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london, england (reuters) harry potter star daniel radcliffe gains access to a reported £20 million ($411 million) fortune as he turns 18 on monday, but he insists the money won't cast a spell on him daniel radcliffe as harry potter in 'harry potter and the order of the phoenix' to the disappointment of gossip columnists around the world, the young actor says he has no plans to fritter his cash away on fast cars, drink and celebrity parties 'i don't plan to be one of those people who, as soon as they turn 18, suddenly buy themselves a massive sports car collection or something similar,' he told an australian interviewer earlier this month 'i don't think i'll be particularly extravagant 'the things i like buying are things that cost about 10 pounds books and cds and dvds' at 18, radcliffe will be able to gamble in a casino, buy a drink in a pub or see the horror film 'hostel: part ii,' currently six places below his number one movie on the uk box office chart details of how he'll mark his landmark birthday are under wraps his agent and publicist had no comment on his plans 'i'll definitely have some sort of party,' he said in an interview 'hopefully none of you will be reading about it' radcliffe's earnings from the first five potter films have been held in a trust fund which he has not been able to touch despite his growing fame and riches, the actor says he is keeping his feet firmly on the ground 'people are always looking to say 'kid star goes off the rails,'' he told reporters last month 'but i try very hard not to go that way because it would be too easy for them' his latest outing as the boy wizard in 'harry potter and the order of the phoenix' is breaking records on both sides of the atlantic and he will reprise the role in the last two films watch i reporter give her review of potter's latest » there is life beyond potter, however the londoner has filmed a tv movie called 'my boy jack,' about author rudyard kipling and his son, due for release later this year he will also appear in 'december boys,' an australian film about four boys who escape an orphanage earlier this year, he made his stage debut playing a tortured teenager in peter shaffer's 'equus' meanwhile, he is braced for even closer media scrutiny now that he's legally an adult: 'i just think i'm going to be more sort of fair game,' he told reuters e mail to a friend copyright 2007 reuters all rights reservedthis material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed

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editor's note: in our behind the scenes series, cnn correspondents share their experiences in covering news and analyze the stories behind the events here, soledad o'brien takes users inside a jail where many of the inmates are mentally ill an inmate housed on the 'forgotten floor,' where many mentally ill inmates are housed in miami before trial miami, florida (cnn) the ninth floor of the miami dade pretrial detention facility is dubbed the 'forgotten floor' here, inmates with the most severe mental illnesses are incarcerated until they're ready to appear in court most often, they face drug charges or charges of assaulting an officer charges that judge steven leifman says are usually 'avoidable felonies' he says the arrests often result from confrontations with police mentally ill people often won't do what they're told when police arrive on the scene confrontation seems to exacerbate their illness and they become more paranoid, delusional, and less likely to follow directions, according to leifman so, they end up on the ninth floor severely mentally disturbed, but not getting any real help because they're in jail we toured the jail with leifman he is well known in miami as an advocate for justice and the mentally ill even though we were not exactly welcomed with open arms by the guards, we were given permission to shoot videotape and tour the floor go inside the 'forgotten floor' » at first, it's hard to determine where the people are the prisoners are wearing sleeveless robes imagine cutting holes for arms and feet in a heavy wool sleeping bag that's kind of what they look like they're designed to keep the mentally ill patients from injuring themselves that's also why they have no shoes, laces or mattresses leifman says about one third of all people in miami dade county jails are mentally ill so, he says, the sheer volume is overwhelming the system, and the result is what we see on the ninth floor of course, it is a jail, so it's not supposed to be warm and comforting, but the lights glare, the cells are tiny and it's loud we see two, sometimes three men sometimes in the robes, sometimes naked, lying or sitting in their cells 'i am the son of the president you need to get me out of here!' one man shouts at me he is absolutely serious, convinced that help is on the way if only he could reach the white house leifman tells me that these prisoner patients will often circulate through the system, occasionally stabilizing in a mental hospital, only to return to jail to face their charges it's brutally unjust, in his mind, and he has become a strong advocate for changing things in miami over a meal later, we talk about how things got this way for mental patients leifman says 200 years ago people were considered 'lunatics' and they were locked up in jails even if they had no charges against them they were just considered unfit to be in society over the years, he says, there was some public outcry, and the mentally ill were moved out of jails and into hospitals but leifman says many of these mental hospitals were so horrible they were shut down where did the patients go? nowhere the streets they became, in many cases, the homeless, he says they never got treatment leifman says in 1955 there were more than half a million people in state mental hospitals, and today that number has been reduced 90 percent, and 40,000 to 50,000 people are in mental hospitals the judge says he's working to change this starting in 2008, many inmates who would otherwise have been brought to the 'forgotten floor' will instead be sent to a new mental health facility the first step on a journey toward long term treatment, not just punishment leifman says it's not the complete answer, but it's a start leifman says the best part is that it's a win win solution the patients win, the families are relieved, and the state saves money by simply not cycling these prisoners through again and again and, for leifman, justice is served e mail to a friend

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mentally ill inmates in miami are housed on the 'forgotten floor'. judge steven leifman says most are there as a result of 'avoidable felonies'. while cnn tours facility, patient shouts: 'i am the son of the president'. leifman says the system is unjust and he's fighting for change

(cnn) the future of liverpool football club will be decided in london's high court next week after current owners tom hicks and george gillett mounted a legal challenge to the proposed buyout by new england sports ventures (nesv) reds chairman martin broughton announced the sale to the company which owns the boston red sox on wednesday, but the american co owners claimed the £300 million ($476m) offer 'dramatically undervalues' the club hicks and gillett also allege that the sale, which is subject to premier league approval, is not legally binding because two board members who approved the deal had already been sacked but broughton says the removal of managing director christian purslow and commercial director ian ayre, and their replacement by hicks's son mack and his associate lori mccutcheon, were not valid moves what does the sale mean for liverpool? 'the key thing is the court case,' broughton told the liverpool website 'we need to go to the court to get a declaratory judgment, which is for the court to declare that we did act validly in completing the sale agreement, and then the buyers can complete the sale 'i am confident i wouldn't have taken the board through that process yesterday if i hadn't been confident' meanwhile, nesv posted a statement on liverpool's website in which they confirmed their intention to clear the debt, reported to be between $397m and $445m, loaded onto the club by gillett and hicks what do you think of the sale? sound off with cnn ireport 'nesv wants to create a long term financially solid foundation for liverpool fc and is dedicated to ensuring that the club has the resources to build for the future, including the removal of all acquisition debt,' it said 'our objective is to stabilize the club and ultimately return liverpool fc to its rightful place in english and european football, successfully competing for and winning trophies' hicks and gillett took out loans in the club's name to buy it in february 2007, promising to invest in a new stadium and new players blog: jumping from frying pan to fire? but with the club's debts spiraling, the stadium project failing to get off the ground and the team struggling on the field, the owners have become targets for angry fans liverpool failed to qualify for this season's lucrative european champions league and the team is currently 18th out of 20 in the english league after seven matches the worst start to a season for decades manager roy hodgson, who replaced rafael benitez in july, has welcomed the proposed takeover history of liverpool in images 'it's very positive and of course i'm delighted,' he said 'it's been going on a long time and i know how hard the board have worked to set things up 'i know it's not easy for them because the owners have other ideas in terms of the sale of the club and what is achievable 'but i was delighted to hear the news and have it confirmed that it looks like it is going to go through'

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liverpool ownership to be decided in high court next week . owners george gillett challenge sale to new england sports ventures . chairman martin broughton says he is confident sale will go through . manager roy hodgson welcomes sale to boston red sox owners

(cnn) manchester united were held to a 2 2 draw at old trafford by west bromwich albion in the english premier league on saturday a mistake by goalkeeper edwin van der sar gifted the visitors an equalizer 10 minutes into the second half after hernandez and nani had given the alex ferguson's men a two goal lead before the break van der sar's fumble from a chris brunt cross fell to the feet of somen tchoyi who pounced on the error to score after 55 minutes tchoyi's effort came five minutes after patrice evra deflected a brunt free kick into his own net ferguson left his star striker wayne rooney on the bench until the 71st minute but he couldn't force a winner as man united poured forward in the closing stages the draw is the 2009 champions third in succession in the league and leaves them in third place on 14 points arsenal moved up to second after they beat birmingham city 2 1 at the emirates the gunners had to come from behind after birmingham striker nikola zigic headed home from a keith fahey cross in the 33rd minute but it wasn't long before arsenal were back on equal terms marouane chamakh was awarded a penalty eight minutes later after being fouled sami nasri stepped up to convert the spot kick and it was the moroccan striker who secured all three points for the home side when he rounded birmingham's keeper ben foster to record his fifth goal of his arsenal career league leaders chelsea could only manage a goalless draw against aston villa at villa park the point keeps the 2010 champions five points clear of the chasing pack villa move up to eighth despite the loss birmingham remain 16th place in the table as strugglers wolves and west ham the premier league's bottom two sides drew 1 1 at molineux matthew jarvis had put the home side ahead in the 10th minute after he volleyed home a weak punched clearance from west ham's keeper, robert green despite dominating the first half, wolves couldn't double their lead and were made to pay eight minutes into the second half when defender kevin foley brought down west ham striker victor obinna mark noble stepped up to convert the penalty tottenham hotspur also came from behind to defeat their west london rivals fulham 1 2 at craven cottage goals from roman pavlyuchenko and tom huddlestone in either half secured the win for spurs after diomansy kamara had given the cottagers the lead after half an hour wigan looked as though they were also on course for a notable away win at st james park over newcastle but argentine defender fabricio coloccini equalized for the home side in the fourth minute of added time at the end of the match two goals in as many minutes by ex newcastle striker charles n'zogbia midway through the first half gave wigan a surprise lead newcastle's efforts to get back into the game were thwarted until the 72nd minute when substitute shola ameobi gave the magpies hope of a point when he scored from close range before coloccini's late show the result leaves wigan in 12th place, one point and one place ahead of newcastle in the table bolton wanderers grabbed a last gasp winner at the reebok stadium to overcome stoke city 2 1 lee chung yong had given bolton the lead in the first half with a stunning curling effort from 22 yards after 22 minutes rory delap equalized for stoke early in the second half and the game looked as though it was heading for a draw until ivan klasnic scored the winner two minutes into stoppage time klasnic didn't celebrate for long though as he was sent off moments later for a second bookable offence everton host liverpool in the merseyside derby on sunday, while manchester city can make up ground on chelsea if they win at blackpool

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manchester united squander points at home to newly promoted west brom . edwin van der sar gifts west brom a point after fumbling a cross in a 2 2 draw . arsenal and spurs come from behind to beat birmingham and fulham respectively . strugglers west ham and wolves draw 1 1 to remain rooted to the bottom of table

minneapolis, minnesota (cnn) drivers who were on the minneapolis bridge when it collapsed told harrowing tales of survival 'the whole bridge from one side of the mississippi to the other just completely gave way, fell all the way down,' survivor gary babineau told cnn 'i probably had a 30 , 35 foot free fall and there's cars in the water, there's cars on fire the whole bridge is down' he said his back was injured but he determined he could move around 'i realized there was a school bus right next to me, and me and a couple of other guys went over and started lifting the kids off the bridge they were yelling, screaming, bleeding i think there were some broken bones' watch a driver describe his narrow escape » at home when he heard about the disaster, dr john hink, an emergency room physician, jumped into his car and rushed to the scene in 15 minutes he arrived at the south side of the bridge, stood on the riverbank and saw dozens of people lying dazed on an expansive deck they were in the middle of the mississippi river, which was churning fast, and he had no way of getting to them he went to the north side, where there was easier access to people ambulances were also having a hard time driving down to the river to get closer to the scene working feverishly, volunteers, emts and other officials managed to get 55 people into ambulances in less than two hours occasionally, a pickup truck with a medic inside would drive to get an injured person and bring him back up even ground, hink told cnn the rescue effort was controlled and organized, he said; the opposite of the lightning quick collapse 'i could see the whole bridge as it was going down, as it was falling,' babineau said 'it just gave a rumble real quick, and it all just gave way, and it just fell completely, all the way to the ground and there was dust everywhere and it was just like everyone has been saying: it was just like out of the movies' babineau said the rear of his pickup truck was dangling over the edge of a broken off section of the bridge he said several vehicles slid past him into the water 'i stayed in my car for one or two seconds i saw a couple cars fall,' he said 'so i stayed in my car until the cars quit falling for a second, then i got out real quick, ran in front of my truck because behind my truck was just a hole and i helped a woman off of the bridge with me 'i just wanted off the bridge, and then i ran over to the school bus i started grabbing kids and handing them down it was just complete chaos' he said most of the children were crying or screaming he and other rescuers set them on the ground and told them to run to the river bank, but a few needed to be carried because of their injuries see rescuers clamber over rubble » babineau said he had no rescue training 'i just knew what i had to do at the moment' melissa hughes, 32, of minneapolis, told the associated press that she was driving home when the western edge of the bridge collapsed under her 'you know that free fall feeling? i felt that twice,' hughes said a pickup landed on top of her car, but she was not hurt 'i had no idea there was a vehicle on my car,' she told ap 'it's really very surreal' babineau told the minneapolis star tribune: 'on the way down, i thought i was dead i literally thought i was dead 'my truck was completely face down, pointed toward the ground, and my truck got ripped in half it was folded in half, and i can't believe i'm alive' see and hear eyewitness accounts » bernie toivonen told cnn's 'american morning' that his vehicle was on a part of the bridge that ended up tilted at a 45 degree angle 'i knew the deck was going down, there was no question about it, and i thought i was going to die,' he said after the bridge settled and his car remained upright, 'i just put in park, turned the key off and said, 'oh, i'm alive,' ' he said e mail to a friend

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washington (cnn) doctors removed five small polyps from president bush's colon on saturday, and 'none appeared worrisome,' a white house spokesman said the polyps were removed and sent to the national naval medical center in bethesda, maryland, for routine microscopic examination, spokesman scott stanzel said results are expected in two to three days all were small, less than a centimeter [half an inch] in diameter, he said bush is in good humor, stanzel said, and will resume his activities at camp david during the procedure vice president dick cheney assumed presidential power bush reclaimed presidential power at 9:21 am after about two hours doctors used 'monitored anesthesia care,' stanzel said, so the president was asleep, but not as deeply unconscious as with a true general anesthetic he spoke to first lady laura bush who is in midland, texas, celebrating her mother's birthday before and after the procedure, stanzel said afterward, the president played with his scottish terriers, barney and miss beazley, stanzel said he planned to have lunch at camp david and have briefings with national security adviser stephen hadley and white house chief of staff josh bolten, and planned to take a bicycle ride saturday afternoon cheney, meanwhile, spent the morning at his home on maryland's eastern shore, reading and playing with his dogs, stanzel said nothing occurred that required him to take official action as president before bush reclaimed presidential power the procedure was supervised by dr richard tubb, bush's physician, and conducted by a multidisciplinary team from the national naval medical center in bethesda, maryland, the white house said bush's last colonoscopy was in june 2002, and no abnormalities were found, white house spokesman tony snow said the president's doctor had recommended a repeat procedure in about five years a colonoscopy is the most sensitive test for colon cancer, rectal cancer and polyps, small clumps of cells that can become cancerous, according to the mayo clinic small polyps may be removed during the procedure snow said on friday that bush had polyps removed during colonoscopies before becoming president snow himself is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer that began in his colon and spread to his liver watch snow talk about bush's procedure and his own colon cancer » 'the president wants to encourage everybody to use surveillance,' snow said the american cancer society recommends that people without high risk factors or symptoms begin getting screened for signs of colorectal cancer at age 50 e mail to a friend

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five small polyps found during procedure; 'none worrisome,' spokesman says . president reclaims powers transferred to vice president . bush undergoes routine colonoscopy at camp david

(cnn) uefa have awarded a 3 0 victory to italy after their euro 2012 qualifying match with serbia was abandoned due to violence serbia have also been ordered to play their next two home qualifying games behind closed doors after their fans disrupted the match between the two countries in genoa on october 12 after disturbances before the game, away supporters threw flares on the pitch, lit fireworks and tried to smash a perspex fence before the referee called the game off after just seven minutes of action serbia had asked for the game to be replayed, but uefa's control and disciplinary body said it had decided to award a 3 0 win to italy after the abandonment a statement on their official website read: 'the football association of serbia (fss) has been ordered to play its next two home matches behind closed doors from this sanction, a one match ban is deferred for a probationary period of two years 'the control and disciplinary body has ordered the fss to refrain from ordering tickets for serbian supporters for all the away matches of the serbian team during the remainder of the uefa euro 2012 qualifying competition the association was also fined a total of €120,000 (166,972) 'the italian football federation (figc) received a sanction of one match to be played behind closed doors this sanction is deferred for a probationary period of two years the association was fined €100,000 ($139,143)' the victory means italy go three points clear of slovenia at the top of euro 2012 qualifying group c, while serbia remain fifth with four points from four games

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uefa award italy a 3 0 win after their euro 2012 qualifying match with serbia was abandoned . the game was called off after seven minutes due to violence from serbia supporters . serbian fans threw flares and fireworks onto the pitch . serbia also ordered to play two games behind closed doors

(cnn) more than 1,200 nasa workers will be laid off friday, despite congress passing a $19 billion budget for the space agency two days earlier lori garver, nasa's deputy administrator, said thursday she didn't believe the bill would affect planned layoffs, 'certainly not for tomorrow' thursday was the last day for laid off employees to report to their workstations shuttle workers on their last day were to receive their final paperwork many of the departing workers have worked on the shuttle program since its beginning in the early 1980s late wednesday, the house passed the nasa reauthorization act following the senate's approval, giving nasa the authority to move forward with president barack obama's strategy for the agency the bill overwhelming passed both houses of congress and obama is expected to sign it the exact amount of money each nasa program receives will be decided by congressional appropriations, but not until after the november elections the bill authorizes an additional shuttle launch, extending the retirement date of the shuttle program from february 2011 until june 2011 the nasa administrator said an additional shuttle mission could help stock additional supplies on the international space station the bill extended the space station's life until 2020 it's expected as the shuttle program comes to an end that more than 9,000 shuttle workers will lose their jobs

