Premier League: Manchester United striker Robin van Persie ruled out for a month

Boss David Moyes confirmed Van Persie suffered the injury when he took the corner which led to Phil Jones' goal in the 1-0 Champions League victory over Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday. "Robin van Persie is out for a month," said Moyes, who has a number of injury problems going into this weekend's game with Aston Villa. "It is unfortunate because I think if you look at our record with Wayne Rooney and Robin in the team it is actually very good and we have not had them for quite a period recently."Marouane Fellaini has a bit of a back injury. Michael Carrick is missing and Robin is going to miss four weeks with a thigh strain. That is a big blow to us." Goalscoring responsibility will now fall to Rooney who has been in great form this season despite United's problems. Rooney is edging towards Bobby Charlton's club scoring record of 249. Rooney will clock up 500 first-team appearances (including with Everton) on SundayHe's been in the game a long time already but is someone who can go on and play many, many more games." Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra and Chris Smalling were also sidelined for the Shakhtar game, while United have suffered back-to-back Premier League defeats against Everton and Newcastle, but Moyes is staying positive about the situation. He said: "I have no doubt it will get better. I am sure we have plenty of players who can cover it and we don't miss them too much." While Moyes does have alternatives to Van Persie, in midfield his squad has been left bereft by the absence of Michael Carrick, who has been sidelined for a month with an Achilles injury. "I do (feel United have felt Carrick's loss)," said Moyes. "We need him for his creativity. We have missed him for lots of other reasons as well. It is important. "We were looking for a couple of midfield players in the summer. We weren't able to get two. We got one. "We needed one who could give us something else if we did get an injury to Michael or one who could have played with him. "We have definitely been a little bit short in that area. Hopefully he is not too far away and he will be back in a couple of weeks and Moyes thinks that, at 28, the England international is getting better. "There are big things ahead for Wayne and some big targets ahead - he can break Sir Bobby's record," Moyes said. "As he gets older, he's adaptable and such a good football player. If he gets older and loses his pace, he can play a bit deeper. There are some fantastic legends around this club and Wayne has got a chance of turning out as one of them."He's been in the game a long time already but is someone who can go on and play many, many more games." Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra and Chris Smalling were also sidelined for the Shakhtar game, while United have suffered back-to-back Premier League defeats against Everton and Newcastle, but Moyes is staying positive about the situation. He said: "I have no doubt it will get better. I am sure we have plenty of players who can cover it and we don't miss them too much."While Moyes does have alternatives to Van Persie, in midfield his squad has been left bereft by the absence of Michael Carrick, who has been sidelined for a month with an Achilles injury. "I do (feel United have felt Carrick's loss)," said Moyes. "We need him for his creativity. We have missed him for lots of other reasons as well. It is important. "We were looking for a couple of midfield players in the summer. We weren't able to get two. We got one. "We needed one who could give us something else if we did get an injury to Michael or one who could have played with him. "We have definitely been a little bit short in that area. Hopefully he is not too far away and he will be back in a couple of weeks."

5 Key Principles to Pregnancy Nutrition

If you already eat a healthy diet, there may only be small adjustments you need to make to your diet to ensure you are eating right for the next night months. These five key principles will ensure that you remain fit and healthy, and that baby gets all the nutrients he or she needs to grow to be strong and healthy. #1 Drink Plenty of Water For a healthy pregnancy, it is critical that you drink enough water, as it will help to flush the toxins from your body and fight water retention. Water will also help with constipation and headaches associated with pregnancy. #2 Avoid Processed Foods The best way to begin your pregnancy is with proper nutrition. That includes the elimination of processed foods that are high in fillers, sodium, salt, and preservatives, which could potentially pose a risk to baby. In addition, you are far more likely to gain extra water and suffer with fluid retention when your diet contains processed foods. Instead, opt for healthy, whole food choices that are good for you and baby. #3 Buy Organic Organic foods are becoming more readily available and they are also becoming more affordable. Therefore, your goal should be to buy organic whenever possible. This is especially true when it comes to dairy products, meats, and eggs. Organic foods are higher in amino acids and fatty acids than the non-organic version. When it comes to fruits and vegetables at least make sure that those with the highest pesticide concentrations are organic. These are peaches, celery, apples, strawberries, blueberries, spinach, bell peppers, kale, cherries, grapes, and potatoes. #4 Eat Vegetable With Every Meal As you get further along in your pregnancy it becomes even more important to make sure that you eat vegetables with every meal. They are high in fiber and that will help with constipation associated with pregnancy. You’ll also feel fuller and you’ll obtain tons of nutrients. #5 Every Meal Should Include Healthy Fats Healthy fats include olive oil, organic butter, coconut oil, raw nuts, nut butters, and avocado. These fats will help you to feel full while providing you with nutrients, and they provide the kind of healthy fats that help with your baby’s cognitive development. Include these five key principles in your pregnancy nutrition and you’ll be on your way to well balanced nutrition throughout your pregnancy. Of course, you should always follow your doctor’s orders when it comes to nutrition.

