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The same mindset that led to these over-the-top punishments was apparently at play in the strip search of a 13-year-old student by Safford, Ariz., school officials in 2003. They were trying to find out whether she had prescription-strength ibuprofen tablets — the equivalent of a couple of Advils hidden in her bra or panties, in violation of the "no drugs" policy. No pills were found. Savana Redding, then an eighth-grader and now 19, was so humiliated she never went back to the school. Her mother sued the school district and the administrator involved. On Tuesday, the case reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, where the justices will determine whether school officials violated Redding's constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches and whether she can hold them personally financially responsible.
Savana Redding was strip-searched at school six years ago.
Norway's premier, Jens Stoltenberg, issued a curt "We lost a referendum on the EU and so it is not on the agenda now." Oslo has held two referendums on the matter, one in 1974 after negotiating an accession agreement and another in 1994. Both times membership was narrowly rejected. Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir said that as part of the coalition agreement her centre-left Social Democratic Alliance had signed with the far-left Left Green Movement, the current caretaker government would not apply for membership of the EU. "But let's see what happens after the elections," she said. "At the same time, we need 30,000 Icelanders to demand a referendum."
Johanna Sigurdardottir belongs to the Icelandic Social Democratic Alliance.
Starbucks was one of the first companies to recognize the United States was in a recession when it halted its expansion plans last July. Still sensitive to the spending habits of consumers, the company has not glimpsed an end to that recession. Howard D. Schultz, Starbucks' chief executive, told investors Wednesday after announcing that the company's second-quarter net income had dropped 77 percent that, "The global economy continues to be weak." He also said, "We did not see any improvement in U.S. consumer spending in Q2," and added that he was not expecting any improvement in 2009.
Starbucks is an investment company.
Giampaolo Giuliani told locals to evacuate their houses and posted a video on YouTube in which he said a build-up of radon gas around the seismically active area of Abruzzo suggested a major earthquake was imminent. Several tremors had been felt in the medieval city of L'Aquila, 60 miles north-east of Rome, since mid-January, and vans with loudspeakers had reportedly driven around the city spreading the warning. But instead of heeding the advice of Mr Giuliani, local authorities reported him to police for "spreading alarm" and he was told to remove his findings from the internet.
Giampaolo Giuliani works at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory.
The Unemployment Olympics are the hastily planned brainchild of Nick Goddard, a gangly, angular man in small glasses and a navy blazer who runs from one event to the other, herding the 30-some-odd contestants around like an inexperienced babysitter at a children's birthday party. The former computer programmer has been without a job for less than two months and says the idea for the four-event competition — Telephone toss, Payday piñata, Pin-the-Blame-on-the-Boss and the "You're Fired!" race — just popped into his head one night. "Normally you think of things like this but never do them," he says, "but I have so much free time right now, I decided to go for it." He built a rudimentary website, contacted local news outlets, and then watched in amazement as his email's inbox filled with hopeful participants.
Pin-the-Blame-on-the-Boss is one of the events of the Unemployment Olympics.
Overall, the Southeast has the highest cancer death rate as researchers persist in looking for reasons, said Jennifer Pietenpol, director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. She said technology, education and outreach will curb deaths, but funding and staff are also part of the equation. Pietenpol said the National Cancer Institute stands to receive $1.3 billion in stimulus package funds. "We have to look beyond a stimulus package," she said. "Cancer is not waiting for a stimulus package. There is clearly not enough money for every research."
The National Cancer Institute is the federal government's main cancer research entity.
PARIS — Julius Meinl V, the scion of a Viennese business dynasty whose name has been synonymous since the days of the Hapsburgs with luxuries like exotic coffee, handmade tortes and discreet private banking, has been jailed on suspicion of fraud at a company linked to the family. Prosecutors accused Mr. Meinl of artificially bolstering shares of the real estate company Meinl European Land on the Vienna stock exchange, even as its investments in real estate across Eastern and Central Europe cratered.
Mr. Meinl owns a Falcon jet that he flies himself.
At least 14 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in southern Sri Lanka, police say. The telecoms minister was among about 35 people injured in the blast at the town of Akuressa, 160km (100 miles) south of the capital, Colombo. Government officials were attending a function at a mosque to celebrate an Islamic holiday at the time. The defence ministry said the blast was carried out by Tamil Tiger rebels but no-one has yet admitted responsibility. The Sri Lankan government has strongly condemned the attack. It urged people to remain calm and not to be provoked.
35 government officials were injured by a suicide bomber in Akuressa.
