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"(CNN) -- Heavy winds from a severe storm caused significant damage, shattered windows and sent debris raining down on passengers at an airport in St. Louis Friday night.",
"The Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is closed indefinitely while officials investigate the damage, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay told reporters.",
"\"There was a reported sighting of a tornado.",
"Although that has not been confirmed, that storm caused significant damage to the airport,\" he said.",
"The reported tornado twisted metal and blew out plate-glass windows in the airport's main terminal, CNN affiliate KSDK reported.",
"Four people were transported to nearby hospitals with injuries, Slay said.",
"Passengers were hit with flying glass and debris as winds ripped off part of the roof in the airport's C concourse, the station reported.",
"One witness described a chaotic scene outside the terminal as officials evacuated passengers from at least one aircraft.",
"\"The plane was rocking back and forth,\" said Brett Knewitz of Albuquerque, New Mexico, who was on a plane that was about to take off from the airport when the storm hit.",
"Initially officials did not allow evacuated passengers into the airport, he said, because of concerns that the building's roof would collapse.Once he was allowed inside, Knewitz said he saw an injured gate agent.",
"\"She was bleeding like crazy,\" he said.",
"Concourse C is used by American Airlines, AirTran and Cape Air, airport spokesman Jeff Lea said.",
"The National Weather Service said witnesses believe a tornado was on the ground for several miles and observed the twister from a tower at the airport.",
"KSDK reported that the storm also blew the steeple off a church and forced authorities to close highways.",
"CNN's Marlena Baldacci, Taylor Ward and Greg Morrison contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The St. Louis mayor says the airport is closed indefinitely .",
"\"The plane was rocking back and forth,\" one witness says .",
"CNN affiliate KSDK: The tornado ripped off part of a roof at one concourse .",
"Passengers are hit with flying glass and debris, KSDK says ."
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"(CNN) -- Juventus named former club captain Antonio Conte as their new coach Tuesday in place of Luigi Delneri.",
"The 41-year-old former Italian international has signed a two-year contract which ties him to the Turin giants until the end of June 2013.",
"Juve officially announced Delneri's departure on their club website earlier in the day although the 60-year-old had revealed on the final weekend of the Serie A season he would be departing.",
"It followed a difficult season in which the 'Old Lady' finished seventh in the standings for the second straight year and missed out on European qualification.",
"Conte has a solid record as a coach, guiding Siena to promotion back to Serie A last season, a feat he had already achieved with Bari in 2009.",
"He believes that Juventus have the ingredients in place to enjoy success: .",
"\"There's an excellent foundation with some investments made last year, I'm very calm, there's absolutely no need to start all over,\" he told AFP.",
"\"All we need to do is adjust certain things and provide great motivation and desire to a group with a great base.\"",
"Conte was a crowd favorite with the club's supporters, winning a host of titles during his 13-year playing career, including an Intercontinental Cup, the Champions League, the UEFA Cup and five Serie A titles.",
"\"Hard work, competitiveness and drive form the basis of Conte's managerial beliefs.",
"The same qualities that made him one of Juve's greatest ever winners,\" said a statement on the club's official website.",
"Conte's international career saw him win 20 caps and he was in the Italian squads for the 1994 World Cup and Euro 2000."
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"Antonio Conte takes charge of Serie A giants Juventus .",
"Conte replaces Luigi Delneri after a second successive seventh place finish for Juve .",
"Former Italian international Conte played for Juventus for 13 years ."
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"(CNN) -- A Canadian man suspected of killing a university student who was last seen alive via webcam made his first court appearance on Thursday, officials said.",
"Brian Dickson, 29, remains in custody after Toronto police arrested him Wednesday afternoon and charged him with the first-degree murder of a 23-year-old exchange student from Beijing.",
"His next court appearance is set for April 26, said Brendan Crawley, a spokesperson for the ministry of the attorney general's office.",
"Crawley described Dickson's court appearance Thursday as \"procedural\" but he would not elaborate.",
"Authorities have not said how they tied Dickson to the death of the student, Qian Liu.",
"Police said early last Friday, Liu was talking via webcam to a male friend in China when a man allegedly knocked on the door of her Toronto apartment, asking to use her phone.",
"The online witness said he saw Liu and the unknown man struggle for a time before the attacker turned off her laptop, police said.",
"\"The man tried to hurt (Qian Liu)\" the witness told CNN affiliate CTV.",
"\"She was resisting and saying 'No, no, please don't.'",
"At that time my mind went blank.",
"And I was cursing him from my webcam.\"",
"\"I was so far away I couldn't reach her,\" he added.",
"\"I felt helpless and I couldn't calm down.\"",
"Ten hours later, police arrived at the basement apartment to find Liu's body, naked from the waist down.",
"Her laptop was missing.",
"There were no obvious signs of sexual assault or severe physical trauma, and police have said they were awaiting toxicology reports.",
"Liu's father, Liu Jianhui, told CNN affiliate CTV that he had trouble believing the incident.",
"\"At the beginning I did not believe it was true,\" he said.",
"\"She was a very hardworking, outstanding girl.\"",
"This is not the first time a crime has been captured by webcam.",
"In the most notorious incident, Meleanie Hain of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was shot dead in 2009 while talking to a friend via webcam.",
"The friend was looking away when he heard a shot and a scream, police said.",
"Upon looking back at the screen, the friend saw Hain's husband firing a handgun at where his wife had been, authorities said.",
"Police later found both Hain and her husband dead in their home."
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"NEW: A man suspected of killing a university student makes his first court appearance .",
"Long-distance witness: \"I was cursing him from my webcam\"\nA friend in China sees the woman attacked in her Toronto apartment .",
"Police later find Qian Liu dead in the apartment ."
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"(CNN) -- Tiger Woods' former coach Butch Harmon has revealed his fears for the former world No.",
"1's future, after injury forced the American out of the opening round of the Players Championship at Sawgrass on Thursday.",
"Harmon believes a huge question mark now looms over Woods' career after the 14-time major winner forfeited his round after playing just nine holes in a six-over-par total of 42, which included a triple-bogey at the par-four fourth.",
"\"I think his whole future is up in the air,\" Harmon told reporters.",
"\"Does it mean he needs more surgery?",
"If he does who knows what is going to happen.\"",
"Speaking to reporters after pulling out, Woods added: \"I felt good this morning and fine during warm-up and then as I played, it got progressively worse.",
"The knee acted up then the Achilles followed after that, then the calf started cramping up.\"",
"The 35-year-old's career has been marred by four knee operations and the Players Championship was his first tournament since injuring his knee and Achilles heel during a difficult stroke on the 14th in the third round of The Masters in April.",
"Woods was then forced to withdraw from the Wells Fargo Championship earlier in May and his latest injury has compounded worries for his career, which has not seen a victory in 18 months and a major title win in three years.",
"Woods' withdrawal mirrors his showing at last year's Players Championship, where a neck injury brought an end to his bid on the seventh hole in the final round.",
"He now has just over a month to get fit enough for the U.S. Open, but medical experts are doubtful that he will be able to recuperate in time for the required practice rounds ahead of the championship tournament at Bethesda on June 16-19.",
"Meanwhile, England's Chris Wood mastered tricky conditions to open up a three-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Iberdrola Open in Majorca on Friday.",
"The 23-year-old carded a five-under-par 65 to move to eight-under-par after 36 holes -- ahead of compatriot Matthew Nixon and Northern Irishman Darren Clarke, who both hit level 70s.",
"Wood is eyeing his maiden European Tour victory after losing a playoff to British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen at the Africa Open in East London in January.",
"Overnight leader Gregory Bourdy of France, who set a course record 63 on Thursday, slumped to a seven-over-par 77 to leave him on level par 140."
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"Coach Butch Harmon reveals fears for injured Tiger Woods, who pulls out at Sawgrass .",
"Woods forfeited Players Championship after a leg injury in the opening round .",
"Woods, who has had four knee operations, has not achieved a victory in 18 months .",
"Doctors are doubtful Woods will be fit enough to prepare for the U.S. Open in June ."
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"(CNN) -- French peacekeepers in war-torn Ivory Coast were in control of the airport in the main city of Abidjan, the French Ministry of Defense said Sunday, as a battle for the city seemed to be looming.",
"An additional 350 French troops joined the United Nations peacekeeping mission overnight, the ministry added.",
"There were about 7,500 troops already in the country under the U.N. mandate.",
"United Nations helicopters and French forces patrolled the skies over the city, as a tense calm reigned Sunday morning, a local resident told CNN.",
"The uneasy peace came in the wake of claims of a massacre as fighters backing internationally recognized President Alassane Ouattara battle forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, who refuses to leave office.",
"Foreign journalists reported being targeted and scrutinized.",
"A group of journalists from the French TV channel France 2 were fired on by Gbagbo's forces when they tried to leave the Novotel hotel in Abidjan, according to the channel and two journalists who, to protect their security, did not want their names used.",
"Since then, Gbagbo forces have been patrolling the hotel premises, preventing foreign journalists staying there from leaving, the sources said.",
"One resident, whom CNN is not naming to protect his safety, said he had been to church as usual, where another parishioner said he had seen dead bodies by the road on his way to the congregation.",
"A journalist in the city said many people were afraid to leave their homes, but were being forced to venture out to get water.",
"Seyi Rhodes, who is staying at a hotel in Abidjan, said people were risking being shot in order to get to a water pump near the hotel.",
"He saw French journalists come under fire, as they drove through the city, he said.",
"Much of the city has no electricity, he added, calling it \"a really crude tactic to get people out on the streets.\"",
"The United Nations moved about 200 personnel within the country for their own safety, as the situation got worse, spokesman Nick Birnback said Sunday.",
"\"Peacekeepers and staff have been attacked over the last few days, we've taken some casualties, and we are doing everything we can do to guarantee security as best as possible.",
"The situation is deteriorating and is getting worse,\" he said.",
"CNN iReport: Displaced victims of fighting in Duekoue, Ivory Coast U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded Sunday that Gbagbo step aside immediately.",
"\"Gbagbo is pushing Cote d'Ivoire into lawlessness,\" she said, using the French name for the country.",
"\"He must leave now so the conflict may end.\"",
"She also called \"on the forces of President Ouattara to respect the rules of war and stop attacks on civilians.\"",
"British Foreign Secretary William Hague on Sunday said Britain renewed \"our call for Gbagbo to get out, which would stop this violence,\" and raised the possibility of International Criminal Court prosecutions stemming from the conflict.",
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy met with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and requested the full implementation of a Security Council resolution, adopted last week, that calls on Gbagbo to step aside immediately, Sarkozy's office said.",
"A French plane evacuated about 170 foreigners from Abidjan to Dakar, Senegal, according to Col. Thierry Burkhard of the French Ministry of Defense.",
"The International Crisis Group called for an immediate cease-fire on both sides and more international intervention, calling the situation in Ivory Coast as \"urgent as any facing the international community right now.",
"The unthinkable is unfolding before our eyes.\"",
"A key aide to Gbagbo on Sunday criticized the foreign forces in the country as an \"army of occupation\" and said they are not authorized to occupy the airport.",
"\"The U.S. and France are not entitled to determine, to decide on who is able to conduct the destiny of Ivory Coast,\" Toussaint Alain told Reuters in Paris.",
"\"The U.S. and France have only contributed toward worsening the tensions since the end of the second round of the presidential election -- two leading powers who are behaving without responsibility in Ivory Coast.\"",
"Alain said the U.N. mandate does not authorize the French forces to be in control of the Abidjan airport.",
"The resolution does, however, allow the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast to use \"all necessary means\" to protect civilians who are under \"imminent threat of physical violence\" -- and it calls upon member nations to enable the peacekeepers, and the French forces who support them to carry out that mission.",
"The International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday that 800 people had been shot to death in the western cocoa-producing town of Duekoue.",
"A United Nations official put the death toll so far at 330 on Friday.",
"The massacre occurred between Monday and Wednesday as Ouattara's Republican Forces led an offensive through the country to Abidjan, said Guillaume Ngefa, the deputy human rights director at the U.N. mission in Ivory Coast.",
"He blamed 220 deaths on forces loyal to Ouattara.",
"Ngefa said pro-Gbagbo forces killed 100 people.",
"\"We have evidence, we have pictures.",
"This was retaliation,\" he said, referring to Ouattara's forces.",
"The Ouattara camp said it \"firmly rejects such accusations and denies any involvement by the Republican Forces of Cote d'Ivoire in possible abuses.\"",
"\"The government wishes to establish that the situation is quite the opposite,\" it said.",
"\"Forces loyal to former President Laurent Gbagbo and its affiliated mercenaries and militias that have engaged in countless atrocities in western Cote d'Ivoire during their flight before the advance of Republican Forces of Cote d'Ivoire.\"",
"Ouattara denied to U.N. secretary-general that his forces were responsible, but said he had launched an investigation and that he would welcome an international inquiry, according to the world body.",
"Ngefa said so far, 320 bodies have been identified and the actual number could be much higher.",
"He said the dead included civilians as well as mercenaries.",
"Before the Duekoue killings, human rights monitors documented 462 deaths in the Ivory Coast conflict, which would make the Duekoue massacre the single bloodiest incident yet.",
"The International Committee of the Red Cross sent a team to Duekoue on Thursday and found most of the victims were civilians, said spokesman Kelnor Panglungtshang in Abidjan.",
"\"They saw the bodies on the streets,\" he told CNN.",
"\"There were so many.\" Ngefa said a contingent of U.N. peacekeepers is stationed in Duekoue and is patrolling the town.",
"The massacre illustrated the bloody nature of Ivory Coast's conflict, now in its fifth month.",
"The violence erupted after a disputed November election led both Gbagbo and Ouattara to claim the presidency.",
"The international community recognized Ouattara as the legitimate winner, but Gbagbo refused to cede power, and violence engulfed the nation, escalating this week with a major offensive launched by Ouattara's forces.",
"A spokesman for Ouattara said Saturday the other side has committed atrocities, is losing its top generals to defections and is looking for \"cannon fodder\" for its last stand.",
"The claims by Ouattara spokesman Patrick Achi could not be independently verified by CNN.",
"Fierce fighting has erupted for control of Abidjan, Ivory Coast's largest city.",
"Gbagbo's forces were thought to be on the brink of defeat but regained key areas Saturday.",
"They said they retook control of Ivory Coast's all-powerful state-run television network that has been the embattled president's voice in his standoff with Ouattara.",
"Ouattara's side denied Gbagbo was in control of state television, claiming he was actually broadcasting from a satellite truck.",
"Gbagbo's whereabouts were unknown.",
"He has not recently appeared in public, and the French ambassador said his residence was empty.",
"The violence has also displaced one million of Abidjan's four million people.",
"CNN's Aliza Kassim, Niki Cook, David Wilkinson, Claudia Dominguez, Carey Bodenheimer, Elise Labott, Karen Smith and Moni Basu contributed to this report ."
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"The United Nations relocates staff after attacks, saying the situation is getting worse .",
"People in Abidjan are forced to go out for water despite the danger, a journalist says .",
"U.S. Secretary of State Clinton demands that Laurent Gbagbo step down immediately .",
"Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara are fighting for control of the cocoa-producing country ."
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"(CNN) -- Luke Donald maintained his bid to become the world's No.",
"1 golfer as he battled back from a horror start to his third round at the European Tour's BMW PGA Championship on Saturday.",
"The Englishman remained tied for the lead with teen prodigy Matteo Manassero going into Sunday's final round in England as he retrieved a six-shot deficit.",
"Donald, who needs to finish ahead of top-ranked Lee Westwood to go to the summit for the first time, had begun the day level with the 18-year-old Italian and Spain's Alvaro Quiros.",
"But two double-bogeys and another dropped shot in his first six holes left last weekend's World Match Play Championship runner-up struggling before he rallied with four birdies on the back nine of the revamped Wentworth course.",
"Donald said he planned to consult with his U.S.-based coach Pat Goss after his unusually erratic showing.",
"\"He might have seen something and a little key could make a big difference.",
"I didn't have much control of the ball, but I dug deep and I'm very proud of the way I came back,\" he told the European Tour website.",
"\"I am going to have to play better than that for sure.",
"I felt somewhat like Seve (Ballesteros) -- in the trees, leaves on my back, dropping the ball, escaping from everywhere.",
"\"It would have been very easy to keep the head down and shoot myself out of the tournament, but I don't like to do that and it was a great fightback.\"",
"Manassero also carded a one-over-par 72 to be five-under 208, with last season's European Tour rookie of the year mixing three bogeys with two birdies on his front nine.",
"Westwood was tied for third on three under with Paraguayan surprise package Fabrizio Zanotti after a second successive 69 kept alive his hopes of a first win in the tour's flagship event.",
"\"I am edging my way into the week and hopefully tomorrow I will play special because that's what I think I will need to win,\" he said.",
"\"It was a good 69. You've got to be on your game -- it's a tough examination.\"",
"Zanotti, twice a runner-up in minor tour events, bounced back from four bogeys in his first seven holes to reel off five in a row and then another at 16 to also sign for a 69.",
"Quiros dropped to a tie for eighth on 212 after suffering the embarrassment of two triple-bogeys in his 76.",
"World No. 6 Rory McIlroy shot the best round of the day -- a four-birdie 68 marred by a dropped shot at the last -- to move up to a tie for 18th on 214."
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"Englishman Luke Donald retains joint lead at BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth .",
"Donald battles back after falling six shots behind Matteo Manassero .",
"Italian teenager also cards 72 as duo take two-shot lead into Sunday's final round .",
"World No.",
"1 Lee Westwood tied for third following a second successive 69 ."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- Four people were killed and two were wounded when a so-called sticky bomb attached to a vehicle exploded Wednesday evening in the Ashhabi neighborhood of eastern Falluja, local police told CNN.",
"The fatalities -- three Interior Ministry officials and a child -- included the director of the Falluja police intelligence department, the deputy police chief of the Garma police station, the police commissioner and a 7-year-old boy, police said.",
"The wounded included a 5-year-old boy and a police official, police said.",
"The children -- brothers -- were playing when the vehicle drove by carrying the four police officials, who had attended a funeral in eastern Falluja and were returning home when it detonated, police said.",
"Iraqi security forces in Falluja were investigating the incident.",
"The report of the blast came after bombings in three Iraqi cities over the previous day killed five people and wounded several others, police told CNN.",
"In one, a colonel was driving from his home in Kirkuk to the town of Dibia, where he served as police commander.",
"Dibia is about 12 miles north of Kirkuk, which is in the country's north.",
"There has been longstanding sectarian tension among Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen people in Kirkuk.",
"The colonel was Kurdish, but there was no immediate information on whether the bombing was tied to ethnic hostilities.",
"Over a two-hour period in and around the capital, Baghdad, on Wednesday, three attacks wounded several people, police said.",
"Attackers shot and critically wounded a police colonel while he was driving near Shaab stadium in the east.",
"Five people were wounded in a roadside bombing north of the city in Taji.",
"And a police commissioner was wounded when a sticky bomb attached to his car exploded.",
"On Tuesday night, three people were killed in Baghdad when a car bomb exploded on a commercial street in the southwestern Saydiya neighborhood.",
"City police said 15 others were wounded.",
"In Ramadi, more than 60 miles west of Baghdad, a roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi police patrol, and one police officer died.",
"Ramadi is in the predominantly Sunni Arab Anbar province, an area engulfed by violence during the height of the Iraq war.",
"This came after a bloody Sunday, when 17 bombs exploded across Baghdad, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 80, Iraqi authorities said.",
"The attacks were the latest in a spate in recent weeks that have raised concerns about Iraq's ability to protect itself.",
"Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he plans to meet this month with Iraqi political leaders to discuss whether to ask that U.S. troops remain in Iraq beyond the January 1, 2012, withdrawal deadline.",
"The United Nations office in Iraq has expressed concern about recent violence targeting government and security officials.",
"Al-Maliki has said al Qaeda and other terrorists are behind the killings, but he also has blamed political movements and security guards, and he has promised to pursue the attackers."
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"Three people are slain in southwestern Baghdad Tuesday ."
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"Vatican City (CNN) -- Catholic faithful from around the world poured into Rome on Sunday as the Catholic Church declares Pope John Paul II \"blessed,\" a step below sainthood.",
"There were cheers as Pope Benedict XVI personally beatified his predecessor, and a huge tapestry protrait of John Paul II was unveiled, showing him as the healthy, vigorous and relatively young man he was early in his papacy.",
"A vial of John Paul II's blood was placed before the crowds, which were expected to be the largest in the Vatican since the late pope's funeral in 2005.",
"The blood, which was taken from him by doctors during his final illness for possible transfusion, but never used, was displayed in a specially made silver reliquary.",
"Next came requests -- first in English and then Polish -- that people put down their banners and flags, and pray silently.",
"\"In heaven a very different celebration is taking place among the angels and saints!\"",
"Benedict declared in his homily.",
"The current pope echoed the many who credit the Polish-born pope with playing a key role in the defeat of Communism, saying he turned \"back with the strength of a titan -- a strength which came to him from God -- a tide which appeared irreversible.\"",
"John Paul II made a pilgrimage to his native land, then part of the Soviet-dominated Communist bloc, shortly after his election in 1978, and an estimated one third of the entire nation turned out to see him.",
"\"Don't be afraid,\" he exhorted them.",
"Poland's Solidarity union sprang up soon after, and became the most organized and powerful anti-Communist movement in the Soviet bloc.",
"Many commentators said John Paul helped inspire the movement, which ultimately toppled Poland's Communist government in 1989.",
"John Paul II's path to sainthood .",
"Benedict on Sunday also praised John Paul's iron will in the face of his physical decline later in his life, saying, \"the Lord gradually stripped him of everything, yet he remained ever a 'rock,' as Christ desired.\"",
"More than a million pilgrims turned out in Rome, police said.",
"Many in the throng waved Polish flags and holding images of John Paul II, who was archbishop of Krakow in Poland before being elected pope.",
"The presidents of Italy and Poland were among 16 heads of state at the mass, alongside seven prime ministers, the Vatican said.",
"There were also big crowds in Krakow for the event, where at least 50,000 people braved pouring rain at the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy in Lagiewniki.",
"For those who couldn't make it to Rome or Krakow, the Vatican created a special Twitter feed for the event, @Pope2YouVatican.",
"It also launched a Facebook page for it, and streamed it live to iPhones and iPads through Pope2You.net.",
"Having visiting more countries than any previous pope and becoming the first pontiff from outside of Italy in 450 years, John Paul II also was the third-longest reigning pope in history.",
"Catholics honor John Paul II in Bucharest, Romania .",
"The Vatican suggests he was seen in person by more than anyone else in human history, between his 104 foreign trips, the roughly 17 million pilgrims who attended weekly audiences with him at the Vatican over his long reign, and the millions more who saw him at special events in Rome.",
"Did you encounter Pope John Paul II?",
"There were demands for his immediate canonization when he died, with crowds chanting \"Santo subito,\" or \"Saint now.\"",
"But the late pope has critics as well as supporters, particularly among those who accuse him of not doing enough to stop the abuse of children by Catholic clergy.",
"The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) vowed to protest at 70 churches in seven countries Sunday, callingthe fast-tracking of pontiff's sainthood \"a callous PR juggernaut honoring the man who presided over much of the ongoing crisis.\"",
"But John Paul II's former spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, told CNN he had no doubt he had been in the presence of a saint.",
"Navarro-Valls cited not only the pope's devotion at prayer, but his concern for others, noting that when the pope called him after the death of his father, his first question was: \"How is your mother?\"",
"He also recalled the pope's informality, saying he sometimes had to remind himself that he was in the presence of the pope.",
"And he said for the pope to retain his \"good humor\" at the age of 80, in the face of his weighty office and his physical suffering, \"is sanctity to me.\"",
"The pope's photographer .",
"John Paul II was fast-tracked to beatification when he died in 2005, and becomes \"the blessed\" John Paul II barely six years after his death -- the fastest beatification in centuries.",
"Navarro-Valls rejected the idea that the process was moving too fast to let history be the judge of John Paul II, saying canonization could take centuries.",
"\"Once the virtues are clear, why wait?\"",
"he asked. For beatification, a person must be credited with a miracle by the Catholic Church.",
"Benedict ruled last year that John Paul II had miraculously cured a French nun of Parkinson's disease after his death.",
"The pope himself suffered from the condition.",
"The nun, Sister Marie Simon-Pierre, was one of two nuns who brought the silver reliquary with the blood to Benedict after John Paul II was beatified.",
"Sister Tobiana, who worked in the late pope's household, was the other.",
"The blood is still liquid because doctors added anti-coagulents to it when it was taken.",
"The Catholic tradition of venerating saints' physical remains -- known as relics -- dates to the earliest days of the church.",
"Chicago family credits Pope John Paul II with personal miracle .",
"John Paul II's coffin has also been removed from its tomb and is on display for the faithful to venerate this weekend.",
"To become saint, John Paul II would need to perform a second miracle.",
"The man named by John Paul II to be archbishop of Valencia in Spain died on the eve of the beatification, the archdiocese announced Sunday.",
"Agustin Garcia-Gasco, who was later promoted to cardinal by Benedict XVI, was found dead in his room in Rome at the age of 80, having watched preparations for the beatification the night before.",
"CNN's John L. Allen, Jr., Hada Messia, Diana Magnay, Per Nyberg and Richard Allen Greene contributed to this report."
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"Survivors of sexual abuse by priests call the event \"callous\" and vow to protest .",
"John Paul II's blood is displayed before the faithful in a specially made reliquary .",
"The Catholic Church is declaring the late pope to be \"blessed,\" a step below sainthood ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel's former top intelligence official says the country does not have the ability to stop Iran's nuclear program and that a pre-emptive attack against the Islamic Republic would result in a regional war that would pose Israel with an \"impossible\" challenge.",
"\"We do not have the ability to stop Iran's nuclear program.",
"In the best case scenario we can push it off a bit,\" said former Mossad chief Meir Dagan in widely reported remarks to a Tel Aviv leadership conference Wednesday.",
"\"It is important to know what the outcome of an attack on Iran would be, what would happen on the day after and what situation Israel would find itself in on the international stage,\" Dagan said.",
"\"An attack on Iran would mean regional war, and in that case you would have given (Iran) the best possible reason to continue the nuclear program because the Iranians would then claim, 'We have been attacked by a foreign country that is reported to have a military nuclear capability.",
"Now we have no choice but to defend ... against a country with strategic capabilities -- a compelling and principled argument for them to move to a large nuclear program,\" he added.",
"\"It is important to know that that war would not just be against Iran.",
"It would be a regional war that would include Syria -- if we needed to attack Hezbollah targets in Syrian territory.",
"The regional challenge that Israel would face would be impossible.\"",
"The blunt public comments, which have been printed in various Israeli newspapers, are not the first from Dagan, who spent the last eight years heading the Israeli spy agency.",
"Dagan left his position in January and in recent weeks has made a series of comments that have been at odds with the public policy positions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sensitive issue of Iran and it's nuclear program.",
"Netanyahu has repeatedly maintained in public that all options including military force should be considered to force Iran to halt its nuclear program.",
"Both Israel and the United States believe Iran is developing nuclear weapons -- an allegation leaders in Tehran deny, maintaining the program is for civilian use only.",
"In his comments, Dagan compared the strategic environment facing Israel to the eve of the Yom Kippur war in 1973 and warned that the country should go to war only if it was attacked \"or if there is a gun to your head -- that is to say, conflict is unavoidable and the only way to minimize the threat is to use violence.\"",
"Dagan suggested conflict was not yet unavoidable and offered advice to the prime minister \"not to make a decision to attack Iran.\"",
"\"It is important to consider all options and not to run straight for the war option.",
"At the moment no decision has been made to attack Iran, and I am not familiar with any decision to attack in 2011 or 2012,\" Dagan told the audience.",
"In addition to Iran, Dagan said it was crucial for Israel to present some sort of plan for getting talks restarted with Palestinians and suggested adopting the 2002 Saudi Peace initiative, which outlines normalization of relations with Arab countries in exchange for a Palestinian state based on 1967 lines with a \"just solution\" to the Palestinian refugee issue.",
"\"We have no other way, and not because they are my top priority, but because I am concerned about Israel's well-being and I want to do what I can to ensure Israel's existence,\" Dagan said \"If we don't make proposals and if we don't take the initiative, we will eventually find ourselves in a corner.\"",
"It is not uncommon for former Israeli intelligence chiefs to be speak publicly, but for the widely respected Dagan to speak so openly and so soon after his departure has raised eyebrows in Israel.",
"To that point, Dagan told the Tel Aviv audience \"it is important for ex-officials to make their opinions known.\"",
"The office of Prime Minister Netanyahu declined to comment on Dagan's remarks.",
"Earlier in the year Dagan courted controversy when he stated that Iran would not be able to develop a nuclear weapon before 2015. which prompted Netanyahu to disagree publicly stating, \"I think that intelligence estimates are exactly that, estimates.",
"They range from best case to worst case possibilities, and there is a range there, there is room for differing assessments.\""
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"He says an attack on Iran to stop Iran's nuclear program would provoke a regional war .",
"An attack would leave Israel with an \"impossible\" challenge, he says .",
"Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has maintained all options should be considered ."
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"Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Sunday urged his supporters to prepare for an election he hoped regional leaders would monitor to ensure a credible result to help end the troubled coalition government.",
"\"Our brothers in SADC have been supportive of our endeavor toward democratizing Zimbabwe,\" he said.",
"\"We hope SADC (Southern African Development Community) and the AU will continue to support our efforts to reject attempts to manipulate the will of the people and remain resolute in their approach in dealing with the Zimbabwe issue.\"",
"Tsvangirai's comments came at the end of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) congress in Bulawayo, southwest of the capital, Harare.",
"The prime minister said he was confident he would win the next election to end the power-sharing deal he entered with President Robert Mugabe, adding that his main task would be to revive Zimbabwe's economy.",
"Mugabe wants the elections held this year, but Tsvangirai has demanded reforms first.",
"Last week, the prime minister said elections would be held in 12 months.",
"Tsvangirai and Mugabe formed a power-sharing government in 2009 after postelection violence following Mugabe's victory claim.",
"The fragile coalition government has been marred by disagreements between the former political foes, with Tsvangirai claiming that Mugabe is reluctant to make Zimbabwe a democracy."
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"Tsvangirai and Mugabe formed a power-sharing government in 2009 ."
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"Kennedy Space Center, Florida (CNN) -- The final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour was delayed Friday, temporarily putting off what promised to be an emotional moment for the mission's commander.",
"Liftoff -- originally scheduled for 3:47 p.m.",
"ET -- was delayed by at least 72 hours due to concerns with the shuttle's heating system.",
"As part of NASA's examination of the problem, the shuttle's external fuel tank will be drained of its oxygen and hydrogen propellants.",
"\"The engineering team did not understand how this problem occurred and did not feel comfortable proceeding with a launch attempt,\" NASA spokesman George Diller said.",
"Cmdr. Mark Kelly's wife, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, traveled to Florida to watch the shuttle's ascent.",
"President Obama and the first lady also went to the launch site, and Obama personally visited with Giffords for about 10 minutes, a White House official said.",
"President meets with Giffords .",
"Obama also met the entire Endeavour crew, including Kelly.",
"\"I bet you were hoping to see a rocket launch today,\" Kelly told the president.",
"\"We were hoping to see you,\" Obama told him.",
"Kelly updated Obama and the first lady on Giffords' condition, and then they went down the corridor to see her, the administration official said.",
"Three months ago, Giffords was nearly killed when a would-be assassin shot her in the head during a meeting with constituents in Tucson, Arizona.",
"It was not immediately clear if Giffords' doctors -- who are overseeing her lengthy rehabilitation -- will allow her to remain in Florida for the duration of the delay.",
"Giffords' office said Friday that her travel plans are \"undetermined,\" according to a statement.",
"\"Congresswoman Giffords is disappointed that Endeavour was unable to launch today, but realizes that mission safety must come first.",
"Launch delays are not uncommon with the space shuttle,\" the statement said.",
"\"We are looking forward to the quick rescheduling of this scientifically important mission.",
"The congresswoman was pleased, however, to have been able to meet with President Obama and the first family.\"",
"Space shuttle: What have we learned?",
"Kelly was tapped to lead a crew that includes pilot Gregory Johnson; mission specialists Michael Fincke, Greg Chamitoff and Andrew Feustel; and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori.",
"Endeavour has logged more than 103 million miles in space, blasting off 24 times, but its 25th flight will be its last.",
"As NASA's shuttle program winds down with the last launch scheduled this summer, many in the astronaut corps are wrestling with what to do next.",
"For the foreseeable future, Russian rockets will be the only way for U.S. astronauts to get to space.",
"Fincke spent a total of a year in space on the International Space Station, getting there and back twice on Russian rockets.",
"But Friday's delayed flight will be his first on the shuttle.",
"\"I think all of us, with all the changes that are going on, with our country's space program and NASA, all of us professional astronauts are looking into our hearts to see what we're going to do next,\" Fincke said.",
"Four spacewalks are planned for the mission.",
"The space walkers will retrieve experiments, install new ones, refill tanks and lubricate parts at the International Space Station.",
"In its cargo bay, Endeavour will carry the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.",
"At $1.5 billion, it is the most expensive piece of equipment a space shuttle has ever carried.",
"The spectrometer is designed to capture space particles like anti-matter and dark matter that scientists know very little about but believe exist in the universe.",
"The spectrometer will be mounted outside the International Space Station.",
"If it's successful, it could lead to a better understanding of how our universe began and evolved.",
"A few months ago, before his wife was shot, Kelly talked about his upcoming mission.",
"\"Flying in space is a very difficult thing to give up,\" Kelly said.",
"\"I remember after my last flight thinking 'Well, maybe this is the last time I'm gonna do this.'",
"And, you know, you go a couple of months out and you're like, 'Oh, I really hope this is not the end of my flying career.'\"",
"Kelly said that when STS 134, the Endeavour's last flight, is over, \"I'll be thinking the same thing, I can't really give this up.",
"I've got to figure out a way to get back into space.\"",
"CNN's John Zarrella, Eric Fiegel, Danielle Dellorto and Michael Martinez contributed to this report."
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"Endeavour's final mission has been delayed by 72 hours .",
"U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was scheduled to watch her husband's shuttle launch .",
"The shuttle will carry a $1.5 billion device to capture space particles ."
