Four birthdays for one man

Everyone has a birthday - a joyful day for receiving presents from family and friends, for blowing out candles on a cake as you celebrate your arrival on this earth. Some people even have two, such as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who has one to mark the date of her birth, and one to celebrate the anniversary of her coronation. But soccer player Chancel Mbemba Mangulu from Congo-Kinshasa (that's the Democratic Republic; our in-house style differentiates between the two countries named Congo by their capitals) can top that. He appears to haves four "birthdays". Mbemba was registered by his two first Congolese clubs (E.S. La Grace and Mputu) as being born on August 8, 1988, according to documents obtained by CNN. Yet for a Cup of Nations qualifier in June 2011, his birth date was listed as November 30, 1991. Meanwhile, the birth date recorded by his Belgian club Anderlecht is August 8, 1994. Just to complicate matters, Mbemba himself thinks he was born in 1990. So which one is it? Let's not ponder that for now because a Japanese pop star has shaved her head (a traditional form of showing contrition in Japan) and offered a filmed apology after breaking her management firm's rules by spending a night with her boyfriend. A sobbing Minami Minegishi apologised to her fans and said she did not want to leave the band AKB48, in a video that has over seven million views on YouTube.