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"(CNN) -- A maverick Chinese artist has filled the main hall in London's famous Tate Modern art gallery with 100 million sunflower seeds.",
"Around 150 tons of seeds have been used to make an inches-thick carpet that visitors to the gallery will be encouraged to play in and crunch under foot.",
"The enormous installation, which opens Tuesday, is the work of artist Ai Weiwei, known as China's \"Andy Warhol.\"",
"The work is the 11th commission in the internationally acclaimed Unilever Series at the gallery, an annual series kicked off in 2000 by Louise Bourgeois's spiders and mirrors.",
"Ai's seeds are porcelain, each one individually handcrafted by laborers in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen.",
"Each tiny piece has been individually molded and hand-painted, according to the gallery.",
"Sunflower seeds are a popular Chinese street snack and one of the country's most famous exports, according to the gallery.",
"But they hold greater significance for Ai, who spent his childhood in Xinjiang as the son of a celebrated poet exiled by the Chinese communist government during the Cultural Revolution.",
"He told CNN: \"It was very poor and rural there, we had nothing else to enjoy.",
"Sunflower seeds were something basic that everyone could have.",
"Every holiday, wedding or even just going to the movies, we would all share sunflower seeds with one another.",
"I think it's a very common, very inconspicuous object, but it also has a special relationship to our daily lives ... Of course, during the cultural revolution we all knew that the Sun symbolized the leader, and sunflowers represented the people.",
"So I think these seeds carry multiple meanings.\"",
"Ai is a well-known and controversial figure in China, probably best-known today for the design -- in collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron -- of Beijing's \"Bird's Nest\" stadium, built for the 2008 Olympics.",
"Shortly after, Ai -- who is one of China's leading social activists and bloggers -- distanced himself from the Olympics calling for a boycott and saying the Chinese government was using them as propaganda.",
"In the 1990s, Ai came to international attention when he helped establish the avant-garde East Village in Beijing where a group of artists took up residence in impoverished migrant workers housing on the city's outskirts.",
"It became a mecca for radical Chinese contemporary artists like Ma Liuming.",
"Other notable large-scale artworks that have filled the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall include Carsten Hollers' slides which had visitors shouting with excitement as they slid down; Olafur Eliasson's giant projection of the sun in \"The Weather Project\" and a huge crack in the floor courtesy of Doris Salcedo's \"Shibboleth.\""
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"Visitors encouraged to play on crunchy carpet of seeds .",
"Eleventh commission in acclaimed Unilever Series .",
"Ai famous for co-designing Beijing's \"Bird's Nest\" stadium .",
"Also well-known blogger and outspoken critic of Chinese government ."
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"(CNN) -- Jessica Alba gave birth Saturday to her second daughter with husband Cash Warren, according to a post Sunday on the actress' Facebook page.",
"Haven Garner Warren weighed in at 7 pounds and measured 19 inches long, Alba said in the posting.",
"\"Healthy and happy!",
"Big Sister Honor couldn't be more excited about the new addition to our family,\" the post read.",
"She concluded the post by thanking fans for their support during her pregnancy.",
"\"It means the world to me.\""
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"Haven Garner Warren is the couple's second daughter together .",
"She was born Saturday ."
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"(CNN) -- Kenyans worldwide called for unity Monday by singing the national anthem in unison -- a rare gesture in a continent facing violent uprisings for leaders to step down after decades in power.",
"Citizens in the nation and other parts of the world took a break at 1 p.m. Kenyan time (5 a.m.",
"ET) to collectively sing the hymn.",
"Drivers pulled over on the side of the roads while crowds gathered at malls and busy intersections to sing the anthem.",
"The singing drifted over the bustling capital of Nairobi, where lunchtime rush hour noise includes honking car horns and loud music blaring from stores.",
"Organizers said the grassroots effort is aimed at promoting unity in the east African nation, where ethnic violence left more than 1,000 people dead after disputed elections four years ago.",
"\"The whole point is to unite Kenyans in one action and provoke reflection about personal responsibility,\" said organizer Al Kags.",
"\"We decided to go with the national anthem because it is the main prayer that binds us together.",
"It's a clarion call that transcends all boundaries -- physical, mental, tribal, you name it.\"",
"Francis Mwiwa, 29, crawled out of bed to join in the singing from the Toronto suburb of Brampton.",
"\"At the very least, I hope singing the national anthem together jolts regular Kenyans into looking at the big picture,\" Mwiwa said.",
"\"Ethnic and tribal differences are obsolete.",
"Instead of fighting amongst ourselves, we should be busy competing with the rest of the world.\"",
"The movement started on social media, and later expanded offline.",
"It comes as much of Africa and the Middle East -- including Libya and Yemen -- are embroiled in violent protests demanding changes in leadership.",
"Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have led to the toppling of long-term leaders after decades in power.",
"However, the Kenyan effort is not an uprising, organizers said.",
"\"Those nations are going through what we went through in 2002,\" Kags said, referring to the election of a new president after strongman Daniel arap Moi stepped down following 24 years in power.",
"His retirement sent throngs of citizens dancing in the streets of the capital, Nairobi.",
"\"We all have our different situations,\" Kags said.",
"\"In a way, we are ahead of the game.",
"We don't have to deal with dictatorship, and I know a few years down the line, they will be done with regimes and calling for unity.\"",
"Organizers say it will be an added bonus if it sends a warning to the government that the youth can organize without their help.",
"\"I hope it also lets them know that we can get together and intellectually influence each other,\" said Antony Mwangi, another organizer.",
"Mwangi said that the movement is \"simply a social cause\" and not a call to arms.",
"\"Our government may not be perfect, but at the very least, we are a democracy,\" he said.",
"Kenya is East Africa's largest economy and provides an important buffer of stability against the volatile Somalia and Sudan.",
"In 2007, the nation's disputed election sparked ethnic violence.",
"It pitted supporters of incumbent President Mwai Kibaki against those of challenger Raila Odinga, who was later named prime minister in a power-sharing agreement.",
"Youth in the nation have turned to social media to call for an end to ethnic division, and demand reform and accountability from the government."
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"The singing is a rare gesture in a continent facing violent uprisings .",
"It is not a call to arms, according to organizers .",
"Kenya's president has been in power since 2002 .",
"\"The national anthem is the main prayer that binds us together,\" an organizer says ."
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"(CNN) -- The U.S. women's soccer team advanced to the World Cup final by beating France 3-1 Wednesday on a rain-soaked field in Moenchengladbach, Germany.",
"After the game, Team USA ran onto the field celebrating their hard-won victory over a determined French team that outplayed them everywhere but on the scoreboard.",
"\"I'm exhausted. I need a rest,\" U.S. coach Pia Sundhage said in postgame comments after the match amid pandemonium from her players.",
"Forgive the women's soccer team if they seem to be partying like it's 1999.",
"That was the last time they won the World Cup, led by Mia Hamm.",
"On Wednesday, the heroics belonged to star U.S. forward Abby Wambach, who came through in the clutch for the second straight match.",
"Against Brazil on Sunday, the United States came from behind to win a thriller after Wambach headed in a cross from teammate Megan Rapinoe to tie the match late in extra time.",
"SI.com: 3 keys to the match .",
"This time Wambach scored off a corner kick by Lauren Cheney to break a 1-1 tie -- and seemed to break the French team's spirits.",
"After the game, Team USA goalie Hope Solo said she has confidence her team can win it all this Sunday.",
"\"The confidence comes from our preparation and because we know we're damn good,\" she said.",
"The second semifinal Wednesday pits Sweden against Japan.",
"The winners will meet for the title on Sunday.",
"The reigning Olympic champion Americans are bidding for a record third World Cup title after winning in 1991 and 1999; World Cup host Germany claimed the crown in 2003 and 2007."
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"The team now advances to the title match Sunday .",
"\"The confidence comes from our preparation,\" Team USA goalie Solo says ."
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"(CNN) -- Real Madrid made amends for their midweek Champions League defeat in Lyon with a 6-2 rout of Villarreal in the Bernabeu on Sunday night.",
"Inspired by the brilliance of Cristiano Ronaldo, Real closed to within two points of leaders Barcelona at the top of the Spanish Primera Liga.",
"The 1-0 defeat at Lyon has added to the pressure on coach Manuel Pellegrini, but he will rest easier after a comprehensive rout with former World Player of the year Ronado at its heart.",
"Gonzalo Higuain and Brazilian ace Kaka both scored twice but it was Ronaldo who set Real on the way in the 18th minute with a trademark free kick.",
"Madeira-born Ronaldo then paid his own tribute to the victims of the floods and mudslides on the Portuguese island by lifting his jersey to reveal a white t-shirt with \"Madeira\" written on it.",
"A penalty from former Liverpool star Xavi Alonso completed the goal glut as they kept pace with Barcelona, who had beaten Racing Santander 4-0 on Saturday.",
"Atletico Madrid had inflicted a first league defeat of the season on Barca last weekend but their joy proved short lived as they were beaten 1-0 by lowly Almeria.",
"Pablo Piatti scored the winner three minutes from time for Almeria while Malaga boosted their hopes of survival after a 2-1 win at Espanyol.",
"In the battle for European qualification, Athletic Bilbao kept themselves in the hunt with a 4-1 win over 10-man Tenerife, who had Jose Antonio Culebras sent off in the 17th minute for violent play.",
"Osasuna and Real Valladolid played to a 1-1 draw in Pamplona as the home side scrambled a point with an 86th-minute equalizer from Javier Camunas."
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"Real Madrid beat Villarreal 6-2 to cut gap on Barcelona to two points in Spain .",
"Cristiano Ronaldo remembers victims of mudslides in his native Madeira after first goal .",
"Atletico Madrid beaten 1-0 by lowly Almeria the week after downing Barcelona ."
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"(CNN) -- The owner of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded last year, killing 11 workers and leading to what has been called the worst oil spill ever, said Monday that calling 2010 its \"best year\" in safety \"may have been insensitive.\"",
"Transocean Ltd., in a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said hefty bonuses and raises to top executives were based in part on the company's \"performance under safety\" last year.",
"\"We acknowledge that some of the wording in our 2010 proxy statement may have been insensitive in light of the incident that claimed the lives of eleven exceptional men last year and we deeply regret any pain that it may have caused,\" Transocean said in a statement to CNN.",
"\"Nothing in the proxy was intended to minimize this tragedy or diminish the impact it has had on those who lost loved ones.",
"Everyone at Transocean continues to mourn the loss of these friends and colleagues.\"",
"The statement did not address the controversy over the decision to give out cash awards despite the oil spill disaster.",
"That includes a $200,000 salary increase for Transocean President and Chief Executive Officer Steven L. Newman, whose base salary will increase from $900,000 to $1.1 million, the SEC report said.",
"Newman's bonus was $374,062, according to the report, which Transocean filed Friday.",
"Newman also has a $5.4 million long-term compensation package the company awarded him upon his appointment as CEO in March 2010, according to the SEC filing.",
"\"Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we achieved an exemplary statistical safety record as measured by our total recordable incident rate and total potential severity rate,\" the SEC statement reads.",
"\"As measured by these standards, we recorded the best year in safety performance in our company's history.\"",
"The company called that record \"a reflection on our commitment to achieving an incident-free environment, all the time, everywhere,\" the SEC filing said.",
"The April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig injured 17 workers and killed 11 others, including nine Transocean employees, according to the SEC filing.",
"It has been called the worst spill in U.S. history.",
"The well was capped three months later, but not before millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf.",
"In January, President Barack Obama's National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report that spread blame for the accident among Transocean, BP -- which leased the rig -- and Halliburton, which installed the rig's cement casing.",
"The commission said problems with deepwater drilling are \"systemic\" and that only \"significant reform\" will prevent another disaster.",
"Another report released March 23 determined that the oil spill was caused by a piece of drill pipe trapped in the rig platform's blowout preventer, a device intended to stop oil from flowing into the Gulf.",
"The report was commissioned by various U.S. agencies, including the Interior Department and the Department of Homeland Security.",
"The Interior Department has said a much broader report that relies on additional sources of data, including eyewitness accounts and photos, will be released this summer.",
"The oil spill has prompted a flood of lawsuits against BP, Transocean and Halliburton from a variety of plaintiffs, including owners of Gulf businesses who say they suffered heavy financial losses because of the spill.",
"The plaintiffs also include Transocean shareholders who contend the company falsely claimed it had remedied past safety problems with its blowout preventers before the Gulf spill."
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"Transocean acknowledges words were \"insensitive\" in light of 11 worker deaths .",
"Executives get pay raises, bonuses, in part for the safety record, SEC filing says .",
"Cash awards based in part on company safety record .",
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"Washington (CNN) -- Global energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp. will be forced to face a lawsuit over alleged murder and torture committed by company agents in remote Indonesia, after a federal appeals court said Friday that corporations cannot claim immunity from liability.",
"A divided 2-1 panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reinstated a massive lawsuit filed by 15 Indonesian villagers from the oil-rich province of Aceh.",
"They claim government security forces working for Exxon Mobil committed brutal oppression while guarding a natural gas facility in 2000-01.",
"At issue is whether foreign nationals can go into U.S. courts to press civil claims stemming from actions overseas by non-American citizens in a time of martial law.",
"The decision will have widespread implications for multinational corporations doing business in other countries.",
"\"It would create a bizarre anomaly to immunize corporations from liability for the conduct of their agents in lawsuits brought for 'shockingly egregious violations of universally recognized principles of international law,'\" wrote Judge Judith Rogers in a detailed, 112-page opinion.",
"\"The law of the United States has been uniform since its founding that corporations can be held liable for the torts committed by their agents.",
"This is confirmed in international practice, both in treaties and in legal systems throughout the world.\"",
"Rogers was supported by her colleague Judge David Tatel, both named to the bench by President Bill Clinton.",
"Company spokesman Patrick McGinn said the ruling was being reviewed, and that the Irving, Texas-based firm has \"fought these baseless claims for many years.\"",
"\"The plaintiffs' claims are without merit,\" he said.",
"\"While conducting its business in Indonesia, ExxonMobil has worked for generations to improve the quality of life in Aceh through employment of local workers, provision of health services and extensive community investment.",
"\"The company strongly condemns human rights violations in any form.\"",
"The litigation is more than a decade old.",
"The company had contracted with the Indonesian government to explore, extract, and process the gas.",
"It hired military personnel as private security for the remote location.",
"A key sticking point in the legal fight was the level of control Exxon Mobil officials in Aceh had over the actions of the Indonesian military.",
"The plaintiffs alleged company officials in Indonesia were aware the military had committed past human rights violations.",
"And they claim Exxon Mobil offered \"material support\" by separately hiring private mercenaries who provided \"advice, training, intelligence, and equipment\" to the dedicated military unit, which in turn committed brutal repression of locals, according to the lawsuit.",
"Other allegations included sexual assault, battery, kidnapping, and false imprisonment against the villagers, many of whom had protested the presence of the company, fearing ecological and cultural damage to the region.",
"Those questions will now be presented at trial, as the lawsuit is allowed to proceed.",
"There was no timetable for when that trial will begin.",
"In dissent, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, appointed by President George W. Bush, said the federal law in question, the Alien Tort Statute, applies only to actions committed in the United States.",
"\"The presumption helps the United States avoid conflicts with other nations, which of course have a strong interest in policing and regulating conduct in their own countries,\" Kavanaugh wrote.",
"\"The ATS contains no textual indication that it was meant to apply to conduct in foreign countries.\"",
"The issue may eventually reach the Supreme Court, since lower federal courts have disagreed on the liability of conduct by U.S. companies operating around the world.",
"The case is John Doe VII v. Exxon Mobil Corp. (09-7125)."
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"Exxon Mobile cannot claim immunity in the case, an appeals panel says .",
"A lawsuit filed by Indonesian villagers accuses Exxon Mobil agents of murder and torture .",
"The case hinges on whether the Alien Tort Statute applies to actions in other countries ."
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"(CNN) -- A former detention deputy with an Idaho sheriff's office has been charged with raping his wife, placing her in a car trunk and driving to his mother's residence, where he allegedly killed his mother, authorities said Wednesday.",
"Michael James Lee, 24, of Meridian, had no previous criminal history and was fired from the department about a year ago, said Andrea Dearden, spokeswoman for the Ada County Sheriff's Office in Boise.",
"Lee was arraigned Wednesday on six felony charges, including first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, rape and aggravated assault, Dearden said in a press release.",
"According to the sheriff's office, Lee on Tuesday assaulted his wife, bound her with chains and tape, put her in the trunk of a car and drove to his mother's house in the neighboring city of Eagle, about 15 miles northwest of Boise.",
"He also threatened to harm their 4-month-old daughter, who also was driven to the house, according to the statement.",
"Lee's wife later said he was going to his mother's house to rob her, authorities said.",
"Lee had dinner with his mother, and spoke with her and the woman's 56-year-old female roommate.",
"The roommate said she went to lie down.",
"The roommate \"heard a noise\" and found Lee with his mother, authorities said.",
"The suspect was holding a knife and had stabbed his mother multiple times, according to authorities.",
"CNN affiliates KTVB and KBCI identified the victim as Lynn Marie Blake, 46.",
"\"While this was going on, the wife, who had been in the trunk for an hour, heard a car and used the emergency latch to get out of the trunk and ran to get help,\" according to the Ada County Sheriff's Office statement.",
"Deputies found Lee next to his mother's body, according to authorities.",
"The roommate, who had tried to intervene, was attacked by Lee but managed to escape from the house with the infant girl, Dearden said.",
"Her injuries were not life-threatening."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Current and past first ladies Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Reagan will attend a memorial service Tuesday in California for former first lady Betty Ford.",
"The White House announced that Obama would travel to Palm Desert, California, for the Tuesday service, which will be followed by a private funeral Thursday in Michigan.",
"Clinton, the current secretary of state, will be accompanied Tuesday by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, an aide told CNN.",
"Reagan also will attend the California service at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Palm Desert, a Reagan Foundation official said.",
"Former President George W. Bush also will attend the service but without his wife, former first lady Laura Bush, who had previous travel commitments, according to a spokesman.",
"Bush's mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, will attend the Michigan funeral, the spokesman said.",
"Following the Tuesday service, Ford's remains will lie in repose at the church until midnight, then be flown on Wednesday to Michigan to the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, according to a website on the memorial plans.",
"Ford's remains will then lie in repose there beginning at 7 p.m. local time, said a statement posted on the website.",
"On Thursday, Ford's private funeral will be held at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, the statement on the website said.",
"Ford, who died Friday at age 93, raised awareness of issues involving women's rights, cancer, alcoholism and substance abuse during and after her stint as first lady.",
"Her late husband, former President Gerald Ford, died in 2006.",
"The alcohol and substance abuse treatment center in Rancho Mirage, California, that bears her name has become one of the best-known facilities of its kind in the country.",
"In remarks to reporters Monday, Clinton said she was \"grateful for having known\" Ford.",
"\"Her commitment to speaking out on issues that, before she took them on, were just not discussed made a huge difference in the lives of Americans,\" Clinton said.",
"\"I remember well when my mother's best friend was dying of breast cancer, nobody talked about it in those days,\" Clinton continued.",
"\"But Betty Ford made it acceptable\" to discuss the issue in public.",
"Also planning to be in California for the Tuesday service are protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church of Kansas, which cited on its website what it called Ford's infidelity by divorcing a first husband to marry Gerald Ford.",
"The church is known for publicity seeking protests at funerals of U.S. soldiers and others to promote its radical conservative Christian agenda.",
"CNN's Elise Labott and Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Former President George W. Bush to attend, but not Laura Bush .",
"Secretary Clinton praises Betty Ford for breaking taboos .",
"Ford will have a public funeral in California, and a private burial in Michigan .",
"Ford died Friday at age 93 ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- The legendary rock band KISS signed up to pay tribute to Michael Jackson in an October concert that will also headline Christina Aguilera, Leona Lewis, Smokey Robinson, Cee Lo Green and JLS, the promoters told CNN Monday.",
"Musicians who played in Jackson's touring band for the past two decades will also reunite as the house band for \"Michael Forever: The Tribute Concert\" in Cardiff, Wales, according to promoter Global Live Events.",
"Kevin Dorsey, who served as musical director for several Michael Jackson tours, will also direct the October 8 show, it was announced Monday.",
"Katherine Jackson, matriarch of the musical family, appeared on CNN Monday to discuss the show, which will also include performances by her children and grandchildren.",
"\"I know he would be very excited about KISS,\" Michael Jackson's mother said.",
"But fan reaction posted on the concert's Facebook page was negative to news that KISS would perform.",
"\"This is a complete disgrace,\" wrote one fan.",
"\"You can kiss your audience goodbye folks.",
"I doubt whether any self-respecting fan will pay a penny to see that man after the comments he made about Michael.",
"I'm shocked this act was even considered.\"",
"Many of the negative comments referred to a story published by the Canadian Press a week after Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, quoting KISS leader Gene Simmons concerning sexual molestation allegations against the pop star.",
"The promoter appeared unaware of the controversy Monday when CNN asked for a reaction.",
"It appeared unlikely the tribute stage would be the scene for a reunion for the surviving members of the Jackson 5.",
"Two of the brothers, Jermaine and Randy, have publicly objected to the show being held at the same time Michael Jackson's doctor is on trial for his death.",
"\"We want to make clear that this does not reflect the position of the entire family,\" the two brothers said in a joint statement after their mother and four siblings endorsed the show.",
"\"While we wholeheartedly support the spirit of a tribute that honors our brother, we find it impossible to support an event that is due to take place during the criminal trial surrounding Michael's death,\" Jermaine and Randy Jackson said.",
"Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial begins in September and is expected to continue through October.",
"\"The trial is very important and I can understand how Randy and Jermaine feel, but it's been two years,\" Katherine Jackson told CNN Monday.",
"\"I thought it was a good idea; I'd like to keep Michael's legacy alive.\"",
"Katherine Jackson plans to attend the trial, although she will miss some days to fly to Wales to attend the show with Michael Jackson's children, she said.",
"\"It will be on a Saturday when the courtroom is dark,\" Paul Ring, a Global Live Events executive said.",
"Members of the Jackson family taking the stage October 8 include several of Michael Jackson's brothers, \"the next generation of Jacksons,\" and 3T, which consists of Tito Jackson's three sons, the promoters said.",
"Alternative rock band Alien Ant Farm and British R&B singer Craig David are also on the bill.",
"\"This concert will unite various generations and musical genres, reminding everyone of just how amazing a talent Michael was,\" Ring said.",
"Fans can \"register their interest for tickets\" online at www.michaelforevertribute.com.",
"The concert in the Wales Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, which seats 75,000 people, would be at least four hours long, Global Live Events CEO Chris Hunt said.",
"A spokesman for Michael Jackson's estate said last month that the promoters never sought or obtained permission from the estate's executors to use the late pop singer's name or image.",
"\"The estate has not been contacted and is not involved with Global Live Events in the UK tribute concert announced today,\" spokesman Jim Bates told CNN at the time."
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"NEW: Many of Michael Jackson's back up musician will reuniute for the tribute .",
"Christina Aguilera, Leona Lewis, Smokey Robinson, Cee Lo Green and JLS are also signed .",
"Two generations of the Jackson family will take the stage in the Cardiff, Wales, show ."
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"(CNN) -- The president of Turkish football champions Fenerbahce has been arrested as part of a nationwide investigation into match-fixing.",
"Aziz Yildirim was among three club presidents to be detained during a raid on 12 provinces which began on Sunday and concluded on Monday, according to the Anatolia News Agency.",
"Fenerbahce vice-president Sekip Mosturoglu and the club's new signings Sezer Ozturk and Emmanuel Emenike were also taken into custody, along with more than 50 others including former player and current staff member Cemil Turan.",
"\"Club president Aziz Yildirim was detained in a probe into match-fixing allegations in the Turkish football league,\" read a statement on the Fenerbahce website.",
"\"We would like to stress our trust in our legal system once again, wishing that the truth will come on as soon as possible.",
"Everyone should know that Fenerbahce Sports Club has never been and will never be engaged in any unlawful and illegal activity.",
"We are proud of our clean and victorious past.\"",
"FIFA to meet with Interpol in match-fixing investigation .",
"Yildirim, who suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, was taken to hospital for tests after falling ill on Monday before being returned to police custody, the Hurriyet Daily News website reported.",
"Turkey's ruling party, the AKP, said the arrests were part of its battle against criminal organizations.",
"\"This shows that Turkey is quickly moving toward becoming a real state of law,\" Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said.",
"Also detained in the operation were Sivasspor's president Mecnun Odyakmaz, Giresunspor president Omer Ulku and former president Olgun Peker, Diyarbakirspor's former president Abdurrahman Yakut and Mersin Idmanyurdu vice-president Besir Acar.",
"Fenerbahce won a record 18th league championship last season on goal difference from Trabzonspor after both teams finished on 82 points.",
"The club's win over Sivasspor in the final week is among the matches being investigated, as well as the game against Eskisehirspor.",
"Last month the Turkish football federation handed out lifetime bans to 11 people after finding that 17 domestic games were manipulated between 2008 and 2010, while another 23 were suspended for between six months and three years."
