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"(CNN) -- Cristiano Ronaldo has escaped punishment over the car smash earlier this year that saw his Ferrari written off.",
"Ronaldo's Ferrari was a complete write-off after his accident on the way to training.",
"The Manchester United star, who is set to move to Real Madrid for a world record fee, demolished the front of his high-performance sports car after he hit a roadside barrier in a tunnel on a freeway in the north-west of England city.",
"No other vehicle was involved and Ronaldo escaped injury.",
"He spoke to police officers at the scene and was also later interviewed as well as giving a written statement.",
"A Greater Manchester Police spokesman told Press Association Tuesday.",
"\"No further action will be taken against the driver of a Ferrari 599 GTB, which collided with a wall on the A538 Wilmslow Road on Thursday, January 8.",
"\"No-one was injured and no other vehicles were involved in the incident.\"",
"It was reported that the Portuguese star had only owned the top-of-the-range sports car for just a few days before the accident.",
"The impact of the crash saw one of the Ferrari's wheels come off and end up 200 meters away, with skid marks on the road clearly prominent.",
"The FIFA World Player of the Year walked away from the smash and was given a lift to training that morning by then Manchester United teammate Edwin van der Sar who had been driving along the same stretch of road behind him.",
"Dutchman Van de Sar also provided a statement to police about the incident.",
"Real Madrid and Manchester United confirmed last week that they had reached a deal to send Ronaldo to the Bernabeu, but it has still to be officially sealed."
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"Manchester police will not take action over Cristiano Ronaldo car crash .",
"Ronaldo wrote off his Ferrari as he drove to training on January 8 .",
"No other vehicles were involved and Ronaldo escaped injury ."
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"(CareerBuilder.com) -- Co-workers are always a great topic of conversation.",
"You never run out of things to say when it comes to talking about the different types of people you work with, what you love, what you hate and how you deal with it all.",
"We thought we'd do a little research into some of the best co-workers out there.",
"Not just the different personality types, but real people, who do real good things.",
"What we found found is that many workers out there are generous, kind people who put their colleagues' lives before their own without hesitation.",
"Here are 5 of the most heroic co-workers people encountered this year.",
"The heroes . 1. Co-worker helps to save a fellow employee's life .",
"Claude Marlowe, a diabetic, went to work one morning like any other day.",
"When he went to shake a colleague's hand, he had a heart attack and dropped dead -- literally.",
"That's when Debi Coffman and another co-worker, Larry Garrett, realized that this wasn't a diabetic episode; Marlowe had no pulse.",
"The two performed CPR and chest compressions and revived Marlowe three times before emergency crews arrived.",
"He suffered five heart attacks and was brain dead for at least two hours.",
"He would not be alive had his co-workers not known what to do.",
"(Nascar.com) 2.",
"Chandler worker helps colleague get new artificial leg .",
"For 30 years, Gregory Lewis, a retail maintenance worker, walked with the same prosthetic device on his left leg.",
"As the years wore on, so did his artificial leg.",
"One day, he lifted his foot off the ground to get into his car, and the artificial leg fell off.",
"Lewis had no health insurance and didn't have money for a new prosthesis, which cost more than $10,000.",
"Daniel Anderson, a code enforcement officer who moonlights as a Dillard's security guard, knew about his co-worker's struggle, and was determined to help.",
"Thanks to friends and family, Anderson raised $1,000 and earned the rest of the money with the help of Dillard's and a local prosthetic company to buy Lewis a new leg.",
"(The Arizona Republic) 3.",
"Houston transit worker helps fallen woman on Metro tracks .",
"When Eliot Swainson, a Houston Transit Authority employee, was volunteering for the Metro in Washington, D.C., he didn't expect to come home a hero.",
"But that's just what Swainson became when he directed a woman who had fallen on the tracks to safety.",
"Swainson was giving directions to other passengers when Metro patrons began yelling that someone had fallen on the tracks.",
"He and another person unsuccessfully tried to remove the woman from the tracks.",
"Swainson was left with one option: direct the woman to safety while the train passed overhead.",
"He told the woman to stay as close to the edge of the track as possible, under the overhang next to the tracks to avoid getting hit.",
"After the train passed, they cut power to the tracks and got the woman to safety.",
"(dcist.com/) 4.",
"Hair stylist saves coworker .",
"Carol Morgan, a 68-year-old hair stylist, helped resuscitate co-worker who suffered sudden cardiac arrest.",
"Sue Flood, 64, had just finished eating lunch and was washing her dishes in the sink when she collapsed.",
"As another colleague screamed for help, Morgan ran to Flood, who had no pulse.",
"She immediately began chest compressions and CPR.",
"When emergency crews arrived, Flood had just started to breathe and have some movement.",
"Morgan says that she has known CPR for 15 to 20 years but never had to use it until that day.",
"(Pryor Daily Times) 5.",
"Hero died saving co-worker .",
"Earl Ramersad was a supervisor at Delta Glass, a Canadian company, for more than 10 years.",
"He died a hero when he pushed a co-worker out of harm's way by absorbing the full impact of glass panes that fell while workers were off-loading it from a container.",
"Colleagues said Ramersad went to help his crew when the accident happened and ended up saving someone's life instead.",
"(Trinidad & Tobago Express) © CareerBuilder.com 2010.",
"All rights reserved.",
"The information contained in this article may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority."
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"Just about everyone can complain about at least one coworker .",
"But Debi Coffman and Larry Garrett gave coworker CPR and saved his life .",
"A security guard helps raise money to pay for prosthetic leg for coworker .",
"Earl Ramersad died after he pushed coworker out of way of glass panes ."
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"Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva rejected protesters' demands Monday that he call an early election and dissolve parliament, saying on national television that he would listen to the protesters but would not be forced to accede to their demands.",
"The rejection came after another largely peaceful day of demonstration during which thousands of red-shirted protesters called for a blood bath of sorts -- organizing a blood drive and threatening to spatter hundreds of liters of donated blood over government buildings and the prime minister's residence.",
"Abhisit spent much of Monday morning holed up in a safe house in a military compound, which was surrounded by protesters.",
"He left by helicopter in order to survey the situation, after which the protesters left the site.",
"The protests, which were expected to continue Tuesday, have hurt the economy.",
"The nation's tourism minister estimated the demonstrations might have resulted in a 20 percent drop in tourists.",
"The impact on Chinese visitors appears to have been greater, with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce reporting a 50 percent cancellation rate.",
"\"Red shirts\" rally in Bangkok: Share your photos .",
"The protesters, who are trying to bring down the prime minister's administration, announced the blood drive an hour after Abhisit ignored a demand by the \"red shirts\" -- named for their clothing -- to dissolve parliament by noon Monday.",
"Nattawut Saikua -- one of the leaders of the anti-government United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship -- said the protesters will collect 1,000 liters (1 million cubic centimeters) of blood Tuesday and then throw it on the grounds of the Government House, which houses ministerial offices.",
"If Abhisit still refuses to dissolve parliament, the demonstrators said, they will collect another 1,000 liters of blood the next day and splash it on the headquarters of the ruling party.",
"The next day, they will collect 1,000 more liters and target the prime minister's residence, the demonstrators said.",
"The anti-government demonstrations began Friday.",
"By Sunday, tens of thousands of protesters had poured into the center of Bangkok.",
"The rallies have been largely peaceful.",
"Abhisit said Monday that his government will not use force to quell the demonstrations.",
"Army Col. Sansern Kaewkumnerd said a number of grenades were tossed from a side street into the 11th Infantry headquarters, where the Center for the Administration of Peace and Order is coordinating the government response to the protests.",
"Two soldiers were hurt, the colonel said.",
"The protesters are supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a bloodless military coup in 2006.",
"Thaksin was the only Thai prime minister to serve a full term and remains hugely popular.",
"He fled the country in 2008 while facing trial on corruption charges that he says were politically motivated.",
"The protesters say Abhisit was not democratically elected and have demanded that he call new elections.",
"About 50,000 security forces were mobilized ahead of the protests and additional soldiers were guarding Abhisit.",
"Since Thaksin's ouster, Thailand has endured widespread political unrest that has pitted Thaksin loyalists against Abhisit supporters.",
"Two people were killed and at least 135 wounded in riots in April 2009 when protesters clashed with demonstrators supporting the government.",
"CNN's Kocha Olarn contributed to this report ."
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"PM Abhisit Vejjajiva says he will listen to protesters but not accede to their demands .",
"Protesters say they will collect 1,000 liters of blood Tuesday to throw at Government House .",
"Two soldiers were injured when grenades were tossed into the 11th Infantry Headquarters .",
"The protesters are supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra ."
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"(CNN) -- Detroit police have arrested a man suspected to be the rapist who \"terrorized\" women on the city's Northeast side, the police chief said Monday.",
"Raynard Coleman, 31, was taken into custody without incident last Wednesday, after DNA evidence tied him to six of seven assaults that have taken place in the city since January 1, Chief Ralph Godbee said.",
"Police believe the suspect targeted the females, ages 17 to 33, as they waited at or were walking near bus stops.",
"The victims were taken to nearby vacant buildings and assaulted, according to the chief.",
"Detroit police set up a 24-hour operational command post, which was manned by a specialized joint task force, to receive tips about the attacks, Godbee said.",
"Tips also came in on Facebook, he said.",
"The police chief credited teamwork from people in the community and the combined efforts of local, state and federal law enforcement agencies for helping in the search for the rapist.",
"\"Every person in this department, community, outside of the community, they were extremely engaged in this process,\" the chief said.",
"\"There is no person in the Detroit metro area that this didn't touch.\"",
"Godbee also recognized the victims for coming forth to report the crimes.",
"Without their descriptions, he said, police would not have been able to release a composite sketch to the public.",
"The charges against Coleman, who has no history of sexual crimes, include kidnapping, aggravated assault, criminal sexual conduct, armed robbery and felony with a firearm, according to Jerry Dorsey IV, with the Wayne County prosecutor's office.",
"If convicted, Coleman could be sentenced to life in prison, Dorsey said."
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"Raynard Coleman, 31, is accused in six assaults in Detroit, the police chief says .",
"Coleman targeted females waiting at or walking near bus stops, Chief Ralph Godbee says .",
"Charges against Coleman include kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct, official says ."
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"(CNN) -- In most places, when 16 people are gunned down, the local media reports the incident without missing a beat.",
"But when the massacre described above happened last weekend in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the editors of the city's largest daily newspaper had to have a long discussion before deciding to cover and investigate the story.",
"As drug cartel violence continues unabated throughout Mexico, journalists find themselves walking a thin line between covering the story and becoming part of it.",
"Already this year, three journalists have been killed in Mexico, reaffirming the country's place as one of the most dangerous in the world for journalists.",
"The drug violence \"generates fear, even if you don't like to admit it,\" Pedro Torres, deputy editor of El Diario de Juarez told CNN.",
"Drug cartels have targeted reporters and editors who report on their activities, something that gives editors pause before reporting on incidents likely linked to the cartels.",
"After discussion, the Juarez newspaper decided to investigate the gruesome slayings that happened over the weekend, but are aware of what that means.",
"\"We are always trying to investigate, but when you get too deep you draw a reaction,\" Torres said, referring to threats from drug traffickers.",
"\"In this case, we are trying to dig as deep as possible.\"",
"However, if the paper's efforts are met with \"reactions,\" they will have to back down, he said.",
"It is a form of self-censorship that many media outlets in Mexico have accepted out of concern for the safety of their staffs.",
"Sometimes, cartel members will call the newspaper to try to get reporters to not write about certain incidents; other times they push for certain stories to be included.",
"\"There's pressure from all sides,\" Torres said.",
"In January, a crime reporter for the Zocalo newspaper in Saltillo, Mexico -- Valentin Valdes Espinosa -- was kidnapped.",
"He was found dead shortly after, his body showing signs of torture and with several bullet wounds..",
"According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Valdes Espinosa was found with a message that read: \"This is going to happen to those who don't understand.",
"The message is for everyone.\"",
"Less than two weeks later, authorities in the state of Sinaloa found the body of another journalist who was kidnapped in December.",
"Jose Luis Romero's body also showed signs of torture, CPJ reported.",
"The most recent victim was Jorge Ochoa Martinez, a Mexican editor and publisher of two papers in the western state of Guerrero who died last week after being shot in the face, according to local media.",
"The state attorney general's office told CNN Wednesday that there were two leads in the investigation, but that authorities were not ready to talk about them publicly yet.",
"\"Obviously, for this year, it's already an alarming figure,\" Anthony Mills, press freedom manager for the International Press Institute in Vienna, Austria, told CNN.",
"\"There appears to be no end in sight.\"",
"\"Although journalists continue bravely to do their jobs, the fact of the matter is that the systematic killing of journalists is going to have an effect on the job that journalists do,\" Mills added.",
"Compounding the problem, Mills said, is either the inability or unwillingness of Mexican authorities to investigate violence against journalists.",
"The Juarez paper had a reporter killed in 2008.",
"Federal and local authorities visited the newspaper office and vowed to bring the killers to justice, \"but in the end, nothing happens,\" Torres said.",
"The case of the Juarez reporter, Armando Rodriguez, remains unsolved.",
"Agustin Lozano, editor-in-chief of El Bravo newspaper in Matamoros, Mexico, across the border from Brownsville, Texas, said excessive caution has become the norm for reporting crime.",
"\"I don't want heroes here at my newspaper because it could be dangerous,\" Lozano told CNN.",
"\"We are reporters, we are not police.\"",
"Matamoros has not seen as much violence as other border cities, but it is the home of the Gulf cartel.",
"Out of an abundance of caution, Lozano's newspaper reports only on incidents that the police department gives news conferences or press releases about.",
"Lozano said journalists are just the messengers who are getting caught in the middle of a conflict that is international in scope.",
"Mexico, as a transport country for drugs, and the United States, as a consumer of drugs, have to work together to resolve the trafficking problem before journalists and others can be safe, he said.",
"In the meantime, \"there is no security, no guarantees.\"",
"Despite the challenges and dangerous environment, Torres, the editor in Juarez, remains hopeful.",
"\"Our goal is to return to doing the type of journalism we were doing two years ago,\" before the violence there escalated, he said."
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"Three Mexican journalists have been killed so far in 2010 .",
"Says one editor: Drug violence \"generates fear, even if you don't like to admit it\"\nNews groups must be cautious when investigating slayings linked to drug cartels .",
"Journalists say cartels pressure them to drop some stories, cover others ."
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"(CNN) -- Hosts Angola were denied victory by an incredible Mali comeback to force a 4-4 draw in the opening match of the troubled Africa Cup of Nations in Luanda on Sunday.",
"Angola appeared headed for an emphatic victory when they led 4-0 with only 16 minutes remaining before Mali produced one of the most remarkable recoveries in the history of the competitive football.",
"Barcelona's Seydou Keita with a double, a brilliant Frederic Kanoute header and finally, deep into injury time, the equalizer from substitute Mustapha Yatabare completed the great escape.",
"The dramatic match went ahead against the tragic backdrop of the murderous machine gun attack on the Togo team bus in Cabinda on Friday, which left two dead and several injured.",
"Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos issued a rallying call in his speech to mark the official opening of the competition, which was attended by several heads of state, including South Africa's Jakob Zuma whose country hosts the World Cup finals later this year.",
"\"Despite the terrorist attack, Cabinda will remain a hosting city,\" he said.",
"\"There is no need to be afraid.\"",
"After the speeches and fireworks, Angola proceeded to do their country proud with a dominant first half perfomance against a desperately disappointing Mali side, who were one of the pre-tournament favorites.",
"Flavio Armado put them two ahead by the break with headed goals in the 36th and 42nd minutes.",
"Mali pressed hard at the start of the second half with their captain Mahamadou Diarra denied by a point-blank save, but their efforts were undermined when they conceded a 65th minute penalty which Gilberto converted at the second attempt.",
"Gilberto was then brought down by Keita to concede another soft penalty and Manucho slotted home the fourth to send the home fans in the 11th of November stadium wild with delight.",
"Their appeared little danger when Keita scrambled the ball home in the 79th minute from a corner and alarm bells were still to ring when Sevilla striker Kanoute at last showed his quality with an 88th-minute second goal.",
"But Keita struck a third on the stroke of nomal time and with Angola's defense in total disarray it was left to Yatabare to make a name for himself with the leveler."
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"Hosts Angola and Mali draw 4-4 in opening match of 27th Africa Cup of Nations .",
"Mali trailed 4-0 with 16 minutes left until mounting an incredible comeback .",
"Seydou Keita with a double, Frederic Kanoute and Mustapha Yatabare score Mali goals .",
"Flavio Armado with a double and penalties from Gilberto and Manucho put Angola in command ."
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"(CNN) -- Bordeaux clinched the French league title with a 1-0 win over Caen on a dramatic final day of the season.",
"Bordeaux's fans celebrate their first French league title in 10 years.",
"Laurent Blanc's men were ending Lyon's seven-year hold on the domestic championship and winning Bordeaux's first title in 10 years.",
"A goal from Yoan Gouffran early in the second half secured their 11th straight win and their second trophy of the season having won the French League Cup in April.",
"The defeat saw Caen drop to the second flight and kept Bordeaux three points clear of second-placed Marseille who won 4-0 at home to Rennes to keep up the pressure to the last.",
"Senegal international striker Mamadou Niang scored twice with Ivory Coast star Bakari Kone also on target, but it was not enough.",
"Lyon closed their season with a 0-0 draw at Toulouse and their third place finish secures a place in the qualifying round for the Champions League.",
"Once mighty Nantes also went down despite a 2-1 win over Auxerre, but St.Etienne stayed up with a 4-0 win over Valenciennes.",
"In the Spanish Primera Liga, Atletico Madrid thrashed Almeria 3-0 to clinch a spot in the Champions League next season.",
"Diego Forlan all but sealed the honor of finishing top scorer in the league with the opener for Atletico, his 32nd of the season, by rounding off the scoring for Atletico.",
"Sergio Aguero, reportedly a target for Premier League Chelsea, gave them a 19th-minute lead with Raul Garcia scoring the second.",
"The win draws Atletico level on points with third placed Sevilla, who close their season, but staying two points clear of fifth-placed Villarreal, 3-2 winners over Real Mallorca in their final match.",
"European champions Barcelona, who had already clinched the Spanish title, finished their season with a 1-1 draw at Deportivo La Coruna.",
"Rodolfo Bodipo put Depo ahead in the first half with Samuel Eto'o equalizing with a minute left.",
"It leaves Barcelona with a record tally of 87 points from 38 points, well clear of arch-rivals and deposed champions Real Madrid.",
"Besiktas won the Turkish league title with a 2-1 win over Denizlispor as nearest rivals Sivasspor lost 2-1 to last year's champions Galatasaray.",
"It was the 11th championship for Besiktas, but first since 2003.",
"They also won the Turkish Cup."
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"Bordeaux beat relegated Caen 1-0 to clinch the French league title .",
"Marseille finish runners-up despite 4-0 home win over Rennes .",
"Atletico Madrid clinch Champions League spot from Primera Liga .",
"Besiktas claim Turkish league title with 2-1 win over Denizlispor ."
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"CNN -- Lionel Messi is universally recognized as being one of football's greatest current players and the Argentine, who does not turn 22 until June, will have a captive world-wide audience watching his every move when he dons the famous red and blue Barcelona shirt for Wednesday's Champions League final against Manchester United.",
"Lionel Messi has finished second in FIFA's World Player of the Year award two years in a row.",
"Messi burst onto the world stage in 2003 when he made his debut, as a raw 16-year-old, in a friendly against Portuguese side Porto -- and since then he has become the natural heir-apparent to Argentine legend Diego Maradona.",
"Born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1987, a year after Maradona almost single-handidly won the World Cup for his country in Mexico, Messi's talent was obvious at a very early age.",
"He joined Argentine club Newell's Old Boys aged just eight, where he stayed until he joined Barcelona's under-14 squad in 2000.",
"With Barcelona he has already won three league championships, two Spanish Super cups, the Copa del Rey and the Champions League.",
"On the international stage he has won the Under-20 World Cup with Argentina in 2005, while being voted player of tournament and making his mark as the tournament's leading goalscorer.",
"He made his debut for the senior team aged 18 and played a leading role in the side that won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.",
"According to Forbes magazine, Messi was football's sixth-richest earner in 2008.",
"Of his $18 million income, only a relatively small $7m came from endorsements.",
"Maradona, now coach of the Argentine national side, has described Messi as \"beautiful to watch,\" adding \"he has something different to any other player in the world.\"",
"Messi has scored eight times in this year's Champions League and is odds-on to become the competition's leading scorer -- and a winning goal in Rome on Wednesday will add the icing on the cake in what has been a superb season for both Messi and Barca.",
"Messi's outstanding performances during the 2007/2008 season earned him second place in voting for European Footballer of the Year and FIFA World Player of the Year honors, both times being beaten by Cristiano Ronaldo.",
"However, if he helps Barcelona add the Champions League to their La Lia and Copa del Rey crowns this season, he is likely to go one better when this year's awards are handed out."
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"Lionel Messi has already helped Barca to the La Liga and Copa del Rey titles .",
"21-year-old the top scorer in this season's Champions League with eight goals .",
"Messi seen as the natural heir-apparent to Argentine legend Diego Maradona ."
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"(CNN) -- Malawi stunned Algeria 3-0 at a near-deserted November 11 stadium in Luanda as the unpredictable start to the African Nations Cup continued.",
"Algeria began the Group A match as clear favorites, but were 2-0 down by half-time thanks to goals from Russel Mwafulirwa and Elvis Kafoteka.",
"Dave Banda added a third after 49 minutes to end any thoughts of an Algeria comeback.",
"Sunday's 4-4 draw between hosts Angola and Mali did not appear to have captured the public's imagination as the players kicked off in front of rows and rows of empty seats.",
"An early angled strike from Abdelkader Ghezzal was saved by Malawi goalkeeper Swadick Sanudi after five minutes.",
"Ghezzal had another chance moments later but could not find the target.",
"After eight minutes, Russel found a yard in the Algeria box but headed wide under pressure from Madjid Bougherra.",
"Malawi surprised their opponents in the 17th minute when they took the lead in somewhat fortuitous fashion.",
"Algeria goalkeeper Faouzi Chaouchi attempted to clear a long ball but only succeeded in smashing the ball straight into the advancing Essau Kanyenda.",
"The ball broke to Russel, who hammered home.",
"Rafik Saifi had a great chance to level after 24 minutes when he was played through by Karim Ziani's ball over the top but he sent a lobbed effort over the bar.",
"And 10 minutes before the break it was 2-0 as Kafoteka rose highest to head home Hellings Mwakasungula's cross following a short corner.",
"Algeria's day got even worse four minutes after the break.",
"Chaouchi flapped at a cross and the ball fell to Russel.",
"His shot hit the post and an attempted clearance from Bougherra broke to Banda, who finally smashed the ball home.",
"Meanwhile, in the day's other match, tournament favourites Ivory Coast were held to a 0-0 draw by a stubborn Burkina Faso in their opening Group B match at the Estadio do Cabinda.",
"Vahid Halilhodzic's team dominated possession but could not find the cutting edge to break down a determined Burkinabe defence despite a frontline of Didier Drogba, Bakari Kone and Gervinho.",
"Chelsea striker Drogba had an early shout for a penalty after a sliding challenge from Paul Koulibaly, but the appeals were rejected.",
"Arsenal's Emmanuel Eboue looked to be caught in the area by Mamadou Tall after 20 minutes but again the referee was unmoved.",
"Eboue then burst through down the right only to fire across goal and Siaka Tiene blasted over from a tight angle following Drogba's cross from the right.",
"Chelsea's Salomon Kalou and Portsmouth's Aruna Dindane were introduced off the bench by Ivory Coast in the second half.",
"Drogba was cynically brought down by Mohamed Koffi on the edge of the box 17 minutes from time but the free-kick came to nothing.",
"The Chelsea frontman did test Diakite in the 85th minute but the Burkinabe goalkeeper was equal to his snap-shot from a tight angle as the Ivorians' frustration continued."
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"Malawi stunned Algeria 3-0 at a near-deserted November 11 stadium in Africa Nations Cup Group A match .",
"Russel Mwafulirwa, Elvis Kafoteka and Dave Banda score the goals that give Malawi shock victory .",
"Tournament favorites Ivory Coast are held to a 0-0 draw by Burkina Faso in Group B match ."
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"CNN -- Fleet-footed winger Cristiano Ronaldo is Manchester United's most deadly weapon and officially the best footballer in the world.",
"Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo is the current FIFA World Player of the Year .",
"Born in 1985 on the Portuguese island of Madeira, the 23-year-old cut his teeth with Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon, where his amazing skill and dribbling ability alerted a host of top European clubs.",
"However, it was Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson who nipped in before his rivals to sign Ronaldo for a reported fee of $19 million in 2003.",
"With Manchester United he has won three Premier League titles, two Football League Cups, the FA Cup, the World Club Championship, and the Champions League.",
"After a phenomenal 2007/2008 season, in which he scored 42 goals for Manchester United in all competitions, he was voted FIFA and FIFPro World Player of the Year and European Player of the Year.",
"That season his 31 Premier League goals won him the Golden Shoe award, making him officially Europe's most prolific goal scorer, and he was also the leading scorer in the Champions League, with eight goals.",
"He capped a remarkable campaign by scoring the opening goal, before also netting from the penalty spot, as United beat Chelsea in a dramatic Champions League final in Moscow.",
"Tall, elegant and powerful, Ronaldo is as good in the air as he is with the ball at his feet, as he proved with his header against Chelsea in last year's final.",
"He also possesses a remarkable and unique free-kick technique, managing to bend and swerve the ball to devastating effect, notably with the goal that effectively ended Arsenal's challenge in the semifinals of this year's Champions League.",
"Apart from his success at Old Trafford, Ronaldo is a regular figure for his national side, making his full international debut in 2003 and going on to represent Portugal at the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2008 finals.",
"However, despite his god-given talent, Ronaldo still gets criticized in Portugal for allegedly failing to replicate his United form in a Portugal shirt.",
"According to Forbes, Ronaldo was football's fifth biggest earner in 2008.",
"Of his $21 million income, $12m was in salary and incentives from Manchester United and another $9 million came from endorsements with global brands like of Nike and Coca-Cola."
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"Ronaldo Voted FIFA World Player of the Year and European Player of Year .",
"He has also represented Portugal at the both World and European finals .",
"Ronaldo was signed by Manchester United from Sporting Lisbon in 2003 .",
"23-year-old scored 42 goals in all competitions for his club in 2007/8 season ."
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"(CNN) -- Togo's national football team are on their way home, two days after a deadly attack on their team bus at the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola.",
"Television pictures of the squad and officials leaving their hotel in Cabinda were aired on Eurosport and showed a number of leading players, including captain Emmanuel Adebayor arriving at the airport for the flight home.",
"Earlier, Togolese Prime Minister Gilbert Houngbo told the west African country's news agency that the team \"must return\" after the ambush by gunmen left an assistant coach and the squad's communication officer dead.",
"At least seven others were injured in the attack which occurred Friday in the enclave of Cabinda near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.",
"They included goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale who is in intensive care, a government spokesman told the news agency.",
"\"We understand the wishes of the players... but it would be irresponsible of the authorities in Togo let them continue,\" said Houngo, who has declared a three-day period of mourning following the attack.",
"Togo's players, who had initally indicated a desire to withdraw from the tournament, decided Saturday night that they wanted to participate after all, striker Thomas Dossevi told CNN.",
"The team were due to play their first game against Ghana in Cabinda on Monday.",
"Dossevi said the players were disappointed with the government's decision to pull the team from the tournament, but they understood it, because Angola's government had yet to provide the team with extra security.",
"The team wanted to play Monday's game, he said, but wanted a change of venue.",
"If organizers were able to change the location of the game, then the team would push to play, he said.",
"However, if there is no change of venue, the team, despite wanting to play, will respect the government's decision and leave the country, Dossevi added.",
"Quoted by the national news agency, Dossevi said the players wanted to play to honor the dead.",
"\"We want to show our colors, our values and that we are men,\" he said.",
"Speaking on Saturday, goalkeeper Kossi Agassa said it felt as if the players had \"gone to war...",
"It's deplorable for Africa.",
"I don't know what other countries will decide, but it's hard.",
"Too hard for us footballers.\"",
"In a meeting Saturday, Angolan Prime Minister Antonio Paulo Cassoma assured African football officials that security would be beefed up for the tournament.",
"Confederation of African Football President Issa Hayatou traveled to Cabinda on Saturday to meet Togo's squad as well as those from Ghana, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso who are also based in the region, according to the CAF Web site.",
"\"You came here to play football but unfortunately two of your brothers were killed,\" Hayatou told the players.",
"\"It is left to you to decide to stay in a competition synonym of fraternity, brotherhood, friendship and solidarity.",
"\"And in case you decide to leave the competition, we will definitely understand your decision and it will be accepted.",
"It is a difficult choice, individual choice and also collective choice, you are the only one can decide.\"",
"An armed wing of a separatist group -- the Forces for Liberation of the State of Cabinda (FLEC) -- claimed responsibility for the attack and has threatened to strike again.",
"CNN could not verify the claim independently.",
"Angola, which was wracked by civil war for nearly three decades, brokered a peace deal in 2006 with separatists seeking an independent republic of Cabinda.",
"Dossevi, who plays for French club Nantes, said armed rebels with AK-47s opened fire on the team bus.",
"\"We had just passed the border and a couple of minutes later we were attacked from both sides,\" he said.",
"\"We hid below the seats -- we had police protection in front and behind but we were attacked from both sides.",
"As soon as I heard the bullets I went to the floor. ...",
"The attack lasted for 10-15 minutes,\" Dossevi said.",
"Angolan officials -- trying to assuage security fears that could dampen the war-torn nation's sporting aspirations -- vowed to heighten security, particularly in Cabinda.",
"\"We vehemently condemn the ignoble action, lament the loss of lives, and we reiterate our commitment to guarantee security,\" a government statement said, pledging that the Africa Cup of Nations would be \"a great sporting event and a manifestation of friendship and solidarity among the African people.\"",
"Hosts Angola played to a dramatic 4-4 with Mali as the competition began in the capital Luanda later on Sunday.",
"The tournament -- one of the world's biggest -- is Angola's first major sporting event since a 2002 peace deal brought the southern African country's decades-old civil war to an end.",
"It also marks the beginning of a year in the spotlight for African football, with South Africa set to become the continent's first country to host the FIFA World Cup in June.",
"FIFA President Sepp Blatter said Saturday he had faith that Africa would meet the challenge of organizing one of the world's most watched sporting events.",
"\"My thoughts, and those of everyone at FIFA, go out to the victims of this terrible tragedy, and to their families and loved ones,\" Blatter wrote in a letter to Hayatou.",
"\"This awful event cannot dispel the fact that Africa has written some of the greatest chapters in the history of world football...",
"I have faith in Africa, and it is with this faith that together we will organize world football's showcase event in 2010.\""
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"NEW: Togo national football team on their way home from Africa Cup of Nations .",
"Togo's players ordered back by their government despite indicating they wanted to stay .",
"Team bus was shot at by rebel fighters on way to tournament in Angola .",
"Assistant coach, communications officer killed in the attack ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester City manager Robert Mancini has confirmed that the English Premier League side are in negotiations with two Brazilian clubs over a loan move for Robinho.",
"The 26-year-old playmaker joined City from Real Madrid for $52 million in September 2008 but has not settled in Manchester and is being linked with Santos and Sao Paulo.",
"Mancini confirmed that Brazil international is in his squad for City's English League Cup match against Manchester United, but that a deal could be done to help the player move back to his homeland.",
"\"It is possible that something could happen,\" Mancini told reporters on the eve of the semifinal second leg clash at Old Trafford.",
"\"This kind of thing does happen.",
"I know in Italy there were instances when clubs paid a lot of money for a fantastic player but afterwards he needed to play at another club.",
"\"Negotiations are happening but for now he is part of my squad.",
"I have five or six strikers to choose from, which makes it difficult for him and me.",
"\"The World Cup in June is a big problem for him.",
"He wants to play for the national team.",
"I understand that but I must decide what is best for the team.\"",
"City have also let Slovakian winger Vladimir Weiss join Bolton on loan for the rest of the season while Wanderers boss Owen Coyle has also brought former Houston Dynamo midfielder Stuart Holden to the club.",
"Elsewhere, West Ham are set to sign South Africa international Benni McCarthy after agreeing an undisclosed fee with Blackburn Rovers.",
"Manchester United have completed a deal to sign Fulham defender Chris Smalling, although the player will remain at Craven Cottage until the end of the season and join Alex Ferguson's side for the start of the 2010/11 campaign.",
"Aston Villa have sold midfielder Craig Gardner to city rivals Birmingham for $4.8million while Wigan are put the final details on a deal to bring in Villarreal forward Marco Ruben.",
"Everton unveiled the signing of Philippe Senderos on loan from Arsenal until the end of the season while Celtic have confirmed the signing of striker Morten Rasmussen from Brondby."
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"Manchester City manager Robert Mancini has confirmed that the club are in talks with two Brazilian clubs over a loan move for Robinho.",
"Robinho has not settled in Manchester and is being linked with a move to either Santos or Sao Paulo.",
"West Ham are set to sign South Africa international Benni McCarthy after agreeing an undisclosed fee with Blackburn Rovers.",
"Manchester United have completed a deal to sign Fulham defender Chris Smalling at the end of the season."
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"(CNN) -- CNN Hero Amy Stokes uses the internet to connect South African teens affected by HIV/AIDS and poverty with volunteer mentors from around the world.",
"Stokes is the founder of Infinite Family and spoke with CNN about the importance of her group's efforts in South Africa -- where nearly two million children have been orphaned by AIDS.",
"Below are excerpts from that interview.",
"CNN: How does HIV/AIDS affect a South African child?",
"Amy Stokes: They will talk about being very happy as children and growing up with two parents until they were grade school level.",
"And then they'll lose one of their parents.",
"They will move where they can be in a community that helps support them and then they'll lose the other parent.",
"Then they're moved into a home where it's an auntie running the house -- and they'll lose that aunt.",
"And then they go to live with the gogo -- or a grandmother -- and before long, they're living with 10 other children in the same 20 square foot space.",
"That gogo is spending all of her time just trying to feed everybody, much less being able to help them prepare for their future.",
"CNN: How widespread is the problem?",
"Stokes: Many of these communities have lost up to 40 percent of the young adults [from HIV/AIDS].",
"So the children ... don't learn the survival skills that they would have learned tagging along with an adult -- watching an adult as they work, or do grocery shopping, or cooking or any of the life skills that they need.",
"These children are losing, not only love and nurturing, but ... the education of having a parent attend to them.",
"CNN: What's the biggest challenge these kids face?",
"Stokes: They lack access to everything that would teach them what is needed to be successful.",
"There's no technology; there are no computers.",
"The kids walk into our computer labs having never touched a mouse or a keyboard before.",
"However, they are the most hopeful children you will ever meet.",
"They are resilient, resourceful; they are joyful; they are very ambitious.",
"CNN: What change do you see in them as they interact with their mentors?",
"If you reach out to them they will grab that lifeline and work so hard to make your investment of time and talent worth your while.",
"They know that they are in a situation they would like to change -- their lot in life, their future -- but they struggle very hard until someone helps show them the way.",
"What Infinite Family does is we expand their village to include the entire world.",
"When they get connected with their mentors, the mentors make sure that no one is ever truly alone.",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out the Infinite Family website at http://www.infinitefamily.org and see how to help."
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"CNN Hero Amy Stokes founded a non-profit to help children orphaned by AIDS .",
"She says the kids are resilient but just lack the equipment they need to succeed .",
"Mentors from around the world make sure the kids are never truly alone ."
