The activists had been imprisoned in relation to their protest in the main square of Krakow , Poland, against the presence of Vladimir Putin at the ceremonies for the 60th anniversary of the freeing of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Vladimir Putin participated in the ceremonies for the freeing of the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp.


In the glamorous, exclusive world of French haute couture, Sakina M'Sa is an unlikely star. Like her creations, M'Sa is the sum of many parts - a tiny woman from the Comoros, an immigrant from a working-class neighbourhood in Marseille, and a designer who follows her own dreams and embroiders the fashion world with a social conscience. "My only strength in life is my difference," says M'Sa, dressed all in black and sitting in her workshop and showroom in La Goutte d'Or, a working-class neighbourhood in Paris which is home to a large population of Africans.


An official of Abyan police, where 16 Western tourists are being held since yesterday, announced that the hostages are held by the Yemeni "Islamic Jihad" group, which is demanding the release of its leader and lifting the embargo on Iraq.

The Yemen branch of the "Islamic Jihad" group, kidnapped the 16 Western tourists.


Published Date:  06 April 2009  Carrie Underwood was named Entertainer Of The Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards in the US.  The former American Idol winner was the first female act to win the honour since the Dixie Chicks in 2000. "I've had a lot of good moments in the past four years. This one takes the cake," the tearful 26-year-old said.   "Thank you God, thank you fans, thank you to ACM for nominating me in the first place. I never thought I'd be nominated and never thought I'd win. I'm shaking. I don't know what to say."

Carrie Underwood won the second prize at the Academy of Country Music Awards.


Philip Morris said it sold 201 bn cigarettes world-wide during the quarter.

Philip Morris said it sold 201 billion cigarettes worldwide during the third quarter of 1994.


Last month, the FBI's Washington Field Office began an internal recruitment drive to staff a new anti-obscenity squad. The job of the new squad would be to gather evidence against the "manufacturers and purveyors" of pornography, and would require eight agents, a supervisor and assorted support help. The squad would not be concerned with child pornography, but instead focus on pornography that depicts, and is marketed to, consenting adults. The squad would target bestiality, urination, defecation, and sadomasochistic behavior, which have a high rate of conviction in jury trials. The initiative is described as "one of the top priorities" of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, as well as FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III. Gonzales has said that "adult pornography is a threat to families and children."


He said that "there is evidence that Cristiani was involved in the murder of the six Jesuit priests" which occurred on 16 November in San Salvador.


Political leaders pledged that construction of the so-called Freedom Tower -- which will rise 1,776 feet into the air and be the world's tallest building -- will be finished on schedule by the end of 2008.

The Freedom Tower will be the world's tallest building.


Israeli scientists predict the world's coral reefs could begin to collapse in as little as 30 years from now. Studies show the oceans are becoming increasingly acidic as they soak up manmade emissions of carbon dioxide. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers say this will make it difficult for many coral organisms to produce skeletal and other hard parts. The team's work on corals in the Red Sea suggests a tipping point will be reached in between 30 and 70 years.  Then the forces of erosion eating away at corals will outstrip the organisms' ability to make the reefs.

The coral organisms are endangered by the acidification of oceans.


In announcing plans today to prepare the nation for combating a future worldwide wave of bird flu, President Bush used vocabulary and tactics that are familiar from his confrontation with global terrorism.


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

Mahmoud Abbas has claimed victory in the presidential elections.


Mr Fitzgibbon expects some of the 17,000 additional US troops heading for Afghanistan will bolster Australian forces operating in the dangerous Oruzgan province in the south. The defence minister was planning to raise the issue specifically with US Defence Secretary Robert Gates. He has already held talks with US central command chief General David Petraeus and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta. General Petraeus discussed the new US strategy for Afghanistan and the troop surge in which an extra 17,000 troops will be deployed in the southern provinces where Taliban insurgents have been most active.

David Petraeus is the director of the CIA.


On Sunday Memoirs: 1939-1993 a memoir written by former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney will be released. The 1,152 page tome outlines Mulroney's version of events during his time as prime minister. CTV will broadcast a documentary on Brian Mulroney on the eve of his book launch. In addition, the network plans to air Triumph & Treachery: The Brian Mulroney Story on Sunday, CTV says the 90-minute special will be the most complete interview the former prime minister has ever given and his first comprehensive interview since leaving office in 1993. The Quebec French language TVA network will air a similar documentary exclusively in French later that night.

The Australian Prime Minister is called John Howard.


Nigeria has been the culprit so far, preventing the world from being completely polio-free.


City officials fired the captain of the crashed Staten Island ferry.

Staten Island ferry captain has refused to talk with investigators.


On the other hand, the article, "Fiction and Facts About Drug Legalization", by Joseph Califano identifies possible social problems that could occur as a result of marijuana being decriminalized in any form, whether for medical purposes or for recreational use.


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.

Manuel Antonio Rugama was killed by Jose Jesus Pena.


The Interstate 35W Mississippi River eight-lane bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota has collapsed on both sides of the highway over the Mississippi River during rush hour. Previous reports indicated at least nine people had died, but Minneapolis police revised this to four during a 7:30 a.m. (local time) press conference.  Tim Dolan, the Minneapolis Police Chief later stated that "several [adding to the four] people are confirmed dead at the scene," but would not elaborate on how many. At least 79 have been injured and at least 8 are still missing, still believed to be in the rubble.

A bridge falls into the Mississippi River.


In most Pacific countries there are very few women in parliament.

Women are poorly represented in parliament.


Late Tuesday, authorities in the U.S. state of Texas carried out the execution of José Medellín, a Mexican national convicted of raping and murdering two teenage girls in 1993. The execution was carried out despite being at the center of an international legal dispute with objections from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. José Ernesto Medellín, 33, was born in Mexico but moved to the U.S. as a child. He was sentenced to death for the 1993 rape and murder of two girls aged 14 and 16 in Houston, Texas. On Tuesday at 9:57 p.m. CDT, he was given a lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.


Three nurses in one of Vienna's oldest hospitals have been arrested on suspicion of killing 35 patients.

Three Vienna nurses are under suspicion for killing patients.


El Nino is so named because the effects of the warmer water off Peru are usually noticed near Christmas time.


The floods were exceptional since they affected an extensive area across Europe from the UK to Spain and as far east as the Black Sea coast. Economic losses amounted to EUR 9.2 bn in Germany, EUR 2.9 bn in Austria and EUR 2.3 bn in the Czech Republic. Total economic damage exceeds EUR 15 bn.

Flooding in Europe causes major economic losses.


The first half of 1997 has been a year of considerable progress for East Timor in the international arena. In April, a majority of members of the UN Commission on Human Rights voted in support of a strong resolution on East Timor, criticising the Indonesian government for its lack of progress on human rights in East Timor and calling for concrete steps to be taken to address the continuing violations.

Guerrillas increase activity in East Timor.


Lucinda Creighton has claimed that people resent her as being "overambitious" and "in too much of a hurry" to climb the political ladder. The outspoken Fine Gael deputy was speaking after a heated exchange with Enda Kenny led to her walking out of a parliamentary party meeting last week. Creighton, who at 29 is already acknowledged as a potential future leader of Fine Gael, slammed detractors who see her rapid success in a "negative" light -- and believes her friend and colleague Leo Varadkar has suffered the same fate. Speaking in the run up to the Fine Gael Ard Fheis, Ms Creighton also rejected suggestions which surfaced last week that she is seen as a 'loose cannon' within the party.  "I certainly don't regard myself as a loose cannon. I'm absolutely part of the Fine Gael team," she said.

Lucinda Creighton is the leader of a parliamentary party.


Last Saturday I was thrilled to read about a school in Co Antrim which has introduced the study of philosophy for students of four years of age and upwards. According to both teachers and parents, the benefits are felt far beyond the classroom, "not just in terms of increased confidence, motivation and ability, but in a heightened respect for the differing views of others". In 1999, I walked through the gates of Trinity College to enrol as an undergraduate in the philosophy department. I had just returned home from years living in another city; I was recently married, unemployed and had been diagnosed with a mental illness I didn't quite believe I had. I wasn't sure if I could cope.


They're being forced to live on crumbs, so nuns at a Hollywood convent famous for its pumpkin bread are warning that they may have to slice up the place for development. The threat of a shutdown of the 75-year-old Monastery of the Angels below the Hollywood sign has prompted neighbors and supporters to mount a campaign to save the four-acre religious retreat. The volunteers say they may turn to the nuns' moist and fragrant pumpkin bread to help make up a cash shortfall that has slashed the monastery's operating budget by more than 70%.

The Monastery of the Angels was founded 75 years ago.


He also developed a breath test that could detect sulfur compounds emitted from the H. pylori.

The H. pylori produces sulphur compounds.


Two men have been charged with starting the Zaca Fire, the second-largest wildfire in the history of California. The fire is continuing to burn through the Los Padres National Forest, and has consumed a total of 240,000 acres, having started on July 4. However, the fire is now under control, and is expected to be contained by September 4. Jose Jesus Cabrera of Santa Ynez, 38, Santiago Iniguez Cervantes of Santa Maria, 46, and the company of Rancho La Laguna, whom they worked for, have all been charged with six counts of felony in relation to starting the fire.

Cabrera and Cervantes are accused of having caused the Zaca Fire.


Brazil, Australia and Thailand argued that the EU, one of the world's largest exporters, broke WTO farm rules by exceeding limits on export subsidies laid down under WTO's 1994 Agreement on Agriculture.

The three countries argued that UE, one of the greater exporter of the world, infringed the rules of the OMC when exceeding the limit of the subsidies to the exports indicated under the Agreement on Agriculture of the OMC in 1994.