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"Turkish authorities arrest football club officials in probe into soccer match-fixing .",
"President of Fenerbahce is among those detained along with vice-president .",
"Istanbul-based team won record 18th league title with victory in final week of season .",
"Turkey's ruling party says the arrests are part of its battle against criminal organizations ."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Bobby Maurice Tillman, the Georgia teen stomped to death outside a home where a party was being held, died from a lacerated heart, Douglas County Coroner Randy Daniel told CNN Tuesday.",
"He said the 18-year-old likely suffered a break in a rib bone, which in turn punctured his heart.",
"If the young man had not been stomped, he probably would not have been injured in that way and would have survived the beating, Daniel added.",
"Police say Horace Damon Coleman, 19, Emanuel Benjamin Boykins, 18, Quantez Devonta Mallory, 18, and Tracen Franklin, 19, stomped and beat Tillman outside a party in metro Atlanta over the weekend.",
"The four men are facing felony murder charges.",
"Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller has said the attack happened after some girls got into a fight, and one of them hit a boy.",
"That boy, according to Miller, said he wasn't going to \"hit a girl,\" but the next guy who came by was going to get \"beat down.\"",
"Tillman walked by.",
"Miller said the victim was a \"little guy, 18 years old, 5-foot-6, weighed 125 pounds.\"",
"\"He was small in stature, but ... his spirit and his strength were bigger to me than this world,\" Tillman's mother, Monique Rivarde, told CNN Tuesday.",
"\"My son was bullied by four cowards.\"",
"No drugs or alcohol were found at the scene, according to the sheriff, who said he doesn't expect any more charges in the case.",
"CNN's Tristan Smith contributed to this report."
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"Bobby Maurice Tillman, 18, was beaten to death outside a party .",
"A broken rib bone likely punctured his heart, the coroner says .",
"Four teens face felony murder charges ."
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"(CNN) -- When all is said and done, Wendy Leigh is just a name on a book cover.",
"Sometimes her name is accompanied by the word \"with,\" or, in the case of one juicy memoir, the phrase \"assisted by, edited by, and put into proper English by ...\" Leigh is a celebrity ghostwriter -- as crucial to the publishing process as paper and ink.",
"\"Clearly I am not sitting there holding a pen with the [celebrity],\" said Leigh, who has co-written autobiographies with Zsa Zsa Gabor and Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone.",
"\"It's a very delicate relationship,\" she said.",
"\"I'm not there as an interrogator. ... Nothing will go in that book that they don't want.",
"But that's not to say you're not going to do quite a bit of coaxing and convincing.\"",
"Leigh's latest, Barbara Eden's \"Jeannie Out of the Bottle\" is due out in 2011.",
"Dan Strone, the CEO of Trident Media Group, a New York-based literary agency, said the reason celebrity memoirs are taking over bookshelves is simple: People buy them.",
"More than 80 celebrity autobiographies have already been published this year.",
"\"When certain books do well, publishers want more of those books.",
"These books have been doing really well: The Toris [Tori Spelling] and the Kendras [Kendra Wilkinson] and the Jon Stewarts,\" he said.",
"And with the increased interest in celebrity memoirs comes a need for people who can help get the celebrity's words down on paper.",
"Enter Leigh, and a small circle of Hollywood ghostwriters.",
"\"Sometimes celebrities will try to write a book themselves. ...",
"But because everything in their life seems important, you get to page 200 and they're only 12 years old,\" Strone said.",
"\"It's difficult to sit there by yourself and remember your life because you're in the center of it.\"",
"And not every star has the skill set or even the time to sit down and write an autobiography, said Stone.",
"And it's not just memoirs. Some celebrities employ ghostwriters to help bring their novels to life.",
"But according to ghostwriter Jon Warech, there is little appeal to co-writing someone's novel.",
"\"The argument could be made that more people are going to read it or see it that way, but you're just handing over the credit to someone else,\" said Warech, who has co-authored memoirs with Kendra Wilkinson and Jodie Sweetin.",
"\"But a memoir is their life.",
"They deserve the credit because they lived it.",
"All I'm doing is helping them put it on paper.\"",
"Warech said, despite being responsible to tell someone else's life story, there's little pressure involved.",
"\"It's all about staying realistic,\" he said.",
"\"If someone knows who they are ... and what their fan base is looking for, that's really helpful.\"",
"But even with the most accommodating, self-aware subject, ghostwriting is not for everyone, Strone said.",
"\"You have to be sort of a shrink -- taking someone through their life, you need patience and put your own ego away because you're not the boss.\"",
"As a ghostwriter, \"you're part psychoanalyst, part best friend, part lion tamer, part interviewer and part nanny,\" Leigh said.",
"\"You have to crack the whip now and again.\"",
"Leigh recalls working with Gabor, who went through co-authors like she went through husbands.",
"Leigh, the fifth and final writer to attempt Gabor's memoir, ended up uncovering a long list of lovers Gabor had previously chosen to keep under wraps -- simply by asking -- including a secret affair with Frank Sinatra.",
"\"I thought, 'Well, she's met all these people. ...",
"If I had met those people, who would I have had affairs with?'",
"\" Leigh used the same techniques when helping Madonna's younger brother Christopher Ciccone write his best-selling memoir, \"Life With My Sister Madonna.\"",
"\"I knew this was the most amazing topic.",
"... You could feel Madonna's breath on your face when he talked.\"",
"\"We live in an age where there's so much out there,\" Leigh said.",
"\"You're very lucky if you have a scoop.\"",
"Even so, there's no guarantee that the scoop will end up in finished product, hence the aforementioned coaxing.",
"\"It's the celebrity's book,\" Strone said.",
"\"You can't make someone put something in a book that they don't want to put in it.",
"They're not on the witness stand.",
"I'm not saying they don't tell the truth, but, sometimes, stories are told up to a certain point.\"",
"But Leigh and Warech agree: It usually doesn't take much to convince subjects to include salacious information.",
"\"They [usually] know it's important and they just want to hear someone else remind them,\" Warech said.",
"Leigh agreed: \"It's like an impressionist painting: little brush strokes.",
"You don't want to tread on any sensitivities, yet you don't want to leave stones unturned.\""
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"Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Five Yemeni civilians were killed and 18 others were injured Tuesday in government air raids just outside Sanaa, tribal leaders and eyewitnesses said.",
"But two government officials said those killed were tribesmen who were taking up arms against the government.",
"The fighting, which occurred in Arhab province just north of Sanaa, is the latest to erupt in Yemen, which has been wracked by insurgent activity and anti-government ferment.",
"One of the government sources, a security official in Arhab, said that clashes erupted when the government ordered the tribes to hand over wanted criminals in the district.",
"When the tribes refused, the government responded with force.",
"\"The tribes are harboring criminals who stand behind the attacks on soldiers,\" the official said.",
"A Defense Ministry official said slain militants \"put law in their own hands and looted governmental property.",
"They were not civilians.\" Eyewitnesses said that guards raided most of the villages in the district, damaging many homes, and residents estimate that more than 240 homes have been destroyed over the last month.",
"\"We were sleeping in our houses when governmental rockets hit our house.",
"We did not raise arms against the government but are still being attacked,\" said Abdul Kareem Mubarak, a resident in Barman village.",
"Republican guards have been clashing with tribesmen in Arhab over the last month.",
"The government also claims that the tribes attempted to seize the military compounds in the district.",
"The security official said that the tribes have injured more than 25 government soldiers during the last two weeks.",
"\"Our soldiers are being attacked.",
"The government is trying to ensure law and order in Arhab district,\" the official said.",
"Residents blame the guards for randomly attacking civilian property in Arhab.",
"\"The guards are attacking anything they see.",
"Everyone is a target and people are displaced,\" said Abdullah Mansour, an Arhab resident who lost his home.",
"This comes after a surge of violence in a western Yemeni city overnight Monday.",
"Supporters of Yemen's president converged on a central square in Hodeidah and killed an anti-government protester and injured more than 150 others, according to witnesses and a medical team member.",
"The fighting around the city's Change Square was the bloodiest since May, and comes as tensions remain high between those who support President Ali Abdullah Saleh and those who have been demanding his ouster for months.",
"Saleh, who was injured in an attack on the presidential palace last month, is now being treated in Saudi Arabia.",
"John Brennan, U.S. President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, met Monday in Sanaa with Yemeni Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansoor Hadi, according to a report from Yemen's official Saba news agency.",
"Hadi is officially the nation's acting leader, though Saleh has indicated his intention to return to his homeland.",
"Brennan met with Saleh Sunday at a military hospital in Riyadh.",
"Video of the meeting shows the Yemeni president wearing a suit jacket, his face still singed from the June 3 blast.",
"Brennan wished Saleh \"a speedy recovery\" but also \"emphasized the importance of resolving the political crisis in Sanaa,\" the White House said in a statement on Sunday's meeting.",
"He urged Saleh to sign the Gulf Cooperation Council's political transition plan for Yemen, one that mandates that the president leaves the post he has held for many years.",
"Saleh has voiced agreement with the plan brokered by the regional council, but he has not signed it."
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"(CNN) -- Cesc Fabregas is to move from Arsenal to European champions Barcelona, both clubs confirmed Sunday.",
"The drawn out transfer saga concluded as Fabregas' new club laid claim to yet another honor by holding arch-rivals Real Madrid to a 2-2 draw in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup.",
"The Catalan giants confirmed the deal at halftime of the match at the Bernabeu in a short statement.",
"\"Initial agreement between Arsenal and FC Barcelona for the transfer of Cesc with the signing of contracts and medical to take place on Monday,\" it read.",
"Arsenal, who had been reluctant to let their captain go, conceded defeat.",
"\"Arsenal announces today that they have reached an agreement in principle with Barcelona for Cesc Fabregas to move to Spain,\" said a statement on their club website.",
"Manager Arsene Wenger, whose team drew 0-0 in their English Premier League opener at Newcastle, also gave his reaction.",
"\"We have been clear that we didn't want Cesc to leave and that remains the case,\" he said.",
"\"However, we understand Cesc's desire to move to his home town club and have now accepted an offer from Barcelona.",
"We thank Cesc for his contribution at Arsenal and wish him future success.\"",
"Fabregas, who played in Spain's World Cup winning team in South Africa, left Barcelona as a 16-year-old in 2003 to play for Arsenal where he made 303 appearances, scoring 57 goals.",
"He has played 58 times for his country.",
"Neither club disclosed the transfer fee, with reports suggesting in the region of €40 million ($57m).",
"In the absence of any last-minute hitch, Fabregas will be eligible to play in the second leg of the Super Cup final at Barcelona's Camp Nou Wednesday.",
"Mesut Ozil put Jose Mourinho's Real ahead in the first half, but before the break goals from David Villa and Lionel Messi had left the Spanish champions in charge.",
"Xabi Alonso's 54th minute equalizer salvaged a 2-2 draw for the home side."
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"(CNN) -- As President Obama pushes forward with his agenda, he may find that a homecoming king's likeability is just as integral as the power and authority inherent to the Oval Office.",
"President Obama's likeability is key to his leadership, experts say.",
"\"I just don't think you can be effective without being liked,\" said Bruce Newman, a professor of marketing at DePaul University and editor of the Journal of Political Marketing.",
"Newman describes Obama's leadership as a \"two-pronged support system of both being popular but yet having the respect.\"",
"\"I don't think you can be effective without that first step of making that emotional connection with the voter, but to continue to be effective, it's not enough,\" he said.",
"Newman pointed to three recent examples of presidential candidates who lacked the appeal of their opponent: Bob Dole vs. Bill Clinton, John Kerry vs. George W. Bush, and John McCain vs. Obama.",
"\"We are looking for leaders that we could relate to, that we would like to have dinner with or have a beer with or a glass of wine with,\" he added.",
"Obama has been likened to Republican President Ronald Reagan, who was generally considered more popular than his policies at the start of his first term.",
"Nearly 80 percent of those surveyed in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released earlier this month said they approved of Obama as a person.",
"But when poll takers were asked if they approved of how Obama was handling his job, the number dropped to about 60 percent.",
"Surveys this week show Obama's approval ratings to be in the mid to high 50s, down a few points from last month.",
"Watch: Is the honeymoon over? ...",
"While Obama's numbers have dropped since he took over the job, Mark Penn, who polled for President Clinton, says it's not time to worry yet.",
"\"The kind of numbers you see in the high 50s are, in fact, very good numbers.",
"Look, they're not the Inauguration Day numbers, but there's a very tough economy out there.",
"The president is trying to move forward health care.",
"There's a lot of increased contentiousness, given these issues,\" said Penn, who is the CEO of public relations firm Burson-Marsteller.",
"Obama's numbers are particularly low on health care.",
"A USA Today/Gallup poll released last week found that half the country disapproves of how he's handling the issue.",
"The president has a lot riding on health care because he's championed it as his top domestic priority.",
"\"It is pivotal to his presidency,\" CNN senior political analyst David Gergen said.",
"\"It's his single most important domestic initiative.",
"He didn't run to fix the economy -- he inherited that.",
"But he ran to fix health care.\"",
"Shortly before the presidential election, Brad VanAuken, a leading expert on brand management and author of \"Brand Aid,\" conducted an analysis of McCain and Obama's political brands.",
"On specific issues, \"supports universal health care\" was the quality closest associated with Obama.",
"\"His success with that issue is, to a very large degree, going to reflect on him because it's so closely associated with him.",
"So therein lies the difficulty of that particular issue,\" VanAuken said.",
"Obama's leadership is based on the fact that he is liked, Newman said, and that's something he can use to his advantage.",
"\"He's created an emotional connection with the American public now,\" he said.",
"The currency Obama has amassed in that emotional bond is what allows him to take gambles on issues like health care, he added.",
"\"I think he's got an awful lot of currency built up.",
"And I think he can make several mistakes before he begins to go down in popularity.\"",
"VanAuken's survey showed that Obama has a lot of strong personal capital built up with voters.",
"He attributes Obama's ability to connect with audiences of different ages, races and religions to the fact that \"he is as much a part of the American melting pot as anyone.\"",
"But with Obama's added role of being the United States' homecoming king comes an added responsibility of being all things to all people at times.",
"Last week, for example, the public turned to Obama to get his opinion on the controversy surrounding Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct after a confrontation with an officer at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.",
"That charged was later dropped.",
"Obama said police acted \"stupidly\" in the arrest, but then backpedaled, saying he did not mean to slight the Cambridge Police Department.",
"The president also acknowledged his words \"helped to contribute to ratcheting\" up the situation.",
"\"Obviously, he had no authority over that whatsoever, but as the chief communicator ... they ask him for ceremonial and symbolic reasons,\" said Vincent Hutchings, an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan.",
"And that ceremonial role crosses borders each time the president travels outside of the country and becomes the face of the United States government to the rest of the world.",
"A Pew study released last week indicated that the United States' image has improved considerably in much of the world since Obama took office.",
"\"Ideally, of course a politician would like for their personal popularity to translate to their policies, and sometimes that does happen and it's maybe even happening now to a degree, but there are limits,\" he said.",
"But, Hutchings noted, it's premature to start pointing to disparities in Obama's personal popularity and that of his policies to come to conclusions about his performance.",
"\"The jury is still out on that,\" he said.",
"\"It may well be that this is the beginning of a trend, or it may just be that this is just a blip.\""
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"(CNN Student News) -- June 1, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Germany • Joplin, Missouri .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: The start of a new month, the start of a new day of CNN Student News!",
"Hi, I'm Carl Azuz, and I'm delivering your 10 minutes of commercial-free headlines.",
"First Up: Home Prices Drop .",
"AZUZ: First up, we're talking about a new low for the price of homes in the United States.",
"During the first quarter -- the first three months -- of 2011, home prices dropped more than 5 percent from where they were last year.",
"Now, that's according to a new report that came out yesterday.",
"And the comparison gets even worse when you go back a little farther.",
"The housing market hit its highest point five years ago in 2006.",
"Compared to that -- that highest point -- prices of homes have dropped almost 33 percent.",
"Home prices are down; so what?",
"It might not be something that you think about every day, but some of your parents are paying close attention.",
"Home prices affect a lot of other industries -- like banks, like construction -- so that's one of the big indicators that experts use to figure out how the U.S. economy is doing.",
"And prices have gone through kind of a double-dip.",
"They went down after that peak in 2006.",
"Then they went back up a little bit around 2009.",
"Some government programs designed to encourage people to buy houses helped with that increase.",
"But now, they're dropping again. And one expert says it doesn't look like that's going to change any time soon.",
"E. coli Outbreak .",
"AZUZ: Officials in Germany are warning people there not to eat raw cucumbers, leaf lettuce, or tomatoes.",
"The reason: an outbreak of E. coli.",
"That's a bacteria that can be transmitted through contaminated food or water, especially raw vegetables.",
"Reports have connected at least 16 deaths to the outbreak.",
"Hundreds of other people have gotten sick.",
"German authorities are trying to contain the outbreak.",
"In the meantime, scientists are trying to figure out where it started.",
"They don't have that answer yet.",
"They think it could be traced back to produce from Spain.",
"Germany buys more Spanish fruits and vegetables than any other country.",
"And the concerns about those foods could cost Spain's food industry millions of dollars.",
"Shoutout . STAN CASE, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the Shoutout!",
"What's the term for when energy travels in particles or waves?",
"If you think you know it, shout it out!",
"Is it: A) Diffusion, B) Sublimation, C) Radiation or D) Circumnavigation?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"When energy is transmitted in particles or waves, it's called radiation.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Cell Phones & Cancer .",
"AZUZ: The World Health Organization says that radiation from cell phones could possibly cause cancer.",
"That announcement came after a group of scientists analyzed studies that have been done on cell phone safety.",
"What this means is that the scientists found some evidence of an increase in certain types of cancer for cell phone users.",
"They weren't able to make any conclusions about other types of cancers.",
"One expert says it's hard because it can take several decades of exposure to see if there are any consequences.",
"The wireless industry said the announcement does not mean cell phones cause cancer.",
"It pointed out that the scientists didn't do new research, but just reviewed studies that already existed.",
"This announcement probably will lead to more research on the issue.",
"Tornado Recovery .",
"AZUZ: Recovery efforts are getting started in Joplin, Missouri, and help is coming from some unexpected places.",
"For example, a group of homeless volunteers from Kentucky.",
"They collected donations for the tornado victims and then drove to Joplin to distribute them.",
"Another unique source of help: an elephant from a circus that was supposed to perform in the area.",
"The show, of course, couldn't happen.",
"But the animal was able to use its strength to help workers clear heavy debris from some areas.",
"Many residents of Joplin are still coming to grips with the devastation that hit their hometown.",
"Morgan Schutters of affiliate KODE reports on the tornado's impact on the Joplin High School community.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) MORGAN SCHUTTERS, KODE REPORTER: Katie Wood graduated from Joplin High School just an hour before the tornado hit.",
"KATIE WOOD, JOPLIN HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI: Even looking at it, it's still really hard to believe it.",
"SCHUTTERS: Now, she's singing the national anthem at a memorial service for her classmates and the community.",
"WOOD: It's so hard singing it right in front of my school that just blew away.",
"SCHUTTERS: But Joplin High School sophomore Chanci McGowen still has the rest of her high school career ahead of her, as she looks at what is left in shambles.",
"CHANCI MCGOWEN, JOPLIN HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORE: It's indescribable.",
"It's horrible, just devastating to see all the destruction of my school, my home.",
"SCHUTTERS: McGowen is one of many students who lost both.",
"MCGOWEN: It was heartbreaking.",
"My whole neighborhood is gone, but everyone's OK. SCHUTTERS: It was a somber afternoon as they gathered outside the school.",
"A moment of silence honoring military and tornado victims.",
"Eight people in the Joplin R-8 School District are confirmed dead: seven students and one staff member.",
"WOOD: Wondering who is still alive and who's not.",
"SCHUTTERS: Superintendent Dr. CJ Huff said last Friday, when he got word, his world stopped.",
"Sorrow for the lost and relief for the living.",
"CJ HUFF, SUPERINTENDENT, JOPLIN R-8 SCHOOL DISTRICT: As a result of your diligence and unwavering fortitude in the face of insurmountable challenges, 100 percent of our family are accounted for.",
"SCHUTTERS: Summer classes will begin as scheduled in less than three weeks, on June 13th.",
"(END VIDEO) I.D. Me . MICHELLE WRIGHT, CNN STUDENT NEWS: See if you can I.D.",
"Me! I'm a famous landmark visited by millions every year.",
"I'm located in Arizona.",
"I was formed by the Colorado River.",
"I'm the Grand Canyon, a huge rock formation that's a mile deep.",
"All Work, No Play . AZUZ: The Grand Canyon's a major vacation destination.",
"The nearly 5 million people who go there every year prove that.",
"But would the Canyon get even more visitors if American workers took as much vacation as employees in other countries?",
"That's what we're talking about. When it comes to time off, the U.S. is not number one.",
"Karin Caifa looks at some of the reasons why.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) KARIN CAIFA, CNN CORRESPONDENT, WASHINGTON, D.C.: Days at the beach, trips you'll remember for a lifetime.",
"That's what summer is all about, right?",
"Not for most American workers, who lag behind international counterparts in the vacation time given and the time taken.",
"According to a survey by Expedia, workers in Great Britain got an average of 28 days' vacation last year.",
"In France: 37. Here in the U.S.: 18. And they only used 14. So, what's holding Americans back?",
"With the economy still recovering, some workers are just happy to have a job to go to every day.",
"And with staffing pared to bare bones during the recession, they'd rather be at their desks than on a guilt trip.",
"JEFF GARDERE, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: We feel that we're letting our colleagues down.",
"We're afraid of the work that's waiting for us when we get back from vacation.",
"And that guilt will make us not take the days off that we really need.",
"CAIFA: There are also the lingering financial concerns.",
"A recent survey from CareerBuilder found one in four workers simply can't afford a getaway this year.",
"Twelve percent say they can afford it but won't go.",
"And only one in three said they felt more comfortable taking a vacation this summer than they did last year.",
"(END VIDEO) Driving Knowledge .",
"AZUZ: Sticking with the idea of hitting the road, it turns out about 37 million American drivers shouldn't!",
"According to a new survey, one out of every five people in the United States would fail a driving test if they had to take one today.",
"And what's even more strange: that's an improvement!",
"Last year, 38 million people -- one million more -- would have failed.",
"This survey asked drivers from all 50 states 20 questions about basic driving knowledge.",
"What do you do when you're approaching a yellow light?",
"What's a safe following distance?",
"Things like that.",
"The concern is that not knowing the rules leads to dangerous driving habits.",
"Daily E-mail .",
"AZUZ: Teachers, we know a lot of you get our daily e-mail.",
"As you get ready to head off for the summer, you don't need to unsubscribe.",
"The email is not gonna come out every day.",
"We'll only send you something when we have something to say, like when one of our special summer shows goes up at CNNStudentNews.com.",
"So stay subscribed; we will not spam you, we promise!",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: Before we go, we're checking out a barnyard brawl.",
"Boom! Only problem is, this isn't the barnyard.",
"It's somebody's back yard!",
"A flock of sheep showed up in a California neighborhood, and they didn't want to go anywhere.",
"Police surrounded the feisty flock and eventually had to call in animal control.",
"It's not like you could ask the sheep to leave nicely.",
"I mean, you might try, but you know they wouldn't go for it.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: Those guys just look like they have baaaaad attitudes.",
"Or maybe they were hoping not to get noticed so they could pull the wool over everyone's eyes.",
"That would have been shear genius.",
"It's always fun to see sheep on the lamb.",
"But now that the whole thing's over, I bet they felt sheepish about causing such a problem.",
"They are known to have bleat-ing hearts.",
"You can tell the year's winding up, because we're getting awfully punchy.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz."
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"(CNN) -- Declaring 2010 \"the best year in safety performance in our company's history,\" Transocean Ltd., owner of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded, killing 11 workers, has awarded its top executives hefty bonuses and raises, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.",
"That includes a $200,000 salary increase for Transocean president and chief executive officer Steven L. Newman, whose base salary will increase from $900,000 to $1.1 million, according to the SEC report.",
"Newman's bonus was $374,062, the report states.",
"Newman also has a $5.4 million long-term compensation package the company awarded him upon his appointment as CEO in March 2010, according to the SEC filing.",
"The latest cash awards are based in part on the company's \"performance under safety,\" the Transocean filing states.",
"\"Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we achieved an exemplary statistical safety record as measured by our total recordable incident rate and total potential severity rate,\" the SEC statement reads.",
"\"As measured by these standards, we recorded the best year in safety performance in our Company's history.\"",
"The company called that record \"a reflection on our commitment to achieving an incident-free environment, all the time, everywhere,\" the SEC filing states.",
"The company did not respond to an e-mail from CNN seeking comment.",
"The April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig injured 17 workers and killed 11 others, including nine Transocean employees, according to the SEC filing.",
"It has been called the worst spill in U.S. history.",
"The well was capped three months later, but not before millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf.",
"In January, President Barack Obama's National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report that spread blame for the accident among Transocean, BP -- which leased the rig -- and Halliburton, which installed the rig's cement casing.",
"The commission said problems with deepwater drilling are \"systemic\" and that only \"significant reform\" will prevent another disaster.",
"Another report released March 23 determined that the oil spill was caused by a piece of drill pipe trapped in the rig platform's blowout preventer, a device intended to stop oil from flowing into the Gulf.",
"The report was commissioned by various U.S. agencies, including the Interior Department and the Department of Homeland Security.",
"The Interior Department has said a much broader report that relies on additional sources of data -- including eyewitness accounts and photographs -- will be released this summer.",
"The oil spill has prompted a flood of lawsuits against BP, Transocean and Halliburton from a variety of plaintiffs, including owners of Gulf shore businesses who claim they suffered heavy financial losses because of the spill.",
"The plaintiffs also include Transocean shareholders who contend the company falsely claimed it had remedied past safety problems with its blowout preventers, prior to the Gulf spill."