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"MUSOMA, Tanzania (CNN) -- Lizzie Cameron is in Musoma, Tanzania working with the Musoma Engineering Project.",
"Claire's 10th birthday: \"I taught them how to play pin the tail on the donkey, although we replaced a donkey with a zebra, and I baked Claire a birthday banana cake.\"",
"The Musoma Engineering Project is the only charity of its kind in the region and aims to provide teaching and support for local disabled children and teenagers.",
"With the project Lizzie will be helping the teachers teach skills like woodworking, leatherwork and dressmaking.",
"Follow her experiences in her blogs and video diaries.",
"November 14, 2007 When I signed up to work at the Musoma Engineering Project I was given the option of living in my own house or with a local family.",
"I was really unsure of which to choose but decided to live with Dennis and his family.",
"I made this decision because I thought it would be good to experience how a Tanzanian family live and I also hoped that Dennis would take me under his wing, so to speak, and look out for me if I got into any trouble or encountered any problems.",
"After being here for two months I have no doubt that I made the right decision.",
"I really have been made to feel like part of the family and welcomed into their home as if it were my own.",
"What I've found really interesting is seeing the daily routines and how they differ to back home.",
"Simple activities like cooking, cleaning, shopping, etc.",
"are all performed quite differently to the Western world.",
"I had anticipated that the food would be different, but if anything I've been pleasantly surprised by what is on offer here.",
"One thing I like is that you really know where your food has come from.",
"If you want to eat chicken, you point to the one you want then kill it and pluck it yourself.",
"If you want fish, a local fisherman will drop off his daily catch at your house.",
"Nothing is processed, artificial or vacuum packet.",
"If I was living on my own I would have been surviving on fruit and veg for a year, as I had no idea how to gut a fish or skin a chicken.",
"The girls have also taught me how to make chapattis and other traditional Tanzanian dishes.",
"I hadn't thought about how I would wash my clothes for example.",
"I didn't think they would have washing machines, but I hadn't really thought it through.",
"So every Sunday I fill my basin up with water, some soap and get scrubbing.",
"The family laugh at my attempts, it must be obvious I'm not used to such hard work.",
"This Sunday was Claire's 10th birthday party so I got to join in the celebrations.",
"She had about 20 of her friends around at the house, all of whom were dressed immaculately in beautiful dresses and suits.",
"There weren't any expensive presents or entertainment like you'd get back home but the kids seemed to have just as good a time.",
"I taught them how to play pin the tail on the donkey, although we replaced a donkey with a zebra, and I baked Claire a birthday banana cake.",
"People open their homes to visitors anytime of the day too.",
"Often when I return home the living room will be full of the neighbors.",
"Anyone is welcome to stay, even if a bed is not available, they just share one.",
"I really am glad I decided to live with a family here.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Lizzie chose to live with Dennis Maina and his family in Musoma .",
"The family has given her an insight into everyday life in the country .",
"She has learned how to pluck a chicken, gut a fish and handwash clothes .",
"At Dennis's daughter's 10th birthday party, Lizzie teaches new games and bakes a cake ."
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"(CNN) -- Chelsea remain top of the English Premier League, despite suffering a shock 2-1 defeat at Everton on a Wednesday night filled with high drama.",
"Louis Saha scored twice for Everton, and the French striker also missed a penalty, as David Moyes' side claimed some compensation for their defeat by the London side in last summer's FA Cup final.",
"Chelsea took a 16th-minute lead when Florent Malouda ran onto Didier Drogba's flick to fire past goalkeeper Tim Howard.",
"But Everton levelled 17 minutes later when Saha gave marker John Terry the slip before heading home Landon Donovan's corner.",
"Saha then had a great chance to give Everton the lead on the stroke of half-time after Donovan was fouled by Ricardo Carvalho in the area.",
"However, his spot-kick lacked power and direction and was comfortably saved by goalkeeper Petr Cech.",
"But Saha was eventually to win the game fror Everton with Terry again at fault.",
"The former England captain failed to deal with a long cross-field ball, allowing Saha to control the pass in an instant before striking home a 75th minute winner.",
"Manchester United would have gone top of the table with a win at Aston Villa, but the defending champions drew 1-1 after playing most of the match with 10 men following the dismissal of Portuguese winger Nani.",
"In a dress rehearsal for the League Cup final later this month, Carlos Cuellar headed home Stewart Downing's cross to give Villa a 19th-minute lead.",
"But United levelled soon after when Ryan Giggs' pull-back was put through his own net by defender James Collins.",
"Nani was then sent off for a 28th-minute two-footed lunge on Stilyan Petrov, incurring a three-match ban which will see him miss the Wembley showpiece.",
"United held on for a battling draw with a superb second-half rearguard performance, and the result means they like just a point behind Chelsea with 12 matches still remaining.",
"Arsenal remain third in the table, but are now just six points behind Chelsea and five behind United, are a hard-fought 1-0 home win over fourth-paced Liverpool.",
"Abou Diaby headed home Tomas Rosicky's cross with 18 minutes remaining, to end a barren run for the Gunners after successive defeats against both Chelsea and Manchester United.",
"Tottenham's Champions League hopes took a a severe knock after they were beaten 1-0 at struggling Wolves -- who have now beaten the London side both home and away.",
"David Jones side-footed home a Matt Jarvis cross to give Wolves a vital three points that moves them out of the relegation zone.",
"Meanwhile, Hull lie just one place above the drop zone after they were beaten 1-0 at Blackburn.",
"The home side scored the only goal in the 16th minute when goalkeeper Boaz Myhill diverted Martin Olsson's cross into his own net.",
"The visitors ended the match with 10 men after George Boateng was sent off for an elbow on Morten Gamst Pedersen.",
"West Ham also moved out of the drop zone with a superb 2-0 home win over in-form Birmingham.",
"A superb Alessandro Diamanti free-kick and a second from Carlton Cole proved enough for the Hammers, giving new owners David Sullivan and David Gold victory against the club they used to own."
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"Chelsea remain top of the English Premier League, despite suffering a 2-1 defeat at Everton .",
"Louis Saha scores both goals and also misses a penalty for the home side .",
"Manchester United ate a point behind after they draw 1-1 at Aston Villa with 10 men ."
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"(CNN) -- Joshua Macabuag is a 23 year-old recent graduate of the University of Oxford's Pembroke College.",
"Josh, as he prefers to be called, studied civil engineering and achieved some of the highest marks in his class.",
"\"Josh is a very brilliant chap,\" remarked one of his professors.",
"Josh got interested in relief and development work during his second year at school and has already spent one summer abroad in Japan, where he worked with Japan Railways.",
"He loves to travel and perhaps it's his wanderlust that's motivated him to take the next year off and travel to Jozini, South Africa.",
"But it won't be an easy year. Jozini is a small town in northeastern KwaZulu-Natal Province on the main route to Mozambique.",
"It is one of the most impoverished areas of South Africa, but is also surrounded by a massive dam, game preserves and two majestic mountain ranges.",
"Josh, who speaks some Spanish and has taught himself Japanese, will now focus on learning some Zulu.",
"He's teamed up with the charity Engineers Without Borders, and plans to put his education to use and get some practical experience in the field.",
"Josh will be working on a new sports complex in Jozini, a facility that will double as an educational facility for local youths.",
"The idea is to replace a dilapidated, existing facility with a new one that will be self-sustaining and provide the community with a way of generating income as well as prepare area kids for a career.",
"There probably won't be much free time for squash and the martial arts that Josh normally enjoys, but it's certain new talents will emerge over the next year during Josh's time abroad.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Joshua Macabuag will report on his experiences in Jozini, South Africa .",
"He will work with the charity Engineers Without Borders .",
"With EWB he will help build a new sports complex for the town ."
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"(CNN) -- Meet Phonchan Kraiwatnutsorn (Newey) and you quickly get the feeling, she is a no-nonsense young lady with a driving personality.",
"But you don't need Thai lessons to pronounce her name, because she goes by the nickname \"Newey\".",
"Most Thais forsake their formal names for a single nickname.",
"At 30, Newey is a Thai citizen and director of the Youth Venture program in Thailand, an initiative that is empowering young \"changemakers,\" as the parent organization Ashoka calls them, to improve the quality of life in their communities.",
"Ashoka is a global, not-for-profit organization working to promote social change.",
"What they do and how they do it will be the subject of Newey's blogs, because it is very different from anything you've ever seen.",
"We'll link you to Ashoka's Web site as well.",
"Newey has quite a track record of working in this field, having co-founded YIY, a youth group that creates opportunities for young people to grow into engaged citizens and social entrepreneurs.",
"Her day-to-day role as Youth Venture director takes her to all parts of Thailand to meet, encourage and support 14-24 year-olds -- be they middle class, underprivileged, marginalized, or delinquent.",
"The challenge is to develop an idea that benefits their community.",
"Youth Venture provides them with the necessary tools and resources in addition to linking them with mentors, ultimately allowing them to develop and implement projects that are far more broad and sustaining than they could achieve on their own.",
"By helping the programs get off the ground, dealing with the obstacles, learning from mistakes, she and her Youth Venture teams are really making a difference in people's lives.",
"Newey's going to show you how they are doing this.",
"As for Newey, she's a deep individual and an artist at heart.",
"She doggedly pursued her desire to learn the art of bookmaking a few years back, something that requires severe patience, all the way to the U.S. She paid for the trip with her own savings.",
"\"Reading and writing is a way to peace and a channel to express myself,\" Newey says of her true love.",
"Over the course of the next year, Newey will show you her work in the teeming city of Bangkok, but also take you to the rural countryside, where conditions can be even more challenging.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Phonchan \"Newey\" Kraiwatnutsorn will be reporting from Bangkok, Thailand .",
"She is director of Youth Venture, a program started by parent organization Ashoka .",
"Newey works to meet and support young people from a range of backgrounds ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Brooke Astor's son got one to three years in prison Monday for scheming to bilk millions of dollars from the late philanthropist's estate.",
"Anthony Marshall, 85, had been found guilty of 14 of the 15 counts against him.",
"Marshall was convicted in October of the most serious charges -- first-degree grand larceny and scheming to defraud.",
"He faced a minimum of one to three years, or as much as eight to 25 years in state prison.",
"Marshall's wife, Charlene, sobbed after hearing the sentence as supporters hugged her.",
"One of the most serious convictions involved Marshall giving himself a $1 million-a-year raise for handling his mother's affairs, said Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann.",
"Marshall's former attorney, Francis Morrissey, was also convicted of five counts relating to the case, including forgery and scheming to defraud Astor.",
"Seidemann on Monday recommended a sentence of 1.5 to 4.5 years in prison.",
"He objected to bail pending appeal but told the judge he had no problem with Marshall staying out of prison until the first of the year.",
"He asked for restitution of $12.3 million.",
"Defense attorneys argued Monday for the lowest sentence of one to three years in state prison and asked that the judge not impose restitution.",
"The defense team raised concerns about Marshall's health and indicated that it will appeal the verdict.",
"In a brief statement to the court before the sentence was announced, Marshall only said, \"I have nothing to add to what my attorneys have said.\"",
"The judge ruled that Marshall must surrender on January 19.",
"Assuming he goes to prison, Marshall can apply for parole after eight months.",
"Or he may apply for immediate parole for medical reasons under a new provision called medical parole.",
"The judge also gave Marshall's co-defendant, attorney Francis Morrissey, the same sentence of one to three years in prison.",
"Morrissey was convicted of four felonies and a misdemeanor, including forgery and scheming to defraud Astor.",
"Like Marshall, Morrissey's sentence will not begin until January 19.",
"Astor's grandson, Philip Marshall, declined to comment after the sentencing.",
"He was concerned about his grandmother's care in her final years, which the younger Marshall's attorney deemed \"elder abuse,\" that eventually led to his father's indictment.",
"Marshall was convicted October 8 of 13 felonies and one misdemeanor.",
"The felony of grand larceny in the first degree carried a sentence of one to three years.",
"The other counts will run concurrently.",
"During the trial, Marshall was portrayed as a cold, calculating man who spent the last years of his socialite and megaphilanthropist mother's life stealing her fortune to line his pockets .",
"\"These defendants, two morally depraved individuals, preyed on a physically and mentally ill 101-year-old woman to steal millions of dollars -- dollars that she had intended to go to help the lives of ordinary New Yorkers,\" Seidemann said, echoing his closing argument to the jury.",
"The sentence came after a six-month trial that featured as witnesses a \"Who's Who\" of New York's social elite, including Henry Kissinger, Graydon Carter, Barbara Walters, Vartan Gregorian and Annette de la Renta.",
"The trial was a tabloid feeding frenzy, fostering headlines such as \"Bad heir day,\" \"Mrs. Astor's disaster\" and \"DA's kick in the Astor.\"",
"During trial testimony, Marshall's attorneys called no character witnesses to come to his defense.",
"But before sentencing for the crimes, friends and celebrities who knew Marshall well wrote letters to the court trying to show what they believe was his true character.",
"Marshall was a loyal, churchgoing man, a Purple Heart recipient wounded in Iwo Jima during World War II and a son who tried mightily but could never live up to the high ideals of his socialite mother, according to letters friends submitted to the court.",
"Whoopi Goldberg told a judge in her letter that she met Marshall and his wife 10 years ago when Goldberg moved into a building on the Upper East Side.",
"Her interactions with Marshall, she wrote, gave her an insight into his relationship with his mother, and in turn taught her about how fame can affect family dynamics.",
"\"I also understand what it must be like for my own daughter to be around my fame,\" she wrote.",
"\"I am not comparing myself to Mrs. Astor, but I've seen how you can be dismissed as not being good enough, or hip enough, and seeing it happen to Tony made me make sure that it didn't happen to my own daughter.\"",
"NBC's \"Today\" show weatherman, Al Roker, also came to Marshall's defense, having met him at his church 10 years ago.",
"He argued Marshall had suffered enough, paying a price greater than any sentence a judge could hand down -- seeing his son turn on him during the trial and being portrayed in a negative light each day.",
"\"Given his advanced age and deteriorating health, justice may be better served by turning a compassionate eye towards this good son, father and patriot and finding it in your heart not to add 'prisoner' to Anthony Marshall's otherwise unblemished resume,\" Roker wrote in his letter to the court.",
"Goldberg, too, wrote she believed \"breaking this man\" by putting him in prison was not the right punishment.",
"\"Please don't put him in jail,\" she wrote at the end of her letter.",
"\"It would only amount to an unnecessary cruelty that would serve no real purpose.",
"Hasn't Tony been through enough?\"",
"CNN's Jessica Ravitz contributed to this report."
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"Anthony Marshall sentenced Monday to one to three years in prison .",
"Marshall was convicted of bilking mom Brooke Astor of money before her death .",
"He faced a minimum one to three years, or as much as eight to 25 years in state prison .",
"Whoopi Goldberg, Al Roker among those who asked for a compassionate sentence ."
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"(CNN) -- First, it was babies in bars.",
"Now, children in fine-dining restaurants are feeding a raging debate.",
"The argument is fueled by new efforts of some Michelin-starred New York restaurants like L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon and Café Boulud to cater to the under-3-year-old crowd.",
"Not every patron of expensive restaurants desires to share a formal dining experience with young children who may be more interested in playing with their food than savoring it .",
"Some are upset at the parents of the young diners, but others believe that even adults don't always behave in ways that allow customers to enjoy peaceful dining.",
"More than 100 people -- mostly against the idea of tots at upper-echelon restaurants -- posted their heated comments in response to Shivani Vora's recent New York Times piece, \"Fine Dining Where Strollers Don't Invite Sneers.\"",
"\"People who force their toddlers on others in enclosed public spaces like fine restaurants (and airplanes) are even more selfish than those who insist on talking on cell phones in such places,\" one Times reader said.",
"\"If you object to 'howls' (based on your ridiculous presumption that all children inevitably howl), let's start by excluding all the adults who are yelling into their cell phones, are drunk and/or obnoxious, etc.\"",
"another commenter said.",
"\"I'm with the majority -- thanks for this list, because now we know which high-end restaurants we will never set foot in,\" another said.",
"World's 50 best restaurants list .",
"That's certainly the customers' standpoint, but what about those manning the stoves and host stands?",
"Many chefs and restaurateurs with families are teaching their own children to be good restaurant citizens and are making accommodations for kids in their establishments.",
"Marc Murphy, chef and judge on the Food Network's \"Chopped\" series, created children's menus at all three of his New York City restaurants so his two children, ages 3 and 5, have dining options on their nights out.",
"At Landmarc, adult diners can enjoy Murphy's foie gras terrine or roasted marrow bones while their booster-seated offspring have the option of ordering orecchiette (a type of pasta), grilled lamb chops, peanut butter and Nutella sandwiches or petit filet mignon.",
"Michael Anthony, executive chef of Michelin-starred Gramercy Tavern and a father of three (including a newborn), is even more accommodating.",
"Chef Colicchio: Don't fear fine dining .",
"\"When my own children are in the restaurant, I've sent them soufflé crackers with what looks like little frogs' tongues.",
"I've sent out a beet dressed as a mouse,\" Anthony told CNN.",
"Anthony also works with a New York public school, P.S.",
"41, offering lessons in table manners to first-graders.",
"There are also hands-on cooking activities, a tour and lunch at his restaurant, as well as visits to the Greenmarket, an open-air farmers market -- all experiences geared toward establishing a fundamental understanding of where food comes from.",
"\"They're very impressionable and starting to form their opinions about food.",
"We want to impress upon the kids that food is fun,\" Anthony said of the program.",
"Teachers in the program particularly focus on younger diners developing a \"restaurant voice,\" teaching children that restaurants are a busy place and that certain manners differ from when one is out playing tag in the park.",
"This notion is especially poignant at Gramercy Tavern -- which Anthony will admit is a fine dining establishment -- as there won't be stroller valet any time soon.",
"\"It's not a restaurant adapted to children; it's a group of people who are warm and welcoming,\" Anthony said.",
"The haute tots are, after all, children -- with an average attention span of three to five minutes per calendar year of their age.",
"Anthony says he has invited particularly antsy adolescents back into the kitchen to focus their attention after they have created a disturbance.",
"\"As with any performance, practicing before a big event, such as going out to a restaurant, is a good idea,\" advises Sue Fox in \"Etiquette for Dummies\" in a chapter on Tips for Children and Teens.",
"\"I know of people who dress their kids up, sit them down at the family dining room table and hand out homemade menus to practice eating out.\""
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"Gramercy Tavern chef Michael Anthony works with local school .",
"Children visit restaurant, learn about manners and farmers markets ."
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"(CNN) -- Padraig Harrington has accepted his punishment after being disqualified from the Abu Dhabi Championship for an incident during Thursday's opening round of the European Tour golf event.",
"Television replays showed that the three-time major winner inadvertently moved his ball with his hand on the green at the seventh hole, but did not sign for the required two-stroke penalty.",
"The Irishman went on to card a seven-under-par 65 which left him one shot off the lead, but he did not tee off for Friday's second round after officials noticed his infringement.",
"\"I was aware I hit the ball picking up my coin.",
"I looked down at the time and was pretty sure it had just oscillated and had not moved, so I continued on,\" the world No.",
"26 told the European Tour website.",
"\"In slow motion it's pretty clear the ball has moved three dimples forward and it's come back maybe a dimple and a half.",
"At the end of the day that's good enough, but I wouldn't have done anything differently yesterday -- there was nothing I could do about it at that moment in time.\"",
"The European Tour's senior referee Andy McFee explained that Harrington was disqualified after signing for an incorrect score.",
"\"It's a minute movement, but it's a movement and he never replaced it, so he should have included a two-stroke penalty.",
"Because he signed for a score lower than actually taken, the penalty is disqualification,\" McFee said.",
"Harrington, who has not won on the European Tour since his second British Open victory and subsequent U.S. PGA Championship triumph in 2008, said he had no quarrels with the officials.",
"\"The one thing all golfers love about their sport is the fact that we can stand up and say, 'We have the best rules, we are the fairest, we call them on ourselves.'",
"\"I think in this situation and other situations like that, with the new technology, maybe going forward, that the penalties can be changed.",
"But the actual rulings have to stay where they are.\"",
"Meanwhile, defending champion Martin Kaymer claimed a three-shot lead on Friday after shooting 65 to move up to 12-under 132 at the halfway stage.",
"The 2010 Race To Dubai winner -- also the 2008 victor in Abu Dhabi -- carded a flawless seven-birdie second round, five of them coming in his first seven holes.",
"The German, playing his first tournament of 2011, will replace Tiger Woods as world No.",
"2 if he finishes in the top seven.",
"First-round leader Charl Schwartzel was second after a 71, as the South African dropped three shots in five holes in the middle of his front nine and made two more bogeys after the turn before finishing with a birdie.",
"In-form Schwartzel holds early Abu Dhabi lead .",
"That left last weekend's Joburg Open winner a shot clear of U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell, who countered three bogeys with five birdies in his 70.",
"World No. 12 Rory McIlroy was tied for seventh on 138 after a 67, while former European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie was another shot back in a group of eight after a 69.",
"World No. 4 Phil Mickelson (70) was tied for 25th on 141 along with South Africa's two-time major winner Retief Goosen (71).",
"World No. 8 Paul Casey, the winner here in 2007 and 2009, was tied for 50th after a 70, while top-ranked fellow Englishman Lee Westwood may also scrape into the weekend rounds after a 75 left him tied for 62nd on 144 -- a shot inside the projected cut.",
"Westwood suffered two double-bogeys on his front nine, but bounced back with birdies at two of his last three holes.",
"Last year's runner-up Ian Poulter and British Open Louis Oosthuizen were both set to miss out on 145.",
"Meanwhile, Venezuelan rookie Jhonattan Vegas claimed a share of the lead at the PGA Tour's Bob Hope Classic after shooting five-under 67 in California on Thursday.",
"The 26-year-old carded eight birdies but closed with his third bogey at the PGA West's Nicklaus Course in La Quinta.",
"The first man from his country to play on the main U.S. circuit, he had been second overnight following his 64 at the Palmer Course.",
"American Boo Weekley carded 66 at the Nicklaus Course to join him on 13-under 131, with fellow Americans Charles Howell (66) and Chris Crouch (65) tied for third another shot back.",
"The five-round charity event is played over four courses with a mix of professional and amateur players."
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"Venezuelan rookie Jhonattan Vegas shares halfway lead at PGA Tour's Bob Hope Classic ."
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"(CNN) -- Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed the European Union's Lisbon Treaty Tuesday, he announced on his Web site, paving the way for major changes to the way the 27-nation bloc is run.",
"The Czech Constitutional court ruled hours earlier that the treaty did not conflict with the country's constitution, a government spokesman said.",
"\"I respect the decision of the Constitutional Court,\" Klaus said in a written statement, though he added he \"disagreed\" with it and said the court's analysis was \"not neutral.\"",
"However, he concluded, \"I signed the Lisbon Treaty at 3 p.m. (1400 GMT).\"",
"The Czech Republic was the last EU nation left to approve the treaty, which could effectively give the EU a president and a foreign minister.",
"Klaus's signature means the treaty -- which would replace the EU constitution and aims to streamline the workings of the European Union -- could come into force as early as December 1.",
"The Czech Parliament's two chambers voted in favor of the treaty earlier this year.",
"But in late September, 17 Czech senators asked the country's Constitutional Court to examine whether some further parts of the treaty were compatible with the country's constitution.",
"The court ruled Tuesday that they pose no conflict.",
"Klaus agreed Friday to ratify the document if the court approved, after winning an exemption ensuring it would not allow ethnic Germans forced out of the country after World War II to reclaim their former lands.",
"\"I consider this to be the best possible result and intend to raise no other objections to the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty,\" Klaus said Thursday after gaining the exemption.",
"Voters in two countries had rejected the EU constitution in 2005.",
"The Lisbon Treaty, in addition to streamlining EU decision-making and creating an EU council president and foreign minister, would introduce rotating representatives for member countries in the EU Commission, the union's executive branch, and would change the voting weights of countries on certain issues.",
"Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency, said he welcomed the Czech court's decision.",
"\"We are now very close to full ratification.\"",
"Reinfeldt said.",
"\"Together with a signature in the Czech Republic, the presidency will continue the completion of Lisbon Treaty preparations.\"",
"The Czech Republic isn't the only EU country to demand an exemption before ratifying the treaty.",
"Poland recently won an opt-out over social issues including gay marriage; Britain won assurances that EU law would not prevail over its own legal system.",
"The treaty would also give national parliaments veto power over some proposed changes to EU policy.",
"All member states have to ratify the treaty before it can be adopted.",
"Irish voters approved the treaty last month after previously rejecting it.",
"The European Union had assured Ireland that the treaty would not affect the country's anti-abortion laws or its neutrality and that Ireland would keep a European commissioner."
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"Czech court removed the last political hurdle to treaty's full ratification .",
"The Lisbon Treaty is meant to replace the EU constitution, which voters rejected in 2005 .",
"All member states have to ratify the treaty before it can be adopted ."
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"Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and website based in Brooklyn, New York.",
"VBS.TV is Vice's broadband television network.",
"The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.",
"We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.",
"Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- Dennis Chamberland doesn't just want to live underwater: he wants anyone to join him.",
"And he's determined to make that a reality within a decade.",
"Chamberland joined NASA as a bioengineer in the mid '80s, just as the manned space program was starting to thunder forward.",
"But rather than looking up to the stars, he began looking down - deep down.",
"As a developer of the agency's Advanced Space Life Support Systems, which monitors the safety for all off-planet habitation pursuits, Chamberland soon became a lead proponent of research on an idea being floated by NASA at the time: using the sea as a testbed for space exploration.",
"Before long, this homegrown explorer would become one of the country's leading proponents of undersea habitation, and an advocate for what he calls the \"space-ocean analog.\"",
"An aquanaut and Mission Commander on seven NASA underwater missions, Chamberland has also pursued landmark research in bioengineering and become a prolific writer of science books and sci-fi novels.",
"But it was his work for NASA that resulted in his harvesting of the first agricultural crop in a manned habitat on the sea floor, and led to his designing and construction of the Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station, a two man undersea habitat off Key Largo.",
"The little permanent submarine has been visited by a range of curious futurist explorers, including James Cameron and TV producer Rod Roddenberry, Jr. See the rest of The Aquatic Life of Dennis Chamberland at VBS.TV .",
"Chamberland's next goal, he explains in this episode of Motherboard: colonizing the sea.",
"To move humans to an underwater \"Aquatica,\" as he calls the habitable regions of the ocean, he launched the Atlantica Expeditions, which are attempting to build the first underwater settlement for permanent human colonization.",
"This isn't a glossy sci-architectural lark or a toe-dip.",
"Starting with the premise that nearly three quarters of our planet's largest biome have long remained invisible - and are increasingly endangered - the Atlantica project seeks \"a human colony whose primary purpose it is to monitor and protect this most essential of all the earth's biomes.",
"Soon, beneath the sea, families will live and work.",
"Children will go to school.",
"A new generation of children will be born there - the first citizens of a new ocean civilization whose most important purpose will be to continuously monitor and protect the global ocean environment.\"",
"Set to commence by next year, the first expedition will be initiated by the submersion of the Leviathan, a small underwater habitat that can house up to four people.",
"He's not only certain that the colonization of the ocean floor is imminent; he's making it happen."
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"(CNN) -- Voters this year may be more anxious than angry.",
"Just 35 percent think the country's on the right track, according to exit polls Tuesday night, to 62 percent who think things are heading in the wrong direction.",
"Voters aren't quite as pessimistic as they were just two years ago, when those numbers were 21 and 74 percent -- but they're unhappier than they were back in 2006, when 41 percent felt the nation was on the right track, to 55 percent who said they were headed in the wrong direction.",
"The economy wasn't just the most important issue to voters this year -- with unemployment hovering around 9.6 percent, it was roughly twice as important to them as the other top issues of concern combined.",
"Sixty-two percent of voters named the economy as their most important issue this year.",
"Health care ranked a distant second, at 19 percent, with illegal immigration and Afghanistan trailing at 8 and 7 percent.",
"With the exception of the 3 percent of voters who said the economy's doing just fine, most of those polled -- on either end of the political spectrum -- think the economy's ailing.",
"But who's to blame? Thirty-five percent of voters in early exit polls say Wall Street's the villain.",
"The next name on the list: former President Bush -- 29 percent point their fingers in his direction.",
"President Obama follows, at 24 percent.",
"They may not blame him for the state of the economy, but just 45 of voters in early exit poll results are happy with Obama's performance, while 54 percent disapprove.",
"That's the same territory President Clinton's numbers were in back in 1994 exit polls, when 44 percent of voters approved of the job he was doing, while 52 percent were unhappy.",
"Back in 2006, the same numbers for President Bush were 43 and 57 percent.",
"The rest of the federal government isn't off the hook -- voters in both parties are upset with how activist the government's been: 4 in 5 Republicans say it's doing too much.",
"And 2 in 3 Democrats say it isn't doing enough.",
"Sixty-one percent of Democrats say the new health care law needs to be expanded.",
"And 82 percent of Republicans say it should be repealed.",
"Today's result is all about who showed up...and who didn't.",
"Independents made up about a third of the electorate today -- and they broke big for Republicans.",
"Democrats are barely holding on to their advantage among women -- but men have turned Republican by a wide margin.",
"(In Florida, they broke big for Senate candidate Marco Rubio, giving him half the independent vote in a three-way race.)",
"Two-thirds of Hispanic voters, 6 in 10 young voters and the overwhelming share of black voters backed Democrats.",
"There just aren't as many of them as there were last cycle, as a percentage of the total vote: The percentage of youth voters dropped by half in early exit polls, from 18 to 9.",
"The black vote also edged down by at least a fifth.",
"Midterm voters tend to be older than voters in general.",
"But this year's midterm voters weren't just older than the voters who show up when the White House is up for grabs.",
"They're older than a typical midterm voter.",
"In fact: Seniors haven't made up this big a share of voters since 1994.",
"Twenty-four percent of those who cast ballots this year were over the age of 65 -- and their support for Democrats has plummeted.",
"Back in '94, 48 percent of voters over age 65 backed Democratic candidates.",
"In 2006 and '08, 49 percent supported the party.",
"This year, that number sank to 39 percent.",
"And older voters -- who aren't fans of the health care bill -- have discovered a new-found fondness for the GOP: the Republican Party's share of the senior vote soared from 48 percent last cycle to 58 percent this year.",
"How much credit should the Tea Party take for tonight's GOP gains?",
"Exit polls paint a mixed picture.",
"Forty-five percent of independent voters expressed support for the movement, which is 4 for 6 in Senate races so far tonight, with two still too close to call.",
"The older you are, the polls suggest, the more likely you are to back the Tea Party -- and tonight was a senior moment.",
"Forty-seven percent of those 60 and older back the Tea Party; the number for 18-29-year-olds was more than 20 points lower.",
"On the other hand: A majority of voters (56 percent) said the Tea Party wasn't a factor in their vote tonight.",
"The percentage that said they wanted to send a message in favor of the movement (23 percent) was just a few points higher than those who said they were trying to strike a blow against it (18 percent).",
"Republicans are on track for the biggest House pickup by any major party since 1948 -- a historic win.",
"Voters clearly aren't too happy with the Democratic Party.",
"But exit polls suggest they aren't terribly thrilled with the GOP either.",
"Democrats have a 10-point favorability gap: 43 percent of voters have a positive opinion of the party, while 53 percent aren't thrilled.",
"The Republican Party also gets a thumbs-down from 53 percent of the nation's voters, with just 41 percent saying they're happy with the party.",
"Compare that with 1994 and 2006, when voters had a net positive view of the incoming party.",
"The numbers suggest Tuesday night may signal a rejection of the Democratic Party -- but something less than an embrace of the GOP."
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"(CNN) -- The remains of an Oregon teenager missing for more than 25 years were recently identified by authorities, and police are looking into whether she might have been a victim of Gary Ridgway, known as the \"Green River Killer.\"",
"Police believe Ridgway could be responsible for the death of Angela Marie Girdner because her body was found within a mile of the remains of two other women that Ridgway admitted killing, the county sheriff's office said.",
"Those bodies were found in Washington County, Oregon, near Portland.",
"The bodies of Ridgway's other 46 victims were found in the Seattle, Washington, area.",
"The most prolific known serial killer in U.S. history, Ridgway is serving 48 consecutive life sentences.",
"He has denied involvement in Girdner's death, as well as that of Tammie Liles, whose remains were found near Girdner's.",
"Girdner was 16 when she was reported missing by her parents in May 1983, authorities said.",
"She was a straight-A student at her Catholic high school \"until she met the wrong people,\" they said.",
"Girdner rode a bus from her home in Portland to Beaverton to school, and her parents believe she met people on the bus line \"who turned her life upside down with drugs and eventually prostitution.\"",
"The last time Girdner's parents heard from her was in July 1983, police said: \"She called and told her mother that she was OK, but did not say where she was at that time.\"",
"Girdner was killed sometime between that phone call and early 1985.",
"Her skeletal remains were found April 22, 1985, in a wooded area of Tualatin, Oregon.",
"It was one of two bodies found by people walking in the area.",
"The bodies, however, were unidentified for years.",
"\"Both bodies were badly decomposed and there were only traces of clothing discovered with them,\" the sheriff's statement said.",
"The other body was identified in 1998 as being that of Liles, who was last seen in June 1983 working as a prostitute in the Seattle area.",
"She was reported missing by her family in March 1988, and her body was identified using dental records.",
"In June 1985, two months after the remains of Girdner and Liles were found, two other sets of skeletal remains were found within a mile of where theirs were.",
"\"Detectives recognized the similarities with the Seattle area's Green River killings that were predominant in the news at the time,\" the sheriff's statement said.",
"They contacted the Green River Task Force at the King County, Washington, Sheriff's Office, and the bodies were eventually identified as those of Shirley Shirell and Denise Bush.",
"Both women were known Seattle prostitutes, authorities said, and both had been reported missing.",
"Girdner's remains were sent to the Oregon State Medical Examiner's Office, which sent them to the King County Medical Examiner's Office in Seattle for possible identification.",
"King County could not identify the remains, so they were sent back to Oregon.",
"\"Unfortunately, somewhere in the transfer process they were misplaced,\" the Washington County Sheriff's Office said.",
"\"Earlier this year, Angela's remains resurfaced at the Clackamas County [Oregon] Medical Examiner's Office.\"",
"After realizing the bones did not belong to a Clackamas County case, authorities sent them back to the state medical examiner, who notified Washington County of the unidentified bones.",
"Sheriff's detectives asked the medical examiner's office to compare the remains once again with dental records of missing people in the area.",
"\"Based on the investigation conducted over the years, Angela's remains were compared to the dental records her dentist had submitted in 1985,\" in October, authorities said.",
"\"They matched.\" Ridgway, now 60, was arrested in 2001 in King County for the murders of five women.",
"He later admitted he was the \"Green River Killer\" and pleaded guilty to murdering 48 women, including Shirell and Bush.",
"\"Ridgway claimed that he killed [Shirell and Bush] in King County and later transported the bodies to Oregon,\" Washington County authorities said.",
"\"Shirley, Denise and Tammie were all reported missing from the Seattle area.",
"Angela was reported missing from the Portland area, and detectives have not received any information that she was in the Seattle area prior to her death.\"",
"But, the statement said, \"because of the close proximity of Tammie's and Angela's remains to the remains of Shirley and Denise, the locations where their bodies were disposed of and the time frame for the murders, detectives believe that Gary Ridgway is responsible for their deaths.\"",
"Ridgway's plea agreement in Washington state would not preclude his prosecution in Oregon, Washington County sheriff's Sgt.",
"David Thompson told CNN.",
"Although Ridgway has denied responsibility, detectives are reviewing the cases and re-examining evidence collected over the years, police said.",
"Anyone with information about either Girdner or Liles during 1983, 1984 and 1985 is asked to contact the Washington County Sheriff's Office.",
"The Green River case takes its name from a river south of Seattle where Ridgway began dumping his victims in 1982.",
"Most of the women were prostitutes.",
"Ridgway has said he targeted prostitutes \"because I thought I could kill as many as I wanted without getting caught.\"",
"He said he killed because he hated prostitutes and didn't want to pay them for sex, and claimed he killed so many women he had a hard time keeping them straight."
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"Angela Marie Girdner was found near the remains of two women linked to Gary Ridgway .",
"Ridgway, known as \"Green River Killer,\" admitted 48 slayings but denied killing Girdner ."
