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Four Venezuelan firefighters who were traveling to a training course in Texas were killed when their sport utility vehicle drifted onto the shoulder of a highway and struck a parked truck.
Four firefighters were killed in Venezuela.
The thick atmosphere of Titan makes it difficult for even the largest telescopes on Earth to see anything clearly.
Telescopes on Earth cannot see Titan clearly.
Four Venezuelan firefighters who were traveling to a training course in Texas were killed when their sport utility vehicle drifted onto the shoulder of a highway and struck a parked truck.
Four firefighters were killed in a car accident.
A longtime associate of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden surrendered to Saudi Arabian officials.
Osama bin Laden is the leader of al Qaeda.
On the 35th anniversary of the first lunar landing, NASA struggled with money problems as it aimed to return to human space flight after the Columbia disaster and ultimately put people back on the moon.
NASA has economic problems.
Tests on animals showed they could get through the stomach wall and the thin membrane surrounding the stomach called the peritoneum to repair the intestines, liver, pancreas, gall bladder and uterus.
The stomach wall is called the peritoneum.
Napster, which started as an unauthorized song-swapping Web site, has transformed into a legal service offering music downloads for a monthly fee.
Napster began as an illegal Web site.
The organizers of the 15th International AIDS Conference, scheduled for next month in Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday responded to press reports that a prominent hotel in Bangkok discriminated against HIV-positive visitors attending a different conference this month.
A famous hotel in Bangkok is accused of discrimination against HIV-positive customers
The U.S. ambassador to Manila Francis Ricciardone threw his support behind Arroyo in an interview with local television on Monday.
Francis Ricciardone is the U.S. ambassador to Manila.
Every year 40,000 babies are born with disorders related to prenatal drinking.
Prenatal drinking can be connected to disorders in babies.
A former petty thief who converted and founded his own church, Silva is a devoted jailhouse preacher who claims to have ended 11 prison rebellions in recent years.
Silva used to be a petty thief.
One of Michigan's largest newspaper chains agreed to be sold to the Journal Register Co. of Trenton, N.J., on Tuesday for $415 million in an auction.
The Journal Register Co. of Trenton, N.J. is Michigan's largest newspaper chain.
The new arrivals followed a similar number that reached South Korea on Tuesday, the biggest single batch ever among the thousands that have fled famine and repression in their isolated homeland since the late 1990s.
Thousands have fled South Korea's famine and repression since the late 1990's.
Fighters loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr shot down a U.S. helicopter Thursday in the holy city of Najaf.
Fighters loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr shot down Najaf.
Continuing its buying spree, IBM said Wednesday that it plans to acquire Alphablox, a Mountain View, Calif.-based analytics software company.
Alphablox is based in California.
LOSAIL, Qatar (AFP) - Torrential rain caused the season-opening Qatar MotoGP to be cancelled on Sunday, leaving officials and teams in a frenzy before deciding to race on Monday instead at this floodlit desert venue. Monsoon-like conditions, accompanied by swirling winds, arrived just moments before Australia's Casey Stoner, on pole position, was due to lead defending world champion Valentino Rossi and the other riders away on the warm-up lap. "It's just unlucky with the weather," said Australian Ducati rider Stoner, the 2007 world champion, who was bidding for a third successive win here.
Valentino Rossi won the season-opening Qatar MotoGP.
Euro MPs have voted overwhelmingly to cut the cost of texting and using the internet on mobiles abroad. The cap for a "roaming" text will fall to 11 euro cents (10p; 14 US cents), from about 29 cents on average today. The EU-wide caps, excluding VAT, will take effect in July. They cover text messages and data roaming services, such as checking e-mails while abroad. The current price cap of 46 euro cents per minute for an outgoing voice call will also fall to 43 cents in July.
A roaming text cost 46 euro cents.
