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"(CNN) -- Two late goals from Robin van Persie and Andrey Arshavin gave Arsenal a 2-1 win over Spanish champions Barcelona in their last 16, first leg tie at the Emirates Wednesday night.",
"Barcelona led through a 26th minute goal from David Villa and might have added to their tally as Lionel Messi endured a frustrating night.",
"But Dutch international van Persie, who had threatened to score in the first half, latched on to a pass from Gael Clichy and beat Victor Valdes at his near post for a 78th minute equalizer.",
"Arshavin capped a dream comeback for Arsene Wenger's men with a curling shot past Valdes five minutes later after the ball had been perfectly laid into his path by Samir Nasri.",
"Messi, who missed a gilt-edged opening early in the first half, was crowded out by desperate Arsenal defense as Barca pushed for an equalizer, but to no avail.",
"\"It was a great game betweeen two special teams,\" Wenger told ITV Sport.",
"\"We suffered for some spells in the game but never gave up,\" he added.",
"His Barcelona counterpart Pep Guardiola believes his men will emerge on top after the second leg on their home ground.",
"\"I think we more or less controlled the game and we just need to create the chances we did tonight in the Nou Camp and then take them.",
"\"It will be an open game I am sure.",
"Yes we have lost tonight, but we still have the second leg,\" he said.",
"Guardiola may well have been referring to his talisman Messi, who burst through with a typical run after a bright opening by the home side.",
"The Argentina ace looked certain to score but sent his chipped effort just wide.",
"Van Persie had seen his volleyed effort saved by Valdes and came within a whisker of heading home a Cesc Fabregas cross, only for Eric Abidal to make a timely interception.",
"But in the next attack, Barcelona were ahead as Messi played in Villa to score neatly.",
"A Messi header was disallowed for a marginal offside decision and he shot into the side netting after another typical burst into the penalty area, but Arsenal were also a threat going forward in an open game.",
"The prolific Van Persie scored his 13th goal of an injury-truncated season and Arshavin's winner, after a flowing Arsenal move reminiscent of Barcelona at their best, capped a memorable night for the Gunners.",
"In Wednesday's other Champions League action, Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk scored a 3-2 win over AS Roma in the Italian capital to take a firm grip on the last 16 tie.",
"Simone Perrotta put Roma ahead but then Brazilian trio Jadson, Douglas Costa and Luiz Adriano all scored for Shakhtar in a 12-minute spell.",
"Jeremy Menez's second half goal gave Roma some late hope for the return tie, but they were jeered off by their fans.",
"\"Roma live under great pressure, I don't understand the fans' jeers, it's tough to play under these conditions,\" Shakhtar's Romanian coach Mircea Lucescu told AFP."
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"Hollywood, California (CNN) -- Larry King, America's interviewer-in-chief, ended his record-setting career as CNN's prime-time, talk-show host Thursday night with a serenade from Tony Bennett, a greeting from President Obama and a \"Larry King Day\" proclamation from California Gov.",
"Arnold Schwarzenegger.",
"Those guests and others capped his 25-year run behind the microphone with CNN.",
"\"Welcome to the last 'Larry King Live.'",
"It's hard to say that,\" King said in his opening remarks to his last show.",
"He was joined on the set by comedian Bill Maher and television host Ryan Seacrest.",
"On several occasions, King stifled tears, especially when Maher put King in the same company as TV legends Johnny Carson, Steve Allen and Walter Cronkite.",
"\"This is not Larry's funeral,\" Maher interjected early in the show.",
"\"Larry is hopefully going to be in our living rooms for years to come.",
"This is the end of a show, not the end of a man.\"",
"King wore his signature suspenders -- a pair of red ones with a red-and-white polka-dot tie over a black shirt.",
"At end of his hourlong broadcast, King became choked up with his final sentences.",
"\"It's not very often in my life that I've been without words,\" King said.",
"He thanked his staff and producers.",
"\"When I started 25 years ago in a little studio in Washington, D.C., I never thought it would last this long or come to this,\" King said.",
"\"I'm going to do specials on CNN and do radio work ... so you're not going to see me go away, but you're not going to see me on this set any more.",
"\"I don't know what to say, except to you my audience, thank you.",
"And instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"",
"King concluded.",
"His set then went black -- except for a spotlight illuminating his chrome microphone.",
"In his overall 53 years in broadcasting, King amassed 50,000 interviews, 6,120 shows in CNN's archives, 10 Cable ACE Awards, an Emmy, a Peabody and an entry in the Guinness World Records for having the longest-running show with the same host in the same time slot.",
"Among the guests on the last show was Schwarzenegger, who appeared by a satellite transmission from the capital of Sacramento.",
"The governor extended congratulations and displayed the written proclamation declaring Thursday as belonging to King.",
"\"Thank you,\" King said, adding this quip: \"and keep this in mind: I'll be back.\"",
"King will be working on special projects for CNN.",
"In a pre-recorded videotaped message, President Obama called King \"one of the giants in broadcasting.\"",
"\"You say all that you do is ask questions, but for generations of Americans, the answers to those questions have surprised us and they have informed us,\" Obama said.",
"From a studio in New York, talk show host Regis Philbin tried to engage King in a song, but King was caught off guard.",
"\"I lost the $500 question,\" King joked.",
"Joining Philbin in New York was Donald Trump.",
"\"You shouldn't be leaving anything, Larry,\" Trump said.",
"\"Nobody ever did it better.\"",
"Also in New York was comic Fred Armisen, who dressed up exactly like King and then started interviewing him.",
"\"Now Larry,\" Armisen said, \"what has been my favorite interview?\"",
"King: \"You know you've done so many, it's hard to pick one out.\"",
"Armisen: \"Larry, what is the most interesting thing about me.\"",
"King: \"The most interesting about you is you're a little whacko.\"",
"Armisen: \"What question have you asked more than any?\"",
"King: \"Why. You see the best question of all, Lar, is why.",
"Because it can't be answered in one word and it forces the person to think.\"",
"Armisen: \"Besides holding up my pants, why do I wear suspenders?\"",
"King: \"I will not stop wearing them.",
"No matter what I do in life, the suspenders will remain.\"",
"News anchors Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, and Brian Williams joined talk show host Barbara Walters in extending farewells.",
"They were also telecasted from a set in New York.",
"\"We are your protégés, your groupies,\" Sawyer said, giving King a pair of suspenders embroidered with the four guests' and King's names.",
"\"All of us have done heads of state\" interviews, Walters said.",
"\"No one has done more than you.\" After King moved the conversation to Williams, Williams remarked: \"You've just done what scores of network executives have been unable to do.",
"You just snatched airtime from Barbara Walters.\"",
"Couric read from a poem she wrote for King, in which one verse went: .",
"\"You made NAFTA exciting and that's hard to do.",
"\"And you scored the Paris Hilton post-jail interview,\" Couric recited.",
"Former president Bill Clinton, who just returned from a visit to Haiti and was in Little Rock, Arkansas, said he admired King's work ethic.",
"Clinton had appeared 28 times on King's show.",
"\"I'm like you,\" Clinton said in a live feed from Arkansas.",
"\"I have to keep working.",
"I don't know if it keeps me young, but it keeps me out of the grave.\"",
"Seacrest read from a letter written to King from the Rev.",
"Billy Graham, who wrote: \"You will be greatly missed in my evening routine.\"",
"Talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw joined the Hollywood set toward the end of the show and asked King how he felt.",
"King turned the question on McGraw: \"How am I doing?\"",
"\"With grace,\" McGraw said.",
"\"You never like to be the center of attention,\" McGraw later said.",
"\"You ask short questions.\"",
"Turning to Seacrest and Maher, he added: \"He told me years ago, if it's more than 2 sentences, it's too long.\"",
"King was then joined by his wife, Shawn, and two sons, Chance, 11, and Cannon, 10, to hear Tony Bennett sing \"Best is Yet to Come\" from Lake Charles, Louisiana.",
"\"How about them apples,\" King said afterwards.",
"\"Thanks for all the great interviews you've given us, Larry,\" Bennett said.",
"Chance said he looked forward to seeing more of his father.",
"Cannon then stole the show momentarily with an uncanny impersonation of his father, as if he were talking to him and then his mother: .",
"\"Get in the car. I'm too old for this. I've done this for 50 years,\" Cannon said, with an entertaining imitation of King's gravelly voice.",
"\"Stop doing your makeup.",
"This is the last show. We're going to be late.\"",
"When King ended his last show and the airtime moved on to Anderson Cooper for his show, the anchor summarized: \"a remarkable moment and a remarkable man.\""
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"He fought back tears several times and ended his show with \"instead of a goodbye, how about so long\"\nKing will next work on special projects for CNN ."
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"(CNN Student News) -- April 8, 2010 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan • Thailand • North Korea • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Bringing you 10 minutes of commercial-free headlines from across the U.S. and around the world.",
"I'm Carl Azuz. CNN Student News starts right now!",
"First Up: Coal Mine .",
"AZUZ: \"The rescue teams are prepared.",
"They're charged up and ready to go.\"",
"That is what the governor of West Virginia said yesterday as efforts got going to reach miners trapped by an explosion.",
"The plan was to drill multiple holes down into the mine to help clear out dangerous gases.",
"But later in the day, an official said that samples taken from inside the mine showed that those gas levels were still too dangerous to allow rescuers to go inside.",
"31 people were working in the Upper Big Branch South Mine when Monday's blast happened.",
"At least 25 were killed; two were hospitalized; the other four may still be trapped.",
"This is, of course, a developing story.",
"To get the latest details on it, head over to CNN.com.",
"Hurricane Prediction .",
"AZUZ: Well, the predictions are in for this year's Atlantic hurricane season, and the forecast: above average.",
"The season starts on June 1st, lasts through the end of November.",
"Here's a look at the prediction for this year versus an average year.",
"Storms are assigned a name when they reach a certain intensity.",
"Experts are forecasting that we'll have 15 named storms.",
"A typical season has 11.",
"Of those 15, the prediction is that 8 will turn into hurricanes, and four of those will become major hurricanes.",
"An average year has six hurricanes, including two major storms.",
"Now, the people who make these predictions point out they are just preliminary.",
"Another one is scheduled to come out on June 2nd.",
"Budget Crisis .",
"AZUZ: Over on the west coast of the country, the city of Los Angeles is facing a major budget problem.",
"In fact, one official called it the most urgent financial crisis in the city's recent history.",
"L.A.'s mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, has an idea to help.",
"ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA, LOS ANGELES MAYOR: I'm asking the CAO to develop a plan to shut down all general-funded city services, with the exception of public safety and revenue-generating positions, for two days per week beginning the week of April 12th.",
"AZUZ: That means this plan could go into effect on Monday.",
"The mayor said there are no simple ways to solve the budget crisis.",
"But he added, \"we can no longer wait.",
"We must act now.\" As you might guess, some people are opposed to the mayor's plan, including a company that represents thousands of city employees.",
"It says the plan would threaten services and people's lives.",
"In its current financial situation, Los Angeles is facing a possible $10 million deficit by the start of May.",
"I.D. Me . MATT CHERRY, CNN STUDENT NEWS: See if you can I.D.",
"Me! I'm a country that's located in Central Asia.",
"I was part of the former Soviet Union, but I gained my independence in 1991.",
"My capital city is Bishkek, and most of my people speak Kyrgyz.",
"I'm Kyrgyzstan, and I'm home to nearly 5.5 million people.",
"Kyrgyzstan Protests .",
"AZUZ: Some of you might not have heard of Kyrgyzstan.",
"The country is an ally of the United States.",
"In fact, the U.S. has a military base there that's an important part of getting supplies to Afghanistan.",
"That's part of the reason why the U.S. is paying attention to what's going on in Kyrgyzstan right now: protests against the government.",
"They're taking place all across the central Asian country, and some of them have turned violent.",
"You can see one in this video that was posted on YouTube.",
"The government has declared a state of emergency.",
"According to reports, fighting between demonstrators and police in the capital city of Bishkek caused at least 40 deaths.",
"Around 400 other people were injured.",
"Kyrgyzstan has experienced a lot of political tension for years.",
"Some of these protesters are pushing for anti-government leaders to be let out of jail.",
"A few have been released and were reportedly going to meet with government officials.",
"Other nations and groups, including the U.S, United Nations and Russia, are urging both sides to settle the situation peacefully.",
"Thailand Protests .",
"AZUZ: A somewhat similar situation is happening southeast of there in Thailand, where protesters are speaking out against that country's government.",
"These demonstrations have been going on for weeks.",
"The country's prime minister declared a state of emergency there yesterday, sent a helicopter to pick up some officials after protesters broke into Thailand's parliament building.",
"They stayed there for a few hours and then regrouped at their usual meeting spots.",
"The demonstrators -- they're called \"Red Shirts\" -- they're supporters of Thailand's former prime minister.",
"He was removed from office in 2006 and left the country in 2008 while he was facing corruption charges.",
"The Red Shirts want him back, and they want the current prime minister to call for elections.",
"The country's leader says these protests are a violation of Thailand's constitution.",
"Sentenced . AZUZ: North Korea has sentenced an American citizen to eight years of hard labor for entering North Korea illegally.",
"Back in January, Aijalon Mahli Gomes crossed over the border from China to North Korea.",
"That's why he was arrested. Crossing the border without permission is against the law there.",
"The United States doesn't have any official relations with North Korea, but some people are asking the U.S. government to try to get Gomes released.",
"Brazil Flooding .",
"AZUZ: Moving over to South America now, where firefighters in Brazil are trying to rescue victims of this: mudslides and severe flooding caused by heavy rains.",
"Almost a foot of rain fell on Rio de Janeiro in one day.",
"Nearly 300 people had been rescued by Tuesday, but officials said the severe weather had killed more than 100 others, and there are some people who are still trapped.",
"Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the Shoutout!",
"Dendrology is the study of what?",
"If you think you know it, shout it out!",
"Is it: A) Trees, B) Caves, C) Teeth or D) Living rooms?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"A dendrologist studies trees.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Learning the Ropes .",
"AZUZ: The city of New York is on a mission to plant a million trees over the next decade, and some folks your age are helping out.",
"It's not training them for a career in dendrology.",
"But as Richard Roth explains, the potential benefits of taking part in the program could help these teens branch out in the future.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) RICHARD ROTH, CNN UNITED NATIONS CORRESPONDENT, NEW YORK: Bronx teenager Fabian Vasquez comes home after a day of hanging with his friends.",
"UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Headache!",
"Headache! ROTH: They were hanging sixty feet in the air.",
"It's all part of New York City's Million Trees Training Program.",
"ADRIAN BENEPE, NYC PARKS COMMISSIONER: It's an effort to take kids known as disconnected youth, connect them with employment possibilities, connect them with the environment.",
"So in essence, it's a combination environmental program and jobs program.",
"ROTH: More than thirty young adults participate, learning urban forestry and nature restoration.",
"New York City branching out with with non-profit groups and agencies for funding and instructors.",
"MARK CHISHOLM, TREE PROFESSIONAL: My rule of thumb is four times whatever this diameter is, is what you want.",
"ROTH: Fabian is learning the ropes from a world champion climber and tree professional.",
"CHISHOLM: When you start dealing with the trees, you gotta know species of trees, how to identify hazards in a tree, determine whether it's safe to climb at all or work in, what the tree may need.",
"There's just so many different avenues that they have to become proficient at, that I find that most people really enjoy the fact that they never get bored with it.",
"ROTH: And while tree climbing is physically demanding, it's the mental and emotional challenges that initially need to be overcome.",
"BESHION BAILEY, MILLION TREES TRAINEE: I was scared, I was scared.",
"I told them I couldn't do it. That's the one thing they kept on saying: \"Stop saying you couldnt, stop saying you couldn't, you can.\"",
"And that's what they did, is take me out of my comfort zone.",
"And look at me now, going up, how much, eighty, ninety feet.",
"ROTH: They have to stay alert on the streets of New York, and especially ninety feet up.",
"FABIAN VASQUEZ, MILLION TREES TRAINEE: Limb walking, especially right now with this weather, it's kind of windy and stuff, you be limb walking on a limb and it would be shaking and stuff.",
"It is really easy to fall, so you have to be careful where you put your foot at.",
"Any slip, you could just fall so, you always have to be concentrating on what you are doing.",
"You can't be thinking about the stuff outside work.",
"To do this, you always got to keep your mind on this.",
"Everything else is just going to mess you up.",
"ROTH: But does a city known for its asphalt jungle need to train its citizens for green jobs?",
"BRIAN AUCOIN, NEW YORK PARKS DEPARTMENT: Our city parks department manages nearly 30,000 acres of parkland.",
"12,000 of those acres are undeveloped and naturalized.",
"And with our Million Trees initiative, you know, planting a million trees we need a skilled workforce.",
"ROTH: Climbing trees, a first step to rising to the top in a green career.",
"Richard Roth, CNN, New York.",
"(END VIDEO) Before We Go .",
"AZUZ: Before we go, a tasty tradition for baseball's opening day.",
"It is Milwaukee's annual sausage race!",
"The mascots are all different kinds of sausage, but this relay links them together.",
"It's kind of nice to see that kind of teamwork.",
"I mean, no one's being a brat.",
"They all deserve a pattie on the back.",
"Of course, all this entertainment is for the fans.",
"They really get into it, especially when the last guy crosses the finish line.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: I mean, seriously, you never sau-sage a cheer.",
"Hot dog! You guys have a great day.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz."
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"(CNN) -- Oprah Winfrey will announce on Friday's \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\" that she will end her talk show, said a spokesman for Winfrey's Harpo Productions.",
"\"Oprah will be ending her talk show,\" Harpo spokesman Don Halcombe said Thursday.",
"\"She will be speaking about it on tomorrow's live show.\"",
"The show will air live from its Chicago, Illinois, studio at 9 a.m. CT (10 a.m.",
"ET), he said. The show will end on September 9, 2011, as its 25th season draws to a close, according to a letter from Harpo Inc. that President Tim Bennett addressed to partners and obtained by CNN affiliate WLS-TV.",
"\"Tomorrow, Oprah will announce live on \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\" that she has decided to end what is arguably one of the most popular, influential and enduring programs in television history,\" Bennett wrote.",
"Marquee Blog: Oprah to make it official .",
"The show has been the highest-rated talk show for 23 consecutive seasons, according to the Oprah.com site.",
"It is seen by an estimated 42 million viewers a week in the United States and is broadcast to 145 countries.",
"The show had its origins in 1984, when Winfrey moved to Chicago to host WLS-TV's morning talk show, \"AM Chicago,\" which became the No.",
"1 local talk show.",
"The show surpassed ratings for \"Donahue\" one month after it began, the site said.",
"Within a year, it had expanded to an hour-long format and been renamed \"The Oprah Winfrey Show.\"",
"It entered national syndication in 1986.",
"In August 2004, Winfrey signed an extension for the show to keep it on the air through 2011.",
"\"I got a call from Oprah, and she told me that she is announcing that next year will be her last year,\" talk show host Ellen DeGeneres told her audience Thursday.",
"\"It will be her 25th year, and she feels like it's time for her to stop.",
"\"I don't think I could be here without her,\" DeGeneres said.",
"\"I think she has blazed a trail.",
"... She is an amazing woman.",
"She will always be the queen of daytime television.",
"... She is fantastic, and I love her and I wish her the best.",
"She deserves to rest.",
"She has worked really, really hard.\"",
"Over the years, the show has made news on several occasions.",
"In September 2004, for instance, Winfrey began a new season by giving each member of the audience a new car.",
"In May 2005, Tom Cruise caused a sensation when he jumped up and down on Oprah's couch, declaring his love for actress Katie Holmes.",
"Other guests have shared their personal struggles, such as Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former vice presidential candidate John Edwards; performer Whitney Houston and Lisa Niemi, widow of actor Patrick Swayze.",
"Read Harpo's letter to partners obtained by CNN affiliate WLS .",
"The show has also served as a launching pad for several experts -- Dr. Mehmet Oz on nutrition and health; Suze Orman on financial matters; Dr. Phil McGraw on families and relationships; and Martha Beck, a life coach.",
"McGraw went on to have a talk show of his own.",
"Along the way, Winfrey has revealed her struggles with weight loss and as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.",
"From the talk show, she has created the popular Oprah's Book Club; O Magazine; Oprah's Angel Network, a charitable foundation; and co-founded Oxygen Media, a 24-hour cable channel aimed at women.",
"Check out Oprah's Book Club web event on CNN .",
"In 2008, Winfrey announced that beginning in 2009, the Discovery Health Channel would be named OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.",
"The network is \"a multi-platform media company designed to entertain, inform and inspire people to live their best lives,\" according to Oprah.com.",
"Harpo Productions has also grown to include Harpo Films.",
"Winfrey's wealth was estimated at around $1 billion by Forbes in 2004.",
"Last year, she topped the Forbes Celebrity 100 list that measures both power and money."
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"It has been the highest-rated talk show for 23 consecutive seasons, her Web site says .",
"An estimated 42 million U.S. viewers watch it weekly; show had its origins in 1984 in Chicago .",
"Winfrey's wealth was estimated at around $1 billion by Forbes in 2004 ."
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"Bogota, Colombia (CNN) -- Two hostages freed by a Colombian rebel group reunited with their family members in the country's capital Friday.",
"Speaking to reporters, one of the freed hostages called for renewed dialogue between the government and insurgents.",
"\"Humanitarian exchange is the first step toward a friendly understanding, which permits the return of our brothers deprived of their liberty,\" politician Armando Acuna said shortly after he was released by the FARC leftist guerrilla group Friday.",
"Marine Henry Lopez Martinez was also released Friday and met family members at an airport in the country's capital.",
"\"This is the most beautiful moment of the liberations, the loving reuniting of the families.",
"For this, all the effort is worth it,\" former Sen. Piedad Cordoba, who helped coordinate the humanitarian mission to free them, said in a Twitter post.",
"Acuna and Lopez are among a group of five hostages that the FARC leftist guerrilla organization pledged to release in December.",
"Red Cross rescuers also participated in Friday's mission.",
"Helicopters bearing the organization's symbol flew into the jungle Wednesday to free the first of the group: a councilman from the town of San Jose de Guaviare.",
"Two other hostages -- a police major and a military service member -- are expected to be released Sunday.",
"Some have suggested the hostage releases could fuel renewed dialogue between Colombia's government and the rebels.",
"But news of two more kidnappings by the FARC drew the ire of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.",
"The president said Thursday that he was tempted to call off the rescue mission after learning that two workers from the Carton de Colombia company had been kidnapped in southwestern Colombia Wednesday night.",
"\"We are not going to suspend the liberations, because I do not want to frustrate the excitement and hope of the families of these hostages that are going to be freed, but what I want to say is that this game, this double standard, is totally unacceptable,\" he said.",
"The FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia, have been at war with the Colombian government since the 1960s.",
"Journalist Fernando Ramos contributed to this report."
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"Kampala, Uganda (CNN) -- Uganda's incumbent leader appeared destined Saturday to extend his 25 years in office but as results trickled in, the opposition front-runner charged fraud in the East African nation's presidential election.",
"President Yoweri Museveni, who has led Uganda since a rebel group he was aligned with seized power in 1986, won 71% with a fifth of the votes counted.",
"Challenger Kizza Besigye had 22%.",
"\"There have been widespread malpractices in the electoral process,\" Besigye said.",
"He said voters had been bribed and that \"huge amounts of money\" landed in the hands of polling agents and candidates to pay off electoral officials.",
"\"Local council officials and security agents have been threatening people with war if Museveni does not win this election, and the purpose can only have been to intimidate and threaten the Ugandan people so that they were scared to express their desire for change,\" Besigye, who heads the Inter-Party Cooperation.",
"The government has dismissed the accusations and said the opposition is trying to undermine the election.",
"A new term would give Museveni five more years in power.",
"Final results will be released Sunday.",
"Museveni has already vowed to quash any Egypt-inspired uprisings aimed at toppling entrenched regimes.",
"Ugandans lined up early to cast their ballots amid heavy security in the capital and other areas.",
"Increased security forces in anti-riot gear patrolled the streets of Kampala a day after the elections.",
"Besigye -- who was a former doctor for Museveni -- lost presidential bids in 2001 and 2006.",
"His party said it had anticipated rigging this year, and it plans to conduct its own tally.",
"\"We cannot trust an electoral commission that was appointed by the ruling party.",
"We have to have our own check mechanism,\" said Margaret Wokuri, a spokeswoman for Bisyegi's party.",
"Museveni was once hailed for stabilizing Uganda and helping combat the AIDS epidemic, but has faced mounting criticism over corruption and lack of political transition in the country.",
"Parliament removed presidential term limits in Uganda five years ago, essentially allowing the incumbent to run for office indefinitely.",
"About 14 million people registered to vote in the presidential and parliamentary ballot.",
"There are a total of eight presidential candidates, Wokuri said.",
"Journalist Tom Walsh contributed to this report."
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"Election could extend the term of President Yoweri Museveni by five years .",
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"(CNN) -- Liz Lee is not your typical MTV reality show star.",
"As friend Jake Fogelnest puts it, \"While (the \"Jersey Shore\" cast) is out fist-pumping, Liz is in her dorm room watching Netflix.\"",
"Lee's show, \"My Life as Liz,\" chronicled the self-described nerd's senior year of high school in Texas during its first season last year.",
"Its second season, centering around Lee's time in college in New York, premiered February 8 at 11 p.m.",
"ET, with an 89% increase in viewership from the series premiere, according to MTV.",
"\"The executives at MTV are really smart.",
"The fact that a show like that is on now is amazing and great,\" said Fogelnest, who hosted his own show on MTV as a teenager (from his bedroom, no less), \"Squirt TV,\" in the mid-1990s.",
"\"My Life as Liz\" is \"the one thing where someone's not pregnant or drunk; it's what real people are like.\"",
"The show has quickly amassed a big following on Twitter -- not just the hundreds of thousands who follow Lee and her co-stars, but in Twitter feeds like \"@thelizalliance.\"",
"More than 1.8 million people have viewed a clip of the most memorable moment from the show on Youtube, in which a nervous Lee stepped in front of a microphone at a talent show and blew everyone away with her singing.",
"Like many MTV reality shows, it's not without its share of controversy.",
"Its detractors have criticized its level of \"reality.\"",
"For the record, Lee told CNN, \"The people, the places, they're all real.",
"All the people on the show, I actually know them, and we actually have relationships.\"",
"MTV also told the Los Angeles Times last year that neither the terms \"reality show\" nor \"sitcom\" fully captured the show.",
"But \"My Life as Liz\" is unique for another criticism that has been leveled against the show's star: \"My nerd cred is attacked all the time.",
"People think that that was fabricated by MTV.",
"That's the hardest rumor for me to deal with.\"",
"During its first season, one anonymous message board posting, especially, claimed that Lee fell in with her school's geeky crowd as a way to remain \"cool\" after losing favor with the popular students, and even alleged that she didn't know who Luke Skywalker was.",
"\"When people (online) say, 'You're not a real nerd,' \" said Lee, \"I'm sitting in my room with shelves overflowing with stacks of comic books.\"",
"Benjamin Nugent, author of \"American Nerd,\" noted, \"When you have people choosing to be nerds, questions of authenticity can come up.",
"Before, you had no choice to be a nerd.",
"Now that it's an acceptable option, you can accuse someone of being that way just to be cool.",
"When it was uncool, you never had to worry about authenticity.\"",
"As a reflection of the rest of pop culture, something it has captured for nearly 30 years, MTV has embraced geeks in a big way (the sitcom \"The Hard Times of RJ Berger\" will start its second season soon, and there's even a site called \"MTV Geek\" now).",
"In fact, even though MTV means \"Jersey Shore,\" \"Teen Mom\" or \"The Real World\" to most, it has had its moments over the years of standing up for nerds (\"Squirt TV\" among them).",
"\"Liz\" something of a sister show to \"The Paper.\"",
"The show evolved from what would have been a second season of that show, which had focused on journalism geek Amanda Lorber.",
"It's also a cousin to \"Made,\" MTV's long-running series where someone, usually someone who is socially awkward, gets coached into improving something in their life, whether it be working up the nerve to ask out their crush or becoming an athlete or a hip hop dancer.",
"The network's best known example of a nerd -- a fellow nerd girl, no less -- is \"Daria,\" the animated spinoff of \"Beavis and Butt-Head,\" which started in 1997 and lasted for five seasons.",
"Lee herself sees Daria as an inspiration.",
"\"Daria made it cool to be a smart chick,\" said writer Jennifer Vineyard, who worked at MTV for eight years.",
"\"Just the presence of people or characters like Daria help make it cool to be yourself.",
"There's a tendency for young girls to play dumb.",
"Characters like Daria show you that you don't have to.\"",
"MTV's dabbling in nerd culture goes back even further, however.",
"Adam Curry was a VJ for the network for seven years as it made its transition away from only playing music videos.",
"Around the time he started in the late 1980s, Toby Radloff was a special correspondent for the network.",
"Those who have seen the movie \"American Splendor,\" or read the comic book it was based on, might remember Radloff having adopted the title \"genuine nerd.\"",
"\"He was completely real,\" said Curry.",
"\"It was just something completely weird and different, that in a way it made so much sense to use him.\"",
"Curry, who considers himself a geek -- he registered the MTV.com domain before most people knew what such a thing even meant, then went on to become an early adopter to podcasts -- sees \"My Life as Liz\" as similar to other reality shows.",
"\"The objective gives the viewer the illusion that they can be famous.",
"'Hey, it's OK to be a nerd, you can be famous.",
"You're a pregnant teenager?",
"Hey, you can be famous.'",
"Nerd culture has exploded because nerds can be successful.\"",
"Then there's the show that introduced \"Beavis and Butt-Head\" to the world, \"Liquid Television,\" an anthology of experimental animation that aired in the 1990s that appealed to animation buffs.",
"\"MTV has always experimented with alternative forms of programming,\" said Curry.",
"\"I believe they were running 'Monty Python' in ('Liquid Television's') slot.",
"Here's something different and irreverent, and the rights were cheap.",
"When Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-Head' creator) came on the scene, it was pure genius at the time.\"",
"MTV recently announced that \"Beavis and Butt-Head\" are returning to the network in some form: Can \"Daria\" be far behind?",
"Two other memorable shows that were launched off the success of \"Beavis and Butt-Head\" in the 1990s were \"Aeon Flux\" and \"The Maxx,\" both series with tremendous appeal among hardcore comic book and animation fans.",
"\"'The Maxx' was one of the best comic book adaptations ever made.",
"All of that kind of stuff has been a great part of MTV's history,\" said Rick Marshall, editor of MTV's Splash Page, a blog devoted to comic books and comic book adaptations.",
"Marshall has been in charge of the blog nearly from its inception almost 2½ years ago.",
"\"What's been amazing has been the ability to give comic books and creators the same level of promotion and attention that you do the actors and directors,\" he said.",
"In just these last couple of years, Marshall has seen a change in the way comic books have been accepted.",
"\"I can actually have conversations with significantly more people about 'Green Lantern' and people will actually know what I'm talking about,\" he said.",
"\"I love that I can go on the subway, and people are reading 'The Walking Dead.'\"",
"Marshall said that the success of Splash Page shows that \"this audience is actually important,\" and he sees MTV having recognized that as well with \"My Life as Liz.\"",
"\"(MTV was) able to take fan culture and market a show specifically to it,\" said Nugent.",
"\"If you tap into the market of people at fan conventions, they're really loyal to an entertainment product when you market it to them.\"",
"Nugent also pointed out, \"Because it's now being put on MTV, teenagers are seeing it as more acceptable.",
"I'm surprised how many kids come up to me and introduce themselves as geeks.\""
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"MTV's \"My Life as Liz,\" about a self-described nerd, has taken off on Twitter .",
"Unique to this MTV show is controversy on Liz Lee's \"nerd cred\"\nMTV's popular series \"Daria,\" which started in 1997, is an inspiration for Lee .",
"MTV's embrace of nerd culture reflects culture as a whole ."
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"(CNN) -- Caroline Wozniacki moved a win nearer to reclaiming the world number one spot from Kim Clijsters but her passage to the last 16 in Dubai only came after her Russian opponent, Anna Chakvetadze, fainted on court.",
"Chakvetadze was serving to level their match at one set all when she collapsed and fell to the ground.",
"Wozniacki and courtside officials all rushed to help Chakvetadze, who eventually came around but played just one more point before wisely retiring.",
"Wozniacki, who took the first set 6-1 but trailed 3-5 in the second, was shocked by the incident.",
"\"It was scary. She is a good friend of mine, but to see anyone collapse on the other side of the net is not a good sight.",
"It was quite a surprise,\" she told AFP.",
"Chakvetadze, who put out Pattaya Open winner Daniela Hantuchova in the first round, was later diagnosed with a gastro-intestinal illness.",
"Wozniacki, who needs to reach the semifinals in Dubai to dislodge Australian Open champion Clijsters, next plays Ayumi Morita as the Japanese qualifier continued her superb run.",
"Morita beat Clijsters' Paris final conqueror Petra Kvitova in the first round and followed that up Wednesday with a straight sets win over Sania Mirza, the Indian star now based in Dubai.",
"Morita eased to a 6-4 6-2 win while Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova earned another meeting with Francesca Schiavone of Italy.",
"Kuznetsova lost to the French Open winner in the longest women's match in grand slam history in last month's Australian Open, four hours 44 minutes.",
"Kuznetsova needed two-hours 30 minutes to beat Tavetona Pironkova by 5-7 6-2 6-3 to earn a chance of revenge.",
"\"I think every single person who knows me watch that match in Melbourne came to me and said it was a great match,\" Kuznetsova said.",
"Meanwhile, Britain's Andy Murray has withdrawn from next week's ATP tournament in Dubai, citing a wrist injury.",
"Murray, beaten in the final of the Australian Open by Novak Djokovic, played last week in Rotterdam, but was well below his best and won only five games in losing his first-round clash to Marcos Baghdatis.",
"His withdrawal will mean the 23-year-old is not due to play again until the Masters Series event in Indian Wells in the middle of next month.",
"\"Andy would like to apologize to both the tournament and its fans,\" he told his official website.",
"Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are among the entries for the popular tournament."
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"Caroline Wozniacki moves to within two wins of reclaiming world number one spot .",
"Danish star reaches last 16 in Dubai as opponent Anna Chakvetadze faints on court .",
"Chakvetadze retires after incident and is treated for a stomach upset .",
"Scot Andy Murray pulls out of next week's ATP event in Dubai through injury ."
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"(CNN) -- A teen bull rider was kicked at least once in the chest after she was thrown and later died, Florida authorities said Saturday.",
"Brooke Ann Coats, 16, died from injuries Friday evening at Tampa General Hospital, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.",
"Coats was able to walk out of the ring after the 8:30 p.m. incident at 301 Rodeo on U.S. 301S, east of Tampa, the office said in a statement.",
"She experienced difficulty breathing and collapsed.",
"An off-duty paramedic rendered aid until Coats was taken to the hospital, where she died during surgery, officials said.",
"An investigation continues, but detectives do not suspect foul play."
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"Girl, 16, was kicked at least one in the chest ."
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"(CNN) -- The Colombian military says it has seized a submarine capable of transporting more than seven tons of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico.",
"This is the most sophisticated tool ever found to traffic drugs from Colombia, local media reported.",
"In a short news release, the Colombian military said that the submarine was ready to be loaded with drugs when found in Timbiqui, Cauca, a small town in the Pacific Coast.",
"According to the local authorities, the submarine is 31 meters (102 feet) long and capable of submerging to a depth of 9 meters (about 30 feet) making it very difficult to locate.",
"This is the first time such a vessel for this purpose has been found in the country.",
"Mexican authorities seized a similar submarine in 2008.",
"Then, experts said the technology used to build it was of Russian origin."
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"Military: Vessel was capable of transporting more than 7 tons of cocaine .",
"31-meter-long sub could submerge to a depth of 9 meters, authorities say .",
"Similar vessel was seized in Mexico in 2008 ."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- Security forces in northern Iraq found a mass grave containing scores of people killed during the height of sectarian violence last decade, police told CNN on Saturday.",
"At least 153 bodies were discovered in Buhriz, just south of Baquba in Diyala province -- a region north and east of Baghdad that endured waves of violence during the Iraqi war.",
"Baquba police Lt. Col. Ghalib Atiya al-Jabouri said the victims included civilians, police and soldiers slain during the height of sectarian violence between 2005 and 2008.",
"Iraq had been engulfed by fighting between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.",
"Buhriz, he said, had been controlled by al Qaeda in Iraq between 2006 and 2008.",
"Some victims were blindfolded and others had their hands tied behind their backs, signs of al Qaeda in Iraq activity.",
"The Iraqi Red Crescent has registered thousands of missing persons in Iraq since just after the war started."
