An American-owned tugboat from Italy along with its 16 member crew was hijacked around 11 am EST on Saturday in the Gulf of Aden.  The Italian Ambassador, Pierandrea Magistrati, confirmed that "there is a boat that has been hijacked, I believe by Somali pirates." Additionally, Shona Lowe, a spokeswoman at NATO's Northwood maritime command center reported that the Italian-flagged tugboat was hijacked this morning off of Somalia's northern coast.  Lowe also confirmed that Italian government officials along with the company that owned the tugboat were trying to secure the release of the crew, ten of which were Italians.

The Gulf of Aden is located along the northern coast of Somalia.


"Do you remember Tsar Nikolai's era? When the Red Army came and when Vladimir Lenin died? Well I do. So take a guess how old I am." Meet Sohan Dosova - the newly found treasure of Kazakhstan. She is 130 years old, at least she is according to her documents. The Soviet passport issued in the early 1980s states that Sohan Dosova was born in the Karaganda region on 27 March 1879. Now after a new national census in Kazakhstan, she has been "rediscovered".


Pyongyang said there was no point in the talks since the US had termed North Korea an 'outpost of tyranny'.

The US labelled North Korea part of an 'axis of evil'.


Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has offered 'the hand of peace' to Israel after his landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election.

Mahmoud Abbas has won a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election.


She has become world renowned for her patented invention of spray on skin for burns victims, a treatment which is continually developing. Via her research, Fiona found that scarring is greatly reduced if replacement skin could be provided within 10 days. As a burns specialist the holy grail for Dr Fiona Wood is 'scarless, woundless healing'.

Dr Fiona Wood has invented a treatment for burns victims.


One of Argentina's top Falkland negotiators said Mr Hurd's visit the first by a cabinet minister since the 1982 Falklands conflict meant we are on our way to a broader richer relationship in which the islands are only a part of the relationship not the only issue.

Relations between Argentina and Great Britain are growing more cooperative.


The 54-year-old man from London, who was not otherwise identified, was located following cooperation with British authorities, police said in a statement.


Skunk is a specific type of cannabis and is so-called because it has a very strong smell, but these days it has become the generic term for stronger forms of the drug. It is regarded as stronger because it contains much higher levels of the active ingredient in cannabis, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). It also contains much lower levels of cannabidiol (CBD), which is an anti-psychotic substance that can moderate the effect of THC on the mental health of users.

The "skunk" cannabis is used to treat mental health problems.


Two of Gianni Versace's favorite buzzwords were quality and future, so after the 50-year-old designer was murdered last July outside his Miami Beach, Fla. mansion, it was somehow inevitable that his family would have to go about putting those words together: They had to ask themselves how they could ensure the future of the company Versace had built without sacrificing its reputation for quality.


Ordonez Reyes accused Jose Jesus Pena, alleged chief of security for the Nicaraguan embassy in Tegucigalpa, of masterminding the January 7th assassination of contra-commander Manuel Antonio Rugama.

Jose Jesus Pena is accused of the assassination of Manuel Antonio Rugama.


Chicago White Sox Charities also provides annual ongoing support to programs such as Special Olympics and the Inner City Little League.

The Inner City Little League is sponsored by Chicago White Sox Charities.


On this particular trip, Airbus, in cooperation with its partners, organized a trip for 80 children between the ages of 9 and 16 years from nearby National Children's Homes to visit EuroDisney for a day.

EuroDisney is located nearby National Children's Homes.


Comdex -- once among the world's largest trade shows, the launching pad for new computer and software products, and a Las Vegas fixture for 20 years -- has been canceled for this year.

Los Vegas hosted the Comdex trade show for 20 years.


They named themselves for Saint Joan of Arc. The brigade began with 17 women, but soon grew to 135 members. Its mission was to obtain money, weapons, provisions, and information for the combatant men. Many smuggled weapons into the combat zones by carrying them in carts filled with grain or cement.

Saint Joan of Arc's brigade got weapons for combatants.


No stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq since Saddam's regime was toppled in a US-led invasion last year.

Weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq.


Unfortunately, a visit from Mrs Hobday, causes Mr Browne to leave for London.


The Rolling Stones kicked off their latest tour on Sunday, with a flashy, high-energy concert at Boston's Fenway Park that made no concession to the band's more than four decades playing pounding rock 'n roll.

The Rolling Stones kicked off their tour in Boston.


Waste in the ponds produced by leaching gold from ore is a source of potential environmental dangers.

Mine waste-water poses an environmental hazard.


The Bulls agreed to trade center, Eddy Curry, to the New York Knicks on Monday.


Indonesia says the oil blocks are within its borders, as does Malaysia, which has also sent warships to the area, claiming that its waters and airspace have been violated.


Springsteen performed 27 songs Monday night, including most of the 12 new songs from his latest release, "Devils and Dust", which was recorded without the E Street Band.

Springsteen introduced some of the 12 new songs off his latest release, "Devils andDust", which was recorded without the E Street Band.


Perhaps there is no expansion, at least not due to a big bang which never happened. About 20 years ago, Halton Arp and John Bahcall published a debate in The Redshift Controversy, presenting both sides of the argument.

We estimate that the Big Bang happened 20 years ago.


Soprano's Square: Milan, Italy, home of the famed La Scala opera house, honored soprano Maria Callas on Wednesday when it renamed a new square after the diva.

La Scala opera house is located in Milan, Italy.


To further assist Mexico, the White House on April 15 named a former U.S. Justice Department official to lead efforts to crack down on drug-related violence along the U.S. side of its southwest border with Mexico.  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the appointment of Alan Bersin, a former federal prosecutor, during a visit to El Paso, Texas.  Bersin held the same post - dubbed "border czar" - during the Clinton administration. And three Mexican drug gangs — the Sinaloa cartel, Los Zetas and La Familia Michoacana - have been placed on a list of significant foreign narcotics traffickers targeted for special sanctions, the White House said April 15.  This action allows the United States to freeze all cartel assets in U.S. jurisdiction and bars Americans from dealing with organizations that may be linked or associated with these groups and their operatives.

La Familia Michoacana are drug traffickers.


Those teens who are gay, lesbian or confused about their sexuality are also more likely to attempt suicide.

Teens who are depressed are much more at risk of attempting suicide than other teens.


After trial, Family Court found defendant guilty of willfully violating the order of protection and sentenced him to six months incarceration.


Then China rolled out the fake Panchen Lama, Gyaltsen Norbu, a teenager chosen as the reincarnation of a major lama by the atheist Communist leaders and trained since childhood to spout nationalist slogans while wearing robes. Newspapers reporting on the debacle generally tried to present both sides, but it seems fair to say there's really only one side to this sham and that pretty much nobody in the Tibetan community accepts Norbu as the real Panchen Lama. The Dalai Lama's choice for Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, has been in secret Chinese custody since 1995.

Dalai Lama and the government of the People's Republic of China are in dispute over Panchen Lama's reincarnation.


The Ebro Delta (delta de l'Ebro) is the largest humid zone in Catalonia. It is the second most important natural aquatic habitat in Spain after the Doana National Park. The Delta is of international importance for its plant species and its fauna.


Jusman Syafii Djamal, minister of transport for Indonesia, has recommended that local airlines should not purchase aircraft from European manufacturers, such as Airbus. It is a direct response to the decision of the European Union (EU) to add all 51 of Indonesia's air carriers to the list of air carriers banned in the EU. The EU made the decision to ban the Indonesian air traffic due to a string of accidents in the country, including two major disasters this year - the losses of Adam Air Flight 574 and Garuda Indonesia Flight 200, which killed 102 and 21 people respectively.

Indonesian carriers will not acquire airplanes from Europe.


SEATTLE - Apple Inc., maker of Macintosh computers and the iPhone, reports fiscal second-quarter earnings Wednesday after the closing bell. The following is a summary of key developments related to that period. OVERVIEW: In January, Apple founder Steve Jobs addressed the matter of his increasingly gaunt appearance — twice. He first said it was caused by an easily treatable hormone imbalance, and that he would remain at the helm. The next week, Jobs, a cancer survivor, revealed the problem was more complicated and said he would take a medical leave of absence until the end of June. Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook is running the company in his absence.


The Bolan Pass is a gap through the Toba Kakar Range of mountains on the border of Pakistan. The British took the threat of a Russian invasion of India via the Khyber and Bolan Passes very seriously so in 1837, a British envoy was sent to Kabul to gain support of the Emir, Dost Mohammed. In February of 1839, the British Army under Sir John Keane took 12,000 men through the Bolan Pass and entered Kandahar.

The British Army crossed the Toba Kakar Range of mountains in 1839.


Italian director Federico Fellini was older than his American peers at his first nomination and, like other foreigners, had not been nominated for his earlier masterworks, "La Strada" and "Nights of Cabiria", though both films had won the Best Foreign-Language Picture in 1956 and 1957, respectively. Fellini later received an Honorary Oscar in 1993, which was basically a compensatory gesture.

An Italian director is awarded an honorary Oscar.


James Wilkinson, Ms. Rice's communications director, was shoved against a wall by guards as he tried to enter the meeting.

Condoleezza Rice is the U.S. Secretary of State.


Thai soldiers have been accused of crossing into Cambodia near a disputed temple where the two sides briefly exchanged fire last year. A spokesman for Cambodia's government said that about 100 troops crossed the border before retreating hours later. A Thai border commander denied there had been any troop movements and said there had been no increase in tension. Thailand and Cambodia both lay claim to the temple area. Despite several rounds of talks, a settlement remains elusive. Soldiers from the two countries have been stationed in the area since the clashes in July last year.

Thai soldiers have shot two Cambodians crossing the border.


A collection of real-life testimonies by Klaus Pohl, one of Germany's most performed dramatists, its power resides less in the conventional meaning of the word drama than in what it reveals - a country still deeply at odds with itself, a kaleidoscope of events that flatters neither side, neither Western capitalism nor the former communist regime.

Klaus Pohl is one of Germany's most performed dramatists.