However Mr Johnson said it was likely there would still be more cases and there was the possibility of a second wave in the autumn or winter. The advice was followed by news that the number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the UK has risen to 18. Health officials are trying to trace those on the same flight as a Scottish man diagnosed with swine flu on Sunday. The man, from Ayrshire - Scotland's fourth confirmed case - flew from Birmingham International to Glasgow Airport on Thursday. He is thought to have picked up the virus while in Texas, but the authorities said no other flights were affected.
Mr. Johnson is a health official.
A Spanish man who has admitted killing a Welsh couple, has expressed remorse for his actions and apologised to their son in his murder trial. Brian and Tina Johnson were bludgeoned to death with a hammer on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands in July 2006. Juan Carmelo Santana told the jury at Las Palmas criminal court that he blamed the drink and drugs he had taken for the attacks. The jury is expected to begin its deliberations later.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were killed by Santana.
"There is a rational basis to distinguish between people driving cars and semi trucks," Jambois said. "All I would say is I think he has an uphill battle." The lawsuit says the truckers' Fifth and Fourteenth amendment rights are being violated because there is no way for them to apply for an occupational license. Mutschler said the state is taking away the truckers' right to drive a truck for a living. He said he will argue that while driving is a privilege, once a person has a license for work, it becomes a right.
Fifth Amendment right is about driving license.
Rain is pelting down on Doña Porcela's treatment room in Puerto Cabezas, the main town on Nicaragua's Northern Caribbean coast. The room is barren except for a few plastic chairs, a wooden table and some old plastic bottles balanced precariously on timber beams. Doña Porcela is a respected traditional healer here and the bottles are filled with her secret medicinal potions. Her patient today is a teenage girl asleep on a piece of cardboard, serving as a mattress on the dirt floor.
Doña Porcela is a healer.
Global technology giant IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems in a deal that would expand its server market share, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. IBM may pay as much as US$6.5 billion in cash for Sun, the newspaper reported on its Web site, without naming its sources. That amount of money would be nearly double Sun's closing share price on Tuesday of $4.97 per share. The report cautioned that while the two companies are holding discussions, a transaction may not occur.
The price of Sun Microsystems is $4.97.
DEFENDER Zdenek Grygera scored on a header in added time to earn 10-man Juventus a 1-1 draw with Inter Milan on Saturday, although it may have not been enough to prevent Inter from clinching its fourth successive Serie A title. Teenager Mario Balotelli scored in the 64th minute for Inter and Juventus midfielder Tiago Mendes was shown a red card in the 76th. "To go down a goal, lose a man, and then be able to draw, satisfies me," Juventus coach Claudio Ranieri said. Inter remained 10 points ahead of Juventus with six rounds remaining.
Claudio Ranieri is the Juventus' coach.
India's economy has grown by more than 8 per cent annually since 2003 and hit $4 trillion (based on purchasing power parity) by the end of last year - more than double that of the whole of Africa. The country now has the sort of budget, foreign exchange reserves, transport infrastructure, human resources and stable political environment that are the envy of most sub-Saharan countries. Yet its child malnourishment levels are worse than Ethiopia's and on a par with those of Eritrea and Burkina Faso.
India, Eritrea and Burkina Faso have the same rate of child malnourishment.
A teenager who bashed a tourist to death with a baseball bat could be out of jail by his mid-20s. Jahche Broughton, who was just 14 when he murdered Karen Aim in Taupo, will spend a minimum non-parole period of 12 and a half years in prison. It seemed almost incomprehensible, a boy of just 15 standing in the dock after pleading guilty to murdering one woman and 12 days earlier smashing another to within inches of her life with a rock.
Jahche Broughton was a baseball player.
A Soyuz capsule carrying a Russian cosmonaut, an American astronaut and U.S. billionaire tourist Charles Simonyi has docked at the international space station. Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka manually guided the capsule to a stop ahead of schedule Saturday two days after blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The crews of the capsule and the station will spend around three hours checking seals before opening the air locks and meeting up face-to-face.
