Former defender Ciro Ferrara has been appointed as the permanent coach of Serie A giants Juventus on a two-year contract.

Ferrara replaced the sacked Claudio Ranieri on an interim basis after a poor run of form which threatened the club’s bid for an automatic Champions League berth.

Under 42-year-old Ferrara, Juve beat Siena 3-0 and won 2-0 against Lazio to pip AC Milan in the race to finish second behind Inter Milan in Serie A.

“I have no fear about taking on this job,” Ferrara told the official Juventus Web site.

“Being coach of Juventus is a great job which carries a lot of weight. I feel ready to embark on this adventure. The risks exist but they help you grow and improve as a person,” he added.

“The last two matches of the season were very important because our objective was to reach second place in the table.

“The fact that I know the environment was definitely one of the factors behind me getting the job, but I think the two matches and the two weeks of training were decisive in the decision taken by the directors.”

Sebastian Vettel grabbed pole for Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul to deny Jenson Button a hat-trick of starts from top spot on the grid.

The German Red Bull driver left it until the final hot lap of the closing 10-minute qualifying session to demote championship leader Button down to second, with Brawn GP team-mate Rubens Barrichello back in third position.

It is the third pole of the 21-year-old’s career, with both his victories to date coming from the front of the grid, in Italy last year and China this season.

Vettel, the first driver this season to be quickest in all three qualifying sessions, told reporters: “We had an engine failure in second practice and I didn’t get many laps in, but I still had a good feeling for the car.

“It’s quite a surprise to be quickest in all three sessions, but finally we have made it and we are ahead of the Brawns.

“It’s been quite an effort by the team because we had some parts arrive late, but they’ve fixed them on and we’ve made it.”

Button, who had previously been on pole four times this year, was happy enough with his qualifying session following “a tough day” yesterday, mainly caused by the windy conditions.

Reflecting on a significantly improved performance, Button, who has a 16-point championship lead over Barrichello and 28 to Vettel, said: “With changes to the set-up and a calmer wind, it was so much better. We’re on the front row, which is a great place to be, but well done to Sebastian for beating us.”

Behind the top three in the hunt for the points come Mark Webber in his Red Bull, followed by Toyota’s Jarno Trulli and Kimi Raikkonen for Ferrari.

Felipe Massa, who has won this race for the last three years from pole, will have to go some to make it four in a row from seventh on the grid. The top 10 is rounded out by Fernando Alonso for Renault, Williams’ Nico Rosberg and BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica, aiming to break his points duck for the year.

It proved a dismal day for the McLaren team, despite some much-improved performances in Friday’s second practice session.

Heikki Kovalainen could only qualify in 13th place, while world champions Lewis Hamilton’s nightmare season continues as he slumped to 15th position, behind even the Force India of Adrian Sutil.

She was a call girl working the streets of Sin City. He’s a guitarist in a heavy metal band. They found commonality in their Christian faith and Friday evening, the two were married in a Las Vegas, Nevada, ceremony broadcast live via the Web.

Its Web site says Hookers for Jesus “addresses the realities of human sex trafficking.”

Annie Lobért, who founded Hookers for Jesus, and musician Oz Fox of the Christian band Stryper said their “I do’s” at the Church of South Las Vegas in front of an applauding crowd and an audience on the Internet. The wedding had been widely touted on several Christian Web sites.

Lobért, 41, walked up to the stage in a white strapless gown, gloves and veil. Earlier this week, she wrote on her MySpace blog: “I am getting married. It’s about time.”

She had worked as a prostitute for 11 years, making as much as $500 an hour. She said she hit rock bottom when she overdosed on cocaine and everything went black, according to an ABC interview posted on her Web site. She asked Jesus to help her and became what many jokingly call a “porn-again Christian.”

Lobért says her mission now is to save the souls of women who sell their bodies. She often spends time at night on Las Vegas streets handing out Bibles to prostitutes and seeking to convince them there is a better way to make a living.

The Hookers for Jesus Web site describes the organization as “an international, faith-based organization that addresses the realities of human sex trafficking, sexual violence and exploitation linked to pornography and the sex industry.”

Before he administered the vows, Pastor Benny Perez said Lobért was a shining example of Christ’s love for everyone.

Fox, 47, is a longtime member of Stryper, which stands for Salvation Through Redemption, Yielding Peace, Encouragement and Righteousness. The band’s albums include “Reborn: and “In God We Trust.”

