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In San Sebastián, in the Basque country, dozens of supporters celebrated De Juana's release. He has never expressed any remorse. In a letter written after one Eta killing, he said of the victims: "Their tears are our smiles, and in the end we will roar with laughter." He now faces a bill for €8m in compensation for his victims, and an investigation into his assets. The release came 40 years to the day after Eta carried out its first deadly attack, killing a civil guard officer. The organisation, which is fighting for an independent Basque country in north-west Spain and south-west France, has killed more than 800 people since 1968.
ETA started their activities in the 60s.
The U.S. State Department said Thursday that the United States is working to dissuade North Korea from going ahead with its plan to launch a satellite next month. U.S. officials say the launch is a disguised long-range missile test and would be destabilizing. State Department officials give no credence to the notion that the launch would be for scientific purposes and they say the United States is working diplomatically to try to prevent a North Korean action that they say would be provocative, destabilizing and unhelpful.
The U.S. fears that the North Korean satellite is a ruse to hide the testing of a missile.
Governments around the world have been hurrying to contain the spread of a new swine flu virus after outbreaks were reported in Mexico, the US and Canada. At least 100 people are now suspected to have died of the disease in Mexico. The UN has warned the virus has the potential to become a pandemic, but said the world was better prepared than ever to deal with the threat. Stocks of anti-viral medicines are being readied and travellers are being screened at some airports for symptoms.
At least 100 people are thought to have died of swine flu in Mexico.
The hurricane caused severe destruction across the entire Mississippi coast and into Alabama, as far as 100 miles (160 km) from the storm's center. Katrina was the eleventh tropical storm, fifth hurricane, third major hurricane, and second Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic season. It formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, and crossed southern Florida as a moderate Category 1 hurricane, causing some deaths and flooding there, before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico and becoming one of the strongest hurricanes on record while at sea.
Hurricane Katrina formed in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico.
"International adoption can actually exacerbate the problem it hopes to solve," said Dominic Nutt, Save the Children's UK spokesman. "The very existence of orphanages encourages poor parents to abandon children in the hope that they will have a better life." While no one accuses Madonna of doing anything illegal in adopting the 4-year-old girl, reportedly named Mercy, there are questions nonetheless about how Madonna is able to navigate Malawi's 18-to-24 month vetting period in just a matter of days or weeks. But the larger issue, child-rights advocates say, is whether international adoptions are in the best interests of the child.
Madonna is 50 years old.
North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament has re-elected Kim Jong-il as chairman of the National Defence Commission, the country's most powerful position. Mr Kim's re-election comes days after a rocket launch that was lauded at home but criticised at the UN. Analysts say the move will help cement Mr Kim's position, after rumours he lost some of his grip on power after suffering a stroke in August. Observers have expressed concern about the apparent lack of a succession plan.
Kim Jong-il is the chairman of the UN.
Varun and his estranged cousins are the grandchildren of Indira Gandhi, the former prime minister who was assassinated in 1984. Her two sons - Rajiv Gandhi, who became premier after Indira's assassination and Sanjay Gandhi who died in an aircraft crash while doing aerobatics - married women with very different personalities. Varun's mother, Maneka, widow of Sanjay Gandhi, is headstrong, voluble, and strident. Rahul and Priyanka's mother is the Italian-born Roman Catholic, Sonia Gandhi, who was widowed by Rajiv's assassination, was more demure as a daughter-in-law.
Indira Gandhi died doing aerobatics.
On a mundane morning in late summer in Paris, the impossible happened. The Mona Lisa vanished. On Sunday evening, August 20, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's best-known painting was hanging in her usual place on the wall of the Salon Carré, between Correggio's Mystical Marriage and Titian's Allegory of Alfonso d'Avalos. On Tuesday morning, when the Louvre reopened to the public, she was gone. Within hours of the discovery of the empty frame, stashed behind a radiator, the story broke in an extra edition of Le Temps, the leading morning newspaper. Incredulous reporters from local papers and international news services converged on the museum. Georges Bénédite, the acting director, and his curators were speculating freely to the press.
