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[ "(CNN) -- Lawyers for a man who ran a notorious torture prison in Cambodia where more than 14,000 people died during the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime are appealing his conviction.", "The lawyers for Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, say he should be acquitted since he was \"a witness of the events of the relevant period\" and should be in witness protection -- not detention.", "Duch was convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity, murder and torture in July in a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal also known as the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.", "Duch's lawyers also say the court did not have jurisdiction, the appeal states.", "\"To interpret the applicable law in reliance on international customary law is inconsistent\" with the law of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, according to the appeal.", "Earlier this month, prosecutors in Cambodia appealed Duch's 30-year sentence, saying the punishment was too light.", "\"The co-prosecutors are of the view that the judgment gives insufficient weight to the gravity of Duch's crimes and his role and his willing participation in those crimes,\" they said in a statement.", "\"At the same time, the co-prosecutors believe that undue weight is placed on any mitigating circumstances applicable to Duch.\"", "Some survivors had been angered by the sentence for Duch.", "His prison term would have been about 19 years after the court took off 11 years for the time he has already served behind bars.", "The verdict sparked strong reactions as word spread outside the courtroom.", "Some said it made them lose faith in the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal.", "\"It's becoming a sham,\" Cambodian-American Theary Seng, chairwoman of the Center for Justice and Reconciliation, said after the verdict.", "At least 1.7 million people -- nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population -- died under the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime from execution, disease, starvation and overwork, according to the Documentation Center of Cambodia.", "Duch, 67, was the head of the S-21 prison.", "Few people brought to the prison made it out alive; only about a dozen were found by the Vietnamese, who invaded Cambodia in 1979.", "Prosecutors had initially sought a 40-year sentence.", "The judges first gave Duch 35 years, but took five years off that for the time he was illegally detained before the tribunal was established.", "Prosecutors have said the judgment failed \"to reflect the full extent of Duch's criminal conduct\" and he should be \"separately convicted of the crimes against humanity of enslavement, imprisonment, torture, rape, extermination, and other inhumane acts.", "These crimes should not have been subsumed into the crimes of persecution and torture.\"", "The judge, in announcing Duch's sentence, said he took into consideration that the defendant had expressed remorse, admitted responsibility and cooperated with the court.", "The judge also took into account the \"coercive environment\" of the Khmer Rouge, he said .", "Duch pleaded guilty, but he said he was only following orders and asked for forgiveness.", "Last November, he asked to be freed after spending some 11 years in detention.", "In the last week of his trial, Duch argued that international law did not apply to him because he was following orders.", "The tribunal began its work in 2007 after a decade of on-and-off negotiations between the United Nations and Cambodia over the structure and functioning of the court.", "Duch's verdict was the court's first.", "Another four of the ultra-Maoist regime's former leaders are waiting to see if they will stand trial before the U.N.-backed tribunal for war crimes and crimes against humanity.", "Co-prosecutors filed a final submission in these cases and asked that the four be indicted and sent for trial, according to a statement from the prosecutors' office.", "It's not known when the court will make a decision." ]	[ "Attorneys: Duch was \"a witness of the events\" and should be in witness protection .", "Duch is convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity, murder and torture .", "Prosecutors: 30-year sentence is too light ." ]	[ 1, 2, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A sheriff's deputy in central Arizona was shot Friday afternoon by a suspected drug trafficker, authorities said.", "The Pinal County deputy, who was not immediately identified, contacted authorities after being wounded in the desert, saying he had been shot by an illegal immigrant with an AK-47, said Lt. Tammy Villar, a sheriff's spokeswoman.", "The deputy radioed that he had encountered five men, some wielding long guns and handguns, and said they were carrying a large amount of marijuana.", "At one point the deputy lost radio contact with authorities, leading to a search by foot and by air for him and the shooter, according to CNN affiliate KNXV.", "Video from the scene shows that the deputy was located while sitting in desert brush, surrounded by cactus.", "He was able to walk to a helicopter that airlifted him to a hospital.", "A spokeswoman at Casa Grande Regional Medical Center confirmed that the deputy was being treated there Friday evening.", "He was in good condition with stable vital signs, conscious and comfortable, she said.", "KNXV: Deputy stopped five suspects .", "The deputy was shot in the left abdomen and suffered a superficial wound, law enforcement sources said.", "The search for the shooter continued into the evening.", "The shooting comes amid a national debate over Arizona's tough new immigration law, which allows police to demand proof of legal residency.", "Arizona lawmakers say the law is needed because the federal government has failed to enforce border security with Mexico, allowing more than 450,000 illegal immigrants to move into the state.", "KPNX: Deputy expected to survive .", "Pinal County is between Phoenix and Tucson and has been described as a key transit point for illegal immigrants and drug traffickers.", "Sheriff Paul Babeu said an estimated 80 percent of illegal immigrants pass through his county along the way to other locations.", "Earlier this week, a CNN crew spent 12 hours on patrol with Pinal County deputies.", "In that time, the deputies captured more than 50 suspected illegal immigrants and about 2,000 pounds of marijuana.", "Deputies in the department routinely patrol for illegal immigrants and smugglers, and it is not uncommon for them to be in the field alone, officials said.", "It was not immediately clear what led the deputy to engage with the shooter Friday.", "The shooting is sure to heat up the debate around the new Arizona law.", "Critics say the law is unconstitutional and will lead to racial profiling, which is illegal.", "But Republican Arizona Gov.", "Jan Brewer and others who support the law say it does not involve profiling or other illegal acts and will cut down on illegal immigration.", "\"Frankly this is just a very horrible story, but we should not generalize,\" Alfonso Aguilar, former chief of the U.S.", "Citizenship Office, told CNN's Rick Sanchez when news of Friday's shooting broke.", "\"We should focus on the criminality of the drug traffickers ... not scapegoat undocumented immigrants who do not pose any threat to society.\"", "Brewer on Friday signed a bill that makes changes to the immigration law, saying the changes will ease concerns about racial profiling.", "The law, which will go into effect in 90 days, has already drawn at least two lawsuits and condemnation from the Mexican government and other Latin American nations.", "Prominent entertainers, including Shakira and Linda Ronstadt, also have spoken against the law.", "Some critics are calling for a boycott of Arizona, urging tourists to stay away and that no one do business with companies in the state.", "CNN's Casey Wian contributed to this report." ]	[ "Pinal County deputy contacts authorities after being wounded in a remote area .", "Pinal County has been described as a key transit point for illegal immigrants .", "Deputies routinely patrol for illegal immigrants and drug smugglers ." ]	[ 14, 18 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The thorny intersection of race and the economy topped the political agenda Wednesday as President Obama huddled with key African-American leaders at the White House.", "Obama held what has been dubbed an \"urban economy summit\" in the Oval Office with a group including the Rev.", "Al Sharpton, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous, and National Urban League President Marc Morial.", "National Council of Negro Women Chairwoman Dorothy Height, who is 97 years old, declined an invitation to attend due to the winter storm pounding the Washington area.", "The group urged Obama to spend money initially reserved for bank bailouts on areas suffering from chronically high unemployment, according to sources familiar with the attendees' plans.", "The investments should be \"place-based rather than race-based,\" Jealous said.", "The cornerstone of the civil rights leaders' plan calls for $150 billion in TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) funds to be redirected to state and local governments to hire workers to provide critical services in underserved communities.", "The White House has not yet proposed tapping the TARP fund for a new jobs program, with the exception of potentially using it to help expand credit lines for small businesses.", "The nation's first African-American president remains extremely popular among black voters.", "A number of African-American leaders, however, are increasingly upset with what they perceive as the federal government's inattention to the needs of economically hard-hit minority communities.", "\"We do not seek any special kind of edict or special kind of thing from the president because he's African-American,\" Sharpton said.", "But he said African-Americans do \"expect to be included in the process\" as Congress debates a new jobs bill and are seeking \"substantive change\" and not mere \"feel-good moments.\"", "Jealous blasted what some political observers have characterized as a GOP strategy of complete opposition to Obama's agenda.", "The Republicans are using obstructionist \"tactics from the last century\" previously employed against African-Americans and now used \"against working people,\" he said.", "\"It's not enough to say no, no, no when people ... are suffering, suffering, suffering,\" he said.", "\"It's not enough to just hold up progress.\"", "While the national unemployment rate is now 9.7 percent, the jobless rate among African-Americans is hovering around 15 percent.", "Over 40 percent of black teenagers are unemployed, according to the National Urban League.", "Obama has previously argued that the administration's $862 billion stimulus package, as well as its other job growth initiatives, would benefit many of the country's hardest-hit communities.", "The plan presented to Obama was expected to include recommendations to: .", "• Expand the small business administration's Community Express Loan Program; .", "• Provide a stronger focus on communities with high unemployment; .", "• Invest $500 million for housing counselors to work with people who are delinquent on loans; .", "• Expand summer youth jobs programs by investing up to $7 billion to employ 5 million teenagers; .", "• Create 100 \"urban job academies\" to train the chronically unemployed.", "CNN's Suzanne Malveaux and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report." ]	[ "Obama meets with Rev.", "Al Sharpton, top officials from NAACP and Urban League .", "Group urges Obama to help areas with chronically high unemployment, source says .", "They suggest funds could come from money reserved for bank bailouts .", "African-Americans not asking special treatment, but inclusion, Sharpton says ." ]	[ 2, 4 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Two U.S. Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopters arrived Saturday to assist with humanitarian and rescue efforts in flood-ravaged Pakistan, which canceled celebrations of its 63rd birthday.", "A statement from the U.S. State Department says the two aircraft are part of the contingent of 19 helicopters, ordered to Pakistan on Wednesday by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.", "Seven of the 19 craft are now in the country.", "One other MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter and four U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E helicopters arrived earlier this week.", "Twelve Marine CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters will arrive over the next few days.", "Since August 5, U.S. military helicopters have rescued more than 3,500 people and transported more than 412,000 pounds of emergency relief supplies, according to the State Department.", "One-fifth of Pakistan -- which is about the size of Florida -- has been flooded in relentless monsoon rains, the United Nations says.", "Nearly 1,400 people have died and 875,000 homes have either washed away or are damaged, according to Pakistan's Disaster Authority.", "Millions more are still at peril as the bloated Indus River is cresting this weekend in parts of Sindh province.", "In some areas, the Indus has expanded from its usual width of one mile to 12 miles.", "Homes, crops, trees, livestock, entire villages and towns have been transformed into vast lakes.", "The worst floods since Pakistan's creation have disrupted the lives of about 20 million people, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Saturday.", "Surrounded by a tragedy of epic proportions, Pakistanis canceled Saturday's celebrations of independence, hard won from the British in 1947.", "They might have otherwise attended parades, burst firecrackers and waved the green and white flag proudly.", "Instead, President Asif Ali Zardari, under fire for a perceived lack of government response, toured flood-ravaged Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the north, where the crisis began more than two weeks ago.", "He urged Pakistanis to remember the afflicted.", "\"The best way to celebrate the Independence Day this year is to reach out to the victims and help them to help themselves,\" he said, according to the Associated Press of Pakistan.", "\"I stand with you and the people of Pakistan stand with you as well, in your hour of trial,\" he told flood victims in Seraiki.", "\"Do not lose hope as the entire nation stands with you.\"", "Gilani said that even some religious events connected to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan were canceled.", "He said money that might have been spent on Iftar, the feast that breaks the daily fast between sunrise and sundown, should be used to alleviate suffering.", "Meanwhile, the United Nations said Secretary General Ban Ki-moon intends to visit Pakistan Sunday and see the devastation firsthand.", "His trip comes as U.N. and other humanitarian agencies are racing against time to prevent more death and suffering.", "\"Relief supplies must reach women, men and children as soon as possible, in order to avoid further death caused by waterborne diseases and food shortages,\" said Martin Mogwanja, the United Nations' humanitarian coordinator for Pakistan.", "\"The death toll has so far been relatively low compared with other major natural disasters, and we want to keep it that way,\" he said.", "Pakistan emergency officials predicted the second wave of floodwaters gushing down the Indus River could reach the southern town of Sukkar by Saturday evening.", "Hundreds of thousands of people living along the Indus could be stranded, along with the tens of thousands stranded by the first wave, said Lt. Cmdr.", "Jawad Khawaja of the Pakistani navy.", "Many residents have ignored government warnings to evacuate the area, causing a big concern, Khawaja said.", "\"The time to act is now -- this is a disaster of unimaginable proportions,\" said Nilofer Bakhtiar, head of the Pakistan Red Crescent Society.", "Thousands of flood victims huddled in sludgy camps or in jam-packed public buildings.", "Others slept under the stars next to the cows, sheep and goats they managed to rescue from rising waters.", "But when they might be able to return to dry lands at home remained a big question.", "Pakistan's monsoon season is only half way over and more rain is on the way.", "CNN's Samson Desta and Reza Sayah contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Seven of 19 helicopters promised by U.S. have arrived in Pakistan .", "Independence celebrations called off amid widespread flooding .", "Prime minister says 20 million people have been affected .", "Officials fear hundreds of thousands could be stranded ." ]	[ 2, 11, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- William Adolfo Cortez -- the man suspected in four homicides in Panama, including the death of one American -- and his wife were arrested in Nicaragua on Monday, a Costa Rican official told CNN.", "The arrest was the conclusion of an international manhunt for the couple, whose nationality remained unconfirmed by authorities.", "Cortez and his wife, Jane, were on the run since the body of Cher Hughes, a native of suburban St. Louis, Missouri, was found last week on his property in Panama.", "The couple fled Panama to the north, traversed through Costa Rica, and were caught as they crossed the San Juan River, which acts as the boundary between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Costa Rican Vice Minister of Public Security Jorge Chavarria said.", "Cortez and his wife boarded a boat and then threw the boat's driver overboard, commandeering the vessel for themselves, Chavarria said.", "The Nicaraguan army stopped them as they tried to enter the country.", "The couple was in Nicaraguan custody and was transported to a facility known as El Castillo, the vice minister said.", "The pair face charges of stealing a boat, but an international murder warrant out for the couple is expected to result in extradition to Panama, Chavarria said.", "Cortez could be American or Dutch, according to local reports, but his true nation of origin remained unconfirmed.", "Hughes, who was in her early 50s, was found in a shallow grave.", "A second body -- which has not yet been officially identified -- was found near Hughes.", "Panama police said they believed that Cortez's motive was to take his alleged victims' property.", "Hughes had lived in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she owned a neon sign business, before moving to Panama.", "CNN's Mariano Castillo contributed to this report." ]	[ "William Cortez is wanted on murder charges in Panama .", "He and his wife were caught on the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica .", "Cortez commandeered a boat to try to make it to Nicaragua .", "The Nicaraguan army made the arrest ." ]	[ 0, 5, 7 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Senate Republicans narrowly blocked Democratic campaign finance disclosure legislation in the Senate Tuesday after raising concerns the bill would curb freedom of speech and tilt campaign spending in favor of the Democrats.", "A 57-41 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed for the Senate to cut off debate on the measure.", "Republicans unanimously opposed the measure while Democrats solidly backed it.", "Democrats said the legislation -- known as the DISCLOSE Act -- would bring greater transparency to campaign contributions from corporations, labor unions, and other special interests, which were able to ramp up political spending in the wake of the Supreme Court's controversial ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission earlier this year.", "The bill would require organizations paying for political advertising to disclose the names of their top donors in the ads, similar to what now is required of political candidates for federal office.", "Republicans accused Democrats of trying to preserve their majorities in the House and Senate by skewing the rules in the favor of labor unions, trial lawyers, and other Democratic-leaning groups.", "Democrats denied that was their motive, and made certain changes to the bill last week aimed at satisfying GOP critics.", "The Republicans were not mollified.", "Democrats \"fear the righteous judgment of the American people in this coming election,\" warned Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who spearheads the Senate Republicans' election effort.", "\"So they're trying to change the rules in the middle of the game to suppress the speech of those who might disagree\" with them.", "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, slammed the bill as a \"partisan effort, pure and simple.\"", "\"This bill is about protecting incumbent Democrats from criticism ahead of this November's election,\" he said.", "It's an \"all-out assault on the First Amendment.\"", "Democrats accused Republicans of going back on their pledge to find a way to add transparency to political giving after the Citizens United ruling.", "They argued that without the new law, special interests will run roughshod over voters' interests.", "\"The Supreme Court decision was a true step backwards for this democracy,\" said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington.", "\"It allowed corporations and special interest groups to spend unlimited amounts of their money influencing our democracy and it opens the door wide for foreign corporations to spend their money on elections right here in the United States.\"", "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said the bill was \"about trust and confidence in our democracy.\"", "The measure \"asks us to put the people before the special interests,\" he argued.", "Let in \"the sunlight that disinfects our democracy.\"", "Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, who often votes with Democrats and who has worked on campaign finance legislation in the past, complained Democrats were resorting to \"ram and jam\" legislating in which Republicans are not invited to help craft bills and are forced to vote against measures they could have supported.", "\"I know it's good for politics to have a vote, but it isn't good for policy and getting it right,\" she said.", "Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, promised that the Democratic leadership will continue to seek ways to overturn or reduce the impact of the high court's Citizens United ruling.", "\"This is a sad day for our democracy,\" he said.", "\"This fight will continue.\"", "CNN's Alan Silverleib contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Republicans accuse Democrats of an \"assault on the First Amendment\"\nThe Senate GOP stops Democrats from ending debate on a campaign finance bill .", "The bill would require groups paying for ads to disclose their top donors in the ads .", "Democrats claim the bill is necessary to reduce the impact of a Supreme Court ruling ." ]	[ 3, 4, 12 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Former Bosnian leader Ejup Ganic will not be extradited to Serbia, a British court ruled Tuesday, setting him free.", "Ganic called the extradition request \"a textbook example of abuse,\" accusing the Serbian government of trying to \"undermine the judiciary in this country.\"", "The extradition request was politically motivated, Justice Timothy Workman found in throwing it out.", "\"No striking or substantial new evidence\" was brought against him, the judge ruled.", "Ganic, who was arrested at England's Heathrow Airport in March at Serbia's request, is wanted in Serbia for conspiracy to murder in breach of the Geneva Conventions, a spokesman at Britain's Foreign Office said.", "Ganic's lawyer, Stephen Gentle, denied that he had any role in the 1992 killings in question.", "In April, Gentle said that \"the extradition request is politically motivated.", "It is legally flawed, and he has nothing to hide.\"", "Ganic was the vice president of Bosnia during the civil war there between 1992 and 1995 and was twice president of the Bosnian-Croat Federation in the years following the 1995 Dayton peace agreement.", "Many independent commentators at the time regarded Ganic as a relative moderate in the wartime Bosnian leadership.", "Though Bosnian, Ganic was born in Serbia and speaks with a recognizable Serbian accent.", "He holds dual nationality in the former Yugoslav republics.", "He is leaving London for Sarajevo on Wednesday, he said.", "CNN's Andrew Carey contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Serbia's government \"tried to undermine the judiciary in this country,\" Ejup Ganic says .", "The extradition request was politically motivated, the judge finds .", "Former Bosnian leader will not be sent to Serbia .", "Ganic is wanted in Serbia for alleged 1992 war crimes ." ]	[ 0, 1, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The United States' National Transportation Safety Board said it is sending a team to help the government of Saudi Arabia investigate the crash of a Lufthansa cargo plane in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday.", "NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman is sending a senior air safety investigator, flight operations specialists, an aircraft systems specialist and technical advisers from the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing, according to an NTSB statement.", "Lufthansa Cargo said the MD-11 plane was traveling from Frankfurt, Germany, when it crashed at 11:38 a.m. (4:38 a.m. ...", "Lufthansa said a team of experts from the company was on its way to Riyadh.", "The plane crashed while landing at King Khalid International Airport, the official Saudi Press Agency of Saudi Arabia reported.", "A company statement said the plane caught fire and was extensively damaged, but the blaze was extinguished.", "The craft had been carrying 80 tons of cargo.", "Lufthansa said both pilots -- who evacuated the aircraft down the emergency slide -- were injured.", "They were contacted by phone and were being treated in a hospital.", "It was not clear what freight was on the aircraft and whether customers were affected." ]	[ "NEW: The cargo plane crashed while landing at Riyadh airport .", "The NTSB is sending a team to help investigate .", "The plane was headed to Riyadh from Frankfurt, Germany .", "Two pilots were injured and were being treated at a hospital ." ]	[ 0, 2, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Authorities in Rimrock, Arizona, were searching Monday for a 2-year-old boy who went missing over the weekend while camping with a family that was preparing to adopt him, a spokesman for the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said.", "Syler Newton was last seen shortly after midnight Saturday, sleeping in a tent with the family at the Beaver Creek Campgrounds.", "About 1:45 a.m. Sunday, the family noticed that he was missing from his sleeping bag.", "About 50 people, along with bloodhounds and tracking teams, have joined in the search for Syler, who was wearing only a diaper when he disappeared, according to Yavapai County Sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn.", "\"Right now, there's no indication he was taken from the site,\" D'Evelyn said Monday evening, adding that investigators are \"looking at every possible reason that Syler is missing.\"", "D'Evelyn said bloodhounds normally used by the Department of Corrections to help find escaped felons picked up Syler's scent around the campsite Monday, but failed to detect his scent outside a particular radius.", "Angela Godinez, the sister of the woman preparing to adopt Syler, told CNN affiliate KPHO on Monday that the family is \"preparing for the worst.\"", "\"We're all really, really scared, because he's only 20 pounds,\" she said.", "\"He could have been carried away easily.", "He could have froze last night or gotten heatstroke today.\"", "\"We don't know what's going on, and there's a lot of possibilities,\" she added, her voice breaking.", "She said she fears that Syler is \"somewhere along the water.\"", "The campgrounds sit on the banks of the Wet Beaver Creek.", "\"That's why I'm really, really scared, because he's always loved the water,\" she said.", "Godinez said her sister, identified by police as 36-year-old Christina Priem, is in the process of finalizing an adoption agreement with Syler's biological mother.", "D'Evelyn said the Department of Child Services was involved in the investigation and was working to corroborate the adoption story.", "FBI authorities were able to make contact with the Syler's biological mother Monday, but D'Evelyn did not know the outcome of that conversation.", "\"Until we speak to the biological mother, we just don't know the full story,\" D'Evelyn said.", "He later added that \"there's no evidence\" that the planned adoption played a role in his disappearance, \"but until we've exhausted every lead, all possibilities are being investigated.\"" ]	[ "Syler Newton was wearing only a diaper when he disappeared early Sunday .", "He was camping with a family preparing to adopt him .", "Dozens of people, including teams with bloodhounds, have joined the search ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- As airlines slash flights and cut spending in the wake of rising fuel prices, rail travel across Europe is entering into a period of renewal.", "Eurostar launched services from its new London station, St Pancras International in November 2007.", "By 2010, the continent's rail operators expect 25 million passengers to be using its high-speed networks, up from around 14 million today.", "And this staggering growth is expected to spill into the next decade.", "This week, Network Rail, the owner and operator of Britain's rail infrastructure, has commissioned a study that could lead to the biggest overhaul of the nation's rail industry since the 19th century.", "The study will consider five new intercity lines running north and west of London.", "New lines, built alongside existing tracks, could accommodate high-speed trains similar to France's TGV that travels at 186 miles per hour (300 km/h).", "If approved, journey times between London and Manchester could be slashed to just over one hour, and two hours between London and Glasgow.", "The cost of such expansion is large, says a Network Rail spokesperson, but crucial to absorb the nation's increasing demand for rail travel.", "Despite complaints over overcrowding and affordability of rail travel in Britain, passenger numbers have soared by 40 percent to 1.13 billion journeys a year in the last decade.", "And if growth continues as predicted, Network Rail expects many lines to be full by 2025.", "The popularity for rail is driven partly by a growing determination among passengers to become more environmentally friendly.", "A journey on high-speed train Eurostar between London and Paris generates one-tenth of the carbon dioxide produced by an equivalent flight, according to independent research commissioned by Eurostar.", "Rail's city-center-to-city-centre service is also becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to flying.", "Research has shown that business travelers are now willing to travel up to four hours on rail because of the increased productivity versus the airlines.", "Leisure travelers are prepared to go further, using trains on journeys of up to six hours.", "If plans for new high-speed routes across Britain are agreed, the earliest construction could begin is 2014, says Network Rail.", "But expansion is already underway across the European rail network to handle growing passenger numbers.", "Britain's first high-speed rail line was opened by Eurostar last November.", "This links the new St. Pancras International station in central London with Paris in just 2 hours 15 minutes and Brussels in 1 hour 51 minutes.", "Last June, TGV Est opened in France, slashing journey times between Paris and Reims to 45 minutes from 90 minutes, and from Paris to Strasbourg in 2 hour 20 minutes instead of 4 hours.", "This line opens development of a 1,500-km European railway line intended to link Paris and Bratislava via Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Munich and Vienna.", "Other upcoming high-speed rail routes include the HSL Zuid between Antwerp, Belgium and Amsterdam; a number of Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) high-speed rail links between Madrid and Spain's provincial cities; and a high-speed connection between Spain and Portugal.", "New high-speed lines are also expected in Italy in early 2011.", "And if plans for a rail tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco are finalized, trains could link Europe and Africa by 2025.", "The efficiency of trans-European rail travel will be further boosted following the formation of Railteam, an alliance of high-speed rail operators across western Europe.", "These include Deutsche Bahn from Germany, SNCF in France, Eurostar as well as operators from Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium.", "At the moment making connections, for example between a Eurostar service from London to Paris and then to a TGV across France or an ICE high-speed train through Germany can be complicated.", "The new alliance, that works like a code-sharing airline alliance, means travelers can book tickets on a multilingual website to 100 cities, rising to 400 by 2020.", "The alliance will also cut waiting time between connections.", "And frequent business travelers will eventually be able to use a 'train mile' program across the entire network.", "Railteam currently does not include operators in Italy and Spain where high-speed networks are less developed.", "But more train operators are expected to join in the future.", "What's more, legislation approved by the European Union last year that requires national rail systems to open up to operators from other countries by 2010, will further push development of a European network of high-speed rail.", "As this network develops, and as appeal of air travel falters, riding the rails between Paris and Bratislava, or Birmingham and Brussels may not seem like such a bad idea after all." ]	[ "European rail travel is having a renaissance boosted by new high-speed links .", "Network Rail will conduct a review into building new rail lines across Great Britain .", "New high-speed links recently opened between UK and Europe and into east France ." ]	[ 16, 22, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Erin Andrews, the ESPN reporter who was secretly videotaped nude in 2008, has been receiving death threats, her attorney told CNN on Friday.", "Several threatening e-mails regarding Andrews have been sent to sportscaster Dan Patrick since last September, according to Marshall B. Grossman, Andrews' attorney.", "\"Until very recently, [the e-mails] were of a sexual nature, but then turned violent\" last month, Grossman said.", "He said the e-mails received in March \"are specific, they're violent, they identify the location and method of intended murder.\"", "Grossman said the existence of the threats were first revealed to Andrews on Thursday morning.", "The e-mails were provided to Andrews' representatives by DirecTV, which carries the Dan Patrick Show.", "Patrick was formerly at ESPN.", "The FBI began work on the case on Thursday and believes it has identified the individual responsible for the threatening e-mails, Grossman said.", "Andrews is getting round-the-clock security, Grossman said.", "Grossman has also requested heightened security at Los Angeles' CBS Television City, where Andrews is competing on the show, \"Dancing with the Stars.\"", "In March, a federal judge sentenced an Illinois man to two and a half years in prison for taping Andrews in the nude.", "The taping took place through a hotel-room peephole, and the video was posted on the Internet.", "Michael David Barrett, 49, pleaded guilty to a federal stalking charge in December after prosecutors accused him of altering hotel peepholes so he could shoot video of Andrews while unclothed.", "CNN's Sonya Hamasaki contributed to this report." ]	[ "Lawyer: ESPN's Erin Andrews getting death threats .", "FBI says it has identified person responsible for the threatening e-mails .", "Illinois man sentenced for secretly taping Andrews nude, posting videos online ." ]	[ 0, 7, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron called Gaza a \"prison camp\" on Tuesday, a blunt description from a major Western leader about the besieged Palestinian territory.", "Cameron made the remarks in the Turkish capital of Ankara, which he was visiting to forge a new relationship with Turkey and show his support for Turkish membership in the European Union.", "\"Let me also be clear that the situation in Gaza has to change.", "Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions.", "Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp,\" Cameron said, according to a transcript of the speech provided by his office.", "Residents of Gaza say they have suffered greatly under an Israeli goods blockade implemented since Hamas took control of the territory after elections in 2006.", "But Israel says its tough measures are necessary to stop weapons from reaching Hamas militants intent on destroying Israel.", "Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to Britain, reacted quickly to the prime minister's remark, saying that Hamas is responsible for the misery in Gaza.", "\"The people of Gaza are the prisoners of the terrorist organization Hamas,\" Prosor said in a statement.", "\"The situation in Gaza is the direct result of Hamas' rule and priorities.\"", "The ambassador also raised the issue of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier taken hostage four years ago who is being held in Gaza.", "\"We know that the prime minister would also share our grave concerns about our own prisoner in the Gaza Strip, Gilad Shalit, who has been held hostage there for over four years, without receiving a single Red Cross visit,\" Prosor said.", "Cameron's comments came in a country that once had close relations with Israel, but ties between the two nations have been strained recently over the Jewish state's policies toward the Palestinian territory.", "Turkey was incensed at the May 31 Israeli commando raid against an aid flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea.", "Violence broke out on one of the ships in the flotilla, the Turkish Mavi Marmara, leaving nine activists -- eight Turks and a Turkish-American dual national -- dead.", "Cameron -- who touted Turkey's unique ability to make peace between Israel and the Arab world -- stressed that the Israeli action was \"completely unacceptable.\"", "He said he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Britain expects Israel's inquiry into the raid to be \"swift, transparent and rigorous.\"", "He was also optimistic that the recently frayed alliance can continue to be friendly.", "\"Just as Turkey is playing a pivotal role in Afghanistan, it can also do so in the Middle East.", "Turkey's relationships in the region, both with Israel and the Arab world, are of incalculable value.", "No other country has the same potential to build understanding between Israel and the Arab world.", "I know that Gaza has led to real strains in Turkey's relationship with Israel, but Turkey is a friend of Israel, and I urge Turkey, and Israel, not to give up on that friendship,\" Cameron said.", "He also believes Turkey can also help bring together Palestinians and Israelis as they work to meet in direct negotations.", "\"But as, hopefully, we move in the coming weeks to direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians, so it is Turkey that can make the case for peace and Turkey that can help press the parties to come together and point the way to a just and viable solution,\" the prime minister said." ]	[ "Cameron wants a new partnership with Turkey .", "He says the \"situation in Gaza has to change\"\nIsrael says residents of Gaza are prisoners of Hamas ." ]	[ 2, 8 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Military officials Tuesday identified two sailors involved in a firefight in eastern Afghanistan last week that left one of them dead and the other in the hands of the Taliban.", "Afghan and coalition forces recovered the remains of Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley, 30, of Wheatridge, Colorado, on Sunday, the Defense Department said.", "Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, 25, of Renton, Washington, is listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown, the Pentagon said.", "Newlove and McNeley were travelling in Logar province when they were attacked, the military said.", "Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said Monday that one American died in a firefight and the other is being held by the group.", "Mujahid said the two Americans were driving in a civilian vehicle in the village of Dasht, in Charkh district.", "The Taliban wanted to take both men alive, but the firefight broke out, killing one of the Americans, Mujahid said.", "The other is alive and being held in a safe location, he said.", "Newlove's family released a statement through the Navy asking that the media release no details of the incident or information about the family.", "\"The information in the wrong hands could certainly jeopardize Jerod's safety and well being,\" Navy spokesman Sean Hughes said.", "\"The Newlove family and Navy appreciate as much privacy as possible during this difficult time which we all sincerely hope has a positive outcome.\"", "Provincial government officials confirmed McNeley's death on Sunday.", "Den Mohammad Darwish, the spokesman for the governor of Logar province, said he learned from locals that the American was killed.", "He said the body was found in the Patanak Mountains of Charkh district.", "He also said the vehicle the men were driving was located Sunday.", "There were no immediate demands from the Taliban for the return of the Americans because the group was still deliberating what its demands would be, Mujahid said.", "A U.S. military official confirmed that a $20,000 reward was being offered for information leading to the return of the two sailors.", "Posters were being distributed in the region.", "CNN's Atia Abawi and Barbara Starr contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Family of missing sailor asks for privacy .", "NEW: Remains of one sailor are found on Sunday .", "American sailors went missing last week in eastern Afghanistan .", "The Taliban says it killed one American during a firefight and is holding the other ." ]	[ 0, 11 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The man convicted of videotaping her through a hotel peephole was sentenced to two years in prison, ESPN reporter Erin Andrews said Tuesday, but in a way, she was sentenced to a lifetime of looking over her shoulder.", "\"The one thing that I think is very, very sad about the whole ordeal is, he's going to jail for a little over two years,\" said Andrews, who appeared with members of Congress on Tuesday in support of legislation to strengthen federal stalking laws.", "\"That video on the Internet will be there for the rest of my life.\"", "Someday, she said, she will need to explain the video to her future husband and children.", "\"These stories are not easy to talk about,\" Andrews said.", "\"It's so funny. I work in the public eye.", "I'm used to these cameras all the time, but it's easier for me to talk about touchdowns and errors. ...", "This is not easy for me at all.\" The legislation -- Simplifying the Ambiguous Law, Keeping Everyone Reliably Safe Act, or STALKERS -- was introduced in the House last week by Reps. Loretta Sanchez, D-California, and Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina.", "The \"long overdue\" bill is set for debate on the House floor Tuesday, Sanchez said.", "Stalking laws have not caught up with emerging technology, she said, and the bill will bring the laws into the present \"to give law enforcement the tools they need to combat stalking in the digital age.\"", "The legislation would cover technologies such as electronic monitoring, spyware, bugging and video surveillance, she said.", "A victim presently must have a \"reasonable fear of physical injury\" before a case can be prosecuted, she said, and sometimes that is too late.", "\"The bottom line: Stalking is about power and control,\" she said.", "\"It's a violation of the worst kind, and we need to put a law in place in our justice system that helps us and gives us every available tool.\"", "Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, said she plans to introduce a companion bill in the Senate and is procuring a Republican author.", "A former prosecutor, Klobuchar said that although stalking is \"one of the most invasive crimes,\" it can be difficult to prove and tricky to prosecute.", "She thanked Andrews for coming forward but noted, \"there are cases like this all over the country every day\" involving women who are not in the public eye.", "She recalled a case in Minnesota in which an online relationship soured and a man posted pictures of a woman's children, along with their full names, addresses and telephone number, on child pornography sites, encouraging people to molest them.", "In March, a federal judge sentenced an Illinois man to 2 1/2 years in prison for taping Andrews in the nude through the peephole and posting the video on the Internet.", "Michael David Barrett, 49, pleaded guilty to a federal stalking charge in December after prosecutors accused him of altering hotel peepholes so he could shoot video of Andrews.", "\"I have seen with my own eyes through firsthand experience that the laws have been taken way too lightly.", "They aren't clear, and they have not kept up with the technology or the time,\" Andrews said, her voice shaking at times.", "\"At times over the past year, I have screamed.", "I have cried. I have said to my family, 'Why me?", "Why is this happening to me?' \" But, she said, she received \"countless letters -- I'm still receiving them -- from women who say, 'Please go out and fight this.", "Please go out and show your face.' ...", "I'm showing my face.", "I'm lending my voice.", "And I'm here to give this law some teeth.\"", "She said her message to victims is, \"There is hope, and there is help, and if you need help, do not be ashamed to ask for it.\"", "The legislation increases penalties for offenses where a restraining order is in place and for offenses involving children or the elderly, lawmakers said.", "Currently, the federal law applies only to criminals who travel over state lines, but the new legislation will cover any conduct that criminals engage in that affects interstate commerce, Sanchez and Klobuchar said.", "Although most stalking cases are prosecuted at the state level, the federal law will serve as a model, they said." ]	[ "Reporter joins lawmakers to support legislation .", "The man who taped Andrews was sentenced to more than two years in prison .", "Legislation is set for debate on the House floor Tuesday .", "A companion bill will be introduced in the Senate ." ]	[ 8, 18 ]