The publishing of a series of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a Copenhagen newspaper sparked a string of harsh and in some places violent reactions in the Middle East, forcing European leaders to try to calm the situation. This backlash started in late September 2005, when the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a dozen cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad. The images ranged from serious to comical in nature; a particularly controversial cartoon portrays Mohammad with a bomb wrapped in his turban. The Jutland-based newspaper states that the images were meant to inspire some level of public debate over the image of Islam in Europe, and had no direct aim of offending anyone.

Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.


The National Park Trust identified 20 high-priority sites - including the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina and Virginia and Everglades National Park in Florida - as areas with private property that could be sold.

Everglades National Park is located in Florida.


Worldwide, child labor is most prevalent in the agricultural sector, where children are widely used as day laborers. Working long hours, children working in agriculture are often exposed to harmful pesticides, dangerous machinery, backbreaking loads, and many other hazardous conditions.


Mr Lopez Obrador, who lost July's presidential election by less than one percentage point, declared himself Mexico's "legitimate" president.

Mr Lopez Obrador didn't loose the presidential election in July.


The ceasefire declaration by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and its immediate rejection by the government have emphasised the starkness of the situation in which the guerrilla group finds itself, 37 years after first taking up arms for the cause of a Tamil homeland and 26 years after the start of all-out war. Masters of communication, the Tigers were quick to disseminate their message to journalists all over Colombo and overseas, too. But to many it seemed like a cry of desperation from the losing side.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is a guerrilla group.


THE French justice minister who returned to work five days after having a baby, only to lose her job, launched a political comeback last week, letting it be known that she will run for mayor of Paris. Rachida Dati, 43, long seen as President Nicolas Sarkozy's favourite among the "Sarko-zettes" - his women ministers - lost his confidence and was ordered to leave the cabinet and instead run for the European parliament. She used the launch of her party's European election campaign to deny she was a Sarkozy creation and to add gravitas to the "bling-bling" image attached to her since she posed in a £15,000 Christian Dior dress at a fashion gala.


The airline now flew under the name Sabena - Belgian World Airlines.


The curious Belgian compromise over the weed has some logic, even for a country which says it wants to reduce drug use. Surveys show that as many as 40 percent of the country's 10 million population has experienced cannabis and with the Dutch border an hour away for most of the population, some liberalisation seems inevitable.

People can legally have 40 grams of cannabis in their possession.


The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at its lowest level in over six years on Thursday, having lost 1.16%, or 89.68 points, bringing it to a level of 7,465.95. It had, at one point, set an intraday bear market low of 7,447.55. It was the lowest ending for the index since October 9, 2002. The Dow has fallen almost fifteen percent since the start of this year.


Crude oil prices shot to new highs yesterday as markets reacted to a threat by Russian authorities to shut down most of the production from that country's largest oil company


The Sioux Ghost Shirt was a feature of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum for more than 100 years before being repatriated to its land of origin.

A Sioux ghost shirt was returned by a Scottish museum.


Romano Prodi will meet the US President George Bush in his capacity as president of the European commission.

George Bush is the president of the European Commission.


Dr Raynard Kington, of the US National Institutes of Health, which funded the research, said: "These findings establish that genetic factors play a strong role in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). "Detailed analysis of the genes and how they affect brain development is likely to yield better strategies for diagnosing and treating children with autism." People with ASD, which include autism and Asperger's syndrome, have problems with social interaction, poor communication skills and tend to engage in repetitive behaviours.

The ASD includes diseases such as autism and Asperger's syndrome.


Felipe González Márquez (born March 5, 1942) is a Spanish socialist politician. He was the General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997.

Felipe González is the President of Spain.


In 1973, the United States and Communist China agreed to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington.

Communist China is an organisation based in Beijing and Washington.


In 1999, Victor Conte was sent two vials of a new drug by a chemist he knew and he started giving it to some of his clients. Including says Conte, one of Americas most iconic sportswomen, Marion Jones, who was about to compete in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Sportswomen have been suspected of doping.


It would force countries in the region to choose between the United States and Japan -- or maybe between Japan and China . And it would collapse whatever promise the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) holds as a vehicle to assure American commercial access to the booming Pacific markets . To risk all of this in the name of a flawed concept is foolish . This is not to deny the Administration 's understandable frustration with a persistently huge Japanese trade surplus.

APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.


On June 28, 1997, in what would become known as the bite fight, Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear, purportedly in retaliation for Holyfield headbutting him.

Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear on June 28, 1997.


The documents commented by the magazine date of April 25, 2002, epoch in which the Brazilian president was Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

The Brazilian President is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.


GM established grounds for suspicion of industrial spying by presenting affidavits from its employees. The aim will be to determine if VW's project was copied from GM data - essential if industrial espionage is to be proved.

There was an industrial espionage case involving GM and VW.


Passions surrounding Germany's final match at the Euro 2004 soccer championships turned violent when a woman stabbed her partner in the head because she didn't want to watch the game on television.

A woman passionately wanted to watch the soccer championship.


Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc) was a Hungarian/Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer who lived from 1811 to 1886. Liszt is widely considered to be one of the greatest piano virtuosi of all time, and certainly the most famous of the nineteenth century.


Polish-born Pope John Paul II, credited for inspiring Poland's return to democracy after more than 40 years of communism, is expected to dedicate the church during his visit next summer.


Conservationists fear that one of Namibia's most precious resources, its abundant wildlife and especially its threatened black rhinoceros, faces a major menace from poaching.

In Africa, rhinos are seriously endangered by poaching.


Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, are gathering in Laos to discuss topics ranging from terrorism and economic integration to non-aggression treaties with several regional neighbors.

Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations work for ASEAN.


French is the mother tongue of 80.9 percent of Québeckers, while 7.8 percent cite English as their mother tongue.

French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.


Witnesses of genocide attacks on minority Tutsis in Rwanda are being singled out for execution by extremist Hutus in refugee camps in southwest Rwanda, a U.N. spokesman said in Kigali, the capital.

The Hutu and Tutsi groups fought in Rwanda.


The most recent figures from UNAids show a continent divided in two. In north Africa, up to 0.5% of the population has been infected with HIV. In sub-Saharan Africa, that figure is 8.8% but rising to almost 40% in some countries. In four countries - Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe - at least one in three of the population is HIV positive.


In 1932 he joined the then illegal Communist party and held high government and party posts from 1942, becoming home secretary in 1948, when the Communist party took control in Hungary.

Communist control in Hungary ended in 1948.


Experimenting on a raft anchored on the river Elbe, Alfred Nobel tries to make nitroglycerine safer to handle. Finds that the addition of kieselguhr turns nitroglycerine into a dough that can be kneaded, and calls it "dynamite".

Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.


A.S. Roma suffered their second home defeat of the campaign, with a 3-2 loss to 10-man Siena.


Athletics' governing body, the IAAF, last week cleared Ottey of accusations of steroid use and lifted a two-year ban after their arbitration panel said the IOC-accredited lab in Lausanne improperly tested Ottey's urine sample.

Sportswomen have been accused of doping.


Security preparations kept protestors at bay at the recent G8 Summit on Sea Island (USA).

Demonstrations against G8 Summit took place at Sea Island bay.


But most Israelis, including those sympathetic to the settlers' efforts to reclaim all the territory that was part of the biblical Land of Israel, reacted with horror to the Hebron killings and the subsequent violence.

Hebron is located 20 miles south of Jerusalem.


More than 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank in 1912.


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.

Sunni Arabs say they're not ready to re-join the committee drafting Iraq's new constitution.


Les Paul, who continues to perform weekly at New York Iridium Jazz Club, has finished recording "Les Paul & Friends."

Iridium Jazz Club is located in New York.


The area is used by both nomadic herders, who follow their herds and stay in mobile cattle camps, and sedentary farmers. "Attacks in this region could be the work of the (Tuareg rebel) Niger Justice Movement (MNJ) or they could be the work of Malian bandits," a security source, who declined to be identified, told Reuters. The rebels say that wealth generated from Niger's vast uranium deposits has not been distributed equally, and demand more autonomy for the Tuareg inhabitants of the northern Agadez region, where most of Niger's uranium is mined. At least 300 rebels and 80 government soldiers have been killed since the MNJ began its military campaign in early 2007.


When the Berlin Wall fell in early November, 1989 Berlin's east and west sections were rejoined to create the third-largest city in Europe , with a population of about 3 million.

The Berlin Wall was torn down in November, 1989.


India and Pakistan have agreed to release hundreds of fishermen and other civilians in each other's jails, a goodwill measure that comes as part of a peace process between the two countries.

India and Pakistan have decided to free hundreds of civilian prisoners in each others jails.


Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been accused of editing pages in the encyclopedia in return for a donation to the Wikimedia  Foundation. In an article published Tuesday, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that former Novell computer scientist Jeff Merkey alleged Wales had made  edits to his article on his behalf, in exchange for a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. The news hit the website Slashdot later Tuesday, where the incident was dubbed "DonorGate".

Readers of online encyclopedias can edit the contents.


Moog's synthesiser, which bears his name, revolutionised music from the 1960s onwards, and was used by bands like The Beatles and The Doors.

Moog's instruments were used by The Beatles and The Doors among others.


With half of the vote counted, the ANC has 66% of the vote. Its nearest rival, the Democratic Alliance, has 16%, while ANC splinter-group the Congress of the People trails with 8%.  The results will see ANC leader Jacob Zuma elected as President of South Africa when the National Assembly reconvenes in May.  Provincial elections are also being held, and the ANC looks likely to lose power in the province of Western Cape to the Democratic Alliance. This will be the first time an opposition party has won control of a provincial parliament since the end of apartheid.  The election campaign has focused on crime, poverty, and the suitability of Zuma to be President. Zuma was acquitted of rape in 2006, and corruption charges against him were withdrawn shortly before the election after prosecutors found the charges had been politically motivated.

Jacob Zuma is the leader of the ANC party.


