China to further support Afghanistan

China to further support Afghanistan
Yang said Afghanistan still faces many challenges and the international community should continue to meet its responsibilities and honor its commitments to the country.
The future of Afghanistan dependswholesale jewelry from china on its own people, so the international community should respect the country's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, he said.
A firm support to wholesale jewelryAfghanistan in capacity building can help the country take over the responsibility of safeguarding national peace and stability as early as possible, he said.
Furthermore, the international community should support Afghanistan in external relations on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit, especially jewelry wholesalerenhancing relations with neighboring countries and mutual political trust with other countries in the region, he added.
Yang said "the international community should fully respect and accommodate the legitimate concerns of countries in this region,wholesale fashion jewellery and we should support the United Nations in continuing to play a leading role in coordinating international assistance to Afghanistan."
The role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and other existing international organizations and cooperation mechanisms should be brought into full play, he said.
As for China's role in Afghanistan's reconstruction, Yang said China has played an active part in it and provided sincere assistance to Afghan people.
Yang reiterated that China would continue to support its reconstruction with concrete efforts, as China has undertaken programs covering transport, energy exploration and infrastructure construction in the country.
The 2011 Bonn conference, hosted by Germany and chaired by the Afghan President Karzai, is aimed at "mobilizing the international community in support of Afghanistan, and that beyond 2014."
The international combat troops are due to leave the war-torn country by 2014.

DR Congo holds elections despite violence

DR Congo holds elections despite violence
The Democratic Republic ofjewelry wholesaler Congo held the presidential and legislative cheap jewelleryelections on Monday, despite reports of sporadic reports of violence and delay of voting due to inadequate preparations.
The UN secretary general's special representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), Roger Meece, has expressed satisfaction with the polls.
He made the positivewholesale jewelry from china comments after visiting polling stations in the capital city Kinshasa.
He encouraged the Congolese people to go to the polls massively to choose the best leaders for the country.
The official urged the authority to ensure the security of voters and candidates and the post-election appeasement.
Polling stations will remain open wholesale fashion jewelleryuntil all voters have cast their ballots, said the rapporteur of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mathieau Mpita, on Monday.
There were polling stations where voting had not finished at 5: 00 p.m. (1600 GMT).
The polls were scheduled to open at 6:00 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) and end at 5:00 p.m. (1600 GMT).
Officials attributed the change to the lack of electoral materials.
Meanwhile, a major contender in the presidential elections, Etienne Tshisekedi, has promised to respect the results.
The 79-year-old challenger to incumbent President Joseph Kabila in Monday's race made the pledge after casting his ballot at a polling station in Kinshasa.
"With the pressure of the international community, I believe that the operations of vote have been well unfolded and I will respect the results of the polls," he said in a statement.
Tshisekedi initially went to vote in a populous district in the east of the city, but changed the venue and cast his ballot in a school situated not far from his residence.
The change was apparently made to avoid incidents after police used tear gas to disperse a large crowd accompanying him along the original route. Police said they were just trying to maintain order at the polling station.

The law, which takes effect on November 10

CUBA announced yesterday it will allow real estate to be bought and sold for the first time since the early days of the revolution,Lions jerseys authentic the most important reform yet under President Raul Castro.

The law, which takes effect on November 10, applies to citizens and permanent residents only, according to a red-letter headline on the front page of yesterday's Communist Party daily newspaper Granma.

The brief article said details of the new law would be published imminently in the government's Official Gazette.,Moncler men jackets, Authorities have said previously that sales will be subject to taxes and the rules will not allow anyone to accumulate property holdings.

The change follows October's legalization of buying and selling cars, though with restrictions that still make it hard for ordinary -Cubans to buy new vehicles.

Castro has also allowed citizens to go into business for themselves in a number of approved jobs - everything from party clowns to food vendors to accountants - and has pledged to streamline the state-dominated economy by eliminating half a million government workers.

Cuba's government employs more than 80 percent of workers in the island's command economy, paying wages of just US$20 a month in return for free education and healthcare, and nearly free housing, transportation and basic foods.

Castro has said repeatedly the system is not working since taking over from his brother Fidel in 2008, but he has vowed that Cuba will remain a socialist state.

Cubans have long bemoaned the ban on property sales, which took effect in over the years Fidel Castro came to power in 1959. In an effort to fight absentee ownership by wealthy landlords, Fidel enacted a reform that gave title to whoever lived in a home. Most who left the island forfeited their properties to the state.

Since no property market was allowed,,Cheap moncler vests, the rules have meant that for decades Cubans could exchange property only through complicated barter arrangements, or through even murkier black-market deals where thousands of dollars change hands under the table, with no legal recourse if transactions go bad.

Some Cubans entered into sham marriages to make deed transfers easier. Others made deals to move into homes ostensibly to care for an elderly person,Moncler women's jackets inheriting the property when that person dies.

The island's crumbling housing stock has meant many are forced to live in overcrowded apartments with multiple generations crammed into a few rooms. Even divorce has not necessarily meant separation in Cuba, where estranged couples are often forced to live together for years while they work out alternative housing.

The new law eliminates a state agency regulating the exchange-by-barter of homes, meaning from now on sales will need only the seal of a notary, according to Granma.

Hu calls for global efforts to tackle economic woes

Hu calls for global efforts to tackle economic woes

The world is experiencing a sluggish economic recovery, he said in talks with Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), ahead of a G20 summit slated for Thursday and Friday in Cannes.

Hu noted that some developed countries are struggling with serious sovereign debt problems, while emerging economies are confronted with inflation and drastically fluctuating cross-border capital flows.

Under such circumstances, all members of the international community should follow the all-in-the-same-boat spirit and join hands to ride out the current woes, he stressed.

The world should figure out ways to maintain stable growth, revive market confidence and prevent further spread of the crisis,Lions jerseys authentic he said,Christian Louboutin shoes adding that structural reforms should be carried out to guarantee a robust, sustainable and balanced global economic growth.

Maintaining a robust growth should be a top priority at the current stage, the Chinese president said,Replica Rolex watches while urging concerted efforts to resist all forms of protectionism resolutely.

Lagarde appreciated China's support for the IMF, saying that with the global economy facing new threats, the international community should take effective measures to restore market confidence.

She also said the developed economies need to make great efforts and support each other while the IMF can provide more help in this regard.

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Clean bill of health for Obama in checkup

Clean bill of health for Obama in checkup

UNITED States President Barack Obama is in excellent health and tobacco free,,cheap adidas shoes, his doctor said on Monday in the results of the president's second physical exam since taking office.

In the two-page report released by the White House, Dr Jeffrey C Kuhlman also said Obama is physically active, eats a healthy diet, stays at a healthy weight, and on occasion drinks alcohol in moderation.

"The president is in excellent health and 'fit for duty'," Kuhlman wrote. "All clinical data indicate he will remain so for the duration of his presidency."