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the nasa budget approved by congress will extend the shuttle program until next june . as the shuttle program ends, more than 9,000 nasa workers will lose their jobs

(cnn) a stampede of fans erupted outside a south african stadium sunday before a warmup match between nigeria and north korea leading up to the world cup, police and the local organizing committee said there were no fatalities reported, police said, but 14 people sustained minor injuries a police official was in stable condition after being trampled by the crowd, and a second police officer had minor injuries the match at makhulong stadium, in the johannesburg suburb of tembisa, was arranged by a private company, authorities said in a statement, and tickets were being handed out outside 'initial reports from the stadium, which is not a 2010 fifa world cup stadium, indicate that 10,000 tickets were distributed outside the stadium, but a number of fans wanted to enter the stadium without tickets,' the statement said 'it would seem that there was also some confusion among the crowd as to the ticketing system which led to disruptive behavior on the part of the crowd' police began implementing 'crowd management' measures, but the group pushed against the gates, twice forcing them open, authorities said calm was restored after police reinforcements arrived in a statement issued after the stampede, the sport's international governing body fifa said the match had 'no relation whatsoever' to the upcoming world cup contests fifa wished a speedy recovery to those hurt, but added, 'contrary to some media reports, fifa had nothing to do with the ticketing of this game'

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new: 'no relation' to world cup matches, fifa says . 14 injured in stampede outside south african stadium . incident happened before friendly nigeria north korea match . stadium is in johannesburg suburb of tembisa

(cnn) the san diego county, california, sheriff and other officials are to hold a town hall meeting tuesday night about what will become of the house that's the site of the nation's largest cache of homemade explosives ever found in one spot for now, the single story suburban house in an unincorporated area outside escondido has been deemed too dangerous for bomb squad technicians to re enter after they discovered homemade explosives inside last week, officials said eight or 9 pounds of explosives were found in the backyard after a gardener was injured when he accidentally ignited the material almost two weeks ago it has been cordoned off, but residents are concerned about how authorities plan to secure a house that a prosecutor has described as a bomb making factory the house's resident, george djura jakubec, 54, a computer software consultant, is being held in lieu of $5 million bail on bomb making and bank robbery charges the homemade explosives are volatile and are the kind favored by terrorists worldwide: hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or hmtd, and pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or petn, which is now the target of new us airport body scans and pat downs authorities are investigating jakubec's intentions exacerbating the work of the bomb squad is the overwhelming volume of clutter that indicates jakubec was a hoarder of papers, boxes and other items, officials said friction from moving any papers or boxes could cause hidden explosives to ignite, officials said authorities have removed about 9 pounds of hmtd from the backyard, a quantity that one expert likened to a large car bomb that could blow out the house's windows and doors and damage adjacent houses joy colclough lives about 100 yards from the hazardous home, according to cnn affiliate kgtv she received a reverse 911 call earlier tuesday, warning her of potential activity around the residence, but has not been asked to evacuate 'it's not a convenient time but i don't think there's any convenient time for having explosives next door to where you live,' she told kgtv on tuesday afternoon, assistant san diego county sheriff ed prendergast declined to provide details of officials' presentation for the town hall meeting, scheduled to start at 7 pm pt at woodland park middle school in san marcos sheriff bill gore, escondido police chief jim maher, escondido fire chief michael lowry and other public safety officials were to answer questions from residents about the explosives and hazardous chemicals that remain in the house, and authorities will provide information about personal safety regarding the planned disposal of the volatile materials the additional hmtd discovered inside the house last week is in a bottle, prendergast said petn was also found inside the house, officials said 'we have not removed it yet it's too dangerous to move any movement can set it off,' prendergast said 'we have a saying: we'll go as fast as we can but slow as we must,' he added

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house near escondido, california, held record cache of homemade explosives . bomb squad has deemed house too dangerous to re enter for now . officials will hold a town hall meeting about disposing of explosives inside house

(wired) unmanned aircraft, for all their utility, are fairly simple beasts they're good at taking direction, but they're not so good at processing information on their own now the air force figures it's time for drones to get a lot smarter, especially as they take off or land as anyone who's ever flown knows, the runway is a crowded place planes on the runway queue up to get airborne planes in the air have to coordinate with air traffic control for the order in which they can safely land, taking precautions not to get in anyone's way until it's their turn there's a fair amount of information to rapidly process in order to avoid collisions and other accidents pilots can handle that information load drones can't yet it's one of the big reasons why the federal aviation administration has been so reluctant to allow unmanned aircraft to fly over the us even robotic flights over relatively unpopulated areas along the southern border have been canceled when there's the most routine technical hiccups on tuesday, the air force research laboratory at ohio's wright patterson air force base said it'll soon solicit engineers to design an algorithm to allow drones to 'integrate seamlessly' with piloted planes for takeoff and landing in the algorithm driven future that the labs want to build, drones will be equipped a database of terminal procedures; link up with air traffic control; and 'recognize the intent of other aircraft' for instance: aircraft landing on parallel runways can appear to be on a collision course before they turn and land right now, a drone would simply perceive that a plane's trajectory is going to remain unchanged, making it a threat for collision but a capable algorithm would let the drone process air traffic control information like basic airfield maps to know that there's no actual danger from the oncoming piloted plane 'the developed algorithm(s), optimally, would require no more a priori information than a human pilot,' the labs instruct 'intent analysis should be accurate, reliable and real time, enabling quick and appropriate decisions that are necessary in this time critical environment' there's a clear commercial application here as wired mentioned on wednesday, fedex is starting to think about an airfleet of linked up drones that can fly in formation at the direction of a piloted aircraft building algorithms that can let drones process complex information in congested airspace sounds like a useful step toward that futuristic cargo fleet subscribe to wired magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a free gift! click here! copyright 2010 wiredcom

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drones that process complex information in congested airspace could be useful . air force research laboratory will find engineers to create drones that 'integrate seamlessly'. fedex is thinking about an airfleet of linked up drones that can fly in formation

washington (cnn) will an anti incumbent wave return republicans to power in the house and senate, or can democrats engineer a late rush to hold on to their congressional majorities? the 2010 mid term elections comes down to campaign basics in the final nine days until vote counting begins for now, the two parties agree that republicans will win more seats than they currently hold, but they differ sharply on how many and whether a major power shift will occur republican national committee chairman michael steele told nbc's 'meet the press' program that an unprecedented gop wave would win control of both chambers as well as state legislatures in a broad condemnation of president barack obama and democratic policies 'the voters are tired of the fact that the federal government has not listened to them over the past two years, has moved in its own direction, at its own rhythm and they want to pull back on that,' steele said 'and i think you're going to see a wave, an unprecedented wave on election day that's going to surprise a lot of people' his democratic counterpart, former virginia gov tim kaine, pointed to strengthening poll numbers for his party's candidates as a sign that the democratic base was getting energized 'from this point forward, it's all about turnout and ground game, and we're seeing good early voting trends,' said kaine, the democratic national committee chairman, when asked on the abc program 'this week' if democrats can hold their majorities 'we've got work to do, but we think we can do it' while kaine said the house remains uncertain, he sounded much more confident about the senate 'four or five months ago, the republicans thought they had a great chance at taking both houses,' kaine said 'for a variety of reasons, the senate has gotten much more difficult for them and again, we're seeing this week strong moves in polling for our senate candidates' in several states one of those reasons is inexperienced, conservative ideologues backed by the tea party movement who defeated mainstream republicans in primary elections and now trail democratic foes as the november 2 vote approaches the delaware race is a prime example christine o'donnell's primary win over nine term republican rep mike castle made a senate seat once considered likely republican now an apparent democratic victory for previously little known chris coons o'donnell's campaign became a national joke over a long ago comment that she once 'dabbled in witchcraft' and other missteps it also exposed a rift within the political right between the mainstream republican establishment, which criticized o'donnell and other tea party backed candidates, and the more conservative tea party movement with the election approaching, republicans put on a united front sunday, with gop strategist karl rove one of o'donnell's harshest critics calling the tea party movement 'patriotic' and 'incredibly positive' while noting that tea party backers 'are not people who are skilled in the ways of washington,' rove told the cbs program 'face the nation' he welcomed the movement as a 'wholesome development' that would greatly increase republican turnout in a mid term election rove predicted republicans will win well over 50 house seats to easily grab majority control of the chamber, and that a gop senate majority also was possible on the same program, democratic rep chris van hollen of maryland predicted a different outcome, due to voter distrust of what he called special interest money going for anonymous donations to groups running attack ads against democratic candidates the issue hammered by democrats including obama in recent weeks was proving resonant, van hollen said 'i'm confident the democrats are going to retain their majority because the american people are connecting the dots between these tens of millions of dollars of secret special interest money,' he said, later adding: 'the early voting states are showing good news for the democrats' both rove and steele said election disclosure laws should be changed, but added that the anonymous donations to groups running political ads complied with current law rove added that democrats including obama benefited from similar anonymous campaign funding in the past

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nine days before the vote, both sides predict success . rove calls tea party movement 'wholesome' and 'positive'. kaine says democratic poll numbers are trending up

new delhi, india (cnn) there are five days left until the opening day of the biggest sporting event india has ever put on while there is a furious push to finish dozens of projects around the city to try to make it sparkle for the upcoming commonwealth games the plight of the smallest and poorest citizens of india go wholly ignored impoverished children are crawling all over many of the commonwealth games related construction sites some sit inches away from speeding cars on mounds of dirt, others walk under massive machinery, and some pick up the tools and bricks around them as their parent work a full day 'this is happening all the time and people just turn a blind eye,' said save the children advocacy director in india shireen miller miller says by law the children should not be on construction sites, while they are not normally paid by the contractors, the older children often end up doing work for free just to help their parents 'it shouldn't be happening children should not be there unprotected, unsafe and working' the contractors are supposed to create a safe place for the children near the sites child advocates say that rarely happens instead mother's hold small babies on their hips while carrying loads of dirt on the their heads, or they put them down on the site surrounded by the dust and danger construction can pose 'where can i leave them? mother lal kumar said with her toddler on her hip 'i bring them wherever i go' the workers are normally from the poorest and most desperate parts of india a subcontractor shows up in their villages and offers work in big cities like new delhi there is no work in their villages, so the entire family moves from place to place to sustain themselves 'if there is poverty then the kids come themselves, if there is poverty then what else can we do there is nothing in our village, so because of poverty, we're here' kuwar said she has two young children who on this day were playing in the dirt and with the tools as cars buzz by and kuwar plowed into the ground with a shovel the scene is repeated on construction sites throughout the city, and by no means is this just on sites related to the commonwealth games you see children playing, sleeping or sitting on everything from road construction sites to private home construction when the child is old enough like 11 year old jitender you sometimes see them doing the work we ask jitender if he is being paid to pick up bricks on a huge construction area along side a busy new delhi highway 'no' he said, 'i don't work here but i help my mother' and in so doing the contractor gets free labor, the parents get a helping hand, and the child has something to do but child advocates say this is one step toward child labor continues a cycle of poverty and is simply dangerous for children 'what you see at constructions sites, all kinds of hazardous materials,' activist and urban planner dunu roy said 'we don't see too much of deaths but [we see] injuries, cuts and certain amounts of a disease like dengue [and] stomach borne infections' however there are people trying to do something about the dangerous and illegal position children are being forced into for decades an indian organization called 'mobile creche' has been convincing contractors to let them set up day care facilities for children on the construction sites 'i would have kept them with me at work but it is not allowed now they have also started go to the school,' a mother of four told cnn back in 2008 as she nursed her baby before heading back into nehru stadium to continuing laying bricks yet as a whole the police, government officials, and everyday citizens pass by the construction sites everyday and do nothing suraj singh, a subcontractor on one site with a half dozen children on it told cnn, 'this is just how it is for the poor what safety can there be for the poor? tell us? there is no safety for the poor this is life these people don't have the money to leave their kids at home with servants, and work here' singh's reaction may seem callous but is too often true billions have been spent on beautifying the city because of the games as it turns out the games have also exposed the world to one of india's ugly problems

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india is rushing to get ready for the commonwealth games . games construction highlights one of india's problems . children of the poor swarm over construction sites

(cnn) the national football league has indefinitely suspended atlanta falcons quarterback michael vick without pay, officials with the league said friday nfl star michael vick is set to appear in court monday a judge will have the final say on a plea deal earlier, vick admitted to participating in a dogfighting ring as part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in virginia 'your admitted conduct was not only illegal, but also cruel and reprehensible your team, the nfl, and nfl fans have all been hurt by your actions,' nfl commissioner roger goodell said in a letter to vick goodell said he would review the status of the suspension after the legal proceedings are over in papers filed friday with a federal court in virginia, vick also admitted that he and two co conspirators killed dogs that did not fight well falcons owner arthur blank said vick's admissions describe actions that are 'incomprehensible and unacceptable' the suspension makes 'a strong statement that conduct which tarnishes the good reputation of the nfl will not be tolerated,' he said in a statement watch what led to vick's suspension » goodell said the falcons could 'assert any claims or remedies' to recover $22 million of vick's signing bonus from the 10 year, $130 million contract he signed in 2004, according to the associated press vick said he would plead guilty to one count of 'conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce in aid of unlawful activities and to sponsor a dog in an animal fighting venture' in a plea agreement filed at us district court in richmond, virginia the charge is punishable by up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, 'full restitution, a special assessment and 3 years of supervised release,' the plea deal said federal prosecutors agreed to ask for the low end of the sentencing guidelines 'the defendant will plead guilty because the defendant is in fact guilty of the charged offense,' the plea agreement said in an additional summary of facts, signed by vick and filed with the agreement, vick admitted buying pit bulls and the property used for training and fighting the dogs, but the statement said he did not bet on the fights or receive any of the money won 'most of the 'bad newz kennels' operations and gambling monies were provided by vick,' the official summary of facts said gambling wins were generally split among co conspirators tony taylor, quanis phillips and sometimes purnell peace, it continued 'vick did not gamble by placing side bets on any of the fights vick did not receive any of the proceeds from the purses that were won by 'bad newz kennels' ' vick also agreed that 'collective efforts' by him and two others caused the deaths of at least six dogs around april, vick, peace and phillips tested some dogs in fighting sessions at vick's property in virginia, the statement said 'peace, phillips and vick agreed to the killing of approximately 6 8 dogs that did not perform well in 'testing' sessions at 1915 moonlight road and all of those dogs were killed by various methods, including hanging and drowning 'vick agrees and stipulates that these dogs all died as a result of the collective efforts of peace, phillips and vick,' the summary said peace, 35, of virginia beach, virginia; phillips, 28, of atlanta, georgia; and taylor, 34, of hampton, virginia, already have accepted agreements to plead guilty in exchange for reduced sentences vick, 27, is scheduled to appear monday in court, where he is expected to plead guilty before a judge see a timeline of the case against vick » the judge in the case will have the final say over the plea agreement the federal case against vick focused on the interstate conspiracy, but vick's admission that he was involved in the killing of dogs could lead to local charges, according to cnn legal analyst jeffrey toobin 'it sometimes happens not often that the state will follow a federal prosecution by charging its own crimes for exactly the same behavior,' toobin said friday 'the risk for vick is, if he makes admissions in his federal guilty plea, the state of virginia could say, 'hey, look, you admitted violating virginia state law as well we're going to introduce that against you and charge you in our court' ' in the plea deal, vick agreed to cooperate with investigators and provide all information he may have on any criminal activity and to testify if necessary vick also agreed to turn over any documents he has and to submit to polygraph tests vick agreed to 'make restitution for the full amount of the costs associated' with the dogs that are being held by the government 'such costs may include, but are not limited to, all costs associated with the care of the dogs involved in that case, including if necessary, the long term care and/or the humane euthanasia of some or all of those animals' prosecutors, with the support of animal rights activists, have asked for permission to euthanize the dogs but the dogs could serve as important evidence in the cases against vick and his admitted co conspirators judge henry e hudson issued an order thursday telling the us marshals service to 'arrest and seize the defendant property, and use discretion and whatever means appropriate to protect and maintain said defendant property' both the judge's order and vick's filing refer to 'approximately' 53 pit bull dogs after vick's indictment last month, goodell ordered the quarterback not to report to the falcons training camp, and the league is reviewing the case blank told the nfl network on monday he could not speculate on vick's future as a falcon, at least not until he had seen 'a statement of facts' in the case e mail to a friend cnn's mike phelan contributed to this report