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"NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Waiting in line is part of life in post-storm New Orleans, especially when it comes to health care.",
"\"There are no great options for the people that we see in this clinic,\" says Dr. Ravi Vadlamudi.",
"Nearly every day, people stand in front of Common Ground Health Clinic in the Algiers neighborhood.",
"Patients come from all around the city to get free health care in this former corner grocery store with barred windows.",
"They come early, wait eagerly in line, sometimes swapping stories of where they were during Hurricane Katrina.",
"Two years later, people still talk about Katrina.",
"It's the greeting, the icebreaker, the common bond.",
"Where were you? Where did you work before it hit? Where did you evacuate to? Quickly, conversation turns to the painfully slow rebuilding of the city: violent crime, lack of schools; a shortage in housing, access to doctors.",
"Sitting in the makeshift waiting room, patients chat with each other and the clinic workers, often shaking their heads in disapproval or disbelief.",
"\"It's so tough in this city.",
"We can't get back on our feet.\"",
"\"We've thought about leaving, but we don't know where to go or how to get there.\"",
"\"I'm glad we found out about this place.",
"Maybe we can finally get some help.\"",
"Before the storm, the uninsured turned to the famed Charity Hospital.",
"Housed in a mammoth art-deco building, it provided reliable medical care for the poorest inhabitants of the city.",
"The storm floods engulfed the first few floors of Charity and the doors were shut for good.",
"Only three of the city's seven hospitals have reopened.",
"Only one of those reopened facilities operates at full pre-storm capacity.",
"A mere fraction of the doctors have returned to the city.",
"Dr. Ravi Vadlamudi is one of them.",
"He's the medical director of Common Ground.",
"Everyone here calls him Dr. Ravi.",
"\"Our clinic is a tiny Band-Aid to a small piece of a huge problem,\" he says.",
"It's hard to believe that there was ever a time when Dr. Ravi felt unneeded in New Orleans.",
"As the storm approached two years ago, he sought refuge in his home state of Michigan, with his young daughter, Anjali, and his wife, who is also a physician.",
"In the immediate aftermath of Katrina, he returned to the city as quickly as he could.",
"Within days, he cleaned up their apartment and reopened the doors of his private family medicine practice at Tulane in the East Bank area of New Orleans.",
"His office sat virtually empty.",
"Back then, like many New Orleanians, he wondered, \"Would anybody ever come back?",
"Is our life over here?\" But soon he crossed over to the West Bank.",
"He waded through the chaos by joining a team of street medics, community activists and volunteers providing care to whoever came, whenever they needed it.",
"At first, it was a tent, providing emergency services in a city without any emergency rooms.",
"Today, it's a full-service health clinic serving about 200 patients a week, with four full-time staffers and a good number of volunteers.",
"Two years later, it is a cornerstone of health care in this city.",
"Watch Dr. Sanjay Gupta report on New Orleans' looming mental health crisis » .",
"\"There are no great options for the people that we see in this clinic,\" says Dr. Ravi, who spends two days with Common Ground and maintains his private practice for the rest of the week.",
"\"When people think about a free care clinic they think about poor lazy people and that's a complete misperception.",
"Most of our patients have one job, if not two jobs -- they just don't have insurance.\"",
"A huge multi-layered problem is the best way to sum up health care in New Orleans.",
"A recent study published by the American Medical Association found a 47 percent increase in the death rate in 2006.",
"\"Our study showed an excess mortality, meaning these are people that would not have died, had it not been for Katrina,\" said Dr. Kevin Stephens, who is director of the New Orleans Health Department and the study author.",
"Stephens was forced to use newspaper obituaries for the study because state vital statistics were unavailable to him at the time.",
"He maintains that the death rate in New Orleans is still elevated.",
"But Dr. Fred Cerise, the secretary of Louisiana Health and Hospitals, disagrees on the exact rate of the increase and says there is no sustained elevation in the death rate.",
"But doctors on the front lines, like Vadlamudi, say an elevated mortality rate isn't surprising, \"People end up in the hospital sicker and end up dying probably more often.",
"In addition, I think that without the health-care resources, people get fed up, they don't wait in the lines.\"",
"From fewer doctors, sicker patients, scarce health services to violent crime, it's hard not to think about death in this city.",
"\"I'd run out of fingers and toes if I tried to count how many close friends or patients have been murdered, attacked, jumped, shot at or left for dead,\" says Dr. Ravi.",
"He and his wife are expecting their second child soon.",
"He says his biggest concerns are good schools and the threat of violent crime.",
"Dr. Ravi says they make the choice to stay in New Orleans every single day.",
"Some days, the choice to stay is easier as he sees progress with the clinic and his patients.",
"Other days are more difficult -- such as the one last January when he learned of the brutal murder of his colleague's wife.",
"\"I worry about [crime and violence] in my heart.",
"We're staying and we're committed to this community, but it weighs on my mind every single day whether I may wait one day too long.\"",
"E-mail to a friend .",
"A. Chris Gajilan is a senior producer with CNN Medical News."
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"(This Old House) -- A tide of foreclosed properties has been sweeping into the beleaguered housing market, bringing down property values, dislocating families, and sending municipal governments scrambling to manage the crisis.",
"But some buyers see a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in the gloomy headlines; they are buying up foreclosed properties at ultra-low prices.",
"Real estate agent John Lynch of Keller Williams Greater Cleveland West says he has interested buyers calling from all over the country, and as far away as Israel.",
"Some are buying in bulk.",
"\"One investor I am working with right now wants to buy 200 houses all under 10K.\"",
"Would-be homeowners are not excluded from the bonanza.",
"Despite economic fears and the struggling housing market, Tonya Perkins-Stoudermire of McMullan Realty in Cleveland says this may be an ideal time to think about the dream of first-time home ownership.",
"She tells the story of a friend who waded into the foreclosure market and came out ahead.",
"\"My girlfriend bought a house last summer.",
"It has two baths, a two-car garage, and two fireplaces.",
"She loves it. Her house is $350 a month, with taxes and insurance.",
"She's in her late 40's and had been a renter all these years.\"",
"Those are the high notes, but these agents tell other stories, too.",
"There's the one about a far-away buyer who learned he owned a bunch of vacant lots, instead of houses.",
"\"It's not for the faint of heart,\" says Lynch.",
"Lynch has seen the same house at foreclosure auctions more than once.",
"\"That hurts us all,\" says Lynch.",
"A check-in with real estate professionals, home inspectors, and federal housing officials offers these words to the wise on buying a foreclosed property.",
"• Budget carefully.",
"Agent Tonya Perkins-Stoudermire says don't let a small price tag lure you into a quick deal.",
"Be sure to ask yourself a number of questions: Do you have the money for the extensive repairs these houses often need?",
"\"Do you have a crew. If you plan to rehab and then rent, can you afford the house if you don't find a tenant?",
"If you do your homework, there's little risk,\" says Perkins-Stoudermire.",
"• See the house for yourself. \"You can't buy them sight unseen,\" says Bill Richardson, president of the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI).",
"\"If you're an investor from Chicago and you're buying in Tucson, you'll need someone to evaluate the house in person.\"",
"This Old House: What to expect from a home inspection .",
"• Look at the neighborhood.",
"Your homework should include evaluating the neighborhood.",
"You may not be able to recoup the cost of the repairs if the value of the house is depressed by widespread foreclosures or high crime in the area.",
"Tonya Perkins-Stoudermire says she also encourages buyers to study the neighborhood's appeal at all hours, including at night.",
"This Old House: How to identify a promising neighborhood .",
"• How long has the house been empty?",
"The longer the vacancy the more damage there is, in most cases.",
"Bill Richardson, of ASHI, says if a house hasn't been \"moth-balled\" carefully, a long list of ailments set in.",
"\"The plumbing seals dry out, sewer gases back up, and bugs that are in the sewer get a chance to get into the house.",
"That's true for the sinks, toilets, and washer drains,\" says Richardson.",
"• Was it winterized? Don't turn on the utilities until you know the condition of the pipes.",
"If the pipes cracked during a cold spell, water will leak into the walls, and mold could take hold when you turn the water back on.",
"This Old House: Dealing with mold .",
"• Look at the landscaping.",
"ASHI's Bill Richardson warns, \"If the house has been neglected, untrimmed trees, vines and bushes contribute to the deterioration of the house.\"",
"Vines crawl into the windows, and tree seedlings send roots down into the foundation.",
"\"It doesn't take very big trees to mess up pavers, and dead branches crash into the house,\" says Richardson.",
"• Contract for a private inspection.",
"Banks generally require a home inspection when lending money for a mortgage.",
"But even if you're paying completely out of pocket for an ultra-cheap find, all the pros say it's crucial to get an up-to-date inspection.",
"Richardson says previous inspections \"are only a snapshot in time,\" and conditions change dramatically.",
"\"There's no caretaker on these properties.",
"I've looked at quite a few,\" says Richardson.",
"\"We've seen vandalism.",
"We've seen previous owners steal cabinets and fixtures.",
"Copper piping has been stolen.\"",
"In some cases an inspection will prevent further damage.",
"For example, if inspectors determine the pipes are cracked, repairs can be done in advance.",
"Richardson said inspectors charge $300 to $500.",
"• Consider a HUD house.",
"The Department of Housing and Urban Development is currently holding approximately 39,000 houses whose previous owners held mortgages insured by the federal government.",
"HUD houses go to market about six months after foreclosure.",
"Local governments get the first option to buy.",
"After that, buyers who pledge to live in the house have the first opportunity to offer a bid.",
"If the house is still on the market after a period of about 10 days, the listing is opened to investors.",
"Owner occupants end up with about half of HUD's properties, according to HUD officials.",
"A fraction of the total foreclosure market, HUD's inventory is concentrated in Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and other states where the mortgage crisis has been especially severe.",
"But if one of these houses suits your fancy, HUD spokesman LeMar Wooley says the feds offer a few advantages.",
"\"You will know the fair price of the property\" because HUD updates its appraisals regularly.",
"It offers a \"property condition report\" too, though that report is not updated.",
"Wooley is thus among the chorus of experts urging buyers to pay for their own home inspection before closing the deal.",
"If HUD appreciates the value of a good inspector, inspectors likewise say HUD houses are better protected.",
"\"The feds often take the steps to winterize the houses.",
"They put anti-freeze in the traps, and drain the pipes.",
"When HUD's involved it's a little bit better,\" says ASHI president Bill Richardson.",
"• Don't expect to profit from a quick sale.",
"Investors who buy intending to do as little as possible to a house, hoping to resell for a profit when the market turns around, may find little profit and a lot of headache.",
"Some cities are cracking down on neglectful property owners, charging penalties that increase over time, and unmaintained homes lose value quickly.",
"But real estate pros and housing officials report that, overall, investors are a welcome and all-too-scarce resource, and most are fixing up the houses they buy for rent or resell.",
"What's more, investors and new owner-occupants might get the satisfaction of helping to turn a hard-hit neighborhood around.",
"Get 2 Free Trial Issues .",
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- A woman who suffers from multiple sclerosis lost her legal bid Wednesday to clarify Britain's laws on assisted suicide.",
"Debbie Purdy and her husband Omar Puente pictured outside London's High Court.",
"Debbie Purdy, 45, had launched a High Court challenge to determine whether her husband would face prosecution if he helped her end her life before her conditioned worsened.",
"Purdy told reporters she was \"disappointed and surprised\" that the judges refused to interpret the 1961 Suicide Act, which says assisting someone in a suicide is a crime punishable by up to 14 years in prison.",
"Purdy, speaking from a wheelchair beside her husband Omar Puente, said she would appeal.",
"She has said she wants the option of assisted suicide if her pain one day becomes unbearable.",
"Her case asked the judges to tell her at what point her husband would be breaking the law if she committed suicide with his help.",
"\"I'm not prepared for Omar to break the law,\" she said.",
"\"How can we make sure that we act within the law without potential prison sentences if they won't tell us under what circumstances they would prosecute?\"",
"The suicide act says only that anyone who \"aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or an attempt by another to commit suicide, shall be liable\" to be jailed for as long as 14 years.",
"\"What does this actually mean, and how is the discretion to prosecute actually exercised?\"",
"said Melissa Milner, a spokeswoman for Dignity in Dying, a charity that has worked on Purdy's case.",
"\"Does it mean booking tickets?",
"Getting medical records?",
"Pushing somebody's wheelchair on a plane?",
"Do these matters amount to a criminal offense?\"",
"Dignity in Dying campaigns to give terminally ill patients the option of an assisted death so they \"would not be forced to contemplate dying before they are ready,\" according to the group's Web site.",
"Wednesday's ruling comes amid a similar high-profile case in Britain.",
"Dan James, 23, died in an assisted suicide in September, 18 months after he became paralyzed in a rugby training session.",
"He had traveled with his parents to Switzerland -- where assisted suicide is legal under some circumstances -- where he took his life.",
"British prosecutors are considering charges against his parents, who are now back in Britain.",
"Purdy, who lives in the northern English city of Bradford with her husband, was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple Sclerosis in 1995, when she was 31.",
"She is still able to do normal activities like cooking, cleaning and shopping, but she knows her physical condition is rapidly deteriorating.",
"If her case is not resolved, Purdy said she may decide to go alone to Switzerland and commit suicide while she is still able to on her own.",
"She said she would prefer making that journey much later, only once her condition deteriorates, so she can die with her husband by her side.",
"\"I'll have to make a decision,\" she said.",
"\"I'm not prepared for Omar to face potential jail, because if they won't tell us in advance (that) he can do X, Y, and Z without risk of prosecution, I can't risk that.\""
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Civilians continued to flee Pakistan's northwest in droves Monday as government troops prepared to engage Taliban militants in the crisis-hit Swat Valley.",
"Thousands of displaced Pakistani civilians have flooded refugee camps.",
"More than 360,000 Pakistanis have fled their homes since May 2, the United Nations has reported.",
"\"Obviously more people are on the move,\" said Ariane Rummery, a spokeswoman for the U.N. human rights commissioner.",
"\"Not everyone is registered.\"",
"Thousands of vehicles fled Swat Valley on Sunday, where up to 15,000 Pakistani troops are preparing to move against approximately 5,000 Taliban militants, a regional official said.",
"In neighboring areas, Pakistan's military is continuing an offensive against the Taliban along its western border with Afghanistan, a military statement released Sunday said.",
"Watch the latest on the conflict » .",
"The military has been releasing regular reports saying it has killed Taliban militants in the region, but it has produced little evidence of the successes it claims.",
"Journalists have not been permitted to observe the offensive and the army has not shown bodies of the militants it says it has killed.",
"Curfews have been imposed in the conflict zone, but are relaxed periodically to allow civilians to travel.",
"It is not unusual now to see rickshaws and cargo trucks filled with fleeing civilians, rolling down Pakistan's main east-west highway.",
"Vehicles are not allowed back into the region, which has led to a shortage for those trying to leave.",
"Meanwhile, at least 25 boys stranded at the Khpal Kor Foundation orphanage in Swat Valley had to flee the district capital, Mingora, on foot Sunday, according to director Mohammed Ali.",
"He said local government officials told him there were no vehicles to evacuate the children.",
"The 175-kilometer (110-mile) journey from Mingora to the western city of Peshawar normally takes about three hours by car.",
"The boys walked for several hours, but had to spend the night in a madrassa -- a religious school -- outside of Mingora, because authorities had re-established the curfew.",
"Camps for the displaced have sprouted up throughout the country's northwest, with hospitals and humanitarian groups struggling to keep pace.",
"In other developments, a suicide car bomber attacked a Pakistani paramilitary checkpoint outside Peshawar on Monday, killing a Frontier Corps soldier and three civilians, said Ali Sher Khan, a Corps spokesman.",
"Troops fired on the suspicious vehicle as it approached, according to Khan."
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"(CNN) -- Argentina star Lionel Messi scored twice as Barcelona thrashed Atletico Madrid 5-2 in the Camp Nou to maintain their perfect start to the Spanish league season.",
"Messi put Atletico to the sword with two goals in the Camp Nou.",
"Messi celebrated his lucrative contract extension at Barca, sealed on Friday, with a superb display against a flagging Atletico who have made a poor start to the season.",
"New signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic put Barcelona ahead in the second minute, just after Thierry Henry had hit the post in a frenetic opening.",
"Messi then got in the scoring act, rounding goalkeeper Roberto Jiminez after being played through by midfielder Xavi.",
"Daniel Alves scored the third for the reigning European and Spanish champions with a powerful free kick on the half hour mark.",
"Ibrahimovic, who is finding his feet after a slow pre-season campaign, then found Messi who charged past a static Atletico defense before finding Seydou Keita for a tap-in on 41 minutes.",
"To complete an exciting first half, Sergio Aguero pulled one back for the visitors after a mistake by Sergio Busquets.",
"Atletico gained respectability after half-time as Diego Forlan scored six minutes from time, but Messi rubbed it in with the fifth during injury time.",
"In other action on Saturday, Real Mallorca briefly went top before Barcelona won the late kick off, beating promoted Tenerife 4-0.",
"Mario Saurez, Artiz Aduriz, Julio Alvarez and a late Pierre Webo penalty gave Mallorca three points as they matched their best ever start to a Primera Liga season with two wins and a draw.",
"Espanyol moved off the bottom with their first victory of the season with a 3-2 away win at Deportivo la Coruna, while Alvaro Negredo scored his first goal for Sevilla who beat Osasuna 2-0.",
"In Sunday's action, big-spending Real Madrid will bid to equal Barcelona's three wins form three games when they tackle lowly Xerez."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- An autopsy on the body of actress Brittany Murphy was conducted Monday, the Los Angeles County coroner's office said.",
"Authorities have said the 32-year-old appeared to have died Sunday of natural causes, and there was no sign of foul play or trauma.",
"\"Naturally occurring diseases could be found in any person that could lead to death,\" said Capt.",
"John Kades of the coroner's office.",
"The office is looking into Murphy's medical history.",
"A final report could take up to eight weeks.",
"The cause of death will not be released until the toxicology report is concluded, said the coroner's office.",
"That process can take weeks.",
"Police also are conducting an investigation, which includes robbery and homicide detectives looking at what was in her home, said Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Norma Eisenman.",
"Murphy was pronounced dead at 10:04 a.m. PT (1:04 p.m.",
"ET) Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, hospital spokeswoman Sally Stewart said.",
"She is survived by her husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, whom she married in 2007.",
"Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the leading cause of death for American women in Murphy's age range is unintentional injury.",
"Malignant tumors are second, followed by heart disease and suicide.",
"The often bubbly, free-spirited actress appeared in such films as \"Clueless,\" \"8 Mile,\" \"Don't Say a Word\" and \"Girl, Interrupted.\"",
"She also lent her voice to animated works, such as the movie \"Happy Feet\" -- in which she also sang -- and a regular role on the animated TV series \"King of the Hill.\"",
"\"The sudden loss of our beloved Brittany is a terrible tragedy,\" her family said in a statement issued by her publicist.",
"\"She was our daughter, our wife, our love and a shining star.",
"We ask you to respect our privacy at this time.\"",
"Funeral arrangements are pending, the family said.",
"Fans have taken to Murphy's official Facebook page to issue their condolences.",
"\"She was a great actress and was going to go far in her career!",
"She will be greatly missed!\"",
"read one post.",
"Former boyfriend -- and \"Just Married\" co-star -- Ashton Kutcher was one of many celebrities to post his reaction to the news via Twitter.",
"\"2day the world lost a little piece of sunshine.",
"My deepest condolences go out 2 Brittany's family, her husband, & her amazing mother Sharon,\" Kutcher tweeted.",
"\"see you on the other side kid,\" he added later.",
"Singer-actress Jessica Simpson tweeted: \"Brittany Murphy was an incredible ray of Light to so many people.",
"Her smile was contagious.",
"My prayers are with her family and loved ones.\"",
"Actress Alyssa Milano, who did a USO tour with Murphy in 2003, wrote: \"She was a sweet soul, with a lot of talent and heart.\"",
"Murphy was best known for her work in a string of romantic comedies earlier this decade, including playing lead roles in \"Uptown Girls\" alongside fellow Georgia native Dakota Fanning, and \"Little Black Book\" with Holly Hunter and Kathy Bates, but her movie roles had declined in recent years.",
"Last month, Murphy was reportedly fired from \"The Caller,\" a movie she was working on in Puerto Rico.",
"Her representative issued a statement to news outlets disputing the report, saying, \"She was not nor has she ever been fired from any job big or small.",
"... [Due] to creative differences Ms. Murphy and the production mutually parted ways,\" according to People magazine.",
"Murphy was the subject of tabloid gossip after she transformed from a pudgy brunette in 1995's \"Clueless\" to a petite, lithe blonde who graced the cover of such magazines as Cosmopolitan in 2005.",
"She frequently denied rumors of an eating disorder and plastic surgery.",
"Her love life also was fodder for gossip sites as she broke two engagements in 2004 and 2006, then married Monjack after four months of dating.",
"\"All these ridiculous people came out and said all this nonsense when we got married, [but] thank God we had the substance and the history within that to [say], 'Yeah, whatever!'\"",
"Monjack told People in 2008.",
"\"We still don't understand what happened.",
"It's made us laugh, it's made us cry, but it's made us stronger.\""
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"No signs of foul play or trauma, coroner's office spokesman says .",
"Actress pronounced dead Sunday morning at Los Angeles hospital, spokeswoman says .",
"Murphy starred in \"Clueless\" and \"8 Mile,\" and did voice of Luanne in \"King of the Hill\""
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"(CNN) -- The phrase \"it's cold outside\" doesn't begin to describe it.",
"With the mercury well below zero in parts of the Northeast, people in New York and the New England states are facing some of the coldest temperatures the region has seen in years.",
"So, just how cold is it? Temperatures in Boston dropped to 2 degrees below zero Monday morning, according to CNN meteorologists.",
"To the south, in New York, it was even worse, with the morning temperature sitting at 6 below zero.",
"Massachusetts Gov.",
"Deval Patrick has urged people in his state to take extra caution in the dangerously cold weather.",
"In a statement released on Monday, the governor announced that he had put state agencies on high alert to respond to any public safety and public health issues that may emerge.",
"\"We are also reaching out to cities and towns to make sure they are prepared, and have pledged support, where needed,\" the statement said.",
"Patrick is working with the United Way and the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency to provide services and assistance to residents across the state.",
"Boston might be considered cozy by its neighbors to the west, according to CNN meteorologist Sean Morris.",
"In North Adams, Massachusetts, Monday morning's low was 20 below zero.",
"In New York state, the cold weather caused trouble for travelers.",
"Schools in North Syracuse had to close after several dozen of the district's 136 buses failed to start, according to local media reports.",
"\"We could not chance putting them out on the road and then having them stall and not be able to pick up the students,\" school district director of transportation Mike Janisch told CNN affiliate WSYR.",
"Amtrak had to shut down part of its service in New York as well.",
"A statement sent out on Monday said the sub-zero temperatures had caused some signals, switches and equipment to freeze, leading to the cancellation of some services in the region.",
"Northwest of Albany, temperatures dipped to 30 below in Indian Lake, and minus 22 in Gloversville.",
"Other Northeastern states are also facing bitter cold.",
"In Mount Washington, New Hampshire, temperatures dropped to 35 below zero.",
"But if you think these temperatures are approaching global record lows, you're way off.",
"On July 21, 1983, temperatures dropped to a bone-chilling 129 degrees below zero in Vostok Station, Antarctica -- the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth."
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Political corruption in Zimbabwe threatens efforts to save millions of people from malaria in the southern African country, according to aid agency officials.",
"HIV-positive 13-year-old orphan Evans Mahlangu, left, and his brother Edmond, 8, had to jump Zimbabwe's border with Mozambique to get anti-retroviral drugs.",
"The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has demanded that Zimbabwe's government return $7.3 million placed in the country's reserve bank to pay for the distribution medicine that can cure malaria, according to the group's spokesman.",
"A senior western diplomat in Zimbabwe told CNN he believes the money was taken by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's government to fund political activities.",
"He accused reserve bank governor Gideon Gono of involvement.",
"\"This could put millions of people in Zimbabwe at risk of malaria in the current malaria season,\" said John Linden, spokesman for the group which is a leading international financing institution for those diseases.",
"Linden said his group has given Zimbabwe until Thursday to repay the money or else no more aid will be sent to the country.",
"\"At this stage we do not have confidence in the reserve bank's ability to release the money when needed, so we have demanded that all the money be released immediately,\" Linden said.",
"The money was intended to train thousands of health workers to distribute the malaria cure, medicine that is already available but sits on shelves.",
"CNN's Kim Norgaard in Johannesburg, South Africa contributed to this report."
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"Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- When President Barack Obama said Wednesday night that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had opened her eyes for the first time since being shot on Saturday, an overflow crowd of nearly 30,000 people at a memorial event erupted into cheers that the congresswoman may have heard in her hospital room.",
"Obama said he learned of the eye-opening from Giffords' husband, astronaut Mark Kelly.",
"\"She knows we're here, and she knows we love her,and she knows that we will be rooting for her throughout what will be a difficult journey,\" the president said at a memorial in Tucson to honor the victims of the shooting.",
"Giffords is still listed in critical condition at the University of Arizona's University Medical Center.",
"Suspect Jared Loughner allegedly fired at her first, striking her in the head.",
"As soon as Obama finished his remarks, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, let it be known that she, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, were in the room at the time, along with Kelly and Giffords' parents.",
"\"It was like witnessing a miracle,\" Gillibrand told CNN.",
"\"Debbie and I were telling her how much she was inspiring the nation with her courage, her strength, and we were talking about the things we wanted to do as soon as she was better,\" the senator said.",
"\"I said, 'We'll have another night out for beer and pizza with your husband.'",
"And Debbie started talking to her about their house in New Hampshire, just talking about all the things we wanted to do, and all of a sudden she started to struggle to open her eyes.",
"So Mark saw that and said, 'Open your eyes, Gabby, open your eyes.'",
"She kept struggling and struggling and Mark just kept encouraging her.",
"And within a moment she literally opened her eyes.\"",
"\"The doctors couldn't believe it,\" Wasserman Schultz said.",
"\"Mark started encouraging her, saying 'Gabby, give me a thumbs up if you can see, if you can see me, touch my ring, touch my wedding ring.'",
"She started doing that,\" she said.",
"\"We just kept talking to her and talking to her about the fun we've had with her, and so then she opened her eyes more.",
"She went from opening her eyes really just in slits to opening them nearly fully.",
"It wasn't very long, and then they closed again.",
"But it was just absolutely -- it was the most incredible, aside from my kids, the most incredible experience.\"",
"Giffords kept her eyes open \"for a moment,\" Gillibrand said -- \"maybe 30 seconds, maybe 60 seconds.\"",
"\"You could see she was focusing and Mark said, 'Gabby if you can see me, give me the thumbs up,' and not only did she give the thumbs up, she literally raised her entire hand,\" Gillibrand later told CNN.",
"Doctors sent them out of the room shortly after that, Gillibrand said, because Giffords needed to rest."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Kenny Morrison soaked in life from his beachfront home.",
"A top chef at a trendy L.A. restaurant, he served dinner to the Hollywood stars, including A-listers.",
"Kenny Morrison got hooked on painkillers after getting dental work in 2003.",
"\"I lost everything,\" he says.",
"But within a couple years, he lost it all.",
"He got hooked on pain medication after some dental work.",
"His fix was codeine, Vicodin and OxyContin -- all prescription medications -- to help him get through the day.",
"At one point, he even had a tooth removed unnecessarily so he could get a prescription for pain medicines.",
"\"At the height, I was taking probably 20, 25 a day,\" he says.",
"\"It got to the point where I lost the wife, the house, and I was living in a bad part of L.A. in my truck.",
"And I went from taking a couple of codeine all the way to taking OxyContin.\"",
"Morrison didn't buy his drugs on a street corner or get them from a dope dealer.",
"He got them mostly from dentists he had never met.",
"He says he'd scroll through the phone book calling dentist after dentist until one would prescribe him pain medication.",
"\"I kind of found out on my own that a dentist will prescribe you painkillers over the phone, instead of a doctor who you would most likely have to go in and see,\" he says.",
"Watch addicts turn to dentists » .",
"Dr. Jay Grossman, a dentist in the Los Angeles area, says he routinely gets calls from people seeking painkillers.",
"\"The moment somebody hangs up the phone on me, I know that they're literally going down the book.",
"They're calling the next one in the Yellow Pages, hoping that someone will write them a prescription,\" he says.",
"\"If you're an addict, one of your resources would certainly be a dentist.\"",
"Grossman sits on a disciplinary committee for the California Dental Association.",
"He says the calls typically come at the end of the day.",
"The user describes pain in his mouth and insists on medication fast.",
"Red flags go up and Grossman says he begins asking a series of questions to \"put it back in their ballpark.\"",
"When he asks how many pills they need, sometimes the answer is: \"Forty or 50 should do just fine,\" Grossman says.",
"He tries to set up an appointment for the next day, so he can see the patient in person.",
"Most times, they hang up after he grills them.",
"\"I don't think doctors of any sort -- whether it's a dental professional or one of my medical colleagues -- should be doling out prescriptions in that quantity, like M&Ms.",
"That's not what it's there for,\" he says. \"I would like to think the vast majority of my colleagues are doing the honest, ethical and moral thing.\"",
"According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, nearly 7 million Americans are abusing prescription drugs, more than the number who are abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens and ecstasy combined.",
"The number of painkiller addicts has nearly doubled from 2000, when 3.8 million Americans were hooked, the DEA says.",
"The misuse of painkillers represents three-fourths of the overall problem of prescription drug abuse.",
"The DEA says addicts get the drugs from \"doctor shopping,\" online pharmacies and other Internet sources, theft from pharmacies and, yes, traditional drug dealers.",
"\"All DEA registered practitioners and dentists registered with DEA must adhere to state laws and regulations as well as federal laws and regulations when dispensing or prescribing a controlled substance,\" says DEA special agent Gary Boggs.",
"But the DEA says only one in every 10,000 doctors loses his or her controlled substance registration each year as a result of DEA investigations into improper prescribing.",
"James Stillwell, the executive director of Impact Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center in Pasadena, California, says he believes it's much more prevalent than authorities realize.",
"He says dentists, doctors and veterinarians all become targets of addicts.",
"\"It's an easy way to get your hands on an opiate-based drug, a painkiller, for recreational use,\" Stillwell says.",
"\"If you have an addict that wants to get high, ... he's going to find ways and means to do that.\"",
"There's another troubling aspect of addicts on painkillers prescribed by doctors, he says.",
"These addicts don't think they have a problem because they have prescriptions in their hands.",
"\"It helps you legitimize it -- not just in terms of family and loved ones, but what your head is saying to you,\" Stillwell says.",
"\"It's a way to elude the stigma of being a drug addict.\"",
"Grossman says the DEA has done a good job in the last 12-18 months of cracking down on dentists who may be over-prescribing pain medicines.",
"According to the DEA, 38 states have enacted legislation to create a database for physicians and pharmacists to prevent abusers from obtaining multiple prescriptions.",
"Grossman says the DEA notifies dentists and questions them when their prescriptions for painkillers reach high numbers.",
"\"They're actually following up,\" he says.",
"But he says for a dentist to come before his local disciplinary board, the board first needs to be notified that a dentist may be acting out of line -- and a drug abuser typically isn't going to turn them in.",
"Grossman believes the issue has come under scrutiny in the last year because \"of the celebrities that have been passing away due to drug overdose.\"",
"Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith had each taken a lethal combination of prescription drugs.",
"He said dentists, doctors and pharmacies constantly need to be on alert for people trying to use medical professionals as their drug dealers.",
"\"Just writing a prescription for the pain is not the answer,\" Grossman says.",
"\"There's a moral and ethical code that we have to follow.\"",
"As for Morrison, he says he has been clean for a year after going through Impact's program.",
"He's now the head chef at the treatment facility that saved his life.",
"It has been five years since his life fell apart.",
"He's trying to repair his relationship with his daughter and his ex-wife.",
"He wants others to avoid the painful painkiller path he took.",
"\"My body craved it, and I lost everything -- everything,\" Morrison says.",
"\"It's hard to understand how big of a problem this is.",
"My message is it's a disease and it needs to be addressed.\"",
"CNN's Traci Tamura contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- This Friday, Muslims around the world will bid goodbye to a long month of fasting with three days of feasting and festivities.",
"The faithful usher in the holiday, Eid al-Fitr, with joyous community prayers, acts of charity, visits from far-flung relatives, gift-giving and hearty greetings of \"Eid Mubarak,\" or happy Eid.",
"This year, however, one controversy has cast a pall over the celebrations for many Muslims: a Florida pastor's threats to burn copies of the Muslim holy book, the Quran, on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.",
"\"Although the joy of Eid is still there, the sense that we Muslims belong in this society as equals seems to be under threat and there is a somber note in everybody's preparations,\" said Wasima Reza of Raleigh, North Carolina.",
"She said she will take her children to Eid prayer services so they can feel a sense of community.",
"\"I want them to be proud of the fact that they are Muslims and feel that they can practice their religion in their own country, without fear,\" she said.",
"Ayaz Hyder of Piscataway, New Jersey, is one of many who feel the holiday -- one of the most important in the Islamic calendar -- has been hijacked by whether or not the Rev.",
"Terry Jones, the head of a small church in Gainesville, Florida, will go ahead with his Quran burning plans.",
"\"He got what he wanted out of this.",
"His 15 minutes of fame,\" he said.",
"\"I will have more people at my place for Eid this year than this guy has congregants but yet he's still dominating the headlines.\"",
"Indeed, from Indiana to Indonesia, the planned burning was on many Muslim minds.",
"In Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono urged the United States and United Nations to act as he read a statement from the palace grounds on Eid day Friday.",
"\"I am of course aware of the reported cancellation of the deplorable act by Rev.",
"Terry Jones.",
"However, none of us can be complacent until such despicable idea can totally be extinguished,\" he said.",
"In Afghanistan, sporadic demonstrations broke out Friday, with the largest demonstration in the northern province of Badakhshan where hundreds of Afghans protested outside a NATO base.",
"NATO officials said two people were hurt, but provincial authorities said one person was killed.",
"The holiday bids goodbye to Ramadan -- a month of dawn-to-dusk abstinence from food, drinks and other sensual pleasures.",
"Muslims believe the Quran, the religion's holy book, was revealed to Prophet Muhammad during Ramadan more than 1,400 years ago.",
"Eid is one of two major holidays in Islam, alongside another called Eid al-Adha.",
"The latter commemorates the prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son for God.",
"The night before Eid, entire communities gather on rooftops, scanning the sky with giddy anticipation to see if they can see the crescent of a new moon.",
"Preparations for the feast begin as soon as it is sighted.",
"In Tawab Qurayshi's home in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, the menu includes rice, stew, kabobs and freshly baked Afghan cookies.",
"Like Muslims elsewhere, Qurayshi and his family members don new clothes -- to symbolize a fresh start, he said.",
"The fun continues on the second day with a uniquely Afghan tradition: egg fights.",
"Men, armed with hard-boiled eggs, try to break each others'.",
"The one whose egg cracks receives light-hearted ribbing.",
"It is a joyous time when even the Taliban cease fighting -- a rare respite in a war-ridden country, he said.",
"\"The day itself is, and has always been, about yummy foods, new outfits,\" said Sumi Mehtab of New York.",
"\"This whole Quran burning issue casts a negativeness on what should be a totally joyous occasion and I'm annoyed at how dumb people can get.\"",
"But Ottawa, Canada, native Siffan Rahman wasn't going to let the controversy ruin her holiday.",
"\"I turned off the TV because I don't want to hear about it anymore,\" she said.",
"\"Eid should be about celebrating, house-hopping, stuffing our tummies and staying up late with friends.",
"And that's what I'm going to do.\" CNN's Atia Abawi in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Kathy Quiano in Jakarta, Indonesia, contributed to this report."
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"Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan -- dawn-to-dusk abstinence from food and drinks .",
"The Quran burning controversy has upset a lot of Muslims this year .",
"Many, however, say it will not affect the festivities ."
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"1960 Maradona is born .",
"Maradona (L) and Kusturica (R) arrive at the screening of 'Maradona', Cannes International Film Festival 2008.",
"1971 Scouted age 11 for the junior team of Argentinos Juniors .",
"1976 Makes his professional debut aged 15 .",
"1977 Makes his full international debut for Argentina aged just 16 .",
"1979 Scores first international goal and wins the junior World Cup .",
"1981 Transfers to Boca Juniors for $1.96m.",
"1982 Plays his first World Cup for Argentina, scoring twice, but also getting sent off.",
"Afterwards he is transferred to Barcelona FC for a then world record $9.81m.",
"1983 Wins the Spanish Cup with Barcelona .",
"1984 Transfers from Barcelona to Serie A Napoli for another record fee of $13.54m.",
"1986 Captains Argentina to World Cup Victory, scoring two goals against England on the way, the first, the infamous \"Hand of God\" and the second an incredible 50 meter run voted \"Goal of the Century\" in a 2002 FIFA poll.",
"1987 Helps Napoli to their first Italian title .",
"1990 Hit by paternity suit after World Cup final defeat by West Germany .",
"1991 Fails a drugs test and is banned for 15 months.",
"Leaves Italy in disgrace.",
"1992 Makes his comeback at Sevilla in Spain .",
"1993 Heads back to Argentina with Newell's Old Boys after disagreement with Sevilla .",
"1994 Sent home after failing drugs test at the World Cup in the U.S.A. 1996 Books into a clinic for drug addiction.",
"1997 Announces retirement from football aged 37 after failing another drugs test .",
"2000 Collapses with heart problems .",
"2002 Moves to Cuba to try and combat drug addiction .",
"2004 Rushed to hospital after another collapse .",
"2005 Maradona hosts his own talk show, interviewing Pele on the opening night .",
"2008 Emir Kusturica's documentary \"Maradona\" is shown at the Cannes Film festival ."
