact with the doctor, his wife and the American welfare agency.

According to ABC News , Gross's release was the result of a process of "secret dialogue between the highest authorities of the two countries' governments", which lasted more than a year. More importantly, the incident occurred at the same time with a different agreement, under which the US exchange for the release of three citizens in the "Group 5 Cubans" and Cuba to release an American spy.

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White House open to Cuban President Raul Castro will officially visit the United States, a day after the two countries announced the normalization of relations.

"I do not exclude a visit by President Castro's Cuba," Reuters quoted a spokesman Josh Earnest said the White House yesterday. Cuban leader's visit is seen as part of a plan to normalize relations by President Barack Obama .

Mr. Earnest said Washington also consider the mechanism of action of the US Embassy in Havana, after closing in 1961. At the end of the following month, US Assistant Secretary Roberta Jacobson going to Cuba to discuss the process of recovery for the diplomatic relations.

US President Obama yesterday announced the normalization of relations with Cuba after more than half a century, and that the embargo is rigid policy and backward. Cuban President Castro welcomed the US move, saying Here is what his country had long awaited.

Observers believe that the biggest obstacle in the new relations between the US and Cuba embargo lasted for decades. The Republican takeover of both houses of Congress in November to close and is expected to interfere with the early elimination sanctions on Havana. The delegates of both the Republican refusal through funds to reopen its embassy in Cuba and hinder the approval of an ambassador to Havana.

However, most legal experts believe that US President Barack Obama has enough authority to ease restrictions on trade, transport and banks with Cuba, including the opposition Congress.

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Editor's note: Jill Dougherty is a public policy scholar with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. She was CNN's Moscow bureau chief for nine years.

Moscow (CNN) -- President Vladimir Putin's news conferences aren't at all like news conferences I used to attend in Washington, when I covered the White House.

First, there are the stuffed animals. Since there are more than 1,200 journalists in the giant hall, they have to attract President Putin's attention some way, so some bring stuffed animals, raise home-made signs, or wear T-shirts specially printed up to advertise the region or news organization they come from.

Then there's the length of the conference. This one was the usual length -- three and a half hours. Others have been longer.

This was Vladimir Putin's 10th news conference and it couldn't have happened at a worse time. As the Russians say, the smell of kerosene was in the air. The value of the Russian currency, the ruble, was dropping like a stone, the U.S. and Europe were just announcing yet more sanctions, Russia was on the verse of a recession, but the president refused to call it a "crisis."

Striding into the hall, Putin appeared cool, calm and collected. Close-ups of the president's face were broadcast on two giant screens on either side of the hall, his every glance, every gesture visible.

Putin's first challenge was to assure his fellow citizens that Russia can overcome what he called an "unfavorable scenario" and he promised that would happen -- in two years, maybe less.

There was no real mea culpa for Russia's economic predicament. Putin admitted only that the Russian Central Bank and the government could have reacted more quickly to the economic challenges. Instead, he blamed Russia's economic woes on "external" factors, asserting that economic sanctions account for just "25 to 30%" of Russia's economic problems.

When a BBC reporter asked him about a "new" Cold War, Putin leaned forward like an athlete, insisting that that Russia is simply defending its own interests. Moscow, he said, has only two military bases outside its territory but the U.S. has bases "all over the world." They told us there would be no NATO expansion, he complained, and now the West is building new virtual walls around Russia.

Putin is adept at turning the tables. One journalist asked him about reprisals by Chechen authorities against the families of alleged terrorists, accusing Russia's government-financed TV channels of igniting hatred in society.

Putin quickly pointed to the torture report just released by the White House. The U.S. he said, "legalized torture" and even developed a method for carrying it out. "How do you explain that?" he asked indignantly.

Putin spoke for several minutes on the image of the Russian "bear." The West, he claimed, won't leave the bear in peace, but wants to "chain" it, "de-claw it," unless it sits obediently in the forest, eating berries.

If there was one promising note, it was the Russian president's statement that the conflict in eastern Ukraine should be settled peacefully. He acknowledged that there were Russians in eastern Ukraine, but they were "volunteers."

Surprisingly, the president called on some journalists who are not known as being friendly to the Kremlin and there were some uncomfortable questions. When Putin said there's a "fine line" between the opposition and a "Fifth Column" -- in other words, traitors to Russia -- reporters twice followed up with pointed questions, including a demand that he name those members of the "Fifth Column." He did not.

Others asked him what is the salary of Igor Sechin, head of the Russian oil giant Rosneft? He said he didn't know.

In one of the most dramatic questions, a Russian reporter asked Putin if he is worried that members of his inner circle could carry out a "palace coup?"

Putin, who in spite of his somewhat fierce image abroad, does have a sense of humor, defused the question with a smile.

"We can't have a palace coup because we have no palaces," he said. Stability is based on support of the Russian people, he said, and "the people believe we are acting in their interest."

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