Charles Simonyi is a Russian cosmonaut.
WASHINGTON - Russell Dunham, a World War II Army veteran who received the Medal of Honor, the military's highest decoration for valor, after he assaulted three German machine gun emplacements, killed nine German soldiers, and took two prisoners on a snowy morning in 1945, died Monday at his home in Godfrey, Ill., of congestive heart failure. He was 89. On Jan. 8, 1945, Technical Sergeant Dunham's company, part of the Third Infantry Division, was facing a formidable German force at the small town of Kayserberg, France, near the German border. The men were issued white mattress covers as camouflage in the deep snow.
Russell Dunham was killed by nine German soldiers.
HONOLULU, Hawaii (CNN) — Battered by the current economic recession, Hawaii's economy could get a strong boost from two key sporting events. The National Football League's Pro Bowl Game will return to Honolulu in 2011 — an event that is expected to bring millions of dollars in revenue. Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann is also hoping to lure the 31st Summer Olympic Games — but not to his city. He's actively supporting Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Games.
Mufi Hannemann is the coach of The National Football League.
Three major bombings in less than a week will be causing some anxiety among political leaders in Baghdad and Washington. Last Thursday 10 people were killed by a car bomb at a crowded cattle market in Babel province, south of Baghdad. On Sunday more than 30 died when a suicide bomber riding a motorbike blew himself up at a police academy in the capital. Tuesday's bombing in Abu Ghraib also killed and wounded a large number of people - including journalists and local officials.
In less than a week there were 3 major bombings in Iraq, killing more than 40 people.
A spokesperson for Britain's The Islamic Cultural Centre & The London Central Mosque has commented on the episode, telling U.K. newspaper the Daily Star, "I hope Muslims take no notice of the show." But Groening has come out in defense of the plot, saying, "Cartoons deal in stereotypes. We try to be sensitive." It is not the first time the show has been mired in controversy, with Simpsons bosses recently being criticized for a storyline which implied America's Republican party was involved in a vote-rigging scandal at the 2008 presidential election.
Groening is the creator of "The Simpsons".
Looking drawn and moving stiffly after three days in the hospital this week, Cardinal Edward M. Egan returned to the pulpit of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Thursday to participate in Holy Week services for the last time as archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. A little more than a week before his retirement, Cardinal Egan, 77, was stricken with severe stomach pains on Saturday night and driven to St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan in Greenwich Village. He was released on Tuesday after treatment for a gastrointestinal virus, with an unspecified appointment to come back for pacemaker implantation surgery, and with instructions from doctors to rest.
Edward M. Egan is the New York Catholic Archbishop.
Although it won't discuss it, the Chinese government frequently blocks foreign Web sites that it deems to have objectionable content. Access to YouTube was also blocked in 2007, and 2008 during high-profile government meetings and following last year's unrest in Tibet. YouTube has been blocked at least twice in the last month, according to Herdict Web, a censorship tracking system run by Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The first block came on March 4, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising on March 10. The current block began on March 23.
The ban is not the first ban for YouTube in China.
"Ken Lewis has now become the lightning rod of controversy, and that is highly distracting," said Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, a professor at the Yale School of Management, who believes Mr. Lewis should resign. "Even if everything he did was appropriate, it has hampered his legitimacy to lead." It was not long ago that Mr. Lewis was celebrated for his vision. His daring takeover of Merrill Lynch was the latest in a series of high-profile acquisitions that helped transform Bank of America into a national powerhouse. His conquests included the Countrywide Financial Group, the giant mortgage lender which, for many, came to symbolize the excesses of the subprime era. In December, the American Banker, the daily chronicle of the banking industry, named him 2008 Banker of the Year.
Ken Lewis studied at the Yale School of Management.
THE Black Saturday bushfires royal commission, which sits for the first time today, will initially focus on the lack of warnings to communities of approaching firestorms and the Brumby Government's "stay or go" policy. But the commission, which will have only four months to produce an interim report, has already come under criticism for refusing permission for scores of survivors and the families of victims to appear before it. Individuals applying for leave to appear at the hearings have been refused permission, and told instead to lodge written submissions to the inquiry.