[ "Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- A passenger plane crashed into a shallow waterway and broke in two after overshooting the runway in a remote area of Indonesia's eastern Papua province on Tuesday, injuring 78 people on board.", "Bambang Ervan, a spokesman for Indonesia's Transportation Ministry, said investigators to the airport in the coastal town of Manokwari where the Merpati Nusantara Airlines Boeing 737-300 had been attempting to land.", "There were reports that bad weather may have been a factor.", "The injured, many of whom suffered fractures, were taken to hospitals in the area.", "In all, the plane was carrying 103 passengers, including three children and three infants.", "Ervan said the aircraft bounced on the runway during landing, skidded and plunged into a nearby canal.", "Merpati, a cash-strapped state-owned airline which is in the process of upgrading its aging fleet, flies many of the more remote routes across Indonesia.", "Last year Merpati suffered two plane crashes in Papua.", "In July, a Merpati flight lost its front wheels as it took of from the town of Biak.", "A month later, another flight -- a Twin Otter aircraft -- crashed, killing 16 people on board.", "Air accidents are not infrequent in Papua, a mountainous area in the easternmost part of Indonesia.", "Two cargo planes and several smaller aircraft also crashed in the province last year.", "Indonesia has made efforts in recent years to improve its safety record.", "Last year the European Union's Safety Commission lifted a ban on four Indonesian carriers.", "In Hong Kong, Tuesday, a Cathy Pacific flight from Surabaya in Indonesia made an emergency landing injuring eight people.", "Flight 780 from Surabaya, Indonesia, was carrying 309 passengers and 13 crew members, Cathay Pacific CEO Tony Tyler said at a news conference.", "Passengers and crew deplaned through the Airbus 330's evacuation slides.", "The injured were taken to the territory's Princess Margaret Hospital.", "Tyler said a full investigation will follow but engine trouble may have played a part in the incident.", "The north runway at the Hong Kong International Airport was closed for almost three hours after the emergency landing." ]	[ "Merpati airlines jet crashes into canal after skidding on landing in Papua .", "Crash follows two accidents involving Merpati aircraft last year .", "State-owned Merpati is in process of upgrading its aging fleet .", "Eight hurt as Cathay Pacific flight makes emergency landing in Hong Kong ." ]	[ 5, 6, 7, 14 ]
[ "(Rolling Stone) -- Despite a flurry of Top 10 debuts, Eminem's \"Recovery\" sold another 116,000 copies to claim No.", "1 for the seventh week, Billboard reports.", "Recovery now has the most weeks at No.", "1 for a hip-hop album since OutKast accrued seven with 2003's \"Speakerboxx/The Love Below.\"", "(Eminem was bumped from the top spot for one week when Arcade Fire released \"The Suburbs.\")", "Four new releases made it into this week's Top Five: Kem's \"Intimacy\" took No.", "2 with 74,000 copies, while Ray LaMontagne's \"God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise\" entered at No.", "3 with 64,000 copies -- 49,000 of which came from digital sales, which were aided by a $3.99 Amazon MP3 Store promotion.", "After topping this week's U.K. album charts, Iron Maiden scored their best-ever chart performance as \"The Final Frontier\" came in at No.", "4, improving on the band's only other Top 10 U.S. debut, 2006's \"A Matter of Life and Death,\" which scored No.", "9. Trace Adkins' \"Cowboy's Back in Town\" rounded out the Top Five, and John Mellencamp's \"No Better Than This\" entered at No.", "10. Eminem did finally relinquish the top spot on the digital songs chart as \"Love the Way You Lie\" with Rihanna fell to Lil Wayne, who nabbed his first-ever No.", "1 digital song with \"Right Above It,\" which was downloaded 225,000 times last week.", "Album sales were up 2 percent compared to last week, which was the lowest selling week of the SoundScan era.", "Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone." ]	[ "\"Recovery\" sold another 116,000 copies to claim No.", "1 for the seventh week .", "Recovery now has the most weeks at No.", "1 for a hip-hop album since 2003 .", "Iron Maiden scored their best-ever chart performance at No.", "4 ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3, 8 ]
[ "Barcelona, Spain (CNN) -- The deep-rooted Spanish tradition of bullfighting is under fire in Barcelona and its region of Catalonia, where the regional parliament will vote on Wednesday whether to ban the fights.", "If approved, Catalonia would become the first region in mainland Spain to outlaw bullfighting, and some see it as a slap in the face to the rest of the country.", "Enrique Guillen, 24, laments that he might be the last Barcelona-born bullfighter to take the \"alternativa,\" or ceremonial fight in the ring against the biggest bulls to become a full-fledged matador, which he did last year at Barcelona's sole remaining bullring, the Monumental.", "Guillen's father worked at the bullring, opening the doors for bulls to charge in to face matadors and their death.", "\"My father brought me to see the bullfights when I still had a pacifier,\" Guillen said.", "\"It would be frustrating not to be able to give to my children what my parents gave to me.\"", "But activist Aida Gascon, of the Anti-Bullfighting Party, known as PACMA, looks beyond the tradition and sees animal cruelty.", "She says she's attended just one bullfight in her life, and that was only to get a sense of the bull's suffering, which she depicted in a painting that hangs in her living room.", "\"Bullfighting is part of Spanish culture,\" Gascon said.", "\"But that should change. Many traditions disappear as the society advances.\"", "The number of bullfights across Spain has dropped by one-third in recent years, due mostly to budget constraints of local governments, which often fund the spectacles.", "In Catalonia, there are now just over a dozen fights a year and the Monumental bullring in Barcelona is about the only place in the region that still holds fights.", "But Luis Corrales and his pro-bullfight group, known as PPDF, released a study predicting big economic losses for Catalonia if bullfighting is banned.", "This would mainly result, he says, because the Catalan government would have to pay damages to the bullfighting industry, which holds long-term operating licenses.", "\"When the Catalan government and the opposition are working hard to trim the budget, how could they justify making big indemnity payments to the bullfighting industry, when it's not necessary,\" Corrales said.", "But critics disagree, saying the economic impact would be minimal, given the small number of fights still held in Catalonia.", "Either way, the Catalan parliament bullfight vote is being watched not only in Spain, but abroad, where many have a fascination with bullfighting.", "The proposal to ban bullfighting started as a popular initiative in Catalonia and was accepted for consideration by parliament last year by a slim margin of votes.", "Since then, there has been an ever-intensifying debate, with bullfighting proponents and opponents gathering support from across Spain, even from abroad.", "Most analysts predict that the vote on Wednesday will be very close.", "The two largest parties in parliament, the ruling Socialists and the opposition Catalan nationalists, or CiU, have given their members of parliament freedom to vote their conscience.", "Some smaller parties on the left are expected to vote for the ban while the conservative Popular Party is expected to support continuing the tradition.", "The ban, if approved, would take effect in January 2012 and would not end bullfighting in the rest of Spain.", "It still has a strong following in Madrid and in the south around Seville.", "Spain's Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean already does not allow bullfighting, but a ban in Catalonia would be considered a bigger blow to the tradition.", "Some analysts say that Catalan nationalism, including the desire by some in the Barcelona area for independence from Spain, also is playing a role in the vote, as well as the upcoming regional elections for parliament later this year.", "But the main bullfighting proponents and opponents say the root issue is a clear line in the sand: tradition vs. protection of animals.", "The Catalan parliament vote is expected by 1 p.m. (7 a.m.", "ET) Wednesday." ]	[ "Catalonia would become the first region of mainland Spain to ban bullfights .", "Only one bullfight ring remains in Barcelona, with about a dozen fights a year .", "\"Many traditions disappear as the society advances,\" ban backer says .", "Economic impact would be painful, bullfight booster argues ." ]	[ 1, 9, 11 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The September 11, 2001, attacks have led to an intelligence community so large and unwieldy that it's unmanageable and inefficient -- and no one knows how much it costs, according to a two-year investigation by the Washington Post.", "Ahead of the publication, many in the intelligence community worried that the stories would disclose too much information about contractors and the classified tasks they handle.", "The Post article that appeared in Monday's edition says its investigation uncovered \"a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking in thorough oversight.", "After nine years of unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.\"", "Washington Post: Top Secret America .", "The Post investigation found that \"33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001,\" or the equivalent of nearly three Pentagons.", "\"Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States,\" according to the Post, which added that an estimated 854,000 people hold top-secret security clearances.", "\"There has been so much growth since 9/11 that getting your arms around that -- not just for the DNI [director of national intelligence], but for any individual, for the director of the CIA, for the secretary of defense -- is a challenge,\" Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Post last week.", "\"Look, we know the intelligence community grew significantly and quickly after 9/11,\" a senior administration official told CNN Monday.", "\"Some of it was inefficient. But we are looking at those inefficiencies.", "And remember, we have prevented attacks.\"", "Acting National Intelligence Director David Gompert issued a statement saying the Post's report \"does not reflect the intelligence community we know.\"", "\"In recent years, we have reformed the (intelligence community) in ways that have improved the quality, quantity, regularity, and speed of our support to policymakers, warfighters, and homeland defenders, and we will continue our reform efforts,\" he said.", "\"We provide oversight, while also encouraging initiative.", "We work constantly to reduce inefficiencies and redundancies, while preserving a degree of intentional overlap among agencies to strengthen analysis, challenge conventional thinking, and eliminate single points of failure.\"", "The Post said its investigation was \"based on government documents and contracts, job descriptions, property records, corporate and social networking Web sites, additional records, and hundreds of interviews with intelligence, military and corporate officials and former officials,\" most of whom requested anonymity.", "Although officials were concerned about the content of the newspaper articles ahead of publication, what troubled them the most was \"interactive\" component of the series, which they said lists the locations where the CIA, the National Security Agency and the other agencies that make up the intelligence community have facilities.", "Many of those sites are not publicly known, some officials said.", "Officials worried about the security implications of such disclosures.", "As one person put it, \"these are targeted places to begin with.", "... Mapping it out presents counterterrorism and counterintelligence concerns.\"", "The officials say there have been discussions with the Washington Post to make changes in the website.", "It was not immediately known what, if any, changes were made, but an interactive map available Monday morning showed more than 2,000 government work locations and nearly 7,000 for private contractors.", "In two communications, officials asked the Post not to publish addresses, the senior administration official said Monday.", "There has been talk in Washington for some time that the Post was working on an investigative series on the intelligence community.", "But it's only been in recent days that the deep concern of the intelligence officials has become more apparent.", "The newspaper said it took steps to allay public safety concerns.", "\"Because of the nature of this project, we allowed government officials to see the Web site several months ago and asked them to tell us of any specific concerns.", "They offered none at that time,\" the Post said in a message posted on its website.", "\"As the project evolved, we shared the Web site's revised capabilities.", "Again, we asked for specific concerns.", "One government body objected to certain data points on the site and explained why; we removed those items.", "Another agency objected that the entire Web site could pose a national security risk but declined to offer specific comments.\"", "The message from the Mission Support Center of the director of national intelligence that was obtained by CNN told contractors, \"Employees should be reminded that they must neither confirm nor deny information contained in this, or any, media publication.\"", "It warned that foreign intelligence services, terrorist groups and \"criminal elements\" might want to use the information.", "\"Specifically, we recommend that companies affected by this publication and website assess and take steps to mitigate risk to their workforce, facility and mission,\" including \"re-enforcement of security and counterintelligence protections and steps to enhance workforce awareness.\"", "Similar messages from the military and other agencies also went out.", "CNN's Pam Benson, Barbara Starr, Tom Cohen, Alan Silverleib and Ed Payne contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Acting national intelligence director insists there has been major reform .", "U.S. intelligence community is so big its effectiveness can't be measured, newspaper reports .", "More than 800,000 people have top-secret clearance .", "America's intelligence community lacks thorough oversight ." ]	[ 2, 10, 11, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Georgia family whose daughter was killed is battling to get her 9-month-old child back from state custody in New York, where her estranged husband left the baby with relatives after her slaying.", "Corrissa Friends, 21, was shot to death in her apartment in the Atlanta suburb of Riverdale, Georgia, on August 11, according to police.", "Her husband, Wisdom Jeffrey, is wanted in connection with her death and is now a fugitive, Riverdale Police Chief Samuel Patterson said.", "Patterson said he believed Casey had been returned to the family by now.", "But Corey Friends, the slain woman's uncle, told HLN's \"Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell\" that the girl, \"as far as I know, is in the state custody of New York.\"", "\"We are currently trying as hard as possible to get Casey back in the custody of my family,\" he said.", "He said the family had received an outpouring of support from friends in the Atlanta area, \"and hopefully we can catch this guy and draw some kind of closure to this crazy situation.\"", "Patterson said Corrissa Friends had moved several times around the Atlanta area to get away from Jeffrey, and that police had been called to the apartment about a domestic dispute the day before the killing.", "Officers found no evidence of violence at the apartment, and Jeffrey was not arrested.", "But because Jeffrey's name was not on the lease, they told him to leave at Friends' request, Patterson said.", "Early the next morning, Patterson said, Jeffrey returned to the apartment and shot Corrissa three times with a shotgun -- twice from the front, once from behind.", "She was able to call 911, but died before an ambulance arrived, the chief said.", "He said witnesses put Jeffrey at the apartment less than five minutes before the shooting, and police recovered the shotgun used in the killing at the scene.", "He said he expected Casey would be back with her maternal grandparents, but, \"The wheels of justice sometimes move a little slowly from our perspective.\"", "\"It should have happened yesterday or the day before,\" Patterson said." ]	[ "Corrissa Friends was shot to death August 11 .", "Her estranged husband is wanted in connection with the killing .", "\"The wheels of justice sometimes move a little slowly,\" police chief says ." ]	[ 1, 2, 13 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Britain is facing an increasing threat from lone home-grown terrorists, especially among radicalized Muslims in the prison system, a report from a security think tank said Friday.", "There is the potential for a \"new wave\" of terrorism in Britain that is shifting from large-scale bombings requiring considerable amounts of training and operational support toward lone individuals carrying out attacks on a smaller scale, according to the report from the Royal United Services Institute.", "\"Rather than sending out trained 'cell leaders' to conduct preparation for sophisticated operations, AQAP (al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) and other related organizations have recently been content to send out a higher number of lone individuals (or at least lightly supported ones) whose chances of success are considerably lower, but whose number and presence raise similar public anxieties,\" the report said.", "\"Eventually, it is reasoned, one of them will be lucky enough to succeed in a major way against high-profile targets in Western countries.\"", "One trend contributing to the \"new wave\" of terrorism is the escalating rate of radicalization of Muslims in the British prison system, which the report says may produce as many as 800 \"potentially violent radicals.\"", "\"Jihadist radicalization is believed by the prison authorities to be taking place at a rapid rate, especially in the eight high-security institutions where most terrorist prisoners are kept,\" the report said.", "Prison probation officers believe that around one in ten of the 8,000 Muslim prisoners in high-security institutions in England and Wales are successfully targeted, the report said.", "These prisoners were not previously convicted of terrorism offenses, it said.", "\"The prison chaplaincy, including its Muslim adviser, told a parliamentary committee last year that the situation was becoming progressively worse,\" the report said.", "\"It remains to be seen how much of this 'new radicalism' may find actual expression in violent acts or attempts at recruitment.\"", "The use of more lone individuals in carrying out attacks can be seen in the case of Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, suspected in the failed bombing of a Detroit-bound passenger plane on Christmas Day last year, the report said.", "The U.S. Treasury Department last month designated al-Awlaki a key leader for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and he is believed to be hiding in Yemen.", "The report also cited the failed Times Square bombing May 1 in New York, to which 30-year-old Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad has pleaded guilty.", "\"This new breed of jihadists have only tenuous links to any major terrorist organisation and receive little training and few resources, increasing the difficulty for the police and intelligence services in tracking and intercepting them,\" the report said." ]	[ "Prison radicalization may produce as many as 800 new offenders, the report says .", "The report identifies a potential \"new wave\" of terrorism from individuals .", "It says the threat may also come from radicalized Muslims in prison ." ]	[ 1, 4 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- A coroner's investigator dismissed online speculation that the pneumonia deaths of actress Brittany Murphy and her husband, Simon Monjack, may both have been related to viral mold inside their Los Angeles home.", "\"There were no indicators that it was from mold,\" Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said Monday.", "Murphy, 32, and Monjack, 39, died five months apart in the same bedroom of the home they shared with the actress' mother, Sharon Murphy, in Hollywood Hills.", "The preliminary autopsy concluded that Monjack's death May 23 was caused by acute pneumonia and severe anemia, \"just like Brittany,\" Winter said last week.", "Murphy died December 20 from a combination of pneumonia, an iron deficiency and multiple drug intoxication, a coroner said.", "The drugs involved were legal and are used to treat respiratory infections, according to an autopsy.", "Winter said Monjack, his mother-in-law and their lawyer all talked to him about a possible mold problem in the home during the investigation into Brittany's death.", "Murphy, however, issued a statement Monday saying that she has \"never been personally asked by the Coroner or anyone from the Health Department to come and inspect my home for mold.\"", "Winter called that \"an absolute lie,\" but Murphy's publicist, Roger Neal, stood by the statement, calling it \"100 percent factual.\"", "The home apparently was tested by \"a well-respected company\" for dangerous mold just two months before Murphy's death, according to Neal.", "\"Simon Monjack received the report and assured Brittany and Sharon Murphy that there was no mold danger and it was safe to stay in the house,\" Neal said.", "Monjack, a British screenwriter, married Murphy in 2007.", "She was an often bubbly, free-spirited actress who appeared in films such as \"Clueless,\" \"8 Mile,\" \"Don't Say a Word\" and \"Girl, Interrupted.\"", "She also lent her voice to animated works, including the movie \"Happy Feet\" -- in which she also sang -- and a regular role on the animated TV series \"King of the Hill.\"" ]	[ "NEW: Inspection found no mold in home before Murphy's death .", "Coroner's office found \"no indicators\" of mold having a role in the two deaths .", "Murphy and Monjack died in the same room, five months apart .", "Autopsies found that pneumonia was the main factor in each death ." ]	[ 1, 2, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A worker was paid for 12 years without ever showing up for work at a Norfolk, Virginia, agency funded by federal, state and local money, officials say.", "Norfolk Mayor Paul Fraim told CNN on Friday that when a new director took over at Norfolk Community Services Board recently, she was \"doing her due diligence\" when she discovered the hooky-playing employee was on the books.", "The director, Maureen Womack, then notified the city attorney's office, Fraim said.", "Sandy Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Community Services Board, told CNN Friday that her agency couldn't comment because of the ongoing investigation.", "On behalf of the city attorney's office, Norfolk city spokeswoman Terry Bishirjian referred to a statement released on Wednesday that said, \"The city attorney's office, with the approval of Womack, took appropriate steps to prevent any further payments to the employee and the employee was terminated.\"", "It added, \"The city attorney has undertaken a detailed investigation of the circumstances and history of this matter to determine what further personnel actions should be taken, and the board of the NCSB passed unanimous motions supporting the executive director in any further employment actions she might take on the advice of counsel.", "After all necessary employment actions are taken, the city attorney will turn the matter over to Norfolk's Department of Police for further investigation.\"", "CNN affiliate WAVY said that the employee, a woman whose name was not released, \"earned\" somewhere between $300,000 and $480,000, not including full benefits, from the board over the past dozen years.", "The Norfolk board is partially funded by the Virginia state Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services.", "According to the department's website, it is one of 40 locally run community services boards that \"serve children and adults who have -- or who are at risk of -- mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, intellectual disabilities, or substance use disorders.\"", "The mayor said state law requires cities, towns and counties throughout Virginia to host the boards, but each city has little involvement beyond providing some of the funding for the offices.", "\"This is not a city employee.", "She does not work for the city, does not get a city check,\" Fraim said.", "He added that while the Norfolk City Council appoints members to the Community Services Board, the board hires its own director and is autonomous and independent.", "The city of Norfolk provides just under $4 million of the local board's budget a year, Fraim said.", "Meghan McGuire, a spokeswoman for the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, said the state pays $9.7 million annually and the federal government usually contributes $2.4 million, but this year added $190,000 in stimulus funds.", "Fraim expressed concerns about a lack of oversight at the agency.", "The Norfolk Community Services Board is a \"quasi-federal, state and local agency that operates independently,\" he said.", "\"No one really judges their performance, if you will.", "It's not a good model.\"", "McGuire said there is some state oversight.", "Each board is required to commission an independent annual audit, then send a copy of that audit to the state.", "A state auditor then looks for red flags and prioritizes the reports by risk level, she said.", "\"Recent audits of Norfolk showed low risk and no need for our department to conduct our own audit,\" McGuire said.", "\"We don't have an employee-employer relationship with them, but if we do find out about a situation or something that needs to be investigated ... we can investigate through our internal audit process.\"", "Norfolk City Councilman Barclay C. Winn commented on the situation Friday, saying, \"We could have and should have done more in this case, but I think when you get an audited financial statement at the end of the year and a clean opinion, it gives you some level of comfort.\"", "He added that government at all levels, including his, needs to be held accountable.", "\"I'm sure the mayor and city manager will get to the bottom of it, [but] the buck stops with the city council,\" Winn said.", "\"If it has the word 'Norfolk' in it, it stops with us.", "... That's OK. That's part of the job.\"", "McGuire said that while the state does not have authority over personnel issues, it does have authority over policy and procedure, and when the state makes recommendations for change in those areas, \"If they don't make changes, we can take some action.", "In the worst case, we can withhold some state funds.\"", "But that withholding of cash seems unlikely in this case.", "McGuire said that \"it appears CSB is working diligently to resolve this issue.\"", "George Pratt was the Norfolk board's executive director for 12 years, with a short gap between his and Womack's tenure.", "Even though his time in charge overlapped with the alleged shirker for about a decade, Pratt told CNN on Friday, \"I know nothing about it.", "I read it in the paper.\"", "Pratt added that no one had called him to ask about the situation and that \"whatever the investigation is, they have not informed me of any details.\"", "When McGuire was asked how a person who got paid for not working could have escaped detection for so long, she said she was unsure.", "\"We don't know at this point how something like this can happen.", "We're very concerned,\" she said.", "\"[We're] working on procedure to prevent this from happening again.\"", "Norfolk's newest city councilman, Tommy Smigiel, told CNN Friday that \"people want accountability.\"", "Smigiel said that when he recently met with a city auditor, he was told about a shelved proposal that predated him, calling for a hotline that Norfolk city workers -- and workers at Norfolk-affiliated agencies such as Community Services Board -- could call confidentially to report fraud or any other ethical issues.", "He said the city council has now \"technically endorsed\" the idea and is working on an ordinance to implement the plan, with the hope that such a fix \"probably would have caught something like this.\"" ]	[ "A woman who worked at a government-funded agency didn't show up for 12 years .", "She was paid at least $300,000 over that time span, Norfolk TV station WAVY says .", "The Community Services Board is a mental health agency with 40 Virginia locations .", "Recent audits of the Norfolk office had shown no problems, says a linked state agency ." ]	[ 0, 3, 8, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Former Alaska Gov.", "Sarah Palin responded angrily on her Facebook page Friday to a verbal attack by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka where he called her a \"crazy magnet.\"", "\"I'm not sure why he's attacking my record when I'm not the one responsible for the policies resulting in continued mass unemployment and a weak economy,\" Palin shot back.", "\"Among my 'crimes,' the union boss cited the fact that I sometimes write notes on my hand (guilty as charged!", "); that I appear on cable television every once in a while to comment on the news (it's called the First Amendment, Rich); and that my common sense conservatism makes him laugh.\"", "Trumka released the text of the speech before he gave it on Thursday at his organization's convention in Alaska.", "In it he complains that every time Democrats have proposed jobs legislation they have been blocked by \"the most politically motivated Republican minority we have ever seen -- and I really do mean ever... Then he asks, \"What is this crazy magnet that's pulling people to the right?", "I mean, look at your former governor...\" \"After she tied herself to John McCain and they lost, she blew off Alaska,\" he said.", "\"I guess she figured she'd trade up -- shoot for a national stage.", "Alaska was too far from the FOX TV spotlight.", "I bet most of you, on a clear day, can see her hypocrisy from your house.\"", "Palin provided her own assessment of Trumka on her Facebook response.", "\"Trumka's attempts to put himself on the side of the working man and woman would be more convincing if he weren't a career union boss who's spent most of his life in DC,\" the statement on Palin's Facebook page said.", "\"No surprise then that his priorities aren't the priorities of the average working man or woman, but of the Beltway power player.\"", "CNN's Jeff Simon contributed to this report." ]	[ "Palin responds on her Facebook page .", "Union boss called her a \"crazy magnet\"\nPalin questions whether union boss is helping the average worker ." ]	[ 1, 11 ]
[ "(EW.com) -- Sandra Bullock will talk to Matt Lauer on Tuesday morning's Today Show.", "Lauer will visit the actress in New Orleans, where she has been living with her son, Louis.", "Bullock's giving the interview for the best of reasons: to help to publicize New Orlean's Warren Easton Charter High School.", "She and a school board member will talk about a new on-campus health clinic, which Bullock helped fund.", "See the full article at EW.com .", "CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .", "© 2010 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "Sandra Bullock will talk to Matt Lauer on Tuesday morning's Today Show .", "Lauer will visit the actress in New Orleans .", "Bullock's giving the interview to help to publicize Warren Easton Charter High School ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The mother of a 4-year-old girl snatched from the front yard of her small-town Missouri home tried to chase after her daughter's abductor, a neighbor said Tuesday.", "Alisa Maier was kidnapped Monday evening in Louisiana, Missouri, while she was playing with her brother, police there said.", "Appearing at a news conference Tuesday morning, grandfather Roy Harrison told reporters, \"I want this baby back.\"", "\"Please, anybody, if you know anything, call this guy back here,\" he said, pointing to Louisiana Police Chief Richard Hughes.", "\"Call the FBI. Call whoever you need to call.\"", "Anita McKlevis, who lives across the street from the family, said Alisa's mother was \"just beside herself\" and tried to pursue the man who abducted the girl.", "\"She jumped up and went across the street, got into her van and took off,\" McKlevis told HLN's \"Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell.\"", "She said the children were regularly supervised by parents or grandparents while playing outside: \"I never seen this little girl without her parents,\" McKlevis added.", "Louisiana is about 80 miles north of St. Louis.", "Michael Kaste, an agent from the FBI's St. Louis office, said between 75 and 100 law enforcement officers -- including about 30 FBI agents -- and about 50 volunteers were taking part in the search.", "Investigators are also questioning known sex offenders about the girl's abduction, he said.", "\"We're going to interview anybody we think could be involved in this,\" Kaste said.", "Alisa was wearing a white T-shirt and denim shorts when she was taken.", "Hughes said investigators in Louisiana, about 80 miles north of St. Louis, have no indication that her kidnapping was anything other than a random abduction.", "Police are examining surveillance video from local businesses in hopes of finding some sign of the abductor, a man of indeterminate age who drove off in a dark-colored sedan with front-end damage, Hughes said.", "The town of about 4,000 is located just across the Mississippi River from Illinois, where state and county authorities are also involved in the search, he said.", "\"Ultimately, our goal is to bring her back here to her family,\" Hughes said.", "Harrison called her \"a really good girl, always smiling, happy-go-lucky.", "We really appreciate everybody getting together to try to help us find her.\"" ]	[ "Alisa Maier was taken while in her front yard, playing with her brother .", "Grandfather: \"I want this baby back\"\nNeighbor says mom tried to pursue abductor .", "Search area extends into neighboring parts of Illinois ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Police in Collierville, Tennessee, are investigating the disappearance of a former professional basketball player and say \"there is a high level of concern\" in the search to find him.", "Lorenzen Wright, 34, who played 13 seasons in the NBA, has not been seen or heard from since July 18 when he visited his ex-wife and their children in Collierville, near Memphis, investigators said.", "Collierville police spokesman Mark Heuberger told CNN that Wright's mother reported him missing on July 22.", "\"We're taking it very, very seriously,\" Heuberger said, \"and there is a high level of concern.\"", "\"His mom made the report because she felt it was unusual that he did not contact his children for an extended period of time, that's what made her prompt to contact the police,\" he added.", "\"This is not like him,\" Wright's sister, Savia Archie, told CNN Tuesday.", "\"I haven't talked to my brother in nine days.", "He doesn't go without talking to family.", "\"I'm trying to keep my faith in the world and that he's not in trouble and hopefully he will come home.", "He's my big brother.", "Without him, there's no me.\" Heuberger cautioned that there is no indication that Wright was the victim of a crime.", "\"A red flag has not come up yet, at least (as) of today, that suggests any harm has come to him,\" Heuberger said Tuesday .", "\"Our detectives have talked to a lot of people -- former coaches, players, sports agents -- and continue to follow leads given by the public,\" Heuberger said, \"and we're working very close to the family.\"", "Archie, Wright's sister, described her brother as a loving son, father and uncle.", "\"My sister had a baby shower last Sunday and he was supposed to come,\" she said.", "\"Something had to have happened.\"", "The 6-foot-11-inch Wright, who lives in Atlanta, was a forward/center for several teams during his professional basketball career.", "He played with the Los Angeles Clippers, Atlanta Hawks, Memphis Grizzlies and Sacramento Kings.", "He was with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2008-2009, his last year in the NBA.", "Wright, who has six children, completed his degree at the University of Memphis in 2003, according to the official NBA website.", "Police are asking anyone with information on his whereabouts to call 901-853-3207." ]	[ "Lorenzen Wright played 13 seasons in the NBA .", "He was last seen July 18, in Collierville, Tennesse .", "Police say there is no \"red flag\" in the case but \"there is a high level of concern\"" ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Goma, Democratic Republic Of The Congo (CNN) -- The Rwandan military and an allied rebel group massacred ethnic Hutus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda, says a leaked draft report commissioned by the United Nations.", "The report states that it is not making a definitive conclusion on whether the slayings in Congo amounted to genocide, and that a competent judiciary would have to try the cases.", "Commissioned by the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, the report says \"tens of thousands\" of Hutu civilians were slaughtered with knives, bludgeoned with hammers and burned alive as the Rwandan army and the Allied Democratic Liberation Forces swept across Congo -- then called Zaire -- leading to the toppling of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.", "The report, titled \"Mapping Exercise,\" documents crimes against humanity throughout the Congo between 1993 and 2003.", "The Rwandan government blasted the report as \"malicious, offensive and ridiculous.\"", "\"It is immoral and unacceptable that the United Nations, an organization that failed outright to prevent genocide in Rwanda and the subsequent refugees crisis [and] is the direct cause for so much suffering in Congo and Rwanda, now accuses the army that stopped the genocide ... in the Democratic Republic of Congo,\" government spokesman Ben Rutsinga said in a statement.", "The final version of the report will be officially published Monday.", "Its most controversial parts are accusations against the Rwandan government of \"systematic attacks, in particular, killings and massacres perpetrated against members of the Hutu ethnic group.\"", "\"There is no denying that ethnic massacres were committed and that the victims were mostly Hutus from Burundi, Rwanda and Zaire,\" the report states.", "\"The joint mission's preliminary opinion is that some of these alleged massacres could constitute acts of genocide.\"", "It adds, \"The majority of the victims were children, women, elderly people and the sick, who posed no threat to the attacking forces.\"", "The Rwandan government said the report's \"extremely serious allegations\" are \"based on questionable methodology, sourcing and shockingly low standard of proof.\"", "\"Given the gravity of its mission, the Mapping Team's failure to consult with Rwanda even though they found time to meet with over 200 [non-governmental] representatives is shocking and shows complete disregard for fundamental fairness,\" Rutsinga said.", "More than 1 million Rwandans fled to neighboring eastern Congo when the Rwandan genocide ended in 1994 -- most of them Hutu.", "In 1996, Rwanda invaded Congo in pursuit of the genocide orchestrators, who were living amid hundreds of thousands of other refugees.", "The stated goal of Rwanda during that time was to end the refugee crisis in eastern Congo.", "But the United Nations report says that the Rwandan military did not discriminate between fugitives and refugees, nor did it discriminate by age or gender.", "\"The majority of the incidents reported indicate that the Hutus were targeted as such, with no discrimination between them,\" the report says.", "\"The numerous attacks against the Hutus in Zaire, who were not part of the refugees, seem to confirm that it was all Hutus, as such.\"", "The report says people who convinced soldiers that they were Tutsi were let go, while the Hutus were massacred.", "\"People who were able to persuade the aggressors that they belonged to another ethnic group were released just before the massacres,\" the report says.", "The report says tens of thousands of Hutus were massacred in particular areas with an intent to commit genocide.", "\"Even if only a part of the Hutu population in Zaire was targeted and destroyed, it could nonetheless constitute a crime of genocide, if this was the intention of the perpetrators,\" the report says.", "Although independent researchers have documented the crimes against humanity committed by the Rwandan government, the United Nations report is the most official and forthcoming accusation made so far.", "Rwanda indicated that it could withdraw from U.N. peacekeeping operations if the report is published.", "The country is a major contributor to the peacekeeping force in Darfur, and has sent troops to Haiti.", "The report is publicly humiliating for recently re-elected President Paul Kagame, who earned praise for helping heal Rwanda after the genocide.", "In recent years, the nation has developed dramatically, with a reputation as one of the safest, cleanest, least-corrupt and most organized countries in Africa.", "The fallout of the scathing report is unclear, but it is sure to have an impact.", "Rwanda's reconciliation policy is governed by anti-genocide laws that human rights organizations have called intentionally vague.", "The laws make it virtually impossible to accuse the Rwandan government of human rights violations, crimes against humanity or war crimes.", "Accusing Rwanda of crimes against humanity committed in the Congo would break those laws.", "In April, presidential aspirant Victoire Ingabire was arrested in Kigali for saying that Hutus were killed by the Rwandan government, both in Rwanda and in neighboring Congo.", "Ingabire was charged with 'genocide ideology' for those comments, and could face up to 25 years in prison.", "Her American lawyer was arrested on similar charges, but was later released.", "Col. Patrick Karegeya, who was a senior member of the Rwandan army and a key actor in the wars in the Congo before fleeing to South Africa in 2008, said Rwanda never set out to commit genocide against the Hutu, but war crimes were committed.", "\"Civilians died, politicians died,\" Karegeya said earlier this month before Rwanda's presidential election.", "\"They died in the Congo, they died in other places.\"" ]	[ "NEW: Rwanda slams the report as unfair and immoral .", "It says Hutu civilians were slashed, bludgeoned and burned alive .", "The majority of the victims were children, women and elderly people, it says ." ]	[ 2, 10 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- A man \"holding 2 big knifes\" was captured by police after trying to break into Paris Hilton's Los Angeles, California, home Tuesday morning, Hilton said in a Twitter posting.", "Police responded to a 911 call that someone was breaking into Hilton's Sherman Oaks home at 6:42 a.m., Los Angeles Police spokesman Gregory Beak said.", "Hilton was sleeping early Tuesday when a man with two kitchen knives attempted to enter her home, her publicist said.", "\"The security cameras and alarm system were alerted and the police immediately came to the house and arrested the intruder who was attempting to break a window when they arrived,\" Dawn Miller said.", "The police spokesman and Hilton's publicist said no one was injured.", "\"Paris is naturally shaken by the events but is unharmed and well,\" Miller said.", "\"She is very thankful to her security team and the police for their swift and diligent response.\"", "Hilton alerted fans in a message posted on her Twitter account: .", "\"So Scary, just got woken up to a guy trying to break into my house holding 2 big knifes.", "Cops are here arresting him.\"", "A man taken into custody near the home was \"awaiting charges\" Tuesday morning, Baek said.", "No one was injured, he said.", "CNN's Jack Hannah contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Man was trying to break window when police arrived, Hilton's publicist says .", "Hilton tweeted: \"So Scary\"\nLAPD officers quickly arrested a suspect .", "The suspect is \"awaiting charges,\" police say ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Since the time of Nicolaus Copernicus five centuries ago, people have wondered whether there are other planets like Earth in the universe.", "Today scientists are closer than ever to an answer -- and it appears to be that the Milky Way galaxy is rich in Earth-sized planets, according to astronomer Dimitar Sasselov.", "Drawing on new findings from a NASA telescope, he told the TED Global conference in Oxford, England earlier this month that nearly 150 Earth-sized planets have been detected so far.", "He estimated that the overall number of planets in the galaxy with \"similar conditions to the conditions that we experience here on Earth is pretty staggering.", "It's about 100 million such planets.\"", "A Bulgarian-born scientist with Ph.D.s in astronomy and physics, Sasselov is a professor of astronomy and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative, which brings together scientists from many disciplines to explore how life began.", "He titled his talk at the Oxford conference: \"On Completing the Copernican Revolution.\"", "Until technology was developed to detect planets outside the solar system 15 years ago, scientists were only able to speculate about the existence of Earth-like planets.", "The new technology paid off in the discovery of some 500 planets.", "The disappointing fact though was that very few of the newly identified planets were the size of Earth.", "\"There was of course an explanation for it.", "We only see the big planets.", "So that's why most of those planets are really in the category of 'like Jupiter,' \" he said.", "Read more about Dimitar Sasselov on TED.com .", "There was no indication that these large planets were suitable for life to begin.", "\"We were still back where Copernicus was.", "We didn't have any evidence whether planets like the Earth are out there,\" Sasselov said.", "\"And we do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.", "And we didn't have the evidence for that.\" In March 2009, NASA launched Kepler, a telescope-carrying satellite that can detect the dimming of light caused by a planet orbiting around a star.", "\"All the stars for Kepler are just points of light,\" Sasselov said.", "\"But we learn a lot from that, not only that there is a planet there, but we also learn its size.", "How much of the light is being dimmed depends on how big the planet is.", "We learn about its orbit, the period of its orbit and so on.\"", "The discovery of many potential planets means \"we can go and study them -- remotely, of course -- with all the techniques that we already have tested in the past five years.", "We can find what they're made of, would their atmospheres have water, carbon dioxide, methane.\"", "At the same time, Sasselov believes, scientists can make progress in the laboratory on better understanding how chemicals can produce life.", "\"And in one of our labs, Jack Szostak's labs, it was a series of experiments in the last four years that showed that the environments -- which are very common on planets, on certain types of planets like the Earth -- where you have some liquid water and some clays, you actually end up with naturally available molecules which spontaneously form bubbles.", "But those bubbles have membranes very similar to the membrane of every cell of every living thing on Earth.", ".... And they really help molecules, like nucleic acids, like RNA and DNA, stay inside, develop, change, divide and do some of the processes that we call life.\"", "Copernicus is famous for the then-revolutionary idea that the Earth orbits the sun rather than that the universe is centered around Earth.", "But Sasselov pointed out that with the Copernican revolution came a humbling sense of mankind's insignificance in the universe.", "\"You've all learned that in school -- how small the Earth is compared to the immense universe.", "And the bigger the telescope, the bigger that universe becomes. ...", "So in space, the Earth is very small.", "To demonstrate the minuteness of life on Earth, Sasselov took off his tie.", "\"Can you imagine how small it is?", "Let me try it. OK, let's say this is the size of the observable universe, with all the galaxies, with all the stars.", "Do you know what the size of life in this necktie will be?", "\"It will be the size of a single, small atom.", "It is unimaginably small. ...", "But that's not the whole story, you see.\"", "The other dimension of life on Earth is time -- and life has existed for a good portion, nearly a third, of the time the universe is believed to have existed, Sasselov said.", "\"This is not insignificant. This is very significant. So life might be insignificant in size, but it is not insignificant in time.", "Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.", "\"So what does this tell us? This tells us that that insignificance paradigm that we somehow got to learn from the Copernican principle, it's all wrong.", "There is immense, powerful, potential in life in this universe -- especially now that we know that places like the Earth are common.", "And that potential, that powerful potential, is also our potential, of you and me.", "\"And if we are to be stewards of our planet Earth and its biosphere, we better understand the cosmic significance and do something about it.", "And the good news is we can actually indeed do it. \"" ]	[ "Dimitar Sasselov: Earth-sized planets are plentiful in the galaxy .", "He says planets of such size are suited for the chemical processes that can produce life .", "Sasselov says biologists are finding clues to origin of life in laboratories .", "He says Earth life is notably old, representing nearly a third of age of universe ." ]	[ 1, 9, 41 ]