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"(CNN) -- In a summer crowded with books about vampires, werewolves and things that go bump in the night, a young novelist is stepping forward with his own fresh take on the supernatural suspense thriller.",
"Michael Koryta's newest novel is \"The Ridge.\"",
"At 28-years old, it's hard to call Koryta a veteran, but this is his eighth novel already.",
"His work has won high praise from critics and some well-known peers, including best-selling authors Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane.",
"Set in rural Kentucky, Koryta's book includes a murder, a lonely lawman in love with a dangerous woman and a newspaper veteran determined to dig up the truth.",
"But the story adds some chilling and unexpected twists, including a landlocked lighthouse, a mysterious blue light and a home for rescued lions, tigers and other big cats.",
"CNN caught up with the author and the following is an edited transcript.",
"CNN: What was the spark behind \"The Ridge\"?",
"Koryta: I wanted to write a contemporary thriller that drew from the feel of frontier folklore and legend.",
"A single image -- a homemade lighthouse built in the woods -- got me started.",
"I can't explain how I got to that, because I simply don't know.",
"One day it was just there, and I've never loved a book cover as much as this one, because it captures the feel I had from the image: mysterious, haunting, ominous.",
"A lot of the ghostly tales and legends that were in my mind at the time involved cats -- the mythical black panthers people are always claiming to spot, particularly -- and that gave the idea some traction, because I had a very real setting with which to work.",
"There's a place in Indiana, not far from my hometown of Bloomington, called the Exotic Feline Rescue Center.",
"This operation, which is truly out in the middle of nowhere, down a long gravel road, is currently home to 230 tigers, lions, cougars, leopards and other exotic cats that have been rescued from terrible, abusive circumstances.",
"The center exists simply to provide safe homes for cats that have none.",
"The very idea that there are so many exotic cats in need is strong on its own merits, but the center was also a gold mine of atmosphere for a novelist.",
"It can be a very intimidating place the first time you see it.",
"And, of course, these large cats are and always have been a source of endless fascination for humans.",
"Every civilization that ever interacted with these animals had their own set of stories, symbolism and myth.",
"So the spark was in the intersection of these things, in the idea of trying to create something very original that also carried with it a generations old weight of familiarity, that sense of legend.",
"CNN: You started out writing crime novels, what prompted the change to supernatural?",
"Koryta: Initially, it was simply the right fit for the story, that being \"So Cold the River.\"",
"I knew I wanted to draw upon the history and mythology that surrounded West Baden Springs, which was this glorious resort around the early 20th century, when people came from around the world to experience what they believed were truly miraculous mineral springs.",
"It was also a story that required bridging eras.",
"Those things just kept shouting \"Ghost story!\"",
"and so I listened. During the course of writing that book, I really fell in love with the form.",
"It didn't seem all that different to me -- still suspense, still mystery, just with a new layer, an added wrinkle.",
"The supernatural elements were more of a plotting challenge, too, and I think good things happen when you challenge yourself as a writer.",
"I never envisioned, early on, that I'd write anything with a supernatural thread.",
"I suppose I shouldn't be overly surprised, because one of the really key moments in my writing life was when I found Stephen King's book \" On Writing,\" which is the definitive work on the craft for anyone who values storytelling first and foremost.",
"At the time, while I read widely, I was very focused on writing detective novels.",
"People don't really consider it because I'm a younger writer, but when \"The Silent Hour,\" the last of my detective novels to date, was released, I'd been working in that form for a decade.",
"Trying something a little different was wonderful, creatively.",
"You have only so many chances to tell stories.",
"I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.",
"CNN: I've heard several of your novels may hit the the big screen?",
"Koryta: Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and was the family comedy king through the '80s and '90s -- \"Mrs. Doubtfire,\" \"Home Alone,\" etc.",
"-- has acquired rights to \"The Cypress House\" and is working on the script himself, with intent to direct.",
"For \"So Cold the River.\"",
"I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for \"The Fighter,\" and who also wrote \"8 Mile,\" which I think is a terrific screenplay.",
"The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.",
"CNN: You've worked as a private investigator, a journalist and a teacher but I understand you knew at a young age that you wanted to be a writer?",
"Koryta: Always, yeah.",
"This was it. This was what I wanted to do from the time I began to read.",
"I just fell in love with stories, with books.",
"I was always writing.",
"I finished my first novel, it was around 300 pages long, when I was 16.",
"Wrote one more before I got out of high school, then wrote the first Lincoln Perry novel when I was 19.",
"It didn't sell, but I liked the character and I knew the world so I tried what was, in my mind, a sequel.",
"Wrote that when I was 20, and that one made it.",
"That's \"Tonight I Said Goodbye,\" which came out when I was 21 and won some prizes and was nominated for the Edgar and translated into a bunch of foreign languages, all while I was working two jobs and going to school.",
"Looking back on that now, it seems impossible.",
"The time management seems impossible.",
"But right then, it was just my life, and I was having a lot of fun.",
"I wrote from midnight to 3 a.m. because that was when I had free time.",
"It never felt like work.",
"It was fun, it was all I wanted to do, to be.",
"I just wanted to get something between the covers, as my friend Stewart O'Nan says about his books.",
"I love that phrase, particularly when it comes from such a brilliant novelist as Stewart, who is as good as anybody alive.",
"There's a humility in that, a gratitude: \"Just to get it between the covers.\"",
"The idea that it's a privilege to have that chance is really a good thing to remember.",
"CNN: I understand music is a big source of inspiration to you while you write?",
"Koryta: It runs the engine, plain and simple.",
"At the start, I needed headphones because I was writing in my college apartment and my roommate was, you know, entitled to do his thing and not create a cocoon of silence for my attempts at genius.",
"Then I realized how much the music was impacting the mood of the writing, and I started to pair things up -- this song for this kind of scene, things like that.",
"Then I'd get superstitious -- you've had a good run on this playlist, don't change it until things tighten up.",
"Like a baseball player not changing socks.",
"I usually pick one song that I listen to with my eyes closed every day before I start writing.",
"That can range from classical to rap.",
"In one case, a song inspired the entire book.",
"\"So Cold the River\" developed from my imagining a story behind Joshua Bell's violin piece \"Short Trip Home.\"",
"For \"The Ridge\" I was really into The National, riding their album \"High Violet\" pretty hard, and a band called Gaslight Anthem, and of course the two artists I quote in the book, Josh Ritter and Joe Pug.",
"They're brilliant songwriters.",
"Just brilliant. Ritter has made a good name for himself but Pug is criminally overlooked at this point.",
"He'll be around for a long, long time, though.",
"He's that good. CNN: What's next for you? Koryta: I stepped back and took a breath.",
"That needed to be done.",
"I went almost two months without writing a word of prose, but I needed that after the last stretch, I really did.",
"Now I'm back at it. The next book is a return to traditional crime fiction, no ghosts in sight, and it is one I've wanted to write for a long time.",
"It's about two brothers who lost a sibling to violent crime when they were in their teens, and went about coping in very different ways.",
"One is an ex-cop turned bail bondsman, the other a high school football coach who is involved with prison ministry.",
"It's set in Ohio, where high school football is a very big deal, and I've always wanted to mine from sports for fiction and never really had a chance.",
"As I said earlier, we have a limited number of shots, so I felt it was time to take this one."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United and former England midfielder Paul Scholes announced his retirement Tuesday and will join the coaching staff of the English Premier League champions.",
"The 36-year-old made 676 appearances for the Red Devils, the last as a substitute in their 3-1 Champions League final reverse to Barcelona Saturday.",
"Scholes won 10 Premier League titles with United and helped them to two Champions League triumphs.",
"He won 66 England caps and played at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, but quit international football in 2004 at the age of 29.",
"But with his club form still impeccable, England coach Fabio Capello reportedly tried to persuade him to return for last year's World Cup campaign in South Africa.",
"Announcing his retirement, Scholes told the official club website: .",
"\"This was not a decision that I have taken lightly but I feel now is the right time for me to stop playing.",
"\"To have been part of the team that helped the club reach that 19th (record) title is a great privilege.",
"Scholes praised Alex Ferguson, calling him a \"great manager\" and the United boss reciprocated.",
"\"What more can I say about Paul Scholes that I haven't said before,\" said Ferguson.",
"\"We are going to miss a truly unbelievable player.",
"\"Paul has always been fully committed to this club and I am delighted he will be joining the coaching staff from next season.\"",
"Scholes was part of the famous \"Class of 92\" which claimed the English FA Youth Cup in 1992 and included David Beckham, Nicky Butt and Gary Neville, who quit his United career earlier this season."
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"Paul Scholes announces his immediate retirement for football .",
"Scholes played 676 times for Manchester United and won 66 England caps .",
"Midfield star will join the coaching staff at EPL champions United .",
"His final game came as a substitute in 3-1 Champions League final loss to Barcelona ."
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"(CNN) -- For most comics, filling three-fourths of the Ha Ha Room in Nowheresville, Large-Square-State, is an accomplishment worth celebrating ... alone, of course, in a guest room at the Holiday Inn with a bottle of gin.",
"Not the case for Russell Peters.",
"In fact, as one of the top-earning comics in the business, Peters enjoys worldwide popularity that's hard to match, selling out arenas (yes, arenas) from Canada to Australia and everywhere in between.",
"Focusing on race and class, Peters draws from being Indian and Canadian, and he believes audiences around the globe like him because he's an outsider.",
"\"It's like I'm reporting live from a party I shouldn't be at,\" he says.",
"\"There's the cool kids, and then there's the nerdy guy who snuck in wearing a hat.",
"I'm the nerdy kid who's wearing the hat.\"",
"What makes Peters' success even more amazing is that, aside from the occasional stand-up comedy special, you probably haven't seen him on TV or in movies.",
"Sure, he's done a bit of acting, but a quick glance at the titles on his IMDb page doesn't reveal any blockbusters.",
"That said, \"The Legend of Awesomest Maximus\" does stand out as a potential must-see.",
"I mean, after all, it features Ian Ziering playing a character named Testiclees.",
"So it must be good! When the 40-year-old Peters -- who has penned a memoir called \"Call Me Russell,\" in which he chronicles the unlikely path of his career from scrawny loser to comedy megastar -- met with CNN, he walked into the room wearing a T-shirt adorned with the image of that Internet-famous fat kid whose own shirt reads, I F--- ON THE FIRST DATE.",
"Cute. Funny. But kinda sucks for a video editor.",
"Hence the blur in the video.",
"Thanks, Russell.",
"You better Tweet the hell out of this ..."
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"He feels like an outsider because he is Indian and Canadian .",
"His comedy focuses on race and class ."
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"(CNN) -- While al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden may have provided the impetus for the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, whose Taliban-led government was harboring him, his death may have little impact on the continuing course of the war or on the continuing threat of terrorism, analysts said Monday.",
"\"If the core issue was the Taliban fighting for the right to protect Osama bin Laden as their honored guest, then a big part of the war goes away,\" said Frank Anderson, who served as chief of the CIA's Afghan Task Force from 1991-95 and currently serves as president of the Middle East Policy Council in Washington.",
"But if the core issue has morphed into a civil war or a war between ethnic Afghans against a foreign military force, then little has changed, he said.",
"\"All the issues that divide the ethnic groups are still there.\"",
"Inside the raid that killed Osama bin Laden .",
"Anderson predicted that bin Laden's death will result in an immediate, short-term spike in motivation among his followers to carry out more terrorist attacks, but said any such spike will likely be short-lived as the information found in bin Laden's house leads investigators to track down other terrorists.",
"Anderson noted that bin Laden's influence was tough to find in the spawning of the \"post-Islamist, post-radical, nationalist and post-imperialist narrative\" that spread this spring across the Arab and Islamic world.",
"\"What we have is a growing population or political awareness that doesn't care any more about those narratives,\" Anderson said.",
"\"That's a whole lot more significant than whether or not bin Laden's holed up in a windowless building in Pakistan.\"",
"But no one denied that the slain leader of al Qaeda leaves a staggering legacy.",
"\"Bin Laden's objective in 9/11 was to sucker us into an invasion of Afghanistan with the idea that we'd be bogged down there for a long time and would impoverish ourselves,\" Anderson said, noting that the United States now faces a huge debt burden and has incurred tens of thousands of casualties.",
"Across the world, \"his legacy is at least hundreds of thousands of dead people, the vast majority of whom were Muslims.\"",
"And he has also caused \"very serious damage to Pakistan as a viable nation state,\" Anderson said.",
"About bin Laden's death, \"I don't think it's really going to have a significant impact on what's going on in Afghanistan,\" said Mike Baker, who worked for 17 years at the CIA, where he served as covert operations officer until he left at the end of the 1990s.",
"What does the killing of bin Laden compare to?",
"Asked about how bin Laden will be regarded in a decade, Baker said that, for a certain segment, \"he's always going to be a martyr and figurehead and legend and yadda yadda yadda.",
"For the rest of the world, he'll be thrown into the pile of mass murderers that have been consigned to history.\"",
"But Baker, who is now president of Diligence LLC, a global intelligence and security firm, said it would be naive for anyone to consider bin Laden's death to be a game changer in the global effort against terrorism.",
"\"They've got the same operational capabilities that they had yesterday.\"",
"Steve Coll, president of the New America Foundation and author of \"Ghost Wars, the Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001,\" predicted that no one will emerge to lead al Qaeda \"with the same kind of myths and spiritual presence and credibility\" that bin Laden had among his followers.",
"He too urged that it not be written off.",
"\"This is still a resilient militant organization,\" he said.",
"\"A small number of people can do a lot of damage in this world.\"",
"Andrew Bacevich Sr., a professor of international relations at Boston University and a retired career officer with the U.S. Army, said the raid on bin Laden's residence could have an impact on the conduct of the war in Afghanistan.",
"\"I don't think this means anything like a rush to the exits in Afghanistan, but I think there is an argument brewing about whether or not the tactics being employed in Afghanistan are working or not, and this might arm the people in the camp that think that large-scale troop presence ends up being counterproductive,\" he said.",
"But over the long term, \"I think his death is irrelevant,\" Bacevich said.",
"\"What we call terrorism is an expression of resentment by Muslims directed at Western intervention, presence and meddling in the Islamic world.",
"Bin Laden made himself the principal manifestation of that resentment and launched the most successful attack, but the conditions giving rise to that resentment don't go away just because he's gone away.",
"Muslim world had soured on bin Laden .",
"\"Remember: We're involved in a war in Afghanistan, the remnants of a war in Iraq, a new war in Libya; we continue to conduct UAV (drone) attacks in Pakistan.",
"However much we may say that our purposes are looked toward peace, it's not difficult to understand how people in that part of the world would view us as aggressors.",
"And I think that's what leads to terrorist attacks against the United States and its allies.",
"And that doesn't change just because bin Laden's gone.\"",
"He too said the impact of bin Laden's death could affect U.S.-Pakistani operations.",
"If it turns out that the United States carried out the operation without notifying Pakistani officials, \"that would seem to suggest that the level of trust between us and Pakistan is pretty close to zero,\" he said.",
"Many questions about what Pakistan knew .",
"\"Given the importance we've given to collaboration with Pakistani officials and given the resentment of the Pakistan public to U.S. violations of Pakistani sovereignty, this may really bring things to a head.\"",
"Bacevich was not persuaded by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's comment Monday to reporters that \"cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin Laden and the compound in which he was hiding.\"",
"\"We don't know what the truth is about the level of cooperation or not cooperation,\" he said.",
"\"That kind of statement from Hillary Clinton would seem to suggest that the United States wants to minimize evidence of mistrust, to sustain a pretense of trust rather than to confront what may, in fact, be the reality.\"",
"The implications of a real rupture in U.S.-Pakistani relations are frightening, he said.",
"\"This one seems to be more fraught with mistrust than most any other relation we have.",
"And you have to ask how long that can be sustained and whether or not something like this isn't another nail in the coffin.\""
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"(CNN) -- Barcelona's French international defender Eric Abidal will undergo emergency surgery Thursday for a liver tumor, the Spanish champions have announced.",
"The 31-year-old's condition was uncovered by a routine medical check after he felt unwell Tuesday.",
"The club said the operation would begin at 1500 GMT, having been initially scheduled Friday.",
"Abidal's plight has stunned his Barcelona teammates with vice-captain Xavi Hernandez speaking for many.",
"\"This is the toughest time I've had at the club, but Abidal will get over it because mentally he's one of the toughest people I know,\" he told the club's official website.",
"Barca president Sandro Rosell said the club would do \"everything within its power and more to aid his recovery.\"",
"Details about the extent of the tumor have not emerged, but, if it is benign, specialists say he could make a quick recovery after surgery.",
"But his illness comes at a critical part of Barcelona's season as they bid for the domestic double in Spain and to win back the Champions League crown.",
"Abidal played in both legs of Barcelona's Champions League last 16 win over Arsenal and has been recalled to the French international squad.",
"Goodwill messages have flooded in from the club's supporters and Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid's star player, also wished him a quick recovery.",
"\"I hope that everything will be fine for Abidal and that he will return soon,\" he told AFP.",
"Meanwhile, Manchester United revealed Wednesday that their former captain Bryan Robson had surgery for throat cancer earlier this month in Bangkok.. Robson, who also captained England, is coaching Thailand and acting as an ambassador for the English Premier League giants.",
"The statement on their official website said he was making a good recovery and had returned to work. ..."
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"Srinagar, India (CNN) -- India detains hundreds of people each year without charge or trial to \"keep them out of circulation\" in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, according to a new report released Monday by Amnesty International.",
"The human rights monitoring group documented how India's Public Safety Act (PSA) is used to justify long-term detentions of people, even when there is insufficient evidence for trial.",
"The draconian act has come under repeated criticism from human rights groups who have expressed alarm over Kashmiris caught in the fight between Indian security forces and militant groups in the Himalayan state.",
"The Amnesty report estimated that between 8,000 and 20,000 people were detained in the past two decades; 322 of them were held between January and September of last year when a wave of unrest swept the region and people took to the streets in deadly anti-government protests.",
"\"The Jammu and Kashmir authorities are using PSA detentions as a revolving door to keep people they can't or won't convict through proper legal channels locked up and out of the way,\" said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific Director.",
"\"Hundreds of people are being held each year on spurious grounds, with many exposed to higher risk of torture and other forms of ill-treatment.\"",
"Among the detainees are political leaders and activists, suspected members or supporters of armed opposition groups, lawyers, journalists, and protesters, including children, Amnesty said.",
"The report said that often, people are initially picked up for \"unofficial\" interrogation and have no access to a lawyer or their families.",
"Amnesty said the Indian government has relied on the safety act in dealing with a resurgence of street protests.",
"\"Despite this apparent shift in the nature of the unrest, Jammu and Kashmir authorities continue to rely on the PSA rather than attempting to charge and try those suspected of committing criminal acts,\" Zarifi said.",
"\"The PSA undermines the rule of law and reinforces deeply held perceptions that police and security forces are above the law.\"",
"The state's Chief Minister Omar Abdullah denied that so many people had been detained under the act.",
"He said 4,046 people were arrested in the protests.",
"But, he said, 3,900 of them were released and only 28 had been detained.",
"A senior police officer told CNN that about 250 people were detained under the PSA in the past year but some had been released.",
"The Indian state is divided into mostly Hindu Jammu and Muslim Kashmir, where many residents argue that the territory should have been a part of Pakistan when the subcontinent was partitioned in 1947.",
"Polls have found a majority of Muslims in the state favor secession.",
"The Indian government blames Pakistan for furling an insurgency in Kashmir.",
"Tens of thousands of Kashmiris have died in the bloodshed over the years.",
"Khurram Parvez, coordinator of the Jammu and Kashmir coalition of civil societies, said the Public Safety Act gives the Indian government powers to arbitrarily detain detain a person for two years without trial, against India's principles of justice.",
"CNN's Moni Basu and Mukhtar Ahmed contributed to this story."
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"It says the detentions are used to \"keep people out of circulation\""
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"(CNN) -- It's called the \"Walmart of Weed.\"",
"This newest big-box store is devoted to selling marijuana-growing equipment.",
"Its biggest outlet yet is to open Wednesday in Phoenix, where Arizona voters approved medical cannabis last fall.",
"The weGrow Store will be the first outside California, where medical weed has long been legalized.",
"None of the chain's three stores sell the drug.",
"Instead, they unabashedly promote medical marijuana by offering \"everything -- from supplies to services -- that cultivators need to grow it,\" the company says.",
"What sets weGrow apart from the mom-and-pop stores selling the growing supplies is that weGrow openly states its hydroponic equipment is intended for pot, a spokeswoman said.",
"The smaller stores often claim the hydroponic equipment is used for growing indoor tomatoes and often kick out a customer if they broach the subject of medical cannabis, said weGrow spokeswoman Melissa DiGianfilippo.",
"While 16 states and the District of Columbia now allow for some sort of medical marijuana, there remains ambiguity about whether U.S. authorities would ever enforce federal laws against marijuana distribution, though 90% of hydroponics revenue is from cannabis growers, DiGianfilippo said.",
"In fact, the state of Arizona filed a federal lawsuit last week asking the courts to determine whether the voter-approved initiative legalizing medical marijuana is, indeed, legal.",
"Calling itself \"the nation's only hydroponics franchise that openly talks about medical marijuana,\" the Oakland, California-based weGrow sees a boom in Arizona and projects 100,000 Arizonans acquiring state medical cannabis cards, DiGianfilippo said.",
"So far, about 4,000 Arizonans became state-authorized marijuana users after the state began issuing the cards on April 15, DiGianfilippo said.",
"WeGrow chose Wednesday to open its superstore because that was supposed to be the day the state was scheduled to begin accepting applications to run a marijuana dispensary.",
"But Arizona Gov.",
"Jan Brewer and Attorney General Tom Horne filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking a declaratory judgment regarding the legality of Proposition 203.",
"Voters approved the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act last November and Brewer signed it into law in December.",
"Nonetheless, the federal government considers marijuana a controlled substance.",
"In a May 2, 2011, letter, U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke of Arizona warned state officials that \"growing, distributing and possessing marijuana, in any capacity, other than as a federally authorized research program, is a violation of federal law regardless of state laws that purport to permit such activities,\" according to Brewer.",
"Burke declared that his office would \"vigorously prosecute individuals and organizations that participate in unlawful manufacturing, distribution and marketing activity involving marijuana, even if such activities are permitted under state law,\" according to Brewer's office.",
"\"The State of Arizona has worked to follow the wishes of voters,\" Brewer said in a statement.",
"\"But I won't stand aside while state employees and average Arizonans acting in good faith are unwittingly put at risk.",
"In light of the explicit warnings on this issue offered by Arizona's U.S. Attorney, as well as many other federal prosecutors, clarity and judicial direction are in order.\"",
"Brewer has directed that the Arizona Department of Health Services put on hold its process for licensing marijuana dispensaries, pending court action on this issue, Brewer's spokesman, Matthew Benson, told CNN on Tuesday.",
"\"The agency will continue providing registration cards for individuals who receive a doctor's recommendation to use medical marijuana,\" Benson said in an e-mail.",
"WeGrow founder Dhar Mann, a 27-year-old entrepreneur who opened his first store in Oakland after a small hydroponics store ejected him for asking about medical marijuana cultivation, said his firm still sees an opportunity in Arizona, where he estimates medical pot to be a billion-dollar industry.",
"He has plans for similar superstores in other states with legal marijuana.",
"The Phoenix store, located in an industrial area so as not to upset any homeowners, will be 21,000 square feet.",
"Wednesday's grand opening in Phoenix will feature indoor growing demonstrations with nonmarijuana plants, experts on how to build professional grow rooms, a physician for patient evaluations and classes on how to safely and responsibly cultivate medical marijuana, weGrow officials said.",
"The first weGrow store was a 15,000-square-foot facility that opened in Oakland last year, and in February, a 10,000-square-foot store opened in Sacramento, California, a spokeswoman said.",
"Mann said the Arizona law allows for up to 124 dispensaries, and he took exception with the governor's lawsuit.",
"\"Delaying the process that a majority of the Arizona voters have asked for prevents qualified cannabis patients from receiving medicine they need and causes unfair financial hardship to businesspeople who have invested tens of thousands of dollars in reliance on the process set up by the state,\" Mann said in a statement.",
"\"Medical marijuana cultivating, dispensing, and consuming will exist with or without governmental approval,\" Mann said.",
"\"It's time to tax and regulate this industry so legitimate business people and patients are not criminalized.\""
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"The weGrow firm will open its third superstore in Phoenix on Wednesday .",
"It openly sells marijuana-growing equipment but not the drug itself .",
"The state of Arizona has asked a federal court to rule on the legality of medical cannabis .",
"Arizona voters approved medical marijuana in November ."
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"(CNN) -- An Israeli business tycoon whose company was cited by the U.S. State Department for allegedly having trade relations with Iran has died.",
"Sammy Ofer died Friday after battling an illness, his representatives said.",
"He was 89. Ofer's company, Tanker Pacific, recently was named by the State Department as one of seven companies who were involved in trade with Iran, thereby breaching international restrictions imposed as part of an effort to suppress Tehran's nuclear program.",
"Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg said Ofer's company is on the list of businesses \"engaged in activities related to the supply of refined petroleum products in Iran.\"",
"Ofer's company publicly denied the accusations and referred to them as a possible \"misunderstanding.\"",
"\"We are acting together with Israeli officials and our advisors in Washington to remove our name from the list of sanctioned companies ...the company does not have any dealings, business or otherwise, with anyone that violates this embargo,\" the company said in a statement released last week.",
"The revelation set off a public controversy in Israel, with questions being raised about what dealings the company had with Iran and what the Israeli government knew about such activities.",
"Members of the Ofer family have argued this week that they have acted under the authority of the state of Israel, a claim that was bluntly denied by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.",
"\"We did not approve any docking or unloading of commodities in Iran.",
"Israel has a very clear policy with regard to Iran and no sort of relations with it are allowed,\" Netanyahu said Monday.",
"A Knesset hearing into the matter earlier this week was canceled just as it was beginning under unusual circumstances when the chairmen of the committee, Carmel Shama, ended the session immediately upon receiving a personal note.",
"Shama did not disclose the identity of the writer but said \"it did not come from a political or from a business-related source.\""
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"Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington (CNN) -- \"The plan was to kill people.\"",
"That's what Army Spc. Jeremy Morlock said Wednesday moments after he pleaded guilty at a court-martial proceeding to killing Afghan civilians in 2010.",
"Lt. Col. Kwasi Hawks, the military judge in the case, had asked Morlock if he and fellow soldiers just meant to scare civilians with grenades and gunfire and it \"got out of hand.\"",
"Morlock, 22, and four other soldiers who face murder charges are accused of killing Afghan citizens for sport.",
"Seven more soldiers are accused of helping cover up the killings.",
"Morlock also pleaded guilty to drug charges.",
"He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he struck another soldier and that he photographed and possessed photos of dead Afghans.",
"Morlock was charged with three counts of murder.",
"Hawks accepted Morlock's guilty plea, but sentencing will take place later.",
"The defendant addressed the court, saying, \"I want to apologize to the families of my victims, the people of Afghanistan and my fellow soldiers.\"",
"The Wasilla, Alaska, native said he has been reflecting \"on how I lost my moral compass.\"",
"Morlock told the judge he pleaded guilty in hopes of receiving a lesser sentence.",
"The defendant, who could have been sentenced to life in military prison without the possibility of parole, agreed to testify against other soldiers.",
"Morlock must now serve the remainder of a 24-year prison sentence and could be paroled in seven years.",
"The judge counted the year Morlock has already spent in confinement toward his sentence and parole eligibility date.",
"Morlock's attorney, Frank Spinner, told the court his client \"has admitted responsibility for what he did.\"",
"\"No one takes pleasure in testifying against others,\" Spinner said.",
"\"He plans to testify truthfully.\"",
"Morlock was accused of killing one Afghan civilian in January 2010 with a grenade and rifle; killing another in May 2010 in a similar manner; and shooting a third to death in February 2010.",
"Another soldier, Pfc.",
"Andrew Holmes, also faces charges in the case, but a start date for his court-martial has not been publicly announced.",
"In all, officials charged 12 U.S. soldiers in what they called a conspiracy to kill Afghan civilians and cover it up, along with charges they mutilated corpses and kept grisly souvenirs.",
"Morlock was the first of the five to face an Article 32 hearing, the military equivalent of a grand jury hearing, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.",
"Holmes is charged with the premeditated deaths of three civilians, possessing a dismembered human finger, wrongfully possessing photographs of human casualties and smoking hashish.",
"He is also accused of conspiring with Morlock to shoot at a civilian and then toss a grenade so it would look like the soldiers were under attack.",
"All the accused men were members of a 2nd Infantry Division brigade operating near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010.",
"The three others facing murder charges are Staff Sgt.",
"Calvin Gibbs, of Billings, Montana; Adam Winfield, of Cape Coral, Florida; and Spc.",
"Michael Wagnon, of Las Vegas.",
"Authorities allege Gibbs kept finger bones, leg bones and a tooth from Afghan corpses.",
"Wagnon allegedly kept a skull from a corpse, according to charging documents.",
"Several soldiers are charged with taking pictures of the corpses, and one soldier is charged with stabbing a corpse.",
"This week, German news outlet Der Spiegel published photographs of what they identified as Morlock and Holmes posing over the bodies of dead Afghans.",
"Two images show the soldiers kneeling by a bloody body sprawled over a patch of sand and grass.",
"A third shows what appears to be two bodies propped up, back to back, against a post in front of a military vehicle.",
"The U.S. Army released a statement Monday calling the photographs \"repugnant to us as human beings and contrary to the standards and values of the United States Army.\"",
"\"We apologize for the distress these photos cause,\" the statement said.",
"Army officials asserted in the statement that ongoing court-martial proceedings related to the alleged atrocities \"speak for themselves.\"",
"\"The photos appear in stark contrast to the discipline, professionalism and respect that have characterized our soldiers' performance during nearly 10 years of sustained operations.\""
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"\"The plan was to kill people,\" Army Spc.",
"Jeremy Morlock tells court.",
"\"I lost my moral compass.\"",
"Morlock pleads guilty to murder and drug charges .",
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"(CNN) -- Jurors in the capital murder trial of Casey Anthony had a front-row seat this week to the vivid yet imaginary world the Florida mother created in the weeks after 2-year-old daughter Caylee disappeared in 2008.",
"The jury heard detailed stories from her mother, her brother and finally, Anthony herself, of her business trips to Tampa and visits to an old flame that later proved to be false.",
"Through recordings of Anthony's police interviews, jailhouse visits and a 911 call, the silent woman at the defense table finally spoke.",
"Throughout the conversations, one sentiment is conveyed to Anthony again and again: stop lying, or face the worst of consequences.",
"Florida prosecutors say the lies did not end, and now Anthony could face the death penalty.",
"She is charged with seven counts, including first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and misleading police in the 2008 death of daughter Caylee.",
"The last time the little girl was seen was June 16, 2008.",
"She was not reported missing until July 15, 2008, by Cindy Anthony, Casey Anthony's mother.",
"Her body was found in December 2008, in a wooded area less than a mile from the Anthony family home in eastern Orange County.",
"Anthony, 25, has denied harming her daughter or having anything to do with the little girl's disappearance or death.",
"Her lawyer has said that once all the facts were known, it will become clear his client is innocent.",
"In a July 16, 2008, police interview, which the jury heard Thursday, Orange County Sheriff's Sgt.",
"John Allen told Anthony the time had come to reveal the truth.",
"\"By burying this ... you are not going to get yourself to a better place, OK,\" Allen said.",
"\"What you're going to do is you're going to cause everybody else around you to suffer.",
"And at some point this is going to come out; it always does.\"",
"After arrest, Casey Anthony insisted focus was on finding Caylee .",
"Anthony heard the same sentiment again during in a jailhouse phone call to her mother, also on July 16, 2008.",
"When Anthony blames her mother for her being in jail, Cindy Anthony fights back.",
"\"Well, whose fault is your sitting in the jail?\"",
"she asked her daughter.",
"\"Blame yourself for telling lies.\"",
"The excuses . Testimony earlier in the trial, which began last week in Clearwater, Florida, revealed that Anthony lied to her parents and avoided them for 31 days in the summer of 2008 while Caylee was supposedly missing.",
"This week, jurors learned more about what Anthony told her parents during that time and what she was actually doing.",
"From the witness stand Tuesday, Anthony's mother described heated confrontations with her daughter on July 15, 2008, after she learned she had been lying about her whereabouts for a month.",
"Those stories began with Anthony saying she was having a sleepover with a nanny named Zenaida \"Zanny\" Gonzalez.",
"Then, Anthony was out of town on a work trip to Tampa.",
"By the fourth week, Anthony's story was that she was out of town visiting an old boyfriend named Jeffrey Michael Hopkins.",
"Cindy Anthony caught her daughter in her lies by discovering she was, in fact, in Orlando with a different boyfriend.",
"By the time her mother called 911 to report Caylee mising, Anthony had a new story.",
"\"I know who has her. She's been my nanny for about a year-and-a-half, almost two years,\" Anthony told the operator in the July 15, 2008, call, which jurors heard Tuesday.",
"When asked by the operator why she waited so long to report her daughter missing, Casey replied, \"I have been looking for her and have gone through other resources to try to find her, which was stupid.\"",
"The characters . In the following days, Gonzalez's alleged role would expand from an occasionally mentioned nanny to a central character in Caylee's disappearance.",
"When initially questioned by Orange County Detective Yuri Melich on July 16, 2008, about Gonzalez, Anthony provided a description of her without hesitation.",
"That interview was played Wednesday.",
"Anthony said she'd known Zanny for four years after they met working together at Universal Studios.",
"She provided a physical description of Gonzalez, her address, even her mother's name.",
"Other characters were also fleshed out.",
"Hopkins, a former Universal Studios co-worker, according to Casey, lived in Jacksonville and had a son named Zachary who played with Caylee.",
"And then there was Juliette Lewis, another co-worker at Universal, who now lived in New York, Anthony said.",
"She also had a daughter Caylee's age.",
"Anthony claimed she called Lewis and Hopkins when she realized Caylee was missing.",
"But prosecutors claim Anthony was not looking for her daughter in the month she was missing.",
"Instead, she was staying with her boyfriend, spending time in Orlando with friends, attending parties, going shopping and hitting nightclubs, according to testimony from friends, her former boyfriend, and acquaintances, who also said that she did not mention her daughter being missing during that time.",
"Anthony's frustration level with her parents, particularly her mother, was rising around the time Caylee disappeared, friend Amy Huizenga testified Tuesday.",
"Friend: Casey Anthony was 'frustrated' with mother .",
"\"I remember she told me her mom had told her she was an unfit mother.",
"She was extremely upset about that.\"",
"But Anthony also was agitated at her mother because she had to cancel plans \"fairly frequently\" when no one was available to watch her daughter, Huizenga testified.",
"In late June, Huizenga said, Anthony told her that she was keeping Caylee away from her parents, as they were having marital problems and were considering divorce, and \"she wanted to keep Caylee out of the drama.\"",
"'Fessing up . On Thursday, Melich described the day Anthony was finally forced to admit her lies, at least in part.",
"On July 16, 2008, Melich worked with Universal Studios to scour the employee database.",
"Anthony was in the database, but she hadn't been affiliated with Universal for years.",
"Melich also found no record of Gonzalez or Lewis.",
"A Jeffrey Hopkins was found, but never worked for the company at the same time as Casey.",
"Gonzalez's supposed apartment had also been found vacant.",
"Anthony voluntarily met Melich at Universal Studios to discuss the matter.",
"Melich testified Thursday that he watched Anthony try to enter the park without a badge then attempted to lead him to her office before being forced to admit she didn't have one.",
"\"I can tell you just for certainty everything you've told me so far has been a lie,\" Melich said in a recorded interview played for the jury on Thursday.",
"\"I've gone to every address that you've told me.",
"I've looked up every name, I've talked to every person that you wanted me to talk or try to.",
"And found out all these names you're giving me are people that either never worked here or been fired a long time ago, OK.\" Anthony conceded she didn't work at Universal and that the people she had described as her co-workers did not exist.",
"Yet she continued to blame Gonzalez for the disappearance of her child.",
"The breakdown: Casey Anthony's \"imaginary friends\" Cindy Anthony said her daughter had been telling her about Gonzalez along with numerous other people -- a boyfriend, a co-worker and a man named Eric Baker, whom she believed to be Caylee's father -- for years before Caylee went missing.",
"At the time, she said, she never had a reason to believe those people were fictitious.",
"\"I just found out they were imaginary people,\" she testified.",
"A Zenaida Gonzalez was later found, but she had no affiliation with Anthony aside from having filled out a guest card at the Orlando apartment complex where Anthony claimed the nanny lived.",
"The apartment where Anthony said Gonzalez lived was found to be vacant, and there was no record of Gonzalez in the Universal Studios employee database.",
"As week two concludes, it now appears Allen was right in his prediction that Anthony's stories ultimately would lead to suffering for others.",
"However, it is yet to be seen whether the second part of his prophecy will be realized: that the truth will come out."
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"Jury learns of lies Anthony told parents regarding whereabouts during crucial month .",
"Anthony said she was taking business trips, visiting a friend in Tampa .",
"Later, she told police she was trying to find Caylee, and blamed nanny named \"Zanny\"\nAnthony denies killing her daughter; she faces the death penalty if convicted ."
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"(CNN) -- Australians are demanding a ban on cattle exports to Indonesia after an investigation revealed brutal treatment that included animals getting flogged, kicked and bleeding to death in some cases.",
"The call comes after an investigation by an Australian animal rights group, which followed the cattle from the docks to 11 abattoirs in Indonesia.",
"Animals Australia conducted the probe after a livestock industry report revealed mistreatment, according to Glenys Oogjes of the animal rights group.",
"It openly filmed inside 11 abattoirs, including at night, with the help of Indonesian workers at the slaughterhouses, Oogjes said.",
"\"Our primary goal was to have a look and see what we were reading in industry reports and to find out if it was as bad as it sounded,\" she said.",
"\"Our goal was to expose to the Australian community what's happening to our live stock in Indonesia, and to stop our animals from being treated badly and to halt the trade to Indonesia.\"",
"\"It was really unfortunate if it really happened,\" said Djajadi, director of the Veterinary Health Department of the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture, adding, \"Australian cattle is different from Indonesian cattle.",
"They're big and wild.\" But, he said, \"We already have plans to put the slaughter houses in order, to ensure the animals' welfare, by giving restraining boxes for slaughtering, stun guns for slaughtering houses, training and education for the workers.\"",
"The footage, broadcast on Australian television, showed cattle being flogged and taking minutes to die after their necks were slashed, according to the rights group.",
"In addition to the mistreatment, the cattle are not treated in accordance with the Muslim practice of halal, Oogjes said.",
"\"Animals are supposed to be treated well and should be facing Mecca when they are slaughtered.",
"Our investigation discovered that neither of these things were happening,\" Oogjes said.",
"She said the rights group \"filmed animals being slaughtered and cut up in front of other animals -- that's certainly not halal.\"",
"The footage sparked angry calls to the agriculture department and tens of thousands of signatures in an online petition.",
"Opposition parties, farmers, animals rights groups and outraged citizens have demanded a ban on Indonesian cattle exports, Oogjes said.",
"On Wednesday, the Australian veterinary association joined calls for a suspension of trade to Indonesia until humane slaughter practices are established.",
"Australia's agriculture minister has appointed someone to look into the situation, Oogjes said.",
"\"He has said this week the cattle won't be sent to the 11 abattoirs investigated by Animals Australia,\" Oogjes said.",
"\"But it's ridiculous. There are thousands of abattoirs in Indonesia and we don't have any control over where our animals go in Indonesia.\"",
"Animal rights groups called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to urgently halt cattle exports to Indonesia.",
"\"While the government could deny knowledge of what's going on in Indonesia this time around -- if we have to go back and document further evidence -- the public will not be so forgiving,\" Oogjes said in a statement.",
"CNN's Kathy Quiano contributed to this report."