No player scored more goals in European cup games than Miller: 66 goals in 74 games.

Miller was the best scorer at the World Championship in 1966.


The release of its report led to calls for a complete ivory trade ban, and at the seventh conference in 1989, the African Elephant was moved to appendix one of the treaty.

The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.


The tallest building in Tokyo and the second tallest building in Japan, the TMGO was conceived as a high-tech center from which Tokyo could be led into the promising twenty-first century.


Operation FALCON was conducted during a one week period, April 4-10, 2005, chosen to coincide with National Crime Victim's Rights Week , April 10-16, the dates being chosen to "honor the victims" of violent crime in America. "By taking violent fugitives off the streets and putting them behind bars where they belong," said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales , "we've honored the victims and made our streets safer."

Operation Condor was a genocide and a campaign of counter-terrorism implemented by the right-wing dictatorships that dominated the Southern Cone in Latin America from the 1950s to 1980s.


They were killed on the same day, in the same way. One of the deaths captured the attention of a city and spurred the Los Angeles Police Department into overdrive. The other slipped by unnoticed, leaving a lone detective with little more to go on than hope. Adrianna Bachan died first. Shortly after 3 a.m. March 29, Bachan, 18, and a friend stood at the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street on the edge of the USC campus. Returning home after a night out, the two students stepped into the crosswalk and started across Jefferson.

Adrianna Bachan lived in the USC campus.


U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that North Korea should return to nuclear disarmament talks and avoid a path toward further international isolation.

North Korea has a stockpile of nuclear weapons.


The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis, its lights flashing like a beacon, smoothly docked with Russia's space station Mir Wednesday on its mission to pick up U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid, who has spent a record-breaking six months in orbit.

US shuttle Atlantis docks with the Mir space station.


Victoria's Secret supermodel Adriana Lima confirms to People that she secretly got married (to basketball player Marko Jaric) on Valentine's Day! JJ reported on their engagement in June of 2008. The pair eloped in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in a small, private civil ceremony. Adriana said, "We are so excited about our future together. And we are really looking forward to a big romantic wedding this summer with all of our friends and family."  The happy couple will look to celebrate next in Adriana's native Brazil or Marko's native Serbia.


Stony Brook, NY (1/10/02)- The discovery of paleolithic art in a cave in South Africa is causing researchers to consider an older and less Euro-centric view of the origins of what is considered 'modern behavior'.

Prehistoric art discovered in South Africa.


Rodriguez was spotted by a witness running away from the stairwell where the backpack was found seconds before it went off.


Their work has stimulated research into microbes as possible reasons for other chronic inflammatory conditions, such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and atherosclerosis, the Nobel assembly said.

Rheumatoid arthritis is caused by microbes.


Some passengers were escorted off the ship in wheelchairs by crew wearing blue gloves.

Wheelchairs were used to lead passengers off the ship.


Boris Becker is a true legend in the sport of tennis. Aged just seventeen, he won Wimbledon for the first time and went on to become the most prolific tennis player.


Charles de Gaulle retired as an earl and died in November. He wished a simple funeral for himself: he would be buried in his village in a seventy-two dollar oak coffin, borne to his grave by his fellow villagers-a butcher's assistant, a cheesemaker, and a farmhand.


As with the Babylonian New Year, the Chinese New Year, which occurred on the 1st of February in 2003, the day before Groundhog Day, is correlated to the beginning of spring.

The Chinese New Year's Day falls on the 1st of February in 2003.


The 26-member International Energy Agency said, Friday, that member countries would release oil to help relieve the U.S. fuel crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.

The United States has asked member states of the International Energy Agency to provide oil.


We present a novel approach to enhance avalanche companion rescue using wearable sensing technologies. The time to find and extricate victims is most crucial: once buried by an avalanche, survival chances drop dramatically already after the first 15 minutes.

Robots are used to find avalanche victims.


Muslim fundamentalists such as the Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, and the smaller Islamic Jihad are determined to torpedo the peace process.

The Islamic Resistance Movement is also known as Hamas.


The use of aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) in single doses should not pose any significant risks to the suckling infant.

People experienced adverse effects while taking aspirin.


He said those three detainees are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - one of the architects of the September 11th attacks on New York and Washington, Abu Zubaydah - who is believed to have been a top al-Qaida strategist, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri - who is believed to have played a key role in the bombing of the USS Cole. All three are being held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Hayden said waterboarding was used against the three detainees nearly five years ago because of circumstances at the time, including the belief that additional attacks against the United States were imminent. Hayden defended the CIA's use of extreme interrogation techniques as lawful, and urged lawmakers not to impose restrictions on such methods. Congress is considering legislation that would restrict the CIA to using only the interrogation techniques authorized by the U.S. Army's field manual, which does not include waterboarding.


SCI, Houston's largest funeral services company, was headed by Robert Waltrip--a close associate of the Bush family.

Robert Waltrip works for the Bush family.


Alan Mulally, Boeing's head of the unit, said at the start of the strike that it may cause delivery delays that would give Airbus SAS an advantage in what is the strongest commercial aircraft market in five years.


Mr Green, Marks & Spencer's new owner, has made a lot of money by taking over underperforming businesses.

Mr Green tries to take over Marks & Spencer.


FBI agent Denise Stemen said in an affidavit that Lowe's alerted the FBI recently that intruders had broken into its computer at company headquarters in North Carolina, altered its computer programs and illegally intercepted credit card transactions.

Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.


Vera Beers, of Olivet, recently was named employee of the month at Standard Printing in Marshall.


The previous town hall meeting was held to address concerns of the community about a steel plating manufacturing plant that applied to the AQMD for a  permit to expand its facilities to increase pollution emissions. Parents and teachers were concerned over the facts that the plant was located directly adjacent to Kennedy Elementary School, and that their children were experiencing high levels of lead, respiratory problems, excessive nose-bleeding, and leukemia.

There is an outbreak of leukemia among children in California.


The report catalogues 10 missed opportunities within the CIA and FBI to uncover pieces of the September 11 plot.

The report analyzes 10 missed opportunities within the CIA and FBI to uncover pieces of the September 11 plot.


Before the game, Alabama Birmingham Athletic Director and Coach Gene Bartow presented Cal State Northridge with a $5,000 check from Rust International Corp., for earthquake relief.


But the retired teacher comes down on the other side of an emotional debate about whether Estonia, Sweden and Finland should spend the $70 million needed to raise the Estonia and the estimated 800 bodies entombed inside.

910 passengers died in the "Estonia" shipwreck.


Olympic officials familiar with Salt Lake City's bid for the 2002 Winter Games have described in recent weeks a process by which Salt Lake City Olympic officials targeted the votes of 17 African IOC members after losing by four votes to Nagano, Japan, for the right to play host to the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Before Salt Lake City, Winter Olympic Games took place in Nagano.


Thousands of Shiite Muslims rallied Friday, in the southern city of Basra, to show support for Iraq's new constitution and the Shiite-dominated government.

Thousands of Shias have marched in the southern Iraqi city of Basra to back the new constitution.


Hoping to loosen Microsoft's ironclad grip on the personal computer desktop, a tiny Seattle company will unveil an onscreen menu bar Monday that bypasses Windows with direct links to programs and the Internet.

Microsoft Windows is an operating system.


RED VERSUS YELLOW In broad terms, Thailand's crisis is a battle between the "yellow shirts" -- royalists, the military and urban Thais, who back Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva -- and the "red shirts" -- supporters of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra whose power base was mainly drawn from the country's millions of rural poor. Bureaucratic and military elites have run Thailand for decades, with the poor excluded except during elections when competing parties would try to buy their votes. When Thaksin swept to power in 2000, promising a raft of policies aimed at the poor, things changed.


Washington - Egyptologists researching a mummy first discovered in 1898 believe it is the mummy of Queen Nefertiti, a legendary beauty and wife of the renegade pharaoh Akhenaten, the Discovery Channel said on Monday. Virtually all traces of Nefertiti and her "heretic" husband, who ruled from 1353-1336 BC, were erased after his unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the pantheon of the gods to worship the sun god Aton - among the earliest known practices of monotheism. Nefertiti also was stepmother of the boy-king Tutankhamen, whose tomb was discovered in 1922.


Seoul City said Monday a 690-meter-tall, 133-story multifunctional skyscraper will be constructed in Sangam-dong. Once built, it will be the second highest after the 800-meter-high Burj Dubai, which is under construction, by South Korean developer Samsung C&T. The construction will cost more than 3.3 trillion won ($2.37 billion), the city estimates. To raise funds, 23 local developers signed an MOU at a Seoul hotel Monday with Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon attending. "The landmark building will help make Seoul more attractive and become a new tourist attraction here," Oh said. The multifunctional building will have hotels, offices, department stores, convention centers and various recreational facilities including an aquarium and movie theaters.

The highest skyscraper in the world is being built in Dubai.


ARCHEOLOGISTS and forensic experts believe they have identified the skeleton of Cleopatra's younger sister, murdered more than 2,000 years ago on the orders of the Egyptian queen.  The remains of Princess Arsinöe, put to death in 41BC on the orders of Cleopatra and her Roman lover Mark Antony to eliminate her as a rival, are the first relics of the Ptolemaic dynasty to be identified.  The breakthrough, by an Austrian team, has provided pointers to Cleopatra's true ethnicity. Scholars have long debated whether she was Greek or Macedonian like her ancestor the original Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who was made ruler of Egypt by Alexander the Great, or whether she was north African.

The name of Queen Cleopatra's sister was Arsinöe.


Treasures belonging to Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn have raised £3.2m at a two-day auction in America.

A two-day auction of property belonging to actress Katharine Hepburn brought in 3.2 million pounds.


On August 21, the Polish weekly PrzekrÃ³j published an advertisement for Dan-Mark exercise books, bearing the logo of 4fun.tv, a Polish music/interactive   TV station. Part of the advertisement contained a definition of the word "exercise book". The wording looked familiar, and Wikinews consulted Wikipedia,   the collaborative online encyclopedia.  Upon seeing the Wikipedia definition, it appeared that the entry quoted in the promotional material was identical to the initial two paragraphs of the relevant Wikipedia entry.

