Twilight star Robert Pattinson FINALLY admits he is dating Kristen Stewart

After months of speculation, Robert Pattinson has finally confirmed he is dating his Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart.

The actors, who have been dating since last year, were due to make their first public appearance as a couple at Sunday"s Bafta Film Awards, but ended up arriving separately.

Pattinson, 23, was proudly cheering from the audience when his American girlfriend, 19, was named as the winner of the Bafta Rising Star accolade at the star-studded ceremony at the Royal Opera House.

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Low-profile: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson leave the Bafta after-party at the Grosvenor House Hotel at midnight on Sunday night

After refusing to comment on their relationship for months, Pattinson finally broke his silence and admitted they were an item.

He told The Sun: "It is extremely difficult but we are together, yes.

"We can"t arrive at the same time because of the fans. It goes crazy. This was supposed to be a public appearance as a couple but it"s impossible. We are here together and it"s a public event but it"s not easy.

"We have to do all this stuff to avoid attention."

Afterthe Baftas, the couple headed to the Grosvenor House Hotel for theafter-party, where they were spotted leaving at arelatively-respectable midnight.

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Alpine adventure: From bungee jumps to the Olympic monobob the Alps for thrill-seekers

Hurtling down the Cresta Run might be a 125-year-old pastime, but this bastion of derring-do is still one of the top attractions for thrill-seekers in the Alps.

The fact that women are banned from riding the Cresta is perhaps irksome to the fairer sex, but somehow the exclusive St Moritz Tobogganing Club retains dignity and popularity even in these times of equal rights.

In the pink: Paragliding is a fantastic - if mildly unnerving - way to see the Alps

I took my novice run 18 years ago, and I must admit I rather liked the style of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Digby Willoughby when he bellowed over his megaphone from the control tower: "Too high on Shuttlecock but not a bad effort for your first run, English."

There is undeniably a quirky allure to the Cresta, and perhaps the decidedly non-PC comment from the late Baron Brabazon of Tara - an English aviation pioneer, Tory MP and Cresta devotee - sums up the attraction. "The Cresta is like a woman with this cynical difference - to love her once is to love her always," he said. More...Feature: Skiing through the nightRead Neil"s latest ski blogMore on the Alps in our France section

Here are my other top recommendations for those looking for non-ski thrills in the Alps.

The mountain adventure trail at Gorge Alpine: This heart-stopping trail allows you to cross the canyon between the Swiss resorts of Saas-Fee and Saas-Grund. Wearing a pelvic harness and carabiners, you are clipped to cables while shuffling along the cliff shelves looking for foot and hand-holds.

You eventually cross the gorge by abseiling, flying on zip-wires and stepping out on a horizontal ladder 100ft above the canyon. The gorge is known locally as "Fairy Gorge" because of the legends that fairies once inhabited it.

Suitable for adults and children aged 12-plus at parents" discretion. Cost 50pp, minimum four per group, safety equipment and guide supplied. Visit www.saasfeeguides.ch and click on Gorge Alpine for more information and reservations.

Le Mono Bob in the French resort of La Plagne: This is a welcome hangover of the 1992 Winter Olympics held in Albertville, where the 1,650-yard, 19-bend bobsledding track has been maintained to give tourists thrill rides.

You can take the traditional four-man "taxi" bob with professional driver and three passengers, the Bob "Raft", which is a four-passenger, no-driver equivalent in a softer, padded vehicle with an automatic braking system, or my preference - the Mono Bob.

This also has an automatic braking system but the thrill of being on your own is truly wonderful. You bounce off the ice track walls at up to 56mph while major G-forces hurl you around - and there"s nobody but yourself to hear your screams.

Minimum age 16 with adult consent. Cost 90pp per ride. Visit www.bobsleigh.net for reservations and details.

Parapente, or paragliding, at Villars: Here, at one of the longest-established schools for tandem paragliding, experienced pilot Guy Bertrand gives genuinely thrilling rides with safety being paramount. As a vertigo sufferer who has tried this, I can say that Guy"s school offers a reassuring way to experience a thrill you might otherwise opt out of.

Guests can take a flight from the top of Diablerets glacier at 9,000ft, enjoying far-reaching views of Switzerland. And there is another flight route from the summit of Grand Chamossaire to the valley bottom, giving a 6,000ft descent with views of Mont Blanc, the Dents du Midi and Lake Geneva. Both involve around 30 minutes" flying time but you"ll need to allow about half a day in total for the equipment briefing and transportation. Tandem flights cost from 105. For more information on Guy Bertrand"s school, visit www.dimension-3.ch. Also see www.villars.ch.

Bungee-jumping at St Jean de Sixt: In the Aravis mountains of France, just a few miles from the popular ski areas of La Clusaz and Le Grand Bornand, you can experience what it is like to launch yourself from a steep, 100ft ski ramp, plummeting 120ft towards the river below before the bungee cords bounce you back to safety. This thrill can be had on skis, snowboard, or just by running off the ramp.