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"Paris (CNN) -- Five French troops and an Afghan civilian were killed on Wednesday in an insurgent attack in an eastern province of Afghanistan, the French president's office said.",
"The incident occurred in Afghanistan's Kapisa province, where the French have a strong troop presence, and it comes a day after French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the country to meet with French troops.",
"The office said the soldiers were protecting a shura, a gathering of high-profile figures, in Joibar village when \"a terrorist detonated his bomb within proximity of the French soldiers.\"",
"The village is in Kapisa's Tagab valley.",
"Along with those killed, four French soldiers and three Afghan civilians were injured.",
"Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said \"the Taliban claim responsibility for the suicide attack.\"",
"Capt. Justin Brockhoff -- a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force --also reported five international troop deaths, but the spokesman did not disclose the nationalities of those killed per ISAF policy.",
"He said ISAF received a report that the strike could have been a suicide attack and a \"small and heavy weapons attack as well.\"",
"France has about 3,900 troops in Afghanistan, according to the NATO mission there, and the Defense Ministry says it has lost 69 service members in the long war.",
"France has said it will begin to reduce troop numbers, following a \"timetable comparable to the withdrawal of the American troops,\" according to a statement from the president's office last month.",
"In addition, French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet told France Info radio last month that all French soldiers could be out of Afghanistan by 2013.",
"According to the U.S. timetable, some 33,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn by September 2012.",
"That will leave just under 70,000 Americans in Afghanistan.",
"Sarkozy, who is back in France after his Afghanistan trip, passed along his condolences and said France is determine to continue working with ISAF \"to restore peace and stability\" in Afghanistan.",
"CNN's Mishan Afsari, Matiullah Mati and Dheepthi Namasivayam contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: 69 French service members have died in Afghanistan .",
"NEW: Five French soldiers, 1 Afghan civilian are killed .",
"This comes a day after Sarkozy's visit .",
"Other troops and civilians were injured .",
"The soldiers were protecting a shura when the attack occurred ."
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"(CNN) -- The parents of missing English toddler Madeleine McCann on Friday unveiled a digitally enhanced picture showing what she might look like today if she is still alive.",
"Madeleine McCann was 3 when she disappeared in 2007; this photo shows what she may look like at 6.",
"Madeleine was 3 years old when she disappeared during a family vacation in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 4, 2007.",
"Portuguese police closed the case last July without a resolution.",
"The picture, which her parents revealed in an interview on the \"Oprah Winfrey Show\" airing Monday, is a school-style photo showing Madeleine at 6 years old, with a pink headband and shoulder-length hair.",
"An expert at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children created the image using photographs of Madeleine's parents, a spokesman for the center told Guardian.co.uk.",
"Kate and Gerry McCann also discussed how they're coping with the disappearance of their daughter.",
"\"Child abduction, I think, could destroy any family.",
"There's no doubt about it,\" Gerry McCann told Winfrey.",
"Watch why the McCann's are waiting for Madeleine » .",
"\"But we've been supported tremendously well and I think that's helped us stay strong and stay together.",
"Obviously, we're really united in our goal and our love of Madeleine and Sean and Amelie.\"",
"Kate McCann said she keeps Madeleine's room ready for her and admitted to visiting it twice daily, \"just [to] say hello... just [to] tell her we're still going ... to do everything we can to find her.\"",
"Madeleine vanished from the family's holiday villa at the Portuguese beach resort while her parents dined in a nearby restaurant.",
"The couple have campaigned publicly for information about their daughter's whereabouts since her disappearance."
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"Digitally enhanced image shows what Madeleine McCann may look like today .",
"Madeleine was 3 when she disappeared during family vacation in Portugal .",
"Picture of 6-year-old Madeleine reportedly created from images of her parents .",
"Madeleine's mother says she keeps her room ready, visits it twice daily ."
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"(CNN) -- This is a tale of two cities tied together by two tornadoes of the most wicked order, the apocalyptic EF-5 -- and by acts of charity that followed.",
"It demonstrates how one good turn -- or town -- deserves another.",
"First, the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, got hit by a twister on April 27, killing 41.",
"So, like many others across the country, the residents in and around Joplin, Missouri, dispatched volunteers and relief goods to the Alabama community.",
"Melodie Schultz of Joplin even participated in a fund-raiser.",
"\"I got involved just by seeing that they needed the help in Tuscaloosa, and a friend of mine started just a group of us: 'Joplin Helping Tuscaloosa, Alabama,' \" Schultz told CNN.",
"Pastor Matt Harenza of Carterville Christian Church in Carthage, Missouri, just 16 miles from Joplin, donated manpower to the Tuscaloosa wreckage.",
"\"When the tornado happened in Tuscaloosa, a sister church there in Nashville (Tennessee) called and asked if we could bring our team to Tuscaloosa and help out,\" said Harenza.",
"\"So we got our team and got our tools and stuff and went down there to help out.\"",
"Then, a month later, fortunes between the Tuscaloosa and Joplin were reversed.",
"The single deadliest U.S. twister since modern record-keeping began in 1950 ripped through Joplin, killing 142 persons.",
"It, too, was an EF-5. So the people of Tuscaloosa and elsewhere in Alabama returned Joplin's favor.",
"A truckload of water, diapers, baby food and other relief materials arrived Saturday for the people of Joplin, and the goods were being stored in a warehouse at Harenza's church because Joplin is too obliterated to house the supplies.",
"The donations were delivered courtesy of the relief group Toomer's for Tuscaloosa and Ashley Furniture HomeStore of Birmingham, Alabama, said Chris Fields, a spokesman for Toomer's.",
"\"Sunday afternoon, we saw on the Weather Channel that there was a storm that was about to hit Joplin, and we wondered why we recognized that name so well,\" Fields said.",
"\"We realized why we recognized it,\" he said.",
"Joplin residents \"sent down a giant truck of aid for the residents of Tuscaloosa,\" he said.",
"So, the residents of Tuscaloosa and other parts of Alabama donated enough goods to fill two 53-foot trucks and a 26-foot truck, Fields said.",
"The 26-foot truck, with a Toomer's banner saying \"Stuff-The-Truck.",
"Joplin, Mo bound,\" was eventually diverted to another tornado-wracked community in Arkansas, but the two bigger trucks continued on their mission to provide relief to Joplin, Fields said.",
"Fields was amazed at the outpouring of support for Joplin, with donations arriving by the pickup load, leaving him in tears, he said.",
"\"These people have been through it and they know exactly what to bring,\" from flashlights to batteries to baby bottles, Fields said of Tuscaloosa residents' donations.",
"\"It is part of our healing process to help someone who has been through the exact same thing that we had been through.",
"That's why so many people stepped up to the plate,\" Field said.",
"\"This movement is so large, so many people stepping up as individuals taking care of their neighbors, it's a beautiful, beautiful thing to happen in this country,\" Fields added.",
"For Schultz's part, she was volunteering for a Tuscaloosa fund-raiser in Joplin on the very day that the tornado ripped through her Missouri town, she said.",
"In dramatic fashion, she raised money by doing mini-photo shoots and managed to do 20 of them before disaster struck Sunday, she said.",
"\"We managed to make it to safety probably five or 10 minutes before the tornado hit,\" Schultz said.",
"Tuscaloosa's mutual humanitarianism moved her, she said.",
"\"They just want to do whatever they can to help us, which is amazing to me.",
"They've gone through the exact same thing, not even a month ago, and are so willing to send truckloads of food and anything that we need down here, and they're happy to do it,\" Schultz said.",
"\"They've got our backs, and they're completely supportive.\"",
"Harenza, the pastor, said seeing the truckload of donations from Tuscaloosa was \"an emotional thing.\"",
"Similar trucks from around the country arrived in Tuscaloosa during his volunteer efforts there last month, he said.",
"\"You just go, 'Wow, people care about people,' and this tragedy almost pulls us together as a nation,\" Harenza said.",
"Said Fields: \"It's supernatural what has happened here as far as I'm concerned.\"",
"CNN's Chris Turner and Emily Robards contributed to this report."
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"A tornado hits Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in April .",
"The residents in and around Joplin, Missouri, provide aid .",
"Then the nation's deadliest twister devastates Joplin in May .",
"In a reversal of fortunes, Tuscaloosa sends aid to Joplin ."
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"(CNN) -- Argentina are into the quarterfinals of the 2011 Copa America after the hosts scored a comfortable 3-0 victory against Costa Rica in Cordoba.",
"Two goals from Atletico Madrid's Sergio Aguero and one from Real Madrid winger Angel di Maria secured the three points Sergio Batista's team needed to avoid an early exit from the quadrennial competition.",
"The two-time world champions advanced from Group A in second position, after Colombia defeated Bolivia 2-0 on Sunday to advance in first place.",
"La Albiceleste will now face the second-placed team from Group C, which will be one of Chile, Peru or Uruguay.",
"Is Argentine football in crisis?",
"Argentina were gifted the lead on the brink of half-time, when goalkeeper Leonel Moreira spilled midfielder Fernando Gago's volley and the 23-year-old Aguero finished from close range.",
"Aguero's second goal, and third of the tournament, arrived seven minutes into the second half, when the former Independiente striker latched onto a perfectly weighted pass from FIFA Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi to sidefoot the ball beyond Moreira.",
"Di Maria completed the scoring just past the hour mark, firing home from 10 yards after another perfect pass from Barcelona's Messi.",
"River Plate's fate a warning to Latin American giants .",
"Batista made four changes to his starting line-up after two draws in Argentina's opening two matches against Bolivia and Colombia.",
"The most high-profile name to be dropped was Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez, with the 48-year-old coach preferring to field a front three of Aguero, Di Maria and Gonzalo Higuain anchored by Messi.",
"\"We needed a game like this to restore the confidence of the players,\" Batista told the tournament's official web site.",
"The 1986 World Cup winner praised the impact of Messi, who showed glimpses of the dazzling form he displayed for European champions Barca last season.",
"\"Messi was brilliant and I was pleased by the application of the team, this is the game we want.",
"\"We needed to have security as a team and keep the ball.",
"Lionel knows how to overcome these situations and he showed today.\"",
"Messi, 24, thanked the fans in the Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes for their support.",
"\"I want to thank the fans, we missed this affection.",
"From now another Cup begins, more than anyone, we want the best for Argentina.\"",
"Tuesday's match in the competition will pit Chile against Peru in Mendoza, with both teams level on four points."
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"Argentina are into the quarterfinals after a 3-0 win over Costa Rica .",
"Atletico Madrid's Sergio Aguero (2) and Angel di Maria grabbed the goals .",
"Sergio Batista's team will now face Chile, Peru or Uruguay in the last eight ."
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"Guatemala City, Guatemala (CNN) -- Gunmen who shot dead Facundo Cabral likely did not have the Argentine folk singer as their intended target, said Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Menocal.",
"Cabral, one of Latin America's best-known folk singers, was killed Saturday on his way to the airport in Guatemala City.",
"In the car with Cabral was a Nicaraguan businessman, Henry Farina, who was driving, said Menocal.",
"\"Everything points to that the attack was directed at him (Farina), and not the artist,\" he said.",
"Still, a motive for the shooting remained unclear.",
"Farina was wounded, but survived the attack.",
"Cabral died, becoming the latest victim in a wave of violence that has rocked the nation ahead of elections.",
"Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared three days of national mourning in honor of the singer.",
"In Guatemala on a Latin American tour, Cabral, 74, left his hotel early Saturday morning in a white SUV for an eight-minute ride to the airport.",
"Gunmen attacked the SUV -- at least 20 bullet holes could be seen on the Range Rover.",
"Nothing was reported stolen from the vehicle, government spokesman Ronaldo Robles said Saturday.",
"Police found a brown Hyundai Santa Fe nearby containing bullet-proof vests and AK-47 magazines.",
"Robles and other authorities have said an investigation was underway.",
"\"You can't blame New Yorkers for the death of John Lennon.",
"Just like you can't blame Guatemalans for the death of Facundo Cabral,\" said Ernesto Justo Lopez, the Argentine ambassador to Guatemala.",
"Ironically, Cabral, who said he was inspired by Jesus Christ and Mohandas Gandhi, was recognized in 1996 by the Organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a \"World Peace Messenger.\"",
"Cabral gained fame as a protest singer.",
"His song, \"No Soy De Aqui, Ni Soy De Alla\" (\"I'm Not From Here Nor There\") was recorded in nine languages by stars including Julio Iglesias and Neil Diamond."
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"Shots were directed at the singer's driver, an official says .",
"The driver, a Nicaraguan businessman, was wounded .",
"Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral was killed Saturday during the same attack .",
"Gunmen descended on their SUV as the men made their way to the airport ."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's defense minister rejected U.S. allegations that the country was helping insurgents in neighboring Iraq, saying Wednesday that such \"baseless claims\" demonstrate U.S. failure in the Middle Eastern country.",
"Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi's comments were reported by the semiofficial Fars News Agency.",
"Vahidi said the United States was trying to sow discord among the countries in the region.",
"His comments came after U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta became the latest U.S. official to reiterate that Iraq needs to crack down on armed factions that have been targeting U.S. troops with Iranian-supplied weapons.",
"\"We are very concerned about Iran and weapons they are providing to extremists here in Iraq, and the reality is that we've seen the results of that,\" Panetta told troops in Baghdad Monday.",
"\"In June, we lost a hell of a lot of Americans.\"",
"The U.S. force of 46,000 has come under increased attacks in recent weeks.",
"Earlier this month, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said any potential agreement with Iraq for U.S. forces to stay on beyond the end-of-the-year deadline must confront the issue of Iranian involvement.",
"\"Iran is playing an out-sized role right now,\" Mullen said.",
"\"Iran is very directly supporting extremist Shia groups (in Iraq), which are killing our troops.\"",
"He added that Iran had made a decision in 2008 to scale back its involvement in Iraq but had recently stepped up its activities, possibly so it could claim credit for the American withdrawal.",
"Tehran has said Washington, with its accusations, is trying to project the blame for U.S. troop deaths elsewhere."
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"Iran's defense minister says the U.S. is trying to sow discord in the region .",
"Panetta: \"We are very concerned about Iran and weapons they are providing\"\nIf Iraq wants U.S. forces to stay, it must confront Iran's involvement, Mullen says .",
"Tehran says Washington is trying to project blame for troop deaths elsewhere ."
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"(CNN) -- Luke Donald gave his preparations for next week's British Open a massive boost by securing a comfortable four-stroke victory in the Scottish Open at Castle Stuart, Inverness on Sunday.",
"The world number one secured his third title of 2011 with a superb nine-under-par final round 63 -- his lowest-ever round on the European Tour -- for a 54-hole total of 197 (-19) in a tournament reduced to three rounds because of adverse weather conditions.",
"Sweden's Fredrick Andersson Hed carded an even more impressive 10-under 62 to take second place while a group of seven players, including former Masters champion Angel Cabrera, tied for third place a further stroke behind.",
"Mickelson still shooting with young guns .",
"The 33-year-old Englishman, who posted eight birdies including four in a row from the third hole, has now won six European Tour events and 10 worldwide.",
"\"It's nice to get another victory -- I can get used to this,\" Donald told reporters after his second successive win following-on from his success at the PGA Championship in May.",
"\"To do it on a links course is even better and when I play well I tend to do reasonably well the next week.",
"\"This was perfect preparation.",
"It doesn't get any better than going out and winning the week before the British Open.",
"I'm going to be high on confidence.\"",
"With fellow-Englishman Lee Westwood coming only joint 14th, Donald also stretched his lead at the top of the world rankings.",
"However, there was disappointment for European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie, who will miss his first British Open in 22 years after failing to get the top five placing he needed to qualify for the tournament."
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"World number one Luke Donald claims victory in the Scottish Open on Sunday .",
"Donald wins by four shots in the traditional warm-up event for the British Open .",
"The tournament is reduced to 54 holes because of adverse weather conditions ."
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"Paris (CNN) -- Monaco newlyweds Prince Albert and Princess Charlene are suing the French magazine L'Express for spreading what they say were false rumours about them in the lead-up to their July 2 wedding.",
"The news magazine reported on its website June 28 that Princess Charlene, née Wittstock, tried to flee for her home country South Africa days before the lavish wedding.",
"It alleged that she wanted to leave after she discovered that Prince Albert had fathered a third illegitimate child while still engaged to her.",
"The prince has previously admitted fathering two children out of wedlock with two different women.",
"The press service for the royal palace confirmed Tuesday that a lawsuit had been filed.",
"In a statement July 22, Michel Roger, the principality's head of government, said the couple are suing the weekly magazine for \"invasion of private life and printing fallacious information on its website following unfounded allegations.\"",
"The royal couple's Paris-based lawyer, Thierry Lacoste, could not be reached for comment.",
"The article purported that Charlene was stopped from leaving the Nice airport after the palace tipped off police.",
"L'Express told CNN it could not comment on the issue since it has not yet received an official complaint from the royal couple.",
"But in an article July 22, the magazine said it stands by its original reporting, which it said came from sources close to the wedding process.",
"French privacy laws are very strict, and prohibit publications from intruding on the private lives of public figures.",
"Celebrities commonly file lawsuits against tabloid and gossip magazines and win damages from the publications."
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"Prince Albert acknowledges having two other children out of wedlock .",
"Princess Charlene is from South Africa ."
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"(Mashable) -- The United States no longer owns the world's fastest supercomputer.",
"A computer called Tianhe-1A, unveiled on Wednesday at a conference in Beijing, China, can run calculations faster than the previous speed leader, a computer at a U.S. lab in Tennessee.",
"The new computer set a performance record by crunching 2.507 petaflops of data at once.",
"The previous leader, a computer called Cray XT5 Jaguar and located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, completed 1.75 petaflop calculations.",
"Analysts say the new record underscores China's place as a global tech leader.",
"According to Nvidia, the computer technology company, the world's fastest computer will be operated as an open access system and will be used for large scale scientific computations.",
"Supercomputers, which essentially are many computers strung and networked together, fill entire rooms and even small warehouses.",
"They are often used to processes huge amounts of scientific data.",
"Climate models, for example, are run using the supercomputing power that's found in U.S. national labs.",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Tianhe-1A unveiled Wednesday at HPC China 2010 in Beijing .",
"Supercomputer has a performance record of 2.507 petaflops .",
"Tianhe-1A designed by the National University of Defense Technology .",
"System cost $88 million and its 103 cabinets weigh 155 tons ."
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"MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Fashion designers are giving new life to worthless candy wrappers, newspapers and plastic bags; turning trash into trendy tote bags, purses and jewelry.",
"Target stores objected to this Timbuk2 purse which included plastic bags with its bull's-eye logo.",
"From \"post-consumer and industrial waste\" comes durable, funky accessories reportedly worn by celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan, Cameron Diaz and Petra Nemcova.",
"One self-described eco-fashion label, Ecoist, has partnered with Coca-Cola, Luna Bar and Aveda to create handbags made from misprinted and discontinued packaging.",
"\"We tap into that source of waste because it is reliable, and unfortunately, it's abundant,\" Ecoist co-founder Jonathan Marcoschamer said.",
"\"We believe that for the next few years, there's going to be a significant amount.\"",
"How about 7.6 billion tons of waste?",
"That's how much American companies toss each year, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.",
"During the past four years, Ecoist said, it has sold more than 100,000 accessories created by its designers in Peru and Miami, Florida.",
"The bags -- some of them one-of-a-kind -- are priced from about $30 for smaller versions to about $180 for larger ones.",
"\"For now, we're an immediate solution for many of these companies to utilize waste for something that's creative and promotes environmental awareness,\" Marcoschamer said.",
"Ecoist isn't alone.",
"Katherine Rasmussen, owner of the label Reiter8, creates totes from recycled boat sails.",
"Nicola Freegard and Robin Janson, the design team behind Vy&Elle, have recycled 100 tons of vinyl billboard ads to create wallets, bags and a variety of other products.",
"Another designer, Anna Built, has opted to create jewelry from recycled tin cans.",
"But it's not always easy being green.",
"Timbuk2, a company famous for its messenger bags, has encountered resistance in its attempt to produce totes made from discarded plastic bags.",
"The idea seemed feasible when Timbuk2 formed a partnership with RootPhi, which developed a machine capable of bonding plastic bags together.",
"The machine, called the Lamitron, allowed them to produce a new fabric while maintaining the visual details of the original plastic bag.",
"See photos of the eco-friendly accessories » .",
"The timing seemed appropriate; San Francisco had banned the use of plastic bags, and other cities worldwide were considering similar initiatives.",
"Despite a following of 3,000 potential customers on the Timbuk2 Web site, the bags are unlikely to be sold any time soon, if at all.",
"The companies have encountered legal and technical hiccups in their efforts to mass produce the bags.",
"\"Everyone is afraid to be the large-scale manufacturer, to stick their toe in the water.",
"It's a risk and a cost issue,\" says Doug Patt, co-founder of RootPhi.",
"Tinbuk2 also found that, although trash may no longer have an owner, logos on trash still do.",
"Target sent Timbuk2 a cease and desist letter in September when it discovered that some Lamitron bags showed the company's bull's-eye design.",
"RootPhi and Timbuk2 scrambled to identify and remove the offending bags from its limited collection of prototypes.",
"\"We encourage and promote recycling efforts, including ones that use our recycled bags,\" Target said in a written statement to CNN.",
"\"However, in this particular case we believed that the prominent use of our bull's-eye design mark implied a sponsorship or affiliation with Timbuk2 that did not exist at that time.\"",
"Target said Timbuk2 has cooperated.",
"Perry Klebahn, Timbuk2's CEO, acknowledges that Target wasn't technically wrong.",
"\"The onus was on us to talk to Target and get them to say OK, in this particular case, to grant us a license.",
"If we really are going to make use of this, we should be responsible as the manufacturer.\"",
"However, the initial draw for Timbuk2 was the possibility that it could simultaneously clean up neighborhoods and satisfy a market demand for highly localized and personalized eco-products.",
"\"What's great here is that no two bags are the same.",
"... What if you could roll into a town and make artifacts that have a local flavor?\"",
"Klebahn asked.",
"His vision was that one day, anyone could drop off their used shopping bags at Timbuk2 and receive a customized tote bag a few weeks later.",
"For now, the masses will have to wait.",
"Eco-fashion has certainly proved that it has enough caché in the fashion world.",
"Last year, British designer Anya Hindmarch created an instant eco-fad with her $15 limited edition \"I Am Not A Plastic Bag\" bag.",
"The cotton bags quickly sold out in London and New York, with hundreds of people lining up for them.",
"The bags fetched $400 on eBay and spawned a dizzying number of knock-offs.",
"Atlanta, Georgia, boutique owner Joyce Justicz said she doesn't think consumers buy eco-fashion exclusively for environmental reasons.",
"\"They buy them because they're cute, and it's an added bonus,\" she said.",
"Will the trend last?",
"Yair Marcoschamer, another Ecoist co-founder, is optimistic.",
"\"Businesses and individuals have realized that if something isn't done [about the environment], this is going to have a profound effect on each of our lives,\" he said.",
"\"Consuming products that are fair-trade, that are environmentally responsible, is our responsibility as consumers.\""
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"Eco-fashions seen on Lindsay Lohan, Cameron Diaz, other stars .",
"One designer creates totes from recycled boat sails .",
"Recycled bags with Target bull's-eyes created legal hurdle ."
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"(CNN) -- United States health authorities have added eight commonly used substances to its official \"Report on Carcinogens,\" saying they may put people at increased risk of developing cancer.",
"The industrial chemical formaldehyde and a botanical substance known as aristolochic acids are listed as \"known human carcinogens\" while six others, including certain inhalable glass wool fibers and styrene, used in Styrofoam, are listed as substances \"reasonably anticipated to be human carcinogen,\" the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday.",
"Formaldehyde, which was listed on a previous report, was upgraded to \"known carcinogen\" after it was found to cause nasal cancer in rats.",
"A colorless, flammable chemical, formaldehyde may be found in a wide range of products from plastics, synthetic fibers to hair straightening products and textile finishes.",
"Aristocholic acid -- a natural-occurring botanical substance -- may cause cancer of the urinary tract and permanent kidney failure, the report stated.",
"It is used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine and in some weight-loss herbal medicines.",
"Six other commonly used products were listed as \"reasonably anticipated to be human carcinogens\", including styrene, a chemical found in products such as Styrofoam and fiberglass.",
"Exposure to captafol, cobalt-tungsten carbide (in powder or hard metal form), certain inhalable glass wool fibers, o-nitrotoluene, riddelliine, and styrene -- are \"reasonably anticipated to increase carcinogenic exposure,\" the report states."
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"A natural-occuring chemical and formaldehyde listed as \"known human carcinogens\"\nGlass wool fibers and styrene, used in Styrofoam, are \"reasonably anticipated to be human carcinogens\"\nThe report was issued Friday by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ."
