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[ "(CNN) -- The husband of a Texas woman missing since March has a \"completely watertight alibi\" on the day his estranged wife disappeared, his lawyer said Wednesday.", "Julie Ann Gonzalez was last seen March 26 by her estranged husband, George De La Cruz, and Austin police said this week that they consider De La Cruz a \"person of interest\" in the disappearance.", "But the husband's lawyer told HLN's \"Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell\" that the documents are between three and nine months old.", "\"If anyone would look at the timeline of the day that Julie Ann disappeared and the timeline my client has provided from morning till night, it is physically impossible that he had anything to do with her disappearance,\" the attorney, Patrick Fagerberg, said.", "\"It is a completely watertight alibi everywhere he was.\"", "Gonzalez, 21, was last seen March 26 when she came to pick up the couple's 2-year-old daughter.", "De La Cruz has said his wife appeared \"out of it\" when she came to the house, changed her mind about picking up their daughter and said she would come back later.", "The couple was going through a divorce, and Gonzalez had told a friend about a new man in her life whom she said was taking her away for the weekend, her mother, Sandra Soto, said in May.", "But she said Gonzalez's MySpace page was updated by a mobile phone user after her disappearance to add posts that read \"I wanted to run away\" and \"I'm sick of the BS in my life.\"", "Her car, which was almost brand new, was found abandoned outside a Walgreen's drug store.", "Gonzalez worked as a pharmacy technician at another Walgreen's.", "And Gonzalez has not accessed her bank account since her disappearance, but someone used her credit card to purchase the movie \"The Spiderwick Chronicles\" at a store in Austin, her mother said.", "Fagerberg said De La Cruz was the one who purchased the movie.", "He said he spent three hours with detectives Tuesday, \"going over the warrants and giving the logical, innocent explanation for some things in those warrants which may appear incriminating on the surface.\"", "But he said that when all the facts emerge, \"You will see that there was an innocent explanation for everything that happened that day,\" he said." ]	[ "Julie Ann Gonzalez has been missing since March 26 .", "Austin police consider estranged husband, George De La Cruz, as \"person of interest\"\nDe La Cruz's lawyer says there's \"an innocent explanation for everything\"" ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Colombian military forces killed 18 leftist guerrillas Friday in two operations, the National Defense Ministry said.", "Another 13 members of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) were captured and two more were \"demobilized\" in the attacks by the air force and special forces troops, which took place in a rural area of Vista Hermosa in the central department, or administrative district, of Meta.", "There, air force jets bombarded encampments capable of housing 200 people and belonging to Gang 43 of FARC, the ministry said in a posting on its Web site.", "After the bombing, special forces troops surrounded the camp and began fighting with the FARC forces.", "They found 25 rifles, explosives and \"information of interest to military intelligence,\" the posting said.", "Friday's actions are part of an offensive against FARC in Meta and the southern department of Caqueta to find those people responsible for the death of Gov.", "Luis Francisco Cuellar, who was kidnapped and killed December 22 in Florence, Colombia, by FARC members, the posting said.", "\"The successes confirm that, in spite of cowardly and sporadic terrorist acts of this organization, the state continues landing serious blows and dismantling what remains of the terrorist structure,\" Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said.", "On Wednesday, the army seized 1¾ tons of cocaine in Puerto Escondido in the department of Cordoba, it said.", "During 2009, the Ministry of Defense reported capturing more than 200 tons of cocaine worth $5 billion.", "For its part, the national army reported in its annual report that during 2009 it was involved in 1,200 fights that \"permitted the neutralization of 1,348 terrorist actions and the occupation and destruction of 1,172 encampments, many of which were used as laboratories to process cocaine.", "FARC has been at war with the Colombian government for more than 40 years.", "Although the government says the FARC's military force has been severely compromised in recent months, authorities still accuse it of trafficking huge quantities of cocaine to finance its insurgency.", "Security analysts say FARC has about 9,000 to 12,000 armed guerillas and several thousand supporters, mostly in rural areas.", "The guerrilla group was established in 1964 as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party.", "The guerrillas operate mostly in Colombia but have carried out extortion, kidnappings and other activities in Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador, according to the Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program." ]	[ "Colombian military: 18 leftist guerrillas killed in two operations .", "Air force and special forces attacked FARC in Meta department, military says .", "Military: 1¾ tons of cocaine seized Wednesday in Cordoba department .", "More than 200 tons of cocaine worth $5 billion seized in 2009, military reports ." ]	[ 0, 1, 8, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- It was supposed to be a good week for the White House.", "President Obama would celebrate the passage of Wall Street reform, and Democrats would move toward the midterms with some wind at their backs.", "But on a day the president signed the landmark legislation, the narrative from the White House was more contrite than laudatory.", "White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs apologized on behalf of the administration for what former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod had been through this week and that, to his knowledge, no one from the White House ordered her ouster.", "Questions about Sherrod dominated the media briefings in a week the administration hoped would be focused on the most sweeping overhaul of the financial system since the New Deal.", "Sherrod was forced to resign because of a misleading video of a speech she delivered at an NAACP event.", "Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted a portion of an address she gave in which she spoke of not offering her full support to a white farmer.", "However, it was later determined that her speech, unedited, focused on how the incident changed her outlook and made her realize people should move beyond race.", "The NAACP retracted its original condemnation of Sherrod's remarks and issued a statement saying it was \"snookered by Fox News\" and Breitbart.", "Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack apologized to Sherrod and offered her a new job.", "\"This is a good woman.", "She has been put through hell,\" Vilsack said.", "\"I want to renew the commitment of this department to a new era in civil rights.", "I want to close the chapter on a very difficult period in civil rights.\"", "Sam Fulwood III, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, said he thinks the administration's initial reaction was spawned out of fear over how the right-wing media would cover the incident.", "He said administration officials \"allowed themselves to be bullied into doing something without thinking about it.\"", "\"The White House, the administration, the Agriculture Department, whomever ... allowed themselves to be bullied into doing something without thinking about it,\" said Fulwood.", "Instead of summoning Sherrod, reviewing the speech and asking what happened, the administration failed to knock down the lies and disseminate the truth, he said.", "\"If they had done this in Ms. Sherrod's case, they would be looking pretty.", "They would have done great legislative work, and they would have scored a PR coup.", "As it turns out, the legislative works gets obscured,\" and they are taking a PR-hit, Fulwood said.", "Fulwood said that Obama's problems stem from opinions being traded as though they are facts.", "Throughout Obama's time in office, the administration has done a weak job of quashing rumors, such as claims Obama was born in Indonesia, studied at a madrasa and has a forged birth certificate, he said.", "\"I think if he is able to articulate an honest reaction to these nonsensical stories, they'll be exposed for what they are -- nothing.", "And that's exactly what the case was with Shirley Sherrod,\" Fulwood added.", "Obama spoke to Sherrod by phone Thursday and expressed his regret about what transpired this week.", "He further said this misfortune \"can present an opportunity for her to continue her hard work on behalf of those in need, and he hopes that she will do so,\" according to a White House statement.", "The call came exactly a year after Obama made a surprise appearance at a media briefing to discuss the controversial arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.", "The president, Gates and the arresting officer, Sgt.", "James Crowley, later met for a \"beer summit\" to discuss the event that sparked a nationwide debate about racial profiling.", "The Congressional Black Caucus this week said it's time for a national dialogue on race.", "Gibbs called the incident \"one of those teachable moments\" and said that while he was unaware of plans for a broader discussion, he wouldn't rule it out.", "John Quelch, professor of marketing at Harvard Business School, said that though the administration should have avoided this situation in the first place, the damage control has been rapid and effective.", "As for a national discussion on race, Quelch said it's not an issue the administration is interested in addressing in a high-profile manner right now.", "But, he said, the White House now must balance \"the need to cope with emergency distractions versus the desire to stay on course with the longer-term agenda.\"", "\"Obviously the objective is to remove this unscheduled story from media coverage in order to highlight the landmark financial reform legislation,\" he said.", "By Friday afternoon, Obama was trying to get back on message before the weekend.", "In an event added to the president's schedule Friday morning, he tried to remind Americans what had been overshadowed during the week.", "\"So, taken together, we made enormous progress this week on Wall Street reform, on making sure that we're eliminating waste and abuse in government and in providing immediate assistance to people who are out there looking for work.\"" ]	[ "Discussion about Shirley Sherrod dominates White House news briefings this week .", "Celebration of Wall Street legislation reform lost in the mix for Democrats .", "White House allowed itself to be bullied by right-wing media, Fulwood says .", "Congressional Black Caucus says it's time for a national dialogue on race ." ]	[ 3, 15, 30 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- The Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago and in that time the world game has opened its arms to a tidal wave of talent from behind the former Iron Curtain.", "Czech Republic midfielder Pavel Nedved has spent almost 15 years at the top of European football.", "Here, Football Fanzone picks the 11 finest footballers to emerge from the old Eastern Bloc since 1989.", "Let us know what you think of our selection in the Sound Off box below.", "1 Pavel Nedved (Czech Republic) Nedved, who has announced his retirement at the end of the season, has become Mr. Czech Republic in the eyes of football fans of the last 20 years.", "And this is for a country not short on talented players -- Vladimir Smicer, Karel Poborsky, Jan Koller and Tomas Rosicky to name but four.", "His breakthrough came at Euro 96, after which he signed for Lazio; four years later he was nothing short of inspirational for the Czechs at Euro 2000.", "When Zinedine Zidane left Juventus for Real Madrid in 2001, the Old Lady paid a staggering $54M for Nedved.", "It proved to be an inspired move: The midfielder, with his flowing hair, thunderbolt shot and all-action style, proved an able replacement.", "Now 36, he is one of Europe's finest players of the last 20 years.", "2 Gheorghe Hagi (Romania) Romania's most famous footballer, Hagi was known as the \"Maradona of the Carpathians\" during a 16-year international career.", "Blessed with a left foot from the gods, the audacious midfielder could dance past opponents at will and he would shoot from anywhere -- witness his goal at World Cup 1994 against Colombia, a swirling, dipping strike from 40 yards.", "At club level, Hagi played for both Real Madrid and Barcelona and is still idolized in Turkey for his achievements with Galatasaray from 1996 until his retirement in 2001.", "Hagi, who was a member of Pele's 125 top living footballers, holds the record for most goals for his country.", "3 Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine) Shevchenko might now be considered one of the game's great goal scorers, but things might have been very different had he not been evacuated with his family in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.", "After starring for Dynamo Kiev alongside Sergiy Rebrov -- and scoring a hat-trick in the Nou Camp against Barcelona in the Champions League -- Shevchenko earned a move to AC Milan in 1999.", "At the San Siro, Shevchenko scored at will, so it was a big surprise that he flopped so badly after an eye-watering $43M move to Chelsea in 2006.", "A return to Milan has not revived his career, but 127 goals in 208 games from 1999-06 ensures his legacy is intact.", "Have we missed one of your favorites out?", "Tell us in the Sound Off box below.", "4 Matthias Sammer (Germany) Elegance personified, Sammer's career high point came at 1996 in a Germany side that would go on to lift the European Championship trophy.", "Sammer could play in midfield or as a \"libero\" and it was in the latter role that he underscored just how good he was.", "Time after time, Sammer brought the ball out of defense, echoing Franz Beckenbauer's peerless ability to start attacks from the back.", "He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1996.", "One of the first notable East German players to join a Western club after German reunification, Sammer signed for Stuttgart from Dynamo Dresden in 1990.", "He went on to play for Inter Milan before returning to help Borussia Dortmund win the 1997 Champions League.", "5 Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria) Stoichkov was an explosive left-sided attacker and remains the finest player to emerge from Bulgaria, Berbatov included.", "\"The Raging Bull\" was not just explosive for his speed off the mark and trademark free-kicks; he also had a short fuse and wore his heart on his sleeve.", "While playing for Barcelona, he was given a two-month ban for stomping on a referee's foot, and his rows with coaches, including Johan Cruyff, were legendary.", "But these only added to his reputation as a fan's favorite at the nine clubs he played for in a 21-year career.", "His six goals at the 1994 World Cup gave him a share of the golden boot, and the European Footballer of the Year accolade followed later that year.", "6 Michael Ballack (Germany) No one swans around the pitch better than Ballack, who, at 32, is still Germany's star player.", "Having impressed at Bayer Leverkusen during their brilliant but ultimately fruitless 2001-02 season, Bayern Munich swooped.", "By that time, Ballack had become the key man for the national side for his ability to control play from the middle of the park and score goals.", "He did the same for Bayern until 2006 when Chelsea signed him on a free transfer.", "Ballack has never replicated his international form in West London, but he has been confirmed as Germany captain for the 2010 World Cup.", "7 Petr Cech (Czech Republic) In Cech, the Czech Republic can lay claim to the world's best goalkeeper.", "Tall and commanding yet alert and agile, his glaring mistake at last summer's European Championships, which resulted in Turkey's progressing at the Czechs' expense, was a rare blip in his short trophy-laden career.", "Rennes spotted him playing for Sparta Prague while he was still a teenager in 2002 and two years later moneybags Chelsea spent $10M on him -- a fee that now looks like a bargain.", "After helping Chelsea to back-to-back Premier League titles, Cech fractured his skull in 2006, but he has returned -- headgear and all -- just as good.", "Only 26, his best years are ahead of him.", "8 Dimitar Berbatov (Bulgaria) Berbatov was always one of Europe's semi-hidden gems while he was plying his trade for Bayer Leverkusen.", "After scoring a goal every other game for CSKA Sofia in his homeland, Berbatov made the move to Germany until Tottenham Hotspur signed him in 2006.", "His touch, vision, movement, skill, strength and goal scoring prowess made it seem likely he would move on to a more successful club.", "And so it proved when Manchester United paid $44M in 2008.", "The languid Berbatov has yet to set Old Trafford alight but 41 goals in 67 appearances for Bulgaria speaks volumes for his class.", "9 Alexander Hleb (Belarus) Is there a more delicate player in world football?", "Such a wonderful talent, but one capable of driving fans and doubtless teammates to distraction at times.", "Hleb's assets are also his weaknesses -- a deft touch, two feet, dribbling ability, an elusive style and a keen eye for a pass, especially the killer one.", "But on an off day, he can be frustratingly ineffective.", "Given he is now at Barcelona, though, it's fair to say the Belarusian forward has talent.", "He showed it plenty of times for Arsenal, although he didn't find the net as often as he should have.", "Tall and wiry, Hleb came to the fore as Stuttgart's creative force before the Gunners paid $15M for him in 2005.", "10 Andrey Arshavin (Russia) Like Berbatov, Arshavin has been a late bloomer.", "Arshavin was little known outside Russia in his early days but he shot to prominence in 2007-08, when he was the inspiration behind Zenit St Petersburg's UEFA Cup triumph.", "Arshavin then demonstrated his wonderful dribbling and playmaking abilities at Euro 2008 for a Russian side beaten only by eventual winners Spain.", "The pint-sized Arshavin had been linked with moves to Europe's biggest clubs for a while but it was Arsenal who made the deal happen -- after much wrangling -- in 2009.", "11 Adrian Mutu (Romania) Unfortunately for Mutu, his career will forever be tarnished by his dismissal by Chelsea for testing positive for cocaine in 2004 and his subsequent ban from the game.", "Up to that point, he was a star on the ascent.", "Prolific for Dinamo Bucharest, Mutu was snapped up by Internazionale in 2000, but it took moves to Verona and then Parma for him to begin to shine.", "Skillful and tricky, Mutu's move to Chelsea in 2003 looked like a perfect move for both parties and after a difficult first season the striker was beginning to justify his $21.5M fee.", "Then came the failed drug test.", "Subsequent moves to Juventus and Fiorentina, where he has scored freely, have helped his career recover." ]	[ "All 11 players come from former Eastern Bloc countries from the last 20 years .", "The list contains mostly attacking players, with just one defender and keeper .", "Let us know what you think by posting a comment in the Sound Off box ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3 ]
[ "GLASGOW, Scotland -- Ronaldinho scored twice as Barcelona wrapped up their Scottish pre-season tour with a convincing 3-1 win over Hearts before a record 57,857 home crowd on Saturday.", "Two-goal Ronaldinho played a key part in Barcelona's convincing 3-1 win.", "The Brazilian put Barca ahead with a 21st-minute penalty and restored their lead with a 40th-minute header after Finn Juho Makela had stabbed in a quick equalizer from Christophe Berra's header across goal.", "Second-half substitute Thierry Henry, who scored in Barcelona's 1-0 win over Dundee United on Thursday, set up the third six minutes after the interval for Mexican teenager Giovanni Dos Santos.", "The Frenchman ended a fine run by squaring a pass to the 18-year-old who slotted home from close range.", "The friendly was played at Murrayfield, home of the Scotland rugby union team, to accommodate a bigger crowd.", "The previous record for a Hearts home match was 53,396 for a Scottish FA Cup match against Rangers in 1932.", "Arsenal were 2-1 winners over Paris St Germain and Valencia beat Inter Milan 2-0 on the first day of the pre-season Emirates Cup tournament.", "Both games were played at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium where the friendly tournament ends on Sunday with Arsenal playing Inter and Valencia facing PSG.", "Valencia recorded a comfortable win over the Italian champions.", "Jaime Gavilan opened the scoring, collecting a long ball forward and beating Inter keeper Francesco Toldo from a tight angle.", "Striker David Villa made it 2-0 before the break with a deflected free kick.", "Arsenal's French midfielder Mathieu Flamini put the hosts ahead on the stroke of half-time in the day's second game, with his first-time shot flashing in off the post.", "Danish forward Nicklas Bendtner poked home their second in a goalmouth melee in the 70th minute and Peguy Luyindula scored PSG's consolation goal 10 minutes from time before Bendtner missed a late penalty.", "Rangers beat Chelsea 2-0 with both goals coming in the last four minutes of their pre-season friendly at Ibrox.", "Spanish substitute striker Nacho Novo fired home the opening goal with a 20-meter shot, after taking a neat pass from Chris Burke in the 86th minute.", "Three minutes later Slovakian striker Filip Sebo cracked home another goal from 20 meters out.", "The ball appeared to be flying wide until it took a deflection off a defender and went into the net.", "The match was played in a competitive spirit with several tough tackles flying in from the two sides who finished runners-up in their respective Scottish Premier and English Premier leagues last season.", "Chelsea's best chance came with a first half header from Didier Drogba which flashed across the face of the goal.", "Darren Bent's double and a goal by Dimitar Berbatov enabled Tottenham Hotspur to end their South African tour with a 3-0 win over Orlando Pirates on Saturday.", "All the goals came in the first 22 minutes, with Bent opening the scoring in the 10th with a stinging shot before providing a simple tap-in for strike partner Berbatov eight minutes later, after dispossessing Pirates defender Destin Makita.", "Bent then hit the bar before finding the net again following a fine flowing move at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium.", "Tottenham won the three-team tournament having beaten the Pirates 2-1 in Cape Town on Tuesday after starting their tour last weekend with a 2-1 win over Kaizer Chiefs in Durban.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Ronaldinho scores twice as Barcelona beat Hearts 3-1 at Murrayfield .", "Rangers score two late goals to beat Chelsea 2-0 at Ibrox Park .", "Arsenal and Valencia win on the first day of the Emirates Cup ." ]	[ 1, 7, 14 ]
[ "LONDON, England -- Younes Kaboul scored in injury time to earn Tottenham a remarkable 4-4 Premier League home draw with Aston Villa, sealing a remarkable fightback after trailing 4-1 and possibly saving manager Martin Jol from the sack.", "Tottenham players celebrate Dimitar Berbatov's opening goal in an amazing match at White Hart Lane.", "Dimitar Berbatov opened the scoring for Spurs but two goals from Martin Laursen edged the visitors ahead and Gabriel Agbonlahor and Craig Gardner added to the lead.", "However, Pascal Chimbonda and Robbie Keane pulled goals back and deep into added time Kaboul found the top corner to level the scores.", "Jol appeared a man on the brink after Tottenham fell 4-1 behind but his side dug deep to earn a point on the evening of their 125th anniversary celebrations -- although they remain third bottom of the table.", "Bulgarian striker Berbatov put Spurs ahead in the 20th minute, powerfully heading home from Tom Huddlestone's corner.", "But Villa hit back immediately when England goalkeeper Paul Robinson dropped Gareth Barry's corner, allowing Laursen to prod home after a ricochet off Pascal Chimbonda.", "Laursen got his second of the game in the 33rd minute when Barry's free-kick on the left was met by Zat Knight -- and the ball struck the Danish defender before finding the net.", "Agbonlahor made it 3-1 five minutes from half-time when he won the ball off Michael Dawson after a Luke Moore flick-on, twisted into the penalty area and finished neatly, low into the far corner of Robinson's net.", "Tottenham's hopes looked forlorn early in the second half when Gardner powered home a free-kick off the post but the hosts quickly pulled one back when Jermain Defoe hit the post from Gareth Bale's cross and Chimbonda followed up.", "With eight minutes remaining Marlon Harewood fouled Darren Bent in the area and Keane fired home the spot-kick.", "That set up an exciting finish and Tottenham's relentless pressure finally paid dividends when Kaboul slammed home in stoppage time after Villa failed to clear a corner.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Younes Kaboul scores in injury time to earn Spurs a 4-4 draw with Aston Villa .", "The result completes an amazing recovery after the home side trailed 4-1 .", "Despite the result, Tottenham remain third from bottom of the Premier League ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Manchester United and Bulgaria striker Dimitar Berbatov has announced his retirement from international football with immediate effect.", "The 29-year-old was captain of his country and scored a national record 48 goals in just 74 matches.", "However, Bulgaria flopped in their World Cup qualifying group -- failing to reach the finals in South Africa -- and the former Tottenham's star's performances drew widespread criticism from within his own country.", "Confirming his decision at a press conference in Sofia, Berbatov said: \"It isn't a decision I took lightly and I have reconsidered making it several times.", "\"Everything has a beginning and an end and that end is today.", "I feel exhausted and now there are many guys who can emerge from my shadow.", "For them the moment has come.\"", "Berbatov, who overtook Hristo Stoichkov's scoring record in a friendly match against Malta last year, has endured a troubled season at Manchester United.", "He has struggled to make an impact since his big-money move from Tottenham in August 2008 and was overshadowed by strike partner Wayne Rooney as United failed to retain their English Premier League title." ]	[ "Bulgaria captain Dimitar Berbatov announces his retirement from international football .", "Berbatov made 74 appearances for his country and scored a record 48 goals .", "The 29-year-old Manchester United striker has been criticized for his recent displays ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Egyptian authorities stopped two people suspected in the theft of a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, nabbing them just moments before they were to board a plane and flee the country, according to Egypt's official news agency, MENA.", "Egyptian Culture Minister Farouq Hosni said in a statement Saturday night that efforts to recover the stolen \"Poppy Flowers\" painting are still ongoing, despite earlier reports that the painting had been returned to Cairo's Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Museum.", "Hosni said later that those reports were unconfirmed.", "Two Italians -- a man and a woman -- suspected of stealing the painting were preparing to board a plane to Italy when they were stopped at Cairo International Airport.", "An interior ministry spokesman told CNN that the man was arrested.", "The painting was stolen earlier Saturday.", "\"Poppy Flowers\" has an estimated value of about $50 million.", "It also had been stolen in 1978 and returned under unknown circumstances, causing some to think that the piece was copied in the process, according to MENA.", "CNN's Amir Ahmed contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Painting has not yet been recovered; earlier reports were unconfirmed .", "\"Poppy Flowers\" was stolen from a museum in Cairo early Saturday .", "Egyptian authorities stopped two suspects at Cairo International Airport .", "The painting is estimated to be worth $50 million ." ]	[ 1, 3, 6 ]
[ "New Orleans (CNN) -- A control unit on the Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer was leaking hydraulic fluid before the explosion that unleashed the worst oil spill in U.S. history, a BP official testified Tuesday.", "Ronald Sepulvado, one of BP's well site leaders -- \"company men,\" in rig jargon -- told the Coast Guard-Interior Department board investigating the drill platform's sinking that there were \"off and on\" problems with valves that directed hydraulic fluid inside the mechanism.", "He said he reported the problem to his superiors, but the rig continued to operate despite the problem.", "Federal regulations require that drilling work halt if a control \"pod\" is inoperable.", "Sepulvado said the unit was still functional, but his team leader should have reported the issue to the Minerals Management Service, the recently reorganized Interior Department agency that regulated offshore drilling.", "\"I guess we assumed that everything was OK, since I reported it to the team leader and he should have reported it to the MMS,\" Sepulvado said.", "His team leader, BP executive John Guide, is scheduled to testify before the investigative board Thursday.", "Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer failed to shut down the runaway well at the heart of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill after the April 20 explosion aboard the rig.", "The resulting fire sank the platform, leaving 11 workers dead and releasing an undersea gusher that engineers were unable to contain until last week.", "Sepulvado and Donald Vidrine were the two \"company men\" who worked aboard the rig, but Sepulvado was ashore at the time of the blast for additional training on blowout preventers.", "He was replaced on the rig by Robert Kaluza, who invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination Tuesday when called to testify.", "Vidrine has been excused from testifying for medical reasons, the company said Monday night.", "The board released a list of more than 20 reported anomalies with the well in the 18 hours before the explosion, ranging from low pressure readings and larger-than-expected returns of \"mud,\" the drilling fluid used as a counterweight and lubricant aboard the rig.", "Both Vidrine and Kaluza were involved in discussions about the anomalous pressure readings in the hours before the explosion, the according to the list.", "BP, rig owner Transocean and well cementing contractor Halliburton all blamed each other for the disaster.", "Previous hearings have included testimony about maintenance backlogs aboard the rig and disputes between BP and Transocean managers about procedures as they prepared to shut in the well, which was already behind schedule.", "Ross Skidmore, a subsea supervisor for BP contractor Swift, testified Tuesday he questioned why BP was waiting to install a \"lockdown sleeve\" -- a fitting placed atop the well to secure the casing -- after drilling fluid was replaced with seawater for pressure tests.", "\"I asked why couldn't we go ahead and do this in mud,\" he said.", "In response, Skidmore said he was told \"It wasn't going to happen.", "We were going to go through the sequence we were given.\"", "Skidmore said he's \"selective\" about questioning his orders.", "But he added, \"If I would have seen something and recognized it as being unsafe or a threat, I would have taken it all the way into town.\"", "This week's hearings come as scientists continue testing pressure in BP's ruptured deepwater well and weighing options for permanently sealing it.", "Even as lawyers and witnesses resist some questions before the panel, the hearings are providing dramatic details of what happened on the rig, and could form the basis for criminal charges down the line.", "A sworn statement from Deepwater Horizon Chief Engineer Steven Bertone sparked particularly heated debate Monday.", "In it, Bertone described the rig's captain screaming at a crew member who issued a distress call and ordering an injured man left behind.", "Lawyers repeatedly attempted to ask Bertone about the document, which has not been publicly released.", "But his lawyer, Steven London, said the statement was made while his client was \"detained\" aboard a rescue ship and told Bertone not to answer questions about it.", "\"This statement was obtained from him while he was held 26 hours right immediately after this incident, which was extremely traumatic to say the least,\" London said.", "\"It is what it is. We're not going to be cross-examined on something that occurred, that was written down at that time.\"", "An attorney for rig captain Curt Kutcha criticized lawyers for introducing the statement.", "It was \"an attempt to assassinate his character in one aspect of what's being done where all their lives were at risk,\" attorney Kyle Schonekas said.", "But BP lawyer Richard Godfrey seized on the statement, saying it showed \"a complete loss of command and control aboard the bridge\" after the explosions.", "Bertone also testified Monday that the rig's bridge crew was unsure who had the authority to activate the rig's emergency disconnection from the well.", "When it was activated, it failed to work despite indications on the control panel that it had been activated, he said.", "CNN Correspondent Mary Snow contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Subsea supervisor questioned delay in installing \"lockdown sleeve\"\nA control unit on the rig's blowout preventer leaked hydraulic fluid, BP exec says .", "MMS regulations require drilling to stop if control units don't function .", "A BP \"company man\" takes the Fifth for a second time ." ]	[ 0, 3, 16 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Federal prosecutors said the defendants had a \"hatred and thirst for violence,\" while defense attorneys argued that an FBI informant was the real culprit as opening arguments got underway Tuesday in the trial of four men accused in an alleged bomb plot.", "Prosecutors say the men plotted to detonate explosives near two synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx in May 2009 and also sought to fire missiles at planes at an Air National Guard base.", "James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen were arrested on May 20, 2009, allegedly after having placed what they thought were bombs at two sites and before making their way to Stewart Airport in Newburgh, New York.", "But no bombs went off that night.", "The men were part of a year-long sting operation led by a paid FBI informant.", "The bombs and missiles were not, in fact, armed, but were rather part of the FBI's masquerade.", "And defense attorneys are calling the situation entrapment.", "Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Hickey painted a picture in court of the defendants -- specifically, James Cromitie -- as having a \"hatred and thirst for violence.\"", "He described the four men as having cased and photographed targets, planned their escape, and talked about public reaction.", "All the while, a fifth man in their group, a man they knew to be \"Maksud\" and from whom they were receiving all their funding, was actually an FBI informant who had been taping their conversations and meeting with the FBI.", "Hickey described the informant, whose real name is Shaheed Hussein, as having been hired by the FBI to go to a certain mosque and listen for talk of violence against Americans.", "According to Hickey, Cromitie and Hussein met several times over a period of months, during which time Hussein convinced Cromitie that he was a representative of the Jaish a-Mohammed, a bogus international terrorism ring he said was based in Pakistan and was looking for recruits.", "Hickey further charged that Cromitie expressed his desire to \"kill Jews\" and make America \"pay for Afghanistan and other Muslim countries,\" recruiting Williams and Williams -- who are not related -- along with Payen to be part of the mission to target Jewish institutions and military operations in the United States.", "But defense attorneys argued that it was Hussein, not the four defendants, who planned, funded, and directed the entire operation, seducing the poverty-stricken defendants with food, gifts, and promises of a significant payday.", "The defense painted a picture of Hussein as a convicted felon who began working for the FBI as part of a plea bargain that kept him from jail and deportation, and paid him $100,000.", "Defense attorneys alleged that Hussein pressured the four men, whom, they said, he saw as his meal ticket, to agree to be a part of the mission, promising large sums of money and expensive cars and not taking no for an answer.", "They further alleged entrapment, as the defendants did not have violent pasts and \"could not and would not have been involved in such a conspiracy without Shaheed Hussein.\"", "Vincent L. Briccetti, attorney for Cromitie, called the 100 hours of videotaped conversations between the men \"not a documentary but a work of fiction... a movie produced, directed, starred in, and edited by Shaheed Hussein and the FBI.\"", "Suzanne Brody, attorney for Onta Williams, suggested the FBI was more interested in instigating and initiating, rather than investigating.", "The trial will resume Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan at 9:30 a.m. ET ." ]	[ "Four men are on trial in New York in an alleged bomb plot .", "They are accused to plotting to blow up two synagogues .", "They are also accused of plotting to fire missiles at U.S. military planes .", "Defense attorneys argue the men were entrapped by an FBI informant ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The declining dollar, surging oil prices, and exploding growth across the Persian Gulf are causing inflation levels to rise.", "Kuwait has already abandoned the dollar.", "And some analysts say the rest of the GCC may have to do the same to fight inflation.", "But do the Gulf banks agree?", "And how far do they think switching to a basket of currencies will bring down prices?", "Qatar and the U.A.E. registered the highest inflation levels at 10 percent this week.", "In Oman, inflation was running at almost 4 per cent and 2.8 percent in Saudi Arabia.", "Strong growth across the region, fueled by surges in oil prices have been a major factor.", "Supply has been struggling to keep up with demand in the growing economy, causing bottlenecks in supply which drives inflation.", "Ahmed El Shall, CFO of Dubai Bank said the building boom in the U.A.E.", "is another \"primary cause\" of inflation.", "Rents are on the rise, causing other prices to climb.", "\"If you consider that 36 percent of the inflation measure is made up of housing, you realize the inflation rate for the U.A.E.", "is 10 percent and above simply because rents have been increasing above 10 percent per annum,\" he told CNN.", "But the other factor at play has been imported inflation via a weak U.S. dollar.", "Last week, in response to the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 0.5 point to 4.75 percent in order to save the nation's economy from a slow down.", "Because currencies in the Gulf Co-operation Council region including Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., Qatar, Bahrain and Oman are pegged to the dollar, their exchange rates also decline.", "This means prices of imports from non-dollar areas have increased, causing inflation.", "With currencies pegged to the dollar, banks in the region must also follow the Fed's lead with their interest rates.", "This is another driver for inflation because lower rates drive investment.", "But to soften the blow, U.A.E.", "and Qatar kept rate cuts to a minimum and Saudi Arabia and Oman decided not to budge at all.", "Rising prices are beginning to take their toll across the region.", "Dubai is now one of the most expensive cities in the world.", "Expats, with investments and bills to pay at home, are especially feeling the pinch of a weak exchange rate.", "As prices rise, the debate intensifies about whether countries in the GCC should review their dollar pegs and link instead to a basket of currencies.", "As analysts argue, when these countries first decided to peg to the dollar, oil prices were low and the U.S. currency strong.", "Today the opposite is true.", "Fitting to a basket, they say, would better reflect the GCC's modern economic situation.", "Kuwait was the first country in the GCC to jump ship.", "In May it ditched the dinar's peg and moved to a basket of currencies.", "But, as Shall told CNN, the Kuwait revaluation is yet to show an effect.", "\"My understanding is that so far it hasn't really shown any improvement in inflation.", "To the contrary, it suffers in the exact same way Qatar and the U.A.E.", "suffer.\" Qatar's central bank governor, Abdullah Al-Thani, told reporters and bankers last month that they were taking measures to control prices and rents to decrease inflation.", "But the dollar peg would remain, he said.", "Saudi Arabia's refusal to cut interest rates with the Federal Reserve has prompted more speculation that it was preparing to break its dollar currency peg.", "But the Kingdom has continued to deny this.", "Saudi bank, SABB, also \"firmly\" believes the Saudi riyal will not be revalued.", "\"An expected change in the currency regime will take place only if the dollar weakens at an alarming rate and is sustained over the medium term,\" it said in a recent report.", "Excessive speculation about devaluation, \"could cause observers to overlook the GCC growth story,\" said the report.", "\"The Kingdom's competitive advantage, in petrochemical exports for example, is not being affected, as most are priced in dollars.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Inflation rises across region with highest levels in Qatar and the U.A.E.", "Strong growth, rising rents and weakening dollar fuel inflation increases .", "As prices rise, debate intensifies about the region's currency pegs to the dollar ." ]	[ 0, 5, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Singer Al Jarreau \"became weak from the altitude\" in the French Alps and was hospitalized Wednesday, forcing the jazz singer to cancel several shows in France, Germany and Azerbaijan over the next week, his publicist said.", "Jarreau was admitted to an intensive care unit after he arrived in the resort town of Barcelonette in the southern French Alps, the publicist said in a written statement.", "\"He is now awake and his first question was to enquire about his wife, Susan, and his second question was to ask about his tour dates,\" the statement said.", "\"He is always thinking about other people.\"", "His condition was stabilized, but the doctor advised Jarreau to take a few days off of his tour to recover, it said.", "In addition to missing the Barcelenette show, the illness forced cancellation of shows in Osnabruck and Braunschweig, Germany and Qabala, Azerbaijan.", "\"Al deeply regrets having been forced to cancel these four concerts and thus disappointing his fans, but is looking forward to returning to perform in these cities some time in the future,\" the statement said.", "Jarreau could return to the concert stage next Thursday in Nuremberg, Germany, it said." ]	[ "Jarreau was admitted to an ICU in the French Alps .", "Doctors told the jazz singer to take time off .", "Four concerts have been cancelled .", "Jarreau could resume his tour next Thursday ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "Orlando, Florida (CNN) -- Prosecutors can play tapes of 911 calls made by Florida murder suspect Casey Anthony's mother after she learned her granddaughter was missing, a judge ruled Thursday.", "Anthony's mother, Cindy Anthony, admitted during a hearing Thursday in Orlando that she had made exaggerated accusations about her daughter in those calls in a bid to get police to her home.", "But Circuit Judge Belvin Perry ruled that Cindy Anthony was trying to use calls to police as a \"ploy\" to get her daughter to tell her what she knew about the missing 2-year-old Caylee Anthony.", "Defense lawyers sought to have thrown out of court as hearsay, but Perry found the tapes were not being used to prove the facts of the case.", "\"Whether they are true or false really has no bearing,\" Perry said.", "\"They were designed to elicit statements from the defendant in this case, to ascertain the whereabouts of the victim in this particular case.