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"The location is in Diyala province .",
"The killings occurred during sectarian strife ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Rapid advances in communications are eroding police departments' abilities to conduct wiretaps, and Congress needs to take steps to ensure that new telephone, computer and wireless systems are designed to allow lawful police access, FBI and police officials told Congress Thursday.",
"But other witnesses cautioned that any such move could stifle innovation, place U.S. technology companies at a competitive disadvantage and unintentionally create systems vulnerable to hackers, criminals and terrorists.",
"At issue is the diminished capability of law enforcement agencies to conduct quick wiretaps in an age of Twitter accounts, Facebook and MySpace pages, BlackBerrys, Androids, iPhones and iPads.",
"The Justice Department calls the phenomenon \"going dark.\"",
"In testimony before a House Judiciary subcommittee, FBI General Counsel Valerie Caproni said it is \"exponentially more difficult\" to execute court-authorized wiretaps on new technology, noting that criminals can now communicate using wireless devices and anonymous avatars.",
"Caproni said the FBI is not seeking additional authority to conduct wiretaps, but rather is looking for solutions to technical problems the agency encounters in conducting court-authorized intercepts.",
"The Obama administration currently has no proposal to increase the technological ease of wiretapping, she said, but she added that one may be coming soon.",
"A 1994 law, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, required telephone companies to build in the means to conduct intercepts.",
"But the law was designed to keep pace with changes in telecommunications, not in internet-based communications services, and is now antiquated, she said.",
"As an example, Caproni cites a 2009 case in which a pimp used a social networking site to entice children into prostitution.",
"Investigators had enough evidence for a court-ordered wiretap, but did not seek one because the website did not provide a means of conducting electronic surveillance, she wrote.",
"\"There are a lot of things that keep me up at night.",
"One thing is the privacy of people who are communicating on the Internet,\" Caproni said.",
"\"But I also get kept up by worrying that we've got criminals running around that we can't arrest and can't prosecute because we can't actually execute a wiretap order.",
"And that criminal may be a massive drug dealer.",
"They may be an arms trafficker.",
"They may be a child pornographer or a child molester.",
"\"I worry about things like a Mumbai-style attack where, God forbid, the attackers are using communications modalities that we don't have an interception (for).\"",
"But another witness told the committee moves to change technology come with risks of their own.",
"\"Switches\" designed to give police wiretapping capabilities were hacked in Greece, leading to the unlawful wiretapping of 100 senior government officials for 10 months, and a system was breached in Italy, allowing unlawful wiretaps of 6,000 Italians, said Susan Landau of Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.",
"Another concern is stifling innovation.",
"\"The person in the dorm room building the next great app may never build it if they have to comply with a government imposed mandate,\" said Greg Nojeim of the Center for Democracy and Technology.",
"\"They might not even think about building the next great application.",
"And if they did they might have to re-architect it in a way that would be less efficient, less useful to users than it would have been if they had been able to build according to what they wanted to do.\"",
"Nojeim also takes issue with the idea that the law enforcement is \"going dark.\"",
"\"Wiretapping is at record levels,\" he said.",
"\"There were more wiretaps placed in 2009 by federal and state officials than ever in history.",
"For each of the thousands of wiretaps that are placed, over 3,000 communications are intercepted.",
"That's not an FBI going dark.",
"That's an awful lot of light.\"",
"CNN's Carol Cratty contributed to this report."
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"New technology is giving suspects the edge over authorities, an FBI official says .",
"\"I worry about things like a Mumbai-style attack,\" the FBI's general counsel says .",
"But changes might bring security risks and stifle innovation, critics tell a House panel ."
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"(CNN) -- A Pennsylvania woman was arrested and charged Wednesday with endangering the welfare of a child after showing police a photo of her 2-year-old child duct-taped to a chair.",
"Caira Ferguson, 21, revealed the photo as part of her claim that someone had stolen her identity, according to a Chester Township Police statement.",
"Ferguson has also been charged with unlawful restraint and false imprisonment, the statement said.",
"The photo was posted on mediatakeout.com, a news and gossip blog.",
"It shows Ferguson smiling next to the child, whose hands are bound and mouth is duct-taped shut.",
"The child is dressed in a diaper and was photographed in July, police said.",
"\"There were some issues with the identity, but our main concern was about the safety of the baby,\" said .",
"Chester police Chief Kenneth J Coalson.",
"Police said they searched Ferguson's house Wednesday where they discovered a purple chair with remains of duct tape still attached to it.",
"It is not clear if Ferguson has acquired legal counsel."
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"Caira Ferguson, 21, was arrested after showing police the photo .",
"She was charged with unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, endangering the welfare of a child ."
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"(CNN) -- Philippine seismologists issued an alert on Mount Bulusan Sunday after the Luzon Island volcano erupted twice during a 24-hour period, according to a bulletin released by the nation's volcano-monitoring agency.",
"However, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHILVOCS) said the eruptions posed little threat to the villages surrounding the Luzon Island volcano.",
"Most of the villages lie outside the 4-kilometer (2 1/2-mile) danger zone, the bulletin stated.",
"Philippine volcanologists, according to the agency, aren't expecting Mount Bulusan to erupt again soon.",
"The volcano is located about 249 kilometers (155 miles) southeast of Manila.",
"The area immediately surrounding the Bulusan Volcano is mostly rural.",
"There are several villages, but most are outside the danger zone, according to PHILVOCS.",
"The most recent eruption, which took place before dawn local time on Sunday lasted about 20 minutes, according to the agency.",
"In declaring an \"Alert Level 1,\" the agency warned nearby residents not to enter the 4-kilometer \"permanent danger zone\" because of possible steam and ash explosions.",
"Area residents were also warned of the possibility of flooding if heavy rains push sediment-filled streams out of their banks."
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"Volcano erupted twice in 24 hours .",
"Nearby villagers warned to stay out of \"permanent danger zone\""
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"(CNN) -- Public safety officials in Texas Thursday released a video of a man throwing a Molotov cocktail at the governor's mansion in 2008, hoping it and a suspect sketch will lead to his identification.",
"The Department of Public Safety and its Texas Rangers division are offering a $50,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the arson.",
"\"We're quite confident someone knows who this suspect is,\" Steven McCraw, director of public safety, said at a press conference.",
"Authorities, who say the thrower is the same person shown in another video at a rear gate outside the mansion, hope a relative or acquaintance will recognize his appearance, gait or run.",
"They also released video of a white Jeep Cherokee whose occupants were taking photos of the mansion four days before the June 8, 2008, fire in Austin.",
"The vehicle owner and two other occupants in the Jeep are called \"persons of interest\" in the case.",
"Investigators said they have established a direct link between the three and an Austin-based anarchist group linked to a planned attack on the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in September 2008, which also involved Molotov cocktails.",
"The person throwing the fire device at the mansion is not believed to be one of the three people in the vehicle, officials said.",
"\"We need somebody's help in linking these people together, said Ranger Capt.",
"Antonio Leal.",
"Officials studied 1,900 hours of video taken by 11 cameras at or near the house that has served as the official residence of Texas governors and their families since 1856.",
"Gov. Rick Perry was not living in the mansion at the time of the fire because it was undergoing repairs.",
"According to an accompanying statement, the three persons of interest have denied involvement in the fire.",
"\"One passenger initially denied having been in the vehicle, but later admitted to having been in the vehicle and taking photographs after failing a polygraph examination,\" according to the statement.",
"At least one of the persons of interest has been placed in the downtown area the morning of the mansion fire, officials said.",
"White authorities call the three persons of interest and know their identifies, McGraw said he will not identify the Jeep occupants until the department has enough evidence to prosecute them.",
"The Texas fire and the planned attack in Minneapolis involved Molotov cocktails, he said.",
"\"We don't believe in coincidences,\" McGraw told reporters."
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"They say people in Jeep are tied to anarchist group .",
"No one has been charged in the arson .",
"Fire caused heavy damage to governor's mansion ."
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"(CNN) -- A Florida exterminator and father of four children adopted from Florida's foster care system has told police that a body found in the pest-control truck he was driving is one of them -- his 10-year-old daughter, authorities said Wednesday.",
"Jorge Barahona, 53, already faces a charge of aggravated child abuse for injuries to the dead girl's twin, Victor, who was also found in the truck, which was parked on the side of I-95 near West Palm Beach, Florida, officials said.",
"According to a probable-cause affidavit filed by the West Palm Beach Police Department, a roadside assistance ranger with the Florida Department of Transportation stopped to check the red Toyota pickup Monday around 5:30 a.m. and found the 10-year-old boy inside next to an open gas can.",
"The boy \"appeared to be in respiratory distress and (was) trembling\" and his clothing \"was soaked with an unknown chemical,\" the affidavit said.",
"The ranger then found Barahona on the ground beside the truck and called for help.",
"The boy was hospitalized in intensive care with severe burns to his abdomen, upper thighs and buttocks, the affidavit said.",
"While examining the boy, doctors noted he had sustained previous injuries, including a broken collarbone, a broken arm, scarring to his buttocks and lower abdomen, and ligature marks on both wrists, police said.",
"After Barahona and his son were taken to a hospital, a worker decontaminating the truck discovered the body of the girl, wrapped in a plastic bag, the document said.",
"Barahona told police he was distraught over the death of his daughter, and had intended to commit suicide by dousing himself with gasoline and setting himself afire, the affidavit said.",
"Barahona said he didn't go through with his suicide plan because his son was with him, the document added.",
"\"Basically, to paraphrase, he was stating that he placed his daughter in a plastic bag being distraught over her death,\" West Palm Beach Police Spokesman Chase Scott told reporters.",
"\"He drove here from South Florida accompanied by his son, Victor.",
"He then pulled off to the side of the road saying that he poured gas on his self, intending to light himself on fire.",
"His son's head was in his lap and he decided, after giving his son some sleeping pills, that he wasn't going to do that.\"",
"Barahona told police that he doused himself with gasoline and inadvertently got some on the boy, Police Capt.",
"Mary Olsen said.",
"But, she added, the man's story doesn't add up -- there was no gasoline on the boy.",
"Instead, he was covered with another chemical whose composition had yet to be determined.",
"\"That's why we're still treating this as a hazmat (hazardous materials case),\" she said.",
"Scott said the chemicals were so potent that staff caring for the boy at the hospital became ill as well, he said.",
"Victor, who was transferred Wednesday morning to a specialized burn unit at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, has not been able to talk to investigators because he is on a breathing tube, she said.",
"Olsen said police would decide how to charge Barahona further once the autopsy on his daughter determines her cause of death.",
"Asked whether Barahona has expressed remorse, she said, \"He feels remorse, but we're not getting consistent statements with what we're seeing in our evidence.\"",
"She added, \"It's a complex case.\"",
"At a hearing Wednesday in Miami attended by Barahona's wife, Carmen, a judge ordered that the remaining two children in the home be placed in foster care.",
"Florida's Department of Children and Families had opened a child protection investigation within the past few days to look into a complaint involving the Barahona family, and it wasn't the first such complaint, spokesman Mark Riordan said.",
"Reporters in the courtroom Wednesday heard tales of abuse, mainly concerning the twins, from state officials and experts.",
"The caller to the child protection hotline in the latest case reported that the twins were routinely locked in a bathroom for long periods of time and had been bound with tape, the court heard.",
"The story was corroborated by interviews with the other two children in the home, officials said in court.",
"An investigator told the court that she had showed up last Friday night at the family's home but had not seen the children.",
"Instead, she said, she had left the family's house after speaking with Carmen Barahona, planning to return on Monday.",
"Asked why she had not planned to return sooner, she said, \"I'm not allowed to do investigations on a weekend.\"",
"However, a spokesman for the department, John Harrell, said it is the job of investigators to follow through immediately or refer to someone else in the department to follow through when a matter is urgent.",
"CNN's Kim Segal, Shawn Nottingham and John Zarrella contributed to this report ."
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"The couple's remaining two children have been placed in foster care, court officials said .",
"The girl's body was in a plastic bag, an affidavit said .",
"Jorge Barahona's son is in intensive care, police say ."
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"New Delhi, India (CNN) -- Indian sports officials have downplayed fire-safety concerns at the venue for the final match of the 2011 Cricket World Cup in Mumbai, promising full compliance well before the April 2 event.",
"Lalchand Rajput, joint secretary of Mumbai's cricket association, told CNN on Friday that fire inspectors visited the city's Wankhede Stadium two days ago.",
"He acknowledged they did offer suggested improvements to follow.",
"\"We are working on them. There will be full compliance,\" Rajput said.",
"Rajput insisted the venue had already been given a no-objection clearance by Mumbai authorities.",
"He said he was confident the stadium would also get a fire-compliance certificate.",
"Indian officials will hope the Mumbai venue does not have the same problems as Kolkata's Eden Gardens, which was stripped of a World Cup match after it failed an inspection by the International Cricket Council due to a delay in construction work.",
"The iconic stadium will still host three games next month.",
"India is co-hosting the four-yearly tournament along with sub-continent neighbors Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, with the opening match taking place in Dhaka on Saturday.",
"Wankhede Stadium will stage two Group A matches next month, with New Zealand playing Canada on March 13 and the Kiwis again facing Sri Lanka five days later.",
"The tournament features 14 nations, spread across two round-robin groups, with the top four teams from each qualifying for the quarterfinals.",
"There will be 48 matches played before the final, which will be a day-night match along with all the other knockout ties."
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"Official says fire-safety concerns will be addressed well before the April 2 final .",
"India is co-hosting the tournament along with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh .",
"The first of 49 matches takes place in Dhaka on Saturday ."
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"Parker, Colorado (CNN) -- When the sniper's bullet hit his neck, Staff Sgt.",
"Matthew Keil nearly blacked out.",
"\"I had heard the gunshot, and it felt like someone had kicked me right in the back.",
"A ton of bricks swung and hit me in the back, and I fell,\" he said.",
"\"I couldn't feel my body. I could only feel my head, and it felt like I was floating.\"",
"He was on a rooftop in Ramadi, Iraq, leading a nine-man squad.",
"His men rushed to his aid, stopped the bleeding and then strapped him to a stretcher to evacuate him.",
"This is when Keil finally closed his eyes.",
"A short time later, a world away, in Colorado, Tracy Keil's phone rang: Her husband had been severely wounded.",
"Tracy Keil was a successful accountant working in corporate America.",
"She didn't know it at the time, but that day, February 24, 2007, was the last day she would ever work a regular job.",
"A much more difficult job and an uncertain future awaited her.",
"Sgt. Keil opened his eyes again three days later at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Tracy was by his side.",
"\"My wife was standing next to the bed, and she said, 'I'm here, I'm not going anywhere.",
"I'll be here as long as you need. You're stuck with me,' \" he recalls.",
"Matthew's legs and right arm were paralyzed, and he had minimal control over his left arm.",
"He would use a wheelchair for the rest of his life.",
"This is the point where some spouses call it quits.",
"\"I could have. I watched a lot of wives leave.",
"When we said our vows, I meant every word of it.",
"It didn't matter what physical or mental condition he was in.",
"It just didn't. He was alive, and that's all that mattered,\" Tracy says.",
"Down, but not out, they set about building a new life: Months of physical therapy and rehab, then back to Colorado.",
"It was a lot for any couple to handle, but Tracy, 33, and Matt, 29, were still newlyweds.",
"They had exchanged vows just six weeks to the day before Matt was shot.",
"While most young couples are focused on building careers and starting a family, the Keils were focused on learning to live in their new roles: him as paraplegic, her as caregiver.",
"They were determined to not let the injury define them.",
"They would have a full and productive life, but it would take determination and hard work.",
"\"I think Matt and I were more prepared as a couple for death than for an injury like this,\" Tracy says.",
"\"We had talked about a lot of things, but we have never talked about this.\"",
"So they turned to the Department of Veterans Affairs for help.",
"The Keils say the VA has taken good care of Matthew's primary medical concerns, but there was no help for Tracy.",
"She longed for support and to be recognized for her role as Matthew's caregiver.",
"In the Army, Matthew loved the feeling of being part of a team.",
"But the Keils felt abandoned.",
"Then, in May 2010, a new federal law passed that promised to help caretakers like Tracy.",
"Under the law, caregivers would receive a financial stipend, health care, training and -- perhaps most importantly -- respite care.",
"Trained health care providers would come into the home and give the caretaker a break.",
"Obama signs $3.6 billion veterans caregiver bill .",
"The law was supposed to take effect on January 31, but so far, none of the new benefits have been implemented.",
"The VA says it is unable to provide a timeline for when the benefits will be available, but in a statement, the agency says it's working as quickly as possible.",
"\"VA understands that every day is a challenge for the Caregivers of our most critically injured or ill Veterans.",
"That's why VA is working to move forward with deliberate haste to implement this complex Act.",
"Different benefits will have different implementation timelines based upon the law's requirements and the complexity of the benefit.\"",
"During the signing ceremony in May, President Obama hailed the legislation as \"a major step forward in America's commitment to families and caregivers who tend to our wounded warriors every day.\"",
"When asked about the delay in implementation, a White House official said \"the President views delays in payments to caregivers as unacceptable.",
"He has directed his team to work through options immediately to get these benefits to the caregivers who need them.\"",
"The VA says that the new program is complicated to implement and that it has never before given benefits to nonveterans, so systems must be out into place to determine eligibility and prevent fraud and abuse.",
"The delay has left the Keils felling abandoned once again.",
"Tracy has been forced to give up her career and faces decades of caring for Matt.",
"As much as the benefits, Tracy is looking for recognition for the work she does to help her wounded warrior husband.",
"\"I had a great job, I made good money, we had plans to buy a house and move forward.",
"I had a lot of potential.\"",
"She says. \"Now it's like I'm working for the VA for free.\"",
"Matt is unable to even get himself out of bed and needs constant care with everything from feeding to using the toilet.",
"For Tracy, it's a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week job.",
"\"There are days that I think, 'How am I going to do this for the rest of my life?'",
"\" She says, \"I love him, and I would do anything for him, and that's what gets you though those really, really hard days.\"",
"Through their hard work, the Keils have built a new life.",
"A nonprofit group, Homes for Our Troops, built a wheelchair-accessible house for the Keils, and through artificial insemination, the couple's hope of starting a family has come true: Twins Faith and Matthew Jr. were born in November.",
"The babies add even more work for Tracy.",
"Given Matt's injury, some people have told them they have no business having kids.",
"\"I feel like we should be afforded all the same hopes and dreams that everybody else has,\" she says.",
"\"I don't think because he is injured, we should have any less dreams than anyone else.\"",
"After four years of dealing with the VA, Tracy Keil says she has developed a reputation as a fighter.",
"It's a part of her role as caretaker that she takes very seriously, but she looks forward to a day when she won't have to waste her valuable energy fighting for their benefits.",
"\"Despite what the VA must think, I don't enjoy fighting with them for every little thing.",
"It would be nice to just be able to just ask for something and them say 'Sure, it's in the regulations, here you go.'",
"That would be wonderful.\"",
"She says. \"But the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and I squeak a lot.\""
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"Matthew Keil paralyzed .",
"His wife, Tracy, works around the clock to care for him .",
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"Until the law takes effect, Tracy says \"it's like I'm working for the VA for free\""
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"(CNN) -- AC Milan captain Gennaro Gattuso has been charged for head-butting Tottenham's assistant manager at the end of his side's Champions League loss on Tuesday.",
"Football's European governing body told CNN on Thursday that Gattuso faces a charge of \"gross sporting misconduct\" after he clashed with former Milan player Joe Jordan following the 1-0 first-leg defeat at the San Siro.",
"UEFA said the 33-year-old's case will be discussed at a meeting of its disciplinary and control panel in Switzerland on Monday.",
"The former Italy midfielder was already due to miss the return leg of the last-16 tie at White Hart Lane in March because of an earlier booking during the game, but according to UEFA's rules this could be extended to at least a three-match suspension.",
"Why Gattuso has to lose his cool .",
"In a tense encounter between the Italian Serie A and English Premier League sides, Gattuso had already clashed with 59-year-old Jordan before the incident with the former Scotland international on the sidelines at the final whistle.",
"The ex-Glasgow Rangers player also came to blows with Spurs goalscorer Peter Crouch during the match, and received a yellow card for a foul on South Africa midfielder Steven Pienaar.",
"However, Gattuso has apologized for his behavior towards Jordan and said he would have to accept the consequences of his actions.",
"\"I lost my head and I'm taking responsibility because I did something I shouldn't have done,\" he told reporters.",
"\"I made a mistake doing what I did to an older person, and that's it.",
"I will wait and see what UEFA decides now.\""
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"Gennaro Gattuso faces charge of \"gross sporting misconduct\" over head-butting incident .",
"Gattuso clashed with Tottenham assistant manager at end of Champions League match .",
"AC Milan captain's case will be discussed at a UEFA disciplinary hearing on Monday .",
"Midfielder already banned from return leg in London, and suspension could be extended ."
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"(CNN) -- World number one Rafael Nadal will return to Davis Cup action for the first time since 2009 next month, when he leads Spain in its world group first-round clash against Belgium.",
"It will be the first time the 24-year-old has played in the competition since he was part of the Spanish side that beat the Czech Republic in the final two years ago.",
"The tie, which takes place in the Belgian town of Charleroi from March 4-6, will also be Nadal's first competitive match since he sustained a wrist injury in his Australian Open quarterfinal loss to compatriot David Ferrer.",
"The Mallorcan was named in the Spanish squad alongside world number 6 Ferrer, number nine Fernando Verdasco and 41-ranked Feliciano Lopez by team captain Albert Costa at a press conference in Alicante on Friday.",
"\"Having the world number one and best sportsman of 2010 brings a winning spirit and stability to the team,\" Costa told the official ATP Tour website.",
"\"After the small injury he had in Australia he has done what he needed to do to be able to return to training.",
"His training is progressing, and when he joins our training camp he'll be in perfect condition,\" the former world number six added.",
"Nine-time grand slam champion Nadal has an impressive 14-1 win-loss record in Davis Cup singles play and was also part of the team who claimed victory in the event in 2004.",
"He will travel to Belgium on February 27 to prepare with his teammates ahead of the fourth meeting of the two European countries in the event.",
"Meanwhile, United States captain Jim Courier has named number eight Andy Roddick as part of a five-man squad who will face Chile in their first round tie.",
"Like Nadal, 2003 U.S. Open champion's last appearance came in 2009 when the side faced Switzerland in the opening round of the world group.",
"But Roddick, 28 -- who is the second best all-time player in U.S. Davis Cup history with 31 singles wins -- now looks likely to make his comeback in the event when the Americans travel to Santiago in March.",
"For his first tie in charge of the U.S., Courier also named John Isner, Sam Querrey and doubles specialists Bob and Mike Bryan.",
"The former world number one can change as many as two players before he must submit his final four-man line up ahead of the draw ceremony on Thursday March 3."
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"(CNN) -- New Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish's first taste of European football ended in a goalless draw with Sparta Prague in the Europa League.",
"The Scot led the club to three titles and two FA Cups in his first stint as manager between 1985-91 but never competed in Europe due to a ban on English clubs.",
"But his European debut won't live long in the memory in a game of few chances in the Czech Republic, though Liverpool will take a clean sheet back to Anfield for the return leg in a week's time.",
"Elsewhere, Belgian side Anderlecht lost 3-0 at home to Dutch neighbors Ajax.",
"Toby Alderweireld, Christian Eriksen and Mounir El Hamdaoui all netting.",
"Bayer Leverkusen, who are currently second in the German Bundesliga, took a commanding 4-0 lead over FC Metalist Kharkiv in Ukraine.",
"Sidney Sam grabbed two goals with Gonzalo Castro and Erin Derdiyok scoring the others.",
"Dutch champions Twente Enschede won 2-0 in Russia against Rubin Kazan with Luuk De Jong and Peter Wisgerhof on target.",
"Paris Saint-Germain snatched a late equaliser through Peguy Luyindula to draw 2-2 with BATE Borisov in Belarus.",
"German side Stuttgart took an early lead against Benfica through Martin Harnik but the Portuguese giants hit back to win thanks to goals from Oscar Cardozo and Franco Jara.",
"Ukranian's Dynamo Kiev won 4-1 in Turkey against Besiktas where former Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko was amongst the goals.",
"Lech Poznan, from Poland, will take a slender 1-0 advantage to Portugal for the second leg against Braga after Artjoms Rudnevs handed them victory.",
"High-fliers in Serie A Napoli were held to a goalless draw in Italy by Spanish club Villarreal.",
"Salvatore Aronica was sent off for the hosts.",
"Two goals in two minutes from Wilfred Bouma and Ola Toivonen helped Dutch club PSV Eindhoven to salvage a 2-2 draw with Lille in France.",
"Scottish champions Rangers were on course for victory against Sporting Lisbon thanks to Steven Whittaker's header but Matias Fernandez scored a last minute equalizer for the Portuguese side.",
"Swiss club FC Basel raced into a two-goal lead against Spartak Moscow but a superb second half comeback saw the Russian side win 3-2 thanks to goals from Dmitri Kombarov, Artem Dzjuba and Zhano Ananidze.",
"Tomas Necid gave fellow Russians CSKA Moscow a 1-0 win in Greece against PAOK Salonika.",
"Portuguese club Porto won 2-1 at Sevilla in Spain while Young Boys, from Berne in Switzerland, beat Russian club Zenit St Petersburg 2-1 after an injury-time goal from Emmanuel Mayuka."
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"Ajax take commanding 3-0 lead against Anderlecht in Belgium .",
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"Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Hurling rocks and brandishing daggers and sticks, supporters of longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh plunged into a crowd calling for his ouster in Sanaa on Friday as rising momentum in Yemen sprouted similar protests in other towns.",
"Reports of excessive force prompted calls for restraint amid intensifying demonstrations.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama voiced concern about what the U.S. Embassy in Yemen described as \"a disturbing rise in the number and violence of attacks against Yemeni citizens gathering peacefully to express their views on the current political situation.\"",
"\"The United States condemns the use of violence by governments against peaceful protestors,\" Obama said.",
"\"Wherever they are, people have certain universal rights, including the right of peaceful assembly.\"",
"The embassy statement said \"the attacks are contrary to the commitments that President Saleh has made to protect the right of Yemeni citizens to gather peacefully to express their views.\"",
"The violence in Yemen and Libya on Friday stood in sharp contrast to images from Cairo's Tahrir Square, where Egyptians showed up en masse to celebrate the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak a week ago.",
"Saleh's foes in Yemen are trying to score their own victory.",
"After midday prayers concluded, they marched from the gates of Sanaa University to the streets, where security forces and riot police tried to stay between rival demonstrators Friday.",
"Some told Amnesty International that they had been surrounded by security forces, aided by \"thugs\" who fired shots at them and beat them.",
"\"We are very scared, particularly because there are children with us,\" a protester told the human rights monitoring group.",
"\"We've tried to get the children out of the area, but the security forces have not allowed us to do so.\"",
"\"After Mubarak, now it's Ali's turn,\" chanted the anti-government protesters.",
"\"The people want the fall of the regime.\"",
"\"I'm out here today because we want the president to go and we want to make sure that he and his family don't stay in power,\" said Khalid Amer, a student.",
"Despite concessions from Saleh, a tide of anger is sweeping through Yemen's youths, who say they are simply fed up with the status quo.",
"At least 30 anti-government demonstrators were injured, according to Abdul Naser Al-Dumaini, an anti-government protester at a demonstration in Sanaa.",
"The day before, at least 20 people were injured in Sanaa.",
"Opposition lawmaker Ahmed Hashid said police at the scene did not try to intervene.",
"In Taiz, more than 10,000 anti-government demonstrators, including 4,000 women, gathered Friday in Freedom Square in a seventh straight day of protests, witnesses said.",
"An assailant drove by the square and hurled a grenade, killing one person, a police official said.",
"At least 43 others were wounded.",
"And in the coastal city of Aden, about 3,000 anti-government demonstrators gathered in the Al-Mansoura District, witnesses said.",
"Five people have been killed in Aden since Wednesday, hospital and government officials said.",
"Aref al-Qubati, a participant whose friend was one of the victims, said police fired to disperse protesters.",
"The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that \"at least four photojournalists were attacked, beaten and had their cameras confiscated\" by government supporters at the protests.",
"The government countered the coverage of discontent in Yemen by reporting on sympathetic demonstrations.",
"The state-run Saba news agency said a million demonstrators had marched in Taiz, hoisting Yemeni flags and pictures of Saleh.",
"And Deputy Interior Minister Hussein al-Zawa'ari blamed a southern secessionist movement for the unrest and deaths in Aden, Saba said.",
"Saleh has called for an investigation into the Aden violence, and Vice President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi met with the governor Thursday, Saba said.",
"Saleh, in power for 32 years, met earlier in the week with his National Defense Council to discuss discontent in his nation.",
"The council \"stressed all should practice their rights according to the constitution, in a peaceful way and without violence, chaos, sabotage and lawbreaking,\" Saba said.",
"Saleh has been in touch with King Hamad of Bahrain, which is also mired in unrest.",
"\"He pointed out that there are schemes aimed at plunging the region into chaos and violence targeting the nation's security and the stability of its countries,\" Saba said.",
"\"Those who commit acts of disorder and vandalism (are) simply implementing suspicious foreign agendas ...\" The report didn't suggest who might be behind the agendas.",
"In an attempt to quell growing discontent, Saleh, a U.S. ally in the fight against an offshoot of al Qaeda in Yemen, has announced he won't seek another term in 2013.",
"He also said he would postpone parliamentary elections scheduled for April to allow more time for discussions about reform.",
"Yemen's situation is compounded by the fight against al Qaeda, the southern separatist movement in its once-independent south, a Shiite uprising and a looming shortage of water."
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"Scores of injuries reported .",
"Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been in power for 32 years ."
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"(CNN) -- As one of the most anticipated games of 2011, \"Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds\" (Capcom) doesn't disappoint with new characters, a story line with uber-villain Galactus and a new mode designed to make it easy to get involved in the action.",
"After a 10-year hiatus, the popular fighting game brings the battle zones into the third dimension.",
"While action remains in two dimensions, the characters are generated in 3-D and provide for a more robust visual image of the fighting.",
"Each fight can be one-on-one or tag-team, with three characters on each side.",
"One of the biggest question marks as the game's release neared was who would be in and who would be left off of the Marvel and Capcom casts.",
"Seth Killian, special combat adviser for Capcom, said the company wanted to achieve a balance between Japanese and Western characters.",
"\"We wanted to include the fan faves [from Japan] as well as the key characters from Marvel,\" he said.",
"\"But we also wanted to include some fringe characters that haven't been featured before to appeal to each audience.\"",
"Thirty-six characters are playable right away, with two more available as downloadable content.",
"Signature characters like Spider-Man and Ryu make their return, but only comic book fans may recognize some of the other characters.",
"\"We included the Super-Skrull because we couldn't have the Fantastic Four and we wanted to have them represented somehow,\" Killian said.",
"\"We chose Marvel characters that Japanese fans would think were cool.\"",
"Killian said each character has unique and special fighting abilities, so one character doesn't feel or act like another.",
"Capcom characters are defined by their moves, he said, while the Marvel characters are defined by their powers.",
"That structure helped balance out the game and make it fun.",
"\"With so many moves and abilities, it becomes more strategic,\" he said.",
"\"Which characters can I choose to cover up some weaknesses, or do I just play to my strengths?",
"It is up to the player to figure out how to use them.\"",
"The fighting system, while criticized in past versions for the complex button mashing and joystick gyrations required to achieve moves, has also been retooled.",
"In an effort to gain fans and reach out to more casual players, the game can be played in simple mode, where only three buttons are needed to attack an opponent.",
"This affords new fans who may be familiar with the characters, but not the game, the ability to get into the action right away.",
"\"We really wanted to make the game easy to get into,\" Killian said.",
"\"Simple mode gives you three attack buttons: light, medium and heavy.",
"There is also one 'hyper combo' and two special attacks.",
"That's it. By contrast, [Capcom character] Dante has 35 different attacks in the normal mode.\"",
"A \"mission mode\" helps players learn the normal attacks, if they want to.",
"The missions take characters through different stages where they work on a particular attack to get its sequences right.",
"Using attacks in particular combinations increases the player's power bar, which grants hyper combos and team combos in three-on-three action.",
"Killian said designers added a behind-the-scenes feature called hit-stun scaling that prevents infinite combo loops.",
"\"It took us three years to develop the game, and a lot of that time goes into balance and technical,\" he said.",
"\"We've designed it for the long term and really think fans are going to enjoy how it plays.\"",
"Arcade mode is where the story line comes in.",
"Each universe's top bad guy -- Dr. Doom for Marvel and Albert Wesker (from \"Resident Evil\") for Capcom -- decides to join forces to beat the good guys and rule their respective domains.",
"However, as big, evil plans often turn out, their efforts are recognized by someone even more powerful than they are: the world eater Galactus.",
"Galactus decides he wants both worlds, and the heroes and villains from each must unite to defeat him.",
"Teams of three characters each do battle against each other to determine who will be strong enough to take on the galactic titan.",
"Killian said a unique ending sequence plays out for each character after the final battle, and each has alternate uniforms and dialogue that are unique to the character's persona.",
"Nonplayable characters will also make appearances during the story line to add flavor and interest in the mission.",
"Characters also have powers and abilities that come out only during specific times in a battle.",
"For example, Marvel's Phoenix will transform to Dark Phoenix after her life bar runs down.",
"This includes more powerful attacks but costs Dark Phoenix in life points as time goes on.",
"\"Marvel vs. Capcom 3\" doesn't fail to impress.",
"The way difficulty can be scaled down should win over new fans while allowing more advanced fighting players to jump right in.",
"Simple mode took me through the battles quickly and let me get familiar with some of the new abilities and characters.",
"Jumping into mission mode helped me learn moves that I utilized in normal mode and made the action even more vibrant.",
"Capcom also hit the mark with interesting voice and movement additions for each character that really heighten enjoyment of the game.",
"Deadpool's taunting and breaking the fourth wall to speak directly to the player were unexpected and very funny.",
"Sure, some are going to quibble over which characters were included and which were left out.",
"But with 36 to choose from, it will be hard for players to not find a character from either universe they'll enjoy playing.",
"It all works and will provide hours of enjoyment, even after Galactus is defeated.",
"And with more downloadable content promised, we won't have to wait 10 more years to use Hadouken (for the uninitiated, that's a special attack) on new opponents.",
"\"Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds\" is rated T for teens.",
"It was released this week for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.",
"This review was done with the Xbox 360 version."
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"Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- For years, small groups of Cuban dissidents have taken their demands to the streets, calling for political freedom as they get pushed around and shouted down by swarms of government supporters.",
"But a recently leaked video suggests the war between the Communist government and its opponents has shifted to a new battlefield: the internet.",
"The video shows what appears to be an official intelligence briefing, in which a lecturer talks about the dangers and possibilities of the web.",
"\"We aren't fighting the new technology,\" he tells his audience, who are dressed in the military uniforms worn by Cuba's Interior Ministry officials.",
"\"We simply have to get to know it and use it in our favor, but also know what the enemy is doing.\"",
"The 54-minute video was posted on the video-sharing website Vimeo by someone identified only as \"Coral Negro\" and has since appeared on dozens of blogs, many of them critical of the Cuban government.",
"CNN wasn't able to verify the authenticity of the video.",
"Although it was leaked this month, the video appears to have been recorded last summer, well before the social-media-fueled uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East.",
"But for Cuba¹s dissident bloggers, there are plenty of parallels.",
"Yoani Sanchez followed via Twitter the upheaval in Egypt that ultimately led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak and responded with her own tweets.",
"\"What a great lesson the Egyptians are giving us!\"",
"she wrote. Sanchez has won a huge global audience with her blog \"Generation Y,\" which criticizes the Cuban government and comments on daily hardships.",
"\"There are a lot of similarities with Egypt,\" she told CNN Wednesday.",
"\"The dissatisfaction of the people, a single voice in power for so long.",
"And that's why I was so enthusiastic about what was happening there.\"",
"But she said there are also very important differences -- namely Cuba's low internet penetration.",
"Recent figures show an estimated 1.6 million people there are internet users, out of a population of 11.2 million.",
"According to the leaked video, the Cuban government's fear is that U.S.-backed dissidents will use social networks like Twitter and Facebook to incite unrest.",
"\"Technology in itself isn't a threat,\" the lecturer says.",
"\"What can be a threat is the person behind the technology, in the same way it can be an opportunity for us to do something with it.\"",
"Cuba has jailed American aid worker Alan Gross, who was a subcontractor for USAID.",
"Cuban officials have accused him of distributing illegal satellite equipment to dissidents to help them connect to the internet.",
"The State Department and Gross' family say he was working with Jewish groups.",
"Gross has been formally charged with \"acts against the independence and territorial integrity of Cuba\" and could face up to 20 years in prison when his case goes to trial.",
"In the leaked video, he's called a \"mercenary.\"",
"\"It's just like the Bay of Pigs invasion,\" the lecturer says.",
"\"But this man is coming with different weapons.",
"He didn't come on a boat with a gun in his hand, but it's the same story.\"",
"Nonetheless, Cuba isn't turning its back on the internet.",
"Dozens of pro-government blogs have also appeared, many of them written by journalists who work for state-run media.",
"\"They have their bloggers and we have our bloggers,\" the unidentified man in the video says at one point.",
"\"We'll see who comes out stronger.\"",
"For years, the government blamed the U.S. embargo for restricted access to the internet, but this month, it completed an undersea fiber optic cable connecting the island to Venezuela.",
"When that network goes online this summer, Cuba's bandwidth will increase by 3000.",
"But the question remains whether Cubans will be allowed unlimited access to it without restrictions.",
"Cuba currently accesses the internet via expensive satellite connections.",
"As a result, the government has said it cannot offer internet access to the broader population, lacking the money to create the necessary infrastructure to support it.",
"It has given priority to education and health workers, who often can only access a limited intranet.",
"The government also provides connections at very high costs to foreign diplomats, businesses and journalists."