A regular bungee jump costs 38. A couple can do a "love" jump together for 58. Visit www.bun-j-ride.com or www.aravis.com.

Telecoms aristocrat Carlos Slim Helu is worlds richest man

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The Mexican telecoms lord Carlos Slim Helú has been declared the worlds richest man, with a net value of $53.5 billion (36 billion), the initial time since 1994 that the No 1 mark has been hold by a non-US citizen.

The annual billionaires list published by Forbes repository shows that the series of billionaires increasing from 793 to 1,011.

Recovering monetary markets and line and clever mercantile expansion from a little Asian-Pacific and Latin American economies helped to enlarge the common resources of the worlds richest by $2.4 trillion to $3.6 trillion.

This functions out at $3.5 billion each, up from $3 billion last year.

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Mr Slim combined $18.5 billion to his net worth. He kick Bill Gates by $500 million, even though the Microsoft authority increasing his happening by $13 billion to $53 billion.

It is the initial time since 1995 that Mr Gates has not surfaced the list.

He would be value scarcely $80 billion had he not since billions to gift by the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation.

Mr Slims climb is piece of a ubiquitous change of resources afar from the United States.

Although the US still dominates the list with 403 billionaires, they have up 40 per cent, opposite 45 per cent last year.

The Asia-Pacific segment cumulative an 80 per cent benefit in the series of billionaires, bringing the total for the segment to 234.

Of the 97 billionaires creation their debut, 62 are from Asia. Mainland China has the majority billionaires outward the US with 64.

What is distinguished is that Middle East is heading the comeback, pronounced Steve Forbes, the magazines arch senior manager and editor-in-chief.

Lakshmi Mittal, of India, moves 3 places to No 5 as his net value rose by $19.3 billion to $28.7 billion.

The Brazilian iron ore aristocrat Eike Batista done the greatest gains, from $19.5 billion to $27 billion.

Bernard Arnault, head of the oppulance products association LVMH, is Europes richest person, at No 7. His happening rose $11 billion to $27.5 billion.

Britain has twenty-nine billionaires on the list, 4 some-more than last year.

The Duke of Westminster is the highest-placed Briton, with a net value of $12 billion, up $1 billion. He is 45th on the full list.

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Identification of agents by Dubai military embarrasses Mossad

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To have a dozen of your agents identified in military tapes after an extrajudicial murdering is embarrassing. To have roughly thirty operatives left with their covers blown as appears to have happened after Dubai military expelled uninformed sum of the Hamas gangland slaying last month cunning be deliberate reckless.

On the central website of Mossad, Israels perspective agency, is the biblical hymn from Prophets, 11:14 where no warn is, the people fall, but in the crowd of counsellors there is safety.

Unfortunately, so most of the counsellors crop up to have been hold on CCTV, wearing wigs and alternative disguises, that it was as if an early Purim fair was being hold in Dubais hotels and airports.

On tip of the tactful fallout Australia was the ultimate nation to disapprove Israel, the lead think in the attempted murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh is the flourishing subject of how Mossad, the famously surgical sharp edged metal of Israels growth defences, could have authorised so most of the people to fumble in to full perspective of security cameras and have their faces flashed around the universe in weekly instalments presented by Dubais military chief.

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The scale of the revelations is heading a small experts here to subject the motives and/or cunning of Dubais military chief, Lieutenant-General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, who has expelled the falsified transport papers of twenty-six suspects, twelve of them British.

There is no disbelief that some-more than a small of the report that he is disclosing or leaking to the media is piece of a ploy in that pieces of disinformation are planted, pronounced security writer Yossi Melman in the every day journal Haaretz.

Hes throwing out a captivate in the goal that someone in Israel will swallow the attract and reply by damning himself or disclosing trusted information.

Others have voiced regard that Mossad whose director, Meir Dagan, has even been called on to renounce by a small critics should be concentrating some-more on entertainment comprehension on Irans arch programme, recalling how it went on a debauch of punish killings after the Munich Olympics electrocute in 1972 and longed for the signs of a appearing conflict by Arab armies a year later.

Yet a small comprehension sources are unflustered by the hoopla, indicating to the actuality that such a large group was means to penetrate Dubai, kill their aim but showing and escape, withdrawal usually a couple of cinema at the back of of suspects.

One source told The Times that for all the imagination the Dubai military have shown in convention images of the killers, they appeared to destroy to brand that of them was essentially involved.

He forked to the actuality that dual of the suspects transient to Iran, Israels sworn enemy, as justification that not all of those unprotected could have been involved.

And since that the tangible agents concerned are veteran spies they are expected to be means to work again but as well most fright of detection, he said.

