His name is synonymous with football.

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, famously known as Pele, is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.

The Brazilian-born star is a veteran of four World Cups with a strike rate of one goal in every international game that he played.

In all, Pele put more than 1200 balls into the back of the net during a career that spanned two decades and ended with American club New York Cosmos in 1977.

The retirement of Pele and other great players of the era saw the game's popularity gradually wane in the United States to the point that Cosmos, the most glamorous club in the U.S., folded in 1984.

Twenty-five years on, Pele is back serving as the club's honorary President, spearheading its revival.

Becky Anderson will be talking to this giant of the sport on Monday about New York Cosmos's first game in a quarter of a century against Britain's Manchester United.

If there is something you would like to ask the great Pele, leave your questions here.

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Jeffrey Archer is one of the world's most successful writers, having sold more than 350million books in 97 countries and in over 37 languages around the world.

But more than that, the British novelist is himself a great story.

He is also a playwright, a former parliamentarian and London mayor candidate, a champion athlete and a convicted criminal.

Archer's rise to international fame began with his first novel "Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less" written in 1975 to repay creditors from a bad investment that left him on the brink of bankruptcy. It defied the critics and became a best-seller.

In the past 36 years, he has gone on to write a series of novels, plays and short stories including "The Prison Diaries" series written during his two year stint in jail following convictions for perjury and perverting the course of justice during a 1987 libel case against British tabloid "The Daily Star".

Archer has now just finished penning his 16th novel Only Time Will Tell, the first in a proposed series known as The Clifton Chronicles.

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Dominic Cooper has largely been treading the boards to acclaim for the past decade, but 2011 is turning out to be his big breakthrough year in film.

The British actor, best known for his roles in "Mamma Mia" featuring Amanda Seyfried and "The Duchess" starring Keira Knightley has four movies opening this year.

And the one causing the biggest stir is "The Devil's Double" in which Cooper plays Uday Hussein and Latif Yahia, the Iraqi Army captain who was forced to become the body double of Saddam Hussein's notoriously sadistic eldest son.

The film is based on a memoir by Yahia and gives a dramatized account of life under the Hussein regime.

Becky Anderson will be talking to Dominic Cooper about his role as both villain and hero in the new film.

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Britain's Gok Wan is one of the country's leading fashion commentators and has helped style everyone from the rich and famous to the average Joe.

Born to an English mother and a Chinese father, Wan showed an early interest in the creative world and performing arts.

Over the past ten years, Wan has worked with some of the leading figures in the entertainment world and has had the chance to style some of the leading shows in the UK including "The Xtra Factor" and "T4".

Wan has hosted his own show called "How to Look Good Naked" in 2006 and now, Gok Wan is back with a new show called "Gok Wan's Clothes Roadshow."

Here's your chance to have your questions by this fashion leader.

Please leave your questions below and be sure to tell us where you're writing from.

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Danica McKellar is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the 1980's American television series "The Wonder Years", and as Elsie Snuffin in "The West Wing".

But what many people don't know about this actress is that she is also a maths genius.

Her path to becoming an acclaimed mathematician began when she took a hiatus from acting after "The Wonder Years".

She turned her attention to her studies and ended up graduating from UCLA with a rare high distinction after proving a new math theorem, the Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem.

Incredibly, Danica had struggled with maths in her early years but discovered her difficulties were caused by fear of the subject.

She realised she could help other students overcome their phobia of maths so in 2007, wrote her first book "Maths Doesn't Suck" which quickly became a best-seller in the United States.

It was the first of a series of books Danica has written to help young girls have fun with maths and realise that it is "cool" to be smart.

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So many people have asked me what its like to field produce a 10 day Royal Tour for CNN?

To which I reply, exhausting, yet satisfying.

CNN compiled a small team of journalists to follow the newly married Duke and Duchess on their first official tour overseas. "Team Foster" as we are called in the planning notes consists of Max Foster, Royal Correspondent based in London, Sarmad Qaseera, Photojournalist and affectionately nicked named Buddha for his technical wizardry and me 13 year veteran of CNN's New York Bureau.

None of us has ever worked together in the slightest, let alone embark on a 10 day journey through Canada, taking us from Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Prince Edward Island and Calgary.
Max and Sarmad continue the tour when the couple splash onto the Hollywood Scene after leaving Canada. I return home to my wife and dog and bed.

The planning started several weeks ahead with co-worker James Partington from our London bureau getting the ball rolling on travel. James was largely responsible for CNN's coverage of the Royal Wedding and had access to the Royal itinerary. Due to other commitments James was unable to go on this trip so they choose me, sorry James.

We all arrived in Ottawa a day before the Royal couple. Traveling with 14 cases of gear is never easy. Sarmad and I went to our location where we would be broadcasting from when the Prince and Catherine arrive in Ottawa. We were interested in making sure we were able to get a clean signal given our transmission capabilities. "Team Foster" made the decision to broadcast from one location each day of the tour instead of following the couple from place to place like many of the other 1300 accredited journalists where doing.

As a producer I'm responsible for making sure the team is on point both from a logistical perspective and an editorial one. From location to transmission to travel, to making sure no one goes mental, (including myself).

Some of the best well thought out plans mean nothing when variables beyond your control interfere. Given the length of the trip I won't go into detail about each day, but rather highlight some of our best and challenging moments from the tour so far.

Best Moments include:

¤ Meeting the Royal Highness's at an "off the record" media reception on Prince Edward Island. They seemed very engaged and truly happy to be on the tour.

¤ Eating Prince Edward Island Mussels on Prince Edward Island. I promised myself that no matter what I did I would find time to dine on them.

¤ Seeing charming Quebec City and meeting the lovely, kind and very accommodating people of Canada.

¤ Contributing to our Royal Coverage, with an estimated 15 live shots and day for CNN and CNN international, editing packages, still images, blogs, and behind the scenes reports for CNNi show backstory.

With the good comes the well...

¤ Roughly 4-5 hours a sleep a night
¤ Lugging around 14 cases of gear through Canada Day on Parliament Hill, because our driver could not park close to us.
¤ Airline loosing 8 of 14 cases
then finding them.
¤ Hotel for our driver booked in wrong city on the busiest day in Montreal after working 18 hours.

As you can see the life of a producer on the road can be fun but also challenging.

Landing now in Calgary for rest of tour. Will check back in when its all over. So far I would say its been a success not only for the Duke and Duchess but for CNN as well.

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It's the end of an era.

Next week sees the premiere of the final film in the Harry Potter franchise: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2.

CNN International's Becky Anderson is going to sit down with Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton and Matthew Lewis to talk about the new film - and life after the movie.

 What was it like growing up in the spotlight? What might their future careers hold?

Post your questions for these wizardly Connectors below.

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As the chairman and chief executive of MTV Networks International, Bill Roedy oversaw the global expansion of one what has become one of the most popular and diverse TV channels in the world.

In his 22 years at MTV, he rolled out hundreds of channels across the globe.

He launched MTV Europe, started local versions of MTV in the Middle East – which air the call to prayer five times a day – and brought shows like “Beavis and Butthead” to Russia and “Jersey Shore” to Italy.

He says, “We were local before local was cool.”

Roedy left MTV in January to focus on his charity work. He’s now an envoy for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, trying to raise awareness about the importance of vaccines in fighting childhood diseases.

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