Obama, who turned 50 in August, seems to have improved his health on some fronts since his last physical, which Kuhlman conducted in February 2010.

At that time, Kuhlman said Obama should stick with "smoking cessation efforts," and also said his cholesterol level had crept to borderline high and he should alter his diet accordingly.

Since then,Demeco Ryans white jerseys Obama, who chewed nicotine gum, appears to have quit smoking entirely - an achievement his wife, Michelle Obama, announced earlier this year. And his cholesterol is now described as "ideal."

Obama's total cholesterol level now stands at 193, compared with 209 in February 2010. His LDL, or bad cholesterol, is now 110, down from 138 last year. Obama frequently works out and plays basketball and golf.Sanyo Projector Lamp

The physical released on Monday was conducted last week at the White House. Kuhlman, a Navy captain, recommended that the president have his next physical in December 2012.

The president was checked for and found free of colon cancer with a virtual colonoscopy last year,,Cheap authentic nfl jerseys, so he wasn't due to be tested again.

NTC says to put Gaddafi killer on trial

NTC says to put Gaddafi killer on trial

The Libyan ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) said Thursday that whoever killed ex- leader Muammar Gaddafi will be put on trial.

The Libyan authorities have already started investigations on the death of Gaddafi, Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, vice chairman of the NTC, said at a press conferencorlando magic jerseyse held in Libya's second largest city Benghazi, adding that they have "the code of ethics" concerning how to deal with war criminals.

Whoever killed Gaddafi "will be brought to justice," said Ghoga, who announced on Oct.,hair weave, 23 the "liberation" of the entire Libya after all pro-Gaddafi strongholds had fallen into NTC's control.

Gaddafi "mysteriously" died shortly after he was captured alive a week ago in his hometown of Sirte in northern Libya, before his corpse was transferred to Misrata, some 200 km east of the capital Tripoli, where it had been on public display for almost five days.

The NTC leaders have said following Gaddafi's death that he was killed in the crossfire between his loyalists and the NTC fighters after his capture.

But rumors have been circulating that he was intentionally shot dead by the NTC fighters, ahead of the international calls for the NTC to carry out a thorough investigation into the circumstances of the death of the iron-handed leader of the country for over four decades, who was driven out of the capital in late August.

On Thursday in Benghazi, Ghoga stressed that (if Gaddafi is proved to have been killed by NTC fighters),Moncler women's jacketslouis vuitton handbag wholesale it must be "an individual act."

NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil said Monday that a committee would be set up soon to investigate Gaddafi's death,Tiffany necklace wholesale a day before Gaddafi and his son Mutassim were buried early Tuesday morning at a secret location in the desert.

Aspirin may cut colon cancer risk by 60%

Aspirin may cut colon cancer risk by 60%

Taking two aspirins a day reduced the risk of colorectal cancer by more than 60% in people with a family history of the disease, a large study shows.

"This is one more piece of evidence that there are some very positive effects of aspirin, and it should be considered very seriously for people who are at risk of colorectal cancer," says Tim Bishop, one of the authors of the study and a professor of epidemiology at Leeds University in England.,hair weave,orlando magic jerseys

Observational studies have shown that aspirin lowers the risk of developing colorectal cancer,Projector LampsLuxury replica handbags but this is the first randomized controlled trial to find the effect.

Researchers from the Universities of Newcastle and Leeds in England followed almost 1,000 patients from 43 medical centers in 16 countries. The patientsTiffany necklace wholesale all had Lynch syndrome, a genetic condition that predisposes people to develop colorectal cancer and other types of cancer.

The patients were divided into two groups: One group took two aspirins every day (a total of 600 milligrams) for at least two years; the other group took a placebo.

Among the findings, released Thursday online in The Lancet: Patients who took aspirin for at least two years had a 63% reduced risk of developing colorectal cancer. Women taking aspirin also had a reduced risk of developing endometrial or womb cancer, Bishop says.

John Burn, lead author of the study and a professor at Newcastle University, says: "We have clear proof that aspirin prevents cancer in people at high genetic risk. We now have new questions to answer: Will low dose be as effective as two aspirins? Should all people at increased risk take aspirin?"

HDB's Q3 resale price index rises 3.8%

HDB's Q3 resale price index rises 3.8%

The HDB's Resale Price Index (RPI) for the third quarter 2011 expanded to 187.2 from 180.3 in the second quarter.

In a press release on Friday, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) said this was an increase of 3.8 percent over the previous quarter.

HDB added that resale transactions for flats fell by about 10 percent to 5,903 cases from 6,581 cases in the second quarter.

Subletting transactions also fell in the rental market, by 9 percent from 7,177 cases in the second quarter to 6,549 cases in the third quarter.

The total number of HDB flats approved for subletting rose to about 39,100 units in the third quarter, compared to about 37,900 units in the previous quarter.

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Book of Mormon's consistency, complexity still amaze

Book of Mormon's consistency, complexity still amaze

Even setting aside its doctrinal richness and its vital importance as a second witness for the Savior Jesus Christ, the Book of Mormon is a strikingly complex document — far more so, probably, than most of its readers realize.orlando magic jerseys

It features hundreds of individual characters,Projector Lamps many of them bearing quite uncommon names,Luxury replica handbags who belong to a multitude of groups, subgroups and small factions. It describes three migrations from the Eastern Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere. It employs at least three distinct dating systems.

Yet, amazingly — and particularly so for a book that was dictated within a remarkably short time, at high speed (roughly nine to 11 pages of the English printed edition per day) — it's internally consistent. It doesn't contradict itself.

It both presupposes and reflects a complicated geographical backdrop to its stories, involving scores of place names and topographical indicators. Yet places maintain their proper relationships to each other even when they're mentioned only a few times over hundreds of pages.

Furthermore, the book itself, as a work of literature, is structurally complex.

For instance, many important sections of the book are prefaced by statements that give readers a forecast of what's coming — and are then followed by summaries of what has just been read.

It seems unlikely that a semiliterate young farmer could, while dictating at such speed, recall what he had promised in his prefaces and then remember to finish off such sections with appropriate summaries.

And this is to say nothing of the extended chiasms throughout the book.,hair weave, It's to leave unmentioned the way in which the book's purported ancient authors sometimes quote from each other (e.g. in 1 Nephi 1:8 and Alma 36:22,oklahoma thunder jerseys passages dictated orally many days apart). Nor does it take account of other subtle literary features that modern scholars have only recently begun to recognize and to study in the Book of Mormon.

Why OWS Should Protest The Super Scary George Soros

Why OWS Should Protest The Super Scary George Soros

Numerous conservatives have slammed Occupy Wall Street for protesting the “wrong” people. Rather than the bankers who ran the global economy into the ground during the Bush era, it’s the current White House that deserves the people’s ire, they say.

However, conservative activist Cliff Kincaid has a new target for populist outrage: Democratic-leaning financier George Soros… and he’s got the kooky conspiracy theory diagrams to prove it!