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"Animals Australia conducts a probe after a livestock industry report .",
"Outage grows after the footage airs on Australian television .",
"The footage sparks angry calls to the agriculture department and online petition .",
"The cattle are not treated in accordance with the Muslim practice of halal, rights group says ."
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"(CNN) -- Remember the food pyramid, the old symbol that showed us what a healthy diet looked like?",
"Well, forget it.",
"First lady Michelle Obama and several other officials will unveil a new plate-shaped food icon Thursday that \"will serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices,\" the White House said. ...",
"Obama will be joined by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Surgeon General Regina Benjamin during the event at the auditorium in the Department of Agriculture.",
"A Department of Agriculture statement, without describing the new icon, said it will be \"an easy-to-understand visual cue to help consumers adopt healthy eating habits.\"",
"\"We presume that it will be divided into sections that will show you how much of different types of foods you should be eating,\" said Elizabeth Cohen, CNN senior medical correspondent, about the plate image.",
"The move is part of Obama's push to fight childhood obesity.",
"Earlier this year, the first lady announced her campaign called Let's Move, which is aimed at reducing childhood obesity in the United States within a generation.",
"During her announcement in February, she urged parents, teachers, physicians, coaches and kids to get involved and suggested they look at the new Let's Move website for tips and updates on beating obesity in children."
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"The new icon will be announced Thursday morning .",
"The move is part of first lady Michelle Obama's push to fight childhood obesity .",
"The new icon will be \"an easy-to-understand visual cue to help consumers,\" officials say ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- One of the world's largest concrete pumps is being readied to get on a massive cargo plane and head to Japan, all part of the effort to address the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.",
"The 190,000-pound truck pump was moved off a job on the Savannah River on Wednesday and, two days later, was in Hanahan, South Carolina.",
"Once preparations are complete, it will head about 7,000 miles toward Asia aboard a Russian Antonov 225 cargo plane, which is considered among the world's biggest aircrafts.",
"The U.S. Department of Energy had been using the big pumper at a mixed oxide fuel plant construction site in southeastern Georgia.",
"Eventually, nuclear waste is to be disposed of here.",
"But the decision was made to transfer it to Japan -- along with several other such large pumps, from around the world -- in order to deal with a disaster that has been brewing since a March 11 earthquake and tsunami wreaked havoc at the plant and stoked fears about massive releases of radiation.",
"\"I use the pump every day at the river site, but they're trying to avert a situation that worsens each day,\" said Jerry Ashmore, the owner of Ashmore Concrete Contractors that supplies concrete for the Savannah River facility.",
"\"They need all this equipment.",
"They need help.\" Company officials say the prep work should be done by this weekend.",
"Then, Georgia's transportation department must sign off on necessary highway and bridge permits, which are required due to the pumper truck's immensity.",
"Eventually, it will be driven south to Atlanta, to be ideally flown out of the country by next Friday.",
"Ashmore didn't have all the details about how the concrete pump will be used once it gets to Japan, though he understood its first mission will be to pump water into the stricken facility's reactors and spent nuclear fuel pools to prevent overheating and the further emission of radioactive material.",
"\"I understand it will be used to pump water into the reactor and later they can use it for concrete operations that need to be done,\" said Ashmore.",
"The big pump, one of a handful of such trucks built by the the German company Putzmeister, appears to be tailor-made for this type of project -- especially in a radioactive environment.",
"Its 70-meter boom can be controlled remotely, which should allow it to disperse cooling water in pinpointed locations over a large distance, say experts.",
"Typically trucks this massive are used in large projects using concrete, such as the construction of bridges or high-rise buildings.",
"According to Putzmeister's website, the company has already re-directed a truck-mounted concrete pump from an unknown location in Southeast Asia to head to the Fukushima Daiichi site, which is 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Tokyo.",
"Another smaller Putzmeister pumper, currently in Los Angeles, is also being readied to fly to Japan.",
"This is not the first time the German company's large concrete pumps have been utilized to help address a nuclear crisis.",
"In 1986, 11 Putzmeister concrete pumps were used after the Chernobyl accident in Ukraine, then a part of the Soviet Union.",
"The reactors' core were encased in massive amounts of concrete, to prevent the further release of any more radiation."
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"A 190,000-pound truck pump is now in South Carolina, being prepped to fly out of Atlanta .",
"It had been at a mixed oxide fuel plant site in southeast Georgia .",
"A contractor says the truck's first priority will be to supply water to keep nuclear fuel cool .",
"Similar pumps were used in Chernobyl, which was eventually encased in concrete ."
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"(CNN) -- Roger Federer made it five straight wins in a row as he reached the semifinals of the French Open Tuesday at the expense of home favorite Gael Monfils.",
"The third seed clinched a 6-4 6-3 7-6 victory on his third match point after two hours and 34 minutes on Court Philippe Chatrier.",
"It set up a mouthwatering semifinal clash with second seed Novak Djokovic, who received a quarterfinal bye when his Italian opponent Fabio Fognini pulled out with a thigh muscle injury.",
"16-time grand slam champion Federer has enjoyed an untroubled passage to his sixth French Open semifinal at Roland Garros and apart from falling an early break of service down was rarely extended by Monfils.",
"Federer recovered to level before clinching the opener and quickly broke twice to take command in the second.",
"Monfils retrieved one of the breaks but Federer served out at 5-3 to take a comfortable two-set lead.",
"Monfils had won their last meeting but never looked capable of repeating the feat despite offering stiff resistance in the third set where he hit back to level after falling behind again.",
"But in the tiebreak Federer raced into a big lead to secure five match points and wrapped it up with a forehand down the line.",
"A far stiffer test awaits the Swiss ace Friday with Djokovic unbeaten this year and set to be crowned as new world number one if he can beat Federer.",
"\"Playing a semi-final here at Roland Garros is a great moment and playing such a great player is what we train for,\" Federer said in a court side interview after beating Monfils.",
"In other men's action Tuesday, Britain's Andy Murray conjured up another recovery act to beat Victor Troicki of Serbia to earn his place in the quarterfinals.",
"The match was held over from Monday night at two sets all and fourth seed Murray fell 5-2 down in the decider before mounting a stirring recovery.",
"He eventually closed out a 4-6 4-6 6-3 6-2 7-5 victory and will next play Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela.",
"Murray beat him at Roland Garros in both 2009 and 2010 but has been battling an ankle sprain from an earlier match.",
"\"The problem is if you go over on the ankle again,\" Murray told AFP.",
"\"That's the danger because obviously it's weak just now...",
"It's one thing I have to be careful with.",
"Going over on it again would be an issue.\"",
"Top seed Rafael Nadal plays Robin Soderling in the other quarterfinal match Wednesday."
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"Federer beats home favorite Gael Monfils in straight sets while Djokovic had bye .",
"Andy Murray beats Victor Troicki to reach last eight at Roland Garros ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The U.S. government has confirmed the killing of al Qaeda operational commander Ilyas Kashmiri, the prime minister of Pakistan said Monday.",
"\"The U.S. has confirmed that Ilyas Kashmiri was killed on Friday,\" said Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani at a Monday press conference in Quetta, the capital of the country's southwestern province of Balochistan.",
"Gilani did not explain how he knew the United States had confirmed the death of the man described by counterterrorism officials as al Qaeda's \"military brain.\"",
"A spokesman for Kashmiri's jihadist group, Harakat-ul-Jihad-Islami, previously said Kashmiri was killed, along with some aides, in a strike late Friday night.",
"Kashmiri's death is the first major kill or capture since Osama Bin Laden, and the highest profile drone target since Beitullah Mehsud in 2009.",
"It could also be seen as an embarrassment for Pakistanis, who have twice in just over one month, had a major al Qaeda figure killed on their territory without their participation.",
"U.S. drones now operate entirely autonomously in Pakistan, a Pakistani intelligence source has told CNN.",
"Whereas before the United States cooperated with Pakistan and used their intelligence, today, the Americans have an intelligence network that allows them to go after terrorists unilaterally.",
"Kashmiri, a veteran jihadist, was considered one of the most dangerous men in the world by counterterrorism officials on three continents.",
"He was commander of \"Brigade 313\" of Harakat-ul-Jihad-Islami, which has formed a close relationship with al Qaeda.",
"Kashmiri was also said to have ties with David Coleman Headley, the U.S. citizen who confessed to helping scout targets for the Mumbai attack in November 2008."
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"Kashmiri was seen at the location of the strike .",
"Pakistan has not confirmed the death of Ilyas Kashmiri .",
"Kashmiri's followers say he was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan .",
"He is considered one of the most dangerous men in the world ."
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"Berlin (CNN) -- Germany's government formally approved a plan Monday to close all the country's nuclear power plants by 2022.",
"The plan was announced last month, after the government rethought Germany's nuclear strategy in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown triggered by an earthquake and tsunami.",
"Parliament must still officially approve the bill.",
"Minister of Ecology Norbert Roettgen of the Christian Democratic Union party said eight nuclear power stations would remain shut down, while six more would go offline by by the of 2021 \"at the latest,\" and \"the three most modern, newest nuclear plants will go offline in 2022 at the latest.\"",
"He made the announcement after negotiations with coalition partner, the Liberal Party, which had been opposed to setting a date for decommissioning the nuclear facilities.",
"Opposition parties have long supported shuttering nuclear energy in Germany .",
"To make up for the loss of nuclear energy, the German government will begin to switch to renewable energy and increase investments in energy research, the government website said.",
"\"But we will not be able to do without conventional power plants, above all cutting-edge gas power plants for a long time,\" said a statement published in May.",
"\"New fruits of new research should contribute to making the energy transition more efficient and easier on the ecology.\"",
"In March, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced she would rethink a plan to extend the lifespan of her country's nuclear power plants.",
"\"The events in Japan have shown us that even things that seem all but impossible scientifically can in fact happen,\" Merkel said at a Berlin news conference.",
"Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was damaged in a March 11 earthquake and tsunami, which has spewed large amounts of radiation into the environment.",
"At the time, Merkel ordered a review of the nuclear plant safety standards, saying there would be \"no taboos in those reviews.\""
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"The cabinet votes to shut down all nuclear power plants by 2022 .",
"Germany rethought its nuclear strategy after the nuclear catastrophe in Japan in March .",
"Parliament must still approve the bill .",
"Germany will rely on natural gas among other resources for the time being ."
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"(CNN) -- The British tourist who caught a 1-year-old child who fell from the fourth-floor balcony of an Orlando, Florida, hotel was honored by government and business leaders Friday.",
"Officials credit Helen Beard's quick thinking with saving Jah-Nea Myles' life.",
"Beard was in the pool area of the Econo Lodge Inn and Suites around 9:15 Thursday evening when, after hearing horrific screams, she looked up to see a small child hanging from a hotel balcony.",
"\"We heard shouts and I turned around,\" said Beard, 44, a mother who was on vacation with her partner, Philip Charlesworth, and her 10-year-old son, Ben.",
"\"I was able to run over and catch Jah-Nea,\" she said.",
"Beard said it appeared the girl slipped through a railing along the balcony walkway, deputies told CNN affiliate WKMG.",
"See hotel and how far child fell .",
"Just hours later, Beard, a health services analyst, was honored for her \"heroic actions.\"",
"She was given a \"Medal of Merit\" by the Orange County Sheriff's Department, the International Drive Chamber of Commerce and the state Department of Children and Families for showing \"unusual instinct and initiative\" when she leaped into action.",
"\"It all happened so fast,\" said Beard, who was still shocked by all the attention.",
"\"I just sat with her and tried to calm her down while everyone was panicking around me.\"",
"Helena Myles, the child's mother, said she left her daughter with a friend in a motel room, according to WKMG.",
"The friend, Dominique Holt, said he went to use the bathroom and then found the hotel room door open after hearing screams, the sheriff's office said.",
"A woman who was in the hotel room with Holt said she didn't know the child was there, according to deputies.",
"No charges have been filed in the case."
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"Helen Beard is given a \"Medal of Merit\" by government and business leaders .",
"The tourist from England caught Jah-Nea Myles as she fell from a fourth-story balcony .",
"Beard's \"quick-thinking and heroic actions\" are credited with saving the child's life ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- A protester opposed to the expansion of Heathrow Airport threw green custard in the face of British Business Secretary Peter Mandelson on Friday.",
"Mandelson: \"Thankfully, it wasn't paint and I've come through it intact.\"",
"Mandelson had just stepped out of his car for a meeting on carbon emissions when the woman threw the cup of custard at him.",
"She shouted a few words at Mandelson, who rushed inside the building, before walking away.",
"London's Metropolitan Police said it did not arrest the woman because \"no complaint has been made as yet.\"",
"Plane Stupid, a group that opposes airport expansion and aviation-related climate change, identified the protester as Leila Deen, 29.",
"\"It's not right that someone like Peter Mandelson can stand up and talk about being green.",
"The only thing green about Peter Mandelson is the slime coursing through his veins,\" said Deen, who said she works at a poverty charity.",
"Deen disguised the custard in a disposable coffee cup with a lid.",
"\"It was a grave decision that I had to take to highlight this, but we cannot have people like Peter Mandelson standing by and being applauded for his actions on climate change when he's agreed to the third runway and bullied others into that,\" she added.",
"Mandelson indicated that Deen failed to make her point.",
"\"She was so busy throwing what seemed like green soup or something in my face that she failed to tell me what the protest was about,\" he said.",
"\"Thankfully, it wasn't paint and I've come through it intact.\"",
"Mandelson said he wanted to get on with his meeting \"and not bother too much with adolescent protests.\"",
"Watch Mandelson get \"slimed\" » .",
"It was the second high-profile action this week by Plane Stupid, which has become known for headline-grabbing stunts.",
"Tuesday, nine of the group's protesters broke into the grounds of Aberdeen Airport in Scotland and delayed flights for several hours in a demonstration over expansion.",
"The British government voted in January to approve a controversial third runway at Heathrow, saying it will increase airport capacity and is essential for British business.",
"The government has promised noise and emission levels will actually be reduced as Britain meets European Union targets.",
"Heathrow currently operates at 99 percent capacity.",
"The runway's construction would involve razing areas around the airport, including an entire village and parts of two other towns.",
"Opponents say emission levels will actually increase under the plans."
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"Protester throws green custard over UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson .",
"Anti-airport expansion group Plane Stupid claims responsibility for attack .",
"Mandelson: \"Thankfully, it wasn't paint and I've come through it intact\"\nProtester: \"Only thing green about him is the slime coursing through his veins\""
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"(CNN) -- A suicide blast in northwestern Pakistan Friday killed a 12-year-old boy and wounded five others, police said.",
"The attack took place at a weapons market in Dara Adam Khel, according to Masood Khan Afridi, the police chief of Kohat district.",
"The suicide bomber blew himself up after people thought his actions were suspicious and tried to apprehend him, Afridi said.",
"Dara Adam Khel is about 55 km (34 miles) southwest of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where the attack took place."
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"The suicide bomber blew himself up after people tried to apprehend him, police say .",
"The attack took place at a weapons market in Dara Adam Khel ."
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"(CNN) -- Cricketer Zulqarnain Haider has ended his exile in Britain and returned to Pakistan after leaving his team during a series in which he claims he refused to fix a match.",
"The wicket-keeper was pictured at Benazir International Airport in Islamabad by AFP on Monday after flying in from London, his base since November.",
"He was also pictured with Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who AFP said had assured Haider he would be safe to return to his homeland.",
"Haider fled from the team's base in Dubai prior to a one day international match with South Africa, telling CNN when he arrived in London that he feared reprisals over his decision.",
"Upon his return to Pakistan he was quoted by AFP as saying: \"I am happy to return.",
"There were solid reasons behind my going to London and I am sure everyone realized that no one can put his career at stake for nothing.",
"\"I am happy the way I was given full security.",
"I want to spend some time with my family and then meet PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) chairman (Ijaz Butt) which I will share with you.\"",
"AFP also quoted Malik as saying: \"Haider will be given full security as promised.",
"He is a citizen of Pakistan so there is no restriction on his movement.",
"He has told us some facts which at this point of time we cannot share with the media.\"",
"The Pakistan Cricket Board ripped up Haider's contract after he left the team's camp in the United Arab Emirates with the player applying for political asylum in the UK.",
"He granted CNN an exclusive interview when he arrived in London, saying: \"I listened to people in Pakistan who talked about the match fixing [problem], they said that a lot of people are involved and I felt threatened ... and very disappointed.",
"\"I know I can't believe anyone.",
"If you got threatened then you would then not believe people either.",
"If I told anyone, they may have contact with these people [involved in match-fixing], so this could cause a problem for my family in Pakistan and also me in Dubai.\"",
"Pakistan cricket has been dogged by allegations of corruption and three of Haider's former teammates, Salman Butt, Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif, were banned after the International Cricket Council found them guilty of \"spot-fixing.\""
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"Zulqarnain Haider has returned to Pakistan after living in exile in Britain since November 2010 .",
"The cricketer claims he fled his team's base in Dubai after refusing to fix a match .",
"Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik assured Haider of his safety back in his homeland .",
"Haider said he was happy to be given full security on his return ."
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"(CNN) -- An outbreak of the H1N1 virus, known commonly as the swine flu, has hit the Venezuelan Andean state of Merida, the country's health minister said, the state-run AVN news agency reported.",
"More than 100 cases of H1N1 have been recorded in Venezuela as of Tuesday, Eugenia Sader said.",
"In Merida alone there are 56 cases which have tested positive for the virus, and special precautions have been put in place in that state, AVN reported.",
"Classes in Merida have been canceled for five days, and a ban has been placed on events at night clubs and other closed-in venues, the agency reported.",
"The health minister asked for calm Tuesday, saying that while the outbreak was confirmed, there was not an epidemic in the country.",
"The most recent global pandemic was the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, in which the estimates of deaths ranged as high as 12,500 in the United States alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
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"There is an outbreak of the H1N1 virus in Merida state, the health minister says .",
"At least 56 cases have been confirmed there .",
"There is no epidemic in the country, she says ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- For any other candidate, raining on a presidential announcement parade would be seen as sabotage.",
"Not former Massachusetts Gov.",
"Mitt Romney.",
"The 2012 presidential candidate told CNN's Piers Morgan Monday that he wasn't offended when former Alaska Gov.",
"Sarah Palin appeared in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire on the same day he was set to formally announce his intention to seek the 2012 GOP nomination for president.",
"In fact, though Romney shared his plans one week in advance and Palin insisted on keeping the destination of her top-secret bus tour under wraps until the day before her New Hampshire appearance, Romney insisted that the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee \"really didn't ruin my day.\"",
"\"In a lot of respects it's the best thing that could happen to me,\" he said on CNN's \"Piers Morgan Tonight.\"",
"\"Right now, your greatest enemy is overexposure.",
"People get tired of seeing the same person day in and day out.\"",
"And Romney, who also sought the GOP nomination in 2008, had nothing but kind words for Palin, who's still batting around the will-she-or-won't-she question.",
"\"I think Sarah Palin is generating enthusiasm and interest in a campaign this year.",
"That's a good thing,\" he affirmed.",
"\"She has a lot of energy and passion and bringing it to our race is positive for us.\"",
"But for all the benefits of enthusiasm and interest, Romney will choose a different tack for the time being, opting instead to lay low.",
"\"People are going to start focusing on the elections probably after Labor Day,\" he said.",
"\"For us, I'm not doing a lot of TV - just a couple of very key interviews where I get a chance to talk about things I care about,\" Romney revealed.",
"\"Until Labor Day hits I'm going be pretty quiet.\""
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"Romney says he is not offended at Palin's appearance in New Hampshire .",
"She \"really didn't ruin my day,\" he tells Piers Morgan .",
"He intends to lie low.",
"\"Your greatest enemy is overexposure,\" he says ."
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"(CNN) -- The legend of Jesus Malverde is a more than century-old story handed down from generation to generation of disenfranchised Mexicans.",
"Widely known as the Robin Hood of Mexico, Malverde was said to be the quintessential son of the pueblo.",
"His story was embraced by the poor and, more recently, by drug traffickers.",
"They worship the folk hero as a type of secular saint.",
"Malverde's name has become so inextricably linked with drug trafficking that busts and other paraphernalia of him have been used as evidence against defendants in drug trials.",
"For Latino hip-hop star Jesus Martinez-Gonzalez, that presents some problems.",
"As a musician he performs under the stage name \"Malverde.\"",
"Since he can remember, he's crafted his image after his boyhood hero.",
"A photo on one of his social media sites shows just how much.",
"In one picture, Martinez-Gonzalez is dressed in a traditional white Mexican button-up, his usual beard shaved into a thin mustache, a strikingly similar pose to how Malverde is portrayed.",
"The musician has also embraced activism, taking the side of the disenfranchised, something he says Malverde would have done.",
"If that wasn't enough, he even introduces himself to people as \"Jesus Malverde.\"",
"Martinez-Gonzalez says he was fascinated with the mystical folklore and was not aware of the negative perception of Malverde.",
"But as drug violence plagues parts of Mexico, the stigma has forced the musician to reconsider what he's created for himself.",
"\"It's crazy, I get messages and e-mails from people who think I'm really him,\" Martinez-Gonzalez said in an interview at the Center for Hispanic Leadership conference in Los Angeles.",
"Watch Martinez-Gonzalez music video .",
"The messages come sporadically on his social media pages, he said.",
"And because he lives with a tainted name, some of the messages are threats.",
"\"I get people that hit me up,\" he said about the threats, \"but once they realize what I'm about they're cool,\" he said without elaborating.",
"Tony Kail, creator of Worldview Consulting, which helps train U.S. law enforcement staff about religious practices, said the cartels embraced figures like Jesus Malverde because they \"hear prayers from dark places -- prayers traditional deities like the Mother Mary don't.\"",
"A shrine dedicated to Malverde is located in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico.",
"It is believed thousands visit it every year to give offerings to the \"narco saint.\"",
"People leave messages pleading for miracles.",
"When they believe those miracles materialize, they return with more offerings.",
"Kail spent more than 20 years writing about deviant religious groups, researching Santeria communities and healers in East Africa.",
"He said in the 1980s, he began seeing anti-Christian imagery in Mexico.",
"He saw images of Santa Muerte, the protector of death.",
"Later, he saw Santa Muerte's image tied to one figure who kept coming up.",
"It was Jesus Malverde.",
"Unlike traditional Mexican Catholicism, there is no hard and fast ritual to worshipping figures like Malverde or Santa Muerte, Kail said.",
"That made those figures spiritually attractive to nefarious people, including drug traffickers.",
"So, the folk hero became inextricably linked with a dark business.",
"Martinez-Gonzalez chose the name innocently.",
"The son of a Mexican immigrant grape picker, he spent childhood summers running through the grapevines of Southern California's Coachella Valley, side by side with his mother while she worked.",
"Being first-generation Mexican-American he kept close ties to his culture, listening intently to the stories his grandfather told him growing up.",
"The story about Jesus Malverde caught his attention.",
"For the young Martinez-Gonzalez, sharing the first name with a railroad bandito legend was \"pretty cool,\" but what appealed to him more were the stories of Malverde's philanthropy and how he made his legend by helping the poor hard-working families in the western state of Sinaloa, Mexico.",
"Unlike his contemporary -- the more politically minded legendary Mexican hero Pancho Villa -- there is no proof Malverde existed.",
"Those who perpetuate the legend speak of a man who was the \"son of the pueblo\" during the turn of the 20th century.",
"Mexican authorities were said to have hunted the elusive Malverde relentlessly and then offered a sizeable reward for his capture -- dead or alive.",
"As the legend goes, Malverde told his friend to kill him, turn his body in and give the reward money to the people of Sinaloa.",
"In the years after his purported death in 1909, and as his legend was repeated over time by poor Mexican farm workers, those who paid homage to Malverde grew in numbers.",
"With the rise of drug culture in rural Sinaloa between the 1970s and '80s, Malverde's image morphed into something less benevolent.",
"\"There's a seriousness involved to the name I chose,\" Martinez-Gonzalez said.",
"\"I understand that.\" But he defended his decision with the argument that Malverde's legend had nothing to do with narco-trafficking.",
"Then, he paused, understanding the sensitivity of what he just said.",
"\"It's not like I'm out there saying stupid stuff.",
"The bandito music is about love and the street and the struggle,\" Malverde said, referring to \"bandit music,\" which glamorizes illegitimate lifestyles and is seen by its critics as praising thug life.",
"\"My music has a moral to it.",
"When I started 10-plus years or so ago, the stigma wasn't as bad as it is now.",
"I'm not redefining the brand because it is what it is.",
"It's others (who) have redefined it and made it something else.\"",
"Martinez-Gonzalez entered high school in California, where he also went to college.",
"He embraced political activism.",
"He began writing poetry, listening to hip-hop and attending pro-immigration rallies.",
"At political functions, he contributed through spoken word poetry.",
"It turned into rap and from there he started writing music.",
"He was good and was soon signed by Universal Latino as a recording artist.",
"\"Eventually I got to a point where people were like, you need a name,\" he said.",
"Almost instinctively, he chose the name Jesus Malverde.",
"On a serendipitous day, he was talking to his producer about whether he should go with the name when a Mexican healer on the streets of Los Angeles handed his producer a card.",
"On it was the image of Jesus Malverde with the Virgin Mary behind him.",
"\"That was my green light,\" Martinez-Gonzalez said.",
"\"I believe in signs.",
"I went to Catholic school first through fifth grade,\" Martinez-Gonzalez said, laughing on the phone while at a studio in Los Angeles.",
"Just to be sure he wasn't making a mistake, he met with the healer.",
"She gave him her blessing.",
"He did not foresee the dark drug cloud that hung over him.",
"Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said it was the outlaw spirit of Malverde's image that appeals to the narcos.",
"\"Him being a mytho-secular saint probably had plenty to do with these guys looking for a talisman of sorts for today and a guide into the here- and ever-after tomorrow,\" Garza said.",
"Kail, the FBI consultant, said the cartels chose figures like Malverde to make them scapegoats through demonization.",
"\"It was the process of the cartels attaching themselves to the Malverde image that is shocking and anti-traditional and now it has taken a life of its own,\" Kail said.",
"Martinez-Gonzalez said the drug traffickers feel they are emulating the legacy of Malverde.",
"\"And in a way they are,\" he said. \"But then there's the other aspect. The level of violence.",
"Dishonorable killings.",
"It's tragic in that sense that it's taken such a negative, nasty turn.\"",
"Beyond the more than 100 Google page search results on the narco culture ties to Jesus Malverde, Martinez-Gonzalez said anyone can find the real legend of the folklore hero.",
"It is his struggle, he said, to shed the misconceptions of Malverde created over time.",
"\"I'm involved in major nonprofits and community education.",
"And they see someone in me who has overcome being in the barrio.",
"To me, that's Malverde. The experience of instilling that hope.",
"If Malverde was alive right now, I try to think what would he be doing?\"",
"But carrying the \"Malverde cross\" became so burdensome that Martinez-Gonzalez subconsciously turned away from the name altogether.",
"A year ago he stopped playing music under his stage name and left Universal Latino, choosing to focus instead on a collaboration he calls the Maleco Collective, an eclectic mix of Spanish language politically driven hip-hop.",
"The whole time, though, Martinez-Gonzalez said he looked for signs to perform again under the name Malverde.",
"\"Here's a man, whether he existed or not, 100 years later still has such an impact,\" he said, referencing the popular Mexican ballads known as corridos.",
"\"He's immortal. Like my grandfather says, you leave a good 'corrido'.",
"And my music is my 'corrido'.",
"It's the power of the word.\"",
"Martinez-Gonzalez knows the gravity of the name he adopted.",
"People have gotten killed for less, he said.",
"But Malverde, he said, will always exist in him.",
"And, he said, \"he exists in you.\""
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"(CNN) -- Radamel Falcao fired four goals as Porto demolished Villarreal 5-1 on Thursday night to all-but ensure an all-Portuguese final in the Europa League.",
"The Spanish club took the lead through Ruben Cani just before halftime after dominating the opening period, but had no answer in the second spell against the Portuguese champions.",
"Colombia striker Falcao extended his competition-leading tally to 15 this season, matching German legend Jurgen Klinsmann's record total in Europe's second-tier competition, while Fredy Guarin scored the other goal.",
"Porto, who won the tournament in 2003 when it was still known as the UEFA Cup, will face either Benfica or Braga in next month's final in Dublin if they successfully negotiate the trip to El Madrigal.",
"Benfica clinched a 2-1 victory at home, leaving the second semifinal evenly poised ahead of next week's return leg in Braga.",
"Is Mourinho student the new 'Special One'?",
"Villarreal, fourth in Spain's La Liga, had looked surprisingly comfortable away from home against a team that wrapped up the national league crown with five games to play -- and whose coach has everyone comparing him to his mentor Jose Mourinho.",
"Andre Villas Boas could only look on as Ruben Cani headed Villarreal in front with a near-post effort from Nilmar's cross as Porto's defense was caught out again.",
"But whatever the 33-year-old said at halftime, it did the trick as his team ran riot.",
"Falcao equalized from the penalty spot three minutes after the break after being brought down by Diego Lopez, then just after an hour Fredy Guarin headed in a rebound after his first effort was pushed onto the post by the goalkeeper.",
"Falcao made it 3-1 in the 67th minute as he lunged to volley in a perfect cross from Brazilian striker partner Hulk, then his diving header from Guarin's free-kick on 75 made it a three-goal advantage.",
"The 25-year-old gave Villarreal a mountain to climb in the second leg with another stunning header from a corner in the final minute, sealing Porto's 13th successive victory in all competitions.",
"Villas Boas is on course for a treble in his first season in charge, which Mourinho also achieved in 2003-04, with Porto also in the Portuguese Cup final.",
"Benfica, a distant second in the league by 19 points and beaten 3-1 by Porto in the domestic cup last week, made a strong start against Braga as Oscar Cardozo had an 11th-minute effort ruled out for offside.",
"And the Paraguay striker was involved when his team took the lead five minutes after halftime, with his header hitting the post after a superb run down the right by Argentine defender Maxi Pereira.",
"Vieira Jardel converted the rebound for his first European goal.",
"Braga, third in the Portuguese league a whopping 33 points behind Porto, stunned the home fans just three minutes later when midfielder Vandinho leveled.",
"The 33-year-old Brazilian cleverly flicked in a header from a free-kick to leave goalkeeper Roberto helpless.",
"It was a double blow for Benfica as the set-piece came from a foul by Argentine midfielder Pablo Aimar, who will now miss the second leg after being booked for his efforts.",
"But Cardozo ensured two-time European champions Benfica will at least have a lead to protect, with the 27-year-old curling in a superb left-foot free-kick just before the hour mark.",
"Earlier on Thursday, UEFA fined Rangers €80,000 ($118,000) and banned the Scottish club from selling tickets at two away games and one at home.",
"The punishment stems from incidents during both legs of the Europa League last-16 tie against Dutch side PSV Eindhoven, with Rangers fans accused of \"discriminatory behavior\" -- or sectarian chants by the club's predominantly Catholic support.",
"It is the third time UEFA has fined the Glasgow-based team for such an offense following incidents in European competition in 2006, 2007 and 2009, according the the UK Press Association.",
"The ticket ban for one away match and the home one has been suspended for a probationary period of three years.",
"Rangers have three days in which to appeal, and the club's chief executive Martin Bain said he would first wait for a written explanation from UEFA.",
"\"We are bitterly disappointed that our club has been placed in a position where we are subjected to these kind of sanctions by UEFA,\" he told the Rangers website.",
"\"The club put its own case very forcibly to UEFA, and the more draconian sanctions that were recommended by the disciplinary inspector have been mitigated to a degree.",
"\"To be clear, we condemn sectarianism and there is no doubt the mindless behavior of an element of our support has exposed the club to a very serious situation.",
"The people who engage in this type of behavior are damaging the club they claim to support.\""
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"(CNN Student News) -- April 29, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
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"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"ROBERT ALLEN, TERRA LINDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT [RAPPING]: One, two, three... hit it!",
"You keep on and you don't stop. You keep on and you don't stop. Now what you hear is not a test, so if think you're the best, then put it to rest.",
"So ladies, fellows, girls and boys, join me please and make some noise for your favorite show and mine, CNN Student News.",
"Take it away, Carl.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Okay, it's Friday, and that was awesome!",
"My buddy had a sweet voice too.",
"Thank you to the students at Terra Linda High School.",
"And thanks to all of you for rapping up -- get it?",
"-- your week with CNN Student News.",
"First Up: Southern Storms .",
"AZUZ: Unparalleled, near-epic, heartbreaking.",
"Those are just some of the words officials are using to describe the severe weather and the impact that it had as it ripped across parts of the southern U.S. on Wednesday.",
"We've been talking about storms in the south for a few days now.",
"The devastation that happened on Wednesday was immense.",
"Across six states, more than 270 people were killed.",
"Whole neighborhoods destroyed.",
"Governors declaring states of emergency and asking President Obama to do the same thing.",
"Most of the deaths happened in Alabama.",
"This video gives you an idea of just how frightening it was to be in parts of that state on Wednesday.",
"This tornado hit Tuscaloosa.",
"That's where the University of Alabama is located.",
"Officials say the school wasn't hit too badly.",
"Nnot the case for other parts of the town.",
"Tuscaloosa's mayor said, \"I don't know how anyone survived.\"",
"He added, \"We're used to tornadoes here in Tuscaloosa.",
"But when you look at the path of destruction... there's parts of the city I don't recognize.\"",
"No question about it, these storms were strong.",
"As it turns out, you're more likely to get more powerful storms when there aren't a lot in one area.",
"Yesterday, Chad Myers explained the science behind that.",
"CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: When you have a bunch of storms that are all banging into each other, you don't get F-4, F-5 tornadoes.",
"When you have a storm all by itself, like we had a couple of them yesterday, here, here, here, here, not battling tops, all by themselves, that's when you get this type of structure.",
"Impact Your World .",
"AZUZ: Relief is already on the way.",
"At CNNStudentNews.com, you can out how you can make a difference.",
"Go to our home page, scroll down to the Spotlight section and click on the \"Impact Your World\" link to learn how you can help.",
"What's the Word? BARBARA HALL, CNN STUDENT NEWS: What's the word?",
"As a noun, it means an effort, an action or activity designed to achieve a goal.",
"ENDEAVOR . That's the word! Endeavour Launch .",
"AZUZ: The space shuttle Endeavour is getting ready to set off on a new endeavor.",
"You might notice that the shuttle's name is spelled differently.",
"That's because it's named after a British ship, not after the word.",
"Endeavour is scheduled to launch later today.",
"The mission to the international space station will be commanded by Mark Kelly.",
"His wife will be at the Kennedy Space Center to watch the liftoff.",
"That's newsworthy, because his wife is U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was the victim of a shooting less than four months ago.",
"The two-week mission is the last one for Endeavour.",
"As it gets ready to take its last flight, John Zarrella looks back at the first time Endeavour lifted off.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN MIAMI BUREAU CHIEF AND CORRESPONDENT: Endeavour, the newest of the orbiters, might never have been built if not for a terrible accident.",
"In the aftermath of the loss of Challenger in 1986, President Reagan promised the disaster would not stop the journey outward.",
"FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: We will continue our quest in space.",
"There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews.",
"ZARRELLA: A year and a half later, Congress authorized the construction of the new, nearly $2 billion space plane.",
"Endeavour's first flight, 1992.",
"UNIDENTIFED NASA ANNOUNCER: Liftoff of the maiden voyage of Endeavour... ZARRELLA: This will be its 25th and final flight.",
"Along its journey, Endeavour made numerous construction trips to the international space station and handled the first Hubble Telescope repair mission.",
"Barbara Morgan, the first educator in space, flew on Endeavour.",
"Morgan was the back-up to teacher-in-space Christa McAuliffe, who died on Challenger.",
"The shuttle fleet has had both a tragic and triumphant past.",
"And for thirty years, has been America's signature flying machine.",
"COL. MIKE FINCKE, ENDEAVOUR ASTRONAUT: It's got a glass cockpit.",
"It has a robot arm. It can fly to the Hubble Space Telescope or the station.",
"It can land anywhere on the planet that has a runway.",
"It is an amazing piece of equipment on any scale.",
"ZARRELLA: When Endeavour returns from its final flight, Commander Mark Kelly jokes, there won't be anything missing.",
"MARK KELLY, ENDEAVOUR COMMANDER: You know, when you fly an airplane to the boneyard out in the desert, they say don't take anything off of it.",
"You get the brief ahead of time.",
"I'll do the same thing with my crew: \"You got to leave, make sure it all stays intact for the museum.\"",
"We're not gonna be signing our name on anything.",
"ZARRELLA: Perhaps just the guest book at the California Science Center, where Endeavour will be placed in retirement.",
"John Zarrella, CNN, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.",
"(END VIDEO) Shoutout .",
"TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mrs. Newkirk's 7UPS classes at Eastside Middle School in Mt.",
"Washington, Kentucky!",
"Where is today's royal wedding taking place?",
"You know what to do! Is it in: A) St. Paul's Cathedral, B) Westminster Abbey, C) Buckhingham Palace or D) Piccadilly Circus?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Prince William and Kate Middleton are exchanging vows at Westminster Abbey.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Royal Wedding .",
"AZUZ: Westminster Abbey is a popular choice for royal weddings.",
"That's where Queen Elizabeth II was married 63 years ago.",
"Before William and Kate set foot in the Abbey this morning, though, people were lining up on the streets of London hoping to catch a glimpse of the couple on their way to Westminster.",
"At CNNStudentNews.com, you'll find CNN's Royal Wedding Planner.",
"Check out the guest list, the seating chart for the Abbey, the royal wedding family tree.",
"There's been a ton of media focus on the wedding, especially here in the U.S., a country that fought for its independence from Great Britain.",
"Kiran Chetry looks at how a revolution eventually gave way to a special relationship between the two nations.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) DAVID WOOLNER, HISTORIAN, ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: It's that summer of '39 that you see the beginning of the birth of this special relationship that's been with us ever since.",
"KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR: At the time, the spotlight on another royal couple: King George and Queen Elizabeth.",
"The special relationship with the United States begins with letters between the king and President Franklin Roosevelt.",
"And soon after, a visit; the first time a reigning British monarch tours the U.S. WOOLNER: This visit then comes at a very critical moment.",
"War is imminent.",
"Roosevelt was looking for a way to strengthen U.S. bonds with Great Britain.",
"Especially the bonds between the American people and the British people.",
"CHETRY: Not long after, Winston Churchill is the first to use the phrase \"special relationship,\" as the two countries fight together during World War II.",
"A sentiment often repeated by other prime ministers and presidents throughout the years.",
"GORDON BROWN, FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: I come in friendship to renew for new times our special relationship.",
"CHETRY: Why is that relationship so special?",
"BROWN: It didn't start very well 225 years ago when you kicked the British out.",
"But I think this shared purpose, the same values of liberty, democracy, responsibility to each other, fairness.",
"CHETRY: Yet, the special relationship has not been without strains.",
"The United States would not support Great Britain during the 1956 Suez Canal crisis, and Great Britain refused to support the United States during the Vietnam War.",
"BROWN: We can have treaties that are broken, but this relationship, it seems to me, is unbreakable, because it is based on something more than just sort of an assessment of your best interests.",
"CHETRY: Close ties between the two countries often correspond with the bonds of friendship between the leaders: Prime Minister Harold McMillan and President John F. Kennedy fighting the Cold War.",
"Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President Ronald Reagan, united during the fall of the Soviet Union.",
"But Prime Minister Tony Blair's support of President George Bush's decision to invade Iraq was not without consequences.",
"WOOLNER: This became very, very unpopular, of course, among the British public.",
"And Tony Blair paid a price for this politically and is still paying a price for this to this day.",
"CHETRY: But as the two countries move forward, former Prime Minister Brown takes an optimistic view.",
"BROWN: Despite all the different problems that will arise, this relationship will endure and, perhaps, strengthen in the years to come.",
"(END VIDEO) Before We Go .",
"AZUZ: Before we go, kids hate being told to clean up their toys.",
"But for the little guy in this YouTube video, it's a chance to show off his skills.",
"First shot, kind of impressive.",
"Keep in mind, he's only 18 months old.",
"He lines up the 2nd kick.",
"Gooooooooooooooooooooal! Can he go a perfect 3 for 3?",
"You bet he can. Somebody better sign him up!",
"Turns out, somebody did!",
"His granddad's old soccer team.",
"Signing a toddler to a ten-year contract?",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: We bet grandpa got a real kick out of that.",
"As for the mini-midfielder, if he ever throws a tantrum, I guess his parents just have to give him a red card since there are no time outs in soccer.",
"That's gonna run out the clock on today's show.",
"We'll see you again on Monday."