Only 2 people were killed during the Black Saturday bushfires.
Ian Tomlinson, 47, died last Wednesday after encountering riot police near the Bank of England as he returned home from his work as a newsagent. The footage, released yesterday by The Guardian, reveals a docile-looking Mr Tomlinson walking with his back to police officers at about 7.20pm. One Metropolitan Police officer appears to lunge at him with a baton from behind and he falls to the ground. A bystander had to help him to his feet. Mr Tomlinson is understood to have then walked on to Cornhill where he collapsed. A New York fund manager visiting London shot the footage.
Ian Tomlinson was a newspaper vendor.
I was nearly charged with petty theft for pilfering coffee at the illustrious Hippodrome Building. But lest I be judged too quickly, I must convey the sublimity of the fourth floor's coffee machine. Harry Houdini performed at the Hippodrome, at 1120 Avenue of the Americas near 44th Street. Many of the best and most famous performers of the time appeared there. It was one of the biggest and most successful theaters of its time, capable of accommodating 5,200 people.
Harry Houdini was a magician.
The Grapes of Wrath, published exactly 70 years ago, can be seen as a prophetic novel, rooted in the tragedies of the Great Depression, but speaking directly to the harsh realities of 2009, writes Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott. Steinbeck's epic novel, which traces harrowing exodus of Tom Joad and his family from blighted Oklahoma (where they are evicted from their farm), across the rugged American south-west via Highway 66, and on to what they mistakenly hope will be a more promising future in California, is considered by many readers to be the quintessential Depression-era story, and an ironic reversal of the rags-to-riches tale favoured by many optimistic Americans.
"The Grapes of Wrath" was written by Steinbeck.
When a mosquito drinks the blood an infected person, the insect also swallows the malaria parasite, which then must incubate and multiply before migrating into the insect's saliva. The process can take weeks. And because mosquitoes are small-bodied and cold-blooded, outside temperatures make a big difference in how long it takes before they can transmit the disease. If it happens too slowly, the insects die before they can infect anyone. In general, the malaria parasite does better at warmer temperatures, which is why the disease occurs most often in tropical environments. But with mathematical models, Thomas has found that, even when conditions are warm, highly fluctuating temperatures over the course of a day slow down the rate of parasite incubation and larval development in the mosquito.
Warm weather facilitates the spreading of malaria.
At home in New Hampshire, V. Gene Robinson is by his own description "just the bishop." As the head of an Episcopal diocese of 16,000, he spends his days counseling priests and their families, visiting parishes, performing baptisms, attending confirmations and coordinating such projects as overseas missions and a campaign against the death penalty. What he does is important, he says, but not "anything particularly special." But when he leaves the diocese, Robinson becomes what he calls "this bigger-than-life thing." His mere appearance inspires misty eyes and standing ovations from some. To others, he is a pariah whose very identity makes him too tainted to share a pew or theological discussion. One person looks at him and sees the future of the church; another, its demise.
Nearly six years ago, Robinson became the first openly gay Episcopal bishop.
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.
49 people were hit by a suicide bomber in Akuressa.
A U.S. judge ordered el Gharani released in January, dismissing as unreliable the military's allegations that he was part of al-Qaida and had worked for the Taliban in Afghanistan. He is held in a section of Guantanamo where prisoners are permitted more privileges while he awaits release. El Gharani was arrested in Pakistan in 2001 at a mosque by local police and turned over to U.S. forces in 2002. He was one of the first Guantanamo Bay detainees and one of the youngest. The U.S. holds about 240 men at the U.S. base in Cuba, most on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida and the Taliban.
About 240 people are detained in Guantanamo.