[ "(CNN) -- In less than a month, Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Florida plans to host \"Burn a Quran Day\" to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.", "The pastor, author of the book \"Islam is of the Devil,\" is using the burning to urge American Christians to \"stand up\" to what he describes as a monolithic Muslim threat.", "A Facebook page for the event has accrued thousands of \"likes\" and Jones has said people have been mailing him Qurans to burn.", "As a Muslim scholar, an adherent of one of the Abrahamic faiths -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- and as someone committed to interfaith understanding, I urge Jones to cancel this event.", "Not only are the actions of Jones contrary to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, but they are also against the ideals of the American Founding Fathers.", "The planned burning has already caused alarm in the Muslim world, with the pre-eminent Sunni university, Al-Azhar in Cairo, Egypt, condemning it as \"stirring up hate and discrimination.\"", "At a recent dinner in Washington, a host for one of Pakistan's top TV channels confided in me that he \"didn't dare\" report the story because if he did, \"not a single American would be safe in Pakistan.\"", "He and the cameraman were quivering with anger as they asked me to explain why Americans hated Islam.", "I tried my best to explain this was not the case, but Jones' burning will have great symbolic significance to a Muslim world already feeling under attack by the United States.", "It will cause undue harm to U.S. relations with the Muslim world and particularly the war effort.", "Gen. David Petraeus, the head of American forces in Afghanistan, has repeatedly expressed the need for winning the \"hearts and minds\" of local people by treating them with dignity and respect.", "When Afghans see that their holy book is being burned, it will cause riots and attacks that will put U.S. troops further at risk.", "There will be similar riots and attacks in neighboring Pakistan and Iran.", "It will inflame the entire Muslim world and fuel acts of terrorism.", "It could also inflame anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, especially in the context of the anger over the proposed Islamic center near ground zero in Lower Manhattan.", "Many American Muslims will feel as if they are second-class citizens and it could push some angry young men toward violence.", "On my recent fieldwork trip to 100 mosques in 75 American cities with a team of American researchers for the book \"Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam,\" we documented that many mosques had been attacked, sometimes bombed.", "In May, not far from Jones' church in Gainesville, a pipe bomb exploded in a mosque in Jacksonville.", "As objectionable as the prospect of Jones' Quran burning is, it may not cease with the holy book of the Muslims.", "I have always maintained that this kind of vitriolic hatred of one religion is a descent on a slippery slope, as no one can say who will be next.", "I was not surprised, therefore, when I heard Jones recently agree, when asked to do so in an internet podcast interview, to burn \"a couple of copies of the Talmud\" too.", "Not only does the burning of holy texts reflect the darkest days of medieval Europe and Nazi Germany, but it is hard to think of anything more un-American, by the definition of the Founding Fathers themselves.", "George Washington welcomed the Jews to America as the \"stock of Abraham\" while John Adams showed the utmost respect for Islam, naming the Prophet Mohammed as one of the greatest truth seekers in history.", "Benjamin Franklin called him a model of compassion.", "The Founding Fathers read and honored the same Quran that Jones is now seeking to burn.", "Thomas Jefferson kept the same Quran in his personal collection and it informed his decision to host the first presidential iftaar during Ramadan.", "The Founding Fathers were also inspired by Christian thinkers like John Locke, who declared that the true Christian's duty was to \"practice charity, meekness, and good-will in general toward all mankind, even to those that are not Christians.\"", "I consulted many distinguished Abrahamic friends for this article, all concerned with the drift toward intolerance exemplified by Jones' threat, who were happy to endorse this article's content and language.", "They include the Episcopal bishop of Washington, the Right Rev.", "John Chane; Senior Rabbi Bruce Lustig of the Washington Hebrew Congregation; Imam Mohamed Magid, executive director of the ADAMS Center in Northern Virginia; Pastor Dr. Robert Norris of Palm Beach, Florida's, Royal Poinciana Chapel and member of the Presbytery of Tropical Florida; the Rev.", "Carol Flett of the Washington National Cathedral, the Rev.", "Dr. Clark Lobenstine of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington; Sister Maureen Fiedler, Sister of Loretto and host of Interfaith Voices, and too many others to name.", "At the core of the Abrahamic faiths, these esteemed figures represent the need to show compassion and understanding of others.", "By threatening to burn the holy books of two of these faiths, the Quran and the Talmud, Jones is violating the basic tenants of all the Abrahamic faiths and doing something that is unacceptable by any standard of religion.", "As an adherent of one of these faiths, Islam, and one who respects the other faiths, I implore Jones as a Christian and an American to cancel his burning event, follow the true teachings of Jesus by loving his neighbor, and engage in respectful dialogue instead.", "The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Akbar Ahmed." ]	[ "Akbar Ahmed: Pastor Jones of Dove World Outreach Center plans \"Burn a Quran Day\"\nAhmed says 9/11 event will inflame Muslim world, put Americans at risk .", "Plan recalls Dark Ages and Nazi Germany, is un-American, he says, violates Christianity .", "Founding Fathers read and honored the Quran, Ahmed writes ." ]	[ 0, 13, 24 ]
[ "New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- A towing vessel struck an oil well in the Barataria Waterway off the southeastern Louisiana coast on Tuesday, causing the well to emit oil and natural gas into Barataria Bay, the Coast Guard said in a news release.", "Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, said there was a sheen around the platform, and vapor that's probably a combination of gas and water was emanating from the well, called C-117.", "Kyle Plotkin, a spokesman for Gov.", "Bobby Jindal, described the well as \"orphaned.\"", "He said it had been owned by Cedyco Corp. of Houston but was declared abandoned by the state in November 2008.", "Plotkin said the state does not own the well and added that the designation does not absolve Cedyco of responsibility for the well.", "The tug vessel Pere Ana C was pushing the dredge barge Captain Buford Berry when it hit the wellhead, the Coast Guard said.", "Jindal and Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft, the federal on-scene coordinator for the Gulf spill, and other officials surveyed the damage by helicopter, according to a statement from the governor's office.", "\"The Coast Guard's overflight this morning confirmed the pipeline/well-head is discharging a mist of orange and brown oil about 100 feet in air,\" Jindal said.", "\"This is the same thing we viewed on our flight to the well today.", "The Coast Guard does not have a specific flow rate for the well determined yet, although there have been early reports that there is natural gas and mud mixed in with oil coming from the well.\"", "Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts said that while oil was gushing from the well in 6 feet of water, it was too dangerous to get close enough to estimate how much oil was leaking out.", "However, Roberts said he doesn't \"expect it is going to be a huge problem to contain it or cap\" the leak, because \"it isn't uncommon.\"", "\"Until we know the condition of it, the quickness of plugging the well is uncertain,\" said Capt.", "Ed Cubanski, chief of incident management for the Coast Guard's Eighth District in New Orleans.", "The Coast Guard has tapped the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which the federal government makes available for natural resource damage assessments.", "Environmental Safety and Health personnel were on the scene to clean up, as well as the Coast Guard Gulf Strike Team from Mobile, Alabama.", "Allen said response crews were able to take advantage of the \"significant resources\" -- vessels of opportunity, skimming equipment and boom -- already in the area to work on the Gulf oil spill.", "He said C-117 was surrounded by boom.", "\"The Coast Guard is also beginning oil spill response actions at the site -- deploying hard and sorbent boom both north and south of the oil release,\" Jindal said.", "\"Air assets have also been deployed to ensure response personnel are not working in a flammable atmosphere.", "Once the leak source is secured, the Coast Guard will ramp up their skimming operations to collect free-floating oil.", "\"We know this well is close to important marshes in the Barataria Bay area, so it is important that this well is cut off quickly and the oil is contained and removed,\" he said.", "A safety zone has been established 2 miles around the site to protect vessels and mariners from the hazards associated with the release, the Coast Guard said.", "The Coast Guard is investigating the incident, which happened about 1 a.m. Tuesday.", "CNN's Vivian Kuo, Erin Lowry, MaryLynn Ryan and Tristan Smith contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Spokesman for Louisiana governor says the well was abandoned, declared \"orphaned\"\nA tug struck an oil well while dragging a barge in Barataria Waterway .", "The incident caused the well to release oil and natural gas .", "Response crews are taking advantage of \"significant resources\" already in the area ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A judge dismissed charges against polygamist leader Warren Jeffs on Wednesday after the Mohave County, Arizona, prosecutor requested they be thrown out, citing \"much more serious charges\" against Jeffs in Texas and the desire of his alleged victims that he \"face these more serious charges as soon as possible.\"", "Jeffs, the leader and \"prophet\" of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had been awaiting trial in Arizona on four charges of being an accomplice to sexual conduct with a minor.", "He was indicted in Texas in 2008 on a felony charge of sexual assault of a child.", "The indictment accuses Jeffs of assaulting a child \"younger than 17 years of age and not legally married to the defendant\" in January 2005.", "The FLDS first became known to many when Jeffs was arrested during a routine traffic stop in August 2006.", "At the time, Jeffs was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.", "The FLDS is a 10,000-member offshoot of the mainstream Mormon church.", "Its members openly practice polygamy at the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, and in two towns straddling the Utah-Arizona state line: Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona.", "Critics of the sect say young girls are forced into \"spiritual\" marriages with older men and are sexually abused.", "Sect members have denied that any sexual abuse takes place.", "Before being moved to Arizona, Jeffs was convicted in Utah in 2007 on two counts of being an accomplice to rape.", "He was accused of using his religious influence over his followers to coerce a 14-year-old girl into marrying her 19-year-old cousin.", "He was sentenced to two consecutive prison terms of five years to life.", "If convicted on the Texas charges, Jeffs could face a maximum penalty of five to 99 years or life in prison and a fine of $10,000." ]	[ "Polygamist leader's alleged victims want him to face \"more serious charges\" in Texas .", "Jeffs faces a felony charge of sexual assault of a child in Texas .", "He is leader of FLDS, a Mormon church offshoot that openly practices polygamy .", "He was convicted of being an accomplice to rape in Utah in 2007 ." ]	[ 2, 6, 10 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Military officials from NATO and its 28 member states descended on Washington last week for a series of discussions about rethinking how the alliance should transform itself in an era when its scope has expanded beyond traditional Cold War boundaries.", "The seminar was hosted by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who is chairing a group of experts appointed by the NATO secretary-general to recommend a new \"Strategic Concept\" for the alliance, governing how it perceives and responds to threats.", "The group heard from some pretty heavy hitters: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, all of whom aptly acknowledged the alliance is facing a new strategic landscape with new enemies, ideologies and battle tactics that threaten its collective security.", "Transnational terrorism.", "Proliferation. Cybersecurity. Climate change.", "None of these threats were on the table 61 years ago when the NATO Charter was founded.", "\"Security\" no longer means merely fighting the enemy on a European battlefield.", "Today it also means fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, battling pirates off the coast of Somalia, and combating cybersoldiers seeking to wreak havoc on world economies.", "Afghanistan is the largest example of NATO undertaking such an \"out of area\" mission, an operation beyond the borders of its member states.", "Here the track record is mixed: Although NATO did assume control of the International Security Assistance Force in 2003, the U.S. has continued to complain that some European members are not pulling their weight by providing enough military support for the mission.", "The recent fall of the Dutch government over its NATO troop commitments shows what a tough sell this is.", "Many Europeans are war-weary after suffering casualties and in some cases are more concerned about homegrown terrorism than about the war in Afghanistan.", "The U.S. has argued that a failure by NATO to provide enough troops for the mission in Afghanistan would call into question the alliance's ability to tackle post-Cold War security challenges.", "Yet this soul-searching comes in a time of financial and budget constraints for all member countries.", "And the widening of NATO's scope to respond to challenges like terrorism, nuclear proliferation, piracy and cyberwarfare requires new capabilities, which means even more resources.", "Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has forged new partnerships which can help it share this new burden.", "In addition to the 50-nation Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council and the Partnership for Peace, where the alliance cooperates with countries in its own neighborhood, NATO is developing relationships with countries in the Mediterranean and broader Middle East.", "And it is also strengthening ties with countries in Asia, like Japan and South Korea.", "The rise of India and China also has NATO thinking about partnerships with those countries.", "NATO's growing, though often uneasy, relationship with Russia could benefit its widening worldview.", "Although the original tenets of NATO's mission -- defending member nations, strengthening trans-Atlantic ties, and fostering European integration -- still apply, Clinton said, shared threats such as terrorism and proliferation could foster even greater cooperation with Russia.", "As NATO seeks to combat threats beyond its borders, the hope is that Russian concerns about a missile defense shield could be eased within this new framework of \"shared security\" against countries like Iran and North Korea.", "This re-examination will call into question the invoking of Article 5 of the NATO Charter, which states that an attack on one member is an attack on all members.", "The alliance invoked it for the first and only time after 9/11 -- declaring the attacks on New York and Washington an attack against the entire alliance -- and all NATO countries contributed in some way to the initial U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.", "And as the alliance redefines the nature of security, it is also redefining the nature of an attack.", "A few years ago Estonia, a NATO ally, suffered a sustained cyberattack that shut down many of the country's essential services.", "NATO was called upon to help, and now has a cyberteam that can deploy to support any NATO ally engaged in cyberwarfare.", "But despite the importance -- and even the necessity -- of NATO's \"Strategic Concept,\" its immediate future will be determined by the outcome of the war in Afghanistan.", "Failure could cause NATO members to be skittish about these new \"out-of-area\" missions, which will more and more mean confronting the enemy on its own turf." ]	[ "NATO officials rethink the alliance's role in a world of terrorists and cyberwarfare .", "Founded 61 years ago, NATO dealt with Cold War era threats for most of those years .", "Afghanistan war is NATO's largest \"out of area\" mission to date .", "NATO could benefit from its growing, but still uneasy, relationship with Russia ." ]	[ 5, 8, 12, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The identities of two women involved in a horrific car crash in Arizona last week were mixed up, with one family receiving news that their daughter had died when in fact she was undergoing treatment for her injuries while another family kept watch at her side for six days.", "Officials with St. Joseph's Medical Center and the Arizona Department of Public Safety apologized for the mistake Monday, saying they were \"acting on the best information\" available at the time of notification.", "Marlena Cantu, 21, was killed in the crash July 18 when the SUV in which she was riding blew a tire and rolled several times.", "Four others were in the vehicle: a male driver and male occupant, and two other female occupants -- one of whom was 19-year-old Abby Guerra, described by friends and family as Cantu's best friend.", "The five young people were driving back to Phoenix from a trip to Disneyland in California.", "\"As doctors struggled to save this patient's life, we could not readily tell the patient's identification,\" Suzanne Pfister, vice president for external affairs at St. Joseph's, told a news conference Monday.", "\"We interviewed family members that evening and asked for any discernible information that could help us make that positive identification,\" such as bone breaks, scars or other marks.", "\"From the information that was provided us on that evening, we believed the patient was Marlena Cantu,\" Pfister said.", "\"DPS communicated that information to the family.\"", "Guerra's family, meanwhile, was told she was dead.", "Pfister said the mix-up was revealed Saturday when the medical examiner compared dental records and determined the patient -- whom the Cantu family had been praying for at her bedside as she underwent multiple surgeries -- to be Guerra.", "\"We know this is an extraordinarily challenging situation and our hearts and our prayers go out to both families,\" Pfister said.", "Sgt. Kevin Wood, a spokesman for DPS, described a \"chaotic situation\" in the emergency room the night of the wreck as the hospital received all four trauma patients from the collision scene.", "At least one person had been ejected from the SUV.", "\"(Authorities) tried for quite some time -- something close to five hours -- to figure out who this one female patient was,\" Wood said, emphasizing it was not a determination that was made within a matter of minutes.", "Pfister said the injuries to Guerra were so severe that she was unrecognizable to family and friends.", "She said the hospital, which treats about 3,000 trauma patients a year, does not conduct fingerprinting or take dental impressions in an emergency situation \"because the overwhelming emphasis is on saving the patient's life.\"", "Nancy Colon, a friend of the Cantus, told HLN's \"Prime News\" Monday night that the family is \"heartbroken.\"", "Colon said the family was taken into a room at the hospital on Saturday and told that the dental records taken from the female victim at the morgue did not match Guerra's.", "They were then questioned about the number of Marlena Cantu's ear piercings, her molars and past surgeries.", "Cantu had her appendix removed in elementary school, Colon said the hospital officials were told.", "\"They checked the girl in the ICU and she didn't have a scar,\" she said.", "The family was then told, \"I'm sorry, but that's not your daughter,\" according to Colon.", "Pfister declined to provide information about Guerra's condition Monday, citing the family's request.", "\"Our focus is on healing Abby,\" she said.", "The tragic mix-up is similar to another incident in 2006.", "The family of 22-year-old Laura VanRyn spent five weeks at the bedside of a woman they believed to be her daughter as she struggled to recover from injuries sustained in a car wreck that killed five others.", "When she awoke from a coma and was asked her name, she replied, \"Whitney Cerak,\" an 18-year-old who was believed to have been among those killed in the wreck.", "The two women had blond hair and similar body types." ]	[ "The identities of two women in a deadly car wreck were mixed up .", "19-year-old Abby Guerra's family was told she was dead .", "Family of Marlena Cantu kept watch at what they thought was their daughter's bedside .", "Hospital and public safety officials apologized for the mix-up Monday ." ]	[ 0, 3, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- In South Korea, the launch of \"StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty\" is more than just a follow-up to one of the PC industry's top-selling games -- it could shake up what many see as the North Asian country's national sport.", "In high-tech South Korea -- which has one of the highest broadband penetration rates in the world -- the StarCraft video game series has spawned devotion more akin to professional sports teams.", "Indeed, video game players there can get lucractive contracts from professional teams with corporate sponsorships.", "Games of large tournaments are broadcast live on television in South Korea.", "\"In Korea, a lot of factors came together to make it a big thing,\" professional gamer Greg Fields told CNN's Kristie Lu Stout.", "The first StarCraft game, produced by Blizzard Entertainment in Irvine, California, came out in 1998 when the South Korean economy was melting down during the Asian Financial Crisis.", "\"It was in the middle of an economic recession and (StarCraft) was easy, cheap entertainment.", "It really took over and just captivated a nation,\" said Fields, a 20-year-old New Jersey native recruited two years ago to play StarCraft for the South Korean team CJ Entus.", "In a nod to the game's popularity in South Korea, Blizzard first announced plans for StarCraft II at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Seoul in May 2007.", "About 90 percent of South Korean households are connected to high-speed broadband and the nation has some 25,000 internet cafes, which took in $600 million last year, according to government figures.", "The gaming market is expected to be worth $5.5 billion this year with a 17 percent growth rate, according to the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA).", "StarCraft II was first released Tuesday in South Korea and other Asian nations.", "The original game sold about 11 million copies worldwide .", "While gamers in South Korea are lining up to get copies of the new title, StarCraft II could be a game changer in the country's professional circuit, Fields said.", "\"In StarCraft II, the leagues aren't established yet, they're all building up -- it's going to be huge, but we don't know how long it will take, how huge it will be, whether (existing teams) will be good at the game or not,\" Fields said.", "CNN's Kristie Lu Stout contributed to this report ." ]	[ "In South Korea, StarCraft is considered by many as a national sport .", "Professional players are recruited around the world for Korean teams .", "StarCraft II could be a game changer for existing South Korean teams ." ]	[ 0, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The blowout is stopped.", "The oil disaster that began with an explosion 100 days ago has not ended by any means.", "But we seem to be seeing a murky ending to the beginning of the crisis.", "We have an enormous amount of floating oil, and Gulf waters polluted by oil and dispersant.", "Most estimates range from 2 million to 4 million barrels (84 million to 168 million gallons).", "The higher end would make it the largest unintended release of oil ever.", "(In 1991, Saddam Hussein's army intentionally released about 400 to 500 million gallons into the Persian Gulf to slow American troops.)", "Added to the Gulf of Mexico's troubles: about 2 million gallons of dispersant, a major intentional pollution event in itself.", "What now? As a naturalist, I'd say the wildlife effects remain hard to grasp.", "The damage to people is most easily observable, best quantified and perhaps even most acute.", "Regionally there's been further damage to Louisiana marshes already assaulted by decades of channel-cutting, shipping, water direction, erosion and sinkage.", "For resident wildlife, undersea oil and dispersant endangers countless sea creatures -- from plankton to whale sharks to dolphins and whales -- including reefs and the eggs and larvae of corals, fishes, crabs and oysters.", "Watch a talk by Carl Safina at TED.com .", "Of hemispheric importance are creatures that range widely but funnel through the Gulf to migrate or to breed.", "Two of the most important breeders are the world's most endangered sea turtle -- the Kemp's Ridley -- and the giant bluefin tuna, one of the most overfished of the world's giant ocean fishes.", "Migrants include millions of shorebirds, ducks and geese; herons and egrets; gannets, loons, terns, skimmers and other seabirds; peregrine falcons, ospreys and Gulf-crossing songbirds that often land exhausted on beaches and marshes.", "How many of these creatures, and what proportion of their populations, were damaged or spared, no one can say.", "Every oiled carcass found may suggest 10 to 100 undetected deaths.", "But it's also true that at this point -- with much of the oil yet to go somewhere -- there remain numerous clean-looking pelicans, gleaming gulls, and immaculate egrets along Gulf shores and marshes.", "People, though, have taken deep and immediate hits.", "Closures have meant an end to fishing, cessation of a way of life and of the way thousands of people understand who they are.", "Some may say the closures are artificial, that there are still plenty of fish, probably safe to eat.", "Others say the seafood safety is unreliable, and that, anyway, future consumer confidence is the most important thing to preserve.", "There's truth to both sides.", "The mere tainting of beaches has been enough to send beachgoers fleeing to other destinations, creating a real-estate implosion, hordes of refunded deposits, halted construction and thousands of service jobs lost.", "Nationally, we're all connected by the loss to the nation's seafood supply and by taxpayer funded government expenses related to agencies such as the Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as lost attention on other issues, and added unemployment costs that won't be covered by BP.", "No one knows whether the seafood and tourism and fisheries will be clean and healthy again next year or in a decade.", "We should be willing to learn some lessons.", "One is that this catastrophe wasn't just an accident.", "It was the result of reckless corner-cutting by the oil company and scandalously compromised oversight by the government.", "As U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, observed, \"BP appears to have made multiple decisions for economic reasons that increased the danger of a catastrophic well failure.\"", "The compromised oversight included the Minerals Management Service failing to require a backup shutdown system required in much of the rest of the world, failing to require offshore drillers to file plans to deal with major oil spills and specifically allowing BP to drill without a detailed environmental analysis.", "The George W. Bush administration gave top Interior Department jobs to former lobbyists of the fossil fuel industry.", "Now the inspector general finds that Interior had \"a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity.\"", "Another lesson: Preparedness is near zero.", "The only two things responders could quickly muster were booms that can't handle open water, and dispersants.", "But dispersants sink oil, defeating the idea behind booms, polluting much more water, making the oil more widely toxic to marine life and making it impossible to recover or clean up.", "Absent preparedness, BP and other companies responding to the spill made stuff up as they went; during weeks of blundering, hare-brained schemes like using shredded tires and golf balls to \"top kill\" the well, and fabricating new slap-dab caps and domes that didn't work.", "Meanwhile people sent their hair clippings to the Gulf.", "A comedy of horrors.", "That is not a response plan.", "Obviously, reforms are needed.", "Rig regulations should now require that the best equipment and procedures are used.", "To eliminate guesswork and argument, these procedures must be specified and quantified.", "For instance, blowout preventers should have a specified number of valves for drilling in a particular range of depths, all spelled out as requirements.", "Further, there should be explicit checklists and decision trees.", "If the driller detects a possible problem, the operation must be shut down; they must not retain the option of arguing about whether it's probably OK to keep going.", "A culture of safety and best practices must replace the culture of risk.", "We should never again be subjected to the comment, \"We've never tried this at this depth.\"", "It's as if, after the house is on fire, they set about devising and then building a truck capable of spraying water.", "With all the contracting companies servicing thousands of rigs, you'd think the oil giants would have, say, two or three pieces of equipment in a warehouse somewhere capable of stopping and controlling a blowout at one of their wells -- and capturing the oil.", "This should be devised and required.", "Because an oil company's interests are not aligned with the public's interests, the oil company must be liable, but not in charge.", "Allowing an oil company to run the response to a spill makes it possible for it to try to hide the amount of oil and the numbers of wildlife killed, to suppress scientific data and hamper journalists.", "The federal government should nationalize major spills, avail itself of the best pooled talent in the oil industry, and send the offending company the people's bill.", "Once it's on our property, the offending oil company should not touch anything unless specifically directed to do so.", "As it is now, things are so insanely backward that at the end of June the Coast Guard made it a felony for boats to get within 70 feet of boom.", "We need to stop putting the murderer in charge of the crime scene.", "Larger lessons lurk.", "The mortgage bubble, banking collapse, taxpayer-funded bailouts and this blowout all stem from a three-decade assault on government effectiveness, the consequent deregulation Mardi Gras, and the unleashing of corporate greed and corporate \"personhood.\"", "Corporate capture of government away from the public's interests is the basic poison.", "Campaign finance reform and publicly funded elections would be the antidote.", "Lastly and probably most important, to honor the scale of this catastrophe, we need to create a historic moment that begins to give us some energy options and creates a graceful phase-in of greater reliance on the clean, eternal energy that actually runs our planet.", "There are many reasons to do this.", "Blowouts and dead workers and the awful environmental destruction wrought by coal mining and oil are some.", "Helping weaken petro-dictators and gaining U.S. energy independence is major.", "Helping stabilize world climate and the acidifying seas, and securing agriculture, are yet others.", "Providing jobs, incentives for construction and investment opportunities are others still.", "The basic vision is to reduce oil subsidies, create a level playing field for clean renewable energies like wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, algae fuels, etc; construct a national smart grid capable of carrying power produced by any energy source whether dirty or renewable from where it's abundant to where it's needed.", "Electric cars would be the grid's storage battery.", "Other countries -- China and some in northern Europe -- are doing this.", "But I'd rather see American leadership regained.", "The nation that owns the future of energy will own the future.", "I want that nation of the future to be the United States of America.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Carl Safina." ]	[ "Carl Safina says precise size of oil disaster and impact on wildlife is not known .", "He says impact on people is clearer -- since many lost their livelihood .", "Safina says accident was avoidable if proper safeguards had been in place .", "Decades of government deregulation helped lead to disaster, he says ." ]	[ 1, 12, 16, 24, 40, 49, 54, 74 ]
[ "DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- The United Arab Emirates has refused to grant a visa to a female Israeli tennis player, preventing her from competing in the Sony Ericsson World Tennis Association Tour in Dubai, the WTA said in a statement Sunday.", "The UAE has refused to grant a visa allowing Shahar Peer to compete in Dubai.", "Shahar Peer would have been the first Israeli athlete to participate in a professional sporting event in the UAE, CNN Sports correspondent Pedro Pinto said.", "The UAE has no diplomatic ties with Israel.", "Peer told CNN on Sunday evening she was \"very, very disappointed\" to be denied access to the tournament.", "\"Any player that qualifies should attend, and I was prevented,\" she said from Israel.", "\"I'm glad the WTA support me.", "A red line was crossed for every athlete in the world -- politics should be kept separate from sports.\"", "The governing body of women's tennis said it was \"deeply disappointed\" that Peer was being denied entry to the country hosting the tournament, but it did not cancel the competition, which began Sunday.", "The move runs counter to WTA policy, which says no player should be barred from competing in a tournament for which she has qualified.", "Dubai could lose its membership in the WTA tour next year over the ban on Peer, according to WTA rules.", "That would mean professional players could compete only in exhibition matches in Dubai, the results of which would not count in pro rankings.", "Government officials in Dubai have not responded to CNN's request to comment over their refusal to allow Peer to compete in the event.", "\"Ms. Peer has earned the right to play in the tournament, and it is regrettable that the UAE is denying her this right,\" said Larry Scott, chairman and chief executive of the tour.", "Watch Scott express disappointment » .", "\"Following various consultations, the tour has decided to allow the tournament to continue to be played this week, pending further review by the tour's board of directors.\"", "The patron of the Dubai Tennis Championships is Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Makhtoum.", "Two million dollars in prize money is on the line.", "Al-Makhtoum told CNN in 2004 that Dubai would accept Israeli students to a school dedicated to students from the Middle East who are talented at sports.", "In 2003, Dubai hosted World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, which Israeli government officials attended.", "The Israeli flag -- among other member states' flags -- is still part of a globe monument in Dubai.", "Peer, 21, is ranked 48th in the world among female tennis players.", "She was allowed to compete at the Doha tournament in Qatar last year, where she received a warm welcome, according to Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz.", "Qatar, another Gulf Arab state, froze diplomatic ties with Israel after Israel's military offensive in Gaza last month.", "Peer downplayed the political undertones of her participation in last year's Doha tournament, telling Haaretz that she didn't come to Qatar \"to help the politics of course.\"", "But she added that if her playing in the tournament \"can help for peace or anything, I'd be really happy.\"", "Scott said the tour will \"review appropriate remedies for Ms.", "Peer\" as well as \"appropriate future actions with regard to the future of the Dubai tournament.\"", "Peer was advised Saturday by tournament and WTA officials of the denial of her visa while she was participating in a tournament in Pattaya, Thailand, according to a WTA statement.", "The Dubai Tennis Championships runs through February 28.", "CNN's Shira Medding in Jerusalem contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Shahar Peer, female Israeli tennis player, says she's \"very, very disappointed\"\nUnited Arab Emirates refuses to grant a visa to Peer .", "Peer needed the visa to play in the Dubai Tennis Championships .", "World Tennis Association unhappy, says move runs counter to its policy ." ]	[ 0, 1, 9, 29 ]
[ "(Oprah.com) -- A recent British study found that the longer couples are married, the less they have to say to each other over the course of an hour-long meal.", "In other words, the social scientists assigned data to one of my greatest fears: that my husband and I will become the couple in the restaurant eating together, but not saying a word to each other except, \"Pass the salt.\"", "6 friends every mom needs .", "How bad does it get? Listen to these numbers: Couples who are dating chat for 50 minutes out of the hour.", "Presumably, breathing, eating and imbibing take up the remaining 10 minutes.", "Immediately after marriage, the downward trend kicks in, with the time spent talking dropping to 40 minutes per hour.", "Twenty years into marriage, the average couple talks for 21 minutes of the hour; 30 years in, conversation takes up 16 minutes.", "And by 50 years of marital bliss, the average couple converses for three minutes in an hour!", "That's 150 words or less in an entire meal!", "I'm guessing \"Are you still breathing?\"", "takes up most of the conversation time.", "Oprah.com: Unexpected benefits of giving your relationship a cleanup .", "No wonder Al and Tipper Gore are going their separate ways after 40 years; they only have about five minutes of conversation a day!", "Who wouldn't want to go back to the chatty days of dating?", "And, to do that, apparently, you have to be dating, so time to ditch the spouse.", "Oprah.com: Is your marriage good-enough?", "10 questions to ask .", "I, on the other hand, would like to stay married--but not in silence.", "After absorbing the findings in the British study, I took a long look at how much conversation my husband of 17 years and I engage in during a typical weeknight dinner, on the rare night when we have dinner together.", "If you take away the discussion about youth sports logistics, homework plans, trips to the vet and what to add to the grocery list, we are pretty much down to \"Pass the salt.\"", "Yes, we are the couple in the restaurant even when we are sitting in our home.", "Oprah.com: The 5-point marriage checklist .", "Time to reverse the trend, I've decided.", "I've made a list of interests to cultivate over the next 20 years, so my husband and I don't run out of the little conversation we have left when the kids leave the house and we are stuck with each other.", "Sports . I picked sports over politics because it still has the same intrigue and passion but not the potential to lead to fights and hurt feelings.", "And, there are so many sports and only two real political parties, so the variety of topics is greater.", "I'm researching esoteric sports like archery and skeeball to throw into the mix during the NFL off-season.", "Oprah.com: The woman's guide to understanding football .", "Food . I have resisted becoming one of those annoying foodies who question the \"origin\" of their vegetables at every meal, but now I am rethinking my position.", "If talking about field greens will save my marriage, I'm willing to indulge.", "Historical Reenactments .", "We had a house guest last year that participated in historical reenactments of Civil War battles.", "Seriously, this lovely man never stopped talking the entire weekend about his alter ego, a Union foot soldier.", "I'm not really that into the Civil War, but again, if assuming the identity of a battlefield nurse in 1862 will keep my husband and I conversing, I'll give it a go.", "Oprah.com: Beware of these marriage traps!", "Lian Dolan is a writer and talk show host.", "She writes and talks about her adventures in modern motherhood for her website, ChaosChronicles.com, and her weekly podcast, \"The Chaos Chronicles.\"", "Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.", "That's like getting 18 issues FREE.", "Subscribe now! TM & © 2010 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved." ]	[ "Writer tries to figure out what she and husband can talk about .", "Recent British study: the longer couples are married, the less they talk .", "Couples who are dating chat for 50 minutes out of the hour, according to the study .", "By 50 years of marriage, the average couple converses for three minutes in an hour ." ]	[ 0, 3, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Mark Cavendish claimed his second successive victory with another power-packed sprint at the end of the 227.5km sixth stage of the Tour de France from Montargis to Gueugnon.", "The Briton dispelled doubts about his form by winning Thursday's fifth stage -- and he doubled up in impressive fashion, beating rivals Tyler Farrar and Alessandro Petacchi after again receiving a perfect lead-out from HTC-Columbia teammate Mark Renshaw.", "There was no significant change in the overall classification with Fabian Cancellara retaining the race leader's yellow jersey from Geraint Thomas.", "However, Team Sky's Thomas clawed back three seconds on the Swiss because of a slight split in the peloton and he now trails by just 20 seconds overall.", "World champion Cadel Evans remains third, 39 seconds adrift, while race favorites Andy Schleck (sixth overall), Alberto Contador (ninth) and Lance Armstrong (18th) all finished safely in the peloton.", "Friday's stage -- the longest in this year's race -- again saw three riders launch an early breakaway.", "At one stage, Ruben Perez Moreno, Sebastian Lang and Mathieu Perget held an advantage of eight minutes over the main bunch.", "However, the race came together with just 10km remaining and a confident Cavendish never looked like being stopped once the sprint for the line unfolded.", "\"I followed Mark Renshaw as usual and it was just a case of finishing off the incredible work that my teammates did for me,\" Cavendish -- who was securing his 12th career stage win -- told the official Tour de France website.", "Saturday's seventh stage to Station des Rousses sees the race hit the medium mountains and will see some of leading contenders for overall success come to the fore." ]	[ "Mark Cavendish claims his second successive Tour de France stage victory .", "The Briton crosses the line first at the end of the 227.5km sixth stage to Gueugnon .", "There is no change in the overall classification with Fabian Cancellara retaining his lead .", "Saturday's seventh stage to Station des Rousses sees the race hit the medium mountains ." ]	[ 0, 2, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Yasuní is both a place and a metaphor.", "The place is a UNESCO Biopshere Reserve in the Ecuadorian Amazon where two indigenous communities, the Tagaeri and the Taromenane, live in voluntary isolation.", "Below the biosphere lie the oil fields Isphingo, Tambococha and Tiputini, abbreviated to ITT.", "Yasuní the metaphor is the initiative for paying to keep that oil underground and leave the biological and cultural diversity undisturbed.", "Upon learning of just these bare-bone facts, I realized that I have been thinking about the economics of the Yasuní-ITT Initiative for most of my professional career, long before I knew where Yasuní is and what it would mean for humanity.", "In March 2009 I signed a contract with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to work out the economics of the Initiative.", "Three questions loomed large in the global context of climate change.", "Why should the international community pay anyone for essentially doing nothing?", "What should they pay? How would they pay it? Before answering, I wrestled with the language.", "Because everything changes, I preferred \"climate fluctuations\" and \"transformation\" to \"climate change.