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baghdad, iraq (cnn) dressed in a superman shirt, 5 year old youssif held his sister's hand friday, seemingly unaware that millions of people across the world have been touched by his story nearby, his parents talked about the new future and hope they have for their boy and the potential for recovery from his severe burns youssif holds his sister's hand friday he's wearing a facial mask often used to help burn victims it's the best birthday present the iraqi family could ever have imagined for their boy: youssif turns 6 next friday 'i was so happy i didn't know what to do with myself,' his mother, zainab, told cnn, a broad smile across her face 'i didn't think the reaction would be this big' his father said he was on the roof of his house when cnn called him with the news about the outpouring of support for his son 'we just want to thank everyone who has come forward,' he said 'we knew there was kindness out there' like his wife, he couldn't stop smiling he talked about how he tried in vain to get help for his son in baghdad, leaving 'no stone unturned' on a mission to help his boy there were many trips to the ministry of health he says he even put in a request to iraq's parliament for help the family eventually told cnn their story that youssif was grabbed by masked men outside their home on january 15, doused in gasoline and set on fire simply by coming forward, his parents put themselves in incredible danger no one has been arrested or held accountable in youssif's case watch cnn's arwa damon describe 'truly phenomenal' outpouring » shortly after youssif's story aired wednesday, the children's burn foundation a nonprofit organization based in sherman oaks, california, that provides support for burn victims locally, nationally and internationally agreed to pay for the transportation for youssif and his family to come to the united states and to set up a fund for donations you can make a donation at the foundation's site by clicking here there's a drop down menu under the 'general donation' area that is marked 'youssif's fund' the foundation says it will cover all medical costs from surgeries for youssif to housing costs to any social rehabilitation that might be needed for him surgeries will be performed by dr peter grossman, a plastic surgeon with the affiliated grossman burn center who is donating his services for youssif's cause officials are still trying to get the appropriate visas for the family's travels 'we are prepared to have them come here, set them up in a housing situation, provide support for them and begin treatment,' said barbara friedman, executive director of the children's burn foundation 'we expect that the treatment will be from between six months to a year with many surgeries' she added, 'he will be getting the absolute best care that's available' youssif's parents said they know it's going to be a lengthy and difficult process and that adjusting to their stay in america may not be easy but none of that matters getting help for their boy is first and foremost 'i will do anything for youssif,' his father said, pulling his son closer to him 'our child is everything' his mother tried to coax youssif to talk to us on this day but he didn't want to; his mother says he's shy outside of their home the biggest obstacle now is getting the visas to leave, and the serious security risks they face every day and hour they remain in iraq but this family which saw the very worst in humanity on that january day has new hope in the world that is partly due to the tens of thousands of cnncom users who were so moved by the story and wanted to act cnn iraqi staff central to bringing this story together were also overwhelmed with the generosity coming from people outside of their border in a nation that largely feels abandoned by the rest of the world, it was a refreshing realization e mail to a friend cnncom senior producer wayne drash contributed to this report in atlanta

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(cnn) the entertainment industry was not immune to the impact of the fires blazing across southern california at the santa clarita studios in valencia, california about 30 miles north of los angeles some staffers weren't able to get to work monday, due to traffic on area roadways and concern about their homes, according to variety interstate 5, a major north south artery, runs directly through the area two cbs shows, 'ncis' and 'the unit,' have sets at santa clarita, but neither shut down shooting monday, according to the industry trade paper the stevenson ranch fire was near enough that 'ncis' staffers could see the smoke, according to the hollywood reporter, another trade paper 'the unit' set was functioning normally tuesday, said cbs spokesperson susan marks 'we're fine,' she told cnn 'we've had no interruption to production' fox's '24' wasn't quite as lucky on monday, the hollywood reporter reported the show was shooting at a marine corps air station in irvine, about 40 miles southeast of los angeles, and had to cancel filming at 7:30 am at one of the base's hangars due to smoke from the santiago fire the show's producers decided to shoot other scenes on its stages elsewhere in southern california watch the fire at the stevenson ranch » a handful of shows, including cbs' 'cold case' and abc's 'big shots,' either scrapped shoots or changed locations due to the fires 'cold case's' simi valley sets were blown over by the strong winds in the area, the hollywood reporter said watch planes and choppers battle a fire and clouds of smoke in valencia » if production units and studios were scrambling, other businesses benefited from the disruption caused by the fires a number of upscale los angeles area lodgings, including the peninsula and four seasons hotels in beverly hills, reported a flurry of bookings, according to variety at the four seasons, a front desk clerk confirmed the influx 'we've had quite a few people come to stay with us,' she told cnn sunday night saw a number of walk in guests, mostly from malibu, she added those guests might not be able to stay long, though: with a number of group bookings scheduled for later in the week, the walk in guests may have to find other arrangements tori spelling and dean mcdermott's newly renovated bed and breakfast, chateau la rue, in fallbrook, california, about 100 miles southeast of los angeles, was also affected 'we don't know the extent of it,' mcdermott told peoplecom 'there were guests on their way [to the b&b], but they were notified and sent back the whole town of fallbrook was evacuated' the two were in los angeles to support spelling's former 'beverly hills 90210' castmate jennie garth on 'dancing with the stars' malibu, one of the areas most directly affected by the fires, is the home of a number of celebrities, including tom hanks and rita wilson, mel gibson, jennifer aniston, victoria principal and sting gibson and principal, who live in in different areas of malibu, were both evacuated early monday morning they are both in undisclosed locations and their families and pets are ok, according to spokespeople so far, their houses have been spared watch john travolta talk about flying over the fire zone » sean penn has lost two trailers to the fires, according to the tv show 'access hollywood' the trailers were next to the site of a penn home that burned down during the 1993 fires castle kashan, a 10,500 square foot home often used for shoots and private events, was destroyed by the fire on sunday, the los angeles times reported the owner of castle kashan, socialite and philanthropist lilly lawrence, managed to escape, but a number of her belongings including faberge eggs, presidential autographs and elvis presley memorabilia were lost the house, a malibu landmark, was built in 1978 the fire has shut down a stretch of the pacific coast highway that runs through the area watch actress jamie lee curtis describe the fire as an 'act of man' » one well known entertainment industry figure and malibu hotel owner hasn't forgotten about the emergency workers trying to control the situation film and music mogul david geffen opened his malibu beach inn to firefighters and rescue workers for free, according to variety e mail to a friend

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baghdad, iraq (cnn) the women are too afraid and ashamed to show their faces or have their real names used they have been driven to sell their bodies to put food on the table for their children for as little as $8 a day suha, 37, is a mother of three she says her husband thinks she is cleaning houses when she leaves home 'people shouldn't criticize women, or talk badly about them,' says 37 year old suha as she adjusts the light colored scarf she wears these days to avoid extremists who insist women cover themselves 'they all say we have lost our way, but they never ask why we had to take this path' a mother of three, she wears light makeup, a gold pendant of iraq around her neck, and an unexpected air of elegance about her 'i don't have money to take my kid to the doctor i have to do anything that i can to preserve my child, because i am a mother,' she says, explaining why she prostitutes herself anger and frustration rise in her voice as she speaks 'no matter what else i may be, no matter how off the path i may be, i am a mother!' watch a woman describe turning to prostitution to 'save my child' » her clasped hands clench and unclench nervously suha's husband thinks that she is cleaning houses when she goes away so does karima's family 'at the start i was cleaning homes, but i wasn't making much no matter how hard i worked it just wasn't enough,' she says karima, clad in all black, adds, 'my husband died of lung cancer nine months ago and left me with nothing' she has five children, ages 8 to 17 her eldest son could work, but she's too afraid for his life to let him go into the streets, preferring to sacrifice herself than risk her child she was solicited the first time when she was cleaning an office 'they took advantage of me,' she says softly 'at first i rejected it, but then i realized i have to do it' both suha and karima have clients that call them a couple times a week other women resort to trips to the market to find potential clients or they flag down vehicles prostitution is a choice more and more iraqi women are making just to survive 'it's increasing,' suha says 'i found this 'thing' through my friend, and i have another friend in the same predicament as mine because of the circumstance, she is forced to do such things' violence, increased cost of living, and lack of any sort of government aid leave women like these with few other options, according to humanitarian workers 'at this point there is a population of women who have to sell their bodies in order to keep their children alive,' says yanar mohammed, head and founder of the organization for women's freedom in iraq 'it's a taboo that no one is speaking about' she adds, 'there is a huge population of women who were the victims of war who had to sell their bodies, their souls and they lost it all it crushes us to see them, but we have to work on it and that's why we started our team of women activists' her team pounds the streets of baghdad looking for these victims often too humiliated to come forward 'most of the women that we find at hospitals [who] have tried to commit suicide' have been involved in prostitution, said basma rahim, a member of mohammed's team the team's aim is to compile information on specific cases and present it to iraq's political parties to have them, as mohammed puts it, 'come tell us what [they] are going to do about this' rahim tells the heartbreaking story of one woman they found who lives in a room with three of her children: 'she has sex while her three children are in the room, but she makes them stand in separate corners' according to rahim and mohammed, most of the women they encounter say they are driven to prostitution by a desperate desire for survival in the dangerously violent and unforgiving circumstances in iraq 'they took this path but they are not pleased,' rahim says karima says when she sees her children with food on the table, she is able to convince herself that it's worth it 'everything is for the children they are the beauty in life and, without them, we cannot live' but she says, 'i would never allow my daughter to do this i would rather marry her off at 13 than have her go through this' karima's last happy memory is of her late husband, when they were a family and able to shoulder the hardships of life in today's iraq together suha says as a young girl she dreamed of being a doctor, with her mom boasting about her potential in that career life couldn't have taken her further from that dream 'it's not like we were born into this, nor was it ever in my blood,' she says what she does for her family to survive now eats away at her 'i lay on my pillow and my brain is spinning, and it all comes back to me as if i am watching a movie' e mail to a friend

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london (cnn) american and british leadership of the world remains 'essential to the cause of human dignity,' president barack obama said wednesday, making a sweeping case for values including freedom and the free market in a speech to a joint session of the british parliament 'we must act, and lead, with confidence in our ideals, and an abiding faith in the character of our people,' obama said, even while adding they will 'proceed with humility, and the knowledge that we cannot dictate outcomes abroad' he argued that 'the longing for freedom and human dignity' is 'universal, and it beats in every heart' and he linked this year's uprisings against regimes across the middle east to the fall of communism in europe, of white minority rule in south africa, and of dictatorships in latin america and southeast asia, saying they reflect 'a longing for the same freedoms that we take for granted at home' obama to middle east: we'll show you the money he also contended that the rise of china, india and brazil was linked to their acceptance of free markets on the british and american models their ascendance does not mean that western leadership is in decline, he insisted, saying: 'the time for our leadership is now' his aides billed the address as the centerpiece of his six day trip to europe this week british lawmakers greeted him with a standing ovation, and applauded his description of himself as the son of a kenyan cook in the british army who had become president of the united states the speech caps a two day trip to britain that mixed pomp with politics queen elizabeth ii hosted a state dinner for obama tuesday night, where he wore a white tie and tails, while a day later he and david cameron rolled up shirtsleeves and served burgers and sausages to military service members and their families in the garden of 10 downing street the president and prime minister turned up the heat on moammar gadhafi in a joint appearance wednesday, with the president saying that 'ultimately' the libyan leader will go the united nations endorsed mission to protect libya's people from their leader means making sure gadhafi 'doesn't have capacity to send in a bunch of thugs to murder innocent civilians and threaten them,' obama said 'i do think we have made enormous progress in libya we have saved lives gadhafi and his regime need to understand there will not be a letup in the pressure we are applying,' obama said but both he and cameron said it will take time to reach a solution in libya, which gadhafi has ruled for 42 years the nation seems to be grinding into a stalemated civil war 'we may have to be more patient than people would like,' obama said cameron refused to answer a journalist's question about whether the united kingdom would send attack helicopters to bolster the military mission in libya, but said: 'we should be turning up the heat in libya,' and vowed to look at 'all the options' for doing so obama and cameron were speaking on a wide range of topics at a news conference in a sunlit garden in london before their meeting with journalists, the two leaders discussed policy in afghanistan and pakistan and the israel palestinian conflict, among other issues obama said america's relationship with britain is 'the strongest it has ever been' and said the two nations are committed to working together on global economic recovery and fighting the war on terror cameron said the us killing of al qaeda leader osama bin laden was 'a strike right at the heart of international terrorism' and that britain and the united states must work closely with pakistan in the future 'we can defeat al qaeda,' cameron said obama is in the middle of a six day, four nation trip to europe that began in ireland and will continue with stops in france and poland on tuesday the president and first lady toured buckingham palace and visited westminster abbey, where crowds that had gathered along the roads outside cheered their arrival cameron talked up the two countries' closeness the night before the obama visit officially began, calling the relationship 'essential' and saying there is an 'incredible alignment of views' between 10 downing street and the white house on a less formal note, obama also joined cameron in playing table tennis against two students during a visit to a local school no details on the final score were made public, but the students won handily cnn's richard allen greene contributed to this report

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bogota, colombia (cnn) a key rebel commander and fugitive from a us drug trafficking indictment was killed over the weekend in an air attack on a guerrilla encampment, the colombian military said monday alleged cocaine trafficker and farc rebel tomas medina caracas in an interpol photo tomas medina caracas, known popularly as 'el negro acacio,' was a member of the high command of the fuerzas armadas revolucionarias de colombia and, according to colombian and us officials, helped manage the group's extensive cocaine trafficking network he had been in the cross hairs of the us justice department since 2002 he was charged with conspiracy to import cocaine into the united states and manufacturing and distributing cocaine within colombia to fund the farc's 42 year insurgency against the government us officials alleged medina caracas managed the rebel group's sales of cocaine to international drug traffickers, who in turn smuggled it into the united states he was also indicted in the united states along with two other farc commanders in november 2002 on charges of conspiring to kidnap two us oil workers from neighboring venezuela in 1997 and holding one of them for nine months until a $1 million ransom was paid officials said the army's rapid response force, backed by elements of the colombian air force, tracked medina caracas down at a farc camp in the jungle in the south of the country 'after a bombardment, the troops occupied the camp, and they've found 14 dead rebels so far, along with rifles, pistols, communications equipment and four gps systems,' defense minister juan manuel santos said at a news conference 'the death of 'el negro acacio' was confirmed by various sources, including members of farc itself' medina caracas commanded farc's 16th front in the southern departments of vichada and guainia established in 1964 as the military wing of the colombian communist party, farc is colombia's oldest, largest, most capable and best equipped marxist rebel group, according to the us department of state e mail to a friend journalist fernando ramos contributed to this report

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tomas medina caracas was a fugitive from a us drug trafficking indictment . 'el negro acacio' allegedly helped manage extensive cocaine network . us justice department indicted him in 2002 . colombian military: he was killed in an attack on a guerrilla encampment

atlanta, georgia (cnn) as half of the famed hip hop duo outkast, antwan 'big boi' patton is known for his bass booming, chart topping smash hits his recording studio in atlanta is lined with plush velvet, stocked with courvoisier and has a swing hanging from the ceiling a place to settle in and do his work antwan 'big boi' patton will be performing live with the atlanta ballet beginning thursday as a choreographer for the atlanta ballet and a dancer for years, lauri stallings' world revolves around pirouettes, cou de pieds and battement tendus the stage at atlanta's fox theatre is her work home his only experience with ballet was seeing the 'nutcracker' as a child her experience with hip hop: 'none at all' but the curtain will be rising thursday in atlanta a hip hop mecca that is home to jermaine dupri, ludacris, young jeezy and lil jon for the first of six performances of a collaboration between big boi and the atlanta ballet: a work called 'big' see big boi talk about the unconventional show » on paper, big boi and stallings couldn't be more different but it is their two styles, from seemingly opposite ends of the artistic spectrum, that both say make the show so innovative as bass boomed through the ornate, faux egyptian halls of the fox theatre as a ballet dancer was hoisted in the air, the point couldn't be any clearer see photos of dancers preparing for their 'big' debut » 'it's definitely one of the funkiest hybrids i've ever seen,' big boi said big boi's contemporary style may seem inherently different from the traditional and classical sounds that normally echo through an atlanta ballet performance but, stallings said, as a choreographer it's not a stretch to equate one of hip hop's biggest names with some of the most venerated composers who are usually the backdrop for traditional ballets 'for me [big boi's music] sounds like shostakovich, stravinsky a little just today's stravinsky,' stallings said 'big' came about almost matter of factly in an interview at his studio, big boi whose unprepossessing size belies his energy said the atlanta ballet's artistic director, john mcfall, approached him at a fundraising event and proposed a collaboration big boi said he had a split second of uncertainty about a ballet project, but was intrigued by the prospect and quickly immersed himself in the work stallings said the show is a dream marriage of artistic aesthetics that has been a long time coming and in this duality of differences, anything goes audience members will be pulled on stage dancers will weave their way through the audience big boi and a live band will perform some of his greatest hip hop collaborations but the greatest collaborating may be the pairing created by stallings and big boi when giuseppe verdi's 'la traviata' is intertwined with 'morris brown,' a cut from outkast's 'idlewild' soundtrack those contrasts 'physical but sublime, beautiful but ugly, loud but soft,' in stallings' words are exactly the feelings this fusion ballet is intended to evoke, both artists said watch stallings explain the fusion of hip hop and ballet » 'its very moving, sophisticated, elegant but at the same time it will tear your back off,' big boi said collaborations between ballet companies and pop artists are uncommon but not unheard of the joffrey ballet performed a multimedia work with a rock score, 'astarte,' in 1967, an event so novel it made the cover of time magazine in recent years, ballets to the tunes of prince, elvis costello and other artists have begun to pop up the joffrey opened the door for the ballet to use new techniques to reach those who may never have attended a ballet otherwise, said christine knoblauch o'neal, a professor of ballet and musical theater at washington university in st louis, missouri 'although it may seem off the traditional path, it's certainly in the realm of ballet collaborations,' she said 'i think it's always a wonderful moment when someone first experiences classical ballet within the context of their life and ['big'] seems like the ideal one to do that' for some of the dancers of the atlanta ballet, the show is a chance to perform alongside one of their idols and deviate from their rigidly classical performances 'a lot of the ballets in the past have been very structured and very classical,' dancer courtney necessary said 'i have a hard time even calling this a ballet it's mostly about movement and being very organic, and finding the beat in music and sometimes going against the beat the stuff we are doing is nothing like what you would think of as classical ballet' big boi hopes to hype the crowd by debuting his newest single, 'sir lucious leftfoot saves the day,' as the last song of the night stallings and big boi hope the show, which has received growing buzz in the ballet and hip hop communities, will help bring together a hip hop crowd that may not have ever chosen to go to a ballet and a classical crowd that might never have heard songs like 'bombs over baghdad' 'you [hope] to open up people's minds to different avenues that they might not think they can or cannot take,' big boi said 'really the combinations are endless when you have creative minds and art forms coming together' the joining of those forms is a risk big boi and stallings hope will pay off and perhaps unleash a new wave of productions 'we get to [take] a fresh look of the possibilities of tomorrow,' stallings said 'you should leave with your senses so wide open that we're hoping that you experience your life a little different after it' if 'big' is successful, the show could tour, big boi said but at the least, he said, he expects the audience to enjoy the work's energetic spirit 'if you come in there with your tie on, you might have your bow tie leaning to one side when you leave,' big boi said, 'because you're definitely going to move' e mail to a friend