The word most often associated with West Papua is remote. An area of thick jungle and mountains, roughly the size of Spain, Papua is the eastern-most outpost of the Indonesian archipelago, some 3,200km (2,000 miles) from the government in Jakarta. Culturally it feels even further. Papua became part of Indonesia in 1969 after a controversial and very limited vote. Ever since there have been calls from some Papuans for independence and for decades a low-level armed resistance has been rumbling on, largely unnoticed by the outside.
In 1969 Papua became part of Indonesia.
The BBC has seen documents alleging that a former rebel leader indicted for war crimes is playing a leading role in a mission involving the UN in DR Congo. The documents appear to prove that Gen Bosco Ntaganda is taking an active part in the mission's chain of command, a BBC correspondent in the country says. The UN-Congolese force is fighting Hutu rebels in the eastern DR Congo. The force says Congolese authorities have given assurances that Gen Ntaganda was not involved in joint operations.
Bosco Ntaganda was a rebel leader.
Bout - who is generally believed to be a model for the arms dealer portrayed by Nicolas Cage in the 2005 movie 'Lord of War' - has repeatedly denied any involvement in illicit activities. At a hearing earlier this month, he angrily accused the United States of framing him and pressuring Thailand to extradite him. He has long been linked to some of the world's most notorious conflicts, allegedly supplying arms to former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor and Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi.
Gaddafi is the Liberian dictator.
A man has hijacked a passenger plane in the Jamaican resort of Montego Bay, and is still holding five crew members hostage, reports say. More than 150 passengers were on board when the man forced his way on board the Canada-bound charter plane but all have now been released. The man breached security and boarded as the plane was about to take off at around 2230 local time (0330 GMT). Negotiations for the release of the hostages are said to be taking place.
A plane crashed in the Jamaican resort of Montego Bay.
When it comes to the recession, tactful New Yorkers may refrain from complaining too loudly about their misfortunes, knowing that the chances are, there is someone else out there who has it worse. But try explaining to a 6-year-old, no matter how worldly and well mannered, that budget cuts may prevent him from spending quality time with a penguin. The Wildlife Conservation Society, which manages the city's zoos and the New York Aquarium in Coney Island, is among the many organizations in the city facing steep budget cuts.
The New York Aquarium is located in Coney Island.
The Czech Republic has allowed at least 94 prisoners over the past decade to be surgically castrated. It is the only country in Europe that uses the procedure for sex offenders. Czech psychiatrists supervising the treatment - a one-hour operation that involves removal of the tissue that produces testosterone - insist that it is the most foolproof way to tame sexual urges in dangerous predators suffering from extreme sexual disorders. Surgical castration has been a means of social control for centuries. In ancient China, eunuchs were trusted to serve the imperial family inside the palace grounds; in Italy several centuries ago, youthful male choir members were castrated to preserve their high singing voices.
In China sex offenders have to be treated with surgical castration.
North Adams - A seven-minute film written and directed by a MCLA freshman will make its debut next week at the Boston International Film Festival, which features a line-up of independent films starring the likes of Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Angela Bassett and Ethan Hawke. "Initially when I shot the film, it was not my intention to enter it in any festivals, so I'm very excited and honored," Cody Romano, 18, of Cambridge, said Friday. "The film was made because of my personal interest in the poetry of Pablo Neruda, a Chilean poet, and it was a tribute to his work. I wasn't sure anyone else would like it. My concern was that it would only appeal to literary people and people who were fans of the poetry, but I'm happy that it apparently appeals to a broader audience as well."
Pablo Neruda came from Chile.
Speaking after he discovered that he would not face criminal charges, Mr Green disclosed that the officers who arrested him last November warned him that he could be given the longest possible sentence. "They said, 'Do you realise that this offence could lead to life imprisonment?'," Mr Green told BBC Newsnight. I just thought this was absurd. "I assume it's because it's a common law offence therefore because there is no law on the statute book which I was alleged to have broken, then presumably there is no set sentence for it."
Mr. Green is the shadow immigration minister of the UK.