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ASUNCION, Paraguay — Paraguay's president was hit with another paternity claim Monday, just a week after the former Roman Catholic bishop acknowledged fathering a different illegitimate child while still subject to his vows of chastity. Lugo, 57, did not confirm nor deny fathering the 6-year-old boy, but read a brief statement promising to "act always in line with the truth and subject myself to all the requirements presented by the justice system." He also appealed for privacy, referring all questions about paternity claims to his lawyer. Two of Lugo's cabinet ministers said they were initiating judicial proceedings against their boss on the latest woman's behalf, and vowed to order DNA tests if Lugo doesn't recognize paternity.
Fernando Lugo is the President of Paraguay.
The protest, which was also held by Falun Gong members in major cities around the world, marked the 10th anniversary of Falun Gong's protest against China's persecution, as Beijing cracked down on the group and declared it a cult in 1999. "We hold this rally to call on the world's people to urge China to halt its suppression of Falun Gong and persecution of Falun Gong members," Chang Ching-hsi, head of the Taiwan branch of Falun Gong, said. He said Falun Gong members will keep up the peaceful protest until China has ended its crackdown.
Falun Gong is a spiritual meditation group seeking world harmony.
GlaxoSmithKline is nearing a deal to acquire Stiefel Laboratories, a large maker of dermatology products, for as much as $3 billion, people with knowledge of the talks said Sunday. These people cautioned that the talks were continuing and could still fall apart. If a deal is reached, it would be the latest round of consolidation among drug makers, who have sought to acquire product lines in the face of pressure from rivals making generic products. So far this year, Pfizer agreed to buy Wyeth for $68 billion; Merck agreed to acquire Schering-Plough for $41 billion; and Roche struck a $46.8 billion deal for the 44 percent of Genentech it did not already own.
GlaxoSmithKline is a British drug company.
SUVA - Fiji President President Ratu Josefa Iloilo repealed the country's constitution on Friday, appointed himself head of state and set a 2014 election deadline. He said he had also sacked all the judges and established a "new legal order" following Thursday's Court of Appeal ruling that the country's military regime was illegally appointed following the 2006 coup. "I will soon be inviting suitable individuals to join or rejoin the bench under the new order," Mr Iloilo said in an address to the nation. The self-appointed head of state said a "soon-to-be-appointed interim government" would prepare the country for democratic elections in September 2014, at the latest.
The President of Fiji is Ratu Josefa Iloilo.
MANILA, Philippines - Fishermen in the Philippines accidentally caught and later ate a megamouth shark, one of the rarest fishes in the world with only 40 others recorded to have been encountered, the World Wildlife Fund said Tuesday. The 1,100-pound, 13-foot-long megamouth died while struggling in the fishermen's net on March 30 off Burias island in the central Philippines. It was taken to nearby Donsol in Sorsogon province, where it was butchered and eaten, said Gregg Yan, spokesman for WWF-Philippines.
A megamouth is a rare species of shark.
China has rejected Coca-Cola's planned $2.4 billion acquisition of top juice maker Huiyuan Juice, saying the deal would have been bad for competition. The acquisition by Coca-Cola would have been the largest-ever takeover of a Chinese company by a foreign rival, and is the latest rebuff for an overseas buyer of a Chinese company. "This just shows that China is still not open to allowing the takeover of a national brand," said Jeffery Lau, an analyst with Polaris Capital. "But this is not exactly a huge surprise to the market, protectionism has been on the rise everywhere this year. This also explains why the stock has been trading at a nearly 20 percent discount to the takeover price," he said.
China refused Coca-Cola's bid to take over a juice company to protect its market.
It contained "a great number of inadmissible concepts", he wrote, and did not acknowledge the calls for better Cuba-US ties. "Who is now demanding our exclusion? Perhaps they don't understand that times of exclusionary agreements against our people have been left far behind," he wrote. US President Barack Obama has taken a less confrontational approach to the communist nation than his predecessor, George W Bush, our correspondent adds. But his administration continues to insist that there must be progress towards democracy and on human rights before the trade embargo can be lifted. The US began imposing restrictions on Cuba after Mr Castro took power in 1959, making it the only Communist state in the Americas - and a Cold War flashpoint.
Castro took power in Cuba in 1959.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Eating two and a half ounces of baby broccoli daily for two months may protect against a common stomach bug that is linked to gastritis, ulcers and even stomach cancer, a study in Japan has found. Fresh broccoli sprouts contain plenty of sulforaphane, a natural biochemical that appears to trigger the production of enzymes in the gut that protect against oxygen radicals, DNA-damaging chemicals, and inflammation. In an article published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research, scientists found that eating two and a half ounces of baby broccoli daily may help stave off some serious health problems.