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"(CNN) -- Journalists in Sri Lanka have come under a growing number of attacks and intimidation, with some fleeing the country or losing their lives, media analysts and rights groups say.",
"Chief editor of the privately-owned Rivira newspaper after he was attacked on Friday.",
"On January 8, a prominent journalist who had been critical of the government was shot and killed by unknown assailants on the outskirts of Colombo.",
"His death came days after masked gunmen besieged a privately owned television station and destroyed its equipment; and in another attack in January, a newspaper editor and his wife were stabbed on their way to work.",
"While Sri Lankan authorities have denied any government involvement, the cases have prompted international criticism of Sri Lanka over the safety of journalists.",
"There are also questions about press freedoms.",
"\"As the [President] Rajapakse government ramps up the war against the Tamils, there's been growing criticism of the government and at times it's been partisan --partisan journalists -- but basically in the last year and a half we have most likely seen five or six senior journalists either thrown in jail, threatened or gone into exile because of disagreements with the government,\" said Bob Dietz, Asia program coordinator of the journalism watchdog group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).",
"Rajapakse has condemned the violence against journalists and promised thorough investigations.",
"Dietz said attacks against journalists are not new in the nation, whose government has been battling ethnic Tamil rebels-- known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)-- since the 1980s.",
"The conflict has claimed more than 65,000 lives.",
"Sixteen journalists have been killed in Sri Lanka since 1992, and three journalists were imprisoned, including one on terrorism charges, in 2008, according to CPJ.",
"The group said many journalists also have faced threats and intimidation.",
"As the civil conflict first unfolded, minority Tamil journalists were targeted, but pressure against the media has gradually fallen upon mainstream news organizations, including those from the majority Sinhalese ethnic group, Dietz said in a telephone interview.",
"\"What we're seeing in the last year and a half is a change in tactics from the government of just putting pressure on Tamil journalists to putting the pressure on mainline Sinhalese or Muslim journalists who write for more legitimate papers or news outlets and are critical of the government,\" he said.",
"The allegations come as Sri Lanka's government said it was close to defeating the Tamil Tiger rebels, who have been fighting for an independent homeland in the South Asian nation.",
"Rajapakse has given assurances that no journalist or media institution has reason to fear any threats or attacks by the government.",
"In a statement posted to the Ministry of Defence Web site on January 15, the president said: \"The government had no interest whatever in seeking disgrace through any attacks on the media.\"",
"\"The president said that at a time when the government was at the very height of its popularity due to the success of the offensive against terrorism, it had no interest in losing this public acceptance by even an iota, by attacks on the media as had taken place,\" the statement said.",
"Still, many journalists say they feel threatened.",
"The Web site for the Ministry of Defence has named journalists who officials consider to be traitors, Dietz said.",
"Sanjana Hattotuwa, editor of a citizen journalism Web site groundviews.org and a senior researcher at the Center for Policy Alternatives, said the government \"through inaction or through complicity\" has allowed for an environment where violence against journalists can grow with impunity.",
"\"People are scared.",
"People are worried,\" Hattotuwa said.",
"\"Nobody wants to be killed, nobody wants to be incarcerated, nobody wants to leave a country which is home.\"",
"Police are investigating the three recent attacks on journalists but no arrests have been made, Lucien Rajakarunanayake, Sri Lanka's Director of Policy Research and Information in the Presidential Secretariat, told CNN in a telephone interview.",
"The U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Robert Blake, is among those who have expressed concern over the attacks.",
"Blake said, \"we have called on the government of Sri Lanka to investigate these attacks expeditiously.\"",
"\"It's difficult to speculate about what's behind all this, but I think what's important for the government to focus on now is what they can do to address this problem of impunity, whereby no one has been brought to justice for the many high profile killings -- not just of journalists but many other people -- for the many abductions that have occurred and other human rights abuses that have occurred.\"",
"Rajakarunanayake told CNN there \"is no government policy of impunity.\"",
"He also noted: \"I can categorically tell you that there is no restriction on the media, there is no censorship in our country.\"",
"In his final editorial before he was gunned down on January 8, Lasantha Wickrematunga, editor-in-chief of The Sunday Leader, predicted his own death in a posthumously published column and pointed the finger at the government.",
"\"It is well known that I was on two occasions brutally assaulted, while on another my house was sprayed with machine-gun fire.",
"Despite the government's sanctimonious assurances, there was never a serious police inquiry into the perpetrators of these attacks, and the attackers were never apprehended,\" he wrote in the column titled, \"And Then They Came for Me.\"",
"Many fear this case will never be solved."
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"Journalist slain, another stabbed and a TV station attacked in last four weeks .",
"Government pledges investigations, says no restrictions on media .",
"Sixteen journalists killed in Sri Lanka since 1992, media rights group says .",
"Attacks come as government says it is close to defeating the Tamil Tiger rebels ."
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"New Delhi, India (CNN) -- A Harvard-educated legal expert was elected head of Tibet's government-in-exile on Wednesday, filling the shoes of the Dalai Lama who said last month he was going to give up his political role.",
"Lobsang Sangay got 55% of the vote, beating two other candidates for the post of Kalon Tripa, or prime minister.",
"In March, the Dalai Lama announced his plan to retire as political head of the Tibetan exile movement, saying Tibetans needed an elected leader \"to whom I can devolve power.\"",
"Explainer: Tibetans vote for a future .",
"He remains the group's spiritual leader.",
"Born in the tea-growing region of Darjeeling in India, Sangay arrived in the United States in 1995.",
"He received his doctorate in law from Harvard University, where he also was a research fellow in the East Asian Legal Studies program and held events related to Tibet.",
"In May, Tibetan representatives will meet to discuss the Dalai Lama's proposal of political retirement.",
"Their recommendations will be forwarded to the exiled parliament so that it can ratify the constitution and relieve the spiritual leader of his political responsibilities.",
"The Dalai Lama fled China 52 years ago on March 10, 1959, after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.",
"The exile group is headquartered in Dharamsala in northern India."
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"NEW: Sangay earned a doctorate in law from Harvard University .",
"NEW: In May, Tibetan representatives will discuss the Dalai Lama's proposal .",
"Sangay beats out two other candidates .",
"The Dalai Lama has said he wants to hand over political power to an elected leader ."
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"Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- At least 76 people died in Norway in a terror attack July 22 that started with a bomb blast in the capital Oslo and continued with an hour-long gun rampage at a camp for Labour Party teens and young adults on nearby Utoya Island.",
"Police arrested a lone gunman, Anders Breivik, 32.",
"Here are the latest developments.",
"NEW DEVELOPMENTS .",
"--Anders Breivik was \" a little bit surprised\" that his attacks succeeded, his lawyer Geir Lippestad says Tuesday, adding that Breivik had not expected to get to Utoya Island.",
"--The suspect was on drugs to make him stronger and more awake during the attacks, Lippestad says.",
"He says Breivik \"may be\" insane, but that it is too early to say if he will mount an insanity defense.",
"--Police say they will announce Tuesday when they will publish the list of names of the victims.",
"--Police continue to search Utoya island and the surrounding waters for four or five missing people, and the island itself for clues.",
"PREVIOUSLY REPORTED .",
"--Anders Breivik, 32, appeared in closed court Monday.",
"Judge Kim Heger later says Breivik admits carrying out the attacks but claims they were necessary to prevent the \"colonization\" of the country by Muslims.",
"Breivik says the deaths are the price the Labour Party had to pay for its \"treason,\" the judge says.",
"--Judge Heger orders Breivik held in custody for eight weeks, until his next court date.",
"The first four weeks are to be in solitary confinement to prevent the possibility of tampering with evidence, the judge says.",
"--The suspect's father, Jens Breivik, tells Norway's TV2 that his son must have mental problems.",
"\"In my darkest moments, I think that rather than killing all those people, he should have taken his own life,\" the father says, answering a reporter's question about mental illness by saying: \"There is no other way to explain it.",
"A normal person would never do such a thing.\"",
"--Police announce Monday that the number of confirmed dead in the bombing is eight, an increase of one from previous reports.",
"The number of dead on Utoya is 68, down from earlier reports as high as 86.",
"That makes the confirmed death toll 76, down from earlier reports of 93.",
"--Police say they are investigating Breivik claims that two other terror cells assisted him in the attack.",
"They do not confirm the existence of the cells.",
"--Breivik is charged with two acts of terrorism, police spokesman Henning Holtaas says.",
"The maximum sentence is 21 years in prison, with the possibility of an extension at the end of the term if the court rules Breivik is still a threat.",
"Norway does not execute people.",
"--A 1,518-page manifesto bearing Breivik's name circulates online, containing rants about the rising number of Muslims in Europe, describing detailed plans for getting weapons, explosives and fake uniforms, and saying how to avoid detection by police while preparing the attack.",
"--Almost 200,000 people participate in a memorial Monday in downtown Oslo to honor the victims, authorities say.",
"Ringerike hospital chief surgeon Colin Poole says he has never seen gunshot wounds like those of the victims from the island, and speculates the injuries were caused by expanding or \"dum-dum\" bullets, a hospital spokesman says.",
"Police decline to comment on the type of bullets the gunman used."
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"The suspect was on drugs to make him stronger and more awake during the attacks, Lippestad says.",
"Police say they will announce Tuesday when they will publish the list of names of the victims.",
"Police continue to search Utoya island and the surrounding waters for four or five missing people, and the island itself for clues."
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"Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Authorities in Northern Ireland have arrested a tenth person in connection with the death of a police officer in a car bombing last April, police said Wednesday.",
"A 23-year-old woman was arrested in Omagh by detectives probing the death of Constable Ronan Kerr \"and associated incidents,\" the Police Service of Northern Ireland said.",
"Five men were arrested Tuesday.",
"Kerr died April 2 when an explosive device detonated under a car in the Highfield Close area of Omagh.",
"The 25-year-old had only recently joined the service, Assistant Chief Constable Drew Harris said at the time.",
"\"Our determination to pursue every possible line of enquiry remains undiminished,\" Detective Superintendent Raymond Murray said Tuesday.",
"Of the 10 people arrested, only one has been charged in connection with the investigation -- though not with the killing.",
"A 33-year-old man from Omagh was charged after arms and explosives were found in Coalisland, County Tyrone.",
"Northern Ireland was racked by violence between pro-Irish and pro-British forces over a period of three decades.",
"About 3,500 people were killed before a power-sharing deal known as the Good Friday Agreement was reached in 1998.",
"In August of that year, Omagh was the scene of the conflict's most deadly terrorist attack, in which a car bombing by the paramilitary splinter group Real IRA killed 29 people.",
"Journalist Peter Taggart contributed to this report."
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"Of 10 people arrested, only one has been charged in connection with the investigation so far .",
"Ronan Kerr, 25, was killed April 2 in a car bombing in Omagh .",
"Police vow to \"pursue every possible line of enquiry\""
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"Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, landed in Havana on Monday for a private visit aimed at reducing tension between the Cold War enemies and seeing first-hand the economic reforms sweeping the communist island.",
"But expectations are high that Carter also will work behind the scenes to secure the release of American contractor Alan Gross, who was recently sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban prison.",
"Unlike his first visit in 2002, when then-President Fidel Castro personally greeted Carter on the tarmac, this time Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez was on hand to receive the former American leader.",
"The Carter Center has called the three-day trip a non-governmental mission at the invitation of the Cuban government.",
"On Monday afternoon, he met with Jewish leaders and the archbishop of Havana, Cardinal Jaime Ortega.",
"Carter declined to comment Monday when reporters asked him about Gross, shouting, \"There will be a press conference later.\"",
"A press conference is scheduled for Wednesday.",
"Cuba accuses the U.S. Agency for International Development subcontractor of \"subversive\" work connecting people to the internet illegally, with the ultimate goal of undermining the government.",
"Washington says he was simply helping the Jewish community connect to the worldwide web and has repeatedly said that bilateral relations cannot improve until Gross is released.",
"Carter visited the Patronato Jewish center and Temple Beth Shalom.",
"When Adela Dworin, the president of the temple, was asked if they discussed Gross, she said: \"We didn't talk about politics.",
"We told him about the Jewish community in Cuba, how many members it has, how we openly practice our religion, etc.\"",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Carter before his departure to discuss the issue, according to Molly Koscina, a spokeswoman for the U.S.",
"Interests Section in Havana.",
"\"We hope President Carter will urge the Cuban government to immediately release Mr.",
"Gross on humanitarian grounds,\" she told CNN.",
"On Tuesday, Carter will have a face-to-face session with President Raul Castro.",
"In many ways, the time is ripe.",
"Castro has launched a major shakeup of the nation's Soviet-style economic model, paving the way for more small businesses and private enterprise.",
"And just last week, Cuba released the last of 75 dissidents jailed in a 2003 crackdown on the opposition that prompted worldwide condemnation.",
"So at least in theory, two of the major obstacles to bilateral negotiations have been lifted."
] | [
"NEW: Carter visits a Jewish center and temple and meets with the archbishop of Havana .",
"The trip is officially to strengthen bilateral ties .",
"However, there are hopes the ex-president may try to lobby for an American prisoner .",
"The U.S. contractor was recently sentenced to 15 years in prison ."
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"(CNN) -- An indictment unsealed in New York Tuesday provides further evidence of links between al Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, a growing concern to counter-terrorism officials.",
"And the indictment also sheds light on the Obama administration's policy on how to handle terror suspects detained overseas.",
"The indictment charges Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame with providing material support to the extremist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia, and to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen.",
"He is also charged with conspiring to teach and demonstrate the making of explosives.",
"If convicted, he faces a mandatory life sentence.",
"Warsame, a Somali national, was captured by U.S. forces on April 19 in what the U.S. attorney's office in New York describes only as \"the Gulf region.\"",
"He was interrogated overseas for \"intelligence purposes\" for two months before finally being transferred to FBI custody and brought to the United States Tuesday, when he made an appearance in federal court.",
"During that appearance, he pleaded not guilty, according to Ellen Davis, spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office.",
"Warsame was held on a U.S. Navy ship in the Gulf region after his capture until being brought to New York for Tuesday's court appearance, according to the attorney's office.",
"Neither the indictment nor the accompanying press release disclosed where the interrogation took place, but there is a substantial U.S. naval presence in the Arabian Sea.",
"According to the indictment, Warsame, said to be in his mid-20s, provided material support for Al-Shabaab, which controls large areas of central and southern Somalia.",
"He also provided the group with explosives, weapons and communications equipment.",
"He also spent time in Yemen in 2010 and earlier this year, allegedly receiving explosives and other training from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which in the past two years has emerged as one of the most active parts of the organization.",
"Unconfirmed local reports in Somalia have spoken of Al-Shabaab boats leaving Kismayo for southern Yemen as Islamist groups there -- including al Qaeda - have taken advantage of a growing political vacuum.",
"Warsame is also alleged to have tried to broker a weapons deal with AQAP on behalf of al Shabaab.",
"Both groups are designated as terrorist organizations by the United States.",
"U.S. officials have recently spoken of growing links between Al-Shabaab and AQAP, and their ambitions to hit targets overseas.",
"A joint Pentagon-CIA task force has recently stepped up pressure on Al-Shabaab, visiting Somalia to gather intelligence against the group.",
"Late last month a U.S. drone strike against an al-Shabaab camp near the southern port of Kismayo is said to have killed several militants.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti contributed to this report."
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"A federal indictment is unsealed against a Somali man facing terrorism charges .",
"Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame was captured by U.S. forces in April .",
"He is charged with providing support to extremist groups in Somalia and Yemen .",
"Warsame pleads not guilty at a hearing in New York ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The Environmental Protection Agency proposed new national guidelines on Wednesday for mercury and air toxics released from power plants.",
"The move came in response to a court-ordered deadline and would require many power plants to install pollution control technologies.",
"\"Today we're taking an important step forward in EPA's efforts to safeguard the health of millions of Americans,\" EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said at a press conference to sign the new order.",
"\"Under the Clean Air Act these standards will require American power plants to put in place proven and widely available pollution technologies to control and cut harmful emissions like mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases,\" Jackson said.",
"Jackson said the new standards would \"prevent 91% of mercury in coal from being released in the air.\"",
"The D.C. Court of Appeals ordered the EPA to make the rules final by November.",
"Companies have three years to comply, but some could get a one-year extension if the technology cannot be installed in time.",
"The Power Plant Mercury and Air Toxics Standards are expected to have broad health benefits, according to the EPA.",
"The pollution control methods are expected to prevent 17,000 premature deaths and 11,000 heart attacks.",
"The EPA said it would also help eliminate 10,000 cases of childhood asthma.",
"The announcement was hailed by the American Lung Association and several groups of doctors who spoke at the press event.",
"A group of second-graders from Amidon-Bowen Elementary School in Washington, D.C., joined EPA Administration Lisa Jackson as she signed the new guidelines.",
"Dr. Marian Burton, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, told the students, \"I think you already know this rule is for you and for all the children in the America who will follow you.",
"\"Dirty air makes people sick.",
"That's the long and short of it,\" Burton continued.",
"\"If you think it's expensive to put a scrubber on a smokestack you should see how much it costs to treat a preventable birth defect.\"",
"Jackson said the instillation and maintenance of the pollution controls would provide jobs as well as health benefits.",
"\"These are good labor-intensive jobs that cannot be shipped overseas,\" she said.",
"Jackson emphasized these new measures would come at a financial cost for utility companies but said it would level the playing field for utility companies once they are all operating from the same clean air standard.",
"Consumers will see a bump in their bills while utility companies put the new technology in place, she said.",
"\"We estimate impact on utility bills that are pretty minor, three to four dollars a month,\" Jackson said.",
"Those costs to companies and consumers she said would be far outweighed by the benefits."
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"Many utilities would have to install new pollution controls .",
"Thousands of deaths expected to be prevented .",
"EPA rules will be final by November .",
"Companies would have up to 4 years to comply ."
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"(CNN) -- Investigators in the case of a missing Indiana University student hope forensic evidence will help them determine whether a decomposing body found in a creek Monday north of Indianapolis is connected with the disappearance of Lauren Spierer.",
"Bloomington police are in contact with the Indianapolis Metropolitan police, the agency that recovered the body, but there is not enough information for police to \"determine the identity or a basic description of the body,\" Lt. William Parker said in a statement.",
"Parker hopes a pending forensic examination will provide more information, his statement said.",
"CNN affiliates reported an autopsy on the female body will be performed Tuesday.",
"Bloomington police have been searching for Spierer, 20, since June 2, when she was last seen leaving a sports bar in Bloomington after a night out with friends.",
"In mid-June, police had found possible new clues to Spierer's disappearance -- images of a white pick-up truck caught on a security surveillance video.",
"But they ruled out a connection and were back to square one.",
"Officials have received thousands of tips but none so far have yielded anything concrete."
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"An autopsy is expected to be performed Tuesday, according to CNN affiliates .",
"Bloomington police say there is not enough information to identify the body .",
"Police are searching for Lauren Spierer, 20, who disappeared June 2 .",
"Investigators have not been able to make any progress ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Fresh explosions rang out early Tuesday near Tripoli, hours after South African President Jacob Zuma held talks with Moammar Gadhafi and signalled he was ready to accept an African Union plan for a cease-fire.",
"Around 12:45 a.m. Tuesday, a pair of large blasts were heard about five minutes apart, as jets flew over the capital of Tripoli.",
"A Libyan government official said the first strike hit Abu Sita, a former military turned construction site about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the city center.",
"There was no immediate indication of where the second explosion occurred.",
"Nor was there an immediate response from NATO, which has conducted regular strikes as part of its stated mission to halt Libyan leader Gadhafi's forces from killing innocent civilians.",
"Hours before the blasts, Zuma emerged from a meeting with the longtime Libyan strongman convinced that Gadhafi was ready for an end to hostilities, including such airstrikes and the ongoing fight with the Benghazi-based opposition movement.",
"But he gave no indication that Gadhafi was prepared to step aside, as rebel leaders have insisted is their primary demand.",
"\"Brother leader took the position today that he is ready to implement the decision of the AU (that) there must be a cease-fire,\" Zuma told a scrum of reporters on the tarmac at Tripoli's Mitiga International Airport before boarding a jet.",
"\"The view is that that must include -- bombing by NATO must also come to an end,\" he said in the news conference, which was broadcast on Libyan state television.",
"Zuma added that Gadhafi said any cease-fire must apply to all parties, \"but also, he makes the point that: Let the Libyan people be given a chance to talk among themselves.",
"And therefore, he's ready to implement the road map of the AU.\"",
"Unlike some other world leaders, Zuma has not called for the longtime Libyan leader to step down.",
"Neither has Zuma's African National Congress party nor the African Union, which he was representing and which Gadhafi once led.",
"In fact, the AU has criticized the NATO airstrikes.",
"In April, Zuma led an AU delegation to Tripoli, where hopes were raised briefly when it was announced that Gadhafi had agreed, in principle, to the African Union's \"road map\" proposal for peace.",
"But Gadhafi continued his attacks and the Libyan opposition rejected the proposal because it did not meet its demand that he give up the power he has held for 42 years.",
"A government official said Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi also attended Monday's meeting.",
"Baghdadi greeted Zuma upon his arrival at the airport, where dozens of Gadhafi supporters carried posters, some of which said, \"May the leader be victorious\" and \"Thanks for great Africa.\"",
"The African Union has helped mediate peace talks before, including ones in Kenya and Zimbabwe that left the ruling powers in control.",
"It was not clear whether Zuma used the opportunity to press Gadhafi for information on the whereabouts of South African freelance photographer Anton Hammerl.",
"Hammerl has been missing in Libya since April and is believed dead.",
"South Africa has said it got assurances from Libya that the journalist was alive.",
"But a Libyan government spokesman has said his whereabouts were unknown.",
"\"We never had him with us at any stage,\" spokesman Musa Ibrahim has said.",
"The meeting came as Gadhafi's grip on power appeared to continue to loosen.",
"Eight generals from his army have defected to Italy, the Italian Foreign Ministry told CNN Monday.",
"The generals were accompanied by more than 100 Libyan soldiers, a senior Italian official with firsthand knowledge of, and responsibility for, the operation said.",
"The Libyans crossed their country's border into Tunisia, where they were met by Italian intelligence agents, the official said.",
"Italy announced Monday that it will open a consulate Tuesday in the rebel-held eastern city of Benghazi.",
"Also Monday, the first locally based television station to operate in Libya since the start of the revolution was to begin broadcasting from the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.",
"The station was founded by Momammed Nabus, who later was one of five journalists killed in the conflict.",
"\"Gadhafi forces assassinated him for highlighting to the rest of the world the atrocities committed by the Gadhafi regime,\" said Zuheir Al-Barasi, who was to open the station's broadcast from the city's courthouse.",
"In recent weeks, Gadhafi has been seen in public only rarely as NATO has stepped up attacks against his sprawling Bab el-Azizia compound.",
"NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Monday that Gadhafi's \"reign of terror is coming to an end.\"",
"\"He is increasingly isolated at home and abroad,\" Rasmussen said during a speech in Bulgaria.",
"\"Even those closest to him are departing, defecting or deserting.\"",
"Rasmussen also said NATO has made \"significant progress\" in its Libya operation.",
"NATO said Monday it has conducted 3,385 strike sorties in Libya since March.",
"\"We have seriously degraded Gadhafi's ability to kill his own people,\" Rasmussen said in his speech.",
"\"We have prevented more massacres in Misrata and elsewhere across the country, and we are saving lives every day.\"",
"The NATO-led bombing campaign began in March after the U.N. Security Council authorized the use of any means necessary -- short of occupation -- to protect civilians from attacks by Gadhafi's forces.",
"On Sunday, Libyan opposition forces continued to fend off attacks near the rebel-held port city of Misrata.",
"But rebel leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil said over the weekend that the opposition movement is running out of money even as it has achieved key victories militarily and diplomatically.",
"\"We are going through a financial crisis,\" said Jalil, chairman of the Benghazi-based National Transitional Council.",
"In a speech in Geneva, Switzerland, the United Nations' top human rights official noted Monday \"the brutality and magnitude of measures\" taken by the Libyan government.",
"The government's actions have been \"shocking,\" United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said, criticizing the \"outright disregard for basic human rights.\"",
"CNN's Sara Sidner, Ben Wedeman, Nkepile Mabuse, Amir Ahmed, Raja Razek and Nima Elbagir contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Two large explosions are heard early Monday near Tripoli .",
"More than 100 Libyan soldiers defect, along with eight generals .",
"Gadhafi says bombing by NATO must come to an end, South African president says .",
"President Jacob Zuma meets with Gadhafi; doesn't say he will step down ."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters in Baghdad that his current visit to Iraq will probably be his last.",
"He has previously announced that he intends to retire sometime this year.",
"Gates made the comment while speaking to reporters at the U.S. Division-Center headquarters, where he addressed about 200 soldiers from Kansas and Hawaii.",
"He called it \"the high point of my trip.\"",
"Gates also addressed the possible U.S. government shutdown.",
"He explained that, even if troops didn't get a paycheck due to a government shutdown, they would be paid back.",
"Differences between U.S. Democrats and Republicans have kept them from reaching agreement on a budget for this year.",
"If there is no deal by midnight Friday, when the current spending authorization measure expires, parts of the government will close down.",
"\"As a historian, it always occurred to me the smart thing for government was always to pay the guys with guns first,\" he said in response to a query on a shutdown's possible impact.",
"Earlier Thursday, Gates met with the Commanding General of U.S.",
"Forces in Iraq, General Lloyd Austin, and with the U.S.",
"Ambassador to Iraq, James Jeffrey, at Al Faw Palace in Baghdad.",
"Later, Gates will meet with Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdish regional government, said a senior defense official who agreed to talk on background .",
"Gates message to Iraq's leadership will be \"that it is important for them to complete the government-formation process, particularly to get the security ministries dealt with,\" a senior defense official said.",
"Gates arrived in Baghdad Wednesday night on an unannounced visit.",
"Prior to touching down in Baghdad, Gates was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for talks with that country's leader, King Abdullah.",
"Like most top-level U.S. visits to regional hot spots, Gates' visit to Iraq was unannounced, most likely for security reasons.",
"Speaking to reporters after his meeting with the Saudi monarch, Gates said they discussed \"developments all over the region\" and \"obviously they talked about Iran.\"",
"He described the talks as an \"extremely cordial, warm meeting.\"",
"He chided Iran for meddling in the Persian Gulf kingdom of Bahrain, where recent protests led the government to call in troops from member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council.",
"\"We already have evidence that the Iranians are trying to exploit the situation in Bahrain,\" Gates told reporters Wednesday.",
"\"We also have evidence that they are thinking about what they could do to try to create problems elsewhere, as well.\""
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"NEW: Gates calls time with troops the \"high point\" of his trip .",
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates meets with U.S. troops and commanders .",
"Gates has previously said he will retire this year .",
"Gates arrived in Iraq on Wednesday night on an unannounced visit ."