\"", "Casey Anthony is charged with capital murder in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee's death.", "The girl was reported missing two years ago Thursday, and defense attorneys were trying to keep recordings of her mother Cindy's three 911 calls out of evidence.", "Facing her daughter in an Orlando courtroom, Cindy Anthony said she told police \"whatever I was thinking at the time to get them out there\" -- including the claim, made in her first of three 911 calls, that her daughter had stolen a car from her.", "\"I wanted to speak to a police officer,\" Cindy Anthony said.", "\"And I didn't think that if I said that she wouldn't take me to see my granddaughter, that they thought her and I might just be having an argument and think that I was some crazy grandmother and not come out and talk to me.\"", "But she testified that she was in a panic after Casey Anthony told her that she hadn't seen her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, in a month.", "Cindy Anthony told police her daughter had stolen money from her and that she had asked Casey Anthony to return her car to her brother Lee, from whom she had purchased the Pontiac but never finished paying.", "She said she did not intend to mislead police with the calls, however.", "And by the third call, she told investigators that her daughter's vehicle smelled \"like there's been a dead body in the damn car.\"", "And Lee Anthony testified Thursday that he tried to get more information out of his sister while their \"frantic\" mother yelled at her.", "\"She was very angry,\" he said.", "\"Her first reaction was she had a clenched fist and hit the bed my sister was sitting on and said, 'What did you do?", "We could have found her 31 days ago.'", "\" Caylee's skeletal remains were found in the woods about a quarter mile from the Anthony home in December 2008.", "Prosecutors say they plan to show Casey Anthony lied repeatedly about her daughter's fate, and that the 911 calls are a critical part of that progression.", "The Anthony family had not seen the toddler or her mother since June 16, 2008.", "When Cindy Anthony found her daughter a month later, Caylee wasn't with her.", "Cindy Anthony threatened to call the police, hoping it would force Casey Anthony to say where her daughter was.", "After two calls to the police, Casey Anthony admitted to her brother that she had not seen Caylee in 31 days and that she believed her daughter was with a nanny, Zenaida Gonzalez.", "The third and final call was placed immediately after Cindy Anthony overheard what Casey Anthony told her brother.", "Cindy Anthony seemed to be agitated and excited as she told the dispatcher that her granddaughter had been missing for a month.", "Cindy Anthony has since said that the odor emanating from the car could have been from rotting garbage.", "However, forensic examiners have concluded that Caylee's decomposing body was in the trunk of the car at some point in late June 2008.", "Thursday's hearing was also expected to focus on a motion from the defense.", "It will ask the judge to modify a ruling by Judge Stan Strickland, who stepped aside in April.", "The motion concerns a review of documents from Texas Equusearch, a private company that assisted in the search for then-missing Caylee.", "While Strickland's order allowed the defense attorneys to review thousands of documents created by Texas Equusearch, the attorneys were prohibited from taking notes during the review.", "The defense maintains the current arrangement is inefficient and it is seeking a more workable resolution.", "In Session Correspondent Beth Karas contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: A Florida judge has allowed the 911 tapes to stay in evidence .", "Mother: I didn't want police thinking I was \"some crazy grandmother\"\nThe defense argues that taped phone calls are hearsay and should not be admitted .", "Prosecutors say calls are critical to their case against Anthony ." ]	[ 20, 24 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has expressed an interest in buying London's famed Abbey Road Studios after music company EMI reportedly put the building where the Beatles recorded most of their albums up for sale.", "Lloyd Webber, the man behind musical hits \"Phantom of the Opera\" and \"Cats,\" came forward following concerns from fans and music industry figures that the historic building would fall foul of property developers.", "\"He is very interested in buying the studios,\" a spokesman for Lloyd Webber, who is one of the UK music industry's richest figures with an estimated worth of £750 million ($1,150 million), told CNN.", "EMI has slapped a for sale tag on Abbey Road as it looks to dig itself out of heavy debts following the music company's 2007 leveraged buyout by private equity operation Terra Firma, according to the Financial Times.", "The news has generated concerns from music industry figures including former Beatle Paul McCartney, but Lloyd Webber is the first to indicate willingness to open his check book.", "His spokesman added: \"He first recorded there in 1967 with Tim Rice.", "Andrew has since recorded most of his musicals there, from 'Jesus Christ Superstar' to his new musical 'Love Never Dies.'", "\"He thinks it is vital that the studios are saved for the future of the music industry in the UK.", "Abbey Road has such great facilities, with three major recording studios, and Andrew has probably brought more musicians to record there than anyone else, because it has the capacity to record large orchestral productions.\"", "Lloyd Webber's interest in the building follows an announcement from Britain's National Trust, a charity that safeguards many of the country's historic buildings, that it was considering whether involve itself.", "After opening up the issue to the public via the Internet, the charity, which already owns the childhood homes of Paul McCartney and fellow former Beatle John Lennon, received thousands of votes, plus Facebook and Twitter comments, urging it to act.", "\"If we can help, we will step forward,\" National Trust director general Fiona Reynolds said, according to its Web site.", "Abbey Road Studios, located in the wealthy north west London suburb of St. John's Wood, have been a centerpiece of the UK recording industry since they were established in the 1930s.", "Making its name with classical recordings involving composer Edward Elgar, the studios gained worldwide fame through the Beatles, who named one of their albums \"Abbey Road,\" featuring an iconic photo of the band crossing a road outside the building on its cover.", "With other bands -- including Pink Floyd, whose 1973 classic \"Dark Side of the Moon\" was recorded there, and Radiohead -- sustaining interest in the venue, it has become a Mecca for music fans who regularly daub tributes to their icons on its walls." ]	[ "Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber says he is interested in buying studios .", "EMI had reportedly put studio up for said as it struggles with debt .", "Beatles, Pink Floyd and Radiohead all recorded at Abbey Road ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "Clearwater, Florida (CNN) -- A 20-year-old Florida woman involved in a love triangle was found guilty Friday of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing her romantic rival in a fight 15 months ago.", "Rachel Wade convulsed in sobs as the bailiff read the six-person jury's verdict, which carries a sentence of 20 1/2 years to life in prison.", "She dabbed her eyes with a tissue, chewed on her lips and brushed her long blond hair away from her face, tucking it behind her ear.", "Then, accompanied by a guard, she stood and walked out of the courtroom, to be taken to Pinellas County Jail.", "Wade testified Thursday that she stabbed 18-year-old student Sarah Ludemann only after she herself was hit three times in the head during the fight.", "Ludemann, who was unarmed, died at the scene after being stabbed twice in the chest.", "The jury didn't buy Wade's claim that she acted in self-defense -- returning its verdict after just 2 1/2 hours of deliberation.", "Inside the courtroom, Charlie Ludemann, the victim's father, breathed deeply upon hearing the verdict, then turned to his wife and nodded.", "Wade did not appear to look at the dozens of teenagers who sat on her side of the courtroom.", "\"There's no doubt that both of these families will be devastated for the rest of their lives,\" defense lawyer Jay Hebert told reporters after the verdict.", "He said his client had insisted on a trial and had rejected suggestions she approach the prosecution to discuss a plea bargain.", "\"She wanted to testify her side of the story, and I commend her for that,\" he said.", "\"The jury made their call.\"", "Hebert described himself as \"somewhat shocked,\" given the short deliberation.", "\"I just didn't think it would be that way,\" he said.", "Wade, at 5-foot-4 and 110 pounds, had no criminal record and testified that she had never been in a fight before.", "She said she headed to a friend's house with a knife only after being told that 5-foot-9, 166-pound Ludemann was heading to her home.", "Instead, Ludemann and her friends found her outside the friend's house.", "\"I didn't think they would attack me if they saw the knife,\" she said.", "She testified that she swung the knife after being hit three times but wasn't aware she had stabbed Ludemann until one of the victim's friends told her so.", "\"I didn't know where she was stabbed or how severe it was,\" Wade said.", "\"I was scared.\" During cross-examination, Wade -- who worked at a restaurant -- acknowledged Thursday having thrown the knife into a neighboring yard, but said, \"I didn't know what happened, and I didn't want anybody else to get hold of it.\"", "Prosecutor Lisset G. Hanewicz was unpersuaded.", "\"Why get rid of it if you are acting in self-defense?\"", "she asked Friday in a closing argument.", "\"She wanted to get rid of the evidence.", "She showed no remorse.", "She knew she stabbed her.\"", "Animosity between Wade and Ludemann had gone back months -- and it centered on their mutual love interest, Joshua Camacho, then 20.", "In an August 29, 2008, voice mail, Wade can be heard saying, \"I'm guaranteeing you I'm going to ... murder you,\" and in another, she tells Ludemann, \"You are a f*ing fat b and I'm going to fing kill you, I swear on my life,\" Wade said in a voice mail left for Ludemann.", "Another one said, \"Josh may have played me, but, b*, I'm going to play your a out too, so watch.\"", "\"Those tapes were our most difficult obstacle,\" Hebert told reporters afterward.", "\"Those tapes were very powerful.\"", "Wade testified that Ludemann had left similar messages for her, but that she had deleted them.", "Camacho testified Thursday that he considered both women \"friends with benefits\" and wasn't seeing either one exclusively at the time.", "\"In Session's\" Lena Jakobsson and Beth Karas contributed to this story." ]	[ "Rachel Wade sobs as the verdict was read .", "The conviction carries a penalty of 20 1/2 years to life .", "Wade says she stabbed romantic rival in self-defense ." ]	[ 1, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Not many winners of the Cannes Film Festival Palm d'Or thank ghosts and spirits in their acceptance speech.", "But for Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand's first ever winner of the film award, it was a natural thing to do.", "\"It was kind of an in-joke. At the same time, I think [\"Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives\"] is about [a person] who believes in spirits, in reincarnation so I kind of thank him for it because he might have been there,\" he told CNN.", "The award came as a shock to Weerasethakul, who has previously found success at Cannes when he won the Jury Prize in 2004 for \"Tropical Malady,\" but didn't expect to win the big prize.", "\"When I heard Tim Burton will be head of jury, I was thinking no way... but when I actually won the prize I thought a different way that maybe because Tim Burton has always created his own wacky world and also my film operates in my own world, and it's quite a nutty one.\"", "The \"nutty world\" of \"Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives\" has a lead character (played by a real-life roof welder) who talks to spirits and ghosts as he faces the last days of this life.", "Weerasethakul believes the success of the film at the festival and with international audiences where it has been shown is down to the universal theme of fear of loss.", "\"Another point is if the trend of movie culture is to be so bombarded by such high production movies, people crave for a personal movie now, a small one,\" he said.", "While some critics debated if \"Uncle Boonmee\" was a worth winner of such an esteemed award, others praised Weerasethakul for creating a film more like a metaphysical meditation; Tim Burton described it as \"like a beautiful dream that you don't see very often.\"", "Weerasethakul however has been battling with the harsh realities of making what many consider art-house film in Thailand for many years.", "The \"Uncle Boonmee\" project took three years to complete and many of his other films have faced heavy censorship.", "His 2006 film \"Syndromes and The Century\" was accused by the Thai authorities as being a potential threat to national security, something Weerasethakul refuted.", "\"You cannot make anything, I mean, you cannot [talk] basically about politics, and also religion, and other institutions in Thailand.", "You cannot talk about that in cinema.", "So that kind of cripples you in a way.\"", "He won a few battles against the film censors and helped to establish a rating system for films in Thailand, but Weerasethakul still believes the need to speak out against limits to freedom of speech.", "Weerasethakul was not surprised to see the protests and violence that gripped Thailand's capital earlier this year.", "\"I guess [the violence] is bound to happen because we had such a huge gap in the difference in the classes of people.", "[It] also makes us think about where we stand especially if you're Thai; it forces us to think about our moral standpoint.", "\"I think we all should speak more.", "About how we feel. About this oppression. Because Thailand has become a democracy not long ago.", "And people still, we are still in obedience?", "It is a very obedience culture.\"" ]	[ "Apichatpong Weerasethakul won the Palm d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival .", "Thai director thanked ghosts and spirits in his acceptance speech .", "Weerasethakul critical of lack of freedom on expression in Thailand ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Dear Joel Stein, .", "Where do I begin? Normally, I write about health care, but your essay in Time, \"My Own Private India,\" caught my attention for reasons that have nothing to do with medicine.", "Before I read it, I barely had any idea who you were.", "Your name was vaguely familiar, probably from having seen you on VH1 while channel-surfing in the wee hours.", "I'm not the only one who noticed.", "Last I checked, your essay was one of the most read and e-mailed articles at Time.com.", "Good work. You earned your paycheck.", "But you did it with a xenophobic, even racist, rant against Indian Americans like me and a lot of other people I care about and deeply respect.", "Read Joel Stein's essay, \"My Own Private India\" Have no illusions, sir.", "What you wrote was not funny, insightful, smart or unique.", "No. Every word, phrase, sentence and paragraph you produced did nothing more than distill the ancient, proud and diverse culture of India down to nothing more than clichés and stereotypes.", "Calling us dot-heads and Guindians, speaking of spicy food and multilimbed gods with elephant noses -- clarification, Joel: Ganesh has the elephant nose; Siva has the multiple arms.", "You did it even when you were laying on the backhanded compliments.", "\"We all assumed Indians were geniuses.\"", "Thanks for that. By the way, I am not some bitter old man trying to lecture you.", "You and I are contemporaries. I'm just a year younger than you are.", "In reading a little bit about you, we have some things in common.", "I was \"dorky enough\" to have played Dungeons & Dragons growing up.", "Given your esteemed education at Stanford, I suspect both of us excelled academically.", "But it's clear that our consciences have been on divergent paths.", "I try to do just a little bit of good in the world by practicing medicine and writing.", "You took your pricey education and became ... a humorist ... a satirist ... a pundit?", "A descendant of Mark Twain, H.L Mencken or P.J.", "O' Rourke you are not. In the future, please leave satire and humor to trained professionals.", "So ... because you weren't funny or incisive, what's your point?", "Are you trying to make Indians prove our worth to the fraternity that is America?", "Is your essay part of some kind of hazing?", "Put up with your callous insults, and we'll be able to live in the frat house?", "What litmus test do we all have to pass to become bona fide?", "Does our God have to wear a big white beard and have only two arms?", "Do we have to turn in the dots on our foreheads for a baseball cap with \"N.Y.\" stenciled on it?", "Trade in our samosas and chai for potato chips and Bud Light?", "Should we make our parents throw their Hindi language newsmagazine in the garbage and subscribe to Time?", "If it's about fitting in with your standards of Americana, please, allow me to prove my culture's utility to you.", "Some of us have become wildly successful.", "We run Fortune 500 companies, have been elected to political office and have won Pulitzer prizes.", "Many of us work 40-plus hours a week to pay our mortgage.", "Some have paid their dues serving this country in war.", "Still others struggle to pay the bills, keep their children fed or their marriages together; and yes, there are those of us who are criminals locked up in jail.", "In other words, we're just like everyone else.", "It's obvious that you were waxing nostalgic about your hometown.", "If I follow your logic here, should nothing ever change in America?", "Should moms stay at home while we men wear our suits and ties and head off to work, cigarette in hand?", "Should African-Americans still drink from a different water fountain from you?", "Should we revoke the right of women to vote?", "If that's the case, I've got a Delorean with a flux capacitor I'd be happy to sell you to get \"Back to the Future.\"", "I also read the apology you pinned to the bottom of the online version of your essay.", "\"I truly feel stomach-sick that I hurt so many people.", "I was trying to explain how, as someone who believes that immigration has enriched American life and my hometown in particular, I was shocked that I could feel a tiny bit uncomfortable with my changing town when I went to visit it.", "If we could understand that reaction, we'd be better equipped to debate people on the other side of the immigration issue,\" you wrote.", "\"Tiny bit uncomfortable,\" indeed.", "You should have stopped with \"I'm sorry\" or just retracted the whole article.", "Stop trying to save face by trying to rationalize what you wrote or pin it to the immigration issue.", "Finally, I do want to thank you for harshly reminding of one thing: Because the essay was published just before the Fourth of July -- and incidentally, just a few weeks before India's own independence day -- you and your publication reminded me with no uncertainty that racism, ignorance and fear of new people are as American as apple pie and Time magazine.", "Like you said, the Statue of Liberty should shed a tear.", "And Mahatma Gandhi just did.", "(Time Warner Inc. is the parent company of CNN.com and Time magazine.)", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Rahul Parikh." ]	[ "Rahul Parikh takes issue with Joel Stein's column about Indian Americans in his hometown .", "Essay was meant to be satire, but Parikh found it a xenophobic, racist rant .", "Parikh says writer distilled ancient and diverse culture into clichés and stereotypes .", "Says the piece reminded him ignorance about and fear of new people still exist in U.S." ]	[ 7, 8, 10, 40, 57 ]
[ "Miami, Florida (CNN) -- The weather system known as Bonnie has been downgraded from a tropical storm to a tropical depression as it moves across the Gulf of Mexico -- and there are indications it may not get too much stronger.", "As of 11 p.m. ET, the system was moving through the eastern Gulf after crossing southern Florida earlier Friday.", "It had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph.", "The depression was moving west-northwest at a very fast clip for such weather systems -- 17 mph.", "Forecasters from the National Hurricane Center said the storm was expected to cross over the Gulf coast, anywhere from Louisiana to southeastern Texas, late Saturday night, earlier than had been anticipated previously.", "The fast pace means it won't be spending as much time over the warm Gulf water, leaving less time to build up strength.", "CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers said an area of low pressure in the Gulf has been creating some competing winds that have been pulling clouds away from the cyclone and weakening it.", "Still, the hurricane center said the system may slow, and a tropical storm warning is in effect from Destin, Florida, to Morgan City, Louisiana, including Lake Pontchartrain.", "And Bonnie still could bring drenching rain to Louisiana and other states along the coast, the hurricane center said, creating a storm surge ranging from two to four feet.", "The hurricane center said Bonnie could bring one to three inches of rain across the region, with rainfall of five inches in some areas.", "Bonnie made landfall as a tropical storm earlier Friday near Biscayne Bay in southeastern Florida, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.", "But it weakened as it crossed over the state.", "Even though Bonnie has weakened, uncertainty over the weather already has hampered operations at BP's cripped well in the Gulf.", "BP suspended work on a relief well to permanently seal the damaged well.", "And the federal official overseeing the effort, retired Adm. Thad Allen, ordered ships in the area to shore because of the choppy seas and gusty winds that Bonnie will bring.", "That could delay operations atthe well site for 10 to 14 days.", "But Allen said there's enough confidence in the well's \"integrity\" that it will be left capped and closed during the rough weather.", "Ships used to skim oil off the surface will have to come ashore as well.", "Hundreds have been operating off the coast.", "Meanwhile, states of emergency have been declared in both Louisiana and Mississippi.", "The emergency declarations are intended to speed state help to local goverments that need it and allow emergency crews to respond more efficiently.", "Louisiana Gov.", "Bobby Jindal said Thursday afternoon it's \"good for Louisiana\" that the weather system is moving so fast, since it may not strengthen significantly and is likely to move across Louisiana fairly quickly.", "Still, he said about a half dozen Louisiana parishes have called for voluntary evacuations from low-lying areas and mobile home parks.", "The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services encouraged residents Friday to prepare for the storm by pre-applying for Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, previously known as Disaster Food Stamps.", "The program offers help buying groceries for those who do not regularly receive nutrition assistance but who are affected by lost wages or damages because of a disaster.", "Officials said that pre-applying does not guarantee benefits but is designed to prevent long waits.", "The weather system earlier drenched the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Haiti and the Dominican Republic as it moved from the Caribbean to the Atlantic.", "When it reached Florida, residents in Cutler Bay saw tree branches littering the roads as Bonnie passed through Miami-Dade County.", "\"It was pouring rain for four to five hours straight,\" said Matthew Slack, a bartender at Cutler Bay Sports Bar and Grill.", "But he added, \"It's not that bad. It's like a regular summer storm in Miami.\"", "The storm also slowed business in southern Florida.", "\"We've had a lot of people call and say they might have to cancel due to the storm,\" said Susie Bishop of Continental Inn Condominiums in Marathon, Florida.", "\"I had a few people leave a few days early.\"", "CNN meteorologist Sean C. Morris contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Tropical Depression Bonnie is moving through the eastern Gulf of Mexico .", "The storm's fast pace and a low pressure system in the Gulf may limit its strength .", "Louisiana and Mississippi declare emergencies .", "Storm warning covers western Florida to Louisiana ." ]	[ 0, 7, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Iran began fueling its first nuclear energy plant in the southern city of Bushehr on Saturday, the nation's state media reported.", "The effort will help the country create nuclear-generated electricity, Press TV said.", "The transfer of nuclear fuel was being watched by the International Atomic Energy Agency and senior officials from Iran and Russia, Press TV said.", "Some Western nations have questioned whether the nuclear fuel will be used solely for electricity or would Iran eventually try to enrich uranium on its own, providing material for nuclear weapons.", "It will take about two months for the reactor to begin generating electricity, state media has reported.", "Russia's nuclear agency says it will take longer.", "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, recently asserted Iran's right to establish nuclear plants.", "Sergei Kiriyenko, general director of Rosatom, the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation said Saturday's arrival of nuclear fuel marks \"an event of crucial importance\" that proves that \"Russia always fulfills its international obligations.\"", "Spent nuclear fuel from the plant will be sent back to Russia.", "The opening of the plant prompted the White House to question Iran continuing to enrich uranium within its borders.", "\"Russia is providing the fuel, and taking the fuel back out,\" White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said earlier this month.", "\"It, quite clearly, I think, underscores that Iran does not need its own enrichment capability if its intentions, as it states, are for a peaceful nuclear program,\" he said.", "Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking to Russian reporters in the Black Sea resort of Sochi Wednesday, brushed off Western concerns about the Bushehr facility, calling it \"the most important anchor holding Iran to the nonproliferation regime,\" according to the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti.", "Alistair Burt, Britain's foreign minister, said on Saturday the development \"demonstrates that Iran can have the benefits of nuclear power.\"", "\"The problem is Iran's continued refusal to satisfy the IAEA and international community that its work on uranium enrichment and heavy water projects are exclusively peaceful.\"", "The Bushehr facility was originally scheduled to start operations in 2007, but the date for commissioning the plant has been postponed a number of times due to various technical, financial and political factors." ]	[ "Western nations question the motive .", "Iran says the fuel will be used to generate electricity ." ]	[ 3, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Northwest Airlines violated more than 1,000 Federal Aviation Administration safety directives, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has found, substantiating complaints of an FAA whistleblower.", "Northwest, now merged with Delta Airlines, engaged in \"systemic non-compliance with FAA Airworthiness Directives,\" the investigation concluded, referring to government rules designed to remedy an unsafe or potentially unsafe condition.", "\"Despite Northwest's history of Airworthiness Directive non-compliance,\" the Office of Special Counsel said, \"FAA inspectors continued to work collaboratively with Northwest to resolve deficiencies, and closing enforcement cases primarily by issuing letters of correction rather than seeking civil penalties.\"", "Whistleblower Mark Lund of the FAA's former Northwest inspection office in Bloomington, Minnesota, alleged that the carrier did not have adequate policies and procedures in place in 2008 to ensure compliance with safety regulations.", "\"The investigation substantiated Mr. Lund's allegations,\" wrote Associate Special Counsel William Reukauf in a letter to President Barack Obama.", "In response to the findings, FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt has established a review team to oversee the carrier's compliance.", "The FAA also proposed disciplinary action against two Northwest managers.", "The FAA released a statement Thursday saying that the agency \"has taken corrective action on the issues identified in the whistleblower complaint and is continuing to monitor compliance.\"" ]	[ "A federal investigation finds Northwest Airlines violated FAA safety directives .", "The investigation by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel corroborates a whistleblower .", "The whistleblower alleged the carrier did not have adequate policies and procedures ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The fourth former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty this week in connection with police shootings of civilians on a Louisiana bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina, authorities said.", "Former officer Robert Barrios pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge he failed to report a cover-up in the investigation into the Danziger Bridge shooting in New Orleans, the Department of Justice said in a statement Wednesday.", "He faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.", "Barrios' plea comes after the guilty pleas from three other former New Orleans police officers -- Michael Lohman, Jeffrey Lehrmann and Michael Hunter -- involved in the Danziger Bridge case, the Justice Department said.", "Two civilians were killed and four others wounded in the shootings on September 4, 2005, six days after Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast.", "In the first shooting, on the east side of the bridge, one person, later identified as James Brissette, 19, was killed and four people were wounded, prosecutors said.", "In another shooting on the bridge's west side, Ronald Madison, 40, a severely disabled man, was killed.", "Madison's brother was arrested but later released without being charged, authorities said.", "Barrios admitted in court that he met with officers after the shooting to get their stories straight, prosecutors said.", "He also admitted that he lied when he told investigators that he had seen civilians with handguns.", "\"In the days following Hurricane Katrina, the people of New Orleans were relying upon law enforcement to protect public safety.", "Instead, the officers involved in this incident and its cover-up abused their power and violated the public trust,\" said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division." ]	[ "Former officer admits cover-up in investigation of New Orleans bridge shooting .", "Two civilians killed, four wounded in police shooting days after Hurricane Katrina .", "Three officers have since issued guilty pleas for their involvement ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- They are the first victims of the oil disaster that has devastated the Gulf region: 11 oil rig workers killed on April 20 when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, torching the sky and puncturing the sea.", "Their remains have been lost in the Gulf of Mexico.", "At least 15 others were injured in the massive explosion.", "Victims and their families are suing BP and Transocean, the Swiss-based company that owns the drilling rig.", "But getting a settlement from Transocean, the world's largest offshore drilling company, could be difficult.", "Q&A on the legal liability of the companies involved in the oil disaster .", "The company has invoked a 19th century American law to limit its liability to $26.76 million, a fraction of what the plaintiffs are likely to seek.", "\"It may work,\" said Martin Davies, professor of law and director of Tulane University's Maritime Law Center.", "\"They've got a chance.\"", "Transocean's pre-emptive strike is part of the legal thicket confronting victims, where a patchwork of arcane and sometimes inconsistent laws will most likely make the ensuing litigation one of the most complex cases in American history.", "The Deepwater Horizon is technically a mobile offshore drilling unit.", "Under maritime law, it is classified as a seagoing vessel, just like a freighter or passenger ship.", "Three weeks after the accident, Transocean petitioned a U.S. federal court for protection under the Limitation of Liability Act of 1851.", "Congress enacted the law to spur investment in shipping and keep the U.S.", "Merchant Marine fleet competitive with other seafaring nations.", "To help the American shipping industry, the government limited ship owners' liability to the value of the vessel plus the money the owner would collect for completing its voyage.", "But now that the Deepwater Horizon is a wreck on the ocean floor, the vessel is worthless, according to Transocean.", "Read the affidavit stating Deepwater Horizon's value is \"$0.00 dollars\" Transocean says the remaining value of its drilling contract with BP at the time of the April 20 disaster was $26,764,083.", "That amount, the company argues, is the maximum it is legally required to pay to victims.", "\"Totally ridiculous,\" said Kurt Arnold, a Houston, Texas, attorney representing two of the victims.", "Transocean's ability to use the law may depend on a judge's ruling on who at Transocean knew of potential problems and when they knew it.", "Much of the focus has been on BP and its liability in the Gulf oil catastrophe.", "Survivors of the explosion told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview that a BP official wanted workers to replace heavy mud -- used to keep the well's pressure down -- with lighter seawater to help speed a process that was costing an estimated $750,000 a day and was already running five weeks late.", "More on the survivors' account .", "In the claims against Transocean, its lawyers will try to prove that Transocean's top managers did not know about conditions that would cause the accident.", "If they succeed, the Limitation of Liability Act will apply.", "Lawyers for the victims will argue that Transocean officials had enough of what the 1851 law calls \"privity or knowledge\" to hold the company responsible for the full value of the death and injury claims.", "Publicly, the victims' lawyers say they are confident they can \"break the limit.\"", "But law professor Davies disagreed: \"It's not a slam dunk.\"", "If Transocean prevails, a relatively small pool of money would be split among the victims.", "If the money ends up being shared on a pro-rated formula, \"nobody's getting paid 100 percent,\" said Joshua Force, a plaintiff's lawyer in New Orleans, Louisiana.", "Smaller payouts also affect lawyers who work on contingency fees.", "The less they recover for their clients, the less the lawyers get paid.", "Read how some lawyers could get a huge payout .", "A Transocean press release states, without elaboration, that \"Transocean will honor all of its legal obligations arising from the Deepwater Horizon accident.\"", "The company said the petition seeking shelter under the Limitation of Liability Act was filed \"at the instruction of its insurers and in order to preserve insurance coverage.\"", "\"It's understandable self protection,\" Davies said, \"but it still has an unsavory feel to it.\"", "Especially, he added, since the proposed limit is a \"far smaller amount than what they've recovered from their insurers.\"", "Transocean carried $560 million in insurance on the Deepwater Horizon -- more than its book value, according to company officials.", "Transocean noted a $270 million \"accounting gain\" -- or profit -- from the insurance payout in a May 6 conference call with investors.", "Another point of contention is where any future legal battle takes place.", "Transocean argues that Houston is the proper venue, because its American headquarters is there.", "But lawyers for the victims want to move the case to New Orleans, which they argue is more convenient for their clients and closer to the scene of the disaster.", "The lawyers are competing for the \"subterranean sympathy you can get from a judge,\" Davies said.", "Judges \"are all supposed to be objective, but the New Orleans judges are likely to be more ticked off about it than in Houston,\" he said.", "Critics, including Davies, say the Limitation of Liability Act is anachronistic and \"no longer serving the purpose that it was intended to serve.\"", "It should be amended, said attorney Scott Bickford, who represents victims.", "\"The law ought to just deal with cargo at this point,\" not personal injury and wrongful death claims, he told CNN.", "Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said the law should be repealed, \"so that no company has the opportunity to walk away from its responsibility.\"", "But if the law is so antiquated, why wasn't it changed years ago?", "\"You can't get Congress to pay attention to anything on maritime law,\" Davies said.", "\"It's not a very sexy issue until there's a disaster.\"" ]	[ "Families of oil workers killed, hurt in Gulf file lawsuits against BP, Transocean .", "Transocean, which owns Deepwater Horizon, to use a 19th century U.S. law .", "The Limitation of Liability Act of 1851 was meant to keep U.S.", "Merchant Marine competitive .", "Some lawmakers and analysts say the law should either be amended or repealed ." ]	[ 12, 13, 14, 20, 46 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Police in Northern Ireland appealed for the community's help after a fourth night of Catholic-Protestant violence in Belfast, which saw a number of officers injured.", "Five people, all in their teens or early 20s, were arrested in connection with the unrest, police said.", "Wednesday night's violence began shortly before 8 p.m. (3 p.m.", "ET) and lasted for about six hours, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said.", "Are you there? Share your stories, photos and videos .", "In one incident, a car was stolen as the driver was getting inside and the vehicle was then set on fire, police said.", "Assistant Chief Constable Duncan McCausland said Wednesday's violence involved a smaller group of people than on previous nights and included a \"hardcore group\" of about 12 people.", "Northern Ireland's marching season begins .", "They threw objects including petrol bombs and fireworks at police.", "Police fired back with stun grenades and water cannons, they said.", "\"A number\" of police officers were hurt but their injuries were not believed to be serious, the PSNI said.", "The violence began over the weekend after a decision to allow a Protestant parade to pass through a mainly Catholic neighborhood on July 12, a day when Protestants march to celebrate the victory of England's King William III over his ousted Catholic predecessor, James II, in 1689.", "Known as The Twelfth, the holiday has previously been marred by violence and has been a source of tension between Catholics and Protestants for years.", "Police had to remove demonstrators who staged a sit-down protest to block this year's march.", "Rioting erupted a short time later and more than 50 officers were hurt.", "The previous night, 27 officers were hurt, including three who were shot at close range by a masked man armed with a shotgun.", "McCausland said community leaders helped with the situation Wednesday night, but he urged them to do even more.", "\"A number of community workers worked hard to exercise their influence last night and I would thank them for that,\" McCausland said.", "\"However, I would ask them to redouble their efforts.", "In this way, working together, we can help bring these incidents to an end.\"", "British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday denounced the \"completely unacceptable behavior\" of those involved in the unrest.", "He dismissed any sectarian cause behind the violence, pointing out Northern Ireland's police force is under local control, no longer governed by London.", "\"There is no excuse for anyone not to cooperate with that police force,\" Cameron said." ]	[ "Five people were arrested after a fourth night of violence in Belfast .", "Those arrested are all in their teens or early 20s .", "Protesters threw petrol bombs and fireworks at police .", "Police are appealing for more community help to deal with the unrest ." ]	[ 0, 1, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Paul the psychic octopus may not have predicted a medal and a soccer jersey in his future, but he now owns both.", "The global phenomenon picked Spain to beat the Netherlands in the World Cup finals earlier this month.", "Nearly two weeks later, a Spanish delegation from the town of Carballino brought a gift basket Thursday for the cephalopod in his hometown of Oberhausen, Germany.", "The gifts included a bronze statue that is the symbol of the town of Carballino, which makes Paul an official ''best friend of the town.\"", "The delegation -- which included Carballino's mayor Carlos Alberto Montes Marques and various businessmen -- also gave the tentacled one an official Spanish soccer jersey.", "Businessman Manuel Pazo was part of the delegation.", "Pazo has in the past expressed his intent to buy Paul as the town's mascot.", "Carballino residents will celebrate Paul again on August 8th in the 43rd \"festival of the octopus.\"", "Paul not only predicted Spain's win over the Netherlands in the final, but also the team's semifinal success against Germany.", "Before that, he correctly predicted all five of Germany's earlier results, and picked Germany to beat Uruguay in the third-place playoff, ending the tournament with a remarkable eight-for-eight record.", "For each prediction, two mussel-filled acrylic boxes labeled with a team's flag were lowered into Paul's tank.", "Whichever box he chose conveyed the winning team.", "Sea Life staff, where Paul lives, have announced he is retiring from the predictions game, but previously said they were considering offers from around the globe.", "Spain has expressed an interest in Paul, and a Russian bookmaking company has offered to pay 100,000 euros (about $129,800) for the octopus." ]	[ "A Spanish delegation brings a gift basket for the cephalopod .", "Paul lives in Oberhausen, Germany .", "Gifts include a bronze statue ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "San Diego, California (CNN) -- Only at San Diego Comic-Con, the annual gathering of self-proclaimed fanboys and fangirls, can an early screening of a movie feel like a rock concert, and then literally become one.", "In a surprise on Thursday night, some audience members to the panel for \"Scott Pilgrim vs. the World\" --- in which star Michael Cera arrived in a Captain America costume --- were given the chance to see the entire movie early at a nearby theater.", "The crowd cheered during the movie's opening credits and roared their approval whenever the title character landed a decisive blow while facing off with his new girlfriend's \"evil exes.\"", "The movie, based on a Japanese manga-inspired comic book, has a good possibility of appealing to comic book fans and gamers alike.", "\"It surpassed my expectations, and I'm a huge fan,\" said Gabriel Simon, after the screening, which ended with a performance by the band Metric, while cast members such as Anna Kendrick from \"Up in the Air\" rocked out in the balcony.", "Brittany Hernandez of La Jolla, California, is one of several who said the movie was the highlight of the convention so far.", "\"I thought the movie was amazing.", "I saw the panel after the one for 'The Expendables.'", "Sylvester Stallone is hard to beat, but that was pretty awesome.\"", "It's just one of many ways Hollywood studios are trying to get the most bang for their promotional buck among these hardcore filmgoers.", "Giving them a chance to see early footage is one thing, but some moviemakers are trying a more \"immersive experience\" to make sure that the fans have high praise for their top projects, especially when they post to their favorite social media site.", "\"Pilgrim\" doesn't stop there, with an off-site area center where attendees can get custom-made T-shirts.", "Not to be outdone, \"The Green Hornet's\" car, the Black Beauty, and the movie's \"booth babes,\" known as the Green Hornettes are all over Comic-Con.", "Con-goers can head up to another off-site location, Britt Reid's Garage, to catch a glimpse of the masked hero's vehicle of choice, and others owned by the Hornet.", "\"We tried to take risks and make something interesting, and also make something that is worth this amount of money,\" said the Hornet himself, Seth Rogen, gesturing towards the cars.", "\"We went through a lot of different designs [for the Black Beauty] and ended up with basically the same design as the TV show.", "We just added bigger guns.