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.
Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, a defender of Roman Catholic orthodoxy who led the elite seminary for U.S. priests, becoming known for his energy, wit and warmth, was named archbishop of New York on Monday. The Vatican said Dolan would succeed Cardinal Edward Egan, 76, who is retiring as archbishop after nearly nine years. The post is the most prominent in the American Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II called the job "archbishop of the capital of the world."
The 76-year-old Timothy M. Dolan is the new archbishop of New York.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament appointed Kim Jong Il to a third term Thursday as leader of one of the world's most reclusive nations, buoyed by a rocket launch heralded in state media as "historic" but assailed elsewhere as provocative. State media said lawmakers re-elected Kim chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission at the opening session of the new parliament, an appointment that under the constitution makes him the nation's top leader.
Kim Jong Il is the ex-chairman of the National Defense Commission.
The Pope courted further controversy on his first trip to Africa today by declaring that condoms were not a solution to the Aids epidemic - but were instead part of the problem. In his first public comments on condom use, the pontiff told reporters en route to Cameroon that Aids "is a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, and that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems". Pope Benedict has previously stressed that the Roman Catholic Church is in the forefront of the battle against Aids. The Vatican encourages sexual abstinence to fight the spread of the disease.
The Pope thinks condoms cause AIDS.
When UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon's special representative for Nepal Ian Martin completed his tenure in Nepal, it was at the Reporters' Club that he held his last press conference. It was the same organisation that gave Bollywood stars Manisha Koirala and Govinda to the media when they were passing through Nepal. However, on Wednesday, the well-connected Dhamala, whose contacts included Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, deputy premier and home minister Bam Dev Gautam and other ministers, industrialists, politicians and foreign envoys, hit the headlines for a different reason. The Metropolitan Police said the high-flying journalist has been arrested Tuesday for being involved with an underground organisation and is likely to be charged with violating the Arms Act and even treason.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is Maoist.
China yesterday threw down a challenge to America's 50-year dominance of the global economy as it proposed replacing the dollar as the world's main reserve currency with a new global system under the control of the International Monetary Fund. In a muscle-flexing move that will be seen as an attempt to exploit the big shifts in economic power created by the recession sweeping the West, Beijing said that the dollar's role could eventually be taken over by the IMF's so-called Special Drawing Right (SDR), a quasi-currency that was created in 1969.
The SDR is the world's main reserve currency.
CAIRO — Even in old age the imposingly tall, athletic German known to locals as Tarek Hussein Farid maintained the discipline to walk some 15 miles each day through the busy streets of Egypt's capital. He walked to the world-renowned Al Azhar mosque here, where he converted to Islam, and to the ornate J. Groppi Cafe downtown, where he ordered the chocolate cakes he sent to friends and bought the bonbons he gave to their children, who called him Uncle Tarek. Friends and acquaintances here in Egypt also remember him as an avid amateur photographer who almost always wore a camera around his neck, but never allowed himself to be photographed. And with good reason: Uncle Tarek was born Aribert Ferdinand Heim, a member of Hitler's elite Waffen-SS and a medical doctor at the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps.
The real name of Tarek Hussein Farid was Aribert Ferdinand Heim.
The earthquake happened at 0332 (0132 GMT), hours after a 4.6-magnitude tremor shook the area but caused no reported damage. Thousands of the city's 70,000 residents ran into the streets in panic during the 30 second tremor. A student dormitory was said to be one of the buildings badly damaged. It was not clear if anyone remained trapped inside. One student told Rai state TV that he managed to escape the building before the roof collapsed.
A powerful earthquake strikes central Italy.
ContourGlobal's $325 million Kivuwatt project will be the first large scale facility to extract methane from the depths of Lake Kivu, a deep water lake located on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lake Kivu possesses a unique source of energy, methane gas held in solution deep within the lake water. This gas can be harvested for power generation. Extracting the gas also greatly mitigates the environmental hazards associated with a natural release of the lake gasses and provides an environmentally friendly and sustainable source of power generation.