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"Maradona was scouted for Argentinos Juniors when aged 11 .",
"Captained his country to World Cup victory in 1986 .",
"Has battled with drug addiction and health issues in recent years .",
"\"Maradona\" documentary shown at Cannes Film Festival, May 2008 ."
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"(CNN) -- British authorities said Tuesday they are conducting a criminal investigation into an American man charged in federal court with smuggling weapons into England.",
"Steven Neal Greenoe is suspected of buying more than 60 firearms in North Carolina and transporting them to England on at least nine occasions, according to court documents.",
"In September, a federal grand jury handed up a 43-count superseding indictment against him.",
"He was arrested in July, when authorities found another 16 firearms in his baggage.",
"TITAN, a task force in Britain's North West region for serious and organized crimes, said in a statement Tuesday it was also investigating Greenoe.",
"\"This is a complex investigation involving law enforcement agencies across the North West of England,\" Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Leach, who heads the task force, said in the statement.",
"\"We are working closely with our colleagues nationally and with partners in the United States.",
"The availability of firearms poses a serious risk and our investigation will be continuing over the coming weeks and months.\"",
"After being brought into the country, allegedly by Greenoe, the firearms were then sold in Britain, court documents said.",
"An undercover police officer bought three of them from two men for 10,500 pounds (about $16,500).",
"The Times of London reported Tuesday that British and U.S. authorities held crisis talks after Greenoe, 37, was arrested.",
"Some of the firearms are unaccounted for, the Times reported, and of those recovered, ballistics tests show one was used in a drive-by shooting in Manchester, England, in October.",
"Britain's Home Office said Tuesday it and the government continue \"to work very closely with international partners, including counterparts in the United States, on all matters relating to security.",
"Measures to protect the public and tackle the threat posed by terrorism and international crime are constantly kept under review.\"",
"Greenoe always flew into Manchester's airport, according to the complaint.",
"Officials there told CNN that arriving passengers are not screened unless they are stopped by customs.",
"The TSA on Tuesday declined comment on the case, citing pending litigation.",
"Firearms are not prohibited from checked luggage, according to the TSA's website.",
"However, firearms must be declared to the airline, and the guns must be unloaded and in a hard-sided container.",
"Firearms may not be taken out of the United States, according to the International Trade in Arms Regulations unless the person carrying them has registered with the State Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls.",
"On July 19, as authorities were investigating Greenoe, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement attache in London told the agency that neither Greenoe nor his company, Jolie Rouge consultants, had been granted an export license from the office.",
"Greenoe allegedly took the guns overseas by breaking them down into pieces and spreading the pieces over multiple bags in his checked luggage, according to a federal complaint filed in July.",
"Greenoe's defense attorney, Mark Edwards of Durham, North Carolina, declined comment to CNN on Tuesday.",
"Edwards previously told the Times in the story published Tuesday that \"Steve's a bright young man, very sociable, a bright guy, well read, well-educated, well-traveled.",
"He's been all over the world. He's an interesting man to deal with and not my average client at all.\"",
"On May 3, according to the complaint, Greenoe was interviewed at the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, airport by TSA officials after a screen of his luggage showed pieces of \"multiple firearms.\"",
"Greenoe told authorities that \"he was a salesman, and that he had just gone to the Raleigh gun show and that the guns were broken down and not in a working order,\" the complaint said.",
"After checking the serial numbers on the guns, the TSA allowed Greenoe to continue with his flight, according to the complaint.",
"Authorities believe \"Greenoe was attempting to elude law enforcement and U.S. customs officials by stating that the items in his luggage were ... inert and non-working samples,\" the complaint said.",
"\"In fact, these items were fully functional firearms that had been disassembled and disguised to appear as anything but a functional firearm.\"",
"A native of New Orleans, Greenoe lived in Shrewsbury, about 70 miles southwest of Manchester, the Times reported.",
"Confronted and questioned at the Raleigh airport on July 25, Greenoe initially said they were non-working samples that belonged to Jolie Rouge, according to the complaint, but later told authorities that he bought the weapons \"as a means to provide high quality firearms to his employees while providing overseas maritime protection,\" since he could not buy high quality weapons overseas.",
"Charges against Greenoe include failing to notify a common carrier of arms shipment; exporting firearms from the United States without a license; smuggling firearms outside the United States; and falsifying an ATF form.",
"In a hearing in July, a federal magistrate declared Greenoe a flight risk and ordered him held.",
"Greenoe waived his appearance on the superseding indictment after it was handed up, according to court records.",
"Several motions in the case were filed under seal in November.",
"Greenoe is currently being held in the Pitt County Detention Center in Greenville, North Carolina.",
"CNN's Jeanne Meserve and Antonia Mortensen contributed to this report."
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"Steven Greenoe is charged in a 43-count indictment .",
"Authorities allege he illegally brought at least 60 guns into Britain .",
"British authorities say they are also conducting a criminal investigation ."
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"(CNN) -- Employers in Denmark have started paying compensation to women who have developed breast cancer after working night shifts.",
"Studies have shown that nurses working night shifts have an increased risk of developing breast cancer.",
"Thirty-eight eight women have so far received payments via their employers' insurance companies, the Danish National Board of Industrial Injuries told CNN.",
"To qualify for compensation, women must have developed breast cancer after having worked at least one night shift a week for 20 to 30 years.",
"The amount of compensation depends on the severity of claimants' illness and their ability to work.",
"The move came after the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization, concluded that night work is \"probably carcinogenic to humans,\" in October 2007.",
"Ulla Mahnkopf developed breast cancer after 30 years working as a flight attendant for SAS, a job where night shifts were the norm.",
"She told the BBC that had she known the effects of night working she wouldn't have flown for so many years.",
"The IARC classifies the cancer risk of night work as \"Group 2A\" -- the same as using sun beds -- and just one group below confirmed carcinogens like asbestos and mustard gas.",
"The IARC reviewed published scientific literature and found that long-term night workers have an increased risk of breast cancer.",
"Dr Vincent Cogliano, Head of the IARC Monographs Program, told CNN that the evidence in humans is limited to breast cancer because researchers have historically studied nurses and flight attendants.",
"Cogliano said he would like to see studies carried out on different types of workers in other industrial settings.",
"He added that the human studies are consistent with laboratory research that exposes animals to changing patterns of light and dark to mimic the conditions of humans working at night.",
"It is thought that night work can disrupt the circadian system, which can alter sleep patterns, suppress melatonin production, and affect genes involved in tumor development.",
"\"This is a very important topic and it needs more research,\" said Cogliano.",
"\"Working at night or disrupting your sleep cycle is a widespread phenomenon and it is important to understand the health implications.",
"There could be other cancers or other health implications involved.\"",
"Those most likely to do night shifts are those working in the health-care industry, hospitality, industrial manufacturing, news media and security workers."
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"Danish women who got breast cancer after night work get compensation .",
"Women must have worked at least one night a week for 20 to 30 years .",
"WHO have concluded that working night shifts \"probably causes cancer\""
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"NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- After months of delays the trial of the lone surviving suspect in the Mumbai terror attacks finally got underway Friday.",
"Soldiers patrol in Mumbai on the eve of the trial of a key suspect in last year's attacks in the Indian city.",
"Mohammad Ajmal Kasab is charged with 12 criminal counts including murder, attempted murder, and waging war against India.",
"Police say he was caught on surveillance camera holding a gun as he stalked and killed people inside Mumbai's main train station.",
"Kasab is also accused of shooting down people at Mumbai's Cama hospital.",
"Kasab is one of 10 Pakistani nationals who police say reigned down terror on Mumbai, India's financial capital, for four days and three nights.",
"Police say the men gunned down more than 160 people in the attack as they took over three luxury hotels and a Jewish center and shot up several other places including a popular restaurant.",
"Police say Kasab is the only suspected gunman caught alive.",
"In his opening statements Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam read from Kasab's alleged confession about how he trained for the attack.",
"Nikam said, \"The terror attack was in order to capture Kashmir.\"",
"Kashmir has long been a source of tension between India and Pakistan.",
"The dispute over who owns the territory has resulted in wars between the two countries.",
"It's alleged Kasab and his cohorts traveled to India from Pakistan by boat for the sole purpose of attacking India.",
"Late in the day Kasab's newly appointed defense attorney Abbas Kazmi said Kasab was now retracting his statements, saying he confessed under police pressure.",
"Kazmi also argued that Kasab was under age at the time of the attacks and should be tried in Juvenile Court, but Judge M.L.",
"Tahilyani disagreed saying Kasab was older than 17 at the time of the attack.",
"The prosecutor put Kasab's age at 21.",
"The trial was supposed to get underway April 15 but in a stunning turn of events the original court appointed defense attorney for Kasab was dismissed from the case that day.",
"Tahilyani removed lawyer Anjali Waghmare from the case saying she failed to disclose pertinent information to the court.",
"The court said it was brought to its attention that Waghmare was listed as an attorney for a victim of the Mumbai attacks who was seeking compensation from the state.",
"That victim also happens to be a witness against Kasab in this trial.",
"In court Waghmare said she did not agree to take the victims case but had talked to him.",
"She also said she was unaware that he was listed as a witness in Kasab's trial.",
"The next day the judge appointed Kazmi, who was in the court during the proceedings observing the trial as a member of the Indian Bar Association."
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"After months of delays trial of suspect in Mumbai terror attacks finally gets underway .",
"Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, is accused of being the only gunmen to survive siege .",
"The November siege targeted victims at Mumbai hotels, hospitals, railway stations ."
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"Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Ernest Hemingway hasn't lived here in over 50 years but Finca Vigia is still his home.",
"In the garden there's his boat \"the Pilar\" used to hunt marlin and then Nazi subs off Cuba during World War II.",
"Scrawled on a bathroom wall next to a scale are the daily records of what the writer weighed.",
"Lizards and frogs he caught rest in jars filled with formaldehyde.",
"Antelopes and buffalo heads taken as trophies from African safaris decorate the walls.",
"Yellowing Time and The Field magazines are still on the shelves.",
"Now a museum, a visitor to Finca Vigia or \"lookout farm,\" could be mistaken for thinking Hemingway might walk in the door at any second.",
"\"Our philosophy was to recover the environment and surroundings,\" said Ada Rosa Alfonso Rosales, the museum's curator.",
"\"This was not just a mere house, this was his home.\"",
"Hemingway lived in the home on a hilltop on the outskirts of Havana from 1939 to 1960.",
"The years were pivotal ones for the famed American writer and for his adopted home of Cuba.",
"Life.com: Ernest Hemingway's life in photos .",
"In 1953, Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for his book the \"Old Man and the Sea\" about an aging Cuban fisherman's epic duel with a marlin.",
"Six years later revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro took control of the island, leading to the eventual breakdown in relations with the United States.",
"Battling depression, Hemingway killed himself in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961.",
"Even though the Finca Vigia receives over 40,000 visitors a year, the house nearly fell victim to Cuba's unforgiving environment.",
"\"This is a very humid climate,\" Alfonso said.",
"\"We're on top of a hill where winds and even hurricanes batter the house.\"",
"In 2005, the National Trust for Historic Preservation called the house \"a preservation emergency,\" citing roof leaks and shifting foundations that endangered the house.",
"One of the people who came to the house's rescue was Jenny Phillips, the granddaughter of Maxwell Perkins, the editor who first pushed for Hemingway's work to be published and worked with the writer for the rest of his life.",
"\"I realized we could help because of my connection to Ernest Hemingway through my grandfather,\" Phillips said.",
"\"That we could bring about a collaboration between the United States and Cuba which after 50 years of embargo little collaboration has happened between the two countries and yet here was this shared cultural legacy, deeply appreciated by the Cuban people and the American people.\"",
"Phillips started the Finca Vigia Foundation, navigating the bureaucracies of two countries and restrictions of the U.S. embargo to bring restoration experts to the project.",
"One of those experts was home improvement icon Bob Vila, who is also Cuban-American.",
"Vila said helping to save Hemingway's house transcends politics.",
"\"It's the best cultural bridge we could have hoped for between the American people and the Cuban people.",
"And I emphasize people, I am not talking governments,\" Vila told CNN.",
"\"The Cuban people and the American people have a warm relationship that goes back many decades.",
"It's a very important project.\"",
"Life.com: Fidel Castro mingles with celebrities .",
"In $1 million renovation, the Cuban government restored the main house on the property.",
"Curators estimate another $1 million is needed to save a collapsing guest house on the property, repair Hemingway's cracked swimming pool and build a workshop to restore thousands of original documents.",
"Until then, restorers are carefully packing up Hemingway's letters and writings to protect them from further decay.",
"\"He gathered ideas and wrote about them in the margins in the books,\" Phillips said.",
"\"And that 'marginalia' has never been seen before by scholars outside of Cuba.\"",
"Eventually those writings will be digitized and exhibited at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts.",
"Already, Hemingway's Cuba writings have solved one mystery for Jenny Phillips.",
"\"What I always noticed was that they called each other 'Dear Mr. Perkins, Dear Mr. Hemingway,' she said.",
"\"Then one day they started saying 'Dear Max, Dear Ernest.\"",
"How did that happen?\" A letter from Cuba following Hemingway's father's suicide in 1928 provided the answer.",
"\"Hemingway was extremely distraught,\" Phillips said.",
"\"There's a post-script in that letter, 'For God's sake will you unmister me anyway .'",
"\" \"Perkins was quite a bit older than Hemingway,\" his granddaughter Phillips said, \"and who Hemingway felt safe with and nurtured by, so this was a deepening in their relationship.\""
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"Ernest Hemingway lived at Finca Vigia outside Havana for over 20 years .",
"The house, now a museum, receives over 40,000 visitors a year .",
"Despite its popularity, Finca Vigia nearly fell victim to Cuba's humid, hurricane-prone environment .",
"A team is navigating U.S. embargo restrictions to bring restoration experts to the project ."
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"(CNN) -- At least 20 people were killed and six injured Wednesday in a mine explosion in northeastern Colombia near the border with Venezuela, the government-run Colombian Institute of Geology and Mining, known by the acronym Ingeominas, reported.",
"\"At this time, personnel from Ingeominas are at the scene of the accident dealing with the emergency with a group of institute rescue workers aided by the 5th Brigade of the national army, who brought in a helicopter for possible rescue efforts and to transport the victims,\" the institute said in a written statement.",
"Earlier, a spokeswoman for the national civil defense agency said that more miners could still be in the mine, although an exact number was unknown.",
"Hellen Garcia said that authorities believe as many as 30 could have been affected by the explosion.",
"Garcia said five injured people were taken to two hospitals, but one of them died.",
"Four bodies were taken out of the mine, she said.",
"The remaining miners are 1,200 meters, or almost 4,000 feet, below ground, and the rescue operation by civil defense, Red Cross and government crews was expected to last through Thursday, Garcia said.",
"Yamile Rangel Calderon, mayor of the municipality of Sardinata, said the mine is known as La Preciosa, or The Precious One.",
"\"This is one of the oldest mines in the region and one that has some of the best safety and quality controls,\" she said.",
"\"They have been exporting coal for many years.\"",
"Calderon identified five of the miners who died as Manuel Aparicio, Gustavo Mendez, Gustavo Garcia, Jorge Luis Valdivieso and Nelson Velosa Fuentes.",
"The blast happened around 7 a.m. in the district of San Roque, Alvaro Silva, a government official in Sardinata, told the government radio service.",
"An accumulation of methane gas apparently caused the explosion, the governor of the Colombian state of North Santander told the radio service.",
"A 2007 explosion in the same coal mine killed 31 people, Garcia said.",
"CNN's Rafael Romo and CNN en Español's Claudia Dominguez contributed to this report."
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"NEW: A Colombian mining agency says 20 miners are dead .",
"NEW: The agency says six miners were injured .",
"The blast happened near Colombia's border with Venezuela .",
"A build-up of methane gas may be to blame, governor says ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities say they believe a young female who died after a shootout outside a Walmart store was connected to the shooting suspect.",
"The female -- thought to be a teenager --- was one of two people killed in the Sunday afternoon shooting in Port Orchard, Washington.",
"\"We don't think she was just a store patron unrelated to the incident.",
"We believe she was associated with the suspect, but we have not been able establish the relationship yet,\" said Kitsap County Sheriff's Office spokesman Deputy Scott Wilson.",
"The female remained unidentified.",
"Two sheriff's deputies who were injured in the shooting were recovering from non-life-threatening injuries Sunday night.",
"The sheriff's office said in a statement Monday that both were in satisfactory condition at a hospital.",
"\"They both are going to live,\" Wilson said.",
"Three sheriff's deputies responded to the Walmart store Sunday after getting a call about a suspicious person \"from a bystander who had concerns about a person inside the store,\" Wilson said.",
"Officers responded about 3 p.m. Sunday, the sheriff's office said.",
"The deputies approached one man outside the store's south entrance, but the man ran from the scene.",
"\"(The deputies) called to him and said, 'Hey, we need to talk to you,'\" Wilson said.",
"\"He turned around and shot at them.\"",
"The Monday statement said, \"For reasons not yet known, the suspect turned and fired multiple shots at the two pursuing deputies with a semi-automatic handgun.",
"Both deputies were struck by the suspect's bullets and unable to return gunfire.\"",
"However, a third sheriff's deputy approached from behind the store, rounded the corner and shot the suspect, the statement said.",
"The man was shot and later pronounced dead in the Walmart parking lot.",
"Authorities Monday did not release his name, age or other details about him, saying they were in the process of confirming his identity and notifying his relatives.",
"The female, who was fatally wounded, \"was in close proximity to the gunman at the time of the shootings,\" the statement said.",
"\"Based on witness statements and other evidence, investigators believe that the gunman and the young woman were together and knew each other.",
"However, their exact relationship has not yet been established.",
"Also unclear is how the girl was struck by gunfire.\"",
"She was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead, authorities said.",
"The process of identifying her was under way Monday as well.",
"Wilson described the situation as \"somewhat chaotic\" but \"stabilized.\"",
"\"There is no danger to the community at this point,\" he said.",
"\"We think that all persons (who were) involved ... have been accounted for.\"",
"The Washington State Police were taking over as the lead investigative agency in the case, and the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office requested assistance from the FBI.",
"The female sheriff's deputy who shot the suspect was placed on administrative assignment -- a routine step in officer-involved shootings -- pending an investigation.",
"The incident occurred near one of the retail giant's stores in Port Orchard, a town just west of Parkwood.",
"Located on Sinclair Inlet, Port Orchard is about 30 miles north-northwest of Tacoma and across Puget Sound from Seattle.",
"The store was locked down for about 20 minutes immediately after the shooting with and had about 100 people inside, Walmart customer Mike Lambert told CNN affiliate KIRO.",
"CNN's Rick Martin and Greg Morrison contributed to this report."
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"2 people are shot dead in a Walmart parking lot in Port Orchard, Washington .",
"Sheriff's spokesman: Two injured deputies \"are going to live\"\nThe shooting suspect was fatally shot after firing at deputies ."
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"(CNN) -- The cost of repairing flood damage in Australia will top AUS $5.6 billion (US $5.58 billion), according to Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who proposed a one-year tax to help fund the reconstruction.",
"\"The great floods of this summer have been a national tragedy, not just a natural disaster, because of the awful loss of human life,\" Gillard said Thursday.",
"\"The great floods of this summer have destroyed billions of dollars of wealth and robbed us of billions of dollars of income.",
"In time they may prove to be the most expensive disaster in Australian history.\"",
"Gillard said the money will come from $2.8 billion (US $2.79 billion) in spending cuts, $1 billion (US $995.6 million) in delayed infrastructure projects and $1.8 billion (US $1.79 billion) raised through a progressive, one-year income tax on people earning more than $50,000.",
"\"The levy will apply only in the 2011-12 financial year ...\" Gillard said.",
"\"People who were affected by the floods will not pay this levy.\"",
"Flooding in Australia, primarily in the state of Queensland, has affected more than 3 million people, making it one of the most costly disasters in the nation, the federal treasurer said over the weekend.",
"The cost of the damage surpasses past tragedies like major bushfires two years ago and floods in the 1970s, Treasurer Wayne Swan said.",
"The floods have devastated crops, tourism, retail and manufacturing, and have disrupted major urban areas like Brisbane, according to Swan.",
"\"One of the biggest casualties is likely to be our coal exports, with many mines shut down in big coal mining regions like the Bowen Basin, and supply chains severely hampered,\" Swan said.",
"\"While this will be partly offset by higher prices, the loss of production will be hit much harder.\"",
"Swan said the government has already made about $227 million in disaster recovery payments to people who have been affected by the floods."
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"Money to pay for flood damage will come from spending cuts, delayed spending and a tax .",
"Tax would raise $1.8 billion and would be levied for a year .",
"More than 3 million people have been affected by recent floods .",
"The government will be investing billions of dollars to help Queensland, national treasurer says ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli police and security services have arrested four Palestinian men in connection with the December slaying of American tourist Kristine Luken, authorities said.",
"The four suspects are Palestinians from the villages of Tarkumieh and Tzurif near Hebron in the southern West Bank, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.",
"They will be charged Wednesday with murder in Luken's death, and also with killing an Israeli woman, Neta Sorek, in February 2009.",
"They also will be charged with the attempted murder of Luken's friend, Kay Susan Wilson, and the attempted murder of another couple, Rosenfeld said.",
"The four admitted carrying out the crimes, Rosenfeld told CNN, and told police the motive was revenge for the January 2009 killing of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.",
"Al-Mabhouh, a founding member of Hamas' military wing, was found dead in his Dubai hotel room.",
"The Israeli Mossad is widely suspected in his death.",
"DNA from the crime scenes also directly connected some of the suspects to the crimes, Rosenfeld said.",
"Four other men were arrested on suspicion of being accomplices to Luken's murder.",
"Luken was killed while hiking with Wilson, her friend and co-worker at a Christian ministry, in a forest near Jerusalem.",
"Luken's body was found after Wilson stumbled into a picnic area with her hands bound, bleeding from multiple stab wounds and asking for help.",
"Authorities believe the two women were approached by the suspects, who asked them for water, then were attacked a few minutes later.",
"Wilson told authorities they were bound and gagged, then Luken was stabbed to death.",
"Wilson was also stabbed multiple times but played dead until the suspects left.",
"Luken and Wilson, a British citizen living in Israel, both worked for CMJ UK, a Christian ministry based in England."
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"The suspects will be charged with Kristine Luken's murder and a second death .",
"They told police the motive was revenge for the death of a Hamas leader ."
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"(CNN) -- A wanted Florida man shot and killed two St. Petersburg police officers Monday morning, and later the apparent assailant was found dead after police used a backhoe to tear through his house, authorities said.",
"St. Petersburg Police Chief Chuck Harmon said the two slain members of his department were \"ambushed\" by the shooter, who they believe was a man wanted on an outstanding warrant for aggravated battery.",
"A deputy U.S. marshal, who has not been identified, is \"doing well\" at a hospital after being shot twice, said Chief Deputy U.S.",
"Marshal Tom Figmik.",
"\"This crook, this criminal, this cop-killer ... did a terrible injustice to two of my people,\" said Harmon.",
"\"I feel a lot of anger, I feel remorse for the families. ...",
"It's a sobering reminder of what our officers face all the time.\"",
"The incident began around 7 a.m. Monday, when law enforcement from the city's Police Department, U.S.",
"Marshals Service and Pinellas County Sheriff's Office went to a home in the west Florida city to ask a relative of Hydra Lacy Jr., who was wanted by police, about him.",
"The woman told them that Lacy was upstairs in the attic and might be armed, according to Harmon.",
"K-9 Officer Jeffrey Yaslowitz and a deputy U.S. marshal were shot at as they got near the attic -- where they intended to try to coax Lacy to surrender -- according to police.",
"A gunfight ensued, during which another member of St. Petersburg's police force, Sgt.",
"Tom Baitinger, was shot from above.",
"While this was going on, a police search team entered the house and pulled out Yaslowitz, who was wounded but alive.",
"\"I heard 150 to 200 gunshots during that exchange,\" said Harmon.",
"\"You cringe, because you hope you don't send an officer (and) there's another death.\"",
"Yaslowitz and Baitinger were eventually taken to local hospitals, where they were pronounced dead.",
"Even after the shots subsided, police were not able to locate the shooting suspect.",
"They eventually used a backhoe to tear down one-third of the house and found a dead man.",
"He was later positively identified, using fingerprints, as the 39-year-old Lacy, according to a statement from St. Petersburg police.",
"Lacy had what police, in a statement, called a \"significant criminal history\" that included kidnapping, sexual assault and aggravated assault on a police officer.",
"\"He was somebody we wanted to get off the street,\" Harmon said earlier Monday.",
"\"And obviously, today you see why.\"",
"Baitinger, who was married, was a former detective who joined the St. Petersburg force nearly 15 years ago.",
"Yaslowitz was a nearly 12-year veteran of the department and is survived by three children, ages 5, 8 and 12, and his wife.",
"\"They served the people of this community with distinction, with passion, with resilience, with heroism,\" said Mayor Bill Foster.",
"\"And they gave their lives today, so we can do what we can do.\"",
"The three law enforcement officers are among at least 11 shot nationwide in a 24-hour period.",
"Four officers were shot and wounded at a Detroit police precinct on Sunday.",
"Two Kitsap County, Washington, sheriff's deputies were shot and wounded at a Walmart in the town of Port Orchard.",
"And officers in two locations -- Indianapolis, Indiana, and Lincoln City, Oregon -- were critically injured Sunday after being shot during traffic stops.",
"CNN's Dave Alsup and Mike Ahlers contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Police identify Hydra Lacy Jr., 39, as the man who killed two police officers .",
"St. Petersburg officers Jeffrey Yaslowitz and Tom Baitinger are killed .",
"Police used a backhoe to tear down a house and find the wanted Lacy .",
"A third officer, a U.S. marshal, was also shot but is \"doing well\""
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"(CNN) -- Sudan's president was seen smiling, dancing and speaking to a huge crowd of supporters Thursday, a day after a warrant was issued for his arrest on war crimes charges.",
"Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir waves to supporters in Khartoum on Wednesday.",
"The display of defiance came as international aid agencies were being ordered to leave the country in retaliation for the move by the International Criminal Court over six years of bloodshed in the country's Darfur region.",
"The streets of the capital, Khartoum, were filled with people who raised their hands in the air to cheer President Omar al-Bashir, who raised both fists defiantly in the air.",
"The crowd was filled with posters and banners featuring al-Bashir's face or the flag of Sudan.",
"The one banner written in English read, \"We are all with al-Bashir.\"",
"Al-Bashir gave a fervent speech to the crowd, denouncing the United States, its Western allies and Israel.",
"At one point, the crowd repeated in English, \"Down, down, USA!\"",
"Music before and after the speech got everyone moving, including the president, who smiled broadly and raised his walking stick in the air.",
"A camouflaged helicopter swooped over the crowd.",
"Angry but peaceful demonstrations took place in cities throughout Sudan on Wednesday after the warrant was announced, according to the United Nations.",
"Government air and ground forces conducted what the United Nations called a \"show of force\" in parts of Darfur, where the situation was \"calm but unpredictable.\"",
"The International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands, issued the warrant Wednesday for war crimes and crimes against humanity.",
"It accuses al-Bashir of complicity in a campaign of violence against the people of Darfur, in the west of the country.",
"The United Nations estimates that 300,000 people have been killed in the conflict in western Sudan's Darfur region, and 2.5 million have been forced to flee their homes.",
"Sudan has angrily rejected the accusations and the indictment.",
"Kamal Obaid, Sudan's state minister of information and communications, called the ICC a \"white man's tribunal\" and the arrest warrant \"an insult.\"",
"It has told as many as 10 humanitarian groups to leave the country, and seized the agencies' assets, U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said."
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"Streets of Khartoum filled with cheering crowds .",
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"(CNN) -- A tug-of-war over the body of a former Venezuelan president was avoided Wednesday night when feuding sides of Carlos Andres Perez's family agreed for him to be buried in his homeland.",
"In a statement, Perez's longtime partner, Cecilias Matos, said her family would not stand in the way of a Venezuelan final resting place for the ex-president.",
"Perez, 88, died Saturday in Miami, Florida.",
"Matos planned to have him buried there.",
"Perez's wife in Venezuela, from whom he was long separated but apparently never divorced, had requested that Perez's body be sent to Venezuela.",
"Earlier this week, a Florida judge signed a preliminary injunction blocking any burial until the matter was settled.",
"Blanca Perez, the former president's wife in Venezuela, asked for the injunction.",
"\"At the present time in Venezuela, love should be lavished to it and its great men,\" the Matos family said in the statement.",
"\"Repatriating him is a way of giving (Perez) tribute, so neither Cecilia Matos nor her daughters, Maria Francia and Cecilia Victoria, will become an obstacle.\"",
"The statement continued, \"The Perez Matos family is absolutely convinced that Carlos Andres Perez belongs now to Venezuela, and all the Venezuelan people.\"",
"Perez, 88, served two terms as president of the South American country, the first from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993.",
"During his final term, he survived a coup attempt led by Hugo Chavez, who spent two years in prison but later amassed support among millions of poor people angry about corruption and became Venezuela's president.",
"Perez's second stint in power was marred by \"El Caracazo,\" a string of protests and riots against an economic package that the president had introduced.",
"More than 200 people died in the violence.",
"Perez was impeached on corruption charges in 1993, several months before his term was to end."
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"Carlos Andres Perez died Saturday in Miami, Florida, at age 88 .",
"His longtime partner wanted him buried in the United States .",
"His estranged wife in Venezuela wanted his body sent back to Venezuela .",
"A Florida judge had blocked any burial until the matter was settled ."
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"(CNN) -- Nigerian militants threatened to end their cease-fire not long after it began Wednesday because they claimed the government was threatening one of their camps.",
"Before the cease-fire, MEND destroyed oil pipelines in Lagos during a night raid on Monday.",
"The militant group MEND said seven military joint task force gun boats with heavily armed troops were headed toward a camp near the border of the coastal states of Delta and Ondo.",
"\"If this information from a very reliable source within the JTF happens to be true, the cease-fire will be called off with immediate effect,\" the group's spokesman, Jomo Gbomo, said in a statement.",
"\"We are monitoring the armada and sincerely hope that the planned attack will be converted to a war exercise.\"",
"There was no immediate response from the military to the threat to end the cease-fire.",
"Watch why the militants may end cease-fire » .",
"MEND declared a 60-day truce earlier in the day following this week's release of its leader as part of an amnesty deal with the government.",
"The response from Nigeria's military was positive, but muted.",
"\"It's a welcome development, but we are continuing to do our normal assignment of maintaining law and order,\" said Col. Rabe Abubakar, a spokesman for Nigeria's military.",
"MEND leader Henry Okah, who had been the group's main arms smuggler, was arrested in September 2007 in the Angolan capital, Luanda.",
"He was later extradited to Nigeria and was in prison until Monday.",
"The cease-fire put on hold MEND's \"all-out war\" on the government.",
"The group is demanding a fairer distribution of oil wealth in the Niger Delta.",
"It wants oil revenue reinvested in the region, instead of enriching those whom the militants consider corrupt politicians.",
"Many of MEND's attacks have been aimed at oil and gas installations in the region.",
"Okah's release had been a key demand of MEND before it would accept any government amnesty offer.",
"MEND's statement said the group will put together a team of \"wise men and women\" to \"convey our demands to government.\"",
"\"A compulsory prelude to talks is the withdrawal of the military joint task forces from the Gbaramatu communities and the return of all the displaced persons back to their various homes,\" Gbomo said.",
"\"Hopefully, the cease-fire period will create an enabling environment for progressive dialogue.\"",
"The militants have claimed attacks in recent years on oil platforms, chemical tankers, and oil pipelines.",
"They have also kidnapped oil company workers.",
"The repeated attacks have disrupted oil companies' operations in Nigeria, severely disrupting production and causing prices to climb.",
"Covering 46,500 square miles (75,000 square km), the oil-producing region of the Niger Delta is about the same size as the Czech Republic or the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).",
"An area of rich biological diversity, the region contains the world's third-largest wetland with the most extensive freshwater swamp forest, according to the UNDP.",
"More than half the area contains creeks and small islands, while the rest is rainforest, the UNDP says.",
"At the same time, the Niger Delta produces the oil wealth that accounts for the bulk of Nigeria's foreign earnings, the UNDP says.",
"CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report ."
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"Nigerian militants threaten to end a cease-fire not long after it began .",
"Rebels claim government is threatening one of their camps .",
"Cease-fire put on hold MEND's \"all-out war\" on the government .",
"The group is demanding a fairer distribution of oil wealth in the Niger Delta ."
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"(CNN) -- Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Thursday demanded that his ministers of the interior and defense get to the bottom of how a jailed top rebel leader escaped in the northeastern city of Arauca, Colombia.",
"Colombian President Alvaro Uribe wants answers after a top ELN rebel was freed from prison.",
"Gustavo Anibal Giraldo Quinchia, also known by his alias, \"Pablito,\" was freed Wednesday morning when a group of gunmen presumed to be rebels attacked a convoy transporting the prisoner to a court hearing.",
"One guard was killed and another was injured in the incident.",
"Giraldo is a high-ranking leader of the National Liberation Army, or ELN by its Spanish initials, who opposed peace talks with the Colombian government.",
"He was arrested in January 2008.",
"Uribe, who has held a strong stance against leftist rebel groups in his country, had strong words about the incident.",
"\"There is no explanation for this escape,\" Uribe told reporters.",
"\"There are signs of corruption around this that are very troubling.\"",
"The president questioned why Giraldo was transferred from the capital of Bogota to the outpost to Arauca on the border with Venezuela.",
"The security at Arauca was weak, and somehow Giraldo's rescuers knew where and when to find him, Uribe said.",
"\"We gain nothing from increased security if there is corruption in that security, like this corruption that permitted the escape of this prisoner in Arauca,\" Uribe said.",
"The rebel is believed to have fled to Venezuela, and the president has asked the neighboring country for help finding him, Uribe said.",
"The request comes during a period of tension between Colombia and Venezuela, in part because of Colombian claims that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has aided the rebel groups.",
"In remarks Thursday, Fabio Valencia Cossio, Colombia's minister of the interior and justice, said that he ordered a new staff to run the Arauca prison.",
"The prison's current director and all 30 guards will be transferred to other posts while an investigation into the escape is underway, he said.",
"Giraldo commanded roughly half the force of the ELN, according to the Colombian government.",
"Formed in the early 1960s, the ELN is the second-largest insurgent force in Colombia, behind the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.",
"The ELN is among several parties to a long-running war that involves leftist rebels, right-wing paramilitary forces, the Colombian government and drug traffickers."
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"President Alvaro Uribe cites corruption in Colombian rebel's escape .",
"Gustavo Anibal Giraldo Quinchia is member of National Liberation Army .",
"Giraldo is believed to have fled to Venezuela ."