For weeks now, I've been hearing chatter that Disney was close to doing a distribution deal with Hulu. Disney would give Hulu exclusive access to at least some of its online video in exchange for an equity stake alongside GE's (GE) NBC and News Corp.'s (NWS) Fox. And accompanying said chatter was this refrain: Why? The puzzlement comes from video players who don't work at NBC, Fox or Hulu, and who can't see the upside in Disney CEO Bob Iger throwing in his lot with Hulu.
Bob Iger is the CEO of Disney.
Shown on a test run with President Obama in the White House on March 15, 2009, the black-and-white Portuguese water dog is a gift to President Obama's daughters Malia and Sasha from Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who also owns Portuguese water dogs. Despite their lapdog looks, Portuguese water dogs are classified as working dogs. That means the pups seem to enjoy being given jobs that allow them to display their intelligence, strength, and stamina. "This breed possesses a lot of energy, so without training or a job to do, the dog may entertain itself by running full-speed down the West Wing or barking at Republicans," said animal behaviorist Mary Burch of the American Kennel Club.
Bo is the new dog of President Obama.
In a sense Italy has never lost the art of la dolce vita: that is why millions of tourists go there every year, to discover (or rediscover) the leisurely lunch and the contemplation of beauty. But Mr Petrini, who founded Slow Food in 1986 as a reaction to the arrival of McDonald's near the Spanish Steps in Rome, began his campaign out of fear that the Mediterranean way of life was being eroded by alien habits, such as a sandwich at the desk instead of lunch. "We are enslaved by speed and have all succumbed to the same insidious virus: Fast Life, which disrupts our habits, invades the privacy of our homes, and forces us to eat Fast Foods," he wrote.
Petrini is the founder of McDonalds.
(CBS/AP) A middle-aged volunteer church worker with the voice of an angel is Britain's latest unlikely showbiz star. Susan Boyle, 47, wowed judges and audience alike when she performed on the television contest "Britain's Got Talent." When Boyle stepped on stage she told the show's judges, "I'm nearly 48, currently unemployed but still looking..." But not likely unemployed for much longer, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips. By Wednesday morning, a video clip of Boyle's performance on YouTube had been viewed more than 5 million times.
Susan Boyle is a contestant on "Britain's Got Talent".
MOSCOW — Authorities in Dubai said Sunday that they believed the murder of Sulim B. Yamadayev, a former Chechen general, had been planned by a member of Russia's lower house of Parliament who is a well-known ally of the Chechen president. At a news conference, Dubai's chief of police, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan bin Tamim, said that he would ask Interpol to arrest the member of Parliament, Adam S. Delimkhanov, and that it was "Russia's responsibility in front of the world to control these killers from Chechnya."
Sulim B. Yamadayev was a Chechen general.
Mexico's new president, Felipe Calderon, seems to be doing all the right things in cracking down on Mexico's drug traffickers. He's appointed new people to key military and criminal justice positions, deployed troops to quell drug violence, reasserted federal police power, extradited a few major traffickers to the United States, and given a green light to legislation clarifying Mexico's drug laws. But all this provides little reason to hope that Mexico has really turned a corner in its efforts to control the illegal drug trade. For a guide to what's in store, one need only look at past sexenios (the six year terms of Mexican presidents).
Felipe Calderon is the outgoing President of Mexico.
DETROIT — The Treasury Department is directing Chrysler to prepare a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing as soon as next week, people with direct knowledge of the talks said Thursday. The company faces a deadline of April 30 to come up with a viable business plan supported by its creditors, the United Automobile Workers union, and Fiat, the Italian car company that wants to acquire a stake in Chrysler. The Obama administration has told Chrysler it will provide up to $6 billion in new financing, on top of the $4 billion in loans it has already given the company, if Chrysler can complete a deal by next Thursday with a cost structure that gives it a chance of survival. The creditors have so far balked at the terms suggested by the Treasury.
Fiat wants to gain possession of a stake in Chrysler.
Updated The Senate confirmation of Governor Kathleen Sebelius, — who would be the final member to join the Obama Cabinet, as secretary of Health and Human Services — hit more snags on Thursday because of Republican opposition. It's increasingly likely that her nomination will face a procedural hurdle requiring 60 votes, before final approval, at the earliest next week. The Majority Leader, Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, tried unsuccessfully to get unanimous consent to confirm Ms. Sebelius. But after a 15-8 vote out of the Senate Finance Committee earlier this week, it had already been pretty clear that a smooth path to confirmation wasn't likely.
Kathleen Sebelius comes from Nevada.
Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, and their 10-member staff are visiting Rome and Venic, and t Berlin before they return to Britain. The plane is said to contain a master suite and private bathroom, and costs more than $116,000 to charter. Prince Charles and his wife met today with the Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican to talk about the environment. The prince's spokesperson at Clarence House told ABC News that the prince was scheduled to fly on a Royale Air Force jet for his European tour, but the plane suddenly became "unserviceable" Friday, the day before the trip was to start, and he was .