The report, released by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, compared substance abuse statistics from their latest survey, in 2004, with statistics collected in 2002. It was based on interviews of more than 135,000 people. Nationwide, the rate of underaged drinking remained basically unchanged, but in California, it rose from 15.28 percent of California children between 12 and 17-years-old who said they had consumed alcohol in the previous month in 2002, to 16.81 percent who said they had in 2004. Binge drinking, defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least one day in the past 30 days, was reported by 10.27 percent of kids in 2004, up from the 9.16 percent who said they binged in 2002.

People are likely to start smoking tobacco when young.


Witching hour passed and Potter fans poured into bookshops around the world on Saturday, snatching up copies of the latest instalment in the series that promises to be the fastest-selling book in history.

Potter fans rushed to tills in order to purchase the book.


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.

Toshiba Corp. is a partner of Sony Corp.


The Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and their eventual attack on China in 1937 also lead to vast areas of China not being under Chiang's control.

The Japanese seized Manchuria in 1931, and began a war against China in 1937.


The Titanic sank in 1912 after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York.


"I've always said he's the closest I will ever come to meeting Gandhi, he's simply unmoved by any obstacle or any argument," said Bill Clapp, an heir to the Weyerhaeuser fortune and founder of Global Partnerships, a Seattle microfinance group that has partnered with Grameen in Central America.

Bill Clapp is the founder of the Global Partnerships.


The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 0.1 percent to 1573.65.

The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index dropped.


The 31 states initially affected are: (in alphabetical order) : Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming. Signs of salmonella include fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. Those most vulnerable are the young, the elderly or those with an already compromised health condition. This recall follows the long list of recalled peanut related products, peanut butter and candy bars which caused a salmonella outbreak at the end of January.

Nebraska is not far from West Virginia and Wyoming.


Accardo founded the Settimane Musicali Internazionali in Naples and the Cremona String Festival in 1971, and in 1996, he re-founded the Orchestra da Camera Italiana (O.C.I.), whose members are the best pupils of the Walter Stauffer Academy.

Accardo was a member of the Walter Stauffer Academy.


Like the corporate logos, the ear is a representation, in mouth-watering chocolate, a delicious reminder of the infamous boxing incident in 1997, when an enraged Mike Tyson bit Holyfield's ear.


Medicare will select by lottery 10 percent of those who apply by Aug. 16 to begin receiving benefits starting Sept. 1.

Medicare will choose 10 percent of applicants to receive benefits by Aug. 16.


It has been nearly 27 years since Nicole, then a high school student from the Saarland in extreme western Germany, sang a heartfelt plea for world peace on the stage at the Eurovision Song Contest held in Harrogate, North Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. That simple message was wrapped with success; she became the first German in Contest history to take home the grand prize. The song was a brainchild of her former record producer, Ralph Siegel, and would be their greatest achievement in their nearly three-decade partnership.


Binge drinking among young women is on the rise, bringing with it a number of health consequences, including fetal alcohol syndrome.

Young women are binge drinking more, which can lead to the health risk of fetal alcohol syndrome.


New research shows there has been a sharp increase in disfiguring skin cancers, particularly in women under the age of 40, providing more evidence that young people are not heeding warnings about the dangers of tanning.


Over a course of days, the bank went from apparent strength to bankruptcy. Barings was Britain's oldest merchant bank. It had financed the Napoleonic wars, the Louisiana purchase, and the Erie Canal. Barings was the Queen's bank.


The trip was about doing what he hasn't done for what many troops feel has been too long - visiting the thousands of servicemen and women fighting a war in southern Afghanistan.

Servicemen and women are fighting a war in southern Afghanistan.


Gen. Maza Marquez said that the fact that a payment is being offered for the capture of Pablo Escobar does not mean that other persons accused of being capos of the mafia are not being sought, and that if anyone being held in connection with the investigation of the killing of Luis Carlos Galan is released, that does not mean that the investigations are not proceeding well.

Luis was killed by the capos of the mafia.


Others argue that Mr. Sharon should have negotiated the Gaza pullout - both to obtain at least some written promises of better Palestinian behavior, and to provide Mr. Abbas with a prime prize to show his people that diplomacy, not violence, delivered Gaza.

Mr. Abbas is a member of the Palestinian family.


Arroyo was the favorite of investors because of her experience as a trained economist and government manager.

Arroyo has experience as an economist and as a government manager.


Polio is no longer a serious health problem for people living in the developed nations, such as the United States, Germany, or France.


Asia has the highest number of child workers, but Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest proportion of working children relative to population.


In 1962, Armstrong was transferred to astronaut status. He served as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, launched March 16, 1966, and along with David Scott, performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space by mating his Gemini 8 with an uninhabited Agena rocket.

Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.


Referring to the April 2 car bomb explosion perpetrated in Santa Tecla, the FMLN-FDR claimed responsibility for the attack in a communique, and said that it was "an action aimed directly at the police" and that "they regret the death of a civilian," but they did not mention compensation for the relatives.


Warrington-born Chris Evans denies he went wild, despite quitting Radio 1 in 1997 and later being sacked by Virgin Radio for not turning up for work during a five-day drinking binge.

Virgin Radio was the employer of Chris Evans.


The Pentagon is rejecting demands by Kyrgyzstan to pay for the past use of Manas air base, a key military facility for US aircraft flying missions to Afghanistan.

Manas air base is located in Kyrgyzstan.


Earlier this year, 78 local, state and federal agencies took part in a chemical attack drill, called Rotunda Thunda, at the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Strip.

A chemical attack took place at the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Strip.


Thanks to the recent acquisition of J.D. Edwards, Oracle will soon be able to run JDE apps on its Fusion Middleware platform, too.


In 2003, Yunus brought the microcredit revolution to the streets of Bangladesh to support more than 50,000 beggars, whom the Grameen Bank respectfully calls Struggling Members.

Yunus supported more than 50,000 Struggling Members.


It's Biodiesel, and Bio-Beetle is the first all-BD rental car company.


In the United Kingdom, The Carphone Warehouse, Celebrity Big Brother's sponsor, has pulled out after some of the reality TV show's contestants were accused of racism, with which the company did not want to be associated. The Perfume Shop has announced they will withdraw the perfume Shh... of Jade Goody, one of the contestants accused of bullying with a racist undertone. Motorcycle insurance company Bennetts unilaterally terminated its deal with former Miss England Danielle Lloyd to front an advertisement campaign.

Jade Goody is a contestant in Celebrity Big Brother.


He is the professor of theater and drama at Loyola University and the director of Wilson's "Two Trains Running," now onstage at Pegasus Players.

"Two Trains Running" was written by Wilson.


Iraq's representative to the United Nations, Nizar Hamdoun, announced today, Sunday, that thousands of people were killed or injured during the four days of air bombardment against Iraq.

Nizar HAMDOON, Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, announced that thousands of people could be killed or wounded due to the aerial bombardment of Iraq.


To break the grinding cycle of debt and poverty, Yunus loaned $27 to Begum and more than 40 of her neighbours in the village of Joba. He allowed them to pay him back over the next year as their businesses started to produce stable profits.

Some people in the village of Joba received loans from Yunus.


There is growing evidence that magnesium may be an important factor in the qualitative changes of the bone matrix that determine bone fragility.

Dietary intake of magnesium prevents osteoporosis.


In the early hours of April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg.


Gibbs also said that Obama planned to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, but poor weather in Baghdad means that Obama will likely talk to the prime minister and Iraqi President Jalal Talibani by telephone. American troops are slated to leave Iraq by August 2010, with The New York Times reporting that troop levels will continue to be high until Iraq's federal elections in December. Obama told a group of university students in Turkey that despite his original opposition to the war in 2003, he realized that the troop withdrawal must be done carefully.


Putin and Bush say Iran doesn't have evil nuclear ambitions.

Bush and Putin urge Iran to give up nuclear ambitions.


Medieval Christians said the rosary as Catholics still do today: by praying five decades of Ave Marias (Hail Marys), each introduced by a Pater Noster (Our Father), while meditating on three series of five mysteries each.


With a Queensland state election coming up in Australia, many minor parties and independents will be looking to hold balance of power and making the major parties listen to what they have to say. The Patrica Petersen are one of the independents. Wikinews reporter Patrick Gillett held an exclusive email interview with Ms Peterson, candidate for the electoral district of Bundamba.

Patrica Petersen was brought up in Bundamba.


Only 18 states, including Massachusetts, have specific provisions that allow women who quit their jobs due to domestic violence to qualify for UI.

18 states have provisions that permit women who quit their jobs because of domestic violence to collect unemployment insurance.


Suncreams designed for children could offer less protection than they claim on the bottle.

Suncreams designed for children protect at the level they advertise.


Meanwhile, at a Pushkin-Goethe Festival held recently in Moscow to observe the poets' birthdays (this year is Goethe's 250th), Dmitri Prigov, a post-modernist poet and conceptual artist, took the first line from "Onegin" ("My uncle - high ideals inspire him") and set it to Buddhist and Muslim mantras and Russian Orthodox and Gregorian chants.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.


A British Dynamite Company (Ardeer, Scotland, UK) is founded. In 1877 the company name was changed to Nobel's Explosives Company.

Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.


In other words, with its 2 million inhabitants, Slovenia has only 5.5 thousand professional soldiers.


The first Windows DNA lab outside Microsoft was established in suburban Philadelphia in June 1998.


"Nancy Grace and the others, they just bashed her to the end," said Duckett's grandfather, Bill Eubanks, during an interview with The Orlando Sentinel. "She wasn't one anyone ever would have thought of to do something like this. She and that baby just loved each other, couldn't get away from each other. She wouldn't hurt a bug." Grace's spokeswoman called the suicide "a sad development," and Grace herself issued a statement saying, "I do not feel that our show is to blame for what happened to Melinda Duckett."