Lake Kivu separates Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Hundreds of Climate Camp demonstrators - behind direct action protests at Heathrow Airport and power stations in North Yorkshire and Kent - have pitched tents in protest against carbon markets. Several hundred anti-war demonstrators are marching to a rally in Trafalgar Square from the US Embassy in central London. On Wednesday morning, protest groups under the G20 Meltdown banner had marched from Tube stations to the Bank of England urging those who had lost their homes, jobs, savings or pensions to join them in following four "horsemen of the apocalypse" to "lay siege" to financial institutions.
Trafalgar Square is in London.
The Porsche driver, identified as Jeffrey David Kirby, 51, of Costa Mesa, was arrested after allegedly abandoning his car on a side street near the collision and taking off on foot with his female passenger. Kirby is being held on suspicion of felony drunk driving and driving under the influence. Bail is set at $2 million. Kirby's passenger, Lynn Marie Nabozny, 32, of Newport Beach, was arrested for public intoxication and later released. The motion picture database imdb.com lists a Lynn Marie Nabozny as having acted in the 1997 television series "The Heartbreak Cafe."
Lynn Marie Nabozny was arrested for public intoxication.
MADAGASCAR'S constitutional court declared Andry Rajoelina as the new president of the vast Indian Ocean island today, a day after his arch rival was swept from office by the army. Mr Rajoelina, who was expected to address his supporters in the capital later in the day, moved swiftly to assert his authority in the wake of Marc Ravalomanana's ouster at the end of a months-long deadly power struggle. "You can call me president," the 34-year-old former disc jockey told French television.
Andry Rajoelina was proclaimed president of Madagascar.
Washington, DC — Josh Schwartz, creator of the hit series Chuck, Gossip Girl, The O.C. and the new web series Rockville, CA will address NAB Show attendees during a Super Session titled "Josh Schwartz: Creating in the New Media Landscape," held Wednesday, April 22 in Las Vegas. Schwartz will be interviewed by media industry veteran Joe Flint, director of industry programs at The Paley Center for Media. During the Session, Flint will ask Schwartz about the future of the entertainment industry and the impact that new digital technologies have on the creative side of content production. Schwartz will discuss his many projects including Rockville, CA, a new web based series comprised of four-minute episodes and performances by indie bands.
Josh Schwartz is the creator of "Gossip Girl".
The terror attacks, it was clear, had blasted a hole in the dam holding back Mumbai's reservoir of woes. While the protesters seemed to be reacting to a tragedy that had left at least 164 people dead and 308 injured, they were really venting the frustrations of having to cope with life in a city with an infrastructure so stretched that simply getting to work and back is an ordeal. At peak hour, the commuter trains - which carry six million people each day - are packed with up to 5,000 commuters, even though they're built for 1,800. Every day, an average of 11 people die on the railway system, either because they fall off the trains or because they're hit by passing locomotives as they cross the tracks.
Every day in Mumbai about 164 people die.
(CNN) — Nadya Suleman, the Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets in January, has fired a nonprofit group of nurses charged with helping care for her children, CNN affiliate KTLA has reported. Suleman accused the nurses, from a group called Angels in Waiting, of spying on her to report her to child-welfare authorities, the affiliate reported Monday. The group was working for free, the affiliate said. Suleman instead will rely on nurses whom she is paying, Suleman's attorney said. She now has four of the octuplets at home, along with her six other children. The other octuplets remain in a hospital, which is discharging them two at a time to ease the adjustment.
Nadya Suleman has 14 children.
It is the country's aging nuclear facility that currently concerns Armenian environmental groups as well as those in neighboring countries. Twenty miles west of the capital Yerevan, Armenia's Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant was built in 1970s and houses two VVER-440 Model V230 nuclear reactors. Metsamor, which currently produces about 40 percent of the country's electricity, is located in a seismically active zone and was closed even before the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union because of the devastating Dec. 7, 1988, earthquake in Spitak.
Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down on Dec. 7, 1988.