\"", "Similarly, \"sink\" is a more precise term than \"atmosphere\" for describing the destination of carbon dioxide.", "Synthesizing the physics with the economics, I wrote \"The Economics of the Yasuní Initiative: Climate Change as if Thermodynamics Mattered\".", "In economics, the sink is also a commons, and climate transformation becomes a question of scale.", "Any one country can pursue a dirty industrialization without much worry; but when all countries do so, a \"tragedy of the commons\" ensues.", "Alarmingly, emissions have risen significantly since 1990 when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its first assessment report.", "In some countries, such as India and China, they have skyrocketed.", "This is not a criticism of India or China.", "No wealthy country ever became wealthy without a dirty industrialization.", "\"Realpolitik\" is the reason why the developed countries should pay the developing ones not to exploit their carbon.", "Tiny Ecuador is a pilot project.", "What should the developed countries pay?", "The Ecuadorian government quotes $3.5 billion as half the value of the oil foregone in the ITT fields.", "As an economist, I cringe.", "If I or any other economist knew the future price of oil, we would probably be enjoying early retirement in the French Riviera.", "Knowing how to speculate is what made George Soros a multi-billionaire.", "In contrast, the value of the investment and operations foregone is known: PetroEcuador estimates them at approximately $5 billion.", "My recommendation is that Ecuador seek $1.25 billion per year in compensation for the first four years of the Initiative and thereafter, the value of the carbon dioxide avoided.", "How much is that worth?", "(Again the French Riviera beckons).", "If the short history of the carbon market is any guide, the payments would be somewhere between $300 million and $900 million per year.", "The financial flows would stop when Ecuador achieves the UNDP Human Development Index that Costa Rica held in 2002, the year its government declined offshore oil extraction without any monetary inducement.", "Finally, the last and touchiest question remains: how should the developed countries pay?", "The theoretical answer is sponsorship of projects selected according to economic criteria.", "Topping the list would be the requirement that projects be both public in nature and incapable of being funded from an existing source.", "The practical side to how countries should pay is also a question about mechanism.", "Its answer appeared on August 3, 2010.", "At midday in the elegant ballroom of the Chancellery of Ecuador, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Rebeca Grynspan and Foreign Minister of Ecuador Ricardo Patiño signed an historic agreement that launched the Yasuní ITT Trust Fund.", "That evening I launched with far less fanfare \"The Economics of the Yasuní Initiative\".", "Ms. Grynspan introduced me to an audience gathered at the UNDP offices.", "She commented to much laughter that after such a heady day, we were all fully \"yasunized\".", "Yasuní the place and Yasuní the metaphor have now morphed into a verb." ]	[ "Yasuní is a protected area of forest in Ecuador rich in biodiversity and natural resources .", "New UN initiative will see rich countries pay to keep oil reserves in the ground .", "Joseph Henry Vogel has studied the area and economics of climate change ." ]	[ 3, 6, 12, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- For more than a year, the spacecraft Kepler has been combing the vastness of space looking for Earth-like planets.", "On Thursday, NASA scientists will share news of what they are calling the \"discovery of an intriguing planetary system.\"", "Since its launch on March 6, 2009, the space observatory has recorded tiny blips from more than 150,000 stars.", "If a planet happens to cross -- or transit -- in front of a star, the star dims in brightness.", "That is how Kepler determines it may have come across a planet.", "In June, NASA announced that the space observatory had identified more than 700 planet candidates, including five solar systems that had more than one transiting planet.", "But scientists need to examine further to make sure it is indeed a planet that is crossing in front of a star, and not another orbiting star." ]	[ "The Kepler observatory has been recording blips from 150,000 stars .", "The stars dim in brightness if a planet crosses in front of them .", "So far, Kepler has identified more than 700 planet candidates ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "Chicago, Illinois (CNN) -- Prosecutors have dismissed all four charges against Robert Blagojevich, brother of former Illinois Gov.", "Rod Blagojevich, defense attorney Michael Ettinger said Thursday.", "\"I was in shock and still am,\" Ettinger said.", "He said that when he told his client, Robert Blagojevich said, \" 'Oh, my God; oh, my God.'", "And I told him, 'You're done. You're free.' His wife is hysterical.\"", "Ettinger said prosecutors told a judge at a hearing Thursday that they were dropping the charges because of \"the disparity in the roles between Robert and Rod\" and \"in the interests of justice.\"", "On August 17, after deliberating for 14 days, a jury in a federal corruption trial convicted Rod Blagojevich of lying to the FBI but said they were deadlocked on the other 23 counts against the former governor as well as the four against Robert Blagojevich.", "Prosecutors have vowed to retry Rod Blagojevich, who faced charges including racketeering, wire fraud, attempted extortion and bribery.", "The two-term Democrat was removed from office in January 2009 amid accusations that he attempted to sell the U.S. Senate seat that Barack Obama held before he was elected president.", "The former governor will be retried after the first of 2011, said his lead attorney, Samuel Adam Sr. Adam indicated that he is not happy at the limit placed on the number of federally funded attorneys on Blagojevich's legal team.", "Blagojevich qualifies for a public defender, U.S. District Judge James Zagel said, and he will appoint two attorneys and possibly a paralegal, according to CNN affiliate WGN.", "A pro bono attorney is allowed, but Blagojevich must disclose the source of the funds if he has any paid representation, Zagel said, according to WGN.", "The last trial was funded with nearly $3 million in campaign money.", "\"You saw what happened in court.", "We're now down one defendant, one less charge, and we're down about eight lawyers,\" Adam said.", "He said he thought Zagel was wrong to say he could appoint only two attorneys.", "Attorneys in the case have gone through piles of papers and listened to hours of taped conversations.", "\"We have millions of documents to go over.", "We had 20 people working full-time on this case,\" he said.", "Adam said his next step will be to sit down with the former governor and \"decide what is best for him.", "... That's the only question that is important.\"", "Defense attorney Sheldon Sorosky said prosecutors should now dismiss the case against Rod Blagojevich.", "Adam said it could still happen, noting, \"The government has done some strange things in this case already.\"", "The former governor \"is innocent of any crime,\" Adam said.", "\"You've got to keep that in mind.\"", "He said he is open to discussions with prosecutors, but has not been approached.", "Adam said he had not spoken to Blagojevich and didn't know what his reaction would be to prosecutors dropping charges against his brother.", "Robert Blagojevich was charged with one count of wire fraud, one count of extortion conspiracy, one count of attempted extortion, and one count of bribery conspiracy.", "Asked why prosecutors dismissed charges against Robert Blagojevich, Ettinger said, \"I didn't ask, but I'm not going to argue with them.\"", "\"What he's been through, and what he thought he was going to go through again, and then out of nowhere, they dismiss the charges ...", "I've been doing this a long time, and things like this don't happen,\" the attorney said.", "But \"the evidence was far from great against him,\" Ettinger said.", "\"I'm sure they know the jury was 9-3 for acquittal.\"", "He said he was told that six women on the jury refused to convict Robert Blagojevich in any circumstances.", "He said Robert Blagojevich could be subpoenaed in his brother's retrial.", "During the first trial, Robert Blagojevich testified his brother was \"trying to politically work something to his benefit\" in handling the Senate appointment, but was thinking in terms of political horse-trading, not corruption.", "In a conversation recorded by federal agents, the then-governor told an aide, \"I've got this thing, and it's [expletive] golden.", "I'm just not giving it up for [expletive] nothing.\"", "\"It didn't seem out of the ordinary, because Obama was taking a lot of people from Illinois with him to D.C.,\" said Robert Blagojevich, who raised money for his brother.", "He said his brother \"was interested in the idea of being the head of Health and Human Services.\"", "While awaiting trial, the ousted governor repeatedly asserted his innocence in interviews and on Twitter, as well as during his appearances on the \"Celebrity Apprentice\" reality show.\"" ]	[ "4 charges against Robert Blagojevich are dropped .", "Attorneys for former Gov.", "Rod Blagojevich are to meet with him .", "Robert Blagojevich could be subpoenaed in the retrial .", "Rod Blagojevich was convicted on one count; the jury deadlocked on 23 others ." ]	[ 6, 33, 34 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Tea Party movement is trying to define politics in 2010, but its founding arguments can be traced to at least 1964 -- in a famous campaign speech given on Barry Goldwater's behalf by a Hollywood actor named Ronald Reagan.", "• \"This is the issue of this election: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.\"", "• \"No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.", "... We've raised our debt limit three times in the last 12 months, and now our national debt is one and a half times bigger than all the combined debts of all the nations of the world.", "We have $15 billion in gold in our treasury; we don't own an ounce.\"", "• \"Our natural, unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.\"", "The nationally televised address, known as \"A Time for Choosing,\" is a classic -- smart, funny and still so resonant that the rhetoric Reagan used more than 50 years ago echoes in Tea Party protests today.", "Reagan tried to raise the stakes of the election with a vision of apocalyptic ideological conflict, pitting heroic defenders of the Founding Fathers' vision against big-state bureaucrats, willfully wasting taxpayer dollars on counterproductive do-gooder programs that are dragging America toward socialism.", "Consistent with the Tea Party's self-image, it was primarily an economic speech, advancing a small-government libertarian economic philosophy, making statistics come alive with talk of fallen empires and American history, arguments aided by the added urgency of global conflict with communism.", "There is the specter of growing government power eclipsing the Constitution, the perverse incentives of the welfare state as an insult to hardworking individuals, all culminating in a citizens' resistance against elite liberals ruling by fiat from Washington.", "It is compelling stuff, with the pitch-perfect delivery of a trained actor finally getting to recite his own lines.", "Speakers echo its themes from stages today almost like a tribute band.", "But, of course, times have changed a lot since 1964 -- and so some questions arise.", "First, if America's past was as idyllic as many Tea Party protesters seem to believe, how come Reagan was warning about America's eclipse back when the \"Andy Griffith Show\" was still in prime time?", "Well, the top marginal tax rate was a whopping 70 percent then -- almost double what it is today, and down from 90 percent just a year earlier.", "That's cause for a serious debate about socialism.", "It's a reminder that the past was never pure and simple -- though some Americans might remember it that way because they were children then.", "Second, Reagan's speech did not mention civil rights, despite the fact that it was one of the dominant issues of that election.", "Both Reagan and Goldwater opposed the Civil Rights Act on constitutional grounds, and it was this rift that Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul was referring to when he awkwardly affirmed libertarians' opposition to civil rights legislation.", "That does not mean that Reagan or Goldwater were racist -- just as it is mistake to label the Tea Partiers of today racist -- but that heroic fight wasn't their primary or even secondary concern, nor was it that of their conservative constituents.", "Not coincidentally, the former Confederate states of the South realigned in 1964, with traditionally Democratic Mississippi voting 87 percent for the Republican Party.", "Another key difference between Reagan's rhetoric and today is the comparative civility.", "Reagan never attacks then-President Lyndon Johnson by name, and he is even careful to use the phrase \"our liberal friends\" when slapping the domestic left.", "He does not question their patriotism or call them communists -- after all, the Cold War was still on, and that insult seemed more idiotic and offensive than it does now.", "There is a final irony -- the Reagan who was elected governor of California in 1966 and ran for president in 1980 would have a hard time getting the GOP nomination today.", "The self-appointed sentinels of conservatism would have taken issue with the fact that as governor, Reagan raised taxes by a billion dollars to close a budget gap and increased the size of the state workforce by 50,000.", "He also raised taxes as president.", "Social conservatives might not have liked the fact that he opposed a bill to ban gays and lesbians from teaching in public schools -- a legislative fight depicted in the movie \"Milk\" -- and they would have hated that he signed the nation's most liberal abortion bill into law.", "Reagan wouldn't have been alone in his isolation from contemporary conservative absolutists -- even Barry Goldwater could be painted as liberal today because of his support for gays in the military and the fact that his wife co-founded Planned Parenthood in his home state of Arizona in the 1930s.", "Goldwater lost the 1964 campaign by an unprecedented margin, winning only six states and 38 percent of the popular vote.", "Apparently, most Americans did believe that extremism in defense of liberty was a vice.", "But by 1966, a Great Society backlash was in full effect, and the excesses of the radicalized so-called \"New Left\" ushered in a 40-year Republican revival on the presidential level, punctuated only by Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.", "It is strange that despite the conservative movement's decades in power, Reagan's rhetoric is still used without much adjustment or abridgement.", "Is that because conservatives failed to tame the beast they warned about, or because the arguments worked so well on an emotional level that they exist separately from any era's political reality?", "The arguments in \"A Time for Choosing\" work best when it is a rallying cry of a party out of power -- in part because a belief in government's corruptibility is less compelling when you control it.", "But America's character does not change dramatically with a new president, no matter what party or ideology he represents.", "LBJ did not represent a mortal threat to the American experiment, and Reagan deepened the deficits he warned were in danger of bankrupting the nation.", "Both men upheld their oath to protect and defend the Constitution while helping our nation fight and ultimately defeat communism.", "By uncovering the roots of the Tea Party's rhetoric, we can see it with a dose of perspective.", "America is still faced with great challenges, but our country is no closer to constitutional apocalypse now than it was then -- and in most respects our country has gotten better since 1964, evolving just a bit closer to our ideals of liberty and equality.", "The opinions in this commentary are solely those of John P. Avlon." ]	[ "John Avlon: Tea Party's roots in 1964 speech given by Reagan for Goldwater campaign .", "In speech more civil than today's, Reagan envisioned lost freedoms, he writes .", "Avlon says that time not as idyllic as some think and U.S. is more conservative today .", "Avlon: Conservatives today would call Reagan, Goldwater, liberal on social views, taxes ." ]	[ 0, 6, 26, 32 ]
[ "Barcelona, Spain (CNN) -- Catalonia became the first Spanish mainland region to ban bullfighting after its parliament voted Wednesday to outlaw the tradition on animal cruelty grounds.", "The vote was 68 in favor and 55 against, with nine abstentions.", "Those who see the ancient tradition as animal cruelty were ecstatic about the vote, celebrating in the street outside parliament.", "Fans of bullfighting said the decision, however, does not mean it will disappear from other regions in Spain.", "Some analysts have said Catalan nationalism -- including the desire by some in the region for independence from Spain -- played a part in the vote.", "The upcoming regional elections for parliament later this year may have also had a role.", "Bullfighting is an ancient tradition in Spain, and fans say it combines culture, ceremony and artistry.", "Opponents, however, consider it animal cruelty.", "Activist Aida Gascon, of the Anti-Bullfighting Party, known as PACMA, said she has attended just one bullfight in her life, and that was only to get a sense of the bull's suffering.", "\"Bullfighting is part of Spanish culture,\" Gascon said.", "\"But that should change. Many traditions disappear as the society advances.\"", "Enrique Guillen, 24, lamented that he might be the last Barcelona-born bullfighter to take the \"alternativa,\" or ceremonial fight in the ring against the biggest bulls to become a full-fledged matador, which he did last year at Barcelona's sole remaining bullring, the Monumental.", "Guillen's father worked at the bullring, opening the doors for bulls to charge in to face matadors and their death.", "\"My father brought me to see the bullfights when I still had a pacifier,\" Guillen said.", "\"It would be frustrating not to be able to give to my children what my parents gave to me.\"", "The number of bullfights across Spain has dropped by a third in recent years, mostly because of the budget constraints of local governments, which often fund the spectacles.", "In Catalonia, there are now just more than a dozen fights a year and the Monumental bullring in Barcelona is one of the few places in the region that still holds fights.", "A pro-bullfighting group called PPDF released a study predicting big economic losses for Catalonia if bullfighting were banned, mainly because the Catalan government would have to pay damages to the bullfighting industry, which holds long-term operating licenses.", "\"When the Catalan government and the opposition are working hard to trim the budget, how could they justify making big indemnity payments to the bullfighting industry, when it's not necessary,\" PPDF President Luis Corrales said.", "Critics have disagreed, saying the economic impact would be minimal given the small number of fights still held in Catalonia.", "The proposal to ban bullfighting started as a popular initiative in Catalonia and was accepted for consideration by parliament last year by a slim margin of votes.", "Since then, there has been an ever-intensifying debate, with bullfighting proponents and opponents gathering support from across Spain, even from abroad.", "The ban is due to take effect in January 2012.", "It will not end bullfighting in the rest of Spain, where it still has a strong following in Madrid and in the south around Seville.", "Spain's Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean does not allow bullfighting, but the ban in Catalonia is considered a bigger blow to the tradition." ]	[ "NEW: Vote supporters celebrate outside parliament .", "Catalonia is the first Spanish mainland region to ban bullfighting .", "Its parliament votes to outlaw it on animal cruelty grounds .", "Bullfighting is an ancient tradition in Spain ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- Japan hanged two convicted killers on Wednesday -- the first executions in the country since the Democratic Party of Japan took power last September.", "One of the men, Kazuo Shinozawa, was put to death for killing six female clerks at a jewelry store in 2000 and setting the store on fire.", "The other person, Hidenori Ogata, was convicted of killing two people in 2003, the justice ministry said.", "Japan last carried out an execution in July 2009, when the conservative Liberal Democratic Party was in power.", "Justice Minister Keiko Chiba is a former member of a group of lawmakers opposed to capital punishment -- the Japan Parliamentary League Against the Death Penalty.", "Speaking to reporters after Wednesday's execution, she said that Japan needs a public discussion on whether to continue the practice of capital punishment.", "She said she has asked for a review at the justice ministry.", "\"Witnessing the enforcement with my own eyes made me think about death punishment deeply again,\" she said, adding that she had attended the executions.", "\"Also, I felt the need of a fundamental discussion to review about death penalty.\"", "Amnesty International Japan said a review is welcome but first, the executions have to be halted.", "\"We feel strong anger and disappointment over the executions today,\" the group said.", "\"We highly accept [the ministry's] stance [of] setting up a study session.", "... First of all, they must stop the executions.\"" ]	[ "The two executions are the first since the ruling party took power in September .", "Japan's last execution was in July 2009 .", "Justice minister calls for a review of capital punishment in the country ." ]	[ 0, 3, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A 25-year-old woman who was injured in last week's stampede at the Love Parade music festival in Duisburg, Germany, died Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 21, prosecutors there said.", "The deadly crush happened Saturday in an underpass between the main event site and an expansion area.", "Witnesses told CNN affiliate NTV that people pushed into the tunnel from both sides until it was dangerously overcrowded.", "The panic began when people began to lose consciousness as they were crushed against the walls and each other.", "The Duisburg public prosecutor's office said 511 were injured.", "Of these, 283 people had to be treated in hospitals, and all but 43 have been released.", "German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a thorough investigation into the incident and said that she was \"horrified and saddened\" by the tragedy.", "Carsten Lueb of NTV said some 1.4 million people showed up at the popular Love Parade festival, which featured dozens of DJs spinning techno music for hours.", "Organizers expected only 700,000 to 800,000 attendees, so to accommodate more people they opened an additional event site.", "The numbers are disputed by police, who say the area can hold between 250,000 and 350,000 and at no time was it filled to capacity.", "NTV reported that 1,400 police officers were on hand to monitor the event.", "Detlef von Schmeling of the Duisburg police said more than 4,000 police officers provided security.", "Witnesses told NTV that police were warned at least an hour before the incident that the underpass was becoming dangerously crowded.", "An additional entryway had been opened before the accident to relieve some of the pressure.", "Police are investigating how the back-up came to occur in the underpass." ]	[ "Twenty-one people have died in the tragedy .", "More than 40 remain in hospitals .", "The German chancellor wants a thorough investigation ." ]	[ 0, 5, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A voice heard on an amazing video of 300 feeding alligators says it all.", "\"I ain't never seen so many gators in my life.\"", "Ray Cason's biggest catch earlier this month, when he went fishing at Stephen C. Foster State Park in the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia, was two videos that have made a splash on Facebook and YouTube.", "As of Tuesday night they had garnered nearly 100,000 page views, according to YouTube.", "One of the videos looks like something out of an \"Animal Planet\" special.", "Alligator heads bob on the surface while others, in the background, gyrate and thrash in the water as they snap at mudfish, also known as bowfin.", "The alligators are jammed in a canal perhaps 30 feet wide.", "\"With a high population of mudfish you can almost smell them,\" said Art Webster, supervisory refuge manager at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.", "\"I've never seen footage like that before,\" said state wildlife biologist Greg Nelms who, along with other wildlife officials, told CNN this rare \"cooperative feeding\" happens once every three or four years.", "Stephen C. Foster park manager Travis Griffin believes it last happened in 2007.", "Griffin, who was not at the park the weekend of the event, said rangers saw alligators congregating about 10 p.m. July 9 near the quarter-mile-long canal that leads from the Foster boat area into open water near Billy's Lake.", "No one had any idea of the scene that would greet Cason, 39, of Homerville, Georgia, on the morning of July 10.", "\"When I put the boat in you had the awfulest ruckus,\" Cason said.", "Many alligators were in the boat basin.", "He headed out in the early morning light with another boat close behind.", "Moments later, they realized they had about 150 alligators in front of them and 150 behind.", "Cason said the teeming alligators were hunting together.", "Many formed a reptile wall beyond the canal.", "\"They would converge together,\" Cason said.", "\"I saw gators pushing them [the fish] back [into the canal].", "I saw them push them to the bank and eat them.\"", "Cason returned to the park the next morning, July 11, and shot more video.", "He said about 175 gators were visible.", "The alligators were gone by 8 a.m., according to Griffin.", "Although he and other wildlife officials said the waters are safe for boaters, the state park waited to be sure that wild morning.", "\"I wouldn't rent my boats out until they were gone,\" he said.", "Stephen C. Foster State Park covers 80 acres.", "It is a small portion of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge's 401,000-plus acres.", "Webster estimates the refuge is home to about 11,000 alligators.", "He said he was concerned that Cason and the other boater may have been pushing the gators along and might have hurt them.", "\"This was potentially not a safe thing to do.\"", "But Cason said he waited several minutes for most of the alligators to clear before he proceeded.", "An alligator bumped the boat behind him but wasn't injured, Cason said.", "The videos were posted by the Clinch County News.", "Cason said he hopes to show additional footage to school groups.", "\"By no means is the swamp dangerous,\" he said.", "\"It's probably something I never will see again.\"", "Cason had additional luck that Saturday, catching his limit of jackfish and warmouth perch.", "Life has almost returned to normal at Stephen C. Foster State Park, which is near the town of Fargo.", "Alligator sightings are at normal levels, it's hot and the park's beauty awaits visitors.", "Griffin isn't sure whether Cason's encounter will bring more campers and boaters, but it sure has raised interest in the behavior of alligators.", "\"You can never predict what they are going to do,\" Webster said." ]	[ "Georgia fisherman's camera catches 300 alligators hunting together .", "Officials in Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge says such behavior is unusual .", "Ray Cason was heading out to fish at Stephen C. Foster State Park .", "Alligators were likely eating mudfish (bowfin)" ]	[ 0, 2, 16, 27, 38 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking records from more than two dozen FBI offices around the nation about the \"collection and use of race and ethnicity data in local communities,\" according to a press release issued by the civil liberties group.", "The ACLU is concerned about FBI practices allowed by its 2008 \"FBI Domestic Intelligence and Operations Guide\" that would permit the bureau to collect information and map racial and ethnic data.", "The ACLU press release says, \"the FBI's attempt to collect and map demographic data using race-based criteria for targeting purposes invites unconstitutional racial profiling by law enforcement.\"", "An FBI spokesman said the bureau is not targeting any particular groups, but that each field office is instructed \"to know your domain, that means you understand your entire community.\"", "The spokesman said that includes information about what ethnic groups are in a particular area, but it also includes things such as what particular high-tech businesses might reside in a place that could be vulnerable to espionage.", "The FBI spokesman said the focus on knowing the domains around each field office is an outgrowth of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks and the bureau's focus on improving intelligence gathering, analysis and dissemination.", "The spokesman said this needs to be done in a manner consistent with protecting civil rights and civil liberties.", "The ACLU is filing Freedom of Information Act requests seeking records from 29 states and the District of Columbia.", "The organization's press release says the FBI's operations guide gives agents authority to gather information and make maps of \"so-called 'ethnic-oriented' businesses, behaviors, lifestyle characteristics and cultural traditions in communities with concentrated ethnic populations.\"", "The FBI Domestic Intelligence and Operations Guide says agents can identify areas with concentrated ethnic populations \"if these locations will reasonably aid the analysis of potential threats and vulnerabilities.\"", "The guide says intelligence could indicate members of a particular terrorist group are known to reside in communities with a certain ethnic population.", "But the guide also says it's important to know the location of ethnic groups that might be vulnerable to hate crimes in order for law enforcement to protect such communities.", "FBI Director Robert Mueller spoke about the use of geospatial mapping technology -- combining software and analytical methods with geographic data -- during a November 2008 speech to the International Association of Chiefs of Police.", "He said the technique is useful in fighting both national security threats and crime.", "\"It allows us to combine and visually map crime data from a multitude of agencies -- everything from shootings to sources, and from outstanding warrants to open investigations,\" said Mueller.", "\"Visual mapping shows us our domain.", "It reveals connections among our cases we might not otherwise see.", "And it helps us better manage our resources.\"" ]	[ "The ACLU wants FBI records on collection of race and ethnicity data .", "The FBI says field offices are told to \"understand your entire community\"\nThe FBI says such data helps the agency fight national security threats and crime .", "The ACLU says gathering such data \"invites unconstitutional racial profiling\"" ]	[ 0, 2, 3, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Florida man was arrested on suspicion of trying to hire someone to kill an Internal Revenue Service agent who was investigating him, prosecutors said Thursday.", "Randy Nowak, 48, of Mulberry, Florida, is charged with attempting to murder an employee of the United States related to the performance of her official duties, said Robert E. O'Neill, U.S. attorney for Florida's middle district.", "If convicted, Nowak would face a maximum of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, O'Neill's office said in a news release.", "Authorities said Nowak, who owns a Polk County, Florida, construction company named RJ Nowak Enterprises Inc., met with an undercover FBI agent who was posing as a hit man Tuesday.", "Nowak gave the undercover person $10,000 as a down payment to kill the IRS agent, authorities said.", "Nowak also asked the undercover agent if he would be willing to burn down the IRS office in Lakeland, Florida, prosecutors said.", "\"The FBI considers threats of violence against United States government employees due to their enforcement and/or investigative activities very serious matters,\" Steven Ibison, FBI special agent in charge, said in the news release.", "The IRS agent had been investigating Nowak's personal and professional tax liability, prosecutors said." ]	[ "Florida man targeted IRS agent who was investigating him, officials say .", "Prosecutors: Man met undercover FBI agent, thinking agent was a hit man .", "Man made $10,000 down payment to undercover agent, authorities say .", "If convicted, man could get up to 20 years in prison ." ]	[ 0, 2, 4 ]
[ "Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- At least 19 people died in a Nairobi slum after drinking illegal local brew, which may have been laced with chemicals to make it more potent, a government official said.", "An additional 11 more people from the Kibera area are hospitalized, complaining of stomach pains after drinking the brew popularly known as changa'a, said local official Richard Juma.", "Police arrested 51 people during a raid for allegedly possessing changa'a, and were being held at a local police station, he said.", "\"As a government, we are not happy about this incident,\" Juma said.", "\"We will continue to raid where we think the brew dens are located until this menace is completely done away with.\"", "A sample of the changa'a has been taken to a government chemist for testing.", "Changa'a is sold cheaply in Nairobi slums.", "While it can take a long time to prepare, greedy brewers lace it with chemicals to hasten the process and to make it more potent.", "There have been a number of deaths from drinking changa'a in recent years.", "Other people have been blinded.", "\"The reason these people continue to drink this harmful alcohol even with awareness of its deadly ramifications is because some of the residents here don't care about their lives, they'd rather drink all day,\" Juma said.", "Samuel Chege was treated and released Monday at the Nairobi national hospital after consuming changa'a during a weekend drinking spree and experiencing stomach pains.", "\"I urge other people not to drink changa'a because you don't know how it has been prepared,\" he said.", "Members of Parliament have passed a bill to legalize changa'a and other drinks, but the president has not yet signed it.", "\"In my opinion, it should not be legalized because the number of proprietors will increase and so will the number of drunks,\" Juma said.", "Mary Nduku said her cousin died after drinking the deadly beverage.", "She said she was called home from work to find him lying on the floor of their house.", "He and a neighbor, who was also unconscious, were rushed to the hospital but pronounced dead on arrival.", "\"The government should work hard in stopping this problem,\" Nduku said.", "\"We are losing too many people.", "Our people are dying and some are becoming blind.", "The government should not legalize this homemade local brew as there are people who will take advantage and make all sorts of alcohol.\"" ]	[ "NEW: Death toll from illegal local brew rises to 19 .", "Changa'a is a homemade brew sold cheaply in Nairobi slums .", "The beverage can be laced with chemicals to hasten its preparation .", "A number of deaths have occurred over the years from consuming it ." ]	[ 0, 6, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Somali man Friday became the second person convicted in the United States of acts related to high-seas piracy in more than a century, although he wasn't convicted of piracy itself.", "Jama Idle Ibrahim pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom in Norfolk, Virginia, admitting he had intended to seize a U.S. merchant vessel on April 10 and hold it for ransom.", "Ibrahim and five other would-be pirates learned too late that they had instead pulled alongside a U.S. Navy dock landing ship, the USS Ashland, and they were captured.", "\"Today marks the first conviction in Norfolk for acts of piracy in 150 years,\" said U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride.", "It followed the May guilty plea in a federal court in New York of a man involved in an attack on the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama off the coast of Africa last year.", "A statement by the Justice Department said the government and defense agreed to recommend a sentence of 30 years in prison for Ibrahim.", "Sentencing was set for November 29.", "The attack occurred in the Gulf of Aden between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.", "Ibrahim is one of 11 Somalis sent to Norfolk for prosecution in two attacks.", "Five others are charged in connection with an April 1 attack on the Norfolk-based frigate Nicholas.", "Ibrahim pleaded guilty to charges of attacking to plunder a vessel, engaging in a violent act aboard a vessel and using a firearm during a crime of violence.", "The charge of committing piracy on the high seas, which carried a mandatory life sentence, was thrown out 10 days ago by the judge.", "Until this year, there had not been a piracy-related conviction in the United States since 1861, during the Civil War, officials said.", "In May, Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, who was accused of leading the attack on the Maersk Alabama in April 2009, pleaded guilty to felony counts of hijacking maritime vessels, kidnapping and hostage taking." ]	[ "Jama Idle Ibrahim admitted he intended to capture a U.S. merchant ship .", "Instead, he and his colleagues targeted a U.S. Navy vessel .", "A 30-year prison sentence is being recommended ." ]	[ 1, 5 ]
[ "Hermiston, Oregon (CNN) -- In war, one family's story echoes the pain of another.", "I was reminded of that while watching Larry King interview Pat Tillman's parents last week.", "Spc. Pat Tillman, who forfeited a multimillion-dollar football contract to serve his country, died in Afghanistan in 2004.", "Many may consider this couple's relentless pursuit for truth futile -- it won't resurrect their son -- but I understand it.", "It took me eight years to discover what really happened the day my father died in Vietnam's Ia Drang Valley.", "They say the man who killed my father went nuts.", "I don't know if that's true or not -- he was dead by the time I got around to looking for him.", "I wonder sometimes if he took his own life.", "I could find that out easily enough if I really wanted to know, but I don't.", "The men who were there in 1966 know how hard Sgt.", "C. took it. He and Daddy were good buddies.", "Our families often gathered for weekend barbecues and fishing along on Oahu's North Shore before the 25th Infantry, stationed there, shipped out.", "They say that Sgt. C. drank too much.", "There's some that say his drinking is the cause of the fratricide -- that's what the Army calls it when one of your buddies kills you.", "After Daddy died, Sgt.", "C. sent Mama a rambling letter about how he wished he could marry her.", "That's the sort of crazy thing a fellow says when he's talking out of his head.", "The sentiment doesn't offend me.", "It shows me how much heart he had, sober or not.", "When his widow learned that I was writing a book about what happened to my father, she hired a lawyer, who sent me a snarky letter by certified mail.", "The widow threatened a lawsuit if I quoted from her husband's letter.", "She didn't have any legal grounds to stand on: You can't slander a dead man.", "I could tell you his name and quote from the letter if I wanted, but hurting others has never been the point.", "They say when Sgt. C. returned from Vietnam he didn't go home to Alabama.", "Instead he went to a head hospital in Texas.", "They say he spent months there, trying to forget everything he remembered.", "How that blast from Sgt. C's 105-howitzer pushed my father's guts straight out into Daddy's hands.", "Sgt. C likely overheard, the way others there that day did, my father pleading with the young doctor, \"Please don't let me die.\"", "These things happen in war, everyone says so, even Mama.", "She didn't really understand why I needed to know the truth: \"It won't bring your father back,\" she warned.", "I wasn't trying to bring Daddy back -- I was trying make sense of a world gone mad.", "I didn't know when I started my search that my father was killed by his buddy.", "I wasn't aware that there were two official Army reports -- the first one the truth and the second one a lie meant to protect Sgt.", "C. and, if you believe military officials (and I don't), to \"protect the family.\"", "Pat Tillman's family doesn't feel protected.", "They feel betrayed.", "His parents are in the news again, telling us, this time in a documentary, what they've been telling us for the last six years: That their son was killed by men in his own platoon and that the military knowingly and willingly participated in covering up the truth to protect, not the family, but their own sorry asses.", "(Excuse my potty mouth but there are times when behinney is the inappropriate word).", "All this reminds me of a quote I read: \"The central defect of evil is not the sin but the refusal to acknowledge it\" (Dr. M. Scott Peck, \"People of the Lie\").", "The military only needs to practice the integrity they preach.", "Instead they do the blame-shift thing.", "In an interview with ESPN's Mike Fish, the Army officer who directed the first inquiry, Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich, admitted officials knew which shooter killed Tillman but he saw no value in going there.", "\"I don't think it really matters,\" Kauzlarich said.", "The point, he said, isn't who really killed Tillman but rather his parents' lack of faith: .", "\"There [have] been numerous unfortunate cases of fratricide and the parents have basically said, 'OK, it was an unfortunate accident.'", "And they let it go. These people have a hard time letting it go.", "It may be because of their religious beliefs.\"", "He went on to say: . \"When you die, I mean, there is supposedly a better life, right?", "Well, if you are an atheist and you don't believe in anything, if you die, what is there to go to?", "Nothing. You are worm dirt. So for their son to die for nothing, and now he is no more -- that is pretty hard to get your head around that.\"", "You may recall that at Pat Tillman's funeral, his younger brother Rich chided the crowd for their false piety: .", "\"Pat's not with God. He's f*ing dead.", "He's not religious. So, thanks for your thoughts but he's f*ing dead.\"", "It's painful to see a brother come undone that way, in front of God and everybody.", "But given the propensity we Americans have to manipulate God for our own patriotic, and particularly militaristic purposes, I appreciate the pain that propels the Tillman family.", "Kauzlrich ought to take a lesson from the General in Isak Dinesen's tale, \"Babette's Feast\": .", "\"Man, in his weakness and shortsightedness believes he must make choices in this life.", "He trembles at the risks he takes.", "We do know fear. But no. Our choice is of no importance.", "There comes a time when our eyes are opened and we come to realize that mercy is infinite.", "We need only await it with confidence and receive it with gratitude.", "Mercy imposes no conditions.", "And lo! Everything we have chosen has been granted to us.", "And everything we rejected has also been granted.", "Yes, we even get back what we rejected.", "For mercy and truth have met together, and righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another.\"", "If Lt. Col. Kauzlrich, and others charged with handling the Tillman investigation, had only been as relentless in their pursuit of truth as they were in covering it up, it would have been a grace to the Tillman family.", "A grace that may have helped them make sense of a world gone mad.", "A grace that surely would have enabled them to put their son rest and perhaps, restore to them, in some small measure, a glimpse of the God of mercy and truth.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Karen Spears Zacharias." ]	[ "Karen Spears Zacharias said she relates to Tillman parents, who spoke with Larry King .", "Her father was killed by a fellow soldier in Vietnam, she says .", "Military should have put its energy into finding the truth about Tillman's death, she says .", "Zacharias: Truth would have allowed Tillman's parents to put their son to rest ." ]	[ 1, 19, 43, 66, 68, 69 ]