Benedict XVI is the current Pope.
Americans, however, aren't the only ones who began 2009 with a landmark inauguration. Iceland swore in Johanna Sigurdardottir on Sunday as not only the country's first female prime minister, but also the world's first openly queer head of government. It is difficult to make a perfect comparison between Iceland's situation and our own; Iceland's population is less than a one-hundredth of ours, and because of their parliamentary system, Sigurdardottir was never popularly elected. But that doesn't mean we can't ask, in a return to our initial speculation, "What's coming next for America?" One of the best places to begin to unravel this puzzle is, interestingly, with the Republican Party. Since the 1960s, the Republican Party has catered to an almost exclusively white base and has incorporated relatively few politicians from minority backgrounds.
Johanna Sigurdardottir is Republican.
A reward of $2m (£1.37m) each will be paid to informers who help arrest Mexico's 24 most-wanted drug gang chiefs, the attorney general has said. Correspondents say the most-wanted list is a public challenge to the cartels. Some 8,000 people have died in the past two years, as drug gangs fight for territory amid government crackdowns. US and Mexican agencies are increasing their co-operation as the gang violence spills over the border, where kidnaps and killings are on the rise.
The reward for informers in Mexico is 2 million dollars.
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.
Paul Collier is the United Nations Secretary General.
It was one of the most gruesome crimes this northern Colorado farming town has seen. The man accused of killing Ms. Zapata, Allen R. Andrade, 32, told the police that he had attacked her upon discovering that she was biologically a man, after the two met on the Internet and had a sexual encounter. In a chilling arrest affidavit, Mr. Andrade said he thought he had "killed it," after striking Ms. Zapata in the head until she stopped breathing. Now, Mr. Andrade stands accused of first-degree murder, in what national gay rights groups say is the first trial in which a hate-crime statute has been used to prosecute the killing of a transgender person.
Angie Zapata has been killed with a fire extinguisher.
WEARE, N.H. — The black flies were swarming outside Justice David H. Souter's house on a dirt road here last week, and the house itself — with peeling paint, rotting wood and tattered shades pulled low — looked only slightly more seductive than a mud hut. Yet to Justice Souter, who told President Obama last week that he would retire from the Supreme Court in June and return to rural New Hampshire at the relatively young age of 69, this is apparently heaven. In this town of stone walls and bumpy roads, he can climb nearby mountains, jog unnoticed and, one can imagine, read by candlelight amid the piles of books said to dominate his house.
President Obama has a house in New Hampshire.
VATICAN CITY - When Pope Benedict XVI embarks on his first trip to Africa as pontiff on Tuesday, traveling to Cameroon and Angola, he will be visiting the future of the Roman Catholic Church, if not its present. With one of the world's largest Catholic populations, estimated at 158 million, Africa is the continent where the church is at once strong - in terms of sheer numbers and devotional vitality - and weak, inevitably touched by the poverty, corruption, conflict and disease afflicting the larger society.
Africa is estimated to have a 158-million Catholic population.
EVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Here's a new economic indicator: the diminishing level of glamour on Paris Hilton's reality TV show. Contestants in season two of "Paris Hilton's My New BFF" are living in a mansion that costs half as much as the home the show rented last season. Trips to New York and Tokyo are out this year, as the show's production budget has been cut 10 percent. With the recession eating into advertising revenue at TV networks, a popular solution has emerged — even cheaper reality TV.
Paris Hilton is an heiress.
First runner-up Carrie Prejean (Miss California) was asked about legalizing same-sex marriage from judge Perez Hilton, the Internet blogger behind perezhilton.com. "I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody there. But that's how I was raised and that's how I think it should be," Prejean said during Sunday night's live telecast. Hilton was visibly upset, and there was a mixed reaction from the live audience. Prejean ultimately came up short, losing the title to Miss North Carolina, Kristen Dalton.
Carrie Prejean was a contestant in Miss USA.
Hours after the North's announcement, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said its inspectors had been ordered out. North Korea "informed IAEA inspectors in the Yongbyon facility that it is immediately ceasing all cooperation with the IAEA," Marc Vidricaire, spokesman for the UN nuclear watchdog, told reporters. "It has requested the removal of all containment and surveillance equipment, following which IAEA inspectors will no longer be provided access to the facility. The inspectors have also been asked to leave the DPRK at the earliest possible time."
North Korea expelled international nuclear inspectors.