\"", "A Comic-Con veteran, Rogen prefers Marvel Comics over DC and, as for the convention itself, he says he \"wishes it were a little bit more about the comics, actually.\"", "If cars aren't your thing and you prefer your \"immersive experiences\" to be more on the techie side, \"Tron: Legacy\" has an app for that: an all-new version of the \"Tanks\" game from the Tron arcade can be downloaded onto iPhones.", "There's also \"Flynn's Arcade,\" returning to Comic-Con for the second year in a row.", "This year, there is a scavenger hunt of sorts on Twitter, where attentive fans can gain access to special events inside the arcade, which reveal secrets of the film, among other things.", "As \"immersive experiences\" go, however, \"Salt,\" which had all of 24 hours before the movie's release to make an impression, went the old-fashioned route by revealing a big surprise Thursday: Angelina Jolie favoring the audience with an appearance.", "Bruce Willis was also on hand to promote the upcoming comic book adaptation, \"Red,\" though Oscar winner Helen Mirren may have stolen the show by talking about her first action role.", "Speaking of action, the aforementioned Stallone was indeed there Thursday, pushing \"The Expendables,\" along with just about every other action hero who isn't the governor of the most populous state in the union.", "Another way to grab fans' attention is food, and Robert Rodriguez's upcoming \"Machete\" had a taco stand set up on Thursday night, along with an outdoor screening of new footage.", "There are still a few more high-profile movies hoping to thrill the Comic-Con crowd.", "\"Green Lantern\" starring Ryan Reynolds, and the next two Marvel Comics adaptations, \"Thor\" and \"Captain America: The First Avenger\" still have their Hall H presentations coming up over the weekend.", "Visitors to the booths in the exhibitors hall had an early glimpse of Abin Sur, an alien from \"Green Lantern,\" and both Thor's hammer and Cap's shield were on display.", "Also, \"Iron Man\" director Jon Favreu is hoping that his third time's a charm at Comic-Con with \"Cowboys & Aliens,\" which is still in production.", "And believe it or not, \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\" will mark that successful movie franchise's first appearance in San Diego.", "Prior to the panel, fans are getting a look at the famous horcruxes as they will appear in the movie.", "At a convention where there is no such thing as too flashy, even the wildly-popular \"Potter\" might have to pull off every trick up his sleeve to avoid getting overshadowed." ]	[ "Fans preview entire movie \"Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,\" at Comic-Con .", "Movie studios are employing dancing girls, scavenger hunts, iPhone apps and more .", "The \"Harry Potter\" franchise will make first appearance at Comic-Con this year ." ]	[ 25, 29, 30 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The owner of three pit bulls that killed a 2-year-old boy Thursday has been charged in connection with the child's death, authorities in California said.", "Steven Hayashi, 52, was arrested on charges of child endangerment and possessing a mischievous animal that causes death or great bodily injury, the Concord Police Department said in a statement.", "He is being held on $120,000 bail.", "The dogs mauled the boy after he walked into the garage where they were being kept, police said.", "Authorities said the toddler was the suspect's step-grandchild.", "Two adult relatives and a young sibling were also home at the time of the attack, which police said occurred just after 8:45 a.m. Thursday (11:45 a.m. ...", "The boy was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.", "Police said they were still investigating the incident." ]	[ "Police say three dogs mauled the 2-year-old .", "Authorities say the victim was the dog owner's step-grandchild .", "Hayashi is accused of child endangerment and possessing a mischievous animal ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The sisters of a Los Angeles woman found dead in Cancun, Mexico, in April want the U.S. government to explain why her husband has not been arrested a month after Mexican prosecutors requested his extradition.", "\"We are tired of waiting,\" Jeanne Burgos said Thursday.", "\"It's not fair.\" She and her sister Carla Burgos staged a rally outside the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon to demand an arrest.", "\"We are demanding that the United States authorities just do what they have to do,\" Burgos said.", "\"We are not asking for anything beyond what their duties are.\"", "Reality TV producer Bruce Beresford-Redman is still living free with his children in Los Angeles nearly two months after a Mexican judge ordered his arrest.", "Mexican officials said June 23 that they had sent their extradition petition to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.", "Neither the U.S. State Department nor the Justice Department in Washington would confirm what has happened with the extradition request.", "A spokesman for the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, who would pursue an arrest, said Thursday that nothing has been filed in California.", "\"They are not telling us anything,\" said Allison Triessl, the Burgos family's lawyer.", "\"We have repeatedly asked.", "We have made phone calls almost daily, and we have received no information at all.\"", "Beresford-Redman was briefly detained after his wife's body was found April 8 in a sewer at Cancun's Moon Palace Resort.", "His passport was taken by investigators, and he was told not to leave Mexico until the inquiry was concluded.", "Quintana Roo state Attorney General Francisco Alor said in May that he has a \"very concrete\" case against the former \"Survivor\" producer.", "Beresford-Redman's lawyer, Richard Hirsch, has said he would fight extradition.", "Beresford-Redman returned home in May, without the knowledge of investigators, to take care of family business and see his two young children, his lawyer said.", "His parents have temporary legal custody of the children, ages 3 and 5, but they are staying with Beresford-Redman.", "The initial investigation suggested that Monica Beresford-Redman \"died of strangulation, because of the bruising,\" Mexican regional police spokesman Adrian Cardena said.", "A source close to the wife has said that she cleaned out the family's bank account and took her two children to Hawaii because she was upset about her husband's extramarital affair.", "The couple later traveled to Cancun in an effort to repair their marriage, the source said." ]	[ "Bruce Beresford-Redman is still free nearly 2 months after murder charge .", "Mexican officials say U.S. received extradition request a month ago .", "Burgos sisters demand U.S. officials immediately arrest the reality TV producer .", "Monica Beresford-Redman was found dead at Cancun resort in April ." ]	[ 5, 12 ]
[ "Moscow, Russia(CNN) -- Unidentified gunmen killed two people and injured another two Wednesday in what Russian officials called a terrorist attack intended to blow up a hydroelectric power station.", "The attackers targeted the Baksan Hydropower Plant in the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office said.", "They killed two guards and badly beat two control-room operators, authorities said.", "\"At about 4 a.m., perpetrators wearing masks penetrated inside the station and tied their hands with tape,\" Valery Shogenov, the hydroelectric station's manager, told Russian state television on the backdrop of his plant still smoking.", "\"But the operators managed to finally free themselves from the tape and call us about the accident,\" he said.", "While at the station, the gunmen triggered off four improvised explosive devices that destroyed two of its three hydropower generators and caused a fire in the control room.", "Later, investigators defused a fifth device planted by the bombers that didn't explode.", "Russian security officials said the same gunmen had attacked a local police station in Baksan vullage with grenade launchers shortly before storming into the power plant.", "\"The possible suspects have been determined now,\" the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee said in a statement.", "\"Government bodies are keeping the situation under their control,\" it said.", "The special crisis center of the republic's law enforcement agencies said three to five people were behind the attack.", "RusHydro, the country's power-generating company, said on its website that the fire had been extinguished, but part of the control room's equipment is damaged and needs replacement.", "RusHydro also said security has been boosted at all its hydroelectric plants across Russia's restive northern Caucasus region.", "Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed government officials to take \"speedy measures to fully restore the power plant.\"", "The Baksan hydroelectric plant was built in 1936.", "Russian media said this was the first time in the country's history that a power plant was attacked by terrorists." ]	[ "Unidentified gunmen kill two people, injure two more .", "Attackers wearing masks storm the power station at 4 a.m.\nOfficials: Gunmen attacked police station before power plant .", "RusHydro says security boosted at all its hydroelectric plants ." ]	[ 0, 7, 12 ]
[ "Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Nearly 1.3 million Mexican residents don't have running water in Mexico City, the nation's capital, a university study has revealed.", "The study concluded that although a greater number of residents have access to running water, there are still large segments of the population who do not, the state-run Notimex news agency said Tuesday, citing the Council for Evaluation of Social Development in the Federal District.", "Mexico City is located in the Federal District, much like Washington is located in the District of Columbia.", "According to the study, nearly 7 million residents, or about 81.5 percent of the city's population connected to the water system, received their supply daily in 2009.", "More than 1.4 million received water irregularly during the week, the study said.", "Nearly 1.3 million people received no water at all.", "Some Mexico City neighborhoods have seen an increase in availability, the study said.", "Iztapalapa increased from nearly 71 percent of its population in 2000 to nearly 83 percent in 2005.", "Tlahuac went from nearly 62 percent to more than 77 percent, Xochimilco from about 61 percent to more than 71 percent and Milpa Alta from around 42 percent to about 61 percent.", "The study was conducted by specialists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico." ]	[ "Nearly 7 million Mexico City residents get water daily .", "Another 1.4 million city residents get it irregularly .", "Some neighborhoods had more water service in 2005 than in 2000 .", "The study was conducted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico ." ]	[ 0, 4, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Roger Federer will resume his rivalry with Australia's Lleyton Hewitt when the two tennis superstars play in the final of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle on Sunday.", "Federer, who has an incredible 76-1 record on grass since 2003, reached his third ATP Tour final of the year with a 7-6 6-3 win over German Philipp Petzschner.", "Earlier on Saturday, Hewitt beat another home hope as he battled past Benjamin Becker 6-7 7-6 6-2.", "Nadal and Murray crash out at Queen's Club .", "Hewitt, who won Wimbledon in 2002 and held the world number one spot, will be meeting Federer for the 25th time, but he has lost the last 16 matches.", "\"He's obviously the best grass-court player around,\" Hewitt told the official ATP Tour Web site.", "\"It's a good test for me to go out there.", "I'm going to have to obviously play extremely well and execute what I want to do out there and try and put him under some kind of pressure.\"", "Federer will be seeking his sixth title in Halle, his traditional warm-up event ahead of a tilt at his seventh Wimbledon crown.", "Meanwhile, Mardy Fish will contest an all-American final against Sam Querrey in the other big grass warm-up tournament at Queen's Club in London.", "Fish, who beat defending champion Andy Murray in the third round, saw off Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-3 6-4.", "Lopez could not reproduce the form which saw him beat compatriot Rafael Nadal, the world number one and French Open champion in the quarters.", "Querrey edged Germany's Rainer Schuettler 6-7 7-5 6-3 in the first semifinal." ]	[ "Roger Federer to face Lleyton Hewitt in final of ATP tournament in Halle .", "Federer will be seeking his sixth title in the German grass court event .", "Sam Querrey and Mardy Fish reach all-American final at Queen's Club ." ]	[ 8, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- World number one Roger Federer was knocked out of the Estoril Open on Saturday, after losing to defending champion Albert Montanes, 29, of Spain 6-2 7-6 (7-5) in the semifinals of the Portugal tournament.", "The 16-time champion, who is six weeks away from beating Pete Sampras's record of 286 weeks as the globe's top-ranked men's player, lost to Montanes on a rain-soaked clay court in under 90 minutes.", "Montanes will now face Portugal's Frederico Gil in Monday's final.", "However, the 28-year-old Federer -- who beat Nikolay Davendenko to win the event in 2008 -- remained confident about his clay-court form, despite this loss coming on the back of an opening match defeat at last month's Rome Masters.", "\"I'm not worried,\" Federer told the official Web site of the Estoril Open.", "\"My goal isn't to win 12 tournaments a year, it is the big events: the Masters, the grand slams and keeping the number one ranking.", "\"My decision to come to Estoril was the right decision.", "I would like to return again in future.", "I know that good things are around the corner,\" Federer added.", "\"I'm disappointed to have played a match like this, where I got off to a bad start again.", "I didn't play that badly in the second set, I had my moments but my movement was a little slow.", "\"I'm lacking matches,\" said Federer.", "\"I'll keep practicing hard again.", "Conditions will speed up in Madrid and Paris [at Roland Garros].", "I must take positives into the next few weeks.\"", "Federer was using the tournament as a warm-up to the French Open, where the Swiss ace will be looking to defend his title when the tournament starts at Roland Garros on May 23.", "Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia beat Spain's Arantxa Parra Santonja 6-2 7-5 to win the women's final in Estoril.", "Meanwhile, world number two Novak Djokovic pulled out of the Madrid Open on Saturday due to continued breathing problems.", "An allergic reaction to pollen in the air forced the 22-year-old player to retire from a game at the Serbain Open on Friday." ]	[ "World No.", "1 Roger Federer is knocked out of the Estoril Open .", "Swiss ace is defeated by Albert Montanes 6-2 7-6 (7-5) in the semis .", "Federer says \"I'm not worried\" in build up to defending his French Open title ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Maria Sharapova battled to a three-set victory over American qualifier Alison Riske to reach the final of the WTA tournament in Birmingham on Saturday.", "The two-time winner at the Edgbastion Priory club will now play top seed Li Na, who was also taken to three sets before beating France's Aravane Rezai 6-1 3-6 6-3.", "The 19-year-old Riske had never won a match in a main WTA tour event before the pre-Wimbledon warm-up tournament, but did well to hit back after losing the first set to level with a 6-4 second set win.", "But former world number one Sharapova was not to be denied and swept through the decider 6-1 to earn a rematch with China star Li, who beat her in the semifinals last year.", "\"It'll be good to play her again,\" Sharapova told the official WTA Tour Web site.", "\"A year makes a big difference.", "I certainly don't like losing to the same person twice in a row -- I'm a big competitor.\"", "Li, who lost in last year's final to Magdalena Rybarikova, said she suffered from a lapse of concentration against the fourth-seeded Rezai, but recovered to earn another meeting with Sharapova.", "She will be bidding for her career third title on the WTA Tour and first since the Gold Coast in 2008, but aside from her 2009 win over Sharapova in Birmingham last year has lost their other five meetings." ]	[ "Maria Sharapova into final of WTA Tour event in Birmingham .", "Russian superstar will play Li Na of China in Sunday's showdown .", "Sharapova taken to three sets by American qualifier Alison Riske ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- As Tropical Depression Bonnie churns through the Gulf of Mexico, several response vessels at the site of BP's ruptured well are in the process of being moved out of harm's way Friday, possibly leaving the sealed well cap unattended for about 48 hours, federal officials said.", "\"The intention right now is to put the vessels in a safe place so they can return as quickly as possible,\" retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said.", "The rigs drilling the relief wells and the Q4000 recovery vessel are expected to be fully disconnected by late Friday afternoon, Allen said in a briefing Friday.", "Operators manning the vessels will begin to move to a position of the \"best survivability,\" he added.", "Even if the vessels monitoring the well have to depart, Allen said, they'll perform aerial and satellite surveillance and leave recording equipment at the base of the well to continue observation.", "\"If we have to evacuate the scene, we're probably looking at a very limited window, probably 48 hours,\" he said.", "Allen also addressed the \"good and bad part\" of a tropical storm hitting the Gulf region: While he acknowledged how a storm surge could drive the oil into beach and marsh areas, where it would have not been driven otherwise, Allen says the increased weather activity may \"actually help\" disperse the oil.", "\"So we're mindful that those are two consequences and prepared to move out and aggressively attack this once the threat is passed through.", "But in [the] meantime, preservation of life and preservation of equipment are our highest priority,\" Allen said.", "Later, Allen told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, \"it's certainly going to be a setback\" in the effort to permanently seal the well and clean up the Gulf.", "He noted that 800 skimmers that had been collecting oil on the surface across the Gulf Coast will be returning to safety on shore but said authorities are slowly making progress.", "\"I'm not ready to declare victory, nor should anybody.", "But we certainly are starting to gain a bit of an upper hand here,\" he said.", "\"Of course, we still have beach cleanup and marshland areas that are affected.\"", "BP said that pressure in the well continues to \"slowly increase.\"", "Company officials said they will continue to take pressure readings and monitor the well as long as weather permits.", "On Thursday, officials said the departure of the relief well rig could delay work on the operation -- described as the permanent fix to the ruptured well -- for at least 10 days.", "Allen said the cap placed over the damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico will remain sealed and continue to stop oil from escaping even if the more than 2,000 people who have been working at the well site are off the water.", "The weather could force officials to temporarily scale back efforts to search beneath the surface for leaking oil.", "But Allen said Thursday that the remote vehicles used to monitor the area will be the last to leave and the first to return.", "Sensors and extensive monitoring have allowed observers to \"rule out any indications that there might be a leak,\" Allen said Thursday, noting that his confidence in the integrity of the well had \"improved dramatically\" after he examined data over the past few days.", "Once the weather system passes, a plan to pump mud into the well to force oil back into the reservoir below is in the works.", "BP has Allen's approval to prepare for the \"static kill\" process but would still need the government's final go-ahead before proceeding, BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells said.", "Meanwhile, officials monitoring the spill say they continue to track the tropical weather and communicate with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is ultimately responsible for the safety of the more than 40,000 people assisting in recovery and response efforts in the Gulf region.", "\"The protection of the equipment and crew is paramount to ensure maximum ability to respond to any new challenges a storm may pose to the enormous mission,\" Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft, the federal on-scene coordinator, said in a news release Thursday.", "\"We are repositioning assets away from low-lying areas to higher-ground staging areas to protect our ability to respond to the dynamic requirements of the incident,\" Zukunft said.", "At 5 p.m. ET Friday, Bonnie had been downgraded to a tropical depression after moving across southern Florida.", "It was moving west-northwest at 18 miles an hour and had maximum sustained winds of 35 miles an hour.", "It's expected to make landfall early Sunday between New Orleans, Louisiana, and southeastern Texas.", "If the storm continues on its path, it could slam into the area of the BP oil spill and possibly push more oil to shore.", "The tropical weather system could diminish or erase encouraging signs of recovery from the BP oil spill, according to a scientist who spearheaded the first major examination of the Louisiana coast wetlands.", "\"Early marsh regrowth could easily be taken away with high winds and waves,\" said Tom Bianchi, a Texas A&M oceanography professor who has spent his career researching marshes.", "Meanwhile, at a federal hearing in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Friday, a Deepwater Horizon chief engineering technician testified that the rig's general alarm system -- which is designed to detect a sudden rise in natural gas -- had been disabled because rig managers \"did not want people woke up at 3 in the morning due to false alarms.\"", "Technician Mike Williams said the alarm system had been been \"inhibited\" for about a year before the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers and started the worst oil disaster in the nation's history.", "Williams said supervisors on the Transocean rig were aware that the system had been inhibited.", "Transocean later said in a statement that the disabling was \"intentional and conforms to accepted maritime practices.\"", "\"It was not a safety oversight or done as a matter of convenience,\" it said.", "The company said there were hundreds of individual fire and gas alarms on the Deepwater Horizon in a \"zone-based\" system.", "The rig had an option -- which was resorted to -- to prevent the general alarm from sounding when an individual alarm went off.", "Transocean said it's possible that individual alarms might be providing notification of \"minor issues or a non-emergency,\" and \"repeated false alarms increase risk and decrease rig safety.\"", "CNN's Ashley Fantz, Vivian Kuo and Sean Morris contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Retired Adm. Thad Allen says there is \"certainly going to be a setback\" at well site .", "NEW: Allen says crews \"starting to gain a bit of an upper hand\" in collecting oil .", "NEW: Transocean says that disabling general alarm at rig is accepted practice .", "Deepwater Horizon alarm had been \"inhibited,\" technician testifies ." ]	[ 12, 32 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Ethiopian born designer has an eye for style.", "She launched a line of high-end handbags in 2006 and a year later married celebrated chef Wolfgang Puck.", "Together the couple live in LA and have made Forbes magazine's list of \"Married celebrity entrepreneurs\".", "While loving the California lifestyle, she still has strong connections to Ethiopia, putting much of her energy into her charity work there." ]	[ "Ethiopian fashion designer and philanthropist married to chef Wolfgang Puck .", "Based in LA has concentrated on accessories, using textiles and ideas from Africa .", "Born in Addis Ababa, Puck supports the Ethiopian Children's Fund ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Maria Sharapova powered into the semifinals of the WTA tournament in Birmingham with a straight sets victory over old adversary Sesil Karatantcheva on Friday.", "Sharapova, who is bidding to win her second Wimbledon title, has had to play catch-up at the rain-hit warm-up tournament, which she has won twice.", "The second seed beat Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the United States and then fellow Russian Alla Kudryavtseva in straight sets on Thursday and gave Karatantcheva similar short shrift in a 6-2 6-4 victory.", "The two have history dating back to an on-court incident in 2004 at Indian Wells and Sharapova has easily won their two subsequent matches.", "Karatantcheva, the 2004 French Open junior champion, was only 16 when banned for two years in 2006 for a doping offence which she vigorously denied.", "Sharapova is seeded to meet China's Li Na, who beat Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 6-4 6-2, in the final on Sunday.", "Li will play Aravane Rezai of France, who dispatched Sara Errani of Italy 7-6 7-5.", "Next up for Sharapova on the grass of the Edgbaston Priory club will be American teenager Alison Riske, who shocked Belgian third seed Yanina Wickmayer 6-7 6-4 6-3 on Friday.", "Riske had to come through qualifying and survived the loss of the first set on a tiebreak to take charge." ]	[ "Maria Sharapova reaches last four of WTA tournament in Birmingham .", "Russian star sees off Sesil Karatantcheva of Kazakhstan in straight sets .", "She next faces Alison Riske of the USA who shocked third seed Yanina Wickmayer ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The 39-year-old Liberian artist was exiled during the country's civil war, but returned to the capital Monrovia after the conflict to open its first gallery.", "From his paintings to his cartoons in Monrovia's Daily Observer, Lumeh remains a prolific artist." ]	[ "Artist had to leave Liberia during civil war; returned 8 years later at end of conflict .", "Opened Monrovia's first gallery after war, believes in positive influence of art .", "Social commentary in his paintings and cartoons in daily newspaper ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Poet, dramatist and novelist, Wole Soyinka's work has left a large imprint on the literary landscape of Africa.", "Poltical activist and Nobel Laureat, Wole Soyinka.", "His work has been performed internationally and in 1986 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.", "Regardless of the global profile and recognition, writing for Soyinka has always been, and always will be, a part of his life.", "\"I began writing early, very, very early. ...", "I was already writing short stories for the radio, and selling poems to poetry and art festivals, I was involved in school plays, I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, now I'm a writer.", "I've always been a writer,\" he told CNN.", "Before being honored with a Nobel Prize, Soyinka had written plays performed across the world, set up drama groups and held academic positions in the UK, the U.S. and Nigeria.", "Poetry and novels make up the rest of his work, but it is with the medium of drama that he feels most comfortable.", "\"When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so forth.", "I don't think I've ever written one play as an abstract piece, as a literary piece, floating in the air somewhere, to be flushed out later on,\" he said.", "Now 75, Soyinka claims it is a natural curiosity with life and humanity that has always compelled him to write, and should be a pre-requisite for all aspiring writers.", "\"Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use, or not use,\" he said.", "Often he's used those \"weapons\" to take aim at oppression, corruption, the legacy of colonialism and slavery, both in his work and more overtly in his political activism.", "At times he's suffered for his outspoken views; in 1967 he was imprisoned for 22 months for publicly calling for a truce during Nigeria's civil war and in 1994 was forced to leave the country when General Sani Abacha came to power.", "\"One of my earliest short stories in fact had to do with the story of a family which escaped enslavement by Portuguese slave leaders, so you can see how early I was preoccupied by that theme of power and freedom, and domination,\" he said.", "\"If there's one overriding political theme it's my continuing emphasis on the axis of freedom and power.", "I think that the history of the world, of all societies, has spun on those two axes.\"", "Soyinka spends his time between Nigeria, Europe and the U.S., much of it on the lecture circuit, but the need to write remains.", "\"I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.", "That's the first stage.", "And the next stage is, I want to get it onto the platform -- onto the stage.", "And once I've done that, no matter where, I'm satisfied.\"", "Watch the show on CNN on Saturday, August 1, 12.30, 21.30 GMT and Sunday, August 2, 18.00 GMT." ]	[ "Imprisoned in native Nigeria for 22 months during civil war after calling for a truce .", "Poet, playwright and novelist won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 .", "\"I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system\"" ]	[ 14, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- China's space program has really taken off in the last six years.", "In 2003 Yang Liwei became a national hero when he became the first Chinese man in space, followed five years later by Zhai Zhigang who became the first \"taikonaut\" to make a spacewalk.", "\"The moment I stepped out of the hatch and entered space, the sensation of completely becoming one with space was a feeling I had never felt before on Earth,\" Zhai told CNN.", "\"I deliberately looked into outer space, looking past my toes and deep into outer space.", "The differing brightness and distances of the celestial bodies really brought out the deepness of outer space.", "The vast, boundless expanse of outer space stirred my soul.\"", "From out of this world moments to their place in Chinese history, these two pioneering spacemen tell CNN's John Vause about their missions, how they had prepared for the worst should things go wrong and if China and other nations with the moon in their sights are creating a new international space race." ]	[ "Chinese \"taikonauts\" Yang Liwei and Zhai Zhigang talk to CNN .", "First Chinese man in space and first Chinese to conduct a spacewalk, respectively .", "Talk about their historic moments to international space race ." ]	[ 1, 6 ]
[ "Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer was under European diplomatic protection Friday after Turkish authorities released him from a detention center for illegal immigrants.", "Mohammad Mostafaei had barely made it to his hotel in Istanbul before diplomatic officials rushed to the scene and announced he was not safe.", "They swept him away in a car for his safety.", "\"After six days [in detention], I'm so tired I just want to go to my hotel and take a shower,\" Mostafaei said to CNN.", "\"I feel like I'm still in detention.\"", "He has had to make difficult, life-altering decisions in recent weeks.", "The lawyer has been a longtime defender of Iranian juveniles facing the death penalty.", "More recently, he campaigned to attract international attention to the case of Sakineh Ashtiani, the 43-year-old mother of two who was sentenced to death by stoning after she was convicted of adultery.", "On July 24, as activists around the world staged protests against Ashtiani's death sentence, Mostafaei was taken in by Iranian authorities for hours of interrogation.", "After they released him, he said, he went into hiding.", "Around the same time, he said, Iranian security forces detained his wife and brother-in-law.", "The brother-in-law has been released, but Mostafaei said his wife Fereshteh is still being held in solitary confinement without charge.", "\"I am extremely worried about my wife and her safety,\" Mostafaei said in an earlier interview with CNN.", "\"They [the Iranian authorities] told me if you don't turn yourself in, we will not let your family go,\" Mostafaei added.", "\"I made a decision, after I saw that they were still going to arrest me and mistreat me, that I must leave Iran.", "It was a very hard decision.\"", "He added, \"The truth is even when someone talks about Parmida and says her name, it's really hard for me to talk and I want to cry when that happens.\"", "Like many other Iranian dissidents, Mostafaei slipped across the border from Iran to the eastern Turkish border town of Van.", "He blames himself for his detention, which began after he landed at the Istanbul airport from Van.", "\"It was my mistake. I went to the police officers inside the airport and declared myself as a refugee,\" he said on Friday.", "According to Turkish law, refugees requesting asylum must go through a registration process with the Turkish government and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.", "Normally it can take two years before a refugee is processed and granted asylum in another, typically Western country.", "But officials at the Turkish foreign ministry told CNN that in Mostafaei's case, he was likely to be granted asylum in a European country within days.", "According to the refugee agency's Ankara office, around 4,100 Iranian citizens currently are registered in Turkey and awaiting asylum in third-party countries.", "Metin Corabatir, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' representative in Ankara, estimates that \"on a monthly basis there has been an increase of 25 to 50\" Iranians requesting asylum, compared with before the Iranian government launched a crackdown on opposition activists following a controversial presidential election on June 12, 2009.", "Corabatir said 150 to 200 Iranians now request asylum in Turkey every month.", "In his conversation on Friday with CNN, Mostafaei expressed concern for the welfare of his imprisoned wife and his daughter, whom he left behind in Iran with her grandmother.", "He said he also worries about clients like Ashtiani.", "\"Who else will do my work?\" he asked. Ashtiani, a mother of two, is reportedly still being held in Tabriz prison.", "Iran's judiciary could reinstate her sentence of death by stoning, execute her by other means, or possibly even grant her a reprieve, according to human rights groups.", "CNN's Yesim Comert in Istanbul and Mitra Mobasherat in Atlanta contributed to this report ." ]	[ "European diplomats whisked Mostafaei away shortly after his release .", "He is \"extremely worried\" about his wife, who is being held in Iran .", "Mostafaei has fought the Iranian government over the death penalty .", "He was the attorney for the woman sentenced to be stoned to death ." ]	[ 6, 7, 11, 26 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- The recent suicidal violence in Pakistan coincides with a growing concern that President Obama might be tempted by the same folly that drove President Bush and massively increase the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan -- by up to 65,000 if he were to listen to some of his military advisers.", "This is a deadly mistake that would drag the United States into a quagmire with even more catastrophic consequences than those it has faced in Iraq.", "The recent comment by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to CNN that \"the Bush administration failed to ask critical questions about the war in Afghanistan\" would be a key point of departure, but the question remains how critically Obama is willing to ask these questions.", "The fear that is now principally driving this tendency to escalate the war is that the Taliban and al Qaeda are about to declare victory over yet another superpower, and even expand their theater of operation, as the British army chief General Sir David Richards has suggested, into other parts of the world.", "This is a phantom fear, from a frightful figment of imagination in which the U.S. and European armies are now strategically invested and that has for almost a decade had a crippling effect on any measure of reason and sanity.", "There is no better way to combat this fearful fantasy than rethink what we have collectively come to understand by these two elusive terms \"Taliban\" and \"al Qaeda.\"", "The only way to defeat these deceptive delusions is not to dispatch tens of thousands of innocent lives across the globe and endanger even more tens of thousands of innocent lives in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but to re-examine the terror that these terms have exercised over our mental faculties ever since the traumatic events of 9/11.", "What now passes as \"Taliban\" and \"al Qaeda\" fundamentally lack serious popular bases, mass infrastructural support or certainly any coherent ideology.", "In the history of the militant Islamist ideologies that we have known and examined in detail over the last 200 years, these are conceptual and political aberrations that will wither away almost as soon as they are taken off the radar of U.S. and NATO military operations and, by extension, away from the global limelight.", "The more you fight these delusions, the more powerful they become -- not as facts on the ground, but as figments of the military's imagination.", "Obama would commit perhaps the deadliest mistake and the biggest blunder of his presidency if he were not to listen to the wise counsel of Vice President Biden, who is reportedly against this massive increase of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.", "In a recent interview with Fareed Zakaria on CNN, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan sought to dismantle the myth of the Taliban when he said, \"there are thousands of them who are not ideologically our enemies.", "There are thousands of them who don't hate us or hate our way of life, who are not enemies to America, who are not enemies to the world, who just want to live in their own country in peace, who are frightened, are intimidated by bad behavior -- from the very beginning -- by some of the people that the coalition employed and by some of the people that the Afghan government had working on security issues.", "So, we have to bring those elements back to Afghanistan who are not part of al Qaeda, not part of terrorist networks, and who are accepting the Afghan Constitution and who are willing to come back.\"", "Yet another piece of evidence about the folly of the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan came in the resignation of Matthew Hoh, a Foreign Service officer and former Marine captain who resigned in protest over the Afghan war.", "\"I believe that the people we are fighting there are fighting us because we are occupying them,\" Hoh told CNN last week.", "\"Not for any ideological reasons, not because of any links to al Qaeda, not because of any fundamental hatred towards the West.", "The only reason they're fighting us is because we're occupying them.\"", "The regional consequences of not heeding what Vice President Biden, Rahm Emanuel, Hamid Karzai and Matthew Hoh are saying, implicitly or explicitly, will be even more catastrophic.", "Because of the fundamental flaws of the Obama administration's Afghan strategies so far, exacerbated by the incompetence of the Pakistani political and military apparatus, there is already a massive humanitarian crisis in the North-West Frontier Province.", "Any further increase of the U.S. military force in Afghanistan will Talibanize these border areas even further, and with them potentially the rest of the country.", "The Taliban has never been a unified or a monolithic entity, although for a short period in 2001, it had tenuous control of Afghanistan, and even less so has this thing called \"al Qaeda.\"", "At its essence, what is called \"Taliban\" in Afghanistan is nothing more that a Pashtun tribal push for power, and as such it must be distinguished from what is called \"Taliban\" in the Federally Administered Tribal Area of Pakistan, which in turn must be separated from the Tehreek-e Nafaz-e Shariat-e Mohammadi in Swat, and all of those from the band of militant adventurists gathered around Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, self-delusional to the point of calling themselves \"al Qaeda\" (\"The Base\").", "The atrocities of 9/11 were the work of a criminal band of militant adventurers, on par with the network of support that someone like Timothy McVeigh could muster, and certainly not on a scale that could warrant the cross-continental mobilization of a superpower and its allies.", "The time for conventional military operations, as the Israelis ought to have learned from Hamas and Hezbollah, is long since over.", "You cannot fight and will not win a conventional war halfway around the globe against an amorphous enemy you can scarce clearly identify -- let alone pinpoint and attack, or target and eliminate.", "The U.S. Army and its allies are fighting a phantom war in Afghanistan, with massive civilian casualties and increasingly ineffective combat strategies.", "Obama should not yield to the pressure of the British and the hawks in Washington, D.C., and increase the size of the U.S. military.", "He and his civilian advisers are very wise to take time to examine this critical condition and not fall into the same trap that Bush did.", "Instead of increasing the size of the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, there must be a phasing out of the 100,000-plus U.S. and NATO forces that are already in Afghanistan and a corresponding phasing in of massive economic aid to rebuild a country the U.S. and its European allies (the British in particular), and before them the Soviets, are chiefly responsible for ruining.", "The Taliban and al Qaeda will dissipate like a shadowy shade of a nightmare when the might of the U.S. military stops actually creating what it wants to destroy, and once the limelight of world media is no longer cast upon the Afghan mountains.", "The Nobel Peace Prize to Obama could not have been timelier as a way to remind him why he was elected to the White House in the first place.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Hamid Dabashi." ]	[ "It would be fatal mistake to boost troop levels in Afghanistan, Hamid Dabashi says .", "He says the more you fight the Taliban, the more formidable they appear .", "He says that in reality, the Taliban is an amorphous entity that will melt away .", "Dabashi says U.S. should invest in development of Afghanistan, not troops ." ]	[ 9, 10, 32 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A member of Congress Friday called on the State Department to stop doing business with Xe, the North Carolina-based security company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide.", "Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois, on Friday urged the State Department \"not to enter into further contracts\" with Xe.", "Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois, asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton whether the State Department had just signed a new $20 million dollar contract with Xe for Iraq, saying she is \"very concerned\" that the State Department may be signing new security contracts with Xe, both in Iraq and Afghanistan.", "\"I urge you not to enter into further contracts with Xe and to immediately review any existing contracts,\" the letter said, according to a copy provided to CNN.", "\"The behavior and actions of both the company's leadership and a number of individuals employed by the company have harmed our mission in Iraq and Afghanistan and endangered the lives and welfare of our troops and diplomatic personnel serving overseas.\"", "The State Department decided in January not to renew a personnel protection contract with Blackwater, as the company was then known, when it expired in May.", "That decision came amidst an investigation by both U.S. and Iraqi authorities of a 2007 shooting involving Blackwater guards in Baghdad in which 17 Iraqis were killed.", "The company has repeatedly denied any wrong-doing.", "The State Department did not immediately respond to a request Friday for reaction to Schakowsky's questions and criticism.", "The State Department had said that it would continue a Blackwater air-support contract after the much-larger personnel protection contract ended.", "Xe spokeswoman Stacy DeLuke told CNN that, \"Right now we have no contracts with the State Department in Iraq.\"", "DeLuke said the company would review calls for bids to provide security for U.S. officials in Afghanistan.", "\"The thing is we are totally open to bidding on some of the contracts that may come up in Afghanistan just like anyone else,\" DeLuke said in a telephone interview.", "The Nation magazine released an article Friday that said the State Department had signed a new contract for Iraq with Xe for $20 million to extend an earlier aviation contract.", "\"The State Department contract is scheduled to run through September 3.", "In May, the State Department announced it was not renewing Blackwater's Iraq contract, and the Iraqi government has refused to issue the company an operating license,\" the article said.", "The controversy over the role of Blackwater in Iraq was revived earlier this week by a lawsuit filed in Virginia by two former employees accusing Blackwater guards of smuggling weapons and using excessive force in Iraq.", "And the lawsuit claims Blackwater founder Erik Prince \"views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe.\"", "Xe said in a statement that it would respond \"to the anonymous unsubstantiated and offensive assertions put forward by the plaintiffs,\" in a brief to be filed August 17.", "Blackwater changed its name to Xe in February." ]	[ "State Department says it will continue Blackwater air-support contract .", "\"I urge you not to enter into further contracts with Xe,\" Congresswoman's letter says .", "Xe spokeswoman Stacy DeLuke says firm \"totally open\" to Afghanistan bidding ." ]	[ 1, 3, 9 ]