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"(CNN) -- The death of Osama bin Laden proves that he had been \"hiding in plain sight\" says CNN's senior international correspondent Nic Robertson.",
"The U.S. special forces operation that killed bin Laded took place at a mansion in the town of Abbottabad, just over 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the Pakistan capital Islamabad.",
"\"This has been exactly the concern of western officials; that he had been hiding not in a remote border area but in the cities.\"",
"The death of bin Laden in Pakistan there will present some difficulties for the government there, said Robertson.",
"\"It's been one of the most difficult and thorniest issues (for the government), what happened if bin Laden is killed on their soil?",
"\"It would not be difficult to imagine there would be some sort of backlash or protests on the streets there of Islamabad.\"",
"The death of bin Laden comes at a time when relations between the U.S. and Pakistan are particularly strained with Pakistani officials angered by U.S. drone strikes in the country.",
"The case of Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor who fatally shot two Pakistani men in Lahore in February, also highlighted divisions between Washington and Islamabad.",
"But Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, believes the bin Laden operation \"shows that underneath this actually there is a pretty firm relationship.\"",
"\"It is highly significant that Pakistan allowed this to happen on their territory so near their capital,\" he added.",
"According to a U.S. official the Pakistan authorities had not been informed ahead of the actual raid.",
"The implications for al Qaeda, bin Laden's terrorist network, are also significant.",
"\"It is unlikely to kill off al Qaeda but it is going to have a huge psychological impact on members of the organization,\" says Robertson.",
"\"It's likely we'll hear members of the organization on the internet saying they don't believe this; al Qaeda members are going to say this is part of western propaganda until they see some evidence.\"",
"Peter Bergen met bin Laden in 1997 and believes that al Qaeda will perhaps be irrecoverably damaged by the death of bin Laden.",
"\"There's no one who can replace him.",
"When you join al Qaeda you pledge a personal oath of allegiance (to him),\" he says.",
"American-Yemeni cleric Anwar al Awlaki plays a leadership role for al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula, but believes Bergen, \"(he) is not a major hero to the global jihadi movement who fought the Soviets and U.S. for two decades (like bin Laden).\""
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- They sleep anywhere they can find open space -- in conference rooms, corridors, even stairwells.",
"They have one blanket, no pillows and a leaded mat intended to keep radiation at bay.",
"They eat only two meals each day -- a carefully rationed breakfast of 30 crackers and vegetable juice and for dinner, a ready-to-eat meal or something out of a can.They clean themselves with wet wipes, since the supply of fresh water is short.",
"These are the grueling living conditions for the workers inside Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.",
"They've been hailed as heroes risking their lives by braving high levels of radiation as they work to avert a nuclear meltdown.",
"But until now, the outside world has known little about the workers' routine.",
"Tuesday, safety inspector Kazuma Yokota, who spent five days at the plant last week, spoke with CNN about the plight of the 400 workers staying in a building within 1 kilometer (.6 of a mile) of Reactor No.",
"1. Japanese officials ordered mandatory evacuations for everyone else within 20 (12.4 miles) kilometers of the plant.",
"The workers look tired, Yokota said.",
"They are furiously connecting electrical cables, repairing instrument panels and pumping radioactive water out.",
"They work with the burden of their own personal tragedies always weighing heavily.",
"\"My parents were washed away by the tsunami, and I still don't know where they are,\" one worker wrote in an e-mail that was verified as authentic by a spokesman for the Tokyo Electric Power Co., which runs the Fukushima plant.",
"\"Crying is useless,\" said another e-mail.",
"\"If we're in hell now, all we can do is crawl up towards heaven.\"",
"But they are doing it all with the kind of determination required in a task with such high stakes.",
"There's no room for plummeting morale and the workers are not showing any signs of spirits flagging, Yokota said.",
"However upbeat the workers are, there's no denying the conditions are beyond difficult.",
"\"On the ground at the nuclear power plant, the workers are working under very dangerous and very hard conditions, and I feel a great deal of respect for them,\" Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters Tuesday.",
"The workers spend three days on site and go off for one.",
"They start their work day at 8 a.m. and go for 12 long hours.",
"Gary Was, a nuclear engineering expert at the University of Michigan, told CNN Tuesday that contaminated seawater brings potential danger \"and they need to take all precautions.\"",
"Particulates that land on the skin or are ingested \"can be a constant source of radiation into the future,\" Was said.",
"\"You need to be very careful not to ingest any of that.\"",
"Was said officials need to remove and store contaminated water.",
"Last week, three men who were laying electrical cable in the turbine building of the No.",
"3 reactor stepped in tainted water, exposing themselves to high levels of radiation.",
"Tokyo Electric apologized and said their exposure might have been avoided with better communication.",
"Radiation alarms went off while the three men were working, but they continued with their mission for 40 to 50 minutes after assuming it was a false alarm.",
"They were hospitalized after it was determined they had been exposed to 173 to 181 millisieverts of radiation -- two of them with direct exposure on their skin.",
"They were later released.",
"By comparison, a person in an industrialized country is naturally exposed to 3 millisieverts per year, though Japan's Health Ministry has said that those working directly to avert the nuclear crisis could be exposed to as much as 250 millisieverts before they must leave the site.",
"The incident also prompted further criticism of Tokyo Electric and how well it is safeguarding the workers.",
"Yokota said the power company hoped to improve living conditions for the workers by moving them to another facility.",
"Edano said officials also hope to find replacements in order to relieve the workers at the plant.",
"Until then, they will continue as the faceless heroes in Japan's tragedy, the nation's only hope of thwarting further disaster."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday that it would work to ban the sale of some mouse and rat poisons in a bid to better protect children and pets.",
"The agency in 2008 gave makers of such poisons until last week to research, develop and register new products that would be safer than those that were then on the market.",
"Many companies complied, but some did not.",
"Among the targets are such popular rodent poisons as D-Con, Victor and Hot Shot, the agency said.",
"\"These changes are essential to reduce the thousands of accidental exposures of children that occur every year from rat and mouse control products and also to protect household pets,\" said Steve Owens, assistant administrator for EPA's office of chemical safety and pollution prevention.",
"\"Today's action will help keep our children and pets safe from these poisons.\"",
"The EPA said that as many as 15,000 children under the age of 6 are exposed to rat and mouse poisons each year.",
"Children are especially at risk, the agency said, because poisons are often put on the floor and kids will sometimes put bait pellets in their mouths.",
"The sales ban would cover most loose bait and pellet products, the agency said.",
"The EPA also intends to ban the residential sale of poisons that contain certain compounds -- brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difethialone and difenacoum -- because of their toxicity.",
"Professional pest control and agricultural workers would still be allowed to use them, the agency said."
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"Washington (CNN) -- John Keith rattles each pill bottle and raps it down on the table, 15 in all.",
"\"That's what they had me on right there, every day,\" the former sailor says of the prescriptions he received from Veterans Affairs doctors.",
"Keith, who lives in California, says his case is an example of how government doctors over-prescribe for active-duty and retired military, with often disastrous results.",
"On the other side of the country, the Ohio family of Chris Bachus, a decorated Marine who died in his sleep from an accidental drug overdose, also says military doctors are writing too many prescriptions.",
"\"How could a team of doctors, allegedly working together, prescribe all those things together?\"",
"Jerry Bachus asks of the doctors who treated his brother with dozens of separate medications.",
"And the military itself is struggling with demands of its personnel returning from multiple warzone deployments and seeking treatment for a variety of injuries and mental issues.",
"Navy veteran Keith blames multiple tours in the Persian Gulf, on board the USS Kitty Hawk, for a variety of ailments including post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.",
"But he blames government doctors for loading him up on pills.",
"\"After I was taking the 10 pills and it wasn't working, I went back to the VA, and they prescribed me five more pills on top of everything else,\" Keith said.",
"Then came blackouts, and once he tossed furniture out of a friend's apartment.",
"\"I'd thrown it off the balcony, and I had no recollection whatsoever,\" Keith explained.",
"\"I called a VA doctor and told her what happened.",
"She said, 'Oh, it's too strong.",
"Just cut the pills in half and take half.'",
"I did that, and the next thing I know, I was being arrested by the Dallas police,\" Keith said.",
"In Ohio, Bachus' brother questions why the successful Marine gunnery sergeant had his own oversupply of legally prescribed medicines when he died.",
"\"They were all legitimately prescribed drugs from physicians who had sat right in front of him and evaluated his condition, and whatever he had an issue of, they would either increase the dosage or the potency of the individual pill,\" Jerry Bachus said at his home outside Columbus.",
"He shows off the Iraqi battle flag that Chris brought back from one of Saddam Hussein's palaces after he fought his way through Baghdad.",
"He thumbs through photos, including one of the two brothers visiting Washington.",
"And he tells about how his brother was usually the happiest guy around.",
"\"He laughed and smiled a lot.",
"He had a great time.",
"He lived life to its fullest.",
"He lived life the way people wished they did,\" Bachus says.",
"But after multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and 17 years in the Corps, Chris was just a shadow.",
"\"He was passive. He was ghostly,\" Jerry Bachus said, describing how he failed to convince his brother that he wasn't really fit to serve.",
"But Bachus shipped out again to Iraq in 2007, coming back early with stress complaints and suspicions of a traumatic brain injury from a roadside bomb.",
"The cover letter on the official military autopsy for Chris Bachus strongly recommends that family members not read it alone, but with a family friend or minister.",
"It spells out the 27 prescriptions found near the body in March 2008, at Camp Geiger in North Carolina.",
"The death was ruled accidental, blamed on \"multi-drug toxicity.\"",
"The list of 27 prescription bottles found at the scene of death takes up most of a page of the autopsy, from topiramate to oxycodone to lorazepam.",
"Jerry Bachus admits that the military faces enormous demands, countless requests to ease both the physical and mental pain.",
"\"You're gonna give me whatever I need to make me feel better, and you're gonna make me go away ... because there's 1,000 people standing in line behind me that just came off the bus with me,\" he said.",
"The armed services have recognized the problem as a reflection of what also is playing out in civilian life as well.",
"\"I think in some cases yes, certainly, I think there is over-reliance,\" said Brig.",
"Gen. Richard Thomas, the Army's assistant surgeon general.",
"\"But I think ... it reflects how we are in society; we do have a tendency to rely on prescription meds.\"",
"Thomas says the Army has implemented rules to limit the number of people who can prescribe medications for an individual patient, as well as new scrutiny of cases in which multiple prescriptions have been written.",
"New prescriptions may carry a time limit, with no refills without a new examination.",
"\"We have some new policies that are out to address poly-pharmacy, multiple medications, to make sure we are prescribing these things in a safe and responsible manner to protect the patient,\" Thomas said.",
"\"Ultimately, because we don't want to leave the responsibility for figuring it out in the hands of the patient.\"",
"And the military is exploring new treatments, without drugs.",
"\"Whether it be acupuncture or biofeedback or yoga therapy, there is a host of other things we can provide to patients to take care of them right, other than narcotics,\" Thomas said.",
"\"Narcotics may still have a role, but it doesn't have as big a role, and there are alternatives, and that's the key.\"",
"Meanwhile, Jerry Bachus keeps asking why doctors, commanders and even fellow Marines didn't raise the alarm.",
"\"Just to say we gave this trooper a bag of pills, that doesn't wash,\" he said.",
"\"It just isn't good enough.",
"CNN Pentagon Correspondent Chris Lawrence contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Jose Mourinho's remarkable nine-year unbeaten home league record came to an end on Saturday as Real Madrid suffered a shock 1-0 defeat by Sporting Gijon which allowed Barcelona to take an eight-point lead in Spain's La Liga.",
"The Portuguese coach had not lost a home match since February 2002, a 150-match streak taking in his trophy-laden stints with Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and now Real.",
"His injury-hit team took to the field without top scorer Cristiano Ronaldo, in-form striker Karim Benzema, defender Marcelo and suspended key midfielder Xabi Alonso, though Argentina forward Gonzalo Higuain made a welcome return as a second-half substitute after back surgery.",
"Former Real star Ronaldo was honored at the Santiago Bernabeu before the match to farewell the club's fans following the Brazil legend's recent retirement, but Gijon -- placed a lowly 15th before kickoff -- ruined their hopes of an anticipated routine victory.",
"Those expectations rose when Ricardo Carvalho had the ball in the net in the fourth minute, but the veteran Portugal defender was ruled to be offside.",
"Miguel de las Cuevas, formerly at Real's local rivals Atletico, scored the only goal with a low shot that went in off the post in the 78th minute as Los Merengues were left to rue a series of missed chances.",
"Mourinho must now decide whether to bring back Ronaldo for Tuesday's Champions League quarterfinal first leg at home to English club Tottenham, with Real's hopes of a domestic crown all-but over with eight rounds to play after a similarly-depleted Barcelona side scraped a 1-0 win over Villarreal in Saturday's late match.",
"\"We will have chances to win against Tottenham Hotspur if we play a solid game and don't have problems in attack.",
"It wouldn't be dramatic to draw against them at home,\" Mourinho told Real's website.",
"\"Luck plays a role in this game and our opponent had all of it tonight.",
"Our only problem was the absence of creative players.",
"Xabi Alonso will play on Tuesday and he's the only one who can change our style a little.",
"\"We can earn a different result on Tuesday with the same players.",
"Cristiano Ronaldo will play if he and his coach decide to take a risk.",
"The decision of risking it belongs only to him and to me.",
"I may risk it.\" Barcelona started the match at Villarreal with top scorer Lionel Messi on the bench after missing Argentina's midweek friendly due to an injury worry, while captain Carles Puyol, key midfielder Xavi, winger Pedro were ruled out along with veteran French defender Eric Abidal.",
"Stand-in skipper Victor Valdes kept his side in the match with some important first-half saves, but the match turned when coach Pep Guardiola brought on Messi for midfielder Seydou Keita seven minutes after the interval.",
"The winning goal came, however, from an unlikely source in the 67th minute as central defender Gerard Pique showed good skills to chest down Sergio Busquets' header from Dani Alves' corner and volley into the net despite suspicions of handball.",
"Valdes came to Barca's rescue with five minutes to play as he did well to block a goalbound shot from midfielder Santi Cazorla.",
"Barca will return to the Nou Camp on Wednesday for the Champions League quarterfinal tie at home to top Ukraine side Shakhtar Donetsk.",
"Villarreal lost third place after Valencia won 4-2 at Getafe earlier in the day, bouncing back from two successive defeats as Roberto Soldado scored all four goals against his former club.",
"The Madrid side led after 12 minutes through Manu del Moral, but Soldado leveled a minute after the break from Juan Mata's pass.",
"The striker made it 2-1 on 64 from a Jonas assist and clinched his hat-trick soon after, while Mata was again his provider in the 77th minute.",
"Adrian Sardinero scored a late consolation for Getafe, who have slumped to 14th place -- five points above the relegation zone -- after winning just once in 14 games."
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"(CNN) -- Sean Kingston is walking around Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital eight days after he was brought there in critical condition following a personal-watercraft crash, the publicist for Epic Records said Monday.",
"Kingston, 21, has been upgraded to serious condition, publicist Joe Carozza said.",
"\"Sean is breathing on his own and walked for the first time this morning,\" Carozza said.",
"Two sources close to the hip-hop artist told CNN last week that doctors expected Kingston to need about six weeks to recover.",
"He suffered a broken jaw, a fractured wrist and water in his lungs, according to the sources, who both asked not to be identified since they were not authorized to speak to the media.",
"Cassandra Sanchez, 23, was riding on the Sea Doo personal watercraft with Kingston when it crashed into a Miami bridge on May 29, according to an accident report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.",
"Sanchez was also injured and hospitalized.",
"Kingston had bought the Sea Doo just days before, as he was moving into a new house in Miami, one of the sources said.",
"His life vest apparently fell off during the crash, causing him to sink below the water, according to witnesses.",
"\"They were calling us over, telling us, 'He's drowning, he's drowning,' \" said Carmen Rivera, who was boating nearby with her husband, Jonathan Rivera, and friend Jimmy Vega.",
"The three rescuers were interviewed by CNN affiliate WSVN-TV.",
"\"We jumped in the water to help him keep his head above water,\" Vega said.",
"\"I pushed him up, and he was vomiting what seemed like water, and then there was some blood coming out,\" Jonathan Rivera said.",
"The Miami-born artist changed his name from Kisean Anderson to Kingston to reflect his Jamaican heritage.",
"He shot to fame in 2007 when his debut song \"Beautiful Girls\" became a No.",
"1 hit in the United States.",
"CNN's Denise Quan contributed to this report."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- The number of suicides in Japan hit a two-year high in the month of May, according to data released Wednesday by the nation's authorities.",
"For the first time in two years, the monthly suicide number topped 3,000 in the month of May, the National Police Agency said.",
"The report says suicides in Japan totaled 3,281 in May 2011, up nearly 20% from the same month last year.",
"The spike reverses a steady decline in the number of suicides since the end of last year, when the government launched a national public awareness campaign.",
"Japan was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, and continues to grapple with a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.",
"National suicide figures increased the two months following the disaster, the figures show.",
"The most populous region of Tokyo saw the highest number of suicides in May at 325, the agency said.",
"In the area hit hardest by the nuclear crisis, Fukushima saw 19 more suicides in May 2011 compared with May last year, with a total of 68.",
"The tsunami-devastated prefecture of Miyagi showed no change in its suicide numbers and Iwate prefecture saw a decline of three.",
"Northern Japan, which was devastated by the tsunami, had the highest rate of suicide in the country in 2010, according to the police agency.",
"Iwate prefecture in 2010 had the second-highest suicide rate.",
"Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures last year had a higher suicide rate than Tokyo.",
"Japan's suicide rate remains one of the highest among developed nations, according to the World Health Organization."
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"(CNN) -- Sepp Blatter has told CNN that his main aim in his fourth and final term as FIFA president is to restore the battered credibility of world football's governing body.",
"The 75-year-old was re-elected unopposed as head of the organization on June 1 after the only other candidate, Asian Federation chief Mohamed Bin Hammam, pulled out of the race before being provisionally suspended by FIFA over bribery allegations.",
"The vote drew widespread criticism as Blatter received 186 votes from football's 208 member associations, with critics saying it should not have gone ahead until the investigation into Hammam and FIFA vice-president Jack Warner -- who was also subject to suspension -- had been completed.",
"\"I have said 'zero tolerance' is one thing, but I have also said the social and cultural implementation of football is important -- but now it's to rebuild the image of FIFA, that's number one, and I have already started,\" Blatter told CNN in his first sit-down interview since the election.",
"Never mind Saint Sepp, the system is to blame .",
"\"We are now somewhere where football needs a little bit more credibility because we came building up football, bringing so much money in to this game.",
"\"Automatically a lot of devils came in to the game and now we are in a situation where we have to go forward and we have to cut all these allegations, criticism, whatever.",
"We can't do it in one day, but we will do it.\" Blatter -- who described his election win as \"the title without glory\" and called the ruling body \"my FIFA\" -- ruled out blanket life bans for any FIFA member found guilty of corruption.",
"\"It's not a killing instinct that we have to kill people!",
"Zero tolerance means that if you commit something outside the play of field, you will have a punishment,\" the Swiss administrator said.",
"\"But it can be a yellow card, it can be a red card, it can be a suspension for two games, three games ...",
"lifetime.\" Maradona attacks 'corrupt' FIFA chiefs .",
"Despite recent turmoil and opposition to Blatter in the race for the presidency, the Swiss insisted that both Hammam and Warner were longtime friends who remain on good terms.",
"\"We are friends, but friends going together when it is in the interest of some of the people.",
"For me, going together with people it's only for the interest of FIFA because I have represented FIFA for 36 years -- it's my FIFA,\" Blatter said.",
"Warner has since backed down, for legal reasons, on threats to release \"a football tsunami\" by making public his email correspondence with Blatter.",
"\"This is a question of character.",
"If you have a problem inside your family you are not going to disclose if there is anything to be disclosed to the public,\" Blatter said.",
"\"But I don't know what he means by the tsunami!",
"It's easy to say, it's like allegations made by (England's former 2018 bid leader) Lord Triesman -- these are allegations and there is no evidence, so if somebody says it's a tsunami, you know there are also very little tsunamis.\"",
"Blatter commits to 'change' after winning FIFA's presidential vote .",
"Blatter said he would not open an investigation into the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar -- Hammam's native country, which has been accused of bribing delegates ahead of last December's controversial vote -- unless his proposed new \"solutions committee\" or FIFA's existing ethics panel recommended such a probe.",
"FIFA's own secretary general Jerome Valcke wrote an email suggesting that Qatar's financial clout had been behind its success.",
"\"Let me work now on this new approach of the ethics committee, let me work with this committee of solutions.",
"And if this committee of solutions or the ethics committee have the impression that they should do something then let them take the decisions,\" Blatter said.",
"Blatter has vowed to bring in a panel of experts to form the solutions committee and help address FIFA's problems, including 88-year-old former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Dutch football legend Johan Cruyff, 64, and 70-year-old opera great Placido Domingo.",
"\"These gentlemen are more or less advisers.",
"They are not the experts but advisers, and what they should be also is the kind of council of wisdom -- which my Executive Committee would not like because they think they are the council of wisdom,\" Blatter said.",
"\"Placido Domingo will be part -- he is happy, he is proud that he is part -- as Kissinger also!",
"People say he (Kissinger) is an old man, but he is a wise man.\"",
"The solutions committee will be chaired by a FIFA official, with Blatter dismissing suggestions that it should be an entirely independent body.",
"\"The football family has asked me to solve the solution inside FIFA and not outside FIFA,\" he said.",
"\"And if we have to go and open our borders and say everyone can come in ... we are a very organized institution with 208 associations, six continents.",
"I've put already zero tolerance in the agenda!\""
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"Sepp Blatter admits that FIFA's reputation has been tainted by recent scandals .",
"President says FIFA's financial wealth has brought in \"a lot of devils\"\nBut he rules out blanket life bans for any FIFA members guilty of corruption .",
"Henry Kissinger and Placido Domingo to form part of new \"solutions committee\""
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"(CNN) -- Will you marry me? That question carries an extreme amount of significance for those who are popping the question and for those who must answer.",
"While weddings have long been planned to a T and photographed and videotaped, marriage proposals are rapidly becoming public events with some videotaped for the enjoyment of family, friends and millions of strangers.",
"Posted on sites such as YouTube and Vimeo, the videotaped proposals can go viral overnight with millions of viewers.",
"That's what happened to one video of an elaborately orchestrated proposal in a movie theater.",
"\"We had no idea it'd be such a viral success, but there were particular elements that made it so successful,\" says Michael Escobar, the videographer who recorded both Matt asking his fiancee's father for her hand and Matt's epic route to get to the theater where Ginny was with her brother.",
"Famously dubbed the movie trailer proposal for Matt and Ginny, Escobar's production got more than 10 million views in less than two weeks.",
"What is it about proposal videos that draw so many viewers from around the world?",
"\"These videos reflect our need to 'connect' with one another,\" says Steven Sherwood, a sociology professor at Los Angeles Valley College.",
"\"They are therefore just the most contemporary version of the smoke signal of communicating what's important to us.",
"Escobar says proposal videos \"give hope for a lot of people,\" and that \"when you see something genuine and heartwarming you gravitate towards it.\"",
"For Christina Nelson, 42, a Kenyan immigrant who's been married for six years, the emotional aspect of these videos are what touch her.",
"\"I know what they're feeling and wow.",
"I just love how they feel,\" Nelson says, adding that her girlfriends often pass links to such videos along to her.",
"Nelson explains, \"Women are emotional beings -- so are men -- but we have another degree of emotion and we love the fact that it's being exposed.\"",
"It's the same factor that made songs by Elvis, and now Justin Bieber, wildly popular in today's culture: women who want to be warmed by romance -- theirs or someone else's.",
"Ashli Reese, a young bachelorette living in Atlanta, sums up her reaction to watching proposal videos: \"I want that one day.",
"I want that to be me. I want to feel the way they feel.\"",
"For men, these public emotional displays online can elicit a different reaction.",
"\"I'll watch for the entertainment,\" says 24-year-old Tracy McClades.",
"And even though he says he hasn't found \"the one\" yet, he admits he can \"get ideas from them\" and be prepared when he is ready to propose to his future wife.",
"Atlanta resident George Nelson proposed six years ago in the middle of a busy restaurant while his friends documented the moment.",
"He offers another reason why people videos of these used-to-be private moments.",
"\"When there's a new trend, we want to be a part of the trend -- both male and female,\" says Nelson.",
"John Schlueter, who proposed last year while running with the Olympic Torch, says public proposals and videos represent \"competition for men,\" while being, \"heartwarming for women.\"",
"Although he didn't have a video made of his proposal, he and his wife are reminded of their emotional moment every time they see the Olympic torch that he carried during the proposal hanging in the middle of their living room.",
"Escobar doesn't see the proposal competition as a bad thing.",
"\"If it does have people step up their game, if it sparks a person to go the extra mile for the person they love, that's a good thing.\"",
"For even more fun, check out these recent viral videos of proposals: .",
"CNN Center proposal, accompanied by the band, Train .",
"Tweeted Old Spice proposal .",
"Madison Square Park musical number proposal .",
"\"Luck\" -- romantic rooftop proposal .",
"University of Michigan musical proposal .",
"* And if you videotaped your proposal, share it on CNN's iReport."
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"Videos of marriage proposals have gone viral on YouTube and Vimeo .",
"The \"movie trailer proposal for Matt and Ginny\" had over 10 million views in under 2 weeks .",
"These videos are popular because they give viewers hope and make them feel optimistic ."
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"(CNN) -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela is \"resting at his home\" in Qunu, Eastern Cape, South Africa announced Monday, amid concerns that his health is in decline.",
"Mandela, 92, \"is now well enough to travel,\" President Jacob Zuma said in a statement.",
"The anti-apartheid icon was not well enough to vote at a polling station in a local election in Johannesburg earlier this month and cast his ballot from home.",
"The Nobel Laureate no longer makes public appearances and has not been seen in public since the final of the FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg on July 11.",
"Earlier this year, concerns over Mandela's health flared after he was rushed from Cape Town and admitted to a Johannesburg hospital with pnemonia.",
"Since the health scare, neither the South African government, the Mandela family or the Mandela Foundation has released specific information on his health, saying it is a private matter.",
"The government reiterated the message on Monday, thanking \"the public and the media for granting him privacy in the last three months, and we urge them to continue to do so.\"",
"Mandela spent 27 years in prison under the white-dominated South African apartheid regime, finally walking free from Robben Island in 1990.",
"He and South Africa's then-President F. W. de Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, and Mandela was elected president a year later.",
"He served one term and stepped down in 1999.",
"CNN's Nkepile Mabuse and Kim Norgaard contributed to this report."
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"He was rushed into a hospital for pneumonia earlier this year .",
"He is \"well enough to travel,\" President Jacob Zuma says ."
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"(CNN) -- The artist known as the Picasso if India, Maqbool Fida Husain, died Thursday in a London hospital on Thursday.",
"He was 95. The celebrated but controversial artist is credited with introducing the avant garde movement to India and for influencing a whole generation of artists.",
"It's a huge shock to the nation, he has left a huge void in the world of Indian art,\" said gallery owner Arun Vadhera, who described Husain as a close friend.",
"Vadhera was with the a artist at the Royal Brompton hospital, where Husain died of cardiac arrest.",
"He had been admitted to the hospital after he had trouble breathing from fluid in his lungs, Vadhera said.",
"\"But he was chatting away,\" Vadhera said.",
"A self-taught artist, Husain was part of the Progressive Artists' Group in the 1940s.",
"His Indian folklore-inspired paintings sold for millions of dollars, making Husain one of India's highest paid artists.",
"\"Husain is the father of Indian modern art.",
"Indian art would not have become so successful had it not been for him, and today the roof of Indian art has been removed,\" Vadhera said.",
"But Husain's work was controversial.",
"He received death threats from Hindu fundamentalists who were offended by the artist's depictions of Hindu goddesses in the nude and a painting of a nude woman in the shape of the map of India.",
"His work was condemned and his exhibitions vandalized.",
"Husain left India had been living in self-imposed exile in Dubai since 2005.",
"He was offered citizenship by the government of Qatar, which he accepted in 2010.",
"\"I hope at least now the Indian government will give him the honor and respect that is long long due\" art critic S. Kalidas said."
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"His was India's most celebrated artist .",
"His works fetched millions of dollars .",
"But he came under attack from Hindu nationalists ."
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"(CNN) -- African football champions TP Mazembe have been thrown out of the continent's Champions League competition after fielding an ineligible player.",
"Tanzanian team Simba complained after the Congolese side included defender Janvier Bokungu in a second-round tie, which Mazembe won after triumphing in both legs.",
"Mazembe then beat Morocco's Widad de Casablanca in the third round to reach the group stages of the tournament, which the club also won in 2009.",
"The Confederation of African Football said in a statement on Saturday that Simba and Widad would play off at a neutral venue next week, with the winning team to take Mazembe's place in the eight-club group phase starting in July.",
"War, diamonds and football: The amazing story of Congo's TP Mazembe .",
"\"Following a complaint filed by Simba Sports of Tanzania following match 68 of the Orange Champions League, the Confederation of African Football launched an investigation on the eligibility of TP Mazembe's player named Janvier Besala Bokungu,\" it said on its website.",
"\"The findings of the investigation were submitted to the Organizing Committee for CAF Interclubs Competitions.",
"Based on those findings, the committee decided to disqualify TP Mazembe on the basis of Chapter VIII (Fraud), article 24, article 26 (Qualification of players) and article 29 of Orange CAF Champions League regulations.\"",
"Simba had complained that the 22-year-old Bokungu was still contracted to Tunisian team Esperance, where he moved from Mazembe in 2007.",
"He has played at international level for the Democratic Republic of Congo.",
"Football team owner determined to rebuild Congo .",
"\"Janvier properly revoked his contract with Esperance and Mazembe have no problem with the player or his former club.",
"He was acquired after a mutual agreement,\" Mazembe general manager Frederic Kitengie told reporters in quotes carried by the AFP news agency.",
"Mazembe's punishment ends the club's hopes of a third successive African title, and another trip to the FIFA Club World Cup.",
"Last year the Congolese team stunned Brazilian team Internacional before losing in the final to European champions Inter Milan, becoming the first African side to make it that far."
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"CAF expels to-time defending champions TP Mazembe after complaint over player .",
"Simba of Tanzania appealed to ruling body after losing to the Congolese team .",
"Mazembe's Janvier Bokungu is allegedly still under contract to another team .",
"Simba and Widad de Casablanca will play off to decide which side takes Mazembe's place ."
