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The city is twinned with Glasgow, Dortmund, Pleven, and Le Mans.
Dortmund is twinned with Glasgow.
This year, however, the contest has taken on a new urgency as the Clinton Administration, moving to block the Pyongyang government's bid to build a nuclear arsenal, has rekindled some of the passion in North Korea's defiance of the West.
Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea.
Sondhi Limthongkul, the founder of the political movement which overran Bangkok's airport last year, is in hospital after a gunman wielding an AK-47 ambushed his car at a petrol station and sprayed it with bullets early this morning. The unknown number of gunmen shot out the tyres of the car owned by Mr Sondhi, the head of the People's Alliance for Democracy 'yellow shirt' movement, and riddled the vehicle with bullets. Stray bullets also hit a nearby public bus.
Sondhi Limthongkul has been hit by more than 100 bullets.
The Yankees split Hollywood with something to feel OK about after last night's 5-4 loss to the Dodgers.
Dodgers lose first game ever at Fenway
The Yemeni Islamic Jihad group emerged in 1992, and it is comprised of old warriors from Afghanistan.
Yemen's Islamic Jihad group was set up by old Afgan warriors in 1992.
Ms. Miers' whole life was based in Dallas and revolved around her legal work, her family and an attachment to an evangelical church that led her to what her former pastor described as a flowering of faith late in life.
Ms. Miers was a leader of an evangelical church.
RJ Reynolds Tobacco announced yesterday that it plans to build a factory in Turkey to produce cigarettes by late 1993.
RJR built factories in Turkey.
Yes, water is a critical area of dispute in the Arab-Israeli conflict; but given the current climate of peacemaking, and given the general war-weariness among states and populations, such predictions are excitable pieces of subjectivism.
There is a territorial waters dispute.
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.
HIV-positive visitors take part in the 15th International AIDS Conference.
A collection of real-life testimonies by Klaus Pohl, one of Germany's most performed dramatists, its power resides less in the conventional meaning of the word drama than in what it reveals - a country still deeply at odds with itself, a kaleidoscope of events that flatters neither side, neither Western capitalism nor the former communist regime.
Klaus Pohl is a German dramatist.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), one of the main stock indices in the United States, has broken an all-time closing record, to close at 14,000.41 points which is up 82.19 points (0.59%) from its last close. Just 59 days before, the Dow hit an all-time high when it passed 13,000. This is the first time the DJIA has ever closed above 14,000 since its debut on May 26, 1896.
The Dow Jones has gained points.
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 after the 1988 Armenian earthquake.
Pratibha Patil has won the 12th Presidential Elections of the Republic of India, becoming the first woman president of the second most populous country in the world. Patil, 72, previously governor of the state of Rajasthan, had support from the governing coalition. She won approximately two thirds of the vote, almost double the number of votes of her nearest rival Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, who resigned as Vice-President after losing the poll.
Chile has a female President.
In documents they filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, government lawyers argued that three inmates who committed suicide last month by hanging themselves coordinated their actions by using attorney-client confidentiality to communicate with each other. Government officials said that among papers marked "Attorney Client Privilege" were instructions on how to tie knots and a classified memo on camp activities and inmate locations.
Three people committed suicide in jail.
The world's fast-growing thirst for water can only be met by purifying sea water as rivers and reservoirs become unable to meet demand, Spain said last week unveiling a major program to fight its own chronic shortages.
The Ebro Delta is used for farming.
The Marriott is a popular place for foreigners to stay and a prominent enterprise in the city, despite a wave of violence the country suffers. The hotel had been victim of another attack in January 2007 where a security guard was killed and several people injured after the guard blocked a bomber from getting at the hotel, forcing him to detonate his explosives where he was.
There is a Marriott Hotel in London.
This case is one of the first to be prosecuted under a new U.S. law regulating unwanted e-mail.
There is a new U. S. law that bans e-mail.
Cage is a big fan of "Superman" (who was born on the fictional planet Krypton) and was to play the role in a film planned for the 1990s that never came to be.
Cage played Superman.
The German-based team say their study is the only report of prolonged hibernation in a tropical mammal.
The team studies hibernating mammals in Germany.
Nine soldiers and two police officers were killed in the ensuing gun battle, and two police officers were wounded, the officials said.
Six policemen and two soldiers were killed in a gunbattle, officials said.
Iran will hold the first runoff presidential election in its history, between President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Tehran's hard-line mayor, election officials said Saturday.
Hashemi Rafsanjani will face Tehran's hard-line mayor in Iran's first runoff presidential election ever, officials said Saturday.
Edwin Hubble is recongized as having been one of the foremost astronomers of the modern era.
Edwin Hubble was an astronomer.