Air France Flight 447 sent out 24 automated error messages — including one saying the aircraft’s autopilot had disengaged — before it vanished with 228 people on board, aviation investigators said Saturday.

A photo of the Airbus 330 that went missing over the Atlantic early Monday.

But even as they analyzed the error messages and satellite images of the doomed flight’s path, investigators said they still have a lot of work to determine what caused the plane to go down.

“I would just like to ask you to bear in mind that all of this is dynamic and there are a lot of question marks,” Paul-Louis Arslanian, head of France’s accident investigation bureau told reporters.

“We don’t know how the aircraft entered the water. We don’t know how these pieces of debris entered into the water and that you have to take into account the current … and the shape of the ocean floor.”

The error messages suggest that the plane may have been flying too fast or too slow through the stormy weather it encountered before the crash, officials said.

In addition, investigators have said the plane’s autopilot disengaged, cabin pressure was lost and there was an electrical failure before the disaster.

The jet’s manufacturer, Airbus, sent a Telex to operators of Airbus models reminding them of what to do when speed indicators give conflicting readings.

The spokesman said the notice does not mean there is any major flaw in the aircraft, but is simply a reminder to pilots of what to do in the cockpit if they get conflicting information about air speed.

All 228 passengers and crew aboard the Airbus 330 are presumed to have died when the plane disappeared northeast of the Fernando de Noronha Islands, an archipelago 355 kilometers (220 miles) off the northeast coast of Brazil.

The flight originated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was en route to Paris, France.

Search teams were still trying to find debris from the jet Saturday, two days after a Brazilian Air Force official said debris plucked from the ocean was not from the Air France jet.

A deal between mining giant Rio Tinto and Chinalco, a state-owned Chinese aluminum company, was called off after it became a hot-button issue in Australian politics.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on a 2006 tour of a Rio Tinto plant in Western Australia.

Meanwhile, Rio Tinto announced it has signed a non-binding agreement with BHP Billiton for iron ore production in Western Australia. BHP will pay $5.8 billion when the deal is closed, a Rio Tinto announcement said.

The $19.5 billion deal with Chinalco was signed in February and was awaiting a June review by Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board. In recent weeks, opposition party members had opposed the deal, claiming it puts Australian resources at strategic risk.

Others saw the deal as a strategic alliance that would help further link resource-rich Australia with the commodities-hungry Chinese market.

In recent years, China has become Australia’s largest trading partner. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, a fluent speaker of Chinese, has been criticized by opposition party members for harboring too close a relationship with the growing economic power.

The break-up of the deal recalls the failed takeover bid of state-owned China National Offshore Oil Company to purchase U.S. oil company Unocal in 2005.

By breaking the deal, Rio Tinto will pay Chinalco $195 million.

Free elections 20 years ago this week in Poland marked the unraveling of the Soviet bloc of Eastern European nations and the beginning of market reforms.

Shipyard workers hold Solidarity trade union flags on the anniversary of free elections in Poland.

The events of June 1989 also marked the turning point for companies like KGHM, which has grown into a global player in the world’s copper market and one of Poland’s largest companies with 18,000 employees.

“A lot of changes have happened since that moment, since 1989,” said Zbigniew Klich, a development engineer who has worked at a company copper smelter near Lubin for more than 30 years.

“This is the Poland of my dreams,” Klich said. “Even though I will probably retire in the next few months I feel so fortunate to have seen the last 20 years in my professional career.”

The financial crisis has had minimal impact on the company so far. “In comparison to other sectors of the Polish economy, the commodity business has been doing quite well,” said Jarek Romanowski, sales director of KGHM.

Poland’s export prowess has led the nation to become one of the great success stories of former communist bloc economies. In 2008, it ranked 22nd in the world with more than $190 billion in exports, ahead of Australia and India, according to the CIA Factbook.

The country’s economy has grown every year since 1992, and bucked the recessionary trend of other European Union nations by expanding its economy by just under 1 percent in the first quarter of this year.

“Poland is not an island and we are very much linked to other EU countries so a lot depends on the performance of the German economy,” said Dominik Radziwill, Poland’s deputy finance minister. “But even with the current forecasts which are really pessimistic for the German economy, we still think Poland should be doing relatively OK.”

