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Thursday 22nd September.

==Smith sets records in half marathon win ==  New Zealand long distance runner Kimberley Smith was in record-breaking form in winning the Philadelphia half marathon yesterday. Smith broke her New Zealand half marathon record by 25 seconds and smashed her New Zealand 20km record en route to the finish of the 21.1km race. In finishing 39th overall, the 29-year-old recorded the 12th fastest all-time women's performance of 1h 7m 11s. Only six women have run faster. She also carved 2m 8s off her national 20km record set in Birmingham two years ago. Her previous national half marathon record of 1h 7m 36s was set in New Orleans in February. Smith also set US all-comers' records for the half marathon, 10 miles (51m 4s) and 20km. Ethiopian runners were next to finish behind Smith, with 2003 world cross-country champion Werknesh Kidane recording 1h 7m 26s and Deba Bizunesh 1h 9m 53s. ==McCaw and Carter back in All Black ==

 Richie McCaw and Dan Carter trained freely in rugby's broken heartland yesterday, raising expectations that Canterbury rugby's two most famous sons will be available to play France. All Black assistant coach Wayne Smith relayed the positive news hours before Zac Guildford was forced to make an embarrassing mea culpa over his drinking. While Guildford looks likely to be spending the bulk of the next month in his civilian clothes watching from the stands, the All Blacks injured quintet - Carter, McCaw, Mils Muliaina, Israel Dagg and Kieran Read - all appear to be heading in the right direction after training at Christchurch's Linwood Rugby Club. "They've all had a run around today. Richie had quite a big session ... Mils got through a lot more sharply than he has done in the last few weeks, so I'd say they're on track to be available," Smith said. As for Carter, whose importance has been thrown into sharp relief by replacement Colin Slade's struggles, Smith said his back was still not 100 per cent, but not far off. "He's freed up a wee bit. It's just a niggle, stiff, a bit uncomfortable, but the positive thing today is that he goal-kicked.

==Tower turned into world's biggest lightsaber ==

 London's skyline was recently turned into a giant Star Wars advert -- as BT Tower was transformed into the world's biggest lightsaber. The large-scale sci-fi transformation saw 60 4,500-watt lights -- standing 1.3m high and weighing 124kg -- installed at the top of the iconic tower.

This sent a bright beam of blue light skywards and made the 189m tall cylindrical building look like the sword wielded by Luke Skywalker in the first Star Wars films.

It was all part of a special party to launch the Blu-ray versions of Star Wars: The Complete Saga and the event was attended by C3PO himself Anthony Daniels.