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"(CNN) -- Democratic leaders took the initiative Monday to go after one of their own, U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, hours after he admitted to lying about posting an explicit photo on his Twitter account and carrying on inappropriate relationships with women he'd met online.",
"Two Democratic sources said that Weiner, in a brief telephone conversation Monday with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, made it abundantly clear that he was not going to resign.",
"At his press conference later that day, the New York Democrat said that Pelosi was \"not happy\" but \"also told me that she loved me and wanted us to ... pull through this.\"",
"Pelosi, D-California, who until last January was House speaker, reacted by calling for the chamber's Ethics Commission to open an investigation into the seven-term congressman \"to determine whether any official resources were used or any other violation of House rules occurred.\"",
"Weiner apologizes for lying, 'terrible mistakes' Such a probe is rare, especially when called by a member of one's own party, the Democratic sources said.",
"One question that is sure to be central to such an investigation is whether Weiner used congressional resources while sending -- as he admitted -- explicit photos and messages to \"about six women\" over a three-year period.",
"The New York Democrat claimed that his BlackBerry device is not paid for by the government, and added, \"I don't believe that I used any government resources\" in conducting the illicit, largely electronic affairs.",
"iReport.com: Share your reaction to Rep. Weiner's press conference .",
"In a statement, Weiner said he will \"welcome and will fully cooperate with an investigation by the House Ethics Committee.\"",
"Other Democrats, many of whom initially rallied behind Weiner and his initial claim that his Twitter account had been hacked, backed Pelosi's call for an investigation.",
"Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, chastised his fellow New Yorker for what he called \"a deep personal failure and inappropriate behavior that embarrassed himself, his family and the House.\"",
"He threw his support behind the ethics probe \"to remove all remaining doubt about this situation.\"",
"Katie Grant, the spokeswoman for House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, told CNN that \"if there have been any questions regarding ethics that have been raised in the public sphere that the Ethics Committee should look at them.\"",
"But while some Democrats are touting the ethics probe as a bold and significant step, one Republican source calls it \"hollow.\"",
"The GOP source said it is noteworthy that Pelosi called for an investigation but did not demand Weiner step down -- as happened with former Rep. Chris Lee.",
"The married Republican from western New York resigned in February, following a report that he had tried to meet a woman on Craigslist.",
"CNN's Kate Bolduan, Deirdre Walsh and Dana Bash contributed to this report."
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"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi calls for an ethics probe into Rep. Anthony Weiner's behavior .",
"He admits to having inappropriate relationships with women and lying about it .",
"Other Democrats have said they welcome such a probe, as does Weiner .",
"But a Republican calls Pelosi's move \"hollow,\" saying she should have told him to resign ."
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"(CNN) -- Chinese tennis star Zheng Jie will miss January's Australian Open due to a persistent wrist injury.",
"The 27-year-old has not played since she reached the second round of the U.S. Open in September due to the problem.",
"\"It's a hard decision for me to make,\" she wrote on social networking website Twitter.",
"\"But I believe there will be more Australian Opens for me to attend if I can regain my health.\"",
"The injury means the world number 26 will not be able to improve on her impressive showing at the 2010 event, when she was beaten in the semifinals by Belgium's eventual runner-up Justine Henin.",
"The tournament has happy memories for Zheng, who won one of her two grand slam doubles titles there in 2006.",
"Is Nadal's battered body his biggest threat?",
"In 2008, Zheng became the first Chinese player to reach the semifinals of a grand slam tournament, losing to Serena Williams in the last four at Wimbledon.",
"The following year she became the first woman from her country to be ranked in the world's top-15.",
"She has since been overtaken by compatriot Li Na, who ended the 2010 season ranked 11th after also reaching the semifinals in Melbourne last January -- the first time two Chinese players had done so in the same grand slam -- and later winning her only final on grass in England.",
"The Australian Open is the first major event of the tennis season, and the outdoor hardcourt tournament begins on January 17 at Melbourne Park."
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"Zheng Jie will not play in January's Australian Open due to a persistent wrist injury .",
"The world No.",
"26, who has not played since September, made announcement on Twitter .",
"Jie reached the semifinals in this year's tournament, losing to runner-up Justine Henin ."
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"(CNN) -- Portugal defender Ricardo Carvalho has rejoined former coach Jose Mourinho after completing a transfer to Spanish giants Real Madrid.",
"The 32-year-old, who made 22 appearances for Chelsea last season as the London club clinched their second English Premier League title, signed a two-year-deal.",
"Carvalho will join his international compatriot Cristiano Ronaldo at the Bernabeu, becoming Madrid's fifth signing of the close season.",
"\"Chelsea Football Club can confirm it has agreed terms with Real Madrid for the transfer of Ricardo Carvalho,\" read a statement on the club's official website.",
"\"Chelsea would like to thank Riccy [Carvalho] for his six years of service, and we wish him well in his future career.\"",
"Mourinho tells CNN: Real can reign in Spain .",
"It is the second time Mourinho has signed Carvalho.",
"After winning the European Champions League with Porto in 2004, a side which featured Carvalho at the heart of the defense, Mourinho took the central defender with him to Stamford Bridge in a deal worth $31 million.",
"He made 210 appearances for the Blues, becoming the club's fourth longest-serving player.",
"During this six-year spell, Carvalho scored 11 times and picked up three Premier League titles, as well as five domestic cups.",
"Yet Carvalho's relationship with Mourinho has not always been smooth.",
"In 2005 he publicly criticized Mourinho's selection policy, leading the coach to question Carvalho's intelligence during a press conference.",
"\"Ricardo Carvalho seems to have problems understanding things, maybe he should have an IQ test,\" said Mourinho.",
"However, Carvalho told Spanish newspaper AS last month that he relished the chance of a new future in Spain with his former boss.",
"\"With Mourinho I experienced two marvelous stages at Porto and Chelsea.",
"To have the opportunity to win another Champions League with him at Real Madrid would be tremendous.\"",
"Since leaving Inter Milan, where he won the Scudetta and the Champions League last season, Mourinho has been linked with a string of his former players, including Chelsea left-back Ashley Cole and Inter's Brazilian wing-back Maicon."
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"Ricardo Carvalho rejoins his former coach Jose Mourinho at Real Madrid .",
"It is second time the former Chelsea and Inter coach has signed the 32-year-old .",
"Portugal defender is the Spanish club's fifth signing of the close season ."
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"(CNN) -- Seeing lightness and color are the simplest sensations the brain has.",
"And yet even at this most basic level we never see the light that falls onto our eyes (called the retinal image) or even the real-world source of that image.",
"Rather, neuroscience research tells us that we only ever see what proved useful to see in the past.",
"Illusions are a simple but powerful example of this point.",
"Like all our perceptions, we see illusions because the brain evolved not to see the retinal image, but to resolve the inherent \"meaninglessness\" of that image by continually redefining normality, a normality that is necessarily grounded in relationships, history and ecology.",
"Which is why we innately find regularities in information and reflexively imbue those regularities with value.",
"But it is the value, not the information itself we see.",
"So, tomorrow morning when you open your eyes and look \"out into\" the world, don't be fooled.",
"You're in fact looking in.",
"You're not seeing the world; you're seeing a world ... an internal map of value-relations derived from interactions within a particular, narrow context.",
"Another essential point about illusions implied in my TED talk is that they reveal our amazing capacity to entertain mutually exclusive internal realities simultaneously.",
"Learn what TED is all about . For instance, while looking at one of my color illusions (say the multicolored cube) you're aware of one reality: that two tiles look very different, while simultaneously being aware of an opposite reality: that the two tiles are in fact physically the same.",
"This capacity to be an observer of yourself is phenomenal and possibly unique to humans.",
"Indeed, to literally \"see yourself see\" is in my view the principal act of consciousness, which has the power to transform one's view of the world and of oneself.",
"The importance of the above observations stemming from my own work and that of others transcend neuroscience.",
"They show us in an explicit (and I hope engaging) way that our senses are not \"fragile,\" as many would have you believe.",
"They show us instead that we are not outside observers of nature defined in isolation.",
"We are instead indivisible from nature, defined by the trial and error process of interaction, a process in which we can choose to become active agents (but too often choose not to).",
"Understanding this point is I believe critical to personal and social well-being, since the typical barrier to a deeper insight into oneself and others is the overriding, but necessarily false impression that what \"I\" see, what \"I\" hear and what \"I\" know is the world as it really is.",
"But, by \"seeing yourself see,\" in other words by actively exploring how your thoughts, feelings, beliefs and even the colors you see reflect your physical, social and cultural ecology, only then is it possible to understand the source of coherence and conflict within and between individuals.",
"Put another way, only by accepting my own humanity can I accept the humanity of others.",
"\"Seeing myself see\" creates the opportunity for this acceptance.",
"Illusions, then, were not the point of my talk, but simply a tool for encouraging this process.",
"Resolving uncertainty is essential to our survival.",
"Hence our fear of ambiguous situations is palpable -- e.g., the inability to resolve sensory conflict between the eyes and ears can result in nausea (like seasickness).",
"And yet it is only by embracing the unknown within education, science, art and most importantly within our own private lives that we will find new routes to more enlightened ways of seeing and being.",
"Thus, courage not confidence is at the heart of this process of actively redefining normality, which is the route to compassion and creativity.",
"Encouraging this process by celebrating uncertainty is the raison d'etre of my work ... from the science of human and bee perception, to the art of translating images into music, to the design of a glass windmill for primary schools, to the creation of the \"My School\" educational program (a framework for teaching and architecture that directly supports creativity, community choice and compassion), even to giving a talk at TED.",
"By providing relevant, tangible and accessible frameworks for others to take part in the process of discovery, I hope -- in a very modest way -- that my work will help foster a more empathetic view of nature and human nature.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Beau Lotto."
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"R. Beau Lotto: We only ever see what proved useful to see in the past .",
"But when seeing, we can be aware of one reality and an opposite reality, he says .",
"Lotto: To literally \"see yourself see\" is the principal act of consciousness .",
"Lotto's talk first of weekly series on CNN.com: Ted Talk Tuesdays ."
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"Srinagar, India (CNN) -- Continuing anti-India demonstrations claimed four more lives in India's Kashmir Valley on Saturday, police said.",
"Violence triggered by the recovery of a young man's body killed three people in the town of Anantnag, police said.",
"Six others were wounded in the deadly clashes that erupted after the body of Maroof Ahmad Nath, 25, was pulled out of the Jhelum River.",
"He had jumped into the water after being chased by Indian security forces earlier this week.",
"Angered by the grisly discovery, thousands of Kashmiris took to the streets demanding independence from India.",
"They hurled stones at security forces and attempted an attack on a house belonging to a pro-India politician, police said.",
"Indian forces opened fire to quell the crowds.",
"In the town of Palhallan, another person was killed and three others were wounded in similar clashes, police said.",
"One of the wounded later died of their injuries, police said.",
"Almost 100 people have died since violent anti-India demonstrations erupted in June.",
"The mainly Muslim Kashmir Valley is part of India's Jammu and Kashmir state but many residents favor independence.",
"It is a dispute rooted in the 1947 partitioning of India when Kashmir was divided into two -- a part going to Pakistan and a bigger chunk remaining in India at the the ruling king's request.",
"In 1989, Kashmiri separatists took up arms but the violence had waned in recent years, until this summer.",
"The government has imposed strict curfews and deployed extra forces on the streets to keep the calm, senior police officer Shafaqat Ahmad said.",
"Residents were warned to stay indoors as the funerals commenced for those who were killed.",
"In Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, crowds turned out for the funeral of a youth who died Saturday from injuries sustained two days earlier.",
"They chanted: \"Freedom.\""
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"The deaths occurred during continuing anti-India demonstrations .",
"Six others were wounded .",
"Nearly 100 people have died since protests erupted in June ."
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"SISAKET PROVINCE, Thailand (CNN) -- The foreign ministers of Thailand and Cambodia will meet Monday in an effort to resolve a week-long military standoff over an ancient border temple that sits on disputed land, Thailand's prime minister said Thursday.",
"Cambodian Buddhist monks walk at Preah Vihear temple on Monday.",
"The meeting will take place in Siem Reap, Cambodia one day after Cambodia's general election on Sunday, Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej told CNN.",
"An eight-hour meeting between Thai and Cambodian officials ended earlier this week with both sides agreeing on only one point: that troops each country has amassed at the site of the Preah Vihear temple will not fire on each other, the Thai News Agency reported.",
"The site of Monday's meeting is closer to the better-known Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia.",
"For now, the countries are seeking regional intervention from their Southeast Asian neighbors.",
"Foreign ministers of the 10 countries that comprise the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are meeting in Singapore this week.",
"Sundaravej spoke to his Cambodian counterpart, Hun Sen, on Thursday to arrange next week's high-level meeting.",
"He said Hun agreed to stop pursuing the issue at the U.N. Security Council.",
"Cambodia had sent a letter to the council to call attention to the standoff.",
"As a result, the Security Council postponed a meeting planned for next week on the tensions, the council's president, Vietnamese ambassador Le Luong Minh, said Thursday.",
"The dispute is over an 11th century temple to which Cambodia and Thailand both lay claim.",
"It sits atop a cliff on Cambodian soil but has its most accessible entrance on the Thai side.",
"The International Court of Justice awarded the temple to Cambodia in 1962.",
"Thailand claims, however, that the 1.8 square mile (4.6 sq.",
"km) area around it was never fully demarcated.",
"Thailand says the dispute arose from the fact that the Cambodian government used a map drawn during the French occupation of Cambodia -- a map that places the temple and surrounding area in Cambodian territory.",
"This month, the U.N. approved Cambodia's application to have the temple listed as a World Heritage Site -- places that have outstanding cultural value.",
"The decision reignited tensions, with some in Thailand fearing it would make it difficult for their country to lay claim to disputed land around the temple.",
"Opposition parties in Thailand used the issue to attack the government, which initially backed the heritage listing.",
"Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since the mid-1980s, has portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph in the run-up to the general elections.",
"The current flare-up began July 15, when Cambodian guards briefly detained three Thais who crossed into the area.",
"Once they were let go, the three refused to leave the territory.",
"Cambodia claims Thailand sent troops to retrieve the trio and gradually built up their numbers.",
"Thailand denies that, saying its troops are deployed in Thai territory.",
"CNN Producer Kocha Olarn contributed to this report."
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"Thailand, Cambodia seek regional intervention from neighbors ."
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"Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Dozens of anti-government demonstrators were wounded Tuesday when security forces fired into the air and shot tear gas into a crowd of tens of thousands of protesters who had massed in front of Sanaa University, witnesses said.",
"According to Ala'a Al-Khowlani, at least 40 anti-government demonstrators were wounded and at least one of them was in critical condition.",
"Other witnesses put the total number wounded as high as 67.",
"\"Live bullets are being shot -- we do not know from which angle,\" said Yaser Al-Hasani, one of the demonstrators.",
"\"The security forces are using force against us because we are bringing in food into the protest area.\"",
"Al-Hasani said security forces cracked down after students defied their orders not to take food and blankets into the protest area outside the gates of Sanaa University.",
"The supplies were intended for the thousands of anti-government demonstrators who have camped out in front of the university calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.",
"Al-Khowlani described a similar scene.",
"In a statement e-mailed to reporters, the government blamed the violence on people who had tried to sneak weapons into a \"weapon-free area\" outside the university, then resisted arrest.",
"\"Late Tuesday evening, during a routine police inspection on Al-Hurriya street in Sanaa, police discovered individuals with a stash of fully automatic rifles hidden inside thick blankets and camping equipment,\" the statement said.",
"\"The individuals were attempting to enter the 'weapon-free area' of University Square, where anti-government protesters have been camping for days.",
"\"The suspects resisted arrest and soon thereafter a gun fight broke out, injuring dozens of suspected militants, policemen and innocent bystanders.",
"Panic from the shootings set off a raging stampede in the area.",
"There is no official confirmation on casualties at this point.\"",
"It said early Wednesday that the situation was under control and that the Ministry of Interior would investigate the incident.",
"Tens of thousands of protesters also demonstrated in the city of Taiz and thousands demonstrated in Ibb, witnesses said.",
"Both cities are south of Sanaa.",
"Another demonstration -- this one at Sanaa Central Prison -- erupted Monday evening when inmates gathered in the main hall, said a prisoner who has spoken with CNN in the past.",
"The inmates raised their voices against the government and demanded more rights.",
"Guards fired warning shots and tear gas as prisoners chanted anti-government slogans, according to the prisoner, who obtained access to a phone during the incident and spoke with CNN Tuesday.",
"Guards ordered the prisoners to return to their cells.",
"The inmates refused but dispersed and re-entered their cells after the guards exerted force, the prisoner said.",
"Tuesday morning, they reassembled in the main hall and resumed their protests, the prisoner said.",
"Again, guards responded with tear gas and bullets fired in the air.",
"Two prisoners were killed and seven were wounded, said the prisoner, who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisal from prison guards.",
"Protesters in Yemen been demonstrating for weeks, demanding the ouster of Saleh, who has ruled Yemen since 1978.",
"An Interior Ministry official commented solely on Monday's incident.",
"\"Prisoners were causing chaos and security forces had to do what was necessary to keep matters under control,\" the official told CNN.",
"A government statement said the inmates rioted because they wanted pardons.",
"It acknowledged that riot police had subdued the inmates and said it was investigating the incident.",
"The government said it was beefing up security around Sanaa, the capital, \"over terror concerns in the aftermath of multiple terror attacks on security and army personnel.\"",
"Yemen's anti-government demonstrations are unfolding in a nation wracked by a Shiite Muslim uprising, a U.S.-aided crackdown on al Qaeda operatives and a looming shortage of water.",
"High unemployment fuels much of the anger among a growing and impoverished young population.",
"The protesters also cite government corruption and a lack of political freedom.",
"CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom and journalist Hakim Almasmari contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Demonstrations occur in Taiz and Ibb, too .",
"Dozens are wounded outside Sanaa University, witnesses say .",
"The government says guns were being smuggled into a \"weapon-free area\"\nProtesters say food and blankets were being taken in ."
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"(CNN) -- Sony is reducing the price of the PlayStation 3 game console, hoping to help the 5-year-old system reach a larger audience, the company said on Tuesday.",
"The base model now costs $250, and another system with twice the storage space is $300.",
"Sony cut $50 from each, which is nearly the price of a new game.",
"\"While others in the space are losing steam, PlayStation 3 is gaining momentum,\" Jack Tretton, the president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, said in a statement.",
"\"The new price will make the PS3 more accessible than ever before.\"",
"Sony last cut prices on the PlayStation 3 in 2009, when it released a slimmer model.",
"Microsoft has not reduced the Xbox 360's price since 2009, and analysts are split on whether it will do so this year as a response to Sony.",
"The entry-level Xbox 360 costs $200.",
"Sony's move is seen by analysts as a usual part of a game system's life cycle.",
"Game console generations typically last four to six years, but some predict that motion-detection peripherals like Microsoft's Kinect for the Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation Move could prolong the current cycle.",
"Nintendo announced last month that the successor to the Wii, a tablet-controlled device called the Wii U, will hit the market next year.",
"The news comes as the Wii, this generation's top-selling console, is experiencing a sales slump.",
"Nintendo reduced the price of the Wii from $200 to $150 in May.",
"Last month, Nintendo cut the price of the 3DS, its handheld game console that displays 3-D graphics without needing special glasses.",
"The 3DS now costs $170, a 40% reduction for a console that's less than five months old.",
"Sales of the 3DS tumbled quickly after a promising launch, and analysts have attributed the proliferation of inexpensive, quick-hit games for Facebook and smartphones as a hindrance to growth in the market for hand-held game systems.",
"Sony is gearing up for the release of the PlayStation Vita, a portable game console that follows the PlayStation Portable.",
"To compete with smartphones, it will have downloadable games, a touchscreen and 3G cellular data connectivity.",
"The version with 3G will cost $300, and the one without will cost $250.",
"Sony is still recovering from a nearly monthlong outage that affected its online game networks.",
"The cyberattack, which resulted in stolen personal and financial information, did not seem to harm sales of the console, according to reports.",
"Sony, which has sold more than 50 million PlayStation 3 systems, compensated customers with free game downloads."
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"Analysts see the move as a normal part of a game console's life cycle .",
"Nintendo has already announced its next home game console, called the Wii U ."
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"(CNN) -- A series of four strong earthquakes spanning just over an hour struck the Philippines' Moro Gulf on Saturday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.",
"Three of the four earthquakes had magnitudes between 7.3 and 7.6; the other came in at a 5.4 magnitude.",
"The first quake struck at 6:08 a.m. (6:08 p.m.",
"ET Friday) and the fourth hit at 7:15 a.m.",
"The last quake ran the deepest at 616 (382 miles) kilometers.",
"The epicenters of the quakes were about 100 kilometers (62 miles) off the coastal city of Cotabato and roughly 950 kilometers (590 miles) southeast of Manila.",
"No tsunami warning was immediately issued for any of the quakes.",
"There were no reports of damage, said Rona Faeldin of the Philippines Coast Guard.",
"CNN's Katy Byron contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Three of the four have magnitudes above 7.0 .",
"No tsunami warning was immediately issued ."