Talking at DC’s National Press Club on Thursday, Kincaid spoke of “the good Wall Street and the bad Wall Street.”

“Soros is the bad Wall Street,Tiffany necklace wholesale” he said. “But what’s interesting is that the Occupy Wall Street movement hasn’t been targeting him.Luxury replica handbags Well, that’s interesting. That’s a fascinating development.”

Kincaid is a leading member of the group behind TheSorosFiles.phoenix suns jerseyscom,philadelphia 76ers jerseys a Web site aimed at delegitimizing Soros by posting files relating to his political contributions and personal life. The site is sponsored by America’s Survival, Inc.

Kincaid broadened his attacks on Soros to include accusations that the wealthy philanthropist intended to levy a global tax on financial transactions.

“We’ve got chapter and verse,” he said. “We’ve got the hardcore documentation about how a global tax […] has been the ultimate objective that will generate not only more money for, I guess,discounted designer handbags more stimulus plans here at home, but for international financial institutions and international agencies like the UN itself, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and so on and so forth.”

Phony Netflix Android app steals account data

Phony Netflix Android app steals account data

It looks like a legitimate Netflix app,san antonio spurs jerseys but it's not. There's an Android app circulating that looks very much like the real Netflix mobile app, but it's actually a Trojan that steals account information.portland trailblazers jerseys

The fake app, which was found on an online user forum, sends the user's log-in information to a remote server and displays a message saying there is an incompatibility issue with the hardware and then attempts to uninstall itself, according to a Symantec blog post.

The server that was receiving the stolen log-in data appeared to be offline today, Symantec said.

With the pilfered log-in information, the app creators could hijack accounts and they might have access to some information. However,Cheap Nhl Jerseys China they won't be able to easily get to the credit card data because the site only displays the last four digits of the card number. So it's unclear how they planned to make money off the scam. It might be a test run for a phony mobile banking app, which could yield access to much more sensitive information.

Typically, malicious apps are versions of legitimate apps that have been modified to include malware and then repackaged and distributed. But in this case, the app is a completely different program.

Confusion over the release of the real Netflix app created an opportunity for the app creators and increased the chances that people would get duped into downloading the malicious app, Symantec said in the post. Netflix offered an Android app in limited release to only certain devices earlier this year, but recently published its app on the Android Market with support for multiple devices.Top quality Louis Vuitton handbags on sale

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Toddler's arm ripped off by washing machine

I opened the door and went round and round: Toddler's arm ripped off by washing machine

A TODDLER'S arm was ripped off by a washing machine after he became caught in the device while his mother was in a nearby room.

Lewis Wrench was found covered in blood with his left arm torn off just below the shoulder after somehow managing to open the running front-loading machine.

She said: "When I asked him about what had happened he said, 'I opened the door and went round and round and round and I banged my head and then my arm fell off'.

"When I rushed in, the machine was still going.Top quality Louis Vuitton handbags on salesan antonio spurs jerseys Cheap Nhl Jerseys ChinaI switched it off and scooped him up and ran screaming to my neighbours. There was blood everywhere.,hair weave, It was horrible seeing him like that."

Doctors at a hospital in nearby Cheshire were unable to save the toddler's arm and he is expected to eventually be given a prosthetic replacement, the Crewe Chronicle reported.

Ms Wrench, 24, said: "Overall Lewis has been fine and he's been very brave - but he doesn't like people going near washing machines and tries to pull them away from them."

Authorities are investigating the rented washing machine, which has been at the house since 2009,portland trailblazers jerseys for any fault.

Kobe Bryant close to $2 million

Kobe Bryant close to $2 million, one-game deal in Italy

’ll believe it when I see him walk on the court in another uniform, but the Kobe Bryant to Italy rumors remain the cockroach of rumors and will not go away.

But if it were to happen, this new one-game “Kobe night” rumor makes more sense.Cheap Nhl Jerseys China

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Kobe Bryant, as reported by Il Resto del Carlino, is close to accepting the single game proposal made by Claudio Sabatini, owner of Virtus Bologportland trailblazers jerseysna. The two parts are negotiating intensively in the last hour and a solution for the saga seems close to end. Kobe Bryant would land in Italy for four days and play one game in the ‘Kobe Night’. According to Sabatini there are already sponsors and networks ready to cover the event.

Sabatini offered to Bryant $2M for the single game.

I can get why Kobe does this — and it’s not just the cash.san antonio spurs jerseys It’s one game and boosts his global brand, plus it’s in Italy where he spent eight years of his youth (while his father played professionally there).

Could the team recoup $2 million on one Kobe game? Maybe. That’s reportedly about what the Lakers pull in per game in gross revenue, and if Virtus can get sponsors and a special broadcast maybe it works.,hair weave, Plus, a lot of people will buy Virtus Kobe jerseys.

But I’ll believe it when I see it.

Gaddafi's son captured in Sirte

Gaddafi's son captured in Sirte

Mutassim, the fourth son of Libya' s fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi, was captured by fighters of the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) on Wednesday in Sirte, a senior NTC defense official told Xinhua.

The capture was made several hours ago in Gaddafi's hometown, Mohamed Taynaz said.

In late September, the NTC has predicted that Mutassim, a national security advisor under Gaddafi's rule,The North Face Jacketphoenix suns jerseys was holed up in Sirte, while his brother Seif al-Islam was in Bani Walid. Sirte and Bani Walid are among a couple of redoubts of the fallen leader.

Meanwhile, Taynaz told Xinhua that Sirte is now fully controlled by the NTC fighters who are making efforts to get rid of some pockets of Gaddafi loyalists.

"The liberation of Sirte" may be announced in the following 24 hours, said the defense official.louis vuitton handbag wholesale

Prolonged battles in Sirte witnessed upsurge in the previous days as the NTC intensified attacks on the city downtown and managed to take control of a conference hall in which pro-Gaddafi forces had stationed, a police headquarters, as well as a university at the main entrance to southeastern Sirte.,Bears football jerseys cheap,

On Tuesday, NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel-Jalil paid a visit to Sirte, where he told reporters that the ruling authorities would need two more days to fully control Sirte.

However, the NTC forces have said what they fear is that the Gaddafi loyalists would try to mingle with civilians and NTC fighters to escape the town.

Meanwhile, on Bani Walid,Nfl teams jerseys shop Taynaz said that the NTC is ready to launch the final attacks on the town, which has been considered difficult in geography as it is "between the mountains."

Connecticut Jury Reaches No Verdict

Connecticut Jury Reaches No Verdict After Starting Deliberations in Home Invasion Trial

A jury began deliberations Wednesday in the trial of a man cast by prosecutors as the mastermind of a brutal attack on a family inside their suburban home following weeks of grisly testimony that left some jurors fighting back tears.