BUJUMBURA, Apr 9 (Reuters) - An anti-corruption activist was murdered in a knife attack in Burundi on Thursday, police in the central African nation said on Thursday. Ernest Manirumva, who suffered stab wounds to the head, was the deputy chairman of a Burundi corruption watchdog known as OLUCOME. His body was found on Thursday morning inside his house in the capital Bujumbura, witnesses told Reuters. 'Manirumva was assassinated after midnight,' said a police spokesman. 'We don't yet know the people who committed the crime but investigations have started.'
Ernest Manirumva was an anti-corruption campaigner.
(CNN) — Numerous wildfires were roaring Thursday through parts of Oklahoma and Texas, engulfing one entire town and searing neighborhoods including one in Oklahoma City. Hurricane-force winds continued to kick the flames higher. The fires had engulfed so many miles of turf, and flying embers had sparked in so many different places, that hours after the first blazes were reported Thursday morning, safety officials still weren't sure how many fires they were facing. In Texas, the 100-person town of Stoneburg was "burned over," by a 25,000-acre fire said Texas Forest Service spokeswoman Misty Wilburn. The town, northwest of Dallas near the Oklahoma state line, had been evacuated, she said. At least 100 homes were believed burned down in Midwest City, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City.
A hurricane has caused vast damages in Oklahoma City.
Apple shrugged off the economic downturn to report a 15% jump in profits for the first three months of the year. Sales of its iPhone more than doubled from the same quarter one year ago, while iPod sales also grew. However, demand for Macintosh computers dipped. Net profit rose to $1.21bn (£0.84bn) from $1.05bn in the same quarter a year ago, on sales up 8.7% to $8.16bn. The results sent the company's shares 2.5% higher in after-hours trading.
iPhone is a product of Apple's.
(CNN) — Children were among the victims of a plane crash that killed as many as 17 people Sunday in Butte, Montana, according to authorities in Oroville, California, where the aircraft stopped for fuel. The single-engine plane stopped at the Oroville airport at about 11 a.m. PT, refueled and departed about half an hour later, Police Chief Kirk Trostle said. "There were some adults and children on board," he told reporters Sunday evening, adding the passengers got out briefly to stretch while the pilot refueled the plane.
17 adults died in a plane crash in Montana.
Stanford, the chief executive officer of Stanford Financial Group and the Stanford Investment Bank at the heart of the SEC fraud charges, followed the lead of his Memphis-based chief financial officer, James Davis, who asserted his Fifth Amendment rights in court filings nearly two weeks ago. Stanford's signature is dated Monday. Memphis-based chief investment officer Laura Pendergest-Holt is accused of helping facilitate the scheme by misleading investors. The only criminal charges filed so far are against Pendergest-Holt — for obstruction of justice — related to the government's belief that she lied about her knowledge of assets involved with the uninsured Caribbean-based certificates of deposit that are at the center of the investigation.
The Fifth Amendment right is against self-incrimination.
LOSAIL, Qatar (AFP) - Australia's Casey Stoner, riding a Ducati, was confidently eyeing a third successive Qatar MotoGP victory after taking pole position in a dominant qualifying performance under the Losail desert floodlights. World champion Valentino Rossi was second fastest with his Yamaha teammate Jorge Lorenzo, who was the pole sitter in 2008, in third place. Stoner, the winner here for the last two years and the 2007 world champion, clocked 1min 55.286sec with Rossi 0.473sec behind and Lorenzo 0.497sec off the pace. Italy's Andrea Dovizioso, on a Honda, was fourth quickest.
Valentino Rossi is the World Moto GP champion.
(AP) The Italian court trying an American student and her former boyfriend for the murder of a British woman inspected the apartment house in Perugia on Saturday where the victim was stabbed to death in 2007. American Amanda Knox, 21, and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, who was also studying in the university town in Umbria, are being tried for the slaying of Knox's roommate, Meredith Kercher. Both have denied all wrongdoing. The body of 21-year-old Kercher, stabbed in the neck, was found in a pool of blood in her bedroom of the rented flat in November 2007.
Amanda Knox was in Italy on an exchange program for students.