Eating broccoli may protect against ulcers and stomach cancer.
Israel was stung by the 2001 Durban conference. Despite successful pressure to remove any reference to Israel from the official closing statement, the international NGO forum could not be so easily tamed. It issued a strongly worded declaration that equated Zionism with racism. It also described Israel's occupation of Palestinian land as "Israel's brand of Apartheid" and accused Israel of perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity. It was perhaps the loudest criticism so far by the international community of Israeli practices against the Palestinians. As such it was attacked by Western governments, and the then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, as anti-Semitic.
NGO forum charged Israel with war crimes against Palestinians.
Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle will be the leading member of the jury at the Shanghai Film Festival. The Oscar-winner filmmaker told the Xinhua news agency that he had never been on a fest jury before. Boyle also revealed his plans to make a flick in China. "When you have a city that is full of people and stories like Mumbai, Beijing or Shanghai, it's just so much excitement and potential for a filmmaker. It's like a dream come true," Variety magazine quoted him as saying.
The movie "Slumdog Millionaire" has been directed by Danny Boyle.
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 explosion affected people' - Mr Yamaguchi had long been recognised as a survivor of the nuclear explosion in his home town of Nagasaki. But now officials there have certified formally that he also survived the Hiroshima blast three days earlier - where he'd suffered severe burns to his upper body and temporary blindness.
Americans dropped nuclear bombs on Japan in 1945.
For sale: Six-room two-flat in Chicago's Park Manor neighborhood; ornate tile work; impressive brick exterior; an underground cellar big enough to hide some cash or ditch a tommy gun. The home at 7244 S. Prairie Ave. once owned by mobster Al Capone and his family has hit the market for $450,000. It's a hefty sum considering similar two-flats in that working-class South Side neighborhood are selling for $180,000 to $230,000. But no other home in Chicago can match the history of the modest brick house that has had just two owners since Capone's mother died in 1952.
Al Capone was a gangster.
"I have, of these issues, a clear conscience," a relaxed-looking de Klerk told reporters in Cape Town less than a week after a South African newspaper said he had been implicated in apartheid atrocities. "I'm standing here to state my case, not in a defensive spirit, but in a spirit that I am owed a fair deal in my own country." De Klerk was South Africa's last white president and shared the 1993 Nobel Peace prize with Nelson Mandela for fostering racial unity and securing the country's smooth transition from apartheid to the first all-race poll in 1994.
F. W. de Klerk was the President of South Africa.
India has higher rates of malnourished children than sub-Saharan Africa, despite having the money to tackle the problem, according to a survey that raises grave questions about the country's economic rise Almost 46 per cent of Indian children under the age of 3 suffer from malnutrition, according to the survey by the Indian Health Ministry in conjunction with Unicef, the United Nations children's agency. That compares with about 35 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa and only 8 per cent in China, whose economic growth India strives to emulate. It also represents only a slight decrease since the last National Family Health Survey in India seven years ago showed that 47 per cent of its children were mal-nourished.
47% of Chinese children are mal-nourished.
A man who spent 27 years in jail for the murder of a barmaid in Southampton had his conviction quashed at the Court of Appeal today after DNA tests proved that he could not have been the killer. Sean Hodgson, 57, was found guilty in 1982 of killing Teresa de Simone, 22, who was found strangled in her Ford Escort three years earlier in a car park below the pub where she worked part-time. He has long pleaded his innocence after retracting a confession initially given to a Roman Catholic prison chaplain - one of hundreds of crimes to which he pleaded guilty because, as he told his original trial, he was a "pathological liar".
Sean Hodgson was in jail for 22 years.
In 2007 the 550-seat double-decker A380 Airbus overtook the 747 as the largest passenger airliner in service, a development that some aviation experts saw as signalling the end of the 747. Dwindling 747 orders have cast a dark cloud over the future of the airliner. Most are now are freighters as traditionally loyal customers such as Qantas, Virgin Atlantic and Singapore Airlines turn to the A380. The last remaining commercially flown 747 in Australia is the 747-400: with Qantas discontinuing the 747-300 model two weeks ago.
Airbus A380 can carry 550 people.
A man who spent 27 years in jail for a murder he did not commit finally had his conviction overturned today after DNA tests destroyed the prosecution case against him. But even as Sean Hodgson, a frail 57-year-old, celebrated his freedom on the steps of the Royal Courts of Justice, it emerged that the DNA tests which freed him should have been carried out 11 years ago. Mr Hodgson was found guilty in 1982 of killing Teresa De Simone, 22, who had been found strangled in her Ford Escort three years earlier in a car park below the Southampton pub where she was a part-time barmaid.