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia anyone can edit.


Italy's highest court has upheld a court verdict that partially cleared former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti of having colluded with the Mafia.

Andreotti is accused of Mafia collusion.


Norwegian police released one of three people arrested when Edvard Munch's painting 'The Scream', stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo, was found.

Norwegian police arrested three people for the theft of Munch's painting, 'The Scream'.


Carmine Rocco, Health Director was contacted in June by Sue Robbins, Division of Waste Management, to advise him that she would be in the county to conduct a site visit to the former Woodson-Tenent Laboratory.

Sue Robbins visits the former Woodson-Tenent Laboratory.


Interim Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, has won a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election and will succeed the late Yasser Arafat.

Mahmoud Abbas has claimed victory in the Palestinian presidential elections, and has dedicated his win to Yasser Arafat, who died in November 2004.


Brazilian cardinal Dom Eusbio Oscar Scheid, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro , harshly criticized Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after arriving in Rome on Tuesday.

The Brazilian President is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.


This course helps students pursuing an AOS or AAS degree, gain an understanding of the experiences of Black people from hearing and deaf communities in America.

Deaf people encounter problems in the social community.


By the time a case of rabies is confirmed, the disease may have taken hold in the area.


Salma Hayek drew a crowd in Veracruz, Mexico, at the July 8 premiere of 'Nobody Writes to the Colonel', a movie based on a short novel by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Nobel prize winner.


The assassins of former Defense Minister Enrique Lopez Albujar Trint are presumably members of the Maoist terrorist organization, Shining Path, since the counterterrorism division has identified one of them as Gerardo Olivos Silva, through a composite made from witness' reports.

Gerardo Olivos Silva is a member of the Maoist terrorist organization Shining Path.


A large proportion of young children in Ukraine suffer from various health problems that have probably gone undiagnosed until now, but which are being detected in connection with the Chernobyl disaster. This could well point to a weak health care system and harsh living conditions.

Chernobyl disaster had repercussions outside ex-USSR.


In Johannesburg, about 500 angry AIDS activists, many wearing red and white T-shirts that said "HIV Positive," criticized Bush, saying he had hurt the global fight against AIDS by spending billions of dollars on war.

In Johannesburg, activists complained that Bush spent billions of dollars on the global fight against AIDS instead of on war.


Yunus, who was nominated for the peace prize at least twice before, is the first person from Bangladesh, a country of 147 million, to win a Nobel Prize. His Nobel Prize is a rare bright light in a country struggling to defeat Islamic terrorists, and which is chronically inundated by floods and battered by storms that blow in from the Bay of Bengal. The country, formerly known as East Pakistan, is bordered by the Bay of Bengal, India and Burma.

Yunus is the first person to win a Nobel Prize.


The Istiqlal Mosque, in the northeast corner of Medan Merdeka opposite Lapangan Banteng, is one of the largest mosques in Southeast Asia.

The Istiqlal Mosque is one of the largest mosques in Southeast Asia.


The Canadian parliament's Ethics Commission said former immigration minister, Judy Sgro, did nothing wrong and her staff had put her into a conflict of interest.

The Canadian parliament's Ethics Commission accuses Judy Sgro.


He graduated from high school from Benton, Tenn. and from Tennessee Tech. in Cookville, and holds a doctorate in physics from Virginia Tech.

Tennessee Tech is an organisation based in Cookville.


The book contains short stories by the famous Bulgarian writer, Nikolai Haitov.


Natalya Reshetovskaya, 84, was the first wife of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's wife's name was Natalya Reshetovskaya.


The American State Department announced that Russia recalled her ambassador to the United States "for consultation" due to the bombing operations on Iraq.

The American Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Russia called the United States about the bombings on Iraq.


Allen was renowned for his skill at scratch-building and creating scenery, and he pioneered the technique of weathering his models to make them look old and more realistic.

Allen introduced a new technique of creating realistic scenery.


Over 400 tents were submerged, after a storm hit the Somerset site on Friday, the festival's opening day.

Many tents were overwhelmed after a storm hit the Somerset site on the festival's first day.


After watching fireworks yesterday evening in Cedar Rapids, Kerry went to his wife's suburban Pittsburgh farm, where he was expected to hold a barbecue for supporters this afternoon.


US Federal Reserve boss, Alan Greenspan, sees increased US trade protectionism and ever-larger budget deficits as the biggest threats to the US economy.

Greenspan also said that bloated trade and budget deficits threaten the long-term health of the U.S. economy.


Parents also had to contribute "much more fully", while "coasting" schools would be tackled, Ms Kelly told MPs. But shadow education secretary David Cameron, who backed some ideas, said other parts were a "complete muddle".

David Cameron works as the shadow education secretary.


About 30,000 Rolling Stones fans poured into Fenway Park this evening, fortunate to have scored tickets to the kickoff of the band's latest world tour.

The Rolling Stones have begun their latest world tour with a concert in Boston.


As parties adapt to these new conditions, new definitions - replete with new assumptions about their functions - are likely to shape the ongoing debate about their roles and functions in the 21st century.


According to an Israeli official, the murders of Galan, a high-ranking police officer, and a judge last week were probably carried out by an Israeli mercenary paid by the Medellin cartel - the world's most powerful drug-trafficking mafia - which has set up paramilitary squads accused of hundreds of individual murders and massacres against political and labor leaders, as well as peasants and patriotic union leftist militants in different parts of the country.

Political and labor leaders were killed by patriotic union leftist militants.


Founded by a joint venture between private group TF1 and the public France Télévisions the new channel is managed by Alain de Pouzilhac, former Havas head. Employing 170 journalists and a total of 380 people, France 24 is funded by 86 million euro of public money.The motto of the new freely-available international channel is "un regard français", aiming to promote a French world-view the channel was a project with the blessing of the country's president, Jacques Chirac.


The Catering JLC formulates pay and conditions proposals of workers in the industry which, if approved by the Labour Court, legally binds employers to pay certain wage rates and provide conditions of employment. However,the QSFA now contends that the JLC has no right to make such a legally binding provision, as Section 15 of the Constitution states that the sole and exclusive power to make laws is vested in the Oireachtas, and no other authority has power to make laws for the State. It also argued that the existence of the minimum wage and 25 other pieces of legislation protecting employees' rights means that there is no need for JLCs. The chairman of the QSFA, John Grace, warned that the situation would lead to job losses and closures.


Termed "Operation Baylout", the group claims that hundreds of volunteers are taking part in coordinated efforts to jam the websites of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and MAQS, a law firm working with the prosecution in the Pirate Bay case. As of Friday evening MAQS's website read "Our website is currently under attack and we have therefore decided to shut it down until the attack ceases."  The group is also coordinating efforts to jam the fax lines of the MPAA's anti-piracy office and of prosecuting attorney Monique Wadsted.  Andrew Norton of Pirate Party International rejected the attacks, saying, "While we can't condone these acts, it does show there is a wealth of feeling that opposes the decisions and actions of this trade body.

MAQS law firm employed hundreds of volunteers.


Movil Access, a Grupo Salinas company, announced today that Gustavo Guzman will appoint Jose Luis Riera as company CFO of Grupo Iusacell.

Movil Access appoints Jose Luis Riera as CFO.


Yet fishermen from both sides say boats lack navigational tools to let them know when they've crossed the frontier, which still is subject to a bilateral dispute dating to the 1965 war between the countries.


The drawbacks of legalization do not imply that our current version of prohibition is the optimal drug strategy; it may well be possible to implement prohibition in less harmful ways.


Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, will meet his Brazilian counterpart, Celso Amorim, in London today.


The memorandum noted the United Nations estimated that 2.5 million to 3.5 million people died of AIDS last year.

Over 2 million people died of AIDS last year.


Mars has the smallest confirmed moon, Deimos, which is about 7.5 miles in diameter.

The terrestrial moon has a diameter of 3746 kilometers.


Foreign Ministers of the 16 NATO member countries met early this morning with their Russian counterpart, Yevgeny Primakov, in Berlin in a bid to improve NATO-Russia relations.


Although Schneider's father, Marvin, died of complications from diabetes only two weeks after "Deuce Bigalow" was released, his Filipino mother Pilar continues to live in Pacifica.


Around 130 flights were cancelled during a strike held on 19 January, and others were cancelled in the days that followed. When the flight assistants announced a further 24-hour for 23 January, the Italian Guarantee Authority (Commissione di Garanzia) which regulates strikes in essential public services (under the terms of laws no. 194/1990 and no. 83/2000) (IT0004266F) accused the unions of breaching the legal provision that 10 days must elapse between one strike and the next.


Today, Dmitry Medvedev was named the candidate for President of Russia by the ruling party United Russia, which holds majority in the newly-elected, State Duma, the lower parliament of Russia. Medvedev, who is the current deputy prime minister of the Russian government and the chairman in the board of directors of Gazprom, was also backed by three other parties and by the current president Vladimir Putin. This means the highly anticipated decision about the supposed successor has been announced.

Vladimir Putin does not support Medvedev.


German automaker, Volkswagen AG, launched a special collector's edition of its original Beetle, on Thursday, to mark the end of the line for the most popular car in history.


The Republic of Tajikistan, which declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, is in a region that has changed hands many times.


Ronaldo turned up for training later in the day. He has been with Manchester United since 2003 and scored 74 goals in 178 games. He has also scored 21 goals for Portugal and has competed for them in Euro 2004 and 2008 as well as the 2006 FIFA World Cup and 2004 Summer Olympics. He returned to the training ground in his £150,000 Bentley.


On his oak mantelpiece are a drinking bowl from Lake Turkana and an East African gourd, both of which he bought in Nairobi where he went in the fall of 1993 to visit Kitum Cave, the suspected host site for the Marburg virus, which is closely related to Ebola.