[ "(CNN) -- You can't miss Beauvoir as you drive along scenic U.S. Highway 90 through Biloxi, Mississippi.", "Its grand staircase, with the railings scrolling outward, welcomes you like open arms.", "The front porch wraps around the entire front of the home, supported by regal white pillars, common during the antebellum period.", "It's the kind of front porch where you can envision someone sitting in a rocking chair with a glass of iced tea, as the breeze from the beach offers the only respite from a humid August afternoon.", "When Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi's coastal areas, the storm tore up the home.", "But it also peeled back a little slice of history about Beauvoir that might never have been known otherwise.", "Beauvoir was the last home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.", "Some call Davis a forgotten hero of American history.", "He was a graduate of West Point, a hero in the Battle of Monterrey during the Mexican-American War, and a senator from Mississippi.", "When Davis served in Washington, he helped get the Smithsonian Institution up and running after the founder, James Smithson, died.", "In the months before the Civil War, Davis resigned from the Senate and was selected as president of the Confederacy.", "When the war ended, he was charged with treason and, although he was never tried or convicted, he lost the right to run for public office.", "He later settled in Biloxi, and purchased Beauvoir from a family friend for $5,500, although the owner died shortly after Davis made the first payment.", "It was his last home. Learn more about the home's history .", "Five years ago, Katrina ripped the front porch completely off, taking part of the slate roof with it, and knocking down several support columns.", "Windows were blown out, and water flooded the interior.", "Furniture and pictures dating to the 1800s were waterlogged.", "Winterthur Museum, out of Delaware, voluntarily restored the furniture and paintings.", "A paint historian surveyed the interior of the home after Katrina to ensure restoration was historically accurate.", "This was a tedious project, involving Q-tips, paint remover, and a microscope.", "But the effort paid off, and with a bonus -- because things were discovered about the home that might never have been revealed if Katrina hadn't ravaged South Mississippi.", "Then and now photos of Katrina's devastation .", "The historian learned the white doors were originally painted a faux oak color.", "The director of Beauvoir, Rick Forte, explained that the doors were too large to be made from real oak, a heavy wood.", "So the original owner opted for cypress and had the doors finished in \"the king of wood\" oak finish, as Forte described it.", "The white mantles over the fireplaces in the home were originally painted a faux marble.", "The historian also discovered fresco art on the ceiling of the reception hall, the front parlor and the library.", "The most revealing discovery was the architecture.", "Beauvoir was built in the mid-1800s by James Brown.", "\"We always wondered whether he was his own architect or if he hired one from New Orleans,\" said Forte.", "It turns out Brown was the architect, and in some ways, not a very good one.", "Many mistakes had to be repaired, in addition to the restoration work after the hurricane.", "\"It cost $4 million to restore the Beauvoir house, but it is a priceless house,\" according to Forte.", "Today, Beauvoir is anchored to the ground with a foundation of concrete and rebar.", "The last national historic landmark house on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is fully restored to its original charm and splendor.", "\"It looks as good today as the day they finished it in 1852,\" Forte boasts.", "As many as 4,000 people toured the home for its grand reopening, but tourists are sparse now, thanks to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.", "But Forte counts his blessings as far as the home's survival of Katrina.", "\"It was like going from hell to heaven, to where we are now,\" he said." ]	[ "Beauvoir, in Biloxi, Mississippi, was the home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis .", "Hurricane Katrina tore up the home's exterior and damaged historical paintings and furniture .", "During the restoration process, workers learned new info about how the house was built .", "It cost $4 million to restore the home ." ]	[ 4, 6, 10, 32 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A 14-year-old suspect in the murder of a 4-year-old boy found drowned and then stuffed into a clothes dryer in Mendota, California, has been charged as an adult, authorities said Tuesday.", "Fresno County, California, District Attorney Elizabeth A. Egan said Raul Renato Castro was charged with special circumstances, including murder during a child molestation, sodomy, kidnapping and murder of a witness to prevent testimony.", "Castro faces separate felony charges of kidnapping, sodomy and child molestation, Egan said.", "Under California law, a 14-year-old is not eligible for the death penalty or a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, according to a statement from Egan's office.", "If found guilty, the boy could receive no more than 32 years to life plus 15 years.", "The incident began Friday afternoon, when Alex Christopher Mercato's parents discovered that the child, who had been playing outside their house, was missing, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims told reporters Monday.", "The parents called police, who began to search the neighborhood and nearby parks in Mendota, 33 miles west of Fresno, she said.", "Soon, the FBI was called in.", "On Saturday, authorities resumed the search door-to-door.", "They did not have to go far. In the house next door to the Mercatos, authorities discovered the boy's body stuffed inside a dryer in a closet, Mims said.", "An autopsy determined he had drowned.", "The teenager, who had been the only member of his family who was at home on Friday afternoon, was arrested and booked into the juvenile justice center, Mims said.", "Castro is the sole suspect in the case, she said.", "He is to be arraigned Wednesday in Fresno County Superior Court." ]	[ "Under California law, a 14-year-old is not eligible for the death penalty or life without parole .", "If found guilty, the boy could receive no more than 32 years to life plus 15 years .", "Raul Renato Castro was charged with murder, sodomy, kidnapping ." ]	[ 3, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Very few things will make my skin crawl more than listening to someone totally misrepresent the famous \"I Have A Dream\" speech the Rev.", "Martin Luther King Jr. gave on August 28, 1963.", "It's clear that far too many people haven't bothered to actually read or listen to the speech.", "Instead, folks -- especially those who likely would have branded King a Communist, a socialist, a Marxist or a racial hell-bent on destroying America -- love to tout King's \"content of character\" line in order to push back against a variety of issues, especially affirmative action.", "Just today, I saw a press release from Project 21, a coalition of black conservatives, suggesting that a rally planned Saturday by a radio talk show host and Fox News personality is akin to King's 1963 march.", "Coby Dillard, a member of Project 21, is quoted as saying, \"The dream of King -- that every person be judged by their character rather than their color -- is one of the tenets that makes our nation honorable in the minds of people around the world.", "King's legacy is a gift to us all, and no one person or organization holds claim to his work and his message.", "I can think of no better way to honor him by renewing our shared commitment to uphold those principles that have held our country together throughout history.\"", "It's clear that Dillard, and so many others, hasn't read a history book or other publications surrounding the march and instead loves to continue to spread falsehoods, misrepresentations and outright fabrications stemming from the Washington march.", "First, we need to stop calling it the March on Washington.", "It was officially called the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.", "If you leave off the \"Jobs and Freedom\" part, it sounds like black folks just went for a walk that day.", "Upset with the lack of economic opportunities for blacks at the time, as well as the voting rights injustices, the organizers wanted to put pressure on Congress and the President Kennedy administration to put their muscle behind a comprehensive civil rights bill.", "No, the 1963 march had nothing to do with some hokey values espoused by a radio/TV windbag.", "It was a day to assemble a mass of people to represent a show of strength and to get leaders in Washington to listen to the urgent need across the country.", "Second, we continue to misrepresent King's speech as the \"I Have a Dream\" speech.", "As CNN's Soledad O'Brien reported in the special \"MLK Papers: Words That Changed a Nation,\" the speech was never called that.", "It was actually titled \"Normalcy: Never Again.\"", "In fact, the \"I Have A Dream\" portion, which represents the bottom third of it, wasn't in the original text.", "As Soledad reported, King often gave variations of the \"Dream\" portion of the speech, and on that day, he was encouraged by gospel great Mahalia Jackson to tell the audience about his \"dream.\"", "There is no doubt that his soaring oratory about the need for racial harmony continues to send chills down our spines today, but if we as a country get so excited and wrapped up in the \"dream\" sequence, we forget the economic nightmare King painted in the top two-thirds of the speech.", "When I give speeches, I often tell folks that the \"I Have A Dream\" portion is the \"hoop\" part, which is when the pastor begins sing, scream and shout when he/she has finished the sermon.", "But the real measure of a sermon is the scripture, which serves as the thesis.", "So let's get to the meat -- or the purpose -- of King's 1963 speech.", "At the top, he lays out the vision of slaves being freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, yet 100 years later, \"One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.", "One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.", "One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.\"", "Then he makes clear that the purpose of going to the Lincoln Memorial is to \"dramatize a shameful condition.\"", "\"In a sense, we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check,\" King said.", "\"When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.", "\"This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the 'unalienable rights' of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'", "It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.", "Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'", "\"But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.", "We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.", "And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.\"", "King then began to talk about the \"fierce urgency of now,\" laying out the treacherous conditions upon which black people lived in, and having to deal with violence and the trampling of their rights.", "He laid bare the despair of not being able to stay in hotel rooms, having to drink out of segregated water fountains and the lack of voting rights.", "Then King launches into the portion about his \"dream.\"", "Folks, the fulfillment of King's dream wasn't about getting along.", "It was about every man and woman being afforded equal rights and an opportunity to find a job, raise their family and not have to suffer from brutality.", "His speech wasn't partisan or political; it was prophetic and about prosperity.", "How is it relevant today?", "If anyone wants to model that march, then stop with the ego-driven nonsense and focus on pushing Congress to enact a jobs bill so Americans can work.", "Tell Democrats and Republicans to stop playing footsy with lobbyists and looking out for Wall Street's interests.", "Tell leaders in Washington to give a damn about the poor of this country, from the hills of West Virginia to the dusty roads in Alabama.", "Tell some Republicans to stop their shameful condemnations of Americans who can't find a job.", "For the nearly 250,000 who gathered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, it wasn't about ego; it was about results.", "There was no partisan agenda; it was one where whites and blacks refused to stand idly by and watch black Americans denied an opportunity to thrive in this country.", "In the final five years of his life, King fought for equal pay for sanitation workers in Memphis and was planning a Poor People's Campaign for DC to highlight the economic injustices.", "Please, take the time to go and read or listen to the speech.", "Understand the context.", "Examine the overall mission.", "And don't try to pimp and pervert King's prophetic word so you can score some political points.", "And that goes for a charlatan, even if they have a TV or radio show, who seeks to align themselves with King's momentous and radical speech 47 years ago.", "The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Roland S. Martin." ]	[ "Roland S. Martin says the famous speech is often misrepresented .", "He cites a rally set for Saturday in Washington as one example .", "Two-thirds of speech paints picture of an economic nightmare, he says .", "The best move today would be to push for a jobs bill, Martin writes ." ]	[ 10, 20, 49, 55 ]
[ "Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) -- Jairo Tellez's seafood distribution business is a family affair.", "In the industrial warehouse that houses J and V Mariscos on the west side of Phoenix, his wife, Vicki, and four of his seven children load trucks, take phone calls, enter data and help care for his infant grandson, who has a playpen in Tellez's office.", "But with portions of Arizona's controversial immigration enforcement law set to take effect Thursday, the business is in limbo.", "\"If people are not eating, we're not selling,\" said Wendy Cisneros, a family friend who works in the back office.", "\"We've lost 60 percent of sales, and right now the future's uncertain.", "We don't know if we're going to stay in the state; we don't know if we're going to close the business.", "Everything's up in the air.\"", "Most of their clients cater to the Latino community, which has effectively gone into hiding amid concerns that they may have to leave the state as soon as the bill becomes law, Cisneros said.", "A key part of Arizona's immigration law was temporarily blocked by a judge Wednesday.", "This means police won't be required to ask people about their immigration status.", "Toobin: What does Arizona immigration ruling mean?", "But for the Tellez family business and others like it, the damage from the controversy already is done.", "Reduced spending in restaurants, grocery and retail stores has triggered a domino effect among businesses in the metro Phoenix business community and throughout Arizona.", "To stay afloat even as their clients disappear or reduce inventory orders, the business has reduced employees' hours and cut back operations in the industrial warehouse, home to several large freezers and forklifts and an office sparsely decorated with posters of illustrated fish and cuts of meat.", "Perhaps the toughest decision was to halt lines of credit to customers, even those with good history, she said.", "\"We can't really offer credit anymore because we don't know if next week they're going to close the business,\" Cisneros said.", "\"But it's also a downside because some customers need that credit to operate.\"", "Firm numbers illuminating the economic fallout of SB 1070 are hard to come by as the bill has yet to take effect.", "Also, summer tends to be slow for business and tourism in Arizona because it's so hot.", "But anecdotal evidence from business owners, real estate agents and community leaders indicates the mere specter of the bill has created a culture of fear among Hispanics in Arizona that's slowly paralyzing sectors of the economy.", "Hispanics make up 30 percent of the state's population.", "The state's unemployment rate in June rose for the third month in a row, to 9.7 percent.", "Gov. Jan Brewer signed the bill in April.", "Traditionally, community groups look to indicators such as the housing market, school enrollment and data from utility companies to track economic fluctuations within a certain group, said Edmundo Hidalgo, president and CEO of Chicanos Por La Causa, a community outreach program in Phoenix.", "Based on feedback from clients and preliminary data, Hidalgo said his group estimates that rental vacancies in predominantly Latino neighborhoods will be 10 to 15 percent higher than the normal rate of 12 percent.", "\"People are scared, and they don't want to wait around to find out what's going to happen with SB 1070,\" said Hidalgo, whose group offers housing, economic and education services to low-income families and individuals, both undocumented and U.S.-born.", "\"Regardless of their status, people are frustrated with an environment that's not accepting and potentially threatening, and they're fed up with being targeted and singled out by law enforcement.", "It's driving them out of the state, and not necessarily to better situations.\"", "Reactions to the Arizona immigration law injunction .", "The Arizona housing market, which was already suffering from one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country, has also taken an extra hit since the passage of the law, according to real estate agents who spoke with CNN.", "Some homeowners who purchased property in the past year are looking to unload, according to Saul Pua, a real estate agent who sells residential properties in neighborhoods in Phoenix's Latino communities.", "\"Most families usually have one person who doesn't have papers, and they don't want to risk being arrested and splitting up the family by staying in Arizona,\" said Pua, who is married to one of the daughters of Tellez, the owner of J and V Mariscos.", "Even during the recession, Pua said business was good because property was cheap, and that in better times, he closed an average of five transactions a month.", "Since the beginning of the year, however, he has been lucky to sell two properties in a month, and in July, he hasn't closed a single deal.", "\"I had investors buying properties, but now's who gonna rent them?\"", "he said. Commercial real estate developer Michael Pollack was in the same situation leading up to Wednesday's ruling.", "Since April, clients in predominantly Latino neighborhoods across the state had been pulling out of properties or calling to relay concerns over whether they should stay if the law goes into effect.", "Today, Pollack said he received several calls from clients expressing relief and letting him know they intended to stay.", "\"The ruling today has definitely been a move in the right direction for commercial tenants and their customers, who've been scared that Arizona wasn't going be friendly to Hispanic community,\" he said.", "\"This gives the federal government to get to work implementing an immigration policy that the American people will support unanimously and deals with the situation at the border, which is where the real problem is.\"", "Phoenix's sprawling concrete landscape bears testimony to the abundance of vacant residential and commercial property.", "\"For sale\" signs in English and Spanish adorn brown, sun-scorched lawns and dilapidated parking lots alike, from the heart of downtown Phoenix to as far as Chandler and Mesa -- the district of SB 1070's sponsor, Republican Sen. Russell Pearce.", "Boarded-up big-box stores loom large in their vast emptiness, and rows of abandoned strip mall storefronts outnumber those that are occupied in some parts.", "Not only businesses targeting the Latino community are suffering.", "Economic boycotts adopted by other states and cities have hit Arizona's meeting and convention business.", "Since groups nationwide began announcing boycotts of the state because of SB 1070, at least 40 meetings have been canceled.", "That's resulted in the loss of $12 million in lodging alone, according to Kristen Jarnagin, spokeswoman for the Arizona Hotel & Lodging Association.", "Summer is typically the low season, she noted, and pointed out that tourism was up 8 percent statewide in June 2010 compared with June 2009, which was one of the \"worst summers ever\" because of the recession.", "Despite that slight uptick, more telling is the lack of inquiries for future bookings, she said.", "\"What we're hearing from meeting planners now is they won't and can't consider Arizona for 2011, 2012 meetings not necessarily because of their own stance on SB 1070 or the boycott but just because they want to avoid the controversy and don't want to risk losing attendance,\" she said.", "The absence of meetings and conventions not only affects the hotel industry and its 200,000 employees, but also ancillary businesses such as restaurants, retailers and taxis, Jarnagin said.", "It seems that not even fast-food joints are immune to the encroaching economic fallout of SB 1070.", "As the four Tellez children stood with their parents in their office Wednesday, recounting tales of friends and relatives who have left town or seen families torn apart, daughter Nikki noted her surprise at seeing a shuttered Burger King.", "\"I was driving down Camelback with my dad and Burger King was closed, and I was like, when have you seen that?", "Like Burger King -- everybody goes to Burger King, and that was closed down.\"" ]	[ "Anecdotal evidence indicates mere specter of immigration bill is slowly paralyzing economy .", "Hispanics make up 30 percent of the state's population .", "Gov.", "Jan Brewer signed the bill in April; jobless rate has risen each month since .", "Real estate agents, restaurant owner report big slowdown in business ." ]	[ 19, 20, 22 ]
[ "ANTIOCH, California (CNN) -- Investigators found another bone on property belonging to kidnapping suspects Phillip and Nancy Garrido on Friday, as they scoured the yard for possible clues to the abductions of two other girls about 20 years ago, officials said.", "Police search for evidence relating to missing girls Ilene Misheloff and Michaela Garecht.", "At an afternoon news conference, authorities revealed that the bone was discovered as crews broke up concrete on the property.", "Hayward police Lt. Chris Orrey said it will take time to determine whether the bone came from an animal or a human.", "The search Friday at the property in unincorporated Contra Costa County involved the use of ground-penetrating radar, which showed irregularities in an area of the yard where cadaver dogs working separately showed interest Thursday, investigators said.", "See how ground-penetrating radar works » .", "The Garridos face a combined 29 felony counts in connection with the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard, then 11, from South Lake Tahoe, California.", "Authorities say the couple held Dugard in a hidden compound behind their home for 18 years and have said Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender, fathered her two children.", "Police from Hayward and Dublin, California, on Tuesday began executing search warrants simultaneously on the Garrido property and an adjacent property that he had access to.", "They are seeking any evidence in the 1988 abduction of 9-year-old Michaela Garecht of Hayward and the 1989 disappearance of 13-year-old Ilene Misheloff of Dublin.", "Both agencies have said that, although Garrido has not been named a suspect in either case, he cannot be eliminated as a suspect.", "Orrey said \"boxes and boxes\" of writings by Phillip Garrido were also recovered on the property and were being taken off-site so investigators \"can look through every single page.\"", "Little work will be conducted at the site over the weekend, Orrey said, but investigators will remain on the property to ward off trespassers, who have been spotted there in the past few weeks.", "When the search resumes Monday, two kinds of search dogs will be brought in, authorities said: cadaver dogs and archaeological dogs.", "Cadaver dogs detect decomposing matter, investigators said, and archaeological dogs search for older material.", "Earlier Friday, Orrey said the dogs would not return to the area until after it was cleared of debris.", "\"We just want to have all of the areas clear so they can do another sweep of the entire properties,\" she said.", "Authorities also plan to continue searching the Garrido house, which county building inspectors have condemned as unsafe to occupy, Orrey said.", "On Wednesday, authorities said they had found bones on both the Garrido property and the adjacent property but did not know whether they were animal or human.", "Another bone fragment was found on the adjacent property last week." ]	[ "NEW: Radar shows irregularities in yard where cadaver dogs alerted .", "NEW: Another bone found as crews broke up concrete on the property .", "Phillip and Nancy Garrido are accused of abducting Jaycee Dugard .", "Ilene Misheloff ,13, went missing in 1989 and Michaela Garecht, 9, in 1988 ." ]	[ 0, 9 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Heads hacked off, a bite from a lion, tiger or bear, massive muscles on massive men -- all clues that an ancient cemetery uncovered in northern England is the final resting place of gladiators, scientists have announced after seven years of investigations.", "The archeological dig has found \"what may be the world's only well-preserved Roman gladiator cemetery,\" the York Archaeological Trust said.", "Scientists have found 80 skeletons in the \"unique\" cemetery under the city of York, northern England, since 2003.", "They announced their discoveries on Sunday, ahead of a documentary about the site due to air in Britain on June 14.", "This was one of two big archaeological developments, with Israeli scientists announcing the discovery of a huge cache of ancient religious objects.", "They first thought the graveyard might contain the remains of criminals or political purges.", "But that doesn't explain the teeth mark.", "\"One of the most significant items of evidence is a large carnivore bite mark - probably inflicted by a lion, tiger or bear -- an injury which must have been sustained in an arena context, \" said Kurt Hunter-Mann, the lead archeologist on the dig.", "\"Nothing like them has ever been identified before on a Roman skeleton,\" said Michael Wysocki, who examined the remains in the forensic anthropology laboratory at the University of Central Lancashire.", "He said the bite marks suggest the remains were of someone who fought as a gladiator.", "\"It would seem highly unlikely that this individual was attacked by a tiger as he was walking home from the pub in York 2,000 years ago,\" he said.", "One arm was bigger than the other in many remains, the scientists found -- a suggestion that the men were gladiators who trained from a young age with a weapon in one hand.", "Other clues include healed and unhealed weapon injuries, possible hammer blows to the head, and burial with \"grave goods\" such joints of meat or pottery -- a sign of respect.", "It's not certain that the men were gladiators, Hunter-Mann cautioned.", "\"The research is continuing and we must, therefore, keep an open mind,\" the archeologist said.", "But \"almost all the individuals are male, very robust and mostly above average height -- features which would also be consistent with a gladiator interpretation.", "Many also have muscle attachment marks on their arm bones suggesting severe muscle stress,\" he said.", "They also appear to come from all over the Roman empire, which straddled the Mediterranean for hundreds of years, starting more than 2,000 years ago.", "\"These are internationally important discoveries.", "We don't have any other potential gladiator cemeteries with this level of preservation anywhere else in the world,\" Wysocki said.", "The skeletons are between 1,600 and 1,900 years old.", "The most impressive grave was that of a tall man aged between 18 and 23, buried, probably in a coffin, in a large oval grave about 1,700 years ago.", "He had been decapitated by several sword blows to the neck, the scientists said.", "Buried with him were what appear to have been the remains of substantial joints of meat from at least four horses -- that left behind 424 horse bones -- possibly consumed at the funeral, plus some cow and pig remains.", "Other graves also had joints of horse, sheep or chicken, possibly remains of funeral feasts, the archeologists speculated.", "The site was first discovered when archeologists probed an area scheduled for a housing development in 2003.", "Also on Monday, Israeli archeologists announced the discovery of a huge cache of religious objects about 3,500 years old -- older than the Bible itself, and nearly twice the age of the Roman skeletons.", "\"It would appear that the vessels were used in a pagan cult that worshipped idols.", "During this period it was customary that each city had a temple of its own where special cultic vessels were used,\" said archaeologists Uzi Ad and Edwin van den Brink.", "They include a vessel that was used for burning incense, a sculpted face of a woman that was part of a cultic cup used in dedicating a libation to a god, goblets and bowls with high bases and tableware that was intended for eating and drinking, the Israel Antiquities Authority said.", "Scientists called the discovery \"extremely rare\" -- both because it is so old and because the objects are so well preserved.", "Some of them had been brought from Mycenae in Greece, including a storage vessel for precious oils -- evidence of the ancient trade relations that existed with Greece, they said." ]	[ "Archeological dig finds bodies showing teeth marks, injuries from weapons .", "Experts say clues point to gladiators buried in cemetery .", "'Highly unlikely that this individual was attacked by a tiger as he was walking home from the pub'\nIsraeli archeologists announced the discovery of a huge cache of religious objects about 3,500 years old ." ]	[ 10, 26 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The planned large rally by Fox News Channel and radio talk show host Glenn Beck on Saturday on the National Mall is causing controversy because of its location and timing.", "Saturday is the 47th anniversary of the Rev.", "Martin Luther King Jr.'s \"I Have a Dream\" speech, and Beck's rally will be in front of the Lincoln Memorial, where the civil rights leader delivered his historic address.", "Beck, a hero to many conservative voters across the country, says that the mission of the rally is to honor American troops and that the event is nonpolitical.", "A news release for the \"Restoring Honor\" rally says \"this non-political event benefits the Special Operations Warrior Foundation and pays tribute to America's service personnel and other upstanding citizens who embody our nation's founding principles of integrity, truth and honor.\"", "Tea Party activists from across the country are expected to attend, and former Alaska Gov.", "Sarah Palin, a Fox News contributor, is expected to have a prominent speaking role.", "\"Tea Party Patriots, our national coordinators, are going because our supporters from around the country by the thousands are going to be there tomorrow for this event,\" Tea Party Patriots National Coordinator Jenny Beth Martin said Friday on \"CNN's American Morning.\"", "Beck has been heavily promoting the event on his Fox program and on his radio broadcasts, and he says that the timing of the event wasn't intentional.", "\"It was not my intention to select 8-28 because of the Martin Luther King tie.", "It is the day he made that speech.", "I had no idea until I announced it,\" Beck said on his radio show in June, soon after the announcement of the rally.", "\"Whites don't own Abraham Lincoln.", "Blacks don't own Martin Luther King.", "Those are American icons, American ideas, and we should just talk about character, and that's really what this event is about.", "It's about honoring character,\" Beck said Thursday on his Fox program.", "Also speaking at the event will be Alveda King, a niece of the late civil rights leader.", "While the NAACP put out a cautious statement regarding the rally, there has been plenty of criticism of the event.", "\"It's offensive because it's out of line with the fact.", "It's out of line with the truth.", "The reality is that the conservative movement in America historically has always opposed expansion of civil rights for all kinds of people,\" Michael Fauntroy, an assistant professor of public policy at George Mason University, said Friday on CNN's American Morning.", "\"From my perspective, there's no real evidence that Glenn Beck is serious about trying to bring people together and to reclaim the civil rights movement, in my opinion; it's really about trying to confuse the civil rights movement and to delegitimize it and in fact dishonor it,\" Fauntroy said.", "Expect a lot of debate over the size of the crowd.", "While the National Park Service long ago stopped giving crowd estimates for events along the National Mall, organizers of the rally are putting out predictions.", "Brendan Steinhauser, director of state and federal campaigns for FreedomWorks, which has been helping to organize the event, predicts a crowd of 250,000 or more.", "He thinks the crowd will fill up the Lincoln Memorial area, the reflecting pool and reach the area by the National World War II Memorial.", "FreedomWorks is a nonprofit organization that helps train volunteer activists and provides some of the organization behind the Tea Party movement, including last year's 9/12 taxpayer march on Washington.", "\"FreedomWorks has been sharing our logistical notes from organizing the huge 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington in 2009 with Glenn Beck's staff,\" Steinhauser said.", "\"They are doing the heavy lifting on the 8/28 event, and we've tried to be as supportive as possible in terms of promotion, sending volunteers their way, helping them navigate the bureaucratic obstacles to doing events in Washington, and most importantly, turning out FreedomWorks members for the weekend's events.\"", "One hour after the start of the Beck rally, NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous will join the Rev.", "Al Sharpton and his National Action Network and other civil rights leaders in a mass rally just a few miles away.", "Education Secretary Arne Duncan is also participating.", "Following an event at Washington's Dunbar High School, the participants will march to the site of the future Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial just a few blocks from the Lincoln Memorial.", "It's possible participants in both events could cross paths.", "Organizers of the Beck rally and FreedomWorks say they have not coordinated their efforts with Republican Party officials.", "And officials at the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee all say they are not involved in the event.", "But a top House Democrat charges that Beck's claim that the rally is nonpolitical is nonsense.", "\"It's blatantly political,\" Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said at an appearance Friday at the National Press Club.", "\"I mean, come on. You have seen Glenn Beck and a lot of the talk show hosts on Fox News out there talking about this election for the last 15 months since the day President Obama was elected president.\"", "\"You've had a constant tirade against the president, against Democratic efforts to get the economy turned around.", "Let's call it what it is. It's a blatant political effort.\"" ]	[ "Glenn Beck's \"Restoring Honor\" rally will be on same day, near spot of \"I Have a Dream\" speech .", "Beck says timing isn't deliberate, his event is nonpolitical and it aims to honor American troops .", "Critics say event dishonors civil rights movement .", "The Rev.", "Al Sharpton, other civil rights leaders plan mass rally just a few miles away ." ]	[ 2, 3, 30 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Iranian woman awaiting possible execution by stoning was denied visits from her family and attorney this week, just days after her lawyer's home was ransacked and searched.", "Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's two children were turned away Thursday during visitation hours, her son, Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, told CNN Friday.", "\"They told me, 'Your mother doesn't want to see you,' and they wouldn't let me in,\" he said.", "But later that night he received a call from his mother.", "\"The guards had told her, 'Your children didn't visit you today, they want nothing to do with you,'\" Ghaderzadeh said.", "Ashtiani's children have visited her every Thursday afternoon since she was convicted of adultery in 2006.", "\"This is the first time I was turned away,\" Ghaderzadeh said.", "\"I don't know why they are acting this way.\"", "\"Our home phone number is tapped and being monitored.", "My cell phone is being monitored.", "They have control over everything.", "I don't know what they are thinking,\" Ghaderzadeh said.", "He also charged that Iranian authorities broke into the home of his mother's attorney and stole his files.", "Houtan Kian confirmed the claim, telling CNN that he came back to his house Sunday after a meeting with Ghaderzadeh in his office to find his home burglarized.", "\"They took all my computers, and files for my cases.", "They literally knocked my front door down!", "I can't believe this,\" he said.", "Kian said he was also denied his weekly meeting with Ashtiani at the prison.", "\"Because I am her lawyer, and working for her release and trying to prove that she is innocent, for this reason they are not letting me visit her,\" he said.", "Another attorney who represents Ashtiani, Mohammed Mostafaei, fled Iran earlier this month after members of his family, including his wife, were arrested and authorities issued a warrant for his arrest.", "\"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,\" Mostafaei told CNN at the time.", "Kian says Iranian authorities are trying to \"sabotage\" the case by threatening his safety.", "He admits he is worried, but vowed he will not bend to \"their pressure.\"", "\"I am scared for my safety, 100 percent.", "There are no guarantees from the authorities.", "I am scared for my family and very worried.", "But I don't want to leave [Iran] at all.", "I have been working on this case for years.", "I will work until I prove they are innocent... for all my clients,\" he said.", "Iranian judicial authorities say a final verdict in Ashtiani's case has not yet been made, ISNA news agency reported Saturday.", "Last month, Iran's judiciary said the case was under review.", "The International Committee Against Stoning, a human rights group, has said that Iran announced she will not be executed during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends around September 9.", "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.", "Iran's Judiciary High Council of Human Rights said in a communique Saturday that evidence shows the allegations against Ashtiani \"have been proved right\" and that Iran's judiciary operates independently, as other justice systems do, the semi-official Iranian Student's News Agency reported.", "\"The stance taken by officials of other countries and international authorities on legal issues of countries is a wrong, unfair and biased prejudgment since they do not have access to reliable sources of the countries,\" the council said.", "The statement came soon after France asked the European Union to come up with new approaches to get Iran to stop the pending execution.", "Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner raised the issue Wednesday with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, asking that measures be studied to stop Iran from violating human rights.", "\"We need to encourage the Union in initiatives to remind Iranian authorities that ... their attitude of isolation has a price, which they can liberate as soon as they choose a more responsible behavior and more in line with their international commitments on the subject of human rights,\" Kouchner said in a letter to Ashton published in the French press on Friday." ]	[ "\"This is the first time I was turned away,\" says son of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani .", "The Ashtiani case has sparked international outrage .", "France wants EU to consider new \"initiatives\" against Iran ." ]	[ 1, 6, 31 ]
[ "(CNN) -- U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Saturday that he plans to recruit more African-American and Latino teachers in a bid to narrow achievement gaps among students.", "African-American males make up less than 2 percent of teachers nationwide, Duncan told CNN, while African-American and Latino males -- combined -- represent roughly 3.5 percent of all U.S. teachers.", "\"That's not a number we can be proud of,\" Duncan said.", "\"Because so many of our young men grow up in single parent families, they grow up without a strong male presence in their household.", "They need to be surrounded by mentors and role models who can help them envision a positive future for themselves,\" he added.", "Earlier this month, he told CNN's \"John King, USA\" that the dropout rate in African-American and Latino communities in many areas is as high as 50 percent.", "\"This is economically unsustainable and morally unacceptable,\" he said then.", "\"If we want to close achievement gaps, if we want to make sure that many more African-American and Latino male students are graduating rather than dropping out ... having those teachers, having those role models, having those coaches is going to make a huge difference in their lives,\" Duncan said.", "He added he is planning a campaign in the fall to recruit the next generation of teachers.", "\"We have to get dramatically better and we're committed to doing that,\" he said.", "Separately on Saturday, he told activists at a rally to mark the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s \"I Have a Dream\" speech that education is \"the civil rights issue of our generation.\"", "He urged people to stop being complacent and \"step up\" to demand excellence in schools.", "CNN's Graham Flanagan contributed to this report." ]	[ "Arne Duncan says students would benefit from strong role models in the classroom .", "He says getting more minority teachers into the mix is key to closing achievement gaps .", "African-American and Latino male teachers make up about 3.5 percent of teachers nationwide ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- All passengers aboard a passenger train that fell into a river in southwest China's Sichuan ProvinceThursday got out alive, state-run CCTV reported Friday.", "The accident occurred in Guanghan at about 3:20 p.m. Thursday on the Shi-ting-jiang Bridge, part of the railway line that links Chengdu and Baoji, in northwestern Shaanxi Province.", "Floods caused the bridge piers to collapse, which forced the train from its track, local officials said.", "It was not immediately known how many passengers were inside the carriages, which a firefighter said were swept 200 meters downriver.", "Hundreds of people aboard five other carriages were taken to safety.", "The train was traveling from Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi, to Kunming, the capital of southwestern Yunnan Province." ]	[ "NEW: All passengers got out alive .", "Floods caused the bridge piers to collapse, forcing the train from its track .", "The train was traveling from Shaanxi to Yunnan Province ." ]	[ 2, 5 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Mel Gibson crashed his 2008 Maserati into a rocky Malibu hillside Sunday night, but the actor was unhurt, according to a California Highway Patrol spokesman.", "Alcohol is not suspected in the wreck on Malibu Canyon Road, which the investigator concluded was \"non-intentional,\" CHP Officer Leland Tang said.", "\"At that location and on that road, it could have happened to anybody,\" Tang said.", "\"For unknown reasons, Mr. Gibson steered his car to the right and struck the rock hillside,\" the police news release said.", "Gibson, who is in a bitter child custody dispute with his ex-girlfriend, is the target of celeb photographers.", "Gibson publicist Alan Nierob, asked if the paparazzi might have been a factor in the accident, said, \"Not that I'm aware of.\"", "The CHP spokesman said the actor made it out of the crash with \"no injuries, not even a scratch.\"", "He theorized Gibson must have been wearing his seat belt.", "\"He's OK,\" Nierob said.", "When Gibson was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence in Malibu four years ago, he became belligerent with Los Angeles sheriff's deputies.", "He was given three years probation after entering a no-contest plea to a charge of drunken driving.", "He later admitted making anti-Semitic remarks during his arrest and apologized, saying the comments were \"blurted out in a moment of insanity.\"", "Gibson \"was extremely cooperative, he was a gentlemen\" after Sunday's wreck, Tang said.", "His damaged car was towed away and Gibson rode home with a friend, according to the police report.", "CNN's Denise Quan contributed to this report." ]	[ "Gibson's Maserati hit a rocky hillside for \"unknown reasons,\" highway patrol says .", "Alcohol is not suspected in the wreck, it says .", "Gibson was unhurt ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Chelsea have completed the English Premier League and FA Cup double for the first time in their history after a hard-fought 1-0 cup final win over Portsmouth at Wembley Stadium on Saturday.", "In a topsy-turvy match, which saw two penalties missed in a frantic second-half, Didier Drogba's superb long-range free-kick eventually proved the difference, as both sides wasted a host of chances to find the net.", "In a strange twist of fate, the final was played between the last two winners of the competition -- Portsmouth (2008) and Chelsea (2009) -- but the similarity between the two sides ended there.", "Chelsea had sealed the Premier League title with an 8-0 thrashing of Wigan last weekend, while Portsmouth had suffered a dreadful season in which they became the first Premier League club to enter administration after accumulating huge debts -- subsequently finishing bottom of the table and suffering relegation to the second tier Championship.", "And that gulf in class between the sides showed in the opening 45 minutes, with Chelsea remarkably hitting the woodwork five times as they peppered the Portsmouth goal.", "The most glaring miss came from Ivory Coast striker Salomon Kalou, who somehow contrived to hit the crossbar with an open goal gaping, after being superbly set-up by left-back Ashley Cole.", "Frank Lampard's dipping long-range strike and John Terry's looping header also struck the woodwork, while Drogba gave notice of what was to come in the second half with a stunning free-kick, which England goalkeeper David James somehow managed to get a fingertip to, with the ball bouncing onto the goalline and away.", "Portsmouth themselves had a great opportunity in the first half, when Frederic Piquionne diverted a cross goalbound, only for goalkeeper Petr Cech to instinctively scramble the ball clear.", "Underdogs Portsmouth began the second half with more purpose and should have taken a surprise lead.", "Aruna Dindane out-paced substitute Julian Belletti, who had come on for the injured Michael Ballack, and was fouled by the Brazilian in the penalty area.", "However, Kevin-Prince Boateng's weak spot-kick was hit straight down the middle, allowing Cech to save with his legs.", "And Portsmouth were made to play for that miss just two minutes later when Drogba found a gap in the Portsmouth wall to fire his free-kick into the far corner of James' net.", "Chelsea squandered further chances to double their lead, most notably when Frank Lampard missed the game's second penalty four minutes from the end after Lampard himself had been fouled by Michael Brown.", "However, Portsmouth failed to trouble Cech's goal after that, although substitute Nadir Belhadj produced a couple of dangerous crosses from the left that caused panic in the Chelsea defence.", "After the game, Chelsea captain John Terry paid tribute to his side, who join Tottenham (1961), Liverpool (1986), Arsenal (1971, 1998, 2002) and Manchester United (1994, 1996 and 1999) as modern-day \"Double\" winners.", "\"This is an unbelievable feeling and to win the Double with this group of players is just fantastic,\" Terry told ITV Sport.", "\"I thought our luck was running out with all those misses but it was a great strike from Didier and I thought we were worthy winners.", "\"The pitch was awful, the worse pitch we have played on this season, but we played our football and managed to get the victory.\"", "The result was also a personal triumph for manager Carlo Ancelotti, who managed to achieve what no other Chelsea manager -- including Jose Mourinho -- had achieved by winning the \"Double\" in his first season in charge at Stamford Bridge." ]	[ "Chelsea complete a league and FA Cup double after beating Portsmouth 1-0 at Wembley .", "Didier Drogba's long-range free-kick proves the difference between the two sides .", "The match sees both sides miss penalties and Chelsea hit the woodwork five times ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(Mashable.com) -- Facebook has begun the rollout of a new feature, Facebook Questions, which will allow users to get answers to their queries from the entire Facebook community.", "Similar in concept to Yahoo!", "Answers, Quora and Mahalo, Facebook Questions gives users the opportunity to ask questions just by clicking the \"Ask Question\" button on the homepage.", "Questions is also available on friends' profiles just as you would post on someone's wall.", "We first learned of Facebook's Q&A feature two months ago, when the company started asking for volunteers to beta test the product.", "The world's largest social network even went so far as to promise beta testers a trip to Facebook's offices to meet with the Q&A team.", "I had the chance earlier today to discuss the new feature with several Facebook employees.", "Questions has several defining features: .", "• Photo questions: For example, if you take a picture of a bird, but don't know what species it is, you can post the picture on Facebook Questions and get your answer.", "• Polling: If you're simply looking for the answer to \"Which city is better: Chicago or Dallas?", "\", you can get your answer by creating a poll.", "• Tagging: The company seems to be placing a lot of emphasis on tagging questions based on category or topic.", "The goal seems to be to make Q&A discovery an easier and faster process by making it simple to look up questions on cooking, photography, San Francisco or a variety of other topics.", "• Topic exploration: Facebook described this as a roulette-type feature that allows users to browse Facebook's eventual mountain of Q&A.", "Under the \"Questions about\" drop-down menu, there's a feature called \"Everything\" that allows users to browse the company's catalog of questions.", "• Following: You can follow specific questions for updates and new answers.", "• Updated homepage: Facebook Questions does actually change the homepage, adding a new bar at the top of the page where you can choose to update your status, ask a question, add photos, or post a link.", "There was one more thing that Facebook made clear to me: Facebook Questions is not an advertising product.", "While brands with Facebook Pages will eventually be able to answer questions, it's not meant to be a promotional platform; it's meant to be a useful and insightful product for users.", "Facebook Questions will roll out to a limited group of beta testers today, but the company promises to \"bring this product to all of you as quickly as we can.\"", "The entire feature is public, so we don't suggest posting those awkward bedroom questions on Facebook.", "Will Facebook Questions prove to be more useful than Quora or even Twitter as a Q&A platform?", "We think so, if only because it has the biggest advantage of them all: 500 million users.", "© 2010 MASHABLE.com.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "Facebook has begun the rollout of a new feature, Facebook Questions .", "Questions will allow users to get answers to their queries from the Facebook community .", "Feature will roll out to a limited group of beta testers Thursday ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A \"permissive\" environment with inconsistent discipline is one of the factors leading to a spike in Army suicides, according to a new report released Thursday.", "The 15-month-long Army study on suicide prevention concludes there is a need to promote and encourage healthy behavior among troops as one of the key means of reducing suicide levels.", "Moreover, the report called on commanders to reinforce efforts to discipline soldiers for substance abuse, criminal behavior and disciplinary problems.", "Many of today's commanders are so focused on getting ready for deployments to war zones, some of these issues have slipped through the cracks, according to Army officials who briefed CNN ahead of the release of the study.", "\"Now more than ever, our soldiers need firm, fair and consistent leadership,\" said Gen. Peter Chiarelli, Army vice chief of staff, in the report's introduction.", "Chiarelli led the review team.", "\"What we witnessed firsthand were real indicators of stress on the force and an increasing propensity for soldiers to engage in high-risk behavior,\" he wrote.", "In fiscal year 2009, 239 soldiers committed suicide in both the active duty and reserve force, the report noted.", "In addition, 146 soldiers died due to \"high risk\" behavior, including 74 drug overdoses.", "During the same time frame there were 1,713 suicide attempts, the report said.", "The Army found some form of \"high-risk\" behavior such as self-harm, illicit drug use, binge drinking or criminal activity was a factor in most of the deaths.", "\"For some, the rigors of service, repeated deployments, injuries and separations from family resulted in (a) sense of isolation, hopelessness and life fatigue,\" Chiarelli said.", "He also noted sometimes there has been a \"permissive unit environment\" which in some commanders \"failed to hold soldiers accountable for their actions and allowed for risk taking behavior -- sometimes with fatal consequences.\"", "Linda Bean's son Coleman, of East Brunswick, New Jersey, was 25 when he committed suicide in 2008 a few months after his second tour in Iraq.", "The Army sergeant had been diagnosed with Post-traumatic stress disorder, she said.", "\"I appreciate that the Army needs to identify and address drug- and alcohol-impaired troops,\" Bean said.", "\"Any workplace should take the necessary steps to combat that.\"", "But Bean said the report lacks meaningful information that can help troubled soldiers and their families.", "\"It's critical that the Army and the Veterans Administration bring our communities into the conversation, and show us in a very clear and easy way how to access resources and services everywhere, including rural areas far from an Army base,\" she said.", "\"These services exist.\"", "Bean said such information is included in the report, but \"in a very minimal way.\"", "\"It's a really modest list, buried in two paragraphs on Page 18,\" she said.", "In his report, Chiarelli was not singling out any particular unit, Army officials said, but rather underscoring the need for commanders to focus on soldiers' behavior even as they prepare for overseas deployments.", "The Army has long worried that some commanders are so focused on taking their entire unit on deployment, they may not realize or acknowledge that some troops with substance abuse or behavior problems should stay behind for treatment and not deploy.", "Officials plan to improve record-keeping so a commander will be more aware of soldiers' records of problematic behavior.", "CNN's Laurie Ure contributed to this article." ]	[ "NEW: Mother of soldier says families need clearer access to resources .", "Study concludes commanders need to be attentive to soldiers' behavior .", "\"High-risk behavior\" was deemed a factor in many Army suicides .", "Report: Commanders should realize that troops with problems should not deploy ." ]	[ 0, 22, 23 ]