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ballet opening thursday features live performances from outkast's big boi . choreographer, big boi hope fusion of styles opens the minds of audience . one number features 'la traviata' mixed with 'morris brown' from 'idlewild'. big boi: show is 'one of the funkiest hybrids i've ever seen'

(cnn) travel through the southern rockies into the central plains 'will be dangerous, if not impossible' tuesday, forecasters warned, as a winter weather system blasts broad swaths of the west and midwest blizzard warnings stretched from southeast colorado through western kansas, the oklahoma panhandle and far northern texas, according to the national weather service 'blizzard conditions with wind chill temperatures below zero are expected,' the agency said warnings that had threatened northeast new mexico, however, had expired by late tuesday morning still, winter storm warnings stretched farther across that state, colorado and into kansas heavy snowfall was reported in eastern colorado and western kansas on tuesday, along with freezing rain and sleet across south central kansas blustery winds of 20 to 50 mph were also reported but 'it appears the heaviest snowfall with this system has ended, as the disturbance tracks toward eastern oklahoma,' the national weather service said snow across the rockies was expected to end late tuesday morning, but will continue across the central plains until late in the day, the weather agency said but areas such as pie town, new mexico, and la junta and springfield, colorado, have already seen more than 15 inches of snowfall since sunday evening interstates and highways were shut down monday night as at least five states contended with heavy snow, fierce winds and ice visibility in parts of western kansas and southeast colorado was less than a quarter mile, said ariel cohen, a meteorologist with the national weather service's storm prediction center in norman, oklahoma new mexico state police shut down interstate 40, a major east west artery, from albuquerque to the texas state line, saying there was zero visibility because of blowing snow interstate 25 was shut down from just north of albuquerque to the colorado state line because of the blizzard conditions, which included snow packed and icy roads are you there? tell us about it the state police also shut down us and state highways in the northeast corner of the state texas authorities closed i 40 westbound in the texas panhandle at new mexico's request tuesday morning but had reopened it by mid afternoon 'our biggest concern is ice coming out of amarillo,' said gabriel medrano, a spokesman for the state's department of public safety 'we had several calls for stranded motorists we had troopers and national guard assisting, pulling people from their vehicles' vehicle crashes were reported around amarillo, which lies along i 40 in the texas panhandle, he added medrano said his office had received 'dozens (of) calls for assistance,' though most of them came from people 'west out of oldham county' his agency and the texas department of transportation said motel rooms had filled in tucumcari, new mexico, the first major town on i 40 across the state line, because drivers weren't allowed to travel any farther on the highway meteorologists call the storm system a strong one that is producing 'very hazardous' conditions and while such storms typically occur around winter, the large area of strong winds combined with the snow is considered unusual texas gov rick perry activated the texas military forces as a precaution to provide help on the roads, his office said snow accumulations of up to 6 inches were likely, with higher accumulations expected across the northwest texas panhandle, perry's office added flights were canceled at rick husband amarillo international airport for tuesday morning, spokesman patrick rhodes said, but normal operations have since resumed to the north, in the oklahoma panhandle, us highways were closed and transportation workers were salting the roads, according to michaelann ootean of the oklahoma department of emergency management roads and highways were 'completely snow packed' or covered with ice in much of western kansas on monday, according to the state's department of transportation they included interstate 70, which crosses the state from west to east, and interstate 135 through salina us highways 50 and 54 were shut in southwest kansas the dot said us 50 was closed because of blizzard conditions and 'multiple accidents' in colorado the colorado department of transportation shut down highways across the southeastern part of the state because of snow and icy conditions interstate 25 was shut southbound from pueblo to the new mexico state line, and the dot said lodging was unavailable south of colorado city northbound i 25 remained open cnn's nick valencia, tracy sabo and greg morrison contributed to this report

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new: authorities reopened i 40 westbound in the texas panhandle . blizzard warnings that had threatened northeast new mexico have expired . new mexico, colorado, kansas, oklahoma and texas are affected . normal operations have resumed at texas' rick husband amarillo international airport

jerusalem (cnn) israeli military experts sunday worked around the clock to examine the remains of a mysterious drone that was shot down after penetrating israeli airspace from the mediterranean sea the israeli military announced saturday that the unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down over the northern negev desert they say the drone did not take off from gaza, leading them to consider the possibility that it originated in lebanon israeli security experts point the finger at israel's longstanding rival hezbollah, the shiite militia based in southern lebanon 'we know it originated in lebanon,' said ron ben yishai, an israeli national security and defense commentator for israeli news portal ynet 'it is entirely clear the uav was sent by an iranian proxy the iranians provided hezbollah with their very first drones and they have also funded the organization' opinion: us drone monopoly gone while israel has yet to officially announce who it sees as responsible for the penetration into its airspace, lebanon's national news agency on sunday reported that israeli fighter jets have flown into lebanese airspace, causing sonic booms in the area military spokeswoman avital leibovich said saturday that the drone did not carry any weapons or explosives leibovich would not discuss the drone's route or whether it had flown over military installations if hezbollah were responsible for the launch of the drone, flying it for more than 200 km (125 miles) down the mediterranean and deep into israel, that would represent a significant upgrade to its aerial capacities but ben yishai said neither hezbollah nor the palestinian militant groups hamas and islamic jihad in gaza have claimed responsibility for launching the drone 'i can imagine they are quiet, concerned of the israeli response to this operation, but it is not for me to say what israel's reaction would be,' he said iran, which supports hezbollah, has had no comment while the israeli military has stated that the drone did not carry explosives, the objective of the flight was a mystery sunday 'the question is, what exactly did they look to achieve? was it merely a demonstration of strength, or an operational mission for collecting intelligence?' said ben yishai one possible target for any of israel's enemies is the secret nuclear plant at dimona, in the negev built with the help of the french government in the 1960s, the reactor stands several dozen miles from where the drone was shot down israel does not comment on whether it has nuclear weapons, but details leaked by a former technician at dimona in the 1980s led international observers to conclude that it could have produced as many as 200 nuclear bombs in december 2010, the israeli military announced it had shot down an unidentified flying object over the nuclear plant ben yishai said crashing a drone carrying explosives onto the plant would be considered a phenomenal achievement for hezbollah, even though the aircraft can't carry a big enough bomb to inflict serious damage even photographs of the tightly guarded plant would be an intelligence prize, he said the drone incident comes amid a tense international standoff over iran's nuclear fuel program, which israel fears is a cover for a nuclear weapons program iran has defied calls by the un security council to halt its production of enriched uranium, insisting it has a right to make fuel for civilian power plants but the un nuclear watchdog agency says it can no longer verify that iranian nuclear research is strictly peaceful that's fueled talk of israeli military action against iran, with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu warning the un general assembly in september that time for a diplomatic solution was running out the united states, israel's leading ally, says it won't tolerate a nuclear armed iran, but says diplomatic and economic sanctions are starting to take a deep bite out of iran's economy on sunday, leibovich, the israeli military spokeswoman, said an israeli warplane shot down the drone ben yishai said small drones are difficult to spot on radar, and missiles aren't designed to hit such slow moving targets the decision to closely follow the drone for almost 30 minutes within israeli airspace was a wise choice, ben yishai said 'having identified the drone flying over the mediterranean, the israeli air force could have chosen to shoot it down right away,' he said 'the ability to track the drone, take pictures of it from all directions and examine its capabilities serves as an outstanding resource for intelligence information' anti drone peace march halted in pakistan

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'we know it originated in lebanon,' an israeli security analyst says . israel is investigating the craft's origin and hasn't pointed any fingers yet . the drone was shot down over israel's negev desert on saturday . the craft was several dozen miles from the top secret dimona nuclear plant

(cnn) at least one person died and others were reported missing after a train pulling more than 70 tankers of crude oil derailed and burst into flames in eastern canada near the us border, cnn affiliates reported, citing authorities the train jumped the tracks in the small town of lac megantic in the province of quebec, officials said saturday the inferno spread to nearby homes, and authorities evacuated the center of town and a home for the elderly, cnn affiliate radio canada reported thick fuel spilled into the chaudiere river 'words cannot tell the damage that had been done,' quebec provincial police sgt gregory gomez del prado said, according to cnn affiliate ctv 'many, many buildings have been damaged it's a catastrophe for the town of course, but also for the whole province' the sergeant declined to say exactly many people were missing 'we have several people we are looking for we do expect casualties,' he told cnn on saturday night the train was parked and secured late friday in nantes, just west of lac megantic, a company representative said, ctv reported joe mcgonigle, a vice president at montreal, maine & atlantic, was quoted as saying the train 'came loose' early saturday and 'started rolling down the tracks' the nantes and lac megantic town centers are about 12 kilometers (7 miles) apart mcgonigle said the train's engine was found near the site of the inferno mcgonigle said police were questioning the train's conductor, who was at a hotel in lac megantic when the train derailed cnn affiliate ctv referred to the crash site as a 'war zone' and it said no other injuries have been reported emergency officials say some people may have been away when the derailment occurred authorities were investigating 'our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends of those affected by this morning's tragic train derailment and subsequent fires,' canadian prime minister stephen harper said 'we hope evacuees can return to their homes safely and quickly the people of lac megantic and surrounding areas can rest assured that our government is monitoring the situation and we stand by ready to provide any assistance requested by the province' firefighters from the united states helped canada fight the blaze five of the trucks deployed from the united states, after the sheriff's office in franklin county, maine, issued an 'all call' for help to us fire departments near the border flames welling up stories high into the night sky were caught on camera and uploaded to youtube the video appears to reveal an explosion thick black smoke billowed into the air a 'nauseating' odor spread through the town, radio canada reported, and environmental emergency services dispatched a mobile lab to check for airborne toxins the radio station said that the oil shipment was on its way to the united states cnn's joe sterling, pierre meilhan, darrell calhoun, jake carpenter, ben brumfield, dave alsup and deanna hackney contributed to this report

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(cnn) london olympic heptathlon champion jessica ennis can crown a superb year by being named world female athlete of the year for 2012 ennis, the poster girl of the london games, swept to victory in the grueling seven event discipline on the middle saturday as hosts britain enjoyed a gold rush her efforts and an earlier fine performance at the multi events meeting in gotzis, have seen the 26 year old shortlisted for the top award by the iaaf the world governing body has also nominated american sprinter allyson felix, who completed a superb 200m and 4x400m relay golden double in london shot putter valerie adams of new zealand is the third athlete on the shortlist 2008 olympic champion adams was awarded a second successive gold after nadzeya ostapchuk of the belarus was stripped of the title following a failed drugs test the men's shortlist, announced monday, also has a star studded parade of olympic champions, led by jamaica's usain bolt, who won three golds in london in the sprint events he is joined by american hurdler aries merritt, the olympic champion, who also smashed the world record during 2012 david rudisha of kenya, who set a new world record for the 800m on his way to london gold, completed the trio the winners of both categories will be announced at the centenary gala dinner of the iaaf in barcelona on november 24 the shortlists were decided by a votes cast by a panel of 2,400 people, including officials, coaches and the media

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jessica ennis on short list for iaaf female athlete of the year . britain totaled 6955 points on way to winning heptathlon gold in london . valerie adams and allyson felix also selected . usain bolt, aries merritt and david rudisha to contest men's honor

washington (cnn) a short term spending measure to fund the federal government into next week won approval thursday from the us house and now goes to president barack obama's desk the measure was part of a bipartisan agreement intended to end a dispute over disaster relief spending that threatened to cause a partial shutdown of the government when the current fiscal year ends at midnight friday congressional approval of the measure keeps the government funded through october 4 the house will then have to consider a more comprehensive measure that would keep the government funded through november 18 with most house members away from washington on a one week recess, thursday's approval took place at a 'pro forma' session involving just three house members using a procedure known as 'unanimous consent' republican reps andy harris of maryland and john culberson of texas conducted the house business, including the request for the chamber's unanimous consent of the spending plan, while democratic rep chris van hollen of maryland kept an eye on the proceedings the senate approved both measures monday together, they would fund the federal government for the first seven weeks of the new fiscal year the spending proposals contain an additional $265 billion in disaster relief needed by the federal emergency management agency to replenish coffers depleted partly by the federal response to hurricane irene, tropical storm lee, and a series of tornadoes and wildfires this year the new emergency disaster funding will kick in saturday democrats and republicans had been at odds over a gop demand to cut spending elsewhere to offset increased disaster relief funding in the current fiscal year fema ended that standoff monday when it indicated that it has enough money to get through the final few days of the current fiscal year if congress had failed to reach a new spending agreement, a partial government shutdown would have occurred with the onset of the new fiscal year on saturday government shutdowns were also threatened during budget talks in the spring and the debt ceiling debate over the summer the short term funding measures were necessary because congress has failed to complete its full budget appropriations process in recent years due to a sharp partisan divide over government spending issues the november 18 extension expected to win final approval next week was intended to provide time to debate and pass appropriations bills for the remainder of fiscal year 2012 however, it's been more than 15 years since both chambers of congress passed the full range of appropriations bills instead, they have relied on other ways to extend spending authority, such as continuing resolutions or omnibus measures that bundle together multiple appropriations bills cnn's tom cohen and deirdre walsh contributed to this report

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just three house members attend the pro forma session . the measure approved by the house funds the government through tuesday . a funding dispute threatened a possible government shutdown . a bipartisan agreement includes an additional $265 billion in disaster relief needed by fema

new york (cnn) 'my one and only' begins with renee zellweger, playing a woman based on george hamilton's mother anne, discovering her husband with another woman renee zellweger plays a woman based on george hamilton's mother in 'my one and only' despite the initial heartbreak, anne puts on a happy face, and zellweger gives life to a character who's determined to make the rest of her years comfortable and adventurous her husband's indiscretion is the catalyst that sends anne on a cross country quest to find a new husband in 1953 america she pulls her two sons out of school in new york city and the trio set off on an adventure by car the tale has its roots in actor george hamilton's young life the film takes a look at gender roles of the time and how women were perceived much of the film gets colored in by the characters and their ever present emotions (though zellweger's fabulous frocks add plenty of color on their own) zellweger, who won an oscar for 'cold mountain,' spoke with cnn about 'my one and only,' george hamilton and the way she believes she is perceived watch zellweger talk about playing hamilton's mother » cnn: what do you think of george hamilton as a person now, knowing what he went through in his youth? renee zellweger: i think it's so fascinating it was probably my favorite part of this experience, discovering that this was actually his life story i mean, who knew? you have an idea about who a person is based on their public persona and the work that they've done he's a spectacular actor, and his collection of parts that he's played and work that he's done is unbelievable but to get to know him, he's so interesting he's so clever, and he's very kind very kind cnn: you're playing hamilton's mother did he fill you in on what she was like? zellweger: no you know, that's what's so interesting about it [despite] being such a personal project that he worked on so closely with merv griffin for over a decade he didn't he had great faith and he just kind of let us go, which was sort of unbelievable when you look back on it it was really clear to me from what was on the page who she was cnn: did you like her? zellweger: very much she's kind of doing the best she can, and she thought, oh everything's kind of a lark and things work out without your having to put your hands on it and make it happen but she learns a different way and a more satisfying way to be involved in her own life, which is wonderful so she sort of discovered that she could and gave herself permission to be in charge of herself it was kind of a wonderful journey to watch cnn: she was judged on her looks many times in the film have you faced similar situations, being judged on your looks and people not taking you seriously? zellweger: not in such an overt way i'm not an actress who made her way based on physicality i think quite the opposite, in fact i sort of disappear a little bit, with respect to my looks i'm lucky i'm not a standout, kind of knockout kind of girl that, you know, it's all about my great hair or something but, in subtle ways, maybe i mean, people presume to know you for something and respond to you accordingly, i'm sure cnn: how was it stepping into the era of old hollywood? did you enjoy wearing the clothes from the early '50s? zellweger: i loved it i loved it i had such a great time with it, and i brought a lot of my own things, actually things that have been given to me, things that i just would find while i'm traveling on the road but have no opportunity to wear you know, junk store finds that i think are spectacular we brought them in, spruced them up and made them costumes it was really exciting; it was fun cnn: do you think you would have liked to work in that era? zellweger: oh, yes and no yes because the glamour of it all or the it feels like play to me it's like playing dress up all the time and no because of the responsibility of having to maintain that immaculate presentation all the time would be exhausting i think back on marilyn monroe putting those lashes on everyday, and i can't imagine, as i tie up my sneakers to go for a run i cannot imagine that you're supposed to simultaneously look beautiful while you're going out to buy groceries i just don't know that it would fit well with my personality i don't know that i would succeed (laughs)