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"(CNN) -- On April 9, 2010, the sun-powered Solar Impulse HB-SIA aircraft took off from a runway in Paverne, Switzerland, on its maiden flight.",
"Over the next 87 minutes it climbed to 1,200 meters, and undertook a series of tests and maneuvers to assess its reliability and performance, before returning test pilot Markus Scherdel safely to earth.",
"But does this remarkable new aircraft really represent the future of clean, green aviation?",
"The team behind the flight aim to build a solar-powered plane capable of flying at night on stored energy that can circumnavigate the globe.",
"To find out more, CNN.com spoke to Solar Impulse Chairman and initiator, Bertrand Piccard.",
"CNN: How did you feel after the first test flight?",
"Piccard: The whole flight was an extremely intense moment, specifically the take-off.",
"And when the plane touched the ground I felt an amazing sense of relief.",
"We had the confirmation that the team who worked on this solar airplane for the last 7 years did an astounding job.",
"This prototype is an amazingly complicated piece of engineering, with the wingspan of a jumbo jet, the weight of a car and the average power of a small motorcycle.",
"CNN: How successful was it?",
"Piccard: The first indications from the engineers are that everything went perfectly well -- the climb performances were even higher than expected!",
"What is the next stage?",
"The objective of this first prototype is to demonstrate by this summer, the feasibility of a night flight propelled only by solar energy.",
"Before that, we'll do several additional test flights, each lasting a bit longer, until we complete the first complete day-night-day flight cycle.",
"Then with the experience of this first aircraft we will start the design of a second airplane whose objectives will be to cross the Atlantic and then by 2013, to fly around the world in five legs, each lasting five days.",
"CNN: What is your ultimate vision for the project?",
"Piccard: With Solar Impulse we want to demonstrate what can be achieved today with renewable energy and technologies that allow energy savings.",
"If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, no one will be allowed to claim anymore that it is impossible to use the same technologies for motor vehicles, heating and cooling systems or computers, etc.",
"This project voices our conviction that a pioneering spirit with political vision can together change society and reduce society's dependence on fossil energies.",
"CNN: Do you see it having commercial applications?",
"If so, what and when might we see them in use?",
"Piccard: We could see our technologies used for high altitude remote-controlled solar-powered telecommunication platforms.",
"But for airliners, remember when Lindbergh made his Atlantic flight in 1927; he was alone in an airplane whose payload was used for gasoline and nobody could imagine that hundreds of passengers would cross the ocean a few years later.",
"Today, Solar Impulse holds one pilot and 400kgs of batteries.",
"CNN: What will happen in the future?",
"Piccard: I don't know, but aviation will have to evolve to meet the challenges of environment and increasing fuel prices.",
"CNN: How will solar-powered planes fly at night or in very bad weather?",
"Piccard: The 200 square meters of solar cells on the wing of the aircraft will allow the propellers to run during the day and reach an altitude of 27,000 feet.",
"At the same time, the excess of energy will charge the 400 kg of batteries.",
"At sunset, the airplane will slowly glide down to 10 000 ft and the energy stored in the batteries during the day, will be released to allow the aircraft to fly during the night.",
"The batteries have to carry the airplane until the next sunrise!",
"Of course we need sun light during the day, and we have to avoid flying in bad weather, particularly because our gigantic wingspan and very light wing loading don't accept big turbulences.",
"CNN: How have big aerospace corporations responded to your project?",
"Piccard: The first one who immediately believed in my vision was Paul MaCready from Aero Environment.",
"Then the support came from the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Dassault Aviation, Solvay and Altran Technologies to launch the project.",
"The feasibility study lead by André Borschberg illustrated that it would be extremely difficult, albeit feasible.",
"The aircraft would need a gigantic wingspan and have to be exceptionally light.",
"For the construction, we went to aircraft manufacturers with our requirements and they said it was impossible: hence we approached a boat manufacturer -- and as he didn't know it was impossible, he helped us.",
"We had to assemble our own team and during 7 years we went through calculations, simulations, projections, design, construction and thousand of tests.",
"Of course, the journey until the around the world tour is still long and filled with many challenges.",
"However, today we have accomplished a successful maiden flight with the first prototype.",
"CNN: The global aerospace industry is obviously vast and has much entrenched knowledge and technology; do you think corporations will be open-minded and open to change?",
"Piccard: Undoubtedly, they will have to!",
"The price of fuel will progressively become unaffordable: it's just a question of time.",
"The industries will have to reduce their consumption by using energy savings technologies and switch to renewables.",
"There are corporations that understood this and already now invest in clean tech.",
"Those who don't will go bankrupt, because they will have missed out on this new trend!",
"The question is, \"On which side do you want to be?\""
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"Initiator of project is aeronaut, Bertrand Piccard; project has been going 7 years .",
"Aim is to build solar-powered plane to fly non-stop round the world ."
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"Havana (CNN) -- Cuba denied on Monday that the recent death of a dissident was caused by a police beating and accused \"counterrevolutionaries\" and the foreign media of \"fabricating lies.\"",
"Juan Wilfredo Soto died in a hospital on Sunday in the central city of Santa Clara.",
"He had been detained by police three days earlier.",
"Fellow dissidents accused police of beating him and causing his death.",
"The Arnaldo Milian Hospital said he had died of pancreatitis.",
"The state-run, Spanish-language website www.cubadebate.cu repeated those claims in an article posted on Monday night titled \"A press release from the Cuban government: Cuba denies the campaign about the death of Juan Wilfredo Soto Garcia.\"",
"According to the article, Soto died a \"natural death\" brought on by an \"acute pancreatitis.\"",
"\"There were no internal or external signs of violence,\" the article said.",
"According to Lizet Zamora, an anti-government activist also from Santa Clara, the police are to blame.",
"\"We know his death was caused by the police beating,\" she told CNN by telephone.",
"Zamora attended Soto's funeral.",
"According to Zamora and other dissidents, Soto was detained by police on Thursday and was beaten in public view in a park when he tried to resist arrest.",
"She said she saw a cell phone recording of the beating.",
"The state-run website confirmed that Soto had been detained, but said he was released \"three hours later without any incident whatsoever.\"",
"Soto was not well-known outside of Santa Clara, but according to Zamora, he was active within the dissident community there.",
"His funeral was held on Sunday.",
"The article accused the foreign media, \"fundamentally from Europe and the United States,\" of amplifying lies told by dissidents.",
"\"External and internal enemies try to distort the Cuban reality and undermine the international prestige of the Revolution and its moral strength,\" the article concluded."
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"Juan Wilfredo Soto died in a hospital on Sunday in central Cuban city of Santa Clara .",
"State-run website says Soto was detained, but released three hours later without incident .",
"Fellow dissidents say Soto was beaten by police, who caused his death .",
"Arnaldo Milian Hospital said he had died of pancreatitis ."
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"(CNN) -- Suspected Maoist insurgents killed nine policemen during an ambush in eastern India, authorities said Tuesday.",
"A 10th officer is missing.",
"The attack took place Monday in a remote area of Gariaband in Chhattisgarh state when the officers were on their way to search a house as part of anti-Maoist operation, said state police spokesman Rajesh Mishra.",
"Their truck broke down, and they were attacked as they were waiting for a second vehicle to arrive, he said.",
"About 10 days ago, seven officers were killed when they were ambushed as they were returning from routine patrol, Mishra said.",
"\"It's a war-like situation here,\" he said.",
"The Maoist movement is considered by the government as India's greatest internal security threat.",
"The Maoist guerrillas are called Naxalites after Naxalbari, a village in neighboring West Bengal state where they originated in the late 1960s.",
"Officials say the Naxals aim to seize political power through what they call a protracted people's war.",
"For their part, the insurgents have claimed since the 1960s to be fighting for the dispossessed.",
"Over the years, they targeted Indian security forces in several impoverished eastern Indian states that have become known as the \"Red Corridor.\"",
"The slow-churning unrest has killed about 2,000 people."
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"10 days ago, another attack kills seven officers .",
"India considers the Maoist movement its greatest internal security threat ."
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"(CNN) -- Every day, thousands of children are living and working on the streets of Vietnam's cities.",
"Michael Brosowski is trying to give many of them a chance at a brighter future.",
"Through Brosowski's Blue Dragon Children's Foundation, more than 350 Vietnamese children have been given safe shelter and enrolled in school.",
"The organization has a network of programs in cities throughout Vietnam, and it recently broadened its efforts to combat child trafficking.",
"So far, it has rescued more than 100 trafficked children.",
"Brosowski recently spoke with CNN about the struggles facing Vietnam's street children.",
"CNN: Who are Vietnam's street kids?",
"Michael Brosowski: When we were starting out back in 2002, the kids were pretty much all boys coming from rural areas.",
"And they were coming to make a little bit of money to supplement the family income.",
"Mom and dad can hardly afford money to send the rest of the kids to school, can't afford to get enough food on the table, so they think, well, you might as well go to Hanoi and work.",
"These days, we're mostly coming across runaway children, and it's where kids are having some kind of family problem.",
"Poverty is usually part of the problem, but it's not the only problem.",
"Very often, there might be alcoholism, sometimes drug use.",
"It might be that one of the parents has died and the remaining parent has remarried and then that new husband and wife couple don't want the kids from the previous marriage.",
"So kids are ending up now on the streets of Hanoi more because they feel unwanted at home rather than coming here to earn money to support the family.",
"CNN: What dangers do the kids face on the streets in Vietnam?",
"Brosowski: The dangers now are much greater, and there are more of them than when we started out.",
"There's a lot more gang activity on the streets and a lot more cases of trafficking.",
"One reason that street kids here in Vietnam are mostly boys is that the families have this view that the girls should be somewhere safe and secure, but the boys are fine (and) they can wander around at will.",
"In reality, they're not fine.",
"In reality, the boys are facing gangs, they're facing arrest.",
"And the longer they're out on the street, the worse habits they learn.",
"There are gangs selling heroin, and heroin here is very cheap, widely accessible and a lot of people's job is to get young people hooked on it so that then they've got to start buying it.",
"Meanwhile, the girls ... they're going to end up in positions that can very often be exploitative or abusive.",
"So we've also got to think about how to protect the girls.",
"Watch Brosowski meet a girl who was almost trafficked .",
"CNN: What are some of the challenges you and your group encounter when working with street kids?",
"Brosowski: As satisfying as (this work) is, it's not easy.",
"One of the things I always tell my staff is, \"It's never the end of the story.\"",
"Today, there might be a kid who is getting in trouble, has broken the law, he's had a fight in our center, he's told the staff to get lost.",
"Tomorrow, that same kid might really start to make a change in their life.",
"But equally there can be a kid doing really well today -- doing his best at school, behaving well.",
"And tomorrow he might be out there stealing with a gang.",
"So our work is never finished, in a sense.",
"There's always something more that could happen, and I think that's the biggest frustration for us.",
"Sometimes there are kids we've worked with for a year who've then come back at night, broken in and robbed us.",
"That's what hurts us all the most, because we take that personally.",
"We put so much of ourselves into the kids.",
"But we've had kids do that and then come back to us later really sorry.",
"And they've actually come back to make amends.",
"And that's more powerful still to have someone who's been with us and then gone astray and then come back, because I think that shows the power of our work.",
"See the full story on CNN Hero Michael Brosowski: Giving Vietnam's street kids a chance .",
"CNN's Danielle Berger and Alex Zolbert contributed to this report."
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"Many of them are runaways who feel unwanted at home, Brosowski says .",
"Among the dangers they face are gangs, drugs and child traffickers ."
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"(CNN) -- It was just before Christmas when Michel Martelly mulled over events in his troubled land and concluded that everything had been done to ensure loss for him at the polls.",
"An election rife with fraud had ousted him from the race.",
"Martelly's dreams of leading Haiti were all but dead.",
"But four months of recounts and reviews and then a runoff changed everything, and the unexpected candidate is poised now to move into the presidential office.",
"Unexpected because Martelly has never been a politician.",
"He's better known as \"Sweet Mickey,\" a popular kompa singer who enthralled his fans with bad-boy antics on stage.",
"He cursed and swayed with a bottle of Barbancourt rum in his hands and on occasion, mooned his audience.",
"It's an image that Martelly said he cultivated solely for the stage.",
"Still, it led many to question whether he was fit to run a nation, especially one as beleaguered as Haiti.",
"Already the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti is reeling from devastation caused by last year's massive earthquake followed by a cholera epidemic later in the year.",
"A perceived lack of progress prompted Haitians to vote against Jude Celestin, the government-backed candidate.",
"Martelly, they said, was a fresh face in politics, untainted by the corruption that has marred many a presidency in Haiti.",
"\"To Haitians, particularly the legions of young and jobless, Martelly is an outsider who can bring change to Haiti,\" longtime Haiti observer Jocelyn McCalla said on Twitter.",
"Martelly's victory falls in line with the signal the Haitian people have been sending for a while, said Garry Pierre-Pierre, editor and publisher of the New York-based newspaper The Haitian Times.",
"\"They don't want the establishment.",
"They don't want the status quo,\" he said.",
"On the streets of Port-au-Prince, thousands turned out to chant one of his most popular nicknames: \"Tet Kale,\" which means bald head in Creole.",
"Haitians, especially the youth, were starving for a fresh face.",
"And they got it Monday when the election council announced preliminary results.",
"Martelly won by a landslide with 67.6% of the vote, soundly defeating his challenger, former first lady Mirlande Manigat, who received 31.5%.",
"Pierre-Pierre called Martelly's campaign impressive.",
"He came out of nowhere and stunned established politicians with his strong showing in November.",
"\"This was a man who could move millions with a microphone,\" Pierre-Pierre said.",
"But at first, the election council said Martelly had placed third, behind Manigat and Celestin, meaning he was not eligible for a runoff.",
"His supporters took to the streets, angry at what they said was a rigged election.",
"Then came a review of the vote, monitored by the Organization of American States.",
"The review resulted in Celestin's removal from the ballot and placed Martelly in the runoff.",
"It was exactly what the candidate had hoped for back in December when he laid out for CNN his plan to lift Haiti out of its misery.",
"Martelly appeared in jeans and a button-down shirt at his plush home in Peguyville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince up in the hills.",
"A silver arm cuff hugged his right wrist and he sipped hard on his favorite ice-cream soda.",
"He sat at a table surrounded by a piano and eight wall-mounted speakers.",
"It was not hard to tell this was a party house.",
"Haiti, he said then, was on the brink of revolution.",
"\"This is a very dangerous corner in Haiti's history,\" he said.",
"\"But it's a revolution that can be done peacefully through the election.\"",
"Under the father-and-son Duvalier dictatorship, Haitians lacked freedom, but the people had clean roads, electricity, jobs, security, Martelly said.",
"When democracy came overnight to this Caribbean nation, people didn't know how to handle it.",
"Martelly spoke of 24 years of troubled times, of a poor country that, he said, hurtled backward into even more poverty.",
"\"We are ruled by corruption,\" he said.",
"\"The people have no confidence in their government.\"",
"The lack of confidence was further eroded by a presidential election in disarray.",
"\"You know how (U.S. President Barack) Obama said it's not about the man, but it's about the plan?\"",
"he said. \"Here it's more about the man than about the plan.\" Haiti will go nowhere, he said, unless the people have a president they can trust, a president who is honest.",
"He was that man, he insisted.",
"He said his background in music as well as social work -- he founded an aid agency that helps the poor -- gave him 22 years on the ground.",
"The people know him, he said.",
"He was their light at the end of the tunnel.",
"But the man also had plans.",
"He said, for instance, that the $12 billion that was pledged by the international community for earthquake assistance should come in the form of infrastructure, not money, because Haitians don't know how to manage money.",
"\"People are fed up here,\" he said.",
"\"They have no food, no education, no health care.",
"What kind of place is it when a young girl will sell her body to buy a phone card?\"",
"Martelly exuded confidence that he could bring change to Haiti.",
"But not everyone is so sure.",
"\"He's stepping into not only a complicated moment in Haitian history but he is also stepping into the wasp's nest of Haitian politics,\" said Amy Wilentz, author of \"The Rainy Season: Haiti Then and Now.\"",
"Wilentz said Martelly is a big unknown -- a pro for voters perhaps but a con for those trying to measure up the next few years of Haitian history.",
"\"I don't see any reason to believe or not to believe he will be good at it,\" Wilentz said.",
"\"I think Haiti needs a fresh start.",
"It needs to step out of the muck.\"",
"Maybe, she said, Martelly is the man to do just that.",
"Pierre-Pierre compared Martelly's win to another victory more than two decades ago that catapulted a Catholic priest into the presidency.",
"Jean-Bertrand Aristide was popular in his own right as a man of the church but he also rose to power because he was not from the establishment.",
"\"Martelly spoke in a way Aristide spoke to the people,\" Pierre-Pierre said.",
"\"He spoke to them, not at them.\" But look what happened to Aristide, Pierre-Pierre said, referring to the fall of Haiti's first democratically elected president, who coincidentally returned from exile just days before last month's election.",
"Pierre-Pierre drew another comparison as well.",
"Like Aristide, Martelly has no experience in politics.",
"\"He is a musician and a good one at that,\" he said.",
"That makes Pierre-Pierre a fan of Sweet Mickey but not necessarily a supporter of Martelly's.",
"Ultimately, Pierre-Pierre said, what does an entertainer know about Haiti's role in the world.",
"Some Haiti observers went further than that.",
"Irwin Stotzky, a University of Miami lawyer who has studied human rights in Haiti, said Martelly hardly had the credentials to run the country and did not see much hope for the immediate future.",
"He said his majority vote was skewed because Aristide's party, Fanmi Lavalas, was barred from participation.",
"\"It's sort of a bad joke,\" Stotzky said.",
"But criticism doesn't deter Martelly.",
"When asked in December whether a man who made a name dancing and singing had the mettle for his nation's top job, he smiled.",
"\"Well,\" he said. \"Look at what the politicians have done.\""
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"Michel Martelly's popularity escalated him to a political victory .",
"He vows to restore people's confidence in government .",
"Haitians want change, says a newspaper editor .",
"Martelly's lack of experience makes him a big unknown ."
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"Singapore (CNN) -- A Singapore court on Friday rejected an appeal by a British author against a conviction for contempt of court over a book that criticized the justice system.",
"Author Alan Shadrake was put on trial by the government of Singapore for his book on the death penalty in Singapore.",
"Police arrested him in July, a day after he released his book \"Once A Jolly Hangman\" in Singapore.",
"Statements in his book criticized Singapore's judicial system, leading to the contempt of court charge, according to the attorney general.",
"His book asserts that Singapore's death penalty is applied unfairly to the poor and spares those with money and political connections.",
"Singapore's court of appeal concluded that the book contained statements that undermined the integrity of the judicial system.",
"Those statements \"scandalize the core of the mission and function of the judiciary.",
"More than that their cumulative effect reveals a marshaling of a series of fabrications, distortions and false imputations in relation to the Courts of Singapore,\" the appeals judge said in a ruling.",
"Shadrake was sentenced to six weeks in jail and a S$ 20,000 fine (U.S. $16,000), a penalty his lawyer calls the \"harshest ever received in a contempt of court case\" in Singapore.",
"The author had not expected his appeal to be successful, said his attorney M. Ravi, a well-known Singaporean human rights lawyer.",
"\"He will continue to fight against the injustices in the way the death penalty is administered in Singapore,\" Ravi said.",
"\"I'm disappointed with the judgement because ... Singaporeans should be allowed to judge the book themselves and not be told how to look at the book.",
"Ravi said Singapore should have looked at allegations in the book as an opportunity for reform."
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"Author Alan Shadrake writes a book criticizing the justice system in Singapore .",
"The criticism leads to the contempt of court charge .",
"Police arrest him a day after he releases his book ."
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"(CNN) -- Bubba Watson held his nerve to secure a third win on the PGA Tour Sunday after the 32-year-old beat Webb Simpson in a playoff to clinch the Zurich Classic in New Orleans.",
"The left-hander and fellow American Simpson both finished on 15-under par after final rounds of 69 and a second additional hole was needed to separate the pair.",
"A fine approach shot out of a fairway bunker enabled Watson, who turned professional in 2003, to find the cup with two putts and claim victory.",
"The U.S. duo finished two shots clear of compatriots Jason Dufner and Tommy Gainey and South Korea's K.J.",
"Choi, who all ended the tournament on 13-under.",
"Watson, who had won earlier this year at the Farmers Insurance tournament at Torrey Pines, slipped three-strokes behind Simpson, 25, with only eight holes remaining of regulation play.",
"\"This week, I won [by] not getting down on bad shots, just staying focused on what I'm supposed to be doing,\" Watson told the PGA Tour's official web site.",
"Simpson was hit with a crucial one-stroke penalty on the 15th hole when he was penalized after his ball moved on the green while he was contemplating his next shot.",
"\"I better limit my comments on that rule, because I think it's such a bad rule,\" said Simpson.",
"\"When the wind or other natural things affect the golf ball, the player shouldn't be penalized. ...",
"It was just unfortunate, but Bubba deserves a win, and I'm pretty happy for him.\"",
"Watson sympathized with his opponent and acknowledged the punishment handed out to Simpson played a part in his victory.",
"\"If I didn't win, he would have been a nice guy to have win.",
"We went to a playoff, so obviously one shot is the difference. ...",
"It's a sad way to win, but I won.\"",
"Australia's Matt Jones finished tied with American George McNeill on 12-under in sixth, with five players, including world number three Luke Donald, finishing one shot further back."
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"American Bubba Watson wins the Zurich Classic in New Orleans .",
"Watson beat compatriot Webb Simpson on the second playoff hole .",
"World number three Luke Donald finishes three shots back on 12-under par ."
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"(CNN) -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sent letters of invite to both the Pakistani president and prime minister for them to attend the semifinal of the Cricket World Cup between the two nations next week.",
"The match between the two Asian rivals -- two of most passionately supported cricket nations in the world -- takes place in Mohali, India on March 30, and will provide the biggest clash of the 2011 event.",
"And, with tensions between the nations having been high in recent years, Prime Minister Singh has taken the opportunity to prove India and Pakistan can show unity on what is likely to be a passionate and dramatic occasion.",
"Wajid Shamshul Hasan, Pakistan's High Commissioner to London, confirmed the invitations to CNN, although he could not confirm whether prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani or president Asif Ali Zardari would be able to take up the Indian offer.",
"Hasan told CNN: \"We consider it to be a step forward and a confidence building measure.",
"Cricket is a religion in India and Pakistan, so there will be a lot of rising passion.",
"\"Both nations love good cricket so it will be a tough contest.",
"I'm hosting a lunch so that all of my office can watch the game, but I hope the team that plays the best cricket wins.\"",
"Wednesday's showdown will be the biggest fixture between the sporting and political rivals in recent years.",
"The countries have fought three wars since becoming independent from Britain in 1947 and tensions are high after the 2008 attacks carried out by Pakistani militants on the Indian city of Mumbai which killed 166 people.",
"It is not the first time that cricket has united the country's leaders -- in 2005 General Prevez Musharraf watched a match with Singh in Delhi and in 1987 General Zia-ul-Haq accepted Rajiv Gandhi's invitation to watch a game in Jaipur.",
"However, it would be the first visit to India by a Pakistani head of state or government for a decade.",
"\"This is a very positive step.",
"It gives hope to people,\" prominent Pakistan lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jahangi told Indian television network IBN.",
"\"We're coming back to cricket diplomacy.",
"The point is not to win the game but the fact that we are playing together.",
"There is excitement on both sides.",
"The politicians have to take this forward in a meaningful way.\""
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"Indian prime minister has sent an invitation to Pakistani leaders to attend World Cup .",
"Two rival countries meet in the semifinals of the tournament in Mohali on Wednesday .",
"Pakistan prime minister and president have not confirmed if they are going to accept .",
"It would be a Pakistani's first state visit to India for more than 10 years ."
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"(CNN) -- Marco Simoncelli hopes he has put his Le Mans nightmare behind him after earning the first pole position of his top-level motorcycling career in Spain on Saturday.",
"The Italian rider was reprimanded by MotoGP chiefs following an incident in France two weeks ago that caused Dani Pedrosa to crash and miss his home race after breaking his collarbone.",
"Simoncelli reportedly received death threats following that collision, which resulted in the 24-year-old finishing fifth after being hit with a ride-through penalty, having been denied his first podium placing.",
"\"This is the best way to forget what happened in Le Mans and what everyone has been saying in the last two weeks, and before this race,\" he said after qualifying first for Sunday's Catalunya Grand Prix near Barcelona.",
"Pedrosa crash overshadows Stoner's French MotoGP success .",
"Simoncelli headed off Le Mans winner Casey Stoner and Yamaha's world champion and series leader Jorge Lorenzo as he set a late lap of one minute 42.413 seconds.",
"Stoner had led for the entire session but was denied his fourth pole position from five attempts this season as he bids to cut Lorenzo's 12-point advantage.",
"\"I'm very satisfied and happy.",
"I didn't expect it because Stoner was faster than me in the other sessions and today we had some problems in the first part of qualifying, but after we chose the right tire for me I could push like I wanted and got this time,\" Simoncelli said.",
"American Ben Spies will lead the second row on the grid from Honda's Andrea Dovizioso and fellow Yamaha rider Cal Crutchlow, while seven-time world champion Valentino Rossi was seventh ahead of Ducati teammate Nicky Hayden of the U.S."
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"Marco Simoncelli claims pole position for the first time in a MotoGP event .",
"Italian rider heads off Casey Stoner to earn first place on grid for Sunday's race .",
"He had been warned after causing an accident in Le Mans a fortnight ago .",
"That incident saw Dani Pedrosa break his collarbone and miss his home race in Spain ."
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's High Court ordered the immediate release Tuesday of six former army officers accused of plotting to topple President Robert Mugabe.",
"The alleged coup plotters have been in prison since 2007, despite several attempts by their lawyers to have them released.",
"Treason carries a death sentence in Zimbabwe.",
"After reading a seven-page ruling, Justice Yunus Omerjee said it was apparent that the defendants should not have been commuted to custody and he said a declaratory order will be issued to that effect.",
"Justice Joseph Musakwa concurred.",
"In July, the High Court dismissed the case because the alleged coup plotters had not been brought to court for trial within six months, as required by law.",
"State prosecutors responded by re-indicting them.",
"The defendants appealed to the High Court to throw out the re-indictment.",
"The man accused of being the ringleader of the alleged coup plot, Albert Matapo, was arrested in 2007, as were six other suspects: Nyasha Zivuku, Oncemore Mazivahona, Emmanuel Marara, Patson Mupfure, Shingirai Mutemachani and Rangarirai Maziofa.",
"They were accused of plotting to violently topple Mugabe and replace him with the country's defense minister, Emerson Mnangagwa.",
"The suspects denied the allegations against them, and one was later released.",
"Their attorneys said if the state wished to pursue the matter, their clients would not be detained.",
"It was not immediately clear what action the state would take."
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"The men were accused of planning a coup in 2007 .",
"The High Court ordered them released .",
"They allegedly wanted to replace Mugabe with the defense minister ."
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"(CNN) -- Yuvraj Singh held his nerve to steer India into the last four of the World Cup and end Australia's 12-year reign as champions.",
"Yuvraj struck a vital 57 not out to ensure co-hosts India reached their target of 261 with more than two overs to spare and book a semifinal clash with Asian rivals Pakistan.",
"Earlier, captain Ricky Ponting had hit an imperious 104 and Brad Haddin a quickfire 53 as Australia reached a competitive total of 260-5.",
"But half centuries from Sachin Tendulkar and Gautam Gambhir edged India towards their target before Yuvraj and Suresh Raina propelled them over the line.",
"After the game Yuvraj told Sky Sports: \"The pressure was something else.",
"People say it's just another game, but beating the three-time champions I feel is really special for me and our team.\"",
"Defeat came as a bitter blow to Ponting, who has had to field questions about his future both as player and captain throughout the tournament, but he later insisted he wouldn't be stepping down.",
"\"We competed hard, there's no doubt about that,\" he said.",
"\"We thought we were in with a chance at the half-way stage, and that we had a reasonable total.",
"\"But we didn't bowl as well as we needed to, we needed more wickets from the middle order.",
"It's disappointing to be bowing out now.",
"I wish India well for the rest of the tournament.\"",
"Australia made a quick start to their innings as Haddin and Shane Watson put on 40 but it was with Ponting's arrival at the crease that the impetus began to grow.",
"Despite a shaky start, Ponting soon punished some wayward Indian bowling to record his first century in 13 months, and despite Michael Clarke, Mike Hussey and Cameron White going cheaply David Hussey added a valuable 38 as Australia made 260-5.",
"India reached 44 in their reply before Virender Sehwag fell but Tendulkar (53) and Gambhir (50) continued the charge with a partnership of 70 before the batsman known as \"the little master\" was dismissed by Shaun Tait.",
"When Virat Kohli and Indian captain MS Dhoni were removed in quick succession, Australia could sense the game changing.",
"But Yuvraj showed plenty of character to lead his side home, despite the calamitous run out of Gambhir.",
"Raina added a vital 34 and when Yuvraj smashed the winning runs it sparked wild scenes of celebration in Ahmedabad.",
"Meanwhile, England spinner Michael Yardy has flown home from the World Cup because he is suffering from depression.",
"The 30-year-old, who took two wickets during his three games at the tournament, said on the England and Wales Cricket Board's website: \"Leaving at this stage of the World Cup campaign was a very difficult decision to make.",
"\"But I felt it was the only sensible option for me and I wanted to be honest about the reason behind that decision.\"",
"Hugh Morris, the managing director of England Cricket, said: \"I would like to offer my full support to Michael on behalf of everyone involved with the England team and the ECB.",
"\"Michael has been an integral part of the England set-up in recent years and while he will be missed in the knock out stages of the World Cup, our priority now is to ensure that he returns home to his family and is able to spend time recovering with a strong support network around him.\""
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"India defeat reigning Cricket World Cup champions Australia by five wickets .",
"Yuvraj Singh seals Indian victory as they book semifinal clash with Pakistan .",
"Ricky Ponting hits 104 but Australia's 12-year reign as World champions is over .",
"England spinner Michael Yardy flies home from World Cup suffering from depression ."
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"(CNN) -- The alleged \"Barefoot Bandit\" entered a not guilty plea during a federal court appearance Thursday, but a lawyer representing him said attorneys were working on the details of a plea agreement.",
"Colton Harris-Moore gained notoriety and earned his nickname for allegedly leading police on a two-year manhunt while eluding capture in stolen boats, cars and planes -- usually while barefoot.",
"In May, a federal judge added bank burglary to an indictment that contains five other federal charges stemming from Harris-Moore's dramatic July 2010 capture in the Bahamas.",
"Four of the charges are punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.",
"His attorney, John Henry Browne, told reporters a draft of a plea agreement could be finished by the end of the day Thursday.",
"Negotiations for a restitution amount are still under way, he said, adding that the amount will likely be about $1.3 million.",
"Browne stressed that his 20-year-old client wants any money generated from likely book or movie deals to go to the victims.",
"\"There's a lot of interest, there's active negotiations,\" Browne said.",
"\"He really doesn't want publicity, but regardless of whether Colton cooperates or not, there is going to be a movie made about (him), there will be other books written about him.",
"That's going to happen no matter what.\"",
"Harris-Moore limped into court Thursday, but Browne noted that his client was smiling and joking.",
"Browne said Harris-Moore is in \"segregation\" because officials are concerned about how he was injured.",
"Browne attributed the limp to an injury Harris-Moore sustained during a volleyball game.",
"As the \"Barefoot Bandit,\" Harris-Moore garnered a loyal and outspoken fan base on Facebook -- at one point amassing more than 50,000 fans.",
"He was arrested in July 2010 after allegedly crashing a stolen plane in the Bahamas and then trying to escape on a stolen boat.",
"He'd been on the run from police since escaping from a Washington group home in 2008.",
"Harris-Moore's trial is scheduled to begin July 11."
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"Colton Harris-Moore pleads not guilty to six federal charges .",
"Lawyer: A draft of plea agreement is expected soon .",
"Harris-Moore is accused of stealing boats, cars, and planes while eluding police capture .",
"Possible book and movie deals are in the works ."
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"(CNN) -- WBA champion David Haye has labeled Odlanier Solis a \"fat bum\" after the Cuban boxer suffered a humiliating one-round defeat to his heavyweight rival Vitali Klitschko.",
"The elder Klitschko brother was awarded a technical knockout after just three minutes of his WBC title defense on Saturday night, much to the disappointment of the 19,000-strong crowd ringside in Cologne.",
"Solis, the 2004 Olympic champion, was unbeaten in his last 17 professional fights, but appeared to injured himself after being floored by his 6ft 8in Ukrainian opponent -- who was defending his title for the sixth time in his second reign as WBC champion.",
"Britain's Haye -- who is preparing to face Wladimir Klitschko in a unification bout later this year -- lost to Solis in the amateur ranks 10 years ago and has launched a damning critique of his one-time conqueror.",
"Haye confirms showdown with Klitschko finally on .",
"\"Now that's why you shouldn't have excess body fat!",
"A lean, 30-years-old healthy athlete shouldn't have joints/ligament popping for no reason,\" Haye wrote on his Twitter website page.",
"He continued: \"He beat me 10 years ago when he weighed 46lbs less.",
"He used to be ripped!",
"Why become obese before a huge fight?",
"\"Solis knew how to beat Vit, but years of obesity stopped him being able to execute.",
"He will unfortunately go down as yet another fat bum.\"",
"After a promising opening two-and-a-half minutes of the much-anticipated encounter, Solis was caught by a right hook to his temple.",
"Like the crowd, the champion initially seemed angry that Solis could not carry on, but it quickly became clear he had hurt himself as he clutched onto his knee and hamstring while lying on the floor.",
"According to the AFP news agency, it is now believed the 30-year-old has sustained further damage to an already injured leg, and could potentially need surgery to repair the problem.",
"Solis' failed challenge has increased the pressure on Haye to defeat IBF and WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko -- and perhaps even take on the 39-year-old Vitali before his retirement in October -- in order to put an end to the brothers' dominance in the sport.",
"As the build-up to the long-awaited showdown continues, Wladimir, present at his brother's fight in Germany, commented: \"You can see why Haye chose to fight me and not my brother.",
"He was incredible today.",
"\"David is definitely going to say to Vitali, 'I will fight you down the road but Wladimir is next because he is weaker'.\""
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"Odlanier Solis puts up farcical one-round challenge against Vitali Klitschko .",
"WBC heavyweight champion knocks out Cuban after just three minutes of title defense .",
"WBA champion David Haye lost to Solis as an amateur and says 30-year-old is fat .",
"Soils may have to undergo surgery on his knee, which he injured during the bout ."
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"(CNN) -- Former Ajax and Tottenham manager Martin Jol has taken over as coach at English Premier League club Fulham.",
"The London-based club, who reached the final of UEFA's Europa League in 2009 under Roy Hodgson, moved quickly to replace Mark Hughes, who left the club earlier this month.",
"Jol was approached to take charge when Hodgson left for Liverpool, but opted to stay with Dutch giants Ajax.",
"He has signed a two-year contract with an option to extend by another year.",
"He told the club's official web site: \"I am very happy to join Fulham, a wonderful traditional club.",
"It is a club with good, solid foundations and a great fan base.",
"\"I could have gone to other countries but I was waiting for the opportunity to come back to England.\"",
"Fulham qualified for next season's Europa League thanks to their standing in UEFA's Fair Play table, and start their qualifying campaign for the tournament on June 30.",
"Despite coming so soon after the end of the 2010-11 season Jol, who also had a spell with German club Hamburg, insists he is pleased to be in the competition.",
"\"It would be ridiculous to say that I'm not happy with being in the Europa League,\" he added.",
"\"I think Fulham were the first and only club who had a lucrative income from the Europa League.",
"\"Any other team, say in Germany for example, would say that you don't earn a lot of money from the Europa League because only the Champions League is profitable.",
"\"Let's not forget though that can hinder you in the season, the last time Fulham were in the Europa League they were 12th in the table, but it is my hope that we can build a squad that is strong enough to compete in all of these competitions.\"",
"The club's chairman, Mohamed Al Fayed, said he was delighted to appoint Jol, the man who led Tottenham to fifth place in the 2005-06 season.",
"\"He understands my vision for the club, and believes in what we are striving to achieve here,\" he said.",
"\"I know that he will dedicate himself to helping us move forward, and is with us for the long term, to help us build and progress.\"",
"Meanwhile, Portuguese club Benfica have issued a statement denying that Spanish giants Real Madrid have agreed a deal to sign Fabio Coentrao.",
"The defender has a release clause of $44 million and Spanish media reported Tuesday that Coentrao would be joining this week.",
"But Benfica released a statement on their web site that read: \"Fabio Coentrao is a Benfica player.",
"Unlike the news that came out in the media, fueled, as always, by 'sources' with no name and no face, there is no kind of agreement with Real Madrid.",
"\"The player's release clause is €30 million ($44m) and the potential interested parties know that.\""
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"Martin Jol appointed coach of English Premier League club Fulham .",
"Dutchman signs a two-year deal with London-based club .",
"Jol has formerly managed Tottenham, Ajax and Hamburg .",
"Benfica deny Fabio Coentrao is close to joining Spanish giants Real Madrid ."