"The Herald is now pleased that Kennedy can vigorously pursue a re-examination of the Iraq war and how to extricate our nation from it. Speaking seriously, I'll take this change of heart as a sobering indication that all of us, wherever we stand on the liberal-conservative continuum, are deeply concerned about the damaging impacts of the Iraq war and are looking for ways to work together to resolve it as soon as possible."
All are deeply concerned about the damage of the Iraq war and are looking for ways to resolve it.
To the south of Castle Hill rises the higher Gellert Hill ( 771 feet ), a steep limestone escarpment overlooking the Danube, which provides a panoramic view of the whole city.
To the south is Gellert Hill, which features the 19th-century Citadel.
Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose most famous fictional creation,  Loman in 'Death of a Salesman' came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry, has died.
Playwright Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'Death of a Salesman', has died.
Coal company stocks got a lift Monday morning after an article in Barron's said the industry was benefiting from soaring natural gas prices and the advent of new power plants that emit less pollution.
Coal stocks rise.
Discovery of the top quark, if confirmed, completes one set of subatomic building blocks whose existence is predicted by the prevailing theory, called the Standard Model, of the particles and forces that determine the fundamental nature of matter and energy. In the whimsical lexicon of modern physics, the elementary particles are called quarks, leptons and bosons.
Quarks, leptons, and bosons are the three elementary particles of physics according to the Standard Model.
Beijing's hard-line stance on the Dalai Lama has grown considerably tougher in recent years. Ties with Germany nose-dived after Chancellor Angela Merkel met with the Dalai Lama in September 2007, recovering only after Berlin offered a pledge similar to that made by France on Wednesday. Companies alleged to have supported the exiles' activities have been subjected to smear campaigns and boycott calls in China, and an appearance in mainland China by the British rock group Oasis was axed by Beijing last month because guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher once took part in a free Tibet concert — in 1997.
Angela Merkel is a Buddhist.
Kabul - A roadside bomb that injured six U.S. soldiers in eastern Afghanistan, was followed by a blast near a Kabul police station, Monday, that hurt two police officers and a civilian.
The six U.S. soldiers were residents in Afghanistan.
Hurricane Isabel was a tropical storm when she entered Virginia, but caused damage to 75% of the state, making it one of the costliest disasters in Virginia's history.
A tropical storm has caused significant property damage or loss of life.
It has become increasingly clear that Iran is making rapid progress toward attaining a nuclear weapons capability as U.S. officials have confirmed the presence of various nuclear sites that Tehran has failed to disclose
Iranian chemical weapons threaten United States.
Kuwait becomes the fourth Gulf country where women as well as men can vote in elections. Saudi Arabia holds strictly limited, male-only elections.
Women can vote in elections in Saudi Arabia.
In Seoul, Han confirmed that all North Korean media on Monday had started referring to Kim Jong Il as "His Excellency" or by the term previously reserved for his father, "the Great Leader." Until now, the younger Kim has been called "the Dear Leader."
Kim Il Sung's son is called Kim Jong Il.
The Daily Mail has confirmed it has pulled out of the bidding for rival newspaper the Daily Telegraph.
Daily telegraph is sold.
In a game ripe with controversy, Manchester United walked away with a crucial away win after a Ryan Giggs free kick gave them the lead. Lille protested the goal, saying the team was setting up its wall at the time Giggs took the kick, and the team nearly left the pitch. After goading by officials, the game was resumed, but Lille said it would be making a stake for a replay with UEFA. UEFA has rejected the claim and declared the goal valid, as well as deciding to "instigate proceedings against Lille for the improper behaviour of their players immediately after the goal."
Lille has defeated Manchester United.
According to Nelson Beavers, who is a co-owner of the current company, Carolina Analytical Laboratories, LLC. and has ownership/employment history with Woodson-Tenent and Eurofins, the septic system was installed in the early 1990s.
Nelson Beavers worked for Eurofins.
On the eve of a widely anticipated retaliation against Russian forces in Grozny, military commanders withdrew key units from the city, leaving it vulnerable to guerrilla infiltration.
Russian forces vulnerable to guerrilla fighters
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) provides funding for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis treatment in 15 focus countries among the world's poorest, mainly in Africa. As of September 30, PEPFAR supported life-saving antiretroviral treatment for over 2.1 million men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS around the world, including more than two million people in Sub Saharan Africa, Perino said. Nearly 9.7 million people affected by HIV/AIDS in PEPFAR countries, including nearly four million orphans and other children, had received "compassionate care" by that date, she said. "Nearly 240,000 babies have been born HIV-free due to the support of the American people for programs to prevent mothers from passing the virus on to their children," Perino added.
Pepfar was founded by President Bush.
David Marshall, responsible for customer training at ABB Robotics in Milton Keynes, fervently hopes that the food, drinks and confectionery industry will become the next big market for robots.
