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(CNN) -- John Terry has made his first public comments since being stripped of his role as England's football captain, thanking the fans of his club Chelsea for their support.
The defender has been replaced as England skipper by Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand following a media storm over his alleged marital infidelities.
The 29-year-old, who has twins with his wife Toni, failed with a court injunction to prevent newspapers from printing allegations that he had an affair with the former partner of his England and former Chelsea teammate Wayne Bridge.
Terry has remained playing for his club since his liaison with Vanessa Perroncel -- who had a child with Bridge -- was first revealed and he helped the London club to return to the top of the Premier League with a 2-0 victory over title rivals Arsenal on Sunday.
"On a personal note I would like to thank every single fan. It's been an emotional day for myself and how the fans have been with me over the last two weeks has been quite incredible," he told Chelsea's television channel.
"I didn't expect that today and I would like to thank every single individual fan for the way they treated me. It was a great performance and, I mean it from my heart, I would like to thank everyone."
Terry did not talk about his meeting with England coach Fabio Capello, who took the captaincy from him on Friday.
Meanwhile, Bolton defender Gary Cahill, who had been widely tipped to appear alongside Terry in England's squad for the World Cup finals, has been ruled out for the rest of the season after doctors found a blood clot in his arm.
The 24-year-old missed Saturday's 0-0 Premier League draw against Fulham after his arm swelled up, and was taken to hospital.
He will need to be treated with blood thinners to dissipate the clot, making it impossible for him to play and risk internal bleeding.
Cahill was called up by Capello for the World Cup qualifier against Kazakhstan in June last year as cover for Ferdinand, but did not make his debut.

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Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- A former Sri Lankan general who ran against President Mahinda Rajapaksa in January has been arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow the country's government, authorities announced Monday night.
Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka led the troops that defeated a quarter-century-long insurgency by the Tamil Tiger rebel movement in 2009. Mano Ganeshan, the head of one of the opposition parties that supported Fonseka's campaign, said the former army commander was "physically dragged" from his office by heavily armed military police during a meeting with supporters.
In a brief statement posted on a government Web site, Sri Lankan authorities said Fonseka was arrested about 9 p.m. (10:30 a.m. ET) "in connection with certain fraudulent acts and other military offences committed by him."

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Ten Americans detained last week while trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country were charged Thursday with kidnapping children and criminal association, a government official said.
Information Minister Marie Laurence Lassegue's announcement came shortly after the five men and five women left a hearing at the prosecutor's office.
Under Haitian law, anyone accused of kidnapping a child is not eligible for bail, the attorney general's office said.
Conviction on the kidnapping charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison; the criminal association charge carries a penalty of three to nine years, according to a former justice minister.
Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN's "Larry King Live" on Thursday night that the judge in the case has three months to decide whether to prosecute.
"We hope that he will decide long before those three months," he said. "He can release them, he can ask to prosecute them."

If a decision is made to prosecute, the case would be heard before a jury, he said.
Told that the families of the detained Americans had pleaded for him to intervene, Bellerive said he could not.
"Those people are not in the hands of the government; they are in the hands of justice," he said. "We have to respect the law. It is clear that the people violated the law. What we have to understand is if they did it in good faith."
Bellerive said the Haitian government was open to the possibility of the case being transferred to a U.S. court but said the request would have to come from the United States. "Until now, I was not asked," he said.


He expressed gratitude for the work of the vast majority of Americans who have helped in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake that he said killed at least 212,000 people.
The Americans were turned back Friday as they tried to take the children across the border into the Dominican Republic without proper documentation. They said they were going to house them in a converted hotel in that country and later move them to an orphanage they were building there.
"We can confirm that the 10 American citizens remain in custody in Haiti," said State Department deputy spokesman Gordon Duguid. "We continue to provide appropriate consular assistance and to monitor developments in the legal case."
The Americans have said they were just trying to help the children leave the earthquake-stricken country.
Some of the detained Americans have said they thought they were helping orphans, but their interpreters said Wednesday that they were present when group members spoke with the children's parents. Some parents in a village outside Port-au-Prince said they had willingly given their children over to the Americans, who promised them a better life and who said they could see their children whenever they wanted to.
Government approval is needed for any Haitian child to leave the country, and the group acknowledged that the children had no passports.
Some members of the group belong to the Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho. One of the church's ministers asked for privacy and would not discuss the matter.
"I know you have many questions but we don't have answers right now," Drew Ham, assistant pastor, said in a note to reporters.
P.J. Crowley, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, has said that U.S. officials have been given unlimited consular access to the Americans and that U.S. and Haitian authorities are "working to try to ascertain what happened [and] the motive behind these people.

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(PEOPLE.com) -- With speculation running rampant that Tiger Woods has left the Mississippi sex rehab facility where he's reportedly been seeking treatment, one of the questions on everyone's mind is: When will Woods return to golf?