The trial against Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is coming to an end, with the four defendents saying they're "confident we are going to win". Co-founder Peter Sunde is on trial with three co-defendents charged with "assisting in making available copyright material." A higher charge of "assisting copyright infringement" was dropped on the second day of the trial. But even if they are found guilty, it won't have any consequences for the operation of the site and its millions of users.
The site thepiratebay.org is one of the most visited BitTorrent destinations in the world.
Panetta told agency employees in an e-mail Thursday that the secret prisons are no longer used and the CIA is making plans to permanently shutter them. But the CIA can still hold prisoners temporarily. Panetta says if more prisoners are taken, they will be interrogated by agency employees and handed over quickly to their home country or a country with a legal claim. The Washington Post reported in November, 2005 that the CIA has maintained secret prisons, also known as "black sites" in at least eight foreign countries since shortly after the 9/11 attacks.
Panetta is the director of the CIA.
NEW YORK (MYFOX NATIONAL) - New York City's Tompkins Square Park was the site of immigrant unemployment protests and labor conflict in the late 1800s . Now it's going to be the host of the Unemployment Olympics . The brainchild of laid-off computer programmer Nick Goddard, the event will take place on Tuesday afternoon and feature unemployed "athletes" participating in events such as the Fax Machine Toss, the "You're Fired" race and Pin the Blame on the Bosses. The 40 participants must show proof of unemployment — an unemployment card, a letter from the employer or an unemployment packet.
The Unemployment Olympics will take place in New York City.
GORDONVILLE, Pa. - On a frosty March morning, with the stubble of last year's corn still in the fields, thousands of bargain-hunters flooded yesterday into a crossroads a mile from Paradise. For one day, the village of Gordonville (population: a couple of hundred) became maybe the biggest town in Pennsylvania's Amish country. Hundreds of Amish men in straw hats and Amish women in white head coverings joined thousands of "English" from as far as Texas in the bidding for a panoply of items, including birdhouses, antique desks, farm implements, quilts, bathtubs, horses, and mules.
The biggest Amish community is in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Berlusconi promises to rebuild Onna again, as it was rebuilt after being overrun by the Nazis. Onna has become a symbol of the destruction wrought by the April 6 earthquake that killed 296 people in the central Abruzzo region. About 40 of Onna's 300 residents died. Mr. Berlusconi said on Saturday that Italians should remember with respect the partisans who fought Fascism but also those who died fighting on "the wrong side." Liberation Day marks the 1945 start of an anti-Nazi partisan uprising that ended with Italy's Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini being shot.
Onna is an Italian village destroyed by the earthquake in April.
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.
India has higher malnutrition rates than China.
The UN human rights rapporteur John Dugard, a South African legal scholar, has compared the situation in the Occupied Territories to Apartheid. His successor Richard Falk, an American Jew and a leading authority on International law, called the situation a "prelude to genocide". Gaza, he said, was "slouching towards a holocaust" insofar as the situation expressed vividly "a deliberate intention on the part of Israel and its allies to subject an entire human community to life-endangering conditions of utmost cruelty". Falk accused Israel of bringing Gaza to the "brink of collective starvation", imposing "a sub-human existence" on a people "repeatedly and systematically" victimized.
Richard Falk has compared the situation in Gaza to the Holocaust.
If 20 multiple sclerosis patients were in a room, all would exhibit different symptoms, she says. "The disease is not clear and not set. It's highly unpredictable." In particular, in the relapsing-remitting stage, there are symptoms such as fatigue, blurry vision, numbness or tingling that the patient feels but are not noticeable to others. As a result, outsiders may not be aware of the extent of the patient's suffering. "Sometimes, they think if you're not in a wheelchair, M.S. must not be that bad. That's not true," Caesar observed. In Florida, 20,000 individuals have been diagnosed with the disease. Nationwide, that number is 400,000. Although it is still in the basic research stage, stem cell therapy shows promise, says Caesar. The research focuses on getting stem cells to regenerate the nerve-insulating myelin.
Stem cells could be useful to treat multiple sclerosis.
A Northern Ireland teenager has been charged with the murder of PSNI constable Stephen Carroll earlier this month. The 17-year-old appeared at Lisburn magistrates court shortly before 11am today where he faced four charges including murder, possessing of an AKM assault rifle and 26 rounds of ammunition, gathering intelligence likely to be of use to terrorists, and membership of the Continuity IRA. The youth, who cannot be named because of his age, denied all the charges, according to his solicitor.
A teenager is accused of the death of Constable Stephen Carroll.
December 29 United States - According to NASA's Near Earth Object Program, 2004 MN4's assessed risk has been corrected downward to zero on the Torino scale. The Torino scale is the current method by which astronomers classify the likelihood of an impact with a near-Earth object.
MN4 is an asteroid.