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Suspended from 50 games is Former Mets minor leaguer Brandon Brown. Free agent third baseman Brandon Brown has been suspended for 50 games following a positive test for metabolites of Stanozolol under baseball’s minor league drug program. The 25-year-old will start the ban after he signs with another major league organization. Brown is 25 year old third baseman. He was released from the New York Mets roster on March 30. Brown's suspension will begin when he is signed by another major league team. The blood test was performed as part of a drug testing program for minor league baseball. Washingtonpost reports He was released by the New York Mets on March 30 after hitting .222 with five homers and 34 RBIs last year for Savannah of the Class A South Atlantic League. Stanozolol is a performance-enhancing drug that is used to build muscle mass. It is a banned substance and detectable by blood screens, which are regularly done for baseball players. There is no known masking agent for S

Tiny 'Alien' Skeleton , A teensy skeleton with a squashed alienlike head may have earthly origins — but the remains, found in Chile's Atacama Desert a decade ago, do make for quite a medical mystery. Apparently when the mummified specimen was discovered, some speculated that it was an alien that had somehow landed on Earth, though the researchers involved never suggested this otherworldly origin. Now, DNA and other tests suggest that the individual was a human and may have been 6 to 8 years of age when he or she died. Even so, the remains were just 6 inches (15 centimeters) long. [See Images of the Alien-Looking Human Remains] "While the jury is out regarding the mutations that cause the deformity, and there is a real discrepancy in how we account for the apparent age of the bones … every nucleotide I've been able to look at is human," researcher Garry Nolan, professor of microbiology and immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, told LiveScie

Mario Balotelli 'promises Real Madrid players can sleep with his girlfriend if they win Champions League clash' He reportedly said Real Madrid’s team could sleep with Belgian model Fanny Neguesha if they beat Borussia Dortmund There could be trouble ahead: Mario and Fanny Football bad boy Mario Balotelli might not be popular with girlfriend Fanny Neguesha today.He reportedly said Real Madrid’s team could sleep with the Belgian model if they win their Champions League clash with Borussia Dortmund.The former Manchester City striker is apparently so confident Dortmund will qualify after winning the first leg 4-1.In the Spanish newspapers AS and Marca, the Italy forward was quoted as saying: ‘If Real Madrid come back in Champions League, I’ll let my girlfriend sleep with them!’Dortmund ran Real off the park a week ago in Germany with Manchester United and Bayern Munich target Lewandowski getting all four goals.They face each other again at the Bernabéu stadium tomor

Primark pledges financial help for victims of Bangladesh factory collapse Rescuer Didar Hossain said the woman and her newborn baby boy were found under a pile of concrete pillars Pressure: Demonstrators outside clothing retailer Primark in London on Saturday REUTERS Budget fashion firm Primark today promised to compensate victims of the Bangladesh clothing factory disaster.The British chain said it would provide long-term aid for children who lost parents in the tragedy, those injured and make payments to the families of the deceased.Owner Associated British Foods refused to give an estimated bill for the move.It follows pressure on the company which was among a number that used the factory. A protest was held outside Primark’s flagship store in London on Saturday. Organisers, the charity War on Want, said Primark should pay compensation to relatives of the dead.Around 300 of the 3,000 workers died when the Rana Plaza complex in Dhaka collapsed last week.Associated British Foods

2,000 Netflix movies to disappear likely by Tomorrow: Netflix is going to eliminate almost 2,000 movies from its streaming service, according to reports. The titles, according to Mashable, belong to MGM, Universal, and Warner Bros. They will be eliminated due to licensing issues. These films will be included on the Warner Archive Instant service. Mashable notes that the titles are “inconsequential” and users can view the entire list at InstantWatcher.com. Most of the films are relatively older titles. Joris Evers, the director of global corporate communications with Netflix, told Mashable: “Netflix is a dynamic service, we constantly update the TV shows and movies that are available to our members. We will add more than 500 titles May 1, but we also have titles expiring, this ebb and flow happens all the time.” He added to PC Magazine: “The vast majority of the titles that expire on Wednesday are older features that were aggregated by Epix. We recently added many great, more re

2,000 Netflix movies to disappear tomorrow. so If you're a Netflix member with a hankering to watch Stardust Memories, Dr. No, or How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, you've only got a couple of hours left to dial them up. The above films are among the nearly 2,000 which are set to disappear from Netflix on May 1. That's when a slew of titles currently available from the streaming video service become the exclusive property of the new classic film repository Warner Archive Instant, Slate noted Tuesday. There are a total of 1,794 older movies from Warner Bros., MGM, and Universal which will no longer be available to Netflix users at the stroke of midnight. You can see the full list over at InstantWatcher. Slate's Sam Adams offered up a well-considered list of soon-to-be-unavailable movies to check out in the waning hours of Netflix's "Streamageddon" era. There's a trio of Robert Altman films on his list, a pair of early James Bond flicks, anothe

2,000 Netflix movies to disappear from streaming catalog. As of May 1, 2013, Netflix will officially have 1794 fewer titles in its streaming repository. Now, before you freak out too much, this isn't as bad as the Great Netflix Starzageddon of 2012. After Netflix and Starz were unable to renew their streaming agreements with one another, more than a 1,000 films — including many of the newer films in Netflix's streaming catalog — disappeared from the service. This time, most of the titles (you can see the full list here) are inconsequential and include titles such as Caged Fury (yes, that's a real movie starring Erik Estrada) and 1998's Deep Impact. Still, we're also losing Cruel Intentions, which makes my 16-year-old heart break into thousands of tiny pieces. Mashable reported For his part, Brobible's Andy Moore will be doing a viewing party for Big Daddy tonight. So why are these titles leaving Netflix? Licensing. The titles belong to Warner Bros., MGM and Univ