[ "Editor's note: Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, is senior presidential fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University.", "He was White House political director for President Reagan and chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.", "Ed Rollins says Obama appeased UN delegations \"led by tyrants and petty dictatorships.\"", "NEW YORK (CNN) -- The president had his first foray into the byzantine world of U.N. politics last week and walked away cheered on by the anti-America crowd.", "He appeased the delegations led by tyrants and petty dictatorships by condemning President Bush and spelling out how his administration is going to be different.", "President Obama was applauded by Castro, Chavez, and Gadhafi (no friends of ours) when he said he wanted a \"new era of engagement in the world.\"", "Are either of those three dictators going to be better world citizens or kinder, gentler leaders as a result of Obama's outreach?", "Put me in the doubtful column.", "No American president has ever stood before the U.N. body and condemned his predecessor or American foreign policy in such a way.", "President Bush, like every president before him made some mistakes, but he did not deserve this put down.", "And let's not forget America was attacked on September 11, 2001, and thousands of American lives were lost.", "President Bush and his team got us through all that and kept us safe for the rest of his terms.", "And I hope Mr. Obama realizes the \"haters\" of America are still out there.", "Historically, American foreign policy has been pretty consistent whether a Democrat or Republican occupies the Oval Office.", "President Obama's style may be different and more pacifying but at the end of the day he hopefully will be conducting business that benefits American interests and not the lowest common denominator interests of the United Nations membership.", "If not, he will join his fellow Democrat, Jimmy Carter, as a one-termer.", "We know President Obama loves lofty rhetoric and he does it well.", "The public's question should be can he deal with reality?", "And can he relate that reality to us as he makes the very tough decisions he faces in the weeks and months ahead?", "Last Thursday, the president, chairing the United Nations National Security Council, pushed through a six-page resolution that was approved unanimously 15-0.", "The resolution urged a world without nuclear weapons.", "President Obama stated: \"We must never stop until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of the earth.\"", "Some may see that as an admirable goal but the hard truth is that the five permanent members of the Security Council: China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States all have nuclear weapons and none of them -- including the United States -- are giving them up.", "They may downgrade and diminish the stockpile a little, but nobody's going \"no nuke.\"", "You add the other three nuclear powers -- Pakistan, India and Israel (although they don't admit or deny) -- and nobody is disarming.", "Russia, which along with us has the largest stockpile, couldn't get out of the room fast enough before saying \"not us!\"", "The real work of the U.N. Security Council should have been condemning and again warning North Korea and Iran that they are not welcome into the nuclear club and that every effort is going to be used to stop them from continuing on that path.", "It took French President Nicolas Sarkozy to call the Security Council exercise weak and to chastise its members, including President Obama, for not condemning Iran and North Korea more forcefully.", "\"How, before the eyes of the world, could we justify meeting without tackling them?\"", "He went on to say: \"We live in the real world, not a virtual world.", "And the real world expects us to take decisions.\"", "Iran's reaction to their \"view of the real world\" was to walk away from the U.N. meeting and test-fire missiles with sufficient range to strike Israel and parts of Europe and American bases.", "Far from being humbled, a senior Revolutionary Guard official told the semi-official Fars news agency, \"Iranian missiles are able to target any place that threatens Iran.\"", "I for one would like to remind them that we have a lot more missiles then they have and we can strike any place they fire a missile from.", "Of course, I am not a diplomat and never have been one -- for obvious reasons.", "The second exercise in reality is the very tough decision the president must make on Gen. McChrystal's recommendation for more troops to get the job done in Afghanistan.", "Gen. McChrystal is the president's handpicked commander of forces in \"the war of necessity\" (President Obama's term) in Afghanistan.", "The acclaimed and well-respected general was allowed to pick his team and was asked in very short order to make an assessment.", "He has done that and his assessment -- as everyone else including the British and the Soviet Union, who has ever gone to war in Afghanistan found out -- is that the going is tough and without more troops defeat is a very real possibility.", "The president wisely is getting the best counsel possible from his foreign affairs team, an experienced group that will have many opinions as to the direction he needs to follow.", "This maybe the toughest decision of his presidency and whatever direction he takes he will be widely criticized by his friends and enemies alike.", "The important thing to remember, is this is where he needs to educate the public.", "If he expands this war, he needs a skeptical public to support him.", "If he tries an alternative to Gen. McChrystal's plan, he will be judged on the end results and that may be very risky.", "You combine this with the president's promise to close Guantanamo by the end of the year, (not going to happen) get health care passed, eliminate ear marks (The Senate defense appropriations bill has nearly 800 at a cost of $2.65 billion and no threat of a veto anywhere), and you can see a tough fall ahead.", "As if he doesn't have enough on his plate, he is flying off to Denmark to head the lobbying effort for his hometown Chicago's final presentation to the International Olympic Committee to host the 2016 games.", "He will once again find out if his powers of persuasion work on foreign leaders and hopefully for the hometown they will work better then they did last week.", "At least the president will quickly find out this week if he's as good a salesman as he and his team think he is because the IOC makes its decision Friday.", "International Olympic politics is as tough as Chicago politics, and being loved has nothing to do with getting results.", "The outcome will be awaited with great anticipation.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ed Rollins." ]	[ "Ed Rollins: Castro, Chavez, Gadhafi applauded Obama speech .", "He says winning over U.S. foes isn't an important foreign policy goal .", "He says Obama faces very tough decision on troop levels in Afghanistan ." ]	[ 2, 5, 35 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A French tourist is recovering after falling 75 feet into the Grand Canyon, hospital officials said Saturday.", "Witnesses reported that the 18-year-old was taking photographs when he slipped and fell over the edge, the National Park Service said in a statement.", "He was in good condition at Flagstaff Medical Center early Saturday morning, spokeswoman Carrie Heinonen said.", "He was being treated for neck, wrist and ankle injuries, the park service said.", "Authorities said the man fell Thursday afternoon about a quarter mile east of Mather Point on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.", "Park rangers rappelled into the canyon to assess the teen's injuries before a park helicopter airlifted him out." ]	[ "Witnesses say the teen was taking photographs when he fell .", "A hospital official says he is in good condition .", "The National Park Service says he suffered neck, wrist and ankle injuries ." ]	[ 1, 3 ]
[ "Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose new book is \"Late Edition: A Love Story.\"", "Bob Greene says a small town in Ohio is one of the most inspiring places in the United States.", "(CNN) -- All over the world this weekend, people are peering up into the night, trying to catch a glimpse of a sliver of the moon.", "They're thinking about the moon because of Monday's 40-year anniversary of mankind's first lunar landing.", "And more than a few people are undoubtedly allowing themselves to dream of traveling to the moon themselves.", "It's not going to happen.", "For almost all of us, it can be said with certainty: .", "We're never going to go to the moon.", "But there's good news: . We can go to Wapakoneta.", "Wapakoneta is a town of barely 9,000 people in northwestern Ohio.", "It may be, in its own quiet way, the most inspiring single place in the United States.", "I-75 runs right past it; in your car, it's there and then it's gone before you even know it.", "Yet if you make the decision to leave the interstate and turn onto Bellefontaine Street, which takes you into town, you will find yourself thinking about life's most glorious possibilities in a way you seldom have before.", "Each time I go to Wapakoneta, I try to put into words the feeling of walking those small-town streets, and each time I fear I come up short.", "But the lesson of Wapakoneta remains constant.", "A boy from this town -- a boy born here, a boy whose father, a mid-level state employee, was required to move from city to city some twenty different times before ending up back in Wapakoneta for the boy's high school years -- looked up at the Ohio sky and decided that he would soar.", "If the town at times felt cloistered and confining -- if the horizons the boy could physically view on the flat landscape of Auglaize County appeared circumscribed -- he did not let that stop him.", "Down through the ages, it was the one task that was almost beyond conceiving, never mind beyond doing.", "Until, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, of Wapakoneta, walked on the moon.", "You want to talk about the strength of the human will -- of the American will?", "You want to talk about absolute proof that no matter where you're from, if you set your heart to it, you can do anything?", "Take a trip to Wapakoneta.", "Stroll through the neighborhoods, stop in at the stores, maybe catch a movie at the old Wapa Theater on Willipie Street.", "Try to imagine being the boy who did exactly that, when no one knew his name.", "His family had had to pick up and move so often, because of his dad's job, that no one could have blamed him if his only desire had been to finally cling to one place.", "But he decided that if he was destined always to be in motion, then he should make the most of it.", "He was fifteen when, his family living back in Wapakoneta again, he signed up for lessons at the airstrip north of town.", "He had made up his mind: He wanted to escape the earth's bonds.", "The moon was not the dream.", "The moon was merely the eventual landing strip.", "The dream was to fly. Walk around that town.", "If you're feeling hemmed in by life, if all your prospects seem to have dried up, if you feel stuck in place, walk around Wapakoneta.", "Then ask yourself: Is there anything that can stop a person whose belief in what he can accomplish is fierce and unyielding enough?", "There is a little museum in town -- you can see it from I-75 -- that is dedicated to the life of the boy who once walked those same streets.", "The thing I have always loved best about the museum is the display of newspaper front pages from around the world on the day after the moon landing.", "Every front page in every city in every country on the globe ran huge headlines announcing that the impossible had become real: that a man had walked on the moon.", "Some of the papers said just that -- that a man had reached the moon.", "Some made it more parochial -- they said that an American had walked on the moon.", "But the Wapakoneta Daily News said it in the only good and proper way it could be said, in that town, on that day: .", "\"Neil Steps on the Moon.\"", "We all need to be reminded, from time to time, of just what we can do.", "We all, no matter where we live, have moments when we think that the odds are just too great, that life's grandest accomplishments are for someone else.", "And it's probably true that none of us will ever know the feeling of stepping onto the surface of the moon.", "But this is really not about the moon.", "This is about the limitless capacity of the human heart.", "So if there are moments when you begin to question what is out there for you, here's a suggestion: .", "Come to Wapakoneta sometime.", "And look at the sky. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene." ]	[ "Bob Greene: Wapakoneta is a tiny town in northwest Ohio .", "The town is Neil Armstrong's birthplace and where he dreamed of flying .", "Greene says the mission to the moon is a symbol of what we can achieve .", "Greene: \"This is about the limitless capacity of the human heart.\"" ]	[ 1, 18, 33, 44 ]
[ "Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a best-selling author whose new book is \"Late Edition: A Love Story.\"", "Bob Greene says a beer summit wouldn't unite Chicago police veterans and protesters remembering 1968 conflict.", "(CNN) -- Beer summits at the White House notwithstanding, not all controversies between the police and the citizens they serve are destined to turn into gauzy, orchestrated \"teachable moments.\"", "Some wounds are so deep that they just may last forever.", "Which is a lesson in itself. As interesting an evening as I have spent this year took place earlier this summer on a Chicago, Illinois, street well west of downtown.", "\"Just wanted to come spend time with some old friends,\" said Tom Dempsey, 67, as he arrived at the lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police, next door to a plumbers' union training center.", "He had plenty of company.", "This was the first reunion of Chicago police officers assigned to the streets during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.", "Not to diminish the heat of the emotions in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this summer, but in terms of international attention being focused on a police department, what happened in Cambridge was rather mild.", "The mayhem on the streets of Chicago during that long-ago August week, captured on film and in still photographs, has emblemized a moment in history.", "A federal commission used the term \"police riot\"; for more than 40 years the officers who were there have been offended and angry about that.", "So here they were in 2009, retirees in shorts and in golf shirts, in natty blazers and in khaki trousers.", "\"A celebration?\" said Bill Jaconetti, 66.", "\"A celebration of what? This is just some former police officers getting together to remember when we were asked to protect a great American city.\"", "He fully understood it wasn't as simple as that; it never has been.", "The organizers of the reunion had elected to use uncompromising language on the Web site announcing the event.", "The anti-war demonstrators of 1968 were \"Marxist street thugs\"; criticism of the actions of the police was \"unwarranted, inaccurate and wrong.\"", "The language was destined to get attention, and it did.", "Thus, half a block to the west of the lodge this summer, protesters were gathering behind police barricades.", "They felt that the organizers of the police reunion had mischaracterized and purposely insulted the anti-Vietnam war demonstrators of 1968; the police, for their part, have long believed that they were the ones who were provoked at that Democratic convention, that they were goaded in ways that were guaranteed to culminate with violent confrontations.", "Now, on this summer evening in 2009, the protesters, many of them not born in 1968, looked toward the arriving retired officers and chanted: \"No justice!", "No peace! No riot police!\"", "The whole world wasn't watching.", "In Grant Park near Chicago's lakefront -- site of some of the ugliest convention-week battles of 1968 -- hundreds of thousands of people had congregated on this day in 2009.", "It had nothing to do with the police reunion.", "Taste of Chicago, the annual food-and-music festival, had opened its 10-day run.", "Miles distant from that, out on Washington Boulevard, there were perhaps a few hundred retired officers in the lodge, and a lesser number of demonstrators to the west.", "Anyone three blocks away would have been unaware of either group.", "Many of the marquee players from the famous Democratic convention -- Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin from the dissenters, the first Mayor Richard Daley from the city, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley from the national media that spread the pictures -- are dead.", "And the former police officers who were approaching the front door of the lodge?", "\"I know there were probably a lot of peaceful demonstrators in '68 who didn't want all that to happen,\" said John Wotring, 63, who had flown up from his home in Sanford, Florida.", "The one remnant from his life as a street cop is that the nickname his buddies had for him -- \"Johnny Wo\" -- is now, in retirement, a proud part of his e-mail address.", "They're on the back nine of life.", "\"You ask about your buddy -- you say, 'How's so-and-so doing?'", "\" said John Murray, 62, who was 21 during convention week.", "\"You get the answer: 'He died' \" The calls of this year's protesters summoned certain echoes.", "Murray said: \"I was the age of the demonstrators in '68.", "I was a kid, too. But all they saw was the uniform.\"", "The two sides didn't speak to each other then, and not much seemed to have changed.", "\"I think it's fine they're here,\" said retired officer Harold Brown.", "\"It's a nice night.", "They're not hurting anyone.\"", "But the people chanting, kept at a distance, could not hear him.", "John Eshoo, 68, formerly of the 18th District, said, \"Was I angry convention week?", "No. I was just so amazed that we were being faced with what we were being faced with.\"", "There's never going to be common ground, or an inch given on either side, even after everyone who was at the famous convention is gone.", "\"I had served as a Marine corporal in Vietnam for 13 months,\" said Ken Lavorata, 64.", "\"And then I came home and joined the Chicago police and there I was.\"", "The truly radical thing, on a 21st-century summer evening, would have been for someone to take down the wooden barricades at the end of the block and let the cops and those who were chanting toward them get together and talk.", "But if that was going to happen, it would have happened long ago.", "\"I wasn't a big fan of the war, either,\" said retired patrol officer Murray, on a night so pretty it made you half-believe that life can be like that.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene." ]	[ "Bob Greene: Not all police-citizen disputes can be healed by a \"beer summit\"\nHe says 1968 Chicago police veterans held a reunion this year .", "He says their publicity sparked protesters, who held a rally nearby .", "Greene: More than 40 years later, the sides haven't found common ground ." ]	[ 1, 10 ]
[ "Mumbai, India (CNN) -- To say Gregory David Roberts has witnessed much in his life would be an understatement.", "The 57-year-old native Australian was sentenced in the late 1970s for a series of armed robberies.", "He escaped prison and found his way to Mumbai, India, where he lived for 10 years forging a new life, including work as a doctor in the city's slums.", "Roberts' other career highlights?", "He joined the mafia in Mumbai, fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan and married a princess.", "CNN's Anjali Rao spoke with Roberts in Mumbai, the setting and inspiration for \"Shantaram,\" the novel loosely based on his life.", "Watch Roberts talk about his life in the slum .", "A brief excerpt from the interview: .", "CNN: Is it kind of strange that you used to live here, and you were down to your last pennies I guess, and now when you come back here it's with CNN, or Madonna and Guy Richie.", "Is it kind of strange the way that your life has just taken that change, that turn?", "Roberts: No, I know this sounds strange, but I think it was to be expected.", "I had a dramatic change that occurred in my life 19 years ago.", "I changed the orientation of my life, took control of my life.", "I think that if you do that, and you stay true to it, and you stay true to a set of principles -- of being fair, honest, positive, and creative in what you do; of pledging not to harm others, and to minimize any amount of harm that you do to other people or to the world around you; you don't take drugs, you don't poison your mind, you don't take alcohol; you focus on what you're doing, keep your discipline -- then I think it's natural that positive outcomes will occur.", "There's a sense in which it's a natural progression, from taking control of your life and saying, \"I'm going to make my destiny happen.", "I'm not going to allow destiny to control me, I'm going to control my destiny.\"", "I think that we can expect it to happen in those ways, so it's not really a surprise.", "The thing is, it's not surprising that I've come to know these people; the surprising thing for me is that they are almost universally nice people.", "I haven't met anyone at that level -- whether it's Richard Branson, or Johnny Depp, or Madonna, to name a couple -- who are not very, very nice people, and deeply concerned about the world they live in, and trying to make a difference.", "And that's the thing that's to me very surprising, I mean and it's a good surprise." ]	[ "Author of \"Shantaram\", the global best-seller based on his own experiences .", "The Australian worked in slums of Mumbai and came into contact criminal elements .", "Eventful life has included jail term for armed robbery and fighting in Afghanistan ." ]	[ 1, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Come election time in November, voters in five states might have a decision to make as big as whom to elect president.", "Ballot initiatives have been proposed in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma that would give voters the chance to decide whether they want to do away with affirmative action in government-funded projects and public schools.", "Ward Connerly, who heads the American Civil Rights Coalition -- a nonprofit organization working to end racial and gender preferences -- and the main backer of the ballot initiatives, says the 37 word initiative would read: \"The state shall not discriminate against or grant preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting.\"", "\"It would forbid any state or local agency or special district from engaging in preferential treatment,\" Connerly said.", "Watch what Connerly says about the initiative » .", "Connerly, who is of African-American and American Indian descent, said affirmative action causes resentment.", "He criticized cases in which a Caucasian student might be denied a college slot in favor of a black student with a lower grade-point average.", "\"It's foolish not to think that the kid who is turned away is not going to ... resent that,\" Connerly said.", "Connerly, who grew up in Leesville, Louisiana, said he experienced oppression because of his skin color during his youth.", "\"If it was wrong when I was born in '39 ... it's wrong now,\" he said.", "\"If it was wrong to do it against a brown-skinned man, it's wrong to do it against a white man.\"", "Shanta Driver, National Director of United for Equality and Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund -- an organization dedicated to integrating minority students in educational institutions -- said the ballot initiative is a mistake.", "\"It places us in the position of denying ... equal opportunity to blacks and Latinos,\" she said.", "Watch Driver explain her position on the initiative » .", "Driver and other affirmative action supporters believe this movement would erase the progress made since the Civil Rights Act of 1964.", "\"It's obviously a huge step backwards,\" she said.", "The ballot initiative, dubbed the Civil Rights Initiative, has already passed in California, Michigan and Washington.", "Some 140,000 signed petitions have been submitted in Oklahoma.", "Backers in the remaining four states have until late March to early July to collect enough signatures for the initiative to be on the November ballot.", "If successful, the ballot measures would cut off tax dollars for programs offering preferential treatment based on gender or race.", "The issue may have some support in the Supreme Court.", "In June, justices threw out public school choice plans that relied on race.", "That leaves many states uncertain about whether their affirmative action policies will stand up in court and against political scrutiny in this election year.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Initiative pushed in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma .", "It would ban affirmative action in government-funded projects, public schools .", "Initiative has already passed in California, Michigan and Washington ." ]	[ 1, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Italian veteran Alessandro Petacchi won his second stage of the 2010 Tour de France on Wednesday as cycling's premier event returned to less testing terrain after two days of crash-marred racing.", "Petacchi triumphed in the fourth leg from Cambrai to Reims as last year's top sprinters Thor Hushovd and Mark Cavendish could manage only ninth and 12th respectively.", "Fabian Cancellara retained the leader's yellow jersey as he came home 26th in the 163-strong peloton in the same time as last year's winner Alberto Contador (32nd) and seven-time champion Lance Armstrong (36th).", "British rider Cavendish, who won six stages last year, had a better day after struggling in the wet and on the cobble stones of previous runs but will be disappointed after being forced out of contention at the final sprint.", "Petacchi timed his dash to perfection as he followed up his win in the first stage into the Belgian capital of Brussels, where several crashes dented the hopes of Cavendish among others.", "The Lampre team rider came home in three hours 34 minute and 55 seconds to edge out New Zealander Julian Dean and Norway's Edvald Hagen Boasson, with Australian Robbie McEwen fourth and South Africa's Robert Hunter fifth.", "Saxo Bank's Cancellara retained a 23-second lead over Team Sky's Geraint Thomas, who was 19th, while third-placed Australian Cadel Evans remained a further 16 seconds back after ending in 16th.", "Hushovd retained the sprinters' green points jersey that he won overall last year and in 2005, but had his margin trimmed to 10 points by Petacchi and acknowledged the threat posed by the 36-year-old -- back at the Tour for the first time since 2004.", "\"I don't know what happened at the finish today, I just had nothing in the legs when I started to sprint.", "I just felt tired and I couldn't go in the last couple of hundred meters,\" Hushovd told the Tour de France website.", "\"Yesterday and the day before I went really deep and I think I'm paying for it now.", "I still have a lead in the green jersey competition but you saw today that I lost a lot of points to Petacchi and McEwen.", "It was a fast and nervous sprint today and in the last corner I was too far back.", "\"I think I spent too much energy to fight with Cavendish and, when Petacchi went on the left, I just couldn't sprint.", "Petacchi is a threat to the green jersey.", "He seems really strong now and, if he wants to, he come make it all the way to Paris.", "\"I'm surprised by how well Alessandro is going.", "I know he's a good, strong rider but to come back to the Tour de France like he has is impressive.\"", "Swiss rider Cancellara was happy to have an uneventful day after losing teammate Frank Schleck on Tuesday.", "\"My team was happy and I think many other teams were pleased.", "We needed something like this after tough, hard, nervous, and stressful opening stages,\" he said.", "\"We've spent a lot of energy and we need to recover a bit because soon we'll get to the Alps, and that's when another sort of music will play.\"" ]	[ "Alessandro Petacchi claims victory on stage four of the Tour de France in sprint finish .", "The 36-year-old Italian closes on points leader after second stage win of 2010 .", "He heads off New Zealander Julian Dean as sprint rival Mark Cavendish ends in 12th .", "Fabian Cancellara retains overall leader's jersey as he finishes in the 163-strong peloton ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "Editor's note: Below is a chapter from CNN executive producer and author Suzanne Simons' new book, \"Master of War: Blackwater's Erik Prince and the Global Business of War.\"", "This excerpt recounts a trip Prince made to Afghanistan in November 2007.", "Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, is pictured in Afghanistan in November 2007.", "(CNN) -- The group would be met by a Blackwater security team in Kabul, Afghanistan.", "They would be escorted from one meeting to another with employees of the Department of State, the CIA, and the Department of Defense.", "Erik Prince wanted to know how his company was being perceived half a world away from the Washington media.", "In addition to the contracts with the CIA and with Defense for airlifting supplies to troops, Blackwater had guards working for the Department of State at the U.S. embassy annex in Kabul.", "Finally, his men trained Afghans for border patrol and narcotics interdiction.", "All four contracts needed to be handled with care, given the new controversies the company faced.", "Prince had realistic hopes of gaining some new business.", "Clashes between coalition forces and the Taliban along the country's borders had been brutal, and Prince was already in the business of training Afghans to stop the illicit flow of drugs that was believed to be funding the insurgency.", "Surely more could be done.", "Afghanistan was a big market for Blackwater, and Prince hoped he could expand his business on this trip. ...", "The 2½-hour flight to Kabul was packed with a combination of contractors, military types and some random folk who looked as if they had stepped off a movie set.", "In fact, just a few rows behind Prince sat a bald actor who had played a cameo role in an Indiana Jones movie.", "For Prince, the trip was not just about clients; it was also a chance to meet some of the eclectic, modern-day soldiers of fortune who worked under him.", "Prince and his companions were met on the ground by a two-vehicle Blackwater team led by former FBI special agent Ricky \"C.T.\"", "Chambers. After his earlier work for the bureau investigating the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, he had become Blackwater's regional director of training in Afghanistan in 2003 for the Drug Enforcement Agency and Afghan narcotics interdiction contracts, as well as the Afghan border police training programs.", "C.T. knew everyone in Kabul.", "He liked his job, particularly because he was one of the few men who could live in Afghanistan with his wife, a British beauty whom he'd met years earlier during his FBI days in Kenya.", "M.C., as she liked to be called, now ran Blackwater's administrative efforts in the country, including the oversight of some 40 local nationals.", "C.T. greeted the boss with a handshake and a bulletproof vest.", "There had been a suicide bombing in the capital that morning, and at least a few people were killed.", "It happened not far from Blackwater's safe houses, and some of the employees had gone to the roof to get a better look at the huge plume of smoke rising from the site of the attack.", "Suicide bombings were becoming more common in the capital, even in broad daylight in crowded areas where security was present.", "Taliban insurgents were wiring up Afghans who were mentally or physically disabled, the underprivileged who would sit along the side of the busy streets hoping for someone to drop money into their laps.", "When a U.S. convoy or other acceptable target got close enough, militants would remotely detonate their victims.", "Prince put on his vest for a five-minute ride to the other side of the airport.", "One of his planes was being prepared to take him to the country's largest airfield, where his own pilots were based.", "There were armed security guards in each of the two Blackwater SUVs, but Prince kept his own Glock on the seat next to him.", "He kept his eyes open as the convoy moved along the crowded Kabul streets, where fresh meat carcasses hung out to dry and barefooted kids played in the narrow, dust-ridden alleyways.", "He particularly watched for teenagers on cell phones, standing on corners.", "He had seen intelligence information suggesting teens were being paid by insurgents to scout out Western convoys and report their coordinates for a possible attack.", "Once safely inside the airport's perimeter, Prince and his team made their way to the Blackwater plane sitting on the tarmac.", "He greeted his pilots and asked how things were going.", "They assured him that the Department of Defense was happy with the job they were doing.", "Despite the crash of Blackwater Flight 61 into the side of a mountain two years earlier, Presidential Airways had continued to sign contracts with the Pentagon several times since then, including a $91 million-a-year contract to provide air support in Guam.", "Prince's company had eight Cessna aircraft in Afghanistan, working for the Department of Defense.", "His men flew everything from drug eradication missions to bundle drops.", "Many of them were high-risk flights from forward operating bases in the countryside.", "If there was an architect of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, it had been the Central Intelligence Agency.", "While Prince had used his connection to A.", "B. \"Buzzy\" Krongard, the former executive director of the CIA, to get his first black contract for security work, the agency had continued to renew Blackwater's work, even after Krongard left.", "At the secret CIA post, Prince met with a handful of his men who had come to greet him.", "Several of them looked as if they had walked out of an X-Files convention: long hair, plaid flannel shirts and baggy pants worn much further down than pants were meant to be worn.", "Prince, in keeping with his conservative upbringing, gave some of them a hard time about their appearance, but they insisted it was what worked best among the local population.", "Prince's men had apparently made the CIA happy, providing static security and performing unknown other tasks.", "But some in the European Parliament suspected that Prince's Presidential Airways had operated rendition flights for the CIA, and said so in a report.", "An attorney for Prince pressed the European Parliament for proof to support such a claim, but proof never materialized.", "The attorney insisted the statements in the report were false and demanded a correction.", "While the possibility of Prince's companies taking part seemed plausible, Prince denied it ever happened. ...", "Eight deputies of Gen. Rahman, the general in charge of the Afghan border police, were already waiting in a large office on the second floor of the two-story building when Prince arrived.", "He took a seat on a large sofa and listened as the general, through an interpreter, gave him an update on just how Blackwater's training program was working out.", "Prince's men were responsible not only for training the Afghan force in firearms procedures, but for equipping them as well.", "It was the \"one-stop shopping\" that Prince had put into place for his law enforcement and Special Forces clients back at Blackwater's Moyock facility so many years earlier.", "\"Make yourself indispensable to the client,\" he had said, \"and you'll always have work.\"" ]	[ "Blackwater is a private military contractor that was founded in 1997 by Erik Prince .", "2004: Four Blackwater men were seized, murdered, hung from a bridge in Falluja .", "The company now goes by the name Xe .", "CNN's Suzanne Simmons' book explores Prince and his key employees in-depth ." ]	[ 0, 16, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Jason Moran is a jazz musician who has one foot in the past, one in the future and a career grounded in the present.", "From the past, Moran has built on the tradition of Thelonious Monk and other jazz greats.", "For the future, Moran looks to a new crop of musicians, teaching the next group of performers.", "In the present, there is his new album, \"TEN.\"", "Moran shares where he has been and why \"knowing when to 'shut up' is extremely important.\"", "Who are you? How do you define yourself? I am Jason Moran, son of Mary and Andrew Moran, brother of Yuri and Tai Moran, husband of Alicia Hall Moran, father of Jonas and Malcolm Moran.", "I define myself as an American jazz pianist, father and teacher.", "Music is my livelihood and art is my life.", "My fatherhood is contribution to the earth, and my music is my contribution to the function of humans.", "What is something that everyone should know about you?", "I'm a jazz pianist that makes a living by composing/teaching/performing music.", "I compose music for my band, for film and in collaboration with artists of all genres.", "From Simon Schama to Kara Walker.", "I am currently on faculty at the New England Conservatory.", "I've been teaching since 1998.", "I was a student to a lot of great teachers, and now I enjoy sharing my experience with the younger musicians coming up the jazz ladder.", "I perform about 130 concerts per year around the world.", "Music is my life.", "What prepared you for where you are now? The village that raised me in Houston, Texas, prepared me for where I am now.", "The village is my aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, brothers. ...", "The values I learned as a young boy in Houston are what have been integral to my success.", "Southern hospitality is a serious characteristic.", "Knowing when to \"shut up\" is extremely important.", "Knowing how to show respect to older people/musicians is a major factor as well.", "I work with people from 20 to 80, and each musician is different.", "Having older musicians tell me early on, sometimes very bluntly, what they liked or didn't like in my playing also helped.", "There is a jazz village that raises its young jazz musician[s].", "The jazz village has helped my career tremendously, and prepared me for the climate today as a contemporary musician.", "What is the biggest obstacle you've ever had to overcome?", "How did you get there? Deciding to be a jazz musician was the largest obstacle, because I did not understand how to make a living as one.", "I figured it out once I began working and touring.", "I got there by studying vigorously, and asking questions of myself and my peers.", "I studied and conceptualized ideas so much that when the big opportunity arose, performing with then-Blue Note artist Greg Osby, I took the music by the reins and began to run wild with it.", "What would you tell your younger self about who you are now?", "How would you advise your younger self about how to get to where you are now?", "I wouldn't tell my younger self anything.", "All of the good and bad things that happened to me on my journey all inform me of how to live as a contemporary artist/musician.", "And I cannot complain about where I am. What are your guilty pleasures?", "My guilty pleasure is buying contemporary art.", "An expensive habit I usually cannot afford.", "What do you believe in? I believe that music can heal." ]	[ "Jason Moran performs jazz all over the world and also teaches music to the next generation .", "He says in the jazz world, a \"village\" helps the younger generation by providing guidance from the older generation ." ]	[ 0, 1, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- He's gone from being a backup dancer to the biggest thing in Asian pop culture, an actor and singer who has sold millions of albums.", "K-pop sensation and actor Rain faced your questions.", "The 27-year-old South Korean has even faced down U.S. comedian Steven Colbert in a spoof dance-off.", "The comedy skit came about after Rain placed higher than him in Time Magazine's 2008 online poll of the 100 Most Influential People.", "As well as a sense of humor and dance moves that shook Colbert out of his satirical posture to praise, Rain is also known as one of the hardest working men in the entertainment business.", "Rain, real name Jung Ji-hoon, broke into the notoriously tough world of South Korean show business with JYP Entertainment when he was just 18-years-old.", "He made his first mark in Hollywood last year with a role in \"Speed Racer\" appearing alongside Christina Ricci and Matthew Fox.", "As a singer with five albums to his name, he's faced thousands of screaming fans at concerts across the world, and recently he faced your questions.", "Watch the show and find out what makes Rain tick." ]	[ "Korean pop culture sensation will be on Talk Asia later this month .", "27-year-old has gone from backup dancer to appearing in Hollywood films .", "Rain will be appearing with answers to your questions ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Nokia Siemens Networks said Friday it rejects a lawsuit filed in a U.S. court by a jailed Iranian journalist and his son, who have accused the European telecommunications company of providing the Iranian government the tools to spy on its own citizens.", "\"The Saharkhiz lawsuit is brought in the wrong place, against the wrong party and on the wrong premise,\" the company announced in a statement e-mailed to CNN.", "\"The Saharkhizes allege brutal treatment by the government in Iran, but they have not sued that government.", "Instead, they are seeking to blame Nokia Siemens Networks for the acts of the Iranian authorities by filing a lawsuit in the U.S., a country that has absolutely no connection to the issue they are raising.\"", "Earlier this week, New Jersey-based Iranian blogger Mehdi Saharkhiz filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court against Nokia Siemens Networks on behalf of his father, Isa, who has been in an Iranian prison since July 2009.", "The lawsuit accuses the telecommunications company of helping the Iranian government establish \"spying centers\" that allegedly were used to monitor Saharkhiz's cell phone communications.", "Isa Saharkhiz is just one of hundreds of outspoken critics of the Iranian government to have been arrested as part of a wide-ranging crackdown on opposition leaders over the past year.", "\"Nokia gave the technology that made this arrest possible,\" said Mehdi Saharkhiz, in an interview with CNN.", "\"When these people arrested my dad they said, 'We traced your phone.'\"", "This is not the first time the joint venture between Nokia and Siemens has come under fire from activists critical of the company's dealings with the Iranian government.", "Nobel Peace Prize-winning Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi previously accused Nokia Siemens Network of supplying the technology to allow the government to monitor cell phone calls and text messages.", "There have also been reports of boycotts of Nokia products inside Iran.", "Last June, a top executive from Nokia Siemens defended his company's decision to supply a telephone \"monitoring center\" to Iran in 2008 during an appearance before the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights.", "Barry French, a member of Nokia Siemens' executive board, argued that law enforcement agencies around the world require \"Lawful Interception\" capability from mobile phone operators \"as a condition of their license to operate.