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"Consumers today have more power than ever before.",
"The large and diverse selection of media available on newsstands means that customers know what they should be getting, and if they aren't satisfied with the service there's a host of Web sites and forums on which they can let everyone know.",
"Marriott's TownePlace suite .",
"In response, organizations are seeking ever more innovative ways of understanding their customers' needs, and are even turning to anthropologists and sociologists to help them.",
"\"Whereas before a lot of services were designed from the inside out, now, because consumers are so much more empowered, they are having to think about designing from the outside in,\" says Fran Samalionis, global practice leader for service design and innovation at IDEO.",
"\"They have to think much more about the customer experience and then figure out how to make sense of that for the business.\"",
"IDEO, a global design firm, is already well-known for designing the first mouse, for Apple, and the first notebook computer, for GriD, but the company is also causing a stir with its innovative approach to design conception, where the wishes and observations of the consumer hold powerful sway.",
"While it employs what one would call \"conventional\" designers, IDEO also uses what it terms a \"human factor\" team -- people trained in anthropology, sociology and political sciences -- who shadow consumers, observe their everyday habits and relationship with a product, and even give them cameras to record photo journals, in a bid to understand what is really needed for a product to push through the barrier and provide true satisfaction for its customer base.",
"A case in point is Marriott's TownePlace Suites.",
"The hotel chain approached IDEO for ideas about how to launch an extended-stay brand.",
"IDEO followed guests and employees around, monitoring their habits and probing them with questions about every aspect of their experience at Marriott's hotels.",
"Their conversations taught them that extended-stay guests were mainly on the road because of work commitments; they were away from home through necessity rather than choice and therefore wanted an experience from a hotel that was closer to what they were accustomed to at home -- a \"home from home.\"",
"IDEO recommended that Marriott install a \"map wall\" in the lobby, with recommendations from fellow guests, such as where to find the best coffee shop or restaurant and where to go jogging in the local area.",
"But they also found that while guests were looking for familiar home comforts, they were also there to work.",
"With that in mind, they drew up prototypes for guest rooms that more closely resemble live/work areas, with an office incorporated into the layout of the bedroom.",
"Market research is not a new concept.",
"Organizations have been bringing their potential customers together for decades to understand what they want from their services.",
"But Samalionis argues that it is by sending its cohorts into the field to observe customers in their natural environments that IDEO gains the real insights and results.",
"She says that while some customers might struggle to articulate their needs -- or even fully comprehend what they are looking for in the first place -- simply by looking at their daily routines IDEO's researchers can gain significant understanding of what can be done to improve customers' relationships with a particular product or service.",
"Such was the case when IDEO worked with Bank of America to develop a new credit card.",
"The card was targeted at young mothers and IDEO's observation team set about following a selection of moms around as they went about their daily business: taking their children to school, shopping, even balancing their checkbooks.",
"They discovered that many people round up their transactions to the nearest whole number for speed and convenience.",
"At the same time, many of the moms were struggling with the discipline of saving, even though they wanted to.",
"The solution IDEO came up with was to introduce a credit card, \"Keep The Change,\" which would instantly transfer the amount customers would usually round up into a separate savings account.",
"Samalionis argues that this is an excellent example of where in-field research ultimately inspired an idea that could be transposed to a real-world scheme.",
"\"Just by being able to be with them, empathize with them and observe them you get to see the stuff they can't tell you,\" she explains.",
"\"We saw all these habits about putting pennies in jars and rounding things up in checkbooks.",
"If you had asked somebody, they would say they just wanted to save money.\"",
"All this could be interpreted as just a glossy way of rehashing a construct that has already existed within marketing and design for years -- the market research questionnaire.",
"But Samalionis argues that the human-centered approach is just one cog in their approach to problem-solving; trained designers, engineers, business heads and the client must also have their input.",
"\"It's not enough going out into the world and coming up with a point of view about that world,\" she says.",
"\"You need to make those insights actionable.",
"Really, the magic dust in the process is in synthesizing all those perspectives into something that can help you generate amazing ideas.\"",
"Ultimately, the effectiveness of an approach can be best measured by its financial returns.",
"Bank of America's \"Keep The Change\" credit card scheme generated 2.5 million new, and presumably happy, customers.",
"This willingness by designers to open themselves up to public consultation is becoming increasingly popular.",
"In England, Bath's Theatre Royal took opinions into consideration from a panel of local schoolchildren when designing their new children's theatre, The Egg.",
"A panel of nine- to eighteen-year-olds even had a say in the choice of architect and the menu for the cafe.",
"Innovations derived from the consultation include knee-high glass panels on the doors so that smaller theater-goers can see where they are going and a sound-proofed room so that parents with crying babies can sit and watch the show without disturbing the rest of the audience.",
"In Italy, car maker Fiat opened itself up for suggestions from the public during the design of its relaunched Fiat 500.",
"Under the project title \"500 Wants You,\" the hitherto inward-looking manufacturer invited ordinary people to submit ideas for designs on its Web site.",
"IDEO, and other design firms like it, are changing the way large organizations interact with their customers.",
"They are learning about new ways to keep consumers satisfied, and boosting their bank balances in the process.",
"But in the end it's the consumer who is profiting the most from this new approach."
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"Global firm IDEO studies customer behavior to influence designs .",
"Hotel chain Marriott devised \"home-from-home\" suites for extended-stay guests .",
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"London (CNN) -- British-based satellite channel Sky Sports have sacked their top soccer pundit after he made sexist remarks about a female match official while working on a broadcast of an English Premier League game.",
"Andy Gray, a former Scotland and Everton striker, made the comments about assistant referee Sian Massey prior to a match between Wolves and Liverpool on Saturday, not realizing his microphone was being recorded.",
"Gray, 55, said \"women don't understand the offside rule,\" while his colleague, presenter Richard Keys, said the game had \"gone mad.\"",
"The pair were suspended by Sky Sports on Monday, but on Tuesday it was confirmed Gray had been axed after new evidence of sexist behavior relating to an incident in December was released by the channel.",
"A statement read: \"Sky Sports today terminated its contract with Andy Gray.",
"The decision, which is effective immediately, was made in response to new evidence of unacceptable and offensive behavior.",
"\"The new evidence, relating to an off-air incident that took place in December 2010, came to light after Andy Gray had already been subjected to disciplinary action for his comments of 22 January 2011.\"",
"Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports, said: \"Andy Gray's contract has been terminated for unacceptable behavior.",
"After issuing a warning yesterday, we have no hesitation in taking this action after becoming aware of new information today.\"",
"Sky Sports reporter Andy Burton, who joked to Gray that Massey was \"a bit of a looker\" prior to the match has also been suspended.",
"Keys subsequently telephoned Massey, who accepted the presenter's apology.",
"During the game, Massey made the correct call when she allowed Liverpool's opening goal in their 3-0 victory to stand, judging a player had been onside.",
"The 25-year-old was due to officiate an English third division match on Tuesday night but was withdrawn by the Professional Games Match Officials.",
"A statement read: \"Sian is an excellent professional who has unwittingly found herself in the middle of a story that has nothing to do with her competence as a match official.",
"\"Sian only wants to be notable for her performance as an assistant referee and is keen for things to get back to normal so she can return to officiating as soon as possible.\"",
"Prior to Saturday's game, Massey has been an assistant referee at international matches -- the highest level of the sport -- since 2009, world soccer's governing body FIFA says.",
"England's Football Association (FA) said it was \"proud to have some of the world's best match officials, both male and female.\"",
"More than 800 women are qualified to be referees in England, the FA added, saying \"all of our female match officials act as fantastic ambassadors for the game.\"",
"Of the major European footballing nations, Germany leads the way for registered female referees with 2,489, according to UEFA.",
"Italy is next with 1,453 and England third with 853.",
"But no female referee has ever taken charge of a top-flight match in the English Premier League, Italy's Serie A, the German Bundesliga or Spain's La Liga, their roles restricted to assistant referee status.",
"Keys also made critical remarks about Karren Brady, the vice-chairman of EPL side West Ham, who had complained about sexism in a Saturday newspaper.",
"\"See charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism?",
"Yeah. \"Do me a favor, love,\" he added."
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"NEW: Sky Sports soccer pundit Andy Gray has been sacked by the broadcaster .",
"Gray and colleague Richard Keys made sexist remarks about a female assistant referee .",
"The pair didn't know their microphones were live .",
"Presenter Keys has been suspended along with another reporter ."
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suicide attack at the offices of the World Food Program in Islamabad killed five employees and wounded several others Monday, an agency official said.",
"Pakistani police commandos stand in front of a U.N. office after a suicide blast in Islamabad on Monday.",
"Four Pakistanis and an Iraqi national died at the U.N. humanitarian agency, according to authorities.",
"The suicide bomber, who also died in the attack, was in his 20s and wore a vest containing about 15 pounds (7 kg) of explosives, said Ben Yamin, a senior Pakistani police official.",
"The explosion took place in a storage area at the offices.",
"It was not immediately known how the bomber gained access.",
"\"The World Food Program's offices here in Islamabad are in a very sensitive and fortified area,\" CNN's Reza Sayah reported.",
"Watch witnesses describe the attack » .",
"\"The building itself is surrounded by massive blast-proof walls and, not only does the compound have a gated entrance, the street that leads to the compound is also gated.\"",
"Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi said public opinion is turning against the attackers.",
"\"Today when people see that there are innocent people dying, when they see all the major urban centers of Pakistan being hit, when they see that the economy of Pakistan has suffered, and job creation and investment have been compromised because of these extremists, I think the public opinion has changed,\" he said in a speech at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston, Texas.",
"\"There is almost a consensus in Pakistan that our immediate priority is to take the terrorists on and to fight this.\"",
"The neighborhood is home to at least one other U.N. office, as well as the residence of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.",
"Officials identified the dead as Mohammed Wahab, finance assistant; Abid Rehman, senior finance assistant; Gulrukh Tahir, receptionist; Farzana Barkat, office assistant; and Iraqi national Botan Ahmed Ali Al-Hayawi, information and communication technology officer."
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"(CNN) -- Historians believe they have found a World War II-era mass grave containing the bodies of 220 disabled people killed by Nazis in Austria, they announced this week.",
"The discovery was made by searching files from a mental hospital in the town of Hall, Austria, according to the company that currently runs the institution.",
"The company believes the remains are those of people murdered under a Nazi euthanasia program designed to eliminate \"undesirables.\"",
"Tilak, the company running the hospital, says a group of historians led by Oliver Seifert found a map with the outlines of a former cemetery.",
"\"Thanks to the map we know the approximate position of the cemetery and also the number of graves.",
"Right now we believe that 220 people are buried there,\" a Tilak statement quotes Seifert as saying.",
"Tilak says it plans to exhume the victims starting in March.",
"\"Tilak sees it as our moral duty to the relatives of those killed to completely clarify the history of the mental institution's graveyard,\" the press release says.",
"The Nazis annexed Austria in 1938 after their leader, Adolf Hitler, came to power in Germany in 1933.",
"The regime systematically murdered about 6 million Jews, as well as millions of other people including Roma (Gypsies), disabled people, homosexuals, political prisoners and others they considered less than human."
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"The remains of 220 disabled people are thought to be buried in the Austrian graveyard .",
"Historians think the people were killed by Nazis trying to eliminate \"undesirables\"\nA map of the graves was found by historians studying hospital records .",
"The company that runs the hospital plans to exhume them starting in March ."
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"London (CNN) -- Drug smugglers are using ever more creative methods to hide their stashes, including tucking them inside yams, peanuts and birthday cards, a new list reveals.",
"The list -- released by the UK Border Agency -- rounds up last year's most unusual drug concealments.",
"Details of the smuggling scams are used to raise awareness on drug traffickers' ploys and the penalties that follow.",
"\"These smuggling attempts show the lengths that organized criminals will go to in a bid to get drugs into the UK,\" said Brodie Clark, chief of Border Force.",
"In March, authorities nabbed a suspect with cocaine concealed in packets of peanuts and cashew nuts.",
"The freight at Gatwick Airport had been sent from Jamaica.",
"A 50-year-old man pleaded guilty to drug smuggling and was sent to prison for seven years.",
"In another case, cocaine was found in metal drums containing powdered nuts at Heathrow Airport.",
"It had originated in Mexico and was destined for Melbourne, Australia.",
"In a joint operation with their Australian counterparts, UK police sent a dummy shipment to the address, and police nabbed five men who opened the drums.",
"Famous names were dragged into the scams as well.",
"Drug smugglers tried to conceal cannabis in a painting of former Arsenal player Emmanuel Adebayor.",
"The wooden frame of the soccer star originated from his native Togo and was destined for an address in Tottenham -- close to the team's north London rival by the same name.",
"Investigations are ongoing.",
"In August, authorities seized yams concealed with drugs aboard a freight flight at Kent International Airport in Manston.",
"The food, which had been cut open to stash the drugs and glued back together, originated from Ghana.",
"Other hiding places include drugs scatterered inside air spaces of glass ornaments shaped like love hearts, chickens and miniature bottles.",
"Origin? Peru. Destination? Bristol. The list goes on and on. Officials intercepted a man who had strapped blocks of heroin onto his body; a suspect who had hidden drugs on a birthday card and two others who had swallowed packs of drugs.",
"Authorities said they use various ways to catch smugglers, including sniffer dogs, X-ray machines, intelligence and scans on passengers' baggage.",
"\"Criminals are prepared to invest large sums of money to come up with ever better concealment methods because they know the potential profits from the awful trade in harmful drugs are considerable,\" Clark said.",
"\"However, the smugglers are no match for the skill of our officers and the state-of-the-art technology at their disposal.\""
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"List from UK Border Agency rounds up last year's most unusual drug concealments .",
"They include cocaine concealed in packets of peanuts, cashew nuts .",
"Smugglers also try to conceal cannabis in painting of football star ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli bulldozers demolished part of a hotel in East Jerusalem on Sunday, prompting swift condemnation from Palestinians.",
"The building plan, which was given final approval last year, was met with disapproval from the United States at the time which called for the Israeli government to put off any demolition.",
"Israel demolished part of the hotel as part of a plan to build 20 housing units for Jews in a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood of East Jerusalem.",
"The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erakat, denounced the action.",
"\"The state of Israel is demolishing one Palestinian property after another in an effort to cleanse Jerusalem of its Palestinian inhabitants, heritage and history,\" he said in a statement.",
"He said such actions \"undermine the two-state solution and negotiations process.\"",
"The United States had called on Israel to halt the housing project, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by saying \"our sovereignty (over Jerusalem) cannot be challenged\".",
"The project was given final approval last March.",
"The Shepherd Hotel was built in the 1930s by a prominent Palestinian family and was purchased from the state of Israel in 1985 by American millionaire Irving Moskowitz , an avid supporter of Jewish building in East Jerusalem.",
"Moskowitz developed plans for the 20 housing units that sparked the hotel's demolition on Sunday."
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"Israeli bulldozes demolishes part of a hotel in part of East Jerusalem .",
"Plans to demolish the hotel caused a rift between the U.S. and Israel .",
"Palestinians denounce the action while Israel has defended it ."
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"(CNN) -- An Arkansas supermarket reversed its decision Wednesday to hide a magazine cover showing Elton John and his same-sex partner David Furnish holding their new baby.",
"The shield placed over the current issue of Us Weekly read \"Family shield to protect young Harps shoppers.\"",
"The Arkansas-based grocery chain lets managers at its 65 stores decide when customers complain if the shield is needed, but it is usually for photos that are \"sexually provocative or too revealing,\" Harps Food Stores President Kim Eskew said.",
"Complaints poured into the chain's headquarters this week after photos of the shielded magazine spread across internet blogs and news websites.",
"\"When we began receiving complaints at our corporate office, we reviewed the magazine in question, removed the shield and are selling the magazine in all our locations today without any cover,\" Eskew said Wednesday.",
"\"Our true intention is not to offend anyone in our stores and this incident happened at just one of our 65 locations, which, when brought to our attention, we reversed.\"",
"Us Weekly West Coast Bureau Chief Melanie Bromley, who wrote the cover story, said the issue has been a good seller for her magazine.",
"\"It's been very compelling for them (readers) and people have really felt the emotion with them (John and Furnish),\" Bromley said.",
"\"So people have wanted to read about it and see the first pictures of little Zachary.\"",
"Bromley's seen no complaints from readers about having a gay couple with a baby on the magazine's cover.",
"\"As far as I'm aware there was no negative feedback at all,\" she said.",
"\"I had not one email of any negative message at all.",
"The only kind of feedback I got was positive, that people are so happy for them.\"",
"People Magazine put another same-sex couple with their newborns on front of its January 10, 2011 issue.",
"But the photo of Neil Patrick Harris and partner David Burtka with their twins was only a small image on the margin of the cover.",
"When People featured photos of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi when they married in 2008, it was one of the magazine's best-selling issues that year, a spokeswoman said.",
"CNN's JD Cargill and Brittany Kaplan contributed to this report."
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"The Arkansas food store covered up Us Weekly magazine .",
"The Us Weekly cover shows Elton John, his same-sex partner and their new baby .",
"The shield was removed after complaints to the food chain's headquarters ."
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"(CNN) -- Bayern Munich's Luca Toni has returned to Serie A football on a six-month loan with AS Roma, confirmed on Thursday.",
"The 32-year-old Toni is out of favor at the German giants after falling out with coach Louis van Gaal and is desperate for first team football to further his claims for a place in the Italy side at the 2010 World Cup finals.",
"Toni was one of the star's of Italy's winning team in 2006 and moved to Bayern from Fiorentina the following year.",
"The club's official Web site www.fcbayern.de confirmed a move which had been widely predicted.",
"\"In a discussion Luca Toni asked the board of Bayern Munich to loan him out to Roma until the end of the season for personal reasons,\" read a statement.",
"\"He wants, through regular games in Serie A, to still realize his main goal of taking part in the 2010 World Cup with the Italian national team.\"",
"Toni has not played for his national side since their poor showing in the Confererations Cup in South Africa in June.",
"The Italian club said in a statement that Toni will be with them until June 30, subject to passing a medical test.",
"Toni helped Bayern to a league and cup double in his first full season, but since the arrival of Dutch coach Van Gaal has slipped down the pecking order and played just three Bundesliga games this season.",
"He was fined by the club in November for leaving the stadium at halftime after being substituted in their disappointing 1-1 home draw with title contenders Schalke.",
"Toni has interested other clubs in Italy and England, but set his heart on going to the capital club to impress Italy coach Marcello Lippi."
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"Bayern Munich striker Luca Toni to move to AS Roma on six-month loan deal .",
"Both clubs confirm move which is subject to a medical on the 32-year Italy star .",
"Toni wants to play regular first team football to improve his chances of making the 2010 World Cup finals .",
"Toni fell out with Bayern coach Louis Van Gaal and has played just three league games this season ."
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"(CNN) -- Bayern Munich's France international midfielder Franck Ribery has suffered another injury setback in his battle to return to first team action.",
"Ribery played a part in just six Bundesliga matches during the first half of the 2009-10 season, lasting the whole 90 minutes only once due to a string of injuries.",
"His knee and toe caused the most frequent problems and it is the latter which has forced him to miss the first session of Bayern's winter training camp in Dubai.",
"Bayern coach Louis van Gaal told the club's official Web site: \"It is practically incredible and very bitter for the coach and the team.",
"\"But we cannot change it. We hope that the medical department works hard and he returns as quickly as possible.\"",
"Ribery had joined the rest of his team-mates for a jog around Munich on Sunday before the flight to the United Arab Emirates, but upon arrival in Dubai both of his big toes were swollen.",
"Holes were drilled into the toenails to release an accumulation of blood and relieve the pain in a bid to get the 26-year-old back on his feet as soon as possible.",
"Meanwhile, Bayern are looking to trim their squad, despite four players leaving the Bavarian giants during the winter break.",
"Bayern have offloaded Luca Toni to Roma, Andreas Ottl and Breno to Nuremberg and Alexander Baumjohann to Schalke, but director of sport Christian Nerlinger claims that is just the tip of the iceberg.",
"\"We are going to try to reduce the wagebill futher,\" he told Kicker magazine.",
"\"The wages have gone through the roof and therefore we have got to get our message through to the players that a new contract does not necessarily mean a pay rise.\"",
"Toni was Bayern's biggest earner alongside Ribery, whose future is already the focus of intense transfer speculation and who, given the implied cost-cutting measures, now seems even less likely to commit himself to a new contract.",
"Bayern president Uli Hoeness has already revealed the Frenchman will be sold in the summer if he does not extend his contract beyond 2011, although an exception still may be made to Bayern's wage structure to keep hold of the 26-year-old.",
"\"Every case has to be dealt with individually and according to the market,\" added Nerlinger.",
"However, after spending almost 80 million euros on new players last summer, Nerlinger insists his club has \"reached the limit\" as far as signing new players is concerned."
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"Bayern Munich's France international midfielder Franck Ribery has suffered another injury setback .",
"Ribery played a part in just six Bundesliga matches during the first half of the 2009-10 season .",
"The 26-year-old had to have his big toes operated on after they swelled up on a flight to Dubai ."
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"(CNN) -- Werder Bremen coach Thomas Schaaf, 48, has signed a two-year contract extension tying him to the club until 2012.",
"Bremen have emerged as genuine contenders for the Bundesliga title this season, lying four points off leaders Bayer Leverkusen.",
"Last season, Werder won the German Cup and reached the UEFA Cup final, where they lost to Shakhtar Donetsk.",
"General manager Klaus Allofs told the club's official Web site: \"We are very happy that we can make it known before the turn of the year that we are continuing our work together.",
"\"We have always stressed in the past weeks that this is our most important personnel detail.",
"\"This shows the high regard that Thomas enjoys with us.",
"He has proved over many years that, with his ability to improve teams and players, he is an important part of our success.\"",
"Schaaf, who has been coach at Werder since 1999 and led them to the league and cup double in 2004, said: \"Our common goal is to move forward successfully.",
"\"I see Werder continues to have an interesting team to be able to pursue our goals.",
"Therefore, it was not hard to accept the new challenges,\" he added.",
"Bremen have coped well with the loss of Brazilian attacking midfielder Diego, who moved to Juventus this summer, with German youngsters like Mesut Ozil and Aaron Hunt taking on more prominent roles.",
"They went down 2-0 at home to title rivals Schalke last weekend, their first defeat since the opening day of the season."
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"Werder Bremen coach Thomas Schaaf has signed a two-year contract extension .",
"The new contract ties the 48-year-old to the Bundesliga club until 2012 .",
"Werder are genuine contenders for the title, lying four points off leaders Bayer Leverkusen ."
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"(CNN) -- An embattled Nevada councilwoman e-mailed a friend about items intended for her mother and called police shortly before they found her and her husband dead in an apparent murder-suicide, police in Mesquite said Wednesday.",
"\"Detectives were advised that Bill Fairchild was the victim of a homicide-suicide.",
"The crime scene and autopsy were consistent that Bill was deceased approximately an hour before Donna,\" said Chief Douglas L. Law in a statement after the autopsy.",
"Each of the Fairchilds suffered a single gunshot wound.",
"The bodies were found Tuesday morning, hours before Donna Fairchild was to attend a City Council meeting and face possible sanctions over a travel expense voucher and public comments.",
"A neighbor told CNN on Wednesday she had lunch with Donna Fairchild on Monday and was the recipient of a box left by the councilwoman, apparently on the morning of the shootings.",
"According to police, Donna Fairchild contacted City Attorney Cheryl Truman Hunt around 8:30 p.m. Monday to discuss an opportunity to meet with the mayor and council in order to tender her resignation before the meeting.",
"The city attorney at 10 p.m. confirmed with Fairchild a Tuesday afternoon meeting with the mayor and council.",
"At a news conference, police in this city along Interstate 15 near the Arizona border provided a timeline of the events that led to the shooting deaths.",
"Sometime late Monday or early Tuesday, Donna Fairchild dropped off a box at the friend's house, Law said.",
"\"At 4:20 a.m., an email was sent by Donna to a friend to say she left a note with a box on her friend's porch to be sent to Donna's mother,\" the statement said.",
"\"At 4:33 a.m., Police Dispatch received a 911 call from Donna Fairchild which gave her address, said her door was unlocked and that she would be 'post-suicide.'",
"\" \"At 4:35 a.m., officers and detectives arrived on scene and located Donna and Bill Fairchild in the back bedroom and found each with a single gunshot wound.",
"Both were deceased.\" Toxicology tests conducted by the Clark County Coroner's Office were expected to take four to six weeks, according to the city.",
"The city released the audio of the 911 call, in which Donna Fairchild gave the address, said the couple was in the bedroom, the front door was unlocked and \"I am post-suicide.\"",
"The police dispatcher said, \"And what's going on there?\"",
"There was no audible response.",
"Melanie Giarratana said she had known the Fairchilds for about 10 years and enjoyed a lunch Monday with Donna Fairchild.",
"\"It was wonderful,\" said Giarratana, who has been active in local issues and economic development in this resort town that features golf resorts and casinos.",
"Donna Fairchild had told her she had made a mistake by filing a $94.60 mileage expense form for a trip city officials said she did not make, Giarratana said.",
"But the councilwoman said she never signed for the check.",
"Giarratana said she had no inkling of what was to occur the next morning.",
"Donna Fairchild forwarded her an e-mail joke around 8 p.m. Monday.",
"The councilwoman sent her another e-mail around 4:20 a.m. Tuesday about the box, but Giarratana did not see the e-mail until 7 a.m., when she found the package outside her home.",
"According to Giarratana, Donna Fairchild wrote her, \"I have left a box full of items for my Mom by your front door.",
"Please make sure she gets it!",
"I know this will never make sense.",
"I am sorry. Thank you for being my BFF.\" Bound in rubber bands, the box contained jewelry, cash and a note expressing apologies, Giarratana said.",
"Mesquite city spokesman Bryan Dangerfield said Tuesday that a note and a 9mm handgun were found at the scene.",
"\"The content of the note will not be disclosed until the investigation is complete,\" Dangerfield said.",
"City Manager Timothy Hacker said he believed that Donna Fairchild was concerned about the agenda items, according to CNN Las Vegas affiliate KLAS.",
"Fairchild, who was a candidate for mayor, told the Desert Valley Times last week that she would not comment on the allegations against her but instead would talk about them Tuesday evening.",
"Mayor Susan Holecheck and the city had planned to ask the City Council to consider sanctioning Fairchild through possible reprimand, removal from boards or expulsion for filing the $94.60 mileage reimbursement request with the city for a January 4 Nevada Development Authority board meeting she allegedly did not attend, according to an item on the council agenda.",
"Fairchild allegedly violated the city's code of conduct and its personnel policy, and she allegedly presented a fraudulent claim to a public officer, Hunt wrote in a January 18 memo.",
"Holecheck, who is seeking re-election, and Hunt also wanted the City Council to consider removing Fairchild as the city's representative to the Nevada Development Authority board of directors.",
"According to a filing on the agenda, comments Fairchild made about the authority in a newspaper article \"were negative towards this agency, and deemed incompatible with the mission of the agency and good working relations with other NDA board members.\"",
"A January 7 article of the Desert Valley Times includes interviews and comments from Mesquite mayoral candidates.",
"In the article, Fairchild said, \"We just got a bill from the Nevada Development Authority: It costs $7,500 to belong.",
"There was one thing that came out of the NDA, and that was Do It Best.",
"That was huge for the community, but I don't think we're getting the bang for our buck.\"",
"In the article, Fairchild said that Mesquite should be doing most of its own marketing.",
"NDA Executive Director Somer Hollingsworth wrote Holecheck that Fairchild -- who was the city's representative to the board since July 2009 -- should have brought her concerns to him, rather than airing them publicly, especially since she was a member of the NDA executive committee, according to an e-mail attached with the filing.",
"According to the agenda item, Fairchild could have discussed her issues with the NDA if she had attended the January 4 board meeting.",
"Donna Fairchild served on the City Council from 2001 to 2007 and was re-elected in 2009.",
"She moved to Mesquite with Bill Fairchild in 1999 after they both retired from the Denver Police Department, the city said.",
"In Mesquite, Bill Fairchild worked at a recreation center and was a member of the Virgin Valley Honor Guard and the Veterans of Foreign War.",
"The Fairchilds were married for 21 years, the city said.",
"\"They had an excellent marriage,\" Giarratana said.",
"The friend of the couple said she does not believe the issues with the city were enough to push Donna Fairchild over the edge.",
"\"I cannot figure out what happened between 8 p.m. and 4:20 a.m.,\" Giarratana said.",
"She said Donna Fairchild wanted to continue her mayoral campaign and deal with the issues, but Giarratana was unaware that the councilwoman had apparently planned to resign Tuesday.",
"\"The town is in total shock,\" Giarratana said.",
"\"The town is weeping.\"",
"CNN's Phil Gast contributed to this report."
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"KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The soldiers had barely arrived in Iraq before they got new orders -- get ready for Afghanistan.",
"A soldier waits in Baghdad for a flight to his new mission in Kandahar.",
"The 4th Engineer Battalion out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, deployed to Camp Victory near Baghdad in mid-February.",
"Two weeks after the unit began actually going out on operations in Iraq, it was ordered to redeploy to Kandahar in Afghanistan.",
"The soldiers hadn't even finished painting their emblem outside their tactical operations command when the move began.",
"But even as he walked through the stripped-down post, battalion commander Lt. Col. Kevin Landers could not hold back his excitement.",
"\"The president has asked our military and our country to shift the focus and bolster the effort in Afghanistan, and we are really spearheading some of that effort, so of course there is some excitement here,\" he said outside a building being cleared out.",
"The move put a strain on this battalion, which specializes in route clearance, or finding and destroying land mines and bombs on roads to make them safe for travel.",
"Watch soldiers leave Iraq, arrive in Afghanistan » .",
"\"Yes, it is hard work,\" said Pfc.",
"Kimble Han, sweat pouring down his face as he pulled out a sandbag foundation for a tent he and colleagues had put out only weeks before.",
"\"But I believe we have trained well and are prepared for the new mission in Afghanistan.\"",
"The battlefield in Afghanistan is very different than Iraq.",
"\"In Iraq you are looking at more close-quarters combat in an urban environment, but in Afghanistan the area is only sparsely populated and we are looking at much more of a linear battlefield,\" said Lt. Matthew Fitzgibbon.",
"That means the soldiers will probably be engaged in longer distance firefights while on their patrols and their training in Baghdad before the deployment mirrored that.",
"The troops spent extra hours on the shooting range, recalibrating their weapons and testing different optics.",
"\"No matter who the enemy is, we will bring a bigger fight,\" one soldier said loading his weapon.",
"As the United States shifts its focus from Iraq to Afghanistan, the military has deemed route clearance so important to the operations in the Kandahar area that it is airlifting the entire battalion to the new battlefield.",
"The move poses huge logistical challenges to the Army and especially the Air Force.",
"Between 50 and 70 gigantic C-17 cargo planes are necessary to transport dozens of heavy armored mine-resistant vehicles, containers and pallets -- all this as the Air Force's capabilities are strained due to regular combat operations.",
"Many flights are delayed, canceled, rescheduled and then canceled again.",
"Lt. William Hutaff, one of the first soldiers to leave for Afghanistan as part of an advance party, had his flight delayed several times and waited almost two days before he could board one of the cargo planes.",
"\"Yeah, there's been a lot of waiting,\" he said from a seat in the hull of the plane, facing his mine-resistant vehicle that was shipping out too.",
"\"We are glad we are finally going and we hope someone will be there to pick us up.\"",
"None of the soldiers with whom CNN traveled to Afghanistan knew what to expect when they hit the ground in Kandahar.",
"The bases in Iraq have been developed over the past six years since the United States led the invasion and offer amenities from shopping facilities to coffee shops.",
"In Iraq, the soldiers stayed in solid trailers.",
"In Afghanistan, they would be living in tents.",
"But none of that seemed on the soldiers' minds as the plane took off from Baghdad International Airport for the four-hour flight to Afghanistan, and many of them went to sleep shortly after takeoff or listened to music on their iPods in the dark and loud hull of the giant plane.",
"The terrain the jet was flying over changed from the Iraqi desert to the more rugged hills of southern Afghanistan before the crew of the C-17 crew performed a combat landing into Kandahar International Airport.",
"Leaving the aircraft, the soldiers said they were tired and looking to get into their new housing units.",
"\"We want to get our vehicle unloaded and then get settled in,\" Hutaff said.",
"Getting settled in meant sleeping in cots in a tent designed to house more than 100 people, but the base itself proved more developed than many had thought, with a basketball court and even an hockey rink built by the Canadian contingent stationed there.",
"But the compound assigned to the battalion proved to be a lot worse for wear than the troops expected.",
"Years ago it had been home to Polish troops, but now the buildings were withering away in the sun.",
"The engineers spent their first days tearing down some structures with bulldozers and ripping the interiors out of others.",
"\"There is still a lot of work to be done here,\" said Fitzgibbon.",
"\"right now our motor pool, the place we're supposed to park our vehicles, is a lake.\""
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"Redeployment put strain on battalion, trained to clear mines and bombs from roads .",
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"Soldiers say they are ready for the new mission in the new battlefield ."
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"(CNN) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits the Palestinian territories on a \"historic\" trip Tuesday as part of his Middle East tour.",
"Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas welcomes him in Jericho in the West Bank, where the two are expected to hold a joint press conference.",
"Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat called Medvedev's trip a \"historic state visit\" adding that \"the message to the world is that the Palestinians are ready for statehood and independence.\"",
"The Palestinian and Russian presidents will sign three agreements in agriculture, sports and communications.",
"Medvedev will then inaugurate a new Russian art museum in Jericho.",
"\"It's a beautiful addition\" to the city, Erakat told CNN.",
"Erakat sees this visit as an important step towards achieving Palestinian independence, he said.",
"\"This is our message to the world: Look at us.",
"We are ready for a statehood, we are ready for independence, we are ready for freedom.\"",
"Russia was one of the first countries to recognise the Palestinian state and the Palestinians have full diplomatic representation in Moscow.",
"Medvedev cancelled an official visit to Israel this month due to a strike by the Foreign Ministry employees who refused to organize the visit and threatened to disrupt the visit if it took place.",
"Foreign Ministry workers have been striking since mid-December, demanding higher wages.",
"Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told CNN last week that the strike is harming Israeli interests, just as teachers' strikes and hospital strikes do harm, but he blamed the finance ministry for ignoring the workers' demands.",
"\"They are not taking the strike seriously -- they are treating it as a playground strike,\" he said.",
"Israeli President Shimon Peres phoned the Russian president, apologized for the canceled visit, and thanked him for his involvement in the Middle East peace process.",
"Medvedev accepted to Peres' invitation to meet him at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Israel said."
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"Saeb Erakat says the visit shows the Palestinians are ready for statehood .",
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"(CNN) -- David Villa scores a dramatic injury time winner to give Spain a 2-1 victory over Sweden in Innsbruck to put them in the quarterfinals of Euro 2008 by finishing top of Group D. David Villa leads the race for the Golden Boot after his fourth tournament goal saw Spain defeat Sweden 2-1.",
"The match had looked set to end in a draw after Zlatan Ibrahimovic had equalized following Fernando Torres' 15th-minute goal.",
"However, a long ball out of defense dropped kindly for Villa and the striker slipped the ball to the left of goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson for his fourth goal of the tournament.",
"The result leaves Spain with six points in Group D, three more than Sweden and Russia and certain of top spot after beating both those teams.",
"Torres had put Spain in front when he lunged at a pass from David Silva, with his right foot outstretched, to touch the ball past Isaksson.",
"Sweden veteran Henrik Larsson had shot over the bar and Johan Elmander, who scored against Spain in a qualifying match for Euro 2008, missed two chances before Fredrik Stoor curled a pass from the right to Ibrahimovic in the area in the 34th minute.",
"The Inter Milan striker turned away from marker Sergio Ramos and hit a low shot that just made it under goalkeeper Iker Casillas.",
"Spain controlled early on and it was no surprise when Torres put them ahead with his first goal of the tournament.",
"Silva chipped a diagonal pass into the area toward Joan Capdevila, but Torres stuck out his right foot to intercept and touch it in for his 16th goal in 51 appearances for Spain.",
"Larsson and Johan Elmander both had their chances before Stoor found Ibrahimovic at the far post.",
"Ibrahimovic initially tried to volley Stoor's cross from the right and regained control before shrugging Ramos to the ground.",
"He then swerved to score with a low right-footed shot that Casillas got a hand to but could not keep out.",
"It was the second straight match in which Ibrahimovic had scored, after he ended a near three-year scoring drought in a 2-0 victory against Greece.",
"Villa was in the team despite sustaining a hairline fracture of his right index finger while celebrating the first of his hat-trick goals against Russia, and the Sweden defense kept him under wraps until the 38th minute, when Isaksson had to stop a low shot.",
"Elmander, who started in place of the injured Christian Wilhelmsson, was troubling Spain down the flank but was lucky not to concede a penalty for a nudge on David Silva just before halftime.",
"Markus Rosenberg came on for Ibrahimovic to start the second half, with Sweden not wanting to risk their star player's swollen left knee.",
"There were few clear chances in the second half, and those that came went to Spain.",
"Sweden's attack sorely lacked the physical presence of Ibrahimovic, and Larsson just failed to meet Petter Hansson's cross at the far post in the 79th minute for his team's best opportunity.",
"At the other end, Villa jumped on Silva's rebound in the 63rd minute and fired straight at Isaksson from close range.",
"Villa then recovered the loose ball and centered to find Torres, whose shot was blocked.",
"The teams seemed content with a draw that would have helped both, but Sweden was caught out when Capdevila sent a 40-meter pass over the head of Torres and into the path of Sweden defender Hansson.",
"However, Hansson lost the ball under pressure from Villa, who calmly scored with an angled shot from just inside the area.",
"\"We're happy. We had many chances in both halves and we managed to score right at the end,\" said Spain coach Luis Aragones.",
"\"In the second half, we went out looking for the goal and things finally worked out.\""
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"David Villa scores an injury time goal to give Spain a 2-1 victory over Sweden .",
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"(CNN) -- A Virginia woman whose husband and daughter were gunned down in last week's terror attacks in India says the attackers should be forgiven.",
"Kia Scherr, left, says her daughter, Naomi, and husband, Alan, were \"having the times of their lives\" in India.",
"\"We must send them our love, forgiveness and compassion,\" Kia Scherr told reporters Tuesday of the Mumbai attackers, nine of whom were killed by Indian forces.",
"\"As Jesus Christ said long ago, they know not what they do.",
"\"They are in ignorance, and they are completely shrouded and clouded by fear, and we must show that love is possible and love overpowers fear.",
"So that's my choice.\" Alan Scherr, 58, and Naomi Scherr, 13, were among 25 people who had traveled to India for a meditation retreat with Virginia-based spiritual group Synchronicity Foundation, to which the Scherrs belonged.",
"Authorities said the father and daughter were found fatally shot in a restaurant in Mumbai's Oberoi Hotel, where the group was staying.",
"Kia Scherr, who didn't go on the trip, said at a news conference in Faber, Virginia, she is experiencing the \"deepest grief and pain I have ever known.\"",
"Synchronicity's founder, Charles Cannon, told reporters Alan Scherr was in Cannon's room at the Oberoi shortly before the attacks began on the night of November 26.",
"They were discussing the next day's activities for the group.",
"\"He said that he was hungry and he was going down to the restaurant to eat,\" Cannon said.",
"Scherr and his daughter were in the restaurant with other Synchronicity travelers when gunmen burst into the hotel and started shooting, Cannon said.",
"One of the travelers, Andi Veragona, told CNN affiliate WTVF that she was trying to play dead during the attack, and that she was trying to calm Scherr, who was next to her.",
"\"[He] was panicking, and I put my hand on the back of his neck, and just saying, 'Shhh,' \" she told the Nashville, Tennessee, station.",
"\"And then I felt a bullet penetrate his head, and he just went limp, and he was bleeding all over me.\"",
"Linda Ragsdale, Veragona's friend and fellow Tennessee resident, told The Washington Post that she pulled Naomi Scherr under a table but couldn't save her.",
"\"I was taking in the enormity of the moment, thinking that this energetic child who I had been playing with in the pool the night before -- and had made a pact to do somersaults with -- was dead, shot,\" Ragsdale told the Post.",
"Ragsdale's husband, Ben, said his wife and others played dead, but a gunman \"decided to shoot into the file of them.\"",
"Three of the Synchronicity survivors in the restaurant -- including Ragsdale and Veragona -- were shot, and a bullet grazed a fourth.",
"Ben Ragsdale said hotel staff eventually led the four outside, where they caught the taxis that drove them to a hospital.",
"Cannon told CNN's \"Larry King Live\" on Tuesday that he and two others were in his hotel room when the attacks began.",
"They barricaded the door and remained there for nearly 48 hours, getting information about the whereabouts of other Synchronicity members by cell phone and their room phone, he said.",
"\"Slowly, we were able to account for everyone but [Alan and Naomi Scherr],\" Cannon said.",
"\"And we knew they had been in the restaurant at a table where four of the others who were shot and injured had gotten out.\"",
"About two days after the attacks began, Indian commandos escorted Cannon and the two others out of Cannon's room, he told reporters at Tuesday's news conference.",
"He said the hotel looked like \"a bombed-out war zone.\"",
"\"Bodies [were] everywhere, glass, everything broken and smoky,\" he said of the hotel, where grenades had exploded and fires had burned.",
"On his way out, police asked him if he could identify any remains, he said.",
"Cannon said he stepped over bodies and walked through pools of blood in the restaurant to get to the table where Alan and Naomi had been sitting.",
"\"I found and identified Alan and Naomi, who were laying under the table, heads facing each other and their arms outstretched to each other and overlapping,\" he said.",
"\"It [was] one of the most challenging things I have ever had to do in my life, to identify the remains of two people who I loved like family.\"",
"Three of the wounded Synchronicity travelers still were in an Indian hospital this week, Cannon said on \"Larry King Live.\"",
"Ragsdale's son told CNN she had been shot in the back, but that the bullet hit nothing vital.",
"Veragona suffered leg and arm wounds.",
"Kia Scherr told reporters she had spoken to her husband and daughter by phone in the days before the attacks, and that they were \"having the times of their lives.\"",
"The trip was the first time Naomi had traveled by plane, and it was Alan's third visit to India this year, she said.",
"\"He told me by phone one day: 'I love these people.",
"I could live here,' \" she told \"Larry King Live.\"",
"CNN's Brian Todd contributed to this report."