Joshua Komisarjevsky, a paroled burglar, could join his co-defendant on Connecticut's death row if convicted in the attack, in which family members were tied up and left to die in a house fire.Top quality Louis Vuitton handbags on sale While Komisarjevsky has blamed his co-defendant for killing the family, prosecutors said Komisarjevsky was the leader.

Jurors deliberated for about four hours and will resume on Thursday.,hair weave,

A judge denied an effort Wednesday by Komisarjevsky's attorneys to reopen their defense based on letters from co-defendant Steven Hayes claiming he had committed numerous murders in the past. They cited letters from Hayes saying he killed 17 people in the Northeast and committed dozens of drugged date rapes. A prosecutor called the letters unreliable.

Authorities say Komisarjevsky and Hayes broke into a home in Cheshire, Conn., in 2007, beat Dr. William Petit with a bat, tied him and his family up and forced his wife to withdraw money from a bank. The house was doused in gas and set on fire,portland trailblazers jerseys leading to the girls' deaths from smoke inhalation.

Hayes was convicted last year of raping and strangling Jennifer Hawke-Petit and killing her daughters. In his case,san antonio spurs jerseys jurors deliberated for about five hours over two days before finding him guilty. He is on death row.

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Medtronic's Chief Executive Fights Drug Safety Controversies

Medtronic's Chief Executive Fights Drug Safety Controversies

Medtronic's Chief Executive Fights Drug Safety Controversies, Sees Huge Market Opening In India

Omar Ishrak took the helm of Medtronic at a time when the medical device giant was hitting the shoals.,Air Jordan Shoes, Its mainstay business of devices to treat sudden cardiac death was stagnant, but the real problem was in the company’s spine business: bought as a way to deliver more growth, it was instead hurting as one product after another got hurt by studies questioning its benefit.

The biggest hit came just as Ishrak arrived at Medtronic from General Electric. The Spine Journal published a paper saying that side effects for Infuse, a protein drug used to cause bone growth, were not properly included in medical journal articles. Ishrak took a radical step: he hired a group including Yale’s Harlan Krumholz,,cheap adidas shoes, known for his criticisms of Merck’s Vioxx and Vytorin, and Ezekiel Emmanuel, a former health care advisor to Barack Obama, to head up an independent analysis of the data. He says that he needed to find the toughest critics possible in order to have credibility.

In the U.,Nike shox shoes,S., it’s pretty clear that Medtronic is being buffetted by a wave in which insurance companies, regulators, and doctors and patients themselves are demanding more proof that new treatments actually work. This demand for new data has affected every other company in the medical space, from Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline to Amgen and Boston Scientific. Ishrak thinks he can still manuever in that environment.,BlackBerry Wholesale, More than that, he thinks that he can find new growth in emerging markets like India, which he says could represent an additional $3 billion in sales all on its own. Can he prove it?

My interview with Ishrak is embedded in this post. You can also watch it here.

Greek Vote Approves a Despised Property Tax

Greek Vote Approves a Despised Property Tax

The Greek Parliament voted late Tuesday in Athens to back a hugely unpopular property tax, one of a series of new austerity measures. The vote could clear the way for a crucial injection of international financing meant to at least temporarily stave off a default on government debt.

The property tax,cheap coach handbag the first of its type in Greece, would raise 2 billion euros, or $2.7 billion, this year alone, according to government calculations. The question is whether enough Greek people can or will pay the tax to meet those forecasts.

“I know that a lot is being asked of the Greek people,” the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said on Tuesday in Berlin during a joint news conference with the Greek prime minister, George A. Papandreou.

Mr. Papandreou was in Berlin for talks with Mrs. Merkel,,wholesale POLO Ralph Lauren SERIES, who sought to sway public opinion ahead of a vote Thursday in the German Parliament on a bill that would bolster the main European bailout fund,Louis Vuitton Handbags wholesale known as the European Financial Stability Facility.

“Through the euro we are closely bound together and the weakness of one affects us all,” she said during the joint news conference.

Meanwhile, lawmakers in Slovenia voted Tuesday to approve their share of the rescue fund’s guarantees. Finland’s Parliament is expected to reluctantly approve the fund measure in a vote on Wednesday, despite formidable domestic opposition. All 17 members of the euro zone must ratify the expanded fund, a process that has delayed its adoption.

The Greek vote on the property tax was widely seen as a crash test for Mr. Papandreou’s embattled Socialist Party, which must in coming weeks pass bills for similarly controversial measures, like a plan to place 30,Golf Ladies Clubs000 public workers on reserve status with reduced wages for the next 12 months. Greek opposition parties say the reserve-status plan is a prelude to layoffs.

Food safety tip-off reward raised

Food safety tip-off reward raised

SHANGHAI is looking to increase rewards paid to people who report breaches in food safety.

The sum paid out will not be less than 500 yuan (US$78) and there is no upper limit, the city's food safety authorities said over the weekend.

The money will come from the city's revenue,Breitling watches wholesale according to the Shanghai Food Safety Commission.

If members of the public can name the people they are reporting and can help officials investigate the case, they can receive between 2 and 5 percent of the money involved. Those unable to help the investigation will receive between 1 and 2 percent.

Officials are keen to hear about the illegal addition of prohibited chemicals and non-edible substances, recycling expired food,Anime distributor excessive use of food additives and the use of swill oil.

The commission said people reporting food safety concerns must not blackmail, threaten or cheat the people involved.

Officials are currently seeking the public's views on the proposed reward system. The draft document is available at the official website of Shanghai Food and Drug Administration www.Prada handbag saleshfda.gov.,Pittsburgh Pirates Jerseys,cn, but only in Chinese.

The reward system is intended to help improve the city's food safety condition.

In recent years, food safety scandals, such as melamine-polluted baby formula and recycled expired buns, have hit consumer confidence in domestically produced food, officials said.

In 2007, the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration issued a regulation saying reports of illegal food production could lead to rewards of up to 50,000 yuan.

Pelous also justifies the benching of William Servat

Rugby World Cup: French Cup side 'far from throwing it'

The French stand accused of losing the battle to win the war. So: are they throwing tomorrow's match against the All Blacks by putting out a second string side? Definitely not, according to France's most capped player.

Former French captain Fabien Pelous is also a member of Les Bleus' selection committee. "This isn't a B team, far from it. We don't yet have a definitive first team, but this selection is pretty close to what I think the quarter-final team will look like.

"I can understand that the selection of Parra at 10 raises questions, but [Francois] Trinh-Duc was never going to play all the pool games, and we don't have much of a choice in terms of rotation. Marc Lievremont has always said he planned to mix the squad up for pool games."

Trinh-Duc has also been well below par; the back-up first five-eighths,Moncler women's jackets David Skrela, has gone home injured, and his replacement, Jean-Marc Doussain, has only just arrived in New Zealand, having been held back to play in a Top 14 game with Toulouse - where he plays at halfback inside Luke McAlister (who, incidentally, is carving up the French championship at the moment).