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"(CNN) -- Veteran actor Len Lesser died in his sleep Wednesday morning in Burbank, California, of complications from pneumonia.",
"He was 88. \"It was very peaceful,\" his daughter, Michele Lesser, told CNN, saying the family had hoped for a quick and painless death.",
"\"He was a great grandpa, and an amazing father.",
"He had a heart of gold -- and a sense of humor of platinum.\"",
"Best known as Jerry Seinfeld's Uncle Leo on TV's \"Seinfeld,\" Lesser made more than 500 film, television and stage appearances.",
"His TV roles ranged from \"Studio One in Hollywood\" in 1949 to a 2009 role on \"Castle.\"",
"In addition to \"Seinfeld,\" he had a recurring role as Garvin on \"Everybody Loves Raymond.\"",
"He also appeared on \"ER,\" \"Mad About You,\" \"Thirtysomething,\" \"Falcon Crest,\" \"Quincy M.E.,\" \"The Rockford Files,\" \"Kojak,\" \"The Bob Newhart Show,\" \"The Mod Squad,\" \"Green Acres,\" \"All In The Family,\" \"The Monkees,\" \"Get Smart,\" \"My Favorite Martian,\" \"Ben Casey\" and \"The Untouchables.\"",
"Lesser's films included \"Gallipoli,\" \"The Outlaw Josey Wales\" and \"Kelly's Heroes.\"",
"Lesser also served in the Army during World War II.",
"In addition to his daughter Michelle, Lesser is survived by a son, David, David's wife Julie and the couple's three children."
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"(CNN) -- In Shandong Province in northeastern China, the nation's grain heartland, the worst drought in 60 years has raised the specter of shortages for the world's largest wheat producer.",
"Russia -- still reeling from a drought that slashed wheat harvest by nearly 40% and spurred Moscow to ban exports last summer -- hopes new, resilient strains of the crop will lead to a resumption of wheat exports.",
"However, soil damaged by the drought means nearly 10% of Russian wheat fields couldn't be planted this year.",
"Social media may have fanned the flames of revolt which toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt and triggered demonstrations across the Middle East.",
"But the tinderbox was built on high unemployment, corruption and rising food prices.",
"It's a telling sign that the trouble in Tunisia started with the self immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor protesting the police seizure of his produce cart.",
"\"I think that we have to be careful, as an international community, not to let food prices become not [only] a national security threat in countries, but a global security threat,\" Ngozi Iweala, managing director of the World Bank, told CNN.",
"Rising food prices have driven nearly 44 million people into poverty since June, according to World Bank estimates released this week, pushing the number of chronically hungry toward 1 billion.",
"Global food prices rose 29% in the past year due to weather shocks such as the Russian drought and subsequent export ban, as well as the growing appetite for biofuels and rising demand from emerging economies such as Brazil, India and China.",
"Rising inflation a top Chinese concern .",
"Price increases were led by sugar and wheat, at 20%.",
"Fats and oils used in cooking rose 22%, according to the World Bank.",
"\"Our research shows higher global wheat prices have directly fed into sharp increases in domestic wheat prices in many countries,\" Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, said earlier this week.",
"\"In just six months, prices for wheat rose by more than 50% in Kyrgyzstan; 45% in Bangladesh and 33% in Mongolia.\"",
"Rising food prices create political strife.",
"Nations in northern Africa and the Middle East -- where arable land is scarce -- scour Eastern Europe and Central Asia for grain deals.",
"When Rachid Rachid was Egypt's Trade and Industry Minister, he personally combed the world for wheat -- with visits to Russia and Central Asia -- attempting to meet the domestic demand of six million tons a year.",
"\"The fact you know that you need this much quantity to feed the people in Egypt and knowing that there is not that much quantity around the world makes you really scared,\" Rachid told CNN.",
"The price of a kilogram of onions in India nearly doubled from September to December, resulting in an export ban that was lifted this week after Indian farmers protested and onion prices plummeted.",
"Chinese food prices rose 10.3% in January, raising concerns about the economy overheating.",
"In the U.S. consumer prices rose only 1.6% in January, but as CNNMoney reports prices for clothing, appliances and food are expected to rise as increasing demand from emerging economies hikes the cost of raw materials.",
"\"This is something we need to really pay attention to, because it impacts the most vulnerable: children, women, pregnant women and it really hits the poor,\" said Iweala of the World Bank.",
"CNN's Richard Quest, Kevin Voigt, John Defterios, Colleen McEdwards and Matthew Chance contributed to this report."
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"The World Bank sounded the alarm this week on rising global food prices .",
"Droughts in China have raised harvest worries in the world's largest wheat producer .",
"About 10% of the wheat fields in Russia couldn't be planted due to soil damage .",
"Global food prices rose 29% last year due to weather shocks such as the Russian drought ."
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"(CNN) -- Key facts about Bahrain, the Persian Gulf island state now facing protests similar to those that have wracked other Middle Eastern countries, as compiled by the CNN Wire: .",
"GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION: .",
"-- Bahrain is a chain of small islands off the eastern shore of the Arabian Peninsula, nestled between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.",
"The kingdom takes its name from the largest island, where the capital, Manama, is located.",
"-- Bahrain's 2010 census found a population of 1.2 million, but Bahrainis are a minority in their own country.",
"About 54 percent of its population are expatriates, the census found.",
"-- Though its ruling family is Sunni, Shiite Muslims make up about two-thirds of Bahrain's population.",
"-- A 2006 study by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions reported that guest workers make up 60 percent of the country's labor force.",
"-- Bahrainis have had universal suffrage since 2002.",
"The lower house of its parliament is elected, while the upper house is appointed by the king.",
"HISTORY: . -- Bahrain's current monarch, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, is the latest ruler in an Arab dynasty that wrested control of the archipelago from Persia in the 1780s.",
"-- Bahrain was a British protectorate from 1861 to 1971, when it became fully independent.",
"-- Before the discovery of oil in 1932, pearls were the backbone of Bahrain's economy.",
"That history is reflected in the monumental sculpture that sits in Manama's Pearl Roundabout, the scene of some of the recent demonstrations.",
"-- Pop star Michael Jackson moved to the island kingdom with his family after his 2005 acquittal on child molestation charges in the United States and spent almost a year as a personal guest of a Bahraini prince.",
"The prince later sued Jackson, claiming he had paid all of Jackson's living expenses and advanced funds on a music contract on which the singer reneged.",
"The case was settled in 2008, less than a year before Jackson's death.",
"INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: .",
"-- Bahrain has been the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, the naval arm of American forces in the Middle East, since 1995.",
"The U.S. Navy has maintained a presence there since 1949.",
"-- Bahrain has contributed a contingent of police to help provide security for the U.S.-led coalition fighting in Afghanistan.",
"-- The monarchy views Iran, its neighbor across the Persian Gulf and onetime ruler, with \"deep suspicion\" and suspects it of supporting Shiite opposition movements, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable disclosed by the WikiLeaks website.",
"-- Iran has asserted territorial claims over Bahrain both before and after the 1979 revolution that deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and brought the current Islamic republic to power.",
"ECONOMY: . Petroleum makes up about 30 percent of the country's economy.",
"But at an estimated 125 million barrels, Bahrain's oil reserves are a tiny fraction of those held by most of their neighbors.",
"Since the 1960s, the monarchy has worked to diversify its economy, turning the country into a banking, shipping and refining center.",
"Bahrain was the first Middle Eastern country to land a Formula One Grand Prix race, in 2004.",
"With its racing season set to begin in March, Shaikh Salman bin Isa Al Khalifa said Tuesday that race authorities are keeping a close eye on the protests \"and will respond appropriately to any further developments.\""
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"Oil makes up 30% of economy but reserves are tiny compared to those of neighbors ."
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"(CNN) -- The Bangladeshi capital Dhaka was transformed into a wall of noise and color Thursday as a lavish ceremony officially opened the Cricket World Cup.",
"A spectacular four-hour performance at the Bangabandhu Stadium showcased the cricket-crazy culture of the country, which is hosting the tournament along with south Asian neighbors India and Sri Lanka.",
"The ceremony included 3,500 performers as the captain of each participating nation was introduced to the crowd via the traditional mode of transport, a rickshaw.",
"Canadian pop star Bryan Adams took part in the festivities, along with Bangladesh singer Runa Laila and Sonu Nigam from India.",
"CNN blog: Cricket fever builds in Bangladesh .",
"The city of Mirpur plays host to the first of 49 games over the six-week tournament on Friday as World Cup favorites India take on Bangladesh.",
"The last edition, in the Caribbean in 2007, was criticized for being complicated to follow and going on too long.",
"Australia retained their title in the West Indies, and are aiming to win a fourth straight World Cup this time around.",
"The International Cricket Council's (ICC) president Sharad Pawar told the crowd he was confident the 2011 installment would be the finest yet.",
"\"Today is a historic day when the people of Bangladesh join India and Sri Lanka together to host the ICC Cricket World Cup, and make this tournament the most memorable yet,\" he said.",
"\"The ICC Cricket World Cup, our flagship event, provides the stage on which players have the rare opportunity to create legend and to write their own chapter in the history of this great sport.",
"\"The greatest cricketers in the world will grace this event and I am sure that their ability, whether with bat or ball, will provide excitement and enjoyment for all cricket lovers.\"",
"Bangladesh's prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, hailed a momentous day for her country.",
"\"We feel greatly privileged to co-host the cricket extravaganza in our beautiful country,\" she said.",
"\"I congratulate my cricket-loving countrymen for their great enthusiasm and cooperation to make this event a grand success.\"",
"Prior to the opening ceremony the ICC announced its disappointment that Salman Butt, Pakistan's former captain who was banned from the game for corruption, was to appear as a pundit covering the World Cup.",
"ICC chief executive, Haroon Lorgat, said he was \"not satisfied\" by Butt's role on a Pakistani television channel and would seek to clarify whether he is in breach of the terms of his ban.",
"It was also confirmed that players and officials would be banned from using their mobile phones during matches, to prevent them updating sites like Twitter.",
"New penalties were introduced for anyone found to break the new rules."
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"Lavish ceremony officially opens 2011 Cricket World Cup in Dhaka .",
"Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India will host the tournament .",
"The six-week competition is due to stage a total of 49 games .",
"Australia aiming for fourth straight World Cup success ."
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"(CNN) -- South Korean golfer In-Kyung Kim retained the lead at the halfway stage of the season-opening LPGA Thailand event on Friday, but is being chased by world No.",
"1 Yani Tseng and Michelle Wie.",
"The 22-year-old Kim, seeking her fourth victory in successive years on the top women's circuit, faltered with a one-over-par 73 at Siam Country Club's Old Course but ended the day with a one-shot advantage.",
"Kim, who finished third in two of last season's four majors, had matched the course record of 63 in her opening round on Thursday.",
"Taiwan's Tseng carded a 71 in soggy fairway conditions following heavy rain earlier this week, while American Wie joined her on seven-under 137 after a 68.",
"\"I feel exhausted.",
"It's the first event, but it feels like the last event,\" Kim, who had four bogeys in her opening nine holes, told reporters.",
"\"It was such a difference coming from yesterday when I teed off first and I didn't really expect much.",
"I don't know, I think I was too hard on myself the first nine holes and I couldn't really find a rhythm.\"",
"Wie said the greens were drying out in the hot sun.",
"\"I think it's a lot firmer.",
"The greens are very fast.",
"I need to stop hitting it five feet past the holes on my putts,\" she said.",
"Americans Paula Creamer and Juli Inkster were tied for fourth on five under, shooting 70 and 73 respectively to be level with Japan's Momoko Ueda (69) and South Korea's Na Yeon Choi (70).",
"Norway's Suzann Pettersen, who won her first major title last year, was tied for eighth after a 72.",
"Defending champion Ai Miyazato was tied for 25th after a second-round 69.",
"Meanwhile, Spain's Rafael Cabrera-Bello holds a one-shot lead after the fog-delayed second round of the men's European Tour event in India.",
"The world No. 125 shot a three-under 69 at the Avantha Masters in New Delhi on Friday to be clear of a bunch of six players at the halfway stage.",
"Of that group, Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee and Indian Jeev Milkha Singh can both pass his total of eight-under 136 when they complete their final seven holes on Saturday.",
"World No. 68 Jaidee is the only player in the field ranked inside the top-100.",
"An incredible nine players shared the lead after the opening round of the PGA Tour's Northern Trust Open in Los Angeles on Thursday.",
"John Senden set the clubhouse target with a four-under 67 at Riviera Country Club, then was joined by fellow Australians Robert Allenby and Aaron Baddeley, Britain's Martin Laird, Sweden's Carl Pettersson and Americans Spencer Levin, Ben Martin, Bill Haas and J.B. Holmes.",
"Three-time major winner Padraig Harrington, former world No.",
"1s Vijay Singh and Fred Couples, plus European Ryder Cup star Luke Donald were in another group of nine on 68."
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"In-Kyung Kim keeps Thai lead despite struggling with a one-over 73 on Friday .",
"Yani Tseng and Michelle Wie tied for second, one shot adrift, at the halfway stage .",
"Spain's Rafael Cabrera-Bello holds a one-shot lead at fog-hit Avantha Masters in India .",
"Nine players shared the lead after the opening round of the PGA Tour's Northern Trust Open ."
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"Chimaltenango, Guatemala (CNN) -- In rural Guatemala, all it takes is a few minutes for tons of heavy mud to plow into a vulnerable hillside community and swallow its people and their homes.",
"Sometimes, the devastation is there for all to see.",
"But not always. \"I met a couple who lost their children and their home ... all of it just gone,\" Anne Hallum said, recalling a trip to the country in 2005.",
"\"We arrived, and it was hard to believe anyone had died.",
"There weren't bodies lying around. ...",
"They were buried under.\" Hundreds of dangerous mudslides occur every year during Guatemala's rainy season, which lasts from mid-May until October or November.",
"In one extreme case, a mudslide resulted in 700 deaths, according to CEPAL, the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America.",
"There are plenty of natural reasons why Guatemalans are vulnerable to mudslides: frequent earthquakes, hurricanes and heavy rains oversaturate Guatemala's mountainous terrain and muddy the soil.",
"But Hallum said there's another mudslide trigger to consider.",
"\"Deforestation -- or the absence of trees -- causes mudslides to occur,\" said Hallum, co-founder of the Alliance for International Reforestation, a nonprofit trying to help the villagers protect themselves from mudslides.",
"\"Trees are cut for firewood and to make room for the crops, and without realizing it ... they've taken away their protection.",
"Where it used to be rainforest becomes an open space for the mud to come right on through.\"",
"Nearly 373 square kilometers of trees are destroyed each year in Guatemala, according to the University of Santa Barbara's Department of Geography.",
"Through her group's efforts, Hallum is inspiring villagers to stop chopping and, instead, use trees to safeguard their lives and crops against mudslides.",
"The effort, nearly 20 years strong, was one Hallum said she never really planned.",
"A political science professor at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, Hallum traveled to the rural town of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala, in 1991 as an adviser for a university field trip.",
"It was her first trip outside the United States, and despite not being able to speak Spanish, she was moved by a blatant poverty that \"broke her heart\" and birthed a \"new purpose.\"",
"\"I went into the villages where lots of the trees were cut down, and I held some of the children,\" said Hallum, 57.",
"\"They were listless and couldn't hold themselves up.",
"Their eyes were dull, and it became pretty clear that they were malnourished.\"",
"Do you know a hero? Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes .",
"The farms she visited were not sustainable, she said, because the soil was eroded and lacked nutrients.",
"Hallum, a self-proclaimed nature lover, was not formally trained in agriculture, but she knew some basic facts about trees and food products that could be cheaply grown.",
"With the help of a former student, she researched rural resources and learned that many local Guatemalan tree varieties could be strategically replanted to provide fruit, fertilizer, coffee, food and medicinal herbs where resources were failing or nonexistent.",
"\"When we started, it was all about fighting poverty,\" Hallum said.",
"\"We wanted to help families farm better and feed their children better.",
"But we started to notice that in the areas where (pine) trees were planted, the mudslides were no longer occurring.",
"So that brought a new focus for us.",
"Food, shade, fertilizer and mudslide protection -- the trees can do it all.\"",
"Not all trees that are planted can protect against mudslides, but Hallum said pine trees planted on high mountain slopes can be most effective.",
"Pine trees have long, anchoring tap roots that can extend 6 meters below the soil.",
"When they are planted in slopes above residential areas, Hallum explained, heavy rains are unlikely to loosen their grip on the soil.",
"\"We learned the hard way that without trees, we are at risk, and our land is at risk,\" said Jose Avelino Boc, a lemon farmer and Alliance program participant.",
"Boc, 53, has lost family and friends to mudslide disasters, and he now attributes his life and the success of his farm to Hallum's nonprofit.",
"\"The trees give us life,\" he said.",
"\"If there is too much rain, they keep the soil.",
"And the mountainside doesn't fall down anymore.\"",
"Constant land surveys, particularly during the rainy season, help Hallum and her team identify which rural areas need assistance.",
"But the easiest way to determine which village to target next, Hallum said, is simply \"to answer the door.\"",
"\"They're coming to us directly now to ask for help,\" Hallum said.",
"\"People know us, and now they trust us.\"",
"Local Guatemalan staff -- all trained agroforestry technicians -- are assigned six villages each and provide free weekly instructional courses on topics like tree planting, sustainable farming and air quality.",
"Each technician remains in his or her assigned communities for five years.",
"Hallum credits her group's success to this commitment of staying within a community until the community itself can see and reap benefits.",
"\"It's a lot of work,\" Hallum said.",
"\"We don't come in, plant some trees and leave.",
"We do that, and they'll cut them down. It's a step-by-step process that starts with education.",
"In a little time, they notice their crops are doing better; mudslides aren't happening.",
"And the behavior changes: They start to protect the trees.",
"We say: 'All right, you've got it.",
"You know how to do this now.' Then we leave ... on to the next village.\"",
"The Alliance for International Reforestation has helped 110 rural villages plant more than 3.8 million trees throughout Guatemala.",
"As an added incentive for attending classes and planting trees, the group donates and installs ecofriendly, fuel-efficient cooking stoves to some program participants based on economic need.",
"These stoves require very little firewood and give off no emissions.",
"With the stoves, not only are fewer trees cut down, but families no longer inhale dangerous fumes caused by stovetop, chimney-less cooking.",
"The group also provides educational resources and promotes economic independence within communities.",
"Its agroforestry textbook series has been adopted by more than 200 Guatemalan schools.",
"Hundreds of women have also benefited from the rural farming initiative.",
"They help generate income for their families from the sale of fruits, salves and shampoos created from trees and fruits they learned to harvest.",
"\"I learned so much from AIR and from Anne,\" Doña Elena Siquinajay said.",
"\"We're 50 women in our village working together.",
"... We come together and plant in the tree nurseries or pack the products, and we support each other.",
"It is a lot of work, but we enjoy it very much.",
"Without the program, some of us would not learn anything.\"",
"Although Hallum remains a full-time university professor, she spends all of her free time in Guatemala.",
"After 40 visits, she is happy with the progress of the program and vows to keep returning to the \"place where her heart remains.\"",
"\"I can go back to areas that were nothing but mudslides and soil erosion, and now I see forest,\" Hallum said.",
"\"This is not just a project. We are a team. It's about building the community and saving the planet. ...",
"It's about a better future for the children.\"",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out the Alliance for International Reforestation website at www.air-guatemala.org and see how to help."
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"Through her nonprofit, Hallum is showing villagers how some trees can provide protection .",
"The group also provides educational resources and agricultural know-how .",
"Do you know a hero?",
"Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes ."
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"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria's ruling party on Friday declared incumbent Goodluck Jonathan its presidential candidate in the April elections after he won a primary vote in Africa' most populous nation.",
"The president got 77.7% of the vote in the People's Democratic Party primary, election officials said.",
"He beat rival Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president supported by a group of influential northern leaders.",
"Jonathan is from the Niger Delta in the Christian-dominated south while Abubakar is from the majority Muslim north.",
"The incumbent's candidacy sparked a controversy because an unofficial zoning agreement in the ruling party aims to rotate power between the north and the south every two terms.",
"Jonathan, then the vice president, inherited the presidency when President Umaru Yar'Adua, a northerner, died during his first term last year.",
"Some in the ruling party have said a northerner should have replaced Yar'Adua to honor the zoning agreement.",
"Nigeria has been rocked by violence in recent years, which the government has blamed on Islamist extremists.",
"Christmas Eve attacks in the volatile northern city of Jos killed at least 31 people.",
"Earlier this week, an attack on a Christian village in central Nigeria left 13 people dead, an official said.",
"The village was attacked at midnight by unknown assailants.",
"Militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta have also been a focal point in recent years.",
"The most prominent rebel group in the area, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, and other militants say they're fighting for a fairer distribution of the region's oil wealth.",
"CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report."
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"Goodluck Jonathan gets 77.7% of the vote in the People's Democratic Party primary .",
"He fends off a former vice president supported by influential northern leaders .",
"The incumbent is from the Niger Delta in the Christian-dominated south ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A veteran police officer died from his injuries Friday after a shooting in Poughkeepsie, New York, according to the Poughkeepsie Police Department.",
"The name of the deceased officer, an 18-year veteran of the department, was not released pending notification of relatives.",
"Another police officer was being treated for a minor injury at Vasser Medical Center, Poughkeepsie Police Chief Ronald Knapp said at a press conference Friday afternoon.",
"\"Today is the worst day our city has seen in perhaps our history,\" Mayor Mike Tkazyik said.",
"Two other people died in the incident.",
"The suspected gunman died from gunshot wounds at St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, according to hospital spokesman Greg Zurawick.",
"Another victim, an unidentified female, was also shot, according to Knapp.",
"She is believed to be the wife of the suspected gunman.",
"The deceased officer suffered a single gunshot wound to the head, according to Knapp.",
"A confrontation began around 1 p.m. Friday after Poughkeepsie authorities received reports of a shooting in a small parking lot.",
"An officer noticed a man fleeing the scene of the shooting with a child in his arms and tried to confront the man.",
"The child was removed from the man, but another confrontation involving multiple officers ensued, Knapp said.",
"That was when the fatal shootings took place.",
"The child is now in custody of New York state juvenile authorities."
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"Mayor: \"Today is the worst day our city has seen perhaps in our history\"\nOfficer was an 18-year veteran of Poughkeepsie Police Department .",
"Suspected gunman and an unidentified woman also die in the incident .",
"Police believe the accused gunman and deceased woman were married ."
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"(CNN) -- When the FBI called Martha Huie's house in 2005, she didn't think much of it.",
"\"I answered the phone, and he identified himself and wanted to speak with Ernest Withers.",
"I said, 'This is not Ernest Withers!'\"",
"Huie recalled, laughing.",
"Last year, she learned the likely reason for the call was no laughing matter.",
"In 2010, The Memphis Commercial Appeal revealed that the friend she knew for almost 20 years was an FBI informant.",
"As the pre-eminent photographer of the civil rights era, Withers had close access to leaders of the movement.",
"To some, charges of informing represented a betrayal of the highest sort.",
"But not to Huie. Watch the trailer for In America's documentary about Withers, \"Pictures Don't Lie\" \"I can't think about why it was presented in such shock value,\" Huie said.",
"\"A lot of people talk to the FBI.",
"If the FBI wants to talk to you, you talk to them.",
"It's just not a horror story, and Ernest just doesn't deserve that.\"",
"Huie met Withers at a contemporary art show in Memphis in 1988.",
"\"We were the senior people there!\"",
"she laughs. \"That was how Ernest and me started talking.\"",
"He was black. She was white. He grew up poor in Tennessee.",
"She had a relatively privileged upbringing in Alabama.",
"Withers' wife, Dorothy, supported his fledgling photography business and eight children.",
"Huie's late husband, William Bradford Huie, was a celebrated author and investigative journalist who chronicled the events of the civil rights movement and broke the story when two white men confessed to the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, a black teen.",
"Withers, too, had covered the Emmett Till case.",
"Huie and Withers formed an immediate bond over the journalistic work, but it was their mutual appreciation of art and history that kept them talking.",
"The photographer shared stories about his experiences during the civil rights movement and how he learned to use a camera.",
"In one conversation, Withers told Huie how he learned to see color.",
"\"When he was a young boy, his mother died.",
"His stepmother was his mother.",
"And she sewed. She made things for rich white women, and she would send him to the store to buy thread,\" Huie said.",
"\"And if he didn't come back with the exact right color, he would have to go right back.",
"And there's where he learned to see matching colors.\"",
"When an FBI agent called Huie a second time in 2005, she assumed again it was a mistake, and gave the agent Withers' number.",
"She still doesn't know why they called her house.",
"When Withers died in 2007, his funeral was front-page news in Memphis.",
"Huie and Withers never spoke about his involvement with the FBI, and she isn't concerned that the information will affect his legacy.",
"\"Ernest was not a traitor, or doing anything political or underhanded,\" Huie said.",
"\"If the FBI wanted to hand him some grocery money, then so what?\"",
"While the civil rights photographer later became famous for his photographs, he never achieved fortune.",
"But, according to Huie, he lived a life rich in other ways.",
"\"He tried his best every day of his life and made a lot of mistakes and laughed at himself,\" Huie reminisced.",
"\"He was on the right side all the way, all the time.",
"And he played it like he needed to.\"",
"CNN's Alicia Stewart contributed to this report."
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"His friend, Martha Huie, says Withers wasn't a traitor .",
"Withers maintained a long love of art and photography, but never became wealthy from his work ."
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"(CNN) -- Her curriculum vitae makes for impressive, if exhausting, reading.",
"Dr. Nahed Taher tells CNN her views on currencies, the Saudi economy and whether women should be allowed to drive .",
"While fulfilling a demanding role as the first female head of a Saudi investment bank -- which she founded -- Dr. Nahed Taher also sits on the board of a number of private companies and business committees.",
"She has twice been named businesswoman of the year, and has made Forbes' list of the world's most powerful women.",
"John Defterios found a spare moment to sit down with Dr Nahed Taher, the founder, CEO and Executive Director of Gulf One Investment Bank.",
"John Defterios (JD): Leading up to the GCC meeting in Doha, there was a great deal of not just speculation but even policy statements that this was the right time to de-peg from the US dollar.",
"Why the backtrack, almost at the last minute, in your view?",
"Dr. Nahed Taher (NT): They believe that it's a cycle not a trend.",
"However, I have some concerns.",
"Having the dollar as a majority of this basket is not a problem, but it should be, it's only wise to do this at the beginning, because they cannot shift dramatically towards a flowing exchange rate or whatever, it should be a managed float.",
"JD: Speaking of inflation, there's a real number that's put out by different governments in this region, and then the realities.",
"What's the real inflation right now because of the import cost rising with the weaker dollar?",
"NT: As an economist you can measure the inflationary gap, which is the difference between the growth in the money supply and the growth in the real GDP.",
"And this is, in Saudi Arabia, 15%.",
"So the inflationary gap is 15%, meaning that injection of money in the economy is not having an equal absorption capacity in the economy to create income.",
"It's just burning the money in consumption.",
"JD: Let's look out a little bit here into the future, you know, 5-10 years away.",
"Can you create a single market for the trading of goods, a greater air of free trade association that's real that lowers barriers so you have more inter-Arab trade?",
"NT: The problem is that we all import the same thing, and we all export the same thing almost.",
"So there is not really intra-trade between us that makes sense a lot.",
"Because for the GCC, for example, we all import everything from outside.",
"What are we importing from each other? Nothing. Almost, I mean a minority.",
"But, that's what's needed in the future.",
"If we go, for example, into production more like petrol-chemical and mining and whatever we should really create less barriers, and facilitate intra-trade and intra-production as well... and go in mega-companies, not to have a petrol-chemical company in Saudi and one in Kuwait and whatever, and compete, we should work more towards collaboration.",
"JD: Is the formula correct?",
"When you drive the streets of Jeddah do you say I think we'll get it right this time, the wealth that's coming into the country, recalibrating what we want to do with Saudi Arabia?",
"NT: There is a big recognition that this boom is totally different than the first boom.",
"At the first boom we didn't have any debt.",
"Now we have a government debt, and we have private sector debt.",
"So we recognize that this wealth has to be wisely spent on projects for the future that can co-op with future demand.",
"We have 60% of our population under 24-years-old, which are baby boomers hopefully we don't want them to be the baby losers in the future.",
"JD: How about as a woman, do you think that it's a bit strange that you can't drive on the streets but you can sign multi-million or billion dollar deals?",
"NT: I will leave this to my dearest King Abdullah, to decide.",
"I know he's supportive and he will have it very soon, in the right time.",
"I cannot go against the wind, but driving for women is definitely a necessity now, it's becoming an economic need.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Rabat, Morocco (CNN) -- Five charred bodies were found Monday in a Moroccan bank that burned down during protests the day before, Morocco's state-run news agency reported, citing the country's interior minister.",
"The bodies were found in a bank in the town of Al Hoceima in northern Morocco, Interior Minister Taib Cherkaoui told reporters on Monday.",
"He said the acts of vandalism followed the peaceful protests in at least six cities Sunday, according to Agence Maghreb Arabe Presse.",
"He estimated that about 37,000 people participated in the protests nationwide.",
"The demonstrators were calling for political reform, according to Human Rights Watch.",
"Cherkaoui said Monday they included labor unions, youth organizations and human rights groups.",
"Police stayed away from the marches and demonstrations, most of which were peaceful, Human Rights Watch reported.",
"The vandalism broke out in a handful of cities afterward, Cherkaoui said, describing it as acts of sabotage committed by troublemakers including ex-convicts.",
"Twenty-four banks were burned, he said, along with 50 shops and private buildings and 66 vehicles.",
"Authorities dispersed the vandals and made arrests, Cherkaoui said, according to Agence Maghreb Arabe Presse.",
"About 120 people are awaiting trial, he said, and detained minors were returned to their parents.",
"Some 128 people were injured, he said, including 115 security forces members.",
"Cherkaoui said authorities are investigating the five deaths in the bank, according to the news agency.",
"The victims are thought to be computer technicians.",
"Banks in Morocco are not open on Sunday.",
"The interior minister said the protests included sit-ins, rallies and demonstrations, Agence Maghreb Arabe Presse reported.",
"\"Thanks to the expanding liberties, the practice of a healthy and authentic democracy and the right to the freedom of expression enjoyed in our country, these protests took place in a peaceful environment marked by serenity and discipline,\" he said, according to the report.",
"A government spokesman told a Russian television station on Sunday that protests in Morocco are not unusual, according to the Moroccan state news agency.",
"\"Unlike most Arab countries, rallies and protests are common in Morocco,\" said Khalid Naciri, communication minister and government spokesman.",
"Naciri said the protesters' demands are \"ordinary\" and that the rallies take place lawfully and preserved public order in an environment of \"stability.\"",
"He also said the protests are part of the practice of democracy, Agence Maghreb Arabe Presse said.",
"Demonstrators' demands are on the agenda of most political parties, he said.",
"Morocco's laws on demonstrations are liberal.",
"Cherkaoui emphasized Monday that people are free to demonstrate in the country.",
"But, he said, while authorities support freedom of expression, they will intervene to stop those who are disrupting public order or damaging property, the news agency said.",
"In Rabat, Morocco's capital, an estimated 2,000 demonstrators gathered at Bab al-Had Square and marched to parliament, where they chanted slogans calling for change, including \"Down with tyranny\" and \"The people demand change,\" according to Human Rights Watch.",
"Hundreds also demonstrated in Casablanca, Marrakesh and Agadir, Human Rights Watch said, as well as in the Rif, the mountainous area in northern Morocco.",
"There were reports that protesters set fire to a police station in Marrakesh, the organization reported, citing a witness.",
"A few unarmed, uniformed police officers monitored the Rabat protests, the group said.",
"There were no reports of arrests in the capital, according to Human Rights Watch.",
"In Larache in northwest Morocco, a representative of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights reported that protesters set fire to a police station, robbed stores and attempted to break into banks, Human Rights Watch said.",
"Cherkaoui told reporters they also stormed a customs administration building and looted drugs and alcohol that had been seized, Agence Maghreb Arabe Presse said.",
"And in Al Hoceima, where the bodies were found, demonstrators vandalized a stadium, two political party offices and a pair of hotels, the organization said, citing activists in the city.",
"Security forces responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, and there were reports of injuries, the group said.",
"A small police building was also burned there, Cherkaoui said.",
"Meanwhile, youth groups who demonstrated over the weekend are calling for their own political party.",
"Morocco is much more advanced in many areas compared to Egypt and Tunisia and aligns itself more with Europe than other Arab countries in the region.",
"The king, who is widely revered, is pushing through reforms in the country, but the government is not so well respected by many people here, particularly the youth.",
"\"What happened over the weekend is that people sent a message to the king.",
"We want reform in justice and free access to hospitals,\" said Fatiha Layadi, an opposition member of parliament.",
"\"The problem is that these groups don't feel there is a platform for their views.",
"There's no debate, so if we are to have more of these demonstrations, firstly the government needs to better organize itself, but secondly it would be better if these (youths) could have a voice of their own through the media.\"",
"There are no political debate shows, Layadi said, but youths on Facebook are asking for help in forming a political party.",
"Journalist Martin Jay contributed to this report for CNN."
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"NEW: Interior minister says vandalism broke out after the demonstrations .",
"The bodies were found in a bank in Al Hoceima, an official says .",
"The demonstrations were mostly peaceful .",
"Activists say police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets in one city ."