Robots are used in the food industry, in general.
The Dayton Peace Accords for Bosnia and Herzegovina was the first major peace agreement adopted after the Beijing conference, in December 1995.
The Dayton Peace Treaty was formulated to end the war in Bosnia.
A jet filled with tourists returning home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, crashed Tuesday, in Venezuela.
A plane carrying vacationers home to the island of Martinique crashed, Tuesday, in Venezuela.
"The capacity people have to adjust and make peace with a new situation, even if they feel vulnerable, is really remarkable," said Randy Quevillon, chair of the psychology department and the Disaster Mental Health Institute at the University of South Dakota.
Randy Quevillon is employed at the University of South Dakota.
Eddeh reasserted his opinion that President Al-Hrawi ought to be reinstated for another 3 years, claiming that the he "has considerable experience in the running of the state, but his resignation would be appropriate after the withdrawal of Israeli and Syrian forces."
Eddeh calls for an extension to Al-Hrawi's presidency, saying that he should resign after the withdrawal of the Israeli and Syrian forces."
The first dinosaur remains in south-east Asia were found in Laos as early as 1936, but little else eventuated until the 1980s. Much of the area is heavily vegetated, and although difficult to explore, promises many significant finds in the future. Thailand has provided the best finds, particularly from the Khorat Group, which covers the period from the late Triassic to the early Cretaceous .
Dinosaur remains were found in Asia.
Friday, June 9, 2006 Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry signed SB 1800 that allows the death penalty or life without parole for those convicted of sexually abusing a child under the age of 14. Additionally, the bill also establishes a Child Abuse Response Team within the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Oklahoma has now joined Florida, Louisiana, Montana, and South Carolina to have similar measures for repeat child molestation.
SB 1800 is a law that protects children.
The Pharos, a monumental lighthouse built around 280 BC and standing 330 ft high, lit the entrance to Alexandria harbour for centuries, but archeologists have never been able to identify positively any remains.
The Pharos Lighthouse was built around 280 BC.
United States astronaut Sunita Williams, currently on board the International Space Station, has today broken the record for the longest unbroken space flight by a woman. At 5:47 a.m. UTC Williams passed the previous record of 188 days and four hours set by Shannon Lucid in 1996. This is not the only record Williams has broken. Earlier this year she set a record of 29 hours and 17 minutes for time spent by a woman on space walks.
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.
Like the United States, U.N. officials are also dismayed that Aristide killed a conference called by Prime Minister Robert Malval in Port-au-Prince in hopes of bringing all the feuding parties together.
Aristide kills Prime Minister Robert Malval
Michael Jordan, coach Phil Jackson and the star cast, including Scottie Pippen, took the Chicago Bulls to six National Basketball Association championships.
The Bulls basketball team is based in Chicago.
A Miami International Airport concourse was evacuated for three hours Wednesday, after a pepper spray can discharged, causing 43 people to suffer respiratory distress.
An Airport concourse was evacuated Wednesday, after people began having trouble breathing.
Hinostroza's children told police that four hooded individuals broke into the house and shot their mother after having insulted her.
Hinostroza's children attaked their mother with a gun.
Food and Drug Administration, which regulates human experiments, says its regulations forbid human cloning without prior agency permission, and it has launched an investigation into whether Clonaid illegally performed any work on U.S. soil.
Food and Drug Administration forbids human cloning without prior permission.
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.
Some journalists and local officials were killed in one of the three bombings in the Baghdad area.
In an interview this week, the president said that Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be a valued part of his administration until his presidency comes to an end.
Dick Cheney is Vice President of the Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Estimates vary widely, but it is believed there are up to 100 million children toiling in homes, factories, shops, fields, brothels and on the streets of rural and urban India.
Child labor is widely used in Asia.
The group, along with a broad coalition of disarmament, environmental, peace, and religious organizations, expects the boycott to put pressure on French companies to exert their economic influence and encourage Chirac to end all nuclear weapons testing.
International pressure is exerted to end French nuclear tests.
The answer to the number one question, "how many continents are there?", is seven.
There are seven continents.
Dr. David Nabarro, of the World Health Organization, said a pandemic could come at any time and claim anywhere between 5 million and 150 million lives, depending on the world's response to bird flu.
The World Health Organization moved Friday, to revise alarming predictions that a pandemic stemming from the bird flu virus ravaging parts of Asia, could kill as many as 150 million people.
Bountiful arrived after war's end, sailing into San Francisco Bay 21 August 1945. Bountiful was then assigned as hospital ship at Yokosuka, Japan, departing San Francisco 1 November 1945.
Bountiful reached San Francisco on 1 November 1945.
After two years, the aspirin subjects experienced a reduced risk of fatal and nonfatal stroke.
People experienced adverse effects while taking aspirin.