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"(CNN) -- Thomas Aiken will take a two-shot lead heading into Sunday's final round of the Spanish Open at the El Prat Golf Club near Barcelona.",
"The South African who led at the halfway stage shot an even-par round of 72 on a day that was inevitably overshadowed by the death of Seve Ballesteros, who lost his three-year battle with cancer in the early hours of Saturday morning.",
"With flags at half-mast and players donning black ribbons, the European Tour marked the five-time major winner's passing with a minute's silence followed by a round of applause.",
"Among the many players paying their respects to Ballesteros were his long-standing friends and Ryder Cup allies Jose Maria Olazabal and Miguel Angel Jimenez.",
"Colin Montgomerie, who played alongside Olazabal on Saturday said the Spaniard had been in tears for much of the third round.",
"\"He has lost an older brother almost,\" Montgomerie said, EuropeanTour.com reported.",
"After his round, Olazabal reflected on the career of his great golfing companion.",
"\"I don't think there will ever be another player like him.",
"There can be others that are very good, but none will have his charisma,\" Olazabal said, EuropeanTour.com reported.",
"Spain's golfing maestro remembered .",
"Pablo Larrazabal is currently tied for second place on six-under par and the highest placed Spaniard in an event which Ballesteros won three times during his career.",
"\"Since I heard the news this morning I couldn't get it out of my head,\" Larrazabal said, EuropeanTour.com reported.",
"\"It has been a tough day. I was on the eighth during the minute of silence.",
"It was the saddest minute of my career,\" he added.",
"The former Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year has set his sights on winning the tournament on Sunday.",
"\"If I hit the ball well and putt correctly I have a chance to win it and dedicate it to him and to his family,\" Larrazabal said, EuropeanTour.com reported.",
"Along with Aiken, who has yet to win on the European Tour, Larrazabal will have to fend off challenges from the Dane Anders Hansen -- who shot a three-under par 69 on Saturday to tie for second place -- and France's Romain Wattel and Scotland's Scott Jamieson who are also tied for second."
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"South African leads by two after third round of Spanish Open .",
"Day overshadowed by death of golf legend Seve Ballesteros .",
"European Tour players and officials mark Spaniard's passing with minute's silence ."
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"(CNN) -- Serena Williams will return to competitive tennis after nearly a year on the sidelines in the WTA tournament at Eastbourne, which starts Saturday.",
"The former world number one has endured a torrid time since being sidelined with a foot injury after winning her fourth Wimbledon crown last July.",
"Several aborted attempts at a comeback were followed by a major health scare in February as she suffered a blood clot on her lung.",
"It led to speculation that her glittering career could be over, but Williams has recovered to take her place as a wild card in the grass court event at the south coast of England resort.",
"\"I am so excited to be healthy enough to compete again,\" she told the tournament's official website.",
"\"These past twelve months have been extremely tough and character building.",
"I have so much to be grateful for.",
"I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.",
"Serena's back!\"",
"Serena will be joined in the traditional pre-Wimbledon warm-up tournament by her older sister Venus, who is also returning to action after an extended injury layoff.",
"Venus has been sidelined since injuring her hip at the Australian Open in January.",
"They will take their place in a top-class line-up which has 13 of the top 20 players in the WTA world rankings, including new French Open champion Li Na of China.",
"13-time grand slam champion Serena returned to practice in April, but decided against returning for the second grand slam season of the season in Paris.",
"Eastbourne tournament director Gavin Fletcher said she would be guaranteed a warm welcome at their event.",
"\"Eastbourne has always had a huge soft spot for Serena, and people here will be absolutely thrilled that she's back playing world class tennis,\" he said.",
"The 29-year-old has slipped to No.25 in the world rankings in her absence but should she come through Eastbourne unscathed, Wimbledon organizers could seed her higher due to previous performances on grass.",
"Meanwhile, top seed Roger Federer has pulled out of this week's grass court tournament in Halle, Germany.",
"Federer, beaten in the final of the French Open Sunday by Rafael Nadal, was due to play Australian Lleyton Hewitt in the first round but did not want to risk a groin injury ahead of his Wimbledon challenge.",
"Hewitt, who beat Federer in last year's final at Halle, will now play a lucky loser in the first round."
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"Serena Williams to return to competitive tennis at Eastbourne tournament .",
"Williams has been sidelined for nearly a year through injury and illness .",
"Serena's sister Venus also returns to action in same tournament .",
"Roger Federer pulls out of grass court tournament in Halle ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan will likely need two to three more months to bring an end to the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a nuclear industry official said Saturday.",
"Takashi Sawada, the deputy director of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, said Saturday that it was likely to take that long to restore normal cooling systems for the damaged reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.",
"The plant's coolant systems were knocked out by the March 11 tsunami, causing three reactors to overheat and producing what Japan's government has designated a top-scale nuclear accident.",
"Sawada's organization is an association of nuclear engineers, scientists and professors, and it issued a Friday report that he called \"our best effort to imagine what the core looks like.\"",
"That report concluded that the zirconium alloy sheaths that surround the reactor's fuel rods ruptured in the three units, sending pellets of molten uranium tumbling to the bottom of the reactors.",
"The pellets are since believed to have cooled and solidified at the reactor bases, according to the report.",
"The plant's owner, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, has said it can't provide a timeline for bringing the crisis to an end and would not discuss Sawada's assessment Saturday.",
"\"We are trying to do our utmost at this moment,\" a company official told CNN.",
"But an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the government wants to see some sort of plan by the end of April.",
"\"We will set up a goal for the cooling process soon,\" the adviser, Goshi Hosono, said during an appearance on the BS Asahi satellite network Saturday morning.",
"Japanese nuclear regulators declared the Fukushima Daiichi accident a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale this week, putting the crisis on par with the April 1986 fire and explosion at the Chernobyl plant in the former Soviet Union.",
"While authorities said the amount of radioactivity released was only 10 percent of the amount that spewed from Chernobyl, it was far beyond the threshold for a Level 7 event.",
"More than 78,000 people who lived within 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) of the plant were ordered to flee their homes.",
"Another 60,000-plus living in the next 10 kilometers were told to shelter indoors, And Japan's government ordered residents of several towns outside that danger zone that they would soon be evacuating due to the possibility of long-term health risks from radioactive particles released from the plant.",
"Tokyo Electric has said it has to drain highly radioactive water from the basements and service tunnels of the reactor units' turbine plants before it can work on restoring normal cooling systems.",
"But workers are also pumping up to 7 tons (1,850 gallons) of water into the reactors every hour as an interim measure, and an unknown portion of that is leaking back into the plant.",
"At the plant on Saturday, workers continued preparations to start pumping water from the No.",
"2 turbine plant into a treatment facility for low-level radioactive waste.",
"More than 9,000 tons of less-contaminated water that had been held there was dumped into the Pacific Ocean last week in what Japanese officials called an emergency measure to make room for fluid that had been leaking into the sea until April 6.",
"Crews have been laying fresh pipes to the treatment center and hope to start transferring water from unit 2 on Sunday, the company said.",
"But its capacity could be only a fraction of the volume now sloshing around in the turbine building basements, and engineers are still pouring hundreds of tons of water into the reactors every day to keep them cool.",
"The treatment center could hold up to 30,000 tons of water, Tokyo Electric said -- but that could be only a fraction of the volume now sloshing around in the turbine building basements, the company said."
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"Japan's government wants to see a timeline soon, adviser says ."
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"(CNN) -- Germany made it seven wins out of seven with a comfortable victory over Azerbaijan to put themselves on the brink of qualification for Euro 2012.",
"Goals from Mesut Ozil, Mario Gomez and Andre Schurrle helped Joachim Loew's side to a 3-1 triumph in Baku as they moved 11 points clear in qualifying Group A.",
"It would take an unlikely series of events for them to be caught by second placed Turkey, who have a game in hand on their rivals.",
"Real Madrid midfielder Ozil was first to find the net, collecting Benedikt Hoewedes' cross before firing a drive into the corner.",
"Ozil was the architect for Germany's second, as he slid a pass through for Gomez to double the lead.",
"Azerbaijan managed to pull a goal back in the final minute of the match through Murad Huseynov but Schurrle put the game beyond doubt in injury time.",
"In Group E, Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a hat-trick for Sweden as they thumped Finland 5-0.",
"Ibrahimovic came on as a substitute in the first half and registered his hat-trick within 22 minutes.",
"Kim Kallstrom and Emir Bajrami added the other goals.",
"The win takes Sweden three points behind Netherlands, who lead the group.",
"Hungary moved within three points of Sweden after they beat San Marino 3-0, Zoltan Liptak, Imre Szabics and Vladimir Koman finding the net.",
"In Group D, Belarus recorded a 2-0 win over Luxembourg thanks to goals from Sergei Kornilenko and Anton Putilo to put them one point behind the leaders France.",
"In the same group, Haris Medunjanin and Darko Maletic were on target for Bosnia-Hercegovina as they beat Albania 2-0 to move into third, two points off Belarus and three points behind France.",
"Frodi Benjaminsen and Arnbjorn Hansen were the heroes as minnows the Faroe Islands stunned Estonia 2-0 to record their first win in Group C, though they stay bottom of the table."
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"Germany on verge of qualifying for Euro 2012 after beating Azerbaijan in Group A .",
"Goals from Ozil, Gomez and Schurrle make it seven wins from seven matches .",
"Germany are now 11 points ahead of second placed Turkey .",
"Sweden thrash Finland 5-0 to close the gap on Group E leaders Netherlands ."
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"Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- A Cuban court has convicted 14 government officials and businessmen and a Chilean entrepreneur for corruption and bribery involving the state-owned airline and a tourism agency.",
"Marcel Marambio, a Chilean businessman with close ties to the Communist government, was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison for bribery, fraud and falsification of documents, according to a notice published in state media on Tuesday.",
"Marambio was president of Sol Y Son, a tourism agency jointly owned by the Cuban state and Chilean investors.",
"His brother Max Marambio, a long-time friend of Fidel Castro, was sentenced in absentia in a separate corruption trial earlier this year.",
"The 14 Cubans, all employed by Cubana de Aviacion airline or Sol Y Son, were sentenced to between three and 10 years of prison.",
"State media said they were convicted because they received \"cash bribes and personal perks\" but did not provide details about what they provided in exchange.",
"Courts have launched a number of corruption cases since President Raul Castro assumed the presidency of Cuba in 2008."
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"The 14 Cubans were convicted because they received \"cash bribes and personal perks\""
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"(CNN) -- Arsenal revived their English Premier League title hopes with a 3-1 win at relegation battlers Blackpool Sunday.",
"The victory moved Arsene Wenger's men to within seven points of leaders Manchester United, with a further game in hand.",
"Arsenal were forced to field 41-year German goalkeeper Jens Lehmann after Manuel Almunia was injured in the warm-up but they were largely in command after first half goals from Abou Diaby and Emmanuel Eboue.",
"Gary Taylor-Fletcher pulled one back for Blackpool in the 52nd minute when he scored after referee Lee Mason waved played on when Lehmann rushed off his line to foul DJ Campbell.",
"If the penalty had been awarded, Lehmann a former Gunners favorite, might have well been given his marching orders.",
"After some nervous moments, a late strike from Robin van Persie, with the home side appealing for offside, clinched their first win in four league games.",
"Manchester United must travel to the Emirates on May 1 but Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is more concerned about upcoming games.",
"\"We must win the game in hand.",
"But let's first win our next game against Liverpool on Sunday,\" he told Sky Sports.",
"Wenger was full of praise for Lehmann on his second Arsenal debut after his return from retirement to help them out with a goalkeeping shortage.",
"\"Jens can be very proud.",
"The way he practises every day is outstanding.",
"\"He has helped the club win a big game and it will have an impact at the end of the season.",
"He's intelligent and committed.\"",
"Blackpool, who were hot favorites to return to the second flight at the first time of asking, remain in 17th spot, just above the drop zone.",
"In Sunday's other EPL game, Aston Villa eased their relegation fears with a 1-0 home win over Newcastle.",
"James Collins scored the only goal of the game in the first half as Gerard Houillier's men moved five points clear of the drop zone, but they had to survive some nervous moments as the visitors carved out a number of openings."
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"41-year-old Jens Lehmann dons goalkeeping gloves for Arsenal .",
"Aston Villa beat Newcastle 1-0 to ease relegation fears ."
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"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Returning from a trip to Pyongyang, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il ready for a summit with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak at any time.",
"Carter did not personally meet with Kim, but he said that as he and his delegation of former heads of state were on the way to Pyongyang airport to depart for South Korea, they were summoned back to their guesthouse, where a senior official read out a written message from the reclusive leader.",
"\"Chairman Kim sent word that he is willing to negotiate with South Korea or United States ... on any subject at any time and without any preconditions,\" Carter told a news conference.",
"\"He specifically told us he is prepared for a summit directly with President Lee Myung-bak at any time to discuss issues between the two heads of state.\"",
"The dramatic declaration puts Lee on the spot: Seoul is currently declining official dialogue with North Korea until it takes responsibility for two fatal incidents last year.",
"In 2010, 50 South Koreans were killed in the two separate incidents: South Korea accuses the North of torpedoing and sinking one of its warships in March 2010, killing 46 sailors.",
"In November, North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong Island, killing two South Korean marines and two civilians.",
"North Korea denies the torpedo attack on the warship Cheonan, though a Seoul-led international investigation has found a North Korean mini-submarine responsible.",
"Following a range of nuclear and missile tests, and Pyongyang's exposure last November of a uranium-based nuclear program -- a separate program from its earlier plutonium-based program -- the Obama administration is sanctioning Pyongyang and has also put official contacts on hold.",
"Asked if he expected Pyongyang to apologize to Seoul, Carter said; \"My own assessment is that talks should begin without preconditions on either side.",
"My opinion is North Koreans will not admit culpability for the sinking of the Cheonan and will not apologize.\"",
"Carter, 86 and his group had met North Korea's de facto head of state Kim Yong Nam, as well as its vice defense minister and foreign minister and other officials.",
"The visit had been intended to promote North-South dialogue, revive a denuclearization process, and assess food shortages.",
"The delegation included former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, former Prime Minister of Norway, Gro Brundtland, and former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson.",
"They are all members of \"The Elders\" a group of retired leaders founded by former South African leader Nelson Mandela who undertake peace-building initiatives and non-state diplomacy.",
"Regarding Kim's offer of dialogues, Carter said: \"The Elders' desire is that under some circumstances, these offers will be accepted by the leaders of South Korea, the United States and other leaders of the six-party talks.\"",
"The six-party talks are a Beijing sponsored initiative to denuclearize the peninsula; the parties are China, Japan, North Korea, Russia, South Korea and the United States.",
"Following North Korean nuclear and missile tests, they have been in limbo for two years.",
"As for why he had not been able to meet Kim Jong Il personally, Carter responded: \"We did request a chance to meet with him, and we did request an opportunity to meet with the president of South Korea.",
"Neither were available to meet with us.\"",
"With North Korea suffering major food shortages, the Elders strongly suggested South Korea and the United States resume food aid to the ultra-nationalist state.",
"\"We would urge you here in South Korea as we will urge the EU and the U.S. to realize there is a very severe crisis,\" said Robinson.",
"\"The humanitarian issues must be disconnected from matters of political concern.",
"It is a matter of life and death urgency.\"",
"There had been criticism of Carter in South Korea for not raising human rights issues with the North, even though he did exactly that with South Korean leaders of the authoritarian governments of the 1970s and 80s.",
"Asked by a South Korean reporter if he had raised this issue with the North, Carter took a swipe at South Korean and U.S. policies.",
"\"There are human right issues that relate to the policies of the North Korean government that I don't think any of us on the outside can change,\" he said.",
"\"But one of the most important human rights is to have food to eat and for South Korea and Americans, and others to deliberately to withhold food aid for North Korean people because of military or political issues unrelated is indeed a human rights violation.\"",
"Carter added that he believes that there are no longer any impediments to food aid monitoring.",
"In the past, some governments and non-governmental organizations have criticized Pyongyang for not permitting them to monitor their aid deliveries, raising suspicions that shipments could be going to the military, rather than to the most vulnerable populations.",
"Brundtland, who is an ex-World Food Programme director, noted that one third of North Korean children are stunted due to malnutrition, and one in five is underweight.",
"Ahtisaari suggested that the resumption of dialogue is essential.",
"\"I think it is extremely important that we as Elders can recommend that there is, as early as possible, a resumption of dialogue on all outstanding issues,\" he said.",
"\"I sincerely hope that parties can agree on a time frame in which to resolve these problems instead of a process that can last forever.\"",
"In South Korea, where North Korean defectors have alleged the existence of concentration camps, torture and the imprisonment of family members, Carter's message on human rights and his linkage to food aid is likely to raise hackles.",
"\"For the South Korean audience, we need to hear that he raised the human rights issue with North Korea as he did in South Korea during the 1970s and 80s, that would bring more credibility,\" said Won Jae-chun, a director general at Seoul's National Human Rights Commission of Korea.",
"\"I don't think his message will go far in [South] Korea.\"",
"Carter and his delegation will be hosted at a banquet by South Korea's foreign minister Thursday evening.",
"However, a representative of the Blue House, the South Korean presidency, said Wednesday that it considered Carter's trip that of \"private individuals.\"",
"Carter has a history of private diplomacy on the peninsula.",
"In 1994, after Pyongyang had expelled international nuclear inspectors and threatening to turn Seoul into a \"sea of fire\" and with the United States mulling air strikes on North Korean facilities, Carter flew into Pyongyang to meet Kim Il Sung.",
"That set the scene for the so-called \"Agreed Framework\" in which North Korea would give up its nuclear facilities in return for light water reactors from the international community.",
"That deal foundered after Washington accused North Korea of having a secret uranium based nuclear program.",
"North Korea denied it at the time -- only to publicly reveal a uranium-based program last year.",
"Last year, another Carter visit to Pyongyang resulted in the freeing of an American citizen held there.",
"However, he had no opportunity to discuss strategic issues, because he was not met by Kim Jong Il.",
"Journalist Andrew Salmon contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- Cristiano Ronaldo has claimed the referee \"didn't let\" his Real Madrid team win Tuesday's European Champions League semifinal second leg against archrivals Barcelona.",
"Real could only draw 1-1 at the Camp Nou, losing 3-1 on aggregate after last week's controversial 2-0 defeat to Barca in Madrid which left both clubs facing charges from ruling body UEFA.",
"It was the two teams' fourth meeting in 18 days -- clashes known as \"El Clasico\" -- and tensions between the clubs have become strained in that period, with allegations of foul play and racism being made.",
"There was further controversy on Tuesday, when Real saw a 48th-minute goal from Argentina forward Gonzalo Higuain ruled out by referee Frank de Bleeckere after Ronaldo was adjudged to have fouled Javier Mascherano.",
"Barca held but go through to Champions League final .",
"\"Once again it was the referee that didn't allow us to dictate the outcome,\" Ronaldo, who became the world's most expensive player when he moved to the Bernabeu from Manchester United in 2009, told Real's official website.",
"\"We knew we could beat Barca, but the referee didn't let us.",
"Higuain's goal was good.",
"Pique pushed me and I landed on Mascherano.",
"He didn't used to fall to the ground in England, but he's picked up the bad habit of doing it here like everyone else.\"",
"Josep Guardiola's Barca took the lead on the night when Spain forward Pedro coolly converted after a pass from compatriot Andres Iniesta on 54 minutes.",
"Real, without head coach Jose Mourinho after he was sent to the stands in the first leg, equalized through Brazil's Marcelo in the 65th minute following a shot from Angel Di Maria that rattled the post.",
"Los Blancos were left frustrated after last week's first leg, when they felt Portugal defender Pepe was wrongly dismissed for a challenge on Dani Alves.",
"Has the time arrived for change in football?",
"\"The referee in the first match took away our chances of playing the final,\" Pepe's fellow Portugal international Ronaldo said.",
"\"Whoever knows anything about football knows that Barcelona get preferential treatment.",
"We knew something would happen.",
"We knew that if we scored a goal that everything would be done to keep us from going through.",
"\"This isn't good for football.",
"We should just stay home and allow Barcelona to play alone if things don't change.\"",
"Guardiola has guided the Catalan club to the second final in Europe's premier club competition under his stewardship and a third in five years.",
"Barca secured the first of three Champions League triumphs at London's Wembley Stadium in 1992, a match Guardiola played in, and will return to the rebuilt venue for the May 28 showpiece.",
"\"Taking into account what these players have come through, it's incredible,\" the 40-year-old told UEFA's website.",
"\"They just keep going and going.",
"I give my thanks to every one of them; what they have achieved is beyond definition.",
"We won our first European Cup in Wembley and now we are going in search of our fourth.\"",
"Barca look likely to face Manchester United in a repeat of the 2009 final in Rome, after the English Premier League leaders defeated German outfit Schalke 2-0 in their semifinal first-leg tie on April 26.",
"The two teams meet again at United's Old Trafford on Wednesday.",
"\"I'm not sure who we will face but I imagine it will be Manchester United,\" Guardiola said.",
"\"I think Alex Ferguson is always there, in the Champions League or Premier League, competing for titles.",
"It would be an honor for me, a young coach, to reach the final against him.\""
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"Cristiano Ronaldo says referee did not let Real Madrid beat Barcelona .",
"Real lost 3-1 on aggregate to Barca in Champions League semifinal after 1-1 draw .",
"Madrid had a goal disallowed after Ronaldo was ruled to have fouled in the build-up .",
"Barca coach Josep Guardiola thanks his players for victory over their rivals ."
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"Istanbul (CNN) -- Less than two months before voters are expected to go to the polls in national elections, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday announced ambitious plans to dig a new canal through Istanbul that would bypass the existing Bosphorus Strait.",
"\"Today we are rolling up our sleeves for one of the biggest projects of the century, which will outshine the Panama and Suez Canals,\" Erdogan said at a party conference.",
"The proposed Istanbul Canal would run for more than 45 kilometers, or about 28 miles, from the Black Sea through Turkey's largest city and commercial capital, to the Marmara Sea -- roughly parallel to the Bosphorus Strait, the natural body of water that already bisects Istanbul.",
"The Panama Canal is 77 kilometers (roughly 48 miles) in length, while the Suez Canal in Egypt is more than 190 kilometers (118 miles) long.",
"Erdogan said one of the goals of the proposed canal would be to reduce the huge amount of international cargo ships that regularly traverse the congested Bosphorus.",
"\"One of the most important reasons for this project will be to reduce Bosphorus traffic and minimize threats,\" Erdogan said, in comments published on the prime minister's official web-site.",
"More than a 100 ships a day sail up and down the Bosphorus.",
"Many of them carry dangerous cargos of crude oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).",
"The fast currents and narrow bends in the historic channel have led to several accidents on the banks of Turkey's most populous city.",
"The deadliest incident took place in 1979, when a Romanian oil tanker exploded after colliding with another vessel, killing dozens of people and leaking tons of oil into the sea.",
"In his speech Wednesday, Erdogan conceded that critics in the Turkish media had referred to his plan as a \"crazy project.\"",
"\"With this project, there will be two seas running through Istanbul,\" he said, adding that the canal would result in the creation of a man-made island and another peninsula.",
"The prime minister said the proposed canal would be 145 meters (475 feet) wide and 25 meters (82 feet) deep.",
"But he stopped short of announcing the exact route of the proposed waterway.",
"The location and financing of the project would be kept secret, Erdogan said, to \"prevent any negativity and unfairness and injustice.\""
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"The proposed canal will be 45 kilometers long, the prime minister says .",
"Erdogan wouldn't reveal the exact route .",
"He says the project will rival the Panama and Suez canals ."
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"(WIRED) -- Android chief Andy Rubin took to the blogs Wednesday evening to combat recent reports of Google clamping down on Android's openness.",
"\"We continue to be an open source platform and will continue releasing source code when it is ready,\" wrote Rubin on the Android Developer Blog.",
"\"As I write this the Android team is still hard at work to bring all the new Honeycomb features to phones.",
"As soon as this work is completed, we'll publish the code.",
"This temporary delay does not represent a change in strategy.\"",
"Google has championed its platform as the open alternative to Apple's closed iOS system.",
"That openness has been called into question recently, as Google has yet to release the Honeycomb source code to all developers and manufacturers.",
"Honeycomb is Android's first tablet-optimized software release.",
"Rubin cites the difference in form factor between tablets and phones as the reason Google hasn't released Honeycomb's source code to device manufacturers and developers.",
"Motorola is the exception: The company's Honeycomb-fueled Xoom tablet has been on the market for more than a month, which makes Google's decision to hold the code from wide release a bit mystifying.",
"Members of the Android industry showed faith in Google, however.",
"\"They say they're going to release it, I'm not gonna call them liars,\" Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin told WIRED.com in an interview.",
"The Android OS is based on a version of the Linux OS, which has been an open source, collaborative platform since its release decades ago.",
"Rubin's post also addressed questions raised in a recent Bloomberg story about Android's level of control over its partners.",
"Bloomberg wrote: .",
"Over the past few months, according to several people familiar with the matter, Google has been demanding that Android licensees abide by \"non-fragmentation clauses\" that give Google the final say on how they can tweak the Android code -- to make new interfaces and add services -- and in some cases whom they can partner with.",
"Rubin combats this claim directly, stating Google's so-called \"anti-fragmentation program has been in place since Android 1.0,\" citing a list of compatibility requirements manufacturers must adhere to in order to market a device as \"Android-compatible.\"",
"He's referring to Android's compatibility test suite, or CTS, an automated litmus test to measure whether or not a piece of hardware can claim to run Android.",
"\"Our approach remains unchanged: There are no lock-downs or restrictions against customizing UIs,\" wrote Rubin.",
"Motorola vouches for Rubin's statement.",
"\"In the time since we've started working with Google, our relationship has matured, but it isn't any more limiting than it ever has been,\" Christy Wyatt, Motorola's VP of mobile software development, told Wired.com.",
"\"I don't believe that anything has changed in the CTS since the beginning.\"",
"Finally, Rubin emphatically denied other rumors of ARM-chipset standardization in the platform, much of which arose in the wake of an anonymously sourced DigiTimes story.",
"\"There are not, and never have been, any efforts to standardize the platform on any single chipset architecture,\" Rubin wrote.",
"With the Nexus One, Google's first flagship phone, the company worked with Qualcomm to install its 1-GHz Snapdragon ARM processors in the HTC-manufactured handsets.",
"The subsequent Nexus S came equipped with Samsung's 1-GHz Hummingbird processor, which is also based on ARM architecture.",
"It's out of character for Rubin and Android to post such a defensive update.",
"Rumors circulating in the media are usually given a brusque \"no comment\" by Google's communications team.",
"But the title of Rubin's post -- \"I think I'm having a Gene Amdahl moment\" -- explains it all.",
"Amdahl coined the acronym FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) in 1975.",
"After leaving IBM to form his own IT company, Amdahl claimed he suffered attacks by IBM sales staff attempting to undermine his new venture.",
"All of this negative attention isn't good for Android's \"open\" image, and maybe that's what overcame Rubin's reluctance to speak: too much FUD about Android's future.",
"Whether or not this FUD is warranted, however, remains to be seen.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2010 Wired.com."
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"(CNN) -- Demonstrations swelled in several cities across Yemen on Friday, a week after the country's president was injured in an attack on the mosque at the presidential palace.",
"In Sanaa, demonstrators participating in a large protest against President Ali Abdullah Saleh's continued rule could be heard chanting \"Saleh will fall\" and \"The end is near for Saleh,\" according to eyewitnesses.",
"In a separate large protest in the city, pro-government demonstrators carried signs of Saleh and chanted, \"We are with you, Saleh,\" according to witnesses.",
"Another large demonstration was occurring in Taiz, according to witnesses.",
"Protests were also under way in Ibb and Mukalla, witnesses said.",
"Yemen has been consumed with unrest for months as protesters demand an end to Saleh's rule.",
"In recent weeks, government troops have battled both anti-government tribal forces and Islamic militants.",
"On June 3, the presidential compound was attacked, injuring Saleh and other senior officials.",
"They went to Saudi Arabia for treatment.",
"Tareq al-Shami, a spokesman for the ruling party said Saleh was in good health and would be returning to Yemen \"within days.\"",
"The government has also been battling Islamic militants, including in Zinjibar, an Abyan province town that had been taken over by militants.",
"Yemeni state TV said this week that the government had ousted the militants from Zinjibar.",
"A six-nation Gulf Arab alliance has tried to broker a government-opposition agreement that would lead to Saleh's departure, but that effort has so far been unsuccessful.",
"CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom and Hakim Almasmari contributed to this report."
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"Demonstrations swell Friday in several Yemen cities .",
"Both pro- and anti-government demonstrators are out in force, witnesses say .",
"Anti-government protesters are chanting \"Saleh will fall,\" witnesses say .",
"Pro-government demonstrators chant \"We are with you, Saleh\""
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"Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (CNN) -- In the latest shake-up following weeks of popular unrest and sporadic violence, the top two political figures in Burkina Faso announced on the state-run media outlet that they'd fired 24 Cabinet ministers and formed a new, smaller government.",
"President Blaise Compaore and newly appointed Prime Minister Luc-Adolphe Tiao said Thursday night on Radio Television of Burkina that there will be 29 people in the new Cabinet, down from the 38 in place previously.",
"The full rationale for the shuffling wasn't immediately made clear.",
"Tiao is expected to take questions from the press in the coming days.",
"Besides ousting 24 ministers, the two men also said they have brought 15 different individuals into the administration.",
"In addition, Compaore will serve as defense minister as well as president.",
"Djibril Bassole will become the landlocked West African nation's foreign affairs minister -- a position he'd earlier held, before being tapped as the joint United Nations-African Union mediator for the crisis in Darfur, Sudan.",
"The country's sitting foreign minister, Bedouma Alain Yoda, was among those left out in the new arrangement.",
"The ministers for culture and tourism, infrastructure, health, education, environment, youth, social action and animal resources also have not been retained, according to Compaore and Tiao.",
"The new government combines several Cabinet branches.",
"Among those, the telecommunication ministry joins with that of transportation, security comes into the ministry of administration, and the human rights ministry becomes part of the justice ministry.",
"This news came two days after Compaore tapped Tiao, Burkina Faso's former ambassador to France, as prime minister -- a report also broadcast on the national radio and television network.",
"All these moves follow several recent breakouts of popular discord and violence in the African nation.",
"Student protests have been ongoing in the nation since February, according to local media reports.",
"These demonstrations came after a student reportedly died in jail.",
"On March 30, protests erupted over a court case.",
"According to media reports, a man sued a group of five soldiers, claiming they forced him to take off his clothes and walk home because he had dated a soldier's girlfriend.",
"The court found in favor of the man.",
"During the violence that ensued, the defense minister said, his home was attacked.",
"A small group of presidential security guards revolted April 14over a disputed housing allowance that they said the president had promised them.",
"They fired shots inside the presidential compound and took to the streets, shooting guns, stealing cars and robbing people, according to defense ministry officials.",
"Two children of a defense official were shot at in the melee and were hospitalized, officials said.",
"The defense ministry issued a statement the following day saying the soldiers had been paid.",
"And Moussa Ag Abdoulaye, a spokesman for a group of security guards, said on state-run TV that its members remained committed to Compaore and called for a cease-fire.",
"Still the protests continued, during which buildings in the capital city, Ouagadougou, were set on fire.",
"The president also reportedly replaced the head of the nation's army amid the violence.",
"The president was at the palace when the demonstrations began and left briefly under heavy security, but he later returned.",
"In recent days, a curfew was imposed, and sources in the city of Po said violence was also taking place there."
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"Burkina Faso's president and prime minister announce a new government on state-run TV .",
"The new Cabinet will include 29 ministers, nine fewer than in the previous administration .",
"24 Cabinet members were fired; 15 new ones will step in .",
"Burkina Faso has been the site of unrest and sporadic violence in recent weeks ."
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"(CNN) -- A 15-year-old was convicted in the 2009 beating death of a Chicago honors student that was caught on video, Cook County Circuit Court officials said Thursday.",
"Jurors deliberated only 30 minutes before convicting the teen of first-degree murder Wednesday in the death of Derrion Albert, CNN affiliate WGN reported.",
"The defendant is not named because he is a juvenile.",
"Sentencing has been set for January 18, court officials said.",
"When the verdict was announced, the 15-year-old threw his hands up and fell back into his chair.",
"His aunt ran out of the courtroom screaming, WGN reported.",
"Authorities said Albert, 16, was an innocent bystander who ended up in the middle of a street fight between two factions of students from Christian Fenger Academy High School.",
"When school let out on September 24, 2009, Albert was nearly six blocks away and on his way to a bus stop when two groups of students converged on the street, authorities said at the time.",
"The factions began fighting after an earlier shooting that police called gang-related.",
"Albert was approached by two members of one faction and struck in the head with a long portion of a wooden railroad tie, then punched in the face, Tandra Simonton, spokeswoman for Cook County prosecutors, has said.",
"After losing consciousness briefly, Albert woke up and tried to move from the fight, but was then attacked by members of the opposing faction, Simonton said.",
"The 15-year-old was the first of five defendants charged in Albert's death, WGN said.",
"The other four are charged as adults.",
"\"The facts are the facts, and the prosecutors did a great job,\" Albert's grandfather, Norman Golliday, told WGN.",
"\"I expected (the verdict) to be just what it was.\"",
"The trial of the juvenile contained graphic evidence, WGN reported.",
"Police showed the wooden board used to knock Albert to the ground and contended the teen was the one who punched him in the face.",
"The medical examiner showed pictures of the boy's body and testified he died of brain trauma caused in part by the defendant's blow.",
"At times, Albert's family left the courtroom in tears, according to the station.",
"The defense attorney claimed his client, who was 14 at the time of Albert's death, was part of the fight, but maintained he did not deliver the blow that killed Albert, WGN said.",
"Albert's death prompted President Barack Obama, a longtime Chicago resident, to send Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder to the city to meet with school officials, the students and the community on the topic of school violence."
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"Jurors deliberated only 30 minutes before convicting the youth .",
"Police said Derrion Albert was an innocent bystander .",
"He got in the middle of a street fight between two factions ."
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"Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- A separatist rebel group claimed responsibility Friday for an ambush on a convoy connected with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.",
"At the time of the attack Wednesday, Erdogan was not in the convoy, which had been traveling to a campaign rally, and he was airlifted to his next stop in a helicopter.",
"A policeman was killed and another was injured in the attack, Erdogan said Wednesday.",
"In a statement e-mailed to CNN, the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, claimed responsibility for the ambush in the province of Kastamonu.",
"The statement reads: \"On 4 May at 17:15 hours, our guerrillas carried an action against a police vehicle in a vehicles convoy at 25th km of the Kastomonu-Ankara Highway skirts of the Mount Ilgaz.",
"This action carried out in retaliation against the police terror against civilian population.\"",
"The attack was in northern Turkey, between the cities of Kastamonu and Cankiri.",
"A bomb exploded in front of the police vehicles escorting the ruling Justice and Development Party bus after it made a stop in Kastamonu.",
"Erdogan and his contingent were on a campaign trip ahead of parliamentary elections, expected to be held on June 12.",
"PKK rebels have been battling the Turkish state since the early 1980s.",
"More than 30,000 people, most of them ethnic Kurds, have been killed in the conflict.",
"Riots erupted in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, last month, after Turkey's electoral board issued a controversial decision to ban several Kurdish politicians from running for office.",
"The electoral board later reversed its decision.",
"Addressing a rally in Amasya, Erdogan expressed sorrow about the death and blamed the attack on separatist groups.",
"\"These dark minds who do not believe in democracy's struggle.",
"These terrorists, these separatist forces believe they can only achieve results this way instead of through the ballot box,\" the prime minister said."
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"The Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, claims responsibility .",
"One policeman was injured in the attack on the convoy of the prime minister .",
"Prime Minister Erdogan was not in the convoy at the time of the attack ."