Bill Eubanks was Melinda Duckett's grandad.


Durham is the 'City of Medicine' and home of Duke University and North Carolina Central.


Mike Wilson, marketing manager at Fanuc Robotics in Coventry, says of the improvements in robot performance: 'Our new ARC Mate welding robot, for example, is 30 per cent cheaper in real terms than a similar model three years ago.

Welding is a common use for robots in the auto industry.


Lt. Mark Banks, of Savannah, Ga., tends to a patient who was medically evacuated by U.S. Navy helicopter to a temporary triage site in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia.


Nevertheless, the international reputation of some Polish artists, notably the film maker Krzysztof Kieslowski, has never been higher. To use a crass commercial yardstick, the DVD boxed set of his Decalogue series (ten one-hour dramas based loosely on the Ten Commandments, made for Polish TV in 1988) is currently number 3,700 in Amazon.com's sales rankings (about even with The Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection).


Tropical Storm Arthur is projected to weaken tonight, but it will likely regain strength after entering the Bay of Campeche on Sunday.The 2008 Atlantic  hurricane season got off to an early start today when a tropical storm formed off the coast of Belize, one day before the season officially begins. Tropical Storm Arthur formed Saturday afternoon and quickly made landfall at the Yucatan Peninsula, near the border between Belize and Mexico. Both  countries issued a tropical storm warning for the peninsula's eastern coastline. In the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, ports were closed to small boats,  water sports were banned, and those living in coastal areas were encouraged to take precautions.

Tropical Storm Arthur is approaching the US coast.


Ebola haemorrhagic fever is a fatal disease caused by a new virus which has no known cure. When a new epidemic was detected in Zaire in the spring of 1995, it was widely perceived as a threat to the West. Public attention was intense.


The Securities and Exchange Commission's new rule to beef up the independence of mutual fund boards represents an industry defeat.

The SEC's new rule will give boards independence.


The Osaka World Trade Center is the tallest building in Western Japan.

The Osaka World Trade Center is the tallest building in Japan.


In "Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, JR.", by Gerald Posner (Harvest/Harcourt Brace, $15), the writer who attacked Kennedy conspiracy theories in "Case Closed" takes on Ray's claim of innocence in the 1968 murder of King.

Martin Luther King was murdered in 1968.


The government of South Ossetia has announced that it will evacuate children in danger zones to Russia. This came after a speech made by Eduard Kokoity, President of South Ossetia, which accused the Georgian government of "attempting to spark a full-scale war." Kokoity said that the conflict's victim count has reached 1400. As of 10:51pm August 8th, 12 Russian peacemakers are reported dead and 150 wounded. A video tape showing Georgian Su-25 aircraft being downed was aired on Vesti Russian TV channel late night of August 8th. The pilot of the jet reportedly ejected, but was captured and killed on the ground by Ossetian military.

South Ossetia chose Eduard Kokoity as President.


Shiite and Kurdish political leaders continued talks, on Monday, on forming a new government, saying they expected a full cabinet to be announced within a day or two.

US officials are concerned by the political vacuum and fear that it is feeding sectarian tensions, correspondents say.


Shares of Salesforce closed Wednesday at $17.20, more than 50% above their offering price.

Salesforce shares were more than 50% above their offering price of $17.20.


The Duke of Edinburgh and I are very happy that the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Parker Bowles are to marry.

I am delighted and wish The Prince of Wales and Parker Bowles a happy life.


"We are ... deploying more people into Côte d'Ivoire -- police, military people and people to work directly with the office of the prime minister" Mbeki told a news conference in Pretoria.

Mbeki holds the office of Prime Minister.


Quite simply, Tsutomu Yamaguchi is one of the luckiest men in the world. This slight 93-year-old with white hair, who is now largely confined to a wheelchair, was formally recognised last week as one of the tiny handful of people to have survived not one but both of the American atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 - bringing to an end to World War II. Known in Japan as one of the hibakusha - literally 'the explosionaffected people' - Mr Yamaguchi had long been recognised as a survivor of the nuclear explosion in his home town of Nagasaki.


Spain will recruit 500 extra police to fight Basque separatists ETA and Islamist militants in the next four years, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said on Tuesday. Including the new recruits, the number of anti-terrorism officers will have increased by 1,800 since the Socialist government took office in 2004, days after Islamist militants killed 191 people by bombing Madrid trains, Rubalcaba told a parliamentary committee. ETA has killed more than 800 people in four decades in its fight for an independent Basque Country composed of part of northern Spain and southern France. Its last fatal attack came on May 14, authorities believe, when a car bomb wrecked a police barracks in the Spanish Basque Country, killing one officer. The government will also provide an additional 800 officers to combat organised crime and another 1,248 staff to tackle domestic violence, Rubalcaba said.

ETA fights for the independence of Basque Country.


Contrast the Leitrim story with that of Rita Levi-Montalcini, an Italian Nobel laureate who turned 100 last Wednesday. She still attends for work every day at the European Brain Research Institute in Rome, which she founded. She was appointed a senator for life in 2001, and in 2006, aged 97, she attended the opening assembly of the newly elected senate. She takes part in discussions in the Upper House, and in 2004 defended the teaching of evolution in Italian schools. There is no record of her having claimed a day off because of festival commitments. Apparently she even manages to work right through the Rose of Tralee without lifting her head from her Petri dish.

Rita Levi-Montalcini is a Nobel prize winner.


In June 2004, top Russian oil producer Lukoil signed a $1 billion 35-year production-sharing agreement to develop Uzbek natural gas deposits.


On opening day Salesforce.com's stock was up $6.20 to $17.20, a 56.4% increase over the initial offering price of $11.

Opening day of the stock of Salesforce.com rose 56.4% over the initial offering price.


He met U.S. President, George W. Bush, in Washington and British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in London.


South Korea's deputy foreign minister says his country won't change its plan to send three-thousand soldiers to Iraq, despite the kidnapping of a South Korean man there.


The mystery of Alexander the Great's tomb still has not unraveled, and locating the burial of Alexander seems to have become an impossible mission for archaeologists.

Alexander the Great's Tomb remains undiscovered.


In the year 538, Cyrus set in place a policy which demanded the return of the various gods to their proper places.

Cyrus issued a declaration in 538 that would allow the Jews to go back to their homeland.


Prolonged exposure to UV-B light can cause sunburn, and there are worries that damage to the ozone layer may lead to an increase in the incidence of skin cancer.


After leaving Time-Life, Shuker joined the Public Broadcast Laboratory, forerunner of PBS, and participated in two pioneering films -- 'The Chair,' about an attorney trying to save a condemned man, and 'Free At Last,' a 90-minute documentary about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that by chance was being made when King was murdered in 1968.


According to official results, Abedelaziz Bouteflika, the 72-year-old president of Algeria, has been reelected to a third term as the country's leader in a landslide.  Yazid Zerhouni, the Algerian Interior Minister, stated that Bouteflika obtained 90.24% of the vote in the election, which was held on Thursday. Voter turnout was 74%, with some of the opposition parties boycotting the election amidst allegations of election fraud.  Zerhouni said at a news conference that the voter turnout was "exceptional", but insisted that the figures had not been manipulated, saying that anyone with evidence of fraud should take it to election officials.  Bouteflika's critics assert that the victory was a foregone conclusion — his opponents were not well known, and his campaign was well-funded. They continued to express outrage over a constitutional amendment adopted last November, which allowed Bouteflika to run for a third five-year term.

Abedelaziz Bouteflika won the Algerian presidential election.


Scientists had observed that mice with a defective Klotho gene aged prematurely and wondered if an enhanced gene would have an opposite effect.

Scientists have discovered a gene that produces a hormone that raises the life expectancy in mice by 30 percent.


Climate change is with us. A decade ago, it was conjecture. Now the future is unfolding before our eyes. Canada's Inuit see it in disappearing Arctic ice and permafrost.

Greenhouse effect changes global climate.


The liner notes to the CD surmise that Farrakhan is the author of three selections, "Is She Is, or Is She Ain't", "Don't Touch Me Nylon," and "Female Boxer" and that is quite possible. The most interesting is the first of these three, a topical number on Christie Jorgensen, the subject of a series of sex change operations. While such transexual operations have since become more common, this was the first to receive high publicity.

Sex-change operations become more common.


According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the plant was inspected in October, cited for safety violations, and fined about $10,000.

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the plant was inspected in October and fined for safety violations.


Iscor, the South African iron and steel manufacturer, has announced plans to develop a steel mini-mill at Saldanha Bay on the country's west coast in partnership with the state-run industrial development Corporation.

The South African steel manufacturer Iscor plans to develop a mini-mill.


To write "The Persians," which opens Thursday at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, Ellen McLaughlin spent six days. Given the direction of U.S. foreign policy, McLaughlin says, the lessons of "The Persians" are particularly crucial today, 2,500 years after it was written.

"The Persians" was written by Aeschylus.


Christopher Hitchens called him a "Bin Ladenist" and Cathy Young editorialized in The Boston Globe that he "blames the victims of terrorism" when he puts out a novel like Snowball's Chance, a biting send-up of George Orwell's Animal Farm which he was inspired to write after the terrorist attacks on September 11. "The clear references to 9/11 in the apocalyptic ending can only bring Orwell's name into disrepute in the U.S.," wrote William Hamilton, the British literary executor of the Orwell estate. That process had already begun: it was revealed Orwell gave the British Foreign Office a list of people he suspected of being "crypto-Communists and fellow travelers," labeling some of them as Jews and homosexuals. "I really wanted to explode that book," Reed told The New York Times. "I wanted to completely undermine it."

Cathy Young is the author of "Snowball's Chance".


Nevertheless, 58 percent of Americans expressed their satisfaction with the President's job performance. 44 percent supported Nixon at the very beginning of the investigation into Watergate.