You could take all twenty-six of them and put them in a line on foot subsequent to the military arch of Dubai and he wouldnt recognize them, pronounced the security expert.

The actuality that Dubai has one of the top densities of sealed circuit TV in the universe meant that the agents knew they would screened and continually altered their disguises.

That is additionally why, in murdering al-Mabhouh, they prompted a heart conflict to have it crop up similar to a healthy death. It took the Dubai police, and Hamas, ten days to figure out that he had essentially been murdered, by that time his killers were prolonged gone.

The anticipation for Hamas is some-more than doubled, pronounced the comprehension expert, adding that those who carried out the strike are probably sitting in a road house room clapping their hands.

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Martin O"Neill refuses to risk players in Aston Villa"s pull for Champions League place

By Sandy Macaskill 730AM GMT twenty-four March 2010

Doubtful James Milner (right) competence be complacent for Wednesday"s diversion as Aston Villa try to strengthen their harmed players Photo Nick Potts/PA

O"Neill accepts that Agbonlahor, who is out with vinculum repairs in a foot, and Dunne, who is pang from an Achilles problem, have been personification by the suffering barrier, but he stressed that he would not ask them, or Milner, who has picked up an vague niggle, to risk their long-term fitness to maximize the club"s chances of subordinate for the Champions League.

"The one thing I don"t wish to do here is imperil people"s careers," he said. "I don"t wish any one to fool around with a little sort of damage that is going to disease them."

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It does not meant that O"Neill is surrender defeat, however. In conditions of points, and stream positioning, Villa competence not be as well off as last season, but they are dominant in the fasten given their 1-0 better to Liverpool in December, and could even go fifth should they win by dual transparent goals opposite Sunderland on Wednesday evening.

That said, a better would roughly positively finish their challenge.

"If we wish to be in at the low finish this is a diversion we have to go and try and win," O"Neill said.

Asked who he deliberate to be favourites to finish fourth, O"Neill pronounced "City don"t have any alternative distractions, they have a sincerely sizeable patrol and are in a good position. But the thing about Tottenham is they have points on the board. I couldn"t order Liverpool out at any stage."

Supporters will goal that the deficiency of Villa from his comment is only a inference of O"Neill"s healthy self-deprecation.

Former Aston Villa and England midfielder Lee Hendrie is fasten League One side Brighton.

The 32 year-old has concluded a loan switch from Derby until the finish of the deteriorate with a perspective to a permanent move to the south seashore in the summer.

Gold for Amy Williams reduces feverishness on BOA notwithstanding disappointments

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If the Winter Olympics have left memorable images in the memories of the Canadian public, the flip side is that Britains award lapse requires usually the shortest of courtesy spans. Amy and Arthur sojourn the waste contributors and, since that one of them is an unfeeling object, the group champagne will sojourn on ice.

Amy Williams and her dear sled ensured that Andy Hunt, the BOA arch senior manager perceived usually a amiable barbecuing when he met the media to collect the beef from Vancouvers bones. The Bath students structure of the physique bullion equates to that UK Sport will hold that the �2.1 million invested in the competition over the past Olympic cycle was income well spent.

Whether they will feel the same about the �1.1 million since to the misfiring curlers is some-more debatable, and nonetheless there is no disbelief that Britains Olympians are hampered by a miss of plateau and facilities, there is a feeling that these Games have been a competent disappointment.

The BOA attempted to see on the splendid side, notwithstanding the group descending short of UK Sports three-medal target. When asked either the group had accomplished sufficient to consequence a travel in funding, Hunt roughly conceded defeat. Wed love some-more but we are picturesque about where we are in the appropriation cycle, he said. Its some-more a subject of where we outlay that income and there will be a joined-up routine utilizing the majority appropriate use of skeleton.

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So how great or bad were these Games? The BOA pronounced that 69 per cent of the group were at their initial Games and census data show that majority people win a award at their second or third. The group was additionally young, with roughly a fifth underneath 21. However, suggesting that eight personal bests from a group of 52 was great rather than an complaint of an incapacity to rise was a tad fanciful. Indeed, if Better Never Stops is the BOAs tagline, it stalled for most of the team.

Williams was a pleasant curiosity and, whilst it is loyal that the ascent of a structure of the physique award from china to bullion is an alleviation from 2006, others were big let-downs. Foremost between them were Britains universe champions. David Murdochs curling group went out in their tie-breaker opposite Sweden yesterday, withdrawal the jump over to ponder: We did all we presumably could. We have lerned 6 days a week for dual years and came in to these Games as universe champions, but infrequently it usually doesnt go right.

The womens bobsleigh group were additionally universe champions, nonetheless they arrived after a uneasy build-up, with Nicola Minichiellos bad eye and Gillian Cookes separate bodysuit, and things became worse when a pile-up on their third run yesterday accomplished their hopes. Im positively devastated, Minichiello said. It was right on the corner and I lost it. At the flippin Olympics!