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"New York (CNN) -- There are some very happy chefs and restaurateurs, cookbook authors, food journalists and other outstanding names in food and drink.",
"They are the latest winners of the James Beard Foundation Awards, which are often referred to as the Oscars of the food world.",
"The ceremony was held at New York's Lincoln Center on Monday night.",
"The awards were established in 1990 by the nonprofit that bears the name of one of America's founding food writers and cooks.",
"Although the journalism, media and cookbook categories call for self-nomination (and an entry fee), anyone can suggest a chef or restaurant via the foundation's Web site, jamesbeard.org, during an open call in the fall.",
"Though there is no cash reward, a win -- or even a nomination -- can substantially increase the buzz for business, according to foundation President Susan Ungaro.",
"Below are this year's winners: .",
"Chef & Restaurant Awards .",
"Best New Restaurant Marea in New York (chef-owner Michael White) Outstanding Chef Award Tom Colicchio of Craft in New York .",
"Outstanding Pastry Chef Award Nicole Plue of Redd in Yountville, California .",
"Outstanding Restaurant Award Daniel in New York (chef-owner Daniel Boulud) Outstanding Restaurateur Award Keith McNally of Balthazar, Lucky Strike, Minetta Tavern, Morandi, Pastis, Pravda and Schiller's Liquor Bar .",
"Outstanding Service Award Alinea in Chicago, Illinois (chef-owner Grant Achatz) Outstanding Wine and Spirits Professional Award John Shafer and Doug Shafer of Shafer Vineyards in Napa, California .",
"Outstanding Wine Service Award Jean Georges in New York (wine director Bernard Sun) Rising Star Chef of the Year Award Timothy Hollingsworth of the French Laundry in Yountville, California .",
"Great Lakes Koren Grieveson of Avec in Chicago, Illinois .",
"Mid-Atlantic Jeff Michaud of Osteria in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .",
"Midwest Alexander Roberts of Restaurant Alma in Minneapolis, Minnesota .",
"New York City Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park .",
"Northeast Clark Frasier and Mark Gaier of Arrows in Ogunquit, Maine .",
"Northwest Jason Wilson of Crush in Seattle, Washington .",
"Pacific David Kinch of Manresa in Los Gatos, California .",
"South Michael Schwartz of Michael's Genuine Food & Drink in Miami, Florida .",
"Southeast Sean Brock of McCrady's in Charleston, South Carolina .",
"Southwest Claude Le Tohic of Joel Robuchon at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada .",
"Book Awards .",
"American Cooking \"Real Cajun\" by Donald Link .",
"Baking and Dessert \"Baking\" by James Peterson .",
"Beverage \"Been Doon So Long\" by Randall Grahm .",
"Cooking from a Professional Point of View \"The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Pastry Arts\" by the French Culinary Institute with Judith Choate .",
"General Cooking \"Ad Hoc at Home\" by Thomas Keller .",
"Healthy Focus \"Love Soup\" by Anna Thomas .",
"International \"The Country Cooking of Ireland\" by Colman Andrews .",
"Photography \"Seven Fires,\" photographer Santiago Soto Monllor .",
"Reference and Scholarship \"Encyclopedia of Pasta\" by Oretta Zanini de Vita .",
"Single Subject \"Pasta Sfoglia\" by Ron and Colleen Suhanosky .",
"Writing and Literature \"Save the Deli\" by David Sax .",
"Cookbook of the Year \"The Country Cooking of Ireland\" by Colman Andrews .",
"Cookbook Hall of Fame \"A Book of Middle Eastern Food\" by Claudia Roden .",
"Broadcast Media Awards .",
"Audio Webcast or Radio Show \"The Kojo Nnamdi Show,\" host: Kojo Nnamdi .",
"Television Show, In Studio or Fixed Location \"French Food at Home with Laura Calder,\" host: Laura Calder .",
"Television Show, On Location \"Chefs A' Field: King of Alaska,\" host: Rick Moonen .",
"TV Food Personality Andrew Zimmern, \"Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern\" Television Special \"Food Trip with Todd English,\" host: Todd English .",
"Television Segment \"ABC News Nightline,\" host: John Berman .",
"Video Webcast \"The Greenmarket: One Farmer's Story,\" Seriouseats.com .",
"Journalism Awards Craig Claiborne .",
"Distinguished Restaurant Reviews Jonathan Gold, LA Weekly .",
"Food Blog SeriousEats.com, Ed Levine .",
"Food-Related Columns Rachel Wharton, Edible Brooklyn .",
"Magazine Feature Writing About Restaurants and/or Chefs Anya von Bremzen, Saveur, \"Soul of a City\" Magazine Feature Writing with Recipes Francine Maroukian, Jon Reiner and staff of Esquire, Esquire, \"How Men Eat\" Magazine Feature Writing without Recipes Barry Estabrook, Gourmet, \"The Price of Tomatoes\" M.F.K.",
"Fisher Distinguished Writing Award Francine Prose, Saveur, \"Faith and Bacon\" Multimedia Food Feature Kevin Pang, Chicagotribune.com, \"The Cheeseburger Show\" Newspaper Feature Writing About Restaurants and/or Chefs Jared Jacang Maher, Westword, \"A Hunger to Help\" Newspaper Feature Writing Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader, \"The Real American Pie\" Newspaper Food Section The Washington Post, Joe Yonan .",
"Reporting on Health, Environment, or Nutrition Rowan Jacobsen, EatingWell, \"Or Not to Bee\" Website Focusing on Food, Beverage, Restaurants, or Nutrition Chow.com, Jane Goldman .",
"Writing on Spirits, Wine, or Beer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, Minnesota Monthly, \"Chardonnay Uncorked\" Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America: Leah Chase (chef/owner, Dooky Chase Restaurant, New Orleans, Louisiana); Jessica B. Harris (author and historian, California); Paul C.P.",
"McIlhenny (president/CEO, McIlhenny Company, Avery Island, Louisiana); David Rockwell (founder/CEO, Rockwell Group, New York); L. Timothy Ryan (president, Culinary Institute of America, New York); Susan Spicer (chef/owner, Bayona, New Orleans, Louisiana) America's Classics Al's French Frys (owners: Bill Bissonette and Lee Bissonette, South Burlington, Vermont); the Bright Star (owners: Jimmy Koikos and Nicky Koikos, Bessemer, Alabama); Calumet Fisheries (owners: the Kotlick and Toll gamilies, Chicago, Illinois); Gustavus Inn (owners: JoAnn and David Lesh, Gustavus, Alaska); Mary & Tito's Cafe (owners: Mary Gonzales and Antoinette Knight, Albuquerque, New Mexico) Design and Graphics Awards .",
"Outstanding Restaurant Design Andre Kikoski Architect, the Wright (New York) Outstanding Restaurant Graphics Pandiscio Co., the Standard Grill, NYC ."
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"Tom Colicchio of Craft in New York wins Outstanding Chef at James Beard Awards .",
"Rising Star Chef went to Timothy Hollingsworth of the French Laundry in California .",
"Celebrity chef Todd English won award for Best Television Special .",
"Awards honors food and beverage professionals working in the U.S."
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"(CNN) -- An Irish man known as \"The Naked Adventurer\" was rescued off the coast of Western Australia during a failed attempt to row across the Indian Ocean.",
"Keith Whelan -- whose website says he wants to become the first Irish person to row across the ocean -- was hit by a wave Monday and \"sustained a large laceration,\" said Tracey Jiggins of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.",
"\"He was rescued 206 kilometers (128 miles) off the shore northwest of Geraldton,\" Jiggins said Tuesday.",
"She said a merchant ship picked up Whelan, who was en route to Bunbury in Western Australia on Tuesday.",
"\"His injuries are not life threatening, so (he) will remain on the ship until it docks at Bunbury tomorrow afternoon,\" Jiggins said.",
"A statement on Whelan's website -- TheNakedAdventurer.com -- says Whelan was asleep Monday night when the force of the wave threw him across the boat's inner cabin.",
"\"Keith was able to stop the bleeding himself and ... decided to seek help at first light,\" the statement said.",
"When asked why he decided to attempt the 6,000-kilometer (3,728-mile) journey from Western Australia to Mauritius, Whelan said on his site, \"I am a risk taker and risking your life to achieve a dream is the biggest risk you can take.",
"Some might say it's foolish but to my mind it is only foolish if you don't know the risks and you don't prepare for them and train for every possible scenario.\"",
"Whelan is also raising money for Keep a Child Alive, which helps provide life-saving treatment, care and support to children and families in Africa and India affected by HIV/AIDS, according to the website.",
"The site also said Whelan embarked on the solo challenge in the buff.",
"\"Having gotten into a rowing boat for the first time only a year or so beforehand, he will spend 110 days alone at sea, facing 50 foot swells, hurricane force winds and unrelenting sunshine ... and he'll be naked,\" it said.",
"Why naked? \"As the Ocean is a very salty environment, clothing tends to become encrusted with salt,\" Whelan said on the site.",
"\"I will have no means of cleaning this from any clothing at sea, so wearing this clothing when full of salt would lead to severe salt sores on my body which is why I will be naked for most of the journey.\"",
"Jiggins said she was not sure whether Whelan was found naked, \"nor do I care.\"",
"CNN's Holly Yan contributed to this report."
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"Keith Whelan is hit by a wave and suffers a \"large laceration\"\nA merchant ship rescues him off the coast of Western Australia .",
"Whelan was trying to be the first Irish person to row across the Indian Ocean .",
"He says he planned to row naked because salt would build up on clothing ."
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"(CNN) -- A \"flash mob\" believed to have been organized on the Internet robbed a Maryland convenience store in less than a minute, police said Tuesday, and now authorities are using the same tool to identify participants in the crime.",
"Surveillance video shows a couple of teens walking into the Germantown 7-Eleven store Saturday at 1:47 a.m. Then, in a matter of seconds, dozens more young people entered and grabbed items from store shelves and coolers.",
"Police said the teens left the store together, without paying for anything.",
"\"At least 28 different individuals\" have been confirmed on the video, Capt.",
"Paul Starks told CNN Tuesday.",
"Montgomery County Police posted the video on YouTube.com and asked for help from the public in identifying the perpetrators.",
"\"We're getting a lot of response from sources in the community who have seen the video, who are concerned, and are calling police with tips,\" Starks said.",
"Several suspects have already been identified, but police have made no arrests and hope the public can help them locate the individuals on the tape.",
"Although investigators have said they '\"can't confirm how this (robbery) was organized,\" Starks does believe the Internet was involved.",
"While working to identify and find the group of teens, Starks said Montgomery County has been \"coordinating with the state Attorney General's office and discussing what charges will be appropriate\" when arrests are made.",
"Flash mobs -- usually announced online in social networking sites, or by e-mails or text messages -- were once benign and entertaining, but recent gatherings by groups of teenagers have evolved into more sinister actions.",
"Earlier this month, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter signed an order moving curfews to 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays for people younger than 18 in Center City, the heart of Philadelphia's downtown, and in University City, home to the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University.",
"Nutter announced the earlier curfew following a string of mob attacks by young people alerted to gatherings via e-mail and social media.",
"Parents and minors face hefty fines if caught violating the new rules.",
"Violent \"flash mob\" attacks have also been reported recently in other cities across the country, leading to crackdowns on curfew enforcement and stepped-up police patrols.",
"Extra state troopers were ordered in after what was described as a \"mob beating\" took place at the Wisconsin State Fair.",
"Attacks in Cleveland, Chicago and Washington, D.C. have all led to the arrests of dozens of teens and resulted in extra police patrols in and around these cities.",
"Montgomery County Police said Saturday's \"flash mob\" theft was the first such incident in their jurisdiction, but Starks admits he is concerned about the growing trend.",
"\"I assure you we're taking this crime very seriously,\" Starks said.",
"In England, where riots erupted earlier this month, authorities say social networking sites and mobile messaging services were used as tools to organize looting and violence.",
"In the aftermath of the riots, Cheshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Phil Thompson cited \"the way in which technology was used to spread incitement and bring people together to commit acts of criminality\" as a factor.",
"And last week, Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament that \"when people are using social media for violence, we need to stop them.\"",
"The government was working with the police and intelligence services, he said, \"to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality.\"",
"Meanwhile, police in northwest England said Tuesday that two men have been jailed for four years each for inciting disorder via social networking sites.",
"The two had urged activists to cause trouble in the towns of Warrington and Northwich, but neither posting resulted in riots, police said."
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"Maryland police post video of the 'flash mob' robbery online .",
"Police: \"At least 28 different individuals\" confirmed in surveillance tape .",
"Several suspects have been identified, but no arrests have been made, authorities say .",
"Violent \"flash mob\" attacks have occurred in other U.S. cities and in Britain ."
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"Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- A 52-year-old Nepalese man reached the top of Mount Everest for the 21st time on Wednesday, breaking a record he set last year for the number of ascents of the world's tallest peak, a tourism official ministry said.",
"Apa Sherpa first climbed Everest in 1990 while helping international expeditions climb the mountain.",
"Since 2008, he has been climbing Everest as part of an expedition to highlight the effects of climate change and to collect trash on the mountains.",
"He started from Camp IV at an altitude of 7,950 meters with five other climbers on Tuesday night and reached on Wednesday morning, according to Asian Trekking, which organized the expedition.",
"Sherpa is the climbing leader of the expedition, which collects trash such as oxygen cylinders, tent poles, tents and other mountaineering equipment from the mountain."
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"He has been climbing Everest as part of an expedition .",
"The group highlights the effects of climate change ."
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"Paris (CNN) -- France will start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, following a timetable similar to the one U.S. President Barack Obama announced, the French president's office said Thursday.",
"\"This withdrawal will be done in consultation with our allies and with the Afghan authorities,\" the statement from Nicolas Sarkozy's office said.",
"All French troops could be out of Afghanistan by 2013, French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet told France Info radio Thursday.",
"Longuet declined to give specifics, citing the \"safety of our soldiers and the people they protect.",
"\"So we cannot say right now it will happen from such a place or it will be this type of troop because we have no information to give to our adversaries, the Taliban,\" he said.",
"But he said that NATO had planned on \"a complete transition in 2014,\" and that \"what has emerged today is that we will undoubtedly gain a year on this calendar.\"",
"France has 3,935 troops in Afghanistan, according to the NATO mission there.",
"Obama said Wednesday that the U.S. would withdraw 33,000 U.S. troops by September 2012.",
"That will leave just under 70,000 Americans there.",
"British Prime Minister David Cameron, whose country has the second largest number of foreign troops in Afghanistan, welcomed Obama's announcement.",
"He said the British will keep \"force levels in Afghanistan under constant review,\" adding: \"I have already said there will be no UK troops in combat roles in Afghanistan by 2015 and, where conditions on the ground allow, it is right that we bring troops home sooner.\"",
"CNN's Saskya Vandoorne contributed to this report."
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"The French move follows a similar one by U.S. President Barack Obama .",
"He is pulling 33,000 troops out, leaving about 70,000 .",
"France could have all troops out by 2013, the defense minister says .",
"David Cameron says the British will have all combat troops out by 2015 ."
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"(CNN) -- Gunfire and shelling rang out across Syria's coastal city of Latakia early Tuesday amid reports of Palestinian refugees fleeing a restive and impoverished enclave there.",
"At least five people died on Tuesday, according to a resident who requested anonymity for safety reasons, and the city remained under siege amid a military offensive against protesters.",
"The humanitarian situation deteriorated amid the government's offensive in the city.",
"Shops and bakeries were closed, and at least two mosques were damaged.",
"The gunfire could be heard \"all night and morning,\" the witness said.",
"\"This is the fourth day that we do not have electricity or water.",
"Landline phone connections have been down most of the day,\" he said by satellite phone.",
"Snipers perched atop various locations in the city's al-Ramel neighborhood, the site of a Palestinian refugee camp, he said.",
"Demonstrations have taken place in the Ramel area every day since the Syrian uprising began five months ago, the Local Coordination Committees of Syria said.",
"The LCC, a network of opposition activists, said the area's lack of basic urban services could be a reason why those in Ramel are angry at the Syrian government.",
"\"The tragedy of (Ramel) has not stopped since yesterday,\" the LCC said in a statement Tuesday.",
"The refugee camp normally holds 10,000 people, but reports have surfaced of many people fleeing violence there.",
"The resident said a large portion of the Ramel area has been evacuated.",
"The U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which provides assistance for Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, has expressed alarm over reports of heavy gunfire from Syrian security forces into the refugee camp and other areas.",
"\"Reports from various sources indicate deaths and casualties among the Palestinian refugee population, although poor communications make it impossible to confirm the exact number of dead and injured,\" it said in its latest statement.",
"Christopher Gunness, UNRWA spokesman, said refugees in Latakia had been asked to leave by the Syrian security forces.",
"He said some left on their own because they were afraid for their lives.",
"\"We are asking the Syrian government for immediate access to the Palestinians, as their well-being is our responsibility,\" Gunness told CNN.",
"The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said security forces entered the city only to protect its residents from armed gangs.",
"The Syrian government vehemently denied reports that more than 5,000 Palestinians fled the refugee camp in the area after it came under fire from Syrian security forces.",
"It also reported Tuesday that reports of shelling by the navy on Ramel are \"completely untrue.\"",
"A video posted on YouTube Monday purportedly shows a dead girl who was shot in the eye as her father drove by a security checkpoint in Latakia.",
"Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group, said the girl and her parents were trying to flee in a car.",
"The father was shot in the shoulder and the mother was lightly injured.",
"Bloodshed in the country has persisted since a government crackdown on anti-government protesters started in mid-March.",
"The LCC said at least 2,545 people have died.",
"The vast majority were civilians, and 391 were security personnel, the LCC said.",
"The strong security reaction to demonstrators calling for political changes has spurred outrage among world powers, like the United States, and among Syria's neighbors, such as Jordan and Turkey.",
"CNN cannot independently verify opposition or government claims because Syria has restricted international journalists from reporting inside the country.",
"CNN's Amir Ahmed, Arwa Damon, Nada Husseini and Yesim Comert contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Resident: At least five people have died on Tuesday .",
"NEW: U.N. concerned over reports of security fire into Palestinian camp .",
"Syria's government-run media denounces international reports as untrue .",
"More than 2,500 people have died since the uprising began, opposition activists say ."
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"Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Police clashed with hundreds of rioters in eastern Belfast on Tuesday in the second straight night of sectarian violence there.",
"About 700 people had amassed in the streets Tuesday night, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said.",
"Molotov cocktails, fireworks and bricks were being thrown, police said.",
"Police fired water cannons on the crowd and asked the media to move away from the area.",
"Two men suffered burns and one man was injured after shots were fired, police reported.",
"Reporters retreated from the area after a newspaper photographer was shot in the leg.",
"Sectarian rioting began late Monday in eastern Belfast, with leaders from both Catholic and Protestant communities reporting attacks on homes overnight.",
"Police reported Molotov cocktails were being thrown as a large crowd gathered on the streets that separate Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods in the area, a longstanding Northern Ireland flash point.",
"Ambulance services reported two people injured early Tuesday, and reporters attempting to cover the disturbances were threatened.",
"The Irish republican party Sinn Fein said up to 100 masked men raided Catholic-owned homes in the Short Strand neighborhood after allegations by unionist politicians that Protestant homes were attacked Sunday.",
"Police had no information on any of Sunday's reported attacks.",
"Sinn Fein blamed the attacks on Catholics on members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, a loyalist paramilitary group that officially disarmed in 2009.",
"Police had no immediate comment on the assertion.",
"After a long period of quiet in its ongoing \"Troubles\" between Catholics and Protestants, Northern Ireland has seen a resurgence of violence in recent months.",
"Tensions also are typically elevated in early summer, when Protestant groups hold commemorative marches to celebrate the 17th century victory of England's King William III over his Catholic predecessor, James II.",
"\"We would appeal to anyone with any influence to continue to work with police to tackle these issues which are damaging for the whole community,\" Assistant Chief Constable Alistair Finlay said Tuesday in a statement.",
"\"This is an issue that cannot be addressed by police alone.\""
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"Rioters pelt police with petrol bombs, fireworks and bricks, police say .",
"Reporters retreat from the area after a photographer is shot .",
"Police also clashed with rioters in east Belfast Monday .",
"Northern Ireland has seen a resurgence of violence in recent months ."
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"(CNN) -- The death toll from the devastating tornado that ripped through Joplin, Missouri, last month has risen to 155, a city spokeswoman said Monday.",
"The previous death toll, reported on Friday, was 154.",
"The most recent death was Edmon A. Cooper, Joplin city spokeswoman Lynn Onstot said.",
"Cooper died from injuries sustained during the May 22 tornado, Onstot said.",
"No other details were immediately available.",
"The Joplin tornado was the deadliest single U.S. twister in more than 60 years, according to National Weather Service records.",
"It left a 13-mile-long trail of destruction through the southwest Missouri city, stripping the bark from trees and smashing homes into unrecognizable rubble."
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"The previous death toll, reported on Friday, was 154 .",
"The Joplin tornado was the deadliest single U.S. twister in more than 60 years ."
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"(CNN) -- A self-help guru who was convicted in the deaths of three participants in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony deserves a new trial, his attorneys argued Tuesday.",
"James Arthur Ray was found guilty of negligent homicide in the deaths of the participants, but an Arizona jury in June deemed him not guilty of manslaughter charges.",
"Negligent homicide means a defendant should have known better, while manslaughter suggests that the defendant knew and blatantly disregarded this knowledge.",
"Ray's attorneys went before a Superior Court judge in Yavapai County, Arizona, claiming he should be tried again because of prosecutorial misconduct, a court official said.",
"The official, who was not authorized to speak to the media, said the hearing started shortly after 11 a.m. MT and ran until a lunch break.",
"The hearing is scheduled to run for the rest of the day.",
"The defense claims the prosecution did not disclose evidence on time.",
"Ray's sentencing, originally scheduled for July 25, has been pushed back.",
"The case stems from an October 2009 ceremony in Sedona, Arizona.",
"Prosecutors claimed that Ray's recklessness in operating the sweat lodge caused the deaths of Kirby Brown, 38, of Westtown, New York; James Shore, 40, of Milwaukee; and Lizbeth Marie Neuman, 49, of Prior Lake, Minnesota.",
"At least 15 others who took part in the sweat lodge ceremony became ill. More than 40 others were uninjured.",
"Prosecutors argued that the lodge, made of willow trees and branches and covered with tarpaulins and blankets, was heated to a perilously high temperature, causing the participants to suffer dehydration and heatstroke.",
"They also said Ray didn't monitor the temperature inside the lodge or the well-being of participants and was indifferent to those clearly having trouble.",
"Ray's lawyers countered that what happened was a tragic accident, not a crime.",
"They asked witnesses who were in the sweat lodge whether they signed a release form warning them of the dangers.",
"All replied that they signed, but some said they didn't read the form.",
"Ray's attorneys also suggested that exposure to an unknown toxin in the lodge -- perhaps a pesticide, rat poison or something in the type of wood used to heat the rocks -- could have caused the deaths.",
"Event participants paid up to $10,000 to seek \"new areas of consciousness\" at the October 2009 Spiritual Warrior retreat in the desert, according to trial testimony.",
"Many had attended previous James Ray International seminars."
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"Defendant's lawyers want a new trial .",
"They say the prosecution did not disclose evidence on time .",
"Ray has been found guilty of negligent homicide .",
"The case stems from an October 2009 ceremony in Sedona ."
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"(CNN) -- A 43-year-old Missouri man -- who told police he suffocated his 3-year-old neighbor with a plastic bag, then stuffed her body in the same bag and tossed her from a highway -- appeared in court Tuesday, but did not enter a plea.",
"Shawn Morgan of Senath has been charged with first-degree murder.",
"His next court appearance is scheduled for August 30.",
"The girl, Breeann Rodriguez, was last seen on August 6, riding her pink bicycle with her brother outside their home in Senath.",
"While authorities have found her bike, authorities continue to search for her body, Dunklin County Prosecuting Attorney Stephen Sokoloff said.",
"Sokoloff added -- and the Dunklin County court clerk's office confirmed -- that Morgan does not yet have an attorney.",
"The August 30 court appearance will be a counsel status hearing, the prosecutor's office said Tuesday.",
"According to a probable cause affidavit dated Saturday, police interviewed Morgan on Friday at the police department in Kennett, a larger community about 10 miles northeast of Senath.",
"The suspect said that he spotted the girl standing on a ladder by the pool in his backyard, in Breeann's neighborhood.",
"He told police that he grabbed the girl and carried her inside his house.",
"There, according to the affidavit, the man \"suffocated the girl with a white plastic trash bag, by holding it over her face and mouth.",
"\"Morgan states that he felt like it took an hour for the girl to die,\" the document adds.",
"It says Morgan told police he put the girl's body into the same trash bag, and then drove to Missouri's Highway 164 and got rid of the body by throwing it over a railing into a floodway ditch.",
"After returning home, Morgan said, he then dismantled the girl's bike and dumped it into another, related waterway, the document says.",
"A bicycle was recovered there and identified by Edgar Rodriguez as belonging to Breeann, his daughter.",
"Police said Thursday that they had found two training wheels similar to those on the girl's bike.",
"In addition to murder, Sokoloff said in a statement Saturday that Morgan is charged with armed criminal action and tampering with physical evidence.",
"The suspect, who Sokoloff said has three children of his own, is being held at the Dunklin County Justice Center.",
"Meanwhile, the approximately 1,800 residents of Senath -- a town in southeast Missouri's \"bootheel\" area, about 90 miles north of Memphis, Tennessee -- are trying to come to grips with what happened.",
"Sharon Haddock, who raised two children on the same street as both the victim and her alleged killer, said Monday that she knew Morgan as \"a little boy\" and knew some of his family members as \"very nice people.\"",
"\"It's just beyond belief that anybody ... could have done this, but now anybody on your street,\" she told HLN's Vinnie Politan.",
"\"You think you know your neighbors, but you don't know them as well as you think you do.",
"I would have never dreamed this in a million years.\"",
"Another neighbor, Estelle Floyd, said she had lived 89 of her 90 years always feeling safe.",
"But that sense of security has been shaken, and she's still trying to make sense of what happened.",
"\"All these neighbors ... they'd do anything for anybody at any time,\" Floyd told HLN.",
"\"This was such a shock. ... It has touched the hearts of everybody in this town.\"",
"CNN's Greg Botelho contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Shawn Morgan does not enter a plea in court Tuesday .",
"He is charged with first-degree murder .",
"The girl was last seen riding her bicycle with her brother .",
"Affidavit: Morgan tells police he suffocated the girl with a plastic trash bag ."
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"Oranjestad, Aruba (CNN) -- An FBI official has arrived in Aruba to assist with the investigation into the disappearance of a Maryland woman during a vacation there, an island official said Tuesday.",
"In addition, investigators plan to mount another search for 35-year-old Robyn Gardner in the coming days, Solicitor General Taco Stein told CNN.",
"The efforts will be focused on the southern tip of the Dutch Caribbean island, Stein said, with police, firefighters and Dutch troops taking part.",
"FBI agents have already been involved in the case, searching the Gaithersburg, Maryland, home of the man now being held in connection with Gardner's disappearance.",
"A judge in Aruba ordered Monday that the suspect, Gary Giordano, be held for another 16 days while police continue their investigation.",
"According to Aruban prosecutors, the missing woman and the suspect arrived on the island July 31 from the United States.",
"She was last seen August 2 near Baby Beach, on the west side of the island.",
"Giordano told authorities that he had been snorkeling with Gardner when he signaled to her to swim back, according to a statement from the prosecutor's office.",
"He said Gardner was nowhere to be found when he reached the beach, according to prosecutors.",
"Giordano's lawyer, Michael Lopez, argued unsuccessfully Monday that there was not enough evidence to keep his client behind bars.",
"CNN's Tristan Smith and Martin Savidge contributed to this report."