Although 58% of Americans are unsatisfied with Clinton's job performance, 44% found Nixon's work adequate at the start of the Watergate scandal.


Cannabis is freely available in the Netherlands for sale in "coffee shops" in small quantities. The cost of five grammes, the maximum amount that can be legally purchased, is about £.50 ($19), enough to make about a dozen cigarettes.

In the Netherlands five grams of cannabis can be legally held in possession.


Switzerland has ratified bilateral agreements with the members of the European Union in March 2004, but the new members (Cyprus , Czech Republic , Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) were not included in the deal.

Lithuania intends to introduce the use of the Euro as an official currency on January 1, 2007.


There are more than 4,000 street children in the capital city of Ulan Bator.


Across Africa, young boys and girls wake up each morning just like children here in the Washington D.C. area. The children are no different; they do chores, eat, play sports, and go to school. That is, if they can survive the mosquito bites that transmit the deadly malaria parasites. Those parasites kill an estimated 3,000 children each day in Africa. While malaria has been all but forgotten in the United States, it remains the leading cause of death for children under 5 in Africa, killing approximately 1 million people a year.


CBS newsman Harry Reasoner is returning to his Iowa hometown to get married Saturday.

CBS newsman Harry Reasoner was born in Iowa.


Australian cheerleaders have been told today to cover up their midriffs under calls by Gymnastics Australia, as they believe it encourages girls to be self-conscious. Nerine Cooper, head of Gymnastics Australia, told the Sunday Telegraph, "We don't want girls to feel under pressure to lose weight because of uniforms." Lisa Ince, head of Sydney Professional Dancers, disagreed. "It's ridiculous really, if the thinking is that a midriff is offensive, then every dance school and athletics club would face the same restrictions," she said. The ban will affect about 150 teams registered with Gymnastics Australia.

Lisa Ince is the chief of Sydney Professional Dancers.


For such patients, regular aspirin use significantly decreased the risk for fatal and nonfatal strokes or heart attacks.

People experienced adverse effects while taking aspirin.


The situation is being monitored by the World Health Organization but says "it is too early to know whether the virus is changing in ways that would signal the start of a human flu pandemic," says Maria Cheng a spokeswoman for the WHO. "It's one isolate from a single virus from Turkey. The sample suggests the virus might be more inclined to bind to human cells rather than animal cells, but there's no evidence that it's becoming more infectious. If we started to see a lot more samples from Turkey with this mutation and saw the virus changing, we'd be more concerned."

The World Health Organization is based in Turkey.


Bountiful arrived after war's end, sailing into San Francisco Bay 21 August 1945. Bountiful was then assigned as hospital ship at Yokosuka, Japan, departing San Francisco 1 November 1945.

Bountiful reached San Francisco in August 1945.


Rodriguez told detectives he never touched the burning backpack, which was loaded with plastic pipes packed with gunpowder and BBs.

The burning backpack contained plastic pipes packed with gunpowder and BBs.


Mr. Olsen paid $20 million for the space trip, but says that in the future space travel will likely become as routine as air travel is today.


A male rabbit is called a buck and a female rabbit is called a doe, just like deer.


"Only his comrades see him; we exchange messages with each other to share plans. We also go to the battlefield together. We actually meet very rarely, just for important consultations. It's hard for anyone to meet Bin Laden himself now, but we know he's still alive," said Dadullah. Dadullah also claims that there are "hundreds" of suicide bombers that are prepared and ready to hit the NATO peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan and that Americans will "reap the crop for a long time" also saying that the Taliban and al-Qaeda will get "revenge" on the United States either inside or outside Afghanistan.


Billy Werber, third baseman in Major League Baseball, has died at the age of 100. Werber died of natural causes on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at an assisted living center in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was moved there after his health deteriorated a month ago. His son said that when admitted, Werber refused to eat solid foods and would only drink liquids. "He just refused to eat and that was his plan," Bill Werber Jr. told the Associated Press. He added that his father was "sharp up until four weeks ago".

Werber died in North Carolina at the age of 100.


Canadian traffickers also are reported to drop their marijuana loads across the border in remote areas (often without the knowledge of rural landowners), cross into the United States without drugs, later retrieve the marijuana, and continue on to U.S.  distribution sites.

Most of the marijuana entering the United States comes from Canada.


Geoscience Australia said the 5.3 quake did not generate a tsunami. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which had a magnitude of 9.0, triggered a series of lethal tsunamis on December 26, 2004 that killed over 270,000 people, making it the deadliest tsunami in recorded history.

A tsunami is a series of waves created when a body of water rapidly displaced on a massive scale.


In 1969, he drew up the report proposing the expulsion from the party of the Manifesto group. In 1984, after Berlinguer's death, Natta was elected as party secretary.


Levy Mwanawasa, the President of Zambia died yesterday at age 59. He died in a Paris hospital in France. His death was intially announced by an anonymous family member. It was later confirmed on television by vice president Rupiah Banda. Mwanawase suffered a stroke while in Egypt in June of this year for an African Union summit, whereafter he was flown to France. His condition suddenly deteriorated on Monday.

The Zambian government has ordered to plant potatoes.


Mr Fitzgerald revealed he was one of several top officials who told Mr Libby in June 2003 that Valerie Plame, wife of the former ambassador Joseph Wilson, worked for the CIA.


In addition to family, the memorial service was attended by actors and actresses who have worked with Ledger, including Cate Blanchett who starred with Ledger in the Bob Dylan bio-flick, I'm Not There. Blanchett spoke of the times she shared with Ledger in New York and Los Angeles. The Other speakers included his parents, sister and Neil Armfield, a director of Ledger's last Australian film, Candy. An emotional Williams, was wearing dark glasses and a white dress with black trim, she was not accompanied by her daughter Matilda. Williams walked in clutching the arm of Ledger's older sister, Kate.


The first few Mersenne primes are 3, 7, 31, 127 and 8191. These numbers took a total of several weeks to verify, using different software and hardware. Each number was independently checked by several members of GIMPS' verification team, using 16-core systems of different configurations. The two primes were announced by GIMPS on September 16. Before these two discoveries, the two previously largest known prime numbers were discovered by UCMO professors Curtis Cooper and Steven Boone in Missouri, United States, and their record lasted almost three years. Historically, prime numbers discovered by GIMPS are larger than the one previously found. The only other exception was when the 29th Mersenne prime was discovered after the 30th and 31st were found. Founded by M.I.T. graduate George Woltman in 1996, GIMPS has found 12 Mersenne primes, or about one per year on average.


Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said, last night, that his officers were "playing out of their socks", but admitted that they were "racing against time" to track down the bombers.

Sir Ian Blair works for the Metroplitan Police.


The renewed attention to the war came as peace activists, camping near the president's ranch, awaited a performance Sunday evening by peace movement icon Joan Baez.

Folk singer Joan Baez brought her latest anti-war message Sunday to President Bush's adopted hometown, supporting Iraq war protesters camping out near his ranch.


The White House failed to act on the domestic threat from al Qaeda prior to September 11, 2001.

White House ignored the threat of attack


Scientists have uncovered soft bone tissue of a Tyrannosaurus Rex known as MOR 1125, found in a sandstone formation in Montana. MOR 1125 was 18 years old when it died, 65 million years ago. Similar tissue of a dinosaur has never been found before, as all remains found until now were fosilized. The tissue still contains microscopic structures resembling bloodvessels and cells. The comparison between the structures found in the T-rex and a modern day Ostrich shows a remarkable similarity. The results have been duplicated with an 80-million-year-old hadrosaur and two other tyrannosaurs. The discovery was reported in today's issue of Science. Results similar to the popular film "Jurassic park" are unlikely, as the recovery of DNA from the tissue is improbable. The results remain astounding, however, and tests with antibodies that react to collagen shows the tissue may still contain proteins. "Ultimately if we could establish chemical composition, we would have insights into all kinds of things: diet, sexual maturity, whether the specimen is the male or female.", paleontologist Hans-Dieter Sues said.

Paleontologist Hans-Dieter Sues and other scientists discovered a T Rex bone in Montana.


A male gorilla escaped from his cage in the Berlin zoo and sent terrified visitors running for cover, the zoo said yesterday.

A gorilla escaped from his cage in a zoo in Germany.


Two persons were injured in dynamite attacks perpetrated this evening against two bank branches in this northwestern, Colombian city.

Two bank branches were attacked with dynamite.


An Afghan interpreter, employed by the United States, was also wounded.


The most recent poll carried out by NOP market research in January revealed that 61% of Britons are opposed to joining the euro.

The introduction of the euro has been opposed.


The institute's breakthrough came about after it set out to examine Thür's belief that an octagonal tomb in the remains of the Roman city of Ephesus contained the body of Arsinöe. According to Roman texts the city, in what is now Turkey, is where Arsinöe was banished after being defeated in a power struggle against Cleopatra and her then lover, Julius Caesar.  Arsinöe was said to have been murdered after Cleopatra, now with Mark Antony following Caesar's death, ordered the Roman general to have her younger sibling killed to prevent any future attempts on the Egyptian throne.

Queen Cleopatra ordered the assassination of her sister.


Every year Israel jails individuals simply because they refuse to perform military service for reasons of conscience.

People are willing to risk imprisonment rather than perform military service.


After the SkyWest airliner touched down, the Airport Movement Area Safety System (AMASS) alerted and the air traffic controller transmitted "Hold, Hold, Hold" to the SkyWest flight crew in an attempt to stop the aircraft short of runway 1L. The SkyWest crew applied maximum braking that resulted in the airplane stopping in the middle of runway 1L. As this was occurring, the captain of Republic Airlines flight 4912 took control of the aircraft from the first officer, realized the aircraft was traveling too fast to stop, and initiated an immediate takeoff. According to the crew of SkyWest 5741, the Republic Airlines aircraft overflew theirs by 30 to 50 feet. The Federal Aviation Administration has categorized the incident as an operational error.