[ "Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Kenya has deported a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric who was previously jailed in Britain for inciting racial hatred, the Kenyan immigration minister said Thursday.", "Abdullah Ibrahim el-Faisal was deported to the West African country of Gambia, Kenyan Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang told reporters in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.", "Kenyan anti-terror police picked up Abdullah Ibrahim el-Faisal days ago after he passed into the country unnoticed, police spokesman Eric Kiraithe told CNN on Tuesday.", "Kenya's immigration minister declared him an unwanted person in Kenya, Kiraithe said, adding that el-Faisal is a threat to Kenya's security with \"proven\" terrorism links.", "El-Faisal was sentenced in London to nine years in prison in March 2003 for inciting others to commit murder and for stirring racial hatred.", "He had been arrested a year earlier.", "He was paroled in 2007 after serving half his sentence and deported to Jamaica, according to British news reports.", "El-Faisal entered Kenya from Tanzania, Kiraithe said, but it was not clear when.", "Kiraithe acknowledged there had been \"lapses\" between Kenya's police and immigration that allowed the cleric to enter the country.", "Kenyan Muslim groups have protested the moves to deport el-Faisal.", "\"He is being treated unfairly,\" said Al-Amin Kimathi, the executive coordinator for the Muslim Forum of Human Rights, \"He has committed no crimes in Jamaica and has not committed any crimes in Kenya.", "There is a double standard at work.\"", "Before his sentence in Britain, el-Faisal had spent much of the previous decade preaching in various mosques and selling audiotapes across the country.", "In one of the tapes, he said, \"How do you fight the Hindus?", "You have to bomb the Indian businesses.", "And as for the Jews, you kill them physically.", "Then you will overcome them in Kashmir and in Palestine.\"", "His lawyers in Britain had asked the judge in his case to consider the Muslim convert \"misguided rather than malicious.\"", "The defense stressed that most of his preachings were benign interpretations of the Quran.", "They also said el-Faisal, a husband and father who had been living in the east London neighborhood of Stratford, had been a leader in his community.", "CNN's David McKenzie contributed to this report." ]	[ "Kenyan anti-terror police picked up Abdullah Ibrahim el-Faisal days after he passed into country unnoticed .", "El-Faisal sentenced in London to 9 years in prison in March 2003 for inciting others to commit murder .", "He was paroled in 2007 after serving half his sentence and deported to Jamaica, according to reports ." ]	[ 2, 4, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- NASCAR team owner Jack Roush, who was injured in a plane crash Tuesday, was transferred from a Wisconsin hospital to the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota, according to a statement released Thursday by one of his companies.", "\"Following surgery Tuesday night, related to the facial damage sustained in the accident, he remains in serious, but stable condition,\" said the statement from ROUSH Performance Products.", "\"He will continue to be treated at Mayo Clinic for his facial injuries.", "The ROUSH organization would like to thank the physicians and staff at Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah, Wisconsin, for the care and treatment provided during his stay.\"", "When the auto racing magnate crashed his plane at an Oshkosh, Wisconsin, airport Tuesday night, the aircraft \"cartwheeled\" an undetermined number of times and ended up facing in the opposite direction, National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson said Wednesday.", "Knudson said upon landing, the Beechcraft Premier jet, registered to Roush Fenway Racing LLC, rolled \"hard to the right,\" then its right wing dropped \"way down\" and struck a grass strip, and the plane flipped over at least once.", "The jet ended up facing north, though it had flown in facing south, Knudson said.", "The NASCAR owner was piloting the plane, which took off from Detroit, Michigan, Knudson said.", "The NTSB is leading the investigation into the accident.", "Roush's company said Thursday it would \"like to thank everyone for the outpouring of support and well wishes\" and encouraged people wishing to make a charitable donation in the name of Jack Roush to contribute to Speedway Children's Charities on the organization's website.", "The Experimental Aircraft Association said in a statement Tuesday night that Roush's passenger in the plane was Brenda Strickland of Plymouth, Michigan.", "Video showed the two of them walking away from the plane, which appeared to be split toward its midsection.", "Strickland was brought to Oshkosh's Mercy Medical Center.", "She was treated, then released Wednesday, Mercy spokeswoman Maria Heim said Thursday.", "The Experimental Aircraft Association's annual air show, AirVenture 2010, had just ended for the day Tuesday at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh when the crash happened at 6:15 p.m., association spokesman Dick Knapinski said.", "The accident shut down the airport until its regular 8 p.m. closing time, but the airport re-opened Wednesday morning, according to Knapinski.", "He said Roush comes every year and \"does presentations as an airplane enthusiast.\"", "Knapinski said Roush owns one of \"probably fewer than 200 airworthy\" World War II-era P-51 Mustang fighter planes and was scheduled to give a presentation about his vintage prop plane Tuesday.", "Roush had also been slated to appear at the air show Wednesday, signing autographs and talking to NASCAR fans at the Ford tent.", "\"Roush Fenway Racing is NASCAR's largest team, operating eight motorsports teams -- four in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with drivers Matt Kenseth, Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards and David Ragan, and four in the Nationwide Series with Edwards, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Colin Braun, Brian Ickler and Paul Menard,\" said a statement from Roush's racing team." ]	[ "Auto racing magnate Jack Roush has been transferred to the Mayo Clinic .", "Roush had facial surgery Tuesday night .", "The NTSB says Roush's plane rolled hard to the right and cartwheeled upon landing .", "Roush, an airplane enthusiast, was heading to an air show ." ]	[ 2, 4, 5, 12, 16, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A picturesque New York town is all abuzz and ready for its closeup as the countdown to Chelsea Clinton's wedding starts.", "Clinton, 30, is expected to wed investment banker Marc Mezvinsky, 32, on Saturday in Rhinebeck.", "The former first family is guarding details of the upcoming nuptials like state secrets, and has not released any information.", "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently said she's \"under very strict orders\" not to talk about it.", "The order seems to extend to those involved in the planning.", "A host of vendors contacted by CNN declined to comment, including a florist rumored to be involved.", "CNN could not independently verify the wedding venue.", "The secrecy and silence have only fueled the speculation.", "Residents of Rhinebeck -- population 4,000 -- are hanging up congratulatory signs on windows.", "And talking to television crews.", "And hoping the influx of high-profile visitors will mean a boost in the town's economy.", "And ... well, you get the point.", "Local media have been crowing that the couple will wed at Astor Courts, a posh estate built more than a century ago along the Hudson River.", "The Beaux Arts building was one of the last buildings designed by the famous American architect Stanford White, according to the estate's website.", "Lynn Lobotsky, a local florist, recently told CNN that she's seen crews working around the clock along a stone wall leading up to the estate.", "\"They even worked on Sunday,\" Lobotsky said.", "Adding to the speculation, the FAA has declared a no-fly-zone around Rhinebeck on Saturday and Sunday.", "The restriction is for \"temporary flight restrictions for VIP movement,\" the FAA said on its website.", "Read the FAA's Temporary Flight Restriction notice .", "Rhinebeck resident Dan Landa is taking it all in stride.", "\"With everything this wedding entails, I can't believe what's going to happen this weekend,\" Landa told CNN television affiliate YNN.", "\"I can say I'll still treat it like a regular workday, regular old day in the life of me.\"", "Is there any rivalry between the Clintons hometown of Chappaqua -- and the town 100 miles north of New York city where the nuptials will take place?", "They shouldn't be, said resident Susan Cole.", "\"To be honest, the Rhinebeck area needs the $3 million more than the Chappaqua area does,\" Cole told YNN.", "White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama will not attend the nuptials." ]	[ "A small New York town is all abuzz about Saturday's expected nuptials .", "Hillary Clinton is \"under very strict orders\" not to discuss daughter's wedding .", "Couple is expected to wed at Astor Courts in Rhinebeck ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3 ]
[ "Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) -- The legal battle over a tough Arizona immigration law entered its next stage Thursday when Gov.", "Jan Brewer filed an expedited appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.", "The appeal asks the court to lift a preliminary injunction granted by a federal judge that blocked the most controversial parts of the law.", "The court document suggests a fast-track timetable that would have oral arguments on the appeal on September 13.", "Before then, Arizona would file a substantive brief to the court and the U.S. Department of Justice would respond.", "The Justice Department responded to the motion Thursday, opposing the proposed timetable that would force the government to respond in half the typical time allotted.", "\"America is not going to sit back and allow the ongoing federal failures to continue,\" Brewer said in a statement.", "We are a nation of laws and we believe they need to be enforced.\"", "Following Wednesday's injunction, some legal experts expect that the fight between the federal government and Arizona will reach the U.S. Supreme Court.", "\"We'll win on appeal,\" said Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, who wrote the law, known as SB 1070.", "\"I got news for the anarchists,\" he added.", "\"Our laws will be enforced.\"", "But Isabel Garcia, an immigrants' rights activist and a legal defender in Pima County, Arizona, said she is confident that Wednesday's ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton will prevail under appeal.", "\"The court will not allow the state of Arizona to criminalize undocumented immigrants,\" Garcia told CNN.", "The judge's ruling \"gutted\" the Arizona law, Garcia said.", "The preliminary injunction issued Wednesday prevents police from questioning people's immigration status if there is reason to believe they are in the country illegally.", "Bolton also blocked provisions of the law making it a crime for people to fail to apply for or carry \"alien registration papers\" or \"for an unauthorized alien to solicit, apply for, or perform work,\" as well as a provision \"authorizing the warrantless arrest of a person\" if there is reason to believe that person might be subject to deportation.", "The parts of the law that took effect Thursday include a ban on so-called \"sanctuary cities\" -- municipalities with laws or policies that render them relatively safe for undocumented immigrants.", "Pearce noted that provision in the judge's ruling.", "\"It was still a victory for Arizona,\" he told CNN's \"Newsroom AM\" program.", "The judge also allowed a provision in the law that makes it illegal to hire day laborers if doing so impedes traffic.", "The parts of the law dealing with sanctions for employers who hire illegal immigrants also withstood the first legal test.", "Despite the judge's ruling -- or perhaps because of it -- tensions remained elevated Thursday.", "Several demonstrators who oppose the immigration law were arrested Thursday afternoon in downtown Phoenix, where police blocked off several downtown streets and officers in riot gear were deployed throughout the area.", "Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said there were approximately 200 protesters oustide of a Phoenix jail.", "At least 15 protesters had been arrested, he said.", "Arpaio, a staunch supporter of the immigration law, and his department went ahead on Thursday with a sweep where violators of the law are subsequently investigated to verify their immigration status.", "The sweeps do not contradict the judge's ruling because there are other laws that allow the transferring of undocumented workers from state jails to federal immigration custody afterwards, he said.", "\"Nothing is going to deter the sheriff and my office, including rulings by the federal judge.", "So, business as normal,\" he said.", "From the other side of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border, the governor of Sonora state noted that the law has produced \"much tension\" between the two state governments.", "\"It puts a lot of tension to border states like Sonora,\" Guillermo Padres Elias told CNN.", "CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said the ruling reflects the government's argument that immigration enforcement should be dealt with at the federal level.", "\"Arizona may have good intentions, they may be trying to make up for where the U.S. government has failed, but what the judge is saying is, this is not the way to do it,\" he said .", "\"I think this [is] a case very much destined for the Supreme Court,\" as other states pass similar laws, Toobin said.", "Pearce, author of the law, said he foresaw a protracted legal fight from the beginning.", "\"I wrote it to go to the Supreme Court,\" he said before the ruling came down.", "\"I'm begging for that fistfight at the Supreme Court.", "We will win in a 5-4 decision and finally settle this problem.\"", "He added, \"My message to the judge, is uphold the Constitution.", "Uphold states' rights.", "This is a battle of epic proportions.", "This is the states versus the central government.\"", "The federal appeals court could take up the case in a matter of days, but the earliest the Supreme Court could look at it would be October, because the high court is in summer recess.", "CNN's Arthur Brice, Adam Blank, Phil Gast and Holly Yan contributed to this report." ]	[ "Justice Department opposes fast-track timetable .", "Arizona governor files expedited appeal .", "Opponents of the law say the ruling \"gutted\" the measure .", "Judge blocks police from questioning people's immigration status ." ]	[ 14, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A cholera outbreak has erupted this summer in Africa, killing more than 600 people in the neighboring countries of Nigeria and Cameroon.", "Nigeria's Health Ministry said more than 350 people have died since June and the infection threatens to spread to the entire country, the most populous in Africa.", "In neighboring Cameroon, nearly 300 people have been killed.", "\"There's a lot of people crossing over the border all the time,\" said Dr. Eric Mintz, the leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's global water sanitation and hygiene epidemiology team.", "\"So it's not surprising that the cholera is also crossing over the border.\"", "Nigeria's outbreak had sickened more than 6,400 people and killed 352 people by Wednesday, the federal Ministry of Health reported.", "\"Although most of the outbreaks occurred in the northwest and northeast zones, epidemiological evidence indicates that the entire country is at risk,\" the ministry reported.", "Cholera occurs in much of the country under normal conditions, but the lack of clean drinking water and recent flooding following heavy rains are fueling the spread of disease, the ministry reported.", "Two-thirds of rural Nigerians lack access to safe drinking water, and fewer than 40 percent of the people in the affected states have access \"to toilet facilities of any description,\" the health ministry said.", "The intestinal infection causes diarrhea and vomiting that can cause severe dehydration without prompt attention, according to the World Health Organization.", "About 120,000 people die worldwide each year from cholera, and the disease can kill within hours if untreated, the World Health Organization says.", "Cholera is spread through water contaminated with human waste.", "\"What puts people at risk is a lack of safe drinking water,\" Mintz said.", "Boiling the water or treating it with chlorine or filtration or other ways to remove the contaminants can make it safe.", "Untreated, cholera can kill within hours, WHO said.", "Mintz said the Cameroon outbreak began in May and has exceeded 3,000 cases.", "Under ideal conditions, cholera's fatality rate ought to be less than 1 percent, he said.", "But Cameroon's conditions are not ideal.", "Many people live far from the medical aid that could help them rehydrate and replace the sodium and .", "potassium lost in their stools and vomit.", "\"That delay can be critical,\" Mintz said.", "\"If you don't get the fluids and the electrolytes replaced through hydration, you can go into shock and die as a result.\"", "The country's northern region has been particularly hard hit.", "Three of 10 prisoners diagnosed with cholera at Maroua Central Prison in the far north were among the dead, the officials said.", "Mintz said the rugged and remote region has been affected repeatedly by cholera epidemics, most recently last year.", "About 70 percent of people living in the country's far north, bordering Nigeria and Chad and the Central African Republic, do not have access to potable water, according to a Ministry of Water and Energy official." ]	[ "Flooding fuels an outbreak in Nigeria .", "\"The entire country is at risk,\" the government says .", "A cholera epidemic is also raging in neighboring Cameroon ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "(The Frisky) -- Directing movies has gone exceptionally well for many leading men in Hollywood.", "Clint Eastwood has been nominated for the Best Director Oscar four times, and Warren Beatty, Robert Redford, and Kevin Costner have all gotten Oscar nods for stepping behind the camera.", "Oh, and George Clooney didn't do too shabby with his directorial debut, \"Good Night, and Good Luck,\" did he?", "The Frisky: 6 celebs who removed their implants -- compare before and after .", "Now Angelina Jolie is taking the plunge behind the camera.", "She's announced that for her next movie, she won't be acting -- she'll be directing and producing.", "Did we forget to mention that she also wrote the screenplay?", "The as-of-now untitled movie is a Bosnian War love story.", "\"The film focuses on a Serbian man and a Bosnian woman who meet on the eve of the war and the effect the war has on their relationship,\" a public statement about the film reads.", "It continues that they won't be auditioning big names for these roles; they'll be using actors of \"various ethnicities from the region of the former Yugoslavia,\" according to People.com.", "The Frisky: 10 celebs with bad body habits .", "We wish Angie good luck on her first directing venture.", "In her honor, here are other famous ladies who've sat in the director's chair: .", "Drew Barrymore has been producing flicks since 1995, when she formed Flower Films, the production company that brought you \"Never Been Kissed\" and \"Charlie's Angels.\"", "But it wasn't until last year that Drew tried her hand at directing with the roller derby flick \"Whip It.\"", "It was apparently Guy Ritchie who inspired Madonna to direct her first film, \"Filth and Wisdom.\"", "Like their marriage, it was a stinker.", "We hope she does better with her new one, \"W.E.,\" the tale of the affair between King Edward VIII and American socialite Wallis Simpson.", "The flick stars Abbie Cornish and is in production right now.", "The Frisky: 6 celebrity hoarders .", "Sofia Coppola made her acting debut as a baby, in the christening scene in \"The Godfather,\" because her pops was the director (Francis Ford Coppola).", "She also landed roles in \"The Outsiders,\" \"Peggy Sue Got Married,\" and \"The Godfather Part 3\" -- all films her father directed.", "But then she decided to try directing.", "She went on to make the \"The Virgin Suicides,\" \"Lost In Translation,\" and \"Marie Antoinette.\"", "She became the third woman nominated for Best Director for \"Lost in Translation.\"", "The Frisky: 30 things women need to quit doing by 30 .", "Barbra Streisand established a production company in 1972 and wore many hats on the set of \"Yentl\" -- she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the movie, which got five Academy Award nominations.", "She did the director-producer-star trifecta twice more in the 90s, for \"The Prince of Tides\" and \"The Mirror Has Two Faces.\"", "Some note that in her self-directed flicks, she gives herself a lot of close-ups.", "We say she earned it.", "Goldie Hawn not only starred in 80s classics \"Private Benjamin,\" \"Protocol,\" and \"Wildcats\" -- she also produced them.", "She didn't start directing, though, until 1997 when she called the shots for the movie \"Hope.\"", "We won't hold it against her that it was made for TV.", "The Frisky: 1 in 4 of you are in love with someone else .", "And even Jolie's archrival (as some magazines would have us believe), Jennifer Aniston, has directed.", "The project, in 2006, was a short film called \"Room 10\" about an emergency room.", "Apparently, a few years earlier, Jen was even offered the chance to direct an episode of \"Friends.\"", "She explained later, \"Well, I was slotted to direct an episode of 'Friends' And then I got 'The Good Girl.'", "See? So, you either got 'The Good Girl' or you got a very bad direction of 'Friends.'\"", "She was apparently inspired to direct for real when Gwyneth Paltrow made a short earlier that year.", "TM & © 2010 TMV, Inc. \| All Rights Reserved ." ]	[ "Angelina Jolie will be directing and producing her next film .", "Drew Barrymore has been producing flicks since 1995 .", "Sofia Coppola became the third woman nominated for Best Director ." ]	[ 5, 13, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A special court in Kenya has been initiated to hear maritime piracy cases, the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime said Friday.", "The court, opened on Thursday in Mombasa, was built by the U.N. office's Counter-Piracy Program with contributions from Australia, Canada, the European Union, Germany and the United States.", "\"With Kenya having taken on the largest number of suspected pirates for prosecution in the region -- 123 to date -- the new court in Mombasa is intended to increase trial efficiency in the system and provide a secure, modern environment suitable for piracy cases,\" the U.N. office said.", "Piracy has plagued the seas off the coast of eastern Africa.", "\"Kenya has taken on a heavy burden in dealing with a crime that affects the entire international community,\" said John Sandage, office-in-charge of UNODC's division of treaty affairs." ]	[ "Court focusing on maritime piracy opens in Mombasa .", "U.N. builds court with international contributions .", "Kenya taking on \"heavy burden\" in dealing with piracy ." ]	[ 1, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Authorities shot and killed a grizzly bear that mauled a 70-year-old man near Yellowstone National Park, a Wyoming Game and Fish Department spokesman said Saturday.", "Agents tracked the bear via a radio collar and killed it near the site of the attack, said the spokesman, Eric Kezsler.", "The Park County Sheriff's Office had closed part of the Shoshone National Forest while they searched for the large adult male bear, which apparently attacked Erwin Frank Evert after being captured and tranquilized there by researchers Thursday.", "Evert was unarmed and fatally wounded, the sheriff's office said.", "He was in the forest with his wife, a member of a federal team of researchers studying grizzly bears, authorities said.", "Members of the team had packed up their equipment and left the area after tranquilizing the bear and putting the radio collar on it, the sheriff's office said.", "But officials said Evert was attacked when he wandered back into the capture area, located in the Kitty Creek Drainage.", "Game wardens and federal authorities began searching for the bear Friday.", "The 2.4-million-acre Shoshone National Forest is just east of Yellowstone National Park." ]	[ "Authorities shoot bear they say killed man .", "Bear attack occurred near Yellowstone National Park .", "Researchers had tranquilized bear and placed radio collar on it .", "Man's wife worked on grizzly bear research team ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Recovery crews ended the search for bodies in the hills north of Islamabad Thursday where a passenger plane crashed a day earlier killing all 152 aboard, a government officials told CNN.", "Ramzan Sajid, a local official in Islamabad, said 130 bodies were recovered from the crash site and delivered to several nearby hospitals.", "\"Not a single body was intact,\" Sajid said.", "He said hospital officials are trying to match body parts to account for the remains of 22 other people.", "Pakistan observed a day of mourning Thursday for victims of the accident, called the worst passenger plane crash ever on Pakistani soil.", "Officials do not know if weather played a factor in the crash Wednesday.", "Recovery crews have yet to find the plane's voice and data recorders.", "At Pakistan's Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital friends and family members of the passengers waited to identify their loved ones' remains.", "Amir Ali, another local government official in Islamabad, told CNN 66 bodies have been identified.", "Among them, 52 have been handed over to their families.", "The remaining bodies may have to identified with DNA tests and blood samples from relatives, Ali said.", "Crews will stay at the crash site to collect any remaining debris and search for the plane's flight data and voice recorders, said Sajid.", "Another day of torrential rains in Islamabad Thursday hampered those efforts.", "Investigators say they won't be able to explain why the plane crash until they review the plane's data recorders.", "On Thursday, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani cancelled a cabinet meeting, and flags across the country flew at half-staff.", "The deadliest crash involving a Pakistani airline occurred in September 1992, when a Pakistan International Airlines Airbus crashed into a mountain in Nepal, killing all 167 people on board, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported.", "Pakistan is in the midst of the annual monsoon season, when rain sweeps across the subcontinent from June until September.", "The Airblue plane was headed to Islamabad from the sea port city of Karachi when it crashed in a hillside while trying to land.", "The Airbus A321 was carrying 146 passengers and six crew members, the airline said.", "The U.S. Embassy in Pakistan said two of the people aboard were American citizens." ]	[ "NEW: Officials say it's the worst passenger plane crash on Pakistani soil .", "Search ends for bodies in Pakistani crash .", "Two of the people on board the flight were Americans, the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan says ." ]	[ 4, 19 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Flooding has displaced an additional 1 million people in Pakistan's Sindh province in the past two days, according to new U.N. estimates released Friday.", "\"We have more people on the move, to whom we need to provide relief.", "An already colossal disaster is getting worse and requiring an even more colossal response,\" said Maurizio Giuliano, a spokesman for the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.", "Giuliano said rains have forced the evacuation of an estimated 1 million people in southern Sindh in the past 48 hours or so.", "\"The magnitude of this crisis is reaching levels that are even beyond our initial fears, which were already leaning towards what we thought would be the worst.", "The number of those affected and those in need of assistance from us are bound to keep rising.", "The floods seem determined to outrun our response,\" he said.", "The U.N. also said Friday that it is increasingly concerned about flood-driven malnutrition among children.", "\"The flooding has surrounded millions of children with contaminated water,\" said Karen Allen, deputy representative of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Pakistan.", "\"Most have nothing else to drink.", "We fear the deadly synergy of waterborne diseases, including diarrhea, dehydration and malnutrition.\"", "Acute malnutrition was high in much of Pakistan even before the floods.", "For instance, 27 percent of children under 5 in Baluchistan province were malnourished, as were 17 percent of children in Punjab, according to the U.N. A hospital in Sindh is overrun with people suffering from waterborne illness; two children share each bed and more are on the floor.", "A doctor at the hospital said there are \"not enough resources because of huge population ... coming to this hospital.\"", "Remat Chacher, a farmer in Sindh, escaped the floodwaters with his wife and two children earlier this month.", "But then his 3-month-old daughter Benazir got sick.", "\"She started to get fever and couldn't keep anything down ... lots of belly pain,\" said Ulla, the infant's mom.", "A few days later, the same symptoms struck the Chachers' son, 2-year-old Wazira.", "Both children died on the way to the hospital, with Wazira weighing just 8 pounds and Benazir weighing 2 pounds.", "Floodwaters have started to recede across Pakistan, but in the Indus delta, the potential for more flooding remained high, especially given high tides in the Arabian Sea, where the Indus spills out.", "Already, more than 17 million Pakistanis -- from the Chinese border in the north to the mouth of the Indus in the south -- have been affected by the monsoon floods that began a month ago.", "To date, Pakistan's unfolding tragedy has claimed 1,600 lives, according to the National Disaster Management Authority.", "That number is likely to rise as more drowned bodies are discovered in receding waters.", "Many refugees have sought shelter at relief camps, where food and drinking water are now available.", "But every day, there are new camp arrivals -- people who were already poor, who now have nothing.", "Along the flooded Swat River in northeastern Pakistan, six local aid workers have spent two weeks braving the torrents on rafts they built from used tire tubes, bamboo and gaffers' tape after motorized boats failed to arrive.", "The workers are ferrying tents, blankets and other supplies to hundreds of thousands of people stranded across the river and cut off from normal supply routes.", "Last year, bombs and bullets from the army's offensive against the Taliban destroyed many homes and lives in the region.", "Residents had barely begun to recover when the rains came.", "\"We are fed up,\" said Shahravan, a 65-year old man who lost his house in the floods.", "\"You don't ask a dead man why he's in his grave.", "It's not his choice.\" Fayas Muhammad, another local, said he lost his leg when his house was mistakenly bombed in last year's fighting.", "The same blast took his wife and son.", "\"We are very sad for all that Swat has been through,\" he said.", "The damage from Pakistan's worst humanitarian catastrophe is sure to hurtle the impoverished nation back in terms of development.", "This week, America's top aid official saw firsthand the dire needs in Pakistan.", "Dr. Rajiv Shah, administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development, said he was deeply moved by his visit to Sukkur and that aid agencies were \"scaling up their response efforts as quickly as they possibly can.\"", "Shah announced the United States would be diverting another $50 million for flood relief from the Kerry-Lugar Act, which allocated $7.5 billion in nonmilitary assistance to Pakistan over five years.", "CNN's Sanjay Gupta, Reza Sayah, Samson Desta, Sara Sidner, Moni Basu and journalist Nasir Habib contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: U.N. is increasingly worried about flood-driven malnutrition among children .", "U.N. official says a \"colossal disaster is getting worse\"\nAbout 1 million additional people have been displaced in Sindh province, the U.N. says .", "Authorities have ordered evacuations in the Indus River delta ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- A claim that several dozen glass plates bought for $45 at a garage sale were negatives from Ansel Adams brought an angry response of disbelief from the man who oversees the famed photographer's trust.", "Adams' grandson is also unconvinced.", "Matthew Adams, who runs the Ansel Adams Gallery, said even if they are authenticated, they are not worth much beyond their historical value.", "The art dealer who placed their eventual value at more than $200 million said Wednesday that the controversy is increasing their value by \"driving the market to them.\"", "\"They're making them so desirable,\" said David W. Streets.", "\"People all over the world are seeing this and saying 'I want one of each.'\"", "That controversy took a bitter turn a day after California wall painter Rick Norsigian and his lawyer held a news conference at Streets' Beverly Hills art gallery to say they have proof the negatives were created by Ansel Adams.", "William Turnage, the managing trustee of Adams' trust, called Norsigian and those working with him \"a bunch of crooks\" who \"are pulling a big con job.\"", "Norsigian's lawyer, Arnold Peter, called Turnage's attack \"a shameful and pointless disparagement of the professional reputations of some of the top leaders in their respective fields.\"", "The team of experts included two court-qualified handwriting experts, a retired FBI agent, and a former assistant United States attorney, Peter said.", "Peter said that based on the overwhelming evidence they gathered \"no reasonable person would have any doubt that these, in fact, were the long-lost images of Ansel Adams.\"", "Turnage, who was Adams' business manager before his death in 1984, challenged the expertise of Norsigian's team, saying the only one with art credentials was a \"so-called expert that nobody has ever heard of from Jackson Hole, Wyoming.\"", "\"They had to go out into the boonies to dig him up,\" Turnage said.", "Norsigian's lawyer responded by calling Turnage an \"elitist.\"", "\"Ansel Adams would likely be shocked and appalled at such blatant arrogance and condescending commentary in his name,\" Peter said.", "Turnage said Norsigian's strategy is to line up a long list of hired experts to tell \"a big lie.\"", "\"Hitler used that technique,\" Turnage said.", "\"You don't tell a small one.", "You tell a big one.\"", "Peter said Turnage \"has converted a professional disagreement over works of art into a personal attack utilizing tactics that are grossly offensive and unconscionable.\"", "\"Likening Rick Norsigian to Adolf Hitler is nothing more than yet another bullying tactics designed to silence Mr. Norsigian,\" Peter said.", "The lawyer invited Matthew Adams and Turnage \"to engage in a meaningful dialogue and examine the evidence which they have consistently refused to do.\"", "\"We now offer them yet another opportunity to jointly agree on and hire experts who are qualified to render a final opinion on the authenticity of the negatives,\" Peter said.", "\"Any honest and fair assessment will lead to but one conclusion -- these are the lost negatives of Ansel Adams.\"", "The approach was \"to put these negatives on trial\" using a \"high burden of proof\" to show that the 65 glass plates were created by Adams, the iconic American photographer whose images of the West inspired the country.", "\"I have sent people to prison for the rest of their lives for far less evidence than I have seen in this case,\" said evidence and burden-of-proof expert Manny Medrano, who was hired by Norsigian to help authenticate the plates.", "\"In my view, those photographs were done by Ansel Adams.\"", "Meanwhile, Matthew Adams said Wednesday, \"I don't think that they've proven that they are (authentic).", "... And I don't know that you could ever prove that they are.\"", "Adams, who reviewed Norsigian's evidence last year, said he wanted more scientific tests, including carbon dating, to prove beyond a doubt that the work was that of his grandfather.", "He cited \"a number of inconsistencies,\" including the conclusion by two handwriting analysts that notations on manila envelopes containing the plates were made by Ansel Adams' wife, Virginia Adams.", "The envelopes had five misspellings of well-known Yosemite National Park landmarks, he said.", "\"Bridal Veil Falls\" is misspelled twice as \"Bridal Vail Falls\" and \"Happy Isles\" is misspelled \"Happy Iles,\" Adams said.", "Virginia Adams -- who spent most of her life in that area of California -- would have spelled those names correctly, he said.", "Handwriting experts Michael Nattenberg and Marcel Matley said they used Virginia Adams' writing samples provided by her grandson to reach their conclusion that it was her penmanship.", "Matthew Adams said his belief that she was not the author of the notations is based on copies of the envelopes given to him by Peter.", "\"I just looked at them myself,\" Adams said.", "\"I did not hire experts.\"", "Norsigian's team also said the locations of the photographs, which were taken around San Francisco and Yosemite, helped prove their case.", "\"The fact that these locations were well-known to Adams, and visited by him, further supports the proposition that all of the images in the collection were most probably created by Adams,\" said art expert Robert Moeller.", "Matthew Adams said that circumstantial evidence was unconvincing, since several other highly skilled photographers were known to shoot at the same places around the same period.", "Even if Norsigian's glass plates are authentic Ansel Adams photographs, they would have mostly historical value, \"not anywhere near\" the $200 million estimate given by Streets, Adams said.", "Streets said his estimate was based on decades of print sales and rights fees.", "\"There will always be a demand for Ansel Adams' work,\" he said.", "\"The long-term potential is very easy to prove for these.\"", "\"You can't print original photographs from them because Ansel's not around to print them,\" Matthew Adams said.", "\"Anything you make from them you would have to say is an unknown interpretation of something that may be Ansel's.\"", "The Ansel Adams Gallery is still producing prints, but with a printer who was trained by Adams.", "The iconic artist died in 1984 at the age of 82.", "\"A lot of the magic that he created was in the darkroom making the print,\" his grandson said.", "\"Ansel's not around to tell us how he would have printed it.\"", "Streets countered Adams, saying, \"It's not a mysterious process.\"", "\"There are master printmakers who are making prints today,\" he said.", "Norsigian has contracted with Jesse Kallisher, whose prints hang in the Smithsonian and the Louvre museums, to produce original fine arts prints from the negatives, Streets said.", "While Matthew Adams is unconvinced, he doesn't doubt that Norsigian is sincere in his belief that he has Ansel Adams negatives.", "\"I think that they do believe it, but I don't think that they have proven it,\" he said.", "He doesn't agree, however, with Turnage's charge that it's a \"con job.\"", "\"My take on it is that it is irresponsible to present them as Ansel's,\" Matthew Adams said.", "Norsigian, a painter for the Fresno school system, kept the glass plates under his pool table for four years before realizing they might be too valuable to store at home.", "He believes they were from Adams' early career, a period that is not well documented since a 1937 darkroom fire destroyed 5,000 of his plates.", "\"It truly is a missing link of Ansel Adams and history and his career,\" Streets said.", "Norsigian, who scours garage sales for antiques, was looking for a barber chair when he spotted two deteriorated boxes in the spring of 2000.", "When he pulled one of the glass negatives out, he saw Yosemite.", "\"As a young man, I worked at Yosemite quite a bit.", "So, right away I recognized it as Yosemite,\" Norsigian said.", "He bargained with the seller, finally negotiating the price for the boxes down from $70 to $45.", "The owner said he bought them in the 1940s at a warehouse salvage sale in Los Angeles.", "It would be two years before Norsigian realized the photos might be from Adams, he said.", "After four years, he had done enough research to realize the plates could be valuable.", "He moved them from under his pool table and placed them in a bank vault.", "How these 6.5-inch x 8.5-inch glass plate negatives of famous Yosemite landscapes and San Francisco landmarks -- some of them showing fire damage -- might have made their way from Adams' collection 70 years ago to a Southern California garage sale in 2000 can only be guessed.", "Photography expert Patrick Alt, who helped confirm the authenticity of the negatives, suspects Adams carried them to use in a photography class he was teaching in Pasadena, California, in the early 1940s.", "\"It is my belief that he brought these negatives with him for teaching purposes and to show students how to not let their negatives be engulfed in a fire,\" Alt said.", "\"I think this clearly explains the range of work in these negatives, from very early pictorialist boat pictures, to images not as successful, to images of the highest level of his work during this time period.