A teenager, belonging to the anti-scientology group Anonymous, has admitted that he launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the official website of the Church of Scientology, scientology.org. Dmitriy Guzner, aged 18, will admit to the charges related to carrying out the DDoS attack. He now faces a maximum sentence of ten years imprisonment. In response to incidents such as these, Scientology have called Anonymous "cyber-terrorists." A DDoS attack occurs when multiple computers are used to attack a certain website with so much traffic that it is not accessible. The hackers attack the servers taking up all the available space, preventing the legitimate user from accessing.
The 18 year-old D. Guzner is a member of the Anonymous group which attacked Scientology website.
It is an independence movement among the Tamil peoples of northern Sri Lanka -- the ancient land of Ceylon independent from Britain in 1948 and took the name Sri Lanka, a Sinhalese word, in 1972.
The current name of Ceylon is Sri Lanka.
The biopic of wannabe actor, Johnny Stompanato, may be directed by Adrian Lyne of "Fatal Attraction" and "Indecent Proposal" fame.
Johnny Stomponato starred in Fatal Attraction.
The Sea-Viewing wide Field-of-View Sensor, SeaWiFS, has brought to oceanographers a welcomed and improved renewal of the ocean color remote sensing data.
Ocean remote sensing is developed.
20 million years ago there were apes, and by 5 million years ago our closest ancestors and cousins, early ape-humans, had split from the other apes.
Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
The American Defense Department reported today, that the bombing runs against Iraq are being especially carried out via cruise missiles launched from American aircraft carriers and B52 bombers.
The Pentagon reported today, that the bombing runs against Iraq are being especially carried out via cruise missiles launched from American aircrafts.
During that time, Wilson received the best-play Tony Award for "Fences," plus best-play Tony nominations for six of his other plays, the Pulitzer Prize for both "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson," and (a record) seven New York Drama Critics' Circle prizes.
Wilson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Canada is officially a bilingual country but, with nearly 60% of the population speaking English as their mother-tongue, and only 24% speaking French as their first language, some people are questioning whether Canada is truly a bilingual nation or rather, a bilingual nation on paper only. French is not the only linguistic minority in Canada, and some of the languages spoken, in order of popularity, are Chinese, Italian, German, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Ukrainian, Arabic, Dutch, Tagalog, Greek, Vietnamese, Cree and Inuktitut.
French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.
Anglo/Dutch Royal Dutch Shell, Total, of France, and Spain's Repsol were all named as examples of established oil companies involved in the oil-for-food programme before surcharges began in 2001.
Total participated in the oil-for-food programme.
Alzheimer's disease is successfully treated, and controlled by drugs which inhibit the synthesis of beta-amyloid protein.
Alzheimer's disease is treated using drugs.
Glue-sniffing and other forms of solvent abuse are being overlooked in the fight against drugs, according to a new report.
Glue-sniffing is common among youngsters.
A gunman has killed at least nine people in a series of shootings across two towns in the southern US state of Alabama before killing himself. Officials say there were at least four separate shooting incidents. The gunman fired on homes, a petrol station, shops and vehicles in Samson and Geneva near the Florida border.  Five people - including a child - were killed in one home. Several of the victims are believed to have been members of the gunman's family.  The gunman has not been formally identified, but was named in the local press as Michael McLendon.
Michael McLendon has killed his child in Samson.
China's announcement of a rival Panchen Lama to the boy already recognized by the Dalai Lama are indications that its Communist regime is desperate in using any means possible to strengthen control over Tibet and Tibetan affairs.
Dalai Lama and the government of the People's Republic of China are in dispute over Panchen Lama's reincarnation.
Although Eurodisney is a great family day out, visit also the chateaux in the area and the various parks and pretty small villages.
EuroDisney is located in the various parks.
Vodafone's share of net new subscribers in Japan has dwindled in recent months.
There have been many new subscribers to Vodafone in Japan in the past few months.
The loss offered a minor moral victory for Liverpool, as they scored only the second goal this season against Chelsea in league play.
Liverpool beat Chelsea.
However, witnesses said some of the black-clad gunmen who attacked a police station and government buildings in Baquba, 60 km (40 miles) northwest of Baghdad, proclaimed loyalty to Zarqawi and wore yellow headbands linking them to his group.
Some of the gunmen showed loyalty to Baquba's group.
About 10 million people live in the Paris metropolitan area, more than 15 percent of the country's total population. France's second largest city is Marseille (795,600) on the Mediterranean coast.
About 10 million people live in France.
The Scots pioneered the idea of a single currency, when they shared the Ecu with France during the Auld Alliance, and therefore they are certain to join in the monetary union process again when the EU states amalgamate their currencies under Maastricht.
France still maintains Ecu is the best denomination for the Maastricht single-currency..