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"Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- One person was killed and more that two dozen were hurt in a fresh round of anti-government protests in Yemen on Thursday, eyewitnesses and an opposition lawmaker reported.",
"An 18-year-old demonstrator died in Aden when police fired to disperse protesters, said Aref al-Qubati, a participant who said the victim was a friend of his.",
"It was the second fatality reported in the past two days in Aden, where authorities cut off power to the Al-Mansoora district and fired into the air to break up the crowd of about 3,000.",
"At least 12 other people were wounded in clashes with security forces throughout the day, witnesses said.",
"But journalists have been barred from the city's Al-Naqeeb hospital, and about 400 guards surrounded the facility.",
"And in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, at least 20 people were injured in clashes between stone-throwing pro- and anti-government demonstrators, opposition lawmaker Ahmed Hashid told CNN.",
"Police at the scene did not try to intervene, he said.",
"The clash took place in western Sanaa, with about 600 government opponents there at the peak, anti-government demonstrators claimed.",
"The opponents had planned to gather at Sanaa University, but said they found government supporters there who forced them to leave, they said.",
"By the time CNN arrived, there were about 100 anti-government protesters and 300 to 400 supporters of the government near the intersection of Rabat Street and Fitteen Street.",
"One injured person was carried away while CNN was present, but it was not clear how serious the injuries were.",
"Gunfire was heard in the area as well, but it was difficult to determine who was shooting or what the target was.",
"Yemen is among several Middle Eastern nations to find itself convulsed by daily protests after the revolts that toppled the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt in recent weeks.",
"Anti-government protesters have called for the ouster of longtime Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled the country since 1978.",
"The country has been wracked by a Shiite .",
"Muslim uprising, a U.S.-aided crackdown on al Qaeda operatives, a secessionist movement in its once-independent south and a looming shortage of water.",
"In an attempt to quell growing discontent, Saleh has announced that he won't seek another term in 2013 and would postpone parliamentary elections scheduled for April to allow more time for reform talks with the opposition.",
"It is not clear who the pro-government demonstrators are.",
"Anti-government activists say the government is putting hired thugs and plainclothes police on the street to break up protests, but pro-government demonstrators have told CNN they are there of their own volition and are not being paid.",
"The government has not responded to CNN questions about the pro-government demonstrators.",
"The top European Union foreign policy official, Catherine Ashton, is \"very concerned\" about the events in Aden, her representative said in a statement Thursday.",
"Ashton \"strongly deplores the loss of life and violence and calls for calm and restraint of all parties,\" the statement said, calling for \"genuine, comprehensive and inclusive national dialogue.\"",
"Human rights activists accused pro-government demonstrators of beating students after a similar protest in Sanaa Wednesday.",
"Witnesses in Aden said the victim was an 18-year-old who was shot by security forces as they tried to disperse the crowd.",
"Video distributed by student activists appeared to show the youth being carried away, bleeding heavily from his left side.",
"But CNN could not independently confirm the authenticity of the video, and there was no immediate confirmation of the fatality from hospital officials.",
"The Aden protest drew thousands of demonstrators, mostly students, to the city's Al Mansoora district for a sixth straight day.",
"And in Sanaa, students at Sanaa University rallied inside the gates of the campus in a demonstration organized by the head of the university's student union, said Omar Al-Nihmi, a third-year media student at the school.",
"The three students injured in Sanaa were attacked while on their way home from the university demonstration, human rights activist Abdul Rahman Barman said.",
"Barman said he took one of the students to the hospital with head injuries from being hit with sticks, but the other two had only minor injuries.",
"The student protest began as a call for an improved curriculum, for removal of the university dean and for security forces to remain off-campus.",
"But about 90 minutes into the event, the mood turned anti-government, said third-year student Salah Al-Janadi.",
"More students showed up, both Al-Nihmi and Al-Janadi said, and the protesters began chanting anti-government slogans such as \"The people want the fall of the regime\" and \"Oh Ali, son of Saleh, your regime is no good.\"",
"They also chanted, \"Our protests are peaceful and we don't have weapons.\"",
"Shortly afterward, hundreds of pro-government demonstrators turned up -- but they were outside the university gates, while the students were inside.",
"The pro-government demonstrators began throwing rocks, Al-Janadi said.",
"Al-Janadi said he was told by the protest organizers \"that because today's protest was a student union protest at the university, security forces at the scene would not interfere.\"",
"Hundreds of police were on the scene as well.",
"They did not interfere with protesters, Al-Janadi said, but fired bullets into the air, successfully dispersing the crowds.",
"CNN's Laura Perez Maestro and Journalist Hakim Almasmari contributed to this report."
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"Yemen has seen nearly a week of daily demonstrations as protests sweep the region .",
"Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been in power for 32 years .",
"The European Union \"deplores\" the violence and calls for restraint ."
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"(CNN) -- A Rosary service and funeral were scheduled this week for Jaime Zapata, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was killed in Mexico last week.",
"The slain agent will be buried in his hometown of Brownsville, Texas.",
"He was killed and another agent was injured on a highway in Mexico's San Luis Potosi state after they were run off the road by two vehicles believed to be driven by members of the Zetas drug cartel, authorities have said.",
"Zapata, 32, was based in Laredo, Texas, and was in Mexico on temporary assignment.",
"\"His dedication to service and integrity was unparalleled.",
"He was the life and soul of our family and a joy to his friends and colleagues,\" Zapata's brother, Amador, said in a statement.",
"\"Jaime was a son, a brother, a boyfriend, and a caring, loving person,\" Amador Zapata said.",
"\"He grew up giving of himself and was always committed to doing the right thing.",
"I firmly believe he is in heaven now, continuing to work for what is right.\"",
"Outside of that statement, the Zapata family has requested privacy and has not talked with the media.",
"However, the public outpouring in the community was so great that the Rosary service and funeral will be open to the public.",
"The Rosary service, in which mourners pray for the repose of the soul of the departed, will be at 7 p.m. Monday at the Brownsville Events Center.",
"The funeral mass will take place in the same place at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.",
"He will be buried at Rose Lawn Gardens Cemetery.",
"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder will speak at the funeral."
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"Jaime Zapata was ambushed by a Mexican cartel last week, authorities say .",
"He will be buried in his hometown of Brownsville, Texas .",
"His dedication was unparalleled, said his brother ."
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"(CNN) -- Two German journalists have been released from prison after being charged with espionage in Iran for interviewing the son and lawyer of a woman condemned to die by stoning, a spokesman for Germany's Foreign Ministry confirmed Saturday.",
"Both men were in the northwestern city of Tabriz, accompanied by German consular officials, the spokesman said.",
"The officials hoped to bring them to the German Embassy in Tehran later in the day, though no other details were given.",
"Marcus Hellwig and Jens Koch had been sentenced to 20 months in prison.",
"But Iran's Revolution Court dismissed the sentences, instead slapping each with $50,000 fines, Iran's state-run Press TV said.",
"The two men were arrested in October after they interviewed the son and lawyer of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who was convicted of adultery in 2006 and sentenced to death by stoning.",
"\"Their reports and propaganda in Tabriz proved that they are in the country for spying,\" Malek Ajdar Shafiee, the head of the Justice Department of East Azarbaijan, was quoted as saying by Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency."
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"NEW: Germany confirms release of reporters .",
"Both men have had their sentences replaced by fines .",
"They were arrested in October and accused of espionage ."
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"(CNN) -- One of the Dallas Cowboys' major donors is a named plaintiff in a class action lawsuit, seeking more than $5 million, over unavailability of seats at Super Bowl XLV, according to documents filed Monday at a U.S. District Court in Texas.",
"The Cowboys, along with team owner Jerry Jones, the National Football League and corporate entities were named as defendants in the suit, along with corporate entities that manage Cowboys Stadium, where the Green Bay Packers defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25 Sunday.",
"About 1,250 fans with tickets were affected in the seating fiasco, which came about because certain sections of Cowboys Stadium that were being added in an effort to boost attendance weren't ready by game time.",
"About 850 of the fans were relocated to other seats, and some 400 weren't, the NFL said.",
"Mike Dolabi of Tarrant County, Texas, who is one of the \"Founders\" of Texas Stadium who paid a minimum $100,000 per seat to help pay for the state-of-the-art venue's construction, was one of the named plaintiffs in the class action.",
"Dolabi and others had been assigned to \"seats with obstructed views and temporary metal fold-out chairs\" that \"lacked any reasonable view of the stadium's prized 'video board,' which defendant Jones and the Cowboys routinely claim is one of the most unique and best features of Cowboys Stadium,\" the lawsuit says.",
"The lawsuit also notes that the Cowboys and the NFL knew that a problem with seating was unfolding in the days before the Super Bowl but did not notify ticket-holders that there might be a problem.",
"Jones and NFL President Roger Goodell on Monday both apologized to fans affected by the seat shortage.",
"Also, the league promised to give a free ticket to next year's Super Bowl and a refund of triple the cost of the $800 face value of the ticket to each of the 400 fans denied seats -- or a free ticket to a future Super Bowl game of the fan's choice, plus round-trip airfare and hotel accommodations.",
"Fans can pick the option they want.",
"Not good enough, the plaintiffs say: \"(T)his monetary sum is wholly insufficient to compensate plaintiffs for all of their expenses, including but not limited to travel costs, or of their disappointment and frustration in not being able to properly enjoy the Super Bowl.\""
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"Class action is filed on behalf of Super Bowl fans who showed up to find they had no seats .",
"One of the named plaintiffs is one of the Dallas Cowboys' top-paying seat owners .",
"Suit claims information about problems in finishing construction was concealed .",
"Plaintiffs say NFL's offers of triple refund, future tickets, travel and hotels are insufficient ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Authorities in Egypt have frozen the assets of former President Hosni Mubarak and his family, state-run media reported Monday.",
"Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud requested the action, according to the state-run EgyNews website.",
"Along with Mubarak's assets, those belonging to his wife, Suzanne, were also frozen, along with the assets of the former president's eldest son, Alaa, and younger son, Gamal, and both of the sons' wives, according to the report.",
"After 30 years, Mubarak stepped down as Egypt's president February 11 following 18 days of unrest.",
"The same day, Switzerland's government moved to freeze any assets in the country's banks that might belong to Mubarak or his family.",
"\"The (government) intends in doing so to avoid any risk of embezzlement of Egyptian state property,\" Swiss officials said in a statement at the time.",
"In addition, the prosecutor has requested an investigation into Mubarak's assets, prompted by citizen complaints, Egyptian state television reported.",
"On Sunday, Mubarak's attorney said that false information had been published by media outlets both in Egypt and elsewhere regarding the former president's wealth, calling it \"baseless rumors ... an attempt to cause damage to his reputation and his integrity,\" according to EgyNews.",
"And on Saturday, Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq responded to a question on the matter during a meeting with newspaper editors and media representatives by saying he only knew what he \"read about Mubarak's wealth in the newspapers and in the media, just like everyone else,\" EgyNews reported.",
"Shafiq said that any action on the former president's assets was up to the country's Military Council.",
"Two former Egyptian ministers were transferred to criminal court on Monday, according to state news agency MENA.",
"Former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly, whose agency was reponsible for Egyptian police and paramilitary forces, and Zuhair Garana, former tourism minister, will face corruption charges, MENA reported.",
"Al-Adly is charged with racketeering and money laundering, according to EgyNews, and Garana is charged with premeditated damage to public property and illegally enabling close associates to obtain financial benefits.",
"The two were among four ministers from Mubarak's government jailed last week, state media reported.",
"Meanwhile, British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived Monday in Cairo, his office said, for meetings with Egypt's military leadership, to which Mubarak ceded power.",
"Cameron met Monday with Mohammed Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, according to his office.",
"Cameron \"spoke of the UK's willingness to be helpful and contribute to a successful political transition,\" the Downing Street website reported.",
"\"This is a great opportunity for us to go and talk to those currently running Egypt to make sure this really is a genuine transition from military rule to civilian rule and see what friendly countries like Britain and others in Europe can do to help,\" Cameron said, according to the website.",
"Cameron also plans to meet with Shafiq as well as \"members of the opposition movement,\" his office said.",
"It was unclear whether Cameron would meet with the banned Muslim Brotherhood group.",
"The opposition group, although officiallyillegal, has said it will apply to become a political party in Mubarak's absence.",
"It has said it does not plan to field a candidate for president when elections are held to replace Mubarak.",
"CNN's Carol Jordan, Saad Abedine and Caroline Faraj contributed to this report ."
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"The assets of Hosni Mubarak's sons have also been frozen .",
"Mubarak's wealth has been the subject of false reports, his attorney says .",
"British Prime Minister David Cameron is in Cairo to meet with officials ."
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"(CNN) -- At least 36 people were killed in a stampede at a stadium in Mali after a speech by a prominent imam, the British Embassy in the country said Tuesday.",
"The stampede at the Modibo Keita stadium took place Monday afternoon as the crowd was leaving the facility, said Mohamed Ba, a consular at the embassy.",
"Another 64 people were wounded, he said.",
"The crowd had come to hear Imam Osman Madani Haidara speak.",
"\"The stadium seats 25,000 and it was absolutely full, as it is every time Imam Osman Madani Haidara gives a sermon,\" Ba said."
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"NEW: The 25,000-seat stadium was packed, Ba says .",
"The crowd had come to hear a prominent imam speak .",
"64 others are hurt, an official says ."
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"(CNN) -- It is 20 years since Poland's Solidarity movement defeated the Communist Party in an historic election that prompted the fall of communism across central and eastern Europe.",
"Solidarity leader Lech Walesa takes the oath in front of Poland's National Assembly on December 22, 1990.",
"CNN International marks this significant anniversary with \"The New Poland,\" a week of programming examining the transformation of Poland from 1989 to where it sits today on the world stage.",
"The combination of daily live programming and special reports from CNN correspondents in cities across Poland culminates June 4 with \"Autumn of Change, an in-depth documentary that takes a retrospective look at the events leading up to the election exactly 20 years ago.",
"Reflecting the tumultuous year of 1989, which changed Europe forever, \"Autumn of Change\" will mix live programming and documentary programming, unforgettable historical images with interviews past and present, and a huge online audience initiative through Poland, Hungary, Germany, the former Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania, in a comprehensive narrative of events that have helped to shape the Europe of today.",
"\"CNN's combination of historic footage, comprehensive reporting and access to Poland's key figures puts us in an unparalleled position to set the scene for how Poland was the catalyst for the Europe of today,\" said Mike McCarthy, vice president of coverage and feature programming for CNN International.",
"\"In step with the anniversaries of the events themselves, CNN will invite viewers to take part in our ambitious account of how Europe has changed over the last 20 years and what the future may hold.\"",
"About the programming: . Just eight months after reporting from Poland for the week-long \"Eye on Poland\" special, Fionnuala Sweeney returns to the country to anchor the network's live coverage for \"The New Poland.\"",
"She will report on the various commemoration and celebration ceremonies throughout the week from cities across Poland including Warsaw, Krakow and Gdansk.",
"In addition to Sweeney's live reports, CNN correspondent Frederik Pleitgen will take viewers inside the Poland of today looking at the political, cultural, social and economic changes that have taken place in the past 20 years.",
"The programs include: .",
"-- Gdansk Today: CNN explores the city of Gdansk, the birthplace of the Solidarity movement.",
"We visit the main shipyard and spend the day with a foreman who has been working there for more than 30 years.",
"He talks about the transformation since Solidarity was born and the challenges the shipyards face three decades on.",
"Finally, CNN heads out to sea with a polish yacht maker and finds out how they are dealing with the economic crisis.",
"-- Catholicism in Poland: CNN looks at the Catholic Church in Poland and the challenges it faces.",
"We visit Religia TV, a new project that aims to attract Catholics as well as viewers from other religions.",
"-- Business in Poland: Solidarity transformed Poland from a communist state into a capitalist economy eventually capable of becoming a democratic member of the EU.",
"During the last 20 years, its economy developed at a thriving pace, but even today there are remnants of the old system.",
"CNN speaks to a family-run business on the local economy.",
"We also visit Poland's biggest copper mining and refining company.",
"We find out how the global market place is impacting the global economy and Polish business.",
"-- Polish Cuisine: CNN speaks to Krakow's top celebrity chef and historian Robert Maklowicz about Polish cuisine and the recent trend to return to its roots.",
"-- Poland's Film School: CNN visits Poland's largest film production Centrex, the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz, and finds out what makes this school so unique.",
"About the documentary: By combining narratives from key players within the Solidarity movement, the Communist leadership, CNN reporters who covered the events and Polish civilians who lived through it all, Autumn of Change charts the individuals, relationships and astonishing chain of events that shook eastern Europe to its foundations.",
"About the online coverage: CNN's television coverage will be complemented by a full interactive companion site.",
"This special site will feature a number of pieces that reflect the cultural influence of this movement as well as narratives from some of the major figures involved in the process.",
"Via iReport.com, CNN will also encourage viewers and users from Poland and elsewhere to submit content -- photos, videos and comments -- to illustrate personal experiences.",
"Whether a part of this revolutionary period or not, CNN wants to know how these pivotal events affected them."
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"20 years since Poland's Solidarity movement defeated the Communist Party .",
"The New Poland is a week of programming examining the transformation of Poland .",
"Culminates in Autumn of Change, a look at the events that led to the election .",
"Fionnuala Sweeney will anchor CNN's live coverage from Poland ."
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"(CNN) -- A space rocket carrying communications equipment exploded soon after takeoff Saturday evening in India, a news agency reported.",
"The unmanned rocket strayed from its flight path and broke into pieces, according to the Press Trust of India.",
"Video of the incident showed huge plumes of white and copper-colored smoke streaming across the sky.",
"CNN's sister network, CNN-IBN, reported that the rocket lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.",
"Its launch was originally scheduled for December 20, but had been postponed because of an engine leak, CNN-IBN said.",
"It was not immediately clear what caused the failure, which the Press Trust called a setback to India's space program."
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"An unmanned rocket carrying communications equipment exploded, media reports .",
"The rocket's launch had been delayed due to an engine leak, according to CNN's sister network .",
"There was no immediately indication as to what caused the launch's failure ."
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"(CNN) -- Actor Alec Baldwin says he is \"very, very interested\" in running for political office but to leave acting would be \"extremely painful.\"",
"The \"30 Rock\" star made the comments in an interview to air Wednesday on CNN's \"Parker Spitzer.\"",
"Knowing Baldwin's long-running interest in politics, Eliot Spitzer asked him if he was ready to \"get into this game.\"",
"\"The answer is: Yes, it's something that I am very, very interested in,\" Baldwin said.",
"\"People would say to me all the time, 'Why would you want to do that?'",
"And sometimes I don't want to do it because to leave what I am doing now would be extremely painful.\"",
"Baldwin, 52, told Spitzer he loves where he is in his acting career right now.",
"\"However, I do believe that people want to believe that someone, who deeply cares about the middle class ... would like to see public office.\"",
"This isn't the first time Baldwin has flirted with the notion of becoming a politician.",
"He told Playboy magazine over the summer that he was interested.",
"\"The desire is there; that's one component.",
"The other component is opportunity,\" said Baldwin, who descibes himself as a \"carry-me-out-in-a-box New Yorker\" and someone unlikely to move to another state for a political opportunity.",
"\"I have sometimes thought I could move to New Jersey or Connecticut and run.",
"I'd love to run against Joe Lieberman.",
"I have no use for him. But it's all fantasy\" Baldwin also told CBS news magazine \"60 Minutes\" in 2009 that running for political office is \"something I might do one day.\""
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"Baldwin stars in the NBC show \"30 Rock\"\nHe has long flirted with running for political office .",
"Baldwin has expressed a similar interest in interviews with Playboy and \"60 Minutes\""
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Sonia Peres, the wife of Israeli President Shimon Peres, died at her Tel Aviv home Thursday morning, a president's spokeswoman said.",
"She was 87. The president was making his way to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem on Thursday, said spokeswoman Meital Jaslovitz.",
"The couple has lived separately since Shimon Peres was elected president in 2007, with his wife -- who preferred to remain out of the public eye -- remaining in their Tel Aviv home while her husband moved to the official residence in Jerusalem.",
"Dr. Rafi Valdan, Peres' son-in-law, told Israel Radio that she was found dead Thursday morning when a grandchild came to visit her, according to the daily newspaper Haaretz.",
"Sonia Peres was \"all nobility and devotion,\" Valdan said.",
"\"The family members were very close to her.",
"We would see her almost every day.\"",
"She was born in 1923 in the Ukraine and met Shimon Peres after they both came to Israel, Haaretz said.",
"They married in May 1945 and had three children."
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"Sonia Peres preferred to remain out of the public eye .",
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"(CNN) -- The stepmother of a disabled girl whose remains were found after she went missing in North Carolina has been indicted on a bigamy charge.",
"Elisa Baker, the stepmother of Zahra Baker, 10, is accused of marrying the girl's father before divorcing her previous husband, a Catawaba County court official said Tuesday.",
"The family made international news late last year after the freckled-faced young girl went missing from their home in Hickory, North Carolina.",
"The girl lost part of her left leg at age 5 and lost hearing in both ears while being treated for cancer.",
"Police found Zahra's remains on November 11, just over a month after she was reported missing.",
"Elisa Baker was charged with obstruction of justice after she admitted to planting a fake ransom note.",
"Documents released after Zahra's remains were found tell a grisly story.",
"The stepmother told police the girl was killed two weeks before she was reported missing, according to search warrants.",
"She said the disabled girl's body was dismembered and disposed of in various locations, documents show.",
"A search warrant dated October 27 shows police were looking for latex gloves used to dismember Zahra and trash bags used to store the remains.",
"No one has been directly charged in the girl's death."
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"The disabled girl's remains were found after she went missing in North Carolina .",
"They were found November 11, just over a month after she was reported missing .",
"Authorities say the stepmother married Zahra's father before divorcing her previous husband ."
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"(Mashable) -- Facebook accidentally went live with a handful of prototype features earlier today, including a site-wide yet short-lived overhaul of Pages.",
"Roughly 45 minutes after the mistaken update, Facebook disabled the site, reverted back to its previous state and then tweeted apologetically about the downtime.",
"But that brief span of time was enough for Facebook members and Page admins to get a sneak peak at new features in the works.",
"Facebook admitted to pushing features before their time.",
"\"Also, some internal prototypes were exposed to people and resulted in us disabling the site briefly.",
"It's now back to normal,\" read a tweet from Facebook.",
"So what were those prototypes exactly?",
"Screenshots shared with us and surfaced through other media outlets suggest all of the following: new Facebook Pages (with Questions integration), a \"Switch Accounts\" feature for Page Admins, a new Memories feature that chronicles photos and status updates from years past and an \"Outside World\" filter for the News Feed.",
"What follows is a deeper look at what some Facebook users saw today.",
"New Facebook Pages .",
"Pages got a temporary facelift with a tab-free design -- the navigation instead being placed on the left-hand side of the Page -- that more closely resembles Facebook Place Pages and member Profiles.",
"We also noticed that Questions were integrated into the Pages experience and that Facebook introduced a \"Switch Accounts\" feature for Page admins.",
"We initially thought it strange that new Facebook Pages would be released without an announcement from Facebook.",
"Commenters agreed; many of you expressed displeasure at the idea that would Facebook would overhaul Pages without notifying you of the changes first.",
"When pressed for clarification specifically around Pages, a Facebook spokesperson shared the following statement: \"While we are always experimenting with new features internally we are not making changes to Pages right now.",
"Organizations invest a lot of time on their Facebook Pages because millions of people find them useful everyday.",
"We remain committed to providing ways for Page owners to customize and control the experience on their Page.",
"If we do make changes, we will provide partners with advance notice.\"",
"Memories . Several users reported having access to a new \"Memories\" option listed below Photos in the left-hand menu on their Profile Pages.",
"A \"Mashable\" commenter said of the feature, \"I was online during the glitch and also saw a new MEMORIES link under my profile pic.",
"It's gone now but I did get a sneak peek while it lasted.",
"It allowed you to look back at status updates, photos, and new friends...giving a snapshot of each year I've been on FB.\"",
"The \"Next Web\" reporter Courtney Boyd Myers saw the Memories option and described it in a similar fashion.",
"\"It showed options for jumping to photos grouped by years: 2010, 2009, 2008, etc.",
"with complementing information like status dated status updates, the number of friends added per year, events attended and Facebook places check-ins,\" she wrote.",
"Memories would make for a pleasant (hopefully) walk down memory lane, so we hope this features finds its way back to Profile Pages in the near future.",
"Outside World News Feed Filter .",
"We also found some evidence that Facebook may still be testing a filter for the News Feed called \"Outside World.\"",
"Twitter user @casschin posted a TwitPic of the filter that shows the News Feed with a Most Recent drop-down menu that includes \"Outside World\" as a filter.",
"\"FBHive\" first unearthed the filter back in 2009 and speculated that it was an RSS-like option for the News Feed.",
"At the time, \"TechCrunch\" confirmed with Facebook that the filter was for internal staffers only.",
"We're not quite sure to make of this one just yet.",
"Photos Lightbox UI .",
"Several commenters have said they also saw the lightbox UI for Facebook Photos, albeit with a few bugs.",
"The photo included here comes courtesy of \"Mashable\" reader Andrew Mrozkowski.",
"The feature was first previewed when Facebook upgraded Photos two months ago.",
"\"Any time you click on an image anywhere on Facebook, be it in an album or in your News Feed or on a friend's Wall, you'll see a black box hovering over the rest of the screen with some minimal navigation controls and relevant social features, allowing you to concentrate completely on the image at hand,\" said \"Mashable\" reporter Jolie O'Dell at the time.",
"Removal of \"Comment\" Button from Comment Box .",
"Facebook may have pushed a premature update to comment boxes earlier today, according to Mashable readers.",
"Readers are reporting that comment boxes temporarily mirrored those in the new Facebook Groups product and did not have the \"Comment\" button.",
"Without the button, a user simply needs to hit the Enter/Return key to submit his comment.",
"The screenshot above is merely a mock up, but these reports sound about right.",
"Facebook consistently updates older products to match the style of its newer ones.",
"Hat tip to Long Nguyen, Dep and the rest of our astute readers on this find.",
"Were you privy to these or other changes?",
"Share your thoughts in the comments.",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Facebook accidentally went live with a handful of prototype features .",
"Users temporarily saw Pages get a temporary facelift with a tab-free design .",
"Users also reported having access to a new \"Memories\" option listed below Photos ."
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"New York (CNN) -- The fall that seriously injured an actor in the stage musical \"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark\" was caused by human error, an actors' union said Wednesday.",
"The \"Spider-Man\" company met Tuesday with officials from the union, the Actors Equity Association, and members of Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the New York State Department of Labor.",
"The union said after consulting with OSHA and the labor agency, it concluded that the fall was caused by human error.",
"The union did not give any details but said it worked with the other agencies to develop a safety plan to address the issue.",
"Christopher Tierney, 31, is listed in serious condition, said Bellevue Hospital spokesman Steven Bohlen.",
"Jonathan Dealwis, a tourist from New Zealand who was in the audience, said Tierney fell \"about 6 meters,\" or about 20 feet, Monday night.",
"Reeve Carney is the actor who plays Spider-Man, but nine people perform Spider-Man's stunts when the character is masked, according to show spokesman Jaron Caldwell.",
"Dealwis said the accident happened near the end of the show.",
"\"Spider-Man was on a bridge, and Mary Jane was dangling from it,\" Dealwis said.",
"\"I think he was meant to sort of swoop over there, but he just fell off. ...",
"The harness, you could see it just flick off his back and fly backward.\"",
"Afterward, Dealwis said, \"It just went black, and the producer came on and said we're going to pause for a moment.",
"You could hear Mary Jane weeping.\"",
"A producer then came out and said the show was over, Dealwis said.",
"Dealwis said the performer was wheeled away in a neck brace and was alert when he was taken to Bellevue Hospital.",
"Rick Miramontez, another show spokesman, issued a statement confirming the performer fell from a platform and the show was stopped.",
"\"All signs were good as he was taken to the hospital for observation,\" Miramontez said.",
"Wednesday's matinee performance was postponed after the incident, Miramontez said, but all subsequent performances will proceed as scheduled.",
"Show director Julie Taymor said the accident was \"obviously heartbreaking for our entire team and, of course, to me personally.\"",
"\"I am so thankful that Chris is going to be all right and is in great spirits,\" Taymor said in a statement Tuesday.",
"\"Nothing is more important than the safety of our 'Spider-Man' family, and we'll continue to do everything in our power to protect the cast and crew.\"",
"The show, with music and lyrics by U2's Bono and The Edge, is the most expensive in Broadway history, but the production has been beset by cast injuries and technical problems.",
"CNN's John Roberts, Ethel Bass and Logan Burruss contributed to this report."
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"Director Julie Taymor calls fall \"heartbreaking\"\nWednesday's matinee performance has been postponed, a spokesman says .",
"Performer Christopher Tierney is listed in serious condition after fall ."
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"(CNN) -- North Korea is sending an onslaught of faxes to South Korea, blaming its neighbor for tensions over a disputed island, an official said Wednesday.",
"Earlier this month, faxes started arriving at South Korean companies, South Korean Unification Ministry deputy spokeswoman Lee Jong-joo said Wednesday.",
"The faxes blame South Korea for the November 23 artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island.",
"Four South Koreans, two military personnel and two civilians, died when North Korea hit the island with artillery.",
"\"Responsibility for the attack lies with the South,\" states the fax, according to Lee.",
"\"Groups in the South should rise up against the South Korean government.\"",
"The ministry says 15 companies, consisting of two religious groups, seven trade companies, five civic groups and one media organization, reported they had received the fax.",
"The first report of a fax came in on December 8, according to Lee.",
"The ministry estimates that 50 to 80 companies likely received the messages, but have not reported them yet to the government.",
"Most of the companies that received faxes had prior contact with North Korea through inter-Korean events or business operations, Lee said.",
"All of the reported faxes were in the same format and none of them included updated information about the recent and ongoing South Korean drills, the ministry said.",
"The faxes represent a rise in what's known in the Korean Peninsula as the propaganda war.",
"It's taken various forms over the years, including a Christmas tree this week that left Seoul bracing for a possible backlash.",
"South Korea lit up a major Christmas tree in an area bordering North Korea despite concerns that it may become the target of a military attack from Pyongyang.",
"Pyongyang dismantled the tree in 2004 after the countries agreed to halt cross-border propaganda.",
"The tree is clearly visible from North Korea.",
"Last March, shortly after the South Korean Cheonan warship sunk, killing 46 sailors, Seoul restarted propaganda broadcasts aimed at turning North Koreans against Pyongyang.",
"Seoul did not, however, re-installing loudspeakers at the border, after North Korea threatened to blow up the speakers.",
"Local nonprofits started launching giant balloons packed with anti-Pyongyang fliers, small AM/FM radios, and DVDs of news broadcasts.",
"Seoul views one of its most powerful tools in hurting the Kim regime is to inform the citizens of the hermit kingdom with news from the outside world.",
"The propaganda war before the two countries has taken various forms, including a Christmas tree this week that left Seoul bracing for a possible backlash."
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"Faxes start arriving at South Korean companies this month .",
"They blame South Korea for a November 23 artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island .",
"Most companies that received faxes had prior contact with North Korea ."
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"(CNN) -- The Missouri Supreme Court Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling that terminated the parental rights of a Guatemalan woman whose son, the woman says, was adopted without her consent while she was imprisoned following an immigration sting in 2007.",
"The court ruled that the state violated its own laws in terminating the parental rights of Encarnacion Bail Romero, but the supreme court sent the case back to the lower court for retrial rather than return the boy to his biological mother.",
"\"The trial court plainly erred by entering judgment on the adoption petition and terminating Mother's parental rights without complying with the investigation and reporting requirements ... ,\" Judge Patricia Breckenridge wrote in the court's principal opinion.",
"\"The trial court's judgment terminating Mother's parental rights, allowing the adoption to proceed without Mother's consent to the adoption, and granting of the adoption, although supported by clear, cogent, and convincing evidence on the record, is reversed.",
"The cause is remanded for a new trial in which Adoptive Parents and Mother will have the opportunity to present evidence on all claims in all counts of the petition that pertain to Mother.\"",
"Bail Romero was caught up in an immigration sting in May 2007, six months after her son was born.",
"She was not deported, however; instead, she was imprisoned as an illegal immigrant who used a stolen Social Security number to work at a poultry processing plant.",
"Her brother and sister took care of the boy at first, attorneys in the case said.",
"Eventually they sought help from a clergy couple who offered baby-sitting services.",
"When that couple asked to adopt the boy, Bail Romero said no, her attorney, Omar Riojas, said.",
"Rebuffed, the couple introduced the boy to Seth and Melinda Moser and eventually put him up for adoption -- something the boy's biological mother said they lacked the legal ability to do.",
"The Mosers soon asked a judge for temporary custody, said their lawyer, Richard Schnake.",
"Bail Romero -- in prison at the time -- did not contact the Mosers or their attorney or object to them having custody, he said.",
"After a judge granted the Mosers temporary custody, they waited a year -- rather than the six month minimum stipulated by Missouri law -- before asking to adopt the boy, Schnake says.",
"Bail Romero said she did not fully understand what was going on and certainly did not give her blessing for them to adopt her son.",
"In October 2008, a judge approved the adoption, ruling that Bail Romero had abandoned her child by not trying to contact the Mosers for a year.",
"Bail Romero said she doesn't speak English and was left with no way to ask for help to plead her side.",
"In addition to the clergy couple not having the authority to put up her son for adoption, Riojas has argued that Bail Romero was deprived of due process because she had no consular access or access to legal documents in her language.",
"He also says an attorney who represented her at one point did not represent her well.",
"In July 2010, a court ruled that the adoption was invalid, a ruling appealed by the Mosers, who argue that they are the only parents the boy has really known.",
"All seven of the court's judges agreed to reverse the termination of Bail Romero's parental rights, although some members thought the now 4-year-old boy -- called Carlitos by his mother and Jamison by the Mosers -- should have been returned to Bail Romero.",
"Breckenridge addressed those concerns in a footnote to her opinion.",
"\"Every member of this Court agrees that this case is a travesty in its egregious procedural errors, its long duration, and its impact on Mother, Adoptive Parents, and, most importantly, Child,\" she wrote.",
"\"The dissenting members of this Court rely significantly on information outside the record to find that Mother has been victimized repeatedly and that her rights have been violated.",
"The dissenting members believe passionately that custody of Child should be returned to Mother without further proceedings.",
"That result can be reached only by disregarding the law.\"",
"The federal government intends to deport Bail Romero to Guatemala, where her other two children live, but has delayed the proceedings until this case is complete.",
"CNN's Mariano Castillo contributed to this report ."
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"Encarnacion Bail Romero was in prison when her son was put up for adoption .",
"Missouri's supreme court sends the case back for a retrial .",
"The state failed to comply \"with the investigation and reporting requirements,\" the court says ."
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"(CNN) -- Captain Carlos Tevez scored twice as Manchester City went top of the English Premier League after winning a seven-goal thriller at home to lowly Wolverhampton on Saturday.",
"The result put City a point ahead of local rivals Manchester United, who have played three fewer matches ahead of Sunday's trip to Tottenham.",
"Arsenal stayed within two points of City after beating bottom club West Ham 3-0 in the late match, while defending champions Chelsea moved above Tottenham into fourth with a 2-0 win over Blackburn.",
"Wolves beat City at home on October 30, and Serbian midfielder Nenad Milijas followed up his opening goal in that match with another deadlock breaker in the 12th minute.",
"Why were EPL players snubbed in all-star selection?",
"City leveled five minutes before halftime as defender Kolo Toure scored from close range, and Tevez made it 2-1 soon after the break as he waltzed past the Wolves defense.",
"Kolo's brother Yaya extended the lead in the 53rd minute after starting a move in his own half before being set up by Tevez and new striker Edin Dzeko.",
"Tevez, being watched by his two young children on a rare trip to England, headed home a cross from fellow Argentine Pablo Zabaleta in the 66th minute before being substituted.",
"His double took him level with United striker Dimitar Berbatov as the league's top scorers on 14.",
"Wolves hit back as striker Kevin Doyle scored a penalty just two minutes later after being fouled by former Wolves defender Joleon Lescott, and Ronald Zubar set up a tense finish in the 85th minute when his header was ruled to have crossed the line despite Nigel de Jong's attempts to clear.",
"Robin van Persie netted twice as Arsenal piled more pressure on West Ham manager Avram Grant in a one-sided London derby.",
"The Israeli is widely expected to be replaced by former Aston Villa and Celtic boss Martin O'Neill according to pre-match reports in Britain, and his position was left further in doubt after an 11th defeat in 23 matches.",
"After the match, Grant applauded the West Ham fans and threw his club scarf into the crowd.",
"West Ham had lost only once in seven previous matches, but with several key players missing rarely looked like testing an Arsenal team who took the lead in the 13th minute through Van Persie after Samir Nasri dummied a low cross by Theo Walcott.",
"The Dutchman hit the post just after half an hour, and then provided the second goal in the 41st minute for young England winger Theo Walcott, who evaded West Ham's on-loan debutant Wayne Bridge to reach double figures for the first time in his career.",
"Former England defender Bridge had a tough night as he also fouled Walcott for Van Persie's second goal, from the penalty spot in the 77th minute.",
"It was a return to form for Arsenal, who lost 1-0 to Ipswich in the midweek first leg of the League Cup and face an FA Cup replay on Wednesday against another second division team, Leeds.",
"Chelsea lifted the pressure on manager Carlo Ancelotti with a much-needed victory at home to Blackburn.",
"Serbian defender Branislav Ivanovic ended a frustrating wait for the first goal with a low shot in the 57th minute, and his header from a corner 19 minutes later allowed French striker Nicolas Anelka to score his 12th career goal against Blackburn.",
"The result put Chelsea two points ahead of London rivals Tottenham, having played one more match, while Blackburn remained on 28 points in 11th behind Blackpool and Newcastle on goal difference.",
"Promoted Blackpool, who have played two fewer games, were unable to build on Tuesday's 2-1 win over Liverpool as Ian Holloway's team fell to a 3-2 defeat at West Brom.",
"West Brom joined Liverpool and Everton on 25 points ahead of Sunday's Merseyside derby, as Nigeria striker Peter Odemwingie's 87th-minute winner ended his team's run of five league defeats.",
"Odemwingie also netted a 37th-minute equalizer after Blackpool took an early lead through David Vaughan, while James Morrison put the home side ahead on 56 before Gary Taylor-Fletcher leveled with 10 minutes left.",
"Stoke joined seventh-placed Bolton on 30 points with a 2-0 home victory over Owen Coyle's team, as Danny Higginbotham opening the scoring in the first half and Matthew Etherington sealing it in the second with a penalty.",
"Wigan moved a point above third-bottom Wolves following a 1-1 draw with Fulham, who earned a point when former England striker Andy Johnson came off the bench to score in the 86th minute.",
"The home side led through Hugo Rodallega's 57th-minute goal, and the Colombia striker also hit the post twice, but Fulham fought back to move two points clear of the relegation zone.",
"Aston Villa manager Gerard Houllier, whose team are second from bottom ahead of Sunday's derby with fellow strugglers Birmingham, boosted his squad with the signing of midfielder Jean Makoun.",
"The 27-year-old has joined until mid-2014 from Houllier's former French club Lyon.",
"In Sunday's other match, sixth-placed Sunderland host local rivals Newcastle, hoping to avenge the 5-1 defeat at St. James' Park on October 31."