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"Authorities plan a new search for 35-year-old Robyn Gardner .",
"She was last seen August 2 .",
"A judge on Monday ordered her companion held for another 16 days ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- Dozens of Atlanta public school educators falsified standardized tests or failed to address such misconduct in their schools, Gov.",
"Nathan Deal said Tuesday in unveiling the results of a state investigation that confirmed widespread cheating in the city schools dating as far back as 2001.",
"Some of the cheating could result in criminal charges, Deal said.",
"\"I think the overall conclusion was that testing and results and targets being reached became more important than actual learning for children,\" Deal said.",
"\"And when reaching targets became the goal, it was a goal that was pursued with no excuses.\"",
"Falsifying test results made the schools appear to be performing better than they really were.",
"But in the process, students were deprived of critical remedial education and taxpayers were cheated, as well, Deal said.",
"Investigators said 178 teachers and principals working at 44 schools were involved.",
"The educators, including 38 principals, were either directly involved in erasing wrong answers on a key standardized test or they knew -- or should have known -- what was going on, according to Deal's office.",
"Deal's office said 82 of the educators acknowledged involvement, according to the report.",
"Six principals declined to answer investigators' questions and invoked the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, Deal said.",
"Whether to bring criminal charges will be up to prosecutors, Deal said.",
"Georgia State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge and Kathleen Mathers, executive director of the governor's Office of Student Achievement, released a joint statement Tuesday condemning \"unethical behavior.\"",
"\"Some educators, including those in leadership positions, chose their own interests over helping students entrusted to their care,\" the statement said.",
"\"While this story has dominated the headlines over the last couple of years, it is important to remember that the vast majority of the educators in Georgia are ethically sound and work diligently with the best interests of their students in mind.\"",
"The investigation's findings have been forwarded to the state teacher licensing board, Deal said.",
"That agency could take disciplinary action against the educators involved.",
"Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, who was briefed on the report, said the investigation \"confirms our worst fears.\"",
"\"There is no doubt that systemic cheating occurred on a widespread basis in the school system,\" Reed said in a statement.",
"\"Further, there is no question that a complete failure of leadership in the Atlanta Public School system hurt thousands of children who were promoted to the next grade without meeting basic academic standards.\"",
"The cheating was brought to light after marked improvements in the district's performance on the 2009 statewide Criterion-Referenced Competency test (CRCT) revealed a pattern of incorrect test answers being erased and replaced with correct answers.",
"Investigators compared the results with test results from other Georgia schools and found that such patterns did not occur normally, Deal said.",
"That the district's CRCT results fell in 2010 further confirmed the findings, according to the report.",
"A spokesman for Atlanta Public Schools said district officials would have no immediate comment.",
"The cheating accompanied a \"culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation\" within the district, according to a summary of the report released by Deal's office.",
"The report also found a \"major failure of leadership\" within the district.",
"Beverly Hall, who was superintendent of the district when the cheating scandal surfaced, has since resigned.",
"Hall won accolades for the district's apparent successes during her tenure, and she was named superintendent of the year by the American Association of School Administrators in 2009.",
"Neither Hall nor her attorney, Richard Deane, has seen or been briefed on the report, Deane said Tuesday.",
"The full text of the report was not released.",
"Deal said it was being withheld pending consultation with the state attorney general's office."
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"New: Educators chose own interests over helping students, superintendent says .",
"Report \"confirms our worst fears,\" Atlanta mayor says .",
"Report confirms widespread cheating in Atlanta public schools .",
"Investigators said 178 teachers and principals were involved ."
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"(CNN) -- The world's poorest countries could pay 40 percent more for food this year than they did last year because of rising prices, according to a United Nations report released Thursday.",
"Rising food prices have left many people, like this Ugandan boy, unable to afford food and malnourished.",
"In those countries, nearly a billion people are on the brink of malnourishment and, as food prices climb, more at risk of starving.",
"The latest Food Outlook report, compiled by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, shows that countries which spend a substantial part of their budgets on food will pay $169 billion this year for food imports.",
"That is 40 percent higher than last year and four times higher than in 2000.",
"\"Food is no longer the cheap commodity that it once was,\" FAO Assistant Director-General Hafez Ghanem said.",
"\"Rising food prices are bound to worsen the already unacceptable level of food deprivation suffered by 854 million people.",
"\"We are facing the risk that the number of hungry will increase by many more millions of people.\"",
"The FAO lists 82 countries as \"Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries\" that cannot produce or import enough food to meet their all their population's needs.",
"More than half of the countries are in Africa.",
"Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt this year over surging food prices brought the issue to a boiling point.",
"The United Nations' World Food Program and World Bank President Robert Zoellick recently appealed to the international community to donate $500 milllion to help meet emergency needs by those hit by the high food and fuel prices.",
"Last month, U.S. President Bush ordered the release of $200 million in emergency aid.",
"The money, to be drawn from a food reserve, will address food needs in Africa and elsewhere, the White House said.",
"The United States is the world's largest provider of food aid, delivering more than $2.1 billion in food aid to 78 countries last year, the White House said in a statement.",
"\"This is the world's big story,\" said Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute.",
"\"There are riots all over the world in the poor countries.",
"... Our own poor are feeling it in the United States.\"",
"Zoellick has said the rising costs could mean \"seven lost years\" in the fight against worldwide poverty.",
"\"While many are worrying about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs, and it is getting more and more difficult every day,\" Zoellick said last month in a speech opening meetings with the world's finance ministers.",
"\"In just two months,\" Zoellick said, \"rice prices have skyrocketed to near historical levels, rising by around 75 percent globally and more in some markets, with more likely to come.",
"In Bangladesh, a 2-kilogram bag of rice ... now consumes about half of the daily income of a poor family.\"",
"The price of wheat has jumped 120 percent in the past year, he said, meaning that the price of a loaf of bread has more than doubled in places where the poor spend as much as 75 percent of their income on food.",
"\"This is not just about meals forgone today or about increasing social unrest.",
"This is about lost learning potential for children and adults in the future, stunted intellectual and physical growth,\" Zoellick said.",
"In the United States and other Western nations, more and more poor families are feeling the pinch.",
"In recent days, presidential candidates have paid increasing attention to the cost of food, often citing it on the stump.",
"The issue is also fueling a rising debate over how much the rising prices can be blamed on ethanol production.",
"The basic argument is that because ethanol comes from corn, the push to replace some traditional fuels with ethanol has created a new demand for corn that has thrown off world food prices.",
"Jean Ziegler, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food, has called using food crops to create ethanol \"a crime against humanity.\"",
"Sachs said, \"We've been putting our food into the gas tank; this corn-to-ethanol subsidy which our government is doing really makes little sense.\"",
"The ethanol industry rejects the focus on ethanol in examining food prices.",
"\"The contrived food vs. fuel debate has reared its ugly head once again,\" the Renewable Fuels Association, which lobbies Congress on the behalf of the industry, said on its Web site, adding that \"numerous statistical analyses have demonstrated that the price of oil -- not corn prices or ethanol production -- has the greatest impact on consumer food prices because it is integral to virtually every phase of food production, from processing to packaging to transportation.\"",
"Analysts agree that the cost of fuel is among the reasons for the skyrocketing prices.",
"Another major reason is rising demand, particularly in places in the midst of a population boom, such as China and India.",
"Also, Sachs said, \"climate shocks\" are damaging food supply in parts of the world.",
"\"You add it all together: Demand is soaring; supply has been cut back; food has been diverted into the gas tank.",
"It's added up to a price explosion.\""
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"Report: Poor countries will spend $169 billion this year on food imports .",
"Riots occurring from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over surging food prices .",
"Food prices could mean \"seven lost years\" in fight against hunger .",
"Food Bank official: We struggle with gas, others struggle to fill their stomachs ."
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"(CNN) -- The Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) has written to motorsport's governing body about the 2011 race calendar amidst a backdrop of confusion over the re-instated Bahrain Grand Prix.",
"FOTA confirmed to CNN they had sent a letter to the International Automobile Federation (FIA) and the Bahrain International Circuit discussing the season's schedule, after the recent decision to stage the Bahrain race in October.",
"The original event was canceled in March due to ongoing civil unrest in the Gulf kingdom but Max Mosley, former head of the FIA, told CNN Tuesday that he would be \"astonished\" if the grand prix went ahead.",
"Mosley said any change to the race calendar would have to be unanimously supported by all 12 F1 teams -- something he thought was highly unlikely.",
"Mosley: Bahrain Grand Prix will not go ahead .",
"Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone also admitted to CNN in Monaco that he was unsure whether the race would go ahead.",
"When asked if F1 could take a stand against the violence in the country he said: \"I think it would be difficult to do that, but I think we'd have to -- sort of -- do something that would keep everybody peaceful.\"",
"Red Bull driver Mark Webber criticized the FIA's decision saying on his personal web site: \"I'll be highly surprised if the Bahrain Grand Prix goes ahead this year.\"",
"In a statement, FOTA confirmed to CNN: \"The Teams have discussed the 2011 calendar within FOTA and have expressed their views privately in a letter to the FIA, FOM (Formula One Management) and the Bahrain International Circuit.\"",
"Canada is the next stop on the schedule for Formula One, as they prepare for this weekend's Montreal Grand Prix, where questions over the Bahrain race will remain high on the agenda.",
"The UK Press Association reported Tuesday that the FOTA letter demanded the FIA abandon plans to return to Bahrain due to \"logistical and safety concerns.\"",
"They also claimed the plan to switch the Indian Grand Prix to the end of the season, in December, in order to accommodate the Bahrain race was \"unbearable to our staff.\"",
"On Tuesday, Mosley told CNN there was little chance of the Bahrain GP going ahead and claimed there would be no serious damage done to the sport's reputation if the FIA were to swiftly cancel plans to return.",
"He said: \"When you're going to change something in the middle of the season, like the proposal to move the Indian race for example, that needs the unanimous agreement of all the teams.",
"I don't think there's the slightest chance of that actually being given.",
"\"The teams have complete power in this particular case because although the governing body can cancel an event for reason of force majeure - as happened in the case of Bahrain -- when you want to put an event on or move an event, that's a change to the conditions under which the teams entered for the season and that's like any contract -- you can only change it if both sides agree.",
"\"All 12 teams would have to agree to change the Indian date and go back to Bahrain, so it only takes one team to say 'I don't agree' and that'll be the end of it.",
"It would not be possible for it to happen.\""
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"Formula One Teams Association write to sport's governing body about 2011 calendar .",
"FOTA's letter also sent to Bahrain International Circuit who host the Bahrain GP .",
"Former motorsport chief Max Mosley told CNN the Bahrain race won't go ahead .",
"UK Press Association claim FOTA letter asks for Bahrain race to be dropped ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Two suspected U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal region killed 21 alleged militants Tuesday, intelligence officials said.",
"Two Pakistani intelligence officials said one suspected drone fired four missiles, killing 13 people at an alleged militant hideout in the area of Shawal in South Waziristan, one of the seven districts of Pakistan's volatile tribal region bordering Afghanistan.",
"The second strike occurred hours later on another suspected militant hideout in North Waziristan.",
"Eight people were killed, the officials said.",
"The officials asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media.",
"On Monday, a similar attack killed 10 suspected militants in North Waziristan.",
"The overwhelming majority of drone strikes have targeted areas in North and South Waziristan.",
"Analysts say the areas are havens for militants fueling the insurgencies in Pakistan and Afghanistan.",
"The United States does not comment on suspected drone strikes.",
"But it is the only country in the region known to have the ability to launch missiles from drones -- which are controlled remotely.",
"Journalist Saboor Khattak contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Second suspected drone strike kills 8, officials say .",
"The overwhelming majority of strikes have targeted North and South Waziristan .",
"The United States does not comment on suspected drone strikes ."
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"(CNN) -- For the third time this weekend, U.S. jet fighters on Sunday intercepted a small private plane that violated restricted airspace in the area of Camp David, Maryland, while President Barack Obama stayed there, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said.",
"Two F-15E fighters under NORAD control intercepted a Cessna 182 civilian aircraft on Sunday morning and led it out of the temporary restricted area, according to a NORAD statement.",
"The Cessna landed at the Carroll County Regional Airport, the NORAD statement said.",
"On Saturday, two similar incidents occurred involving other aircraft that violated the restricted area around the presidential retreat, a NORAD spokesman confirmed.",
"There was no extra security threat involved in any of the incidents beyond the violation of the temporary restricted area.",
"Authorities attribute the multiple violations to the temporary expansion of restricted airspace around Camp David when Obama is there.",
"According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the temporary flight restriction in the Camp David area this weekend was scheduled to last from noon Saturday until 6 p.m. Sunday."
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"NORAD scrambles jet fighters twice on Saturday, once on Sunday .",
"The security zone is expanded when President Obama is at Camp David ."
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"(CNN) -- British supermodel Naomi Campbell called an ad campaign comparing her to a chocolate candy bar \"insulting and hurtful,\" hinting that she might sue the company that ran the ad in magazines and on billboards.",
"The ad featured a photo of the Cadbury Dairy Milk Bliss sitting on a pile of diamonds below the slogan \"Move over Naomi, there's a new diva in town.\"",
"A spokesman for Cadbury told CNN Tuesday the chocolate maker never intended \"to cause any offense and the campaign itself is a light-hearted take on the social pretensions of Cadbury Dairy Milk Bliss.\"",
"Campbell, in a written statement sent to CNN Tuesday, said she was shocked.",
"\"It's upsetting to be described as chocolate, not just for me, but for all black women and black people as a race,\" Campbell said.",
"\"I do not find any humour in this, it is insulting and hurtful.\"",
"While she would not confirm online reports that she would call for a boycott of Cadbury products, she did say, \"I am considering every option available to me.\"",
"Cadbury spokeswoman Samantha Wothers said the ad was pulled before Campbell's complaint and that the Dairy Milk Bliss campaign would end this week.",
"\"Cadbury takes its responsibility very seriously indeed and we would never produce any marketing activity we felt might cause offense to any section of society,\" Wothers said.",
"CNN's Jack Hannah and Rachel Wells contributed to this report."
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"\"Move over Naomi, there's a new diva in town,\" Cadbury's ad says .",
"\"It's upsetting to be described as chocolate,\" the supermodel says .",
"Cadbury pulled the ad before Campbell complained, the chocolate maker says .",
"Campbell is considering \"every option\" against the company, she says ."
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"(CNN) -- A day after her sister Serena's comeback was ended in Eastbourne, Venus Williams suffered a similar fate losing in the quarterfinals to Daniela Hantuchova.",
"The Slovak battled hard in blustery conditions on the south coast of England as she recorded a 6-2 5-7 6-2 win -- her first over Venus in 11 meetings.",
"Williams had been out of action for five months with an abdominal injury before returning for the warm-up tournament ahead of Wimbledon and showed flashes of her old self in the second set.",
"Hantuchova told the WTA's official web site: \"I was not thinking about our other matches at all.",
"I was just focusing on my game today.",
"\"I had a good win yesterday and I wanted to build on that.",
"But I still feel there is a lot of room to improve.",
"I'm not where I want to be yet, but I feel like I'm on the right way, which is pretty exciting for me.\"",
"Hantuchova breezed through the first set in just under 40 minutes after breaking Williams' serve twice to take it 6-2 and led the second 4-2 before Venus hit her stride.",
"Williams then stormed back to take the second set before Hantuchova restored her dominance in the decider, breaking Williams twice and sealing the tie with her first match point.",
"Venus said: \"The wind didn't make it very predictable, but I give her credit for hanging in there.",
"On a day like today, you have to just hang in there.",
"\"I think Daniela had a lot of motivation -- we've been playing I don't know how many years, and I am sure she has wanted to get a win against me for a long, long time.\"",
"\"It wasn't the best luck today, but I feel good about my preparation (for Wimbledon).",
"More than anything I was able to get a lot of great competition.",
"This has been ideal. I would have liked to win here, but there are positives here too.\"",
"Hantuchova said she was glad the Williams sisters were back in tennis.",
"\"I think they're great for the game.",
"I was really looking forward to the match today and really pleased I was able to make it through,\" she said.",
"Hantuchova will now face fifth seed Petra Kvitova, from the Czech Republic after she battled back from dropping the opening set to beat Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska 1-6 6-2 7-6.",
"The other semifinal will pit French No.6 seed Marion Bartoli against No.7 seed Samantha Stosur, from Australia.",
"Bartoli was 6-2 2-0 up against Victoria Azarenka when the Belarusian retired, while Stosur triumphed 4-6 7-6 6-4 over number one seed Vera Zvonareva.",
"In the men's draw, Janko Tipsarevic, from Serbian, won twice on Thursday to seal his place in the semifinal, first beating Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin and then Grigor Dimitrov, from Bulgaria by the same 6-3 7-6 scoreline.",
"World No. 59 Kei Nishikori beat Rainer Schuettler and then Czech Radek Stepanek to reach the final four, while Italian Andreas Seppi also went through with a win over Belgium's Olivier Rochus."
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"Daniela Hantuchova knocks Venus Williams out of Eastbourne 6-2 5-7 6-2 .",
"It is the first time Hantuchova has beaten Williams in 11 matches .",
"Slovak will now face fifth seed Petra Kvitova after she beat Agnieszka Radwanska .",
"Mario Bartoli will face Australian Sam Stosur in other semifinal ."
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"Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- Seven Estonian cyclists kidnapped in northern Lebanon in March were released Thursday, the Lebanese Army said.",
"All seven were in good health and will be taken to Beirut, the army said.",
"They were found in the Bekaa Valley, the same area where they were abducted March 23.",
"Lebanese Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told the LBC channel that 9 people implicated in the abduction of the Estonians have been arrested so far.",
"They include Lebanese suspects and people of other nationalities, he said.",
"Officials did not say whether a ransom was paid.",
"\"The main thing now is for our seven fellow countrymen to get home to their families and loved ones as quickly as possible,\" Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said.",
"The men were abducted by \"local criminals\" in the Bekaa Valley as they bicycled into northeastern Lebanon from Syria, police told CNN earlier.",
"They then were handed over to an unknown group.",
"The following month, the men pleaded for help in gaining their release.",
"In a video, which was sent as a YouTube link in an e-mail to the Estonian foreign ministry, one of the cyclists reads in English from a statement calling on Lebanese officials and the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and France to do anything in their power to get them back home.",
"After that, each of the other men makes a short plea for help.",
"The same month, a statement was posted on a Lebanese news portal by a previously unknown group calling itself the Renaissance and Reform Movement, saying it had carried out the kidnappings.",
"CNN's Nada Husseini contributed to this report ."
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"Estonian FM: The main thing is to get them home now .",
"It is not clear if a ransom was paid .",
"The cyclists are in good health, the army says ."
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"(CNN) -- Cockiness and swagger serve him on the golf course, but there's much more to golf's young phenom, Rory McIlroy.",
"The U.S. Open winner might hang with tennis great Rafael Nadal, knock back some Heinekens or slip the electronic dance sounds of Swedish House Mafia into his iPod.",
"Such tidbits are rolling out these days from the 22-year-old hero of Holywood, Northern Ireland, who won the tournament by eight strokes and instantly drew comparisons to Tiger Woods.",
"\"I didn't realize how much my life would change, even in the last 10 days,\" McIlroy said on \"Piers Morgan Tonight,\" aired Thursday.",
"As Woods has done over the years, McIlroy simply left the competition in the dust.",
"He was the youngest winner of the tournament since the legendary Bobby Jones in 1923.",
"For someone under a spotlight these days, the athlete with a tousle of hair looked at ease during his interview with Morgan.",
"\"To me, I won a golf tournament and that was the end of it,\" McIlroy said.",
"But it really is bigger than that.\"",
"He paid tribute to his parents, who both worked when he grew up.",
"His father, Gerry, held down three jobs and was a \"calming influence\" during the U.S. Open, said McIlroy, an only child.",
"The U.S. Open gave the golfer a shot of redemption after his final-round meltdown at the Masters in April.",
"\"If anything it made me more determined to prove to people and myself that I wasn't ... a choker,\" McIlroy said.",
"While saying he was inspired by Woods, McIlroy isn't one to compare himself.",
"But he doesn't feel intimidated, either.",
"\"I don't want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world,\" he told Morgan.",
"\"If you do that, you give them an advantage from the start.\"",
"While the young McIlroy has one major championship, Woods has 14, including three U.S. Open wins.",
"Woods, 35, has had no PGA wins since taking a brief leave from the game in late 2009 after admitting infidelity.",
"Life on the tour can bring its own problems, McIlroy conceded.",
"\"You need a good team around you to keep you grounded.\"",
"McIlroy, who plays in the British Open next month, said he and girlfriend Holly Sweeney are a \"normal couple.\"",
"They have two dogs and she is completing her university degree.",
"A fan of boxing and soccer, McIlroy said he doesn't want the flash of fame to affect him.",
"After all, there are more tournaments to win.",
"\"I'm very confident in my own abilities.",
"I believe in myself,\" McIlroy said.",
"\"I'm not playing for money.",
"I'm playing for a place in history.\""
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"Rory McIlroy says he is playing for history, not the money .",
"He tells \"Piers Morgan Tonight\" he has swagger on the golf course ."
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"(CNN) -- He grew up as the second son of late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, deep in the shadow of his father.",
"Bashar al-Assad was never meant to rule.",
"He studied medicine in Britain, receiving a degree in ophthalmology, and headed the Syrian Computer Society.",
"He switched his focus to military science, however, after the death in a 1994 car accident of his older brother, Bassel, who had been groomed to follow his father into the presidency.",
"The death meant Bashar al-Assad was the next heir to power.",
"When the elder al-Assad died in June 2000, it took only hours for the Syrian parliament to vote to amend the country's constitution to allow Bashar al-Assad to become president.",
"The parliament lowered the age of eligibility of the president from 40 to 34, allowing the then-37-year-old son to take over.",
"Read the latest news about the unrest in Syria .",
"Within weeks, Bashar al-Assad was also made a member of the regional command for the ruling Baath Party, another requirement of succession.",
"Now, the unrest in southern Syria, with amateur videos of violent protests and bloodied bodies, is starting to define al-Assad's rule in the eyes of the world.",
"Human rights groups say such scenes are evidence of Syrian security forces firing on their own people, though state-run television disputes the claims.",
"Syrians have lived in fear of political repression for decades.",
"Hafez al-Assad ruled with an iron fist, ruthlessly putting down dissent by jailing dissidents and crushing the opposition.",
"Since 1963, the country has been under emergency law, which effectively suspends most constitutional protections, according to the U.S. State Department.",
"The law authorizes the government to conduct preventive and arbitrary arrests, according to the British Foreign Office.",
"Security forces don't need to obtain arrest warrants and suspects may be detained for prolonged periods without charge or trial, or access to lawyers.",
"Critics say Bashar al-Assad's security machine still holds a grip on the country -- and the president himself -- though he rejected that suggestion in a 2005 interview with CNN.",
"\"They should choose,\" he said of his critics.",
"\"You cannot be a dictator and not be in control.\"",
"Al-Assad, now 45, denies he is a dictator, seeing himself instead as a modern leader.",
"His official website says he has built free-trade zones, licensed more private newspapers and private universities, and fought government waste and corruption.",
"He has also worked on social and economic reform.",
"While there have been some changes during his 10 years of rule, al-Assad's promises have largely not been delivered.",
"Human Rights Watch calls it \"the wasted decade\" with a media that remains state-controlled, a monitored and censored internet, and prisons still filled with dissidents.",
"Activists say that with the current protests, however, al-Assad can no longer look away.",
"\"He has to start listening,\" said Wissam Tarif, executive director of the human rights group Insan.",
"\"It's the time to start listening and acting.",
"He can't afford any more promises.\"",
"Other analysts say force may have worked in the past to quell dissent, but not this time.",
"\"The government is going to try to continue to use the tactics that it has for a very long time, which is just to snuff out any protest,\" said Anne-Marie Slaughter, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University.",
"Now, however, \"the wall of fear is coming down.\"",
"CNN's Stan Grant contributed to this report."
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"He was not groomed for succession .",
"Despite some reforms, critics highlight empty promises .",
"Human rights groups say he must listen to the protesters ."
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"(CNN) -- More than two years after a chimpanzee mauled her, Charla Nash will once again be able to eat solid foods and regain her sense of smell thanks to a full face transplant, doctors at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital said Friday.",
"\"I am happy to report that the team has achieved tremendous success,\" said Dr. Elof Eriksson, chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery.",
"Surgeons also transplanted two hands to Nash, but they didn't thrive and were removed.",
"In February 2009, Sandra Herold had called her friend Nash for help in getting her pet chimpanzee, Travis, back inside her house after he used a key to escape.",
"When Nash arrived, the chimp, who had been featured in TV commercials for Coca-Cola and Old Navy, jumped on her and began biting and mauling her, causing serious injuries to her face, neck and hands.",
"Police shot Travis to halt the attack and he later died of gunshot wounds.",
"Doctors say they see Nash as more than an animal attack victim.",
"\"To us, Charla is a courageous, strong person.",
"(She) inspired the team to do everything possible, using our collective expertise, to restore her quality of life,\" Plastic Surgeon Director Dr. Bohdan Pomahac said.",
"Nash's face transplant was different than others done before because of the extent of damage to it, the doctors said.",
"She is the third person at Brigham and Women's Hospital to receive a full face transplant; Dallas Wiens was the first in the United States to have such a surgery in March, also at the hospital.",
"Nash is the second to receive a double-hand transplant at the same time as a face transplant; the first was performed in France in 2009.",
"That patient died of a heart attack in a later operation.",
"Nash had lost her nose, upper jaw, most of the soft tissue on her face, and both upper and lower lips.",
"She was also left blind.",
"The surgery, which was performed last month, involved removing some tissue and attaching skin and underlying muscle, based on vessels and nerves that provide motor and sensory functions, Pomahac said.",
"The entire hard palate and teeth were also transplanted.",
"The result was \"miraculous,\" said Nash's brother, Steve.",
"The thing Nash is most looking forward to, her brother said, was visiting their favorite hot dog stand.",
"As for the double hand transplant, doctors successfully attached the new hands, but a few days later Nash became sick and her blood pressure fell, causing circulation problems to the new limbs.",
"After a few days, doctors saw that the hands were not thriving and removed them.",
"In the next three months, Nash will regain sensation to her face, and in six to nine months will be able to smile, control her lips and otherwise make facial expressions, Pomahac said.",
"\"All these things will gradually improve,\" he said.",
"Nash skipped her child's high school graduation because she was afraid of taking away from the occasion, but thanks to the transplant, can look forward to being present for college graduation, Pomahac said.",
"The surgery will give her a chance to have a more normal social life, he said."