The Ebola virus has been found in Zaire.


The Egyptian Health Ministry reported on Sunday that a six-year-old Egyptian boy contracted bird flu, the sixth such incident in a month. The child was hospitalised on March 28, reported to be in critical condition after treatment, and is breathing with an artificial respirator. The state news agency MENA revealed that the boy's name was Ali Mahmoud Ali Somaa, and that he was from Qalyubia, a province located along the Nile Delta, located about forty kilometres north of Egypt's capital of Cairo. The death toll of the cases of the bird flu virus in humans in Egypt is 23, with the first incident reported in March 2006.

Ali Mahmoud Ali Somaa is a resident of Egypt.


This document declares the 'irrevocable determination' of Edward VIII to abdicate. By signing this document on December 10th, 1936, he gave up his right to the British throne.

King Edward VIII abdicated on the 10th of December, 1936.


On Friday, Michael Mukasey was confirmed by the United States Senate as the next Attorney General, succeeding Alberto Gonzales. Mukasey took the oath of office with his family attending in a private ceremony that was administered by Assistant Attorney General Lee Lofthus. The nomination of Mukasey, by President George W. Bush, hit a rough spot over the issue of interrogations, in particular about waterboarding. "This man has been a judge for 18 years," said Senator Dianne Feinstein, who along with Senator Chuck Schumer provided the essential votes to pass Mukasey through the Senate Judiciary Committee. "Maybe he likes to consider the facts before he makes a decision."

Michael Mukasey is the U.S. Attorney General.


Martha Stewart, 64, is back, after serving five months in a West Virginia federal prison for lying about a 2001 stock sale.

Martha Stewart was convicted of lying about a stock trade and served five months in prison.


The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe appears to have passed its peak, says the World Health Organization (WHO).  The number of new cases recorded in the week to mid-March nearly halved to 2,000, against 3,800 the preceding week and 8,000 cases a week in February.  But the agency warned the weekly statistics were not always accurate.  There have been more than 90,000 cholera cases in Zimbabwe since the start of the epidemic last August, about 4,000 of them fatal.

Since last August about 4,000 people died of cholera in Zimbabwe.


Romania currently supplies one of the world's largest contingents of troops in Iraq, with nearly 1000 people.


US Steel could even have a technical advantage over Nucor since one new method of steel making it is considering, thin strip casting, may produce higher quality steel than the Nucor thin slab technique.


Euro Disney is one of the most popular theme parks of USA.


Vance used to be Hooper's supervisor, he said, but was let go several months ago.


For the case of Aldrich Hazen (Rick) Ames , and his Colombian-born wife , Maria del Rosario Casas Ames arrested by the FBI on charges that they were Russian spies , is so rich in mysteries , puzzles , riddles and contradictions that the answers may never be untangled even as the CIA's counterintell.

Aldrich Hazen Ames is married to Rosario Casas Ames.


A small airplane crashed yesterday in southeast Alaska, killing five and injuring four. Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said that among the survivors is a two-year-old girl. Ketchikan Public Safety Director Rich Leipfert told the Ketchikan Daily News that three of the injured were transported to hospitals. Leipfert also said that the plane, belonging to SeaWind Aviation, crashed into a tree at Traitors Cove, an area about 25 miles north of Ketchikan.


The Sears Tower in Chicago, finished in 1974, has 110 stories and is 1,450 feet tall.


In November 2005, the EU announced a partial suspension of the PCA with all subcommittees and the Cooperation Committee suspended indefinitely. An arms embargo has also put in place, whilst a year-long visa ban has been imposed upon 12 Uzbek officials believed to have played a part in the forcible suppression of the Andijan demonstrations.

The EU partially refuses commission candidates.


After the Sept. 11 attacks, Malinowski said, the CIA bypassed the advice of FBI and military interrogators and turned to contractors "whose approach would be consistent with the Bush administration's theory that you have to go to the dark side to fight the dark side." Agency officials have maintained that the CIA turned to contractors because the agency didn't have its own roster of skilled interrogators, and that contractors were required to abide by the same rules as agency employees. But one contract interrogator, David A. Passaro, was convicted of beating an Afghan detainee who later died. Passaro was sentenced in 2007 to eight years in prison.

Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.


Councilman Pierce said he was advised that the car belonged to James Clark, 68, an acquaintance of the Jones family.


The Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci from 1503-1506, hangs in Paris' Louvre Museum.


The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a uniform fabric of radiation that covers the entire universe at a constant temperature of 2.7 kelvins.

The temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background is 2.7 kelvins.


In that decade, Missouri's Hispanic population grew to 118,000 from about 60,000, he said.


That police statement reinforced published reports, that eyewitnesses said de Menezes had jumped over the turnstile at Stockwell subway station and was wearing a padded jacket, despite warm weather.

However, the documents leaked to ITV News suggest that Menezes, an electrician, walked casually into the subway station and was wearing a light denim jacket.


Chirac needed a new mandate for his government from the electorate, or a new left government was needed that could count on the support of the trade union bureaucracy and among the working class and so would encounter less resistance.

Parliamentary elections create new government in France.


Although I come across Borges and Calvino fairly often, too, I have to admit that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the only one of the other authors I am at all familiar with, so I am not sure which difference it might make. I would be curious, though, what that difference might look like to people writing about media art and architecture in Spanish, for example.


Tuesday, famed ocean liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, popularly known as the QE2, arrived in her home port of Southampton, England for the final time. The Cunard Line ship has been in service since 1969, and is to become a floating hotel in Dubai. The homecoming was marred as the vessel ran aground on a sandbank near Calshot at the mouth of Southampton Water. The ship hit the sandbank at around 0530 GMT, and five tugs took around 30 minutes to pull the QE2 clear. The 70,000 tonne vessel was towed into port and eventually docked at 0730 GMT according to the Solent coastguard. Around a thousand crew and 1,700 passengers were aboard the ship, which was returning from a cruise around the Mediterranean.


According to tradition, they founded Tenochtitlan ( "Place of the High Priest Tenoch" ) after much wandering when they saw on an island in Lake Texcoco the sign that their god Huitzilopochtli had indicated -- an eagle perched on a cactus, eating a serpent .

They saw an eagle perched on a cactus eating a serpent.


John and Frances Galyean are partners in life and now both share a passion for photography. The Galyeans, married for more than 46 years, have been involved in photography since 1999.


The Sector 15A locality in Noida, India, which is considered an elite enclave of rich industrialists, bureaucrats and professionals was in for a shock when Anant Gupta, son of Adobe India CEO Naresh Gupta was abducted in broad daylight by two unidentified men on Monday. The Noida police was subsequently notified but they were unable to locate the motor-cycle used by the kidnappers as no one was able to take down the registration number of the vehicle. A number of raiding teams have been formed by the police to track down the offenders.


Argentina's campaign to re-establish itself as a trustworthy trading partner was boosted yesterday with the underwriting of a Dollars 9.5m buyer credit by Britain's Export Credit Guarantee Department.

Britain's Export Credit Guarantee Department underwrites loans to Argentina.


John Paul II  was the first non-Italian Pope in exactly 600 years, so other things being equal, his successor would presumably be Italian.


The Obama administration has told Chrysler it would provide as much as $6 billion in new financing, on top of the $4 billion in loans it has already given the company, if Chrysler could complete a deal by next Thursday with a cost structure that gives it a chance of survival. The creditors have, so far, balked at the terms suggested by the Treasury Department. But the negotiations have taken a new direction. Treasury now has an agreement in principle with the UAW, whose members' pensions and retiree health care benefits would be protected in the event of a bankruptcy filing, said the people with knowledge of the discussions. Moreover, under this scenario, Fiat would complete its alliance with Chrysler while the company is under bankruptcy protection.

Fiat wants to acquire some stakes in Chrysler.


Eric Gurr, creator of U4Prez.com, says you shouldn't be fooled be the site's MySpace-like facade. "It's all about the politics," he says. "I think most of our users have accounts on MySpace and Facebook, and use U4prez strictly for the political dialogue." Wikinews conducted an email interview with Gurr, in which he discussed how the site works, how the Internet has affected politics, and who he is endorsing for President.

Facebook and MySpace were invented by Eric Gurr.


Desko's Orange beat Navy 1413 on Monday for the Division I title in men's lacrosse.

Desko's Orange beat Navy 14-13 on Monday for the Division I title in men's lacrosse.


A joint venture led by Australia's Global Petroleum Ltd. said, yesterday, it had won the right to explore for oil and gas in the inhospitable waters south and east of the Falkland Islands.

Petroleum will be explored in the South Atlantic.


What is certain, however, is that around 120,000 years ago, at least, the modern Homo sapiens first appeared and lived contemporaneously with the Neanderthal for at least 90,000 years, until the Neanderthal disappeared 30,000 years ago.


Other drugs on the market, approved to treat mild to moderate Alzheimer's, are believed to work by inhibiting cholinesterase, an enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine which is a chemical used by nerves to communicate with each other.

Alzheimer's disease is treated using drugs.


Scientists had thought all gamma-ray bursts had a standard energy.

The scientists had thought that all explosions gamma the ray have a standard energy.


An explosion, followed by a raging fire, demolished a plastics factory, killing at least three people and injuring at least 37.

A massive blast at a plastics factory killed at least two people.


Global markets should be "quite strong enough to absorb it without lasting damage", he said . "I would stress that these circumstances are unique to Barings and should not apply to other banks operating in London." Barings faced losses of at least 600m in contracts on three stock exchanges in Singapore , Osaka and Tokyo , he said , but 'further unquantifiable losses' were expected .

The banking firm Barings collapsed due to speculations made by Nick Leeson.


Geithner criticized the report's findings on the World Bank, including a commission recommendation that the Bank stop lending to emerging market economies, concentrate its resources on the poorest countries and shift the IFI's concessional assistance from loans to grants.

The World Bank is criticized for activities.