Sean Hodgson was convicted of the murder of Teresa De Simone.
Seven Democratic representatives traveled to Havana but an official communique read on the air said only six attended the meeting with Castro. The statement provided no details of what was discussed or how long the meeting lasted. It added that the group also spoke in recent days with the head of parliament and the country's foreign minister. The lawmakers came to talk about improving U.S.-Cuba relations amid speculation that Washington is ready to loosen some facets of its 47-year-old trade embargo against the island.
The U.S. embargo on Cuba has been in place for 47 years.
Advocates for the detainees today said the new position is at best a modest departure from Bush policy, but is a public-relations effort to move away from the loaded term "enemy combatants" that critics across the world associate with the former president. The brief maintains the US government's ability to hold terrorist suspects without charge, said Tom Malinowski, Washington director of Human Rights Watch, and applies international laws of war to suspects captured far from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. "It's a symbolic effort to distance the new administration from the Bush approach," he said. "But they've preserved significant aspects of the previous administration's detention authority."
Tom Malinowski works for Human Rights Watch.
More than three months into a medical leave from Apple Inc., Chief Executive Steve Jobs remains closely involved in key aspects of running the company, say people familiar with the matter. Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook runs the day-to-day operations at Apple, these people say. But Jobs has continued to work on the company's most important strategies and products from home, they say. He regularly reviews products and product plans, and was particularly involved in the user interface of the new iPhone operating system that Apple unveiled last month, these people say.
Steve Jobs is the co-founder of Apple.
As he campaigns for a third term, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is counting on his reputation as a top-notch manager who tamed a once-unruly metropolis. Yet to remarkable degree, the task of managing New York City over the last four years has fallen to Mr. Skyler, a lanky 35-year-old former Ivy League fencer and "Star Wars" buff who once tackled a mugger who was trying to steal a cellphone in Midtown Manhattan. When a steam pipe exploded near Grand Central Terminal in 2007, it was Mr. Skyler who coordinated the cleanup.
Bloomberg has been mayor twice.
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 oceans are getting more acidic due to the carbon dioxide emissions.
It is also worth considering the impact of global warming on human health as well. With increasing surface temperature, heat waves are expected to occur more frequently, possibly endangering children and the elderly. Many pathogens proliferate much faster in warm environment. Increasing atmospheric temperature could very well mean faster proliferation of these pathogens that would cause numerous diseases and illnesses to humans. There is also expected spread of fatal tropical diseases as the world becomes warmer and warmer, placing those living in temperate regions at higher risks.
Global warming is dangerous to public health because it could cause the diffusion of tropical diseases.
Ninty-seven years ago Tuesday, the Titanic, the largest passenger steamship in the world, struck an iceberg and began to sink during her maiden voyage. On April 14, 1912, the cruise liner, headed from England to New York, struck the iceberg. It took only 2 hours, 40 minutes for the 882-foot ship to be totally engulfed by the icy waters off the coast of Halifax. Killed were 1,517 people — although initial news bulletins indicated that all passengers had been safely transported to other ships.
Titanic sank in 1912.
It's official: California's unemployment insurance benefits will be extended an additional five months, beginning immediately. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Friday that will assist about 469,000 longtime jobless Californians by year's end. The goal is to help families wracked by the recession buy food and pay rent in a year when the state's unemployment rate tops 10 percent. Roughly $3 billion in federal stimulus funds will bankroll the 20-week extension for out-of-work residents who exhaust their existing benefits.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was an actor.
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand reported suspected swine flu cases on Monday among a second group of teenagers returning from Mexico, even as Asian nations with potent memories of SARS and bird flu outbreaks screened travelers for illness with thermal scanners. Hong Kong assigned a team of scientists to find a quick test for the latest virus to raise fears of a pandemic, following confirmed human cases of the disease in Mexico, United States and Canada.
More than 100 people in Mexico are believed to have died of swine flu.
Russell Dunham, who as an Army sergeant in World War II received the Medal of Honor for charging up a snowy hill in the Alsace region of France and single-handedly killing, wounding or capturing 18 German soldiers, died Monday in Godfrey, Ill. He was 89. The cause was congestive heart failure, said his daughter, Mary Lee Neal. On the afternoon of Jan. 8, 1945, Sergeant Dunham was leading a platoon in the 30th Infantry, Third Infantry Division, when the soldiers, among them his brother Ralph, were pinned down by German fire. They were at the bottom of a hill near the village of Kaysersberg, the birthplace of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Albert Schweitzer.
Russell Dunham was a soldier during the Second World War.
Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Jim Wesley said Page had slid from his hospital-type bed, as Wesley said he would occasionally, sometime between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. ET, when his wife found him, and that his death was consistent with positional asphyxia. Page was found sitting on the floor with his head lodged between the bed and the rail, Wesley said. Patricia Page immediately moved him to try to resuscitate him, Wesley said. Page told The Associated Press her husband "is in a better place now." The March 9, 2001, fight left Page in a coma for nearly a week. He then had a stroke during post-fight surgery. He was paralyzed on his left side and received intensive physical therapy.
Greg Page was a World Boxing Association champion.
As Mel Gibson walked hand in hand with his new Russian girlfriend on the red carpet last night, a few new grey hairs were the only sign that he is a man about to lose $US500 million. The Australian actor - in the middle of what is expected to become one of the world's most expensive divorces - attended a movie premiere in Los Angeles with Russian songstress Oksana Grigorieva, the woman at the centre of worldwide speculation about his marital split. The public debut of his girlfriend, at the premiere of X -Men Origins: Wolverine, put to rest the rumours which have dogged the Oscar-winning Braveheart star since it was announced he was divorcing his wife of 28 years, former dental nurse Robyn Gibson.
Mel Gibson comes from Australia.
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Casey Stoner led from start to finish to win the MotoGP season opener on Monday and complete a personal hat trick of victories in Qatar. The Ducati rider produced a near-perfect race under lights to win the 22-lap race with a time of 42 minutes, 53.984 seconds at the 5.38 kilometer (3.34 mile) Losail International Circuit. The 23-year-old Australian finished ahead of defending world champion Valentino Rossi of Italy and Jorge Lorenzo of Spain. Yamaha rider Rossi crossed the finish line 7.771 seconds behind Stoner.
Valentino Rossi is the Ducati rider in the MotoGP.
BOSTON — Derrick Rose, the baby-faced Chicago Bulls point guard, is similar to nearly every other N.B.A. player in that he talks with his agent, B. J. Armstrong, about everything from the meaningful to the mundane. Their relationship diverges only because they discuss not only signatures on endorsement deals but also signature plays. Once, Armstrong was also a baby-faced point guard for the Bulls. Their futures are conjoined through the agent-player relationship and by similar career paths. Armstrong churned through the Midwest pressure cooker first, delivering the ball to Michael Jordan during a period when they won three N.B.A. titles together.
Michael Jordan played basketball.
This gap in knowledge makes earthquake prediction a frustrating and chancy exercise, and complicates the effort to calculate the risk that a human construction like a water reservoir or a geothermal power plant could inadvertently set off a deadly quake. Last month, Giampaolo Giuliani, a technician who works on a neutrino experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, issued an urgent warning that a large earthquake was about to strike the Abruzzo region. The prediction was based on measurements he had made of high levels of radon gas, presumably released from rocks that were being ground up by the stresses of an incipient quake.
Giampaolo Giuliani is a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Afrol News, 24 March - The Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey has said the country's authorities will not apologise or compensate to the Libyan government over the arrest of the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi saying that police were not at fault when Hannibal Gaddafi and his wife were arrested. The Minister has outrightly rejected the notion of compensation to the government saying the Libyan government was wrong to demand compensation for the arrest that was foreseen.
Muammar Gaddafi is the Swiss Foreign Minister.
Boltanski filed a complaint on Saturday morning before returning to Paris. Libération and Reporters without Borders suspect this attack was a deliberate act of intimidation decided by the Tunisian regime. According to a United Press International report, Tunisian authorities arrested two men Saturday on suspicion of assaulting Boltanski.
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.
In response to Ike, and as part of an ongoing effort to save threatened historic sites across the United States, Brink's organization has added the Galveston district to its annual list of "America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places." Since 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has announced an annual list of sites it aims to restore, protect and preserve. "Whether these sites are urban districts or rural landscapes, Native American landmarks or 20th-century sports arenas, entire communities or single buildings, the list spotlights historic places across America that are threatened by neglect, insufficient funds, inappropriate development or insensitive public policy," the group said on its Web site.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation was founded in 1988 by Brink's organization.
The four — Jamil al-Sayyed, Ali Hajj, Raymond Azar and Mustafa Hamdan — directed the chief security and intelligence services and the presidential guard. They were widely seen as henchmen for Syria, which occupied Lebanon militarily for three decades. Widely believed to have ordered Rafik Hariri's killing, Syria was forced out of Lebanon under local and international pressure a few months later. Lebanon is preparing for a crucial parliamentary election in June in which Saad Hariri and his political allies, now in the majority, are facing an alliance led by Hezbollah. Many here believe that the tribunal's decision could cut into Mr. Hariri's votes by spreading the impression that Syria could escape being brought to account for the assassination of his father and be emboldened to rebuild its influence here.
Ali Hajj and Mustafa Hamdan come from Lebanon.