Pelous also justifies the benching of William Servat, widely seen as first choice hooker: "Servat has played the first two games, he's coming back from injury - and [Dimitri] Szarzewski is in good form and could be first choice himself."

Still,Cheap moncler jackets if it was the quarter-final, would Lievremont have chanced his arm with Parra? "I couldn't say."

"The thing is, it isn't the quarter-final. There are other games to play - and unless I'm mistaken, Carter and McCaw didn't play against Japan."

But this is the big game - France v New Zealand at the Rugby World Cup.

"Perhaps for the French it isn't the big game. It's a pool game. Playing against NZ is always special, but it isn't yet a crunch match. We don't have the knife at our throats."

Not exactly a statement of intent, but talking up your team's chances against the All Blacks is rarely a good policy.Louis Vuitton Handbags wholesale Does Pelous have an explanation for the eternal unpredictability of the French? "We bring a lot of emotion to playing the game. The Latin temperament is part of this ... and we are able to lift ourselves occasionally, to get up when we have to.

"We hover between fourth and sixth on the IRB rankings - which is about our level when we play at 100 per cent - but for a one-off we can play at 120 per cent and be as good as number one. This emotional side mystifies the Anglo Saxons and gives us an edge."

A prediction? "I think it will be quite close, but the All Blacks will probably win. It would be a bit much to beat you twice in your own country, once in the pool and once in the final."

Yes, the French probably will lose this round - maybe even by an embarrassingly wide margin - but chances are they will come out stronger for it.

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Priest writes to Xenophon over naming

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He says his Adelaide parishioners, Navy personnel, friends and family know him as an honourable and trustworthy chaplain.

"Hardly the accolades an alleged rapist would receive," he wrote.

"You have shot the wounded, you who proclaim to be an advocate of those who are hurting in our society."

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Monsignor Dempsey explained his decision not to stand down while allegations were dealt with.

"With my integrity and background as a Catholic priest ... I thought that I was honest enough not to have to stand down and continue my priestly ministry," he said.

In NY-9 special election, Dems race to stave off an upset

In NY-9 special election, Dems race to stave off an upset

Democrats here spent Tuesday in the final throes of a frantic, last-ditch effort to stave off a loss in the special election race to replace Anthony Weiner.

Democrat David Weprin, trailing Republican Bob Turner in multiple polls, raced to half a dozen campaign stops, imploring voters at senior centers and subway stops to cast their ballots for him.

Party officials say their best hope for winning lies on the shoulders of the vaunted Queens County Democratic Party machine, which kicked into high gear Tuesday. Inside its headquarters — which doubles as the Weprin campaign’s nerve center — get-out-the vote workers rushed to pick up manila folders containing block-by-block layouts of the district; others sat at the phones,cheap Giants JerseysSports jerseys wholesale methodically working through voter-contact lists. Volunteers fanned out across Queens,Ed Hardy wholesaleCheap Flower Girl Dresses handing out glossy placards highlighting Weprin’s endorsement from the New York Times editorial page.

Despite the last-minute Democratic push, the GOP appeared poised to capture the 9th District seat – an upset that would signal a rejection of President Barack Obama on his party’s turf and underscore the peril that he and Democrats up and down the ballot could face in 2012.

On Capitol Hill, Republicans expressed cautious optimism but refused to predict that Turner, long an underdog, would prevail.

The suddenly intense interest surrounding Turner’s candidacy was on full display Tuesday, when he cast his ballot at a Breezy Point polling station. As he walked outside of a Catholic mass on his way to the polls, Turner was swarmed by a horde of jostling camera crews and reporters.

US poverty numbers hit record high

US poverty numbers hit record high

The US poverty rate hit its highest level since 1993 last year, with a record 46 million people living below the American poverty line, according to census data.

A government report released on Tuesday said the poverty rate rose for a third consecutive year to hit 15.1
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The survey showed struggles for the rest of Americans, with median annual household income falling 2.3 percent to $49,445.

However, the census report said there was no "statistically significant" change in inequality between 2009 and 2010 based on its index.

The poverty rate for blacks and Hispanics was much higher than for the overall population at 27.4 per cent and 26.6 per cent, respectively. Among regions, the South had the highest poverty rate at 16.9 per cent and the highest percentage without health insurance, 19.1 per cent.

The Census Bureau said the number of people country-wide without health insurance coverage rose to 49.cleveland cavaliers jerseys9 million in 2010 from 49.0 million in 2009.

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Underlying the census data was a rate of economic growth too weak to compensate for the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs from 2009 to 2010, as the recession officially ended but the jobless rate shot up from 9.3 per cent to 9.6 per cent.

In a Twist, Google Reviews Zagat

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For years, a wave of online competitors eroded Zagat’s formidable empire of quotation-mark-happy reviews of restaurants and bars around the world.Anime toys merchandise distributor

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The deal will unite Zagat, whose burgundy-covered guides were among the first examples of user-generated content,Nfl bears jersreys cheap and Google, which has made local services one of its highest priorities.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but people briefed on the matter said that Google had paid $100 million to $200 million. Tim and Nina Zagat, who began the company by compiling restaurant ratings from friends into slim surveys more than three decades ago, will remain with the business.

The deal will most likely mean a lucrative payout for the Zagats, as well as for the private equity firm General Atlantic, which bought a third of the company in 2000. But it also raises questions about how Google will integrate Zagat, whHuman hair Full lace wigsose main offerings include its popular paper guidebooks and a paid subscription Web site.

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Yemen's Saleh authorises power transfer talks

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At BCS schools, players tend to pursue same major

At BCS schools, players tend to pursue same major

When Jay Finch arrived at Georgia Tech, he wasn't just interested in being a lineman for the Yellow Jackets football team. He wanted to study architecture, too.

Then he talked with some student advisers, who gave him a dose of reality.

"They were like, 'You can expect anywhere from 100 to 120 hours of studio time,'" Finch recalled. "I said, 'Oh, like in a month.' And they were like, 'No,NFL Football Jerseys. in a week.' And I was like, 'On top of football?'"

With that, Finch hopped aboard the M Train.

At Georgia Tech, where the famous fight song proclaims "I'm a heck of an engineer," nearly 70 percent of the football team (43 of 62 players) has chosen to major in management, a business degree dubbed the "M Train" by those on campus who consider it an easier route to a diploma than the school's renowned engineering program.

But the Yellow Jackets are hardly the only school where players tend to congregate in the same fields of study. There are four others universities where at least half the sophomores, juniors and seniors playing football are pursuing the same degree, The Associated Press found in a survey of the 68 schools in the conferences which receive automatic bids to the Bowl Championship Series, plus Notre Dame and Big East-member-to-be TCU.

At Vanderbilt, it's human and organizational development (35 of 59). At UCLA, history is a big draw (27 of 47). At Wake Forest, there's been a gridiron run on the communications department (34 of 60). At Baylor, upset winners over TCU on the opening weekend of this season, expect to find a lot of big guys in general studies (27 of 53).