\"", "Alt said it is impossible to know why Adams would store them in Pasadena and never reclaim them.", "For now, the photos will go on a tour of universities and museums, starting in October at Fresno State University, Norsigian said.", "\"I just hope everybody enjoys them,\" he said.", "Norsigian said he has not spoken with the man who sold him the two boxes a decade ago.", "\"If he's still around, I'm afraid he may come looking for me,\" he said.", "Norsigian, who is 64, is still working but said he may retire this year." ]	[ "NEW: Ansel Adams' trustee says garage sale claim is a \"con job\"\nNEW: The lawyer for the man who found photos calls Adams' trustee an \"elitist\"\nNEW: An appraiser says the controversy is fueling sales of photo prints .", "Photographer's grandson wants more tests before he accepts photos as Adams'" ]	[ 0, 1, 13, 47, 56 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A second U.S. sailor who went missing in Afghanistan last week is dead, a Pentagon official said Thursday.", "Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, 25, of Renton, Washington, was one of two sailors involved in a firefight on Friday in eastern Afghanistan.", "They were traveling in Logar province when they were attacked, the military said.", "Deen Mohammad Darwish, a Logar province official, said Newlove's body was found in the Baraki Barak district of the province early on Wednesday.", "Newlove's family was notified the same day, the Pentagon official said.", "The sailor died of wounds he sustained from the firefight when the two sailors were captured, Darwish said.", "Newlove had five gunshot wounds, including one to the head, Darwish said.", "The government asked the local elders of the province to form a committee and talk to the Taliban in order to retrieve the missing sailor.", "Because of the negotiations with the elders, the Taliban gave the body back without submitting any demands, Darwish said.", "Afghan and coalition forces first recovered the remains of Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley, 30, of Wheatridge, Colorado, on Sunday.", "Petty had been listed as duty status whereabouts unknown.", "On Monday, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said one American died in a firefight and the other was being held by the group.", "Mujahid said the two Americans were driving in a civilian vehicle in the village of Dasht, in Charkh district.", "The Taliban wanted to take both men alive, but the firefight broke out, killing one of the Americans, Mujahid said.", "The other was alive and being held in a safe location, he said at the time.", "Newlove's family released a statement through the Navy asking that the media release no details of the incident or information about the family.", "Darwish said he learned from locals that McNeley was killed.", "He said the body was found in the Patanak Mountains of Charkh district.", "He also said the vehicle the men were driving was located Sunday.", "There had been no immediate demands by the Taliban for the return of the Americans because the group was still deliberating what its demands would be, Mujahid said.", "CNN's Barbara Starr and Atia Abawi contributed to this report ." ]	[ "The body of Jarod Newlove has been found in Logar .", "The men went missing on Friday .", "The Taliban gave the body back without submitting demands ." ]	[ 3, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Al Qaeda-linked militants have banned three international aid groups from working in Somalia, claiming they are \"actively propagating Christianity\" in the predominantly Muslim nation.", "Al-Shabaab, the Islamist militant group battling Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government, ordered World Vision, Adventist Development and Relief Agency and Diakonia to cease their operations.", "\"Acting as missionaries under the guise of humanitarian work, the organizations have been spreading their corrupted ideologies in order to taint the pure creed of the Muslims in Somalia,\" the militant group said in a statement Monday.", "\"Along with their missionary work, the proliferation of corruption and indecency has become prevalent as a result of their presence,\" the statement said, warning other non-governmental groups against engaging in \"similar activities\" All three organizations are Christian aid groups.", "However, as signatories of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement code of conduct, they have specific polices against proselytizing when distributing aid.", "World Vision -- which serves about 100 million people in nearly 100 countries around the world -- said it was \"surprised and disappointed\" by Al-Shabaab's order.", "The group said it is motivated by its faith to help those living in poverty, but is impartial when handing out aid.", "\"World Vision Somalia received a demand today from Al-Shabaab to close operations in Somalia,\" World Vision said in a statement Monday.", "\"World Vision guards were disarmed and their keys were taken.", "Nothing was removed from the offices although Al-Shabaab representatives occupied the offices.\"", "The group said its operations in south central Somalia have been temporarily suspended as \"we plan our next steps.\"", "ADRA said its work in Somalia as solely focused on implementing emergency relief and development since 1992.", "More than 650,000 Somalis benefited from the group's humanitarian work in 2008, the group said in a statement.", "\"ADRA remains committed to serving the people of Somalia as circumstances allow,\" the group said.", "There was no immediate response from Diakonia, a joint international development organization of five Swedish churches.", "According to its website, the group has regional offices in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America and has aid operations in Somalia." ]	[ "Al-Shabaab has ordered three aid groups to cease operations in Somalia .", "The Islamist militant group is accusing the groups of spreading Christianity .", "The groups say they are motivated by faith, but don't proselytize ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Another Taliban leader has been seized in neighboring Pakistan by security forces, sources said.", "Mullah Abdul Salam was arrested last week, according to Afghan government officials, Taliban sources and a U.S. official.", "Word of Salam's arrest comes days after news of the capture of the Afghan Taliban's reputed second-in-command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.", "\"The Taliban is down another 'shadow governor,' \" the American source said of Salam.", "The source declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the information.", "The news came against the background of an intensified U.S.-led campaign against insurgents on both sides of the border.", "Taliban fighters are resisting Operation Moshtarak, an allied military push into areas the Taliban control in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province.", "\"They know this is their last stronghold.", "They're not backing down,\" CNN's Atia Abawi reported from the battlefield, where she is embedded with U.S. Marines.", "The crackle of small-arms fire and the whoosh of outgoing mortar rounds from the Marines were clearly audible on the line as she described the battle.", "\"About five minutes ago, Taliban started attacking our area,\" she said shortly before 8 a.m.", "ET. \"The Taliban are not giving up -- they seem to be coming out in squads, [but] they know they can't group together in large numbers\" because it would make them easier targets.", "The Taliban seem to include \"foreign fighters who will fight to the death,\" she said.", "It will take NATO-led military forces \"another 25 to 30 days to secure that which needs to be secured\" in Helmand and a further three months to ensure insurgents are kept out of the area, British Maj. Gen. Nick Carter said Thursday in a briefing from Afghanistan broadcast by the Pentagon Channel.", "The Nad-e Ali district is \"broadly secure,\" Carter said, noting there is still Taliban resistance in Marjah.", "\"It will be some days before we can be completely confident that Marjah is secure,\" said Carter, the International Security Assistance Force's head of Regional Command South.", "Ten civilians were killed on the second day of the operation, he said.", "Reports at the time said 12 were killed.", "There have been five casualties among the NATO-led forces during the operation, the forces said in a statement Thursday, without giving further details.", "It said later that four ISAF servicemembers died Thursday -- two of them in an improvised explosive device strike; another after a separate IED attack; small-arms fire killed the fourth servicemember.", "It was not immediately clear whether the four were among the five casualties noted earlier.", "The four deaths bring to 44 the number of Americans killed this year in Afghanistan.", "In all, 78 coalition forces have died this year .", "Across the border in Pakistan, four people were killed and five were wounded Thursday when a drone fired on a suspected militant compound in the country's tribal region, intelligence sources and a local political official said.", "The four dead were suspected militants, two intelligence officials said.", "It was not clear whether the wounded also were militants.", "The remote-controlled aircraft fired two missiles at the compound in the Danday Darpakhel area of North Waziristan, one of seven districts in the tribal region along the Afghan border, the sources said.", "They asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak to the media.", "The U.S. military does not comment on reported attacks by the pilotless aircraft, but the United States is the only country operating in the region known to have the ability to launch missiles from drones.", "Salam was arrested in Pakistan, the Afghan government and Taliban sources said, but they named different cities as the location of his capture.", "Gov. Muhammad Omar of Afghanistan's Kunduz province said Salam was detained in Quetta, where the Afghan Taliban reportedly has its leadership councils.", "The Taliban sources said he was nabbed in Faisalabad.", "Salam is believed to be the Taliban commander for Kunduz, Omar said.", "Salam was directing Taliban military operations in the province, including ordering terrorist actions, mine planting and suicide attacks, said Abdul Razaq Yaqubi, police chief in Kunduz.", "Yaqubi said Salam and another Taliban \"shadow governor,\" Mullah Salih, were arrested last week in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.", "He said the information came from Pakistani authorities.", "Salih was the shadow governor of Baghlan province, the police chief said.", "There was no immediate confirmation of Salih's arrest.", "Taliban sources and Omar said other suspected members of the Afghan Taliban were arrested with Salam, but their identities are not clear.", "CNN's Pam Benson in Washington and journalist Mati Matiullah in Kabul contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: NATO-led forces will secure Helmand in \"25 to 30 days,\" British general says .", "Mullah Abdul Salam arrested in Pakistan, say U.S., Afghan, Taliban sources .", "Salam is Taliban \"shadow governor\" of Afghanistan's Kunduz province .", "Four suspected militants reported killed in drone strike in Pakistan ." ]	[ 1, 3, 13, 24, 30 ]
[ "New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- The Bush administration made a \"fatal mistake\" by talking up facts and figures without painting a broader picture of the obstacles in its widely criticized Hurricane Katrina response effort, ex-FEMA chief Michael Brown said Thursday.", "Brown told CNN's Anderson Cooper that the talking points he and other federal officials used at the time didn't tell the whole story.", "\"They were factually correct, but weren't in context.", "We're moving all of this stuff in.", "We have teams here. Rescue teams are doing this,\" he said.", "\"But we never explained to the people that it's not coming as fast as we want it to, and it's not enough, because of the number of people that were left behind in the aftermath of the storm.\"", "Not making that clear was a \"fatal mistake,\" Brown said.", "\"Had I said that at the time, I probably would have gotten the old hook and been pulled off the stage anyway, but the truth would have been out,\" he said.", "Speaking five years after the storm hit, Brown sharply criticized former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff's handling of the situation.", "Chertoff had attended an avian flu convention amid the disaster.", "\"Here is why that's so important. In the middle of any crisis,\" Brown said, \"whether it's a natural disaster or man-made disaster, you need to have one person in charge.", "And that person needs to be on the ground with the team, understanding what's going on.\"", "The former FEMA head told CNN that he winced when President George Bush said the now infamous line, \"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.\"", "\"I knew the minute he said that, the media and everybody else would see a disconnect between what he was saying and what I was witnessing on the ground,\" Brown said.", "\"That's the president's style.", "His attitude and demeanor is always one of being a cheerleader and trying to encourage people to keep moving.", "It was just the wrong time and the wrong place.\"", "Brown headed FEMA under the Bush administration and resigned in September 2005, two weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast and 10 days after President Bush famously complimented him.", "Chertoff was criticized by a House committee in 2006 for choosing Brown to lead the government response, despite inadequate training.", "\"If I knew then what I know now about Mr. Brown's agenda, I would have done something different,\" Chertoff said.", "Hurricane Katrina's fifth anniversary is Sunday.", "Brown, who is now on KOA-850 AM in Denver, Colorado, was in New Orleans this week broadcasting his radio show." ]	[ "Brown says officials should have acknowledged that aid was not arriving quickly enough .", "He also criticizes Homeland Security's handling of the storm .", "The former FEMA head says he winced when Bush said he was doing a \"heck of a job\"" ]	[ 8, 12 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A former high school teacher in Virginia was charged Wednesday with transporting and possessing child pornography, a discovery that was made after he was accused of engaging in sexual acts with a 16-year-old male former student, according to court documents.", "Kevin Garfield Ricks, 50, was arrested in February at Osbourn High School in Manassas, Virginia, after authorities were notified of the alleged sexual misconduct, according to the criminal complaint filed against him Wednesday in U.S. District Court.", "Another student apparently reported the alleged offense to police after seeing a Facebook message from Ricks posted on the 16-year-old's Facebook page that read, \"You told me our experience was your first with a guy,\" according to the complaint.", "The 16-year-old student told police that Ricks committed \"several sexual acts\" on him in December after providing him with \"significant quantities of Tequila.\"", "Authorities investigating the allegations seized Ricks' personal belongings, including the personal laptop that he carried from his Virginia home during the week to his home in Maryland on the weekends.", "The laptop revealed eight images of child pornography, according to the complaint.", "The computer also contained an online chat transcript between Ricks and another alleged victim, who accused him of molestation in the mid-'70s at a summer camp for children with disabilities where Ricks worked as a counselor.", "Other pornographic images were found at Ricks' home in Federalsburg, Maryland, including some that appear to have been taken in Japan in the late '80s and early '90s, when Ricks worked as an English teacher there.", "Most of the boys depicted in the images appear to be incapacitated, according to the complaint.", "An additional search of Ricks' Maryland home in April turned up \"hundreds\" of videotapes and still images of child pornography, as well as handwritten journals that \"describe sexual acts with a number of conscious and unconscious minor males at a variety of locations,\" the complaint says.", "After his arrest in February, Ricks told detectives that the teachers union had told him that he had been \"walking a thin line\" after a parent accused him of \"stalking\" a student he was mentoring at the Huntington Learning Center in Fauqier County, Virginia.", "In a written statement provided by his attorney to The Washington Post last week, Ricks said he \"will spend the rest of my days seeking forgiveness and atonement.\"", "\"It is understandable how some may see me in a negative light, but like other people in this world, I have had many positive accomplishments in my personal life and career.", "I would like people to consider those as well,\" the statement said, according to the Post.", "Ricks is being held in the Prince William County Adult Detention Center.", "If convicted of the charges, he faces up to 30 years in prison." ]	[ "Kevin Ricks, 50, was charged with transporting and possessing child porn .", "Alleged offense came to light when he was accused of sexual acts with ex-student .", "Hundreds of images were found upon searching Ricks' laptop and home .", "He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted of the charges ." ]	[ 0, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Actor John Travolta and his legal team are dismayed that the alleged behavior of a juror led to a mistrial in the case of two people accused of attempting to extort millions from Travolta, his representative said.", "John Travolta, center, and his wife, Kelly Preston, enter the courthouse in the Bahamas last month.", "\"We are disappointed to hear about the alleged juror misconduct since we know that the Bahamian government, the court, the other jurors and John Travolta as the victim want to have this matter adjudicated through the judicial system,\" Samantha Mast said late Wednesday night.", "\"Mr. Travolta has and will continue to cooperate with the Bahamian authorities in the prosecution of the defendants for extortion.\"", "The Bahamian judge said she believed someone in the jury had had inappropriate communications outside of the jury room, where jurors had been deliberating for eight hours.", "The judge received information that an announcement had been made at a local political rally that one of the defendants had been found not guilty.", "Tarino Lightbourn, a paramedic, and former Bahamian Sen.", "Pleasant Bridgewater -- who also is Lightbourn's lawyer -- are charged with trying to extort money from Travolta after his son Jett's death from a seizure on January 2.", "The money allegedly was to be paid in return for not making public a document Travolta had signed, declining to have his 16-year-old son, Jett, transported to a nearby hospital.", "Travolta refused a demand for money.", "Lightbourn and Bridgewater have pleaded not guilty.", "While lawyers and journalists awaited the verdict Wednesday night, they were inundated with calls from colleagues saying that someone at a rally for the Progressive Liberal Party had announced that party member Bridgewater was \"free at last.\"", "When the courtroom doors opened to a packed crowd, the jury foreman said the jurors needed more time to deliberate.", "But Judge Anita Allen opted to discharge the jury.", "\"About two hours ago, there was an announcement at a particular political party,\" she said.", "\"It leaves the impression that there may have been a communication in the jury room.", "I am going to discharge you from returning your verdict.\"", "She then ordered a retrial.", "\"We would have liked to have had a verdict so there would be closure in this case, but we prefer to have a new trial,\" said Travolta's lawyer Michael Ossi.", "\"We believe the evidence was very strong and convincing.", "The jury was deliberating for about eight hours. ...", "If, in fact, Tarino Lightbourn or Pleasant Bridgewater were found not guilty, a verdict would have been read hours before this announcement.\"", "Lightbourn's lawyer Carlson Shurland expressed disappointment over the judge's ruling, saying the case has been a \"financial nightmare.\"", "\"Unfortunately, after a lot of expenses, I'm very, very disappointed,\" he said.", "\"I'm confident that we would have had a favorable verdict.\"", "Earlier in the trial, Travolta had testified that his son was found unresponsive by a nanny at home on the island of Grand Bahamas, where the family was spending the New Year's holiday.", "Travolta said he initially told the ambulance driver to rush them to an airport where his private jet was parked.", "Travolta, who is a pilot, planned to fly his son to a West Palm Beach, Florida, hospital instead of driving him to one in nearby Freeport.", "The actor testified that while he and his wife, actress Kelly Preston, were riding in the ambulance with their son, they decided to take the teen to the hospital, instead of flying to Florida.", "At the hospital, Travolta was told his son \"wasn't alive,\" he said.", "During the ambulance ride, Lightbourn asked Travolta to sign a statement releasing the ambulance company from liability.", "\"I received a liability of release document.", "I signed it. I did not read it. Time was of the essence,\" Travolta testified.", "Travolta testified that he later learned about a demand for $25 million.", "If he didn't pay, \"stories connected to that document would be sold to the press,\" the actor said.", "\"The stories would imply the death of my son was intentional and I was culpable somehow.\"", "An attorney representing Bridgewater and Lightbourn asked Travolta whether the defendants had ever contacted or threatened him directly.", "Travolta said they had not and that he had heard specifics about the situation through his attorneys.", "Travolta's attorney Michael McDermott testified that Bridgewater had told him that the \"document would show [Travolta] killed his son or was negligent in the death of his son.\"", "Also, McDermott told the court that Bridgewater had claimed that the form was evidence that Travolta was \"trying to flee the country with his dead son.\"", "\"I said to Mrs. Bridgewater, 'What you are doing is a criminal offense -- it's extortion in the United States,\" McDermott testified.", "McDermott said he contacted authorities and later met with Bridgewater in a Nassau hotel room for a conversation secretly recorded by Bahamian police.", "The price for keeping the document under wraps was dropped through subsequent phone conversations.", "It went from $25 million to $10 million, McDermott said.", "CNN's John Couwels and journalist Arthia Nixon contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Travolta wanted to see case resolved at trial, his representative says .", "Announcement at rally spurs judge to declare mistrial in Travolta extortion trial .", "Paramedic, former Bahamian senator allegedly sought $25 million from Travolta .", "Alleged plot centered around death of 16-year-old Jett Travolta ." ]	[ 0, 6, 8, 43 ]
[ "NASSAU, Bahamas (CNN) -- Videotapes secretly recorded by John Travolta's attorney were played Monday at the trial of two people accused of trying to extort millions of dollars from the actor after his son died in the Bahamas in January.", "Two people in the Bahamas stand accused of trying to extort millions from actor John Travolta.", "The videotapes showed what Travolta's attorney said were negotiations between himself and one of the defendants, with discussions centering on a document the suspects claimed could reflect unfavorably on Travolta's actions after his son was found unconscious.", "Defendants Tarino Lightbourne, a paramedic, and former Bahamian Sen.", "Pleasant Bridgewater are on trial on charges they plotted to extort $25 million from Travolta after 16-year-old Jett Travolta died from a seizure.", "Travolta attorney Michael McDermott testified Monday that he assisted police in a sting.", "As the videotape was played Monday, McDermott described it as depicting a meeting in a hotel room between himself and Bridgewater, who said she represented Lightbourne.", "Bahamian police had placed wireless microphones on McDermott and hidden two cameras in the room, McDermott said.", "Defense attorneys have attempted to convince the jury that Travolta's attorney came to the Bahamas to \"set up\" their clients.", "Murrio Ducille, who represents Bridgewater, on Friday said to Travolta's attorney, \"you came to the island with evil in your heart.\"", "Earlier in the trial, Travolta testified that his son was found unresponsive by a nanny at their home on Grand Bahama Island, where the family was spending their New Year's holiday.", "Travolta said he initially told the ambulance driver to rush them to an airport where his private jet was parked and where Travolta, who is a pilot, planned to fly his son to a West Palm Beach, Florida, hospital instead of driving him to one in nearby Freeport.", "The paramedic, however, asked Travolta to sign a statement releasing the ambulance company from liability.", "\"I received a liability of release document.", "I signed it. I did not read it. Time was of the essence,\" Travolta testified last week.", "Travolta said that while he and his wife were riding in the ambulance with their son, they decided to divert to the hospital.", "At the hospital, the actor was told his son \"wasn't alive,\" he said.", "Watch report from CNN's John Couwels in the Bahamas » .", "It is that release document that would-be extortionists hoped to use against Travolta, threatening to give it to the media if they were not paid, according to Travolta's attorneys.", "Travolta testified last week that he learned of a demand for $25 million or \"stories connected to that document would be sold to the press ...", "The stories would imply the death of my son was intentional and I was culpable somehow.\"", "The trial is expected to last through next week.", "John Travolta and his wife, actress Kelly Preston, are not expect back in court." ]	[ "Two accused of trying to extort millions from actor after son Jett died in Bahamas .", "Travolta attorney Michael McDermott testifies he assisted police in a sting .", "Defense argues McDermott tried to \"set up\" their clients with secret recording .", "McDermott testifies video shows him meeting with one of the defendants ." ]	[ 0, 5, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- John Travolta, in a letter thanking his Ocala, Florida, neighbors for sympathy shown in the wake of his teenage son's death, asked them to love their friends and family \"like there was no tomorrow.\"", "Travolta and Kelly Preston were vacationing in the Bahamas with their children when son Jett died.", "The letter, addressed \"To The People of Ocala,\" said their \"comforting words, thoughts and prayers\" made an \"impossibly painful situation, a little less painful.\"", "It was signed by Travolta, his wife, Kelly Preston, and their eight-year-old daughter, Ella.", "It was released by Travolta's lawyer Monday.", "Jett Travolta, 16, was found unconscious on January 2, while on vacation with his family in the Bahamas' West End.", "He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, local police said.", "The autopsy results have not been made public, but employees of the funeral home that handled the remains said the cause of death on the death certificate was \"seizure.\"", "Since returning from the Bahamas, the family has remained inside the gated Jumbolair Aviation Estates -- a fly-in community on the outskirts of Ocala.", "\"The enormous amount of love, support and condolence we have received from this community has been most humbling,\" Travolta's letter said.", "\"Comforting words, thoughts and prayers of Ocala's citizens have made an impossibly painful situation, a little less painful.\"", "Many guests for the memorial service on Thursday arrived in planes that landed on the Jumbolair runway -- big enough for Boeing 747s and behind the community gates.", "\"The actions of Ocala's community leaders, its law enforcement professionals, our neighbors at Jumbolair and its surrounding communities have offered us the dignity to grieve the loss of our son and Ella's brother in peace,\" the letter said.", "\"For this we will always be grateful.\"", "The most visible show of sympathy was centered at the main gate, where the people left their own memorials to Jett Travolta.", "\"From the people who drove hours to drop off cards and flowers at our doorstep, to the service providers who made Jett's ceremony so beautiful, thank you,\" Travolta wrote.", "\"Every person who we have encountered has offered to do anything in their power to help us, but add that they feel powerless to do so.", "\"We want all of you to know that you have already helped us.", "By sharing our grief, you lessen our burden.", "For all of the people who have kept Jett in their prayers, know that those prayers have given us inspiration and strength.\"", "The letter closed with Travolta's advice to his neighbors -- a lesson learned through the sudden loss of his son.", "\"In parting, we want all of you to cherish your loved ones and your friends like there was no tomorrow, to live your lives to the fullest by continuing to help one another, and to be true to yourselves.\"" ]	[ "Jett Travolta, son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston, died January 2 .", "Travolta family sent letter of thanks to Ocala, Florida, neighbors .", "There has been outpouring of support for Travolta family ." ]	[ 0, 1, 9 ]
[ "Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Attacks on military posts and police stations in Iraq claimed at least 21 lives Thursday.", "At least three Iraqi soldiers were killed and eight others wounded when a suicide bomber driving a mini-truck loaded with explosives hit an Iraqi military post in the town of Shirqat, police in Tikrit said.", "The town is located about 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Baghdad.", "Hours later, two parked car bombs targeting Iraqi army patrols exploded within 30 minutes of each other in Falluja.", "The blasts killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded 10 others, police and hospital officials said.", "Falluja is a Sunni town, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) west of Baghdad.", "In a separate attack, shooting and roadside bomb explosions in northeast Baghdad killed 16 people, including six Iraqi soldiers and three policemen, and wounded 14 others, officials said.", "Clashes erupted between Iraqi security forces and insurgents in the Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiya at about 8:30 p.m. Thursday, wounding 10 people, officials said.", "Iraqi security forces imposed a curfew in neighborhood and searched for the attackers." ]	[ "NEW: Curfew imposed in Sunni neighborhood after fighting .", "Blasts occur in Shirqat, Falluja and the Adhamiya neighborhood .", "All of the attacks targeted military and police, police posts ." ]	[ 0, 5, 8 ]
[ "MANILA, the Philippines (CNN) -- A debate is stirring in the predominantly Roman Catholic country of the Philippines: should the government provide contraceptives to the public?", "Sheila Villanueva, a 25-year-old maid with five children, said she would not use contraceptives.", "More than 100 members of the House of Representatives have co-authored a bill that would allow government funds to be used to promote artificial contraceptives -- which is now prohibited in the Southeast Asian nation.", "\"The bill is not about religion.", "It is not about morality,\" said Edcel Lagman, a congressman.", "\"It's about rights, health and sustainable human development.\"", "Some one-third of the country's 90 million people live in poverty.", "The Asian Development Bank said that problem will persist until the country curbs its birth rate -- one of the highest in the world.", "The nationwide Pulse Asia Poll found nearly two-thirds of people support the bill.", "But the Catholic Church is fiercely opposed, and is pressuring lawmakers to vote against it.", "\"Why should we use contraceptives, teaching our children the use of contraceptives,\" said Ed Sorreta of Pro-Life Philippines.", "\"It's totally against the teaching of the Catholic Church.", "The poverty is really caused by other issues, moral values.\"", "\"When you talk about natural family planning, it needs discipline, that's where many couples fail.", "They lack the discipline.\"", "Abortion is illegal in the Philippines, except in cases to save a mother's life.", "But the United Nations estimates that half a million illegal abortions are performed in the country every year.", "Sheila Villanueva, a 25-year-old maid earning $2 a day, has five children.", "\"I married at eighteen.", "I had my first baby by the time I was nineteen.", "Then the babies came, one after the other,\" she said.", "\"Life is so hard, kids get sick easily, prices of goods are so high.", "That's one of the reasons why I don't want them to have too many kids,\" she said.", "Still, Villanueva said she would not use contraceptives.", "\"Even if they say you'll end up with too many kids, I don't get swayed by their persuasions, I won't use those contraceptives,\" she said.", "The legislation will go before the nation's Congress in the next few months.", "\"This bill, once it becomes a law, it will give information and access to those who want it,\" Lagman said.", "\"But I will also underscore that central to this bill is the freedom of choice.", "... (W)e compel women to make their own choices.\"", "\"(T)he government should be there to give them free information and free access to the products, particularly to the poorer of the poor,\" he added." ]	[ "More than 100 lawmakers back a bill to use government funds for contraceptives .", "A backer says the bill is about sustainable human development, not religion .", "Some one-third of the country's 90 million people live in poverty .", "The ADB says the nation has one of the world's highest birth rates ." ]	[ 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Death Cab for Cutie, the Grammy-nominated indie band that shot to the top of the Billboard charts with its latest album, \"Narrow Stairs,\" has come a long way since its basement-recording beginnings in Bellingham, Washington.", "Chris Walla, left, and Nick Harmer of indie band Death Cab for Cutie discuss their newly released EP.", "Together for more than 10 years and formed while its members attended Western Washington University, the band has six studio albums behind them, their songs have graced popular TV and film soundtracks, and their sell-out tours have brought the musicians all over the globe.", "But the success is not something the group takes for granted.", "\"We never got into this for world domination.", "There were never designs to be 'rock stars,' \" said Chris Walla, guitarist and producer.", "\"The fact that I get to make a living doing something that I just passionately love to do is something that I wake up every day and am thankful for,\" added Nick Harmer, bass player.", "\"It's not lost on me; it really isn't.", "It's phenomenal.\" Death Cab for Cutie, which is named after a song performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band in the 1967 Beatles film \"Magical Mystery Tour,\" released \"The Open Door EP\" last month.", "It's a compilation of tracks that didn't find a home on \"Narrow Stairs\" but that the band didn't want to lose forever.", "Days before their most recent tour cycle ended and before the summer tour begins, Walla and Harmer -- two of the band's four members -- sat down with CNN to discuss the latest EP, the current bands that move them and the darkness that may or may not drive their music.", "CNN: Talk to me about the band's name, which was selected by Ben Gibbard, Death Cab for Cutie's founder.", "If you could turn back the clock, would you go with something different?", "Chris Walla: [Ben] was in a \"Magical Mystery Tour\" all-the-time kind of phase.", "He made a grand proclamation from the couch at one point that if he ever had another band, he was going to call it Death Cab for Cutie.", "Nick Harmer: Knowing what we know now, Ben has said that he would love to have shortened it somehow to a snappier name.", "We joke about changing it.", "CNN: To what? Chris Walla: Exactly!", "All the band names are taken.", "CNN: Why release an EP (extended play; more than a single but less than a full-on album) right now?", "Is it a taste of things to come?", "Harmer: We've always treated the EP as kind of a side dish to the main course during an album cycle.", "These are songs that were recorded at the same time as the songs that made the album \"Narrow Stairs.\"", "They're sort of part of this chapter of the band.", "For us, it's a nice way to have some new songs to play on tour, kind of get some new material in the world and keep things interesting.", "We recorded them. They were finished. It would be kind of weird to leave them on a reel someplace.", "CNN: How has the state of the economy, if at all, affected your tour and plans?", "Walla: This tour has done really, really well for us.", "If anything, I think that we're more mindful of just the fact that in a world of so many entertainment choices how amazing it really is to be on a really successful, solid, good tour.", "Harmer: We really haven't seen an impact.", "I expected there to be one, to be honest, but all the numbers are pretty consistent with all the touring numbers we've ever done.", "CNN: Let's talk a bit about the persona of indie rock musicians: the depression, the melancholy, the darkness.", "What do your parents make of this?", "Are there any issues you'd like to discuss?", "Walla: Our parents are all terrible people.", "We all came from broken homes.", "(laugh) Harmer: We cry a whole lot ... (laugh) Walla: It's not by design.", "We have great families.", "We have great homes.", "It's sort of hard to explain, I guess.", "... We do this because music totally moves us in a complete and absolute sort of way.", "It ends up just coming out in heart-on-your-sleeve, heavy, sort of really personal ways.", "Harmer: I've always felt like it's more about the bittersweet qualities of life than it is about the dark brooding. ...", "It's more about just being honest about the different stations that you find yourself in in life.", "CNN: What bands are you listening to these days?", "Who do you really like?", "Harmer: That's the thing about being on the road with so many people that are music fans.", "There's always a new record that someone's found that we're listening to.", "Ben is really kind of always combing through old records.", "I think [Walla] and I probably do more on the what's new and what's out in the world.", "The Gaslight Anthem, I hear them all the time now.", "Walla: Yeah, the Gaslight Anthem record's great.", "There's a band from Seattle called the Lonely Forest whose record I just picked up.", "They're a new band, it came out few weeks ago, and that's totally doing it for me right now.", "... Telekinesis from Seattle, the new Metric record I think is great.", "Those are the big ones right now.", "CNN: Tell me about your political involvement and your backing of causes.", "(Walla, for example, got involved in the Obama campaign and has done some work for PETA.)", "Walla: It's little things here and there, which is sort of how I feel activism should work.", "You can't do everything all the time, but you can do what you can when you can.", "I wish I could do more, but ... not everybody can be Bono." ]	[ "Death Cab for Cutie, the Grammy-nominated indie band, has a new EP .", "Chris Walla and Nick Harmer discuss the music, their moods and bands they like .", "Harmer: \"Bittersweet qualities of life\" and not \"dark brooding\" drive songs .", "Walla on activism: \"You can't do everything all the time.", "... Not everybody can be Bono\"" ]	[ 1, 10, 42, 59, 60 ]
[ "Editor's note: Kiron K. Skinner is an associate professor of international relations at Carnegie Mellon University, directs the university's International Relations and Politics Program, and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.", "She is the co-author, along with Serhiy Kudelia, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Condoleezza Rice, of \"The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin.\"", "Kiron Skinner says the Nobel Committee recognizes the predominant power of the United States.", "(CNN) -- As an American of African descent, I swelled with pride when I heard that the Norwegian Nobel Committee selected President Obama to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.", "The award further validates what the 2008 presidential election demonstrated: The United States is the most mature and fully functioning multi-ethnic democracy in the world.", "Despite its emphasis on multilateralism, the Norwegian Nobel Committee's statement also recognizes the predominant power of the United States.", "The accepted wisdom among diplomats is that the international system is multipolar because of the increasingly multilateral governance structure of the world's numerous international institutions.", "In reality, however, the United States is by far the single greatest economic, military and political power on earth.", "Furthermore, many international institutions are dependent upon the United States for their survival.", "Announcing the award, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said \"multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play.\"", "The Committee thus joins a chorus of international forums that contend that multilateralism is the hallmark of the international system.", "Today there are more formal and informal international institutions than ever before, and they share a common theme.", "Leaders attending the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 24-25 declared that the G-20, a collection of advanced economies and fast-growing developing economies, would replace the G-7/G-8, the long-standing group of advanced economies, as the \"premier forum for our international economic cooperation.\"", "This decision is seen in no small measure as bowing to pressure from states such as Brazil, China and India that have powerhouse economies but have been left out of key international economic meetings such as the G-8, which includes the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada and Russia.", "The G-20 leaders also agreed to increase the voting power of developing countries in the World Bank by at least 3 percent and to shift the quota share in the International Monetary Fund from developed countries to countries in economic transition by at least 5 percent.", "The Nobel Committee's sentiment was expressed at the G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, in July when the G-8 countries joined with the G-5 (Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa), Egypt and the European Union to declare: \"Our purpose is to foster a genuine partnership, in the context of a strengthened multilateralism.\"", "That is similar to what BRIC -- Brazil, Russia, India, and China -- stated at its first summit on June 16 in Yekaterinburg, Russia: \"We underline our support for a more democratic and just multipolar world order based on the rule of international law, equality, mutual respect, cooperation, coordinated action and collective decision-making of all states.", "... We express our strong commitment to multilateral diplomacy with the United Nations playing the central role in dealing with global challenges and threats.\"", "The very next day, the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) put the matter more starkly as they concluded their summit: \"The tendency towards true multipolarity is irreversible.\"", "An increasing number of regional and international institutions with evolving memberships and leadership are multilateral.", "The world, however, is not multipolar.", "Consider some important facts: the United States has the largest gross domestic product defined in terms of purchasing power parity of any single state in the world; it is surpassed in GDP only by the European Union, a collection of states; and its GDP is twice that of China, its nearest competitor.", "The United States accounts for approximately half of the world's defense spending and it provides extended military deterrent cover for many of its allies, especially European.", "Whether it is the subject of positive or negative international public opinion, the United States is a major source of cultural, political and social power in the world.", "In its recently released Global Competiveness Report, the World Economic Forum placed the United States just behind top-ranked Switzerland, hardly a nation best positioned to lead the global economy.", "It is reasonable to expect that the United States will soon regain the number-one position it held in earlier World Economic Forum competitiveness reports.", "International political, economic and military realities are not changed merely by declaring that they are something different from what they are.", "I believe the Nobel Committee knows this better than those writing communiqués for the various international institutions.", "The Committee asserts that President Obama has \"created a new climate in international politics.\"", "In other words, it recognizes the United States' predominant global power -- power that does not appear to be diminishing and that is capable of shaping many of the multilateral institutions that depend on it.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Kiron K. Skinner." ]	[ "Kiron Skinner: It's become fashionable to talk of a \"multipolar\" world .", "She says U.S. economy and defense forces still dominate the world .", "Skinner: Obama's Nobel Prize recognized the primacy of the U.S." ]	[ 2, 20, 22 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- The second of two men who last month pulled off a daring escape from a county jail in New Jersey was taken into custody Wednesday, authorities told CNN.", "Otis Blunt, 32, was arrested in Mexico City, according to the U.S.", "Marshals Service.", "He will be transported back to the United States as soon as possible, probably within 24 hours, authorities said.", "Mexico has no extradition proceedings.", "On Tuesday, local and federal authorities captured Jose Espinosa, 20, who broke out of Union County Jail on December 15 along with Blunt.", "Espinosa and Blunt escaped by digging a hole through the cinder block wall of their adjoining cells, and hid the hole by using posters of bikini-clad women.", "The two then jumped onto a roof and over a 25-foot-high razor wire fence onto a railroad bed.", "Authorities said Espinosa might have injured his foot making those jumps.", "Authorities traced Blunt to Mexico City, where he was hiding in a $10-a-night hotel, said Commander Lenny DePaul of the New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force.", "They spotted him when he looked out a window.", "Marshals and Mexican authorities then converged on the hotel room, DePaul said.", "A written statement from marshals identified the hotel as the Hotel Zomara.", "Blunt, who was arrested without incident, was in a holding cell Wednesday afternoon, DePaul said.", "Marshals said Blunt was in the custody of the Mexican immigration agency and is awaiting its determination about his deportation.", "\"Since the day of his escape, right through the holidays, apprehending this guy has been the highest-priority case,\" DePaul said in the statement.", "In recent days, Blunt had spoken with the Rev.", "Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist, to help negotiate his surrender.", "Sharpton traveled to Mexico City, where he said he was led to believe Blunt would give himself up Tuesday.", "But that surrender did not occur, and Sharpton left the country Wednesday morning.", "Police believe it took two weeks for Espinosa and Blunt to chisel out two cinder blocks -- one between the cells and a second to the wall outside, using a valve wheel one of the men took from a pipe.", "Union County prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow said it isn't clear why no one heard the digging, as a reenactment conducted by his office showed it would be loud.", "When the men made the jumps, they were wearing flip-flops and had wrapped their feet in sheets, the prosecutor said.", "The sheeting strips were found by authorities later.", "Acting on a tip, authorities found Espinosa about 9 p.m. Tuesday in an apartment six blocks from the jail, said James Plousis, a U.S. marshal for New Jersey.", "Espinosa was alone in the residence and was lying on a couch with his foot raised.", "Investigators said they also arrested a \"female associate\" of Espinosa.", "They identified her as 19-year-old Odalys Cortez of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, and said in a news release that they plan to file criminal charges against her.", "During their escape, Blunt and Espinosa left behind dummies in their jail beds, along with a note naming prison guard Rudolph Zurick.", "It thanked him \"for the tools needed,\" and said, \"You're A real Pal!", "Happy Holidays.\"", "Zurick committed suicide last week at his home in Sayreville, New Jersey.", "His attorney, Michael Mitzner, said Zurick had not been charged in the jail break and was cooperating with investigators.", "\"It's possible that his name being associated with the escape was more than he could take, despite his lack of involvement,\" Mitzner said.", "As Espinosa, wearing a sleeveless black T-shirt, khaki pants and slippers, was led into Union County police headquarters Tuesday night, a reporter asked him about the guard's death.", "\"It wasn't our fault,\" he said.", "Espinosa recently pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter and was to be sentenced January 25, authorities said.", "He faced a minimum of 17 years in prison.", "Blunt was in prison in lieu of $75,000 bail for weapons and robbery charges.", "Both men were being housed in the multilevel jail's high-security area, officials said.", "E-mail to a friend .", "CNN's Deborah Feyerick, Susan Chun and Jason Carroll contributed to this report." ]	[ "Otis Blunt was captured Wednesday in Mexico City, officials said .", "Jose Espinosa was caught not far from the New Jersey jail Tuesday .", "Last month, they escaped through a hole they dug in their cells' cinder block wall .", "A guard whom the inmates taunted in a note they left behind, committed suicide ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Will Bunch's CNN.com tirade earlier this week against television host Glenn Beck and David Barton -- the founder and president of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization that emphasizes history's \"moral, religious and constitutional heritage\" -- for allegedly creating \"pseudo history\" reveals more about Mr.", "Bunch than it does about what Mr. Beck and Mr. Barton are presenting.", "Mr. Bunch seems, above all, to be annoyed that many people are no longer staying on the liberal plantation of secularized American history.", "He offers little in the way of examples of error, just differences of opinion, such as his own assertion about \"the much-debunked idea that America's creation was rooted in Christianity.