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"\"We must send them our love [and] forgiveness,\" Kia Scherr says .",
"Attack survivors describe final moments of Alan, Naomi Scherr in restaurant .",
"Founder of group that led trip: I identified bodies after attacks were over ."
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"(CNN) -- Cristiano Ronaldo gave Manchester United a New Year boost by again ruling out a move to Spanish giants Real Madrid.",
"Ronaldo's goals fired United's brilliant 2008-09 campaign.",
"The European Footballer of the Year has been constantly linked with a transfer to the Bernabeu, speculation which increased following recent claims that Real had reached an agreement with United over his eventual sale.",
"\"There's always speculation, not just about me, but about the future of players all around the world,\" Ronaldo told the club's official television station MUTV.",
"\"People were speaking about me this summer but that was normal because of what I did during the season.",
"\"What people are saying now is not true.",
"Who says that is a liar because I am happy at the club, I want to stay here.",
"I feel at home here. I feel very happy here.\"",
"Ronaldo was widely quoted during a turbulent summer that he was keen to play for Real and it appeared only a matter of time before the move became a reality, but now the 23-year-old is pledging loyalty to the Old Trafford faithful.",
"\"I love the fans because they have been brilliant with me, not just this season but every season.",
"Like I said before, I feel at home in Manchester,\" he added.",
"Ronaldo scored 42 goals in United's Premier League and Champions League double last season and after coming back from ankle surgery has netted 11 times this campaign.",
"United go into 2009 handily-placed to retain the English title, in the knockout stages of the Champions League and semifinals of the League Cup.",
"Ronaldo is crucial to their continued success and he used the interview to pay tribute to the role manager Alex Ferguson has played in his development into a world class player.",
"'I want to be part of this club with you.",
"I want to win trophies with you.'",
"He's very important in my career, Alex Ferguson,\" he added."
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"Cristiano Ronaldo dismisses new reports linking him to Real Madrid .",
"Portugal star insists he is \"happy\" at Old Trafford and wants to stay .",
"Ronaldo scored 42 goals in United's double-winning campaign last season ."
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"John L. Allen Jr. is the senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and senior Vatican analyst for CNN.",
"Pope Benedict leaves the Church of Nativity in his pope mobile after celebrating Mass Wednesday in Bethlehem.",
"JERUSALEM (CNN) -- The Middle East may be the most hyper-sensitive piece of real estate on earth, where no more than a stray word or gesture can trigger an explosion.",
"For precisely that reason, the Vatican had hoped that Benedict's trip to the region this week could surmount the occasional PR gaffes that have plagued his papacy.",
"He would stay \"on message\" about peace, reconciliation, and inter-faith solidarity.",
"That game plan began to unravel Tuesday.",
"The pope's spokesman issued an unsolicited denial that Benedict XVI had ever been a member of the Hitler Youth, only to have to retract that denial within a couple of hours.",
"In so doing, the Vatican inadvertently reopened a chapter of the pope's past that most people had considered closed.",
"The Rev. Federico Lombardi, an Italian priest who serves as the pope's spokesman, made the statement in a briefing with reporters on Tuesday, after Benedict's hugely symbolic visits to the Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall in Jerusalem.",
"In his prepared remarks, Lombardi complained that media outlets had been reporting a \"falsehood,\" namely the claim that Joseph Ratzinger, the future Benedict XVI, had belonged to the Hitler Youth.",
"\"The pope was never in the Hitler Youth: never, never, never,\" Lombardi said.",
"Journalists who have followed Benedict XVI closely over the years were startled by that assertion, because it's well known that the pope, more than 10 years ago, discussed having been involuntarily enrolled in the Hitler Youth as a young seminarian growing up in Hitler's Germany.",
"In a 1997 book-length interview with a German journalist titled \"Salt of the Earth,\" then-Cardinal Ratzinger said: \"When the compulsory Hitler Youth was introduced in 1941, my brother was obliged to join.",
"I was still too young, but later, as a seminarian, I was registered in the H.Y.\"",
"Ratzinger went on to discuss how he never took part in the group and stayed as far away from it as possible.",
"Roughly two hours after his original statement on Tuesday, Lombardi took a huge step backwards.",
"Asked by reporters for clarification, he said he could confirm that Ratzinger was registered in the Hitler Youth and was technically a member.",
"\"This was a formal thing, which was not a significant part of his life,\" Lombardi said.",
"\"He had no active participation and no identification with this movement.\"",
"To be sure, the young Ratzinger came out of a strongly anti-Nazi family, and the evidence is clear that he never participated in any Hitler Youth activities, was never a member of the Nazi party, and became part of an auxiliary unit of the Germany army only because he was drafted.",
"He was appalled by Nazism and has a long record of affection for Jews and Judaism.",
"Nonetheless, it's a fact of his biography that Joseph Ratzinger was once registered in the Hitler Youth.",
"All this was widely discussed when he was elected to the papacy four years ago, and when the dust settled, most observers considered it resolved because of the clear evidence that the pope had been anti-Nazi from the start.",
"If anything, the fact that the pope had been compelled to register in the Hitler Youth gave him credibility in addressing the horrors of National Socialism, since he had seen them from within.",
"Yet the Vatican's clumsy attempt to deny something that the pope himself had already conceded long ago reawakened the story, prompting media agencies around the world to rehash the details.",
"Probably the last place on earth the Vatican would want to launch a news cycle dedicated to Benedict and the Hitler Youth would be in Israel, and yet that's exactly how it played out.",
"In the end, the episode is probably no more than a footnote to the broader themes of the pope's historic Middle East visit, but it does illustrate one critical point: When it comes to public relations, the pope and his team are far from infallible.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John L. Allen Jr."
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"Pope has long ago acknowledged he was forced into group as a child .",
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"Vatican had hoped that Benedict's trip could surmount past PR gaffes ."
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"MATABELELAND, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- British broadcaster Sky News Wednesday criticized the jail sentences given to three of its drivers in Zimbabwe, where a court found them guilty of possessing broadcast equipment without authorization.",
"Journalists read a newspaper in Zimbabwe, where freedom of the press is extremely limited.",
"The men are all from Johannesburg, South Africa and were sentenced Tuesday, according to their attorney.",
"\"We deplore the harsh sentence given to the three South African drivers,\" a Sky News spokesman, who did not give his name, said in London.",
"\"We will be appealing and hope that the Zimbabwean justice system fully reappraises its decision.\"",
"A court convicted Bernet Hasani Sono, Resemate Boy Chauke, and Simon Maodi on Monday in Matabeleland, the state-run newspaper Chronicle reported.",
"The three men pleaded guilty to violating the Postal and Telecommunications Act but denied the truck and Sky News equipment were theirs, the state paper reported.",
"The judge, John Masimba, said that despite denying ownership, possession of the equipment was still a violation of the act.",
"Masimba said in the Chronicle that it would send the wrong signal if he did not punish the men.",
"Sono and Maodi were additionally charged an extra six weeks in jail for violating a section of the Immigration Act after the two didn't show up to the Immigration authorities, their defense lawyer, Tawengwa Hara, said.",
"The charge was minor but Hara said he would appeal the possession charge and the sentence.",
"Zimbabwean police stopped the men during a routine check at a Mbalabala roadblock in the Matabeleland South province and found boxes containing the communication equipment.",
"The men were unable to give a reason for possessing it and were arrested, Hara said.",
"The police claimed the three defendants were journalists, but the men denied the claim.",
"\"We are really outraged at six months in prison for just driving a car,\" said Leonard Vincent, director of the Africa desk at Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF).",
"The men's lawyer might be able to file an appeal or the South African government could try to intervene in the case, Vincent said, but it was unlikely the men could be freed before serving their full sentences.",
"\"They are innocent victims of a very tense political situation,\" Vincent said.",
"There have been numerous media reports from Zimbabwe made without the government's authorization, prompting the arrests of several journalists.",
"Press freedom groups say Zimbabwe has some of the world's most restrictive laws for journalist accreditation.",
"\"They face two years in prison if caught working without this precious document,\" RSF said in its 2008 annual report on the country, a reference to the accreditation.",
"\"No foreign reporter can legally work in Zimbabwe without fear of arrest, being paraded like a trophy, and expelled after high-speed sentencing.\"",
"Since the 2002 elections, the local and foreign media has deteriorated, said Tom Rhodes, the Africa program coordinator of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.",
"Zimbabwe \"once had the highest literary rate in sub-Saharan Africa and a vibrant media system,\" Rhodes said, but since the elections, draconian press laws had increasingly limited the access to information.",
"The accreditation law's Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act blocked some foreign media and shut down several independent newspapers during the 2002 elections.",
"This sparked more restrictions, which now requires journalists to have two forms of government approval, one from the Media Information Commission and the other from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.",
"President Robert Mugabe amended the laws in January but authorities still use them to suppress critical press coverage, Rhodes said.",
"In April, however, New York Times journalist Barry Bearak and British freelancer Stephen Bevan were arrested on charges of violating the laws but were later released.",
"And toward the end of May, distributors of the Zimbabwean Sunday paper were beaten by unknown assailants and the truck carrying the papers was burned.",
"CNN's Melissa Gray contributed to this report."
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"Three Sky News drivers found guilty of possession of TV equipment .",
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"(CNN) -- Furious winds, giant waves and lack of sleep have all plagued the journey of Dilip Donde, the first Indian to attempt sailing solo round-the-world.",
"But, Donde remains unruffled: The Indian navy commander hand picked by the Navy for the voyage told CNN he had anticipated the violent weather in the rough far southern waters that skim the Antarctic coast.",
"\"Sailing through the Southern Ocean, it was bound to happen some time so I was expecting it, though that does not make it any more comfortable,\" he said.",
"Donde set off in August 2009 and is hoping to reach Mumbai by mid-May.",
"Donde has blogged throughout his voyage, giving regular updates as well as breaking down various sailing jargon for the uninitiated, like the famous Beaufort Scale.",
"The scale, is the international standard for determining wind speeds based on observable sea conditions, such as the height of waves.",
"The scale goes from zero (no wind, glassy sea) to 12 (hurricane winds of over 100 kilometers per hour and \"phenomenal\" seas with waves that can sometimes reach above 17 meters).",
"And in the open ocean, often days away from help, these conditions also have a palpable psychological effect on a sailor's state of mind, according to Donde.",
"Sailors seek out the exhilaration that comes from sailing in strong winds -- just under 40 km/h is ideal -- but it's a fine line, and as winds get stronger, delight can be tinged with anxiety which can quickly turn into terror.",
"While on a brief stop in South Africa, 42-year-old Donde spoke to CNN about his own state of mind while at sea and how rough weather can affect it.",
"CNN: What has your most extreme day on the boat like?",
"I was sailing through winds gusting to 55 knots (101 km/h) and waves of up to nine meters high in the \"furious fifties\" through the Tasman sea between Australia and New Zealand.",
"Rounding Cape Horn was bad too with steep breaking waves, strong currents and winds gusting to 45 knots (83 km/h) in the \"roaring forties.\"",
"And, yes, it was bitterly cold in those latitudes.",
"Do you ever worry that you could be seriously injured?",
"The biggest worry when the sea is violent, is always falling off the boat.",
"When the sea is dangerous, visibility is low and you get thrashed around.",
"The boat is on auto-pilot so if you fall it continues alone.",
"I wear a harness.",
"When you are going through bad weather all your attention is focused on keeping the boat in one piece ... so there is not much time to start thinking about death.",
"If the boat is alive, you're alive.",
"That probably helps in keeping your mind focused and [away from] worrying unnecessarily about other things that may or may not happen.",
"How scary does the weather get?",
"When you are in the middle of nowhere there is little choice: One has but to keep going if the weather turns nasty, so you just grin and bear it, keep the boat safe and tell yourself that \"this too shall pass.\"",
"But I have probably experienced all the states of mind except for \"I want my mummy!\"",
"(see factbox) although it has come pretty close.",
"Do sailors secretly hope for giant waves and storms, because it makes the experience more exciting?",
"I don't think so. While you do hope for good winds, you always hope that the sail will be as uneventful as possible.",
"Any sailor will try his best to avoid a storm.",
"Why do sailors constantly push themselves in to extreme situations?",
"Probably there is an element of thrill; of understanding oneself and the elements better.",
"With long-distance sailing, like everything else in life, you get a package deal of good days and bad days.",
"It is wonderful to sail on a good sunny day with a clear sky and moderate breeze, and one has to be ready to suffer the bad weather as and when it comes.",
"The good days more than make up for the bad ones."
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"Dilip Donde is the first Indian sailor ever to attempt a round-world solo voyage .",
"Donde has had to battle giant waves and furious winds on his almost-year-long trip .",
"If he successfully completes the voyage, he will arrive back in Mumbai in mid-May .",
"The sailor spoke to CNN about fear and his various states of mind ."
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"Editor's Note: David M. Walker served as comptroller general of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) from 1998 to 2008.",
"He is now president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.",
"David Walker says the $700 billion bailout is a pittance compared with the debt facing the United States.",
"(CNN) -- The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act contains plenty to make lawmakers on the left and right shudder.",
"On the right, it's the apparent abandonment of free-market principles.",
"On the left, it's the absence of punishment for high-flying Wall Street CEO's.",
"Looking down the middle, what I found downright unnerving was how hard Washington struggled to pass a bill that, in reality, represents less than 1 percent of our current federal financial hole.",
"Don't get me wrong. Congress and the Bush Administration are to be commended for acting to relieve the credit crunch and trying to minimize any immediate, adverse effect on our economy and by consequence, on American jobs and access to credit.",
"The ultimate cost of the act should ring up at less than $500 billion, less than the advertised $700 billion because of anticipated proceeds from the government's sale of the assets it will acquire with the appropriated funds.",
"The nation's real tab, on the other hand, amounted to $53 trillion as of the end of the last fiscal year.",
"That was the sum of our public debt; accrued civilian and military retirement benefits; unfunded, promised Social Security and Medicare benefits; and other financial obligations -- all according to the government's most recent financial statement of September 30, 2007.",
"The rescue package and other bailout efforts for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and the auto industry, escalating operating deficits, compounding interest and other factors are likely to boost the tab to $56 trillion or more by the end of this calendar year.",
"With numbers and trends like this, you might ask, \"Who will bail out America?\"",
"The answer is, no one but us!",
"Since we're going to have to save ourselves, recent events could hardly be called encouraging.",
"It took an additional $100 billion in incentives -- some would call them \"sweeteners;\" others might call them bribes -- to get lawmakers to pass the rescue package.",
"Regardless of what you call these incentives, ultimately the taxpayers will have to pick up the tab, with interest.",
"The process that was employed to achieve enactment of this bill was hardly a model of efficiency or effectiveness.",
"The original proposal represented an over-reach and under-communication by the administration.",
"Neither lawmakers nor ordinary citizens had enough information to properly assess the real risks, the need for action and what an appropriate course of action might be.",
"Furthermore, the key players allowed the legislation to be characterized as a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street, which was neither an accurate nor a fair reflection of the legislation.",
"Passage of the credit-crunch relief provisions in the act was understandable, not just because of what risks and needed actions the Treasury and the Federal Reserve were aware of, but more importantly, because of what policymakers didn't know and eventually might have to address.",
"Let's face it -- the regular order in Washington is broken.",
"We must move beyond crisis management approaches and start to address some of the key fiscal and other challenges facing this country if we want our future to be better than our past.",
"A good place to start would be for the presidential candidates to acknowledge our $53 trillion (and growing) federal financial hole and commit to begin to address it.",
"Their endorsement of the need for a bipartisan fiscal future commission along the lines of the one sponsored by Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tennessee, and Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Virginia, also would make sense.",
"Any such commission should, at a minimum, address the need for statutory budget controls, comprehensive Social Security reform, a first round of tax reform and a first round of comprehensive health care reform.",
"It should hold hearings both inside and beyond the Beltway.",
"And, its recommendations should be guaranteed to receive an up-or-down vote by Congress if a super-majority of the commission's members can agree on a comprehensive proposal.",
"Our fiscal time bomb is ticking, and the time for action is now!",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer."
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"David Walker: The U.S. faces a debt much larger than the bailout amount .",
"Walker: No one is going to bail out America, we have to do it ourselves .",
"U.S. needs panel to examine how to cut $53 trillion long-term debt, he says .",
"Social Security, health care and taxes need to be reformed, Walker says ."
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"(CNN) -- A United Nations representative has condemned sexual violence in the Ivory Coast as the White House met with leaders urging the nation's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo to give up power.",
"\"Following reports of rapes in Cote d'Ivoire, I condemn in the strongest possible terms the employment of sexual violence as a means to political ends,\" said Margot Wallstrom, a special U.N. representative on sexual violence in conflict.",
"\"From preliminary information, it seems that the assaults follow carefully selected political targeting,\" she said in a statement Wednesday.",
"The United Nations and the international community have pressured Gbagbo to leave office, saying that Alassane Ouattara fairly won a contentious November election.",
"On Wednesday, the White House hosted leaders from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to discuss the crisis in the country.",
"The West African delegation met with Tom Donilon, the national security adviser.",
"\"Mr. Donilon expressed strong support for the efforts of ECOWAS to facilitate a peaceful transition of power in Cote D'Ivoire,\" the White House said in a statement.",
"\"Mr. Donilon and the ECOWAS delegation reaffirmed their shared commitment to see that the winner of the recent elections, Alassane Ouattara, takes his rightful role as President of Cote d'Ivoire, and their shared resolve to see former President Laurent Gbagbo cede power,\" the statement said.",
"Cote d'Ivoire is the French name for Ivory Coast, a former French colony.",
"Human Rights Watch has accused Gbagbo of carrying out a \"reign of terror\" against his people.",
"\"Security forces under the control of Laurent Gbagbo and militias that support him have, since late November 2010, committed extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, torture and rape,\" the organization said in a news release.",
"\"An in-depth investigation into violations in the commercial capital, Abidjan, revealed an often-organized campaign of violence targeting members of opposition political parties, ethnic groups from northern Cote d'Ivoire, Muslims and immigrants from neighboring West African countries,\" Human Rights Watch said.",
"Wallstrom urged investigations of sexual violence allegations and for perpetrators to be brought to justice.",
"\"The security situation for women and girls unfortunately has deteriorated in the western parts of the country,\" since last year, she said.",
"\"I call for urgent steps to be taken to avert the risk of increased sexual violence and to ensure the protection of civilians, especially women and girls,\" Wallstrom said.",
"\"I would also like to recall that the Security Council last December reiterated their readiness to consider patterns of sexual violence when imposing sanctions against parties.\""
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"Human Rights Campaign accuses Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo of 'reign of terror'"
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"(CNN) -- Romanian striker Adrian Mutu saw his late penalty saved by Gianluigi Buffon as world champions Italy scraped a 1-1 draw in Zurich to keep their Euro 2008 hopes hanging by a thread.",
"Romanian players celebrate Adrian Mutu's opening goal in the thrilling 1-1 draw against Italy.",
"Mutu had earlier given Romania the lead only for Christian Panucci to level a minute later.",
"The result leaves Italy needing to beat France in their final match to qualify, while Romania also have a chance to progress if they defeat Netherlands in their final match.",
"Italy coach Roberto Donadoni made five changes to his starting line-up, following the dismal opening 3-0 defeat by Netherlands, with World Cup winners Marco Materazzi and Gennaro Gattuso among those left out.",
"Those changes looked to be working as the Azzurri started brightly, almost breaking the deadlock in the eighth minute when Alessandro Del Piero's close-range header from Simone Perrotta's cross went just wide of the near post.",
"In the 15th minute, Romania should have gone in front but Mutu's left-footed strike from the edge of the area was parried away by Buffon.",
"At the other end, Luci Toni latched onto Fabio Grosso's cross but his header went high over the bar.",
"Buffon was then forced to fully stretch to clear Gabriel Tamas' free-kick towards the far post.",
"Italy almost fell behind in the 19th minute when Cristian Chivu's free-kick rebounded off the far post after being deflected by Panucci, with Buffon already beaten.",
"But the Italians were looking more dangerous.",
"Both Del Piero and Toni headed wide from good positions, while Romania goalkeeper Bogdan Lobont made a fine one-handed save to deny Toni's header from Del Piero's corner having previously anticipated Giorgio Chiellini's cross into the box.",
"Then, on the stroke of half-time, Toni appeared to have given Italy the lead with a header, but Norwegian referee Tom Henning ruled the effort out for offside.",
"Disaster struck for Italy after the break when Gianluca Zambrotta's 57th back header towards Buffon was intercepted by a determined Mutu, who fired past the goalkeeper.",
"However, it did not take long for Donadoni's men to hit back.",
"Chiellini latched onto Del Piero's corner and headed towards the far post where an unmarked Panucci fired into the back of the net.",
"The goal inspired the Italians, who surged forward more aggressively but failed to find the finishing touch.",
"In the 73rd minute, Grosso made a vital tackle on substitute Banel Nicolita as he threatened to break clear, while at the other end Lobont made a spectacular save from Daniele De Rossi's flying header.",
"Italy continued to surge forward but their efforts to clinch their first win on Swiss soil proved no avail and they have Buffon to thank for keeping their Euro 2008 hopes alive.",
"With seven minutes remaining Panucci was adjudged to have pulled down Daniel Niculae in the area but Mutu's well-struck penalty was superbly kept out by Buffon with a save which saw the ball rebound off both his hand and foot before heading out for a corner.",
"Donadoni felt his team were the superior side but also admitted the Azzurri were fortunate to be alive in the tournament after several refereeing decisions went against them.",
"\"I don't usually speak about referees,\" said Donadoni.",
"\"But today's refereeing was not of high quality.",
"Let's just say the referee did not have the best of days.",
"\"I think my players interpreted the game well, with a lot of determination.",
"Romania are a difficult team and I think my players merit praise for what they have done today.",
"\"Considering what we have done in terms of chances and the determination we have shown on the pitch, I think Italy have been superior to Romania.\"",
"Romania coach Victor Piturca also believed Italy were fortunate to clinch a point.",
"\"Italy had a lucky escape,\" said Piturca.",
"\"Maybe Mutu was a little bit overwhelmed by Buffon being a top-class goalkeeper.",
"\"But these things happen and it will not be the first time nor the last time that a player has his spot-kick saved.",
"I am actually more angry about how we conceded Italy's equaliser than about Mutu's penalty kick.\"",
"Piturca was nevertheless satisfied with the result, which sees his team remain unbeaten in the tournament having held France to a goalless draw on Monday.",
"\"This is a good result for the Romanian team,\" he said.",
"\"We have played against the world champions and against the World Cup runners-up and we have two points.",
"We still have chances to qualify.\""
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"Italy's Euro 2008 hopes hanging by a thread after their 1-1 draw with Romania .",
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"Mutu had earlier given Romania the lead only for Christian Panucci to equalize ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- UK prosecutors may charge the parents of paralyzed rugby player Daniel James with helping their son end his life.",
"James, center, traveled from the UK to Switzerland to commit suicide.",
"He was 23. James, 23, from Sinton Green in western England was paralyzed from the chest down in March 2007 when a rugby scrum collapsed on top of him during match practice, dislocating his spine.",
"Worcestershire Coroner's Service, which is conducing an inquest into the circumstances of his death, states on its Web site that James died on September 12 after he \"traveled to Switzerland with a view to ending his own life.",
"He was admitted to a clinic where he died.\"",
"The inquest was adjourned on September 19 for reports.",
"What do you think about assisted suicide?",
"UK police said they questioned two people in a criminal investigation of the case.",
"Prosecutors said Thursday they plan to review the police investigation before deciding whether to prosecute anyone.",
"The case has renewed debate about assisted suicide in the UK, where those found guilty of helping someone kill themselves face up to 14 years in prison.",
"Switzerland, along with Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, are the only European countries where authorities will not prosecute those who assist with suicide.",
"Many in the UK have voiced support for Mark and Julie James, who flew to the Swiss clinic with their son.",
"Watch the debate on assisted suicide » .",
"Mark Roebuck, uncle to Daniel, described the injury on a Web site for the Dan James Trust, which he set up to help his nephew's recovery.",
"\"He dislocated his C6/C7 vertebrae, trapping his spinal cord and becoming a tetraplegic in a split second,\" Roebuck wrote.",
"\"This means that Dan (had) lost the complete use of his body from the chest down.\"",
"James, regained some use of his fingers, Roebuck wrote, but that was the extent of his recovery.",
"Roebuck wrote this month that his nephew had died in an assisted suicide.",
"\"His death was an extremely sad loss,\" his parents said in a statement, \"but was no doubt a welcome relief from the prison he felt his body had become.\"",
"In a statement last week James' parents paid tribute to their son and said that he had attempted to kill himself several times already.",
"They added that their son, \"an intelligent young man of sound mind,\" had never come to terms with his condition and was \"not prepared to live what he felt was a second-class existence\".",
"Matt Hampson, an English rugby player who was also paralyzed from the neck down with an almost identical spinal injury in 2005, now runs a rugby Web site that supports a charity for children with spinal injuries.",
"Hampson said he met with James briefly last year to share his experience of living with paralysis.",
"But James' suicide, he says, was a personal choice that only James and his family can fully understand, adding: \"Who am I to judge what he did?\"",
"\"You either get on with it or you die,\" added Hampson, who played for the England Under 21 team .",
"\"I kind of see my role as getting on with my life to show people that, just because I've had this catastrophic injury, that doesn't mean I can't do things.",
"I don't think my life is worse.",
"It's a lot better in some ways.\"",
"Debbie Purdy, a 45-year-old who suffers from multiple sclerosis, says she wants the option of assisted suicide if her pain one day becomes intolerable.",
"Purdy has a case before the High Court to clarify the law.",
"\"I just want clarity so I know whether or not my husband Omar will be prosecuted or questioned by the police if I decide to travel abroad and he accompanies me,\" Purdy writes on the Web site for Dignity in Dying, a British group that advocates for \"patient choice at the end of life.\"",
"Dignity in Dying says the law in England and Wales is unclear regarding assisted suicide.",
"Although no one has been prosecuted for accompanying a family member abroad for the procedure, the group says, some relatives have faced police questioning.",
"\"I want to know what the law considers to be assisting a suicide,\" Purdy writes.",
"\"Is Omar open to prosecution if he helps me into a taxi to the airport, or books my flights?\"",
"CNN's Melissa Gray and Atika Shubert contributed to this report ."
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"Young rugby player, paralyzed after accident, ends his life in Switzerland .",
"Police interview man and woman about the death of Daniel James, 23 .",
"It is illegal in UK and much of Europe to assist with someone's suicide .",
"Campaigners argue those with severe conditions should be allowed the right to die ."
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"(CNN) -- U.S. and British diplomats are safe after Zimbabwe police, soldiers and \"war veterans\" stopped their convoy Thursday and threatened to burn them alive, U.S. officials said.",
"U.S. Ambassador James McGee visits a reported victim of political violence at a Harare clinic this month.",
"State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said five American Embassy employees and two local staff members had been detained.",
"\"While this immediate incident has been resolved, it will not be forgotten,\" McCormack said.",
"Just hours after the incident, Zimbabwe Social Welfare Minister Nicholas Goche said that all aid organizations were ordered to cease operations in the country until the presidential runoff is concluded, a journalist in the country said.",
"Despite Goche's announcement, Boniface Chidyausiku, the Zimbabwean ambassador to the United Nations, said CARE International was the only aid group told to suspend work.",
"The government had accused some of the 300 CARE employees in Zimbabwe -- mostly Zimbabweans -- of passing out brochures in favor of an opposition political party, CARE spokesman Kenneth Walker said.",
"The organization denies the charge.",
"Chidyausiku said the Zimbabwean minister of social services is reviewing the activity of all non-governmental organizations in light of accusations that some have been politicizing their operations and campaigning for the opposition.",
"\"What we find is that there have been complaints about NGOs operating as Trojan horses for the oppositions, but the opposition has denied it,\" he said.",
"Henrietta Fore, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, urged the government of Zimbabwe to \"lift the suspension on all international aid agencies involved in humanitarian work in the country.\"",
"Fore told CNN that the \"suspension is a direct threat to the lives and well-being of tens of thousands of innocent people in Zimbabwe.\"",
"The U.N. Security Council convened Thursday to discuss the diplomats' detention.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, \"This demonstrates this is a regime that is very much out of step with international norms.\"",
"British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the detained Britons had been engaged in \"the normal business of diplomacy.\"",
"The British diplomat and three visitors were released unharmed and allowed to go about their business, he said.",
"\"Obviously, this is a window into the lives of Zimbabweans,\" Miliband said.",
"\"Diplomats are protected by papers and international contacts in a way too many Zimbabweans are not protected.\"",
"Watch U.S. official call the detentions outrageous » .",
"Zimbabwean Deputy Information Minister Bright Matonga denied U.S.",
"Ambassador James McGee's claims of intimidation and said the diplomats were detained after trying to flee police at a roadblock.",
"Two U.S. Embassy cars and a British Embassy vehicle were going to check on reports of recent violence when they were stopped, McGee said.",
"\"The police put up a roadblock, stopped the vehicles, slashed the tires, reached in and grabbed the telephones from my personnel,\" said McGee, who was not in the convoy.",
"\"The war veterans threatened to burn the vehicles with my people inside unless they got out of the vehicles and accompanied the police to a station nearby,\" he added.",
"Matonga said the embassy officials were traveling in an area they didn't have authorization to enter.",
"\"They went to an area without informing the foreign affairs,\" Matonga said.",
"\"It is very mischievous. And we know why you are doing it, but the police will stop this.\"",
"McCormack called the assertion that officials were not informed \"absurd.\"",
"Zimbabwe officials have accused members of the U.S. ambassador's office of trying to aid the opposition party in the coming presidential runoff.",
"When McGee found out that embassy personnel were detained, he sent an embassy security officer to the scene to see whether he could help, he said.",
"Police extracted the security officer, a local, from the car and beat him, McGee said.",
"\"These are diplomatic-plated vehicles.",
"They knew exactly who was in those vehicles,\" McGee said.",
"\"This government is not following their own laws and definitely not following any international laws.\"",
"He added, \"Zimbabwe has become a lawless country.\"",
"Matonga argued that the diplomats were detained because they wouldn't \"comply\" with police and tried to flee a roadblock.",
"He denied outright that a U.S. Embassy employee was beaten and that Zimbabwean forces slashed the tires of an U.S. Embassy vehicle.",
"However, he said soldiers may have taken diplomats to the ground when they tried to flee.",
"According to the U.S. State Department, McGee and diplomats from five other missions in Harare were detained and questioned by Zimbabwe's security forces May 13.",
"McGee and diplomats from the United Kingdom, the European Union, Japan, Tanzania and the Netherlands had just visited a hospital, the State Department reported.",
"On May 8, McGee penned a statement, officially breaking his silence on the political violence wracking Zimbabwe.",
"\"I feel compelled, as a supporter of human rights, to speak out about the atrocities being committed across Zimbabwe,\" McGee wrote, saying the U.S. had received more than 700 reports of violence.",
"\"The violence cannot be allowed to continue.",
"I will continue to speak out clearly and forcefully to demand its end.\"",
"He continued, \"Let me also be clear that the U.S. is aware of the identities of many of those responsible for instigating the violence and for carrying it out.",
"We will continue to gather evidence of the atrocities being committed so that the guilty can one day be brought to justice.\"",
"Though reports of violence have been common in Zimbabwe, there has been a significant uptick in attacks since the March 29 elections.",
"Voters cast more ballots for opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai than for President Robert Mugabe, who has been in power since the African nation gained its independence 28 years ago.",
"After the election, the country's electoral commission reported that neither candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote.",
"A runoff is scheduled for June 27.",
"Since the election, opposition and church groups have reported kidnappings, torture and other violence, including the deaths of opposition party members.",
"They say the violence targets opponents of Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party."