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"Manchester City take top spot in table after winning 4-3 at home to Wolves .",
"Skipper Carlos Tevez nets twice after struggling visitors take an early lead .",
"Arsenal in third place after a 3-0 win at bottom club West Ham in London derby .",
"Chelsea move above Tottenham into fourth place with 2-0 victory over Blackburn ."
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"Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- As the ninth day of protests left six wounded Saturday, Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh blamed the roiling unrest on foreign agendas and a plot against Yemen's stability, according to the state-run Saba news agency.",
"\"Everybody has the right to express his views peacefully and has the right to have a say through media as there are many democratic means for the expression of opinion,\" Saleh told Saturday's founding conference of Civil Society Organizations, according to Saba.",
"The president said he hoped the conference will come up with recommendations to alleviate the country's current unstable situation.",
"\"We do not want to copy others, but we shall define what we want,\" he said, according to Saba.",
"Saleh expressed concern about violence in the coastal city of Aden, where five people have been killed since Wednesday in anti-government demonstrations, hospital and government officials said.",
"Saleh urged non-violent change through the ballot box, according to the state-run news agency.",
"In an attempt to quell growing discontent, Saleh, a key U.S. ally in the fight against an offshoot of al Qaeda in Yemen, has announced he won't seek another term in 2013 after being in power for 32 years.",
"He also said he would postpone parliamentary elections scheduled for April to allow more time for discussions about reform.",
"Yemen's situation is exacerbated by the U.S.-aided crackdown on al Qaeda, a Shiite uprising, a secessionist movement in its once-independent south, and a looming shortage of water.",
"Hundreds of Yemeni anti-government protesters clashed with pro-government demonstrators Saturday at Sanaa University, eyewitnesses and a local human rights group said.",
"Gunshots were fired into the crowd, leaving at least six wounded, they said.",
"Abdul Rahman Barman, head of the human rights group HOOD, corrected an earlier account he provided about one student supposedly being killed in the demonstration.",
"Barman said the chaos at the scene caused the error.",
"Instead, that student, Bassam Othman, an anti-government demonstrator, was shot in the neck and was showing improvement while in Kuwait Hospital, said his brother, Sabri.",
"The brother accused pro-government gang members of firing upon the crowd and questioned why the riot police didn't step in and protect students who were demonstrating.",
"\"What's happening is because of chaos and because of lack of security.",
"Even if they were anti-government protesters, where is the security to keep us safe?\"",
"Sabri Othman told CNN.",
"\"The whole world is seeing this and seeing that it's wrong.",
"These tactics that are being used means the regime here is falling apart.\"",
"Four other injured persons were hospitalized and are in stable condition, said Khulaid Mashraqi, a local doctor.",
"Two were shot in the leg while the other two had wounds to the head, he said.",
"\"There were 30 to 40 pro-government gang members there that were randomly shooting at us,\" said Esam Al-Hajjaji, an anti-government protester who was shot in the leg.",
"Saturday marked the ninth consecutive day of protests in Yemen.",
"The Yemen parliament expressed its regrets Saturday for all the victims of the ongoing violent demonstrations, according to the state-run news outlet.",
"In a statement, the parliament condemned any outlaw sabotage and violence as well as attempts to disturb the country's security and stability.",
"It rejected any efforts promoting \"hatred and regionalism culture\" and called on security forces to enhance stability and protect citizens, according to Saba.",
"The parliament also called upon all Yemenis to put Yemen first among their priorities.",
"Saba reported Saturday that an official source at the Interior Ministry has denounced some reports that security personnel in civilian clothes participated in marches.",
"\"These fabrications are baseless and aims at insulting the security services,\" the source told Saba.",
"The source also said security personnel are present in uniform near all rallies of pro- and anti-government marchers to maintain security and public order.",
"The U.S. Embassy issued a statement Friday voicing concern for what it called \"a disturbing rise in the number and violence of attacks against Yemeni citizens gathering peacefully to express their views on the current political situation.\"",
"The embassy said it had received reports that government officials were present during the attacks.",
"\"The attacks are contrary to the commitments that President Saleh has made to protect the right of Yemeni citizens to gather peacefully to express their views,\" the statement said.",
"On Friday, supporters of Ali Abdullah Saleh hurled rocks and plunged into a crowd calling for the longtime president's ouster in Sanaa as similar protests gained momentum in other Yemeni towns.",
"In the wake of Egyptians successfully toppling President Hosni Mubarak more than a week ago, thousands of people in several Arab nations were trying to score their own victories.",
"On Friday, Yemenis marched to Sanaa University, where security forces and riot police tried to stay between rival demonstrators.",
"\"After Mubarak, now it's Ali's turn,\" chanted the anti-government protesters.",
"\"The people want the fall of the regime.\"",
"\"I'm out here today because we want the president to go and we want to make sure that he and his family don't stay in power,\" said Khalid Amer, a student.",
"Despite concessions from Saleh, a rising tide of anger is sweeping through Yemen's youth, who say they are simply fed up with the status quo.",
"Saleh met earlier in the week with his National Defense Council to discuss discontent in his nation.",
"The council \"stressed all should practice their rights according to the constitution, in a peaceful way and without violence, chaos, sabotage and lawbreaking,\" Saba reported.",
"Saleh has also been in touch with King Hamad of Bahrain, also mired in unrest.",
"\"He pointed out that there are schemes aimed at plunging the region into chaos and violence targeting the nation's security and the stability of its countries,\" according to Saba.",
"\"Those who commit acts of disorder and vandalism (are) simply implementing suspicious foreign agendas.\"",
"The report didn't suggest who might be behind the agendas.",
"Journalist Hakim Almasmari contributed to this report."
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"NEW: One protester reportedly killed actually survived a gunshot wound to neck .",
"Yemen's president says foreign agendas threaten country's stability .",
"At least six are wounded from most recent clashes .",
"Saturday marks the ninth consecutive day of protests in Yemen ."
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"(CNN) -- Andy Roddick denied rising Canadian star Milos Raonic his second straight ATP Tour title as he rounded off a three-set final victory in Memphis with a diving forehand passing winner.",
"It wrapped up a 7-6 (9-7) 6-7 (11-13) 7-5 victory for the American top seed after Sunday's epic battle with his 20-year-old opponent, which lasted two hours 26 minutes.",
"\"That's the best shot I've ever hit in my life, considering the circumstance,\" Roddick told the official ATP Tour website.",
"\"He had a great volley there.",
"I don't really remember much else besides the fact that I went for the ball.",
"I hit it. I didn't really think much of it.",
"Then I heard people cheering.",
"I was like, 'No, there's no way that went in.'",
"\" Raonic, who came to prominence by claiming the ATP title in San Jose last week as a wildcard entry, pushed the world number eight to the limit, leveling the match when he won a marathon second-set tiebreak.",
"His big serving eclipsed even Roddick, pummeling down 32 aces to take his tally for the week to 129 -- comfortably a new tournament record.",
"Mark Philippoussis set the previous best total of 106 in 2001.",
"But Roddick's full-stretch winner on match-point in the 12th game of the decider gave him his 30th career title from 50 finals and his third victory in Memphis.",
"\"I think I was very fortunate,\" Roddick added.",
"\"I feel like I got outplayed.",
"I just stuck around and kept trying.",
"\"He's as exciting a talent as we have seen in a while.",
"It won't surprise me if he's top-10 sooner rather than later.\"",
"Roddick is third among active players in career titles, trailing only Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal after adding to his Memphis wins in 2002 and 2009.",
"Raonic, playing just his ninth top-level tournament, climbed to 37th in the world -- making him the highest-ranked Canadian player in ATP Tour history, surpassing the 41st reached by Greg Rusedski in 1994 before he opted for British citizenship.",
"\"It's not by any means something to be too happy with because I want to keep improving that.",
"I want to keep progressing and developing and I think I can do a lot more,\" Raonic said.",
"\"A lot has happened since the beginning of the year.",
"I'm going to take the moments I need, take the time, think about it, learn from it, as well as use it to my advantage in the future.\"",
"Raonic's compatriot Rebecca Marino suffered disappointment in the women's final in Memphis, having to withdraw with a stomach injury after losing the first set 6-2 to Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova.",
"In other tennis news Monday, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has pulled out of France's Davis Cup tie against Austria next month with a hip injury.",
"France, who lost 3-2 to Serbia in last year's final, area already missing Gael Monfils for the match in Vienna."
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"Andy Roddick wins ATP tour title in Memphis to claim 30th career crown .",
"American top seed outlasts new Canadian star Milos Raonic in three sets .",
"World No.",
"8 Roddick seals victory with a spectacular diving passing shot .",
"Jo-Wilfried Tsonga pulls out of France's Davis Cup tie in Austria due to injury ."
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"Manama, Bahrain (CNN) -- Bahrain's king ordered the release of a number of prisoners and closed cases against several Shia leaders accused of plotting against the kingdom, the country's state news agency said early Tuesday.",
"King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa named the leaders during a national unity speech last year, leading to the arrest of several of them and the exile of several others who were out of the country at the time.",
"The announcement clears the way for the return of Hassan Mushaimaa, leader of Bahrain's largest opposition party, the Haq Movement.",
"Mushaimaa said he planned to arrive in Manama Tuesday evening -- amid early speculation that he would be arrested.",
"\"I know that thousands will be waiting for me,\" said Mushaimaa, who said he planned to give a speech in Bahrain on Tuesday about the importance of national unity.",
"Thousands more people moved into Pearl Roundabout on Monday, a presence that has taken on an air of permanence since government forces retreated on Saturday and demonstrators reoccupied the symbolic location.",
"Tents, some of them outfitted with furniture and occupied by entire families, dot the square.",
"The mass protests planned for Tuesday in support of calls for political reforms and other concessions and coincided with Mushaimaa's return.. \"If the people want a new system in a constitutional kingdom, I will be with them,\" he said.",
"\"If the people just want to change the regime, I will also be standing beside them.\"",
"Mushaimaa, who has been living abroad, had previously been detained by the government for campaigning for more democratic rights in the island monarchy.",
"In September, Bahrain said it requested Interpol -- the world's largest international police organization -- to help in arresting Mushaimaa, who the government accused of a terrorist plot to destroy state buildings and of planning a coup.",
"But the king's decision closed the books on the case against Mushaimaa, giving him the freedom to return without fear of arrest.",
"Meanwhile, fallout from last week's violent protests continues.",
"A 20-year-old protester in Bahrain, who was shot in the head on Friday, has died, hospital sources said Monday.",
"Ridha Mohammed was advancing toward the Pearl Roundabout with other demonstrators when security forces opened fire.",
"Prior to Mohammed's death, about 10 protesters were thought to have died in five days of protests, but opposition activists say dozens more are unaccounted for.",
"Bahrain canceled its participation in a Grand Prix auto race that had been scheduled to begin March 11.",
"Testing for the race had been scheduled to start March 3, and protest organizers had threatened to disrupt the event.",
"The race apparently will be rescheduled, but no date has been selected, race officials said.",
"In announcing the decision, Crown Prince Salman said, \"We felt it was important for the country to focus on immediate issues of national interest and leave the hosting of Bahrain's Formula 1 race to a later date.\"",
"The country hopes to host the race \"in the very near future, according to Zayed R. Alzayani, chairman of the Bahrain International Circuit.",
"State television on Monday broadcast images of pro-government demonstrators who gathered near a mosque in the capital city, holding flags and chanting slogans including \"Long live the king.\"",
"Also on Monday, Standard & Poor's downgraded Bahrain's credit rating by one step and advised investors that it believes continued protests could result in a further degradation of the country's ability to meet its financial obligations.",
"\"We expect the demonstrations that have taken place over the past month will persist,\" the agency wrote.",
"Protesters initially took to the streets of Manama last week to demand reform and the introduction of a constitutional monarchy.",
"But some are now calling for the removal of the royal family, which has led the Persian Gulf state since the 18th century.",
"Young members of the country's Shiite Muslim majority have staged violent protests in recent years to complain about discrimination, unemployment and corruption, issues they say the country's Sunni rulers have done little to address.",
"The Bahrain Center for Human Rights says authorities launched a clampdown on dissent in late 2010.",
"It accused the government of torturing some human rights activists."
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"NEW: The decision means a self-exiled opposition leader won't be arrested when he returns Tuesday .",
"\"I know that thousands will be waiting for me,\" says Mushaimaa .",
"Bahrain had requested Interpol to help in arresting Mushaimaa in September .",
"Bahrain postpones Formula 1 race because of protests ."
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"(CNN) -- Last year was the safest in aviation history for passengers flying on Western-built jets, an international aviation trade group said Wednesday.",
"The 2010 global accident rate was 0.61 per million flights, a rate equating to one accident for every 1.6 million flights, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).",
"That is just below the previous historic low rate of 0.65 rate in 2006, and a \"significant improvement\" over the rate of 0.71 recorded in 2009.",
"There were 17 plane accidents -- or hull losses, in the lingo of the business -- involving Western-built jet aircraft in 2010, compared to 19 the previous year.",
"A hull loss is an accident in which a plane is destroyed or damaged beyond repair.",
"There were 786 fatalities in passenger aircraft compared to 685 in 2009, IATA said.",
"As in the past, there were significant regional differences in the accident rates, with North America having relatively low rates and Africa having the worst rate.",
"While Africa's hull loss rate was 7.41 -- four Western-built planes crashed in Africa -- it was lower than the 2009 rate of 9.94.",
"IATA Director General Giovanni Bisignani said African systems must improve.",
"\"Flying must be equally safe in all parts of the world,\" Bisignani said.",
"\"An accident rate in Africa that is over 12 times the global average is not acceptable.\"",
"He said African carriers should make use of an IATA audit system to improve safety.",
"Runway excursions -- instances when a plane leaves the runway during take-offs or landings -- accounted for 21 percent of the worldwide accidents, IATA said, saying the number has dropped because of attention to the problem.",
"Some of the accidents occur when planes land on wet runways; others when the aircraft approaches too fast, too high or touches down beyond the desired spot on the runway.",
"IATA said it is working with the industry and regulators to address the issue.",
"IATA said 2010 had the following results: .",
"2.4 billion people flew safely on 36.8 million flights.",
"94 accidents for all types of aircraft -- Eastern and Western built -- compared to 90 in 2009.",
"23 fatal accidents for all passenger aircraft types, compared to 18 in 2009.",
"IATA represents some 230 airlines comprising 93 percent of scheduled international air traffic."
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"2010 saw 17 accidents on such airplanes .",
"Africa has the worst rate .",
"Industry group leader calls for improvement ."
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"Sol Kerzner is the founder, CEO and chairman of the board of Kerzner International Holdings Limited (formerly Sun International).",
"Mr. Kerzner has gained international acclaim for his imaginatively designed, high-quality resorts and business acumen.",
"His career spans some 40 years in the hotel/resort and casino industries.",
"He founded both of Southern Africa's largest hotel groups, played a pivotal role in the development of the tourism industries in Mauritius and The Bahamas, and continues to develop industry leading projects in unique destinations throughout the world.",
"Sol Kerzner, the youngest of four children, was born on August 23, 1935 in a lower-class suburb of Johannesburg to Russian immigrants.",
"In 1958, Mr. Kerzner graduated as a chartered accountant from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and immediately joined one of Durban's largest firms, where, by age 25, he was named a junior partner.",
"Mr. Kerzner's career in hospitality began in 1960 with the purchase of The Palace Hotel in Durban.",
"Following the success of that and a second hotel, Mr. Kerzner bought and developed an underdeveloped site north of Durban, an area with little apparent tourist appeal.",
"Contacts from his accounting days backed his revolutionary concept of a complete resort with entertainment and sporting facilities and a variety of specialty restaurants and bars.",
"The result was the Beverly Hills Hotel, the first five-star hotel built in South Africa.",
"It opened in December 1964 and within a year was acclaimed as a premier resort for local and international tourists.",
"Following the Beverly Hills, Mr. Kerzner built the 450-room Elangeni, overlooking Durban's beachfront.",
"And, in 1969, in partnership with South African Breweries, he established the chain of Southern Sun Hotels, which by 1983 was operating 30 luxury hotels with more than 5,000 rooms.",
"In 1975, Mr. Kerzner opened his first international hotel, Le Saint Géran, in the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius.",
"While in South Africa, Mr. Kerzner developed Sun City, the most ambitious resort development in Africa.",
"This project included the development of four hotels, a man-made lake, two golf courses, an entertainment center with an indoor 6,000-seat arena, over 1 million hand-planted trees, a casino, two golf courses, and a series of water rides and attractions.",
"In 1994, Mr. Kerzner made his first major acquisition outside Africa through the purchase of the Paradise Island Resort in The Bahamas.",
"This 1,150-room resort and casino had fallen into bankruptcy.",
"Immediately after acquiring the resort, Mr. Kerzner launched a major re-development and expansion program turning the Atlantis, Paradise Island into a 2,300-room resort and casino that also includes the world's largest man-made marine habitat, the largest casino entertainment center in the Caribbean, a world-class marina and other attractions.",
"In 1996, Mr. Kerzner opened the Mohegan Sun gaming resort in Connecticut, occupying 240 acres on the Thames River.",
"This was as a result of negotiating a unique agreement with the Mohegan Indian Nation.",
"Recently, the property has been expanded through a $1 billion investment and is now one of the two largest gaming and entertainment resorts in the United States.",
"Kerzner is extending its Atlantis brand globally with the development of Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai.",
"An approximately 2,000 room, water-themed resort expected to open in 2008, currently being constructed on The Palm, Jumeirah, a multi-billion dollar leisure and residential development in Dubai.",
"In the United Kingdom, Kerzner is currently developing a casino in Northampton and received a Certificate of Consent from the UK Gaming Board in 2004.",
"Throughout his career, Sol Kerzner has been bestowed with a number of global awards, including Hotels Magazine's 2004 Hotelier of the World, Las Vegas Hotel & Restaurant Show's International Hotelier of the Year for 2005 and a lifetime achievement award from the Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa.",
"In 1992 he was the first non-American to be admitted to the U.S. Gaming Hall of Fame.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"His first hotel purchase was The Palace Hotel in Durban, in 1960 .",
"Kerzner was the first non-American in the U.S. Gaming Hall of Fame ."
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"(CNN) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak held a special meeting Thursday morning to discuss an urgent plan to evacuate South Korean construction workers in Libya.",
"There are 1,398 South Koreans in the country working on almost 300 building sites.",
"The presidential office tells CNN it's sending an Egypt Air plane to Tripoli on Thursday.",
"The first flight will evacuate 260 workers and their families.",
"Officials are looking into chartering more planes to speed up the process.",
"Plans were also discussed to move personnel out of the country by land and sea routes.",
"Lee told ministers to \"use all possible measures for Koreans and Korean construction workers' security.\"",
"An emergency response team is already on the ground helping workers of 24 construction firms operating in Libya.",
"A spate of attacks and violent break-ins have been reported at some construction sites in Libya amid growing anti-government protests and violence.",
"An attack Monday left 17 workers injured.",
"Two workers from Bangladesh suffered serious wounds after being stabbed, according to the South Korean Foreign Ministry.",
"The Middle East is a substantial and important market for South Korean construction companies.",
"Firms have been working in the region for around three decades.",
"Projects in the Middle East are worth $257 billion, according to the International Contractors Association of Korea.",
"The association says ongoing projects in Libya are worth $36.4 billion.",
"Companies are asking the South Korean government not only to ensure the safety of their workers but also to give support if the violence is prolonged and work is stalled indefinitely.",
"Exports from South Korea to Libya are also expected to be hit hard.",
"Almost 600 companies rely on business in Libya, exporting goods such as ships, cars and heavy industries, a lucrative market worth $1.4 billion last year.",
"A poll taken by the Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency estimates exports will take an $18.7 million hit this year.",
"The South Korean government has advised its citizens to cancel all nonurgent travel to Libya.",
"Lee also asked his government to \"closely monitor the oil price and the impact to the economy.\"",
"Lee stressed the importance of domestic energy conservation."
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"There are 1,398 South Koreans in Libya working on almost 300 building sites .",
"South Korean President Lee Myung-bak holds special evacuation planning meeting .",
"South Korea chartering Egypt Air plan, looking to charter even more aircraft .",
"Ongoing construction projects in Libya estimated to be worth $36.4 billion ."
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"(CNN) -- Former Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf defended Pakistan's role in the fight against terrorism amid criticisms that it falls short on that front.",
"\"Pakistan has always been accused of not doing enough.",
"But I totally disagree with this statement.",
"Pakistan is doing enough,\" Musharraf said in an interview that aired Sunday on ABC's \"This Week.\"",
"A private White House report to Congress, obtained by CNN last week, used unusually tough language to suggest the ally is not doing nearly enough to confront the Taliban and al Qaeda.",
"The blunt language contradicted public comments by the Obama administration that Pakistan is working hard to crack down on militants.",
"The report notes that from March to June, the Pakistani military \"continued to avoid military engagements that would put it in direct conflict with Afghan Taliban or [al Qaeda] forces in North Waziristan.",
"This is as much a political choice as it is a reflection of an under-resourced military prioritizing its targets.\"",
"Musharraf said that if critics want to point out deficiencies in North Waziristan, they should limit their comments to just that region.",
"\"But don't generalize the statement that the army is not doing enough.",
"They've suffered over 2,000 casualties.",
"What do you mean by not doing enough?\"",
"he said. Pakistan has its problems, he said, but should not be blamed for its effort.",
"\"We must understand the problems, but what hurts Pakistan and every leader in Pakistan is when they are blamed.",
"Everyone in the world starts blaming them, while we are suffering casualties, we are suffering hundreds of people dying from bomb blasts and suicide bombs, and yet we are the rogues,\" Musharraf said.",
"Musharraf has been in self-imposed exile in London since he left office in 2008.",
"But he said he wants to return for a presidential run in 2013, because he sees suffering in Pakistan and doesn't see a political party offering a solution."
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"Musharraf was president until 2008 .",
"He intends on running again in 2013 ."
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"(CNN) -- Virender Sehwag smashed a career-best one-day innings of 175 as India opened the 2011 Cricket World Cup with a convincing 87-run victory over co-hosts Bangladesh in Dhaka on Saturday.",
"Opening batsman Sehwag put on 203 for the third wicket with Virat Kohli, who was unbeaten on 100, as India compiled 370-4 in the allotted 50 overs -- the fifth-highest total in tournament history.",
"Bangladesh made a game effort in reply but could manage only 283-9, crucially losing five wickets while scoring just 47 runs in the final 10 overs of the match.",
"Sehwag, who hit 14 boundaries and five sixes in his 140-ball knock, matched the 175 not out by compatriot Kapil Dev in 1983 which is the fourth-highest score in World Cup matches.",
"Bangladesh excited to host Cricket World Cup .",
"\"It was a good start for the team, I have said this is a revenge game and we have won,\" the 32-year-old told reporters.",
"\"I have said before Bangladesh are not good in Tests, but they can compete in ODIs -- but today they could not.",
"Special thanks to my physio for helping me, I was carrying a couple of injuries and they got me ready for this game.\"",
"After Bangladesh won the toss and chose to field, Sehwag opened the Indian innings with veteran Sachin Tendulkar -- the sport's highest scorer in one-day and Test formats -- who scored 28 from 29 balls before being run out.",
"Girls got game in cricket-crazy Bangladesh .",
"Gautam Gambhir, who usually opens for India in five-day Tests, made a run-a-ball 39 before falling at 152-2 in the 24th over, bringing Koli to the crease.",
"The 22-year-old reached three figures for the fourth time in one-day internationals, needing only 83 deliveries as he hit eight fours and two sixes.",
"Bangladesh looked well-placed at 188-2 but then opener Tamil Iqbal fell for his team's top score of 70 as the second of Munaf Patel's four wickets.",
"And when captain Shakib Al Hasan was caught in the deep by Harbhajan Singh for 55 off 50 balls in the 40th over, it signaled the end of the home team's resistance.",
"Spinner Harbhajan picked up a wicket and a runout, while Patel finished with figures of 4-48 off his 10 overs to give India a winning start to their Group B campaign.",
"The seven-team pool also includes cricket heavyweights South Africa, England and the West Indies.",
"The Group A schedule begins on Sunday as New Zealand take on African minnows Kenya in Chennai, India, and the third of the tournament's hosts Sri Lanka play Canada.",
"The group also includes three-time defending champions Australia, 1992 winners Pakistan and Zimbabwe."
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"Batsman Virender Sehwag stars as India win World Cup opener by 87 runs in Dhaka .",
"Opener equals the fourth-highest score in tournament's history with 175 runs .",
"Virat Kohli also scores a century as India compile a daunting 370-4 in 50 overs .",
"Co-hosts Bangladesh lose six wickets in the last 11 overs, ending on 283-4 ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to strip $450 million from funds slated for a controversial program to build an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter second engine, a next-generation aircraft development program that has been riddled with cost overruns and labeled unnecessary by critics.",
"The amendment to strip the funds passed 233-198 with bipartisan support.",
"It was added to a bill that would fund the federal government for the remainder of the current fiscal year.",
"Neither the House nor the Senate has the passed the full spending package yet.",
"President Barack Obama has urged Congress to eliminate funding for the development of the second engine of the Joint Strike Fighter.",
"House Speaker John Boehner, however, is a key supporter.",
"The vote was a setback for the Ohio Republican.",
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates told members of the House Armed Services Committee earlier Wednesday that he considers the program \"an unnecessary and extravagant expense, particularly during a period of fiscal contraction.\"",
"Congress has often proven reluctant to end major Pentagon projects, which can be an important source of local jobs and revenue.",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib contributed to this report ."
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"The House votes down funding for a second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter .",
"The amendment ending funding passed 233-198 with bipartisan support .",
"President Barack Obama has urged elimination of the program .",
"House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, supports the program ."
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"(CNN) -- \"127 Hours\" isn't just the name of James Franco's Oscar-nominated film, it also could describe the length of time he waits before delving into a new career.",
"Musical producer; college lecturer, bar owner; Walmart greeter -- which of these titles won't Franco be adding to his résumé in the coming months?",
"If you guessed Walmart greeter, you're right -- for now.",
"\"I'm doing it because I love it,\" the star has said of juggling so many jobs.",
"\"Why not do as many things I love as I can?",
"As long as the work is good.\"",
"Considering all the occupations he holds, it's tempting to blame Franco for the country's unemployment problem.",
"He's absolutely everywhere these days, and just about the only place you won't see the 32-year-old Oscar nominee/host's squinty, smirking face is on a milk carton.",
"Yet, as true Franco-philes know, it wasn't always this way.",
"After gaining attention in the 1999-2000 TV series \"Freaks & Geeks,\" Franco embarked on a career as a \"serious actor.\"",
"He shunned the limelight, nabbed a Golden Globe for the \"James Dean\" TV movie, appeared with Robert DeNiro in \"City by the Sea\" and headlined a string of little-seen dramas, including \"Tristan & Isolde\" and \"Annapolis.\"",
"\"It was death,\" he has said of his career path at the time.",
"\"I didn't want to act anymore.",
"It was death doing the things I was supposed to be doing.",
"I couldn't make those movies anymore. ...",
"I had the conversation with my manager like, 'If this is what it's gonna be, I can't do this anymore.'",
"So, it wasn't like the answer was, 'Hey!",
"Go do a bunch of crazy stuff!'",
"I had to figure out how to change what I was doing.",
"I had to figure out that I had to believe in my own taste.",
"Not believe in what you should do. Believe in what I liked and it's OK.\" Apparently, those likes included books, bongs and bedpans: Franco went back to college, made the 2008 stoner comedy, \"Pineapple Express,\" and took a role on \"General Hospital\" as serial killer Franco.",
"The soap-opera gig was an unheard move for a successful film actor -- seriously, can you picture Christian Bale doing \"All My Children\"?",
"-- but by 2010, you'd be hard-pressed to define Franco as a film actor anyway: He was modeling in a wet T-shirt for a Gucci fragrance ad, had made a documentary about \"Saturday Night Live,\" published the short-story collection \"Palo Alto\" and unveiled the sex-and-violence-themed performance-art piece \"The Dangerous Book Four Boys\" at a New York gallery.",
"Then, shortly after unleashing those whoppers, Franco pulled out the really big guns and fired off a new string of head scratchers.",
"He premiered a \"Three's Company\" art installation at Sundance -- while wearing a Suzanne Somers wig, no less -- and is now turning the old sitcom into an off-Broadway play and a movie.",
"He's hosting the Oscars and also hosting the after-party!",
"At his new bar! Where he'll sing! He's returning to \"General Hospital,\" writing and directing three screenplays, and he'll appear on Broadway in \"Sweet Bird of Youth.\"",
"And wait ... he's producing a musical at Yale and will be both the subject and instructor of a Columbia College Hollywood course on film editing.",
"You heard correctly: He.",
"Is. A. College. Course. While Franco has been criticized -- and even skewered on \"Saturday Night Live\" -- for his mindboggling multitasking, that may be exactly what he wants.",
"After all, an artist's job is to inspire debate and discussion, and Franco -- much like Lady Gaga, minus the telephone hats, platform boots and meat dresses (for now) -- certainly keeps the public talking as well as guessing with his every move.",
"\"Some people say, 'Yeah, that guy will do anything.",
"What's he going to do next?'",
"But it doesn't mean that I don't believe in the projects that I'm doing,\" he has said.",
"\"You can do the crazy projects.",
"Just be smart about it.\" Well said, Franco.",
"Now could you tell me which aisle home goods are on?"
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"James Franco is adding musical producer, college lecturer and bar owner to résumé .",
"Actor first became known for his role in \"Freaks & Geeks\" TV series more than a decade ago .",
"Franco is nominated for an Academy Award for best actor in \"127 Hours\""
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"(Mashable) -- UPDATE We've just heard from the NHL, who tell us: \"The NHL is not in discussions with YouTube to stream live games.",
"The NHL has not had conversations with the Google spokespeople mentioned in the Bloomberg report.\"",
"YouTube may be a hot bed for lip dub videos and life-casting teens, but soon sports fans could find a good reason to flock to the site: YouTube is reportedly in talks with the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League to broadcast games live.",
"Last year, YouTube announced that it would begin live-streaming Indian Premier League cricket matches, a venture that was apparently very successful.",
"According to Business Week, the games brought in 55 million visits from more than 250 countries.",
"Gautam Anand, Google's director of content partnerships for Asia Pacific, recently said that YouTube plans to show more live sports, but declined to elaborate on the particulars of talks with the NBA and NHL.",
"Google is apparently also talking with other pro sports leagues, as well as soccer leagues in Europe.",
"\"It's fair to say that there will be a lot more appealing sports content you'll see on YouTube,\" Anand said.",
"\"We have ongoing conversations with pretty much everyone.\"",
"By offering such content, YouTube and Google can boost their ad revenue, seeing as how viewers would be spending more time on the site.",
"Lately, we've been seeing YouTube seemingly getting more serious about being an entertainment hub, rather than a forum for cat videos.",
"Just the other week, it was rumored that YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar will be building out the site's recently instated talent program (last July, the video-sharing site announced its YouTube Partner Grants Program to ramp up quality content) by offering big-name stars their own YouTube channels.",
"In addition, parent company Google recently acquired Widevine, an on-demand video service known for its multiplatform DRM and adaptive streaming technologies, and the web has been buzzing for months about the possibility of it acquiring web video production company, New Next Networks.",
"What do you think of the prospect of watching live games on YouTube?",
"Would you tune in?",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"YouTube reportedly in talks with NBA and NHL to broadcast games live .",
"Last year, YouTube began live-streaming Indian Premier League cricket matches .",
"Google is apparently also talking with other pro sports leagues ."
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"(CNN) -- A municipal police officer was shot and killed late Thursday while standing guard at a local government booth inside a mall in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, police said Friday.",
"The officer was gunned down by three people who were trying to rob the booth, which is a place where local residents can pay their annual homeowners tax, municipal police spokesman Adrian Sanchez said.",
"\"As of right now, we do not believe this had anything to do with the ongoing drug violence in the city,\" he said.",
"\"The suspects were detained and are being processed.\"",
"Photos from the scene taken just after the officer was shot showed mall patrons running for cover.",
"The gunmen ran away, but police caught them, local journalist Arturo Chacon said.",
"Also, around 4 a.m. Friday, a man who was being chased by gunmen in several cars drove to a municipal police station in Juarez looking for help, Sanchez said, leading to a 15-minute gunfight.",
"\"It would be wrong to say the attack was on the police officers,\" he said.",
"\"An injured man looking for help was being chased, and he came to us.",
"That's when we encountered the gun battle.\"",
"No officers were injured, and the shooters fled.",
"Since October 2010, at least 26 municipal police officers have been killed in Ciudad Juarez, Sanchez said.",
"Local journalist Arturo Chacon contributed to this report."
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"Three people tried to rob local government booth that officer was guarding .",
"Gunmen ran away, but police caught them, local journalist says .",
"Violence not thought to be drug-related, police spokesman says .",
"Later, in separate shooting, chase leads to 15-minute gunfight at Juarez police station ."
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"(CNN) -- While most eyes will be on the likes of Tiger Woods, Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer at the World Match Play this week, Italian teenager Matteo Manassero will be making his own slice of history in Tucson.",
"At the tender age of 17 years and 310 days, he will become the youngest player to line up at a World Golf Championship event as he surpasses Japan's Ryo Ishikawa, who was 18 and 153 days old when he debuted in last year's tournament.",
"Manassero, the European Tour's 2010 rookie of the year, faces a tough task on Wednesday against U.S. Ryder Cup veteran Steve Stricker, at 44 the second-oldest player in the elite 64-man field.",
"But having finished tied for 36th in his only other U.S. appearance at the Masters last April, he is expected to hold his own against nine-time PGA Tour winner Stricker, the event's 2001 champion.",
"Manassero has already won his first senior title, at the 2010 Castello Masters, and his rise has impressed fellow young star Rory McIlroy -- who reached the Match Play quarterfinals as a 19-year-old in 2009.",
"\"Yeah, I played Matteo this morning and it's hard to believe he's in this tournament as a 17-year-old.",
"It's pretty incredible, really,\" the Northern Irishman told the PGA Tour website.",
"\"And there's so many young guys coming through, all guys that are 21 and younger.",
"It's great for the game of golf, it makes it a little more exciting.\"",
"McIlroy is up against American Jonathan Byrd in the 16-man Gary Player bracket, which also sees Germany's world No.",
"2 Kaymer take on 19-year-old South Korean Noh Seung-yul, the 2010 Asian Tour money leader.",
"Top-ranked Englishman Westwood plays Sweden's 2007 winner Henrik Stenson, like Manassero-Stricker in the Bobby Jones group along with Ishikawa's match against South African Charl Schwartzel.",
"World No. 4 Phil Mickelson faces Australian Brendan Jones in the Ben Hogan bracket, where defending champion Ian Poulter takes on American Stewart Cink.",
"Woods is a three-time World Match Play champion but has not won the tournament since it moved to Dove Mountain's Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in 2009.",
"The American, who has dropped to third in the rankings after a winless past year, will play Denmark's Thomas Bjorn in the Sam Snead group, which also features two-time runner-up Paul Casey.",
"The Englishman, beaten in last year's final by compatriot Poulter, is drawn with Australian left-hander Richard Green.",
"Casey's conqueror in 2009, Australia's two-time winner Geoff Ogilvy, faces three-time major champion Padraig Harrington of Ireland in the same quarter of the field.",
"Each elimination match is played over 18 holes, with the winners progressing until Sunday's final -- which is worth $1.4 million to the champion, out of a total prize pool of $8.5 million."
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"Matteo Manassero will become youngest golfer to play at a World Golf Championship event .",
"The 17-year-old Italian will beat the 2010 record of Japan's Ryo Ishikawa .",
"Manassero plays the oldest man in the field, 44-year-old American Steve Stricker .",
"The elite 64-man field is seeking to claim the $1.4 million for the winner of Sunday's final ."