\"", "French said the technology is necessary to combat child pornography, drug trafficking and terrorism.", "However, he acknowledged that his company miscalculated when it came to providing monitoring centers to Iran.", "\"We halted all work related to monitoring centers in Iran in 2009, including service and support,\" French said, according to a statement distributed by his company's press office.", "\"We believe we should have understood the issues in Iran better in advance and addressed them more proactively.\"", "Nokia Siemens says it sold off its monitoring center business in March 2009.", "One prominent Iranian human rights group has applauded the Saharkhiz lawsuit against Nokia Siemens.", "\"We have to make sure international corporations are not enablers of the Iranian governments' human rights crimes,\" said Hadi Ghaemi of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.", "\"Even if Nokia Siemens manages to escape a judgment in this case, the message to other corporations will be loud and clear to stay away from such business deals.\"", "As for Isa Saharkhiz, he appeared in a Tehran court last month to face charges of \"plotting to overthrow the government.\"", "After a year in prison, during which Saharkhiz claims he was beaten by his captors, the journalist's health has declined considerably.", "His son says he can move only with the help of a wheelchair due to back problems.", "More recently, Mehdi Saharkhiz says, his father's blood pressure has soared to dangerous levels.", "More then a month after his trial, Saharkhiz is still in prison awaiting a verdict." ]	[ "Iranian accuses the telecom company of helping the Iran government spy .", "Nokia Siemens says the suit is filed against the wrong party, on the wrong premise .", "Company says it halted all work related to monitoring centers in Iran in 2009 ." ]	[ 0, 1, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An inmate serving time for assaulting a police officer escaped from an Oklahoma prison Monday, a corrections official said.", "Mark Dwayne Smith, 28, was last seen at the Jackie Brannon Correction Center in McAlester at 5:30 a.m. Monday, but was discovered missing an hour later during a routine inmate count, state Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie told CNN.", "Smith had been at the prison since April 2009, serving sentences for assault and battery on a police officer and auto theft, according to Massie.", "CNN's Tracy Sabo contributed to this report." ]	[ "Mark Dwayne Smith, 28, was last seen early Monday .", "He was serving time for assaulting a police officer ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- He may not be hitting the fairways with the same bite as he did in his 1980s heyday, but the man sports commentators nicknamed \"The Great White Shark\" still has plenty of appetite for the game.", "Plenty of bite: Norman is one of golf's most successful and recognizable stars.", "Earlier this month Greg Norman appeared in the British Open, 23 years after his debut major win.", "Yet while he's still driving for success on the course, off it he's taken his life in a different direction.", "Under his Great White Shark Enterprises company he has numerous business ventures from property, golf course design and turfing to restaurants, wine and even Australian beef.", "\"There are very, very few athletes that do that on a global basis and to do it takes a lot of energy.", "You have to be on the ball, you have to be because you are the brand, you are that person walking around,\" he told CNN.", "Unlike many sports people thinking about their life after sport, he made the conscious decision that he didn't want to end up in a commentary box after his days on the links.", "\"I think it just grew out of reality, being very much realistic in my 40s.", "I knew I didn't want to play golf for the rest of my life professionally.", "I knew physically I couldn't do it as number 1, so I had to think to the future.", "I wanted to know where I was going to be when I was 60,\" he said.", "Now 54, Norman took up golf at the age of 15.", "During his career he spent 331 weeks as the game's number 1-ranked player.", "Having hit the heights with two British Open titles and a total of 20 U.S. PGA wins, he also suffered his share of disappointments, losing leads and never clinching a U.S. Masters or U.S. Open.", "\"With golf, you're going to have your ups and downs.", "You're going to win some, you're going to lose some,\" he said.", "And it's a reflectively mentality he's taken with him into the business world.", "\"You have to learn by your mistakes, and in business I've made mistakes.", "You learn by it, and you build on those mistakes.", "... By learning how to build a brand, I had to learn about business.", "So. ... all that tied into one, and I enjoy the process.", "I enjoy the idea of being the brand, living the brand.\"", "Away from being the brand, a high-profile wedding in June 2008 to retired American tennis champion Chris Evert (after both had ended long term marriages) provided headlines away from the back pages.", "For Norman, Evert has given his life, and even his golfing game, new impetus.", "\"She's been a great support and a role model in a lot of ways ... She brings a lot of peace and calm and happiness around in my life, so it makes it easy for me to go out there and enjoy the things I love to do,\" he said.", "One of which is expanding his brand into new and challenging territories, including bringing more opportunities to China's growing number of golfers.", "\"Golf is a great outlet in many ways, you know.", "It's got a lot of emotional qualities about it, and the Chinese are very, very strong in their mind.", "They're very, very strong in their belief in doing something.", "And I think golf completely suits their mentality and style and their physical abilities,\" he said." ]	[ "Australian golfer spent 331 weeks as world number 1; won two British Open titles .", "His business ventures include golf course design and restaurants .", "Married to retired American tennis star Chris Evert .", "Looking to China to expand his Great White Shark brand businesses ." ]	[ 4, 13 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Former pro basketball star Jayson Williams was sentenced to an additional year in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated, according to the Manhattan district attorney's office.", "Williams had a blood-alcohol level of more than twice the legal limit when he crashed his Mercedes into a tree in lower Manhattan in January -- just a week before he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for accidentally shooting and killing a limousine driver in New Jersey, the district attorney's office told CNN.", "The year will be added on to the current five-year prison sentence the former NBA player is serving in state prison in New Jersey.", "He also was also slapped with a $16,433 fine to repair the tree he hit.", "Williams had been sentenced to five years in prison after fatally shooting his limo driver, Costas \"Gus\" Christofi, in February 2002 at his New Jersey estate.", "Christofi had been hired to drive the former athlete and several of his friends to dinner after a sporting event in Pennsylvania.", "The group, including four members of the Harlem Globetrotters, later went back to Williams' home.", "The prosecution argued that Williams was recklessly handling a 12-gauge shotgun when it discharged and that he and two others tried to make it look as if Christofi had shot himself.", "Williams, who retired from the NBA in 1999 because of a leg injury, played nine seasons with the Philadelphia 76ers and the New Jersey Nets." ]	[ "Jayson Williams is sentenced for driving while intoxicated .", "He already was sentenced to five years in fatal accidental shooting in 2002 .", "Williams played nine seasons in the NBA before retiring in 1999 ." ]	[ 0, 4, 8 ]
[ "McDONOUGH, Georgia (CNN) -- Huddling in a dark parking lot outside a budget motel near Camp Shelby, Mississippi, the Callaway family held on to the two things they value most in this world: their faith and each other.", "Ryan Callaway, left, Jared, center, and Seth enjoy a moment before shipping out to Afghanistan in June.", "Crying, Mark and Karmen Callaway and their daughter Anna Katheryn clutched the family's three soldier sons before the trio shipped off to serve in Afghanistan.", "Karmen wasn't thinking about how rare it is for three brothers to go off to war together.", "She was thinking about Ryan, 25, Jared, 23, and 20-year-old Seth all returning home unharmed.", "\"I know people lose their children every day,\" Karmen said a week later as she sat in her kitchen in McDonough, Georgia.", "Watch the Callaway family on how they cope » .", "\"A fear that I have is that something might happen to all three of them.", "But at the same time, I have an assurance that I will see them again.\"", "Mark Callaway, describing the farewell, said he was trying to ignore a group of curious beer-drinking construction workers gathered around a nearby truck watching the tearful scene play out.", "\"These construction workers saw three boys crying and Karmen and Anna Katheryn crying, and I'm sure they were wondering what's going on, because the boys were still in their civilian clothes,\" Mark said with a smirk.", "\"It was just rough leaving the three of them.\"", "Anna Katheryn, at age 18 the family's youngest child, seemed confident about her brothers' safety with U.S. and other NATO forces fighting Taliban and al Qaeda some 7,400 miles away.", "\"They're Callaways,\" she said with a smile.", "\"They're going to be all right.", "Sometimes, it does worry me, but you have to give it to Jesus and know that he's going to take care of them.\"", "Family sacrifice .", "All three brothers are serving in Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment of the 48th Brigade, Georgia Army National Guard.", "The Pentagon says it's unusual for three siblings to serve in the same Army company, which consists of about 100 to 125 soldiers.", "But it's not unheard of. Siblings who enlist in the National Guard in the same state are more likely to serve together because Guard forces are state-based units, military officials said.", "Enlistees in regular armed forces could be deployed in units based across the nation.", "For example, Nevada's Army National Guard counts nine sets of brothers among its ranks deploying for Afghanistan this summer, according to a spokesman.", "There are no regulations banning siblings from serving together, but for obvious reasons, commanders don't send siblings on the same missions.", "Carol and Michael Ewens of Gig Harbor, Washington, know the worry of having multiple sons in battle and the pain of losing a child to war.", "In 2006, an Afghan roadside bomber killed their 25-year-old son, Army Lt. Forrest Ewens.", "Now, three more of their sons will be serving in the region.", "Lt. Oaken Ewens, 28, and Staff Sgt.", "Elisha Ewens, 26, are in the Army's 10th Mountain Division.", "Just six weeks after his brother's death, their youngest son Stephen Ewens, now 24, announced he had enlisted in the Army's 2nd Infantry Division -- eventually deploying with a Stryker brigade.", "\"I threatened to shoot him in the foot,\" his mother joked.", "\"I felt almost like doing something to make him ineligible to go because I didn't want to have a third son there.", "But no matter how much I begged and cried, it didn't count.\"", "Fighting in the same war that took his brother's life \"was something he felt like he had to do,\" Carol Ewens said.", "\"It was part of his expression of honoring Forrest and grieving for Forrest and wanting to carry on what Forrest was doing.\"", "She said she relies on God to pull her through.", "\"My faith has been the only thing that has given me peace with Forrest's death, so I have to prepare myself and trust that God has a greater plan,\" she said.", "\"When one of my children is taken away from me, I have to believe that it's good.\"", "God and country .", "Reminders of God and country dot the Callaways' rural Georgia neighborhood about 40 miles southeast of Atlanta.", "\"God bless our troops,\" said a roadside sign outside a church along a two-lane roadway in Henry County.", "Afghanistan is the second war that Ryan and Jared Callaway have fought for their country.", "From 2005 to 2006, they also served in Iraq.", "But Afghanistan will be the first war for Seth, whom Karmen Callaway calls her \"baby boy.\"", "\"I just know that he is going to do something very important over there,\" she said.", "Karmen and her husband recall how the brothers as kids would pretend to be soldiers in the woods behind their house.", "\"They were always out there playing army and making bike trails,\" said Mark.", "\"They're still playing war, too, but they're playing it for real this time.\"", "Sitting at the kitchen table at the family home, Karmen is surrounded by three sparkling ornamental stars hanging from a shelf on the wall -- reminders of her sons.", "Karmen said she'll be comforted by the thought that her boys will be relatively close to each other.", "\"They might see each other some, but it won't be like they're together all the time,\" Karmen said.", "For most parents, protecting young sons or daughters who aren't serving in a war zone can be stressful enough.", "Karmen bears the added burden of preparing herself for an unspeakable possibility -- something she learned to deal with when the oldest two were in Iraq.", "When describing each of her sons, Karmen briefly began to cry.", "After quickly pulling herself together, she held out three rocks -- all smaller than her palm -- marked with the words, \"count your blessings,\" \"pray,\" and \"laugh.\"", "Each of her sons, Karmen explained, carries a rock with a special word describing their personalities.", "Ryan's rock is imprinted with \"accomplish.\"", "Jared's bears \"courage.\"", "Seth's says \"strength.\"", "The stones represent her assurance that she will see her sons again, she said.", "They're meant to ease her worries during the yearlong deployment.", "Family of educators .", "The Callaways are a family of educators.", "Karmen, who teaches an after-school program at a nearby elementary school, will pursue a teaching degree this summer, before returning to help students in the fall.", "Daughter-in-law Louie just wrapped up her first year as a teacher -- after eloping with husband Ryan.", "\"We met in November and got married in January, so it's just been crazy,\" said Louie, her family's nickname for Louise.", "\"The most stressful part was taking a week off work and going to Mississippi ... so I have my students to think about -- getting them prepared for eighth grade -- and my husband's leaving for Afghanistan.", "So that was a bit overwhelming, I would say.\"", "Louie and Ryan have almost daily contact, thanks to the Internet, as do Jared and his wife, Heather.", "Sometimes, when Ryan and Louie chat by phone, Louie feels the need to be upbeat and \"try to have something good to tell him.\"", "\"He doesn't want to hear my play-by-play about the students, and I don't want to hear about the danger he's in,\" she said, looking at Karmen across the kitchen.", "The Callaway home is decorated with scores of family photos in every room.", "A large, round, old-fashioned analog clock hangs above the family room fireplace, as if the Callaways need to be reminded of the passage of time.", "The Callaways' 'miracle' In a room off the foyer, Anna Katheryn sometimes plays the family's baby grand piano, a talent that -- in retrospect -- seems more like a miracle to Karmen and Mark.", "On a rainy night in 2001, Anna Katheryn and Jared nearly lost their lives when their vehicle hydroplaned and Jared lost control of the car.", "The Honda flipped off the road and into a fence post, leaving Jared shaken and Anna Katheryn in a coma for seven days, Karmen recalled.", "Doctors told the family that Anna Katheryn probably had suffered brain damage and that they should \"be prepared for a different child.\"", "With support from their church and after multiple surgeries and rehabilitation, AK-47, as she's nicknamed, made a full recovery, graduating from high school with honors this year, her mother said.", "The real-life nightmare provided Karmen with a valuable lesson in faith that she plans to lean on during the coming months.", "\"What I learned during that time is that if something were to happen to one of my children, God could sustain me and I could go on,\" she said.", "She turned to look at the kitchen shelf and the hanging trio of ornamental stars -- gifts from an Army family support group.", "\"I got three because I have three soldiers, and we decided to put them up and keep them up until the boys return,\" Karmen said quietly.", "\"That will help us when we're in the kitchen and when they're not around.", "We will feel that they're near us.\"" ]	[ "It's unusual: Three brothers serve in same Georgia National Guard company .", "Another three brothers from Washington state also serve in Afghan war .", "Two mothers open up about the stress of having three sons in harm's way .", "Nevada Army National Guard unit has nine sets of brothers serving in Afghanistan ." ]	[ 17, 18, 19, 41 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Texas Gov.", "Rick Perry called on the Obama administration Monday to deploy more resources to the United States' border with Mexico, two days after a bullet -- likely from a gun battle between drug traffickers and Mexican police -- struck an El Paso building.", "It's the second time in two months that bullets from shootouts across the border have strayed into Texas, Perry said.", "\"By the grace of God, the stray bullets from these incidents have yet to injure or kill a Texan,\" he said.", "\"It is unconscionable that the Obama administration is gambling with American lives, betting that escalating violence from these cartels won't eventually shed the blood of innocent people on U.S.", "soil.\" In Saturday's incident, a bullet struck a building on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso, the university's President Diana Natalicio said.", "No injuries were reported at the school.", "That same evening, a \"major gun battle\" between drug traffickers and Mexican authorities broke out in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just 30 yards from the U.S. border at El Paso, a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman said.", "Three police officers were injured and one armed suspect was killed in the clash, Mexican federal police spokesman Ramon Salinas said.", "The bullet found at the university likely came from the shootout, border patrol spokesman Ramiro Cordero said.", "\"We must ensure El Paso and other border communities remain a safe place for people to live, work and raise a family,\" Perry said.", "\"It's time for Washington to stop the rhetoric and immediately deploy a [significant] force of personnel and resources to the border to protect our homeland.\"", "During Saturday's clash, U.S. authorities blocked off a four-mile section of Paisano Street, which runs parallel to the Rio Grande, the international border.", "Cordero said the closing was the first time authorities have been forced to take such action due to activity across the border.", "Natalicio said the university will consult with law enforcement and government officials about possible further security precautions.", "Cordero said his agency doesn't plan to change its security methods, saying border patrol agents are still maintaining the integrity of the border and operating as usual.", "The shootout took place less than two months after shots fired from a gun battle originating in Juarez crossed into El Paso and hit City Hall, damaging the building.", "CNN's Nick Valencia and Rick Martin contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Gov.", "Rick Perry wants the White House to deploy more resources to the border .", "A bullet lodged in a Texas university's building may be linked to a Mexico gunfight .", "No injuries were reported on the El Paso campus .", "The gun battle took place 30 yards from El Paso, police say ." ]	[ 0, 1, 5, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A property dispute between family members apparently led to a shooting in which a man killed two people in the central Virginia town of Louisa before he was shot by police, authorities said.", "Four others were wounded when the man began shooting outside a home Sunday afternoon, police said.", "\"This was part of a property dispute,\" Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said Monday.", "\"Due to a death in the family, there was a dispute over who owns the property, and who has rights to it.\"", "The shooter, Charles \"Zeke\" Sponaugle Sr., had been living at the property recently, Geller said.", "The incident began when deputies responded to a report of an argument at the home, police said.", "Believing the situation had been resolved, the deputies left the home.", "But shortly before 5 p.m., authorities received another call about an active shooting at the residence, said Maj. Donnie Lowe of the Louisa County Sheriff's Office.", "When officers arrived, a man was shooting at people in the front yard.", "Two people were killed and four were wounded, said Sgt.", "Thomas Molnar of the Virginia State Police.", "The man then directed his gunfire at police and released a pit bull terrier on them, authorities said.", "\"Based on evidence at the scene, as soon as deputies arrived they were in an active shooting situation,\" Geller said.", "She said authorities believe that return fire from deputies killed both the suspect and the dog.", "No deputies were wounded.", "\"Since 2000, deputies have been to this property 23 times,\" Lowe said.", "\"The calls were pretty much all the same -- family arguments, people not getting along -- nothing really violent, mostly verbal.\"", "He added, \"You can't predict something like this.\"", "The four wounded people were taken to the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville, Molnar said.", "CNN's Chuck Johnston and Leslie Tripp contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Shooting was result of a property dispute, police said .", "Police: The man was killed by sheriff's deputies after turning his gun and a dog on them .", "No deputies were wounded in the shooting Sunday afternoon in Louisa, Virginia ." ]	[ 0, 1, 14 ]
[ "New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- I'm standing in a land of culinary legends with steaming bowls of turtle soup, plates of deliciously seasoned Louisiana blue crabs, Creole cochon de lait, and too many delectable desserts to imagine swirling past on the raised trays of waiters.", "The smell of some of the world's finest cooking fills the air, along with the steady hum of expertise as each piece of beef is seared, each shrimp broiled, each crusty baguette done to perfection.", "This is the kitchen at the New Orleans landmark, Commander's Palace, where Paul Prudhomme, Emeril Lagasse and so many others have sharpened their knives and palates.", "And in the cherished seat of executive chef these days, Tory McPhail knows he is not merely presiding over a history of gastronomic excellence, but also building up a cornerstone of this city's comeback from Katrina.", "Almost unbelievably, there are 300 more restaurants here than before the big storm.", "Sure, that is more competition, but chef McPhail says, \"I embrace it!", "All these guys are opening up these little, tiny neighborhood funky spots, and I tell you this is really, really an exciting time to live here in the city.", "And the food is fantastic.\"", "The restaurants, in this city so renowned for food, are leading the way in what has turned into a massively successful charge to reclaim the tourist trade wiped out by Katrina.", "Aggressive spending and marketing campaigns have seen attractions refurbished and facilities upgraded in almost every spot that tourists would normally go.", "For the Superdome, a $250 million makeover; for the Convention Center, $93 million in improvements; and $400 million has been spent refurbishing and building up hotels.", "The result? Conventions that were feared lost forever are coming back in droves.", "Tourists are rediscovering the Crescent City in all its charms and debauchery (because face it, a late-night walk down the blaring carnival of Bourbon Street is still one of the highlights for many visitors), and all the numbers that city and state leaders count on are trending up.", "Tax revenues are up.", "Overall tourist spending is up.", "And perhaps most importantly in this beleaguered town, of the 85,000 jobs in the tourism industry before the storm, 70,000 have been recovered despite the recession.", "Down at Jackson Square, with the iconic cathedral rising beside us, I hop onto a buggy with Willie Pickett, and his mule, Pierre, pulls us into the steady stream of tourists he relies on for fares all day.", "I ask him what he wants them to know about the city he grew up in.", "\"I want them to know that we love them and we want them to keep coming back.", "And everything they like and love about New Orleans is just like it was before Katrina.\"", "Beyond the tourist attractions, in some neighborhoods, problems persist.", "In the 9th Ward, the return has been much slower; sometimes plagued by problems in housing, insurance, bad contractors, and on the hottest, bleakest days, a prevailing sense of despair.", "But everyone here knew that the No.", "1 job-producing industry had to come back if anything was to get better, and that business, tourism, is rocketing forward.", "The year before Katrina was a record-breaker, with 10 million visitors and almost $5 billion coming to town.", "New Orleans is not back to that level yet, but it is are much closer than many had hoped.", "At the Convention and Visitors Bureau, Kelly Schulz is paid to be upbeat, but she insists it's not just a sales pitch when she says, \"Everything in New Orleans that was broken during Katrina is being fixed now; not only back to where it was before, but even better.\"", "She tells me that convention planners from other states who swore they would never come back are now calling her for help with reservations.", "As a former resident, I have some reference points.", "I know how incomparably lovely a streetcar ride to Uptown can be, followed by a long, lingering seafood dinner amid friends.", "I have walked all night in the Quarter, and enjoyed beignets nestled in mounds of powdered sugar as thick waves of fog rolled off of the river like something from a movie.", "I have danced until dawn in a steamy music club and walked out to the singing of mockingbirds and sunrise lighting up the live oak trees.", "In short, I have loved this town like no other for a lifetime.", "So as I leave Commander's Palace, I walk across the street to a little art galley.", "Inside, it is cool.", "The owner and some friends are chatting amid bright images of the bayous, wildlife and the town itself.", "I stroll around looking at the art, and through the windows at the neighborhood outside, and it is easy to see the beguiling charm coming through once again, the beauty and uniqueness that have drawn visitors here for 300 years, and five years after the disaster, is calling them down to the river again." ]	[ "New Orleans has 300 more restaurants than it did before Hurricane Katrina .", "City has been aggressively rebuilding its tourism business .", "Superdome has had a $250 million makeover .", "70,000 of 85,000 tourism industry jobs have been recovered since '05 storm ." ]	[ 4, 10, 15, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A young baseball phenom has received one of the sport's highest honors -- recognition from the National Baseball Hall of Fame for pitching not one, but two perfect games.", "And while a perfect game -- defined as one in which the pitcher allows no hits and no walks -- is a rare occurrence for the sport, what makes this 13-year-old pitcher's feat even more impressive is that she did it against the boys.", "Yes, she. Chelsea Baker, once a student of former major league pitcher Joe Niekro, last week donated the jersey she wore to pitch one of those special games to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.", "The jersey will be part of an exhibit dedicated to the importance of women in the sport, according to the museum.", "Chelsea, who until recently honed her pitching arm in Plant City, Florida's Little League program, told CNN Sunday that she feels \"really honored and blessed\" to be recognized on a national level at such an early age.", "In addition to her Hall of Fame achievement, Chelsea was also recently featured on ESPN's \"E:60\" series.", "Chelsea, who says she has been pitching since she was 7 years old, boasts a fastball in the mid-60s (miles per hour) and a baffling knuckleball that has been known to make her male opponents shed a tear.", "\"Yeah, when I strike them out with the knuckleball, sometimes they'll throw their helmets and start crying,\" she laughs.", "\"It's just really funny to watch.\"", "It's a pitch that was perfected with help from Niekro, who was her team's batting pitcher before his death in 2006.", "\"He would always throw it to us and I could never hit it, and so I'd always beg him to teach it to me and finally one day he just taught it to me,\" she says.", "The knuckleball has helped propel Chelsea through four seasons without a loss with her Brandon Farms team -- and her batting average isn't bad either, hitting over .600 this season, though she notes \"I like pitching more than batting.\"", "Chelsea is now participating in Baseball for All -- an organization that advocates for women in the sport -- playing on a touring all-girls team made up of players from around the country.", "And Chelsea says her career is only getting started.", "\"I want to play baseball for as long as I can,\" she says.", "\"I want to play high school baseball and then I also want to play on the USA girls' travel baseball team.\"", "Watch out, boys.", "CNN's Don Lemon contributed to this report." ]	[ "13-year-old Chelsea Baker has been recognized by the National Baseball Hall of Fame .", "She boasts two perfect games to her record .", "Her knuckleball is known to make her male opponents cry ." ]	[ 0, 6, 13 ]
[ "Chicago, Illinois (CNN) -- Severe overnight storms in the Chicago area caused power outages, flight cancellations and flooded homes and roadways.", "About 50,000 ComEd customers were without electricity Saturday morning after lightning and heavy downpours pummeled the city overnight, said Laura Micheli, a spokeswoman for the utility.", "It was unclear when power would be restored to those households because storms were still rolling through the area, she said.", "The outages started at about 6 p.m. (7 p.m.", "ET) Friday night.", "CNN iReporter Nancy Holst of Lombard said her husband, who is a firefighter, responded to several calls overnight where he was working in waist-deep floodwaters.", "She said he took one look at her once-blooming garden now sitting under 6 inches of water and said, \"That's nothing.\"", "The storms caused damage through Chicago suburbs before moving into downtown in the morning, she said.", "The bad weather also forced the cancellation of 200 flights at the Chicago O'Hare International Airport Saturday morning, according to Karen Pride of the Chicago Department of Aviation.", "There were delays of up to one hour at the airport at midday, she said, but no delays were reported at Midway International Airport.", "Pride said there was some airfield flooding at O'Hare Friday night, but flight operations were not affected.", "The National Weather Service in Illinois reported that at least 6.3 inches of rain fell at O'Hare and 6.2 inches at Midway.", "CNN affiliate WGN reported more than 5 inches of rain were dumped over some parts of the Chicago area Saturday morning.", "There were also reports of flooded basements and expressway closures.", "A flood warning remained in effect for parts of the region until 7 p.m. (8 p.m. ...", "CNN's John Branch contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: A flood warning remains in effect until 7 p.m.", "Severe storms have caused thousands to lose power in Chicago .", "The storms have moved into downtown .", "Flooding has forced officials to close some roadways ." ]	[ 0, 14 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- More U.S. soldiers killed themselves last month than in recent Army history, according to Army statistics released Thursday, confounding officials trying to reverse the grim trend.", "The statistics show that 32 soldiers killed themselves in June, the highest number in a single month since the Vietnam era.", "Twenty-one of them were on active duty, while 11 were in the National Guard or Army Reserve in an inactive status.", "Seven of those soldiers killed themselves while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Army numbers.", "The spike comes after the monthly suicide numbers had dropped following a January high of 28, and Army officials admit they still haven't answered the question of why troops are committing suicide at a record rate.", "\"There were no trends to any one unit, camp, post or station,\" said Col. Chris Philbrick, head of the Army's suicide prevention task force.", "\"I have no silver bullet to answer the question why.\"", "He said he could offer only what he has said before: \"Continued stress on the force and the opportunities we have been facing in terms of the challenges in the Army continue to cause these events to take place.\"", "Including the June numbers, 145 soldiers have killed themselves this year, more than half of the total number for all of 2009, according to Army statistics.", "In 2009, a record-breaking year for suicides in the service, 245 soldiers killed themselves.", "In another attempt to put a halt to the trend, the Army released a suicide prevention video, a follow-up to one released last year.", "The updated video is designed to \"hit home\" with soldiers and instill the importance of getting help, Philbrick said.", "The video, titled \"Shoulder to Shoulder: I Will Never Quit,\" begins with the compelling story of a soldier whose wife said she was divorcing him.", "The soldier, Spc.", "Joseph Sanders, says his wife was his whole world.", "\"I grabbed my rifle, put it under my chin and pulled the trigger,\" Sanders says.", "The gun did not fire, he says, and when he took the rifle apart he discovered that a key part was missing.", "His Army buddy then tells viewers he removed the part because Sanders was showing signs that he could kill himself.", "Asked why the Army thinks this video will be more effective than the first one, Philbrick said the soldiers will relate to it better.", "Watch the video on the Army's Suicide Prevention website .", "The first video, made up of a mix of actors and real soldiers, \"sucked,\" he said.", "It was rushed out, and troops did not believe in it.", "He said some even openly laughed at it.", "\"This video has all real soldiers with real stories,\" Philbrick said.", "The video is part of a series of efforts to cut the suicide rate.", "Last year, the Army required all soldiers around the world to stop working and spend a day watching the first video and receiving suicide prevention training.", "Philbrick said the alarming June numbers will not bring another Army-wide training day, called a stand-down.", "He said the new video will be incorporated immediately into the standard suicide prevention training for new troops and the yearly training all soldiers go through." ]	[ "The 32 Army suicides in June marked the highest number since the Vietnam era .", "Monthly numbers had been dropping from 28 in January .", "The Army has created a more compelling suicide-prevention video .", "The video \"has all real soldiers with real stories,\" officer says ." ]	[ 1, 19, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Tiger Woods was forced to apologize to three members of the public gallery at the Muirfield Village course after hitting them with errant shots.", "The world number one handed each person a signed glove by way of apology as he battles to recapture his best form.", "Woods finished on six-under in the Memorial Tournament, 12 shots behind winner Justin Rose, from England, who shot a final round 66 bagged his first ever win in the United States.", "After his final round Woods was asked in a press conference if he was running low on gloves.", "He replied: \"No kidding, huh.", "I kept getting everybody out there today.", "No, but thank God I get them [gloves] for free.\"", "He admitted his form is still patchy but that he was heading in the right direction: \"I have to take it step by step.", "It's a process. I hit shots this week I hadn't hit in a long time and got four rounds in.", "\"Short game, chipping was streaky, I'd have to say.", "I hit some really sweet shots and hit some really bad ones.", "Just needs a little bit of work.", "But I really putted well this week, which is good.", "I had good speed.\"", "Woods comfirmed he wouldn't be participating in next week's St Jude Classic in Memphis, as he focuses his preparation on the U.S. Open which starts at Pebble Beach in California on June 17.", "\"It's a shot-making golf course,\" he said.", "\"You have to hit the ball well there because the greens are so small.", "People don't realize some of these putts you have to hit the ball in correct spots.\"", "Woods finished tied for 19th place -- some way off 29-year-old Rose who was ecstatic after securing his first win in the U.S after years of trying.", "\"I've had a few close calls over time, and you start to sometimes wonder why you can't get it done,\" Rose said.", "\"To win here at the Memorial, at Jack's tournament, I couldn't think of a better place to win my first tournament.\"" ]	[ "Tiger Woods struck three members in the crowd with wayward shots at the Memorial Tournament .", "Woods gave all three people a signed glove by way of apology .", "Justin Rose shot a final round of 66 to register his first win on U.S. soil ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "Tokyo, Japan(CNN) -- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is used to political lashings.", "But the latest one is not from an opposition party -- it's from his own wife.", "In a book released this week titled, \"What On Earth Will Change in Japan After You Become Prime Minister,\" first lady Nobuko Kan writes bluntly about her husband's shortcomings.", "The book says the prime minister is unable to cook a simple meal and has no fashion sense.", "But it's the blunt review of her husband's ability to govern that will raise eyebrows.", "She writes that her husband -- a grassroots politician -- is a good off the cuff speaker and is suited to working in supporting political roles.", "But as the world's second-largest economy's prime minister, she questions, \"Is it okay that this man is prime minister?", "Because I know him well.\" Nobuko Kan says that her husband has trouble reading prepared scripts.", "Of his policy speech as prime minister, she writes that she couldn't give him a passing grade for his delivery.", "The marriage between the Kans spans four decades, and is widely regarded by the public as a pairing of equal minds.", "The prime minister speaks publicly about his sharp-tongued wife and how she is his toughest critic.", "In her book, she notes that most of their conversations are about politics.", "They disagree and debate the issues, she writes, from capital punishment to tax reform.", "The book is selling fast at a bookstore in downtown Tokyo.", "Yuko Soma, editor of Gentosha Inc. publishing company, says it issued 15,000 books for its first edition that went on sale Thursday.", "Sales have been so brisk, the company was publishing a second edition of 30,000 books, Soma said Friday morning.", "By Friday afternoon, Soma called CNN to say the publisher was boosting the second edition print to 60,000.", "Soma said the initial idea for the book came from Yusuke Nakagawa, an author and lifelong friend of the Kans.", "Nakagawa helped Kan come up with the idea of a \"spicy tell-all,\" Soma said.", "Japanese voters may not react badly to this unconventional turn by a first lady.", "The last prime minister's wife, Miyuki Hatoyama, was embraced by the public for her quirks.", "Hatoyama wrote that her soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus, which was very beautiful and green.", "On a Japanese talk show, Hatoyama also claimed actor Tom Cruise was Japanese in a previous life and Cruise would know her if they met.", "On the same talk show, Hatoyama said she and her husband get energy by \"eating the sun.\"", "Japanese voters took the eccentricities in stride, disapproving of then-prime minister Yukio Hatoyama for his policies, not his wife's quirks.", "Prime Minister Naoto Kan appears to have been left out of the writing of his wife's book.", "Talking to reporters, the prime minister joked, \"I'm afraid to read it.\"" ]	[ "Prime Minister Naoto Kan can't cook or dress well, wife says .", "She also questions his ability to govern .", "Nobuko Kan says she can't give the leader a passing grade for speech delivery .", "The marriage between the Kans spans four decades ." ]	[ 8, 9 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- New rules designed to protect credit card users from \"unreasonable late payment and other penalty fees\" went into effect Sunday as a result of the Credit Card Act of 2009.", "The rules block credit card companies from charging more than $25 for late payments except in extreme circumstances, prevent them from charging customers for not using their cards, and requires them to reconsider rate increases imposed since January 1, 2009, according to the Federal Reserve, which approved the regulations.", "They are the final provisions of federal legislation that placed new restrictions on credit card interest rates and fees, completing the most comprehensive overhaul of the credit card industry in history.", "The banking industry has already made changes in response to the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009, a spokesman said Sunday.", "\"The industry has moved swiftly to implement all of these changes and the final piece of the puzzle is now in place,\" said Kenneth Clayton of the American Bankers Association.", "\"It will still take some time before we can really see how the landscape has changed, but it is clear that consumer choice and control will ultimately drive further changes in the marketplace,\" he said in a statement.", "The Fed's rules could result in lower interest rates for consumers.", "Banks will have to reduce rates if the reasons for increases imposed in the last 20 months no longer exist, and regulators will review and enforce such cuts.", "Consumers will most immediately notice the new penalty fee limit of $25.", "Reducing penalty fees was a central provision of the credit card law, but Congress left it to the Fed to determine how to do it.", "The Fed leaves room for larger penalty fees to be charged if a consumer has shown a pattern of \"repeated\" violations or if a card issuer can show that a higher fee reasonably offsets its own costs in dealing with the violation that spurred the penalty.", "Among other new rules, penalty fees can't exceed the dollar amount incurred by the consumer's violation that spurred the fee.", "For example, if a customer is late making a $20 minimum payment, the fee can't exceed $20.", "A consumer who exceeds her credit limit by $5 cannot be charged an over-the-limit fee of more than $5.", "Consumers will no longer face multiple penalty fees if the violation was based on a single late payment.", "The provisions, which were announced in June, complement previous rules of the 2009 credit card law that are already in effect.", "Starting in February, issuers were prohibited from hiking interest rates on existing balances as long as customers paid their bills on time.", "They also have to notify customers at least 45 days in advance of interest rate increases and most fee changes.", "The Fed was tasked with figuring out a way to set penalty fees in a way that's \"reasonable and proportional\" to the violation that caused the fee.", "Consumers scored a win, since these fee caps go beyond what the Fed had suggested earlier this year in a draft.", "The $25 limit will mean significant savings for consumers who face median penalty fees of $39, according to data collected by the Pew Safe Credit Cards Project.", "However, if a cardholder is late or over his credit limit two times within six months, issuers could hike the second penalty fee to $35, or possibly more if the issuer can justify the fee to regulators, according to the Fed rules.", "Although the Fed is cracking down on penalty fees, it hasn't addressed the interest rate hikes that are also imposed on consumers who violate the terms of their credit card agreements.", "So a consumer who spends more than his credit card limit by $15 may only face a $15 fee.", "But that consumer could still face a permanent penalty hike on his interest rate, which would apply to any future purchases.", "Still, some banking groups have concerns.", "Financial Services Roundtable's senior lobbyist Scott Talbott warned that the Fed's cap on penalty fees will limit the industry's ability to offset the risk that credit cardholders don't pay their bills.", "\"The restrictions in the rules the Fed issued will decrease the ability of the credit card industry to price for risk and the net effect will be a decrease in [credit] availability,\" Talbott said.", "CNN's Scott Spoerry and CNNMoney's Jennifer Liberto contributed to this report." ]	[ "The rules block companies from charging more than $25 for late payments in most cases .", "They also ban charges for not using cards .", "The Federal Reserve announced the changes resulting from the Credit Card Act of 2009 ." ]	[ 1, 15 ]