US music producer Phil Spector has been convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson, after a five-month retrial. The 68-year-old, famous for the "Wall of Sound" recording technique, faces between 15 years and life in prison. He had pleaded not guilty to the second degree murder of 40-year-old Ms Clarkson, who was shot in the mouth at Spector's home in Los Angeles. Spector was remanded in custody until sentencing on 29 May. His lawyer has said he intends to appeal.
Phil Spector was a music producer.
A court in Venezuela has jailed nine former police officers for their role in the deaths of 19 people during demonstrations in 2002. The violence took place hours ahead of a failed coup against President Hugo Chavez. Both supporters and opponents of the left-wing leader were shot dead in the demonstrations in the capital, Caracas. Among those convicted were three former high-ranking police chiefs for the city. They were jailed for 30 years each for complicity in the deaths of pro-government demonstrators, a lawyer for the victims said.
Nine police officers have had a role in the death of 19 people.
The death was confirmed by his daughter Alexandra Holzer. Mr. Holzer — who wrote more than 140 books on ghosts, the afterlife, witchcraft, extraterrestrial beings and other phenomena associated with the realm he called "the other side" — carried out his most famous investigation with the medium Ethel Johnson-Meyers in 1977. Together they roamed the house in Amityville, in which a young man, Ronald DeFeo Jr., had murdered his parents and four siblings in 1974. The house had become notorious after its next owners claimed to have been tormented by a series of spine-chilling noises and eerie visitations, set forth in the best-selling 1977 book "The Amityville Horror: A True Story," written by Jay Anson.
Alexandra Holzer has an house in Amityville.
NEW DELHI, March 31 (Bernama) — Fifty years living in India is spiritually enriching, says 74-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama. In March 1959, he crossed the Indian border as young man after a 14-day harrowing escape from his homeland. "I was 24 years old when I came to India as a refugee. I feel it is a very meaningful life because of the religious experience I had, following others like Hinduism, Christianity, Islam and Judaism. "I am son of India," the Dalai Lama told reporters in Delhi, in conjunction with his 50th anniversary in exile in India.
The Dalai Lama is 74 years old.
The museum's co-curator, Yitzchak Mais, former director of the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem, explained its significance as filling a largely unexplored niche. "These are your neighbors from the Midwest," Mr. Mais said. "You'll realize that you walked on the street with them, shopped with them at the grocery, sat with them at the movie theater." "You've lived with the witnesses," he went on. "It removes the distance. This didn't happen a thousand miles away. It's about right here, and that's very clear."
The Yad Vashem Holocaust museum is located in Israel.
London, March 17 (IANS) British actress Natasha Richardson is reportedly in a critical condition after suffering a serious head injury while skiing in Quebec, Canada. The 45-year-old was involved in an accident on the slopes on Monday and was taken to Montreal's Centre Hospitalier Laurentien. She was later transferred to another medical facility, according to US reports. Richardson, who is married to Irish actor Liam Neeson, is under constant supervision from medics after suffering a "traumatic brain injury", a hospital source tells IrishCentral.com.
Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson are married.
"Despite the challenges, Ford made strong progress on our transformation plan by gaining share with strong new products, slowing operating-related cash outflows, reducing outstanding debt, lowering our structural costs and reaching new agreements with the UAW (United Auto Workers)." Ford said it "remains on track to meet or beat its financial targets based on current planning assumptions, including the target for its overall and North American automotive pre-tax results to be breakeven or better in 2011, excluding special items."
Ford is reducing its structural costs in order to achieve its financial targets.
(Washington, D.C.) - More babies were born in the United States last year than ever before, according to preliminary data, but it's not another baby boom just yet. About 4,315,000 children were born in 2007, about 15,000 more births than the peak time of the baby boom in 1957, said Stephanie Ventura, a demographer at the National Center for Health Statistics, which compiled the data from provisional birth certificate registrations at state health departments. "According to our provisional data, we had the highest number of births ever reported in 2007," she said.
About 15,000 children of the 4,315,000 born in 2007 in the U.S. were Hispanic.