IMAGINE you could disable a car remotely just by pressing a button. It's not a distant dream: devices that use radio waves to disrupt the control computers of modern cars are already in the pipeline. Police will be able to use them to halt suspect vehicles in their tracks. At the request of police in France, Spain and Germany, a European Commission-funded consortium is developing such a device. Meanwhile, electronics firm E2V of Chelmsford, UK, is developing a similar system for both the police and the military, and successfully tested its technology last week. Europe has given €4.3 million to the SAVELEC (Safe Control of Noncooperative Vehicles Through Electromagnetic Means) project. As part of this, engineers at the German Aerospace Center DLR in Stuttgart have pored over automotive Engine Control Units (ECUs) to identify vulnerabilities in microchips that can be exploited using radio signals. The electronics and portable antennas that will transmit those signals are being designed at IMST, a German radio antenna research lab in Kamp-Lintfort. At MBDA, the French missile maker based near Paris, staff are running simulations with large groups of volunteers drivers to gauge how they react when cars cut out at speed. "We want to be able to stop the really powerful cars that we cannot stop with the tools police forces have today," says Cécile Macé, a systems engineer at MBDA. "Really fast cars on the motorway are hard to stop in a safe way," she notes. Police in Dallas, Texas, for instance, last year stopped using stingers –strips of tyre-shredding spikes – after five officers were killed attempting to deploy them. The new devices work not by frying a car's electronics as military electromagnetic pulse weapons do, but by temporarily disabling them. "We want to disturb the car's electronics so we can stop it, but we don't want to break the car and leave it stuck on the motorway. And we don't want to harm the occupants, nearby pedestrians or the police with the beam either," says Macé. Drivers should not feel the beam – but they might hear something. "This is known as the Frey microwave hearing effect and consists of audible clicks... just a pop in the ear," she says. The SAVELEC consortium has yet to test its system, but the aim is to have a prototype ready by 2016. For now, it is releasing few details in order to prevent people from developing countermeasures – or their own version. But the system is likely to be much smaller than the one E2V is working on. Named RF Safe-Stop, E2V's device uses a 350-kilogram transmitter mounted on an SUV and a horn-like metal waveguide to beam microwave pulses at a car or motorbike up to 60 metres away. With the vehicle's wiring acting as an antenna, the pulses disable the ECU temporarily by constantly forcing it to reset itself. That stops the vehicle. E2V gave a proof-of-principle demonstration at Throckmorton airfield in Worcestershire, UK, last week. Both teams need to be wary of unintended consequences, says Jay Abbott of Advanced Security Consulting in Peterborough, UK, warning that the technology might also affect steering and brake systems. "Disrupting all of them at once could potentially leave a car travelling at speed as a dead weight, with limited control over its direction and braking."

IMAGINE you could disable a car remotely just by pressing a button. It's not a distant dream: devices that use radio waves to disrupt the control computers of modern cars are already in the pipeline. Police will be able to use them to halt suspect vehicles in their tracks. At the request of police in France, Spain and Germany, a European Commission-funded consortium is developing such a device. Meanwhile, electronics firm E2V of Chelmsford, UK, is developing a similar system for both the police and the military, and successfully tested its technology last week. Europe has given €4.3 million to the SAVELEC (Safe Control of Noncooperative Vehicles Through Electromagnetic Means) project. As part of this, engineers at the German Aerospace Center DLR in Stuttgart have pored over automotive Engine Control Units (ECUs) to identify vulnerabilities in microchips that can be exploited using radio signals. The electronics and portable antennas that will transmit those signals are being designed at IMST, a German radio antenna research lab in Kamp-Lintfort. At MBDA, the French missile maker based near Paris, staff are running simulations with large groups of volunteers drivers to gauge how they react when cars cut out at speed. "We want to be able to stop the really powerful cars that we cannot stop with the tools police forces have today," says Cécile Macé, a systems engineer at MBDA. "Really fast cars on the motorway are hard to stop in a safe way," she notes. Police in Dallas, Texas, for instance, last year stopped using stingers –strips of tyre-shredding spikes – after five officers were killed attempting to deploy them. The new devices work not by frying a car's electronics as military electromagnetic pulse weapons do, but by temporarily disabling them. "We want to disturb the car's electronics so we can stop it, but we don't want to break the car and leave it stuck on the motorway. And we don't want to harm the occupants, nearby pedestrians or the police with the beam either," says Macé. Drivers should not feel the beam – but they might hear something. "This is known as the Frey microwave hearing effect and consists of audible clicks... just a pop in the ear," she says. The SAVELEC consortium has yet to test its system, but the aim is to have a prototype ready by 2016. For now, it is releasing few details in order to prevent people from developing countermeasures – or their own version. But the system is likely to be much smaller than the one E2V is working on. Named RF Safe-Stop, E2V's device uses a 350-kilogram transmitter mounted on an SUV and a horn-like metal waveguide to beam microwave pulses at a car or motorbike up to 60 metres away. With the vehicle's wiring acting as an antenna, the pulses disable the ECU temporarily by constantly forcing it to reset itself. That stops the vehicle. E2V gave a proof-of-principle demonstration at Throckmorton airfield in Worcestershire, UK, last week. Both teams need to be wary of unintended consequences, says Jay Abbott of Advanced Security Consulting in Peterborough, UK, warning that the technology might also affect steering and brake systems. "Disrupting all of them at once could potentially leave a car travelling at speed as a dead weight, with limited control over its direction and braking."