[ "(Parenting.com) -- One Mother's Day, I bought my wife what she had wanted for years -- a weeping cherry tree -- and I threw in a bird bath, so that when the tree matures, our feathered friends can happily splash and drink under its loving protection.", "Oh boy! Another tie or pair of funny boxer shorts for Dad!", "For Father's Day, my wife gave me some boxer shorts and a tiny reading light, so I can flip through a book in bed without disturbing her.", "My wife is the first to admit it: For her, and for many people, Father's Day is an afterthought, a holiday just a few steps above the one that celebrates the groundhog and that other one that promotes trees.", "If Mom's Day and Dad's Day were in a prize fight, we all know which holiday would wind up lying in the corner of the ring, knocked-out teeth on the mat, dazed head stuck in a bucket.", "I've been thinking about how our society recognizes parents because Father's Day is upon us again, but also because, a while ago, my worst nightmare happened: My wife had to have surgery.", "I was an emotional wreck.", "For a while, it was truly touch and go.", "Life hung in the balance, and everything near and dear to me seemed in doubt.", "Why? Because while Susan recovered from her toe surgery, I had to take care of the kids.", "Parenting.com: Work/family balance harder for men?", "Sure, for a couple workdays I was able to call in reinforcements (my mom and mother-in-law), but an entire weekend lay ahead in which I was to be the prime caregiver to Lorelei, who was just hitting 6 months, and Isabelle, our 3-year-old.", "Meanwhile, my wife was upstairs in our bed, on painkillers and armed with her cell phone so that I was always just a speed dial away from doing her bidding.", "This would be a weekend in which I couldn't do only the fun stuff -- like playing blocks and watching cartoons -- with the girls.", "I was obviously going to have to feed both of them (three times a day!", "), and I would have to tackle Herculean tasks like giving baths, changing all of the diapers, putting them both to bed, and even giving medicine to Lorelei, who had an ear infection.", "Over the decades, standards for fathers have risen.", "If this were 1897 or even 1974, I could have coasted through the weekend, serving potato chips and cold cereal to Isabelle, and I would have brought the girls to my wife's bed for her to do the changing of the diapers.", "I could have skipped the baths.", "I could have ignored the dishes in the sink and the cat litter without a barrage of criticism.", "As long as I managed to avoid the house catching on fire, and the girls didn't come down with malaria, at the end of the weekend, my family and friends would have laughed heartily at my mishaps, like they used to do in the last couple seconds of those 1970s and 1980s one-hour dramas (you know, after somebody made a joke and the shot went into freeze frame).", "Then my family and friends would have declared that I had done my best, and nobody would have cared that the bar had been set so low that a chipmunk could have done as well.", "Parenting.com: His way can be better than yours .", "But today's dads are different.", "We not only love our children, we're acutely aware that we have a responsibility to be the best parents we can be.", "When it counts, I think most fathers really give it their all -- which explains why the Saturday night of my Mr.", "Mom weekend, instead of ordering pizza, I served Isabelle a chicken casserole with pineapple as a side dish.", "Don't applaud -- the fruit came from a can, and the rest from a box with four steps.", "iReport.com: Share your best bonding moment with Dad .", "Still, I have to admit, I felt proud as the weekend wore on.", "I grew more confident in my parenting skills and even gave both girls a bath -- at the same time -- not once, but two nights in a row!", "Just as I was ready to nominate myself for a Nobel Peace Prize, an Oscar, a Grammy -- surely I deserved some award -- I had an epiphany that brought me back down a few pegs.", "Parenting.com: Mommy skills that'll work on husbands .", "I was fixing a French dish I like to call poisson et pommes frites (um, fish sticks and fries), when I caught Anderson Cooper on CNN.", "He was in Baghdad, surrounded by American soldiers, saying he was exhausted and scared.", "Yet he warned the audience not to be too impressed with him.", "In a few days, he would fly home.", "The soldiers would remain at their posts.", "Now, I'm not comparing our girls to Iraqi insurgents, but I do appreciate more than ever that mothers are usually the soldiers in the parenting battlefield.", "Even full-time working moms do more child-rearing than us dads, studies have repeatedly found.", "Fathers tend to play the part of the dashing news reporter, swooping into parenting duties just long enough to get our hands dirty.", "My wife deserves her weeping cherry tree.", "And like most moms, she is worthy of much more.", "Yet I think we dads merit at least a little more than boxer shorts, soap-on-a-rope, and neckties.", "We don't get the good stuff because we're paying for the sins of our fathers, and our fathers' fathers.", "But these days, dads are changing diapers, warming bottles, and taking our kids to the park.", "We may not be where you want us yet, but we've evolved, and we're involved.", "Just as much as the moms, we appreciate the cards, the praise, and being treated special on our day.", "So if any of you mothers now feel guilty enough to spring for a slightly nicer Father's Day gift -- say, a plasma TV with a 50-inch screen -- make sure it also has built-in speakers with surround-sound.", "Try a FREE TRIAL issue of Parenting Magazine - CLICK HERE!", "Copyright 2009 The Parenting Group.", "All rights reserved.", "Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited." ]	[ "Writer believes Father's Day is not as respected as Mother's Day .", "Says: We're paying for the sins of our fathers, and our fathers' fathers .", "We deserve more than boxer shorts, soap-on-a-rope, and neckties .", "Plasma TV with 50-inch screen, built-in surround-sound speakers would be nice ." ]	[ 43, 44, 48 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- It all started with an acoustic guitar and a MySpace page.", "John Vesely, better known as Secondhand Serenade, began as a one-man acoustic act.", "Making a name for himself with his honest tales of love and loss, Vesely utilized the then-budding social networking empire to make his music known.", "Vesely's songs are an emotional roller coaster that propelled the singer through his self-produced acoustic debut \"Awake\" to his 2008 sophomore release \"A Twist in My Story,\" which included a full band and production team.", "His third studio album, \"Hear Me Now,\" hits stores Tuesday and will include a more upbeat, electronic feel.", "Returning to his roots, Vesely self-produced and recorded three new tracks for this latest album in his bedroom with his drummer Tom Breyfogle.", "Vesely's West Hollywood location is more than just a home.", "Vesely's band mates use it as a crash pad, the singer's bedroom doubles as a recording studio and his garage/laundry room was converted into the band's rehearsal space.", "Vesely talked with CNN from his bedroom studio about the production of his new album, the evolution of his music and maintaining his personal relationship with his fans through Twitter and Facebook.", "CNN: When did you begin writing material for your third album?", "Vesely: This writing process actually started a lot earlier than you would think.", "One of the songs on the album was one of the first songs I've ever written.", "There were a few songs -- like, for instance, a song called Nightmares, on the album ... was a song that I had written for \"Awake,\" which was years ago, like four years ago I think.", "And there's a song called \"Only Hope in South by Southwest,\" when I went right after I signed with the label, so it was well before I recorded \"Twist in My Story.\"", "And some of the songs I wrote literally in the studio. ...", "I mean, as far as \"Something More\" and \"You and I\" and all those songs, like literally, \"You and I\" I wrote in February and recorded in February.", "That was like one of the last things we did.", "CNN: Your second album had a bit of a darker tone, but you've said your new album is more upbeat and reflective.", "Did that just come about with the writing of it?", "Vesely: The new album's upbeat feel definitely came along with the writing of it.", "All the albums have kind of spread out and become a different chapter of my personal story. ...", "This album is more about me personally rather than telling stories about a relationship.", "A lot of it is self-reflection and, you know, owning up to the fact that I wasn't a great person at some points and I'm not proud of some things I've done or some ways I've acted, and it's hard when you make mistakes and kind of brush them under the carpet, and leave them for later, and I finally wanted to deal with that in this album.", "It was a lot about telling people what's happened and being able to free yourself after that.", "Once you get that out, you can move on and be happy.", "I'm in a really happy place right now because I'm so focused on music, surrounded by great people and really talented musicians, and I'm kind of given a second chance now, and I want to really take that and cherish it.", "CNN: When you first started working with music producers on your second album, did you find you liked that better?", "And why did you choose to self-produce some tracks on your new album?", "Vesely: I definitely have always liked to do things by myself, just because I like to be a part of it.", "The more I do, the more it's my music, personally.", "Of course, working with a producer is a necessary thing when you're making music, because they're trying to put your creative thoughts together, and make it as effective as possible in a song form. ...", "Being able to do the three tracks on this new album on my own with my drummer Tom [Breyfogle] was a great experience because it was the first time that I'd gotten to produce something except my first album \"Awake,\" but that was pretty much just acoustic guitar and vocals, so there's not much production going on, so to speak.", "CNN: \"Awake\" was just you and your acoustic guitar.", "Now you've added a full band and more production.", "How have your fans reacted to more production and a bigger sound?", "Vesely: \"Something More,\" it's the new single, it's been out on iTunes for little bit now, and we've gotten a lot of really, really good feedback.", "And it makes me happy to see -- going from an acoustic background to this more electronic, rhythmic feel -- they still find the beauty and the honesty in the music, and they can appreciate it, and that's really important.", "But there's always people that aren't into it.", "For instance, some people will [give it a bad review] and say, \"What's going on, what is this?\"", "Then they'll continue, \"It's not a bad song, but it's totally not Secondhand Serenade.\"", "So it's not necessarily a bad review they're giving, it's just that they can't get past the fact that I'm evolving as an artist and I'm trying to break out creatively.", "And that's OK; you can't please everyone because if I'd still be playing acoustic right now, everyone would be like, \"OK, we get it, you're acoustic, what now?\"", "I think the evolution's necessary, and it's natural, and I hope people can appreciate it.", "CNN: You've responded to feedback and sometimes criticism from your fans that you've received online.", "Why do you think it's important to address that?", "Vesely: I'm very, very personal with my fans.", "I Twitter like crazy and I Facebook like crazy, and I respond to them all the time, and it's something that's been important to me since the beginning cause that's pretty much how I got started.", "They're like part of my army, they work with me, and I can't do any of this without them.", "I feel it's important, rather than ignore them and be like, \"Whatever, I'm still selling the album and still selling the song, and one person's opinion doesn't matter.\"", "You know one person's opinion, two people's opinions, or five people's opinions, even if it's among thousands or hundreds of thousands of opinions, it still matters." ]	[ "John Vesely, better known as Secondhand Serenade, started as a one-man acoustic act .", "He self-produced and recorded three new tracks for this latest album in his bedroom .", "Vesely says he maintains his connection with fans via social networking ." ]	[ 1, 5 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Lawyers for Mel Gibson and his ex-girlfriend attended a closed hearing with a Los Angeles family court judge for two hours Thursday morning, but neither Gibson nor Oksana Grigorieva were there.", "Court proceedings in the custody dispute over their 8-month-old daughter are conducted \"under seal\" with reporters kept waiting in the courthouse hallway.", "The lawyers for each side refused to address reporters' questions as they left the hearing.", "Grigorieva has accused Gibson of striking her in the face, while he alleges that she attempted to extort him to keep controversial recordings of their arguments a secret.", "Several explosive audio recordings, purportedly between Grigorieva and Gibson, have been released online in recent days.", "RadarOnline released another recording Tuesday of a vicious argument said to be between Gibson and Grigorieva, in which the man is accused of striking the woman and the couple's child -- an accusation the man does not deny.", "Police in Malibu Hills, California, opened an investigation earlier this month into an alleged domestic violence incident between Gibson and Grigorieva.", "Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said last week that the recordings \"will be part of the investigation\" into the alleged domestic violence.", "\"In Session\" correspondents have made several unsuccessful attempts to reach out to Gibson for comment and to verify whether the voice on the tapes is his.", "Grigorieva has filed a restraining order against Gibson, said her spokesman, Stephen Jaffe.", "Meanwhile, investigators are looking into the extortion allegations against Grigorieva.", "\"Allegations of extortion have been brought to our attention and we are certainly going to look into it,\" Whitmore said Wednesday.", "Grigorieva's spokesman told CNN Wednesday that she stands by an earlier statement that there is \"no credible evidence\" of extortion.", "A source close to the investigation told CNN that Gibson's lawyer met with Los Angeles County Sheriff's investigators Tuesday to present evidence that Grigorieva, 40, attempted to extort money from Gibson to keep audio recordings secret.", "\"To specifically address the allegations, my client, Ms. Grigorieva, has repeatedly stated that there is no credible evidence whatsoever of extortion by her, and she stands steadfastly by that statement,\" Jaffe said.", "CNN's Brittany Kaplan contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Lawyers would not reveal what happened in the closed hearing .", "Mel Gibson and his ex-girlfriend are in a bitter child custody fight .", "Explosive audio recordings, purportedly between the couple, surfaced this month .", "In one, the man does not deny an accusation that he struck the woman ." ]	[ 4, 5 ]
[ "(The Frisky) -- So what did you do this weekend?", "Chances are, nothing as cool as the folks who traveled to Astoria, Oregon, to commemorate 25 years of \"The Goonies\" at the Never Say Die Anniversary Celebration.", "A quarter century ago, to the day, on June 7th, \"The Goonies\" opened in movie theaters across the country.", "And while it came in behind \"Rambo II,\" released on the same opening weekend, the tale of a group of teens who embark on a treasure hunt to raise the money to save their homes -- all while being chased by a crazed crime family -- went on to become a cult classic.", "To celebrate the movie, fans at the festival ran a 5K race called the \"Truffle Shuffle.\"", "They chatted with cast members -- including Sean Astin and director Richard Donner -- at a dinner where the main dish was Fratelli meatballs.", "And they were treated to a \"Goonies\"-themed concert starring none other than Truth Movement, the band of \"Goonie\" actor Corey Feldman.", "The Frisky: Madonna's 13-year-old daughter becomes a fashion model .", "Wish you had gone? Me too. And here are 10 reasons why we still love \"The Goonies,\" even after a quarter of a century: .", "1. \"The Goonies\" is a movie about outcasts.", "(Well, with the exception of cheerleader Andy who becomes an honorary member of the crew.)", "And you know how much we love nerd movies and TV shows.", "2. One word: Chunk.", "Played by Jeff Cohen, Chunk was hilarious as the flick's comic relief.", "When the Fratellis demand that he tell them everything, he begins one of the best monologues in 80s movie history.", "\"In third grade, I cheated on my history exam.", "In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max's toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play.", "In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and blamed it on the dog.\"", "You'll be happy to know that Jeff is no longer chunky and is now a hot, well-renowned entertainment lawyer in Beverly Hills.", "The Frisky: 6 celeb couples tell where they went on their first date .", "3. \"The Goonies\" was the brainchild of Steven Spielberg.", "It was conceived during what I like to think of as his golden era -- nestled in between \"E.T.\"", "and \"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.\"", "4. It's hard to believe but true -- Corey Haim and Corey Feldman first met because of \"The Goonies.\"", "\"It was in the waiting room -- we were auditioning for the same role,\" says Corey Feldman, who got the part of Mouth in the flick.", "Though Corey Haim was frozen out of this one, they'd become one of the iconic duos of the 80s.", "The Frisky: A \"Real Housewife of NJ\" is $11 million in debt --how?", "5. \"The Goonies\" had an awesome soundtrack, with tracks from 80s greats like The Bangles and REO Speedwagon.", "But the classic track of the movie was Cyndi Lauper's \"Good Enough\" -- the 12-minute, two-part video starred not only the cast but 80s wrestling favorites like Andre the Giant.", "6. We know Josh Brolin as the hottie from \"No Country For Old Men\" and the tragic bad guy in \"Milk.\"", "But his first role?", "Brandon \"Brand\" Walsh -- the Goonie who's able to win the heart of cool girl Andy.", "The Frisky: The MTV Movie Awards was one big shillfest .", "7. I saw \"The Goonies\" in the movie theater, and will never forget the scene where the group makes it through the maze of caverns and puzzles and ends in the cave where they first see One-Eyed Willie's ship.", "It was breathtaking. Apparently, for the stars of the movie, too.", "Director Richard Donner didn't let them see the fully re-created ship because he wanted the authentic emotion of awe on film.", "And he got it. 8. \"The Goonies\" had a good message -- mainly that kids could take action and make real change in their community.", "Sure, they most likely wouldn't do it by finding a buried treasure from the 17th century, but still.", "The Frisky: The 10 lamest celebrity publicity stunts .", "9. Oh, and I almost forgot about Data.", "How do you not love a pre-teen who creates his own inventions like the \"Wings of Flight,\" the \"Pincers of Peril,\" and the \"Bully Blinder\"?", "I always wanted him and MacGyver to have a showdown.", "10. \"The Goonies\" was thrilling the first time you saw it.", "But thanks to TBS playing it, oh, every weekend, we've gotten to see it 90,000 times and get all the nuances.", "While rumors have circulated for years that \"Goonies 2\" is in the works, it just doesn't look like it's going to happen.", "Luckily, though, Donner is currently working on a Broadway version of the story.", "TM & © 2010 TMV, Inc. \| All Rights Reserved ." ]	[ "\"The Goonies\" is a movie about outcasts .", "The film was the brainchild of Steven Spielberg .", "Corey Haim and Corey Feldman first met because of \"The Goonies\"" ]	[ 9, 20, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Police have added a second charge of capital murder against an Irving, Texas, woman who allegedly told a 911 operator that she strangled her two young children because they were autistic, a spokeswoman for the district attorney said Friday.", "Saiqa Akhter, 30, now faces two charges of capital murder of a child under 5 in the deaths of her 2-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, Dallas County district attorney spokeswoman Jamille Bradfield said.", "A woman who identified herself as Akhter called police Monday evening and said she first tried to kill her children with bathroom cleaner, but they would not drink it.", "She told the 911 operator that she then strangled them with a wire and that they were on her bed.", "Police and paramedics tried to resuscitate the children, but Zain Akhter died at the hospital Monday, and his younger sister, Faryaal Akhter, died at the hospital Tuesday evening, according to authorities.", "On the tape, the woman tells the operator, \"I killed them.", "I killed both of them. I killed my both kids. ...", "They are not doing anything. They are just blue. They are not taking any breaths.", "Their heart is not beating.\"", "The operator asks her what happened.", "\"First, I tried to give them bathroom cleaner.", "I put in their mouth, but they don't drink it.", "I want them to drink it.", "They don't drink it. ... I grabbed their neck ... and they are no more,\" she says on the tape.", "The operator continues to talk to the woman to keep her on the phone until officers arrive.", "She asks why she killed her children, and the woman says she wanted normal children.", "\"They are autistic. I don't want my kids to be autistic,\" she is heard saying in an even tone.", "The operator then asks her what she is feeling, and she says \"nothing.\"", "Akhter is being held in the Dallas County jail in lieu of $1 million bail.", "According to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, the Akhter family had a referral in 2009 for \"neglectful supervision.\"" ]	[ "Saiqa Akhter, 30, of Irving, Texas, is charged with capital murder .", "She told the 911 operator she wanted \"normal\" children .", "Child services worked with the family in 2009 to find resources for their situation ." ]	[ 0, 8, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A former south Texas prosecutor has been indicted on a felony charge of misusing money from seized property to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses to himself and his staff, state prosecutors announced Wednesday.", "A grand jury in Alice, Texas, charged Joe Frank Garza with misapplication of fiduciary duty in connection with the payments.", "In a 2009 interview with CNN, Garza insisted the payments were legal, but the grand jury disagreed.", "An audit conducted after he left office found more than $1.2 million went to three secretaries Garza called \"my eyes and ears in the community.\"", "But the then-district attorney also paid himself more than $81,000, which he said was for expenses.", "Attempts to reach Garza for comment were unsuccessful Wednesday evening.", "State law forbids officials from converting money from forfeiture cases to personal use or to supplement salaries without the approval of county commissioners, prosecutors said.", "Garza was allowed to post $10,000 bond after being served with the indictment, according to court papers.", "Garza served as the chief prosecutor for Jim Wells and Brooks counties in south Texas from 2003 to 2008, when he lost his bid for re-election.", "Garza's successor asked the state attorney general's office to investigate once he left office.", "Property seizures are a common tactic in drug cases, but critics have argued the practice can lead to abuse by law enforcement agencies.", "Several motorists have sued authorities in another Texas county, accusing police there of systematically fleecing drivers passing through by seizing cash and other valuables during traffic stops and pressuring the owners to give up the property in exchange for promises not to prosecute.", "Authorities in the town of Tenaha, near the Louisiana state line, and surrounding Shelby County have denied any wrongdoing, and an effort to restrict the practice failed in the state legislature in 2009." ]	[ "Audit found ex-prosecutor paid $1.2 million to three secretaries .", "Joe Frank Garza told CNN in 2009 that the payments were legal .", "South Texas district attorney lost his re-election bid in 2008 ." ]	[ 2, 3, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sudan's first multiparty elections in 24 years, which wrapped up earlier this week, fell short of international standards but should be recognized as an important step forward for the nation, observers said Saturday.", "\"While it is too early to offer a final overall assessment, it is apparent that the elections will fall sort of meeting international standards and Sudan's obligations for genuine elections in many respects,\" said a statement from the Carter Center, one of several groups observing the balloting.", "\"Nonetheless, the elections are important as a key benchmark in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and because of the increased political and civic participation that has occurred over the last several months.", "Ultimately, the success of the elections will depend on whether Sudanese leaders take action to promote lasting democratic transformation.\"", "The European Union Election Observation Mission criticized the election for showing \"significant deficiencies against international standards\" but said the vote paves the way for democratic progress.", "Counting of ballots began Friday in Sudan, nearly a week after voting began.", "Sudan's election commission extended the vote for two days past the original Tuesday deadline after observers complained of technical problems, including ballots being sent to the wrong polling stations and registers that were missing voters' names.", "The voting -- for president, parliament and other local positions -- was scrutinized by about 750 international and 18,000 domestic observers.", "Opposition parties accused the ruling National Congress Party of fraud, prompting some parties to partially or fully withdraw from the vote.", "One of those parties was the SPLM, or Sudanese People's Liberation Movement.", "In a statement Saturday, the party said that despite his withdrawal, SPLM presidential candidate Yasir Saeed Arman held a healthy lead in southern Sudan.", "Arman withdrew from the presidential race last month, and the party decided to boycott elections in northern Sudan.", "In the north of the county, Arman \"predictably did not do well in a race he was never part of,\" the SPLM said in the statement.", "\"The election days were mostly calm, orderly and peaceful, within a well-maintained security environment,\" the EU observation mission said in a Saturday statement.", "\"The Sudanese people are to be congratulated on the patience and forbearance shown by their considerable voter turnout despite the challenges encountered during the polling days.\"", "The U.S.-based Carter Center echoed those comments, but noted, \"notwithstanding these generally positive features, Carter Center observers noted important flaws.\"", "The voter registration process faced \"critical shortcomings,\" the center said, and resulted in \"broad but uneven\" participation across the country.", "It noted that preliminary lists were not posted for public review, especially in southern Sudan, and \"the status of the final voter registry and list of polling stations remained uncertain.\"", "In addition, \"on election day, voters faced a range of operational and logistical problems: late delivery of and/or inadequate materials, incomplete or inaccurate voters' lists, incorrect or insufficient ballots, ballots with inappropriate languages and a lack of consistency in procedures,\" the Carter Center said.", "The two-day extension in voting helped partially alleviate some of those concerns, it said.", "The balloting was absent safeguards and transparency necessary to \"verify key steps and build confidence and trust in the process,\" according to the statement.", "\"Our observers reported problems with ink, ballot box seals, and the process of identifying voters.\"", "There were also reports of underage voters casting ballots, the center said.", "The election was a key part of a 2005 peace deal, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, that helped end decades of civil war between the country's north and south.", "The conflict pitted Christian and Animist southerners against Muslim northerners, leaving more than 2 million people dead.", "The peace deal also called for a referendum next year to determine whether the south should become an independent nation.", "\"The elections in the South experienced a high incidence of intimidation and the threat or use of force,\" the Carter Center said.", "\"There were numerous instances of the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army intimidating voters and being stationed too close to polling stations.", "State interference in the campaigns of opposition candidates was widespread in the South.\"", "However, the EU mission said, the elections showed progress on gender equality, \"as a minimum of 25 percent of all legislative seats will be occupied by women.\"", "\"This election saw the development of the capacity of civil society: hundreds of groups, encompassing thousands of individual citizens, displayed high levels of commitment and engaged in election observation for many days,\" the EU statement said.", "\"This extensive involvement by Sudanese civil society who showed great commitment, particularly in domestic observation, contributed to the transparency of the electoral process.\"", "Election results are expected next week, observers have said." ]	[ "Carter Center: \"It is apparent that the elections will fall sort of meeting international standards\"\nEU agency monitoring elections said vote paves way for democratic progress .", "Counting of ballots began Friday in Sudan, nearly a week after voting began .", "Opposition parties accused the ruling National Congress Party of fraud ." ]	[ 1, 5, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Football fans in Madrid are used to getting their way when it comes to attracting the world's best talent.", "Last summer, Real Madrid, the world's most successful club, splashed out more than $200 million to bring former world players of the year Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka to the city.", "Now the city's aquarium has launched an audacious bid to bring the unlikely star of the recent World Cup to the Spanish capital with a \"name your price\" offer for Paul the octopus -- the psychic cephalopod who correctly predicted Spain's triumph at the tournament.", "In an announcement on its blog Thursday, Madrid Zoo Aquarium said it had begun making the \"necessary arrangements\" for Paul's transfer and had offered to beat any offer already on the table.", "Zookeepers said they were also ready to offer other animals in exchange for the octopus and said Paul could expect the \"best care\" befitting of a national hero.", "Paul, currently resident at the Sea Life Center in Oberhausen, Germany, not only predicted Spain's win over the Netherlands in the final but also the team's semifinal success against Germany.", "Prior to that it had correctly predicted all five of Germany's earlier results, and picked Germany to beat Uruguay in the third-place playoff, ending the tournament with a remarkable eight-for-eight record.", "During each prediction, two mussel-filled acrylic boxes labeled with a team's flag were lowered into his tank.", "Whichever box he chose conveyed the winning team.", "Sea Life staff in Oberhausen announced Paul's retirement from the predictions game earlier this week but said they were considering a \"host of offers from around the globe.\"", "PR guru Max Clifford told CNN that Paul could become the world's first multimillion-pound octopus should his handlers choose to cash in on his global fame.", "Paul: The world's first millionaire octopus?" ]	[ "Madrid Zoo Aquarium says it will beat any offer for psychic octopus .", "Paul predicted eight results at World Cup, including Spain's win in final .", "Octopus achieved global fame, became Spanish national hero .", "Zoo ready to offer other animals in exchange for Paul, promises best care ." ]	[ 2, 4 ]
[ "(InStyle.com) -- We know it's serious news.", "But we'll admit: The recent arrest of 11 members of a so-called Russian espionage ring -- coupled with coverage of their assumed identities, their old-school tactics (invisible ink!", "), and even, in the case of \"red-hot beauty\" Anna Chapman, their coquettish Facebook pictures -- got us thinking about some of our favorite stylish spies from film and television.", "Here's a list of our top 10.", "1. Anya Amasova in \"The Spy Who Loved Me\" KGB agent Major Anya Amasova (code name: Triple X) had a love/hate relationship with her British counterpart, James Bond, in the 1977 film.", "Together, they traveled through Egypt and battled Jaws, a steel-toothed, 7-foot-tall assassin.", "But when the mission ended, Amasova -- played by American model Barbara Bach (who looked almost as good in her uniform as she did in a bathing suit) -- fell far short of her stated goal of killing Bond; instead, she bedded him (in a submarine escape pod, no less).", "InStyle.com: The 21 most iconic swimsuits ever .", "2. Emma Peel in \"The Avengers\" British agent John Steed had several different partners over the course of the original 1960s series, but Emma Peel, played by Diana Rigg, was the best: A certified genius equally adept at fencing and martial arts, she fought mad scientists in mod black-and-white ensembles (many of which were designed by Pierre Cardin).", "Uma Thurman stepped into the iconic leather catsuit for a big-screen version in 1998.", "3. Sydney Bristow in \"Alias\" Jennifer Garner was nothing short of sensational as Sydney Bristow, a vulnerable-yet-deadly double-agent working with the CIA in the series that kicked off in 2001.", "More to the point, she looked sensational, masquerading as everything from club kid to hotel maid to geisha with stylish aplomb.", "InStyle.com: Jennifer Garner's transformation .", "4. Nikita in \"La Femme Nikita\" Anne Parillaud played the titular cocktail-dress-clad assassin in Luc Besson's original 1990 film: She went from teenage drug addict to literal femme fatale at the behest of her French intelligence agency handlers.", "Bridget Fonda starred in Point of No Return, the 1993 Hollywood remake, and Peta Wilson found fame in a late 1990s TV version.", "This fall, the character will be resurrected yet again, as Maggie Q takes on the title role in the CW series \"Nikita.\"", "5. Vanessa Kensington, Felicity Shagwell, and Foxxy Cleopatra in the \"Austin Powers\" movies.", "They came from three different eras and worked for three different agencies, but Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley), Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham) and Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyoncé Knowles) had more in common than their line of work and their improbable attraction to the snaggle-toothed spy Austin Powers.", "They also shared an affinity for truly over-the-top ensembles, as seen above; we like Vanessa's futuristic silver shift best.", "InStyle.com: Beyoncé's Transformation .", "6. Agent 99 in \"Get Smart\" Eminently capable and devastatingly gorgeous, Anne Hathaway's Agent 99 was the only CONTROL agent, aside from Maxwell Smart, whose identity hadn't been compromised at the start of the 2008 film.", "(The character was updated from the version Barbara Feldon played in the original 1960s show.)", "The series of ever-more-fabulous couture getups she donned over the course of her and Maxwell's mission wasn't exactly believable, but it sure was impressive.", "7. Vesper Lynd in \"Casino Royale\" Eva Green played Vesper Lynd, a British Treasury agent brought in to bankroll James Bond during a game of high stakes poker in this 2006 \"reboot\" of the series.", "But she certainly didn't look like a boring bureaucrat: Instead, the terminally conflicted Vesper stunned in a series of dramatic evening gowns, including this sophisticated open-backed number.", "InStyle.com: Stars in bikinis .", "8. Claire Phelps in \"Mission: Impossible\" The pillow-lipped French film star Emmanuelle Béart played a member of the fancifully named Impossible Missions Force in this 1996 big-screen adaptation of the classic TV show.", "Tom Cruise, as Ethan Hunt, may have suspected that his fellow agent's loyalties were divided, but given how beautiful she looked in her well-cut separates and chic little suits, we understand his inability to keep his guard up.", "9. Helen Tasker in \"True Lies\" Our favorite scene in 1995's \"True Lies\" comes when the formerly bored wife of secret agent Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) converts her slightly frumpy high-necked, long-sleeved dress into a short, sexy cocktail mini with little more than her bare hands.", "After Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis) slicks her hair back with a bit of water from a vase of flowers, she's ready for intrigue.", "InStyle.com: Stars' most memorable dresses .", "10. Claire Stenwick in \"Duplicity\" Julia Roberts played a CIA-agent-turned-corporate-spy opposite Clive Owens in this 2009 romp.", "And, of course, she had all the usual accoutrements -- dark sunglasses, black trench, etc.", "-- but we loved this romantic V-necked printed dress she wore while shooting in Rome, Italy.", "Bonus: Evelyn Salt in \"Salt\" Okay, we haven't yet seen \"Salt,\" in which Angelina Jolie stars as a CIA officer accused of being a double agent, and it's not in theaters until July 23rd.", "But if the action-packed trailer is any indication (and, judging by the numerous shots of Jolie looking chic on set), it looks to be a very stylish entry into the cannon.", "Want more of the sexiest spies in pop culture?", "Visit InStyle.com for the complete slideshow!", "Get a FREE TRIAL issue of InStyle - CLICK HERE!", "Copyright © 2010 Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "Jennifer Garner was nothing short of sensational as Sydney Bristow in \"Alias\"\nHurley, Graham and Knowles shined in the \"Austin Powers\" movies .", "Julia Roberts played a CIA-agent-turned-corporate-spy in \"Duplicity\"" ]	[ 10, 16, 31 ]
[ "(The Frisky) -- We were worried that Sandra Bullock was going to disappear out there in the Texas flatlands and take a Hollywood hiatus for good.", "Thank goodness we were wrong.", "The word is that she may be coming out of hiding to reunite with her costar from \"The Proposal,\" Ryan Reynolds, for a new action comedy called \"Most Wanted.\"", "Welcome back, rom-com queen!", "Inspired by this quirky, funny re-coupling, here are nine more classic and endearing onscreen couples that we want to see get back together on the big screen.", "The Frisky: 8 celebrity dudes describe their dream women .", "1. There is no magic like the magic of Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling in \"The Notebook.\"", "We need them back together ASAP ... on and off screen.", "2. Kate Winslet and Leo DiCaprio have done a couple of brilliant collaborations, but what about Kate's chemistry with Jim Carrey in \"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?\"", "We can't forget it. The Frisky: 6 celeb couples dish on their (cheap!)", "first dates .", "3. We wish that Johnny Depp and Winona Rider could put all the broken engagement and shoplifting drama behind them and give us another taste of that Burton-style bad romance, à la \"Edward Scissorhands.\"", "4. It's been way too long since Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau were so \"money\" together in \"Swingers.\"", "The Frisky: Is Julia Roberts' \"Eat, Pray, Love\" the most boring movie poster ever?", "5. I don't think it's too late for Diane Keaton and Woody Allen to bring back some of their neurotic, onscreen charm from \"Annie Hall\" and \"Manhattan.\"", "6. Do Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in \"Good Will Hunting\" count as a couple?", "If so, let's try it again, shall we?", "The Frisky: Team Bella?", "What the \"Twilight\" credit cards looks like .", "7. We're hoping for another movie starring Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, only this time they end up together, unlike in \"500 Days of Summer.\"", "8. Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray's chemistry was never \"Lost in Translation\" for us.", "Let's do part deux!", "9. We need to see Lloyd Dobbler (aka John Cusack) and Diane Court (aka Ione Skye) from \"Say Anything\" all grown-up and back onscreen.", "The Frisky: Is \"Bachelorette\" Ali really single?", "TM & © 2010 TMV, Inc. \| All Rights Reserved ." ]	[ "There is no magic like the magic of Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling in \"The Notebook\"\nIt's not too late for Keaton and Allen to bring back some neurotic, onscreen charm .", "Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray's chemistry was never \"Lost in Translation\" for us ." ]	[ 6, 14, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A bus crashed into the side of a mountain Tuesday in western Bolivia, killing at least 13 people and injuring another 26, the government news agency reported.", "The driver lost control of the bus, which gained speed and smashed into rocks on the side of the road, said police official Victor Hugo Ona.", "The bus left the city of La Paz with 28 passengers but was later found to have 41 passengers and excess baggage, Ona told the state-run Agencia Boliviana de Informacion.", "Among the dead were seven men, four women and two minors, said Jose Villarroel, another police official.", "At least 19 of the injured were hospitalized.", "Bus driver Pedro Limachi, 45, was listed among the injured being treated at the Hospital Arco Iris in La Paz.", "The bus was operated by the Flota Yunguena transit company.", "Bolivia's mountainous roads often prove fatal.", "A bus crash in central Bolivia in June left 28 dead and 44 injured after an apparent brake failure, police said at the time.", "That bus, which plunged into a ravine, was owned by the El Dorado company.", "A January bus accident killed 22 people.", "And 19 people died and 26 were injured in August 2009 when a bus plunged off a mountain road." ]	[ "Police: Driver lost control of the bus, which crashed into roadside boulders .", "At least 26 people were injured .", "Bus driver and 18 others were being treated at a hospital, the government says .", "Fatal bus wrecks are not rare in mountainous Bolivia ." ]	[ 0, 1, 5, 7 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- A sister of a 17-year-old girl whose body was found this week two miles from her home in southern California said Friday she would not rest until the killer is apprehended.", "\"I will not have peace until this this person is found,\" Elizabeth Lopez, 18, said about the killer of her younger sister Norma, who vanished last Thursday as she walked home from summer classes at Valley View High School in Moreno Valley, about 70 miles east of Los Angeles.", "Authorities believe that Norma, who had planned to meet a younger sister and a friend at home, took a short cut through a dirt field to reach the family's residence.", "Her sister contacted the police when Lopez failed to return home.", "The girl's body was discovered Tuesday two miles away and identified Wednesday through dental records, police said.", "\"I always thought it was something safe,\" Lopez said about the path her sister typically followed.", "\"I never suspected that my sister would get kidnapped in this empty lot of just dirt.\"", "Sgt. Joe Barja of the Riverside Valley Sheriff's Department declined to reveal the cause of death or reveal any injuries Lopez may have sustained but said the department is treating the death as a homicide.", "The victim's sister said the family was trying to stay strong and to find the killer.", "\"That's what's keeping us motivated -- to get that person in custody so no other family could actually go through what we are going through,\" Elizabeth Lopez told HLN's \"Prime.\"", "\"There's a family here that loved her very much, even though sometimes we did fight -- but it was something stupid, something dumb.", "But we love her and miss her and one day we will be together again.\"", "She expressed gratitude for the outpouring of support the family has received from the community, including a memorial service at the high school, which hundreds of students attended.", "\"I get a lot of strength from this,\" she said.", "\"I did not expect this many people to actually support us.", "I thought this was just going to be one of those kidnappings that people don't really get involved with ...", "I did not really expect anyone to actually really listen to the story that we had.\"", "Lopez said her sister had hope to become a fashion designer, a makeup artist or a model.", "\"She had really big dreams in life,\" she said.", "She recalled the last time she saw her sister, the morning of her disappearance.", "\"She brought me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and I opened up my sandwich and it had a happy face made with banana in it,\" Lopez said.", "The offering was intended to to persuade her sister to lend her a pair of shoes, she said.", "Police are looking for a green \"SUV-type vehicle\" that was seen driving from the area at the time of Lopez's disappearance.", "The parents, who are originally from Guanajuato, Mexico, were being assisted by the Mexican Consulate, said Carolina Zaragoza, head of the consulate's local office.", "The victim's father, Martin Lopez, 44, told CNN in a telephone interview that the neighborhood was generally a safe one and that Norma usually took precautions to stay safe.", "\"She never walked around without her mother,\" he said in Spanish.", "CNN's Tom Watkins contributed to this report." ]	[ "Sister \"will not have peace until this person is found\"\nNorma Lopez's body was discovered Tuesday .", "Norma dreamed of being a fashion designer, makeup artist or model .", "Authorities believe teen was taking a shortcut home when abducted ." ]	[ 1, 4, 17 ]