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"Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- Two leading Ivory Coast banks closed their doors this week, raising fears that a money shortage will worsen the crisis in the West African nation.",
"Mounting security concerns prompted BICICI and Citibank to suspend operations Monday.",
"Paris-based BNP Paribas, parent of BICICI, issued a statement saying it has done its best to serve clients despite the instability in Ivory Coast.",
"\"Over these past few days, however, legal uncertainty has significantly increased,\" the statement said.",
"The bank, it said, \"is therefore no longer able to ensure legal and accounting security for its clients.",
"It has thus decided to temporarily halt the bank's activities until further notice.\"",
"Ivory Coast has been in crisis since a late November election that ended in dispute.",
"The international community has pressed incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo to relinquish power to Alassane Ouattara, who foreign powers say won the election.",
"The political standoff in the country has raised fears of a renewal of the bloodshed suffered after a civil war broke out in 2002.",
"More than 33,000 people have fled to neighboring Liberia since the crisis began; another 20,000 have been internally displaced, U.N. agencies estimate."
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"Many fear a money shortage will worsen the crisis .",
"Laurent Gbagbo refuses to cede power ."
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"New Delhi, India (CNN) -- The Mumbai High Court rejected the appeal Monday of the only surviving gunman from the 2008 three-day terror attack on the Indian financial capital.",
"A trial court handed down a death sentence last year for Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani, on charges of murder, conspiracy and waging war on India.",
"The city's High Court upheld his conviction and sentence, lawyer Ejaz Naqvi told reporters.",
"The court, however, dismissed the prosecution's appeal against the acquittal of two Indian nationals that police had accused of conspiracy in connection with the November 2008 strikes on Mumbai, said Naqvi, who represented one of them.",
"The high court upheld the acquittal Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed for a lack of \"corroborative\" evidence, said public prosecutor Ujjwal Nika.",
"He said authorities would petition the Supreme Court next.",
"It was not immediately clear if Kasab too planned to file a fresh appeal to the country's highest court in New Delhi.",
"Convicts on death-row in India reserve the right to challenge the sentencing in the nation's Supreme Court.",
"They can also file a mercy petition with the country's president if the Supreme Court also turns down their plea.",
"Kasab's lawyer, Farhana Shah, told reporters that her client would be briefed about options available to him.",
"It will then be up to Kasab to make a decision about an appeal, she said.",
"He would have 30 days to file his appeal, Shah said.",
"During the raids, 10 men attacked buildings including the luxury Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and Oberoi-Trident hotels, the city's Victoria Terminus train station, and the Jewish cultural center, Chabad House.",
"More than 160 people died in the three-day coordinated attack.",
"Kasab was photographed holding an assault weapon during the attacks.",
"Indian forces killed nine suspects in the attack.",
"Their bodies were embalmed and kept in a hospital morgue as some local Muslim groups refused them a burial in their graveyards, saying the attackers were not true followers of Islam.",
"An Indian official in Maharashtra state, where Mumbai is located, said a burial took place in January last year.",
"He did not give the date or the exact location of what he described as a secret funeral.",
"India blamed the attacks on the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a Pakistan-based terror group allied with al Qaeda.",
"Authorities said Kasab was trained by the organization, which was banned in Pakistan in 2002 after an attack on India's parliament.",
"The group denied responsibility.",
"The Mumbai attack derailed a fragile peace process between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan for about 15 months.",
"This year, the two nuclear-capable nations announced resumption of their fully-fledged dialogue after a series of high-level meetings over the past one year."
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"Kasab was sentenced to death last year on murder and other charges .",
"He has 30 days to appeal the High Court's ruling to the Supreme Court .",
"He is the only man convicted in the November 2008 attacks .",
"More than 160 people were killed during the three-day siege ."
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"(CNN) -- A commercial flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Minneapolis was aborted shortly after takeoff Sunday morning because of an indicator warning that one of the aircraft's engines had been damaged, according to airline officials.",
"Delta Air Lines Flight 1846 returned to the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport within minutes of its 7:45 a.m. takeoff without incident or injury to any of its 119 passengers or six crew members, according to an airline spokesman.",
"All were rescheduled to take another flight to Minnesota later Sunday afternoon, said Delta spokesman Anthony Black.",
"Black said Delta mechanics confirmed that parts of the twin-engine Boeing 737-800 had been damaged, though the spokesman did not know which ones.",
"\"Incidents like this are extremely rare, but the crew knows the protocol and it's clear the pilot took appropriate action,\" Black said.",
"Broward County Aviation Department spokesman Greg Meyer told CNN affiliate WPLG-TV that pieces of what appeared to be parts of the jet's damaged engine were recovered near the airport.",
"Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said an initial inspection of the aircraft revealed a \"contained failure.\"",
"\"Engine turbine blades exited the rear of the engine, they did not penetrate the engine cover,\" wrote Bergen in an e-mail to CNN.",
"Bergen said the FAA is continuing to investigate the incident.",
"Darrell Calhoun contributed to this report."
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"Delta flight returns to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after engine damage detected .",
"The flight was bound for Minneapolis ."
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"(CNN) -- Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy's decision to skip the Players Championship at Sawgrass in May has been defended by their manager Andrew Chandler.",
"World number one Westwood and Northern Ireland's rising star McIlroy are giving the tournament, dubbed the \"fifth major\" a wide berth, saying it did not fit their schedules.",
"Both have opted to take up European Tour membership in 2011, meaning they can only play three events on the PGA Tour outside of the majors.",
"Chandler told CNN that moving the PGA Tour's flagship tournament from just before the U.S. Masters to a slot in May had prompted the decisions of his star duo.",
"\"I would think when it was played at the end of the March it was getting to be the fifth major,\" said Chandler.",
"\"Moving it to the middle of May has made it about the 10th most important tournament in the world.",
"\"It isn't a priority for them as they would rather win a major or a world golf championship event,\" he added.",
"The absence of current world number one Westwood from the TPC has been seen as a snub to the PGA Tour, but Chandler says it is purely down to the calendar.",
"\"They cannot play every week,\" he said.",
"McIlroy has also denied reports of a rift with PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem for abandoning the U.S. circuit after only one year as a full-time member.",
"He wrote on his Twitter blog: \"For everyone who is interested, the reason I'm not playing TPC this year is because I've never thought the golf course has set up that well for me.",
"\"Hence, two missed cuts in two years.",
"I have no sort of vendetta against Tim Finchem or the PGA Tour; I love playing in the U.S. and have always found the people very welcoming.\"",
"South Africa's Tim Clark won last year's Players Championship, with Westwood finishing tied for fourth, four shots behind."
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"Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy to miss PGA Tour's Players Championship .",
"The flagship event has moved from the end of March to mid-May .",
"Westwood and McIlroy's manager Andrew Chandler says decision down to scheduling .",
"World number one Westwood finished fourth in last year's TPC ."
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"(CNN) -- Foreigners are making a run to get out of volatile Libya, with thousands hustling to the Egyptian border and foreign governments scrambling to help their citizens.",
"Around 12,000 people have crossed into Egypt from Libya, officials say, in an effort to flee the violence engulfing the North Africa nation.",
"\"There is no security over there,\" said Esat Abubakr, an Egyptian living in Benghazi said after he arrived in Sollum, Egypt.",
"He described widespread violence and a climate of fear with no security.",
"He said people drove to the border and then walked across.",
"\"Every Egyptian I know is trying to come back to Egypt,\" he said.",
"Lt. Col. Raouf Ezzat, an Egyptian military doctor overseeing medical care of the fleeing people, said the army is permitting only Egyptian citizens and Libyans married to Egyptians to enter Egypt.",
"But he said anyone wounded would be treated.",
"\"Any patient that comes to me, whether Egyptian or Libyan, I will treat them,\" he said, adding that any wounded Libyan who arrived at the border asking for help would be allowed to enter and be treated.",
"Ten Egyptians with minor injuries arrived Tuesday from different parts of Libya, but authorities were expecting and preparing for large numbers of injured people.",
"About 30 military doctors and 80 to 100 ambulances were stationed at the border, where an operating room was set up and 1,000 units of blood were en route.",
"The French Foreign Ministry said that it had sent three planes to Libya to help repatriate French citizens and that its embassy in Tripoli was helping to get citizens to the airport.",
"The Dutch military was responding as well.",
"A Dutch Defense Ministry spokesman told CNN that \"a Dutch military plane has been authorized to land in Tripoli today to evacuate about 100 Dutch nationals\" and a NATO commander said a Dutch frigate is heading there as well.",
"Britain said its citizens who don't have \"a pressing need to remain in the country should leave by commercial means if it is safe to do so.\"",
"Britain also \"is looking urgently into options for possible charter flights.\"",
"The government was advising Britons who want to leave Libya but can't buy tickets online \"to travel to the airport carrying sufficient cash to buy tickets.",
"Problems with internet connections in Libya mean that electronic payments may not be accepted.\"",
"The United States was unable to move any Americans out of Libya on Tuesday, said State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley. \"We are working on this with Libyan authorities,\" he said.",
"The State Department issued a travel alert for non-essential staff to leave the country, an order affecting 35 employees and their families.",
"There are other American citizens in Libya who might want to leave; some of them might be employees of energy companies that have suspended operations.",
"Of the several thousand U.S. citizens in Libya, most are dual nationals; those solely with U.S. citizenship number about 600, Crowley said.",
"The U.S. State Department was not able to land charter aircraft in Tripoli to fly out U.S. citizens because Libyan authorities did not give permission for those aircraft to land, said a senior administration official not authorized to speak for attribution.",
"The State Department was chartering ferries to take travelers from Tripoli's As-shahab port to Valletta, Malta on Wednesday, the official said, adding, \"Tomorrow the question will be if they let the ferry dock.",
"If that happens, our people will flow out.\"",
"Crowley said the airport in Tripoli remained open in \"challenging\" circumstances.",
"International carriers, he said, were making more seats available for departure.",
"Oil companies, such as Total, BP, OMV and BP, said they would or planned to evacuate people some staff and families.",
"Libya's official Jana news agency reported that airport authorities said Libyan airspace was open to civilian aviation and was operating normally, contrary to the rumors broadcast by \"conspiring media channels.\"",
"One Air Malta official -- who declined to be identified in keeping with company policy -- said thousands were waiting at Tripoli's airport for a flight out.",
"British Airways and BMI flights in and out of Tripoli have been canceled.",
"Both companies said they were monitoring the situation closely.",
"The British Foreign Office confirmed the cancellations and said KLM also canceled its Tuesday flights.",
"It said Turkish Airlines, Air Malta, Alitalia, Austrian and Egypt Air \"are operating flights but these are all full at present.\"",
"Air Malta said a Malta-bound flight finally left Tripoli International Airport after it had been delayed because of heavy congestion there.",
"Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey couldn't land its planes and was sending a ship and two ferry boats for evacuations.",
"\"Since there was no one in the control tower (at Benghazi airport), landing was not allowed.",
"It was also not possible to land in Tripoli,\" he said.",
"CNN's Tim Lister, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jill Dougherty, Carol Jordan and Adam Levine and Journalist Ian Lee contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- The chairman of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Tuesday pushed for talks between Thailand and Cambodia to end deadly clashes that have erupted over a temple along the border.",
"The issue \"can only be addressed bilaterally,\" said Marty M. Natalegawa, who is also the Indonesian foreign minister.",
"He added that he has the impression, after visiting Phnom Penh and Bangkok, that there is an overwhelming commitment on both sides to \"address their issues through peaceful means, through dialogues and negotiations.\"",
"The border skirmishes, which started Friday, have killed five people, including members of the military and civilians, a statement from ASEAN said, adding that each nation accuses the other of firing first.",
"Thailand's official news agency, MCOT, reported Tuesday, \"Since the fighting erupted Friday, one Thai soldier was killed, 25 were wounded and one civilian died in the clashes.\"",
"The report added that Cambodia on Tuesday \"handed over a Thai soldier captured during the cross border clash.\"",
"Cambodia's official news agency, AKP, reported Tuesday that \"Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen has sought the United Nations' intervention in arranging a buffer zone\" at the border area and wants to make sure the fighting does not expand to other parts of the border.",
"The U.N. Security Council on Monday expressed \"grave concern at aggravation of tensions between Cambodia and Thailand\" and said it was willing to hold an emergency meeting requested by Cambodia, but first wanted to wait for regional mediation efforts by the Indonesian foreign minister.",
"An official Thai report said the two sides had agreed to a ceasefire on Saturday, but skirmishes continued after.",
"The clashes stem from a longstanding conflict related to the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple.",
"The building sits on a cliff in Cambodian territory, but the most accessible entrance to the site is on the Thai side.",
"In a letter to the United Nations over the weekend, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said that in addition to the human toll the fighting was taking, the temple had suffered damage.",
"Conflict over the Preah Vihear site has taken place periodically for years.",
"In 1962, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, ruled that the site was in Cambodia, adding that the structure was \"an outstanding masterpiece of Khmer architecture.\"",
"But Thailand says the 1.8-square mile (4.7-square kilometer) area around Preah Vihear was never fully demarcated, and blames a map drawn at the beginning of the 20th century during the French occupation of Cambodia.",
"In July 2008, the United Nations approved Cambodia's application to have the temple listed as a World Heritage Site, meaning the U.N. believes the place has outstanding universal value."
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"ASEAN official believes there is overwhelming commitment for a peaceful resolution .",
"Cambodia handed over a captured Thai soldier on Tuesday .",
"ASEAN says 5 people have been killed in the clashes .",
"There have long been sporadic clashes over the Preah Vihear temple ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- As the United Nations was preparing Friday to debate a resolution branding Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank as illegal, Palestinian officials called Obama administration efforts to head off the vote as evidence that American policy is \"biased\" and \"seriously wrong.\"",
"\"This is a moment of truth because very clearly the Americans so far have placed their strategic alliance with Israel and the legal cover for Israeli violations above their own interests,\" said veteran Palestinian legislator and PLO executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi.",
"\"The Americans have very clearly demonstrated to Palestinians, to Arab public opinion, and to world public opinion that they are biased to the point of destruction,\" Ashrawi told CNN, echoing an argument made by many Palestinian officials.",
"The resolution being brought to the Security Council by the Palestinians and other Arab states presents a political dilemma for the White House as it tries to navigate policy in a quickly evolving Middle East region.",
"The Obama administration has been critical of Israeli settlement construction in the past, but has not gone as far as to call it \"illegal\" and anything short of an American veto of the resolution is bound to deepen tensions with Israel and stir up considerable congressional opposition.",
"On Friday, the U.S. vetoed Friday the resolution.",
"The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said the United States agrees about \"the folly\" of continued Israeli settlement activity, but \"we think it unwise for this council to attempt to resolve the core issues that divide\" Israelis and Palestinians.",
"Obama's first U.N. veto .",
"The previous day, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the U.S. does \"not accept the legitimacy of continued settlement activity\" and that it is \"corrosive not only to peace efforts and a two-state solution, but to Israel's future itself.\"",
"President Barack Obama on Thursday called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the resolution and speak about alternatives to a Security Council vote.",
"Among the options that have been floated, American and Palestinian officials said, was a Security Council presidential statement which is weaker than an actual resolution.",
"Other ideas included stronger future statements from the international peace group known as the Quartet, and the possibility of a Security Council fact finding mission to the region.",
"After the call, Abbas called an emergency Friday meeting of the PLO executive committee to discuss the issue but early indications suggest that the Palestinians will not agree to shelf the resolution.",
"\"If they keep trying to manipulate and water down a resolution to become a statement, and they start selling us used goods again it's not going to work,\" Ashrawi said.",
"\"The legitimacy and strength of any leadership comes from the people not from American approval or disapproval and the Americans .",
"Since the breakdown of American-brokered talks with Israel in September over the issue of settlements, the Palestinian Authority has been pursuing a policy aimed at unilaterally declaring a Palestinian state by September based on borders from 1967 and in recent months has won recognition from a number of South American countries.",
"Both United States and Israel oppose the unilateral efforts insisting that all issues in the conflict must be dealt with through direct negotiations.",
"Sabri Saidam, a senior official in Abbas' Fatah party, said Palestinians were determined to press ahead with the resolution and said the administration needed to adapt to changing regional circumstances.",
"\"Obviously the Untied States has to weigh its options, now amidst all the revolutions that are made and engineered by the people I think the voice of sense should prevail. ...",
"Unless the international community pressures Israel to abide by its will by the will of the international community, it will be hard to see how the entire middle East could come to a rest.\""
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"NEW: U.S. vetoes proposed Security Council resolutuion declaring Israel settlements illegal .",
"\"Americans so far have placed their strategic alliance with Israel,\" Palestinian legislator said before veto .",
"Resolution presented a political dilemma for the White House .",
"The Obama administration has been critical of Israeli settlement construction but has not gone as far declaring it illegal ."
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"(RollingStone.com) -- Lady Gaga gave Rolling Stone an advance preview of four songs from her upcoming album \"Born This Way\" an hour before the first show of the final leg of her Monster Ball tour in Atlantic City.",
"Though Gaga's people were quick to point out that these were not the final mixes, the tracks certainly sounded like polished, finished recordings.",
"Here's a track-by-track rundown of what we heard backstage, as well as what she played from the new record in concert.",
"\"Judas\" Currently scheduled as the second single from the album, \"Judas\" is a classic Lady Gaga pop banger with three huge hooks, a thumping house music breakdown and a vocal part that borrows a bit of Rihanna's distinctive cadence.",
"Gaga has written about falling for the wrong guy before in \"LoveGame\" and \"Bad Romance,\" but this time around she's a bit less dark and dramatic.",
"There's a bubbly sweetness in her voice as she sings \"I'm just a horny fool / baby it's so cool / I'm still in love with Judas, baby.\"",
"\"Edge of Glory\" This one sounds crazy in print -- it's a massive power ballad with heavy club beats that features Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band wailing on his saxophone (Clemons also plays on \"Hair\") -- but somehow it all seems totally natural when you actually hear it.",
"There's an element of cheesiness to it, but it's totally captivating and incredibly catchy.",
"If any of these new Gaga tunes demands to be a big fat hit, this is it.",
"The inclusion of Clemons is an inspired touch that amplifies the song's Eighties stadium rock vibe, but his actual performance is amazing and ranks among the best of his career.",
"Photos: Lady Gaga's Best Looks .",
"\"Scheiße\" A remixed version of this number was used in a recent runway show by fashion designer Thierry Mugler.",
"The album version doesn't have the same hardcore European house flavor, but it's definitely the tune most likely to bring back memories of early-Nineties dance crossover hits by C&C Music Factory, Snap and RuPaul.",
"The opening of the song -- in which she flatly intones \"I don't speak German, but I can if you like\" -- is fierce, but the song is saved from being a slight novelty by a soaring chorus that vaguely recalls Survivor's \"Eye of the Tiger.\"",
"Photos: Lady Gaga at the 2011 Grammys .",
"\"Hair\" \"Hair\" is another inspirational song in the mold of \"Born This Way,\" but it's a bit weirder, mixing the yearning romantic melodrama of Pat Benetar's \"We Belong\" with the hard industrial metal edge of Broken-era Nine Inch Nails.",
"The lyrics are essentially about embracing one's hairstyle as the ultimate expression of their identity, climaxing with Gaga triumphantly declaring \"I am my hair!\"",
"in its huge sing along chorus.",
"An anthem for hair salons everywhere.",
"Photos: Lady Gaga's Fashion Icons .",
"\"You and I\" Gaga didn't share the studio version of this theatrical rock ballad, but she did perform it in her concert later in the evening.",
"This one has been part of her Monster Ball setlist for months now, and at this point it's already a crowd-pleasing showstopper.",
"Assuming that the album recording will have more or less the same piano-centric arrangement, \"You and I\" will provide a necessary break from the high energy beats on the other tracks.",
"Watch her performance of the song from \"The Today Show\" back in July below.",
"\"Born This Way\" This is the Number One single in the country, so you've probably heard this one by now.",
"This was the first time Gaga has played the song in concert, but it's already the ideal conclusion to her show, ending the night with a giddy communal celebration of personal empowerment and self-acceptance.",
"Watch footage of the performance here.",
"Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- A least one person was shot dead and 55 others -- including four police -- were wounded Wednesday when private security guards and Iraqi security forces opened fire on hundreds of demonstrators outside the governor's office in the eastern city of Kut, health officials said.",
"Police officials in Kut, about 63 miles (110 kilometers) south of Baghdad, tell CNN that nearly 2,000 demonstrators demanded the resignation of Wasit's provincial governor, Latif Hamed, accusing him of corruption.",
"Some of the protesters tried to force their way inside the governor's office, prompting private security guards to shoot at them, police said.",
"After the shooting, the situation escalated rapidly and the protesters became angrier, Kut police said.",
"Dozens of protesters stormed the governor's office again and destroyed furniture inside, then set the building on fire.",
"Another group of demonstrators went to the governor's house and set it on fire.",
"Kut police tell CNN that Hamed was not in the city when protesters attacked his office and his house.",
"Another group of protesters stormed the provincial council building and set it on fire, forcing some council members to flee the building from a rear gate, police said.",
"Initially, Iraqi security forces used water cannons and batons on the crowds of demonstrators but later opened fire when protesters started attacking government buildings.",
"Health officials said the four Iraqi police officers were wounded when protesters hurled stones at them.",
"A few hours later, more Iraqi army troops entered the city and imposed a full curfew.",
"The demonstration was to warn the government and lawmakers to conduct reforms and end the corruption \"that destroyed this country,\" said one protester, an older man.",
"\"Look at our city,\" another protester said.",
"\"It is a ruined city.",
"The government has not done anything to improve the services here or find jobs for our sons.\"",
"\"This government is only looking (out) for its interests and not the interests of Iraqi people,\" another said.",
"The protesters were heard shouting, \"Down with (Prime Minister Nuri) al-Maliki, down with the corruption, down with thieves.\"",
"Others were carrying a banner that said, \"Eight years of suffering, where are your promises?\"",
"referring to the Iraqi government that took power after Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003.",
"On February 3, another rally was held in Kut as citizens protested against the lack of basic services, unemployment and corruption and called for improvement of food rations in Wasit province, a predominantly Shiite province about 68 miles (110 kilometers) south of Baghdad.",
"The demonstrations are the latest in a series across Iraq, as protesters are inspired by uprisings in the Middle East.",
"In Falluja, hundreds of protesters walked toward the city council building and the mayor's office on Tuesday, demanding the resignation of the mayor and the head of the city council because of corruption and their inability to provide basic services to the people.",
"Iraqiya state TV, for the first time since the demonstrations started across the country more than two weeks ago, broadcast video footage of the Kut demonstration and urged people to protest peacefully and not to turn to violence.",
"From Mohammed Tawfeeq ."
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"Teachers and Parents: Watch with your students or record \"Pictures Don't Lie\" when it airs on CNN on Saturday, February 26 at 8 p.m.",
"ET. By recording the documentary, you agree that you will use the program for educational viewing purposes for a one-year period only.",
"No other rights of any kind or nature whatsoever are granted, including, without limitation, any rights to sell, publish, distribute, post online or distribute in any other medium or forum, or use for any commercial or promotional purpose.",
"To own \"Pictures Don't Lie,\" go to Amazon.com or download it on iTunes.",
"(CNN Student News) -- Program Description: \"Pictures Don't Lie: A Black in America Special\" examines the hazy legacy of legendary photographer Ernest Withers, who helped advance the civil rights movement with his stunningly intimate black-and-white images.",
"Withers was everywhere: in Dr. King's hotel room for strategy sessions, in the courtroom of the Emmett Till lynching murder trial, behind the scenes at the Memphis sanitation strike before Dr. King was assassinated.",
"Now, just three years after his death, the reputation of the man dubbed \"the original civil rights photographer\" is in question.",
"Withers may have led a double life as a paid FBI \"racial informant.\"",
"Caught in the middle of the firestorm are the children of Ernest Withers, who are disputing the charges and fighting to open the namesake museum that will display his historic images.",
"The Withers children are speaking out for the first time with CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien.",
"We will also speak to leaders of the civil rights movement who were allegedly spied on by Withers to hear their reactions.",
"Do they believe the accusations?",
"Do they feel betrayed?",
"And how common was the FBI's practice of employing racial informants?",
"During this month of reflection, the timing couldn't be better to debate this conflicted character's place in civil rights history.",
"Recommended Grades: 11-12, college .",
"Before-Viewing Discussion Questions: Use these questions to initiate discussion with your students before they watch \"Pictures Don't Lie.\"",
"1. What was the American civil rights movement?",
"In your opinion, what impact has this movement had on today's society?",
"2. What do you think might have been the potential risks and benefits of joining the civil rights movement?",
"3. Some people in the civil rights movement advocated non-violence, while others preferred a more militant approach.",
"What other ways can you think of to try to enact social or political change?",
"How do you think that policy makers and the public might respond to each of these strategies?",
"4. If you could interview one of the leaders of the civil rights movement, what questions would you ask?",
"What lessons would you want these leaders to pass on to your generation?",
"Post-Viewing Discussion Questions: Use these questions to talk about the program and to promote critical thinking after students have watched \"Pictures Don't Lie.\"",
"1. Who was Ernest Withers?",
"What role did he play in Memphis society and in the American civil rights movement?",
"2. What are some of Withers' images that are seen in the documentary?",
"Have you seen any of these photographs before?",
"What do you think that Andrew Young means when he says that, \"It would not have been the movement without the pictures\"?",
"In your opinion, what might be the value of Withers' photographs for American history?",
"3. What were some of the historical events that Withers witnessed and photographed?",
"According to the program: How was he able to get some of his famous shots?",
"Why did the civil rights leaders give him access to their meetings and events?",
"4. Who were the \"Invaders\"?",
"How did this group's approach to civil rights differ from the movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Young?",
"Why do you think that some civil rights groups chose non-violent action as a form of protest, while other groups decided to act more militantly?",
"5. Why was Withers accused of working for the FBI?",
"According to the program, why did the FBI use informants from the black community?",
"Why do you think that some people in the black community helped the FBI?",
"What impact do you think that the leaking of information might have had on the civil rights movement?",
"Explain. 6. What are some of the theories presented in the documentary for why Withers might have informed for the FBI?",
"Which of these theories, if any, do you believe?",
"Explain. Do you think that Withers sold information to the FBI?",
"Why or why not? 7. Why do you think that the FBI monitored the civil rights movement?",
"What challenges did the agency face in doing so?",
"What is your opinion of the FBI's surveillance of the movement?",
"8. What do you think might be the potential advantages and disadvantages of using informants for surveillance versus using other methods (e.g., wiretapping)?",
"In your opinion, should the federal government monitor individuals and groups that may be opposed to its policies?",
"Why or why not? 9. How do some of Withers' family members and contemporaries respond to the accusation that Withers gave information to the FBI?",
"What is your reaction to their statements?",
"10. In your opinion, what impact has the accusation that Withers was an informant for the FBI had on his legacy?",
"11. How would you assess Ernest Withers' role in the civil rights movement?",
"Media Literacy Questions: You've no doubt heard the expression \"A picture is worth a thousand words.\"",
"In your opinion: How does a picture or image tell a story differently from words?",
"In what ways might a photojournalist shape your perception of a news event?",
"What images do you remember from events that happened during or before your lifetime?",
"Why do you think that these images are especially powerful?",
"Learning Activity: .",
"Pose this question to students: Do you think that Ernest Withers did more to promote or to undermine the civil rights movement?",
"Before students answer, have them work in groups to review the evidence presented in the program and conduct online research as well.",
"Assist groups in organizing their research into a chart or other visual aid that presents the two sides to the question and the evidence for each side.",
"Have groups share their findings.",
"Then, generate a discussion about the information students found and what methods they used to assess it as credible or not credible.",
"Ask for volunteers to share their conclusions about what they have seen, heard and read, as well as how the information gathered helped them to formulate opinions.",
"Finally, have each student produce a video essay in response to the initial question that was posed to the class.",
"Assess the essays on composition, grammar, media literacy and production.",
"Curriculum Connections .",
"National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: The Themes of Social Studies .",
"5. INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND INSTITUTIONS .",
"Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of interactions among individuals, groups, and institutions.",
"6. POWER, AUTHORITY, AND GOVERNANCE .",
"Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of how people create, interact with, and change structures of power, authority, and governance.",
"The Curriculum Standards for Social Studies (http://www.socialstudies.org/standards) are published by the National Council for Social Studies (http://www.socialstudies.org/)."
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"\"Pictures Don't Lie: a Black in America Special\" examines the legacy of civil rights photographer Ernest Withers .",
"Withers may have led a double life as a paid FBI informant .",
"Use this educator's and parent's guide to debate Withers' place in civil rights history .",
"The guide includes before-viewing and post-viewing questions, media literacy questions and a learning activity ."
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"(CNN) -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday that U.S. intelligence officials should be questioned over their handling of \"Curveball,\" an Iraqi defector whose now discredited claims on weapons of mass destruction helped fuel the Bush administration's drive to war in 2003.",
"It has become clear over the years that \"the source called Curveball was totally unreliable,\" Powell said in a statement to CNN.",
"\"The question should be put to the CIA and the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) as to why this wasn't known before the false information was put into (a key intelligence estimate) sent to Congress, the president's State of the Union address and my February 5 presentation to the U.N.\" Powell, in an address to members of the United Nations Security Council in February 2003, said the U.S. government had \"first-hand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels.\"",
"\"The source was an eyewitness, an Iraqi chemical engineer who supervised one of these facilities,\" Powell said at the time.",
"\"He actually was present during biological agent production runs.",
"He was also at the site when an accident occurred in 1998.",
"Twelve technicians died.\"",
"Two months later, the invasion of Iraq began.",
"No biological weapons, no germ labs, and no weapons of mass destruction were found.",
"The defector, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, has admitted in an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper that he lied to help bring down Saddam Hussein's regime.",
"\"I had the chance to fabricate something, to topple the regime,\" he said.",
"\"I did this, and I am satisfied, because there is no dictator in Iraq anymore.\"",
"When Alwan spoke to CNN in 2008, he said, \"I never told anyone Saddam Hussein was producing weapons of mass destruction.\"",
"At the time, intelligence sources told CNN that Alwan had claimed that Iraq had a secret bioweapons program.",
"But now, Alwan admits that after he was granted asylum in Germany in 2000, he used his training as a chemical engineer to concoct for his debriefers a story of Iraqi WMD production.",
"Although the CIA was not given a chance to interview Alwan directly, and German officials had questioned some aspects of Alwan's story, his assertions were included in the material provided to Powell for his U.N. presentation.",
"Tyler Drumheller, who was the CIA's chief of European operations at the time, agrees that the \"Curveball\" information was not well-enough vetted.",
"He says he had reservations at the time about relying on it, but that when he asked for direct CIA access to Alwan through the German intelligence service, he was rebuffed.",
"A representative of Germany's intelligence service declined to comment.",
"Drumheller claims top Bush administration officials were too willing to believe Alwan's story \"because that was the only piece of intelligence they had that really fit what the administration was looking at.\"",
"Former President George W. Bush declined through a spokesman to comment.",
"Representatives for former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and the DIA did not reply to CNN's inquiries.",
"Former CIA director George Tenet, who was Drumheller's boss, wrote in his memoirs that \"perhaps some people's recollections of 'if only someone had listened to me' have become sharper than reality.\"",
"Without naming names, Tenet said that \"concerns about Curveball did not get disseminated far and wide through the agency as they should have been.\"",
"Former Homeland Security adviser Frances Townsend says that the U.S. government should seek Alwan's extradition and prosecution, for \"intentionally lying and deceiving the U.S.",
"government.\" \"It absolutely makes my blood boil,\" she told CNN.",
"Not all observers are accepting Alwan's claim that his goal in spinning his WMD tale was to free the people of Iraq from Hussein.",
"\"He told the story because he wanted to get out of a refugee camp in Germany,\" said Bob Drogin, author of a book about the episode.",
"\"He wanted to get his wife out and bring her to Germany, he wanted to get citizenship, and he wanted a Mercedes Benz.",
"And he got all of those things.\"",
"But in his interview with the Guardian, Alwan said he had already won asylum before he spoke to German intelligence about weapons programs in Iraq, and that telling them his story did not win him a life of ease.",
"Alwan insisted he is proud of the role he played in the toppling of Hussein.",
"In the video of the interview posted online, he said that if he had it all to do over again, he would say the same thing \"because I wouldn't want that regime to continue in our country.\"",
"CNN's Frederik Pleitgen and Pam Benson contributed to this report ."
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"Colin Powell says U.S. intelligence officials should be questioned over their handling of \"Curveball\"\nCurveball was an Iraqi defector whose claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction have been discredited .",
"Curveball's claims helped bolster the Bush administration's case for going to war in Iraq .",
"Curveball now admits he lied, but says he doesn't regret his actions ."
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"(Mashable) -- Popular restaurant recommendation app Urbanspoon has just launched a brand new version of its app, complete with a full redesign and the ability to rate and upload photos of your dishes.",
"Version 1.17 of the Urbanspoon iPhone app [iTunes link] puts its focus on the food you eat.",
"Like Foodspotting, you can take a picture of your meal and upload it.",
"You can then write a specific recommendation for that dish and post it on Urbanspoon.",
"The IAC-owned service also updated its navigation.",
"It has de-emphasized the \"shake to find a random restaurant\" home screen in favor of a menu system that lets you browse restaurants, see what your friends are recommending and reserve a table (a beta feature available in Seattle, Los Angeles and New York City).",
"The focus on photography and dishes makes the app richer.",
"It will have more data on not just the best places to eat but the best things to order at these locations.",
"The upgraded app puts it in direct competition with several heavyweights though, including Yelp and OpenTable.",
"Moreover, the photos feature pushes Urbanspoon onto Foodspotting's turf.",
"Urbanspoon has the vast resources of InterActive Corp at its disposal, while Foodspotting has raised just $750,000.",
"This could prove to be an interesting battle.",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"App now lets you rate and upload photos of your dishes .",
"Update de-emphasizes \"shake to find a random restaurant\" home screen .",
"Photos feature pushes Urbanspoon onto Foodspotting's turf ."
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"(CNN) -- Borussia Dortmund marched 13 points clear in the German Bundesliga on Saturday with a 2-0 win at home to St. Pauli.",
"Coach Jurgen Klopp's team later saw defending champions Bayern Munich move up to second place on goal difference above Bayer Leverkusen, who host lowly Stuttgart on Sunday.",
"Paraguay striker Lucas Barrios scored his 10th goal this season to put Dortmund ahead six minutes before halftime, while an own-goal from Ralph Gunesch four minutes after the break left St. Pauli just five points above the relegation zone.",
"Barrios netted for the first time this year after doing well to control Nuri Sahin's cross, and his ball across goal forced Gunesch to turn the ball into his own net with Robert Lewandowski waiting behind him to score.",
"It was a welcome return to winning ways for Dortmund, who had drawn three of the team's first five games of 2011.",
"Bayern Munich warmed up for Wednesday's Champions League final rematch against Inter Milan with a morale-boosting 3-1 win over Mainz, who stayed in fifth place.",
"Bastian Schweinsteiger scored the first header of his Bundesliga career nine minutes into the first half and Thomas Muller made it 2-0 five minutes into the second, with Dutch winger Arjen Robben involved in setting up both goals.",
"With 13 minutes left, Muller helped Germany striker Mario Gomez to score his 27th goal in all competitions this season for Louis van Gaal's team, who travel to Italy seeking revenge for May's defeat in Madrid.",
"Tunisian striker Sami Allagui headed his second goal in successive games in the 83rd minute, but it was too late for Mainz -- who won in Munich in September.",
"Fourth-placed Hanover moved four points clear of Mainz with a 3-1 win over struggling Kaiserslautern, with a goal in each half from Jan Schlaudraff and another just before the interval by Mohammed Abdellaoue.",
"The defeat left visiting Kaiserslautern third from bottom on goal difference behind 2009 champions Wolfsburg, who lost 2-1 at sixth-placed Freiburg.",
"Wolfsburg led when Turkey striker Tuncay Sanli helped set up fellow new signing Patrick Helmes, but substitute Stefan Reisinger leveled just before halftime and Papiss Demba Cisse's 69th-minute winner was his 16th goal this season.",
"Hamburg claimed seventh place above Nuremberg -- 3-0 winners over Eintracht Frankfurt on Friday -- following a crushing 4-0 victory at home to Werder Bremen.",
"Croatian striker Mladen Petric gave Hamburg the lead three minutes before halftime, then two bad second-half mistakes by Per Mertesacker gave Peru striker Paolo Guerrero a double on the counter-attack before Anis Ben-Hatira sealed victory near the end.",
"The defeat left Bremen just a point above Wolfsburg and Kaiserslautern.",
"Cologne came from behind to draw 1-1 at ninth-placed Hoffenheim, moving three points clear of the drop zone as Youssef Mohamad's 69th-minute equalizer canceled out an own-goal by teammate Milivoje Novakovic soon after the interval."