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"NEW: Zimbabwe orders aid groups to stop field work .",
"Diplomats safe after threats from security forces, U.S. and UK say .",
"Zimbabwe says diplomats detained for failing to \"comply\" with police .",
"U.S. envoy says he believes orders to intimidate came \"directly from the top\""
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"(CNN) -- Federal officials postponed poisoning a mile-long stretch of the Rio Grande's banks this week after residents complained that doing so posed health and environmental risks on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.",
"A Border Patrol agent moves through dense cane on the banks of the Rio Grande near Laredo, Texas, last year.",
"U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it wants to eradicate the invasive Carrizo cane infesting many portions of the Rio Grande's banks between Texas and Mexico.",
"The lanky cane provides cover for immigrants crossing the border illegally and poses a danger to Border Patrol agents trying to stop them, said Chuck Prichard, spokesman for CBP's Laredo sector.",
"\"Someone can be in the cane and be 3 feet away from them, and you cannot see them,\" Prichard said during a Wednesday phone interview.",
"\"[A Border Patrol agent] could literally be surrounded and have no idea.\"",
"The controversy over the test project comes as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Mexico to discuss border security and other issues concerning U.S.-Mexico relations.",
"Applying herbicides on a 1.1-mile stretch of the U.S. side of the river was part of a test project, Prichard said, but the CBP decided to postpone the $2.1 million experiment to address community concerns.",
"Residents of two Hispanic communities near Laredo, Texas -- Barrio de Colores and Barrio El Cuatro -- filed a lawsuit late Tuesday asking a federal court to intervene.",
"Prichard said Wednesday morning he was unaware of the lawsuit.",
"Among the complaints in the lawsuit, the communities allege the CBP failed to assess the environmental impact adequately, failed to consider reasonable alternatives and failed to notify the public adequately.",
"Though three herbicides were originally proposed, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers settled on imazapyr for the test project, Prichard said.",
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said there is \"reasonable certainty of no harm from aggregate exposure to imazapyr residues.\"",
"\"Imazapyr technical is relatively nontoxic via the oral route of exposure, and only slightly toxic via the dermal and inhalation routes of exposure,\" the agency has said.",
"Jay Johnson-Castro Sr., a vocal opponent of the project and executive director of the Rio Grande International Study Center, said the studies on the herbicide are insufficient.",
"\"I've lived long enough to know what the government says is safe isn't always safe,\" he said.",
"The 1.1-mile test stretch of the Rio Grande forms a sharp bend between Laredo and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.",
"The river serves as a water source for both.",
"Laredo Mayor Raul Salinas said he believes the federal officials have good intentions and that some misinformation has been disseminated regarding the proposal.",
"He said he welcomes the delay so that the CBP can address community concerns.",
"\"I'm going to make sure we protect our police officers and Border Patrol,\" said Salinas, a former FBI agent.",
"\"I just want to make sure it will have zero impact on humans, the water, our environment.\"",
"The CBP seeks to use three methods of Carrizo eradication along the stretch of the river: manually cutting the cane and topically applying herbicide to the stalks; using shovels, pickaxes, excavators and backhoes to dig the cane up by its roots; and using helicopters to spray the bank aerially.",
"The latter is the most troubling, said Johnson-Castro, because aerially spraying could affect more than just the Carrizo.",
"The CBP would evaluate the products of each method before proposing an eradication program for a 16-mile stretch of the river, Prichard said, adding that the CBP is considering other options as well.",
"One option could involve the import of tiny Arundo wasps, which feed on the cane and lay eggs in it, stunting the cane's growth.",
"Carrizo, which can grow up to 30 feet high, is a Spanish transplant to Texas.",
"The wasp is a Mediterranean native.",
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture is experimenting with the wasp on a different section of the Rio Grande and is sharing its data with the CBP, Prichard said.",
"The USDA has concerns that Carrizo chokes off native plants and has an insatiable thirst, capable of annually sucking up 500 gallons of water per square yard.",
"Prichard said the CBP wants to re-evaluate its test proposal because it doesn't want to eradicate the cane at \"the expense of the environment or anyone who lives in the area.\"",
"\"I own a house in Laredo.",
"I drink the water that comes out of the tap,\" Prichard said.",
"\"We're trying to do the right thing for everybody involved.\"",
"In addition to concerns from the U.S. side of the border, Prichard said the city of Nuevo Laredo also expressed reservations -- namely that the stretch hosting the experiment is near the intake point for Nuevo Laredo's water supply.",
"Johnson-Castro of the Rio Grande International Study Center said the concerns of Nuevo Laredo citizens are warranted because the effects of such widespread use of imazapyr are unclear.",
"Not only are humans at risk, he said, but there are about 1,000 species residing in the area slated for testing, and the nesting season for migrant birds is quickly approaching.",
"Opponents aren't against eradicating the Carrizo, Johnson-Castro said.",
"They're not even opposed to using herbicides.",
"They just want to make sure that herbicides are used responsibly and in a targeted manner and that the CBP considers all options for mitigating the cane.",
"For instance, he said, donkeys and goats enjoy eating the cane.",
"And earlier this month, about 70 students from Texas A&M International University manually were able to clear about an acre of cane in fewer than three hours.",
"\"Let's get down to reasonableness, logic and fairness here.",
"It's an issue of morality on one side and of science on the other side,\" Johnson-Castro said.",
"\"We don't think citizens of either country should be Guinea pigs.\""
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"Tall, thick Carrizo cane provides cover for illegal immigrants, Border Patrol says .",
"Hispanic communities near Laredo, Texas, file suit to stop spraying .",
"Residents want consideration of other methods to eliminate cane ."
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"(CNN) -- Circles Robinson is a 55-year-old American who has lived in Havana with his family since 2001.",
"He works revising English translations for official Cuban media online publications and in his spare time he writes his own blog and manages the Havana Times Web site.",
"Circles Robinson: \"There are fantastic cultural opportunities in Havana.\"",
"CNN: What makes Havana special to you?",
"Circles: Havana is the only capital city I've seen that I would want to live in.",
"One big reason is that there are relatively few cars, making the city pedestrian-friendly.",
"Another is that it's quite safe for a capital and you feel like the night is your ally instead of your adversary.",
"Havana is full of contrasts that make life interesting: buildings being restored amid others collapsing.",
"There's an amazing array of cultural activities but it can be hard to buy a nail or cat food or even a roll of toilet paper sometimes.",
"I love the parks, the Malecon seawall and the ever-expanding network of museums that give you the feeling there is always something new to see on a weekend stroll.",
"And Havana is virtually free of commercial advertising.",
"The TV and other media are ad-free as well, and I love that.",
"CNN: What are your favorite parts of the city?",
"Circles: The Malecon seawall is a great place to think, relax and observe, because of its majestic views, sea breeze and mix of characters from all walks of life.",
"I also love the sprawling grounds, stone walls and magnificent view of the city at the San Carlos de la Cabana Fortress across Havana Bay.",
"The Latinoamericano baseball stadium is also special for a fan like me.",
"Out on the east side of the city the beaches are fantastic.",
"We try to go once every few months and more often in the summer.",
"Vedado is my favorite district.",
"It has many large parks, beautiful tree-lined streets and a mix of extremely interesting 20th-century architecture.",
"Of course, Old Havana is gorgeous, with all the excellent restoration work and many museums.",
"I usually find myself going there when I have visitors to show around.",
"CNN: What do you dislike about life in Havana?",
"Circles: The overcrowded housing situation and deteriorated buildings in some parts of the city make for some difficult living situations and many things only work halfway.",
"There's a thick bureaucratic maze to accomplish many simple tasks.",
"Most people need to do something under-the-table to get by and there are some seemingly ridiculous prohibitions.",
"What makes Havana special to you?",
"Let us know.",
"CNN: What's a typical weekend in the city?",
"Circles: There are fantastic cultural opportunities in Havana and they are very accessible to all, normally costing from 10 to 50 U.S. cents for a ticket.",
"My wife and I often go to the theater, to movies, dance performances and concerts.",
"I like jazz a lot and this Friday there's an outdoor jam session around the time when people get off work.",
"On Saturday there's an early evening informal free concert on the porch of an art gallery.",
"There's also a film festival offering young filmmakers' works and there are numerous venues for stand up comedians, which are a big favorite of the general population.",
"CNN: Cuban music is known throughout the world.",
"Where are the best places in Havana to hear real Cuban music?",
"Circles: I much prefer what they call the \"penas\" -- more intimate sessions where friends and followers show up.",
"Many groups have regular \"penas\" once or twice a month, where you might hear folk, rumba or jazz.",
"These performances are held at a variety of places, outdoor and indoor, and most are free.",
"For more formal concerts I particularly like the theater at the Cuban Fine Arts Museum and the smaller hall at the Amadeo Roldan Theater.",
"The Teatro America also offers a good variety of musical presentations.",
"Some of the best venues for salsa are the outdoor ones.",
"There are outdoor auditoriums in most neighborhoods, like the Tropical's Salon Rosada in Buena Vista, La Bereda in La Lisa, and El Patio de la Salsa in La Virgen del Camino, where you can see the top salsa bands for under a dollar.",
"You can also see top salsa bands for free at the weekend at venues set up in squares or plazas.",
"CNN: What do you think the future has in store for Havana?",
"Circles: The potential is awesome.",
"If the hostile policy of the U.S. towards Cuba could turn into a good-neighbor policy, or at least more normal ties, the economy of the city would no doubt improve.",
"If the travel ban was lifted people from the U.S. could appreciate all that Havana has to offer.",
"Likewise, if the rest of the blockade was lifted it would present a great challenge to the city's government to get beyond a virtual state of siege and be able to confront its serious infrastructural needs, housing deficit and, in some areas, highly deficient public works and utilities.",
"An onslaught of visitors would also put services to the test and most likely require improvements.",
"CNN: If Havana was a person what would he or she be like?",
"Circles: He or she would be casually sensuous, timeless, sassy and either 'tranquillo' or combative depending on how the day's going."
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"\"Havana is the only capital city I've seen that I would want to live in,\" he says .",
"He says the Malecon seawall is a great place to \"think, relax and observe\"\nYou can hear authentic Cuban music at \"penas\" -- intimate music sessions ."
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"(CNN) -- Pirates hijacked three ships off the coast of Somalia on Thursday in the \"worst number of attacks\" in one day in many years, an international maritime watchdog said.",
"An image of the Burum Ocean -- a suspected pirate mother ship in the Gulf of Aden.",
"\"Four attacks in two days, ships being hijacked and crews being taken, and large ransoms being demanded is completely unacceptable,\" said Capt.",
"Pottengal Mukudan of the International Maritime Bureau, which monitors shipping crime.",
"Pirates fired at a ship sailing under an Iranian flag and boarded it about 5:20 a.m. local time Thursday (10:20 p.m.",
"ET Wednesday), said Noel Chong, head of the International Chamber of Commerce's Piracy Reporting Centre, a multinational coalition naval task force that monitors the region .",
"They hijacked a ship operating under a Japanese flag a few minutes later, he said.",
"A German ship was hijacked about 8 a.m. local time, Mukudan said.",
"He said the pirates are still on board the German vessel, but he had few details.",
"Pirate attacks are frequent in the waters off Somalia, a notoriously unsafe area for unescorted vessels.",
"Canada announced this month that it was dispatching a warship to the area to protect U.N. aid ships after more than two dozen reported pirate attacks in the region this year.",
"\"This is the worst number of attacks that we have seen in a short period of time for years,\" Mukudan said, calling on CTF-150 to \"give piracy a much higher priority to bring this under control.",
"There have been seven vessels [hijacked] since the 20th of July.\"",
"Thursday's spate of attacks in the Gulf of Aden came two days after pirates boarded a Malaysian tanker off the coast of Somalia.",
"They continue to hold it, Chong said.",
"The IMB monitors shipping crime and reported Thursday's incidents to CTF-150, which is based in Djibouti, and the task force is \"monitoring the situation,\" Mukudan said.",
"\"They have some of their vessels ,which are tracking some of these hijacked ships, but the problem is it's very difficult to take action once the hijackers are on board,\" he said.",
"\"The lives of the hostages is at risk.\"",
"He said he understood that the task force was busy with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but noted that the IMB would like to see the task force do more to respond to the problem before the hijackings occur.",
"The IMB said in April that 49 pirate attacks on ships were reported in the first three months of 2008, compared with 41 for the same period last year.",
"It recorded 263 pirates attacks last year, up from 239 the year before and the first increase in three years.",
"CNN's Ben Brumfield contributed to this report ."
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"Attacks are the latest of several to generate international concern .",
"Iranian, German and Japanese-flagged vessels all boarded ."
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"(CNN) -- A former B-2 Bomber engineer has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for selling secret defense designs to China.",
"Noshir Gowadia, 66, of Maui, Hawaii, was sentenced late Monday for sharing classified defense information with China, illegally exporting military technical data, money laundering, filing false tax returns and other offenses.",
"\"Mr. Gowadia provided some of our country's most sensitive weapons-related designs to the Chinese government for money,\" said David Kris, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's National Security Division.",
"\"He is now being held accountable for his actions,\" Kris said.",
"\"This prosecution should serve as a warning to others who would compromise our nation's military secrets for profit.\"",
"Gowadia worked as an engineer with Northrop Grumman Corporation for about 17 years, according to evidence at his trial.",
"There he helped develop features for the B-2 Spirit Bomber, also known as the \"Stealth Bomber.\"",
"Between July 2003 and June 2005, Gowadia made six trips to China to provide design, data analysis and test support services needed to develop a stealthy exhaust nozzle for a cruise missile system, according his trial evidence.",
"Prosecutors said Gowadia pocketed at least $110,000 from China.",
"A federal jury in Honolulu convicted Gowadia last August.",
"Last Friday, a Michigan man was sentenced to a four-year prison term for conspiring to provide national defense information to Chinese intelligence officials, according to the Justice Department.",
"Glenn Duffie Shriver, 28, pleaded guilty in October to one count of conspiracy."
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"Noshir Gowadia was convicted in August and sentenced Monday to 32 years in jail .",
"The Maui, Hawaii, engineer helped design the \"Stealth Bomber\"\nProsecutors said he was paid at least $110,000 for the information ."
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"(CNN) -- The stepmother of 10-year-old Zahra Baker told police the girl was killed two weeks before she was reported missing, according to search warrants released Tuesday.",
"Stepmother Elisa Baker also told police in Hickory, North Carolina, that the disabled girl's body was disposed of the next day, September 25, in various locations, according to the documents.",
"She told police on November 19 that the girl's father, Adam Baker, dismembered the girl, and the couple disposed of the remains.",
"While Elisa Baker has been charged with obstruction of justice -- for writing a fake ransom note and leaving it at the family's Hickory home -- no one has been charged directly in the girl's death.",
"Elisa Baker also is accused of writing worthless checks.",
"Police have said she had been cooperating with investigators.",
"One of the search warrants details an online conversation a web user said she had with Adam and/or Elisa Baker \"regarding their involvement with chainsaw massacre role-playing.\"",
"According to the warrant, \"the date of September 22 was given regarding their virtual family 'doing a murder with chainsaws.'\"",
"Elisa Baker's former husband also was involved in role-playing, according to the conversation.",
"Catawba Superior Court Judge Robert C. Ervin released the 30 search warrants that provide more insight into the grisly killing of the freckled-face girl, who lost part of her left leg at age 5 to cancer.",
"Eleven search warrants were released in December.",
"Police found some of Zahra Baker's remains on November 11, just over a month after she was reported her missing.",
"In October, Adam Baker, who denied he was involved in Zahra's disappearance, tearfully called for the return of his daughter.",
"Investigators reviewed Adam Baker's cell phone records and the phone's GPS locator from September 25, the warrants say.",
"According to those records, Adam Baker's phone was not in the areas where Zahra's remains were found on the day that Elisa Baker said he disposed of them, the warrants say.",
"Elisa Baker's cell phone records indicate that her phone was in those areas on that day, the warrants say.",
"According to the warrants, Elisa Baker told Adam Baker that a man she said was her brother actually was her husband.",
"She married Adam Baker before the divorce, police said.",
"CNN left messages Tuesday evening with the attorneys for Elisa and Adam Baker.",
"In one of the search warrants released in December, a tipster told police that Zahra had been at a North Carolina home with two men and one of the men said \"he had done something very bad and needed to leave town.\"",
"One of the men was associated with Zahra's stepmother but was not Zahra's father, the tipster said.",
"The tipster also told police that Zahra had been raped by both men and that she had blood on her private area and legs, the search warrant said.",
"The tipster told police that he got the information about the alleged rape from a friend who was told about it from his sister.",
"Police went to the home to see if they could confirm the fourth-hand information and found a mattress at the side of the house that \"had a large dark stain in the middle,\" the search warrant said.",
"The tipster said the men did not admit to killing the girl but did say that they \"might have hit her in the head,\" the search warrant said.",
"Adam Baker was arrested in late October in nearby Catawba County on eight charges: five counts of writing bad checks and three counts of failing to appear in court.",
"Authorities said the charges were unrelated to Zahra's disappearance, and he was later released on bail.",
"The disappearance of Zahra made international news.",
"The girl, whose biological parents were both from Australia, lost part of her left leg at age 5 and lost hearing in both ears while being treated for cancer."
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"MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Authorities captured four suspects who allegedly participated in the ambush and killing of 12 federal police officers last week in southwestern Mexico, the state-run news agency Notimex said.",
"Police present suspected drug dealer Jose Alberto Lopez Barron to the media Wednesday in Mexico City.",
"The arrests follow a deployment of federal police that nearly quadrupled the number of forces in the state of Michoacan, which has recently been a flashpoint in the government's battle against drug trafficking.",
"Among those arrested was Jose Alberto Lopez Barron, who had a handgun that was traced to one of the slain officers, federal police said at a news conference, Notimex reported.",
"The other three alleged drug cartel members -- Gamaliel Rodriguez Granados, Evaristo Armas Bello and Jaime Rafael Navarro -- were captured aboard a taxi in a town in Michoacan, Notimex said.",
"All are believed to have taken direct orders from the boss of the La Familia Michoacana cartel, a group that has become exceedingly violent in recent months, Notimex said.",
"The 12 slain off-duty police officers were found on the side of a remote highway July 14.",
"The killings were among a series of reprisals by La Familia after the federal police captured one of their top leaders, authorities said."
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"Suspects believed to have taken orders from boss of La Familia Michoacana cartel .",
"Report: Police say Jose Alberto Lopez Barron had gun traced to a slain officer .",
"Killings among series of reprisals by La Familia after capture of one of their leaders ."
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"MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Suspected drug cartel leaders in Mexico don't often answer reporters' questions, although one did call a radio station a few days ago to offer the government a deal.",
"Police escort suspected drug cartel leader Jose Alberto Lopez Barron on Wednesday in Mexico City.",
"So it was rather unusual for Jose Alberto Lopez Barron to speak to journalists shouting at him during a police lineup Wednesday, opening up a new window on how his reputed cartel operates.",
"Lopez Barron was arrested this week in connection with the torture and killings of 12 federal police agents in Michoacan state July 13.",
"Mexican federal officials say Lopez Barron, also known as \"El Gordo,\" is one of the top leaders of La Familia Michoacana, a drug cartel blamed for a rash of violence that has left at least 18 federal agents and two soldiers dead since July 11.",
"Speaking in a calm manner, Lopez Barron said that even if the cartel acted outside the law, it operates in an orderly manner and under rules that not only cartel members have to obey, but also residents in Arteaga, one of the cities the cartel controls.",
"\"You can't go around shooting off guns,\" Lopez Barron said.",
"\"You can't go around killing people, not only us but for the whole town.",
"You can't speed in your vehicle.",
"You can't traffick any kinds of drugs without telling us first.\"",
"Anyone who wants to sell drugs, he said, has to go through the Familia Michoacana.",
"\"It has to be the company's merchandise,\" Lopez Barron said.",
"\"He has someone there who I believe is in charge of distributing cocaine.\"",
"Cocaine can be sold retail, he said, but not methamphetamine, known as crystal or ice, since La Familia has prohibited it in the whole state.",
"Lopez Barron said his direct boss was Servando Gomez, known as \"La Tuta.\"",
"Authorities said Gomez is La Familia Michoacana's top leader.",
"Gomez went on a radio show recently to offer a truce with the federal government.",
"Mexican President Felipe Calderon quickly answered that the government does not make pacts with criminal organizations.",
"Lopez Barron said authorities have tried to capture Gomez but local residents have protected him.",
"\"Elements from the federal investigations agency arrived in town -- I wouldn't know the exact number of agents -- and we had to leave town for the hills.",
"We arrived at a small ranch called La Peña, and they gave us nourishment and refuge.\"",
"The suspect said municipal authorities respect the cartel and it respects the local police.",
"He said that although the sale of drugs has diminished, the cartel has not stopped paying local police for protection.",
"Lopez Barron was one of four suspects arrested this week in connection the slayings of the 12 federal agents in southwestern Mexico.",
"Officials said he had a handgun that was traced to one of the slain officers.",
"The other three suspects -- Gamaliel Rodriguez Granados, Evaristo Armas Bello and Jaime Rafael Navarro -- were captured inside a taxi in a town in Michoacan, officials said.",
"The killings were among a series of reprisals by La Familia after the federal police captured one of their top leaders, authorities said."
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"Mexican officials: Lopez Barron a top leader of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel .",
"\"You can't go around shooting off guns,\" suspect tells reporters .",
"Anyone who wants to sell drugs has to go through cartel, Lopez Barron says ."
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"(CNN) -- Dutch midfielder Mark van Bommel joined Serie A leaders AC Milan on Tuesday after Bayern Munich agreed to release the 33-year-old from his contract.",
"The former Barcelona player's contract at the German champions was due to expire in June, but Bayern have allowed their captain to make the switch to Milan with immediate effect.",
"\"Mark formally requested to be released from his contract before its expiry date for professional and career reasons,\" club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge told Bayern's website.",
"\"Mark has always been a model professional, an important and successful player for Bayern and an outstanding club captain.",
"On the basis of his service to the club, we have granted Mark's request.\"",
"Van Bommel, who has signed a contract with Milan until the end of June, will head to the San Siro with the Rossoneri four-points clear at the top of Italy's Serie A after Sunday's 2-0 win over Cesena.",
"\"I leave FC Bayern with a heavy heart,\" Van Bommel said.",
"\"I've had four and a half wonderful and successful years here, and I'd expressly like to thank the club and the fans for that.",
"FC Bayern will always occupy a big place in my heart.\"",
"Former Netherlands captain Van Bommel made 122 Bundesliga appearances for Bayern and also led his country to the 2010 FIFA World Cup final, where they lost 1-0 to Spain.",
"Another Dutchman set for a transfer is Liverpool forward Ryan Babel, who has completed a move to Hoffenheim in Germany.",
"The English Premier League club confirmed the news on their website.",
"Hoffenheim, currently eighth in Germany's top flight, had an offer accepted for the 24-year-old six days ago.",
"Babel, who has 38 caps for the Netherlands, joined Liverpool from Dutch outfit Ajax in 2007."
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"Mark van Bommel has signed for Serie A leaders AC Milan from Bayern Munich .",
"Bayern have allowed Van Bommel to leave his contract early to move to the San Siro .",
"Liverpool's Ryan Babel is set for a move to Hoffenheim after the two club's agreed a fee ."
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"(CNN) -- Jhonattan Vegas has made history at the Bob Hope Classic, winning a three-man play-off on the Palmer course at La Quinta to become the first Venezuelan in history to claim a PGA Tour title.",
"The 26-year-old Vegas, who was making just his fifth appearance on tour, made a 13-foot par putt on the second play-off hole to defeat Gary Woodland, after defending champion Bill Haas had been eliminated on the first play-off hole.",
"After missing a nine-foot putt that would have secured victory on the final hole of regulation play, Vegas then improbably became the first rookie to win the 52-year-old tournament with a spectacular up-and-down after knocking his 92nd tee shot into the water 160-yards from the hole.",
"\"Just to think about winning on the PGA Tour, that's one thing,\" Vegas told the official PGA Tour website.",
"\"But to actually make it happen -- that is something else, and it's a crazy feeling,\" he added.",
"\"I hope this means a lot to my country.",
"I really hope it means people changing their minds about the sport,\" continued Vegas -- who collected a near $1m winner's cheque as well as a two-year Tour exemption and an invitation to the Masters in April.",
"Vegas' win is expected to boost his desire to revive golf in Venezuela, where President Hugo Chavez has decried the sport as a pastime of the rich and has closed six courses in seven years.",
"\"I hope Venezuelans know about the story and that it is possible to get to the PGA Tour and win,\" Vegas added.",
"\"I hope people realize that all over the world.\"",
"Haas, who was trying to become the first back-to-back Bob Hope champion since Johnny Miller in 1976, fired a final round 66 in the 90-hole tournament.",
"That meant he finished level with Vegas and Woodland, who both carded 69s, on a 27-under-par total of 233."
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"Jhonattan Vegas, 26, makes history by winning the Bob Hope Classic .",
"The victory means Vegas becomes the first Venezuelan to win a PGA Tour event .",
"Vegas defeats Gary Woodland and defending champion Bill Haas in a play-off .",
"The win means Vegas has a two-year Tour exemption and an invitation to The Masters ."
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"(CNN) -- Inter Milan's faultless record under new coach Leonardo came to an abrupt halt on Sunday as the reigning Serie A champions lost 3-1 to Udinese.",
"Inter were on course for their sixth straight win since the Brazilian took over from Rafa Benitez in December when Dejan Stankovic gave them the lead after a quarter of an hour.",
"But Udinese struck back almost immediately with goals from Cristian Zapata after 20 minutes and Antonio Di Natale five minutes later.",
"Maurizio Domizzi added the home side's third in the 69th minute leaving Inter too much to do in the final 20 minutes of the match.",
"The result means Udinese stay in eighth place, but are now only one point behind Palermo.",
"Inter remain in fifth with 35 points.",
"Rivals AC Milan moved four points clear at the top of the league as they beat Cesena 2-0 at the San Siro.",
"An own goal by Cesena defender Pellegrino at the end of the first half gave Milan the lead.",
"The Rossoneri had several chances to wrap up the match in the second half with Robinho going close twice, but it was left to the ever dependable Ibrahimovic to make sure of the points as he slotted home from a tight angle in injury time.",
"Cesena ninth away defeat of the season means they remain in 18th place with 19 points.",
"Napoli moved up to second behind leaders Milan after a 2-0 win at Bari.",
"Argentina's Ezequiel Lavezzi put Napoli ahead after 38 minutes with a well-taken free-kick.",
"Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani made sure of three points shortly before the end scoring his 14th goal of the season.",
"Lazio failed to make up any ground on Milan after slumping to a shock 3-1 defeat at Bologna.",
"Lazio took the lead in the fifth minute thanks to Sergio Floccari, but Gaston Ramirez leveled the scores half an hour later.",
"Three minutes later the home side were ahead as striker Marco Di Vaio carved through the Lazio defense before finishing neatly.",
"Di Vaio scored his 13th goal of the season and his team's third in injury time at the end of the match.",
"Juventus stay in sixth place, now on the same points as Inter, after a 0-0 draw at Sampdoria.",
"There were no goals between Chievo and Genoa either as both teams looked to escape the bottom half of the table.",
"There was also stalemate in the match between Fiorentina and Lecce which finished 1-1.",
"David Di Michele opened the scoring for Lecce after 29 minutes only for Alberto Gilardino to cancel it our with a header in the 56th minute."
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"Leonardo suffers first defeat in six games as Inter lose 3-1 to Udinese .",
"Milan goes four points clear at top of Serie A after a 2-0 win over Cesena .",
"Napoli move up to second after a 2-0 win at Bari ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Miriam Regalado sued her employer for alleged gender discrimination.",
"Three weeks later, the company fired her fiancé, citing \"performance issues.\"",
"The couple then sued, claiming job retaliation for the original complaint aimed specifically at the man.",
"On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a unanimous ruling favoring the couple and concluding that federal protections can include third-party victims of retaliation.",
"In an 8-0 ruling, the high court said Eric Thompson had \"standing\" to file his own lawsuit to address the injuries he said he suffered as a result of the retaliation.",
"\"Accepting the facts as alleged, Thompson is not an accidental victim of the retaliation -- collateral damage, so to speak of the employer's unlawful act,\" Justice Antonin Scalia said.",
"\"To the contrary, injuring him was the employer's intended means of harming Regalado.\"",
"The decision allows Thompson to continue his lawsuit against Kentucky-based North American Stainless.",
"The case began when Regalado, one of just a few female engineers at the plant, filed a gender discrimination claim in February 2003.",
"She alleged that male supervisors treated her unfairly.",
"Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits companies from retaliating against workers who report discrimination based on sex, race or religion.",
"Three weeks after the complaint was filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Thompson was dismissed from his job as a metallurgical engineer.",
"He then filed his own separate retaliation claim.",
"Lower federal courts were divided over whether he could pursue such a lawsuit.",
"A federal appeals court in Cincinnati, Ohio, ultimately dismissed the case, concluding that Thompson did not himself engage in any \"statutorily protected activity,\" such as protesting his fiancée's treatment or assisting in her complaint.",
"Thompson and Regalado are now married.",
"There was no immediate comment from them or the company to the ruling.",
"The Obama administration had supported Thompson, and then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan had filed supporting legal briefs in the appeal last year.",
"She has since been named the Supreme Court and recused herself from the case to avoid an appearance of conflict.",
"At oral arguments last month, both the company and the couple agreed that Regalado had the right to file her lawsuit alleging that Thompson's firing was retaliation.",
"The company denied the specific claims and said Thompson himself could not bring the separate lawsuit.",
"Scalia, in an eight-page opinion, concluded that the case for Thomspon was clear-cut.",
"The anti-retaliation provision in Title VII is \"worded broadly,\" he said.",
"\"We think it obvious that a reasonable worker might be dissuaded from engaging in protected activity if she knew that her fiancé would be fired.\"",
"In a concurring opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg added a \"fortifying observation\": that Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rules clearly give Thompson -- even though he was not married to Regalado -- the right to press his allegations in court.",
"Ginsburg has long been a champion of gender equality on the job.",
"She issued a famous dissent in 2007 after the high court dismissed a workplace discrimination lawsuit by tire manager Lily Ledbetter.",
"She alleged being paid less than her male counterparts for equal work over about two decades but did not find out about the discrimination until she was about to retire.",
"President Obama, in the first bill he signed when taking office in 2009, signed the Lily Ledbetter Act into law.",
"It nullified the high court decision and said every new paycheck received over the years based on a discriminatory act -- regardless of when the first discrimination occurred -- would extend the statute of limitations 180 days.",
"The current case is Thompson v. North American Stainless, LP (09-291)."
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"Eric Thompson was fired after his fiancée alleged sex discrimination .",
"Plaintiff was clearly \"collateral damage\" of employer's act, Scalia writes .",
"Court ruled 8-0 that Thompson has standing to sue for retaliation .",
"Employment rules clearly favor Thompson, Ginsburg writes ."
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"London (CNN) -- Modern European football has become almost synonymous with precocious millionaire players who lead lavish \"bling\" lifestyles and attract wages that would make even Wall Street bankers blush.",
"But there was a time when soccer was a career driven more by love than financial reward.",
"Rewind to 1961 and salaries for even the most famous footballers were low, as the English game was constricted by a law that limited the weekly wage to a maximum of just $31 (£20).",
"It is 50 years since Jimmy Hill -- a dashing midfielder for first division side Fulham and the head of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) -- won his fight against what he perceived as an \"injustice.\"",
"And when he successfully convinced the British Ministry of Labour to scrap the cap, it would change the footballing landscape for ever.",
"His victory saw the English league go on to pioneer an approach that harnessed aggressive global marketing to prompt skyrocketing revenue and, in turn, an explosion in players' wages.",
"Soon after the ruling Hill's team-mate Johnny Haynes became the first ever £100-a-week player.",
"His chairman Tommy Trindle said at the time: \"Johnny Haynes is a top entertainer and will be paid as one from now on.\"",
"It was such a large sum that Haynes' pay packet was twice the size of a cabinet minister and was even discussed in the Houses of Parliament.",
"Wages rose steadily through the century but it was the creation of the Premier League in 1992 and the resulting cash boom that prompted an unprecedented spike in salaries.",
"Clubs enjoyed bountiful revenues from lucrative television and sponsorship deals allowing players to cash in.",
"Other leagues in Europe quickly followed suit.",
"The overseas broadcasting rights for 2010-13 alone netted the Premier League $2.2bn, while the winners of the European Champions League, which was also revamped in 1992, can claim up to $46 million.",
"As prize money climbed clubs spent huge amounts chasing success, with most of their income going straight back out on spiraling wages.",
"Nowadays, the English game's highest paid player is said to be Argentina striker Carlos Tevez, who pockets around $450,000-a-week from Manchester City, according to the Daily Mail, while Lionel Messi of Barcelona came top of France Football magazine's 2009 rich list, making $47 million in salary and endorsements.",
"However, despite the game being richer than ever before, more than half of Europe's top clubs recorded a loss in 2009 with some even spending 100% of their income on salaries alone.",
"And even though football proved relatively immune to the recent global downturn, losses are rising, Manchester City posting a $148 million deficit in 2009.",
"But could this era of huge player wages be about to end?",
"The game's European governing body, UEFA, has long been concerned with cash-rich clubs like City, Chelsea and Real Madrid launching huge spending drives to snare a crop of the world's best talent on mega salaries.",
"Now they are seeking to combat a rising sea of debt by introducing new regulations under the banner of \"Financial fair play.\"",
"The simple premise is that all European clubs must break even from the start of the 2012-13 season -- and will only be allowed to spend a certain percentage of their profits.",
"Any club falling outside the rules could be expelled from European competitions and cut off from lucrative revenue streams.",
"The Premier League's chief executive has called the rules a \"'soft salary cap\" and is keen to make sure they don't curb the ability to attract the best talent.",
"Richard Scudamore thinks UEFA is \"too sensible\" to follow through on their threat of issuing bans.",
"\"It's more about taking the steam out of the system and acting as a speed bump rather than about barring clubs,\" he said.",
"\"No one in football is proud of the kind of wage inflation we've experienced, but equally we mustn't do anything that dampens the international appeal of our league.\"",
"According to Stefan Syzmanski, professor of economics at Cass Business School in London, the plans will not stem the rise and rise of players' wages.",
"He told CNN: \"Often it's put to me that the bubble is about to burst and for 20 years I've been saying 'No, there's no reason for it to burst,' and I still don't see any reason.",
"\"The amount people are willing to pay depends on their income so if you expect economic growth in general to go on increasing I expect wages to generally go on increasing.",
"\"All the money that feeds into football clubs from fans paying to watch the games live or on television or through merchandise, feeds through to players' salaries -- clubs just pass it on.\"",
"Even returning Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish has called today's wage levels \"astronomical\" yet he believes most fans don't begrudge players the vast sums they earn.",
"Though previous governments have expressed their concerns at wage levels, any attempt to reintroduce a wage cap, or a higher tax rate for players, would most likely end up in court, Syzmanski says.",
"Despite several clubs sinking into administration very few go out of business and while fans often bemoan the gathering debts at their club, Syzmanski says very few consider the alternative.",
"He said: \"If a football club is making money where would that money go?",
"Well, it's not going to be given back to fans that's for sure.",
"\"I would have thought it's much better to see the fans' money going into buying players, paying wages and throwing the dice because sport is inherently a risky activity, it's a gamble on success.",
"\"Frankly, that's what makes it attractive, so far from actually wanting this kind of merry-go-round to come to an end, actually once clubs cease to take risks we would all find football rather dull and boring.\"",
"As for Jimmy Hill, now 82-years-old, his former club Coventry City are still $12,000 short of the $239,000 they need to build a statue of their ex-chairman outside their ground.",
"Perhaps the next time a player like Wayne Rooney agrees a bumper new deal, he should consider making up the shortfall to honor the man who laid the foundations for his path to riches."
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"Barcelona star Lionel Messi is the biggest earner, making $47 million in 2009 .",
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"Football finance expert says as long as economies continue to grow so will players' wages ."
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"(CNN) -- The Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers will contest Super Bowl XLV after securing narrow victories in the NFC and AFC championship games Sunday night.",
"The Packers beat the Chicago Bears 21-14 to claim the NFC title, with the Steelers joining them in grid-iron's showpiece game with a later 24-19 defeat of the New York Jets to claim the AFC honors.",
"The pair will meet at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Texas on Sunday February 6 with the Packers playing their first Super Bowl in 13 years.",
"\"This is a dream come true, incredible feeling.",
"I am at a loss for words,\" Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers told the official NFL website.",
"Rodgers scored a touchdown on the first drive of the game and B.J.",
"Raji later crossed on a 18-yard interception return to put Green Bay 21-7 ahead.",
"Chicago's starting quarterback Jay Cutler struggled to make any impression as he was hampered by a knee injury.",
"Third string Caleb Hanie took up the mantle and set up Chester Taylor for their first touchdown, but it was his mistake that allowed lineman Raji to lumber into the endzone.",
"Hanie then picked out Earl Bennett to cut Green Bay's lead to seven points with nearly five minutes left on the clock, but he was again intercepted and the Packers held on.",
"The Steelers, inspired by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, later sealed their third visit to the Super Bowl in eight years and eighth overall, but like the Packers had to survive nervous late moments.",
"Rashard Mendenhall, who ran for 121 yards, scored their opening touchdown with Roethlisberger and William Gay also crossing as they built a 24-0 lead.",
"The Jets battled back behind their star quarterback Mark Sanchez, who threw a pair of second half touchdown passes, the latter to Jerricho Cotchery that pulled them to 24-19 with just over three minutes left.",
"But Roethlisberger made sure the Steelers kept their lead as he connected with Heath Miller and Antonio Brown to seal a memorable victory."