[ "(The Frisky) -- Soon after Betty White hosted \"Saturday Night Live,\" I remember asking my friend Nate, a fellow \"Golden Girls\" fanatic, what he thought of all the fuss around White's meteoric comeback.", "He rolled his eyes, shrugged, and said, \"It's just weird that everybody's finally come around to realizing that Betty White is amazing.", "Where have they been?\" He was right: the recent trend of people catching on to the fact that Betty White is terrific felt patronizing, and not just because most were astonished that an adorable old lady could land a joke better than most \"SNL\" hosts one-third her age (I'm talking about you, January Jones); it was the belated appreciation of White's fabulousness that made all of us look even sillier.", "The Frisky: Celeb twins - 10 famous females who come in pairs .", "And now, there's Joan Rivers.", "Rivers, younger than White by over a decade, has been working steadily since the 1950s, and, after this week's release of a great new documentary about her life, \"Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,\" she is poised to become the Next Belated Big Thing -- for those who needed 60 years to catch on to the fact that she is wonderful.", "The Frisky: 6 celeb couples dish on their (cheap!)", "first dates .", "Unlike Betty White, Rivers didn't have the benefit of starring in a series of beloved television shows, nor did she play characters as affable, matronly, or warmly dotty.", "Rivers honed her act as a stand-up in the 1960s, when few other women had the guts to talk about not being desired by men on stage or joke about women who were flying to Puerto Rico for illegal abortions on \"The Ed Sullivan Show.\"", "The Frisky: 10 stars who (maybe) have secret babies .", "Since then, she's worked consistently -- if one seeks out her entry on Wikipedia, you can't find more than three years in a row where she hasn't had a TV show.", "This is because Rivers, who defines happiness as a full appointment book, doesn't have the luxury of turning down projects that aren't classy, or cushy, or critically celebrated; she'll sell her jewelry on QVC; she'll do commercials and perform on a cruise ship.", "She would wake up early, shoot an episode of her own TV show, or do a guest spot on another one, wrap for the day, then get downtown in time to do her weekly stand-up show at the Westbeth Theater.", "Joan Rivers loves to work, and she'll stop only when she's dead.", "The Frisky: 8 celebrity dudes describe their dream women .", "So why did it take so long for audiences to respect not just her work ethic, but to realize how talented she is?", "Based on the reactions so far to her documentary film \"A Piece of Work,\" it seems that what people find most shocking is that she is actually one of the funniest -- and edgiest -- in the comedy biz.", "David Edelstein, in New York magazine, remarked how, after watching her stand-up in the film, he was \"ready to be her slave,\" and added, \"I never knew she worked this blue, that she had this much Lenny Bruce in her.\"", "The Frisky: Is \"Bachelorette\" Ali really single?", "A lot of the delayed appreciation for Joan Rivers has to do with the contempt familiarity breeds.", "She's never left our sights, and even appeared more and more on our TV screen (winning \"Celebrity Apprentice\" last year) over the years.", "And, why should she leave showbiz?", "Her act is as resilient as her energy level, which, at 77, is enviable.", "But, like anything else in comedy, Rivers' comeback is also about timing.", "As Rivers' agent says in the film, Joan knows that in order to get hit by lightning, you have to stand in the rain.", "And after 60 years of getting soaking wet, Rivers is about to get struck again where she stands -- feet planted firmly, and not going anywhere.", "The Frisky: 10 famous men stayed with their mistresses .", "TM & © 2010 TMV, Inc. \| All Rights Reserved ." ]	[ "Joan Rivers has been working steadily since the 1950s .", "\"A Piece of Work\" shows she is actually one of the funniest people in the business .", "The delayed appreciation for her has to do with the contempt familiarity breeds ." ]	[ 17, 20 ]
[ "(The Frisky) -- Over the past year, Kate Gosselin has come full circle in the court of public opinion.", "Around this time last year, most people thought of her as the shrewish mother of eight who was constantly nagging and snapping at her laid-back husband, Jon.", "As soon as they divorced last summer and Jon started dating a string of questionable 20-somethings, Kate became the sane and stable one to Jon's man-boy.", "Then, Kate appeared on \"Dancing with the Stars,\" and again she became the shrew, as rumors flew that she was nasty to her fellow cast members behind the scenes.", "Well, I'm going to say something controversial.", "I like Kate Gosselin.", "I think she's smart and appreciate her wry, barely-there sense of humor.", "I think she's handled herself with restraint and class for the past year while dealing with the end of her marriage under the tabloid microscope.", "I appreciate how open she is about her emotions, and how hard it is to move on.", "And while millions will be watching when \"Kate Plus 8\" premieres on Sunday, I'm looking forward to having a second dose of Kate on television with her brand-new reality show, \"Twist of Kate,\" coming to TLC soon.", "Here are 10 reasons I'll be watching.", "1. Kate has the best name ever.", "Not that I'm biased. The Frisky: Kate Gosselin and 7 others rejected by Playboy .", "2. The concept of the show is a touch schmaltzy, but interesting.", "Kate takes a letter from a fan struggling through some challenge and visits them to essentially live their lives, meeting their family and doing their job.", "\"She will be in that person's shoes.", "And more often than not, it's not going to be terribly comfortable for her,\" TLC chief Eileen O'Neill told USA Today.", "3. Kate wrote in a blog post today, \"I look forward to being dropped into the lives of interesting and unique people and families.", "... Kate on the back of a trash truck, anyone?\"", "Is she really going to be a garbage collector for an episode?", "Need. To. See. That. The Frisky: Stars who ended relationships to chase fame .", "4. OK, fine, I want to see what her hair will look like.", "Will she keep the extensions or go back to her signature porcupine reverse-mullet?", "5. We also know that in one episode, according to local North Carolina press, she will be a waitress at Finch's Restaurant.", "She was spotted filming in Raleigh, North Carolina, in December.", "Will she be able to deal with rude diners without sending them to time-out?", "6. It'll be nice to see Kate get a break from caring for eight kids.", "Perhaps we'll get to see her real personality rather than the on-edge OCD mom?", "7. Perhaps during one of the 12 episodes airing this summer, Kate will meet a guy.", "How nice it would be to see her out on a date.", "The Frisky: Clooney's girlfriend says Jennifer Aniston looks like haggard rocker .", "8. That said, we're thankful she's not the next \"Bachelorette.\"", "We're glad she decided to go this route instead of straight to a dating show.", "The Frisky: \"DWTS\" dream team - Oprah, Mr. T, and \"Sawyer\" are on our list .", "9. It'll be fun to guess which life she test-drives next.", "Here's hoping that she gets to be a circus performer.", "Or maybe she could put her \"Dancing with the Stars\" skills to use, and visit a struggling exotic dancer?", "10. Hey, it's better than a show about her ex Jon Gosselin.", "The Frisky: Heidi Klum to spill her love secrets on her new TV show .", "TM & © 2010 TMV, Inc. \| All Rights Reserved ." ]	[ "According to local North Carolina press, she will be a waitress at one point .", "Kate was spotted filming in Raleigh, North Carolina, in December .", "It will be fun to guess which life she'll test-drive next ." ]	[ 23, 24, 34 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Virginia police officers can question stopped motorists about their immigration status, the state's attorney general has said, adding fuel to a contentious debate over states' immigration policies in the wake of a controversial law enacted in Arizona.", "\"It is my opinion that Virginia law enforcement officers, including conservation officers, may, like Arizona police officers, inquire into the immigration status of persons stopped or arrested,\" Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli writes in the opinion.", "\"However, persons tasked with enforcing zoning laws lack the authority to investigate criminal violations of the law, including criminal violations of the immigration laws of the United States.\"", "In \"any legitimate police stop\" -- for criminal or traffic reasons -- \"law enforcement is allowed to ask about other subjects,\" Cuccinelli told CNN's \"American Morning\" on Wednesday.", "\"And our opinion addressed the fact that they can ask about illegal immigration, immigration status, along with anything else.\"", "Cuccinelli issued the opinion Friday at the request of Virginia Delegate Robert \"Bob\" Marshall, a Republican.", "He said he is obligated to issue such opinions when they are requested by lawmakers.", "\"This is an outrage, and citizens rightly want officials to do something,\" Marshall told CNN affiliate WDBJ-TV in a report posted on his website.", "\"Since Congress has taken this as a primary responsibility, they are primarily delinquent on this.\"", "Parts of Arizona's immigration law took effect last week after a federal judge blocked portions of it following a challenge from the Obama administration.", "U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton issued a preliminary injunction that blocked a provision that would have required police to \"make a reasonable attempt to determine the immigration status of a person stopped, detained or arrested\" if the officer has a reasonable suspicion the person is in the United States illegally.", "Arizona officials have said the law was enacted because the federal government has failed to adequately enforce immigration law.", "Cuccinelli said Wednesday the difference between the Arizona provision and his opinion -- which does not carry the weight of law -- is that while Virginia officers have the authority to inquire about immigration status, they are not required to do so.", "\"We're very sensitive to now allowing for racial profiling,\" he said. ...", "The way we avoid it is, we apply the same rules to everybody.", "And law enforcement is expected to do that.\"", "Asked whether his opinion means that stopped motorists must present documentation, Cuccinelli said, \"Well, the first response is simply whether or not they have to answer the questions.", "There's not a requirement because a police officer is asking that you have documentation.", "\"However, it is a requirement under our federal immigration law that those who are not citizens carry evidence, meaning their papers, indicating their legal status,\" he said.", "\"So if someone is not a citizen, they should have papers indicating their legal status.", "If they do not, they're violating federal law, and that is a criminal violation.\"", "If a police officer can determine someone is in the country illegally at the time of the stop, it provides grounds for arrest, he said.", "But one advocacy organization said actions like the opinion only serve to muddy the waters on the issue.", "\"What we are seeing on the issue of immigration is a lot of political gamesmanship and very little in terms of solutions,\" said Clarissa Martinez, director of immigration and national campaigns for the National Council of La Raza, which describes itself as the largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States.", "\"Given the situation in Arizona, for any state or locality to continue pushing in that direction without at least figuring out if this is going to be ruled unconstitutional or not ...", "I think it's irresponsible,\" she said.", "While the issue should be addressed, \"these kinds of antics are just distractions,\" she said.", "Those who are frustrated and believe the federal government hasn't done enough should pressure the government to take action \"as opposed to just adding more chaos,\" she said.", "While Virginia does not face the same situation as border states like Arizona, the attorney general said, undocumented immigrants pose a \"significant problem.\"", "Cuccinelli said the federal government presents a \"bottleneck.\"", "\"They are essentially in charge of whether someone is here legally or not.", "And if they refuse to undertake that, there's nothing we can do as a state,\" he said.", "If the state determines someone is in the country illegally, its options are to hold the person until the federal government retrieves them -- which is very expensive -- or let them go, he said.", "He pointed to a fatal crash on Sunday, when a man believed to be under the influence of alcohol slammed head-on into a car carrying three nuns.", "Sister Denise Mosier was killed instantly and the other two were seriously injured.", "The three were a few miles from the Benedictine monastery in Bristow, Virginia, heading for their annual retreat.", "The suspect, Carlos Montano, had two previous convictions for driving under the influence, as well as reckless driving, speeding and public drunkenness, according to Prince William County prosecutor Paul Ebert.", "Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials confirmed Montano had twice been in their custody.", "Both times, he was released on his own recognizance pending deportation proceedings because he was not convicted of a violent felony.", "Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has ordered an immediate review of his deportation proceedings.", "Montano faces involuntary manslaughter charges in the crash.", "\"This is a serious problem,\" Cuccinelli said.", "\"It threatens the safety of Virginians, and I know the problem is similar across the country.", "We're just taking gradual steps to address it as aggressively as we can.\"", "When CNN's Kieran Chetry pointed out that those in the country legally or citizens also drive under the influence and cause fatal accidents, Cuccinelli replied, \"Unfortunately, ICE had this person in their custody and let them go.", "They knew he was deportable.\"", "Dana Schrad, executive director of the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police, said Cuccinelli's opinion, while influential, likely won't change the way officers enforce the law, as they were never prohibited from asking about immigration status.", "The opinion is only an interpretation of the current law that police already operate under, she said.", "\"I think what this says is, 'OK, Virginia law enforcement, if you ask the question it's not against the law,'\" she said.", "\"We already knew that.\"", "However, she said officers in general tend to take a \"balanced approach\" to asking such questions, lest they lose the trust of immigrants -- who are also victims of and witnesses to crimes, and whose cooperation can be beneficial.", "Officers in some communities may ask the question less, while others may ask every time, she said.", "Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Washington-based Federation for American Immigration Reform, said he does not believe the opinion will lead to racial profiling, because police officers use their own judgment when deciding what questions to ask and opinions to form.", "For instance, if a driver lacks a license, registration or insurance when pulled over, a police officer might have reasonable suspicion to ask about immigration status, he said.", "\"These are legitimate concerns.", "Police officers do have an obligation to look further when they find reasonable suspicion.\"", "\"Every law is subject to potential abuse,\" he said.", "\"There are always going to be cops that go over the line.\"", "Mechanisms should be in place to discipline officers who go too far, he said, but laws cannot be thrown out because of that risk.", "Cuccinelli's office pointed out in a statement that what an officer can and cannot ask in an encounter remains the same, whether the concern is an immigration violation or a bank robbery.", "\"The law does not distinguish between criminal violations of immigration law versus violations of any other criminal law,\" the statement said.", "\"Crime is crime.\"", "But \"when a police officer has 'reasonable articulable suspicion,' the officer can briefly detain a suspect and investigate whether a crime has occurred,\" the statement said.", "\"If the officer has probable cause to believe a crime has occurred, the officer can make an arrest.", "These scenarios are true whether the crime is bank robbery, murder, trespass or criminal violations of immigration laws.", "The legal framework does not change just because the crime happens to be an immigration-related crime.", "\"Although immigration is politically controversial, the legal principles discussed in the opinion are a matter of settled law and do not break any new legal ground.\"", "CNN's Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd contributed to this report." ]	[ "Virginia's AG says motorists can be asked about immigration status .", "Ken Cuccinelli says officers are not required to ask .", "An advocacy group says such \"antics\" are \"distractions\"\nA police official says officers tend to be balanced in such inquiries ." ]	[ 0, 26, 50, 65 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon was undergoing surgery for a heart attack Monday, two days after taking office, a hospital director said at a news conference.", "Garzon underwent a cardiac catheterization procedure early Monday that showed he had several blocked arteries and needed heart surgery, said Carlos Alberto Cardona, scientific director at the Clinica Shaio cardiac center.", "The new vice president arrived at the clinic between 6 and 6:30 a.m. (7 to 7:30 a.m.", "ET), said hospital spokesman Diego Cruz.", "Clinica Shaio is located in Bogota, the nation's capital.", "Garzon, 63, was sworn into office Saturday as vice president for new President Juan Manuel Santos.", "He is a former governor, member of the Colombian congress, ambassador and Cabinet secretary.", "He is also a former member of the Colombian Communist Party Executive Committee, his official biography says.", "The vice president's heart attack and surgery was not expected to disrupt a meeting between Santos and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez scheduled for Tuesday.", "The two heads of state will meet in Santa Marta, Colombia, to discuss how to repair ruptured relations between the two countries.", "Chavez broke off diplomatic relations with Colombia last month over accusations that Venezuela is harboring Marxist guerrillas who want to overthrow the Colombian government." ]	[ "Heart surgery was being performed Monday morning .", "An exam revealed several blocked arteries, a hospital director said .", "The surgery was not expected to disrupt a high-level Colombia-Venezuela meeting Tuesday .", "Angelino Garzon was sworn into office on Saturday ." ]	[ 0, 5, 8 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- The town of Bedford, New York, is not happy with a tent set up as part of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's visit to the United States for the United Nations General Assembly, a town attorney said Tuesday.", "The tent is on property that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is renting in New York, WABC reported.", "\"I discussed this matter with town officials, and the town building inspector believes that this would constitute a violation of several town zoning and land use laws,\" Bedford town attorney Joel Sachs said.", "\"I directed the town building inspector to immediately go to the property and issue a stop work order, which would the individuals to cease erecting the tent.\"", "Sachs said if he had to he would take the issue to a higher court to get the tent taken down.", "New York state Sen. Vincent Liebell confirmed to CNN affiliate WABC that Gadhafi had rented the property.", "\"He's not going to have many fans in Bedford or Westchester County, certainly not me,\" the senator said.", "\"There's not going to be any welcome mat for him in Bedford.\"", "The property is owned by the Trump Organization, which said in a statement: \"We have business partners and associates all over the world.", "The property was leased on a short-term basis to Middle Eastern partners, who may or may not have a relationship to Mr. Gadhafi.", "We are looking into the matter.\"", "Watch CNN crew look for Gadhafi's tent » .", "County Executive Andy Spano said earlier Tuesday he had heard unconfirmed reports that Gadhafi may be staying there.", "\"There is no legal way to prevent this, as he is a head of state, despite the fact that he has a long history as a terrorist,\" Spano said in a statement.", "\"However, from my point of view, he is not welcome in Westchester.\"", "State Department officials said there are no limitations on Gadhafi's visa that would prevent him from traveling to the area.", "They said their understanding was that Gadhafi was not staying at the tent, but was visiting and having meetings there.", "He is staying in New York, the officials said.", "The U.N. General Assembly begins Wednesday.", "Under the Foreign Mission Act, the United States does have the right to restrict travel by diplomats to within a certain distance of U.N. headquarters, but the officials said Westchester County is within that radius.", "Gadhafi travels with a trademark Bedouin tent.", "Last month, Gadhafi stirred up anger when he permitted a large welcome for Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988.", "Al Megrahi was released by Scottish authorities on compassionate medical grounds, and the celebration of his homecoming infuriated some families of the Pan Am 103 victims.", "CNN's Ekin Middleton, Elise Labott and Jen Haley contributed to this report." ]	[ "Town attorney for Bedford says tent violates zoning and land use restrictions .", "Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is in United States for visit to United Nations .", "Tent erected on rented property in Bedford, Westchester County .", "Gadhafi stirred anger with large welcome for man convicted in plane bombing ." ]	[ 0, 1, 7, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Department of Justice served the state of West Virginia two subpoenas this week, the governor's office said late Friday, adding that they had \"not been informed that Governor [Joe] Manchin or any other state employee is under investigation.\"", "The statement came after West Virginia Watchdog, a state chapter of the nonprofit Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, reported the subpoenas are part of a federal grand jury investigation into work done at the Governor's Mansion in Charleston.", "West Virginia Watchdog asked for contracts and records for businesses that have done work at the mansion.", "The Justice Department had no comment.", "Manchin's office said in a written statement that neither of the two subpoenas \"was directed to Governor Manchin or the Governor's Office\" and that \"no individual\" in his office was served.", "\"The Governor has directed State officials to fully cooperate and comply expeditiously,\" the statement said.", "\"Governor Manchin wants to get to the bottom of the issue as soon as possible.\"", "Steven Allen Adams, the West Virginia Watchdog managing editor who also works for the conservative-leaning Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia, cited an unnamed source who said Manchin was the target of the probe.", "Manchin, a Democrat, has been in office since 2005.", "He announced in July he would seek to fill the unexpired term of the late Sen. Robert Byrd." ]	[ "West Virginia gets federal subpoenas .", "Governor's office says governor, staff were not served .", "Governor is seeking the late Robert Byrd's Senate seat .", "Watchdog organization says governor is target of probe ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- For all the discord the Bush administration sowed on the world stage -- withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol and various arms agreements, holding foreign nationals indefinitely at Guantanamo with restricted rights, generally disdaining multilateralism -- the previous president was rightfully celebrated for his commitment to fighting the global AIDS epidemic.", "In the four years following the unprecedented creation in 2004 of the funding mechanism known as PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), Bush sent some $19 billion to Africa and other hard-hit parts of the world.", "How much has the Obama administration added this year?", "Only $366 million beyond the prior year's level.", "It doesn't come close to the $1 billion a year the current president promised to add as a candidate.", "That Republican president Bush was a bigger advocate on AIDS than \"liberal\" Obama may come as a surprise, but many people around the world are starting to notice the discrepancy.", "That includes Desmond Tutu, the former archbishop of Cape Town and Nobel laureate.", "On Wednesday, Tutu took the president to task in a sharply worded New York Times op-ed that noted substantially fewer additional African HIV patients will receive treatment than did under Bush if the funding slack persists.", "Indeed, according to two Harvard researchers, if aid isn't substantially increased over Bush-era levels, an estimated 1.2 million avoidable deaths could occur just in South Africa over the next five years.", "That would happen on Obama's watch.", "Domestically, the news isn't much better.", "When Obama rolled out his ballyhooed national HIV/AIDS strategy last week, there was no new funding attached, just a mandate to re-allocate existing funds to the communities most in need and the tactics that work best.", "(For all his global generosity, Bush was rightly knocked stateside for prioritizing abstinence-based prevention approaches over condom-based ones.", "The needs of gay men, one of the most affected groups of Americans, were largely left out of the playbook altogether because of pressure from the Christian right.)", "Read about men who have survived 30 years with HIV .", "But for all the innovative ideas in the strategy document, such as using social media to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS, what we really need is money.", "The federal/state AIDS Drug Assistance Program, which provides HIV drugs to more than 200,000 uninsured and underinsured people, has a wait list of some 2,300 people.", "And it's growing monthly.", "That's too many Americans going without medicines that can save their lives.", "Meanwhile, the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. -- more than 1 million -- continues to rise.", "In some cities, the situation is as bad as parts of Africa.", "In Washington, 3 percent of residents have HIV/AIDS.", "Of course, in many parts of Africa, the statistics are much more dire.", "In South Africa, some 5.7 million people are HIV-positive.", "That's 11 percent of the population.", "But you wouldn't believe how few federal dollars go to finding a cure: just $40 million in 2009, according to the AIDS Policy Project.", "I know the country is lurching back from recession and funds across the board are tight.", "But if the administration can approve hundreds of billions of dollars for stimulus spending or health care reform -- let alone the countless billions of dollars wasted by a bloated intelligence infrastructure -- then the White House can certainly commit a fraction of these amounts to help out an even worthier cause: people's well-being.", "It takes vigilance to beat back the HIV/AIDS scourge, to make sure people with HIV get the treatment they need to survive, and that people without the virus stay free of it.", "We've made important strides in recent years.", "Just this week, the promising results of a South African microbicide trial were announced, meaning that down the road women may be able to protect themselves from the virus without a vaccine.", "But there's still a lot to do. If America cuts back on aid, other countries will, too, because we're the pacesetter.", "The Obama administration defends itself by saying the U.S. is the world's biggest financial contributor to the fight against HIV/AIDS.", "As important as that is, we need to keep up with the epidemic, which requires more resources every year.", "Obama should listen to his fellow Nobel laureate Tutu, who helped lead his country out of apartheid, and lead the way on ending this scourge, both globally and here at home.", "After all, he wants posterity to judge him more favorably than Bush, right?", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sean Kennedy." ]	[ "George W. Bush set standard for increasing U.S. aid to fight AIDS, says Sean Kennedy .", "He says President Obama has not lived up to his promise to add $1 billion more to the fight .", "Kennedy says national commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS needs strengthening .", "He says Obama should respond to Desmond Tutu's call for spending more on HIV/AIDS ." ]	[ 0, 2, 4, 19, 32, 35 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A South Korean fishing boat in the Sea of Japan and its seven crew members are being held by North Korea, according to reports in South Korea.", "North Korean state media is reporting that the crew was \"detained.\"", "There are few details which have emerged from the incident; but it comes amid mounting tensions following the March sinking of a South Korean warship.", "Forty-six sailors died, and South Korea blamed it on a North Korean submarine attack.", "The North calls the accusation \"a fabrication.\"", "The incident comes after South Korea's military carried out five days of military exercises in the Yellow Sea.", "The South Korean navy, army, air force and marines are practicing techniques for detecting and evading North Korean submarines and guided missiles, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Saturday.", "The exercise involved 20 ships and 4,500 troops, according to Yonhap.", "North Korea said Friday it would \"react with strong physical retaliation to the anti-submarine drill to be staged by the group of traitors in the West Sea,\" according to the official Korean Central News Agency.", "\"Our warnings are not empty rhetoric,\" said Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the North's ruling Workers' Party, according to Yonhap." ]	[ "Reports: North Korea has taken a South Korean fishing boat in Sea of Japan .", "North Korea has \"detained\" the ship with 7 crew members, state media reports .", "The incident comes amid tensions over a South Korean warship sunk in March ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "Fort Walton Beach, Florida (CNN) -- It's sort of like they're all dressed up with no place to go.", "But preparing for oil on your shore is not exactly a night out on the town.", "Florida Gulf Coast counties say they're frustrated beyond belief, after putting in elaborate, exhaustive plans to stop the oil, only to find that BP's check isn't even in the mail.", "\"We've got our permits.", "We've got everything signed off and ready to go,\" said Dino Villani, director of public safety in Okaloosa County.", "\"The holdup now is BP. We have no money to do the protective measures.\"", "Okaloosa County has created a multi-layered plan to try to stop the oil from coming onto its beaches and to protect the Destin Pass waterway, an area enjoyed by boaters and beachgoers.", "County officials plan on using barges, containment boom and an air net to stop the flow of crude, but they need all of these things in place for their plan to work.", "And the thing they need most is $2.8 million up front and $2.5 million a month to stay operational -- money they've filed for with BP.", "Are you there? Send us your images .", "\"We're virtually operating on a credit card.", "This is a county that's reserves are low.", "We're impacted by a reduction in ad valorem taxes,\" said Villani.", "Florida Sen. Bill Nelson says he's seen the same thing happen all throughout this process.", "\"You had the Coast Guard doing one thing and you had BP doing another thing and this is why I've been raising cane for weeks,\" said Nelson.", "Nelson met with Okaloosa County officials who asked for his help in getting their check.", "\"This county and a lot of these other little counties that simply don't have the financial wherewithall to be paying all of these bills, and they've got to have some relief.", "So, yes. they will get their money.\" After the meeting, CNN questioned BP's community cupport coordinator assigned to Okaloosa County, Jay Prothro.", "Asked if checks were coming and how soon, Prothro responded, \"I can't speak to how soon they will get it, but I can tell you, there is a process in place and we're working to get those refunds.\"", "\"This whole process is new and everybody is learning as they go and trying to figure out what makes the most sense, and that's what they're working on.\"", "Pressed on the delay in the counties receiving funds, Prothro responded, \"Like I say, they've set out some guidelines on how to get the reimbursement and the county has filed, is my understanding, and I have to run some traps to figure out where it is in the process and see what the answer is to that.", "I just can't tell you right now.\"", "But the counties say there is no real process, and what does exist has been painful for everyone staring at the same problem.", "\"I kind of make a joke.", "We're on plan F. We've already gone through plans A through E,\" says Amy Lovoy, bureau chief for management and budget services in Escambia County.", "\"A check or money order, or a wire.", "Anything they want to give us is fine.\"", "Escambia County has a $9.1 million claim with BP for its oil protection including booms, reconnaissance flights, and operations.", "The county says it also needs $4.8 million a month to maintain the plan, for as long as the oil remains a problem.", "Lovoy says the good news is that BP is returning her phone calls, but the bad news is what she's hearing isn't helping.", "\"We're definitely hearing back from them, but they keep saying that the process has changed.", "They say, 'We know you've submitted a claim,' but they say, 'The process has changed and you have to re-submit the claim and paperwork.'\"", "And in the eastern Panhandle, Bay County, which includes Panama City, has had the same problem.", "County officials say they need $3 million to build a more robust boom system, and about $8,300 per day to maintain it.", "Other costs, like workers' overtime pay, are estimated at $10,000 per day.", "Officials of the Florida Association of Counties and emergency managers are scheduled to meet on Wednesday with U.S. Coast Guard representatives and BP officials because, they say, they need the claims process to be fixed right now.", "The chairman of the Okaloosa County Commission, Wayne Harris, went right to the point.", "\"We just need them to show me the money,\" he said.", "\"If they give us an American Express diamond or black (card), I'm happy with it.\"" ]	[ "Florida Panhandle counties waiting on checks from BP .", "Counties have elaborate plans to block oil but need BP money to make plans reality .", "Officials say reimbursement system keeps changing .", "\"We just need them to show me the money,\" says one official ." ]	[ 2, 5, 37 ]
[ "Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- The United States and South Korea began their annual joint military exercise Monday, kicking off an 11-day drill designed to ensure the countries' alliance is \"fully prepared to respond to any potential provocations,\" according to a statement from U.S. forces in South Korea.", "On Monday, South Korean president Lee Myung-bak ordered his military to \"thoroughly\" prepare with the United States to counter threats from North Korea, the Yonhap news agency reported.", "The timing of the joint training comes during a time of increased military tensions.", "South Korea blamed North Korea for sinking a 1,200-ton warship in March, killing 46 sailors.", "North Korea denied it sunk the ship.", "North Korea said Sunday that it will \"deal a merciless counterblow to the U.S. imperialists\" and to South Korean \"traitors,\" in response to the U.S.-South Korea joint military exercise.", "\"The military counteraction of the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] will be the severest punishment no one has ever met in the world,\" a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army said in a statement carried by North Korea's official news agency.", "North Korea's statement Sunday took direct aim at U.S. President Barack Obama.", "\"The Obama Administration would be well advised to cool its head heated with the moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK,\" the spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army said, \"and deeply ponder over what the DPRK meant when it clarified its resolute determination and solemn declaration to defend the country and the nation.\"", "In response, Pentagon Spokesman Bryan Whitman said, \"These are annual exercises that reflect the U.S. commitment to the stability and security of the peninsula.\"", "On Sunday, Yonhap reported the South Korean president proposed a plan to reunite his country with North Korea and suggested a tax to prepare for the costs expected if the two countries come together.", "\"Inter-Korean relations demand a new paradigm,\" Lee said in a speech to mark the 65th anniversary of Korea's independence from Japanese colonial rule, Yonhap reported.", "Lee said the two countries should form a \"peace community,\" and stressed the importance of the denuclearization of North Korea, Yonhap reported.", "He added that inter-Korean exchanges are needed to help build North Korea's economy, according to Yonhap.", "\"It is imperative that the two sides choose coexistence instead of confrontation, progress instead of stagnation.", "The two of us need to overcome the current state of division and proceed with the goal of peaceful reunification,\" Lee said, according to Yonhap." ]	[ "The countries are engaging in an 11-day military drill .", "The exercise is meant to prepare for any \"potential provocations\"\nSouth Korea: Prepare to counter threats from North Korea .", "North Korea says it will deal a \"merciless counterblow\" to the U.S. and South Korea ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "Hanoi, Vietnam (CNN) -- North Korea on Saturday heightened its threats against upcoming U.S.-supported military exercises after talks over the sinking of a South Korean warship.", "North Korea \"will legitimately counter with [its] powerful nuclear deterrence the largest-ever nuclear war exercises to be staged by the U.S. and the South Korean puppet forces,\" the state-run KCNA news agency said.", "Earlier, the isolated communist nation vowed a \"physical response\" to massive U.S.-South Korean military drills set to begin Sunday.", "The U.S. Defense Department said the drills are in response to the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan and are intended to send a strong message to Pyongyang to stop \"provocative and warlike acts.\"", "At a regional security conference Friday, North Korea lashed out at the impending exercise.", "\"There will be a physical response against the threat imposed by the United States militarily,\" North Korea spokesman Ri Tong Il said outside the Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.", "Two U.S. military officials told there was no sign of significant troop movement in North Korea.", "Why are the two Koreas so hostile?", "About 8,000 military personnel from the United States and South Korea are scheduled to participate in the joint military exercises.", "Meanwhile Friday, in the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, officers from the North sat down for talks about the Cheonan incident with their counterparts in the U.S.-led United Nations Command.", "During the almost two-hour meeting in the international truce town of Panmunjom, the U.N. Command reminded the North Koreans of the Security Council's condemnation this month of the Cheonan attack.", "The Security Council did not mention North Korea by name but condemned the attack strongly, called for \"full adherence\" to the armistice agreement that halted fighting in the Korean War in 1953 and encouraged \"the settlement of outstanding issues on the Korean peninsula by peaceful means.\"", "An international inquiry found North Korea culpable for the March attack that killed 46 South Korean sailors.", "But North Korea denies a role in the incident, which elevated tension between the two enemies.", "North Korea demanded again Friday that it be allowed to conduct its own investigation of the Cheonan's sinking and said the upcoming war games are being conducted under false pretext.", "\"The U.S. forces side would be seriously mistaken if it calculates it can browbeat [North Korea] through large-scale war exercises,\" the state-run KCNA news agency said.", "\"It should immediately stop the [anti-North Korean] nuclear war racket.\"", "\"[This] double-dealing attitude is a dangerous one of driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to a war phase,\" KCNA said.", "At the ASEAN meeting, nation after nation expressed deep regrets and offered condolences to the South Koreans.", "The United States has accused North Korea of aggressive behavior and imposed new sanctions Wednesday.", "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated U.S. support for South Korea on Friday.", "\"Here in Asia, an isolated and belligerent North Korea has embarked on a campaign of provocative, dangerous behavior,\" she said in Hanoi, Vietnam.", "Later, after a repatriation ceremony for the remains of three soldiers who died in the Vietnam War, Clinton said the door remains open for dialogue if North Korea commits to abandoning its nuclear weapons program.", "\"We would love for them to have the same opportunities that the people of South Korea have been able to enjoy for the last 60 years,\" Clinton said.", "\"So, it is distressing when North Korea continues its threats and causes so much anxiety among its neighbors and the larger region.\"", "Ri described the planned U.S.