NTSB is responsible for investigating transportation accidents in the United States.


The board of Marks & Spencer will take another look at Philip Green's increased takeover offer.

Philip Green tries to take over Marks & Spencer.


A strong supporter of the "Italian road to socialism", he was close to Enrico Berlinguer, and gained a position in the party secretariat. In 1969, he drew up the report proposing the expulsion from the party of the Manifesto group. In 1984, after Berlinguer's death, Natta was elected as party secretary.


After insulting the UN committee insinuating they were irrelavant, Bush no sooner had approval from Congress to use "force/war" if Hussein did not permit unfettered access for inspections - and the war ships were moved into place on the Gulf.

Hussein gives UN inspectors unfettered access.


His family has steadfastly denied the charges.


His latest release, Together Through Life, has reached the top spot 38 years and five months after his last chart-topper, New Morning, in 1970. The 67-year-old American singer-songwriter now holds the record for the longest gap between solo number one albums. It is Dylan's seventh UK number one, his 33rd studio album and his 53rd album, including compilations and soundtracks. He first reached number one with The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan released in 1964. HMV's Gennaro Castaldo said: "It's evident that Dylan is going through one of his zeitgeist moments, as a new generation of fans join his more established followers in appreciating his musical legacy."


The plan was never drawn up on paper, but discussed verbally, particularly between Prime Minister Pibul and the British Minister in Bangkok.


Honda also released a video where a humanoid robot named Asimo was operated by a person wearing the helmet. The employee was stated to be thinking about raising his right hand, after which Asimo moved its right arm. Honda states that it could be quite some time before the technology is ready to go live due to difficulties such as the human brain's liability to become distracted, creating mixed thought patterns. A related problem is the amount of focus required by the operator. "Practical uses are still way into the future." said Honda Research Institute Japan Co executive, Yasuhisa Arai. "I'm [just] talking about dreams today."

Yasuhisa Arai is an employee of Honda Research Institute Japan.


The United States Marshals Service working together with nearly 960 other law enforcement agencies recently concluded a week-long operation, Operation FALCON, which succeeded in the arrest of 10,340 fugitives across the United States and elsewhere. Other regional sweeps have been conducted before; but this was the first of its kind at the national level and resulted in the highest number of arrests ever recorded in a single operation.

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.


The credit card mobile phones now provided on some aircraft, do not interfere with aircraft systems because they are wired to a special "base station" that has been designed to safely receive and transmit radio signals in the aircraft.

Mobile phones can interfere with aircraft systems.


WASHINGTON ―Kirk Kerkorian, the billionaire mogul and major shareholder in General Motors Corp., said Friday that automakers Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co. are interested in purchasing a significant stake in GM and including the Detroit automaker in their alliance. Kerkorian's investment company, Tracinda Corp., told GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner in a letter that Renault and Nissan are receptive to the idea of including General Motors in their partnership and purchasing "a significant minority interest" in the automaker.

Rick Wagoner is one of the major shareholders of GM.


The United States Department of Homeland Security has announced the awarding of a $3 million grant to Rutgers University to lead a consortium researching advanced information analysis and computational technologies to protect the United States. Under the agreement, Rutgers will also coordinate a team of four university-based centers at the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Pittsburgh. Plans call for a total of $10.2 million in funding over three years for Rutgers and these institutions to advance efforts aimed at identifying common patterns from numerous sources of information.

Rutgers University will be awarded a $3 million grant.


Clinical trials involve 240 patients in 10 centres with each patient questioned three times.

Clinical trials involve an average of 200 patients per trial.


The American television network "CNN" reported that officials at the American Defense Department (The Pentagon) will recommend halting the bombing on Iraq to President Bill Clinton this evening, Saturday.

CNN reported that officials at the Pentagon said that President Clinton is obligated to stop the shelling on Iraq .


NEW YORK - (Business Wire) Pfizer Inc announced today that it has become the first pharmaceutical company to be accredited by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) for ensuring the protection of human subjects taking part in early-stage clinical trials. The AAHRPP accreditation was awarded to Pfizer's clinical research units (CRUs) in New Haven, CT, Brussels, Belgium and Singapore, where the company conducts most of its Phase I clinical research. To earn the accreditation, Pfizer participated in a rigorous, 15-month examination of the clinical research practices at these units.


Microsoft's (MSFT) own search engine will permanently replace the Yahoo (YHOO) search technology that has been used on Microsoft's MSN website.


One of two men "released" early on Saturday Mohammed Dawoud, 19, of Willesden, north-west London will appear before Horseferry Road magistrates' court today charged with possession of forged identity documents, police said.

Willesden will appear before Horseferry Road magistrates' court today.


This opinion poll was conducted on the sixth and seventh of October, and included a cross section of 861 adults with a margin of error estimated at 4%.

This poll was carried out on the 6th and 7th of October, and included a segment of 861 people with a margin of error estimated at 4%.


LIMA, Peru —  A Venezuelan opposition leader who says he is a victim of political persecution by President Hugo Chavez's government requested political asylum in Peru on Tuesday, one of his lawyers said. Manuel Rosales, a leading Chavez opponent, has been charged with corruption in Venezuela but says his trial would not be fair. Lawyer Javier Valle-Riestra said there is "convincing evidence" supporting his case for asylum and that Peru's foreign ministry should summon Rosales to explain his request within a week. Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde said earlier Tuesday that Rosales entered Peru as a tourist on April 4.

Rosales lost a presidential race to Chavez in 2006.


Two other marines, Tyler Jackson and John Jodka III, have already pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice and were sentenced to 21 months and 18 months, respectively.

Tyler Jackson has been sentenced to 18 months.


FMLN militias sabotaged power lines along the road linking Nueva Concepcion to the northern trunk highway at 1800 on 12 August.


Moscow (USSR), 12 Jul 89 (PRAVDA)- Blood is flowing in Columbia, where last year, according to official statistics, there were 4,600 victims of political violence, including Jaime Pardo Leal (president of Colombia's national coordination committee), around 30 deputies and many municipal advisors and mayors.

Around 30 deputies were killed on 12 Jul 89.


In 1954, in a gesture of friendship to mark the 300th anniversary of Ukrainian union with Russia, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine.


NUCOR, the leading US steel mini-mill group is to greatly expand production capacity at a plant in Crawfordsville, Indiana which has shaken up the industry by its use of a radical, new technology.

The new thin-casting process shook up the steel industry.


The watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency meets in Vienna on September 19.

The International Atomic Energy Agency holds a meeting in Vienna.


Attack helicopters, Chinooks, armoured vehicles, cranes and a fire engine encircled the group.


The funeral procession headed to the headquarters of the United Nations Development Programme in Baghdad, where funeral goers held banners denouncing the Americans as "Enemies of God."

The funeral procession had been directed to the UNDP headquarters in Baghdad, where signs denouncing Americans as "enemies of God," were seen.


The Interacademy Panel on International Issues (IAP), a global network of the world's science academies, has released a statement urging parents and teachers to provide children with 'the facts about the origin and evolution of life on Earth'. The statement is signed by 67 of the 92 member academies of the organisation, and notes that in some schools around the world, "testable theories" about evolution are being "concealed, denied or confused by theories not testable by science".

Scientists want children to learn evolution.


If you 're feeling playful, visit our games area for a game of billiards, surf the Internet or just sit back and relax with a good book from our extensive library. Alternatively, soothe away those tired muscles, aches and pains with a Balinese massage.

Traditional Balinese massage is a therapy where pushing techniques predominate.


The 42-year-old actor was outside a movie theater in central London's Leicester Square, doing press interviews, Sunday, when a man squirted Cruise with a water pistol disguised as a microphone, London's Metropolitan Police said.

Cruise was in Leicester Square when he was squirted with water.


The Federal Bureau of Investigation started an independent probe of the circumstances shortly after the White House made plain that President Bill Clinton considered industrial espionage a particular threat to US economic interests.

President Clinton thinks that industrial espionage is a threat to America's well being.


All genetically modified food, including soya or maize oil produced from GM soya and maize, and food ingredients, must be labelled.

Companies selling genetically modified foods don't need labels.


The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 0.1 percent to 1573.65.

The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose.


The sale was made to pay Yukos' US$ 27.5 billion tax bill, Yuganskneftegaz was originally sold for US$9.4 billion to a little known company Baikalfinansgroup which was later bought by the Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft.


Former tennis star Vitas Gerulaitis died in such fashion in September, from a lethal carbon monoxide buildup related to the faulty installation of a propane heater.

Vitas Gerulaitis died of carbon monoxide poisoning.


And although Carrie Prejean may not go down in history as having the worst pageant answer in history (that dishonor may go to 2007's Miss South Carolina Teen USA), her answer might have been worded a bit more eloquently. She answered: "I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and my family I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anyone out there but that's how I was raised and that's how I think it should be between a man and a woman."  .


Thanks to the thirty Heads who responded to my question about maternity leave. Clearly, the amount of maternity leave offered to teachers at international schools varies greatly from school to school.


Nagin defended his plan to return up to 180,000 people to the city, within a week and a half, despite concerns about the short supply of drinking water and heavily polluted floodwaters.

As many as 180,000 people could return within 10 days to a city that held 460,000 before Hurricane Katrina struck.


The development application for a McDonald's restaurant at Minyama, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast in Australia, has been rejected by the Sunshine Coast Regional Council. "We knocked back a Hungry Jack's on Nicklin Way because of the nuisance code," said divisional councilor Chris Thompson. "We already have a 24-hour McDonald's at Mooloolaba, only one kilometre away, and there are already [anti-social] issues at that site."

Sunshine Coast Regional Council accepted McDonald's Australia development plans.