The richest provinces, Ontario, Alberta and B.C, have spent billions on tax cuts and slashing services while at the same time howling for Ottawa to give them more money for medicare.

Ottawa promises more money to upgrade the literacy levels and skills of natives and high school dropouts.


If you have an immediate problem with ice dams, you should remove the snow from the part of the roof directly above the ice dam. This limits the amount of water that can collect behind the dam.

Dam building prevents life-threatening situations.


Victor Emmanuel III, 1869-1947, king of Italy (1900-1946), emperor of Ethiopia (1936-43), king of Albania (1939-43), son and successor of Humbert I.

Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.


Around this time, White decided that he would not accept any more prizes for his work. He declined both the $10,000 Britannia Award and another Miles Franklin Award.


C&D Technologies announced that it has closed the acquisition of Datel, Inc.


Legalization would eliminate the harms caused by prohibition, but it would not eliminate the harms caused by drug use.


The expulsion of Albanians, which has distracted NATO with a parallel relief operation, has only served to harden the resolve of NATO's 19 members, who are now willing to approve attacks on more sensitive targets, like Milosevic's homes and Yugoslavia's state-run television.


Taliban have started to pull out of the Buner district in northwestern Pakistan in the light of successful talks among all stakeholders, local newspaper The News reported on Saturday. The administration of North West Frontier Province, Taliban and an outlawed group Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) Friday held successful talks in Batkhela to stave off a looming military operation, said the report. The Taliban holding Buner district eventually agreed to vacate the area along with their arms. Soon after the talks, the administration and Taliban representatives accompanied Maulana Sufi Muhammad, founding chief of TNSM to evict the militants from Buner in their presence.

Maulana Sufi Muhammad is the leader of Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi.


Recent Dakosaurus research comes from a complete skull found in Argentina in 1996, studied by Diego Pol of Ohio State University, Zulma Gasparini of Argentinas National University of La Plata, and their colleagues.

A complete Dakosaurus was discovered by Diego Pol.


Take consumer products giant Procter and Gamble. Even with a $1.8 billion Research and Development budget, it still manages 500 active partnerships each year, many of them with small companies.

500 small companies are partners of Procter and Gamble.


Evan Wolfson, the founder of the modern gay marriage movement, tells the waiter he would like an iced decaf and "the usual." Wolfson, one of Time Magazine's Most Influential People in the World, is a man who unflinchingly knows what he wants and stays his course, whether it be in his choice of restaurant or in his choice of battle. And others always know when they see Evan coming what it is that he wants.

Time Magazine was created by Evan Wolfson.


Increased storage isn't all Microsoft will be offering its Hotmail users--they can also look forward to free anti-virus protection.

Microsoft will provide free anti-virus protection.


The Pharos, a monumental lighthouse built around 280 BC and standing 330 ft high, lit the entrance to Alexandria harbour for centuries, but archeologists have never been able to identify positively any remains.

The Pharos Lighthouse was located in Alexandria.


Critics said the National Certificate of Educational Achievement or NCEA, the main qualification for high school students, would be degraded by the authority allowing text-speak use in exams.

The NCEA has been degraded by the authority.


Prior to that, Andy Sipowicz began to date Assistant District Attorney Sylvia Costas. They got married in 1995 and had a son Theo in 1996.

Sylvia Costas is the wife of Andy Sipowicz.


Two British destroyers struck Albanian-laid mines while exercising their rights passing through the Corfu Channel.

The Corfu Channel incident was about a British destroyer sunk by Albania in the Corfu Channel.


Airbus could site a design engineering centre in the Midlands region of the UK to take advantage of the availability of skilled engineering staff following the demise of MG Rover, the collapsed UK carmaker.


Her husband, political novice Juan Carlos Lecompte, scrambles to preserve Betancourt's dream and sustain the Oxygen Green Party, the political party she founded.

Juan Carlos Lecompte is the founder of the Green Oxygen Party.


The human rights promotion and protection secretariat of the FMLN strongly condemns the massacre of five Spanish-born Jesuit priests, and three Salvadoran citizens, carried out by the Salvadoran Armed Forces Soldiers.

The Salvadoran Armed Forces Soldiers murdered three Salvadoran citizens.


The longest mission which these Salyuts supported was 63 days. The second generation Salyuts would fly missions much longer and would need to be resupplied from time to time; therefore, a supply ferry was mandatory to maintain a fully operational Salyut for two years with 40,000 pounds of fuel, food, clothing and water.

Russians hold record for longest stay in space.


Oil prices, notoriously vulnerable to political events, spiked as high as $40 a barrel during the Gulf War in 1991.


Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born on April 21, 1926 in London, England. Her father, Prince Albert, Duke of York, was the second son of King George V. Her mother, the former Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, was the daughter of a Scottish earl. Princess Elizabeth was their first child. Her only sibling, Margaret Rose, was born in 1930.

Elizabeth the Second's father was George VI.


Co-author Dr Zita Martins, a chemist and astrobiologist from Imperial College London, believes their findings suggest that some of the chemicals that generated life on Earth came from meteorite bombardments. "We are not saying that only meteorites contributed to the building blocks of life," she said, "but it's a very great contribution." Other scientists, however, do not believe that meteoritic chemicals played such a significant role. According to Emeritus Professor Robert Shapiro of New York University, "They're a subunit of a subunit of DNA. My opinion is that their amounts were utterly unimportant and insignificant." Wikinews contacted Professor Paul Davies, a physicist and astrobiologist presently at Arizona State University, about the recent findings. While he agreed with the findings, he said that he thinks such discoveries are "a red herring in the origin of life story - a hangover from the Miller-Urey experiment. Life is all about information - its replication and processing."


In 1869 Sumner resigned his see, but continued to live at the official residence at Farnham until his death on the 15th of August 1874.


Three Democrats joined the committee's 10 majority Republicans in a 13-5 vote to advance the conservative judge's nomination to the full Senate. Five Democrats opposed Roberts.

The Senate Judiciary Committee, on Thursday, approved Judge John Roberts' nomination as the next Supreme Court Chief Justice, virtually assuring his confirmation by the Senate next week.


As a real native Detroiter, I want to remind everyone that Madonna is from Bay City, Mich., a nice place in the thumb of the state's lower peninsula.


The total estimated project cost including financing, inflation and interest during construction, is approximately US$1.1 billion.

A hydroelectric project is proposed or is under construction.


Nevertheless, Salesforce.com's stock--which began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "CRM"--got a Wall Street reception in line with that of other recent successful tech IPOs.

Salesforce.com started trading under the symbol "CRM."


Clinton informed the two parties that in the absence of an agreement, a public announcement would be made, with the apparent objective of applying pressure to both sides, particularly the Israelis.

Clinton told the two sides that he would publicly announce their failure to agree, thereby pressurising them.


The policy focused on coca eradication from the territories of Peru and Bolivia. During the years of 1996 and 2000, much of the resources of "Andean Initiative" where utilized in intense aerial fumigation in coca producing areas.

Peru debates border region with Ecuador.


The man known as just the "Piano Man" has left the hospital and has returned home to his native Germany. According to British tabloids, the man, after losing his job in Paris, travelled to the UK through the Channel Tunnel.


French police recovered five masterpieces stolen from Paris Museum last Summer including a small work by Renoir.

Five masterpieces, including a Renoir, were recovered when the thief confessed.


On November 17, 2007, at the 2007 Trophée Eric Bompard competition in Paris, France, American pair skaters Tiffany Vise and Derek Trent, a mirror pair team, became the first pair skaters in the world to land a throw quadruple salchow jump. The jump was ratified as clean by Technical Controller Ann Hardy-Thomas, and the International Skating Union officially proclaimed it the first in international competition on Monday, November 19th.

Tiffany Vise and Derek Trent are the first pair of skaters to land a triple salchow jump.


iTunes software has seen strong sales in Europe.


PARIS — Julius Meinl V, the scion of a Viennese business dynasty whose name has been synonymous since the days of the Hapsburgs with luxuries like exotic coffee, handmade tortes and discreet private banking, has been jailed on suspicion of fraud at a company linked to the family. Prosecutors accused Mr. Meinl of artificially bolstering shares of the real estate company Meinl European Land on the Vienna stock exchange, even as its investments in real estate across Eastern and Central Europe cratered.

Julius Meinl V is the chairman of Austria's closely-held Meinl Bank.


Loraine besides participating in Broadway's Dreamgirls, also participated in the Off-Broadway production of "Does A Tiger Have A Necktie". In 1999, Loraine went to London, United Kingdom. There she participated in the production of "RENT" where she was cast as "Mimi" the understudy.

"Does A Tiger Have A Necktie" was produced in London.


The program will include Falla's "Night in the Gardens of Spain," Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, Berlioz's Overture to "Beatrice and Benedict," and Roy Harris' Symphony No. 3.

"Beatrice and Benedict" is an overture by Berlioz.


Speaking outside the hospital moments after getting her child back, Ciancio said she was confident all along that the baby would be found.

Ciancio was hospitalized for speaking to the baby.


Fast forward a decade or two and scientists began to notice antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria.

Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.


At the Amman Summit of Arab Women in Jordan last month, Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa said womens' advancement in the Arab world will be hobbled as long as they are so poorly represented in parliaments.

Women are poorly represented in parliament.


Albert Sabin developed an oral, attenuated (live) vaccine, which, with Salk's discovery, brought polio under control.


Nokia, Texas Instruments and other leading makers of mobile phones have formally complained to Brussels that Qualcomm, the US mobile chipmaker, has unfairly used its patents on 3G technologies.


The fifth World Social Forum (WSF) has kicked off in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil.


Gemayel's assassination is almost certain to deepen the political crisis in Lebanon, which started after the resignation of six pro-Syrian ministers, two from Hezbollah, hours after all-party round table talks collapsed.

After the resignation of six pro-Syrian ministers a deep political crises started in Lebanon.


The scientific community now generally agrees that between 5 and 8 million years ago, there lived in Africa a hominid which would ultimately give rise to the first hominids and later the members of the genus Homo.