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renee zellweger plays character based on george hamilton's mother in new film . zellweger says she's 'lucky,' generally not judged on her looks . character was a joy to play particularly the immersion in '50s era of clothes

two of the off season's longest running transfer sagas were finally concluded when french international samir nasri signed for manchester city, while winger juan mata agreed to leave valencia for chelsea nasri who signed for arsenal in 2008 from olympique marseille signed a four year deal, making him city's fourth big money capture of the current transfer window following the arrivals of gael clichy, sergio aguero and stefan savic 'i think he is a fantastic player because he has technique [and a good] mentality,' manchester city coach roberto mancini told the club's official web site 'i know him from when he played for marseille because i followed him when i was at interbut in the last four years in the premier league he improved a lot and now i think he's a top player' the move took place a few hours before an injury hit arsenal met udinese in a crucial european champions league second leg qualification match the gunners take a slender 1 0 lead to italy if nasri had played he would have been ineligible to appear in manchester city's own champions league campaign, potentially jeopardizing the move 'it's a big relief it was a long, long negotiation,' nasri said in an interview, also with the club's official web site 'now i am city player which is what i wanted from the start' 'i was a little frustrated, i told the [arsenal] manager [arsene wenger] i wanted to leave today is a big day for me it is a new start' in west london, chelsea announced that they too had signed one of europe's most coveted wide players with the capture of spanish international juan mata the 23 year old who has already won 11 caps for the world champions trained with the squad and will be available for saturday's english premier league match against norwich city 'right from the first moment there have been good feelings all around me,' mata told chelsea's official web site 'valencia was a big club anyway but i have left to join a bigger club and it is all about the opportunity to win trophies and i have that here'

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manchester city has announced the signing of samir nasri from arsenal . it's the fourth big money signing to join city this transfer window . meanwhile chelsea sign spain winger juan mata from valencia . mata likely to make epl debut against norwich city saturday

yangon, myanmar (cnn) the younger son of political activist aung san suu kyi arrived in myanmar on tuesday for a long awaited visit with his mother, from whom he'd been separated for a decade kim aris arrived about 7:30 am tuesday at the international airport in yangon, the former national capital, which also is known as rangoon myanmar air force security officials escorted aris, speeding his arrival without going through standard immigration suu kyi, also escorted by security officials, was quickly able to greet her son about 100 of her supporters were on hand for aris's arrival from bangkok, thailand, where he had waited for weeks in limbo for a myanmar visa mother and son left the airport together, bound for her home it was not immediately clear how long aris planned to stay in myanmar aris last saw his nobel peace laureate mother in 2000, when he spent about two weeks with her, according to one of her attorneys suu kyi was released from house arrest on november 13, after spending most of the past 20 years under house arrest or in prison myanmar's military regime freed her days after holding the country's first elections in two decades, which critics worldwide dismissed as a sham the junta's party declared a landslide victory suu kyi and her national league for democracy party boycotted the november 7 elections, faulting the military junta the regime had enacted a new law that forced the nld to choose between honoring suu kyi as its leader and risking the party being declared illegal, or ejecting suu kyi from the party and contesting the elections the nld won a landslide election victory in 1990, but the military junta rejected the results this year, the generals refused to allow international monitors to oversee its elections and overhauled myanmar's constitution in a way critics say is aimed at tightening the regime's grip the constitution now requires more than 100 military nominees in parliament myanmar, also known as burma, has been under military rule since 1962 the daughter of gen aung san, a hero of burmese independence, suu kyi has repeatedly challenged myanmar's regime over the years for her efforts, she won the nobel peace prize in 1991

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(cnn) four soldiers may face a court martial and charges of negligent homicide in the case of an army private who apparently committed suicide in afghanistan, us army officials said tuesday the case stems from the death of pvt danny chen, 19, whose body was found in october 2011 in a guard tower in afghanistan an article 32 hearing was held this week to determine whether the four soldiers will face a court martial after testimony monday, army investigators recommended that the soldiers' charges be forwarded to a court martial and the brigade commander will make the final determination if the case will continue, the army said an army official has said the soldiers are accused of hazing and abusing chen in the weeks before he died chen's family members also have said the young soldier was harassed by soldiers before he died the chen family told the new york times in october that officials said chen had suffered physical abuse and ethnic slurs by superiors, including an incident in which he was dragged out of bed and across the floor for failing to turn off a water heater after showering at a vigil for chen last year, his brother banny chen, read from a letter the soldier had sent to his family 'they ask if i'm from china a few times a day they also called out my name, 'chen,' in a goat like voice sometimes for no reason no idea how it started, but it's just best to ignore it' the soldiers were identified as staff sgt andrew j van bockel, sgt adam m holcomb, sgt jeffrey t hurst and spc thomas p curtis along with negligent homicide, all four face dereliction of duty, maltreatment, reckless endangerment, among other charges in all, eight soldiers are facing charges related to chen's death one of the soldiers, sgt travis carden, will face a court martial in april, an army spokesman said in a similar case last year, three marines were charged with beating and hazing a fellow marine, lance cpl harry lew, after lew fell asleep on watch duty the marine was beaten and forced to do exercises and dig a hole until the early morning when the punishment was over, he climbed into the hole he had just dug and shot himself to death, said rep judy chu of california, lew's aunt one marine has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and a reduction in rank and two others face a court martial in that case cnn's lateef mungin contributed to this report

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the case stems from the death of pvt danny chen . chen was found dead in a guard tower in afghanistan . the soldiers are accused of hazing and abusing chen, an official says

(cnet) apple likes glass a lot you can tell that much from its many retail stores, and in its products where glass is used in displays, notebook trackpads, and both the front and back of the iphone 4 that last place, though is what might be causing the company some headaches that's according to a report today from gdgt, which says that slip on cases the kind that cover the back and sometimes front of the iphone 4, have been the cause of serious cosmetic damage with the backside of the iphone dirt and other loose bits of debris from your pocket end up in that space over time, that can lead to a shattered backside as small scratches grow to become large cracks that travel across the back of the device, much like a ding on a windshield this has become a big enough problem, the report says, that apple's engineers have been hard at work in 'a quiet lockdown,' testing various third party cases to see how widespread the problem is, and presumably to make sure it does not happen with future iterations of the device the news comes at an especially interesting time given the recent expiration of apple's free iphone 4 case program (which included apple's no closed back bumper), and the reported beginnings of mass production for a cdma version of the iphone said to be coming to verizon in early 2011 if apple is planning to bring any physical design changes to that version of the iphone, a back that's susceptible to cracking could very well be holding up that process this wouldn't be the first time cracks have cropped up on apple's hardware, or the iphone line for that matter both the mac g4 cube, which was introduced in 2000, and the iphone 3g experienced reports from users that the outsides were developing 'hairline surface cracks' similar blemishes had appeared on white versions of the company's macbook notebooks, which apple reportedly began acknowledging and repairing early last year © 2010 cbs interactive inc all rights reserved cnet, cnetcom and the cnet logo are registered trademarks of cbs interactive inc used by permission

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slip on cases have caused serious cosmetic damage to backside of the iphone 4 . over time, small scratches grow to become large cracks like a windshield . apple's engineers have been hard at work in 'a quiet lockdown' to fix problem . this isn't the first time cracks have cropped up on apple's hardware

port au prince, haiti (cnn) in the wake of hurricane tomas, cholera has reached the congested capital of port au prince, where as many as 73 people have come down with the potentially deadly infection dehydration is one of its tell tale signs in a camp in cabaret, just east of port au prince, children lie on cots as life sustaining fluids are pumped intravenously into their bodies the cholera outbreak in haiti has now killed 583 people and another 9,123 people have been hospitalized, according to gabriel timothe, director general of haiti's ministry of health medical personnel fear rising waters over the banks of haiti's arbonite river, which they say is a source of contamination, have increased the risk of a wider rate of infections 'we're doing everything we can to mitigate [the] spread,' dr jon k andrus, deputy director of the pan american health organization, said during a press conference on tuesday health officials had braced for problems after tomas, fearing the hurricane that battered the caribbean nation over the weekend could worsen the cholera outbreak on monday, dr toni eyssallenne of hospital bernard mevs confirmed the first case of cholera in a 3 year old boy to originate and manifest entirely in port au prince two more cases were confirmed tuesday by eyssallenne a 41 year old woman who contracted the disease has not traveled in a year, the official said a 33 year old who lives in a tent city uses a communal water source she, too, did not bring the infection into the city previous cases had been centered in haiti's artibonite and central plateau regions, including the city of st marc, north of the nation's capital until monday, health officials said that those being treated for cholera in port au prince all contracted the disease elsewhere the young port au prince boy lived in a tent city across the street from a place that sells macaroni, and he had not traveled in over a year, and he hadn't had any contact with people from st marc or the artibonite region, eyssallenne said after suffering from nausea and diarrhea, the boy was treated and released from the hospital after his condition improved hurricane tomas' trek past haiti killed 20 people and injured another 36, a communications ministry official said monday seven people were missing and 5,954 were homeless, the official said health officials fear that the water dumped by the storm will worsen the outbreak the concern is that overflow from latrines and septic tanks could contaminate the supply of fresh drinking water and contribute to the spread of the bacteria in the capital, the canals were not overflowing, said american red cross spokeswoman andrea koppel but that was not the case in cities west of the capital, which bore the brunt of hurricane tomas, she said still, even port au prince looks and smells like a dump a caldron of water, garbage and human waste 'we get used to it,' said one resident ten months after a magnitude 7 earthquake laid waste to much of the nation, people compete with animals scavenging through the ubiquitous dumps for scraps of food 'the quick solution is management,' said environment minister jean marie claude germain 'management meaning that you have a structure in place, but the structure was not conceived with the slums in mind' but most of the residents of port au prince live in slums 'we're working on it,' germain said 'we will work with the private sector' cnn's paula newton contributed to this story

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new: two more port au prince cases confirmed . the official death toll from cholera in haiti is 583 . more than 9,000 cases have been confirmed . as many as 73 people have come down with cholera in port au prince

islamabad, pakistan (cnn) pakistan has a new heroine and a new cause a girl's right to education and after friday's announcements from the pakistani government that they will adopt new measures to get every child into school by end 2015, that cause has a timetable and a deadline for delivery everywhere you go in pakistan you find people talking animatedly about the 15 year old girl, malala yousafzai, who was shot by the taliban last month a rickshaw touring the streets of islamabad has a slogan posted on it: 'malala for education and peace' go to the local girls' school and every girl seems to have written either a poem or a song, a letter or a card to malala listen to the politicians and every speech is laced with references to the courage of malala meet civil society organizations and they will tell you that the audience for their educational demands has risen markedly over the last few weeks it seems that malala's courage has awoken pakistan's silent majority who are no longer prepared to tolerate the threats and intimidations of the pakistan taliban your messages to malala can pakistan convert its momentary desire to speak out in support of malala into a long term commitment to getting its three million girls and five million children into school? can the politicians, long criticized for a failure to deliver, find the teachers, the classrooms and the reading materials to give millions of children a basic education? this is what i talked about with pakistan's leaders meeting president asif ali zardari, and in front of a 500 strong audience, many of them from the swat valley where malala was shot, i presented petitions already signed by more than one million people in the international community in honor of malala and her cause these signatures were complemented with another one million signatures collected by pakistani civil society's one million signature campaign to demand free and compulsory education another 100,000 signatures from out of school pakistani children are the start of yet another one million strong petition, this time from the children themselves demanding their right to school a $1,000,000 bounty in malala case the president and i agreed on a series of deadlines in a plan to ensure all of pakistan's five million out of school children have the opportunity to go to school pakistan on friday asked to join the accelerated millennium development goal framework process that will allow the country to assess its current education plans, strategies and obstacles to delivery in consultation with international organizations and then work together to contribute to pakistan's dream of education for all a deadline for the final draft of this accelerated plan is set for april 2013 when the united nations secretary general ban ki moon, president of the world bank jim kim and myself, alongside the heads of major international agencies such as unesco, unicef, undp, unfpa and the global partnership for education, will meet in washington with the ministers of education and finance of pakistan the aim is to match international and domestic support for realizing the 2015 goal suspect's sister apologizes five months of intensive in country work with the pakistan government, civil authorities and foundations, as well as international organizations, lie ahead to ensure a detailed, budgeted plan i have suggested to the president that he consider involving all educational groups from civil society interested in achieving the universal goal in the processes today there is new hope for the three million girls denied their right to schooling and a new chance to ensure the right to education for all pakistan and the international community are united in their goals we now must deliver but a more active, more engaged and more determined pakistani people can ensure that education for all is no longer a slogan but a reality

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schoolgirl malala yousafzai, shot by taliban, inspires pakistan to education for all goal . pakistan leaders vow to get five million children without schooling into classes by 2015 . un envoy gordon brown: it seems that malala's courage has awoken pakistan's silent majority . he says pakistan, with international support, must now deliver

(mental floss) 1 cordless tools your life may be safer and more comfortable because of inventions that came from space research as long as nasa was going to the trouble of sending apollo astronauts to the moon, it figured it might as well equip them with drills and ask them to dig up rock samples when they got there but realizing that a 239,000 mile extension cord would be impractical, nasa teamed up with black & decker to develop tools that featured rechargeable batteries and special low power consumption motors, which should make your dustbuster seem a lot more impressive 2 smoke detectors in the 1970s, nasa partnered with honeywell corp to create a device that would detect smoke and toxic gases in skylab, america's first space station the result was the first ionization smoke detector, using a minute amount of the radioactive isotope americium 241 this led to the 1979 introduction of inexpensive photoelectric detection devices, which go off when smoke (or sometimes a hot, steamy shower) blocks the light beam to date, smoke detectors have saved countless lives here on earth, but they're especially useful in space, where running outside to wait for the fire truck isn't an option 3 enriched baby food nasa sponsored research has also helped make major improvements to commercially available baby food, and we're not talking about freeze dried strained peas while testing the potential of algae as a food supply for long duration space travel, a maryland based biosciences company discovered an algae additive that contains two fatty acids closely resembling those found in human breast milk the company now uses it to make an enriched infant formula called formulaid, thought to be essential for babies' visual and mental development 4 new age pavement when you buy a new set of tires, the old ones have to go somewhere, right? most of them end up in huge, flammable tire dumps, which may hold millions of old tires, each one containing about a quart of oil in the rubber if a dump catches fire, however, it can burn with a thick, toxic smoke for weeks on end but today, old tires are being put to good use nasa's experience in fuel related cryogenics helped develop processes to freeze the tires to below 200 degrees fahrenheit so that they crumble, separating the rubber from other materials and producing what's called 'crumb' this waste is recycled into several new products, including an ingredient used to pave highways, which means your new radial tires may someday be rolling over your old ones 5 those cool ear thermometers any parent knows you don't take a baby's temperature by sticking a glass thermometer in its mouth, but inserting it the other way isn't much fun, either and what about the incapacitated patient who can't even say 'aaah'? the diatek corp of california wanted a safer way to take a person's temperature, and who better to turn to than nasa's jet propulsion laboratory, the place with over 30 years of experience using infrared sensors to remotely observe celestial bodies? together, they developed a fast and accurate thermometer that, when its disposable probe cover (to prevent cross infection) is inserted into the ear canal, detects infrared radiation from the eardrum and gives a digital readout in less than two seconds 6 fast acting dental braces do your old fashioned braces set off airport metal detectors? save yourself embarrassing strip searches by getting new ones many orthodontists now use ceramic braces that are bonded to the teeth and strung together with a thin, light wire made of nitinol (nickel titanium), an alloy brought to you compliments of nasa because of its amazing ability to maintain its original shape, niti (as it's known in the industry) provides space satellites with the ability to spring open after being cramped and contorted inside a rocket but don't think its capabilities are limited to space when used in dental appliances, niti exerts a continuous force against the teeth to move in the right direction, eliminating the need for wire tightening, thus reducing a patient's overall time in braces and much of the pain 7 protective paint what do the statue of liberty, a gigantic buddha in hong kong and the golden gate bridge all have in common? they're protected by the american space program sort of in the late 1980s, nasa's goddard space flight center began a research program to develop coatings for the kennedy space center in florida to shield the launch structures from salt air corrosion, rocket exhaust and thermal stress applications of this material proved ideal for protecting structures like bridges, antenna towers and the occasional big buddha 8 (better) cardiac pacemakers pacemakers have come a long way since their invention in 1950 far from the large, external contraptions used early on, modern pacemakers can self adjust in most cases and even activate themselves when needed but one of the most significant advances in pacemaker technology came in the 1970s, with the help of a nasa developed system of communication called bi directional telemetry, originally used to communicate with satellites siemens pacesetter, inc teamed with nasa to develop a similar telemetry system, which not only allows doctors to make changes to the unit's function over time, but also updates them on how the device is interacting with the patient all without picking up a scalpel 9 scratch resistant glasses thanks to nasa technology, plastic lenses for glasses last up to 10 times longer than they used to that's because its ames research center created a scratch resistant (read: extremely hard) coating to protect equipment from getting beaten up by space debris later, the foster grant corp acquired the license for the coating method and used it in their plastic sunglasses, which matched the hardness of glass lenses, but were much lighter among other uses, it's now employed in most eyewear and industrial face shields 10 oh so comfy sneaker insoles can't run a five minute mile? don't blame your sneakers if they're relatively new, they're probably giving you quite a bit of help already in the 1970s, many shoe manufacturers began replacing their standard foam rubber insoles with a new, highly shock absorbent material one giant step for tennis shoes the new kicks were padded with 'viscoelastic' bubbles that conformed to your foot and then returned to their normal shape when you took the shoes off turns out, they got the idea (and the technology) from nasa, which had developed the material to better cushion astronauts during blastoff and one pop culture killer despite popular theory, nasa did not invent tang orange breakfast drink for the astronauts it was introduced in 1957 by general foods and was on grocery store shelves for years before nasa decided it worked well in space e mail to a friend for more mental floss articles, visit mentalflosscom entire contents of this article copyright, mental floss llc all rights reserved