-South Korea joint military exercise as \"another example of a hostile policy\" against North Korea.", "\"It is a grave threat to the Korean peninsula and also to the region of Asia as a whole,\" he said.", "He said the exercise is a threat to North Korea's sovereignty and security.", "The military exercise, dubbed Invincible Spirit, is scheduled to run from Sunday through Wednesday.", "In addition to the 8,000 personnel involved, military officials say, it will include 20 ships and submarines and about 200 aircraft.", "The exercises are to take place in the Sea of Japan on South Korea's east coast and the Yellow Sea on the west coast, according to a joint U.S. and South Korean statement.", "China has objected to war games in the Yellow Sea, so close to its coastline.", "And that is what bothers North Korea as well, said a University of Georgia professor who returned two weeks ago from his 52nd trip to Pyongyang.", "\"I think it's a bad idea,\" said Han Park, who helped arrange former President Carter's visit to North Korea in 1994 and is the only American to have visited the rogue nation since the Cheonan incident.", "Park said the United States should never underestimate the resolve of the North Korean military, one that is further emboldened now by Chinese opposition to the military drills.", "\"I will hold my breath if this takes place anywhere near the west coast,\" he said.", "CNN's Elise Labott, Barbara Starr and Moni Basu contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: North Korea says it will counter joint exercise with its \"nuclear deterrence\"\nThe military exercise is scheduled to begin Sunday on both South Korean coasts .", "Clinton: A peaceful resolution is possible only if North Korea changes its behavior .", "Expert Han Park says North Korean military should not be underestimated ." ]	[ 0, 1, 25, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Milwaukee, Wisconsin, motorist whose SUV fell into a large sinkhole thanked the passer-by who brought an end to the brief but terrifying ordeal.", "\"The road just went out from under me,\" Lance Treankler, the Cadillac Escalade driver, said Friday.", "\"When I landed, my head snapped back.", "I went unconscious for a few seconds.", "When I looked up, I saw water run over me.\"", "That's when Mark Pawlik, 46, who was walking Thursday evening near Oakland and North avenues on Milwaukee's east side, came to the rescue.", "Pawlik told CNN affiliate WTMJ that he saw a nearby traffic light in the sinkhole and spotted the SUV heading right toward it.", "The vehicle disappeared and a traffic light landed on its roof.", "Pawlik saw the driver standing on the SUV's hood.", "\"I grabbed your hand.", "You looked at me and said, 'Get me out of here,' \" Pawlik told Treankler during their reunion, filmed by WTMJ.", "Treankler suffered only minor cuts and bruises in the incident, which occurred during a storm that brought heavy flooding to the city.", "It was not clear what part weather played in the sinkhole's formation.", "Crews will be able to retrieve the SUV from the 20-foot sinkhole Friday evening, said Barry McNulty, spokesman for We Energies.", "The sinkhole cut off power to the area, but about 200 businesses and homes should regain electricity Friday night, he said.", "Crews were building a temporary power line.", "Peter Panos, who owns the nearby Ma Fischer's Family Restaurant, said power was restored to his establishment about 3 p.m. CT.", "The SUV's engine remained running into Friday as police and fire officers decided how to proceed.", "\"I am very grateful for you helping me out,\" Treankler told Pawlik." ]	[ "\"The road just went out from under me,\" driver says .", "Mark Pawlik was walking past Thursday evening when he saw SUV disappear .", "Lance Treankler suffered only cuts and bruises ." ]	[ 1, 5 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Two foreign troops who went missing Friday in Afghanistan are Americans who have been abducted, an Afghan intelligence source told CNN Saturday.", "NATO's International Security Assistance Force and two U.S. military officials confirmed that the two missing service members are American.", "NATO said they went missing after leaving their compound in Kabul city Friday afternoon and did not return.", "Forces have launched a search for the service members and the military vehicle they were in, ISAF said.", "Their duty status is \"whereabouts unknown,\" the U.S. officials said.", "The intelligence source told CNN that the two were abducted in Logar province, south of Kabul -- Afghanistan's capital.", "The development comes as five U.S. soldiers were killed in bombings in southern Afghanistan on Saturday.", "CNN's Atia Abawi and Barbara Starr contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: ISAF, U.S. military officials confirm the two missing troops are Americans .", "An Afghan intelligence source says two Americans have been seized in Logar province .", "NATO's command said the two troops went missing after they left a Kabul compound .", "A search is on for the service members ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Fifteen years ago, representatives from every nation came together to voice one common goal: to advance the global status of women in the spirit of equality.", "We were there in Beijing, China, when women broke their silence and a resounding message burst forth from the walls of the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women: No longer would it be acceptable to separate women's rights from human rights.", "Today, we are seeing a powerful momentum materialize as women in diverse regions raise their voices to claim their rights and inspire change while leading neighborhoods, villages, parliaments and nations forward.", "As the world navigates through an unprecedented financial crisis, economists and leaders are increasingly turning their attention to the greatest untapped reserve of innovation and resilience -- women.", "Progress on women's equality is reaching different regions at different paces, but we can see improvement in girls' education, workforce participation and political representation.", "The global net rate of primary school enrollment for girls is up to 89 percent; the number of women holding nonagricultural, paid jobs continues to increase worldwide; and women's global share of parliamentary seats is rising, now at 18.4 percent.", "Something much harder to measure, but maybe the most significant of all indicators, is a widespread shift over the past 15 years in the global conversation about women.", "Our campaign for equality has come out from the darkness of the periphery.", "We are moving into an age that enables progress and an environment that sustains it.", "For Rebecca Lolosoli, the light of change is an unsteady flicker.", "In her home in rural Samburu, Kenya, women who are abused or raped are cast out of their homes; the concept of women's rights is as novel as it is dangerous.", "She was beaten for raising her voice in dissent, kicked to the ground for promoting a woman's right to live free of violence.", "Out of injustice that sought to tear her down, she emerged as a courageous voice of change.", "Rebecca formed Umoja Uaso Women's Village, a cooperative where once-forsaken survivors of violence find healing and independence as artisans who produce vibrant jewelry.", "Hers is one voice among the millions threatened by a global increase in violence against women -- one in three women will experience violence in her lifetime.", "We are confronted with a pandemic of violence, and must address it with commensurate force and urgency.", "Rebecca carries the weight of unrealized human rights on her shoulders.", "It is our duty to help lessen her load.", "We must support women like her as equal partners in economic, social and political development, and recognize their ability to practice collaborative leadership and carry their communities forward with each step they take.", "Recently we honored Rebecca at the 2010 Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards, recognizing her strength and vision as she empowers women and shapes a future free of violence against women.", "If we want to promote peace and prosperity, we must begin with women.", "We have seen that in societies where women's rights are respected, economies are stronger, civil societies thrive and political institutions are more open and free.", "Our progress in the past 15 years is tenuous if it's not shared, reinforced and expanded in all spheres.", "We must recommit ourselves to women's equality worldwide.", "Now is the time to build on the momentum and advance positive change.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sally Field and Alyse Nelson." ]	[ "Sally Field, Alyse Nelson say it's been 15 years since U.N. highlighted rights of women .", "They say women have made progress in education, employment and politics .", "Story of a woman in Kenya shows how victims of violence can strive for change, they say .", "Field, Nelson: \"If we want to promote peace and prosperity, we must begin with women.\"" ]	[ 1, 11, 20, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Lawrence Anthony is an all-action conservationist.", "The 60-year-old South African grew up in small towns in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia and developed an affinity with nature from an early age.", "\"I grew up in the African bush and I formed an early relationship with the African bush which has stayed with me,\" he told CNN.", "\"As I've grown older I've watched the deterioration [of the natural world], and it really concerns me.\"", "He took action to become a conservationist and created his own game reserve in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal region, but he's also taken his passion across borders.", "Hiring a car from Kuwait he drove into Iraq during the war there in 2003 to rescue animals from Baghdad zoo.", "He admits it was more naivete rather than bravery, but once he had managed to get the zoo under some sort of control (which had only around 30 animals left), he ventured out to save even more animals.", "\"Uday Hussein had lions that were rumored to be man-eaters, that he'd fed them love rivals and things like that.", "The whole of Baghdad was talking about it back then.", "It was very difficult. It wasn't the lions' fault; they're just lions.", "I refused to let anyone harm them, and thankfully they are still alive today,\" he said.", "Returning to South Africa in 2004 he set up The Earth Organization and expanded his international conservation efforts.", "He prepared a document that was presented to the United Nations as a draft resolution to make all wildlife parks and conservation areas protected in times of war and their abuse classified as a war crime.", "In 2006 he reportedly met with the Ugandan rebel organization the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in 2006 while they were involved in the bitter civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.", "Anthony reportedly persuaded them to protect endangered species such as the northern white rhinoceros.", "\"They were very hospitable,\" Lawrence said.", "\"I found out that the rhino was the spiritual totem of the tribes that they came from and they thought there were hundreds and hundreds of rhinos, and there weren't.\"", "Creating relationships with people has been just as important as cultivating refuges for animals.", "After years of negotiation with the local chief of the land next to Anthony's reserve, he was able to persuade the local community to convert their own land into conservation areas, so they too could benefit from eco-tourism.", "\"I don't think I have a mission in life,\" he said.", "\"I just want to hold together the values that are important to us as human beings.", "The name of the game is to survive and we can't survive without the plant and animal kingdoms.\"" ]	[ "Conservationist has rescued animals from Iraq and negotiated with rebel armies .", "Owns and runs a game reserve in South Africa .", "Set up \"The Earth Organization\" in 2004 to promote conservation efforts ." ]	[ 1, 11 ]
[ "Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) -- South Africa's former national police chief, Jackie Selebi, was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison after he was found guilty of corruption charges last month.", "\"You are an embarrassment to the police force ... you are an embarrassment to the country,\" Judge Meyer Joffe said after the sentence was handed down.", "\"I am satisfied that a sentence of 15 years imprisonment is appropriate in the matter,\" the judge added, according to the South African Press Association.", "The charges stemmed from Selebi's relationship with convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti -- a friendship that was no secret.", "Once asked about it at a news conference, Selebi famously said, \"He's my friend.", "Finished and klaar\" -- an Afrikaans term meaning \"that's the end of it.\"", "After a four-and-a-half-year trial, the court found Selebi gave favors to Agliotti in exchange for money and expensive clothes.", "Joffe rejected Selebi's defense that there had been a conspiracy against him, although he acquitted the former police chief on a charge of defeating the ends of justice, according to SAPA.", "SAPA reported that Agliotti, who was appearing in a nearby courtroom on murder charges, had no comment on Selebi's sentencing.", "Selebi's attorney asked the judge to release his client on bail while he prepares an appeal in the case.", "South Africa's ruling African National Congress party said the verdict last month clearly indicated \"that South Africa as a country is governed by laws that are applied without any fear or favor to anyone, regardless of their standing.\"", "Selebi was until recently one of the most powerful political figures in South Africa.", "He served as president of Interpol from 2004 to 2008 and was a close ally of former South African President Thabo Mbeki." ]	[ "Jackie Selebi, the country's former national police chief, sentenced to 15 years' jail .", "He didn't try to hide his friendship with a convicted drug trafficker .", "The trial lasted 4 1/2 years ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- It has been nearly eight years since U.S. forces overthrew the Taliban leaders of Afghanistan, but the war against the Taliban insurgency is bloodier than ever.", "A U.S. soldier takes his position near a building attacked by the Taliban south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday.", "The number of Afghan civilians killed in the wake of the war has increased 24 percent in the first six months of this year compared with the same time period last year, according to the United Nations.", "And NATO and American forces suffered record losses this summer, with 75 troops killed in the month of July, making it the deadliest month for Western troops in the country since American warplanes first began bombing the Taliban in October 2001.", "The U.S. death toll will remain high for some time as the Taliban has gained the upper hand, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Monday.", "\"It's a very aggressive enemy right now,\" McChrystal told the newspaper in the interview Saturday at his office in Kabul, Afghanistan.", "\"We've got to stop their momentum, stop their initiative.", "It's hard work.\" The Taliban insurgency has blossomed in northern Afghan provinces such as Kunduz and Baghlan, long considered some of the safest territory in the country.", "And just 20 miles east of Kabul, Taliban \"judges\" operate openly in the back of pickup trucks, settling legal disputes between villagers in makeshift \"mobile courts.\"", "The insurgents are filling a vacuum left by Afghanistan's Western-backed government, which foreign diplomats and military commanders concede suffers from nepotism, corruption and predatory practices.", "Challenge to the Afghan government .", "Afghans will go to the polls on August 20 to vote in the nation's second presidential election since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.", "Opposition candidates have blamed the Taliban insurgency's continued growth on Hamid Karzai, the man who has occupied the presidential palace in Kabul for the past seven years.", "\"Because of the failure of the current administration, in losing the support of its own people, there is a vacuum, and that vacuum has led to a deterioration of security as well as in all parts of life,\" said Karzai's top challenger, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah.", "McChrystal, a former U.S. joint special operations commander who recently took command of the U.S.-NATO operation in Afghanistan, said the Taliban are challenging the very legitimacy of his partners in the Afghan government.", "\"The fundamental conflict in any insurgency is fighting for legitimacy with the people and the support of the population,\" he explained in a recent interview with CNN.", "\"Who do they look to as their legitimate government?", "Who do they pay taxes to? Who do they look to for rule of law?", "Who do they look to as protection?", "In the case of this insurgency, what we have is an Afghan government that is trying to establish itself around the country.", "It has problems with corruption.", "It has problems in some cases with predatory behavior.\"", "Along the traffic-choked streets of Kabul, residents rarely complain about the Taliban.", "Instead, they often rail against the Western-backed Afghan state.", "\"What service has this government provided us?\"", "asked Fawad, a young street vendor who sells watermelons for 20 cents apiece.", "He said that at least once a week, Afghan police show up and demand bribes of up to $100 from vendors, who must pay if they want to continue selling their goods.", "\"We don't want a tyrant who oppresses the people,\" Fawad said when asked who he would vote for in the elections.", "\"What we want is security.\"", "Earlier this month, an Afghan employee for CNN, who prefers not to be named for security reasons, witnessed how locals turn to the Taliban to resolve their disputes, in a village barely 20 miles east of the Afghan capital.", "He said openly armed insurgents rolled up in a pickup truck, and a Taliban judge began mediating local disputes.", "In one case, the Taliban official resolved a disagreement between two shepherds whose flocks of sheep had gotten intermixed while grazing.", "\"I was shocked,\" said the Afghan eyewitness, who was visiting the village to attend a funeral.", "\"The villagers were lining up asking for help from the Taliban.\"", "NATO commanders say they have had reports of Taliban \"mobile courts\" operating in similar fashion just outside the southern city of Kandahar.", "\"There are cases of rule of law being taken care of by the Taliban instead of the Afghan government,\" said Col. Paul Kolken, a Dutch military spokesman at Kandahar Air Base.", "He said the Taliban are operating mobile courts as close as possible to the city of Kandahar.", "Afghan corruption at the highest levels?", "Human rights activists accuse the Karzai government of making deals with some of the country's most notorious warlords ahead of the August 20 presidential elections.", "\"A lot of Afghans are telling us they're quite disappointed that Karzai's not even running on a platform of promises or performance, but just an old fashioned Afghan cutting of deals,\" said Sam Zarifi of Amnesty International.", "He pointed to a recent article by Elizabeth Rubin, in the New York Times Magazine, that describes Karzai's choice of Mohammed Fahim, a former Northern Alliance militia commander, as vice presidential running mate.", "Fahim has long been accused of committing human rights abuses.", "\"Starting on the top and bringing Fahim back, this is horrific,\" Zarifi said.", "He lamented that Afghan politicians are rarely prosecuted for crimes, and if they are, they are often pardoned.", "\"Karzai has really regressed over the past seven or eight years,\" Zarifi said.", "Many Afghan observers argue this culture of impunity runs directly to the presidential palace.", "For years, Karzai's brother, Ahmed Wali, has been dogged by accusations that he is a major player in the booming drug trade in southern Afghanistan.", "One high-ranking Western diplomat stationed in Kabul described discussing the allegations with Karzai in a one-on-one meeting.", "Karzai asked for advice on how best to address his brother's alleged illicit business dealings, the diplomat said.", "At one point, the diplomat said, Karzai looked up helplessly, asking, \"He's my brother.", "What can I do?\" Both Karzai and his brother have repeatedly dismissed the allegations as politically motivated.", "This month, Karzai made a rare trip outside his presidential palace to woo voters in Baghlan province.", "He conceded that Afghanistan is still far from stable, but promised that if re-elected he would redouble his efforts to rebuild the country.", "\"Terrorism is still harassing us.", "It is still killing us.", "It is still destroying this land,\" he told a crowd of several thousand supporters.", "\"The moment I become the president of Afghanistan -- again -- through your vote, through your able hands, my first attempt will be to ensure perpetual peace.\"", "Several days later, at a press conference with Karzai, the newly appointed secretary general of the NATO military alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, called for NATO countries to contribute more troops to support the Afghan government.", "\"NATO-ISAF is here to protect your elections,\" the former Danish prime minister said at Kabul's presidential palace.", "\"What we need are credible elections that reflect the will of the people.\"", "ISAF -- the International Security Assistance Force -- is the United Nations-mandated U.S.-NATO presence in Afghanistan.", "U.S. needs a strong Afghan partner .", "President Obama's administration has committed more resources and troops to battling the insurgency and training Afghan security forces, while also sending additional diplomats and civilian aid workers to focus on reconstruction and development.", "When Obama took office, he vowed to redirect military resources from the war in Iraq to Afghanistan, which he described as being -- along with neighboring Pakistan -- the \"central front in our enduring struggle against terrorism and extremism.\"", "McChrystal told The Wall Street Journal that he is still considering a request to send 10,000 more troops to Afghanistan in addition to the planned 68,000 troops that are expected to be in place by the end of the year.", "The information is a preview of a strategic assessment he plans to deliver to Washington later this month.", "The military initiative is an effort to bolster Afghanistan's weak government, which many Afghan observers argue has been, more than anything, a source of frustration and popular disappointment.", "\"If the same trend continues, if the same failing of the administration continues, more troops, more resources, more civilian advisors will not be a substitute,\" argued presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah.", "Security will be on the minds of most Afghan voters as they head to the polls, according to Jahid Mohseni, the Australian-Afghan head of Tolo TV, Afghanistan's most influential TV channel.", "\"People are frustrated with things not happening,\" Mohseni said.", "\"In terms of day-to-day life, the development that they wanted in government has not been happening.\"", "\"They are looking at being able to walk down the street at night without ... risking getting attacked, et cetera.", "They want to make sure that their kids don't get kidnapped.\"" ]	[ "Eight years since U.S. forces overthrew the Taliban leaders of Afghanistan .", "But the war against the Taliban insurgency is bloodier than ever .", "Kabul residents rarely complain about the Taliban, often rail against Afghan state .", "Security will be on minds of voters at polls August 20, Afghan journalist says ." ]	[ 0, 22, 23, 68 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As more U.S. troops head to Afghanistan, more families back home long to hear from their loved ones in uniform.", "Gia Ellis, wife of Marine Lt. Jason Ellis, holds her daughter Ava while watching a video.", "But the nature of the battle in Afghanistan makes that much harder now than it has been for troops serving in Iraq.", "Instead of near instant contact through e-mail, texts or even video conference calls, families back home often have to rely on something that once was rare: hand-written letters.", "\"Can you imagine we're going back to paper and pen.", "It's so weird to write an actual letter but that's what we have to do,\" Gia Ellis told CNN Pentagon Correspondent Chris Lawrence during a visit to Camp Lejeune Marine Base in North Carolina last week.", "The problem is two-fold: tactics and infrastructure, according to Marine spokesman Capt.", "Bill Pelletier, who is currently serving in Southern Afghanistan.", "The new commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan is sending units out into remote villages to defend the locals from Taliban attacks.", "Rarely do those villages have modern communications systems.", "Some units have a satellite phones but the demand on the phones makes it hard for troops to use them to call home.", "Watch reporter on move with U.S. troops » .", "\"Personally I was spoiled last year,\" said Ellis, whose husband Jason served last year in Iraq and is currently in Afghanistan.", "\"We could talk and see each other on webcam and e-mail almost every day.", "And this year with the initial push into Afghanistan it's completely different.\"", "Some wives become news junkies, combing through news reports from the field hoping to learn more about their husbands or at least his unit.", "\"Because we're not getting the e-mails, it means a lot just to even try to find a picture, get a glimpse of them,\" said Melissa Pullen, the wife of a deployed Marine.", "For older soldiers, previous deployments put the convenience of modern communication in perspective.", "Capt. David Luber remembers waiting to talk to his wife during a nine-month tour during Operation Desert Storm.", "With limited phone access and no e-mail, Luber recalls the angst he felt during his deployment.", "\"It was worse than I imagine prison in some respects.", "Men in prison know that they deserve to lose their freedom.", "They have telephones, television and green grass outside that they can be with for a time each day,\" Luber said.", "Unable to reveal when or where his trips would end, Luber would go weeks without hearing his wife's voice.", "To make matters worse, Marines only received mail once their ship arrived at port.", "Sleepless nights and the torment of reckless seas were forgotten when he'd receive a bundle of letters, one for each consecutive day his wife, Belinda, wrote.", "One by one Luber would put the letters in chronological order and read each one until he read the last.", "\"There are things that we say on paper that we are not so quick to speak, if at all,\" he says.", "\"There's the handwriting and the perfume that you can't get through the phone or e-mail, so the letters were precious.\"", "For younger troops and their families, the technological comforts of Iraq can make the new mission in Afghanistan difficult to adapt to.", "\"Our Marines have been told from day one that Afghanistan is not Iraq,\" Pelletier wrote in an e-mail to CNN.", "Troops are provided first and foremost with the \"must haves\" to help complete the mission, he wrote.", "This includes water, food, ammunition and an age old treasure for military personnel, mail.", "There's already help on the way for those who prefer 21st century communications.", "Pelletier says an Internet café has been established at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, the remote area along Afghanistan's southern border with Pakistan where the Marines are involved in a long-term offensive.", "Pelletier said that the Marine Corps plan to extend Internet service as the mission evolves.", "Until then, Ellis and Pullen will have to rely on hand-written letters to communicate with their husbands.", "And that might not be all bad. Luber is now a deputy program manager at the Office of Naval Research.", "It's been 18 years since his Desert Storm deployment, but the comfort and fragrance of his wife's letters linger.", "\"I still have them all and she has all mine,\" he said." ]	[ "U.S. troops warned Afghanistan is not Iraq -- where communication is easier .", "Troops in Afghan outposts communicate with loved ones by snail mail .", "\"Handwriting and perfume -- you can't get through the phone or e-mail\"\nWives comb news reports to find news or glimpse of husbands ." ]	[ 11, 15, 28, 29 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- The recently leaked memo from departing chief United Nations corruption investigator, Inga-Britt Ahlenius, to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make it impossible for the White House to support the UN chief's candidacy for a second four-year term next year.", "That is, unless the Obama administration itself was only joking when it promised to push for greater transparency and accountability at the United Nations.", "In a 50-page \"end-of-mission\" report, the widely respected former auditor of Sweden -- who was originally brought in to help the UN fix the spectacular accountability gap exposed during the excruciatingly painful \"oil-for-food\" scandal -- paints a detailed, well-documented tableau of Ban's managerial incompetence.", "In a spectacular break from tradition, Ahlenius did what few senior diplomats ever dare to do: She spoke truth to power.", "In her report, Ahlenius documents Ban Ki-moon's repeated efforts to undermine his own senior officials, including her own office of internal oversight, by stemming the flow of information, interfering in the appointment of staff, or worse, failing to appoint people to senior management positions altogether.", "Critical leadership posts were left vacant for as long as possible, thereby strengthening Ban's power over the bureaucracy.", "The UN Secretariat, she concludes, is \"in a process of decay ... falling apart ... and drifting into irrelevance.\"", "It may be that many member states do not actually want the UN to get in the way of their realpolitik.", "But when it comes to standing for the principles of its charter in difficult, often dangerous mission areas, the UN cannot succeed unless its staff are led and supported by a better-managed Secretariat in New York.", "As it happens, even their very physical security did not appear to be a priority for the Ban Ki-moon administration.", "It failed to appoint another Under Secretary-General for Safety and Security for a full 11 months after accepting the resignation of David Veness, in June 2008, following the deadly bombing of the UN's Algeria headquarters.", "Ban's failures to perform his duties as the UN's chief administrative officer in a timely manner -- the Ahlenius report describes these failures as widespread --have repercussions all the way down the line on staff security and morale.", "Instead of being empowered to do their job, the staff, including Ahlenius herself, end up feeling undermined by their boss.", "Unless Hillary Clinton and her UN ambassador, Susan Rice, are prepared to contradict Ahlenius' assessment, they will have no choice but to withdraw America's support for Ban's re-election (his term expires at the end of 2011).", "Unfortunately for Ban's administration, few people were better placed than its own auditor to draw such conclusions.", "And she is not alone in her assessment.", "Ahlenius has managed the rather undiplomatic feat of saying out loud what a lot of UN officials, including some at the highest levels, have been murmuring for several years.", "While it is not altogether unheard of for former UN bureaucrats to blow their top after they leave office, it is without doubt the first time such a senior official has done so with as much competence, and credibility, as Ahlenius.", "As a former employee of the UN's \"oil-for-food\" operation -- the organization's fraud-ridden $64 billion humanitarian operation that saw billions of dollars diverted from needy Iraqi civilians into the pockets of Saddam Hussein and an international clique of corrupt politicians -- I have learned to recognize the elements that go into making large-scale diplomatic fiascos.", "After I had contributed to blowing the whistle on that program in 2004, some UN officials spent more time trying to discredit my testimony than to fix the cracks in the system that led to the debacle in the first place.", "Not so Ms. Ahlenius.", "In fact, she invited me to spend an afternoon conducting a \"lessons learned\" discussion with her entire senior staff.", "Her approach was so markedly different from what I had experienced that I caught myself feeling hopeful, thereafter, about the chances of seeing real management reforms happen after all.", "Unfortunately, it would seem Ahlenius has become a whistleblower herself.", "If such a senior UN official can't seem to communicate her concerns to her boss and is forced into the very uncomfortable position of having to speak out with such force as she did in her latest report, it is difficult to conclude that all is well at the top echelons of the world body.", "If Ban Ki-moon were well advised, he would not seek a second term in office.", "If he were earnest about pushing for UN reform, he would free himself from the pressure the member states may try to exert upon his office, officially make public those parts of Ahlenius's report that do not affect staff security, and dedicate himself to mending the cracks in the system identified by his departing auditor.", "Instead, Ban left it up to his chief of staff to issue a response which, both in form and substance, does a great job of confirming Ahlenius' criticism.", "In a July 19 letter to Colum Lynch of the Washington Post, who broke the story, Vijay Nambiar says that his boss \"is also concerned\" that critical senior managerial positions (now including that of Ahlenius) remain unfilled.", "The problem is, Ban's job is not just to \"be concerned.\"", "It is to actually make appointments -- or \"to put butts on seats,\" as one U.S. official once put it to me off the record.", "In this instance, Ban ignored the best advice of a 15-member independent panel and refused to appoint John Appleton, the former Connecticut attorney, to head Ahlenius's investigation division.", "In the wake of the oil-for-food meltdown, Appleton had led an unprecedented exercise in accountability (so successfully, in fact, that his office was shut down in 2008).", "Perhaps Ban would prefer to appoint someone else who, like he, prefers to show \"concern\" about the challenges facing the world organization than to take them on -- with deeds, not just words.", "For the UN's own sake, let's hope the leaders of the world's democracies can do better than that when it comes to electing a new leader for the United Nations in 2011.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Michael Soussan." ]	[ "Michael Soussan: Leaked report shows Ban Ki-moon not managing UN staff effectively .", "He says US, other democracies should push to replace Ban when his term is up .", "The UN Secretariat is in danger of becoming irrelevant, the report says ." ]	[ 4, 25, 29, 35 ]
[ "Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- The Moscow skyline of the Kremlin and St.", "Basil's Cathedral vanished Friday as a blanket of thick, noxious smoke shrouded the metropolis, leaving many of the city's 10 million residents with sore throats and burning eyes.", "On Friday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited a Moscow ambulance station, accompanied by top health officials.", "He was told that the number of emergency calls has increased by about 10 percent lately, related to the heat and smog.", "The acrid smoke, from thousands of square miles of wildfires, drove carbon monoxide levels in Moscow five times higher than what is considered safe, the Russian Health Ministry said.", "Residents were encouraged to stay indoors.", "Many who did not could be seen wearing masks as they walked outdoors.", "In interviews with the state-run RIA Novosti news agency, health officials likened the pollution levels to smoking several packs of cigarettes a day.", "Some flights to Moscow were diverted Friday because or poor visibility.", "The Russian Ministry for Health and Social Development reported Friday that 52 people have died as a result of the extensive fires in central Russia.", "Another 72 people needed treatment, 43 of whom remain hospitalized, it said.", "Fires were still burning Friday in 22 of the country's 83 regions.", "Tens of thousands of firefighters have been deployed to extinguish nearly 600 raging wildfires covering 500,000 acres, among the worst ever.", "The record heat wave gripping the country showed no signs of abating Friday.", "Temperatures climbed to 37 degrees Celsius (98 degrees Fahrenheit) in Moscow and hit 41 degrees Celsius (nearly 106 Fahrenheit) farther to the southeast in Tambov.", "By Sunday, Moscow could reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), a figure never before officially recorded in the city.", "Percy von Lipinski, who is visiting Russia, described the sun as a \"barely visible dot of orange trying to light the sky.\"", "Watch Percy's walk through smokey Moscow .", "\"I dared venture outside today but can tell you that it was a difficult job,\" he said in a CNN iReport.", "\"Tomorrow I have decided to take my chances to see if things are any better in the country side.\"", "CNN's Matthew Chance and Max Tkachenko contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Russian president visits ambulance station .", "Carbon monoxide levels are dangerously high in Moscow .", "People are encouraged to stay indoors and wear masks .", "There are no signs of the heat wave abating, and wildfires are still raging in the countryside ." ]	[ 2, 4, 5, 13 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will join hundreds of veterans Sunday to commemorate the 65th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day, or VJ Day, which was Saturday.", "\"The service will remember the efforts of hundreds of thousands of veterans operating in the harshest of conditions, and pay tribute to nearly 30,000 British losses suffered during the Far East campaign, (including) some 12,500 who died while prisoners of war,\" Britain's Ministry of Defence said in a statement.", "Cameron will lay a wreath on behalf of the British government, the statement said.", "On August 14, 1945, Japan surrendered to Allied forces, effectively ending World War II.", "\"We must never forget the sacrifices made and the dedication showed by those who served our country in the Second World War,\" Cameron said.", "\"They fought and suffered around the world in ferocious conditions.", "They witnessed incomprehensible horrors.", "They lost their lives -- and many were imprisoned.", "And they did all this for us -- to protect the freedoms we all enjoy today.", "VJ Day, the day the Second World War ended, is a time for this generation to reflect and show its gratitude to our veterans for their bravery, dedication and sacrifice.\"", "Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Sir David Richards, will lay a wreath on behalf of the British Army, the Ministry of Defence said.", "The ministry, along with the Burma Star Association, organized the service.", "The association, founded in 1951, \"brings together veterans from all three services who experienced the bitter fighting in the jungles of Burma,\" which is modern-day Myanmar, the ministry said." ]	[ "Ceremony on Sunday remembers the day Japan surrendered in 1945, ending WWII .", "PM David Cameron will lay a wreath on behalf of the government .", "Nearly 30,000 British troops died in the Far East campaign ." ]	[ 2, 3, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Join Roland Martin for his weekly sound-off segment on CNN.com Live at 11:10 a.m. Wednesday.", "If you're passionate about politics, he wants to hear from you.", "Roland Martin says voting on Tuesday made sense when the day was set in 1845, but a change is needed.", "Now that the political parties have informally settled on their nominees, the focus turns to November 4, when the nation will go to the polls to choose a new president.", "But why is Election Day on a Tuesday?", "Why in the world do we continue to insist on voting on a weekday when we are supposed to be encouraging as many people to vote as possible?", "Most of the primaries and caucuses during the past four months took place on Tuesdays, but a number went to the polls on Saturdays.", "The Puerto Rico vote was on a Sunday.", "What's better than going to church in the morning and then making your way to the voting booth?", "Officially, Election Day is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November (depending on the year, it could be November 2 through November 8).", "Since 1845, this has been the standard practice in the United States.", "Congress wanted a set date to elect a president and members of Congress, and because we were an agricultural society, this was the best day for farmers in rural America to get to the polls.", "That made a ton of sense.", "Then. But a lot has changed in the past 163 years, and it's time Congress changed this unnecessary law.", "The purists are likely to argue that everyone knows that a Tuesday in early November is set aside for Election Day.", "So with that in mind, just leave the election in November.", "Sure, it would make better sense to go with a month during which it's warm in nearly all of the USA, but the consistency argument also makes sense.", "But why not the first Saturday in November?", "If that date were chosen, the majority of voters wouldn't have to worry about trying to vote before going to work, hoping and praying the lines aren't too long so they can zip in and zip out.", "The same thing happens in the evening.", "Folks have to hurry up and finish their work, interrupt meetings, and shut down whatever else they are doing and head to the polls.", "They are likely to confront long lines, and that discourages some folks from voting.", "(Now, I don't have much sympathy on this one.", "We'll stand in line for a concert or movie; and that surely isn't as important as electing a president!)", "Saturday is already a day of leisure, and there is no doubt that more Americans would head to the polls on a traditional day off from work.", "Because of the excitement generated by this year's campaign, you can bet there will be long lines at the polls, and if there are not enough ballots, we can expect all kinds of delays.", "Folks will grow frustrated, be afraid to show up to work late, and likely will leave and not come back.", "That's just not good for democracy.", "This is one of those simple decisions that doesn't require a ton of debate.", "I can't imagine there being major opposition to moving the election date.", "In 2004, 71 percent of all eligible voters were registered, according to a story by the Carnegie Reporter, \"Election Reform: Lessons From 2004.\"", "But of that number, 60.7 percent voted.", "Someone is likely to say that with the number of people voting up in 2004 from the number in 2000, that's not bad.", "But when we see 90 percent of voters in Iraq voting -- and we are trying to instill democracy there!", "-- it's clear that impediments to voting in the United States aren't helpful.", "It would be nice to see the presidential nominees weigh in on this and pledge to change the election date.", "Let's see a debate moderator ask this question.", "Instead of putting up barriers for people who want to vote, we should be the most open society when it comes to giving our citizens as many options as possible to vote, and moving Election Day from a weekday to a weekend makes a lot of sense.", "We can't speak of our cherished democracy around the world if we aren't willing to improve it every chance we get.", "Roland S. Martin is a nationally award-winning journalist and CNN contributor.", "Martin is studying to receive his master's degree in Christian communications at Louisiana Baptist University.", "You can read more of his columns at http://www.rolandsmartin.com/.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer." ]	[ "Roland Martin says Election Day should be changed to the weekend .", "Weekday voting once made sense, but no longer, Martin says .", "Goal should be to make it easy for as many people to vote as possible, he says .", "Next president should work with Congress to make the switch, he says ." ]	[ 2, 5, 37 ]
[ "Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Security was tight in Northern Ireland on Saturday for a contentious annual march by a Protestant group.", "Saturday's march by the Apprentice Boys through the mainly Catholic city of Londonderry is the largest of several they hold during the year, mainly in summer.", "The march commemorates the Siege of Derry in 1689, when thousands of Protestants died.", "Before the Londonderry parade was due to begin at 12:30 p.m. (7:30 a.m.", "ET), local members were also holding smaller \"feeder\" parades in their own areas.", "A feeder parade in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, a flashpoint for sectarian violence, happened peacefully Saturday morning.", "Trouble flared in Ardoyne and other areas of Belfast last month after a decision to allow another Protestant parade to pass through a mainly Catholic neighborhood on July 12, a day when Protestants march to celebrate the victory of England's King William III over his ousted Catholic predecessor, James II, in 1689.", "Dozens of officers were hurt in days of violence surrounding the annual event, known as The Twelfth.", "Journalist Peter Taggart contributed to this report." ]	[ "The Protestant march passes through a mainly Catholic city .", "Saturday's march is the largest by the Apprentice Boys group .", "Smaller marches are also taking place elsewhere Saturday ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]

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