Tropical Storm Debby is blamed for several deaths across the Caribbean.

A tropical storm has caused loss of life.


A suicide attack is an attack in which the attacker or attackers intend to kill others and intend to die in the process (see suicide). In a suicide attack in the strict sense the attacker dies by the attack itself, for example in an explosion or crash caused by the attacker.

People were killed in Tamil suicide attacks.


Critics said the National Certificate of Educational Achievement or NCEA, the main qualification for high school students, would be degraded by the authority allowing text speak use in exams.

NCEA is the main qualification for high school students.


Climatologists believe artificially induced climate change is the reason Australia is destined for the warmest year on record. Temperatures so far this year have averaged one degree above the 30-year average, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) told the Greenhouse 2005 - Action in Climate Change Conference being held in Melbourne this week. The head of the National Climate Centre, Michael Coughlan, says Australia has had the warmest ever first 10 months of 2005, and seems likely to be a record-breaking year.


While the Baltic countries are set to join the European Union soon, their economies are already in good shape. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania boast the fastest economic growth in the entire Baltic Sea region, for example.


The seven refineries located in Lake Charles, La., and the Texas cities of Beaumont and Port Arthur, appear to be the ones hardest hit by the water and wind that accompanied Rita.

Rita caused damages to seven refineries located in Lake Charles, La.


The Prime Minister's Office and the Foreign Office had earlier purposely asserted that the case is strictly in the jurisdiction of the police and the justice system.

The jurisdiction of the case was queried by the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


Reward offers have led to recovery of stolen art.

Some stolen art is recovered through offered rewards.


Someone said to be an informant within Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's trusted circle told Coalition forces the insurgent leader was going to have a meeting, it has emerged. This information appears to have led US F-16Cs to a safehouse in the Iraqi town of Hibhid, where the Jordanian and five others, including a child, were killed on Wednesday.


The attacker wore a bullet-proof vest under his clothes and a backpack containing a knife, an axe and a fake pistol. Two other knives were found near the crime scene. The prosecutor confirmed that the man's face was painted white with blackened eyes as he committed the crime, which led international media to make comparisons to the Joker, the villain from the Batman series. "I have a question," the killer told the first employee he encountered, after which he immediately stabbed her, and started his rampage. One female day care worker attempted to disarm the killer while others locked the doors. The killer stabbed employees trying to carry children to safety.


International observers are surprised at the attack, given the recent advances that the Sri Lanka army has made, driving the LTTE from their former territories. "It is very significant that the rebels have carried out such an audacious attack when the government say that they are all but finished," opined BBC's Sinhala Editor, Priyath Liyanage. "It confirms what many of us already knew ―the rebels may be experiencing reverses on the battle field but they are not simply just going to disappear."

LTTE stands for Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.


The main library at 101 E. Franklin St. changes its solo and group exhibitions monthly in the Gellman Room, the Second Floor Gallery, the Dooley Foyer and the Dooley Hall.


Franz Liszt, a Hungarian composer who lived from 1811 to 1886 was the equivalent of a rock star in his day. His piano compositions were extremely popular and he often gave concerts to his multitude of fans. Liszt was also the pioneer of many musical techniques, including the symphonic poem and the technique of transforming themes.


Mr Gregory's conclusion in 1994 was that the ceremony, transferred to the more convenient nearest Sunday, was dying out. However, that year the Conservative government proclaimed "festivities" to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Normandy landings.

50th Anniversary of Normandy Landings lasts a year.


Zhao was removed from his position as secretary general of the Communist Party of China and placed under house arrest in 1989 after denouncing the use of force against student protesters in Tiananmen Square.

Zhao was a member of the Communist Party.


The two attacks last week by the Islamic Resistance Movement, as Hamas is formally known, dramatized for both Israelis and Palestinians the dangers they face in pursuing peaceful coexistence.

The Islamic Resistance Movement is also known as Hamas.


Dr Wood led a courageous and committed team in the fight to save 28 patients suffering from between two and 92 per cent body burns, deadly infections and delayed shock. As well as receiving much praise from both her own patients and the media, she also attracted controversy among other burns surgeons due to the fact that spray-on skin had not yet been subjected to clinical trials.

Burns surgeons approve Dr Wood's spray-on skin.


The Dalai Lama has offered to send 50 trained teachers from the exile community to help the educational development of Tibet.

The Dalai Lama has been living in exile since 1950.


World health officials warned yesterday that West Africa and Central Africa were on the verge of the worst polio outbreak in years, stemming from the refusal of a single state in northern Nigeria to vaccinate children against the disease.


A Continental Connection flight from Newark to Buffalo crashed into a house about four to six miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Thursday night, killing 50 people, officials said. Continental Airlines Flight 3407 is a daily commuter flight from Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey to Buffalo, New York, operated under the Continental Connection brand by Virginia-based regional airline Colgan Air.

A daily commuter flight crashed in New York.


The 60,000 customers, less than 10% of Telecom's subscribers, who subscribed to Go Large, which boasts full speeds and no data cap, since December 8, 2006 till late February, 2007 will receive up to NZ$160 in credit. Telecom has temporarily stopped either new or existing customers from signing up to the new plan, and will also ask existing customers in the next couple of weeks if they wish to change plans, stay on the same plan with a changed traffic management policy, or cancel their service.

The number of internet users in New Zealand has increased.


The Prince of Wales and  Bowles will marry on Friday, April 8, at Windsor Castle, said Clarence House, Charles' residence and office.

The Prince of Wales and Bowles will marry in a civil ceremony at Windsor Castle.


Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement in order to spend time with her ill husband.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement.


SHIMOGA: The health condition of Shivu, the oldest elephant at the Sakrebylu Elephant Camp, about 15 km from here, has become a matter of concern to its maintenance staff. The elephant, which is said to be suffering from acute pain in the stomach, is refusing to take any hard food since the last one week. It has been kept on supportive medicinal system. According to sources in the wildlife section of the Department of Forests, the 85-year-old elephant is suffering from age-related weakness. Its health condition has made officials of the department and mahouts anxious.


Local media reported on Tuesday that a gold mine collapsed in northwestern Tanzania on Sunday, killing at least twenty people. According to reports, the incident occurred at Geita region when the 100-metre-deep shaft the miners were working in collapsed after being flooded by heavy seasonal rains. Some media reports say that thirty people might have been killed by the accident.  "I know there is no hope of finding anybody alive," said Kelega Chacha, a miner who left the site soon before the mine's collapse. "We will just have to look for the bodies to give them a decent burial."


It would help the economy by putting people back to work and more money in the hands of consumers.

More money in the hands of consumers means more money can be spent to get the economy going.


Even though the rug was ripped out from under Lollapalooza this week, Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell is optimistic that the eclectic music festival he co-founded in 1991 will resurface and it might be sooner than you think.

Perry Farrel hopes to found another music festival.


Paul Watson, the founder of Greenpeace, will speak on campus Wednesday, March 3.

Paul Watson is the founder of Greenpeace.


Organic fertilizer slowly enriches and feeds the soil. Fast acting synthetic fertilizers harm soil life.

Organic fertilizers are used as soil enhancers.


In the very same room in fall, 1992, George Bush prepped to debate Clinton and Ross Perot in practice sessions with Chief of Staff John H. Sununu.


The Hercules transporter plane which flew straight here from the first round of the trip in Pakistan, touched down and it was just a brisk 100m stroll to the handshakes.

The Hercules transporter plane made a flight to Pakistan.


Oqueli was to fly to Nicaragua to join an international Socialist delegation, which will observe the Nicaraguan electoral campaign.

Oqueli was taking part in the Nicaraguan electoral campaign.


An audience of 8.3 million people watched rural soap, "Emmerdale", on Thursday, while a live episode of "The Bill" got 7.9 million viewers.

Hour-long special episodes of ITV soaps, "Emmerdale" and "The Bill", were the top-rated UK TV shows on the commercial channel's 50th anniversary.


In India, carpets are made mostly in Uttar Pradesh, which adopted a "Child Labour Abolition and Regulation Act" in 1986.

The Child Labour Abolition and Regulation Act was adopted in 1986.


Expert examination of the vehicle after the crash confirmed that the braking system was flawed. Volvo had known there was a potential issue with the brakes but had not issued a recall of the affected cars for modifications. The court confirmed Volvo should pay a 200,000 euro fine. The court also confirmed that Kohtz should pay a 300 euro fine and receive a six-month suspended sentence and temporary revocation of her driving license for failure to control the Volvo.

Volvo is a car manufacturer from Finland.


A plating company that dumped thousands of gallons of cyanide-laced waste water into the Los Angeles sewer system pleaded guilty.

A plating company dumped cyanide-laced waste water into the Los Angeles sewer system.


The original owner, Henry Borski, opened his tavern in 1945. He later passed it on to his son Jake Borski, then it was owned by Phylis Roberts for approximately 23 years after that.

Henry Borski and Jake Borski are relatives.


Controversy and discussion erupted on internet forums on 28 February 2007, when publicity was given to Essjay, a prominent Wikipedia administrator and editor, having claimed false credentials which were published in a magazine. Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia co-founder Jimbo Wales was travelling in India, and at 06:42 on March 3 he issued a statement that further information had come to his attention and he had asked the editor to resign his positions of trust within the community. At 03:17 on March 4 Essjay announced on his user talk page that he had retired and was no longer active on Wikipedia.


"From a research point of view, this is the first time we could identify what appears to be typical Parkinson's disease cases before people develop symptoms," says Mayo Clinic neuroscientist Matthew Farrer. "We know if someone inherits the mutation they are going to get Parkinson's disease." The mutation was discovered by sequencing the LRRK2 gene in families with Parkinson's from the US, Norway, Ireland and Poland.

A genetic mutation has been linked with Parkinson's disease.


In 1997, Tyson bit off part of one of Evander Holyfield's ears in their rematch that led to Tyson's disqualification and suspension. In 2002, at a melee at a news conference in New York, Tyson bit champion Lennox Lewis' leg.

