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Related topics The X FactorLittle MixTulisa ContostavlosPerrie EdwardsZayn Malikone direction Advertisement "The X Factor" U.K. judge Tulisa Contostavlos, 24, is a mentor for girl group Little Mix on more than just the group's career. Contostavlos (whose stage name is Tulisa) also advises the members of Little Mix on which famous men to avoid dating, according to an interview that Little Mix did with the Daily Record. In 2011, Little Mix became the first group to win on "The X Factor" U.K. Little Mix's first post-"X Factor" single, a cover version of Damien Rice's "Cannonball," debuted at No. 1 in the U.K., where it was released in December 2011. Little Mix's debut album (title and released...

Last February, while on a recon mission to the Padres spring training camp, Rymer Liriano was asked about his terrible start at Single-A Lake Elsinore at the start of the 2011 season. In 15 games with the Storm, Liriano, who was 19 at the time, went 8-for-25. That's a .127 average. Believing they had advanced their prized prospect a step too far, the Padres re-routed Liriano to low Single-A Fort Wayne where, after another slow start, he finished the season with a .319 batting average, a .383 on-base percentage, 65 steals, 12 homers, 30 doubles, eight triples, 62 RBI and 81 runs scored. Liriano was named both the Most Valuable Player and Prospect of the...

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Monday morning, Kimberly Marshall will help her sixth-grade daughter, Madison, pack up before she walks out to the bus stop, where she'll head off to class at Franklin Township Middle School - East. Last year, this would still be relatively fresh to Madison. But this year, her first session of coursework is already a third over. Marshall, 41, and her daughter are among many families adjusting to life under a new "balanced'' school calendar that shortens summer break, but adds additional two-week breaks in the fall and spring in dozens of school districts across Central Indiana. The idea was still relatively new when Indianapolis Public Schools, the state's largest school district, moved to...

Hamels' scoreless streak ended at 23 innings once Aramis Ramirez mashed a change-up deep to left in the second inning. His 107th pitch of the night, an ill-fated 91-m.p.h. fastball, landed as a two-run homer for Ryan Braun. That tainted what otherwise was a pristine outing. It still resulted in victory thanks to a four-out Jonathan Papelbon save. There were no bullpen tryouts on this night for Manuel. Hamels (14-6) dazzled even with the final blemish. In four...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Coast Guard says a group of Japanese activists have landed on Uotsuri, one of a group of islands at the center of an escalating territorial dispute with China. The Coast Guard in southern Japan's Okinawa prefecture said nine or 10 activists had landed without authorization early Sunday in the small archipelago known in Japan as the Senkakus and in China as the Diaoyu islands. Plans for the visit drew a protest from China's Foreign Ministry. Photos from Japan's Kyodo News Agency showed several men and a woman brandishing the Japanese flag atop rocks on the shore of the uninhabited island. Join the IHT on Facebook for more of the global conversation. East Asia's Sea...