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Christina Aguilera sang the wrong word to the American national anthem during the opening of the Super Bowl in Texas it has emerged. The 30 year old singer sang the words “What so proudly we watched at the twilight’s last gleaming” instead of “O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming” during her performance of the Star-Spangled banner in front of hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide.

The singer’s mistake was quickly picked up by social networks including Twitter and Facebook as fans were left shocked by the mistake.

The Green Bay Packers eventually won the Super Bowl by beating the Pittsburgh Steelers by 31 points to 25, but Christina Aguilera’s fluffed lines has grabbed much of the headlines.

New York City councillors have approved plans to ban smoking in public parks, beaches and Times Square. The ban will make it illegal to smoke in any of the city’s 1700 parks and along 14 miles of coast line near and around the city.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, “This summer, New Yorkers who go to our parks and beaches for some fresh air and fun will be able to breathe even cleaner air and sit on a beach not littered with cigarette butts,” after the 36-12 vote was cast in favour of the ban.

The city’s Parks Department will be given the power to impose fines of up to $100 for those caught smoking in public parks or on beaches.

Those opposing the ban have branded the measures an infringement of human rights.

An office worker from Denver, US, caught a thief red-handed after recording him rifling through her bedroom on her webcam and iPhone app. Claire Blevins set up the iCam app on her iPhone to watch her terrier dog playing, but instead caught the thief as he triggered the motion sensor on the webcam.

The 23 year old office worker said, “I’m really thankful I had the app. It’s good to know what he touched, what he went through and things like that but it’s still the creepiest thing that’s happened to me”.

A suspect has been remanded and is on trial for the burglary after the video was shown on local television last month. He denies the charge.

A flag carried by General Custer and the 7th Cavalry troops in the last stand Battle of Little Bighorn went under the hammer and fetched $2.2m (£1.4m) at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. The flag, which is the only one to survive the battle was valued at around $5m, but only managed less than half the price at the prestigious auction.

The sellers, Detroit Institute of Arts had aquired the flag in 1895 and originally bought it for just $54; Graham Beal the museums director said, “We’ll be using the proceeds to strengthen our collection of Native American art, which has a rather nice irony to it I think”.

The Battle of Little Bighorn saw General Custer and more than 200 of his soldiers defeated by Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne warriors as they tried to reclaim the Black Hills as part of the government campaign.

A US Airways plane from Newark to Phoenix was forced to land in Pittsburgh after a passengers dog was let out of its carrier and bit two people.

It turns out that the dog’s 89 year old owner had let the Manchester terrier out of its cage and when the tranquilisers wore off it started biting the passengers. The pilot decided to land at Pittsburgh so that the injured parties could be treated and to ensure passenger safety.

The dog was locked back in its cage, but it is still unclear whether its owner will be prosecuted or fined for letting it out in the first place.

An official warning has been issued by the US Air Force to its troops that using social networking sites such as Facebook or Foursquare could reveal their locations to enemy troops. The warning said that troops could inadvertently cause ‘devastating operations security and privacy implications’ as many social networking sites allow the users location to be pinpointed on a map.

The US has nearly 50,000 troops in Iraq and 95,000 troops in Afghanistan; the US Army is also set to send a similar warning to its troops on the front line.

American clothes giant Gap has dumped their new logo after just one week following a barrage of comments online. The company’s Facebook page had more than 2000 negative comments about the new logo, with many commenters’ wanting a return to the old logo.

The old logo, which has been used for over 20 years is a simple blue box with ‘GAP’ written inside, whereas the new logo has ‘Gap’ written in black with a small blue square underneath the letter ‘p’.

A statement released on Gap’s website stated that the customer always comes first; it said, “We’ve been listening to and watching all of the comments this past week. We heard them say over and over again they are passionate about our blue box logo, and they want it back.

“So we’ve made the decision to do just that – we will bring it back across all channels.”

The statement went on to say, “There may be a time to evolve our logo, but if and when that time comes, we’ll handle it in a different way”.

Michigan Police are searching for a man who committed an armed robbery at a Get & Go store in Ferndale, Michigan wearing a Darth Vader mask. The man entered the store on Monday afternoon, pulled out a butcher’s knife and demanded all of the money from the cash register.

The stores shop assistant gave the man the money and he fled (presumably back to the Death Star); Police Lieutenant William Wilson told local press, “I guess he didn’t have a lightsaber with him,” but said that the assailant had made a ‘significant mistake’ during the robbery.

The man only put his Darth Vader mask on after he was caught by the stores CCTV cameras and police released his description as, a white male with a goatee and dark hair. He was wearing dark trousers and a blue v-neck jumper.

An over exuberant golfer in California sparks a wildfire that spread for 12 acres after trying to hit his ball out of the rough on the Shady Canyon golf course in Irvine. The fire started after the golfer struck a stone with his club sending a spark into the parched wooded hill nearby.

Fire officials stated that approximately 150 fire fighters attended to the blaze and the cause of the fire was found after interviewing people at the scene. The golfer, who has not been named, will not face any charges over the fire.

South California regularly suffers from wildfires during the summer months as the ground dries out because of the heat.