"At this point, I don't even think Tiger knows when he's coming back," said veteran golf writer Art Spander, who spoke with Woods the weekend before his infamous Thanksgiving car crash that made world headlines.
One venue where Woods might re-emerge is the Accenture Match Play Championship, a five-day competition in Marana, Arizona, that begins Wednesday, February 17. Woods has won the event, which is open to the world's top 64 golfers, three times. And as the world's No. 1-ranked player, he's technically already entered to compete.

"We don't know anything official yet, but wouldn't that be nice?" Wade Dunagan, executive director of the big PGA event, told the Arizona Daily Star. "The main question is, 'Do I know anything you don't?' The answer is no. We're still in the dark. I can't confirm or deny anything, because I don't know."

More games, more questions

If Woods, 34, does choose to bow out of the competition, he'll need to do it no later than Monday, February 15, but some pundits are saying he'd probably choose to do it sometime over this weekend.
PGA Tour spokesman Chris Reimer called reports of the golfer's return mere "speculation."

Two other competitions where Woods could stage his return are the March 4-7 Honda Classic and the March 11-14 WGCCA Championship at Doral, both held in south Florida. At this point, it doesn't appear that Woods has decided whether or not he'll play either event. According to PGA rules, he can hold off notifying organizers of his intention to compete until the Friday before the tournament.

"We'd love to have him play here for his comeback," said Caroline Kerrigan, spokeswoman for the WGCCA Championship at Doral Golf Resort. "I know this is one of his favorite courses, but I don't have any word on whether or not he's playing [our event]."

Will Tiger pass Jack?

In December, Jack Nicklaus, who owns the record of 18 major championships that Woods could eventually eclipse, told reporters he doesn't "know the answer to what [Tiger] is going to do and what he is going to play. Certainly this year, where the majors are ... he obviously loves Augusta, Pebble Beach and St.

Andrews. He basically owns all three of those places. If Tiger is going to pass my record, I think this is a big year for him in that regard. If he doesn't play this year, obviously the chore is going to be a little tougher."
But, as Woods's pal Roger Federer predicted in December: "Soon he'll become the wonderful golfer that we know again."

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New Delhi, India (CNN) -- The last member of an ancient tribe that has inhabited an Indian island chain for around 65,000 years has died, a group that campaigns for the protection of indigenous peoples has said.

Boa Sr, who was around 85 years of age, died last week in the Andaman islands, about 750 miles off India's eastern coast, Survival International said in a statement.

The London-based group, which works to protect indigenous peoples, said she was the last member of one of ten distinct Great Andamanese tribes, the Bo."The Bo are thought to have lived in the Andaman islands for as long as 65,000 years, making them the descendants of one of the oldest human cultures on earth," it noted.
With her passing at a hospital, India also lost one of its most endangered languages, also called Bo, linguists say.

"She was the last speaker of (the) Bo language. It pains to see how one by one we are losing speakers of Great Andamanese and (their) language is getting extinct. (It is) A very fast erosion of (the) indigenous knowledge base, that we all are helplessly witnessing," read an obituary in Boa Sr's honor posted on the Web site of the Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese (VOGA) project.


Project director Anvita Abbi, a professor at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, met with Boa as recently as last year. "She was the only member who remembered the old songs," Abbi recounted in her obituary.

"Boa Sr was the only speaker of Bo and had no one to converse with in that language," Abbi told CNN. Her husband and children had already died, the linguist said.
Other than Bo, she also knew local Andaman languages, which she would use to converse, according to Abbi.

Boa Sr was believed to be the oldest of the Great Andamanese, members of ten distinct tribes. Survival International estimates there are now just 52 Great Andamanese left.

There were believed to be 5,000 of them when the British colonized the archipelago in 1858. Most of those tribal communities were subsequently killed or died of diseases, says Survival International.The British also held the indigenous tribes people captive in what was called an Andaman Home, but none of the 150 children born there survived beyond two years of age, according to the group.

Boa Sr also survived the killer Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. She recorded in Bo what she saw when the giant waves arrived. "While we were all asleep, the water rose and filled all around. We did not get up before the water rose. Water filled where we were and as the morning broke the water started to recede," reads a translation of her tsunami narrative posted on the VOGA Web site. Activists are expressing alarm over her death.

"Boa's loss is a bleak reminder that we must not allow this to happen to the other tribes of the Andaman islands," Survival director Stephen Corry said in the statement. Andaman and Nicobar Islands authorities put at least five tribes in their list of vulnerable indigenous communities.

According to Corry's group, the surviving Great Andamanese depend largely on the Indian government for food and shelter and abuse of alcohol is rife. Among the tribes are the Sentinelese, who inhabit a 60-square-kilometer island.

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