This is not mere coincidence,wholesale authentic nfl jerseys of course. While it's natural for a selected group of students — in this case, male athletes — to be interested in the same classroom subjects, it's also apparent many are drawn to courses that are more accommodating to their Saturday pursuit.

"I wanted to dedicate myself more toward football," conceded Finch, a sophomore center. "Yeah,Jogos Quentes Gold I did take a little bit of the easier road. Management is still hard. You've still got to go to class.

"But," he added, "at least I'm not up 'til 3 in the morning drawing."

The trend is so prevalent it has its own name — clustering — and extends far beyond Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, UCLA, Wake Forest and Baylor.

The AP survey, compiled from media guides, university websites and information provided by the schools, showed at least half the football players with declared majors at a dozen other universities are bunched in two fields of study. At 22 schools, 50 percent or more are pursuing a degree from a group of three majors.

That means more than half of the schools at the core of major college football — 39 of 68 teams — have some level of clustering.

At a recent summit hosted by NCAA President Mark Emmert, where a rash of rule-breaking was the main focus, university presidents quietly discussed the impact that clustering has on the academic experience for student-athletes.

While the governing body has no intention of mandating more diversity in the selection of majors, it is looking at compiling more data on what players are studying, hoping it can be used to improve athletes' academic experience.

"We're not going to say certain majors are out of bounds. We're not going to say you have to take certain majors," said Kevin Lennon, the NCAA's vice president of academic and membership affairs. "Those are personal decisions that every student-athlete has to make, just like any student."

The situation puts into focus one of the ever-present conflicts in big-time college sports: winning games, making money and keeping the boosters happy vs. providing athletes with a quality education and keeping up school standards.

Georgia Tech, for instance,starcraft 2 Coaching receives more requests from the football team than any other for special admissions — enrollment for those who don't meet the standards applied to the overall student body. But officials at the Atlanta school point out management is one of the most rigorous business programs in the country, requiring everyone to take two calculus courses and two lab sciences.

"There's always going to be that tension," said Anderson Smith, the senior vice provost for academic affairs. "You've got to recruit who the best players are. But it's a much more heterogeneous population than what we have applying to Georgia Tech as regular students."

Vanderbilt is considered the toughest academic school in the football-crazy Southeastern Conference, which is usually cited as the reason the Commodores perennially wind up at the bottom of the league standings. And yet 35 of 59 non-freshmen were going for the same degree.

By the way, what is human and organizational development anyway?

"Leadership is one of the things that we focus on, and we have a very active and engaged student body," said Beth Shinn, who chairs the department. "My guess is any club or sorority you would look at would have an overrepresentation of HOD people."

In fact, human and organization development is the most popular major on campus among all students, including three of the last six student government presidents, according to Shinn. It's a wide-ranging field, requiring courses in calculus, economics, statistics and social sciences, as well as psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science and public policy.

"Our students are prepared for a vast variety of careers," Shinn said. "We don't do basket-weaving, thank you."

Chris Marve can attest to that. The senior linebacker is actually pursuing a double-major, combining human and organizational development with sociology. As part of his HOD curriculum, he interned over the summer at a Nashville law firm and has his sights on becoming an attorney.

"This major is definitely not just an athlete's major," Marve said. "People who come here are very intelligent and have a very high intellect, so it's not an easy major at all even though a lot of athletes do sign up for it. I think it's the most powerful major you can leave out of here with."

The majors winning the popularity contest vary from school to school.

At Cincinnati, 40 players picked criminal justice as their major. At Mississippi State, 30 players have declared in kinesiology. Sports administration is the choice of 28 players at LSU. Twenty-one Iowa players are majoring in interdepartmental studies, while 20 players Clemson went with sociology.

"We used to call 'em Mickey Mouse courses. They exists at every university," said Murray Sperber, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, is a professor emeritus at Indiana University and author of the book, "Beer & Circus: How Big-time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education."

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Whanganui city, population 43,000, has welcomed the Americans who are met with an unaccustomed celebrity in the town's shopping precinct,starcraft 2 Coaching situated along its single main street.

Kerikeri will host Canada, Japan and Tonga at various stages during pool play; Queenstown will welcome England, Georgia, Ireland and Romania. Georgia will also stay in Masterton, a country town 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of the capital Wellington.

Locals have printed T-shirts bearing the legend Wairarapa Loves Georgia (Wairarapa is the province). Georgia players will be billeted with local families — rather than staying at hotels — to better experience their hospitality.

"This is the chance of the whole of Wairarapa to show how delighted we are to have the Georgians on board, and to experience some of the World Cup fever at the same time," events co-ordinator Catherine Rossiter-Stead said. "We want to make it something really special and I am sure we will."

Russia will be based for a time in Blenheim in the heart of the Marlborough wine-growing region and local vintners have been eager to have the visitors sample their products. That might not be the ideal preparation for Russia's subsequent match against Australia at Nelson on Oct. 1.

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The Gisborne Herald newspaper welcomed the team from southwest Africa with a Maori greeting on its front page.

Romania landed in earthquake-devastated Christchurch before traveling to their first base at Ashburton in Canterbury province.

Romanian-born Violeta Tataru, in national dress and carrying bread and salt — a Romanian tradition — greeted the players.

"It's once in a lifetime that you can have a Romanian rugby team in Ashburton for the Rugby World Cup," she said.

New Zealander Steve McDowell, an assistant coach with the Romania team, said the players were surprised to receive such a warm welcome so far from home.

"The boys were surprised and they were as excited as the local Romanians were," he said.

Even world No. 2 Australia will spend time during the World Cup at Hanmer Springs, a thermal hot springs resort in Canterbury with a population of fewer than 800.

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His burgeoning relationship with Caroline Wozniacki, the Danish tennis player, has inevitably meant the lenses point ever more intrusively. "It's just something I'm just going to have to deal with," he said. There is no doubt McIlroy's U-turn (he quit the US Tour after just one season last November) has plenty to do with the realisation the courses suit him in the US, but don't underestimate the influence his "changed circumstances" had on his decision. He broke up with Holly Sweeney, his childhood sweetheart, before the Open and the split was apparently acrimonious.

Yesterday, McIlroy was here in Atlanta having a meeting with his manager, Chubby Chandler, and his father, Gerry. Ostensibly the sit-down was to discuss next season's schedule, although McIlroy had clearly already made up his mind on that score. "I am going to take up my PGA Tour card next season," he said. "It's something I really want to do." Interestingly, he will not be joining his great friend Graeme McDowell in Lake Nona, the gated community in Orlando. It may even come to pass that the Ulstermen cross each other going in opposite directions. McDowell is considering moving permanently back to Europe.