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"Borussia Dortmund return to winning form with a 2-0 victory at home to St. Pauli .",
"German leaders now have a 13-point advantage over Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen .",
"Bayern up to second place on goal difference after winning 3-1 away to Mainz .",
"Hanover consolidate fourth following 3-1 win over struggling Kaiserslautern ."
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"(CNN) -- Standing 6 feet 3 inches (1.9 meters) tall and with a shaved head, fashion designer Ozwald Boateng often cuts a dash as much as his tailored suits.",
"Boateng's eponymous fashion lable has been worn by Hollywood's A-list celebrities.",
"He's married to a former model and his suits have been worn by Hollywood A-listers on Oscars night.",
"Yet he remains in touch with his North London roots where he grew up, and to Ghana, his parents' homeland.",
"\"They taught me the value systems,\" Boateng told CNN.",
"\"We have a very strong culture, people tend to like to intellectualize about everything, so we have a lot of red tape, we talk a lot but not a lot gets done.",
"I'd like to see a lot more get done, but most importantly the people are good people.\"",
"In 1997 Boateng became the youngest tailor and the first black designer to have a shop on London's exclusive men's tailoring street, Savile Row.",
"In 2003 he was made creative director of men's wear for Givenchy.",
"While he deals in a world with high-end clients and celebrities, he is committed to setting a good example to young people on how to be a successful business person and to improving the lives of people in Africa.",
"Using his business acumen and passion for Africa, he set up the Made in Africa Trust in 2006 to help promote self-sufficiency and new businesses in countries across the continent.",
"\"It's not easy because you're still dealing with infrastructure and sometimes governments are not that ready for new ways of thinking.",
"But the thing is, it is changing and what you have to bear in mind is there are 53 countries in Africa so you know, we're not saying you've got all 53 right (on the) first hit, but I think you could probably get 20 right,\" he said.",
"His love of designing will always remain, he says, as will helping people across Africa to tailor their own lives for the better.",
"\"This is what I love, designing clothes and creating, that is just me.",
"The whole mission for Africa is out of frustration and need.",
"It is just not moving enough.",
"I'm frustrated getting off a plane.",
"I don't want to see open drains, I don't want to see a road that takes 10 years to build, I want to be able to go there and open one of my stores.\"",
"Watch Ozwald Boateng on CNN International on Saturday, August 22, 12.30, 21.30 GMT and Sunday, August 23, 18.00 GMT."
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"British designer was youngest to have shop on London's exclusive Savile Row .",
"Ghanaian parents instilled appreciation of African culture .",
"Set up Made in Africa Trust to encourage wealth creation across Africa ."
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"(RollingStone.com) -- Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello spent Monday at the Wisconsin protests, performing acoustic songs at a rally and delivering a fiery speech to the thousands inside of the capital rotunda who are protesting Governor Walker's attempt to end the right of state employees to collectively bargain.",
"\"What's happened so far might be the most inspiring 24 hours of my life as an activist,\" Morello tells Rolling Stone.",
"\"I've never seen this kind of outpouring of unapologetic, steel-backboned support for union causes in the United States.",
"The Madison police were delivering bratwurst to the protesters inside the capitol, and the kids were thanking them.",
"It was unbelievable.\" Rolling Stone: Tom Morello rocks Wisconsin protesters .",
"At a freezing cold rally outside of the capital, Morello was joined by Rise Against frontman Tim Mcilrath, Wayne Kramer of the MC5 and Boston folk group Street Dogs.",
"The show mixed classics like Neil Young's \"Ohio,\" Bob Marley's \"Get Up, Stand Up\" and Morello's driving acoustic version of Rage Against the Machine's \"Guerilla Radio.\"",
"\"No matter what Gov.",
"Walker, the Mubarak of the Midwest, says, this land is your land,\" Morello said before singing Woody Guthrie's \"This Land is Your Land.\"",
"\"Never give up and never give in!\"",
"Rolling Stone: Tom Morello's top ten protest anthems .",
"If Governor Walker's bill passes, it would effectively destroy Wisconsin's civil servant unions; many fear that other Republican-controlled states would attempt to follow suit.",
"\"I come from a coal-mining town in central Illinois where everybody was union,\" says Morello.",
"\"For almost 30 years, my mom was a public high school teacher in Libertyville, Illinois.",
"I grew up with a firm belief that the leverage we have as working people is through the union.",
"It's the only counterweight to the raw greed of corporate power.",
"For the past 22 years, I've been a union man in L.A. as a member of the Professional Musicians Local 47.\"",
"Rolling Stone: Rage Against the Machine rock for immigrants' rights in California .",
"After the rally, Morello entered the packed Capitol rotunda, which had been occupied for the past week, grabbed a bullhorn, and made one of the most rousing speeches of the day.",
"\"This is what they do in times of economic crisis,\" Morello said.",
"\"They think people aren't paying attention, that they can just sneak through this legislation that would rob us of decades, centuries of social progress.",
"We didn't pick this fight.",
"[Governor Walker] tapped us on the shoulder and said 'let's fight.'",
"And now we're gonna knock his legislative teeth out.\"",
"Reporting by Patrick Doyle .",
"Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"Outside of the capital, Morello was joined by other musicians to protest .",
"\"I come from a coal-mining town in central Illinois where everybody was union.\"",
"In the Capitol rotunda, Morello grabbed a bullhorn and made a speech ."
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"(CNN) -- It's often assumed that older people generally aren't very digitally savvy -- but new research from Pew indicates that older people are becoming about as skilled online as younger ones.",
"According to the 2010 Generations report from the Pew Internet and American Life project, \"The biggest online trend (we found) is that, while the very youngest and oldest cohorts may differ, certain key internet uses are becoming more uniformly popular across all age groups.\"",
"The study found that internet users aged 34 and older are more likely than those age 33 and younger to engage in several online activities, including visiting government sites and getting financial information online.",
"These online activities are becoming more uniformly popular across all age groups: e-mail, search engines, getting health information, following the news, researching or making purchases (including travel reservations), online banking, supplying reviews or ratings, donating to charity, and downloading podcasts.",
"And get ready: Your grandmother might soon try to friend you on Facebook.",
"Even though younger people are significantly more likely to use social networking services, Pew reports that \"the fastest growth has come from internet users 74 and older: social network site usage for this oldest cohort has quadrupled since 2008, from 4% to 16%.\"",
"Some online trends are creeping down the age ladder, too.",
"According to Pew, it used to be mostly older adults who searched for online health information.",
"But now this has become \"the third most popular online activity for all internet users 18 and older.\"",
"Wireless net access is definitely not the exclusive province of youth.",
"Like the recent iPass mobile workforce study -- which put the median aged of a mobile-enabled worker at 46 -- Pew found that 55% of people aged 46-55 access websites or other digital media or services via a laptop, cell phone, or other internet-connected mobile device.",
"That figure drops to 46% for people aged 56-64, and 33% for people aged 65-73.",
"The bottom line is, don't assume you know how digitally savvy someone is based on their age.",
"That octogenarian sitting across the Starbucks from you might be using Firesheep to sidejack your Facebook account right now."
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"New research from Pew focuses on generational trends in the digital world .",
"Research found people 74 and older have the fastest growth in social networking services .",
"Internet users aged 34 and older are more likely to engage in several common activities ."
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"(CNN) -- The nation's most energy-efficient National Christmas Tree doesn't appear to be the nation's most energy-resistant one.",
"The 42-foot Colorado blue spruce snapped at its base during high winds Saturday morning in Washington.",
"Sustained winds at 25 miles per hour and wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour swept through the area and snapped the tree 4 feet above the ground, the National Park Service said in a statement.",
"By 5:30 p.m., less than seven hours later, the tree was reduced to mulch by work crews.",
"The tree was trimmed over the holidays with green-hued LED lights and snowflake ornaments in an area called The Ellipse directly between the south lawn of the White House and the Washington Monument.",
"The first family lighted the tree, a tradition going back 87 years, on December 9, 2010, as blues legend B.B.",
"King, Maroon 5, and others performed at the ceremony.",
"It stayed lit each evening until New Year's Day.",
"According to the National Park Service, decorations are provided by sponsoring organizations from every state and are placed in a protective plastic globe to protect them from bad weather.",
"The Park Service has identified a successor tree and will announce this spring when it will be brought to the Ellipse, the statement said.",
"The spruce had been in its current location for more than 32 years.",
"It came from the Myers family farm outside York, Pennsylvania, the Park Service said.",
"\"The tree had been planted and watered by the Myers' grandchildren.",
"When the tree was 6 years old it had been planted in the Myers' front yard as a Mother's Day gift for Mrs. Myers.",
"After discussions with the NPS horticulturists, the Myers agreed to let the tree go to become the nation's Christmas tree.\""
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"High winds snapped the tree Saturday morning .",
"The 42-foot-tree was reduced to mulch by Saturday evening .",
"The Colorado blue spruce had been in its current location for more than 32 years ."
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"(CNN) -- Barcelona restored their lead at the top of La Liga on Sunday night with a hard fought 2-1 win over Athletic Bilbao at the Nou Camp.",
"The league leaders made the perfect start after their midweek defeat to Arsenal in the Champions League with David Villa scoring after four minutes, latching onto a knock down from Daniel Alves.",
"Despite dominating possession, Barca failed to find the net again in the first half and were made to pay five minutes after the break when Bilbao were awarded a penalty as Sergio Busquets brought down Fernando Llorente inside the box.",
"Andoni Iraola duly converted the spot kick beating Jose Manuel Pinto who was standing in for the injured Victor Valdes.",
"But Barca's persistence finally paid off as Alves grabbed his second assist of the night laying the ball off for Messi who finished with customary aplomb.",
"The win restores Josep Guardiola team's five-point lead over rivals Real Madrid who beat Levante on Saturday.",
"Mourinho milestone as Real Madrid win .",
"Villarreal missed the opportunity to close the gap on Champions League rivals Valencia (who drew 0-0 with Sporting Gijon on Saturday), as they played out a 1-1 draw against bottom-of-the-table Malaga.",
"A win would have sent Villarreal up to third place but an 82nd minute strike by Uruguay's Sebastian Fernandez cancelled out Marco Ruben's 36th minute goal.",
"The result means Villarreal remain in fourth, two points behind Valencia.",
"New Osasuna coach, Jose Luis Mendilibar got off to a flyer as his side thrashed Espanyol 4-0 in Pamplona.",
"Iranian midfielder Javad Nekounam opened the scoring after 15 minutes and doubled Osasuna 10 minutes into the second half as he slotted a penalty.",
"Lola (81st minute) and Fernando Soriano (88th minute) completed a resounding win which lifts Osasuna out of the bottom three.",
"Despite losing their fourth successive league game, Espanyol stay in sixth place but are now nine points off a top four finish.",
"Deportivo La Coruna left it late to grab a point at Almeria.",
"Argentine Pablo Piatti had put Almeria ahead three minutes into the second half, but Deportivo's goalkeeper Dani Aranzubia scored a dramatic 95th minute equalizer.",
"The draw keeps Almeria in 19th place and three points from safety.",
"Sevilla move up to seventh after a 1-0 win over Hercules.",
"Croatian Ivan Rakitic's 21st minute goal proving enough to secure three points and relieve the pressure on coach Gregorio Manzano.",
"An 89th minute penalty by Pablo Pinillos secured Racing Santander a crucial win over at Getafe.",
"The result means Santander now lie 12th in the table with 28 points, while ninth-placed Getafe remain on 31 points."
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"Lionel Messi scores the winner as Barcelona beat Athletic Bilbao 2-1 at the Nou Camp .",
"Win restores Barca's five-point cushion over Real Madrid at the top of La Liga .",
"Villareal draw 1-1 with Malaga and miss chance to make up ground on Valencia ."
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"(CNN) -- Mobile devices are only as good as the networks that serve them.",
"But too often, a mobile user will purchase a new smartphone with a two-year carrier contract, only then to learn that the phone gets lousy reception at home, work or school.",
"That's why the first -- and obvious -- question consumers should ask themselves when considering a mobile phone is this: Which carriers get the best service in the places where I spend most of my time?",
"The trouble: This isn't always an easy question to answer.",
"Yes, carriers all provide coverage maps on their websites that show where their networks are supposed to reach -- theoretically, based on cell phone tower locations.",
"But, in reality, signal strength and network speed can vary substantially due to terrain, structures, the typical amount of data-hungry wireless devices on the network in a given location, and other factors.",
"When looking for a new carrier, some people attempt to gauge the local quality of a network by finding local customers of various carriers and asking them how many signal bars they generally see on their phones.",
"However, this isn't necessarily reliable, since (as I wrote last year) signal bars are largely meaningless, and they're sometimes misleading.",
"This is where crowdsourcing can help: Mobile users can work together to create crowdsourced maps that show how well wireless networks really perform in specific locations.",
"Here are two projects that you can actually contribute to, by sending data from an app on your smartphone: .",
"Open Signal Maps .",
"This project, by Staircase3, collects data via an Android application.",
"As you are out and about, this application runs in the background, monitoring the signal strength of your carrier's network.",
"If you have data-sharing turned on for the app (you can turn it off), your data are stripped of identifying information and uploaded to Staircase3's servers.",
"Aggregate user data are displayed on maps on the Open Signal Maps site.",
"I've installed this app on my Droid Incredible, and it's interesting and useful.",
"In addition to showing the direction and location of the tower my phone is connected to, and signal strength, it allows me to conduct network speed tests.",
"This is important because both signal strength and network speed play important roles in the quality of voice calls and data connections.",
"According to the Open Signal Maps blog, \"A high (signal strength) does not guarantee a good connection.",
"You can be communicating really well with the tower but the tower might be choked up -- it might be dealing with so much network data that you get terrible speeds.\"",
"Also, being able to easily conduct your own network speed test can indicate whether your carrier might be \"throttling\" your data connection, as Verizon recently said it will start doing to the top 5% of its customers by data usage.",
"The coverage maps on the Open Signal Maps site appear to offer data for major and minor carriers in most regions.",
"They don't offer an iPhone app, because of differences in how the iOS operating system captures signal data.",
"A BlackBerry app is under consideration.",
"RootMetrics . This project collects data via an iPhone app.",
"Android and BlackBerry apps are coming, the site says.",
"The maps on the RootMetrics site allow you to compare the performance of AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile networks.",
"Smaller carriers, such as US Cellular or MetroPCS, are not shown.",
"These maps are a bit simpler to interpret than the Open Signal Maps, and they have user-friendly features.",
"For example, they express network speed as the number of seconds it takes to upload or download a song.",
"RootMetrics users also can view their own personal map with a history of signal strength and network speed.",
"Both of these projects are most useful in major metro areas where lots of people use smartphones.",
"They encourage people to use their apps in other locations to help make their maps more complete.",
"Although people who use feature phones (the next step down from smartphones, used by nearly 75% of U.S. mobile users) cannot run the apps for these projects, the data on these maps still might be useful for selecting a local carrier.",
"In the big picture, projects like these could help hold carriers accountable for the network speeds they advertise, an issue that's likely to become especially contentious in the next few years as carriers struggle to deliver high-speed wireless broadband to a fast-growing number of data-sucking phones.",
"As Mashable notes, \"Finally, we'd have a source of real-world information to counteract the questionable maps we see from wireless providers.\"",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Amy Gahran."
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"Company maps of wireless networks can be inaccurate or lacking detail .",
"Application designers have turned to crowdsourced data .",
"Open Signal maps has an app for Android .",
"RootMetrics has an app for iPhone; Android and Blackberry versions coming ."
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"(CNN) -- Internazionale moved up to second place in Italy's Serie A with a dour 1-0 victory over Cagliari on Saturday that put the defending champions within two points of rivals AC Milan.",
"Defender Andrea Ranocchia was credited with the only goal in the seventh minute in an unconvincing warm-up for Wednesday's Champions League final rematch with Bayern Munich.",
"AC Milan, beaten by English club Tottenham in Tuesday's last-16, first-leg tie in Europe's top club competition, will look to bounce back with victory at Chievo on Sunday.",
"Napoli can regain second place with victory at home to Catania.",
"Inter caught the Cagliari defense unawares for the early winner, as a quickly-taken free-kick by Samuel Eto'o set up a chance for Goran Pandev, whose blocked shot was returned goalwards by on-loan Morocco midfielder Houssine Kharja and into the net off Ranocchia.",
"It was the 23-year-old Italy international's first goal since joining from Genoa last month.",
"Gattuso says sorry for Jordan 'head-butt' It proved to be a match of few clear-cut chances as Inter missed the creativity of playmaker Wesley Sneijder, who was rested after injuring his groin in Wednesday's 2-1 win over Fiorentina.",
"Coach Leonardo also left out Brazil defender Lucio ahead of German club Bayern's visit to the San Siro.",
"\"We struggled a bit but the main thing is that we got the three points,\" Inter fullback Maicon told the club's website.",
"\"AC Milan? We're just concentrating on ourselves, but having us breathing down their necks won't make things easy for them.",
"And now we can focus on the Champions League.\"",
"The defeat left former Italy coach Roberto Donadoni's Sardinians in ninth place, 17 points off the lead.",
"Seventh-placed Palermo's hopes of qualifying for the European Champions League were dented by a 1-0 defeat at Bologna in Saturday's only other Serie A match.",
"The visitors played the final half-hour with only 10 men after Santiago Garcia was booked for the second time, and Bologna took advantage as substitute Daniele Paponi headed the only goal in the 90th minute.",
"The result left Palermo five points behind fourth-placed Lazio, who host bottom club Bari on Sunday.",
"Bologna took a big step towards safety, moving 10 points clear of the relegation zone."
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"Inter Milan give the city the top two places in Serie with 1-0 win over Cagliari .",
"Defending champions now just two points adrift of rivals AC Milan, who play Sunday .",
"Inter battle to win ahead of Champions League final rematch with Bayern Munich .",
"Seventh-placed Palermo beaten by Bologna after having a player sent off ."
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"(CNN) -- Arsenal were held to a 1-1 draw by English League One side Leyton Orient in the FA Cup fifth round on Sunday.",
"Arsenal, who recorded a famous 2-1 win over Barcelona in the Champions League in midweek, fielded a weakened side for Sunday's fixture and looked to have done enough to win when Tomas Rosicky headed home in the 53rd minute.",
"But Leyton Orient battled on and were rewarded when substitute striker Jonathan Tehoue beat two defenders before striking a low drive through Manuel Almunia's legs in the 88th minute.",
"The winners of the replay at the Emirates stadium will face Manchester United at Old Trafford in the quarterfinals.",
"In the other FA Cup ties played Sunday, Manchester City thrashed Nott's County 5-0 in their FA Cup fourth round replay match at Eastlands.",
"Paul Ince's League One side had managed to hold their more illustrious opponents to a 1-1 draw at Meadow Lane in January, and for a time held their own against Roberto Mancini's men.",
"It took City almost 40 minutes to break the deadlock when Patrick Vieira opened the scoring when he headed in at the near post from a David Silva corner.",
"Vieira added a second just before the hour to all but kill off any hopes of a revival by County.",
"But City weren't finished and further goals were added by Carlos Tevez -- who rounded Nelson in the Notts County goal before sliding the ball home -- in the 84th minute.",
"Edin Dzeko added another in the 89th minute and Micah Richards made it five in injury time.",
"The win sets up a fifth round tie with Aston Villa.",
"Bolton Wanderers have booked their place in the quarterfinals after recording a 1-0 victory at Fulham.",
"Croatian striker Ivan Krasnic got the decisive goal after 19 minutes with a volley past Mark Schwarzer.",
"Bolton will face Birmingham at St Andrews for a place in the semifinals.",
"Sunday's only English Premier League match saw the Midlands derby between West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers finish in a 1-1 draw.",
"Wolves were heading for all three points after Jamie O'Hara had put them ahead after 39 minutes.",
"But Carlos Vela's pounced on a loose ball to tuck away an injury-time equalizer for Roy Hodgson's team.",
"The goal denied Wolves the chance to move off the bottom of the table, while a point lifts West Brom one point above Wigan in 17th place."
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"League One side Leyton Orient hold Barcelona conquerors, Arsenal to 1-1 draw in FA Cup .",
"Manchester City beat Notts County 5-0 in FA Cup fourth round replay at Eastlands .",
"Bolton book place in FA Cup quarterfinals after beating Fulham 1-0 .",
"West Brom and Wolves draw 1-1 in Premier League ."
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"(CNN) -- Vincenzo Montella has been appointed as the new coach of Italian club AS Roma after Claudio Ranieri handed in his resignation.",
"Roma acted quickly after the departure of Ranieri, who quit after his side were beaten 4-3 by Genoa on Sunday, having led 3-0 six minutes into the second half.",
"Montella, 36, scored 118 goals in 267 Serie A matches and netted 84 for Roma during a ten-year stint with the club.",
"He joined Ranieri's coaching staff in 2009.",
"\"AS Roma have, today, given first team duties to Mr Vincenzo Montella until the end of the current season,'' the club said in a statement.",
"\"We are certain he will be able to put the team's quality together with his professionalism, dedication, enthusiasm and experience.\"",
"Ranieri offered his resignation shortly after Roma's defeat at Genoa -- their fourth in a row.",
"They lost at home to Ukrainian side Shahktar Donetsk in the Champions League on Wednesday and head for the second leg trailing 3-2.",
"After much speculation about Ranieri's future, AFP reported that the 59-year-old had told Italian news agency Ansa: \"I've always thought about the good of Roma and after a game such as today's I believe it's right to give a signal.",
"\"After the final whistle I went into the changing rooms to thank the team and I decided to hand in my resignation,\" the Italian reportedly said.",
"The club confirmed his departure in a statement on Monday: ''AS Roma announces it received yesterday evening the resignation of Mr Claudio Ranieri as coach of the first team.",
"\"Following this move, the financial contract with Ranieri, whose deal was coming to an end on June 30, 2011, has ended by mutual consent.",
"Roma wishes to thank Claudio Ranieri for the professionalism shown and the work done.''",
"Elsewhere, Raul Tamudo's goal was enough to help Real Sociedad past Mallorca and move them up to seventh in the Spanish Primera Liga.",
"Tamudo struck on 55 minutes as he nodded a Daniel Estrada cross into the net.",
"Mallorca stay 11th after their defeat.",
"In England, West Ham powered through to the quarterfinals of the FA Cup with an emphatic 5-1 win over second division Burnley.",
"The London club will now face Stoke in the last eight of the competition.",
"Striker Carlton Cole scored twice while German midfielder Thomas Hitzelsperger also found the net on his debut."
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"Roma appoint Vincenzo Montella as their new coach to replace Claudio Ranieri .",
"Montella played for Roma for 10 years and joined the coaching staff in 2009 .",
"Real Sociedad beat Mallorca 1-0 in Spain thanks to a Raul Tamudo goal .",
"West Ham thrash Burnley 5-1 to reach the English FA Cup quarterfinals ."
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"(CNN) -- Top seed Andy Roddick will take on Canadian rising star Milos Raonic in the 50th ATP Tour final of his career in Memphis on Sunday.",
"The American overcame 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro in Saturday's second semi, winning 6-3 6-4 to give himself a chance of winning his third title in the U.S. city and his 30th overall.",
"World No. 8 Roddick triumphed in an hour and 35 minutes against the Argentine, who played only three events last year due to his wrist problems.",
"Former world No.",
"4 Del Potro made two second-round exits in Australia before reaching the semifinals in San Jose last weekend.",
"The 20-year-old Raonic won that event for his breakthrough ATP title in just his seventh start on the circuit, and is now set to become the first player from his country to reach the top 40 in the men's rankings.",
"\"It's amazing to be in two finals in a row.",
"After you get the results, everything comes with it, like the rankings.",
"But the thing I'm most proud of is my level,\" he told the ATP Tour website after beating American fourth seed Mardy Fish 6-4 4-6 6-3 in the opening semifinal.",
"The final will be a clash of big servers, with the 6ft 5in Raonic taking his tournament-leading tally to 97 aces as he beat the conqueror of defending champion Sam Querrey.",
"\"He's got all the serves that anyone else that I've ever seen does.",
"I wasn't familiar with his game at all; I hadn't seen him play live,\" Fish said.",
"\"From the waist down he has the strongest legs of anyone I've seen.",
"You can tell he still has some growing to do in his upper body, and it's a scary thought to think he's got ways to improve.\"",
"Roddick, playing in his first tournament since losing in the last 16 of the Australian Open in January, followed up Friday's hard-fought 4-6 6-3 6-4 victory over fellow former world No.",
"1 Lleyton Hewitt in Memphis in which he needed seven match-points.",
"Raonic's sixth-seeded compatriot Rebecca Marino will seek her first WTA title against Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova in the Memphis women's final.",
"In France, Marin Cilic saved a match-point before reaching the final of the ATP Marseille Open with a 6-2 1-6 7-5 win over Russian third seed Mikhail Youzhny on Saturday.",
"The Croatian world No.",
"28 will play Swedish top seed Robin Soderling in Sunday's final, having been 5-3 down on his own serve in the deciding set when he escaped defeat.",
"World No. 4 Soderling beat Youzhny's 129th-ranked compatriot Dmitry Tursunov 7-5 6-1.",
"Meanwhile, Caroline Wozniacki celebrated her return to the women's world No.",
"1 ranking by reaching the final of the Dubai Tennis Championships with a 7-5 6-3 win over Serbian sixth seed Jelena Jankovic on Saturday.",
"The 20-year-old Dane will play two-time grand slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in Sunday's final, after the Russian beat Italy's world No.",
"18 Flavia Pennetta 6-4 6-4 in the day's second match."
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"(CNN) -- Whether Moammar Gadhafi stays or goes, the turmoil-wracked country is likely to be in for more of a rough time, two Libya experts told CNN Monday.",
"\"Whichever way this goes, I think there's going to be a good amount of chaos,\" said Diederik Vandewalle, associate professor of government at Dartmouth College.",
"During his 42 years in power, Gadhafi has limited the formation of political and other institutions, Vandewalle said.",
"\"All civil society organizations have been eviscerated by the regime,\" he said.",
"In a telephone interview Monday night, he predicted more bloodshed if Gadhafi steps aside.",
"\"We could see some tribal uprisings\" as competing groups seek a share of Libya's oil wealth, he said, describing the likely scenario as \"not very pretty.\"",
"But, he added, oil exports will likely continue after \"some\" interruption.",
"\"It would be in the interest of all parties that oil keep flowing,\" he said, dismissing as unlikely any apocalyptic scenario in which Libya would descend into civil war.",
"The current uncertainty will likely be decided in the next few days, he predicted.",
"\"It seems to me that we're in an endgame here,\" he said.",
"\"The big question is how much bloodshed we're going to see.\"",
"He called the violence against unarmed civilians \"extraordinary, but not surprising from a regime that's truly entrenched.\"",
"There are few candidates in the wings to replace Gadhafi -- \"no younger leadership able to assume that mantle of leadership,\" he said.",
"But Gadhafi's imminent departure is not a foregone conclusion, he added, putting the odds at \"80% go, 20% stay.\"",
"Ronald Bruce St John, who has written seven books on Libya, said Gadhafi's reign appears to be drawing quickly to a close.",
"\"He's losing support by the hour from critical people in his regime,\" he said.",
"But St John said it was unlikely that the next leader would emerge from the military, since Gadhafi has long sought to keep the institution at arm's length.",
"\"Though he was an army officer when he came to power and was supported by the military and all the original members of the Revolutionary Command Council were from the military, he has, from the beginning, evidenced a great distrust for the military,\" St John said.",
"\"He recognized it as the most likely power to overthrow him.\"",
"As a result, Gadhafi has routinely rotated commanders \"so no one established a base of support.\"",
"Unlike Egyptians, who were seeking a more liberal system, Libyans want a new system, St John said.",
"Accomplishing that will mean \"a great deal of chaos in the short term,\" he predicted.",
"\"If he does leave, I think we'll see the tribal leadership of Libya, probably through social leadership committees, trying to come up with some kind of a nonviolent solution,\" he said.",
"St John noted that two major tribes had already withdrawn their support of Gadhafi.",
"One of them, the Warfala tribe, has long been a supporter.",
"The other, the Zuwayya, is one of the larger tribes of eastern Libya and is located near the terminals from where oil is exported.",
"\"That's a significant loss,\" he said.",
"Though another strongman could emerge, St John predicted instead that a nationwide network of \"social leadership\" committees set up by Gadhafi in 1993 and composed primarily of traditional leaders and tribal leaders would seek to take charge.",
"Gadhafi had tried without success to eliminate the more than 100 tribes in Libya in an effort that lasted from 1969 to 1980, St John said.",
"So in 1993, the leader made a dramatic move -- reinforcing the tribal system and recognizing its leaders as important by creating social leadership positions, St John said.",
"The leaders were given power at the local level as well as such \"goodies\" as housing and scholarships for their tribal members, he said.",
"But the gifts came with a catch: \"In turn, you must recognize that you're in charge of your tribe,\" St John said.",
"\"If they step out of line, we'll go to you.\"",
"If Gadhafi leaves power, \"those tribal leaders will try to find a way to put together some kind of a new government,\" he predicted.",
"\"I think you'll see the tribes being the ones that will, in the short term anyway, try to find a way through the obvious chaos that's going to occur.\"",
"Are you there? Share photos, video .",
"Not everyone predicts rough sailing.",
"Sayyid Idris Al-Senussi, an exiled Libyan opposition figure who said his great-uncle was overthrown by Gadhafi, predicted that any transition would go smoothly.",
"\"If Gadhafi departs, there will be no problem,\" he told CNN in a telephone interview from Washington.",
"\"There will be a national council, which would be represented by all the tribes and all the Libyans from all different walks of life.\"",
"He said the opposition already has a constitution and a flag ready for use in the event of Gadhafi's departure.",
"\"We will have a democracy,\" he predicted.",
"\"After this experience, I don't think they'll allow anybody to single-handedly rule.\"",
"Despite an exile that has lasted four decades, Al-Senussi said he would return to Libya \"in a heartbeat.\"",
"But Dartmouth's Vandewalle said Al-Senussi and his relatives would have little hope of gaining a position of power upon their return.",
"\"It's about as likely that they'll get back in power as the Marcoses in the Philippines,\" he said, referring to the family of the former president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, who in 1986 fled a military rebellion and moved to Hawaii."
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"(RollingStone.com) -- All British rock stars eventually make their version of \"Led Zeppelin III\" -- the album where they look to the history and mythology of England for inspiration.",
"Usually, this means pastoral celebrations and druids dancing around the maypole.",
"(Hark, minstrel!",
"Is that a bustle in the hedgerow?)",
"But Polly Jean Harvey, as always, does things her own way, so there's no celebration on \"Let England Shake.\"",
"Even as she sings, \"Take me back to beautiful England,\" she focuses on war, imperialism and bad sanitation.",
"\"Let England Shake\" sounds a world apart from the introspective piano confessions of Harvey's last solo album, 2007's \"White Chalk.\"",
"For England, she holed up in a rural 19th-century church, accompanied by longtime collaborators like John Parish, Mick Harvey and producer Flood.",
"The sound is muted guitar/organ balladry, heavy on melody but never rocking out, channeling her voice through different electronic filters for that extra touch of spooky alienation.",
"In \"The Last Living Rose,\" she sings about Blighty's \"gray, damp filthiness of ages.\"",
"Click to Listen to PJ Harvey's \"Let England Shake\" Always an underrated guitarist, Harvey makes use of the jaunty rhythms of British folk music, but takes no comfort in the past.",
"And you don't have to care about English history -- or England in general -- to fall under Harvey's spell.",
"Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"(CNN Student News) -- September 9, 2010 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Cleveland, Ohio • Detroit, Michigan • Long Island, New York .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Hi, I'm Carl Azuz with your morning announcements.",
"One: CNN Student News is on, and you're gonna love it.",
"Two: The CNN Teachers' Lounge is open, and you're gonna hear more about it in just a few minutes!",
"First Up: Economic Plans .",
"AZUZ: First up, though, the economy, and a pair of plans that both aim to give it a needed boost.",
"The first one comes from President Obama.",
"During a visit to Cleveland, Ohio yesterday, he laid out his ideas to help the economy.",
"They include cutting taxes for businesses that buy new equipment or do new research; and spending money on the country's infrastructure, things like roads and power programs.",
"He also talked about some of the things that have happened since he took office in 2009.",
"U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Our economic plan has invested in badly needed infrastructure projects over the last nineteen months.",
"Not just roads and bridges, but high-speed railroads and expanded broadband access.",
"Altogether, these are projects that have led to thousands of good, private sector jobs, especially for those in the trades.",
"Mr. Boehner and the Republicans in Congress said no to these projects, fought them tooth and nail.",
"AZUZ: You heard President Obama mention a Mr. Boehner there.",
"That would be Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner.",
"He's from Ohio. He says the president's economic plans so far haven't worked, and Mr. Boehner doesn't think the new ideas will work either.",
"He's pushing a different plan to boost the economy, one that comes from Republican leaders in Congress.",
"This one has two main points.",
"The first is to cut government spending.",
"Congressman Boehner says that's caused more debt and fewer jobs.",
"The second point is to put a freeze on tax rates for two years.",
"Mr. Boehner argues that when taxes go up, it hurts families and small businesses.",
"BP Investigation .",
"AZUZ: When it comes to something like the Gulf Coast oil spill, a lot of people want to know whom can be blamed.",
"Well, there's a new report out that puts most of that blame on TransOcean and Halliburton, two companies that BP hired to work on the oil well.",
"But the report was written by BP.",
"The company did accept some of the responsibility.",
"It says faulty cementing, a misread pressure test, and a blowout preventer that wasn't maintained correctly all led to the spill.",
"Halliburton and Transocean have criticized BP's report.",
"One expert talked about how this whole situation is a unique one.",
"DON VAN NIEUWENHUISE, PROFESSOR, PETROLEUM GEOSCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: What's interesting in this case is that, you know, they actually went through eight steps and no one said, \"Hey, stop.\"",
"That, to me, is more of a rig problem than, say, a systemic problem across the oil industry.",
"Detroit Fires .",
"AZUZ: 85 fires in four hours.",
"That's what firefighters in Detroit, Michigan had to deal with Tuesday night.",
"There were so many fires that nearby towns sent emergency workers to help out.",
"Fire officials say a lot of the blazes started when strong winds knocked down power lines.",
"The winds then carried flames from house to house.",
"That caused nine homes to catch fire on one block alone.",
"Officials say no one was hurt, but a power company spokesperson said 15,000 people still didn't have power yesterday morning.",
"Authorities think at least one fire might have been caused by arson; it might have been set on purpose.",
"Is This Legit? TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit?",
"Fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam.",
"True! During Ramadan, Muslims don't eat or drink during daylight hours.",
"Ramadan Observance .",
"AZUZ: There are more than a billion Muslims around the world.",
"And for them, Ramadan is the most sacred time of the year.",
"It's been going on since August; it'll finish at the end of this week.",
"But the exact date when Ramadan finishes this year has some Muslims considering how they might celebrate the end of Ramadan.",
"It's on September 11th, and this is the first time since the 9/11 attacks that Ramadan has ended on that date.",
"Mary Snow visits an Islamic center in New York to see how celebrations might be balanced with sensitivity.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) MARY SNOW, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Afternoon prayers at the Islamic center of Long Island.",
"As Ramadan draws to a close later this week, these worshipers are being advised to tone down what is usually a celebratory occasion.",
"SAJID SHAH, PRESIDENT, ISLAMIC CENTER OF LONG ISLAND: After 30 days of fasting, you know, this is the month that ended our celebration.",
"SNOW: How will it be different this year?",
"SHAH: This year will be a little different.",
"You know, we are not celebrating the way we suppose to do, normally would do.",
"SNOW: Because? SHAH: Because of 9/11. SNOW: The end of Ramadan, or Eid, depending on the moon Thursday night, falls on either Friday or Saturday, which is September 11th.",
"But many Muslims have decided to mark it on Friday.",
"Imam Al-Amin Abdul Latif is the head of the Islamic Leadership Council in New York, an umbrella group of Muslim organizations.",
"IMAM AL-AMIN ABDUL LATIF, MAJLIS ASH-SHURA: I guess people may think, look at Eid as a protest, you know, against, against people who may be celebrating.",
"SNOW: One Muslim group, for example, celebrates Eid at Six Flags parks.",
"This year, organizers have been careful not to schedule their events for September 11th.",
"It comes against the backdrop over anger about the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero and protests at other mosques around the country.",
"Muslims are trying to send out their own message, like this public service announcement created through grassroots efforts.",
"VIDEO CLIP, MYFAITHMYVOICE.COM: I don't want to take over this country.",
"SNOW: One Muslim leader who works with an interfaith youth group in Chicago says he feels the attitude towards Muslims this year is unlike any other.",
"EBOO PATEL, INTERFAITH YOUTH CORE: Frankly, I have not felt this fearful.",
"A mother came up to me at my Muslim house of worship earlier this week and said to me, \"Eboo, when will my 8 and 10-year-old sons stop being bullied on the playground because of their names, Ahmed and Akbar?\"",
"And what I said to her is \"very soon, very soon,\" because the forces of inclusion in America have always defeated the forces of intolerance, and they will defeat the forces of intolerance again.",
"SNOW: This 9/11, this mosque in Westbury, New York will dedicate a peace garden with other clergy, but it has also asked local police for protection following suspicious incident of broken windows at the mosque.",
"Imam Latif says his group has also decided not to hold a counter-protest Saturday supporting the Islamic center near Ground Zero after the families of 9/11 victims requested they not hold the rally.",
"LATIF: We've been encouraging our people to be calm, to be patient, but be firm and be strong and to reach out, you know.",
"SNOW: And this Islamic center, for one, is opening its doors to hold open houses with the aim of promoting understanding.",
"(END VIDEO) Rosh Hashanah .",
"AZUZ: Ramadan isn't the only religious holiday that's happening this week.",
"Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, began last night.",
"It marks the start of the Jewish High Holy Days, which end ten days later with Yom Kippur.",
"In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah means \"beginning of the year.\"",
"It's also sometimes referred to as the \"day of repentance\" or \"day of remembrance.\"",
"One of the holiday's most significant rituals is the blowing of the shofar.",
"It's a ram's horn that's used to call people to worship during the High Holy Days.",
"Shoutout . BILL CAIACCIO, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the Shoutout!",
"What is the name for small, rocky objects that are found in space?",
"If you think you know it, shout it out!",
"Is it: A) Nebula, B) Asteroid, C) Stalactite or D) Metroid?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"l Those rocky objects are called asteroids, and most of them are found between Mars and Jupiter.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Asteroid Encounter .",
"AZUZ: The space community is buzzing about two asteroids that buzzed by Earth yesterday.",
"One passed our planet in the morning.",
"The other went by about 12 hours later.",
"Both of them were closer to the Earth than the moon is.",
"Officials say neither asteroid were any sort of threat to our planet.",
"Unless you had a telescope, you wouldn't even have been able to see them.",
"What's interesting about this is both asteroids passed so close to Earth on the same day, and that NASA spotted them so far in advance.",
"The CNN Teachers' Lounge .",
"AZUZ: We ask for your opinions on our blog, and you're great about giving them to us.",
"Now, though, it's your teachers' turn!",
"The CNN Teachers' Lounge is up and running.",
"Teachers, this is where you can sound off on education issues.",
"This week's question: When is the best time to start a new school year?",
"Log on to the lounge at CNNStudentNews.com, and tell us what you think.",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: All right, before we go, water skiing ain't easy the first time you do it.",
"Even kneeboarding requires a bit of balance.",
"This here dog has twice the legs we do, though, combined with a fish's love for the water.",
"And when it comes to tricks, sit, shake and roll over have nothing on this.",
"Chibi the water skiing dog is giving the water skiing squirrel a run for its acorns.",
"How do you top this? One neighbor says skydiving, maybe parasailing.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: We say hot dogging!",
"We'll \"ski\" you tomorrow for our awesome Friday edition of CNN Student News!",
"I'm sorry about the puns, but really I'm not.",
"Have a great day. Talk to you soon!"