Among the fascinating sites in the city are Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence was signed, and one of America's principal symbols of freedom, The Liberty Bell, located in Congress Hall.

The US Declaration of Independence is located in Independence Hall.


London Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Ian Blair has confirmed that there have been three small explosions on tube trains at Warren Street, Oval and Shepherd's Bush stations, and another small explosion on a No. 26 bus on Hackney Road in Bethnal Green. The London Ambulance Service has not found any injured people, but one person has reported themselves to a local hospital. It is not yet known if this is connected with the blasts.

Police report there has been an explosion in the tube station.


The cost of the consumer of the United States fell in June.


The substances that our company uses do not leave stains, do not have an unpleasant smell and are not toxic.


According to the director Kim Ki-duk The biggest problem for Americans understanding Korean movies is that all action films have the same plot. For example, the movie 'Speed' with Keanu Reeves.

The movie 'Speed' was directed by Jan De Bont.


The magazine said the number of billionaires worldwide increased by 102 people in 2006 to 793, a record number, largely due to bullish global stock markets. Their total net worth jumped 18 percent to $2.6 trillion.


The steel division of Broken Hill Proprietary, the Australian resources group, and North Star steel, part of the privately-owned Cargill group in the US, are joining forces to build and operate a new steel mini-mill in the US Midwest.

Australia's Broken Hill Proprietary and the US's North Star Steel will build and operate one in the US Midwest.


Beamon's jump was a world record that eclipsed the previous record by 21 3/4 inches. The jump still stands as an Olympic record, and stood as a world  record until Mike Powell leapt 29' 4 1/2" at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo.

2,45 m is the world record in the high jump.


Speaking in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on Monday, Mr Putin said the deal was "at the very least ill-considered and unprofessional because discussing such issues without the main supplier is simply not serious". Despite their bitter rivalry, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko were both in Brussels for an international conference with the European Commission, the World Bank and other key lenders. The EU gets 80% of its gas supplies from Russia via a network of more than 13,000km (8,060 miles) of Ukrainian pipelines, some of which are 40 years old.


PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Paul Collier, a leading poverty guru, spent a recent morning here waxing positive about how the world's economic freefall might prove the perfect moment for Haiti to sell more exports like T-shirts and mangoes to Americans.  His improbable enthusiasm coincided with appearances by a bevy of luminaries descending on Haiti this month, including Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, and the entire Security Council. All of them came to stress that this destitute nation stands at a crossroads between salvation and "the darkness," as Mr. Ban put it.

The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon comes from Haiti.


The original spelling reform of 1996, which was meant to harmonize the spelling rules across the German-speaking countries, turned out to be a major embarrassment if not outright failure.

A spelling reform was approved in all German speaking countries.


A brother of Colombia's education minister has been killed by Marxist rebels who kidnapped him three years ago.

Colombia's education minister has been kidnapped by Marxist rebels.


Scott Stevens, the Idaho meteorologist who claimed that a weather manipulating conspiracy (possibly under the control of Japanese Yakuza mafia) caused Hurricane Katrina, has quit his job at KPVI-TV in Pocatello.

Scott Stevens has connections with the Yakuza.


First becoming famous in her native Ukraine in the 1990s, long-haired self-described "Amazon" Ruslana gained international recognition for winning the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest with her song "Wild Dances," inspired by the musical traditions of the Hutsul people of the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains.  In the five years since, Ruslana has decided to use her name and public status to represent a number of worthy causes, including human trafficking, renewable energy, and even the basic concept of democratic process, becoming a public face of Ukraine's Orange Revolution and later serving in Parliament.


Scott Island was discovered and landed upon in December 1902 by Captain William Colbeck commander of the Morning, relief ship for Capt. Robert F. Scott's expedition.

Capt. Scott reached Scott Island in December 1902.


The President George Bush administration, on Friday, ordered the sale of 30 million barrels of crude oil from the government's emergency stockpile to halt runaway oil prices triggered by Hurricane Katrina.

European nations were considering releasing oil reserves to help the United States after Hurricane Katrina.


Six time prime minister Giulio Andreotti is just one of the many casualties stemming from these investigations and subsequent trials.


Now it's Romania-Argentina at the Rose Bowl today -- and with a victory, it's on to the quarterfinals at Stanford, and a victory there and Romania will be back in Pasadena for the semifinals and World Cup final.

The World Cup final was held in Pasadena.


During the weekend of Sunday 28 December the 75 year old children's clothes retailer, Adams Childrenswear called in administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers. Adams had previously been placed in administration with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2006, but was rescued by Northern Irish businessman John Shannon in February 2007. A large rebranding followed in 2008, after 42 stores were closed. Adams has outlets worldwide in places such as Saudi Arabia, and also makes clothing under the Mini Mode brand for Boots. At the time of the 2008 administration there were 260 stores in the UK and 116 outlets overseas, employing around 2000 people. Adams is reported to owe around £20 million to Mr Shannon and £10 million to Burdale.

The UK retailer Zavvi has called in administrators during Christmas.


GM has initiated criminal investigations in Germany and the US on the basis of their suspicions that Mr Lopez and his team stole confidential information before defecting to VW in March.


Then the most important part of the day begins as Muslims go to the mosque, their special place of worship.


Victor Emmanuel was born on Nov. 11, 1869, in Naples. After his father, Umberto I, was assassinated in 1900, Victor Emmanuel succeeded to the throne.

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


A teenager slashed a woman to death as he attempted to steal $6 off her - to buy beer. The 16-year-old boy, Alan Tanguay, now faces a first degree murder charge over the death of 58-year-old Patricia Kaliszeski from Palm Bay, Florida. Tanguay told investigators he was approached by Kaliszeski with a knife as he was burgling the house. He took it from her and used it to attack her, before hitting her over the head with a lamp.

Alan Tanguay killed a woman to steal $6.


Local Law enforcement officials acting on behalf of the European Commission raided offices of Intel and several computer makers this morning, a spokesman for the EU said. He did not specify which countries or which other firms were involved. However, a spokesman for Intel Germany, Hans-Jürgen Werner, said that Intel's offices in Munich and Swindon were among those searched. It emerged on Wednesday 13th, that raids also took place at Intel's facility in County Kildare, Ireland in relation to the firms anti-competitive business practices. Intel employs over 5,000 people at its Irish manufacturing facility.

Intel Germany engaged Hans-Jürgen Werner as spokesman.


Councilman Pierce had built the home for his daughter on E. 28th Street off Rossville Blvd, as he lives nearby.


Israeli scientists predict the world's coral reefs could begin to collapse in as little as 30 years from now. Studies show the oceans are becoming increasingly acidic as they soak up manmade emissions of carbon dioxide. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers say this will make it difficult for many coral organisms to produce skeletal and other hard parts. The team's work on corals in the Red Sea suggests a tipping point will be reached in between 30 and 70 years.  Then the forces of erosion eating away at corals will outstrip the organisms' ability to make the reefs.

The acidification of oceans affects tourism.


During Ramadan, Muslims will gather at the mosque for nightly prayer sessions and evening meals.

The mosque is a place of worship for Muslims.


Sultan Al-Shawi, a.k.a the Attorney, said during a funeral held for the victims, "They were all children of Iraq killed during the savage bombing."

The Attorney, said at the funeral, "They were all Iraqis killed during the brutal shelling."


It is outstripped only by Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Finland and France, and thus ranks 7th in the 25-member European Union in terms of broadband Internet penetration.

12 members of the European Union use the Euro instead of their own national currencies.


Two young soldiers have killed themselves after falling ill with suspected Gulf War Syndrome, following the latest conflict in Iraq.

Many US soldiers developed Gulf War Syndrome after the Gulf War.


Frye says, that he (a homeopathy expert) and Iris Bell recently studied homeopathic treatment of fibromyalgia.  A new analysis - comparing published studies of homeopathic drugs to matched, randomly selected studies of medical drugs - suggests that these apparent homeopathic drug effects are merely placebo effects.

What really irks Frye and other doctors of homeopathy, however, is that homeopathic remedies are not supposed to be used like medical drugs.


The compilers of the OED point out that they merely record the description of how the word is used, rather than prescribe how it should be used. The term, McJob, has been in usage at least 20 years, they say. It was popularised in 1991 in Douglas Coupland's novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture as one of the margin definitions. Here it was described as "a low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low benefit, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice by people who have never held one."


Mr Tomlinson, 47, collapsed and died from a heart attack near the Bank of England after being caught up during the demonstrations on his way home last Wednesday. His son Paul, 26, said: "Through CCTV and pictures that I've been shown he got refused access on a number of barricades that police had set up. And the missing jigsaw puzzle was what happened to him when he got into Royal Exchange Passage. I think what we've just seen has answered a lot of questions."


Google Inc. is delaying its IPO by a week because of logistical problems related to institutional investors registering to bid on the shares.

A delay for Google's IPO would push the deal later into a month that is traditionally light on IPO volume.


This case of rabies in western Newfoundland is the first case confirmed on the island since 1989.


Four men were released on bail and were ordered to return to a police station Monday, when they may be charged with assault, a police spokesman said.

All four men have been released on bail and are due to return to a police station.


Bowles will take the title HRH Duchess of Cornwall, changing it to the Princess Consort, when Charles becomes King.

Bowles will take the title of Princess Consort.


Hubble is one of the most remarkable facilities in the entire history of science.


The hullabaloo is over a glacial period dating to about 750 million to 600 million years ago.

A glacial period occurred about 750 million to 600 million years ago.


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) - Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, has made an unannounced visit to Iraq, according to the office of Iraqi transitional Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari.

Howard is a political representative of Australia.


In Bosnia, diplomatic determination combined with military muscle to create an opportunity to secure a peace rather than permit instability to undermine this fragile region and U.S. interests.

The Dayton Peace Treaty was formulated to end the war in Bosnia.