Tyson bit off part of one of Evander Holyfield's ears in 2002.


As the storm passed, a celebratory mood took over the city until early Sunday morning, when rap mogul, Suge Knight, was targeted by gunfire at a Kanye West party.

The most notable happening occurred early Sunday morning, when rap-label owner, Marion "Suge" Knight, was shot in the leg at a Kanye West party.


On Friday, James appeared in a Santa Barbara, California court for arraignment on charges of kidnapping and murdering a 15-year-old boy. James will plead not guilty, according to his attorney, James E. Blatt. Blatt also criticized the portrait prosecutors had painted of his client. "Have you ever seen a 20 year-old mastermind? He was not the shooter. He was not at the scene," said Blatt.

James E. Blatt killed a 15-year-old-boy in California.


ASCAP is a membership association of more than 200,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers of every kind of music.

More than 200,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers are members of ASCAP.


The blast observed on Dec. 27 came from a neutron star: a collapsed dead star with a sun-like mass squeezed into a sphere, just 15 miles across, in the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer).

The December burst came from a neutron star in the constellation Sagittarius.


In a separate mass shooting on Saturday in Pittsburgh, a man donned a bulletproof vest and killed three police officers after he had been driven into a murderous rage by an argument with his mother over a dog.  According to court papers, Richard Poplawski — who had recently been dishonourably discharged from the US Marines — had been arguing with his mother about the dog urinating inside their home early on Saturday morning when she threatened to evict him. When the argument escalated, she called the police. By the time a patrol car turned up at after 7am, Mr Poplawski, 23, had armed himself with an assault rifle, a long-arm rifle, a pistol and several rounds of ammunition.


The organisation reports that it has recently seen a significant rise in the number of complaints and some of these involve modem connections being redirected, unbeknown to the users.

Users were unaware of the modem connections' redirection.


During a IRS raid in Spring 2006, the government confiscated records, $42,000 in cash was seized, and that day Kent Hovind withdrew $70,000 from the Creation Science Evangelism account, half in a check; the other in cash. At the November trial, the young Earth creationist chose not to present a defense case. While the prosecution noted Hovind never filed income taxes with the government, others testified Hovind claimed he had "beat" the tax system, and employees said Hovind's evangelism was a business not a ministry.

Hovind  was found guilty on 59 federal counts.


A small bronze bust of Spencer Tracy sold for £174,000.

A small bronze bust of Spencer Tracy made £174,000.


During the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989, Chinese student demonstrators in Beijing built a 10-meter version of the Statue of Liberty to symbolize their struggle.

The Statue of Liberty was built in 1989.


Boris Becker is a former professional tennis player for Germany.


Tuesday, January 30, 2007 The Suns had been on fire for the entire month of January. Unfortunately for them, Kevin Garnett was holding the extinguisher when the Suns came into the Target Center on Monday night. Garnett posted a double-double, scoring 44 points and snaring 11 rebounds, as the Minnesota Timberwolves defeated the Phoenix Suns 121-112. The loss prevented the Suns from posting a perfect record in the month of January, and ended the Suns' season-high 17-game winning streak. The Suns had problems answering Garnett's scoring prowess, but it was the Minnesota defense that doomed the Suns, limiting them to 17 points in the final quarter after allowing 95 from Phoenix in the first three periods. Steve Nash had 20 points and 18 assists, but in the fourth quarter he was only able to score 3 points and provide one assist.


A referendum in Ireland proposing the country's ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon has been rejected by the electorate despite near universal support from the country's political establishment. Although in most states the issue has been (or will be) decided through parliamentary vote, Ireland was obliged to hold a referendum by its constitution. Ireland is the first state to reject the treaty which came about as a reworking of the E.U. Constitution, rejected by referenda in France and the Netherlands in 2005.

European nations have signed the Treaty of Lisbon.


Lawyer David Gibbs pleaded with the appeals court to order Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted to give her parents a chance to make a complete argument before a federal court that her rights are being violated.

The appeals court was their last best chance to get that feeding tube reinserted into their daughter.


Reagan was seriously wounded by a bullet fired by John Hinckley Jr. in an attempted assassination on March 30, 1981.

Reagan almost died on March 30, 1981, when would-be assassin John W. Hinckley Jr. shot him.


The crisis took a sharp turn for the worse after the cabinet, without the Syrian-backed ministers, approved the UN draft document for creation of an international tribunal in the case of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's killing.

The crisis worsened after the UN draft document for the creation of an international tribunal was approved.


At eurodisney, once upon a time is now in this magical kingdom where childhood fantasies and make-believe come to life.

EuroDisney is located in this magical kingdom.


Recently of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), where he worked in media and public relations, Mr. Jay Walsh was announced as the replacement for Sandy Ordonez as the communications officer for the Wikimedia Foundation on an internal mailing list on Tuesday, 8 January. "I'm extremely grateful for [Sandy Ordonez's] hard work and excellent judgement," said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation, in her announcement. Ordonez managed the WMF's public and media relations from January 2007, and will stay on in Florida until the end of the month when the Tampa office is closed.

Sandy Ordonez was replaced by Jay Walsh.


The cost for some 30 million sheets of paper used each year by Cal State Long Beach colleges and departments went up Wednesday for the first time in four years.


Earlier this year reporter Judith Miller was jailed for refusing to name the US-government source who identified a member of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Valerie Plame.

Judith Miller works for the US Government.


A former philosophy teacher whose best-known novel, Sophie's World, was a surprise international best-seller.


Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, left Lillehammer for Sarajevo to pay tribute to the besieged host city of the 1984 Winter Games

The International Olympic Commitee's head office is in Lillehammer.


The lion's share of this traffic comes from Angola, where diamonds from the area controlled by UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) rebels are subject to an embargo.

Angola was subject to an embargo on the export of diamonds.


Pollner, they say, began trading with Iraq before the 1991 Persian Gulf War and continued after a U.N. embargo. For his part, Chalmers had loaned money to Iraq since the 1980s and received repayment in oil, according to industry experts.

Persia bought oil from Iraq during the embargo.


Following the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty of 1979, Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula, in exchange for peace with its neighbor. For over two decades, the Sinai Peninsula was home to about 7,000 Israelis.

The Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement was signed in 1979.


Crude oil dips below $43 on news that Russia's justice ministry will not force Yukos to halt sales.


The widow of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, may take legal action against a new breakfast cereal called "Strawberry Fields," which she believes is too close in name to Lennon's song.


Tom Cruise has returned to The Oprah Winfrey Show and talked about his love for Katie Holmes, but this time he was denying marital problems instead of jumping on the couch to prove his passion for the young actress. "That's laughable to me," Cruise said when Winfrey told him there was speculation that "what you and Katie have is not real". It was the first time Cruise appeared on the show since his couch-hopping stunt three years ago drew a flood of satire and ridicule. "It was something that I just felt that way, and I feel that way about her. That's just how I felt," he said in the interview, which aired on Friday in the US.


President Ford reported that a force of 70 evacuation helicopters and 865 Marines had evacuated about 1,400 U.S. citizens and 5,500 third country nationals and South Vietnamese from landing zones near the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and the Tan Son Nhut Airfield.


On Feb. 1, 1945, the Polish government made Warsaw its capital, and an office for urban reconstruction was set up.

Warsaw remained Poland's capital after the war.


The city retains its spotless streets, immaculate shops and nonexistent crime rate. Since the slowdown, only one manufacturing company has gone bankrupt, says the city's Chamber of Commerce and Industry, because Toyota spread out orders among many of the more than 400 auto parts factories in the city, to keep them afloat through hard times. Nonetheless, Toyota's downturn has rippled through the city's economy, idling many smaller auto-related suppliers, which also cut payrolls, mainly by refusing to renew the contracts of short-term workers. After losing their jobs, many of the city's 16,400 foreign residents, mostly ethnic Japanese from Brazil and Latin America, packed up and left, residents and city officials said.


On the morning of 1 June, there was a blackout throughout most of the capital caused by urban commandos of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).


Oil prices eased back from record high levels after Russia's justice ministry said embattled oil giant Yukos can continue oil production and sales.


A variety of devices could be powered selectively from a single-power source carried on the body via multiple power supply signals at different frequencies, according to the patent abstract.

The patent abstract shows a number of devices using a single source.


Shelby Foote, author of the acclaimed three volume history of the American Civil War, The Civil War: A Narrative, died in Memphis on June 27 at age 88. Foote also wrote historical fiction, including Follow Me Down and Shiloh. He may be best known for his appearance in filmmaker Ken Burns' PBS documentary, The Civil War. The Modern Library ranked Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative as number 15 on its list of 100 best non-fiction books. He was commissioned to write a short history of the Civil War by Random House and spent more than 20 years on the work eventually producing the three volumes.

The Civil War: A Narrative is a book written by Shelby Foote.


Drew Barrymore and Justin Long have been cast in a romantic comedy called Going the Distance. The New Line Cinema film is to be directed by documentary filmmaker Nanette Burstein, who made the films The Kid Stays in the Picture and American Teen. It will be Burstein's feature film debut. Going the Distance, written by New Line staffer Geoff LaTulippe, will focus on a couple dealing with challenges arising from a cross-country romance. Media reports did not indicate a release date had been determined.

Drew Barrymore is in a relationship with Justin Long.


As late as 1799, priests were still being imprisoned or deported to penal colonies and persecution only worsened after the French army led by General Louis Alexandre Berthier captured Rome and imprisoned Pope Pius VI, who would die in captivity in Valence, Drôme, France in August of 1799.


Rana told a delegation of the Nepal Trans-Himanlyan Trade Association, the only non-governmental organization which has trade relations with China, who informed the minister of the problems existing in the bilateral trade sector.


Last week, saw the fall of the Dutch right wing coalition government, made up of the Christian-democrats (CDA) led by Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, the right wing liberal party (VVD) and the so-called left-liberal D66.

Three parties form a Dutch coalition government.