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Dr. Conrad Murray, whose involuntary manslaughter trial starts next month, has hired a new lawyer for his legal team.",
"Los Angeles lawyer Nareg Gourjian will assist lawyers Ed Chernoff and J. Michael Flanagan in defending Murray, who is charged in pop star Michael Jackson's death.",
"A document filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday said Gourjian is replacing Joseph Low, who is leaving the Murray defense team.",
"Gourjian is a former of associate of Mark Geragos, a lawyer known for high-profile criminal cases.",
"He helped Geragos with those cases, including Chris Brown's domestic violence charge and the trial of Scott Peterson, who was convicted of killing his wife.",
"Gourjian currently represents Joe Finley, an \"America's Got Talent\" prospect whose wife was found dead last fall at a Los Angeles hotel.",
"Murray is accused of killing Michael Jackson in June of 2009 with an overdose of the anesthetic propofol.",
"The defense lawyers and prosecution will meet for a hearing Tuesday to discuss discovery motions and other issues as they prepare for the start of jury selection on March 24.",
"Judge Michael Pastor ruled last week that the trial can be televised."
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"(CNN) -- This list isn't just about soundtracks or great music in the movies -- it is about quintessential movie moments where a song flawlessly complements or enhances the action.",
"Reservoir Dogs: Mr. Blonde tortures a prisoner accompanied by 70s bubblegum pop .",
"A riff or harmony that works so perfectly that the hair on the back of your neck stands on end.",
"Or a classic song at just the right moment to mainline feel good factor.",
"We've compiled a list of 10 of what we think are the best.",
"If you don't agree or think we've missed one, share your views by using the Sound Off box below and we'll publish the best.",
"1. The film: Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper (1969) The song: Born to be Wild, Steppenwolf The scene: The opening sequence From the moment Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper kicked their motorbikes to life and gunned down the dusty highway accompanied by \"Born to be Wild\" almost 40 years ago, audiences were electrified.",
"The lure of escaping onto endless, empty roads still resonates today, even if Steppenwolf has become the food of a million drivetime clichés.",
"2. The film: Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino (1992) The song: Stuck in the middle with you, Stealers Wheel The scene: Mr. Blonde cuts a man's ear off .",
"\"You ever listen to K Billy's Super sounds of the 70's?\"",
"asks Michael Madsen's super-cool psychopath Mr. Blonde as he opens up a cut throat razor.",
"Innocuous -- but then we see a bloody man with a duct-taped mouth.",
"Mr. Blonde tunes the radio, does an eccentric little dance to \"Stuck in the Middle With You\" and then brutally cuts the man's ear off.",
"It's the juxtaposition of sadistic violence with bubblegum pop that epitomizes Tarantino's brilliance and has been much aped since.",
"3. The film: Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese (1990) The song: Layla, Eric Clapton The scene: Jimmy's murder spree montage .",
"Scorsese's use of the piano exit from \"Layla\" over a montage showing the ugly demise of a series of gangsters after a heist is simply brilliant.",
"The pink car, the garbage truck, the meat locker: scene after scene of horribly disfigured corpses that Scorsese has somehow imbued with the wistful poetry of the end of an era.",
"4. Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola (1979) The song: The End, The Doors The scene: Captain Willard waiting for an assignment in Saigon The Doors' dark epic twists and turns of over the opening scenes of Captain Willard waiting for his next assignment in a humid hotel room in Saigon.",
"It perfectly evokes the stifling claustrophobia he feels stuck alone with nothing but his demons and a bottle for company.",
"5. The film: Muriel's Wedding, P. J. Hogan (1995) The song: Waterloo by ABBA The scene: Muriel and Rhonda triumph at a talent contest .",
"ABBA-obsessed ugly duckling, Muriel performs \"Waterloo\" at the local talent contest and sticks the proverbial two fingers up to the small-town bitches who have been bullying her.",
"Even the white satin jumpsuit straining over her ample figure can't take away from her triumph -- and when the synchronized dancing starts there aren't many film moments that can beat it for feel-good factor.",
"6. The film: Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe (2000) The song: Tiny Dancer, Elton John The scene: On the tourbus the band sing along to Tiny Dancer 1960's rockers, Stillwater, are stuck on the tour bus.",
"No-one is talking and the tension is palpable.",
"\"Tiny Dancer\" comes on the radio and slowly one by one they start singing along.",
"Everyone grins and tensions drain away.",
"Touching without being cheesy, this scene is full of nostalgia for good times had with friends and will stay with you long after watching the film.",
"7. Say Anything, Cameron Crowe (1989) The song: In Your Eyes, Peter Gabriel The scene: Lloyd tries to woo Diane .",
"You have to admire Lloyd's (played by a young John Cusack) style as he stands outside love interest Diane's window holding his boombox aloft blaring \"In Your Eyes\" like a modern day Romeo.",
"Maybe Peter Gabriel's song hasn't quite stood the test of time but if you don't get hung up on the fact that it sounds a bit cringeworthy now, this is a scene of perfect romance -- 80's-style.",
"8. The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson (2001) The song: Needle in the Hay, Elliot Smith The scene: Richie Tenenbaum attempts suicide .",
"Beautifully shot with no ambient noise, just the melancholy \"Needle in the Hay,\" we see Richie -- the tennis prodigy who never realized his potential --methodically cutting off all his hair before, shockingly, slicing his wrists.",
"It's both intimate and appalling.",
"In a dark coincidence, Smith died in 2003 as a result of two stab wounds to the chest, thought to be suicide.",
"9. Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick (1964) The song: We'll meet again, Vera Lynn The scene: Nuclear apocalypse .",
"\"We'll meet again, Don't know where, Don't know when,\" warbles a hopeful Vera Lynn as mushroom cloud after mushroom cloud explodes into the sky.",
"It's as preposterous as making a comedy about nuclear armageddon.",
"But with Kubrick at the helm and Peter Sellers playing three of the main characters, this unlikely film -- like its ending -- works very well indeed.",
"The film: Trainspotting, Danny Boyle (1996) The song: Lust for Life, Iggy Pop The scene: Choose Life voiceover .",
"The opening drumbeat of \"Lust for Life\" kicks in and Renton deadpans \"Chose life.",
"Choose a career.\"",
"-- the beginning of one of the most cynically brilliant monologues in film or literature.",
"It is strangely exhilarating and the fact that Iggy Pop is a punk legend and heroin survivor just adds to the pop culture cool.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"(CNN) -- Thousands of security officers cracked down on landmark sites in Iran's capital and other major cities Sunday, at times striking at throngs of protesters with batons and rushing others on motorcycles, witnesses said.",
"A few plainclothes security agents stood in the middle of Tehran's Revolution Square, countering anti-government protesters with signs of their own in support of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and chanting \"I will give my life for the leader,\" an eyewitness told CNN.",
"Hundreds of other security personnel cheered the group.",
"Another witness said large crowds chanted \"Death to the dictator\" at the intersection of Gharib and Enghelab (revolution) avenues.",
"Security forces on foot and motorcycles there beat several protesters with batons and detained at least four, the witness said.",
"By nightfall, a witness in Tehran said the streets were quiet, with the exception of the occasional buzz of security forces' motorcycles.",
"Earlier, witnesses reported that security officers doubled up on motorcycles charged a group of 150 people gathered on Vali Asr Avenue, striking at least 15 fleeing protesters with batons as crowds of people grew near Revolution Square.",
"The daughter of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of the nation's most powerful clerics and a vocal critic of the government, was briefly detained on Vali Asr for \"provocative behavior,\" Iranian media reported.",
"Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani was chanting anti-government slogans to create \"unrest in the streets,\" the official Islamic Republic News Agency said.",
"The semi-official Fars news agency she was released shortly after her arrest.",
"Opposition websites reported that security forces opened fire on protesters in Hafteh Tir Square, killing one person.",
"Safari-Ali Baratloo, a security official, denied there were clashes in Tehran on Sunday, much less a death, the semi-official Fars news agency said.",
"He accused the websites of reporting lies.",
"Iranian security forces put up a steel gate in front of the narrow alley that leads to opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi's Tehran home, opposition website Kaleme reported.",
"An employee at a neighborhood hospital confirmed to CNN by phone that a new steel gate now blocks entry to the alley.",
"She said the gate was not there on Friday.",
"Moussavi and fellow opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi -- both of whom have decried the results of the June 2009 election that declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the overwhelming winner -- have been under house arrest in recent weeks.",
"Security forces surrounded Moussavi's Tehran home on Saturday, blocking anyone from coming or going, and cut off all phone lines, according to opposition websites.",
"Moussavi's family members say the security forces have told them they're from the prosecutor's office, but have not provided any identification or produced court order for the heightened restrictions, Kaleme reported.",
"Large numbers of security forces continued to patrol areas throughout Tehran and other parts of the Islamic Republic.",
"Hundreds of miles south of the capital, protesters in Isfahan were met with batons and pepper spray in one square while hundreds of others were able to march peacefully under the watch of about 200 security agents at another demonstration site, a witness said.",
"Two protesters in Isfahan were beaten, then taken away in an unmarked car by security agents, the witness said.",
"An eyewitness in historic Shiraz, who participated in demonstrations Sunday, told CNN that large crowds of anti-government protesters have gathered along Mollasadra Avenue in the center of the city.",
"Roughly 200 people, including men and women of all ages, gathered at the site, but were dispersed by uniformed and plainclothes security agents who hit at protesters with batons.",
"The witness, an art student who has been involved in protests in Iran since the 2009 fallout over Iran's disputed presidential election, said security officers on motorcycles would aim for the crowd but swerve just before of hitting people.",
"She said she saw at least five people wounded at the scene.",
"CNN could not independently verify the reports.",
"Reporting from Iran has been difficult this week -- foreign journalists were denied visas, accredited journalists living in the country were restricted from covering the demonstrations and internet speed slowed to a crawl in an apparent attempt to both limit protest organizing and restrict information from being transmitted out of the country.",
"Earlier, sources told CNN that 11 journalists, cameramen and photographers working for international media had their work permits revoked by Iran's ministry of culture on Friday for covering unrest in the country on February 14.",
"They include staffers from AFP, Al-Jazeera and The New York Times.",
"New York Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha confirmed to CNN that a Times reporter's press credentials were confiscated in Iran.",
"Ha said the newspaper is not identifying the reporter and would not share any more details.",
"Last week, thousands of government opponents marched in Tehran on Monday.",
"And Wednesday, thousands more took to the streets for the funeral of a man killed in Monday's demonstration.",
"Iranian authorities began rounding up many government opponents last week amid calls for protests like those that have swept across North Africa and the Middle East.",
"Journalist Farbod Jamali contributed to this report."
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"The daughter of a former Iranian president was briefly detained .",
"Opposition websites say one protester was shot dead .",
"More clashes reported on the streets of Tehran and other cities ."
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"(CNN) -- The opening race of the Formula One season, the Bahrain Grand Prix, has been axed due to ongoing political unrest in the country.",
"The Bahrain government confirmed the race, scheduled for March 13, had been called off on Monday afternoon after days of speculation.",
"The Bahraini Crown Prince, Salman bin Hamad al Khalifa, informed Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone of the decision by telephone after days of unrest in the Gulf kingdom.",
"The 2011 Formula One season will now begin in Melbourne, Australia on March 27.",
"CNN blog: Have F1's global riches come at a cost?",
"The Crown Prince told the country's Information Affairs Authority Twitter site: \"We felt it was important for the country to focus on immediate issues of national interest.",
"\"Bahrain's priority is on overcoming tragedy, healing divisions and rediscovering the fabric that draws this country together to remind the world of the very best that Bahrain is capable of as a nation once again united.",
"\"At the present time the country's entire attention is focused on building a new national dialogue for Bahrain.",
"\"I would like to extend my personal gratitude to Bernie Ecclestone for his support and understanding.\"",
"Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in recent days to protest against the country's ruling monarchy, basing themselves at the Pearl Roundabout in the capital Manama.",
"Around 10 protestors were reported to have been killed after security services attempted to clear the roundabout on Thursday.",
"The Crown Prince said he was deeply sorry for the deaths in an interview with CNN.",
"There has been no announcement yet on whether the race will be held at a later date, though chairman of the Bahrain International Circuit Zayed R. Alzayani told CNN he was hopeful there would be an annoucement in a \"matter of weeks.\"",
"He said: \"That all depends on how the events in Bahrain going on at present turn out -- there will be a process of reconciliation launched soon and all parties will come to the table in response to his Royal Highness's efforts and things will come back to normality.\"",
"The cancellation of the race could be costly for Bahrain's economy.",
"The 2008 grand prix was worth around $600 million in direct and indirect revenue, according to the Marcopolis website.",
"British newspaper The Times reported that it cost Bahrain race organizers $40 million to secure a place in this year's calendar, plus another $20 million to ensure it was the first of the season.",
"On top of that, the $200 million Sakhir circuit has also had a $50 million revamp since last year's race.",
"Mark Webber, driver for the Red Bull team, backed the cancellation.",
"He said \"I think the right decision was made, in light of what is going on, so we look forward to Melbourne instead.",
"\"It would have been nice to go to Bahrain, but hopefully it can stage the race again.",
"As for starting in Melbourne, it's my home race and, as always, I'm looking forward to it.",
"Webber's comments were echoed by Renault team boss Eric Boullier.",
"He said: \"The recent situation in Bahrain has been difficult for the country.",
"We feel the decision taken by the Crown Prince is wise and we fully support it.",
"\"The Bahrain Grand Prix has always been warmly welcomed with enthusiasm from the Bahraini people and we're looking forward to going back there when they have healed their country.\""
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"Opening race of the Formula One season was due to take place on March 13 .",
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"(CNN) -- AC Milan midfielder Gennaro Gattuso has been banned for four matches by UEFA after he \"assaulted\" Tottenham's assistant manager during their Champions League tie.",
"The Italian grabbed 59-year-old Joe Jordan round the throat during the match as tempers flared, then as the pair came face-to-face after the final whistle, Gattuso launched a head-butt.",
"UEFA charged the 33-year-old with \"gross sporting misconduct\" after Milan's 1-0 defeat in the first leg of their last 16 tie with the English Premier League club at the San Siro stadium.",
"He was due to miss the second leg next week anyway after picking up his third yellow card of the competition during the clash.",
"CNN blog: Why Gattuso has to lose his cool .",
"A statement on UEFA's website read: \"AC Milan midfielder Gennaro Gattuso has been suspended for four competition matches by the UEFA control and disciplinary body.",
"\"The control and disciplinary body ruled that Gattuso had assaulted the Tottenham Hotspur assistant coach Joe Jordan after the match.",
"\"Gattuso, who was also cautioned in the 76th minute of the game, is already suspended for the return leg of the UEFA Champions League tie against Tottenham after receiving three yellow cards.",
"\"Consequently, the four-match suspension applies to the next four UEFA club competition matches for which he would be eligible.\"",
"The ex-Glasgow Rangers star came to blows with England striker Peter Crouch during the game, in which Milan struggled to find a way past their opponents.",
"Gattuso did apologize to Jordan after the game, admitting: \"I lost my head.\"",
"\"I'm taking responsibility because I did something I shouldn't have done,\" he added.",
"\"I made a mistake doing what I did to an older person, and that's it.",
"I will wait and see what UEFA decides now.\""
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"UEFA ban AC Milan midfielder Gennaro Gattuso for four matches .",
"Gattuso head-butted Tottenham's assistant manager during a Champions League tie .",
"The 33-year-old later apologized to Joe Jordan for his actions .",
"Milan lost 1-0 to the English club and will play the second leg next week ."
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"(CNN) -- Scientists in New Zealand said there had been less than a one in twenty chance of Tuesday's earthquake being so destructive.",
"The fatal 6.3 magnitude quake that has damaged much of Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island was actually an aftershock of the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck the same area in September last year.",
"Seismologists for GNS Science had calculated on Monday that there was only a 35% chance of a 5.0 magnitude aftershock hitting the region in the near future, but only a 4% chance of a 6.0 or above aftershock.",
"Check out CNN's hi-res image gallery of the earthquake .",
"\"It's part of a sequence, so not uncommon, but this was so large it will have aftershocks of its own,\" said Dr. Bill Fry of GNS Science.",
"Tuesday's quake caused widespread damage as the epicenter was only around 3 miles (5 kilometers) below the earth's surface.",
"\"Anything less than 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) deep is really shallow,\" said Fry.",
"Fry and his colleagues had been monitoring the region since the September 4 earthquake.",
"That quake struck before dawn and authorities said the deserted streets at that time likely kept injuries to a minimum.",
"Most earthquakes happen away from the Christchurch region, said Fry, but in a country that experiences around 15,000 earthquakes each year, it wasn't completely unexpected, he said.",
"The majority of those quakes are hardly felt and do not damage property.",
"On average New Zealand only experiences a few magnitude 6 earthquakes each year.",
"Prior to Tuesday's quake the most damaging to hit the country was in 1931 near Hawke's Bay on the North Island.",
"The country is on the south western edge of the Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes and earthquakes that ring the Pacific ocean, and straddles the Pacific and Indian-Australian tectonic plates.",
"Movement of the plates causes earthquakes across the country and volcanic activity in the North Island.",
"Christchurch is New Zealand's second biggest city on the eastern side of the South Island.",
"The population of around 390,000 and enjoys a mild climate and close proximity to beaches and mountains.",
"Aftershocks are expected to continue to hit the Christchurch region in the coming days and weeks.",
"The usual pattern is for a large aftershock followed by others of diminishing magnitude, said Fry.",
"\"The country is very seismically active.",
"We probably won't see another (aftershock) this big, but there is still a statistical chance,\" Fry cautioned.",
"Dean Irvine contributed to this report ."
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"New Zealand is a globally a very seismically active area; 15,000 quakes each year .",
"Seismologists had predicted only a one in twenty chance Tuesday's quake would be so destructive .",
"Christchurch's 6.3 magnitude quake was an aftershock of a larger earthquake in September ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Mickey Rourke says there is only one person he blames for the spectacular implosion of his career the first time round -- himself.",
"Mickey Rourke backstage at the Golden Globes holding his Best Actor award for his portrayal of Randy \"The Ram\" Robinson in \"The Wrestler.\"",
"\"You lose your house, your wife, your career, your everything at one time,\" he says, \"You've got to look in the mirror and go 'It's your fault.'\"",
"For a long time it looked like Rourke was destined for obscurity.",
"But, amazingly, he has battled his way back to the top.",
"It has taken him 15 years, but his critically-acclaimed role in Darren Aronofsky's latest film, \"The Wrestler\" might finally allow the actor to shake off the notoriety and grab on to the career that should have been his all along.",
"Rourke's recent Golden Globe win for Best Actor seems to be just another chapter in the actor's strange roller coaster story.",
"Despite early promise, Rourke gained such a terrible reputation for self-destructive behavior and on-set antics that, no one in Hollywood would touch him.",
"He has also been beset by public mistakes and scandal: his ruined face, the arrests and alleged spousal abuse, a short stint as a boxer and some terrible career choices -- he turned down the role of prize-fighter Butch Coolidge in \"Pulp Fiction\" which was eventually played by Bruce Willis.",
"Today, a relaxed, expansive Rourke is sitting in sweats in a private room at an exclusive London hotel that is thick with cigarette smoke.",
"The Face, battered during his short boxing career and reconstructed with extensive plastic surgery, is, unexpectedly, less of a train wreck in the flesh, although his moustache does look distinctly stuck-on.",
"His ever-present pet Chihuahua, Loki, is also there, slumbering quietly by Rourke's side in a tiny gray hooded top.",
"(In his Golden Globes acceptance speech, he thanked his dogs saying, \"Sometimes when a man is alone, that's all you've got is your dog.\")",
"Squashed on top of his scarecrow hair extensions is a beanie with the word \"indestructible\" embroidered across the front.",
"It's not a bad description for the 52-year-old actor.",
"Candid is another one -- especially about the bad times.",
"\"Seeing your entourage leaving with everything they can carry.\"",
"he says, giving an example of a particularly bleak time, \"And you're standing there in the dark with your thumb up your ass.\"",
"It is the uncomfortable parallels between the ups and downs of Rourke's life and that of his character Randy \"The Ram\" Robinson -- a burnt-out fighter, once a crowd-puller, now scraping a living from second division fights in school gyms -- that give particular resonance to the role.",
"\"There was so much of the character ... living in shame, the character being a has-been, it was like it hit me in the face really hard,\" he tells CNN.",
"He says he also knew director Aronofsky would \"want his pound of flesh.\"",
"\"I knew he'd want me to revisit some very dark painful places.\"",
"Things started to go wrong for Rourke in 1987, at the height of his fame after explicit blockbuster \"9 1/2 Weeks.\"",
"He says simply that he lost interest in acting and preferred riding motorcycles.",
"But it was more than that. Alan Parker, who directed Rourke in 1987 film \"Angel Heart\" is quoted as calling him \"a nightmare\" and \"very dangerous on set.\"",
"Rourke puts this down to a problem with authority -- for him \"there were no rules\" -- and an innate mistrust of the political side of Hollywood.",
"He says it could be to do with being abused by his father as a child.",
"\"You look at some other guy who's making movies and they're calling him a movie star or whatever and the guy can't, he can't carry your jockstrap.",
"\"Because of my temperament and my upbringing I took it real personal and short-circuited.\"",
"Whatever it was, Rourke gave up acting and took up professional boxing for four years in the early 1990s and, it seems he was able to fully indulge his self-destructive streak.",
"By the time doctors told him he must stop boxing, he was suffering from memory loss, poor balance and needed extensive plastic surgery to reconstruct his battered face.",
"Of course, Rourke's scandals and problems wouldn't be half as interesting if it wasn't for his prodigious talent.",
"He was one of the last actors to train with the legendary Lee Strasberg at the Actor's studio in New York with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Chris Walken and Harvey Keitel.",
"Early roles had some comparing him to Marlon Brando and De Niro.",
"He says he has spent the last 13 years going to therapy to deal with his issues -- not a natural place for an \"old school guy.\"",
"\"For me it would be easier to talk to a priest than a therapist,\" he explains, \"I was afraid that if I changed I wouldn't be a man.\"",
"But, he says he persevered and straightened out \"some issues from my childhood.\"",
"He says he is now a changed man and is being welcomed back into the bosom of Hollywood: he is reprising his role as \"Marv\" in \"Sin City 2,\" is lined up for a role in Sylvester Stallone's \"The Expendables\" and is in talks to play a villain in the upcoming blockbuster \"Iron Man 2\" -- his first major studio film since resurrecting his career.",
"He's still a bit edgy, though.",
"Even after all the years of therapy.",
"He recently sparked up one of his beloved Marlboros during an interview and, then, of course, he called Sean Penn a \"homophobe,\" as reported in the Los Angeles Times.",
"Does he ever worry he might throw it all away again?",
"\"I'll never lose it all again,\" he says, \"It was too much hard work to get it back and too lonely and too dark.",
"\"I've worked too hard for it.",
"It would be too hard to take.\""
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"After a promising start, he threw away his career with self-destructive behavior .",
"Rourke on losing everything: \"You've got to look in the mirror and go 'It's your fault'\"\nHe has been in therapy for 13 years and says he was \"afraid of change\""
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"(CNN) -- Libya's Moammar Gadhafi is clinging to power despite a wave of opposition due in part to a legacy of decentralized authority and divided tribal politics that has been reinforced during the embattled strongman's four-decade rule, analysts told CNN Tuesday.",
"Gadhafi's grip on power nevertheless appears to be weakening, a fact illustrated by the recent defections of a number of prominent Libyan diplomatic officials.",
"Libya's ambassador to the United States and deputy ambassador to the United Nations are among those now pushing for Gadhafi to step aside.",
"In eastern Libya, groups of armed people in civilian clothing have been guarding the streets and appear to be in firm control.",
"Two Libyan fighter pilots defected to Malta with their jets on Monday rather than follow orders to bomb their fellow citizens.",
"But Gadhafi has been able to carry through on a brutal crackdown resulting in the apparent deaths of hundreds of Libyans.",
"He pledged Tuesday to die \"a martyr\" before voluntarily relinquishing power.",
"Opposition to Gadhafi is hampered by the fact that Libya's sense of national identity is \"very weak,\" said Robert Danin, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.",
"Tribal loyalty in the sparsely populated North African country comes first -- a fact which makes it extremely tough for Gadhafi's opponents to present a unified front.",
"For years, Gadhafi has effectively played different tribes against each another while using Libyan oil wealth to generate patronage and buy off potential opponents, Danin said.",
"A resulting decentralized power structure beneath the very top levels of the Libyan government has made it easier for the longtime leader to survive in the face of a growing push for change.",
"To the extent that Gadhafi has empowered others in his regime, he has placed his trust in a few key members of his own ethnic group, according to Jennifer Cooke, head of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.",
"Using tools of co-option and coercion, he effectively shifted power away from the city of Benghazi and the eastern portion of the country -- traditional bases of opposition to his rule.",
"Recently, Gadhafi further bolstered his power by bringing in mercenaries from neighboring countries such as Sudan and Chad.",
"Libya's armed forces remain relatively weak by design, Danin noted.",
"Gadhafi has worked over the years to prevent the creation of a military that could become unified in opposition to him, a development that contributed to the overthrow of the Egyptian and Tunisian governments.",
"\"This has been an absolute rule,\" Danin told CNN.",
"\"There have been no countervailing institutions.\"",
"Egypt, in contrast to Libya, had at least \"some organized political opposition, some freedom of the press, and some freedom of association,\" traditions which proved critical in the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.",
"Gadhafi, much like his counterparts in Iran, has also not hesitated to use brutal force when necessary.",
"He has shown \"no reservations about bombing people into submission,\" Cooke noted.",
"Adding to the hurdles faced by would-be reformers: Tripoli's lack of a strong tradition of vibrant intellectual discourse and dissent.",
"\"He's been very successful in tamping down any potential opposition from an intellectual class,\" Cooke said.",
"And while Libya has a wealthy business community, \"there's fear to speak out on the issues,\" she added.",
"Can Gadhafi survive the winds of change?",
"If he falls, Cooke asserted, it will likely be due to opposition from the military's middle ranks -- an officer corps that has been subjected to repeated purges in the past.",
"While the purges have helped Gadhafi maintain his hold on power over the years, they haven't made him very popular, she noted.",
"To the extent that the outside world can influence events in Libya, there will be a continued push for rapid change, Danin argued.",
"Western European countries such as France, Germany and Italy are extremely dependent on Libyan oil and cannot tolerate instability there.",
"\"If Libya descends into civil war with major disruptions in the oil market, this could really hit Europe in its pocketbook,\" he said.",
"\"We're in uncharted waters now,\" Danin noted.",
"\"It seems that the regime is rotting from within. ...",
"It's hard to see how he puts the genie back in the bottle.",
"If he does, it'll require such enormous brutality that Libya will become a true international pariah.\"",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib contributed to this report."
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"Moammar Gadhafi has clung to power partly by creating obstacles to a unified opposition .",
"Libya is dominated by tribal politics -- a tradition that hampers opponents .",
"Gadhafi has repeatedly purged the military, the institution most likely to bring about change .",
"Europe is very dependent on Libyan oil, not prepared to deal with extended instability there ."
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"(CNN) -- Cricket officials plan to commemorate the victims of the New Zealand earthquake when the country's national team plays neighboring Australia at the World Cup in India on Friday.",
"Emergency workers are searching for survivors after at least 65 people were killed in a 6.3-magnitude quake in the southern hemisphere nation's second-biggest city Christchurch on Tuesday.",
"\"At times like this, sport can only offer its support and its deepest sympathy to those who have lost loved ones during such a tragedy,\" International Cricket Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat said in a statement.",
"\"It's a helpless feeling but I will be discussing with the organizers of the Cricket World Cup how we can most appropriately remember those who lost their lives or have been injured and affected when the Black Caps play their next match against Australia in Nagpur on Friday.\"",
"New Zealand Cricket's headquarters is based in Christchurch, which is reeling from its second serious earthquake in six months.",
"The first in September was stronger but caused no fatalities.",
"It is the South Island's third tragedy in that period, following the mine explosion that killed 29 people in November.",
"\"The news we have is that the NZC offices have been severely damaged but thankfully everyone who works for NZC seems to have escaped without injury,\" Lorgat said.",
"The New Zealand players opened their World Cup campaign on Sunday with a comfortable win over Kenya, but are now preparing for a much more difficult task against four-time champions Australia.",
"\"The greatest thing I think we can do for everyone is win our game against Australia.",
"That'll bring a little bit of light relief to a lot of people going through a tough time,\" captain Daniel Vettori told the NZC website on Tuesday.",
"\"It's been a tough morning.",
"Five or six guys from the team and the management are based in Christchurch.",
"It's been a rough time for them finding out that their families are safe.",
"\"For everyone within the team, they have family or friends in Christchurch so they're feeling it too.",
"Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone in the Canterbury community.\"",
"Some of the Kiwi players wrote about the situation on social networking website Twitter.",
"\"Everyone's families are fine.",
"But quite a numb and flat feeling in the squad.",
"Training was tough yet surprisingly the quality very high,\" said Scott Styris.",
"Netherlands captain Peter Borren, who was in action against England in Nagpur on Tuesday, was born in Christchurch and actually played for New Zealand at youth level before switching international allegiances in 2006.",
"\"I managed to get hold of my immediate family, who were all okay, so that was a relief,\" he said at a press conference after the match.",
"\"Obviously it's a tragedy and it's been a tough day back in Christchurch.",
"Hopefully everyone can look after themselves and move on.\"",
"Borren scored 35 not out as team lost by six wickets after setting England a victory target of 293 in 50 overs, with Ryan ten Doeschate top-scoring on 119 for the Dutch.",
"England passed that with more than an over to spare, as captain Andrew Strauss led the way with 88 and Jonathan Trott scored 62.",
"The venue for the tournament's April 2 final, Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium, has been cleared by fire safety officials following earlier concerns, the Press Trust of India reported Tuesday.",
"Christchurch, meanwhile, is scheduled to host seven matches at the 2011 Rugby World Cup in September and October, including two quarterfinals.",
"The International Rugby Union said it was too early to evaluate whether the city would be able to fulfill its commitments.",
"\"The thoughts and deepest sympathies of the global rugby family are with the people of Christchurch, their families and all New Zealanders at this very difficult time,\" it said in a statement.",
"\"We feel it would be inappropriate to comment at this stage on the status of Rugby World Cup 2011 infrastructure or operations.",
"The focus at this point must be on the emergency response.\""
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"New Zealand players reveal families safe following 6.3-magnitude quake on Tuesday .",
"Captain Daniel Vettori says his team are determined to beat Australia on Friday .",
"Rugby officials say it is too early to evaluate impact on this year's World Cup in NZ ."
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"(CNN) -- NASCAR has a new king.",
"It's not enough that the Daytona 500 champion turned 20 years old the day before the race, making him the youngest driver ever to win; he is also the first rookie ever to win it.",
"\"I never thought in a million years we were gonna win our first one,\" Trevor Bayne told CNN Monday morning, \"it's incredible.\"",
"Bayne wasn't the only one who didn't think he would win.",
"He came into the race a complete underdog, according to some NASCAR writers, and even into the last lap, it was anyone's guess who would take the checkered flag.",
"Read about Trevor Bayne's race for faith .",
"Bayne said that after he saw the white flag signaling the final lap, \"I thought we were in the worst position possible.\"",
"Less than a minute later, he got an unobstructed view of the checkered flag, and \"there was a collective gasp at the track,\" said motorsports writer Jeff Gluck.",
"\"It was probably the most memorable race I've ever been to,\" said Gluck, who is starting his eighth season covering NASCAR.",
"Bayne, less than a full day into his historic win in NASCAR's most prestigious race, has been thrust into sudden fame.",
"\"It hasn't sunk in to me yet just how big a deal this is,\" said the Knoxville, Tennessee, native.",
"\"This is just, ah, incredible.\"",
"Sunday's race provided a record-setting start for NASCAR's premier Sprint Cup series, and a fresh new face for fans.",
"\"It's great for the sport,\" Gluck says, \"fans have been clamoring for a new personality.\"",
"\"Nobody doesn't like him,\" Gluck said of Bayne.",
"\"He's someone everyone can get behind.\"",
"\"I can't thank everybody enough,\" Bayne said.",
"In only his second Sprint Cup race, the young driver spoke reverently of veteran drivers on the track who \"took that leap of faith seeing our yellow rookie stripes on the back bumper, and still worked with us anyway.\"",
"\"Those guys are the ones that laid the foundation.\"",
"Bayne said he almost felt bad about his win because he was \"coming in and spoiling the fun for everybody.\"",
"Bayne, who is not yet 21 and can't drink alcohol, had to have a different celebratory drink.",
"\"I think they had Gatorade instead of whatever else they use in the victory lanes,\" he said.",
"Gluck said Bayne is outspoken about his faith.",
"He is also active in Back2Back Ministries, a Christian organization that works with orphaned children and needy people in Mexico, Nigeria and India.",
"Bayne's car was inducted into the Daytona 500 Museum Monday morning, where it will remain until next year's winning car claims the spot.",
"According to Gluck, drivers divided up a purse worth $18.7 million, with Bayne's team, the Wood Brothers racing, taking in $1.4 million.",
"He said Bayne is expected to get about one-third of that."
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"Trevor Bayne \"never thought in a million years\" he'd win his first time out at Daytona .",
"He becomes the first rookie ever to win NASCAR's most prestigious race .",
"\"There was a collective gasp\" as the race ended, motorsports writer says .",
"Bayne is considered a \"fresh new face'\" for NASCAR fans ."
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