Leszek Balcerowicz was the country’s first Finance Minister after the fall of communism and initiated Poland’s free market reforms. “Socialism (was) a very bad system and everybody knew that it was a bad system without any hope for a better life,” he said. “Transition to a better system is sometimes difficult but you have to overcome these difficulties on the way to a better regime.”

One industry that exploded was Poland’s once state-run media industry, which now includes eight daily national newspapers plus dozens of television channels and radio stations.

“The transformation had many phases in Poland. The state totally withdrew from the press market and step-by-step, private TV stations appeared,” said Polish journalist Adam Mischnik. “So, today we have a pluralist media which represents very different tendencies.”

Janusz Weychert and Mariusz Walter founded the ITI group, a leading private media company in Poland with television stations - including the influential news network TVN24 - as well as a home video, new media and theatrical production operations.

“Under one umbrella there’s various projects put together,” Weychert said. “The advantage it gives us is the free flow of content and information between all the platforms.”

Communism and absolute media control may have only been twenty years ago - but in Poland today, certainly for the country’s youth and the media, it’s a lifetime. Maciej Popowicz set up “Nasza-Klasa” - Poland’s equivalent to Facebook — with three friends in 2006. Its success made 25-year-old Popowicz one of Poland’s youngest millionaires.

He’s also too young to remember what life was like under Communism. “I’m very glad that I live in these times because we have so many more opportunities than our older friends so for example, you couldn’t manage your own business twenty years ago, now there is an opportunity to do that,” Popowicz said. “So you can develop your ideas, create your own firms.”

But market reforms haven’t been kind to the historic shipyards of Gdansk, where the Solidarity Union movement began with union leader and future Polish president, Lech Walesa. Marching with him was Brunom Baranowski, a shipyard worker for more than 30 years who spent nearly a year in jail for civil disobedience for his role in the union.

In the 20 years since the end of communism, he’s seen the shipyard workforce shrink from 18,000 to about 2,700 today. The shipyard, in danger of going bankrupt, was given a lifeline this week when Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition, met with Polish officials and told the press an EU bailout of the shipyard was likely.

Still, Baranowski said “shipyard workers don’t have much reason to be happy. Over the past 20 years we have been trying to save our jobs.”

While the fortune of his nation improved, he still lives in the same tiny apartment as he did in 1989 and has the same worries about his job.

But Brunom says it was all worth the fight. “Of course it’s much better. In the old days all you could get at the shop was vinegar and mustard. To get anything else you had to know people. Now everything is available,” he said.

World leaders joined military veterans in northwest France on Saturday to pay respects to those who lost their lives 65 years ago in the D-Day landings of World War II.

President Obama and Britain’s Prince Charles were among those attending the ceremony.

U.S. President Barack Obama, French leader Nicolas Sarkozy, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Canadian PM Stephen Harper and Britain’s Prince Charles are among those to attending a ceremony in a coastal cemetery that is the final resting place of many who lost their lives in the decisive operation.

“The battle of Normandy decided the outcome of the war,” said Sarkozy, the first to speak.

It was “won by soldiers 20 years of age who killed so as not to be killed.” The French president described the horrors of the battle, where so many died before they were able to land that “those who did make it ashore waded through the bodies of the dead and wounded that floated in on the tide.”

He cited a letter from a U.S. soldier who said the day “was like a waking nightmare. The ground was so strewn with bodies that you could practically cross the beach without touching the sand.”

“Never, never will France forget,” he vowed.

More than 150,000 allied troops, about half of them Americans, took part in D-Day, a massive offensive on June 6, 1944, that overwhelmed German forces on the beaches of Normandy and proved a turning point in driving back Nazi forces in occupied France.

Allied forces secured the beaches at a cost of about 10,000 casualties in what was the first step in a campaign that would, in a matter of weeks, liberate Paris, which had been under Nazi occupation for more than four years.

Obama, who has been touring Egypt and Europe on a trip focused on modern conflicts in the Middle East, is to make a speech at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking one of the main D-Day landing points for U.S. troops.

Earlier in the day, the U.S. president and his French counterpart gave a news conference making comments on efforts to bring about peace in the Middle East and halt Iran’s apparent nuclear ambitions.

Among Veterans attending Saturday’s remembrance ceremonies will be 86-year-old former British soldier Jim Tuckwell, who told CNN the events will help those present to remember fallen comrades lost in the heat of battle.

“There was no time to mourn, you didn’t have time to mourn,” he said, recalling the events of 1944.