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"Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers reach Super Bowl XLV .",
"The Packers see off old rivals Chicago Bears 21-14 in NFC championship game .",
"Pittsburgh beat New York Jets 24-19 to claim AFC title .",
"Dallas hosts NFL's showpiece game on Sunday February 6 ."
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"(RollingStone.com) -- Canada's broadcast regulator, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, has put pressure on the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council to reconsider its decision to ban Dire Straits' 1985 hit \"Money for Nothing\" from Canadian airwaves for including an anti-gay slur.",
"The CRTC received more then 250 complaints about the CBSC's decision to remove the song, which is a long-established staple of rock radio stations.",
"Many of the complaints were understandably confused about the distinction between the two organizations: The CRTC is a federal watchdog agency and the CBSC is a non-government industry group set up by private broadcasters to set ethical standards.",
"RollingStone.com: This week in photos .",
"Confusion about the authority of the CBSC has led to uncertainty about how to enforce the ruling among many Canadian radio stations.",
"The CBSC's regional panel had only sanctioned the station in St. John's, Newfoundland where the original complaint about the song originated.",
"The CRTC has sent a letter urging the CBSC to more thoughtfully examine the artistic intent of the Dire Straits tune, taking into account that it has been played countless times over the past 25 years.",
"See the original article at RollingStone.com .",
"Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"Canadian Federal Watchdog urging council to reconsider ban of Dire Straits song .",
"1985 hit \"Money for Nothing\" banned from airwaves for including anti-gay slur .",
"CRTC received more then 250 complaints about the CBSC's decision ."
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"(CNN) -- The brother of a woman who prosecutors say died during complications from an abortion at a Pennsylvania medical clinic hopes the doctor who performed allegedly illegal procedures will never practice again.",
"\"We want justice, this doctor has to be out of that clinic or he should not be treating anybody,\" Damber Ghalley told CNN Monday, referring to his sister, 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar.",
"\"And the things that happen to my sister, I don't want to happen to anybody in the future.\"",
"Dr. Kermit Gosnell is charged with seven first-degree murder charges related to the deaths of seven viable babies, and one third-degree murder in the death of Mongar.",
"He is being held without bail.",
"Mongar died November 20, 2009, after overdosing on anesthetics prescribed by the doctor, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said.",
"Williams called the facility \"a house of horrors\" that performed \"botched and illegal abortions\" and that was full of containers of fetuses' body parts.",
"Ghalley agreed, telling CNN \"the clinic was so dirty, filthy with blood stains and a dirty floor, everywhere dirty, I cannot describe how dirty it was.\"",
"Mongar's family filed a lawsuit last week against Gosnell's practice seeking damages, the family's attorney, Bernard Smalley, said.",
"\"It's unforgettable, my sister will never come back and it's sad,\" Ghalley said.",
"\"All the happiness is gone, they miss their mother every day and night,\" Ghalley said, referring to Mongar's four children.",
"Born in Bhutan, Mongar spent 18 years living in a bamboo hut in a Nepalese refugee camp before coming to the United States in July 2009 as part of a humanitarian resettlement program, Smalley said.",
"The mother of four and grandmother of one was 19 weeks into her pregnancy when, after getting a referral from a Washington, D.C., medical clinic, she went to Gosnell's practice.",
"There, Smalley said, \"an unlicensed high school student\" -- who got instructions from Gosnell over a cell phone -- gave the woman anesthesia, and there was no equipment to resuscitate her once things went wrong.",
"\"These children have to grow up without their mother, you have a husband who is going to have to go on without his wife,\" Smalley said of Mongar's family.",
"\"There will be justice at the end of the day, but at what price?",
"They've lost a loved one who can never come back.\"",
"Gosnell is next scheduled to appear in court on February 9."
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"Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell is being held on eight murder charges .",
"Seven are for the deaths of viable babies, one is for 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar .",
"\"It's unforgettable.",
"My sister will never come back,\" says Mongar's brother .",
"Gosnell headed an abortion clinic where Mongar was treated ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- The wisdom of business professors, once only available to MBAs and business students, can now be accessed by anybody with an Internet connection.",
"At HEC Paris, MBA students are given an iPod Touch so they can download podcasts of lectures.",
"Hundreds of universities, and a growing number of business schools, are making recordings of lectures, seminars and conferences available to the general public via Web sites such as iTunes and YouTube.",
"Leading business schools including University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Fuqua School of Business, and Yale School of Management make course content available for download through iTunes University (iTunes U), part of the of the iTunes online store.",
"That means those whose budget won't stretch to a two-year MBA can simulate the experience at home -- or at work, in the gym or anywhere else they choose.",
"And even better for money-conscious learners, the iTunes U content can all be downloaded free of charge.",
"French business school HEC Paris is due to launch its iTunes U content in the next few months, but it has been running an ambitious podcast program since 2006.",
"Begun as an experiment in partnership with Apple, all new MBAs at HEC are provided with an iPod Touch.",
"Around half of the MBA lectures are filmed using an automatic camera system and the footage is made available for students to download and view on their iPhones.",
"Vanessa Klein, HEC's project manager for iTunes U, told CNN that the iPod-enabled curriculum has proved a hit with students.",
"As well watching lectures, she said the students' own presentations are recorded and made available for download so they can review their performance.",
"She says one teacher noticed that each year his MBA students would ask the same questions after his end-of-course summary, so he made a podcast of recurring questions and answers.",
"After encouraging students to come up with new questions, he is now recording responses to those in an effort to compile a video archive of questions and answers.",
"Read more business features .",
"Klein says that by making lectures available via iTunes U, HEC wants to be at the forefront of providing content for the rest of the world, but she acknowledges that the technology is also a great way to promote the business school.",
"\"It's a good marketing tool, not as publicity but to really show people what we are providing,\" she told CNN.",
"\"You can watch a lecture, learn a lot and think 'I wish I could be there.'",
"The idea is to show what you could learn if you were at this place.\"",
"YouTube EDU was launched in March this year and hosts the YouTube channels of hundreds of universities.",
"Earlier this month it added content from 45 universities in Europe and Israel and now holds videos of lectures and discussions provided by business schools including INSEAD, ESCP Europe and University of California Haas School of Business.",
"Launched at the same time as YouTube EDU, Academic Earth hosts videos from U.S. universities including Harvard, Yale and Princeton, although the business content is provided almost exclusively by Stanford University.",
"Offering less audio/visual content, but still full of business school information, MIT's Open Course Ware site gives free access to almost all MIT course content, including extensive lecture notes, assignments and exams from MIT's Sloan School of Management.",
"Interested in the \"Advanced Topics in Real Estate Finance?\"",
"You can download the complete lecture notes from Sloan's 2007 course on the subject at MIT's Open Course Ware site.",
"Other universities have their own Open Course Ware sites and the Open Course Ware Consortium has been set up as an agglomerator site, providing content from more over 200 higher education institutions.",
"But it's iTunes U that's generating the most interest.",
"The University of Oxford says there have been more than one million downloads from its iTunes U site, while Stanford University says its course on creating iPhone applications was downloaded more than one million times in just seven weeks.",
"This week's most popular business download on iTunes U is a University of Oxford lecture called \"Entrepreneurship and the Ideal Business Plan.\"",
"It may not get as many downloads as Michael Jackson's posthumous single, but it should prove more useful when it comes to getting a business off the ground."
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"YouTube EDU, iTunes University and Academic Earth all host free lectures .",
"At HEC Paris, students can download lectures and Q&A sessions .",
"MIT's Open Course Ware site gives free access to MIT course content ."
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"(CNN) -- Mirko Vucinic and Rodrigo Taddei scored second half goals as AS Roma beat Juventus 2-0 in the quarterfinals of the Coppa Italia Thursday night.",
"Montenegro's Vucinic struck in the 65th minute while Taddei sealed Roma's passage to the semifinals in added time.",
"The victory in Turin earns Roma a clash with holders Inter Milan, while Palermo will face AC Milan in the other two-legged last four encounter.",
"It was the seventh win in eight matches for Claudio Ranieri's improving side, who have moved up to a challenging third in Serie A behind leaders Milan.",
"But it was a sorry defeat for sliding Juve with a Europa League place for the winners of the domestic cup at stake.",
"Vucinic scored after taking a pass from Daniele De Rossi and Taddei produced an acrobatic finish for the second.",
"AC Milan beat Sampdoria 2-1 in their quarterfinal on Wednesday to stay on course for the treble.",
"They face Tottenham Hotspur in the last 16 of the Champions League next month.",
"Inter won 5-4 on penalties away at Napoli after the match had finished 0-0, as they continue their unlikely bid to emulate the treble achieved under Jose Mourinho last season.",
"Palermo were the first to make the last four on Tuesday when they beat Parma, also 5-4 on penalties."
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"(CNN) -- The news was devastating, the aftermath surreal.",
"Somer Thompson, 7, went missing Monday on her way home from school.",
"Diena Thompson clutched a tissue in her right hand, frequently wiping her eyes as she told reporters that she couldn't believe it was her daughter whose body was found in a Georgia landfill.",
"Her visage revealed the weight of grief and a yearning for justice.",
"Standing outside her home in Orange Park, Florida, Thompson looked into the camera and, with her voice cracking, sent out a stern warning to her daughter's killer.",
"\"I want you to know that I will not sleep until this person is found.",
"I hope they get you and I hope they make you pay for a long, long time.",
"You don't take from somebody.",
"You didn't just take her from me. You took her from my family, you took her from all these people.",
"And you don't do this to a little baby and put my baby in the trash like she's nothing.",
"That's not OK, this is not OK.\" Watch Thompson warn her daughter's killer » .",
"The body of her daughter, 7-year-old Somer Thompson, was found in a south Georgia landfill, Clay County, Florida, Sheriff Rick Beseler said Thursday morning.",
"Authorities on Friday were combing were through a \"tremendous mountain\" of garbage at the landfill, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.",
"Some possible evidence has been removed from the landfill, but authorities won't describe what they found, said Mary Justino of the Clay County Sheriff's Department.",
"Police have no suspects, she said.",
"She said other law enforcement teams are focusing on the locale where the child apparently was last seen.",
"Justino said witnesses, including some children, saw her on the sidewalk in front of a vacant house that is being renovated after a fire.",
"\"Since Monday, we have been trying to figure out who frequents that area,\" including anyone working on the home, she said.",
"Authorities are treating the death as a homicide.",
"Somer became separated from her siblings and schoolmates on her way home from school in Orange Park, Florida, on Monday.",
"She was seen in a fight at school before she disappeared, according to a police report released Thursday.",
"Her 10-year-old sister told police that Somer had gotten into a fight with another girl at school earlier in the day.",
"The sister said she brought up the fight while she and her brother walked Somer home from school, and that Somer ran off from them, apparently upset.",
"The sister said she lost sight of Somer in a group of other kids leaving the school, according to the police report.",
"The medical examiner in Savannah, Georgia, used dental records to positively identify the body as Somer's, said Clay County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Mary Justino.",
"Authorities now are turning their full attention to finding the child's killer.",
"Beseler held up a map dotted with markers as he said on CNN's \"American Morning\" that detectives have questioned more than 70 registered sex offenders or predators living within five square miles of Somer's home.",
"The landfill where her body was found is near Folkston, Georgia, 55 miles north of where the girl became separated from her schoolmates on her way home from school in Orange Park on Monday.",
"The sheriff told the girl's mother Wednesday night that her daughter had been identified.",
"Thompson, he said, was devastated.",
"\"It was the hardest phone call I've ever had to make in my life, and I hope I never have to make another one like that,\" Beseler said at a Thursday morning news conference.",
"Watch sheriff announce that girl's body identified » .",
"Authorities will work to pinpoint where the garbage load that contained the girl's body came from, Beseler said.",
"The garbage that was brought into that part of the landfill was collected in the Orange Park area, he had said Wednesday, noting that authorities routinely search garbage when a missing person case has been initiated.",
"The investigation has now turned into a murder probe.",
"\"There is a child killer on the loose,\" the sheriff said.",
"\"I fear for our community until we bring this person in.\"",
"Rewards totaling $30,000 have been offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible.",
"CNN's Maria P. White contributed to this report."
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"Somer Thompson was in fight at school on day she disappeared, police say .",
"\"I hope they get you\" is grieving mother's message to killer .",
"Girl's body found in landfill 55 miles north of town where she was last seen ."
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"(CNN) -- John P. Wheeler III, a former Pentagon official and the first chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, \"died as a result of blunt force trauma after being assaulted,\" the Delaware medical examiner's office said Friday.",
"A toxicology analysis also was done during the autopsy, but the results were not released.",
"Police are still trying to determine who committed the crime.",
"\"We don't know, ultimately, who was responsible for his death,\" said Lt. Mark Farrall spokesman for the Newark, Delaware, Police Department.",
"Wheeler's body was discovered New Year's Eve at Wilmington's Cherry Island landfill as a sanitation truck was unloading garbage it had picked up from metal trash bins in Newark.",
"Police say Wheeler was last seen in Wilmington at 8:42 p.m. on December 30, captured by a surveillance camera.",
"He appeared confused on video surveillance tape that showed him near the Nemours Building in Wilmington.",
"\"We don't know how he got to Newark,\" said Farrall.",
"\"We're still canvassing the area, conducting interviews, checking video surveillance.\"",
"A Wilmington parking lot attendant, Iman Goldsborough, noted Wheeler's strange appearance on December 29 when he stumbled into her garage.",
"\"It striked me as being odd because he had one shoe in his hand and no coat on,\" said Goldsborough.",
"Wheeler, 66, oversaw fundraising to construct the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.",
"He worked in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W.",
"Bush and George W. Bush.",
"From 2005 to 2008, he was a special assistant to the secretary of the Air Force.",
"At the time of his death, Wheeler was working as a part-time consultant for the MITRE Corp., a not-for-profit organization that provides systems engineering, research and development and information technology support to the federal government."
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"John Wheeler's body was found in a Delaware landfill on New Year's Eve .",
"Surveillance video showed him appearing to be confused ."
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"(CNN) -- A federal scuba-diving team conducting a training dive in a Miami canal last week made a grisly discovery -- a human skull, authorities said Tuesday.",
"The team was conducting routine training January 5 in the Palmetto Bay area when a diver discovered the skull in about 15 to 20 feet of water, said Nicole Navas, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.",
"An initial assessment by the Miami-Dade Police Department determined the skull probably belonged to a black male, 25 to 45 years old, Navas said.",
"The time and cause of death could not immediately be determined.",
"The Miami-Dade medical examiner's office took custody of the skull for investigation.",
"A spokesman for the medical examiner said that in addition to looking for evidence of homicide, suicide, accidental death or natural death, his examiners also will consult with a local expert on Afro-Caribbean religions.",
"\"Periodically, human skulls found in our jurisdiction are traced to Santeria or Palo Mayombe source,\" said spokesman Larry Cameron.",
"Published accounts say adherents of those religions have disinterred remains for religious rituals, and Cameron said customs officials at airport ports of entry sometimes discover skulls being brought in for that purpose.",
"\"In many of these cases identification is never made, and thus the skulls find a permanent home in our anthropology room,\" he said.",
"But, he said, \"at this point we have not proceeded real far with our investigation,\" and no possibility has been eliminated.",
"The discovery was disclosed Tuesday in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement news release summarizing the activities of the ICE Miami Tactical Dive Team, which assists in providing security on Florida waterways, aids in drug interdiction efforts and helps conduct underwater searches."
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"The skull was found during a training exercise in a Miami canal .",
"The medical examiner is looking into possible causes of death .",
"Some skulls are disinterred for use in Santeria and Palo Mayombe rituals, officials say ."
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"(CNN) -- As mass protests swept Egypt on Friday, the actions of two key institutions served as indicators for what lies ahead for the embattled regime: the military and the media.",
"President Hosni Mubarak deployed the Egyptian army for the first time to the streets to quell angry demonstrations against his authoritarian regime.",
"That's a sure sign of the government's desperation, according to experts on the region.",
"And for the first time, the state-run media didn't ignore the unrest or dump on the demonstrations as acts of terrorism in its usual manner.",
"That, too, say experts, was a key indicator that Mubarak could be facing trouble.",
"It's a given that the military, a pillar of Egyptian authority since a 1952 coup toppled the monarchy, holds the keys at this critical juncture.",
"Many feared that the army will silence the protesters with its firepower and tanks that are now out on the streets of Cairo and Alexandria.",
"But Edward Walker, a former U.S. ambassador to Egypt, said that a military crackdown would be a \"death knell not only to the military but the regime.\"",
"Such a crackdown didn't happen in nearby Tunisia, where the authoritarian ruler fled the nation, and it was hardly what happened in Egypt on Friday.",
"On the contrary, Egypt's 450,000-strong armed forces are well-established and respected by the people.",
"Journalists reported seeing protesters cheer army convoys as they drove into Cairo and Alexandria.",
"Some embraced the soldiers on the ground; they were seen as saviors from excessive police brutality.",
"To Mohammed el-Nawawy, a professor at Queens University in North Carolina, the fact that the military was called out Friday showed that Mubarak was desperate.",
"The all-important question is how loyal the armed forces will remain to the aging leader who has ruled Egypt with an iron fist for three decades.",
"Meanwhile, the state-controlled television network walked a tightrope Friday.",
"Early in the day, Nile TV began showing footage of the demonstrations of \"tens of thousands of people\" and reported the use of police tear gas.",
"It aired opposition leaders criticizing the government for shutting down the lines of communication.",
"Shawn Powers, a Georgia State University assistant professor who studies international media, said it was unusual for an arm of the government to even cover these events or portray them as anything but acts initiated by unsavory elements of society.",
"\"I'm amazed,\" Powers said of the coverage.",
"Even with social media and mobile phone messaging blocked, Egyptians could see events unfolding live on international networks including CNN.",
"The Egyptian media may have felt that they would lose all credibility with the people if they were to completely distort the story.",
"Ultimately, Powers said, he suspected fissures within Mubarak's ranks and said some in the government may be thinking of their own future in a nation barely holding back from the brink.",
"\"What we're seeing today is parts of the government feeling increasingly isolated from Mubarak or intentionally doing so to hold on to power after Mubarak goes,\" he said.",
"By the end of the day, however, Nile TV's coverage shifted, reverting to words like \"hooliganism\" and \"lawlessness\" to describe the demonstrations.",
"El-Nawawy, who has studied Egyptian media in depth, said Friday's media coverage could mean that Mubarak has no one left to blame, so he gave the protesters, many of whom are young people, a little wiggle room.",
"\"The state media is walking a fine line to give credit to the young people, but in the meantime, it has to justify intervention and crackdown,\" el-Nawawy said.",
"El-Nawawy said things will get really thorny if Egypt's impoverished masses join hands with the protesters -- believed to be largely from the educated middle classes -- and the demonstrations grow to even more chaotic proportions.",
"That's when the military and the state-run media will both have to come to terms with events in their country.",
"That's when Mubarak, el-Nawawy said, may realize that he can shut down Facebook but not the People's Book."
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"Mubarak called out the army Friday to help quell the protests .",
"The military will play a key role in what happens next .",
"In the past, the state-run media have ignored protests or downplayed them .",
"Friday, Nile TV showed the clashes but also justified the crackdown ."
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"(CNN) -- A statement purportedly released by a violent Mexican drug cartel promises a one-month extension to a truce it called for in December.",
"The Familia Michoacana cartel, which takes its name from the central-coastal state where it operates, signed the statement, which was circulated by e-mail on Sunday and published in its entirety on a blog dedicated to covering the drug wars.",
"Mexican authorities were not immediately available to comment on the authenticity of the communication.",
"The cartel accuses the federal police of committing abuses in the region and blaming them.",
"The authorities have attacked the cartel and any person caught in its path, be it civilians, women or children, the cartel alleges.",
"It also wishes the residents of Michoacan a happy new year.",
"The Familia Michoacana \"separates itself from any criminal act that occurred in the month of December 2010 that the federal authorities want to make us responsible for,\" the statement says.",
"A similar letter circulated last month offered a truce for the month of December, though that didn't mean the the month was without violence.",
"The Mexican government continued its operations against the cartel, killing one of its leaders, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, after two days of armed confrontations.",
"Five federal police officers and three civilians, including two minors, were killed in the operation, a national security spokesman said at the time.",
"Three members of La Familia Michoacana were killed and three others captured.",
"Authorities described a scene of heavy gunfire where cartel members set trucks and buses on fire on highways to block police from arriving.",
"Another cartel leader, Francisco Lopez Villanueva, alias \"El Bigote,\" was captured at the end of the month.",
"The truce will be extended another month \"to continue demonstrating to the authorities, federal government and above all the Michoacan residents that the Familia Michoacana is not guilty of all of the criminal acts that the authorities and federal government make public through the media,\" the statement says."
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"The Familia Michoacana is one of the most violence cartels in Mexico .",
"In a statement, the group says it will extend a truce for another month .",
"Police have not stopped going after the cartel ."
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"(CNN) -- The question may have been lost in translation, but a visibly angry Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bluntly told a town-hall meeting in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, \"I will you tell you my opinion, I'm not going to channel my husband.\"",
"Hillary Clinton became visibly angry after a translator asked what Bill Clinton would think regarding an issue.",
"The unscripted moment happened as Clinton spoke to students at a Congolese university in Kinshasa, the Congo capital.",
"A male student rose to ask a question about Chinese financial contracts with Congo.",
"The student asked Clinton what President Obama would think of the deal, but pool reporters in the room said the translator made a mistake, posing the question as what would Bill Clinton think.",
"Clinton looked surprised when she first heard the translation in the headset, and then sharply replied, \"You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?",
"My husband is not the secretary of state, I am.",
"You ask my opinion.",
"I will tell you my opinion; I'm not going to channel my husband.\"",
"Watch Clinton react to question » .",
"At the State Department, Assistant Secretary P.J.",
"Crowley said the question she heard \"struck a nerve,\" that her opinion on the matter was apparently of less interest than that of her husband, the former president.",
"Crowley told CNN that Clinton's answer must be considered in the context of her African trip.",
"\"The secretary of state is going to Goma Tuesday, to draw attention to the plight of women who are victims of rape as a weapon of war\" in Congo, Crowley said.",
"\"She did react to what she heard,\" Crowley explained, but regardless that the interpreter may have gotten it wrong, \"you can't separate the question from the setting.\"",
"He said \"If Africa, if Congo is going to advance, women have to play a more significant role.",
"She was in the setting of a town hall, and the questioner was interested in what two men thought, not the secretary of state.\"",
"Crowley, who has just returned to Washington after traveling with Clinton during the first part of her trip to Africa, said the State Department has not yet reviewed recordings of the original question, in French, to learn whether the student clearly intended the question to refer to Obama, not former President Clinton.",
"\"She did talk with the student afterward, and they seemed to have reached an understanding,\" Crowley said."
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"When translator posed question, they asked for Bill Clinton's thoughts .",
"Clinton responded: \"I will tell you my opinion; I'm not going to channel my husband\"\nState Department: Question \"struck a nerve,\" that her opinion was of less interest ."
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"(CNN) -- Occupants of three trucks were working together in northern Mexico trying to pull over a vehicle carrying an American missionary before one of them shot the woman in the head, police said Thursday.",
"An autopsy detailed Thursday indicated that Nancy Davis, 59, died a day earlier from a single gunshot wound to the back of her head, according to a statement from Pharr, Texas, Police Chief Ruben Villescas, who is working with U.S. and Mexican authorities on the case.",
"Earlier, police said that Davis and her husband were traveling in a truck on a Mexican highway near the city of San Fernando, Mexico, when they were confronted by gunmen in a black pickup.",
"San Fernando is south of the border city of Reynosa in Tamaulipas state.",
"On Thursday, Villescas added that the husband -- identified as Sam Davis by family friends -- told authorities \"the men in the black truck were working with two light-colored trucks that paralleled them (and were) trying to pull them over,\" the Pharr police statement said.",
"\"The gunmen were attempting to stop them and the victims accelerated in efforts of getting away from them,\" according to the earlier statement.",
"\"At a certain point the gunmen discharged a weapon at the victim's vehicle and a bullet struck the victim Nancy Shuman Davis on the head.\"",
"While noting they have not established a motive in this shooting, police pointed to past reports of \"criminal organizations operating on Mexican roads ... targeting 4-door pickup trucks and ...",
"SUVs.\" Villescas said that authorities don't know which criminal group, if any, is responsible for Davis' murder.",
"In Wednesday's incident, at least one other gunshot hit the victim's vehicle, which is now in the custody of Pharr police.",
"After Davis was hit, her husband drove their truck \"at high rate of speed\" to the Pharr International Bridge, which crosses the Rio Grande.",
"Nancy Davis was taken to a hospital in nearby McAllen, where she was pronounced dead about 90 minutes later.",
"The Texas Department of Public Safety, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the FBI and U.S. Customs and Border Protection are also assisting, police said.",
"The Mexican Interior Ministry said it, too, was investigating \"for the purpose of clarifying the facts and act accordingly to punish the person or persons responsible.\"",
"Merton Rundell, a professor in the missions department at Indiana's Union Bible College & Academy and a family friend, told CNN the couple had lived in Mexico since the 1970s and worked with the Gospel Proclaimers mission in Mexico.",
"Maryanne Wheeler, another friend who worked with the Davises in the 1990s, said Nancy Davis' death was a great loss.",
"\"They breathed Mexico,\" Wheeler said.",
"\"That's their love. \"For 40 years she has gone around Mexico, trying to be there as a nurse, a friend, as a spiritual adviser and has loved them.",
"They lost the best,\" she said.",
"\"They had a petite lady who had the tenacity of a bulldog and was there for you.\"",
"Wheeler said the couple had been shot at before and knew the dangers of the border area.",
"CNN's Sara Pratley, Anna Gonzalez and Nick Valencia and CNN Mexico's Krupskaia Alis contributed to this report ."
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"A U.S. missionary died in northern Mexico of one gunshot to the head, an autopsy reveals .",
"Gunmen in a black pickup were working with others in two other trucks, police say .",
"Nancy Davis and her husband had lived in Mexico since 1970s as missionaries .",
"\"They breathed Mexico.",
"That's their love,\" a friend said of the couple ."
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"San Diego, California (CNN) -- Even though they were stuck without air conditioning, hot showers and decent meals, some of the passengers who made it off a crippled Carnival Cruise Lines ship said Friday that they would go on a cruise again.",
"\"I'm so thankful that we're all alive,\" Leticia Lewis said on CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"\"I don't wish this experience on anyone.",
"It wasn't a wonderful event.",
"But I would take another one.\"",
"Amber Haslerud, another passenger, said her voyage on the ill-fated Carnival Cruise ship Splendor was her first cruise, and she would also go on another one.",
"\"I definitely would give it another go and try to get the experience I should have had this time,\" said Haslerud.",
"\"I deserve it after all that we went through this week.\"",
"The ship and its approximately 3,300 passengers arrived in San Diego on Thursday, four days after a fire in the engine room left the ship without air conditioning, hot showers or refrigeration one day into a scheduled seven-day cruise along the Mexican coast.",
"\"It was absolutely deplorable,\" passenger Marquis Horace said.",
"At one point, the ship ran out of food, he said, and \"they started making mayo sandwiches.\"",
"Passengers said they weren't told there was a fire until they left the ship.",
"Horace said the crew informed passengers only of \"a flameless fire.\"",
"Carnival spokeswoman Jennifer de la Cruz said officials initially spoke only of smoke because the crew couldn't get into the engine room to assess the situation.",
"Passengers were advised of the fire once it was confirmed, she said.",
"Maritime law doesn't require cruise lines to tell passengers about onboard problems, said Robert Jarvis, a professor of law at Nova Southern University in Fort Lauderdale, Flordia.",
"He said it sometimes makes sense to limit or delay the release of information to avoid a panic.",
"Carnival's position is to inform passengers any time an issue will affect their cruise, de la Cruz said.",
"The cruise line has said it plans to give customers who were aboard the Splendor a full refund, reimbursement for travel costs and a free cruise.",
"Natalie Martinez and Angela Evans are among those who said they would also go on another cruise.",
"But they said they would bring a survival kit with flashlights, chocolate and air freshener.",
"And \"I think we would wait a year,\" Martinez added..",
"Some passengers aren't sure if they'll cruise again.",
"Maurice Harold and his wife, Cynthia Harold, not only had to endure being adrift, they had to do so without some of their own clothes, medicines and other items lost when their luggage went into the water while being loaded onto the ship.",
"\"It was pretty traumatic.",
"It was a scary situation, said Cynthia Harold, who said she needs to use an oxygen machine while sleeping and was unable to after the ship lost power.",
"\"I really haven't slept since I left Virginia Beach,\" she said.",
"The couple said they were unsure of their next steps, adding that it all depends on how Carnival compensates them.",
"Others looked at the incident differently calling it an \"adventure.\"",
"\"A lot of things went wrong, but it was really fun,\" said one young passenger, Ryan Harlan, who was traveling with his parents.",
"\"We went to the Kids' Camp.\"",
"He said the Kids' Camp was, in fact, his favorite part, because he made some friends.",
"And the worst part?",
"\"Being stranded in the middle of the ocean,\" he said.",
"The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it was investigating the incident.",
"But later in the day the safety board said officials from Panama would lead the investigation because that is the country the vessel is flagged under.",
"The U.S. Coast Guard will also be part of the investigation, the transportation board said."
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"NEW: Maritime law gives crew discretion on informing passengers of problems .",
"Officials from Panama are investigating the fire on the cruise ship .",
"Some passengers said they ate mayonnaise sandwiches ."
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"Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- United States became the second country to offer emergency assistance to more than a million affected by flooding in Sri Lanka.",
"U.S. ambassador to the country, Patricia A. Butenis, said in a statement that Washington was donating U.S. $300,000 to provide various goods and services to areas hardest-hit by the floods.",
"She said the funds have provided boats to local government in the eastern district of Batticaloa.",
"\"We are helping the government to identify families in need and make an accurate assessment of the situation,\" she said.",
"On Friday, an Indian air force aircraft brought in 34 tons of relief supplies.",
"They included food, medical supplies, clothing and sleeping gear.",
"Another shipment will arrive on Monday, an Indian high commission official said.",
"The Sri Lanka government has about $1.3 million of assistance funds so far for the flood victims.",
"Though the rains have diminished or receded in most areas, disaster center officials in Colombo warned that the dangers were not yet over.",
"The Sri Lanka branch of the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that floods and receding waters may unearth mines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) \" and carry explosives from contaminated areas into areas thought to be safe.\"",
"Mine officials and local authorities have urged vigilance from residents and people working in affected areas.",
"The army has also sent out instructions to their installations in affected areas to warn the public, Maj. Gen. Udaya Madawala said.",
"The mines are remnants of a war between Sri Lankan security forces and the Tamil Tiger rebels.",
"Sri Lankan troops defeated the rebels in May 2009.",
"The OCHA report said that the worst affected districts were Ampara, Batticaloa and Trincomalee in the eastern province.",
"Initial estimates indicate that more than 250,000 acres of crop land and 200,000 acres of paddy have been severely damaged.",
"OCHA warned that prices of rice and other commodities may increase as one of the most productive paddy areas of the country have been affected.",
"The number of camps for displaced people has gone up to 600 camp, according to disaster officials."
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"U.S. one of two countries helping those affected by floods in Sri Lanka .",
"It will donate U.S. $300,000 to provide various goods and services .",
"The funds will go to areas hardest-hit by the floods ."
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"Juba, Sudan (CNN) -- Sudan's foreign affairs ministry is contradicting U.S. President Jimmy Carter's statement about Southern Sudan's debt obligations.",
"Southern Sudanese voters are heading to the polls this week to determine whether they should secede from Sudan.",
"The question of how to split Sudan's debt is one of several issues that would have to be resolved if the south votes for independence, as is widely expected.",
"On Monday, Carter told CNN that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir \"said the entire debt should be assigned to north Sudan and not to the southern part of Sudan.",
"So, in effect, Southern Sudan is starting with a clean sheet on debt.",
"They'll have to make some arrangements for other sources of income, of course.\"",
"The Sudan News Agency reported Monday the country's foreign affairs ministry \"categorically refuted the statements.\"",
"It said the ministry's spokesman, Khalid Musa, explained that during the Carter meeting, al-Bashir affirmed Sudan's strong call on the international community to take the initiative in writing off Sudan's debts as part of the Debt Relief for Developing Countries and the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative \"in a view that the country, both in the north and south, have not enough resources to pay these debts.\"",
"Musa also noted the expected decrease of the north's oil revenues if southerners choose separation, the news agency said.",
"According to Musa, al-Bashir said debt is a joint responsibility of the north and the south \"under joint negotiations of the two partners,\" the news agency said.",
"A representative for The Carter Center who is in Sudan did not release an official response when reached by phone Tuesday.",
"In a piece written by Carter that appears on CNN.com, the 39th U.S. president said \"the United States should resume normal relations with the government in Khartoum and support debt relief for the governments in both the North and South\" if the referendum succeeds.",
"\"In addition to the loss of one-third of its geographic area, the economic cost to the North of losing a large share of current oil revenues will hurt the economy significantly,\" Carter added.",
"Meanwhile, voters in Southern Sudan participated Tuesday in the third day of the week-long referendum.",
"The south would become a new nation in July if voters choose independence and no other obstacles emerge.",
"The referendum was called for in the 2005 peace treaty that ended 22 years of war between a government dominated by Arab Muslims in the north and black Christians and animists in the south.",
"That war killed at least 2 million.",
"South Sudanese vote, celebrate in Australia .",
"At one polling station in Lologo, on the outskirts of the southern capital of Juba, some people slept nearby or arrived early Monday.",
"The reason: So many voters had showed up on Sunday that some were turned away.",
"Mary Luluwa shuffled to the front of the line with her wooden cane.",
"Nearly blind, she had to be shown by election officials how to place her thumbprint.",
"Luluwa said she was not sure .",
"old she is, but she said she is certain how she will vote.",
"\"For freedom,\" she said.",
"\"I am very happy to vote, it's my first time, I am old and I can't see much, but I voted for my children.\"",
"But Tuesday's voting follows several days of violence that flared up in a disputed region between north and south.",
"At least 23 people have been killed in ongoing clashes around the disputed region of Abyei, an oil-rich area that the British transferred to Sudan in 1905.",
"A 2005 peace agreement called for people in Abyei to vote this week on whether to remain part of the north or return to the south, but that vote has been delayed.",
"Clashes have erupted for four days between members of the Ngok Dinka ethnic group, which tend to have more in common with the south, and the Misseriya, a nomadic Arabic tribe that comes in and out of the Abyei region and whose sympathies would most likely tilt toward the northern government.",
"Thirteen of the 23 were Misseriya, according to hospital officials in nearby Muglad.",
"Ten were reported dead in Abyei, said John Ajang, secretary general of the Abyei government.",
"Ajang said Monday that he believes the armed militias that clashed with Abyei government forces were not Misseriya tribesmen, but rather Sudanese government-supported militias.",
"He said witnesses described heavy weaponry inconsistent with the automatic weaponry seen carried by Misseriya tribesmen in the past.",
"\"We believe this is an attempt by the Sudanese government to take Abyei while the government of south Sudan forces are busy with the referendum,\" Ajang said.",
"Observers from around the world are monitoring the historic referendum.",
"The Atlanta-based Carter Center has about 70 observers in Sudan and 30 observers in eight other countries where Southern Sudanese are living and voting, according to David Carroll, director of the Democracy Program at The Carter Center.",
"Representatives of the European Union, the African Union, the Arab League and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development are also observing the referendum.",
"Southern Sudanese people who lived in the north for decades have crossed back into their homeland to vote in the referendum.",
"Meanwhile, some voters in the north said they voted for unity, including one woman who said she didn't see a point in splitting up the country.",
"Prior to the voting, Southern Sudanese diplomat John Duku said a unified Sudanese nation \"means only one thing -- it means war.\"",
"\"Over the years, unity has imposed war on us, the unity has imposed marginalization on us, the unity has imposed slavery on us,\" he said.",
"\"So, what is the meaning of unity?",
"For the people of south Sudan, it means only war.\"",
"The south has repeatedly accused the north of trying to stoke tension by supporting rebels troops to destabilize the south, an allegation the Arab Muslim-led government in Khartoum denies.",
"Even with a secession vote, stumbling blocks could remain -- about 20% of the border area has not been demarcated, and the division of oil revenues between the two sides could be an issue.",
"CNN's David McKenzie and Ingrid Formanek contributed to this report from Juba, Sudan; CNN's Ben Wedeman from Khartoum, Sudan and Journalist Nima Elbagir from Balom, Sudan."
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"Southern Sudanese are voting on whether to separate from Sudan .",
"If they choose to secede, a new country could emerge in July .",
"At least 23 have died in violence leading up to and during the voting .",
"A 2005 peace treaty ended 22 years of war that killed at least 2 million ."
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