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several everyday items come from space program . cushions for astronauts leads to better shoes for us . nasa communication system leads to better pacemakers . statue of liberty protected by coating developed by nasa

washington (cnn) white house press secretary tony snow, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, will step down from his post september 14 and be replaced by deputy press secretary dana perino, the white house announced friday white house press secretary tony snow will step down from his post on september 14 president bush told reporters friday that he will 'sadly accept' snow's resignation flanked by snow and perino in the white house press room, the president spoke warmly of his departing press secretary 'it's been a joy to watch him spar with you,' bush told reporters watch the announcement about snow leaving » bush said he was certain of two things in regard to snow 'he'll battle cancer and win,' bush said, 'and he'll be a solid contributor to society' turning to snow, the president then said: 'i love you, and i wish you all the best' snow, speaking after bush at the start of the daily white house news conference, said he was leaving to earn more money he took a big pay cut, he said, when he left his previous jobs as anchor and political analyst for fox news according to the washington post, snow makes $168,000 as the white house spokesman his family took out a loan when he started the job, 'and that loan is now gone' 'this job has really been a dream for me, a blast i've had an enormous amount of fun and satisfaction,' snow said he said he would continue to speak out on issues, and would do 'some radio, some tv, but i don't anticipate full time anchor duties' snow said he's received great satisfaction from talking to people about his illness snow's cancer was diagnosed for the first time in february 2005 his colon was removed, and after six months of treatment, doctors said the cancer was in remission perino announced march 27 that snow's cancer had recurred, and that doctors had removed a growth from his abdomen the day before sources told cnn two weeks ago that snow was planning to leave his job, possibly as early as september bush tapped snow to replace scott mcclellan in april 2006 snow had been an anchor for 'fox news sunday' and a political analyst for the fox news channel, which he joined in 1996 he also hosted 'the tony snow show' on fox news radio on thursday, snow told cnn his health is improving, citing two medical tests this month that found the cancer has not spread 'the tumors are stable they are not growing,' snow said of the results from an mri and a cat scan 'and there are no new growths the health is good' the press secretary, whose hair has turned gray during chemotherapy treatment, said his black hair is expected to grow back in about a month 'i'm also putting on weight again,' he said after returning from a 10 day vacation 'i actually feel very good about' the health situation snow said on friday he was to see his oncologist, and they will decide on some minor forms of chemotherapy to start as maintenance treatment e mail to a friend

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washington (cnn) the us military prison at guantanamo bay, cuba, is unlikely to close by the obama administration's deadline of january 2010, two senior administration officials said late friday us military personnel walk a road at the us naval base at guantanamo bay, cuba, in july they cited legal complications for the delay, but said they were still optimistic about shutting the detention facility for terrorism suspects soon the announcement represents a blow to the president, who signed an executive order and set the deadline with great fanfare during his first week in office during a signing ceremony at the white house on january 22, obama reaffirmed his inauguration pledge that the united states does not have 'to continue with a false choice between our safety and our ideals' the president said he was issuing the order to close the prison camp in order to 'restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great even in the midst of war, even in dealing with terrorism' the delay may provide fodder for republicans such as former vice president dick cheney, who has argued that shutting the guantanamo prison would make the united states less safe he said obama should have had a detailed plan in place before signing the order 'even white house officials are now acknowledging that there is still no alternative that will keep americans as safe as housing detainees at that secure facility off our shores,' senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, r kentucky, said in a written statement 'americans and a bipartisan majority in congress will continue to reject any effort to close guantanamo until there is a plan that keeps americans as safe or safer than keeping detainees in the secure detention center,' mcconnell's statement said at its peak, the guantanamo prison population exceeded 750, all men more than 500 have been released, most into the custody of other countries the senior administration officials insisted the white house is making progress in finding third party countries to accept the remaining detainees approximately 2,200 staff members work there, from all branches of the us military plus civilian employees

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us detention center won't close by obama deadline, senior officials say . obama signed executive order to close facility on his third day in office . legal complications blamed for delay; closure should come soon, they say . missed deadline could be political setback for obama

(cnn) police and fbi agents are investigating the discovery of an empty rocket launcher tube on the front lawn of a jersey city, new jersey, home, fbi spokesman sean quinn said niranjan desai discovered the 20 year old at4 anti tank rocket launcher tube, a one time use device, lying on her lawn friday morning, police said the launcher has been turned over to us army officials at the 754th ordnance company, an explosive ordnance disposal unit, at fort monmouth, new jersey, army officials said the launcher 'is no longer operable and not considered to be a hazard to public safety,' police said, adding there was no indication the launcher had been fired recently army officials said they could not determine if the launcher had been fired, but indicated they should know once they find out where it came from the nearest military base, fort dix, is more than 70 miles from jersey city the joint terrorism task force division of the fbi and jersey city police are investigating the origin of the rocket launcher and the circumstance that led to its appearance on residential property 'al qaeda doesn't leave a rocket launcher on the lawn of middle aged ladies,' said paul cruickshank of new york university law school's center on law and security a neighbor, joe quinn, said the object lying on desai's lawn looked military, was brown, had a handle and strap, and 'both ends were open, like you could shoot something with it' quinn also said the device had a picture of a soldier on it and was 3 to 4 feet long an army official said the device is basically a shoulder fired, direct fire weapon used against ground targets a modern day bazooka and it is not wire guided according to the web site globalsecurityorg, a loaded m136 at4 anti tank weapon has a 40 inch long fiberglass wrapped tube and weighs just 4 pounds its 84 millimeter shaped charge missile can penetrate 14 inches of armor from a maximum of 985 feet it is used once and discarded e mail to a friend cnn's carol cratty, dugald mcconnell, and mike mount contributed to this report

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empty anti tank weapon turns up in front of new jersey home . device handed over to army ordnance disposal unit . weapon not capable of being reloaded, experts say

washington (cnn) as he awaits a crucial progress report on iraq, president bush will try to put a twist on comparisons of the war to vietnam by invoking the historical lessons of that conflict to argue against pulling out president bush pauses tuesday during a news conference at the north american leaders summit in canada on wednesday in kansas city, missouri, bush will tell members of the veterans of foreign wars that 'then, as now, people argued that the real problem was america's presence and that if we would just withdraw, the killing would end,' according to speech excerpts released tuesday by the white house 'three decades later, there is a legitimate debate about how we got into the vietnam war and how we left,' bush will say 'whatever your position in that debate, one unmistakable legacy of vietnam is that the price of america's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens, whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like 'boat people,' 're education camps' and 'killing fields,' ' the president will say the president will also make the argument that withdrawing from vietnam emboldened today's terrorists by compromising us credibility, citing a quote from al qaeda leader osama bin laden that the american people would rise against the iraq war the same way they rose against the war in vietnam, according to the excerpts 'here at home, some can argue our withdrawal from vietnam carried no price to american credibility, but the terrorists see things differently,' bush will say on tuesday, democratic senate majority leader harry reid said, 'president bush's attempt to compare the war in iraq to past military conflicts in east asia ignores the fundamental difference between the two our nation was misled by the bush administration in an effort to gain support for the invasion of iraq under false pretenses, leading to one of the worst foreign policy blunders in our history 'while the president continues to stay the course with his failed strategy in iraq, paid for by the taxpayers, american lives are being lost and there is still no political solution within the iraqi government it is time to change direction in iraq, and congress will again work to do so in the fall' the white house is billing the speech, along with another address next week to the american legion, as an effort to 'provide broader context' for the debate over the upcoming iraq progress report by gen david petraeus, the top us military commander, and ryan crocker, the us ambassador in baghdad president bush has frequently asked lawmakers and the american people to withhold judgment on his troop 'surge' in iraq until the report comes out in september watch bush criticize the iraqi government » it is being closely watched on capitol hill, particularly by republicans nervous about the political fallout from an increasingly unpopular war earlier this month, defense secretary robert gates said he would wait for the report before deciding when a drawdown of the 160,000 us troops in iraq might begin bush's speeches wednesday and next week are the latest in a series of attempts by the white house to try to reframe the debate over iraq, as public support for the war continues to sag a recent cnn/opinion research corporation poll found that almost two thirds of americans 64 percent now oppose the iraq war, and 72 percent say that even if petraeus reports progress, it won't change their opinion the poll also found a great deal of skepticism about the report; 53 percent said they do not trust petraeus to give an accurate assessment of the situation in iraq in addition to his analogy to vietnam, bush in wednesday's speech will invoke other historical comparisons from asia, including the us defeat and occupation of japan after world war ii and the korean war in the 1950s, according to the excerpts 'in the aftermath of japan's surrender, many thought it naive to help the japanese transform themselves into a democracy then, as now, the critics argued that some people were simply not fit for freedom,' bush will say 'today, in defiance of the critics, japan stands as one of the world's great free societies' speaking about the korean war, bush will note that at the time 'critics argued that the war was futile, that we never should have sent our troops in, or that america's intervention was divisive here at home' 'while it is true that the korean war had its share of challenges, america never broke its word,' bush will say 'without america's intervention during the war, and our willingness to stick with the south koreans after the war, millions of south koreans would now be living under a brutal and repressive regime' e mail to a friend

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president bush to address the veterans of foreign wars on wednesday . bush to say that withdrawing from vietnam emboldened today's terrorists . speech will be latest white house attempt to try to reframe the debate over iraq

london, england (cnn) a chronology of bombings and attempted bomb attacks in the mainland uk since the 1970s: police close off streets around haymarket, in london's busy theater district june 29, 2007: police defuse a bomb consisting of 200 liters of fuel, gas cylinders and nails found in an abandoned car in haymarket, central london a second car packed with gas and nails was later found to have been parked just a few hundred yards from the first, before it was towed away by traffic wardens in the early hours of friday for violating parking restrictions police say two vehicles clearly linked july 21, 2005: two weeks after the deadly 7/7 bombings, four men are alleged to have attempted to carry out a second wave of attacks against london's transport network at three london underground stations and aboard a bus but their alleged rucksack bombs fail to explode july 7, 2005: four suicide bombers detonate themselves aboard three underground trains and a bus in a morning rush hour attack against london's transport network, killing 52 people and injuring around 700 more al qaeda claims responsibility in a video statement august 2004: anti terrorist police disrupt a plot by islamic militants to blow up targets including the ministry of sound nightclub and the bluewater shopping center in southeast england using explosives packed into limousines and large vehicles seven men are convicted in may 2007 and sentenced to up to 26 years in prison march 2001: a car bomb explodes outside the bbc's london headquarters, wounding one man police blame the real ira, a republican splinter group opposed to the ira's cease fire april 1999: three people die when a nail bomb explodes in the admiral duncan pub in london's gay district the third in a spate of series of nail bomb attacks also targeting immigrant areas of the city that left dozens injured a 23 year old self declared 'nazi', david copeland, is sentenced to six life terms june 1996: a massive ira bomb explodes in a shopping center in central manchester, injuring more than 200 people february 1996: two people die as ira terrorists detonate a bomb in london's docklands area, causing damage estimated at around $170m and ending the group's 17 month cease fire april 1993: an ira truck bomb devastates part of london's financial district, killing one and wounding 44 march 1993: two boys aged three and 12 are killed and dozens are injured by two bombs left in litter bins in warrington, northern england the ira admits planting the bombs april 1992: a huge ira car bomb in london's financial district kills three people and wounds 91 february 1991: ira terrorists launch a mortar attack at prime minister john major's downing street offices no one is injured september 1989: eleven people die and 22 are wounded when an ira bomb explodes at a royal marine music school in deal, southern england december 1988: a pan am airliner explodes over the scottish town of lockerbie, killing 259 aboard and 11 people on the ground libyan agent abdel basset al megrahi, convicted of the attack in 2001, was this week granted the right to mount a fresh appeal (read about lockerbie bomber) october 1984: five people die in an ira bomb attack on a hotel in brighton, southern england, where prime minister margaret thatcher and her cabinet are staying for the conservative party's annual conference december 1983: an ira bomb at london's harrods department store kills six people july 1982: two ira bomb attacks on soldiers in london's parks kill 11 people and wound 50 october november 1974: a wave of ira bombs in british pubs in birmingham and guildford kill 28 people and wound more than 200 february 1974: a coach carrying soldiers and families in northern england is bombed by the ira, killing 12 and wounding 14 e mail to a friend

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two cars loaded with gasoline and nails found abandoned in london friday . 52 people killed on july 7, 2005 after bombs exploded on london bus, trains . british capital wracked by violence by the ira for years

bremen, germany carlos alberto, who scored in fc porto's champions league final victory against monaco in 2004, has joined bundesliga club werder bremen for a club record fee of 78 million euros ($107 million) carlos alberto enjoyed success at fc porto under jose mourinho 'i'm here to win titles with werder,' the 22 year old said after his first training session with his new club 'i like bremen and would only have wanted to come here' carlos alberto started his career with fluminense, and helped them to lift the campeonato carioca in 2002 in january 2004 he moved on to fc porto, who were coached by josé mourinho, and the club won the portuguese title as well as the champions league early in 2005, he moved to corinthians, where he impressed as they won the brasileirão,but in 2006 corinthians had a poor season and carlos alberto found himself at odds with manager, emerson leão their poor relationship came to a climax at a copa sul americana game against club atlético lanús, and carlos alberto declared that he would not play for corinthians again while leão remained as manager since january this year he has been on loan with his first club fluminense bundesliga champions vfb stuttgart said on sunday that they would sign a loan agreement with real zaragoza on monday for ewerthon, the third top brazilian player to join the german league in three days a vfb spokesman said ewerthon, who played in the bundesliga for borussia dortmund from 2001 to 2005, was expected to join the club for their pre season training in austria on monday on friday, ailton returned to germany where he was the league's top scorer in 2004, signing a one year deal with duisburg on a transfer from red star belgrade e mail to a friend

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werder bremen pay a club record $107 million for carlos alberto . the brazilian midfielder won the champions league with fc porto in 2004 . since january he has been on loan with his first club, fluminense

(cnn) there's something about growing up in a small town don't get me wrong, new york, los angeles, chicago are all great cities with their own identity and appeal, but if you spent your formative years in a burg where traffic lights were few and far between; where watching freight trains was a welcome distraction; where after school, kids waste time at the nearest lake, river or abandoned quarry, then count yourself as lucky this kind of small town adolescence is uniquely american, and it's a lifestyle that's rapidly vanishing brian kimberling perfectly captures this experience in his debut novel, 'snapper,' available tuesday kimberling grew up in evansville, indiana, and the book makes the most of its hoosier setting in it, narrator nate lochmueller is an affable young ornithologist, earning just enough money to live on by studying the songbirds of indiana not coincidentally, kimberling also worked as a bird researcher when he was a student at indiana university 'snapper' follows nate through a series of mostly aimless adventures as he travels across the state in a glitter festooned truck dubbed the gypsy moth nate spends a good part of the book in the wilds of indiana, where he beautifully describes tracking and observing birds like the summer tanager and wood thrushes, as well as warblers, chickadees and acadian flycatchers there are also some hilarious anecdotes involving a dive bombing bald eagle, a german shepherd with a knack for digging up human bones and a snapping turtle with a taste for thumbs, hence the title but this is more than a bird book there are plenty of poignant moments as nate tries to figure out his place in the world's pecking order there's his on again, off again love affair with a free spirited beauty named lola and a colorful cast of characters including nate's parents, an aunt and uncle from texas with some questionable views on race, a small group of childhood friends and a few shiftless roommates kimberling writes about all of this in a voice part john audubon, part holden caulfield but uniquely his own the book's pace is leisurely, the mood is sometimes melancholy, and readers will finish the final page feeling thoroughly satisfied perhaps surprising to readers, kimberling no longer lives in indiana after wandering the globe, he now makes his home in england with his wife and son cnn recently spoke to him about the novel and whether he misses the us the following is an edited transcript cnn: what was the spark behind 'snapper'? brian kimberling: some friends and i used to build fires on indiana train tracks at night and sit around with a bottle of something purloined from someone's parents i told this to an english friend who knew nothing about indiana and who began imagining and describing a romantically desolate sort of place, forsaken by commerce and industry that's how we knew no trains would come through a place where there were no girls to talk to and no drugs worth taking, so adolescent boys played hobo together or whatever it was we thought we were doing that is a very english way of viewing indiana it is also absolutely right, or it used to be that conversation was a spark i ran with it cnn: had you always wanted to be a writer? kimberling: i don't know when i began writing i won a national award in high school for a short story about a character named maudlin lackey who commits suicide i have since learned some restraint i had been writing regularly for a couple of years already at the time it's always been important to me, though, to do other things besides write to be something other than or in addition to a writer so i've worked as a web developer and an english teacher and an editor and a frozen pizza stacker and so on, in the czech republic and mexico and turkey and england cnn: where did the title come from? kimberling: my editor and i did kick around alternative titles for a while the problem was that other titles (such as 'audubon, indiana') seemed to restrict the book's scope somehow and that the snapping turtle in the book has symbolic value in the end, it was a case of, well, it can't be called anything else, can it? 'snapper' is a digressive, meandering book that invites readers to make connections and interpret things as they will a more descriptive title (say, 'birding in indiana') wouldn't do that justice also, 'snapper' is a snappy title cnn: you write with great admiration about indiana's songbirds do you have a particular favorite from your days as an amateur ornithologist? kimberling: i like the wood thrush, as does the narrator, nathan, and as did audubon and thoreau, both it's probably not humanly possible to listen to the wood thrush attentively without some emotional response whereas the acadian flycatcher is pretty boring i think 'birdsong' and 'songbird' are both misleading words lots of songbirds just chirp i was a research assistant for a major study of songbirds for two years, starting at 5 am six days a week i especially enjoyed running into non birds foxes, raccoons, opossums, all finishing up the night shift at around the time i started their collective expression was: 'hey, you're human either shoot us or leave us alone stop coming around every day' cnn: you seem to have a love/hate relationship with indiana, is that correct? has your feeling for your home state changed since you've lived abroad? kimberling: i love it from a great distance there are many things in indiana that i appreciate more for having lived abroad turoni's pizza in evansville tops the list bloomington and brown county are outstanding, and the ohio is the most beautiful river in the world, as thomas jefferson observed 200 odd years ago not sure what the beautiful river criteria are, but it's true i think a lot, in a possibly european inflected way, about the cultural heritage of southern indiana (five words that do not often appear in that sequence) it's not all pretty, but it's all important cnn: what's it like now, having moved to england, and would you ever return to the hoosier state? kimberling: i would certainly return to the hoosier state i spent three months there last summer with my wife and son, in fact, and all of us enjoyed it immensely that said, after 10 years in england, there were a few things i found a wee bit alarming health care costs and the size of the average pickup truck, for example the idea that random civilians may carry guns or, for that matter, that the police do carry guns i suppose i experience a mild form of culture shock cnn: what's next for you? kimberling: i am working on another novel also set in southern indiana read an excerpt from 'snapper' here