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"(CNN) -- Banned Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Amir could face more disciplinary action from the sport's governing body amid reports he took part in a village match in England.",
"The 19-year-old fast bowler was forbidden from taking part in all forms of cricket for five years in February after being found guilty of deliberately bowling no balls in the spot-fixing scandal that engulfed Pakistan's series with England last year.",
"Amir insisted that he was told his appearance for Surrey village side Addington 1743 would not violate his ban because it was a friendly match.",
"But the International Cricket Council have confirmed to CNN that they will be investigating the incident and could mete out further punishment.",
"Colin Gibson, the ICC's Head of Media and Communications, said, \"We are investigating and awaiting the details.",
"If true, it is clearly a breach of the sanction imposed in February.",
"\"The ban is absolutely worldwide covering all levels and any activities connected with cricket.",
"What might happen next is a hypothetical question at this stage.\"",
"British newspaper The Daily Star reported Wednesday that Amir played in the game against St Luke's and took four wickets before scoring 60 runs with the bat.",
"He is said to have left before the end of the match.",
"Two of Amir's teammates, former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and bowler Mohammad Asif were also banned by the ICC, for ten and seven years respectively, for their part in the gambling ring.",
"Quotes from Amir appeared on Pakistani cricket web site PakPassion.net on which he is reported to have said: \"I was informed by club representatives before the game that it was a friendly match, being played on a privately owned cricket ground.",
"\"I asked the club representatives if the match fell under the jurisdiction of the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) and they informed me that the match did not.",
"\"I spoke to several club representatives about the issue, and they all told me that it was a friendly match and therefore would not contravene my ban from the ICC.",
"I would not be stupid enough to knowingly play in a match that I knew would contravene my ban.",
"\"Wherever I am going to play cricket, the world will know about it.",
"I would not be stupid enough to play in a match where I knew that I would be taking a risk.\"",
"Meanwhile, the ICC confirmed England wicketkeeper Matt Prior has been \"reprimanded\" for smashing a window at Lord's after being run out during the second Test match with Sri Lanka.",
"Prior was angry at being dismissed and hurled his bat down in the dressing room, causing another bat to smash the window, shattering glass on several spectators and allegedly cutting the ankle of a member of the crowd.",
"Prior apologized immediately, and the ICC acknowledged that the incident was \"purely accidental and without malice,\" though they could still fine the player up to 50 percent of his match fee.",
"England team director Andy Flower saw the incident and told the ECB's official web site: \"There was no real malicious intent at all.",
"He was a little frustrated and shoved his bat in the corner, and it knocked around and bounced off one or two other bats and hit the pane of glass.",
"\"It was a freak accident but definitely an accident.",
"It is a shame that people will think anything other than that.",
"It is not a major incident by any stretch of the imagination, and everybody should put it behind them really.",
"\"If there was more to it, then of course it should be taken further. But there really is not.\""
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"ICC to investigate reports Mohammad Amir took part in a village game in England .",
"Amir is serving a five-year ban from cricket after being found guilty of corruption .",
"The 19-year-old Pakistani says he thought the match did not contravene his ban .",
"Matt Prior reprimanded by ICC for smashing a window at Lord's cricket ground ."
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"(CNN) -- World leaders and jubilant Americans on Monday acclaimed the news of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's death in a raid by U.S. military forces on a compound in Pakistan.",
"But the chatter on the radical websites that bin Laden's terrorist network used to speak to the world mourned his passing with an edge of defiance, celebrating him as a martyr and vowing al Qaeda will continue despite its leader's death.",
"\"Congratulations for dying as a martyr and a fighter in the sake of Allah,\" one poster wrote.",
"\"We won't cry today, but we will revenge.",
"Men and women in America will cry.\"",
"another post read, echoing warnings from Western leaders that the terrorist network will almost certainly move to avenge bin Laden's death.",
"The sites, frequented by radical Islamists who subscribed to bin Laden's philosophies, have played a significant role in attracting and radicalizing potential terror recruits and the broader radical Islamist community and have been frequently used by al Qaeda and its affiliates to broadcast statements.",
"Video and audio messages purported to be from bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, his second-in-command, have shown up for years on jihadist websites to exhort followers to keep the faith and continue their fight against the West.",
"Many of the Web posters on Monday reacted to bin Laden's death by referring to him as a \"shaheed,\" or martyr.",
"One was headlined \"The Lion of Jihad was killed in a fierce battle.\"",
"Some mourned. \"Teary eyes and sad hearts go out to you, the dearest and most noble of people.\"",
"one poster wrote.",
"Others celebrated bin Laden's death as a promotion of sorts.",
"\"May Allah increase your rank in Jannah o Sheikh Osama!\"",
"Jannah can be translated as \"paradise.\"",
"\"May Allah give you a place next to our beloved Prophet (saws), amen amen,\" wrote another.",
"\"Saws\" is an abbreviation for the phrase meaning \"peace be upon him.\"",
"Not everyone could believe what they were hearing.",
"\"The news came down on my ears this morning like thunderbolt,\" one poster commented.",
"Another simply hoped the reports were lies.",
"Web messages attributed to bin Laden have touched on several issues.",
"He urged Muslims to tackle famine and other problems plaguing parts of the Muslim world and made assorted threats against the West.",
"The speaker made reference to a range of jihadi battlegrounds, such as Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and the Palestinian territories, .",
"Messages had been posted as late as January 21, when an audiotape of a man purported to be bin Laden said the release of two French journalists abducted by militants hinged on France's military role in Afghanistan.",
"\"We repeat the same message to you,\" said the speaker in an audiotape played on the Al-Jazeera satellite news network.",
"\"The release of your prisoners from the hands of our brethren depends on the withdrawal of your soldiers from our countries.\"",
"The speaker warned the French government that its alliance with the United States will prove costly.",
"Taliban militants captured the journalists -- Herve Ghesquiere and Stephane Taponier from France 3 Television -- in December 2009 and threatened to kill them if France did not meet their demands, which included the release of some detainees held by France.",
"It is believed the two remain in Taliban custody.",
"Bin Laden also gave interviews and made statements and videos before the September 11, 2001, attacks."
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"Radical Islamic websites ring with praise of bin Laden .",
"\"We won't cry today, but we will revenge,\" one poster wrote .",
"The terrorist leader's al Qaeda organization frequently used such sites to release messages ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Fellow Democrats mounted increasing pressure Wednesday for Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign, a day after party leaders turned their backs on the liberal congressman embroiled in a \"sexting\" scandal.",
"Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Reps. Allyson Schwartz of Pennsylvania, Michael Michaud of Maine, Mike Ross of Arkansas, Niki Tsongas of Massachusetts, Larry Kissell of North Carolina and Joe Donnelly of Indiana joined a growing chorus of Democratic voices that have called for Weiner, D-New York, to step down over sexually tinged online communications with several women that he then lied about.",
"\"Enough is enough,\" Donnelly said in a statement.",
"\"It's time for Congressman Weiner to resign.",
"His actions have disgraced the Congress.",
"Everyone should be focused on jobs and the economy and his refusal to do the right thing is a distraction.\"",
"What do you think about Rep. Weiner's confession?",
"In addition, Donnelly and some other Democrats have announced they were donating campaign contributions from Weiner to charity.",
"David Axelrod, the former senior advisor to President Barack Obama now heading Obama's re-election campaign, told CNN that he expected the situation to get resolved \"one way or another ... fairly quickly.",
"\"I'm sure he's doing a lot of soul-searching,\" Axelrod said of Weiner.",
"A Democratic legislator familiar with discussions with and about Weiner told CNN that Weiner's colleagues are telling him he should resign \"to preserve his own dignity.\"",
"The congressman, who spoke on condition of not being identified by name in order to discuss private conversations, said the public call by Schwartz was part of a stepped-up effort to force Weiner out.",
"According to the source, the effort includes private and public calls explicitly telling him it's time to leave Congress.",
"\"There is increased resentment by his colleagues that far from having a press conference where he was going to tell the truth and roll with the flames, the flames are just getting worse and he's dragging us through it,\" the source said.",
"\"We really thought by now, after the press conference, we would be able to talk about the Republicans' Social Security privatization bill and instead we keep talking about Anthony Weiner.",
"And people are getting angrier and more resentful.\"",
"A new explicit photograph now published on the Internet, allegedly of Weiner's naked genitals, is the latest example of how the issue was not going away, the Democratic legislator said, adding it was unclear if Weiner would listen.",
"\"I think he is truly conflicted and the people around him are truly conflicted,\" the source said.",
"\"Nobody knows what is going to work.\"",
"More public calls for Weiner's resignation are expected, the source added.",
"Also Wednesday, multiple New York Democratic sources told CNN it is highly likely Weiner's district will be eliminated as part of next year's redistricting process.",
"Weiner, who is married, admitted earlier this week that he engaged in sexually tinged communications with multiple women and lied about it.",
"The New York Times reported Wednesday that Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, are expecting their first child.",
"Philippe Reines, a colleague and friend of Abedin, responded \"no comment\" when asked about the pregnancy report.",
"Weiner's admission Monday launched calls from Republicans and then an increasing number of Democrats for him to step aside.",
"\"It would be fine with me,\" Pryor said Wednesday.",
"\"I think at this point it would probably be a good thing if he would go ahead and resign.\"",
"Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine said Tuesday that Weiner's attempted cover-up of the scandal makes him unfit for office.",
"\"Lying is unforgivable,\" said Kaine, now a U.S. Senate candidate in Virginia.",
"\"Lying publicly about something like this is unforgivable and he should resign.\"",
"While other Democrats haven't explicitly called on Weiner to step down, they have done little to demonstrate any support for him.",
"\"Representative Weiner has some problems,\" Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's No.",
"2 Democrat, told reporters Wednesday.",
"\"I wish there was some way I could defend him, but I can't,\" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said Tuesday.",
"Asked what he would say if Weiner sought advice, Reid smiled and responded: \"I'd tell him to call someone else.\"",
"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, who called for an ethics investigation Monday, released a letter Tuesday detailing her formal request for the inquiry.",
"Pelosi's letter \"certainly adds pressure for him to go,\" said a senior Democratic aide, who spoke on condition of not being identified.",
"Weiner, who has said he would welcome an ethics probe, publicly apologized Monday for sending flirtatious messages and images on Facebook and Twitter to six women over the past three years and then denying it for a week.",
"Over the past three days, he has been reaching out to a number of colleagues and supporters, according to one source.",
"Among other things, Weiner called former President Bill Clinton -- who officiated at his wedding ceremony -- to personally express regret for his actions.",
"According to a Democratic congressman who got one of the calls, Weiner was \"very contrite\" and said he \"let everyone down.\"",
"The legislator, speaking on condition of not being named because it was a private conversation, said Weiner was so choked up he could \"barely get the words out,\" and told him that he was going to \"get some help.\"",
"Wednesday's publication online of the explicit photo that a conservative blogger claims shows Weiner's genitals was the latest twist in the scandal.",
"Andrew Breitbart, whose biggovernment.com website broke the story of Weiner's sexting, said the photo came from a woman who told him Weiner sent it to her.",
"Weiner acknowledged Monday that such an X-rated photo of him could exist.",
"Also Wednesday, one of the women with whom Weiner communicated online said the congressman initiated sexual exchanges.",
"\"I would want to talk politics.",
"But he would turn it creepy,\" Lisa Weiss, a 40-year-old blackjack dealer from Las Vegas, told CBS' \"Inside Edition.\"",
"Weiss said she believes Weiner has \"a weird fetish,\" but that \"it doesn't make him a bad politician ... or a bad congressman.",
"It makes him a bad husband.\"",
"Asked what she'd say to Weiner's wife, Weiss said: \"I want to apologize.",
"I should not have been flirting with her husband.\"",
"An ethics investigation would examine if Weiner violated House rules or brought the chamber into disrepute.",
"The code of conduct for members of Congress calls for them to conduct themselves \"at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.\"",
"However, ethics experts say legislators are rarely, if ever, disciplined for violating that rule alone.",
"Using government technology such as telephones and computers for his sexting could be another story.",
"Weiner said Monday he used his personal BlackBerry and home computer, but added: \"I don't have the knowledge of every last communication, but I don't believe that I used any government resources.\"",
"Even if he did, that doesn't automatically subject him to House discipline, said Stan Brand, a former House general counsel who has represented legislators before the ethics panel.",
"Members of Congress sometimes use official resources for nongovernment activities, Brand noted, adding that \"the House has never taken a position or disciplined someone for that use.\"",
"Back in Weiner's district -- which straddles Brooklyn and Queens -- voters were divided over what the congressman should do.",
"Some constituents said he should \"never resign,\" while others called for his immediate ouster.",
"Weiner was first elected to Congress in 1998 and has won seven straight elections.",
"Whether or not Weiner retains the support of most of his constituents, many analysts believe he has almost certainly lost his spot as a front-runner in New York's 2013 mayoral election.",
"In addition, multiple New York Democratic sources told CNN on Wednesday they believe it is highly likely Weiner will ultimately lose his congressional district as part of a redistricting deal.",
"New York will lose two of its 29 U.S. House seats by 2012 due to recent U.S. Census results.",
"Before news broke of the Weiner scandal, most New York state government observers believed one Republican seat upstate would be lost along with one Democratic seat downstate.",
"The fact that Weiner is now tarnished makes it extremely likely his seat will be the one that Democrats sacrifice, the sources said.",
"Two of the sources -- both Democratic strategists in New York -- said the impending redistricting is one reason New York Democrats aren't rushing to call on Weiner to resign.",
"Many believe it is better for them if he stays because it makes it more likely that his district will be eliminated instead of theirs, the sources noted.",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib, Tom Cohen, Peter Hamby, Dana Bash, Deirdre Walsh, Mary Snow, Meghan Rafferty, Josh Levs and Kate Bolduan contributed to this story."
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"More Democrats join call for Weiner to resign .",
"An explicit photo claimed to be of Weiner is posted online .",
"Sources say Weiner's district will likely be eliminated in the redistricting process ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Lindsay Lohan has decided to enter a no contest plea this week -- the equivalent to a guilty plea -- to a misdemeanor theft charge, a source close to the actress said Monday.",
"While a judge has already sentenced Lohan to 120 days in jail for violating her drunk driving probation with the charge, she is likely to serve no more than two weeks, according to a Los Angeles sheriff's spokesman.",
"Probation officials, in a sentencing report that would be presented to the judge, could recommend that Lohan complete her sentence at home wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.",
"Lohan's trial for allegedly stealing a necklace from a Venice, California, jewelry store was scheduled for June 3, with a pre-trial hearing to be held Wednesday.",
"The source close to Lohan, who asked not to be named, said the actress would use this week's hearing to enter her plea.",
"Getting the threat of jail time behind her could be important for Lohan's acting career, considering she's been cast in the \"Gotti\" movie, which is set for production in October.",
"A new prosecutor took over the case last week, opening the door for new talks on a plea deal.",
"When Lohan rejected a plea deal last March and decided to take the theft charge to trial, it was a felony case.",
"Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Danette Meyers was insisting she go to jail at least for several months.",
"But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner reduced it to a misdemeanor charge, which took it out of Meyers' jurisdiction.",
"She handed the case off to the Los Angeles city attorney last Wednesday.",
"Sautner allowed Lohan to remain free on bond while she appealed the 120-day probation violation sentence.",
"The actress has already reported to the Los Angeles Downtown Women's Center where she must serve 360 hours of community service.",
"Lohan must also work 120 hours at the county morgue, the judge ordered.",
"If Sautner gives Lohan no additional jail time on the misdemeanor theft charge, she could be free in just two weeks, based on guidelines explained by Whitmore.",
"The 120-day sentence is reduced to 71 days when the state formula for \"good time\" is applied off the top, Whitmore said.",
"The remaining sentence becomes just 14 days served under the sheriff's guidelines to reduce jail overcrowding, he said.",
"Female inmates locked up for non-violent offenses get out after serving just 20 percent of the sentence, he said.",
"Lohan's probation officer could recommend that she serve no jail time, but instead be fitted for an electronic ankle bracelet and ordered to stay at home for a time to be determined, Whitmore said.",
"But Sautner could have the final word, insisting on a minimum amount of jail time for Lohan, he said.",
"Lohan was just weeks away from being free from supervised probation stemming from two drunk driving convictions in 2007 when she was charged with felony grand theft.",
"She allegedly walked out of the Venice jewelry store with a diamond-and-gold necklace around her neck that had not been purchased.",
"The alleged theft happened just three weeks after the actress completed three months of drug rehab.",
"She checked into the Betty Ford Clinic only after another judge ordered her to jail for a month after finding she violated probation with a failed drug test.",
"At that time, prosecutor Meyers asked the judge to send the actress to jail for 180 days.",
"\"I'm not quite sure we've gotten her attention yet,\" Meyers said at an October hearing.",
"Meyers argued that Lohan has a pattern of checking into rehab \"every time she has a violation and jail is leering over her head.\"",
"But Meyers is now out of Lohan's legal life.",
"Other than a few hours waiting in jail for bonds to be posted, Lohan has served just 13 days behind bars.",
"That happened in August, when the sheriff let her out early from a 90-day probation-violation sentence."
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"A hearing is set for Wednesday in Lohan's theft case .",
"The actress could serve just 14 days in jail or at home, a sheriff's spokesman says .",
"Lohan is already doing community service .",
"She is charged with stealing a necklace from a jewelry store ."
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"(CNN) -- Ferrari's Fernando Alonso has said the Italian team were too slow at Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix as the legendary marque continued their stuttering start to the 2011 Formula One season.",
"The two-time world champion slipped from fifth position on the grid to a seventh place finish at the Shanghai International Circuit and the Spaniard is now 42 points behind current leader Sebastian Vettel in the drivers' championship after three races.",
"Alonso, 29, admitted he made a bad start in the year's third grand prix but maintained race strategy was not the reason behind Ferrari's low-scoring performance.",
"\"Unfortunately, our race pace was too slow and I don't think that a different strategy would have changed anything,\" the former McLaren driver told Ferrari's official web site.",
"Proud Hamilton ends Vettel's winning run .",
"\"I made a bad start, Felipe Massa [Alonso's teammate] managed to get past me and a Force India nearly did the same, then it was a good battle on the opening lap.",
"After the first pit stop, I lost too much time behind Michael [Schumacher], thus losing touch with the leading group.",
"\"It was a good battle, but I would have preferred to have been doing it for a podium finish rather than seventh place.\"",
"Alonso insisted Ferrari can improve and once again challenge Vettel's front-running Red Bull team, citing the McLaren and Mercedes teams as examples to follow.",
"\"I won't get downhearted or lose confidence.",
"We know we have to improve to get to the front.",
"McLaren and Mercedes have managed it and there is no reason to think we can't do the same.\"",
"Latest Formula One standings after round three .",
"Team president Luca di Montezemolo demanded an improvement from all involved with the Maranello-based outfit, and he called upon Ferrari engineers to redouble their efforts in an attempt to increase the performance of the 150 Italia car.",
"\"This cannot and must not be the team's level,\" the 63-year-old said.",
"\"It's a very delicate moment.",
"I expect our engineers to act with determination and know-how, unleashing the maximum of their capacity to improve the performance of the car in a short time.",
"\"I want Ferrari to be at the level that both we and our fans demand it should be.\"",
"The Brazilian Massa faired marginally better than his colleague with a sixth place finish, but the 29-year-old disagreed with Alonso that race strategy played no part in the result.",
"\"The strategy? Now, it's easy to say that we were not on the right one, but we are a team and we take our decisions together.",
"\"Vettel made the same choice as us and we had a reasonably similar pace.",
"Probably we would have finished on the podium, but we need to look into all the details with the engineers.\"",
"British driver Lewis Hamilton took the checkered flag for McLaren on Sunday to end reigning champion Vettel's 100% start to his title defense.",
"Ferrari's decision making hit the headlines at the end of the 2010 season when an error in race strategy cost Alonso a third world title at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.",
"Formula now takes a three week break before the season's first race in Europe, the Turkish Grand Prix, on May 8."
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"Fernando Alonso has said Ferrari lacked race pace at the Chinese Grand Prix .",
"Alonso did not feel a different strategy would have had any impact on the race .",
"Teammate Felipe Massa said it is easy to criticize the strategy after the race ."
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"(CNN) -- Barcelona reached the Champions League final after drawing 1-1 with Real Madrid in the Nou Camp Tuesday to go through 3-1 on aggregate.",
"2-0 to the good from the first leg at the Bernabeu, Barcelona took the lead through Pedro in the 54th minute while Marcelo scored the equalizer for Real 10 minutes later.",
"Barcelona will play either Manchester United or Schalke at Wembley on May 28 with the English side having a 2-0 lead heading into the second leg at home Wednesday.",
"In contrast to the ill-tempered first leg, both teams ended the match with a full set of players and there were none of the ugly confrontations that marred that encounter.",
"Real proved obdurate opponents but rode their luck in the first half as Lionel Messi forced two fine saves from Iker Casillas before dragging a shot wide from a great position.",
"But in the second half, Real showed more purpose and Barcelona were fortunate when Gonzalo Higuian had the ball in the net only for the referee to rule that Javier Mascherano had been fouled by Ronaldo in the build-up.",
"A fine passing movement, which started with goalkeeper Victor Valdes, saw the returning Andres Iniesta play a pin-point pass for Pedro to score the crucial goal soon afterwards.",
"Real responded as Angel Di Maria hit the post but retrieved the ball to play in Marcelo, who scored with a fine strike.",
"Pressure from the visitors led to a tense finale to the match, but with victory assured Barcelona captain Carles Puyol departed to be replaced by Eric Abidal to a thunderous reception.",
"Abidal has made a full recovery after a liver tumor and at the final whistle he was hoisted high by his teammates as they celebrated reaching the final of European football's top club competition.",
"\"It is a unique feeling, to once again be in the final,\" Iniesta, who missed the first leg through injury, told AFP.",
"\"Winning a confrontation like this one deserves to be feted.\"",
"Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho was banned from taking any part in the second leg after being sent off for protesting Pepe's dismissal in the first match and he watched on television at his team's hotel.",
"He would have seen an improved performance from his side but Barcelona always had the edge on their bitter rivals over the two legs as they head for a likely repeat of the 2009 final against Manchester United, which they won."
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"Barcelona reach Champions League final with 3-1 aggregate win over Real Madrid .",
"Semifinal second leg in the Nou Camp ends in a 1-1 draw .",
"Pedro scores for Barcelona with Marcelo equalizing 10 minutes later .",
"Manchester United lead Schalke 2-0 heading into second leg of other semifinal ."
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"(CNN) -- Ahh, summer -- a time of sun-drenched picnics where one partakes in three-legged races, whimsical games of croquet and copious pours of wine (the sweet nectar sucked from the recesses of paper bags so as to avoid the long arm of Johnny Law, of course).",
"And everyone knows that those picnics will fade into foggy, watercolor memories if not obsessively documented.",
"While a lucky few of us have a trusty photog friend who's always on hand to snap golden-hued pictures of our glorious glory days, others must rely on another, more mechanical companion for our photo-grabbing needs: one's smartphone.",
"Thankfully, there are scads of photo-taking and sharing apps out there that are sure to get more play this summer than that chick over there in the Lolita-esque crop top.",
"Some are, shall we say, more exhibitionist than others (like the aforementioned chick).",
"Here's our take on four apps for everyone from rabid shutterbugs to shut-ins.",
"For storytellers . Are you one of those people who comes into work every Monday with winding tales about driving out into the desert and communing with the cacti about fourth-dimensional time shifts as your friends dance in a daisy chain and the sun sets gorgeously in the background?",
"Well, now you can document every leg of your spiritual journey with a new app for iPhone and iPod touch called Blurb Mobile, which allows you create stories with photo, video and audio.",
"You can then share those multimedia tales via Facebook, Twitter and e-mail, so that your work friends can experience your transcendent weekend (or laugh at your cactus convo) right along with you.",
"For voyeurs . Ever wonder what your neighbors are up to at those swingin' hot tub party BBQs they're always throwing?",
"Well, put down the binoculars and download Color, a photo/video-sharing app for iPhone (and Android, soon) that allows you to see photos and videos from other users in your vicinity.",
"There's no \"friending\" on Color -- you're just shown pictures taken by people you hang out with on a regular basis (determined via location technology).",
"We can see the app being a standby at many a festival this summer (it was already featured at the Sweetlife Music Festival in D.C.) -- especially for those concert-goers crammed in the back behind lumbering show ogres.",
"Still, every pic on Color is public, so if you plan on snapping some sexy shots of you and your honey behind the bandstand, uh, you might want to use a point-and-shoot.",
"For socialites . If every Facebook notification sends a thrill shooting through your deepest core, iPhone appInstagram will likely bring you to crisis.",
"Instagram is basically a photo-sharing social network, which allows you to follow other users and comment on and \"Favorite\" their snaps -- in which everyone is beautiful and '70sesque thanks to a cadre of flattering filters.",
"Yeah, that sunset is rad, but wouldn't it be radder if five people affirmed its beauty by tossing you a \"Like\"?",
"Don't have an iPhone? PicPlz is pretty darn similar to Instagram.",
"For Greta Garbo .",
"Not everyone is big into sharing their lives with the whole block -- gossiping on front stoops as night falls, or finding out the latest neighborhood news from Debra at the diner.",
"No, some of us would rather divulge our secrets to a particular group of friends -- you know, like your model train enthusiasts society, or your historical reenactment club.",
"Enter Path, an iPhone photo/video app that only allows you to share snaps with up to 50 friends (within the app and on Facebook), max.",
"The figure stems from the work of Oxford psychologist Rubin Dunbar, who says that humans can only handle maintaining relationships with up to 150 people.",
"Because, let's face it, you probably don't have more than 50 pals who would be down to check out snaps from that recreation of the Civil War you're planning on staging down at Fort Sumter this summer."
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"There are scads of photo-taking and sharing apps that deserve some play this summer .",
"From Color and Instagram to Path and Blurb Mobile, here's a look at some of the best ."
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"Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- They chanted \"Osama, Hero!",
"... Obama, Terrorist! ...",
"Destroy America!\"",
"Hundreds of followers of the Islamic Defenders Front gathered Wednesday at its Jakarta headquarters to give Osama bin Laden \"a million thanks and honor.\"",
"They sang Islamic songs before chanting prayers for bin Laden.",
"Islamic Defenders Front, or FPI, is an Indonesian Islamist movement which advocates implementation of conservative laws.",
"They're more known for thuggish attacks on groups deemed un-Islamic or immoral and minority religious groups, according to human rights groups.",
"Men, women and children filed into FPI's Jakarta headquarters, walking past posters of Osama bin Laden and U.S. President Barack Obama, his face crossed out in red.",
"In a statement read by its Secretary General Sobri Lobis, FPI expressed doubt about the death of bin Laden, saying the news from \"infidel America\" should be scrutinized.",
"However, the group also said, if the news was true, it condemned the killing and the way bin Laden's body was buried at sea.",
"\"Osama bin Laden is a true Islamic warrior figure who defended Islam,\" FPI said."
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"Hundreds of FPI followers gathered Wednesday in Jakarta to pray for Osama bin Laden .",
"\"Osama bin Laden is a true Islamic warrior figure who defended Islam,\" FPI said ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- The Japanese company trying to contain the release of radiation from its Fukushima nuclear plant must pour enough water to cool its damaged reactors without creating an overflow of contaminated water from the plant, a government official said Tuesday.",
"Yukio Edano, Japan's chief Cabinet secretary and the government's point man for the nation's nuclear crisis, said the effort to prevent the reactors from overheating \"must be given priority.\"",
"But Edano acknowledge the danger posed by continuing to pour water into them.",
"\"If we need to increase water injection, this is what we need to do.",
"If we stop water injection, fuel rod temperatures may increase and that may result in overheating,\" Edano said.",
"\"But fundamentally we need to drain the water as soon as possible.\"",
"Edano's remarks came a day after he told reporters that the containment structure surrounding one of the reactors at a quake-battered nuclear power plant is damaged and may be leaking radioactive material.",
"The plant's owner disclosed that small amounts of plutonium had been found among contaminants around the facility late Monday as Japanese authorities struggled to explain how radioactive water was leaking into maintenance tunnels and possibly, into the Pacific Ocean.",
"Edano told reporters Monday afternoon that \"there may be a leak\" from the containment vessel surrounding the No.",
"2 reactor. He said experts were still trying to determine the condition of the reactor's pressure vessel, which sits inside the containment vessel and immediately surrounds the radioactive fuel rods at the reactor's core.",
"\"Somehow, we understand water is being moved from one place to another,\" Edano said.",
"\"We need to hear an explanation from experts.\"",
"Reactors 1 to 3 at the plant, located about 240 kilometers (140 miles) north of Tokyo, are believed to have suffered core damage after their cooling systems were knocked out by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that ravaged northern Japan.",
"The tsunami knocked out backup generators that ran their coolant systems and damaged water pumps at the plant, forcing workers to scramble to prevent a meltdown.",
"Technicians restored external electric power late Monday to the No.",
"3 reactor plant, a step toward restoring cooling systems there, the plant's owner reported late Monday.",
"But hydrogen explosions -- an early symptom of core damage -- inflicted heavy damage on the buildings housing the No.",
"1 and No. 3 reactors in the days following the quake, and another suspected explosion rocked the No.",
"2 reactor on March 15.",
"Japanese nuclear regulators and the owner, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, say they know little about what damage was sustained in that blast.",
"Tokyo Electric announced late Monday that plutonium -- a reactor byproduct that is also part of the fuel mix in the No.",
"3 reactor -- had turned up in soil on the plant grounds in tests taken last week.",
"However, the company said it was equivalent to the amounts that fell on Japan following above-ground nuclear weapons tests by other countries in past decades, and posed no health risk to humans.",
"\"Just in case, TEPCO will increase the monitoring of the nuclear plant grounds and the surrounding environment,\" the company said.",
"Three plutonium isotopes -- Pu-238, -239 and -240 -- were found in soil at five different points inside the plant grounds, Tokyo Electric reported.",
"The element can be a serious health hazard if inhaled or ingested, but external exposure poses little health risk, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.",
"The company said the discovery would not change efforts to bring an end to the crisis at the plant, which has spread radioactive contamination across much of northern Japan.",
"Water found in a maintenance tunnel leading to unit No.",
"2's turbine house remained radioactive enough to pose an immediate hazard, authorities reported after taking new readings Monday afternoon.",
"The 1,000 millisievert per hour reading is more than 330 times the dose an average person in a developed country receives per year and can result in vomiting and up to a 30 percent higher risk of cancer, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.",
"The level is also four times the top dose Japan's Health Ministry has set for emergency workers struggling to control the further emission of radioactive material from the damaged plant.",
"Cham Dallas, an expert on radiation and public health at the University of Georgia, told CNN's \"American Morning\" that the level suggests operators are facing \"a deteriorating situation\" at the No.",
"2 reactor. \"Fortunately, that's in the reactor area, not outside and not in Tokyo or even in the area in Fukushima province,\" Dallas said.",
"\"But in the reactor area itself, that's -- that's concerning to me.",
"We're starting to see levels now that are dangerous to reactor workers if they're in those contaminated areas.\"",
"The officials said it was unclear how contaminated water got into the tunnel, or if it might have spilled out and seeped into the Pacific Ocean from there.",
"\"Right now, it is not known,\" Hidehiko Nishiyama, an official with Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, said Monday evening.",
"Water was being pumped out of the No.",
"1 and No. 2 turbine building, but Nishiyama noted that there is no place to put water pooled in the No.",
"2 building's basement.",
"The plan is to extract the water using what he called a condenser.",
"But that apparatus is \"almost full,\" as are several storage tanks nearby.",
"A similar challenge is holding up the removal of collected water in the No.",
"3 unit's turbine building basement.",
"\"So we will first have to empty some of the tanks,\" he said, adding later only that the tainted water needs to be removed \"as soon as possible.\"",
"Seawater readings from a monitoring post 330 meters (361 yards) into the Pacific Ocean showed elevated readings of the reactor byproduct iodine-131, an isotope that loses half its radioactivity every eight days.",
"The measurement was taken north of the discharge canal for reactors 1-4, where a reading of 1,850 times normal was recorded Sunday.",
"And despite reduced alarms in recent days, Nishiyama noted Monday that the temperature is rising inside the No.",
"1 reactor -- a sign that the nuclear fuel rods in that unit remain in danger of overheating.",
"Units 1, 2 and 3 were the only three of the six reactors operating when the magnitude 9 earthquake struck.",
"The quake and resulting tsunami knocked out backup generators that ran their coolant systems and damaged water pumps at the plant, leaving authorities scrambling to pump water into the reactors and the spent fuel pools to prevent a meltdown.",
"Authorities have switched from pumping seawater into the reactors to using fresh water, and plan to switch from seawater to fresh water in the spent fuel pools, where old fuel rods are stored.",
"Monday was the 32nd anniversary of the worst U.S. nuclear accident, a partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island power plant outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.",
"Though no deaths or injuries resulted, the accident hamstrung the American atomic power industry for decades.",
"CNN's Whitney Hurst contributed to this report ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Forget the Royal Navy and the U.S. Marines -- the 'computer navy' is on its way, and digital media on the high seas are set to make a steaming comeback.",
"New home? Barges like this one could soon play host to Google's massive data centers.",
"It seemed that floating media firms were a thing of the past when the United Kingdom's last major offshore pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, followed other European and American examples and died out in the early 1990s.",
"But, fast-forward 20 years and enter Internet giant Google.",
"According to a patent application seen by London newspaper \"The Times,\" Google is considering launching barges up to seven miles (11km) offshore to host the massive data centers required to run its Internet search engines.",
"The plan would likely see the data centers -- which consist of huge supercomputers -- use wave energy to power and cool themselves while stationed at sea.",
"In the application Google states: \"Computing centers are located on a ship or ships, anchored in a water body from which energy from natural motion of the water may be captured, and turned into electricity and/or pumping power for cooling pumps to carry heat away.\"",
"Energy consumption is undoubtedly a massive issue for these giant data centers.",
"The servers within each data center need to be air-conditioned to prevent overheating -- and considering a company such as IBM runs approximately eight million square feet of servers -- that's a lot of required cooling.",
"According to a 2005 study by Stanford University consulting professor and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs staff scientist, Jonathan Koomey, the energy consumption of data centers doubled in the period from 2000 to 2005.",
"The total annual worldwide power bill for the servers at the time was an estimated $7.2 billion, according to Koomey.",
"The Internet has continued to grow at a rapid rate and other major companies have also been searching for a more efficient method of maintaining their data centers.",
"Microsoft has looked into taking advantage of a cold climate by constructing a data center in Siberia, while Sun Microsystems is reported to be sending its computers down a former coal mine, using water below the ground as a coolant.",
"But, how workable is Google's project, really?",
"And does it mark a potential new future for the maritime industry?",
"Dr Brad Karp, reader in Computer Systems and Networks at University College London, described the move as \"an audacious risk\" that will push the boundaries for major companies in future.",
"Karp said the project would carry significant risks, but potentially very high rewards.",
"\"Anytime you take on several new technologies at the one time -- and you are trying to build something highly reliable -- there are going to be real technical challenges, which there will be for these data centers,\" he said.",
"Some major benefits of Google's project include being able to save money on rent and property taxes by being positioned offshore, as well as saving money on electricity bills.",
"\"If you look at the percentage of power being used by these centers ... it seems like a good long-term bet for the future,\" Karp told CNN.",
"Karp believes Google could also benefit from snaring a \"green\" image if it is able to harness wave motion to power the computers and their cooling systems, in addition to providing a quality service to users.",
"\"One of the reasons Google has data centers around the world is to enhance the user experiences near where many of their users are.",
"This will still allow them to do that.\"",
"He said there were some logistical issues, but if the ships were stationed not far from the coast, they should not have too many operational concerns.",
"\"At that distance (11km) you would want to provide wired network activity -- some sort of under-sea cable.",
"The sheer bit-rate needed for an operation like this is usually too high for most wireless systems,\" Karp said.",
"Karp does point out there could be plenty of maintenance required on such a system: \"The sea is not exactly a friendly environment for cables.\"",
"Although some commentators have raised concerns about the ships leaving themselves open to attack, Karp did not feel it was a major issue.",
"\"It's not the kind of thing you see reported on very often.",
"Typically the kind of things we worry about more is network-based attacks.\"",
"Current data centers are defended by corporate-type security consisting of reception desks and electronically guarded entrances.",
"Karp envisages a similar level of protection for the centers at sea, potentially using a protective barrier or guarding vessels.",
"If this project is realized, it offers the potential to alter not only online commerce, but also introduces the potential for new strands of business in the maritime industry.",
"Maritime eCommerce Association spokesman Ake Nilson said: \"So far as I know there isn't anything quite like it.",
"We haven't really seen anything like this since the old pirate radio stations.\"",
"Nilson says that if the project goes ahead -- and more companies attempt to adopt a similar program -- it could provide a sizable boost to the maritime industry through the ships and workers required to establish, run, protect and maintain such operations."
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"Wave energy could be used to power and cool the data centers' servers .",
"The project would save Google money on power bills, rent, and property tax .",
"Such projects have the potential to boost to the maritime industry ."