"I'm leaning towards going a little further south than Orlando, maybe to West Palm," said McIlroy. "It's not far away but it's nice and I practise quite a lot at the Bear's Club when I'm over here so it would be good to have that facility. It would be nice just to have somewhere to put all your stuff when you're over here for three or four months. I'm not looking at anything aside from an apartment or something like that, nothing big."

But there will be tax implications and like Ian Poulter and others he may soon be seduced by the benefits of residing permanently in America. All in all, this is worrying news for the European Tour. They have lost him exclusively and will now understandably fear for the future. In truth, McIlroy, the favourite for the USPGA, is not looking further than this week's major at the Atlanta Athletic Club. "I'm playing well. I'm really happy with the way I'm hitting it and driving it a lot better than I have done the last couple weeks," said McIlroy after his tie for sixth in Akron hurtled him back into the world's top four.

Roosters spare Carney for now

Roosters spare Carney for now

Todd Carney will fight to save his NRL career after the Sydney Roosters decided against sacking him immediately for again breaching the club's alcohol policy.

The 25-year-old Carney will have to plead his case to the club's board after he, Nate Myles and Frank-Paul Nuuausala were issued breach notices for violating a club-imposed drinking ban early Tuesday morning.

The trio have also been stood down for this weekend's clash with St George Illawarra while Myles has been dumped from the Roosters' leadership group.

But all eyes are on the future of Carney, whose career of dizzying highs and lows has been marred by repeated, alcohol-related indiscretions.

Sacked by Canberra and deregistered by the NRL in 2008, he capped a miraculous return to the NRL by winning the Dally M as the stand-out player in 2010.

But earlier this year he was told he was skating on thin ice after a long drinking session with team-mate Anthony Watts while injured.juicy sunglasses wholesale

The entire playing group met to discuss the latest breach and made a recommendation to the club's hierarchy, with the result that Carney has been given the chance to fight for his future.

"He (Carney) will be issued with a breach notice that will cover numerous breaches to the NRL playing contract," Roosters chief executive Steve Noyce said.

"He will then,Golf Bags Wholesale as will all three, be asked to front the board to provide information in relation to those breaches.

"He has the opportunity to come with his manager and a legal representative.

"You take information from the player and there's five courses of action available to the club - take no further action, caution the player, suspend the player, fine the player or terminate the contract."

Noyce did not rule out terminating Carney's contract, adding: "The options are there and I've been honest to say they're the five options that will be considered".

Noyce and Carney were forced to front NRL chief executive David Gallop in April and provide a plan for the troubled playmaker's rehabilitation following the incident with Watts.

Noyce admitted today that he had been aware for a couple of weeks that Carney was drinking again.

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"We were embarrassing last weekend over at Brookvale Oval and the players and the club are all committed to turning that around," Noyce said.

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Heat wave threatens elderly in remote towns

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China sacks senior officials after train crash

China sacks senior officials after train crash

China sacked three senior railway officials on Sunday after a deadly collision between two high-speed trains in the east of the country killed at least 34 and seriously injured 12, in the country's deadliest train disaster since 2008. The crash happened late on Saturday after one train lost power due to a lightning strike, and the bullet train behind crashed into it, state media said, raising new questions about the safety of the fast-growing rail network. Authorities moved quickly to try and assuage public anger by sacking the head of the Shanghai railway bureau, his deputy and the bureau's Communist Party chief, the Railways Ministry said in a statement on its website (www.china-mor.gov.cn). The three will "also be subject to investigation," the brief statement added, without elaborating. The Shanghai bureau is responsible for the province in which the accident happened. The disaster killed at least 34 people, while almost 200 people remain in hospital, 12 of whom are in critical condition, state television said. Two foreigners also died in the accident, which took place on a bridge near the city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, some 860 miles south of Beijing, state news agency Xinhua said on Sunday. China News Service, a semi-official news agency, said one of them was a woman in her 20s. Dozens of rescue workers and firefighters used excavators to move the wreckage of the two trains as they believed more bodies were in one of the carriages that was dangling beside the bridge. It was unclear how many people were on the trains at the time of the accident. In a small piece of good news, state television said rescuers had pulled a 4-year-old boy and another male toddler alive from the wreckage. "The task for us now is to clear the debris and also to check for survivors in those areas that we have not gone to," said 35-year-old rescue worker Wang Jun. "Also, we are trying to get the railway line to be operational again." Rail remains the most popular method of long-distance transport in China and trains are usually extremely crowded, with long-distance trains carrying as many as 1,000 passengers.

Hong Kong physicists put an end to time travel talk

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Park beats Sun in 400, Pellegrini retains title

Park beats Sun in 400, Pellegrini retains title

OLYMPIC champion Park Tae-hwan of South Korea showed he's back in top form and Italy's Federica Pellegrini remained unbeatable in the 400-meter freestyle on the opening night of traditional swimming at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai last night.polo ralph Lauren

Michael Phelps' first race ended in disappointment, meanwhile, as the United States had to settle for bronze in the 4x100-meter relay behind surprise winner Australia and runner-up France.

Phelps' leadoff leg put the Americans second, but they dropped from there and Australia led from start to finish, with former sprint world record holder Eamon Sullivan holding off France's Fabien Gilot in the anchor leg.

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The Netherlands won the women's relay with the same four swimmers who took the title at the 2008 Olympics and 2009 worlds: Inge Dekker, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Marleen Veldhuis and Femke Heemskerk.

Park took the lead back midway through the men's 400 free then pulled away over the last two laps to touch in 3 minutes, 42.04 seconds, a distant 1.20 seconds in front of rising Chinese rival Sun Yang.

It was a sharp contrast from the last worlds in Rome two years ago, when Park failed to even make the final in this event. "I (was) glad to swim in lane one, which allowed me to fully concentrate on my own tempo and not to get distracted from the competition," the Korean said.

Defending champion and world record holder Paul Biedermann of Germany settled for third, 2.10 back.

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Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington showed why she's a strong favorite for gold next year at her home London Games by taking silver, albeit a distant 2.04 behind, while Camille Muffat of France took the bronze, 2.09 back.

Cesar Cielo, the Brazilian cleared of doping by the Court of Arbitration for Sport three days ago, led the 50 free semifinals in 23.19.

Olympic champion Stephanie Rice of Australia led the 200 individual medley semifinals in 2:09.65. Ye Shiwen of China qualified third.

Cameron regrets hiring scandal-hit tabloid editor

Cameron regrets hiring scandal-hit tabloid editor

LONDON - British Prime Minister David Cameron, defending his integrity in an emergency debate in parliament on Wednesday, said he regretted the uproar caused by his hiring of a former newspaper editor at the heart of a phone-hacking scandal.

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A man wearing a mask depicting News Corp Chief Executive and Chairman Rupert Murdoch protests during a parliamentary committee on phone hacking at Portcullis House in London on Tuesday. Olivia Harris / Reuters

Under pressure from opponents to apologize, he said Andy Coulson,,wholesales mac Lip gloss, his former spokesman who once edited Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, had denied knowing of phone-hacking by the paper.,wholesale POLO Ralph Lauren SERIES, But should Coulson turn out to have lied, the prime minister said he would then offer an apology.