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(cnn) world number one rafael nadal has been knocked out of the shanghai masters after suffering a shock 6 1 3 6 6 3 defeat to jurgen melzer in the third round on thursday nadal's serve was broken twice in the opening set against the austrian, who is ranked 12th in the world and will now play argentina's juan monaco in the quarterfinals us open champion nadal came into the tournament on the back of a title in japan, having been upset in the semifinals in thailand the week before he now has a season record of 67 wins and nine defeats ahead of the paris masters and atp tour world finals in london 'i felt slow on court i had more mistakes than usual,' the 24 year old spaniard told reporters on thursday 'i played shorter than usual [i was] a little bit more tired than usual, just physically and mentally' melzer has an outside chance of playing in both the singles and doubles at the season ending event in london, which would make him the first player to do so since spain's emilio sanchez in 1990 'but it's a long way there i'm almost 900 points off the eighth player this is a very long way,' the 1999 wimbledon junior champion said there are four places yet to be confirmed for the tournament, with sweden's robin soderling, tomas berdych of the czech republic, spain's david ferrer and injured american andy roddick currently on course to claim the remaining berths third seed roger federer, who has already qualified for london, set up a quarterfinal clash with fifth seed soderling after dispatching andreas seppi 6 3 6 4 the swiss maestro faced several break points in the opening set, but his italian opponent was unable to take advantage and the 29 year old progressed soderling reached the last eight on thursday with a 7 5 6 4 win over 11th seed ferrer world no 4 andy murray advanced with a 6 3 6 4 victory over french qualifier jeremy chardy, ensuring his place in the eight man atp tour world finals in the process murray will play jo wilfried tsonga in the quarterfinals in shanghai, after the french 12th seed beat germany's florian mayer 7 5 6 3 'it was a big match for me, because i knew i'd qualify for london if i won, the 23 year old murray told his official website 'i thought it was very good i served well when i needed to, when i was down break points at the start of the match my second serve i varied a lot, because he was trying to run round and hit his forehand' second seed novak djokovic, who won the china open in beijing last week, is also into the last eight in shanghai after a 6 1 6 1 triumph over france's richard gasquet the world number two never looked threatened in the match, breaking gasquet's serve on five occasions and hitting 25 winners the serbian will next face guillermo garcia lopez, nadal's conqueror in bangkok before winning the title the in form spaniard dented world no 7 berdych's end of season hopes with a 7 6 (7 4) 6 3 win over the wimbledon runner up, but has lost all three previous encounters with djokovic

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washington (cnn) depending on who is talking, the tea party movement is either an extremist force dividing republicans or a group of disgruntled taxpayers setting the government on a proper course the conservative political force has shaken up this year's congressional elections, backing candidates who defeated republican incumbents and other mainstream gop candidates in primaries across the country sal russo, chief strategist for the tea party express the most organized and visible of the movement's factions told the cbs program 'face the nation' that his group is a political action committee comprising members limited to donations of up to $5,000 with no corporate contributions allowed 'we're the purest form of democracy, i think, in the tea party movement, in the sense that when we want to do something, we don't have any money to start with, we have to send an e mail out to our people and say, 'hey, we think sharron angle is going to be a great candidate in nevada, and do you want to get behind her?' ' russo said sunday the end result, he said, would be the election of candidates 'willing to stand up for more responsible fiscal policy in washington' 'we've turned the political system on its head,' russo said 'and what's done that is that millions of americans, who, many of them, had been sitting out the political process, have gotten involved in the campaigns' however, illinois sen dick durbin, the second ranking democrat in the chamber, told cnn's 'state of the union' program that candidates such as angle showed the negative impact of the tea party movement on the political right republican primary victories by tea party backed nominees over mainstream contenders such as alaska sen lisa murkowski and nine term delaware rep mike castle end up giving democratic contenders a chance to win previously out of reach races in november, he said 'when the tea party becomes the gatekeeper of a republican primary, we end up with contests we never dreamed of,' durbin said 'who would have guessed that today we would be taking an honest look at alaska, delaware, and kentucky, where we clearly have races where the democrats can win?' durbin also cited florida, where republican marco rubio's senate candidacy with tea party support caused gov charlie crist to wage an independent campaign, throwing the race into what durbin called 'turmoil' 'i think that shows the tea party position is too extreme for most voters, and i think we're going to do well in those states,' durbin said 'people have to ask themselves, is this what we really want in the united states senate?' rubio, interviewed on the cbs program, said he and the tea party movement reflected the 'sentiment in mainstream america that washington is broken' 'we don't want to change america,' he said in reference to president barack obama's 2008 campaign theme and agenda 'we want to fix things that are wrong in america' he advocated bedrock conservative positions, including a balanced budget amendment to the us constitution, banning congressional earmarks and imposing term limits on congress members however, his stance was more moderate on an issue important to the crucial senior citizen population in florida reforming social security to ensure its future solvency rubio said benefits for current retirees or those close to retirement should remain fixed, and the system must survive for the younger and future generations without bankrupting the country 'we're going to have to accept there are going to be some changes,' he said, mentioning a possible future increase in the retirement age for eligibility also on the program, another tea party backed nominee colorado republican senate candidate ken buck expressed similar conservative credentials 'i see myself as part of a group of candidates who have been elected in this country because of frustration with what's happening in washington, dc,' buck said 'we're going there not to be part of the establishment, not to be part of what we consider the problem in washington, dc, but to get there and to reduce spending, to promote ideas like a balanced budget amendment and term limits and ideas that have been talked about for a while,' he said the tea party backed candidates interviewed sunday made no mention of the 'pledge to america' document released last week by house republicans as a proposal for how they would govern if in power democrats criticized the economic focused program that includes reduced spending, lower taxes and other bedrock gop positions as a rehash of failed past policies in an editorial saturday, the new york times called the document 'a bid to co opt the tea party by a republican leadership that wants to sound insurrectionist but is the same old washington elite' 'not only are the players the same, the policies are the same,' the editorial said 'just more tax cuts for the rich and more deficit spending we find it hard to believe that even the most disaffected voters will be taken in' conservative rep mike pence of indiana told the nbc program 'meet the press' that the 'pledge to america' represented a return to republican roots 'republicans didn't just lose our majority in 2006, we lost our way,' pence said 'we walked away from the principles of fiscal discipline and reform that minted our governing majority back in 1980 and again in 1994 and the american people walked away from us' conceding that the proposals in the document are 'not necessarily new,' pence said it represented a commitment to 'important first steps in this congress to steer our national government back to' basic principles and practices

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sunday talk shows offer varying views of tea party movement . russo of tea party express says no corporate contributions allowed . durbin says tea party candidates give hope to democrats in some races

paris (cnn) former french justice minister rachida dati is launching a paternity suit tuesday against a french businessman she claims is the father of her daughter, an attorney for the businessman confirmed in the case filed at a versailles court, dati formally identifies dominique desseigne as the biological father of zohra, who was born in 2009 but the 68 year old president of the lucien barriã¨re casino group, which owns the luxurious le fouquet's hotel, refuses to take a paternity test to confirm or exclude him as the father, and alleges that he was not dati's only lover in the year her daughter was conceived dati, 46, served as justice minister in former president nicolas sarkozy's government from 2007 2009 she is now a deputy of the european parliament and mayor of paris' posh 7th arrondissement in a weekend interview with the french newspaper le monde, desseigne's lawyer, michã¨le cahen, alleges that dati had up to eight lovers in the year zohra was conceived cahen confirmed his comments to cnn monday the list allegedly includes sarkozy's brother, a qatari attorney general, a television broadcaster and a former spanish prime minister 'i will not give in to this because i behaved correctly and i have nothing to be reproached for,' the newspaper quoted desseigne as telling friends, referring to his right to refuse a paternity test dati's attorneys did not immediately return calls for comment from cnn her pregnancy in 2008 was shrouded in deep mystery after she refused to reveal the father's identity, with whom she did not pursue a relationship last month, a french newspaper revealed that dati would file a paternity case against desseigne in le monde's article, a friend of desseigne explained that the businessman did not want a child with dati and broke off the relationship in 2008, after which dati allegedly sent him threatening letters and demanded money from him cahen told cnn that the versailles court is expected to deliver its verdict in the next month on whether desseigne will be legally obliged to take a dna test

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islamabad, pakistan (cnn) a christian pakistani woman sentenced to death for blasphemy is innocent and should be released, pakistan's minister for minority affairs told cnn shahbaz bhatti reached his conclusion after a three day investigation into allegations that asia bibi defiled the name of the prophet mohammed during an argument last year with muslim fellow field workers bhatti said he personally submitted his finding to president asif ali zardari on thursday and recommended that bibi be freed 'this case was filed on the basis of religious and personal enmity,' bhatti said despite the minister's recommendation, it is still not clear if or when bibi will be pardoned by the president zardari asked bhatti to propose names for a committee of scholars and experts who would recommend reforms 'to effectively prevent the misuse of the blasphemy law for personal and political reasons' on wednesday, a presidential spokesman and spokeswoman told cnn that zardari will pardon bibi only if necessary and after the legal process has taken its course bibi has appealed her conviction and death sentence, a process that could take months bhatti said he has advised bibi's lawyer to file a petition for the court to rule on her appeal as soon as possible he also said the president has called on authorities to provide added security for bibi while she is in prison and when she's released bibi's husband told cnn his family received death threats soon after his wife's case made headlines

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new: president calls for panel of scholars and experts to review blasphemy law . asia bibi was accused of blasphemy and sentenced to death . president says he'll issue pardon only if necessary and after legal process has taken its course

washington (cnn) vice president dick cheney will serve as acting president briefly saturday while president bush is anesthetized for a routine colonoscopy, white house spokesman tony snow said friday bush is scheduled to have the medical procedure, expected to take about 2 1/2 hours, at the presidential retreat at camp david, maryland, snow said bush's last colonoscopy was in june 2002, and no abnormalities were found, snow said the president's doctor had recommended a repeat procedure in about five years the procedure will be supervised by dr richard tubb and conducted by a multidisciplinary team from the national naval medical center in bethesda, maryland, snow said a colonoscopy is the most sensitive test for colon cancer, rectal cancer and polyps, small clumps of cells that can become cancerous, according to the mayo clinic small polyps may be removed during the procedure snow said that was the case when bush had colonoscopies before becoming president snow himself is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer that began in his colon and spread to his liver snow told reporters he had a chemo session scheduled later friday watch snow talk about bush's procedure and his own colon cancer » 'the president wants to encourage everybody to use surveillance,' snow said the american cancer society recommends that people without high risk factors or symptoms begin getting screened for signs of colorectal cancer at age 50 e mail to a friend

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(cnn) forensic tests on a woman found hanging from a tree in the indian state of uttar pradesh have so far failed to find evidence of rape, a local police chief said more tests are being done, amid claims from the woman's family that she was gang raped and murdered by five men, including her brother in law the alleged attack comes just weeks after the bodies of two cousins, aged 14 and 15, were founding hanging from a mango tree in the budaun district of the same state of the five suspects arrested, police say three have confessed to the rape, but not murder woman found in tree in the latest case, the 42 year old woman was found hanging from a tree in the bahraich district her family told police she went missing around 7 pm on tuesday night, and her body was found wednesday morning, bahraich district police chief, happy guptan, said 'we are not commenting how it all happened until our investigation is complete,' guptan told cnn calls for strong political action to change attitudes and stop rape in india have grown louder since december 2012, when a student was gang raped and murdered by attackers on a moving bus the 23 year old's horrific injuries made headlines and started a national debate about how many rapes were happening and why call to stop 'politicizing rape' in his first address to parliament as indian prime minister, narendra modi addressed the issue on wednesday, warning lawmakers against 'politicizing rape' 'i appeal to our political leaders that we should not carry out psychological analysis of rape is it correct to make a statement always? why can't we just keep quiet respect and security for women should be the topmost priority of the entire people,' he said his comments came after observers seized on statements made by babulal gaur, the home minister of madhya pradesh, that rape was a 'social crime' 'sometimes it's right, sometimes it's wrong' other politicians were also accused of trivializing the crime with comments including an observation that rapes 'happen accidentally,' while another suggested 'boys make mistakes' in a veiled reference to those comments last week, united nations secretary general ban ki moon said: 'we say no to the dismissive, destructive attitude of 'boys will be boys' together, we can empower more people to understand that violence against women degrades us all' ban made the comments while launching a video campaign on ending sexual violence through gender equality read more: grief, fear, blame in indian village read more: relatives call for attackers to be hanged cnn's harmeet shah singh contributed to this report

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san francisco, california (cnn) a magnitude 42 earthquake shook the san francisco area friday at 4:42 am pt (7:42 am et), the us geological survey reported the quake left about 2,000 customers without power, said david eisenhower, a spokesman for pacific gas and light under the usgs classification, a magnitude 42 earthquake is considered 'light,' which it says usually causes minimal damage 'we had quite a spike in calls, mostly calls of inquiry, none of any injury, none of any damage that was reported,' said capt al casciato of the san francisco police 'it was fairly mild' watch police describe concerned calls immediately after the quake » the quake was centered about two miles east northeast of oakland, at a depth of 36 miles, the usgs said oakland is just east of san francisco, across san francisco bay an oakland police dispatcher told cnn the quake set off alarms at people's homes the shaking lasted about 50 seconds, said cnn meteorologist chad myers according to the usgs, magnitude 42 quakes are felt indoors and may break dishes and windows and overturn unstable objects pendulum clocks may stop e mail to a friend

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2,000 customers without electricity, power company says . magnitude 42 quake set off home alarms, says oakland police dispatcher . 'it was fairly mild,' police say, no immediate reports of injuries, damage . it was centered two miles east northeast of oakland, about 36 miles deep

(cnn) the freak snowstorm that pounded the eastern united states late last week, cutting power to hundreds of thousands of people, killed at least 22 people, officials said thursday in massachusetts, at least six deaths were related to the storm, and a seventh was under investigation, said peter william judge, public information officer for the massachusetts emergency management agency four of the deaths were linked to carbon monoxide poisoning; one person was electrocuted by a downed power line and one person died in a house fire blamed on the storm, he said in new jersey, eight storm related fatalities were tallied, including three people who burned to death in house fires, one person who died when a branch fell on him, another who died when a tree fell on him, and three people who died in motor vehicle accidents a ninth death was under investigation in connecticut, eight people died, four of them from carbon monoxide poisoning, said gov dannel malloy in all, 91 shelters and 111 warming centers were to be open in the state thursday night, he said an estimated 831,000 customers lost electricity during saturday's storm, according to connecticut light & power officials and the attorney general's office the storm dropped at least a foot of snow in a band from west virginia to maine by thursday afternoon, power had been restored to slightly more than half of the affected customers, said dave radanovich, a cl&p spokesman he predicted power would be fully restored by monday morning the utility using workers from 20 states deployed 867 line crews composed of two or three workers each to repair downed transmission lines; another 628 tree crews and 550 support crews were aiding the effort, radanovich said president barack obama has signed emergency declarations for new hampshire and connecticut, clearing the way for federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts connecticut's attorney general called thursday for regulators to investigate cl&p, the state's main electric utility, over its handling of the storm attorney general george jepsen filed the request with the state's public utilities regulatory authority, which is already investigating cl&p over its response to power outages during tropical storm irene in september 'the heavy, wet snow weighed down on the trees,' radanovich said 'limbs were holding two times their normal weight,' because the state's trees still have leaves on them in addition, cl&p had less time to prepare for saturday's storm by bringing in out of state crews ahead of time, according to radanovich, since the storm hit with little notice 'forecasts for this storm initially predicted only 6 inches of snow, but on friday that jumped to a foot,' he said cnn's andy rose, dan verello, hussein saddique and logan burruss contributed to this report

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la paz, bolivia (cnn) a 62 magnitude earthquake struck bolivia tuesday afternoon, the us geological survey said the quake's epicenter was about 185 kilometers (115 miles) south southeast of santa ana, bolivia, the agency said it struck at a depth of about 530 kilometers (330 miles) the shaking was felt in the country's capital, la paz, about 350 kilometers (215 miles) away there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage the state run bolivian information agency said residents of various la paz neighborhoods, particularly in the city's center, reported feeling the quake around 3 pm some evacuated their homes, particularly those who live in taller buildings, the agency reported preliminary estimates put the magnitude at 67, but authorities later revised the number journalist gloria carrasco contributed to this report