“And the worst thing about later battles was that when you lost people, you normally had to bury them yourself. You couldn’t leave the bodies on the ground, there was nowhere else to put them.”

Actor David Carradine was found dead in the closet of a Bangkok hotel room Thursday with a cord wrapped around his neck and genitals, leading Thai police to suspect his death was not a suicide but an accident resulting from dangerous sex practices.

In this Wednesday, March 10, 2004 file photo, actor David Carradine poses for a photo at his home in the Tarzana section of Los Angeles. Carradine Was Found Dead, Hanged in Closet of

Carradine, 72, best known for his role in the 1970s television drama “Kung Fu,” was found by a chamber maid at Bangkok’s Park Nai Lert Hotel naked and dead, slumped in a closet with cords bound and connecting his neck and his genitals, Bangkok police said.

“The two ropes were tied together,” Police Lt. Gen. Worapong Chewprecha told reporters. “It is unclear whether he committed suicide or not or he died of suffocation or heart failure.”

Citing Porntip Rojanasunan, the director of the Central Institute of Forensic Science, told the Bangkok Post that the actor may have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, the practice of cutting off one’s air supply to heighten sexual pleasure. Carradine had been in Thailand since May 29 to shoot his latest film, “Stretch.”

Thai Police completed the autopsy Friday, but would not release the results until next week, Police Col. Somprasong Yenthuam told the Associated Press.

Somprasong said there was no indication that there was someone else in the room with Carradine at the time of his death.

Recently discovered court documents from the actor’s latest divorce posted by The Smoking Gunsuggest that Carradine may have have long history of “deviant sexual behavior which was potentially deadly,” according to ex-wife Marina Anderson.

Apparently Jon Gosselin’s recent declaration that “enough is enough,” referring to the tabloid scrutiny of his marriage and family, wasn’t enough to dim the media spotlight.

A new photo has surfaced of Jon Gosselin and 23-year-old school teacher Deanna Hummel vacationing in Utah. The picture shows Deanna and Jon March 28 at the Spring Gruv at The Canyons Ski Resort in Park City.

US weekly posted an exclusive photo on its Web site of Gosselin on vacation in Utah with school teacher Deanna Hummel, the woman the magazine first claimed was having an affair with the married father of eight and star, with his wife Kate, of the popular reality show “Jon & Kate Plus 8.”

The photo, taken on March 28, according to US magazine, shows the pair at the Canyons Ski Resort in Park City during the resort’s annual Spring Gruv, which features concerts and sporting competitions. The visit could show up in a future episode of the TLC reality show, which, according to US, filmed Gosselin’s trip to focus on how he helps handicapped kids.

Sources who saw the pair together told the magazine they appeared “very cuddly.”

Gosselin has denied having an affair since it was first reported by US on March 18. Since then, the family has dominated tabloid covers and Gosselin has battled criticism about his child rearing and husband skills.

Earlier this week, Gosselin told People magazine that he in no way is exploiting his children.

“I don’t even want to use that word, because I think it’s ridiculous,” he told People. “We have healthy, happy, well-adjusted, educated kids. They’re bouncing around and having a good time.”

Jon Chooses People Just Like Kate

Jon, 32, appears in the glossy magazine saying “enough is enough,” when it comes to all the overwhelming attention the family is receiving.

“Jon’s definitely suffering a little bit right now with all of this attention on him and his family. He’s sort of done with the whole situation,” said People magazine senior staff writer Michelle Tan. “He’s said enough is enough with the paparazzi.”

His interview comes just weeks after his wife, 34-year-old Kate Gosselin, used the popular magazine as an outlet to describe her feelings about what was happening to her marriage. In May, she discussed the perilous state of the Gosselin union, confessing that “Jon is confused and struggling with a lot of different things.”

“I think anybody who has watched the show has noticed that Kate’s definitely the vocal one of the two, and Jon’s very laid back. And I think now with this increased scrutiny, Kate is still opening up a bit more than Jon,” Tan said. “Jon is just getting more and more guarded. He’s just feeling under the attack, and really wants to keep things private.”

Jon reportedly underwent hours of rigorous media training on how to deflect personal questions during his interview in New York.

Meanwhile, Kate and the sextuplets enjoyed a family vacation on the beaches of North Carolina. With a pail in hand and an orange bikini, Kate Gosselin wowed onlookers by being tanned and toned.