Beleaguered but not seen under serious threat of being dumped by his party after less than 15 months in office, Cameron defended his actions and those of his staff in dealings with the police and Murdoch's News Corp media empire.

But the 44-year-old Conservative premier said after his toughest two weeks in power: "You don't make decisions in hindsight; you make them in the present. You live and you learn - and believe you me, I have learned."

Cameron, who cut short a tour of Africa as parliament delayed its summer recess to quiz him, said in his opening statement: "I have an old-fashioned view about innocent until proven guilty. But if it turns out I have been lied to, that would be a moment for a profound apology. And, in that event,,Ronaldo soccer jersey,Do you want the best wedding dresses? Do you want the best cheap wedding dress, but don't want to pay expensive prices? In this article, we will look at how to find cheap wedding dresses, and whether it is a wise option to go with. I can tell you I will not fall short."

Murdoch sent a message to his staff that his company was taking steps to ensure that "serious problems never happen again".

"Those who have betrayed our trust must be held accountable under the law," he added in an e-mail sent late on Tuesday.

Analysts said Murdoch's televised apology had put the spotlight on how Cameron emerges from scrutiny in the emergency parliamentary debate over the scandal, which has included allegations of hacking into a murdered schoolgirl's voicemail and the phones of British troops killed in combat.

A new opinion poll by Reuters/Ipsos MORI showed Britons' satisfaction with Cameron had fallen to its lowest level since he entered office in May last year. Only 38 percent were happy with the way he was doing his job. Another cross-party parliamentary committee published a report criticizing both News International and the police over the phone-hacking investigation.

Record settlement for shooting victim vs gunmaker

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A firearms maker has agreed to pay $600,000 to the family of a shooting victim in what one gun control group said Tuesday was a record settlement in such a case.

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It said the settlement will be paid to Guzman's family.

A Kahr Arms official could not be immediately reached for comment on the case.

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The complaint charges that a "lack of theft prevention measures or employee background checks" and "careless inventory tracking," amounted to "gross negligence/negligent hiring and supervision" and wrongful death.

The Center's Legal Action Project is attempting to implement a gun control legal strategy parallel to legislative reform, which Henigan said is often thwarted by powerful lobbying interests on behalf of the gun industry in Washington, including the National Rifle Association.

"The central rationale ... is to encourage gun companies to factor in the human cost," he said.

The NRA did not have an immediate comment on the Brady Center announcement.

Records indicate that in five years some 50 firearms have disappeared from Kahr Arms plant, the Brady Center said.

Kahr Arms is an "award-winning manufacturer of defensive handguns," according to its website, whose home page pictures a woman in an formal gown holding a slender handgun with the words "Thin is sexy."

Rats on the rise, but small house pests feel the heat

Rats on the rise, but small house pests feel the heat

The latest annual report on health has found that the density of rats in the city increased by nearly 15 percent in 2010 compared with the previous year.

The report by Beijing Health Bureau found that the increased population was mainly centered around food markets and construction sites.

"But it is within a normal fluctuation range and is under control," Tong Ying, director of the disinfection and pest prevention office under the Beijing Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), told China Daily on Monday. "Otherwise, we will initiate campaigns to get rid of the rats."

The density refers to the number of rats monitored within a unit area in a certain period of time, and all the statistics come from monitoring networks in district branches of the municipal CDC.

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The rebels initially insisted that Gadhafi leave the country, and one of those who met Wednesday with Sarkozy maintained that view _ while others are not ruling out the possibility that he could stay in Libya if he gives up power.

"I don't think there is a place for him (in Libya). He is a criminal now," Souleiman Fortia, the National Transitional Council's Misrata representative, told reporters after the meeting with the French president.

Misrata rebel military leaders Ramadan Zarmouh and Ahmed Hachem also met with Sarkozy.

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Rebels hold most of the east, but have proven unable over the last week to wrest the strategic oil town of Brega from Gadhafi's forces.

Mohammed Idris, a doctor at the hospital in the nearby town of Ajdabiya, said 27 rebels were killed and 83 others were wounded Tuesday in fighting for Brega. That raised the six-day death toll to 60, according to Idris.

Rebel military spokesman Ahmed Zleitini said Wednesday that rebel forces had pulled back from Brega but still had the city surrounded in hopes that Gadhafi's forces in the city would surrender "to avoid bloodshed."

Blade Runner Pistorius Runs Closer to Olympic Dream

Blade Runner Pistorius Runs Closer to Olympic Dream

South African double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius has qualified for the 2011 World Championships and 2012 Olympics after clocking 45.07 seconds in the 400 meters to meet the 'A' standard qualifying time at a meeting in Lignano, Italy.

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"I am sure tomorrow when I wake up it is going to hit me. It is really humbling to know I have gotten so much support from everyone."

The time put Pistorius on track to achieve his ambition of being first amputee sprinter to be eligible for selection for South Africa at the London Olympic Games.

China's tourist island of Hainan to gain third airport

China's tourist island of Hainan to gain third airport

Chinese authorities have given the green light for an airport project in the city of Qionghai in the southernmost tropical island province of Hainan.

The project will provide the tourist island with its third airport. The other two airports are located in the provincial capital of Haikou and the scenic beachside city of Sanya.

According to a document of approval issued by the State Council, or China's cabinet, the airport will be built in Qionghai's Zhongyuan Township.

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"We were surprised," said Mr. Dranoff in his office recently. While he knew Beck's 1998 recording, "Mutations," is a reference to the group Os Mutantes—key figures in the Tropicalia movement—Mr. Dranoff found other fans. "Devendra [Banhart], the members of Of Montreal and Beirut, the kids from Brooklyn"—a reference to the members of Dirty Projectors and Grizzly Bear—"they all loved Tropicalia; it made us think, 'maybe this is what we should do next.'"

Tropicalia, which followed bossa nova in the 1960s, was a wide-ranging cultural movement that had expressions in visual arts and poetry. But it is best known for its music. Singers and songwriters like Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, and the members of Os Mutantes fused their native sounds with American pop and other styles to create a vibrant mix. "They took all the rock and soul music coming from Europe and the U.S., all the energy and rebellious spirit," said Mr. Dranoff. "They made it Brazilian and sent it back out into the world."

Mr. Dranoff, who is 47 and was born in S?o Paulo, Brazil, said that the cross-cultural blend has enabled Tropicalia to remain a force in contemporary music. For many U.S. musicians, their introduction to the style may have come from David Byrne, whose Luaka Bop imprint has released several superb compilations dedicated to the genre. Mr. Byrne is one of 64 artists who appear on the 33 tracks of "Red Hot and Rio 2," many of which are collaborations between U.S. and Brazilian artists.