An official of the International Special Commission in charge of disarming Iraqi weapons (UNSCOM) announced yesterday, Saturday, that the Commission will keep its inspectors in Iraq despite Baghdad's decision to stop its cooperation with them.


Toshiba, the world's third-largest notebook computer maker behind Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., said the PC would be introduced in Japan in early 2006.


Tintin, the Smurfs, Boule et Bill, Astérix, Natacha, Spirou and other legendary characters were created by talented artists like Hergé, Morris, Franquin and Walthéry.


"With oil prices at $90 a barrel and fear of recession in the UK and many other European economies, the current outlook for the coming fiscal year is poor. While it is impossible to accurately forecast full year fuel prices and yields this far in advance, there is now a significant chance that profits may decline next year," Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary cautioned. Ryanair said that it is not hedged against oil price increases for the next fiscal year. However, Ryanair is not the only airline to suffer from the economic downturn. Aer Lingus shares are down 3% to €1722.30. Easyjet has declined 11%. However shrewd, Mr. O'Leary has plans to spend up to 200 million purchasing back shares in the company, which equates to 3% of the company share capital.


Pakistani officials announced that two South African men in their custody had confessed to planning attacks at popular tourist spots in their home country.

Two South Africans were arrested in Pakistan in the past week after a shoot-out at a house between al-Qaeda operatives and security forces.


A charity today joined forces with Glasgow's new Lord Provost to launch a campaign to help the Russian city's twin. A convoy of aid is being sent to Rostov-on-Don next month by The Caring City Organisation.

Rostov-on-Don is a Russian city whose twin is Glasgow.


He'll teach the new environmental engineering classes at Carroll as a full-time professor. The school said his position will be funded by a two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education. While Weight couldn't be reached by phone this week, past studies have taken him to Lake Titicaca in Peru, where he studied mercury levels in the lake's fish. He authored the "Hydrology Field Manual," along with other professional journals. In the fall semester, Weight will begin teaching water quality, as well as a hands-on class in stream restoration. The following spring, he'll teach new classes in air quality and groundwater flow modeling.


Jyestadeva (1500-1610), was an astronomer of the Kerala school founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama and a student of Damodara. He is most known for writing the first calculus text, the Yuktibhasa . He also authored the Drk-karana on astronomical observations.


ET confirms that actor Bruce Willis has married his girlfriend of a year, model/actress Emma Heming.  A small, private wedding ceremony took place on Saturday at Willis' home in Parrot Cay, Turks & Caicos, a rep said.  In attendance were the 54-year-old actor's first wife, Demi Moore, and her husband Ashton Kutcher, as well as his daughters Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah Belle. The couple plans to hold a civil ceremony when they return to California.


Bush and his wife, Laura, departed the White House on Thursday afternoon to spend four days at the wooded presidential retreat of rustic cabins in the Maryland mountains. Along with the first lady's mother, Jenna Welch, the weekend gathering includes the president's parents, former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara; his sister Doro Koch and her husband, Bobby; and his brother, Marvin, and his wife, Margaret.

The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.


Merseyside Police concluded after a brief inspection that the controversial blog Liverpool Evil Cabal does not break criminal law. However the council officers continue to search for the editor. The blog has been blocked on computers controlled by Liverpool Direct Ltd, a company jointly owned by Liverpool City Council and British Telecom. The council's elected officials have denied ordering the block and are currently investigating its origin.

Liverpool Evil Cabal is the name of an online blog.


Kasyanov was sacked by Putin in February 2004, after he had become critical of the Kremlin's politically motivated legal attack on the Yukos oil giant and its owner, billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

The Kremlin is owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.


In June 1971 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev occupied Salyut for 23 days, setting a new record for the longest human spaceflight.

23 days is the record for the longest stay in space by a human.


The galaxy, measuring just 2,000 light-years across, is a fraction of the size of our own Milky Way, which stretches 100,000 light-years in diameter.

The Milky Way measures 2,000 light-years across.


Martin was given water to drink, then taken to New Orleans Ochsner Foundation Hospital, where nurse Jinny Resor said he was treated for dehydration.

Ochsner Foundation Hospital is located in New Orleans.


India, an enchanting country situated in the southern central peninsula of the Asian continent, covers over 3.28 million square kilometers.


Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, also a prominent anti-Syria political figure, was killed in a suicide bombing in February last year, which led to rising anti-Syrian waves and the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon.

Syrian troops have been withdrawn from Lebanon after the murder of Rafik Hariri.


Heemeyer equipped an old bulldozer with three television cameras and monitors so he could see to steer.

Heemeyer had installed television cameras connected to three monitors so he could see where he was going.


A series of projects with the objective of finding solutions to some of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident have been carried out within the framework of the UNESCO Chernobyl Programme. The IHP organized a workshop to review and compare present knowledge of radionuclide transfer in the hydrological cycle.

The Chernobyl disaster had repercussions outside the ex-USSR.


Seagate Technology has said it intends to buy rival company Maxtor for $1.9 billion. Both companies produce hard drives. The deal, priced at 60% of Maxtor's closing share price, is intended to acquire Maxtor's customers, not its technology. Seagate, which also makes drives for Microsoft's Xbox 360, will have over 40% of the hard drive market share. The Scotts Valley, California, based Seagate had 30% of the hard drive market. Provided the deal makes it past regulatory committees, Maxtor shareholders will receive .37 of a share of Seagate common stock for every 1 share of the Milpitas based company.


Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., on Monday, threw their weight behind the next-generation, HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp., in a blow to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray format.

Microsoft Corp. is a competitor of Toshiba Corp.


Professional computer hackers from the secret services were brought into attempt to hack into the Government's internal secure communicationssystem, which was launched today.

Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.


The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is trying to reassure lawyers for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes that the inquiry is still on track.

Police issued John Wadham's statement after lawyers for the de Menezes family met with the complaints commission, demanding more information about the killing.


President Chirac has been advised that his resumption of nuclear testing would precipitate an international boycott of French products.

International pressure is exerted to end French nuclear tests.


Nabih Berri, Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament has delayed the presidential vote for an eleventh time since initial voting began on September 25. The last vote was set for December 29 but has been rescheduled for January 12. A senior political source stated the reason for the delay was due to "complications in regional and international negotiations and the severing of domestic talks."


Iraq became a sovereign country Monday morning, but only a dozen officials were present at the transfer of power ceremony in the heavily guarded Green Zone of Baghdad. Bremer handed over legal documents that were accepted by Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.

The transfer of power took place in Baghdad.


Now GMFanuc Robotics has perfected a robotic solution that is three times faster than manual spraying, can reproduce a spray pattern to an accuracy of 0.03 inch, and can be programmed easily to handle a wide range of garments.

Robots are used to spray dye on garments.


Comdex -- once among the world's largest trade shows, the launching pad for new computer and software products, and a Las Vegas fixture for 20 years -- has been canceled for this year.

Comdex launches trade shows for 20 years.


GUS on Friday disposed of its remaining home shopping business and last non-UK retail operation with the 390m (265m) sale of the Dutch home shopping company, Wehkamp, to Industri Kapital, a private equity firm.


Prince Charles was previously married to Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.

Prince Charles and Princess Diana got married in August 1997.


The town lies along the stretch of coastline designated as Gold Beach during the D-Day landings , one of the beaches used by British troops in the allied invasion. Arromanches was selected as one of the sites for two Mulberry Harbours built on the Normandy coast, the other one built further West at Omaha Beach.

The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.


Jerusalem was rebuilt and served as Israel's capital off and on under various foreign rulers until 70 AD, when Roman legions burned the city and expelled its Jewish inhabitants.


"Child labor" is, generally speaking, work for children that harms them or exploits them in some way (physically, mentally, morally, or by blocking access to education).


Brad Pitt is causing havoc on his school run. The handsome actor has been spotted taking his kids to school in New York, causing local mothers to fight over who drives all their children in the mornings, in the hope of meeting the star. A source said: "Moms are fighting over who gets to carpool the kids to school. They are all dressing up and are desperate to meet him." Brad, 45, has taken on the duty of driving adopted boys Maddox, eight, and Pax, five, to class while his partner Angelina Jolie shoots her latest film 'Salt'. The couple also raise four other children, adopted daughter Zahara, four, and their naturally conceived children Shiloh, two, and eight-month-old twins Vivienne and Knox.


Since independence and the blood bath of partition , in which an estimated 15 million people were uprooted and 200,000 died , India and Pakistan have fought three wars , two over possession of Kashmir .

India and Pakistan have fought three wars for the possession of Kashmir.


The Statue of Liberty was reopened to the public on July 5 after its extensive refurbishing. 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.

The Statute of Liberty was built in 1986.


Apart from the new substances entering the market, the phase out of existing ones, which have been definitely identified as damaging the ozone layer, is far from complete.

New substances are damaging the ozone layer.


On 12 August, the San Carlos Battalion came across mines placed in their path and one soldier was killed while two were seriously injured. Meanwhile on 10 August, urban commandos took a patrol car by surprise and dropped a grenade inside the car, injuring four and partially destroying the vehicle.


Mental health problems in children and adolescents are on the rise, the British Medical Association has warned, and services are ill-equipped to cope.

Mental health problems increase in the young.


Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla and Thai Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai were among foreign dignitaries flying in for Endon's funeral later Thursday. Thousands of people filed past Endon's body, which lay in state wrapped in white linen on a table while Muslim clerics recited verses from the Quran.

Lee Hsien Loong is friends with Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.


In Italy, big protests by students and university staff against government reforms to higher education brought parts of central Rome to a standstill on Tuesday.

The Italian government introduces reforms to higher education.


In Britain, they channel their energies into gardening and riding. In Holland, they travel by bicycle to prove that they are of the people. But, conforming to a national stereotype, the Italian royal family, exiled from their homeland for 60 years, prefer fast cars and beautiful women.


No case of indigenously acquired rabies infection has been confirmed in man or any animal species during the past 2 years.