\"", "Much debunked?", "That would have been news to many of the Founding Fathers, whose biblical understanding of man as created in the image of God informed their insistence in the Declaration of Independence that people have \"unalienable rights\" to \"life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.\"", "This was tempered by the biblically informed idea that man is prone to sin.", "In the Federalist Papers, No.", "51, for example, James Madison wrote, \"But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?", "If men were angels, no government would be necessary.\"", "Therefore, any government formed by men needs checks and balances to avoid tyranny.", "On a more elementary level, the signers of the Declaration and the Constitution were mostly Christian.", "You can look it up. Bunch complains that, \"In April, Barton told Beck's 3 million TV viewers that 'we use the Ten Commandments as basis of civil law and the Western world [and it] has been for 2,000 years.'", "\" Glenn Beck rewrites civil rights history .", "Perhaps this is why the Ten Commandments numerals are represented at the bottom of a door to the U.S. Supreme Court courtroom and why Moses, revered as the lawgiver to Jews in the Hebrew bible, and Christians in the New Testament, appears holding two tablets elsewhere in the Supreme Court building.", "He appears between the Chinese philosopher Confucius and Solon, the Athenian statesman -- at the center of a frieze of historic lawgivers on the building's East Pediment.", "Moses is also among an array of lawgiver figures depicted over the Court's chamber.", "Tellingly, Mr.", "Bunch does not dispute the accuracy of the quotes that Mr. Barton cites that spell out a Christian understanding of law and man among some of the Founding Fathers.", "In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, written 37 years after the Declaration of Independence, John Adams wrote: \"The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young gentlemen could Unite.", "... And what were these general Principles?", "I answer, the general Principles of Christianity, in which all these Sects were United: ... Now I will avow, that I then believe, and now believe, that those general Principles of Christianity, are as eternal and immutable, as the Existence and Attributes of God; and that those Principles of Liberty, are as unalterable as human Nature and our terrestrial, mundane System.\"", "John Jay, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court, wrote in a letter to a friend, \"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.\"", "Mr. Bunch further complains that Barton \"gives less than short shrift to the real achievement of the Founders in separating church and state.\"", "I would argue that their real achievement was elsewhere.", "Their real achievement was far larger: creation of a unique, limited government with protections for the freedoms of religion, speech, press and assembly and protection of property rights, without which no freedom exists.", "The result was the most prosperous and freest nation in history.", "And property rights are endorsed throughout the Bible.", "The \"wall of separation between church & state,\" by the way, is not in the Constitution.", "It's from a letter from President Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury, Connecticut, Baptists, who were concerned that the national government would favor one Christian denomination over others.", "But Mr. Jefferson's phrase has become a sacred totem used by activist judges to drive Christian symbols from the public square.", "The real reason that Mr.", "Bunch is so exercised is that the truth about America's Christian founding is getting out, despite media hostility, politically correct schoolbooks and rising intolerance toward any public expression of faith -- unless it advances leftist goals.", "America is a unique beacon of freedom precisely because of its founders' Christian perspective, which has protected the right of conscience and thus freedom of religion for Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and nonbelievers.", "Try to identify another nation on Earth that similarly advanced individual rights without being influenced by Christianity.", "Beck and Barton are striking what Abraham Lincoln described in a different context as the \"mystic chords of memory.\"", "It makes perfect sense that many Americans are tuning in.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Robert Knight." ]	[ "Robert Knight disputes ideas in opinion piece by Will Bunch about Glenn Beck, David Barton .", "Bunch rejected idea of U.S.' Christian roots, but there's evidence for it, Knight says .", "Moses shown on some Supreme Court friezes; some founders wrote of Christian principles .", "Knight: U.S. unique in advancing individual rights because of its Christian ethic ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3, 8, 20, 33, 34, 37 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- At least one Afghan Taliban leader has been seized in neighboring Pakistan by security forces, sources told CNN Thursday.", "Mullah Abdul Salam was arrested last week, according to Afghan government officials, Taliban sources and a U.S. official.", "\"The Taliban is down another shadow governor,\" the American source said late Wednesday, declining to be named because of the sensitivity of the information.", "The news came against the background of an intensified U.S.-led campaign against insurgents on both sides of the border.", "Taliban fighters are resisting an allied military push into area they control in Helmand province in the south of Afghanistan, a military operation called Moshtarak.", "According to British Maj. Gen. Nick Carter, it will the NATO-led force \"another 25 to 30 days to secure that which needs to be secured\" in the region, and a further three months after that to be sure insurgents are being kept out.", "But Operation Moshtarak has reached \"the end of the beginning,\" he said in a briefing from Afghanistan broadcast by the Pentagon Channel.", "\"The insurgent was entirely dislocated within 24 hours\" of the insertion of troops by helicopter, he said.", "The Nad-e Ali district is \"broadly secure,\" he said, but there is still Taliban resistance in Marjah.", "\"It will be some days before we can be completely confident that Marjah is secure,\" said Carter, the International Security Assistance Force's head of Regional Command South.", "Ten civilians were killed on the second day of the operation, he said.", "Reports at the time said 12 were killed.", "\"They (Taliban) know this is their last stronghold.", "They're not backing down,\" CNN's Atia Abawi reported from the battlefield, where she is embedded with U.S. Marines.", "The crackle of small arms fire and the whoosh of outgoing mortar rounds from the Marines were clearly audible on the line as she described the battle.", "\"About five minutes ago Taliban started attacking our area,\" she said shortly before 8 a.m.", "ET. \"The Taliban are not giving up -- they seem to be coming out in squads, (but) they know they can't group together in large numbers\" because it would make them easier targets.", "The Taliban seem to include \"foreign fighters who will fight to the death,\" she said.", "Across the border in Pakistan, four people were killed and five were wounded Thursday when a drone fired on a suspected militant compound in Pakistan's tribal region, intelligence sources and a local political official told CNN.", "The four who were killed were suspected militants, two intelligence officials told CNN.", "It was not clear whether the wounded were also militants.", "The remote-controlled aircraft fired two missiles at the compound, which is in the Danday Darpakhel area of North Waziristan, one of seven districts in the tribal region along the Afghan border, the sources said.", "They asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak to the media.", "The U.S. military does not comment on reported attacks by the pilotless aircraft, but the United States is the only country operating in the region known to have the ability to launch missiles from drones.", "Mullah Salam, the Taliban commander, was arrested in Pakistan, the Afghan government and Taliban sources agree, but they named different cities as the location of his capture.", "Gov. Muhammad Omar of Afghanistan's Kunduz province said Thursday he was detained in Quetta -- where the Afghan Taliban reportedly has its leadership councils.", "The Taliban sources said he was nabbed in Faisalabad.", "Salam is believed to be the Taliban commander for Kunduz province, Omar said.", "He was directing Taliban military operations in the province, including ordering terrorist actions, mine planting and suicide attacks, said Abdul Razaq Yaqubi, the chief of police in Kunduz.", "Yaqubi said Salam and another Taliban \"shadow governor,\" Mullah Salih, were arrested in the Pakistani city of Peshawar last week.", "He said the information came from Pakistani authorities.", "Salih was the shadow governor of Baghlan province, the police chief said.", "There was no immediate confirmation of Salih's arrest.", "Word of Salam's arrest comes days after news of the capture of the Afghan Taliban's reputed second-in-command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.", "Taliban sources and Omar said several other suspected members of the Afghan Taliban were arrested with Salam, but their identities are not clear.", "CNN's Pam Benson in Washington, journalist Mati Matiullah in Kabul, and journalists Nasir Dawar and Umar Aziz Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan, contributed to this report." ]	[ "Mullah Abdul Salam arrested last week, according to Afghan, U.S. sources .", "Salam is believed to be the Taliban commander for Kunduz province .", "Comes days after Taliban's reputed second-in-command was arrested .", "Taliban fighting NATO-led push into area they control in Helmand ." ]	[ 1, 27, 33 ]
[ "The statistics are sobering: Heart disease is the number-one killer of women in the United States.", "And an estimated 8 million women have it.", "What's more, a new study shows that in recent years the overall heart disease risk for Americans -- especially women -- hasn't continued the healthy downward trend it showed in previous decades.", "There are steps you can take, at any age, to prevent heart disease, the #1 killer of US women.", "Ready for some good news?", "You can do more to prevent heart disease than almost any other serious condition.", "Start with these age-specific steps.", "The 30s . Declare a trans fat-free zone.", "Commonly used to extend the shelf life of packaged foods like cookies and crackers, and also found in margarine, trans fats pack a double whammy: they raise bad cholesterol (LDL), while lowering good, protective HDL (your LDL should be below 100; your HDL, above 60).", "In a Harvard University study, women with the highest level of trans fats in their blood had triple the risk of heart disease.", "Take a cue from major U.S. cities like New York and Philadelphia (which have banned trans fats from restaurants), and pitch them out of your pantry.", "On ingredient lists, they show up as \"hydrogenated\" and \"partially hydrogenated\" oils.", "But scrutinize any product touted as \"trans fat-free\" at the supermarket, too: some manufacturers have replaced hydrogenated oils with tropical oils that are high in saturated fat, which also raises LDL cholesterol.", "Eating out in a city where trans fats aren't banned?", "Skip the fried stuff -- many restaurants still use the oils for frying.", "Health.com: 10 best foods for your heart .", "Use your OB-GYN as a partner.", "During your prime reproductive years, you may visit your OB-GYN more than you go to your regular doctor.", "Make sure you talk to her about your heart as well as gynecological health, particularly because blood pressure (BP) can rise if you're taking birth control pills or when you're pregnant.", "Women who develop preeclampsia (pregnancy-related hypertension) are prone to heart disease later in life.", "And, in general, \"how your heart handles pregnancy offers a snapshot of how it will look in middle age,\" says Sharonne Hayes, M.D., director of the Women's Heart Clinic at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.", "To keep BP from creeping up (the safe zone is lower than 120 over 80), substitute herbs and spices for salt -- try cumin for a healthy twist on popcorn, for instance.", "Simmer down. If you boil over when the shopper in front of you has 16 grocery items in the 15-or-fewer lane, beware: Losing your temper can damage your arteries, according to research by C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., director of the Women's Heart Center and endowed chair in Women's Health at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles, California.", "\"Raging causes your blood pressure to surge and stay up there,\" Merz says.", "That's why it's crucial to get a grip on anger at an early age, before it takes a toll.", "Learn now that, instead of venting when a situation makes you furious, you can take a few deep breaths and describe to yourself what's making you angry.", "That should help you calm down. The 40s . Don't skimp on sleep.", "When your hormones are fluctuating madly, it can be tough to nod off.", "It's no wonder, then, that more than half if women in their 40s suffer from insomnia at least a few nights a week.", "That's nothing to yawn about, either.", "When your body is deprived of restorative sleep, your heart has to work harder.", "And piles of studies show that too little shut-eye can lead to heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and diabetes.", "How little is too little?", "A recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that less than seven-and-a-half hours per night puts you at risk for heart disease.", "And recent research from Duke University found that women who take more than a half-hour to fall asleep or those who awaken frequently during the night have inflammation in their arteries and higher levels of insulin, two major risk factors for heart disease.", "The soporific Rx: Do your best to unwind with a relaxing bedtime routine, like listening to soothing music or soaking in a tub with bath salts.", "And, despite how difficult it might sound, obey this rule: no technology or work in the bedroom; your bed should be for sleep and sex only.", "Monitor your mood.", "Between the demands of work and family, it's easy to worry that something will fall through the cracks -- but don't let that something be your own peace of mind.", "Perimenopausal women have nearly double the risk for depression, and that spells trouble for their hearts, says Jennifer Mieres, M.D., a cardiologist and associate professor at New York University's School of Medicine.", "Uncontrolled stress can raise blood pressure and flood blood vessels with inflammatory chemicals, which in high doses can be toxic to the heart, while depression has been linked to hardening of the arteries.", "Then there are the unhealthy habits that come with stress and the blues: smoking, excessive drinking, and overeating.", "Smart medicine for your mood and your heart?", "Exercise. Thirty minutes of aerobic activity (walking, biking, swimming) most days of the week has been shown to reduce the symptoms of depression by about half, an effect comparable to antidepressant use, while lowering blood pressure and strengthening your cardiovascular system.", "But if you're feeling low more often than not, talk to your doctor about therapy, antidepressants, or St. John's wort.", "(New research suggests that this herb works as well as antidepressants and has few side effects.)", "Health.com: How safe, moderate exercise can keep your heart healthy .", "Get more fish, flaxseed, and fiber.", "In your 40s, as estrogen dips, your blood pressure, cholesterol, and triglycerides (a type of fat stored in the blood) start creeping up, making a heart-healthy menu more important than ever.", "Aim for two servings of fish, like salmon or tuna, each week for omega-3 fats; or pick omega-3-fortified foods like orange juice, margarine, and eggs.", "Also, sprinkle ground flaxseed on yogurt or cottage cheese to lower cholesterol.", "And experiment with dishes that contain high-fiber foods like apples, broccoli, beans, and bran cereal.", "Health fads come and go, but a high-fiber diet has consistently proven to be good for the heart, says Leslie Cho, M.D., director of the Women's Cardiovascular Center at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.", "Health.com: Recipes to help you 'fill up on fiber' The 50s plus .", "Whittle your waist.", "If a few extra pounds have settled around your middle since menopause, you're not alone.", "\"Basically, we start putting on weight more like men,\" says Nieca Goldberg, M.D., medical director of New York University's Women's Heart Program and author of Complete Guide to Women's Health.", "The \"meno potbelly\" is especially hard on the heart because it builds up around internal organs, triggers inflammation, and leads to insulin resistance.", "Research from the famous Nurses' Health Study found that women with a waist circumference of more than 35 inches were twice as likely to die of heart disease than women with a 28-inch waist, regardless of weight.", "Low-intensity workout routines can help slow down the belly buildup, but to shrink it you'll need to work up a sweat with 60 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise at least three times a week.", "Try jogging, walking on the treadmill on a challenging incline, or swimming laps.", "Enjoy some \"friend benefits.\"", "Whatever causes you stress, leaning on friends for support and commiseration can help keep blood pressure in check.", "\"There are clearly good things that happen to your heart when you care about people and people care about you,\" Cedars-Sinai's Merz says.", "Talk out the stress with friends over a walk or at the gym, and you'll double your heart benefit.", "Stay strong.", "Since hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is no longer thought to protect your heart, and may even harm it (talk to your doctor about the risks if you decide to try it), you need to safeguard your heart with strong muscles.", "Add strength training -- like a weight-lifting class, yoga, or Pilates -- to your exercise routine at least twice a week, Goldberg recommends.", "You'll keep blood pressure in check, boost metabolism, zap more calories, control cholesterol, and improve endurance.", "Health.com: Strength exercises for any age .", "Sum total? A heart that'll keep pumping happily for years to come.", "Enter to win a monthly Room Makeover Giveaway from MyHomeIdeas.com .", "Copyright Health Magazine 2009 ." ]	[ "Heart disease is the number-one killer of women in the US: 8 million have it .", "You can take specific steps to protect your heart starting at an early age .", "Reduce stress and anger, exercise and keep waist under 35 inches .", "Dietary tips include cutting out trans fats, adding more fiber, fish and flaxseed ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3, 47, 54 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sending a letter will soon be a little more expensive, the U.S.", "Postal Service announced Tuesday.", "The U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday a 2-cent increase on first-class stamps, effective May 11.", "The price for a first-class mail stamp will increase 2 cents to 44 cents, starting May 11.", "The Postal Service said the price increase was necessary because of rising production costs.", "Under law, the price of stamps is not allowed to rise faster than the U.S. consumer price index, which measures inflation.", "According to a written release, the increase will cost the typical family about $3 a year.", "\"Whether you're a consumer or run a business, the Postal Service continues to offer a good deal during a time when we're all looking for ways to save,\" said spokesman Stephen M. Kearney.", "Until the new prices go into effect, customers can buy \"Forever Stamps\" at the current 42-cent rate.", "\"The Forever Stamp is always honored for a 1-ounce letter with no need for additional postage,\" Kearney said.", "iReport.com: Mail five days a week?", "Billions of the Forever Stamps have been sold since being introduced in April 2007, according to the Postal Service." ]	[ "Price of first-class postage stamp will increase 2 cents to 44 cents in May .", "U.S.", "Postal Service says increase is tied to rising production costs .", "Customers can buy \"Forever Stamps\" at current 42-cent rate until May 11 ." ]	[ 2, 3, 8 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Dozens of schoolgirls and teachers were sickened Wednesday by poison gas in Afghanistan, medical and government officials said.", "The latest incident, this one at a high school, is the ninth such case involving the poisoning of schoolgirls, said Asif Nang, spokesman for the nation's education ministry.", "Dr. Kabir Amiri said 59 students and 14 teachers were brought to the hospital, and were faring better.", "\"We don't have good equipment to verify the kind of gas that they were poisoned with, but we have taken their blood tests to send to Turkmenistan for verifying the type of gas\" that was used, Amiri said.", "Many Afghan girls were not allowed to attend school during the Taliban's rule from 1996 to 2001.", "Girls' schools began reopening after the Islamist regime was toppled.", "The United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, estimates that 2 million Afghan girls attend school these days.", "But female educational facilities, students and teachers have come under vicious attack as the insurgency has strengthened and spread from Taliban strongholds in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand.", "A report compiled last year by the humanitarian agency CARE documented 670 education-related attacks in 2008, including murder and arson.", "Much of the violence in what CARE called an \"alarming trend\" occurred at girls' schools.", "CNN's Matiullah Mati contributed to this report." ]	[ "Under Taliban rule, girls were banned from schools .", "The latest poisoning incident is part of a trend, a ministry spokesman says .", "The girls are recovering at a hospital, a doctor says ." ]	[ 1, 4, 9 ]
[ "Oxford, England (CNN) -- Singer-songwriter Annie Lennox proudly wears an \"HIV Positive\" black T-shirt, proclaiming her solidarity with the disease's victims, even though her status is HIV negative.", "\"I constantly want to bring attention to the issue,\" says Lennox.", "\"This is my way of campaigning visually.\"", "At the TED Global conference last month in Oxford, England, Lennox made clear in a talk and an interview with CNN.com that she is seriously committed to combating the spread of the disease.", "She was inspired by Nelson Mandela's statement of support in 2003 for the effort to fight the virus by the 46664 Foundation, named after Mandela's number in prison.", "South Africa was losing 1,000 people a day to AIDS, many of them women and children.", "Mandela compared the death toll to genocide.", "\"I'm a woman, and I'm a mother, I told myself that this is something that I have to talk about,\" Lennox said.", "In her talk at the conference attended by about 700 people, she told the story of a seven-year-old girl in South Africa suffering from the disease and weighing about what a one-year-old child weighs.", "After the girl was treated and put on a special diet by doctors, she recovered, looking like a child her age.", "\"The hair on my arms is standing,\" Lennox, said as she showed before and after photos of the girl.", "\"Isn't it extraordinary?\" An ambassador for U.N. AIDS, she said the organization is committed to ending mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015.", "TED is a nonprofit organization that hosts conferences and makes talks available on its site, http://www.ted.com/.", "[CNN and TED have a partnership in which TEDTalks are published Tuesdays on CNN.com.] ...", "The Scottish pop music artist gained fame performing with Dave Stewart as the Eurythmics and has gone on to a successful solo career and many music awards.", "In 2007, Lennox organized a group of 23 female performers to make \"Sing\" as a benefit recording for the fight against HIV/AIDS.", "It has raised more than 100,000 pounds (about $159,000 U.S. dollars).", "Lennox was honored with the Services to Humanity Award in 2008 by the British Red Cross.", "Lennox sees people in developed Western countries living in a bubble of great privilege where they have a responsibility to help those who are not as fortunate.", "She says she aims to use her skills and influence to help make that happen.", "Ultimately, Lennox says, the fight against HIV/AIDS is not about charity but about securing human rights." ]	[ "Annie Lennox: I wear \"HIV Positive\" T-shirt to show my support for fighting the virus .", "She says she became committed to the cause after hearing Nelson Mandela speak about it .", "Lennox says the goal is to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015." ]	[ 1, 4, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- John Travolta and Kelly Preston have returned to Ocala, Florida, with the remains of their teenage son, a family friend told CNN on Tuesday.", "Actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston say they are \"heartbroken\" over their son's death.", "They left the Bahamas late Monday night, said Obie Wilchcombe, a member of the Bahamian parliament.", "An autopsy was conducted Monday in the Bahamas on the body of the couple's son, Jett Travolta.", "The 16-year-old was found unconscious Friday while on vacation with his family in the Bahamas' West End.", "He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, local police said.", "The autopsy results have not been released, but employees of the funeral home that handled the remains said \"seizure\" was listed as the cause of death on the death certificate, celebrity Web site TMZ reported.", "Watch the latest reports on Jett Travolta » .", "An employee who answered the telephone at the funeral home confirmed the report.", "The funeral home said \"The body was in great condition and shows no sign of head trauma,\" TMZ reported.", "TMZ is partly owned by AOL, part of CNN's parent company, Time Warner.", "The family's doctor observed the autopsy, Wilchcombe told CNN's \"Larry King Live\" on Monday.", "The body was cremated, Wilchcombe said Monday.", "He said Tuesday that a memorial service was planned for Thursday.", "Funeral plans have not been announced.", "In a statement posted on the actor's Web site, Travolta and Preston described Jett as \"the most wonderful son that two parents could ever ask for [who] lit up the lives of everyone he encountered.\"", "\"We are heartbroken that our time with him was so brief,\" they said.", "The couple also has a daughter, Ella, 8.", "Jett Travolta had a developmental disability that his parents have linked to Kawasaki disease, an inflammatory disorder of the artery walls that most commonly occurs in young children, and that can lead to heart disease.", "According to the American Heart Association, \"About 80 percent of the people with Kawasaki disease are under age 5.", "Children over age 8 are rarely affected.\"", "\"They're just a fantastic couple, very family oriented like a lot of people in our community,\" Ocala Mayor Randy Ewers, told Larry King.", "\"We're very sad about the unfortunate events for one of our community members ... they're part of the community.\"", "Neighbor Jacob Urbowicz described the actor as \"just one of us.\"", "\"He may be famous, but he's just one of us here in the neighborhood.", "You know, we see the kids, and they see our kids.", "We're all one family here, you know.", "It's just not something that's supposed to happen,\" Urbowicz told CNN affiliate WESH-TV.", "Urbowicz said he remembers Jett Travolta as a happy teenager, the television station reported." ]	[ "Seizure listed as cause of death on death certificate, TMZ.com reports .", "Jett Travolta's autopsy was performed Monday in the Bahamas .", "His body has been cremated, memorial scheduled for Thursday, family friend says .", "Teen's parents say he had developmental disability linked to inflammatory disease ." ]	[ 3, 6, 13, 18 ]
[ "New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- Calling the federal response to Hurricane Katrina \"a shameful breakdown in government,\" President Barack Obama said Sunday as rebuilding continues, officials are looking ahead to avoid a repeat when future disasters strike.", "Speaking at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans to mark the fifth anniversary of Katrina, Obama said construction of a fortified levee system to protect the city is underway and will be finished by next year, \"We should not be playing Russian roulette every hurricane season,\" he said.", "\"There is no need to dwell on what you experienced and what the world witnessed,\" the president said, speaking to a crowd that included current New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and members of Louisiana's Congressional delegation.", "\"We all remember it keenly -- water pouring through broken levees; mothers holding their children above the waterline; people stranded on rooftops begging for help; and bodies lying in the streets of a great American city,\" Obama said.", "\"It was a natural disaster but also a man-made catastrophe; a shameful breakdown in government that left countless men and women and children abandoned and alone.\"", "But the president spoke of the resilience of city residents.", "\"Because of all of you -- all the advocates, all the organizers who are here today, folks standing behind me who have worked so hard and never gave up hope, you are all leading the way toward a better future for this city with innovative approaches to fight poverty, improve health care, reduce crime and create opportunities for young people -- because of you, New Orleans is coming back.\"", "The president noted that New Orleans is now one of the nation's fastest-growing cities, and small businesses have surged.", "\"Five years ago, the Saints had to play every game on the road because of the damage to the Superdome,\" he said.", "\"Two . weeks ago, we welcomed the Saints to the White House as Super Bowl champions.\"", "\"I don't have to tell you that there are still too many vacant and overgrown lots,\" Obama said.", "\"There are still too many students attending classes in trailers.", "There are still too many people unable to find work.", "And there's still too many New Orleans folks who haven't been able to come home.\"", "\"So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you -- and fight alongside you -- until the job is done, until New Orleans is all the way back.\"", "He said his administration has made efforts to reduce red tape and turf wars between agencies, and has put in place a new way to handle disputes, with help from Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana.", "More than 170 projects are now underway as a result, he said.", "In addition, federal officials are tackling \"corruption and inefficiency that has long plagued the New Orleans Housing Authority,\" he said.", "And a group led by Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is examining disaster recovery nationwide.", "\"We're improving coordination on the ground, modernizing emergency communications and helping families plan for a crisis,\" Obama said.", "\"And we're putting in place reforms so that never again in America is someone left behind in a disaster because they're living with a disability or because they're elderly or because they're infirm.", "That will not happen again.\" On Friday, he said, his administration announced a final agreement on $1.8 billion for Orleans Parish schools, money the president said had been \"locked up for years, but now it's freed up, so folks here can determine how best to restore the school system.\"", "In addition, the largest civil works project in American history -- the construction of a fortified levee system to protect New Orleans -- is underway and will be finished by next year, he said.", "\"Together we are helping to make New Orleans a place that stands for what we can do in America -- not just for what we can't do,\" he said.", "\"And ultimately, that must be the legacy of Katrina: not one of neglect, but of action; not one of indifference, but of empathy; not of abandonment, but of a community working together to meet shared challenges.\"", "Some wounds, the president acknowledged, have not yet healed, and \"there are some losses that can't be repaid.", "For many who lived through those harrowing days five years ago, there are searing memories that time may not erase.", "But even amid so much tragedy, we saw the stirrings of a brighter day.\"", "He said he recalled being struck, upon visiting New Orleans four years ago, by the amount of greenery that had returned.", "\"The work ahead will not be easy,\" he said, \"and there will be setbacks.", "There will be challenges along the way.", "But thanks to you, thanks to the great people of this great city, New Orleans is blossoming again.\"", "Following his speech, the president, accompanied by first lady Michelle Obama, were given a short tour of a new neighborhood built on a part of the city that experienced severe flooding when Katrina hit." ]	[ "Obama: \"New Orleans is coming back\"\nPresident says efforts remain underway to rebuild after Katrina .", "Officials are looking ahead to prepare for future disasters, he says ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama said Thursday his plan to improve America's education system includes charter schools, intense teacher education and parent involvement.", "\"Now, I know some argue that during a recession, we should focus solely on economic issues ... but education is an economic issue, if not the economic issue, of our time,\" Obama said at the National Urban League's 100th Anniversary Convention in Washington.", "\"We've tolerated a status quo where America lags behind other nations.\"", "On the issue of higher education, he noted that America used to be first and is now 12th globally when it comes to college graduation rates.", "Middle-schoolers continue to fall behind in math and science, and the income gap continues to widen between white and African-American students, he said.", "\"It's essential that we put a college degree that's in reach of everyone (who) wants it,\" he said, adding that the college graduation rate needs to increase by 2020.", "He also noted that the federal government has increased scholarships and other loan money to achieve that goal, \"so young people don't graduate like Michelle and me with such big loan payments every month,\" he noted to an applauding audience.", "Obama said his administration wants to reform and strengthen historically black colleges and universities, but \"even if we do all this good stuff for higher education, too many of our children see college as a distant dream because their education went off the rails long before they turned 18,\" he said.", "He said he is challenging states to offer better early learning options so children can enter kindergarten ready to learn.", "\"Knowing colors, knowing shapes ... knowing how to sit still.", "You gotta learn that, especially when you're a boy,\" he said smiling.", "He acknowledged heavy criticism from civil rights groups about the education reform plans.", "\"Part (of the criticism) reflects a general resistance to change....the status quo is not working,\" he said.", "\"We're lifting up quality for all our children... You can't win grants unless you've got a plan to ...deal with schools that have been forgotten.\"", "The Obama education plan champions better teacher pay, but also asks for tangible results.", "He noted that his sister is a teacher.", "\"I'm here because of great teachers,\" he said.", "\"Teachers are the single most important factor in a child's education from moment they step into the classroom.", "I want higher salaries.", "I want more support.", "I want them to be trained like the professionals they are... with rigorous residencies like doctors go through.", "\"I don't want talented young people to say, 'I'd love to teach, but I can't afford it.'", "Instead of a culture where we're always idolizing sports starts and celebrities, I want some teachers on the covers on some of those magazines,\" he said.", "The president has demanded accountability in his plan.", "\"As we applaud teachers for their hard work, we need to make sure we're seeing results in the classroom,\" he said.", "\"Let's work with teachers to become more effective.\"", "If that doesn't work, Obama said officials need to find the right teacher for that classroom.", "\"Our goal isn't to fire or to admonish teachers, it's to provide accountability.\"", "Obama noted that the administration's Race to the Top program has sparked 32 states to reform their education laws \"before we even spent a dime,\" he said.", "\"In each round we've leveraged change across the country ... sown the seeds of achievement.\"", "He said the program is different from the No Child Left Behind reform that he said caused states to lower standards.", "\"They are now raising those standards back up partly because of Race to the Top,\" he noted.", "Obama said sometimes a school's problems are so deep, they need a complete overhaul.", "He said he's challenging states to turn around 5,000 of the lowest-performing schools, and $4 billion has been earmarked for those schools.", "\"It's not about labeling a troubled school as a failure, it's about investing in that school's future.\"", "\"In some cases that means restarting the school under different management as a charter school,\" he said.", "\"Some people don't like charter schools ... but I want to give states and school districts the chance to try new things.", "If charter schools doesn't work, we'll hold it accountable and shut it down.\"", "Obama called Race to the Top \"the single most ambitious, meaningful reform effort we've attempted in this country in generations.", "We won't see results overnight. ...", "It may take a decade for these changes to pay off.\"", "The last ingredient to Obama's education reform effort is parent involvement.", "But the president said children should take responsibility for their education, too.", "\"Parents are going to have to get more involved in their children's education,\" he said.", "\"Our kids need to understand nobody's gonna hand them a future.", "Education isn't something you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear.", "You've got to want it.\" Obama acknowledged that some families are dealing with unemployment, substance abuse and violence.", "\"I know the character of America's young people.", "I saw them volunteer on my campaign ... ask questions in town hall meetings and ... write me letters.\"", "Race to the Top is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to reward states for aggressively reforming their education systems.", "The $4.35 billion is being awarded in two phases.", "Tennessee and Delaware were the only two states to receive funds in the first round of the competition.", "Eighteen states and the District of Columbia were selected as finalists this week to receive more than $3 billion in the second round of funding for the program.", "The second-round finalists will travel to Washington in early August to present their plans to the reviewers who scored their applications, according to the Education Department.", "The winners will be announced in September.", "Not all of the finalists, however, will be awarded grants from the nearly $3.4 billion remaining in program, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said, adding that Obama has requested $1.35 billion for the program in the administration's fiscal 2011 budget.", "Tennessee received nearly $501 million, allowing the state and all 136 school districts to move forward in implementing comprehensive school reform plans over the next four years.", "Delaware has received about $100 million.", "The two states earned high marks for the commitment to reform from elected officials, teacher's union leaders and business leaders.", "Federal education officials said Delaware and Tennessee also have aggressive plans to improve teacher and principal evaluation and turn around their lowest-performing schools.", "In addition, both states have put in place strong laws and policies to support their reform efforts." ]	[ "NEW: Obama says charter schools, teacher education and parent involvement are key .", "The Race to the Top program rewards states for aggressive education reform .", "NEW: Obama says states have already begun to raise their education standards ." ]	[ 0, 28, 49 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- When Yo-Yo Ma enters a room, everything changes.", "Yo-Yo Ma's new album, \"Songs of Joy and Peace,\" is his first holiday-themed record.", "His energy and warmth (he hugs everyone in sight) and curiosity (for every question you ask him, he asks two of you) envelop you like a blanket.", "He's also surprisingly funny.", "The world's most celebrated cellist introduces himself not as Yo-Yo, or Mr. Ma, or even Yo Mama (as you might expect from a wisenheimer).", "Instead, with a hint of mischief and a nod to the everyman celebrity of campaign '08, he offers, \"I'm Joe the cellist.\"", "He adds, \"I get the 'plumb' jobs.\"", "He might be right.", "Consider Ma's latest album, \"Songs of Joy and Peace\" (Sony), the first holiday-themed release of his career.", "Ma describes it as a musical party, a collection of good-time collaborations with musical buddies, James Taylor and Diana Krall among them.", "Watch Yo-Yo Ma enjoy time with his friends » .", "\"I asked everybody to bring their favorite piece of music that signified joy to them,\" Ma said.", "\"And out came all of these fantastic pieces.", "Many of them I didn't know.\" Krall applies her mellow voice and piano playing to the lighthearted \"You Couldn't be Cuter.\"", "Ma joined Taylor in Taylor's Washington, Massachusetts, barn to record George Harrison's \"Here Comes the Sun.\"", "Other guests include vocalists Alison Krauss and Renee Fleming, trumpeter Chris Botti and saxophonist Joshua Redman.", "Ma also enlists help from friends who are less mainstream such as the green-haired Galician bagpiper Cristina Pato and mandolin player Chris Thiele.", "Jake Shimabukuro's ukulele provides a delightfully plucky counterpoint to Ma's soaring cello on the John Lennon/Yoko Ono hit \"Happy Xmas (War is Over).\"", "Born in Paris to Chinese parents and raised in New York, Ma, 53, is no stranger to thinking outside the music box.", "In 1998 he founded the Silk Road Project, a multi-cultural exchange designed to help artists and musicians share ideas across borders.", "His international efforts have earned him the title of United Nations Messenger of Peace.", "And to Ma, his extensive travels have earned him comparison to a certain shifty-footed children's book character.", "\"As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like,\" he says.", "\"I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.\"", "CNN caught up with Ma at Legacy Studios in New York where some of the recording took place for \"Songs of Joy and Peace.\"", "The following is an edited version of that interview.", "CNN: One of the things that's apparent from watching the footage of the studio sessions from this album is that everyone is so humbled to work with you, and you are just as humbled to work with them.", "Yo-Yo Ma: Well, I think what I loved about the sessions was that there was mutuality, if that's a word, of just being open and wanting to do the best thing possible.", "And so I think everybody just came with an open heart and open mind. ...", "The amount of talent that walked through the room was staggering for me.", "Day after day I thought I could die and go to heaven.", "... Every day was like that.", "So I feel very, very, very lucky and very grateful to my friends.", "CNN: With the work you do, particularly with the Silk Road Project, you've really had to relax the rules of classical music.", "Has that been difficult? Ma: There's a part of me that's always charging ahead.", "I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.", "But I have such deep love for the domain that I come from, whether you call it classical music or ...", "I don't know what you call it these days because it's no longer really definable.", "It's coming from a lot of places.", "Yes, you're right, I had to relax.", "It was scary. And I think the idea of transcending fear and transcending technique or understanding different frames is part of the adventure.", "Something's scary until you make it familiar and comfortable.", "I feel so much more a member of the planet community after doing this work for 10 years, because I feel like you can drop me most places and I'll be OK.", "I'll find out what's going on and find a way to participate.", "CNN: You're a big believer in the idea that music is this big unifying force in the world.", "What other common languages have you come across?", "Ma: Oh my goodness.", "I think there are so many basic ways of behaving that we all have.", "Guest-host relations ... there's no culture that doesn't have that.", "And there's almost no culture where there are not stories where people take in strangers.", "Gift giving is another act that is universal.", "Certainly caring for one's group, a tribal mentality.", "Sometimes it means putting up firewalls because it's dangerous to mingle.", "But in today's world it seems like we have different groupings.", "[We seem to have] a younger generation that actually is much more tribe-blind or they've created their own social communities.", "So it's interesting to live in today's world and observe how within urban or rural areas people's habits may be changing.", "And I think culturally speaking I'm trying to work in such a way that we can actually find more commonality than the differences, especially because often things happen so quickly.", "CNN: Can you ever remember a moment in your life when you felt bored?", "Ma: Yes. I hated that feeling so much.", "I think we all remember when we were much younger, how slowly time [goes].", "And I think those years often were very boring years.", "When is summer going to come?", "When is Christmas going to come?", "Never! But I think I decided or thought about how I really would love to have an interesting life.", "I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.", "CNN: What do you do to relax? Ma: Because so much of what I do involves people, being in a place with more trees than people immediately takes me down.", "I live in Cambridge [Massachusetts] and so when we go to western Massachusetts and see the mountains and trees, suddenly I'm totally relaxed and feel fabulous." ]	[ "Yo-Yo Ma's new album is first holiday record for cellist .", "Collaborators include James Taylor, Diana Krall, bagpiper Cristina Pato .", "Why is he so active?", "He wanted \"interesting life\"" ]	[ 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 62 ]

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