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new: report: some residents of la paz evacuate their homes . the quake's center is about 185 kilometers from santa ana, bolivia . the earthquake was felt in the country's capital . there are no immediate reports of injuries or damage

london (cnn) in 2011 uk business secretary vince cable lamented that a bunch of 'right wing nutters' was holding the american government and the world economy to ransom by refusing to agree the usually routine increase in america's legal debt limit world leaders might avoid the blunt description used by cable but their thoughts are probably very similar the us is, once again, having another political gunfight over public funding and debt issues internationally, america's fiscal shenanigans could be particularly harmful for eurozone countries trying to get their own public debt problems under control and strengthen their economic recovery instability in the world money markets is the last thing that the likes of greece, ireland, spain and even france need and with the uk economy excessively dependent on its financial sector, the storms in washington could turn into a tempest for the city of london if the us imbroglio results in a debt default next month, it will serve as a very bad example to eurozone countries undergoing austerity to remedy their indebtedness read more: how austerity kills one political consequence of this may be the growth of nationalist/populist parties in europe who seize on america's conduct to legitimize calls for default on their own countries' public debts nothing new there is nothing new in the standoff between the republican house and the democratic senate over agreeing a budget to fund government operations for the 2014 fiscal year, beginning october 1 whether single party controlled or not, congress has failed to pass a budget by the start of the new fiscal year annually since 1994 however, it has always approved a continuing resolution to fund government operations until a budget is agreed if this is not settled by midnight today, the us government will experience a partial shutdown that will hit 'non essential services' (including federal payment of government contracts, social security benefits and the like) there have been ten such shutdowns since 1981 all but one of these only lasted a weekend when most government offices were closed anyway the exception, in late 1995 early 1996, went on for 26 days read more: 10 ways a shutdown will affect you we may be re entering the same territory because republican insistence on defunding obamacare as part of any budget deal is staunchly opposed by the democrats, reinforced by the threat of a presidential veto if any such measure were enacted all this may look like a local infighting but the possible consequences could be global in scope if the stand off continues until mid october, when the us is scheduled to raise its debt limit the ceiling for borrowing was actually reached last may the us treasury has been shuffling money from government accounts to pay america's creditors ever since, but the pot is now close to empty the us is looking down the barrel at the first default in its history if this happens, the very least of the consequences will be a reduction of its credit rating by standard & poor's ratings agency, along with others the fact that us government creditors are mainly foreign governments and central banks may prevent panic on the money markets, but there will still be serious repercussions and dislocations stretching throughout asia, europe, and latin america global money flows even with a brief default, the us government will probably find it more difficult thereafter to sell short term treasury notes at low interest to fund its operations the likely consequence of this would be greater reliance on medium term and long term borrowing that could require higher interest rates to be attractive read more: what happens at the white house? at a time when the fed is still operating an easy money policy to boost recovery from the great recession, it may have to raise interest rates contrary to its expansionary preferences, with harmful consequences for the american and global economies if us interests rate interest rates go up, america could become a magnet for global capital, leaving the european countries, in particular, short of credit needed to sustain their own economic recovery the more likely scenario is that a default will be avoided, but the fear that one was imminent and the worry that it could easily happen again this time next year is bound to make the money markets nervous foreign creditors willingly lend to the us because it is a safe bet in an uncertain world but if its dysfunctional politics makes it look unsafe, they may look elsewhere the us is fortunate that the euro is not a reserve currency in waiting, as it looked a decade ago, and the chinese renminbi is nowhere near ready to challenge the dollar but what the world needs now is more certainty from its largest borrower and owner of its reserve currency without this, there could be very damaging repercussions for global economic growth

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the us is facing up to yet another battle over its public funding and debt . iwan morgan says this is nothing new but its impact on international markets is a worry . money markets will get nervous at the continued dysfunction in us politics . the eurozone is only just emerging from recession and certainty is needed

washington (cnn) the obama administration is putting the final touches on a security assistance package totaling as much as $2 billion over five years to help pakistan fight extremists on its border with afghanistan, senior us officials and diplomatic sources tell cnn the aid is expected to be announced later this week when pakistani officials are in washington to hold high level talks the package aims to address pakistan's insistence it does not have the capability to go after terrorists, and needs more support from the united states, the sources said the aid will help the pakistanis purchase helicopters, weapons systems and equipment to intercept communications it falls under the united states' foreign military financing (fmf) program, which provides grants and loans to countries to purchase weapons and defense equipment produced in the united states it also includes more counterinsurgency assistance to pakistani troops and a program allowing members of the pakistani military to study at american war colleges the $2 billion package is on top of billions of dollars the united states already gives pakistan in military aid and a $75 billion aid package over five years in non military counter terrorism assistance approved by congress last year 'they key is to beef up their ability to go after militants, it can't be diverted to other threats,' one senior us official said pakistan has long claimed its military is geared toward defending itself against threats from countries like india, and does not have the kind of equipment it needs to fight insurgents us officials said they recognize pakistan's current military hardware is not perfectly suited toward such operations, but made clear the new aid must be directed toward fighting extremists, rather than india 'we recognize they need different kinds of capacities and more of them to handle extremists form within their own border,' one official said 'they do need more capacity and the kinds of capabilities that are geared toward fighting extremists, rather than a major land conflict' us officials acknowledge the pakistani military is stretched thin since this summer's devastating floods, and has had to divert resources from the fight against extremists to conduct relief efforts they hope the new security assistance will address the military's resource limitations so they can redouble efforts to go after militants 'there is an expectation with that capacity comes a greater effort,' a senior official said the aid comes on the heels of a white house report sent to congress earlier this month which uses unusually tough language to suggest the ally is not doing nearly enough to confront the taliban and al qaeda, despite repeated obama administration claims in public that pakistan is working hard to crack down on militants the white house assessment, obtained by cnn, is particularly tough on pakistan's inability to make gains in south waziristan, where many analysts believe key al qaeda leaders have gained a safe haven to use as a base to plot terror attacks against western targets the report notes that from march to june, the pakistani military 'continued to avoid military engagements that would put it in direct conflict with afghan taliban or [al qaeda] forces in north waziristan this is as much a political choice as it is a reflection of an under resourced military prioritizing its targets' 'the capacity issue is very real,' another senior official said 'it's not like they could just go into north waziristan if they wanted to and succeed there is an issue of political will but the capacity issue remains extremely important' the official said the multi year assistance package is designed to provide the pakistanis with 'an issue of predictability and consistency' in us military assistance, which has typically been done on a year to year basis pakistan has long voiced concerns the united states is not going to remain engaged with the region over the long term 'we need to demonstrate we are in it for more than six months to a year this offers a time horizon and allows them to chill out about that,' the official said even with the harsh white house report, us officials do acknowledge that pakistan has made some progress in combating terrorism, noting the country has suffered thousands of casualties as a result of its campaign against extremists in its tribal areas bordering afghanistan suspected us drone strikes have also increased in pakistan, killing dozens of high level militants in the tribal areas although the us does not comment on drone strikes, pakistani officials have said they could not be done without pakistani cooperation while in pakistan in july, secretary of state hillary clinton said the pakistani government has become 'very serious' about fighting the violent extremist organizations within its borders at the time, clinton alluded to the security assistance being announced this week, while telling reporters the united states was 'working on a multi year package with the pakistanis' pakistan foreign minister shah mehmood qureshi and pakistan's military chief, gen ashfaq parvez kayani, are leading a pakistani delegation arriving tuesday for the us pakistan strategic dialogue, three days of meetings starting wednesday with clinton, defense secretary robert gates and adm mike mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff the talks address all facets of the relationship between washington and islamabad, but counterterrorism cooperation will be a major aspect of the talks 'pakistan has taken aggressive action within its borders but clearly, this is an ongoing threat and more needs to be done,' state department spokesman pj crowley said monday 'that will be among the issues talked about'

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(cnn) delta air lines ceo richard anderson said friday he objects to the federal transportation security administration's move this week to allow small pocketknives on airplanes 'these items have been banned for more than 11 years and will add little value to the customer security process flow in relation to the additional risk for our cabin staff and customers,' anderson said in a letter to the head of the tsa tsa administrator john pistole said the move brings the united states into alignment with international rules and are keeping with his 'risk based security' approach under the new rules, knives with blades no longer than 236 inches (6 centimeters) and less than a half inch wide will be allowed in airline cabins as long as the blade is retractable and does not lock into place razorblades and box cutters are still prohibited the rules also allow passengers to carry two golf clubs, toy bats or other sports sticks such as ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and pool cues aboard in carry on luggage knives on a plane? really? kip hawley, who oversaw the tsa from 2005 to 2009, said the search for knives interferes with the search for objects such as bombs and toxins that can threaten aircraft but others have sharply criticized the change, which was announced this week they include the flight attendants union coalition, a nearly 90,000 member group that has launched a campaign to reverse the tsa's decision former flight attendant tiffany hawk is 'stupefied' by the move, 'especially since the process that turns checkpoints into maddening logjams removing shoes, liquids and computers remains unchanged,' she wrote in an opinion column for cnn and veda shook, president of the association of flight attendants, said the move is 'completely unnecessary' and 'makes no sense' rather than freeing up time, she predicted that security officers will get more bogged down testing and measuring the knives to see if they meet the criteria 'how big is this knife? is it long enough? is it wide enough? does it lock? does it not lock? that is going to create confusion at the checkpoint,' shook told cnn's anderson cooper on friday night ' we're all better off, and we're all safer, without weapons on board the aircraft' the delta chief is among those critical voices, saying that he and his airline's flight attendants 'share (the same) legitimate concerns' 'if the purpose is to increase security checkpoint flow, there are much more effective steps we can take together to streamline the security checkpoints with risk based screening mechanisms,' anderson said cnn's joe sutton contributed to this report

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new: a flight attendants union president says the move 'makes no sense'. the tsa said it would allow small knives onto planes, starting april 25 . the agency's chief says this brings the us in compliance with world norms . delta's ceo says the move isn't worth the added risk to airline staff and passengers

london (cnn) an advertisement for marc jacobs perfume featuring teenage actor dakota fanning has been banned in britain because it 'sexualized children' the ad, for marc jacobs 'oh, lola!' fragrance, featured fanning, the child star of 'war of the worlds' and 'i am sam' wearing a short dress and holding an oversized bottle of the scent in her lap four readers complained that the photograph which appeared in two british magazines in august was 'offensive and irresponsible,' for showing fanning, 17, 'in a sexualized manner' britain's advertising regulator, the advertising standards agency (asa) agreed with the complaints, and has banned the picture from use in the uk coty uk, the perfume's manufacturer insisted that the ad 'did not show any private parts or sexual activity' and said it was 'provoking, but not indecent' but the asa ruled that fanning 'was holding up the perfume bottle in her lap between her legs and we considered that its position was sexually provocative' in a statement, it said that while it accepted that fanning was 17, 'we considered she looked under the age of 16,' and that her outfit and pose 'drew attention to her sexuality' 'because of that we considered the ad could be seen to sexualize a child we therefore concluded that the ad was irresponsible and was likely to cause serious offense' it is not the first time the asa has banned advertisements featuring hollywood stars in july, the watchdog ruled against a make up ad starring julia roberts, on the grounds it had been airbrushed too heavily

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(cnn) a georgia woman convicted on misdemeanor charges in the death of her son after he darted out into traffic will receive a new trial, a judge ruled raquel nelson's trial is set to begin october 25, according to an order filed by cobb county state court judge kathryn tanksley on tuesday nelson's case had attracted national attention from parents, the naacp and transportation advocates, who said nelson, from the atlanta suburb of marietta, was being unfairly prosecuted because she chose to cross the road at the bus stop across from her apartment instead of traveling to the nearest crosswalk, three tenths of a mile away in april 2010, nelson and her three children had just gotten off the bus across from their apartment building when her 4 year old son, aj, broke away from her and ran into the street a car struck the boy, causing fatal injuries nelson and one of her two daughters also suffered minor injuries five weeks after the accident, investigators came to nelson's home, said her aunt, loretta williams nelson was charged with three misdemeanors: second degree vehicular homicide, failing to cross at a crosswalk and reckless conduct, according to court records a jury convicted her this month although prosecutors did not recommend jail time, each count carried a potential sentence of one year in jail for a total of 36 months she potentially faced more jail time than the man driving the car, jerry guy guy fled the scene after the accident but later admitted being involved, according to cnn affiliate wxia tv he was sentenced to five years in prison but served only six months he is serving the remainder of the sentence on probation nelson on tuesday was sentenced to 12 months of probation and 40 hours of community service, but tanksley also gave her the option to seek a new trial during the hearing tuesday, nelson's attorney, david savoy, asked for mercy, saying his client had suffered enough 'don't think for one moment that this mother of three doesn't blame herself for what happened,' he said but, he said, the white stripes of a crosswalk are not 'impenetrable walls of steel' that could have prevented a driver from striking someone crossing the street such accidents happen every day, he said assistant solicitor general jessica moss said her office would accept whatever sentence the court suggested 'these cases are inherently difficult because they are unintentional,' she said during the hearing 'i'm walking out of here,' nelson told reporters after her sentencing tuesday 'i don't think you could be more satisfied' nelson told nbc's 'today' on monday that the jurors who convicted her probably couldn't relate to her because she is a single mother and they don't regularly use public transportation or need to walk on busy streets many members of the public, however, supported her 'your office's decision to prosecute raquel nelson for the death of her 4 year old son on a vehicular homicide charge is disgusting and inhumane,' one poster wrote on the facebook page of the cobb county solicitor general's office, which handled the case more than 135,000 people signed an online petition calling for leniency the naacp had called the case against nelson a 'grave miscarriage of justice when the mother who is still grieving is forced to fight harder for her freedom than the man who killed her son' the case also attracted attention from transportation advocates, who said nelson was treated unfairly because transportation planners fail to take into account the needs of pedestrians when designing roads 'because she did as her fellow bus riders, who crossed at the same time and same place, and because she did what pedestrians will do every time take the shortest reasonable path she is guilty of vehicular homicide,' transportation for america communications director david goldberg wrote on the advocacy organization's blog cnn's tristan smith and in session's jessica thill contributed to this report

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raquel nelson's trial is set for october 25 . nelson was prosecuted after a driver struck and killed her son . she potentially had faced more jail time than the driver

(cnn) although shawn kinmartin flies planes for a sky diving service, he hadn't done any sky diving himself but on saturday he didn't have a choice the 21 year old's cessna had been seriously damaged when a sky diver jumped out and hit a key piece of the aircraft, kinmartin explained on cnn's 'new day' on monday morning to have a shot at survival, he'd have to jump but before the heart pumping moment, kinmartin tried to steady his plane, cruising at 11,500 feet over eastern missouri and southern illinois a fellow pilot flew up in another plane to help assess the damage the pilot checked out kinmartin's plane and signaled to him that the tail was badly bent hopes of an emergency landing at an airport in festus, missouri, about 35 miles south of st louis, were dashed 'we realized that i wouldn't be able to perform the landing,' kinmartin recalled plus, he said, there was a car show at the airport and the runway was too short the decision to jump made, kinmartin pointed the aircraft in the direction of illinois farmland the least populated area possible and jumped, pulling the cord on the parachute pack he was already wearing kinmartin watched his plane crash as he floated 1,500 feet into a soybean field there were no injuries, according to cnn affiliate ksdk 'i was nervous, a little scared but at the same time excited,' he recalled on 'new day' sure, it was his first sky dive ever, he said, but he had excellent training at southern illinois university airplane diverts after windshield cracks laughing, kinmartin said he really likes sky diving and wants to do it again next time on a tandem jump from a little higher up related: plane hits parachute related: pilot, passengers jump to safety as sky diving planes collide cnn's andy rose contributed to this report

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los angeles (cnn) rapper lil wayne's 'just resting' two days after suffering a seizure that sent him to a los angeles hospital and triggered media reports that he was near death details about the grammy winning and multiplatinum selling hip hop artist's medical problem have been few, but it appears the reports of his demise were exaggerated 'he's good, just resting,' said a close friend who visited the rapper at cedars sinai medical center saturday night lil wayne fans around the world were stunned by the reports twitter lit up with rumors, spreading fears of the worst for wayne's outcome, but a tweet in his name attempted to calm the tempest 'i'm good everybody,' read a message from lil wayne's twitter account friday evening 'thnx for the prayers and love' there was no weeping for 'weezy,' as he's known among his friends, in the hallway near his hospital room friday night they talked more about a twitter feud that erupted friday between rappers gucci mane and waka flocka than about lil wayne's condition fellow rapper drake was one of several of lil wayne's young money record label mates who have visited him since friday night young money publicist sarah cunningham acknowledged friday that lil wayne had had a seizure, but members of the new orleans artist's camp have shot down reports that he was near death 'dont believe the nonsense about comas and tubes to breathe that's false!!' tweeted mack maine, the president of lil wayne's young money label, around 5:20 pm (8:20 pm et) friday maine didn't offer much detail, though he did say that he and lil wayne had been watching the syracuse university orange play the georgetown hoyas in the big east men's basketball tournament 'wayne is alive and well!' the record label president wrote on twitter the rapper's independent publicist, kia selby, said only, 'lil wayne is doing well' she strongly denied reports he was in a medically induced coma, as reported by tmz born dwayne carter, lil wayne is one of the rap world's most successful artists he won best rap album for 'tha carter iii' at the 2008 grammy awards and took home three more grammys the next year beyond winning over critics, he's also been a commercial success last september, billboard reported the rapper had tallied 109 hits on its hot 100, surpassing the record previously held by elvis presley but he's also run into trouble outside the studio and off stage lil wayne was arrested in 2007 outside new york city's beacon theater after police said they found a 40 caliber pistol on his tour bus he pleaded guilty to felony gun charges and spending eight months at new york's rikers island jail cnn's denise quan contributed to this report

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drake and other label mates visit lil wayne at hospital . no weeping for 'weezy' among his friends near his hospital room . 'i'm good everybody,' read a message from lil wayne's twitter account friday evening . his publicist says the rapper suffered a seizure