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"(CNN) -- If you've ever turned on VH1 (or at least passed by it while channel surfing to something with sharks), there's a 200% chance that you've seen the network's \"I Love The ... \" series, which also means that you've stumbled upon comedian Hal Sparks waxing nostalgic on everything from Nerf footballs to the R. Kelly sex tape.",
"(\"I Love the 70's\" and \"I Love the New Millennium,\" respectively.)",
"As a regular contributor to the series, it seems as though Hal pretty much loved every decade, and everyone seemed to love Hal.",
"In fact, in 1999 the budding comedian received his big break on TV when the E!",
"network pegged him to host \"Talk Soup,\" a show that aired the best clips from the previous day's daily talk shows (read: people getting naked on \"Springer\").",
"Sparks says, \"I learned a lot more about the audience -- the Romanesque problem we have as a culture right now.",
"'Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.\"",
"Shortly after taking over \"Talk Soup,\" Sparks landed a role on the Showtime series \"Queer as Folk\" and numerous other parts on various networks.",
"Basically, the guy started to show up just about everywhere, including big-screen appearances in \"Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star,\" \"Spider-Man 2\" and as the cult leader Zoltan in \"Dude, Where's My Car?\"",
"(Zoltan: \"Soon we will leave this lame planet and fly through outer space with cool aliens who like us!\")",
"But if you haven't seen him on TV or in film, there's also a chance you've seen him on stage, singing and playing guitar for the band Zero 1.",
"Or, perhaps, he beat you up in a kung fu fight.",
"(Seriously, Hal has a lot of hobbies.)",
"A firm believer in the personal benefits of martial arts, Sparks says, \"If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi.",
"It will make you live longer.\"",
"Apparently, the fountain of youth isn't bacon."
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"In 1999, he hosted the E!",
"show \"Talk Soup,\" which aired funny segments from talk shows .",
"Sparks also sings and plays the guitar in a band called Zero 1 ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- A Japanese nuclear plant will shut down its reactors after the country's prime minister warned it was vulnerable to natural disasters, its owner announced Monday.",
"The Chubu Electric Company said it will take two of its reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear plant off line and not bring a third back on line, effectively shutting down the plant.",
"In a statement, the company said, \"At the May 9, 2011 meeting of the Board of Directors, Chubu Electric Power Company, Inc., has decided to suspend operations of Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant until further measures to prevent tsunami (damage) are completed, as requested by the prime minister.\"",
"Prime Minister Naoto Kan said last week that the plant -- located on the Pacific coast in Omaezaki, southwest of Tokyo -- could produce \"grave damage to Japan\" similar to the problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and wanted earthquake and tsunami protections put in place.",
"Akihisa Mizuno, president of Chubu Electric, said safety was the company's first priority.",
"Meanwhile, workers reentered the No.",
"1 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Monday as they try to restore its cooling system, the plant's operator said.",
"Nine Toyko Electric Power Co. employees and two representatives from Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spent about 30 minutes in the building measuring radiation levels.",
"On Thursday, workers went into the damaged facility for the first time since a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami in March.",
"They installed a ventilation system that is filtering radioactive substances from the air.",
"The purpose of Monday's visit was to see how successful the system has been.",
"Once the radioactive contamination in the air is lowered enough, workers will be able stay in the building longer to install a cooling system that Tokyo Electric wants to use to perform a cold shut down of the reactor.",
"Cooling systems at Fukushima Daiichi, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Tokyo, were knocked out by the devastating tsunami that struck Japan's Pacific coast after a massive earthquake March 11.",
"The disaster triggered the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl as the cores of reactors 1-3 overheated and spewed huge amounts of radioactive contamination across the surrounding area.",
"The buildings that house reactors 1 and 3 were blown apart by hydrogen explosions in the first days of the crisis.",
"Another hydrogen buildup is believed to have ruptured a water reservoir beneath the No.",
"2 reactor. In April, Tokyo Electric laid out a six- to nine-month timetable for winding down the crisis and bringing the reactors to a complete shutdown.",
"The disaster has led to mandatory evacuations of about 78,000 people living within 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) of the plant.",
"People living another 10 kilometers away -- or at least another 60,000 people -- have been ordered to remain sheltered.",
"Yoko Wakatsuki, Kyung Lah and Junko Ogura contributed to this report ."
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"Ventilating the reactor building at Fukushima Daiichi will allow employees to work there longer .",
"An earthquake and tsunami hit the nuclear facility on March 11 .",
"Reactor workers and nuclear safety officials measure radiation at the plant ."
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"Johannesburg (CNN) -- The wife of the South African state security minister was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for drug dealing that included hiring smugglers, authorities said.",
"Cheryl Cwele was convicted after one of the women testified against her.",
"Charmaine Moss, who testified against her, said Cwele asked them to pick up a parcel in Turkey, but she turned her down.",
"Prosecutors relied on the woman's testimony, text messages and e-mails to prove their case, said Natasha Ramkisson, a spokeswoman for the national prosecuting authority.",
"Moss told the court that Cwele offered them more than $3,500.",
"Another woman agreed to pick up the package, and was arrested in Brazil, where she is now serving an eight-year sentence for drug trafficking, Ramkisson said.",
"Cwele was convicted Thursday together with a Nigerian accomplice.",
"She had pleaded not guilty.",
"Opposition parties called on minister Siyabonga Cwele to resign following his wife's sentencing.",
"The minister is a member of the ruling African National Congress.",
"\"This entire episode is an embarrassing blow to the reputation of South Africa and its government,\" said Phillip Dexter of the Congress of the People, which broke away from the ruling party.",
"Presidential spokesman Zizi Kodwa declined to comment."
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"She is sentenced together with an accomplice ."
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"(CNN) -- Rapper Flo Rida is out of jail after being arrested Thursday on suspicion of drunken driving.",
"He posted bail of $2,000 and obtained a signed court order allowing him to travel to Asia for a series of previously scheduled concerts in Bangkok over the weekend, his lawyer said.",
"Miami Beach police said officers spotted the South Florida artist, whose real name is Tramar Dillard, driving his 2008 Bugatti erratically in the early morning hours.",
"According to the arrest report, Dillard swerved in and out of lanes about five times and drove for another two blocks after the responding officer activated his emergency lights and air horn.",
"Police said the rapper smelled of alcohol and had bloodshot, watery eyes and slurred speech, the report said.",
"Officers administered a field sobriety test, during which Dillard said, \"Officer, I can't do this,\" and \"I don't feel like I can walk a straight line.\"",
"Dillard said, \"I had a few drinks,\" according to the report.",
"Police said he blew a 0.185 on a Breathalyzer exam, more than twice the legal limit.",
"Dillard was charged with driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license for previously failing to pay a traffic fine.",
"\"Until we have an opportunity to meet with our client and conduct our own investigation into the facts, we are declining further comment on this matter,\" said a statement from his attorneys, Christopher Lyons and Sandy Becher.",
"Flo Rida is perhaps best known for his 2008 hits \"Low\" featuring T-Pain, and \"In the Ayer\" featuring Will.i.am."
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"The rap artist was driving erratically in Miami Beach, police say .",
"\"I had a few drinks,\" rapper said, according to the arrest report .",
"Flo Rida is known for the hits \"Low\" and \"In the Ayer\""
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"Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- Facebook is already adept at handling public-relations blunders, but the company is beginning to focus on how it can help with real calamities.",
"About a dozen disaster-relief workers from governments and nonprofit organizations convened this week for a five-hour meeting at Facebook's offices here in Palo Alto, California, and via teleconference from Washington.",
"While the groups, which included members from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and California Emergency Management Agency, were grateful for the gesture, they were not above taking good-humored jabs at Facebook for its rocky relations with government.",
"\"Thank you so much for inviting us here,\" Kelly Huston, a Cal EMA spokesman, said near the end of the assembly.",
"\"I know your interaction with government isn't great because we're suing you all the time for privacy issues.\"",
"Meanwhile, another Facebook privacy debate was stewing during the meeting when Facebook began widening the reach of its facial-recognition feature.",
"European Union regulators will hold an inquiry about the matter, Bloomberg reports.",
"The Tuesday event was Facebook's first noteworthy collaboration with emergency-response organizations, spokespeople said.",
"Site administrators currently manage a page called Global Disaster Relief on Facebook.",
"It has about 540,000 members, or less than 1% of Facebook's total user base -- but still more than the combined Facebook fans for all the groups that attended the meeting.",
"FEMA and the American Red Cross representatives offered occasional insights from Washington.",
"FEMA Administrator William Craig Fugate, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009, met with Facebook in October but was not present at this week's meeting.",
"\"Discussions like these help us learn from each other about what is working well and what isn't,\" Shayne Adamski, a FEMA senior manager who attended the meeting, wrote in an e-mailed statement.",
"For some, the affair was an education seminar, a chance to ask questions to the masters of the platform.",
"Wendy Harman, the social media director for the Red Cross, expressed frustrations with managing Facebook pages.",
"\"It makes me want to cry thinking about making 80,000 instances and updating them into eternity,\" she said.",
"Facebook spokespeople were quick to offer suggestions.",
"\"We can play a really important role in educating,\" said Dave Steer, who manages Facebook's trust and safety team.",
"\"This is one of the reasons we convened this kind of forum.\"",
"The Red Cross extended an open invitation to Facebook to embed with its disaster-relief team, Harman said.",
"Google, which has more than 20 times as many employees as Facebook, devoted a \"small team\" last year to building projects that help provide disaster-related news or organize search efforts for missing people.",
"Tumblr, the blogging platform, has added buttons to its site that encourage bloggers to donate to disaster relief efforts.",
"Facebook was less apt to promise dedicated resources from its 2,000 employees.",
"Steer suggested Facebook could create an internal think tank focused on disaster response.",
"\"How do we leverage some of the minds of the people who work here to tackle the technical problems?\"",
"he asked. Company spokesman Frederic Wolens added: \"Facebook is the platform.\"",
"Some weren't fully convinced of Facebook's dedication to the cause.",
"\"I know that Facebook is a platform, and you want to push that, but going beyond marketing Facebook,\" said Heather Blanchard, co-founder of the nonprofit Crisis Commons, \"part of it is about recording history.\"",
"\"You have an entire research population hungry for what you know,\" she added.",
"Facebook plans to discuss the feedback it received from the organizations over the next few weeks and will determine how best to handle the requests.",
"Tuesday's agenda included a brainstorming session for a Facebook application dedicated to disaster relief, but the concept wasn't discussed at length.",
"Facebook liaisons offered technical guidance and recorded talking points and ideas on whiteboards: one bolted to the wall and the other projected digitally.",
"In the past, Facebook has held similar summits with organizations addressing bullying, suicide and privacy issues.",
"Social media tools have quickly become a mainstay for disaster response in many countries.",
"Twitter saw the third-highest activity on its service after the Japan earthquake in March, a spokesman said.",
"Justin Osofsky, Facebook's director of partnerships, highlighted \"stuff that happens organically\" in response to disasters, such as the page for finding items lost during the Joplin, Missouri, tornado.",
"By highlighting these grassroots programs in addition to promoting those from government and nonprofits, Facebook thinks it can help.",
"\"There's a thirst for information,\" Steer said.",
"\"Now the onus is on us to quench that thirst.\""
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"Facebook is considering offering more data or creating an internal think tank .",
"Representatives from FEMA and the Red Cross were among those in attendance ."
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"(CNN) -- Spanish club Villarreal will wait until the end of this season to appoint a permanent new manager after deciding to give reserve coach Juan Carlos Garrido the reins on a short-term basis.",
"The 40-year-old takes over from Ernesto Valverde, who was relieved of his duties following Sunday night's 2-0 home defeat by Osasuna.",
"Garrido has been appointed despite \"The Yellow Submarine\" being linked with former Getafe coach Michael Laudrup, with the team 10th in La Liga after last year's impressive fifth placing and having been knocked out of the Copa Del Rey by second division Celta Vigo.",
"Valverde, who moved to El Madrigal after Manuel Pellegrini joined Real Madrid in June, bid a sad farewell to his players on Monday.",
"\"I've come to say goodbye to the team.",
"It's a different and hard situation for me.",
"The club decided that we wouldn't continue at the helm of Villarreal,\" he told reporters.",
"\"I came with a lot of excitement because it was the team I wanted to train and it is true that things, from the beginning, did not happen as we all hoped.",
"\"It's certain that we haven't played very well in the past two or three games and that the elimination from the Copa did us a lot of damage and also yesterday the team were bad, and I can only say that the only person responsible is me.",
"\"I am the visible head of the team, the club made a decision and I have to accept it.\"",
"Meanwhile, struggling Real Valladolid sacked coach Jose Luis Mendilibar on Monday, making him the seventh managerial casualty of the Spanish top-flight season.",
"The 48-year-old had kept the club in La Liga for two seasons after a record-breaking promotion-winning campaign, but Sunday night's 1-1 draw with lowly Almeria left his team just one point above the relegation zone.",
"Reserve-team coach Onesimo Sanchez takes over a team who have won just three times in the last 31 league outings, with the announcement made as Valladolid unveiled new loan signing Asier del Horno.",
"The 29-year-old former Athletic Bilbao and Chelsea defender, a 10-time Spain international, could make his debut against his parent club Valencia on Saturday."
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"Villarreal appoint reserve coach Juan Carlos Garrido as manager until end of season .",
"Spanish club sacked Ernesto Valverde following Sunday night's 1-1 draw with Almeria .",
"Struggling Real Valladolid dismiss manager Jose Luis Mendilibar due to poor results .",
"The 48-year-old is replaced by reserve-team coach Onesimo Sanchez ."
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Two U.S. service members were killed Monday during operations in southern Iraq, the U.S. military said Tuesday.",
"There were no further details about the incident, and their names are being withheld pending notification of next of kin.",
"Violence has dropped dramatically in recent years in Iraq.",
"Under a U.S.-Iraqi security pact, which set a timetable to withdraw American forces, U.S. troops must be out of Iraq by Jan. 1, 2012.",
"However, U.S. troops have increasingly been targeted by roadside bombings and mortar attacks, largely in Baghdad and southern Iraq -- a Shiite stronghold.",
"Five American soldiers were killed June 6, the single largest loss of life among U.S. troops since 2009, and the military says that attack is likely the work Shiite militia trying to take credit for driving forces out of the country."
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"The incident occurred in southern Iraq .",
"Under a U.S.-Iraqi security pact, U.S. troops must be out by the end of the year .",
"Five American soldiers were killed earlier this month ."
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"(CNN) -- A new report from accountancy firm Deloitte has revealed that English Premier League wages are continuing to rise at a quicker rate than club revenues.",
"In publishing their 20th Annual Review of Football Finance, Deloitte also revealed that revenues broke the two billion euro barrier ($2.9 billion) in season 2009/2010, although this was offset by the fact that wages now take up 68 per cent of that revenue.",
"The exact figures confirmed that the Premier League continues to be the world's richest domestic league, with the 20 clubs earning 2.03 billion euros ($2.94 billion), a figure which is expected to rise to 2.2 billion euros ($3.19 billion) for the season just gone on the back of a new television deal.",
"This shows an increase of 49 million euros ($71m) on the previous year, although that improvement is tempered by a 64 million euros ($93m) rise in wages, taking total payroll costs to 1.4 billion euros ($2 billion).",
"\"Cost control remains the biggest challenge facing clubs, at all levels of the professional football pyramid,\" Paul Rawnsley, Director in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, told AFP.",
"Rawnsley added: \"Premier League clubs should still be well placed to comply with UEFA's new financial fair play regulations, as the Premier League remains the top revenue generating league in Europe.",
"\"Clubs have time to make adjustments to their business plans before the new regulations are effective, as well as increased broadcast revenue from 2010/11 to help deliver a better balance between spending on players and revenue generation.\"",
"The Premier League's revenue far exceeds the other leading European leagues of Germany ($2 billion), Spain and Italy ($1.89 billion) and France ($1.3 billion).",
"The report also confirmed that Chelsea have the largest individual wage bill, with total spending of $252 million, followed by Manchester City ($193 million) and Manchester United, who spent $191 million on players' wages in the 2009-2010 season."
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"Premier League wages are continuing to rise faster than club revenues .",
"A new finance report shows players wages take up 68 per cent of club revenues .",
"Chelsea topped the table, followed by Manchester City and Manchester United ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A 10-year-old boy escaped out of the window of a sinking minivan after his mother drove the vehicle with her three other children into the Hudson River, some 60 miles north of New York City, authorities said.",
"Lashaun Armstrong swam to shore Tuesday night and was picked up by a passer-by and brought to a nearby fire station in Newburgh, New York, said Fire Chief Michael Vatter.",
"Soaking wet and suffering from a mild case of hypothermia, Armstrong then told fire officials his mother had driven the vehicle into the river.",
"Police divers later discovered the bodies of Lashanda Armstrong, 25, an 11-month-old girl, a 2-year-old boy and a 5-year-old boy some 25 yards off shore.",
"A police investigation into the incident suggests that the mother intentionally drove the vehicle into the water, according to Newburgh Police Chief Michael Ferrara.",
"Responders, using dive teams and a circling helicopter, found the van after an hourlong search submerged in eight feet of murky water, according to Vatter.",
"Before the incident, a relative called police reporting a \"domestic disturbance\" that police say may have involved Armstrong's husband, Jean Pierre.",
"That belief is based on a phone call the relative received in which they said they heard \"tussling in the background,\" noting a history of domestic problems, police said in a statement Wednesday.",
"Police declined to identify the relative.",
"An autopsy on the four bodies is scheduled for Wednesday.",
"Newburgh Mayor Nicholas Valentine said the incident is certain to have \"a lasting effect on this city.\"",
"City resident and neighbor Christine Santos said she \"would never have imagined (Lashanda) to do this to her kids.\"",
"\"To them little babies.",
"I would have never have imagined.",
"I'm in shock,\" she added.",
"Other neighbors described her surviving son, Lashaun, as responsible.",
"\"He was the type of kid that was responsible for his little ones,\" said resident Carmen Davila.",
"But the traumatic effects of Tuesday's incident could have long-term effects on the boy, analysts say.",
"\"He has this major traumatic event and loss and that can be manifested in many ways,\" said Dr. Louis Baptista, director of Columbia University's Clinical Services for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.",
"He warned of \"aggressive behavior, through violence, through depression, through depressive symptoms and that can be quite severe and quite impairing in a child his age.\"",
"CNN's Deb Feyerick and Sheila Steffen contributed to this report ."
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"An 11-month-old girl, 2-year-old boy, 5-year-old boy and their mother died .",
"An investigation suggests the mother intentionally drove into the Hudson River .",
"A relative had called earlier to report a \"domestic disturbance,\" police say ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- China Tuesday blamed its neighbors for escalating tensions in the South China Sea, one day after the Vietnamese navy held a live-fire drill in disputed waters.",
"\"Some countries took unilateral actions to impair China's sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, released groundless and irresponsible remarks with the attempt to expand and complicate the disputes,\" said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei at a regular press briefing.",
"Beijing and Hanoi have exchanged increasingly heated words in recent weeks, accusing each other of territorial intrusions in the South China Sea, which is claimed in whole or in part by China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.",
"The vast area of waters, dotted with partially submerged atolls and reefs, contain some of the world's busiest shipping lanes and are thought to hold large deposits of oil and natural gas.",
"Hanoi authorities have announced a few recent incidents, charging that Chinese ships last week intentionally severed electric cables on Vietnamese survey vessels in Vietnamese waters.",
"Beijing has countered that Vietnamese vessels have been illegally surveying in Chinese waters and harassing Chinese fishing boats.",
"Computer hackers from both sides have also attacked websites in the other country, posting nationalistic images and messages, according to Chinese media reports.",
"Although tensions flare up periodically among the various claimants of the disputed waters, the current situation is drawing more international attention amid China's fast-growing political and military power.",
"The United States officially stays neutral in the disputes, despite some Congressional calls for a more forceful stance to balance China's clout.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, however, has expressed Washington's willingness to facilitate multilateral talks on the issue.",
"\"The United States has a national interest in freedom of navigation, open access to Asia's maritime commons and respect for international law in the South China Sea,\" she said last July at a regional security meeting in Hanoi.",
"Chinese analysts see the United States using the South China Sea issue as a new way to contain China's rise.",
"\"The United States used to have Taiwan as its main bargaining chip in the region,\" said Zhang Xizhen, a professor of Southeast Asian studies at Peking University.",
"\"Now that tensions across the Taiwan Strait have calmed down, they are turning to the South China Sea.\"",
"\"Although the U.S. claimed neutrality on the issue, if conflicts arise in the area, they may use it as an excuse to intervene,\" he added.",
"The Beijing leadership balks at any notion of \"internationalizing\" the dispute, in sharp contrast to a recent comment by Vietnamese officials welcoming foreign involvement.",
"\"China always maintains that countries directly related to the issue should conduct bilateral negotiations and friendly consultations,\" Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong said.",
"\"China is trying to safeguard its own legitimate rights and interests, not infringing on other countries' rights,\" he added.",
"\"Justice lies in the heart of the people.\""
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"China and Vietnam are at odds over the South China Sea .",
"Six countries claim the sea in whole or in part .",
"The United States says it is neutral but has offered to mediate .",
"China rejects foreign intervention, but Vietnam has welcomed it ."
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"Abbottabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- News outlets in Pakistan have made public the name of an American they identified as the CIA station chief, but a senior Pakistani intelligence official said Monday the person named is not the station chief.",
"Referring to a name cited in the Pakistani newspaper The Nation, the intelligence official said, \"If we were going to release the name, we would release the right one.\"",
"The official said he did not know where the name came from.",
"A U.S. official said there is \"no current plan to bring home the current chief of station\" in Pakistan.",
"The remarks came amid reports suggesting Pakistani officials may have leaked the name of a CIA official in the country.",
"Tensions between the United States and Pakistan have been growing since U.S. forces found and killed Osama bin Laden in the city of Abbottabad a week ago.",
"U.S. officials have been publicly questioning whether Pakistan did all it could to track down the world's most wanted terrorist."
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"Pakistani news outlets name someone they identify as the CIA station chief .",
"The name was inaccurate, a Pakistani official says .",
"The U.S. has no plan to bring the station chief home, a U.S. official says ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- Despite being urged not to hoard bottled water, residents of Japan's capital on Wednesday snapped it up in droves after testing showed radioactive material in tap water at levels unsafe for infants.",
"The city's water agency said the spike was likely caused by problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, located 240 kilometers (150 miles) away.",
"Earlier Wednesday, Tokyo government officials advised residents not to give tap water to infants or use it in formula after tests at a purification plant detected high levels of radioactive iodine.",
"Grocery store owner Seiji Sasaki said he noted a sudden increase of customers.",
"He had 40 cases of water in his store, but they were gone quickly.",
"Meanwhile, officials evacuated some workers at the Fukushima plant Wednesday afternoon as a black plume of smoke billowed above one of the reactors, plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.",
"The cause of the smoke was unclear.",
"The team of seven workers were planning to inspect gauges and instrumentation at reactor No.",
"3, but were unable to determine conditions in the control room before evacuating, officials with Tokyo Electric and Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.",
"Workers have been scrambling to cool down fuel rods at the nuclear plant since a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and massive tsunami on March 11 knocked out cooling systems.",
"Some radiation has been released, officials said, but it was unclear whether radiation levels spiked after the black smoke was spotted Wednesday.",
"Japan's nuclear agency said radiation levels near the plant had not changed, public broadcaster NHK reported.",
"But in Tokyo, concerns over radiation surged.",
"Government samples taken Tuesday night found 210 becquerels of radioactive iodine per kilogram of water -- two times higher than the limit that the government considers safe for infants.",
"The amount of iodine detected was lower than the level considered safe for adults: 300 becquerels per kilogram.",
"A liter of water weights 1 kilogram.",
"A becquerel is a measurement of radioactive intensity by weight.",
"The level set for infants is \"very conservative,\" said Dr. James Cox, radiation oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and a CNN consultant, but elevated radiation levels are considered a problem for small children, as their thyroid glands are more susceptible to radiation.",
"\"Erring on the side of caution for the extreme degree for children makes good sense,\" Cox said.",
"For adults, \"as far as the immediate health risk, something that would make people sick, I don't think that would come close to it.\"",
"In response, Tokyo's government will distribute 3,500-milliliter (1-gallon) bottles of mineral water to 80,000 households in the city with infants, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported Thursday.",
"The government has said that, due to the high radiation levels, tap water should not be given to children 1 year old and younger.",
"Authorities have advised day care centers and other such facilities not to use tap water for drinks or to prepare baby food.",
"More bottled water is expected to be distributed to families in the future, according to NHK.",
"Also Wednesday, Japan's government expanded food shipment restrictions after the health ministry said tests detected radioactive materials at levels exceeding legal limits in 11 types of vegetables grown near the Fukushima plant.",
"Prime Minister Naoto Kan asked Ibaraki Prefecture to suspend shipments of raw milk and parsley, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters Wednesday.",
"The government of Fukushima Prefecture also told residents not to eat leafy vegetables, he said.",
"Edano said radiation levels in the food would not cause health problems right away, but if radiation rises, \"We are looking at the possibility of levels reaching levels that may harm human health.\"",
"The decision to prohibit produce sales is another potentially devastating blow to a part of northeast Japan hit by the earthquake and tsunami.",
"Fukushima ranks among Japan's top producer of fruits, vegetables and rice.",
"Ibaraki, south of Fukushima, supplies Tokyo with a significant amount of fruits and vegetables and is Japan's third-largest pork producer.",
"\"This is our livelihood,\" a Fukushima farmer told Japanese television network TV Asahi.",
"\"It's a huge problem that we are unable to ship all our produce.",
"We raised (this produce) with our own hands.",
"It's unbearable that we would have to throw it all away.\"",
"Hong Kong on Wednesday said it was restricting food and milk imports from certain prefectures over the radiation concerns.",
"The United States previously announced import alerts covering milk, milk products, fresh vegetables and fruit from prefectures near the reactors.",
"Police say the dual disaster has killed at least 9,487 people and left at least 15,617 missing, many of them killed as a wall of water rushed in following the quake.",
"Meanwhile, about 387,000 evacuees are staying at 2,200 shelters, Japan's Kyodo News Agency reported.",
"Relief efforts to help them and other victims continued, with U.S. military helicopters delivering food, clothes and supplies to some of the hardest-hit areas.",
"\"We remain focused on fewer than 10 cases of U.S. citizens that remain unaccounted for in the areas hardest hit by the earthquake and tsunami,\" State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters Wednesday.",
"In addition to the stories of people struggling to survive in quake-ravaged towns in northeastern Japan, the plight of workers braving high radiation levels to solve problems at the troubled plant has also drawn attention.",
"Tokyo Electric said Wednesday that two workers were injured at the plant while working with an electric panel.",
"The workers, whose injuries did not involve exposure to radiation, were treated by a doctor at the nearby Fukushima Daini plant.",
"\"We are constantly switching over all the time, since the work cannot be stopped,\" one worker told TV Asahi.",
"\"It has settled down quite a lot compared to the beginning, and we could even begin to see a bright hope that maybe it would somehow work out in a little bit,\" another worker said in what the network touted as the first televised interviews with workers.",
"But authorities said Wednesday that work was far from over at the plant.",
"Members of Tokyo's fire department planned to start spraying water into the spent-fuel storage pool outside the plant's No.",
"3 reactor Wednesday, according to Hidehiko Nishiyama of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.",
"Power has been restored in the control room at that reactor -- which officials say could be a key step in bringing cooling systems back online.",
"\"Until we get power restored to the power plant, continuing doing what they have been doing for the last 12 days is, quite honestly, the only game in town,\" said Michael Friedlander, a former senior operator at three U.S. nuclear power plants who has been following the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.",
"\"It's absolutely essential that they keep the reactor covered with water as well as continuing to refill it,\" he said.",
"\"But getting the power restored and getting the equipment moving so they can get back on track is essential.",
"At that point, we can determine the emergency is in the final stages.\"",
"He predicted power would be restored gradually to the plant over the next few days.",
"\"The power source is going to the main control room because that is the main nerve center of the entire plant,\" he said.",
"\"Once they get that restored, then we have some instrumentation and we can figure out what's going on in the power plant that up to this point has been almost impossible to figure out.\"",
"Once that is done, he said power will be sent to individual pieces of equipment and the situation will be analyzed.",
"He estimated it could take two weeks or more to get the plant \"in a stable, cold shut-down configuration.\"",
"\"It is an industrial catastrophe,\" said Lake Barrett, a nuclear engineer who directed the initial cleanup and response of the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania following a partial core nuclear meltdown in 1979.",
"\"It's a huge plant, and it's been basically destroyed internally and has high contamination levels inside.",
"There are areas in the building where no human's going to go for a long time.\"",
"But, Barrett told CNN, \"it's also not a health catastrophe -- as long as the people follow the instructions from the government, they're going to be safe in Japan.\"",
"The No. 3 reactor has been a priority for authorities trying to contain damage to the plant and stave off a possible meltdown.",
"Its fuel rods contain plutonium mixed with uranium, which experts say could cause more harm than regular uranium fuels in the event of a meltdown.",
"\"We have progress in stabilizing cooling capacity.",
"We most progressed in the No. 3 reactor,\" Edano said.",
"\"On the other hand, we are trying to figure out ... the cause of the smoke.\"",
"With the nuclear plant's six reactors in various states of disrepair, concerns have mounted over a potentially larger release of radioactive material from the facility.",
"Efforts over the past several days have focused on restoring power at the facility while fire trucks and cement pumps sprayed water on spent fuel ponds, which contain used fuel rods with radioactive material.",
"Embassies from more than two dozen countries have either closed down or moved operations to cities south of Tokyo since the earthquake and the resulting nuclear crisis, the country's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.",
"\"There are 25 embassies which either temporarily shut down or moved its function outside of Tokyo,\" Foreign Ministry spokesman Hidenori Sobashima told CNN.",
"Seven of those 25 have moved to cities such as Osaka, Hiroshima and Kobe, Sobashima said.",
"CNN's Tim Schwarz and Ingrid Formanek contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Tokyo's government will give water to 80,000 households with babies, NHK reports .",
"Tokyo water officials say tap water contains twice the limit of radioactive iodine for infants .",
"Hong Kong joins U.S. in restricting imports .",
"Residents make a dash for bottled water ."
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"(CNN) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and three other former heads of state arrived in North Korea Tuesday, as part of the latest diplomatic effort to restart talks between the North and South, state media reported.",
"Carter is traveling with former presidents Martti Ahtisaari of Finland and Mary Robinson of Ireland, and former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Brundtland.",
"The group is collectively known as \"The Elders\" -- an independent group of global leaders founded by former South African President Nelson Mandela.",
"\"At a time when official dialogue with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea appears to be at a standstill, we aim to see how we may be of assistance in reducing tensions and help the parties address key issues including denuclearization,\" Carter said Monday from Beijing, where he met with Chinese officials.",
"The Elders expect to meet with ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, along with other senior officials and diplomats.",
"They are going to Pyongyang at the invitation of the North Korean government, Carter said .",
"\"Clearly there is a great level of mistrust and suspicion between North and South Korea,\" Ahtisaari said.",
"\"But the stakes are too high to allow this stand-off to continue.\"",
"The Elders are scheduled to spend three days in Pyongyang, before flying to Seoul Thursday where they will meet with South Korean officials.",
"Tensions between North Korea and the West have spiked in recent years due in part to concerns over Pyongyang's nuclear development program.",
"The United States and South Korea held joint military drills in February, despite North Korea's warning to the South not to carry out the drills, calling them a provocation.",
"South Korea accuses the North of torpedoing and sinking one of its warships in March 2010, killing 46 sailors.",
"In November, North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong Island, killing two South Korean marines and two civilians.",
"Carter has a long history of dealing with North Korea.",
"His 1994 talks with the late Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il's father, paved the way for the \"Agreed Framework\" the same year -- an agreement designed to rein in Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.",
"North Korea has detained several Americans in recent years, increasing tension levels in what is already a rocky relationship between Pyongyang and Washington.",
"In August, Carter helped secure the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes, a U.S. citizen who had been fined roughly $600,000 and sentenced to eight years of hard labor for crossing over the Chinese border into North Korea.",
"Gomes, who attempted to commit suicide while in North Korean custody, was believed to be a Christian activist.",
"Earlier this month, North Korea reported through state-run news agency KCNA that it had arrested U.S. citizen Jun Young Su last year for \"committing a crime\" against the reclusive nation.",
"KCNA did not provide details on the nature of the alleged crime.",
"Two State Department officials, speaking on condition of not being identified, previously told CNN that the man is a Korean-American businessman.",
"One of the sources said the businessman had a visa to enter North Korea.",
"It was not known how Carter's visit might affect his detention.",
"Two American journalists -- Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who had entered North Korea in March 2009 and were arrested and sentenced to 12 years hard labor -- were released in August 2009 after an intervention by former U.S. President Bill Clinton."
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"Tensions between North Korea and the West have spiked in recent years .",
"Pyongyang's nuclear development program has been a source of concern .",
"South Korea accuses the North of torpedoing and sinking one of its warships .",
"The Elders expect to meet with ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il ."
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"(CNN) -- Forces loyal to self-declared Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo on Saturday attacked the hotel where Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognized president of the country, is staying, a spokesman for the United Nations said.",
"U.N. forces in Abidjan fired back, said Hamadoun Toure, spokesman for the U.N. mission in the Ivory Coast.",
"\"We stand ready to protect the Golf Hotel, as we have a mandate,\" he told CNN.",
"Toure added that Gbagbo loyalists continue to control three main areas -- the presidential palace, Gbagbo's residence and the state television station, RTI.",
"He said the French military and U.N. forces are in charge of the Abidjan port.",
"Elsewhere on Saturday, French forces aborted a mission to evacuate diplomatic staff after drawing fire from forces loyal to Gbagbo, believed to have been all but defeated earlier in the week.",
"The evacuation was deemed too risky for those involved, said French Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Thierry Burkhard, who declined to comment on the nationality or location of the diplomats.",
"The French ambassador's residence came under fire Friday, according to Frederic Daguillon, commander of French forces in Ivory Coast.",
"He reported rocket-propelled grenades and two mortar shells landing on the residence.",
"He said the fire came from positions held by Gbagbo's men, who appeared to be regaining ground.",
"\"French helicopters opened fire in self-defense, they returned fire in self-defense and destroyed an armored vehicle,\" Daguillon said.",
"Meanwhile, efforts were under way to restore some semblance of normalcy in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's largest city.",
"Commercial flights resumed at the Abidjan airport Saturday and the port was reopened, Burkhard said.",
"Crews were concentrating on restoring water and electricity to residents who have gone without for days after forces loyal to Ouattara entered the city last week.",
"Violence erupted after Ivory Coast's disputed presidential election in November and escalated into all-out war when Ouattara's forces launched an offensive that brought them into Abidjan.",
"Ouattara is the internationally recognized president of Ivory Coast.",
"His rival, Gbagbo, has refused to cede power, the political stalemate plunging the West African nation into crisis.",
"Gbagbo's forces used a lull in fighting this week as a \"trick\" to reinforce their positions around the Abidjan, according to Alain Le Roy, the head of United Nations peacekeeping operations.",
"They said Tuesday they wanted a peaceful solution to the monthslong fighting but soon resumed shelling both the U.N. headquarters and the civilian population, Le Roy told reporters at the United Nations.",
"Since then, they have regained control of two central areas of Abidjan and fighting is continuing, Le Roy said Friday, after briefing the U.N. Security Council on developments in the cocoa-producing nation.",
"\"They have clearly used the lull of Tuesday as a trick to reinforce their position,\" he said.",
"Mark Toner, acting deputy spokesman for the U.S. State Department, released a statement Saturday echoing that idea.",
"\"It is clear that Gbagbo's attempts at negotiation this week were nothing more than a ruse to regroup and rearm.",
"Gbagbo's continued attempt to force a result that he could not obtain at the ballot box reveals his callous disregard for the welfare of the Ivoirian people, who will again suffer amid renewed heavy fighting in Abidjan,\" he said.",
"Most areas of the capital, however, are now under U.N. or French military control, journalist Seyi Rhodes reported from the French military base in Port Bouet.",
"The French military has been working to reconnect the disrupted water and electricity supply in what is the country's main city.",
"On Saturday, Rhodes -- who was on patrol with the French military -- said he visited Cocody, an upscale suburb of Abidjan, where Gbagbo lives.",
"Major evacuations were conducted there, he said, describing residents running with multiple pieces of Louis Vuitton luggage in tow.",
"Rhodes traveled with the French military through Abidjan on Friday and reported seeing civilians in the streets, including one woman selling food, which he took as a positive sign.",
"Pro-Gbagbo forces have heavy weapons including tanks, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades and are using them \"as we speak, against the civilian population\" and U.N. headquarters, Le Roy said.",
"\"Those who are saying there are no more heavy weapons -- that Mr. Gbagbo has no more heavy weapons -- it's a lie,\" he said.",
"An Abidjan resident told CNN that people were now out and about on the streets but there were no public buses or taxis running.",
"The resident said people were walking to markets and were able to buy food -- mainly rice.",
"CNN's Aliza Kassim contributed to this report."
] | [
"Forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo attack the Golf Hotel, a U.N. official says .",
"The French mission was to evacuate diplomatic staff in Abidjan .",
"French forces came under fire from Gbagbo loyalists .",
"Some semblance of normalcy is returning in Abidjan ."
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