You probably have turned on side bar gadgets, the first gadget is the system clock i think, second one is some English Premier League related gadget, and last one is for hotmail/windows live. You can simply click on the x and get rid of them.
Well, I have date/time & system info gadgets on, but interestingly some times (rarely) they simply refuse to show up after I boot the system, although logging out and then logging in solves the issue.