Nepali mountaineer Ang Rita Sherpa last week broke his own record of the number of climbing Mt. Everest.

Alison Hargreaves is the first woman to have made the climb up the Everest with no artificial oxygen.


Guckert supposedly had access to classified documents that named Valerie Plame as a CIA operative as well, which adds more fuel to the fire of the Justice Department's investigation of the release of her name. Bloggers revealed James Guckert's real name, and that he was the registered owner of JeffGannon.com, Hotmilitarystud.com, Militaryescorts.com, and Militaryescortsm4m.com. The accusations that Guckert has no degree in journalism, reports through a small organiztion funded by a larger conservative news outlet, operated under an assumed name, and is directly linked with pornographic domain names, have many questioning how exactly he received a press pass in the first place.

Militaryescortsm4m.com belongs to James Guckert.


Jakarta floods easily during the rainy season.

Jakarta is easily flooded during the rainy season.


The revamped engine indexes more pages than before, can give direct answers to factual questions, and features tools to help people create detailed queries.

The engine can answer specific queries directly.


Eleven years after 852 people, mostly Swedes, perished when the ferry Estonia sank on a stormy Baltic night, an exhibition in the National Maritime Museum in Stockholm brings back the pain and controversy which have haunted Sweden since the disaster.

100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.


Johansson was also in Milan to attend the Dolce & Gabbana autumn/winter 09/10 catwalk show and appear as one of the red-carpet stars at last night's gala opening of Extreme Beauty, an exhibition celebrating 80 years of photography in American Vogue, supported by the mayor of Milan, Letizia Moratti, and the Dolce & Gabbana duo. We meet in the swish Bulgari Hotel. Johansson is self-assured and looking extremely grown-up in a tailored, brown silk dress and snakeskin stilettos. But the blonde bombshell is nowhere in sight. Her hair is as dark as the wood-panelled walls of the suite. Why did she dye it? .


British singer-songwriter Natasha Bedingfield, who sang with her brother Daniel and sister Nikola as The DNA Algorithm, tied the knot with a California businessman in Malibu. According to reports the marriage, which took place Saturday in a 30-minute outdoor ceremony overlooking the Pacific Ocean, was attended by about 150 guests.  The guests watched Bedingfield walk down the aisle in a Vera Wang dress beside the chateau at the Church Estates Vineyards.  Bedingfield, who was born in New Zealand and grown up in England, found her partner, in America.

Natasha Bedingfield is married to Matthew Robinson.


FROM two tiny rooms high up and far back in St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, with its neo-Georgian archways, straight-backed pews and simple, graceful detail, the legacy of slavery in Manhattan looks down. The stone church, on Henry Street near Montgomery Street on the Lower East Side, was built for a patrician white congregation. But although it was completed in 1828, a year after slavery was legally abolished in New York State, behind the balcony and on either side of the organ are two cramped rooms, built so that black churchgoers could worship there without being seen by white parishioners.

St. Augustine's Episcopal Church is in Manhattan.


Another presidential candidate, who we thought was the one involved, was Charles Brumskine, the standard bearer of the United Democratic Party who also has residency in the Northern Virginia area.

Charles Brumskine is a member of the United Democratic Party.


The president Cristiani spoke today at the El Salvador military airport before he left for Costa Rica to attend the inauguration ceremony of president-elect Rafael Calderon Fournier.

Cristiani is the president of Costa Rica.


NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The Empire State Building kicked off a major energy-saving retrofit Monday, and promoters hope one of the world's most iconic skyscrapers can become an efficiency model for buildings worldwide. From the cloud-shrouded observation deck on the building's 80th floor, former President Bill Clinton, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others detailed $20 million in cutting-edge conservation measures they hope will cut energy use by 38% for the 1930's-era behemoth. They stressed the retrofits weren't green altruism or part of a government program. Instead, they say they're being done simply to save the building's owners a lot of money.

The mayor of New York is Michael Bloomberg.


The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame and Museum opened the nation's first major John Lennon retrospective Thursday (October 19) with a gala party attended by his widow, Yoko Ono.


John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln as he sat in the presidential box of Ford's Theater watching the light comedy, "Our American Cousin."

Lincoln was assassinated in the presidential box of Ford's Theater.


Levomepromazine has prominent sedative and anticholinergic/ sympatholytic effects (dry mouth, hypotension, sinus tachycardia, extreme night sweats) and causes massive weight gain. These side effects normally do not allow to give the drug in doses needed for full remission of schizophrenia, so it has to be combined with a more potent antipsychotic.


Feith, 63, started his career at age 25 at the ministry of Foreign Affairs. He worked at the Dutch embassies of Syria, Germany and Sudan, at the United Nations headquarters in New York and at NATO in Brussels. In 2004 he represented E.U. in Darfur and prepared an E.U.-mission in Iraq that trained police-officials and judges. A year later Feith was in charge of the E.U. operation in Aceh and supervised the peace negotiations between the Indonesian government and the rebels.


Nineteen of the European Union's 25 member states were voting in the biggest transnational elections ever held, and the first for the EU since the bloc's expansion into the former communist eastern Europe on May 1.

Nearly 350 million people were eligible to vote since the EU took in 10 new members on May 1.


The presence of oil in the South Atlantic was first proved in 1974, but the distance and isolation of the Falklands deterred oil companies from exploring the area until the 1990s.

Petroleum is explored in the South Atlantic.


Côte d'Ivoire's President Laurent Gbagbo promulgated new election laws on July 14, including the creation of an independent electoral commission to oversee the presidential vote, which is slated for October 30.

New elections in Côte d'Ivoire will take place on October 30.


"Our horse chestnut is in full bloom," Anne Frank told her diary on Saturday, May 13, 1944, "thickly covered with leaves and much more beautiful than last year." She would have been 79 this year, turning 80. Had she survived, Miss Frank would still be able to see the horse chestnut tree by which she measured the seasons of life during her two years of hiding from the Nazis, not just behind the building in Amsterdam from which she and her family were taken by the Gestapo in 1944 but — if the plans of the Anne Frank Center USA are realized — at 10 sites around this country, including New York City.


On July 8th, the Mozilla team released a configuration change which resolves this problem by explicitly disabling the use of the shell: an external protocol handler.

A shell is an external protocol handler.


Five other soldiers have been ordered to face courts-martial.

Five other soldiers have been refused to face courts-martial.


Oscar-winning director Franco Zeffirelli has been awarded an honorary knighthood for his "valuable services to British performing arts".

Italian director is awarded an honorary Oscar.


The golden jewellery, found in an intact Royal Macedonian tomb in 1977, is exquisite. It is now the prize exhibit in the archaeological museum in Thessaloniki and the label says that it came from the tomb of Philip II, Alexander the Great's father.

Alexander the Great's Tomb remains undiscovered.


According to Nelson Beavers, who is a co-owner of the current company, Carolina Analytical Laboratories, LLC. and has ownership/employment history with Woodson-Tenent and Eurofins, the septic system was installed in the early 1990s.

Nelson Beavers is one of the owners of Carolina Analytical Laboratories.


Hoover's director reports directly to Stanford's president.

Hoover is the president of Stanford University.


The chaotic situation unleashed in Bogota last night, with the assasination of Justice Carlos Valencia, began on the 28th of July in Medellin, when motorized paid assasins murdered third public order Judge Maria Elena Diaz.

Justice Carlos Valencia was killed in Colombia.


Mr. Balasingham will return to his London home and then move on to Sri Lanka in early October to consult with LTTE leader Vilupillai Prabhakaran, diplomats said.


Michaela Roeder, 31, was found guilty of six counts of manslaughter and mercy killing.

A German nurse was convicted of manslaughter and mercy killing of patients by lethal injection.


The sale was made to pay Yukos' US$ 27.5 billion tax bill, Yuganskneftegaz was originally sold for US$ 9.4 billion to a little known company Baikalfinansgroup which was later bought by the Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft .


Nicholas Burns stated in an exclusive interview for "Utrinski Vesnik" from Pristina that it would be disgraceful if Athens puts a veto on Macedonia's application for membership in the European Union and NATO.

Greece and Macedonia are in dispute over name.


Twenty-five of the dead were members of the law enforcement agencies and the rest of the 67 were civilians.


Lao government spokesman, Yong Chantalangsy, said Rangoon has promised to announce its decision in Vientiane.

Yong Chantalangsy is a representative of Laos.


Rescuers searched rough seas off the capital yesterday for survivors of a ferry collision that claimed at least 28 lives, as officials blamed crew incompetence for the accident.

100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.


Art experts said on Monday, that there was an astounding haul from Boston's Gardner Museum -- possibly the biggest art theft in US history.

The biggest art theft in US history was the theft of a dozen works from Boston's Gardner Museum.


The Golden Flyers set a school record this year with 16 victories.

The Golden Flyers set a school record with 16 victories.


US Catholic bishops are all but unanimous in believing that Cardinal Law must leave Boston for the good of the church.

Cardinal Law returns from Rome with plans to stay in Boston.


Nine men from Darfur have been executed for the beheading of a Sudanese newspaper editor in 2006. They were hanged in a prison in the capital, Khartoum, in front of the relatives of the editor, Mohammed Taha. It was initially thought that Mr Taha had been killed by Islamists but a defence lawyer said an article in his newspaper had angered Darfur groups. His decapitated body was found on a dirt road a day after he had been abducted from his home in Khartoum.


Elsewhere, Mozambique took its first ever Olympic gold medal when Maria Mutola won the women's eight-hundred metres, while the men's ten-thousand-metres went to the Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie.

The women's ten thousand metres champion is from Mozambique.


The Chicago White Sox are a major league baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois.

The Bulls basketball team is based in Chicago, Illinois.


Sabena was the former national airline of Belgium, mainly operating from Brussels National Airport, now replaced by SN Brussels Airlines.