The disbeliever competence contend that was a mantra for the sum team. At the Flippin Olympics competence not ring utterly similar to Own the Podium, but Zoe Gillings no disbelief felt it summed up her fortunes when she suffered a knee damage in her snowboard cranky semi-final. Eve Muirhead showed flashes of luminosity on her curling entrance and will be behind for more, whilst Shelley Rudman and Kristan Bromley were both sixth in the skeleton.

In sum there was one medal, 7 top-ten finishes and a great understanding of soul-searching. The series of top-ten entries was down on the 9 in Turin, but Britain had won usually thirteen post-war medals going in to these Games.

Sir Steve Redgrave, a 2012 ambassador, offering some-more mitigation, raising the thought of construction a purpose-built long-track ice course in Britain, big sufficient to residence dual not as big rinks in the centre. Our short-track skaters get dual hours on the ice a day, he said. Thats not enough. Redgrave reckons that 83 award chances, from skaters to curlers, could be housed in such a opening centre. We were not really great at lane cycling until we built a velodrome, he said.

Hunt spoke of the worry of handling expectations and the box of Chemmy Alcott underlined that. An considerable thirteenth in the downhill, she accomplished a faraway 27th in yesterdays hulk slalom but pronounced that she had knocked the doorway down. However, it is additionally value remembering that Ed Drake, who accomplished 27th in the mens downhill, perceived usually �6,000 annual appropriation and had to compensate �3,500 to his right away gone ruling physique for the honour of being on the group at the flippin Olympics.

Nato Afghanistan mission in disbelief after Dutch withdrawal World headlines The Guardian

The budding minister, Jan-Peter Balkenende, uttered his supervision had collapsed after bloc parties clashed over a Nato ask to magnify the Netherlands" infantry mission in Afghanistan. Photograph: Valerie Kuypers/AFP/Getty Images

The Dutch supervision collapsed at the weekend, creation it the initial European and Nato administration department to tumble since of the fight in Afghanistan.

The fourth tumble of a supervision underneath the budding minister, Jan-Peter Balkenende, in eight years could finish his career and is sure to chaperon in a duration of domestic disbelief that could move big gains for the impassioned anti-Muslim right.

The finish of Balkenende"s centrist coalition, especially of Christian and amicable democrats, equates to that the roughly 2,000 Dutch infantry in Afghanistan, formed around Uruzgan, south-west of Kabul, will begin pulling out in Aug and be cold by the finish of the year.

"If zero else will take the place, afterwards [the Afghan mission] ends," Balkenende told Dutch radio yesterday. "The picture of the Netherlands is far from multiplying abroad. They do not assimilate what we are doing."

The Netherlands could set a precedent, enlivening alternative European countries to get cold feet about their participation in Afghanistan.

"The impulse the Netherlands says as solitary and initial nation we will no longer have activities at the finish of 2010, it will lift questions in alternative countries and this unequivocally heedfulness me," Balkenende said.

While the budding apportion sought to magnify the Afghan mission, underneath clever vigour from Nato allies and Washington, his Labour celebration bloc partner against the prolongation and walked out of predicament talks on Saturday, spelling the finish of the supervision dual years in to the term.

The Dutch withdrawal is a blow to President Barack Obama and comes as the US and Nato infantry mountain their greatest operation in Afghanistan for years.

The Americans have been dire for some-more European infantry in Afghanistan and uttered compensation with European pledges of a little 9,000 additional forces in new weeks.

But the Americans are perfectionist that the Europeans supply 2,000 trainers for the Afghan armed forces and police.

"The one majority vicious shortfall is in the difficulty of trainers," pronounced a comparison US official. "We"d similar to them [Europeans] to step up. We"d similar to each fan to put up some-more trainers. This is critical."

The Dutch Labour party"s intense antithesis to superfluous in Afghanistan is popular, bringing it present perspective check gains at the weekend. But a ubiquitous choosing is approaching in May, with all eyes on the argumentative populist anti-Islam maverick, Geert Wilders, who is staid for a vital electoral breakthrough.

Wilders" Freedom celebration now has 9 of 150 parliamentary seats, but he came second in last year"s European Parliament elections and an perspective check at the week end put him neck-and-neck for an choosing victory.

"We can have glorious formula in the subsequent couple of months and it can usually shift the Netherlands for the better," Wilders told Reuters.

According to the week end poll, Balkenende"s Christian democrats would take twenty-six to Wilders" twenty-four seats in parliament.

The fourth tumble of a Balkenende supervision in eight years suggests he could be transposed as Christian democrat leader.

"It is embarrassing," pronounced the NRC Handelsblad newspaper. "There is great reason to disbelief [Balkenende"s] qualities as a leader."