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"She underwent a face transplant last month .",
"Her brother calls the results \"miraculous\""
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"(CNN) -- The man described by counterterrorism officials as al Qaeda's \"military brain,\" Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in a drone strike Friday night in Pakistan, a spokesman for his group, the jihadist Harakat-ul-Jihad-Islami, said.",
"Pakistani and U.S. officials, however, said they have not confirmed Kashmiri's death.",
"Kashmiri was killed, along with some aides, in a strike at 11:15 p.m., spokesman Abu Hanzla Kashar said.",
"\"The oppressor U.S. is our only target and, God willing, we will take revenge on the U.S. soon with full force,\" he said.",
"A senior Pakistani military official said that in all, nine were killed by the drone strike.",
"The official reiterated that they had not confirmed Kashmiri's demise.",
"Kashmiri, who was known to operate in North Waziristan, had moved to South Waziristan and was seen at the site of the attack on Friday, the official said.",
"If confirmed, his death would be 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, is 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 is 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.",
"After his arrest, Headley said he had twice met Kashmiri.",
"During questioning by India's National Intelligence Agency, which was given access to him in Chicago, Illinois, in June 2010, Headley said he'd been taken to Pakistan's tribal territories to meet Kashmiri early in 2009.",
"A copy of the interrogation obtained by CNN reveals that Kashmiri sent Headley on another trip to survey targets in India.",
"One place he said he videotaped was a bakery that was later attacked in Pune in February 2010.",
"Kashmiri in his early years fought the Indians in the disputed territory of Kashmir and the Russians in Afghanistan, where he lost an eye.",
"He famously escaped from an Indian jail and went to fight with a unit of Pakistan's special forces.",
"Eventually, he fell out with his sponsors in the Pakistani military, and moved his operations to North Waziristan.",
"At one point, he was arrested in connection with an attempt to assassinate Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, in 2003.",
"For reasons unknown, Kashmiri was released a short time later.",
"CNN's Nasir Habib, Nick Paton Walsh and Tim Lister contributed to this report."
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"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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"(CNN) -- Novak Djokovic shrugged off an injury problem to turn out for Davis Cup holders Serbia in the doubles rubber against Sweden, but it proved in vain as the Wimbledon champion and Nenad Zimonjic slipped to defeat Saturday.",
"Djokovic pulled out of Friday's second singles match in Halmstadt with a knee problem, but he was not missed as his replacement Janko Tipsarevic gave Serbia a 2-0 lead.",
"But the new world number one, who has lost just one singles match all year, was found wanting in doubles as he and Zimonjic went down 6-4 7-6 7-5 in two hours 24 minutes to unheralded home pair Simon Aspelin and Robert Lindstedt.",
"\"I expected myself to adjust a little bit better in the rhythm of the return -- one of my main weapons wasn't working well as I was missing a lot of returns but that's because of their serves as well, which were great, and they were playing really well at the net,\" Djokovic told the official Davis Cup website.",
"But he added: \"We are coming into the third day 2-1 up which is the most important thing and tomorrow we will try to end this tie.\"",
"Djokovic, winner of the Australian Open and Wimbledon this year, is scheduled to face Michael Ryderstedt in the first of the reverse singles as Serbia bid to wrap up the quarterfinal tie.",
"Blog: Djokovic was deserved Wimbledon winner .",
"Sweden are missing the services of world number five Robin Soderling as both teams bid to play Argentina in the semifinals.",
"Argentina have seen off Kazakhstan 5-0 in Buenos Aires in a match started a day earlier than the other three rubbers.",
"Earlier Saturday, France became the second team through to the semifinals of the sport's most prestigious team competition as they forged an unassailable 3-0 lead over Germany in Stuttgart.",
"Michael Llodra and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga saw off Philipp Petzschner and Christopher Kas in straight sets, 7-6 6-4 6-4 to complete a comprehensive victory.",
"Richard Gasquet and Gael Monfils had put France in charge Friday with hard-fought singles victories over Florian Mayer and Philipp Kohlschreiber.",
"The French, beaten by Serbia in last year's final, look set to face Spain, who lead the United States 2-0 in Texas, in the last four.",
"Feliciano Lopez stunned the hosts by beating Mardy Fish 8-6 in the fifth and final set Friday night before David Ferrer added to home misery by dispatching Andy Roddick in straight sets."
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"Simon Aspelin and Robert Lindstedt win in straight sets but holders Serbia lead 2-1 .",
"France wrap up victory over Germany in Stuttgart to reach last four .",
"Spain lead the United States 2-0 in Texas after winning both singles rubbers ."
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"(CNN) -- In recent days, President Barack Obama has applauded efforts to bring former Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi before international courts.",
"It's another indication his administration is more willing than its predecessors to promote the role of international justice in prosecuting those accused of gross human rights abuses.",
"But don't expect the U.S. to sign up to the International Criminal Court anytime soon.",
"The ICC prosecutes individuals accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes of aggression and genocide.",
"It was set up at an international conference in 1998 and came into being in 2002.",
"Since then, 115 states have ratified the treaty -- though the United States, Russia, China and Israel are not among them.",
"Its very existence has long been a combustible issue in the United States.",
"President Clinton signed the treaty establishing the ICC on January 3, 2000 -- the last day it was open for signature.",
"But at the same time he said he would \"not recommend that my successor submit the treaty to the Senate\" -- saying \"the United States should have the chance to observe and assess the functioning of the court before choosing to become subject to its jurisdiction.\"",
"Conservatives have long loathed the ICC.",
"Sen. Jesse Helms fulminated against it as \"an unprecedented assault on American sovereignty.\"",
"President George W. Bush \"unsigned\" the treaty, concerned that U.S. troops and policy-makers alike could face action from a politically-motivated prosecutor.",
"As then-White House spokesman Ari Fleischer put it, \"The president (George W. Bush) thinks the ICC is fundamentally flawed because it puts American servicemen and women at fundamental risk of being tried by an entity that is beyond America's reach, beyond America's laws and can subject American civilians and military to arbitrary standards of justice.\"",
"However, the Bush administration did accept the role of the ICC to bring to justice the perpetrators of what it described as genocide in Darfur, Sudan.",
"In 2005, the U.S. abstained rather than veto a Security Council resolution referring allegations of war crimes in Darfur to the ICC.",
"Within the current administration, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears the most enthusiastic about joining the ICC.",
"Two years ago, at an event in Nairobi, CNN's Fareed Zakharia asked Clinton whether it was more difficult to pursue human rights issues so long as the US was not a signatory.",
"\"That is a great regret, but it is a fact that we are not yet a signatory,\" she said.",
"\"But we have supported the work of the court and will continue to do so under the Obama administration.\"",
"On Thursday Clinton was effusive about the capture of Mladic.",
"\"Mladic's arrest serves as a statement to those around the world who would break the law and target innocent civilians: International justice works,\" she said pointedly.",
"Mladic will actually be prosecuted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, but the sentiment is clear and Obama echoed her view.",
"\"From Nuremberg to the present, the United States has long viewed justice for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide as both a moral imperative and an essential element of stability and peace,\" he said in a statement issued at the G8 summit.",
"While not expending political capital at home on a battle to ratify the Rome Treaty that established the court, Obama backed the ICC's decision in 2009 to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in connection with the killings in Darfur.",
"The Obama administration also supports the involvement of the International Criminal Court in Libya.",
"In February, the United States voted for U.N. Security Council Resolution 1970 that referred the situation in Libya to the ICC, stating that \"widespread and systematic attacks currently taking place against the civilian population may amount to crimes against humanity.\"",
"The ICC's chief prosecutor has since issued arrest warrants for Moammar Gadhafi, his son Saif al-Arab Gadhafi and Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah Sanussi.",
"Those who want the United States to lend its full weight to the court say fears that U.S. officials and soldiers would find themselves in the dock are overdone.",
"The ICC is designed as a court of last resort, to take action when the host country is unable or unwilling to prosecute individuals accused of grave crimes.",
"They also argue that the Bush administration's refusal to sign up reinforced perceptions overseas that it was \"unilateralist.\"",
"In a column for the Los Angeles Times this week, Lt. Col. Butch Bracknell, a serving Marine and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, recalled a conversation he had on a recent training trip to Iraq: \"One Iraqi officer asked me, 'If the United States believes in accountability over impunity, why are you not a party to the International Criminal Court?'",
"I did not have a satisfactory answer.\"",
"But Iraq and most other Arab states have also turned their back on the court -- for one reason: Israel.",
"Qatar's attorney general, Al Bin Fetais al Marri, said this week: \"Between the Arab world and the court there is a big problem of misunderstanding,\" saying the court was selective in its investigations.",
"Some African commentators point to the fact that the great majority of arrest warrants issued so far have been for Africans.",
"After the arrest warrant was issued for Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, a Sudanese official dismissed the court as \"one of the tools of the new colonization.\"",
"So despite modest progress (though as yet no convictions) the ICC is far from establishing itself as a universally respected institution.",
"Justice -- like beauty -- is in the eye of the beholder."
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"(Wired) -- A Minnesota hacker that prosecutors described as a \"depraved criminal\" was handed an 18-year prison term Tuesday for unleashing a vendetta of cyberterror that turned his neighbors' lives into a living nightmare.",
"Barry Ardolf, 46, repeatedly hacked into his next-door neighbors' Wi-Fi network in 2009, and used it to try and frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment, various kinds of professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mail to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden.",
"His motive was to get back at his new neighbors after they told the police he'd kissed their 4-year-old son on the lips.",
"\"Barry Ardolf has demonstrated by his conduct that he is a dangerous man.",
"When he became angry at his neighbors, he vented his anger in a bizarre and calculated campaign of terror against them,\" prosecutor Timothy Rank said in a court filing.",
"\"And he did not wage this campaign in the light of day, but rather used his computer hacking skills to strike at his victims while hiding in the shadows.",
"\"Over months and months, he inflicted unfathomable psychic damage, making the victims feel vulnerable in their own home, while avoiding detection.\"",
"Ardolf's attorney, Kevin O'Brien, said in a telephone interview that \"it was a lengthy sentence for a first-time offender.\"",
"The defendant also forfeited his house and computer gear.",
"Ardolf had no criminal record, but an investigation revealed that he'd also hijacked the Wi-Fi of other neighbors, and terrorized them as well.",
"A father of two, Ardolf had turned down a 2-year plea agreement last year to charges related to the Biden e-mail.",
"After that, the authorities piled on more charges, including identity theft and two kiddie-porn accusations carrying lifetime sex-offender registration requirements.",
"He pleaded guilty to them all last year.",
"The bizarre tale began in 2009 when Matt and Bethany Kostolnik moved in the house next door to Ardolf, who at the time was a Medronic computer technician living in the Minneapolis suburb of Blaine.",
"On their first day at their new home, the Kostolnik's then-4-year-old son wandered near Ardolf's house.",
"While carrying him back next door, Ardolf allegedly kissed the boy on the lips.",
"\"We've just moved next door to a pedophile,\" Mrs. Kostolnik told her husband.",
"The couple reported Ardolf to the police, angering their creepy new neighbor.",
"\"I decided to 'get even' by launching computer attacks against him,\" Ardolf later wrote in a letter to the judge.",
"Rank, the prosecutor, put it not so mildly: .",
"\"It was apparently this incident which caused the defendant to begin a calculated campaign to terrorize his neighbors, doing whatever he could to destroy the careers and professional reputations of Matt and Bethany Kostolnik, to damage the Kostolniks' marriage, and to generally wreak havoc on their lives,\" he said.",
"Ardolf downloaded Wi-Fi hacking software and spent two weeks cracking the Kostolnik's WEP encryption.",
"Then he used their own Wi-Fi network to create a fake MySpace page for the husband, where he posted a picture of a pubescent girl having sex with two young boys.",
"Under the \"about me\" section, he wrote: .",
"\"I bet my coworker that since I'm a lawyer and a darn great one that I could get away with putting up porn on my site here.",
"I bet that all I have to do is say that there is plausible deniability since anybody could have put this on my site.",
"Like someone hacked my page and added porn without my knowledge.",
"This is reasonable doubt.",
"I'm a darn good lawyer and I can get away with doing anything!\"",
"He then e-mailed the same child porn to one of the husband's co-workers, and sent flirtatious e-mail to women in Mr. Kostolnik's office.",
"\"You are such a fox,\" read one of the e-mails.",
"He sent the message's through the husband's genuine e-mail account.",
"After the husband explained to his law office superiors that he had no idea what was happening, his bosses hired a law firm that examined his network and discovered that an \"unknown\" device had access to it.",
"With Kostolnik's permission, they installed a packet sniffer on his network to try and get to the bottom of the incidents.",
"Then, in May 2009, the Secret Service showed up at Kostolnik's office to ask about several threatening e-mails sent from his Yahoo account, and traced to his IP address, that were addressed to Biden and other politicians.",
"The subject line of one e-mail read: \"This is a terrorist threat!",
"Take this seriously.\"",
"\"I swear to God I'm going to kill you!,\" part of the message to Biden said.",
"A forensics computer investigator working for Kostolnik's law firm examined the packet logs, and found the e-mail sessions sending the threats.",
"In the data surrounding the threatening traffic, they found traffic containing Ardolf's name and Comcast account .",
"The FBI got a search warrant for Ardolf's house and computer, and found reams of evidence, including copies of data swiped from the Kostolniks' computer, and hacking manuals with titles such as Cracking WEP Using Backtrack: A Beginner's Guide; Tutorial: Simple WEP Crack Aircracking and Cracking WEP with BackTrack 3 -- Step-by-Step instructions.",
"They also found handwritten notes laying out Ardolf's revenge plans, and a cache of postal mail that Ardolf had apparently stolen from the Kostolniks' mailbox and stashed under his bed.",
"\"One of the manuals had Ardolf's handwriting on it and another had the unique identifying ID for the Kostolniks' router typed into it,\" Rank, the prosector, wrote.",
"Also discovered in Ardolf's possession was the pornographic image posted on MySpace and sent to the husband's co-worker, and evidence that he'd secretly staged a similar harassment campaign against a neighbor at Ardolf's previous home in Brooklyn Park, another Minneapolis suburb.",
"Among other things, he sent that family a postal-mail message consisting of a one-page, color print-out of the family's \"TurboTax\" return with personally identifying information, in addition to several skull images.",
"\"I told you about a year ago that you should be very afraid.",
"I can destroy you at will, you sorry-ass excuse for a human,\" the letter said.",
"The Brooklyn Park family told the FBI they believed Ardolf was upset that their personal care attendants, who looked after their two disabled twin daughters, parked their car in front of his house.",
"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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"Barry Ardolf, 46, repeatedly hacked into his next-door neighbors' Wi-Fi network in 2009 .",
"His motive was to get back at his new neighbors after they said he kissed their son .",
"Ardolf had no criminal record, but he'd hijacked the Wi-Fi of other neighbors as well ."
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"HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- A comic-book character popular in Mexico for generations has run into a cultural barrier at the border, where Americans see him as a racist caricature.",
"Comic book character Memin Pinguin is \"a disgrace,\" an African-American activist says.",
"For more than 60 years Mexicans have followed the adventures of \"Memin Pinguin.\"",
"But the dark-skinned Memin's exaggerated features in \"Memin for President\" came as a shock to Houston, Texas, Wal-Mart shopper Shawnedria McGinty.",
"\"I was like, OK, is that a monkey or a boy?\"",
"McGinty said.",
"\"To me it was an insult.\" She'd never heard of \"Memin Pinguin.\"",
"She bought a Spanish-English dictionary and tried translating but still didn't like what she saw.",
"Watch what upset McGinty » .",
"\"So I asked my boyfriend, does that look like a monkey to you?\"",
"she said. \"And we went back and forth and he was like, no, that's a black woman,\" referring to the character's Aunt Jemima-like mother.",
"McGinty and Houston community activist Quannel X want the comic books removed from the stores.",
"\"This is absolutely insensitive toward race, in particular the African-American culture, and also people of color,\" Quannel X said.",
"\"This is poking fun at the physical features of an entire people.\"",
"But Mexican readers who grew up following the shenanigans of Memin say critics need to look beyond the cover and understand the stories.",
"\"They will bring a smile to their face because we're so fond of that character,\" said Javier Salas, a Spanish-language talk show host on Chicago radio station WRTO.",
"\"We respect him, we love him.",
"And that's why it's so absurd for us to hear complaints from people who don't know, don't understand Memin.\"",
"Memin is a poor Cuban-Mexican kid with bug eyes, thick lips and protruding ears.",
"The mischievous and caring boy helps his mother by selling newspapers and shining shoes.",
"\"We grew up reading, learning and educating ourselves with a lot of the topics they always touched on, which was honesty, justice, tolerance.",
"He was a very unique character,\" Salas said.",
"Wal-Mart spokesman Lorenzo Lopez said the retailer has instructed stores to remove the books from shelves and discontinue sales.",
"\"We received the customer complaint regarding the book, which we knew was based on a popular cartoon character in Mexico.",
"We looked into it further, and we decided to no longer distribute the book and are in the process of removing the books from the stores.\"",
"The store has received no other complaints about Memin, Lopez said.",
"\"We have a wide array of products that we provide to Hispanic customers, but when we looked at this more carefully and given the sensitivity of the topic, we thought it was best to no longer carry the book in our stores,\" he said.",
"He did not know how many copies of Memin books the chain had or how long it would take to remove them from displays.",
"Memin is no stranger to controversy.",
"Three years ago, a series of Mexican stamps honoring Memin ignited an international uproar.",
"The stamps were discontinued because of protests from African-American leaders.",
"\"This is saying we respect and regard the African-American community by making them look like Sambos on a stamp?\"",
"the Rev. Al Sharpton said at the time.",
"\"This goes over the line.\" Quannel X called the comic book \"a disgrace.\"",
"\"Look how they portray his mother, with huge ethnic lips, dark skin, making her look like the big gorilla and him like the little monkey.\"",
"But fans of Memin say the valuable lessons of a beloved comic book character tackling real-life problems have been lost in translation."
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"Memin Pinguin has been cherished in Mexico for generations .",
"Characters' features insult blacks, say activist and shopper .",
"Stories teach valuable lessons about life, defender maintains ."
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"Madrid (CNN) -- A man arrested in Madrid on suspicion of planning an attack against a demonstration to protest the visit of Pope Benedict XVI was a volunteer for the papal visit's organizing committee, a committee senior spokesman said Wednesday.",
"The suspect was arrested on Tuesday at the IFEMA fairgrounds by plainclothes police officers as he was about to receive a backpack and a green shirt worn by volunteers, said the spokesman, Rafa Rubio, the communications director for World Youth Day, told CNN.",
"A police statement Tuesday said a man studying chemistry in Madrid was arrested on suspicion he was planning an attack against a march set to protest the high cost of the visit of the pope to the Spanish capital starting Thursday, the police said.",
"The suspect \"planned to attack using noxious gases and other chemical substances,\" the national police said in a statement.",
"The alleged target was a protest march set for Wednesday evening in Madrid, on the eve of the pope's four-day visit.",
"A police spokeswoman on Wednesday said the suspect is a Mexican national.",
"The police statement said the suspect was studying general organic chemistry at Spain's government-backed Higher Council for Scientific Investigations.",
"Rubio said the suspect, age 24, had completed the process to become a volunteer for World Youth Day and he added that the arresting officers at the volunteer check-in area were so discreet that many in the World Youth Day organization were not aware of what had happened until hours later.",
"The man is no longer a volunteer, Rubio said.",
"\"His apparent thinking is not in the spirit of Christianity,\" Rubio said.",
"\"World Youth Day rejects all violence.\"",
"World Youth Day has 30,000 volunteers, many of them from outside of Spain.",
"At the suspect's home in the upscale Salamanca neighborhood of the capital, police seized a laptop computer, a portable memory device and two notebooks with notes about chemical procedures which were not related to his official studies, the statement said.",
"The suspect also allegedly was trying to recruit adherents through the Internet.",
"The police statement said citizen collaboration helped lead police to the man.",
"The cost of the pope's visit to Spain, suffering a deep economic crisis with nearly 21% unemployment, has been top news here in recent days.",
"Benedict XVI is coming to World Youth Day, a weeklong series of religious events that the Roman Catholic Church organizes internationally every three years, last held in Sydney, Australia.",
"Organizers expect at least a million youth for the event and Madrid's streets already are filled with many thousands of young Catholics from around the globe, carrying their national flags.",
"Organizers say the $70 million cost is totally paid by the young people and corporate sponsors -- with no cost to the taxpayer.",
"But others in Spain say there are substantial hidden public costs, including the 10,000 police officers on duty for security, the use of the Cuatro Vientos military air base for Mass, and a discount for visiting Catholic youth on the city's metro, at the same time as regular metro fares have risen sharply.",
"Critics including Spanish groups called Christian Networks, Lay Europe and a third run by atheists convened a protest march over the costs on Wednesday, and they said they expect up to 10,000 people."
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"Pope to visit Madrid for World Youth Day ."
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"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Massive downpours in South Korea -- the heaviest rains in a century -- are blamed for 35 deaths, according to the country's Central Disaster Relief Agency.",
"Heavy rain was still falling Thursday morning across parts of the country.",
"It was raining in some areas around Seoul at a rate of two inches an hour (50 millimeters an hour) and was expected to continue Thursday.",
"The most recent numbers released by the Central Disaster Relief Agency indicated that much of the death toll comes from landslides triggered by the rain.",
"In Chuncheon, 13 people were killed by landslides, while 15 were killed by the same phenomenon in Seoul.",
"Five people were still missing, the agency said.",
"Five neighborhoods on the outskirts of Seoul were under evacuation orders.",
"But officials were able to restore electricity to many thousands of homes that had lost power.",
"Earlier, there were 116,000 homes without power, said the agency.",
"Early Thursday, that number stood at 1,190.",
"Earlier, the agency warned that hundreds of families had lost their homes.",
"The weather caused major traffic disruptions across portions of the country as well.",
"The Korea Meteorological Agency issued a special heavy rainfall alert for cities in the center of the country.",
"The forecast called for the downpour to continue at a rate of 60 millimeters (2.4 inches) per hour over the next day.",
"South Korea typically experiences a rainy season during the summer."
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"NEW: Rain falling at a rate of 2 inches an hour in some areas .",
"Agency says 35 dead after downpours and landslides .",
"Five neighborhoods outside Seoul are under evacuation orders .",
"Officials have been able to restore power to thousands ."
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"(CNN) -- You can almost hear them now.",
"The throngs descending on San Diego Comic-Con, ready to devour as much pop culture as they can possibly muster over an extra-long weekend.",
"Officially, the Con begins on Thursday of next week.",
"But, there is that magical time known as Preview Night on Wednesday, when the number one, two and three items on the agenda are to snag as many exclusive goodies as possible... namely, toys!",
"Comic-Con exclusives tend to be nostalgic in nature, and Hasbro's \"Lost Wave\" of \"Indiana Jones\" figures -- revealed for the first time on CNN.com -- is no exception.",
"In honor of \"Raiders of the Lost Ark's\" 30th anniversary, the toy company is adding to the 2008 line of figures, including two new versions of Indy and one of Marion.",
"John Frascotti, chief marketing officer with Hasbro, explained that these figures were never released in stores as planned in 2008.",
"\"They truly are a special edition, because it was never made available to the public,\" he said.",
"\"It ties right into what collectors at Comic-Con are looking for, which is something unique, something special, something that no one else has.\"",
"The major and smaller toy companies have been offering up exclusives as part of the explosion in interest in the convention over the past five years.",
"\"It's really a unique event,\" said Frascotti.",
"\"It's a special chance for many elements of our company to interact with people that have a special passion for these brands.\"",
"The new Indy figures are sure to get fans drooling at Comic-Con, and here are five more toys that should fly off shelves on Preview Night.",
"-- \"Back to the Future\" Hot Wheels vehicle .",
"Fellow toy giant Mattel also has a major presence on the convention floor, and this year the company is offering fans their very own \"Hot Wheels\" version of a Delorean from the movie \"Back to the Future.\"",
"The best part of this, however, is the packaging.",
"It's a mini-version of the briefcase in which Dr. Emmett Brown kept the plutonium!",
"(As for sending the Delorean back to the future -- or the past -- you'll have to figure out how to get it up to 88 mph first.)",
"\"This is a 1/64 scale time machine, which comes in its own plastic display case right in front of the clock tower, with flames coming out of the tires just like it's jumping into time,\" said Scott Neitlich, manager of Boys' Entertainment at Mattel and a collector in his own right.",
"The exclusives like these cater to the hardcore fans, as opposed to casual collectors of all ages.",
"\"We look very carefully at what brands we have that play up to the key demographics at Comic-Con,\" said Neitlich.",
"\"Obviously not every brand is appropriate for Comic-Con.",
"We will go with the obvious \"low-hanging fruit\" brands like Ghostbusters, Masters of the Universe and DC Comics.",
"Hot Wheels is not necessarily a Comic-Con brand, but when you apply it to a sci-fi, geekdom vehicle, like the Delorean, then it becomes a great item for Comic-Con.\"",
"-- The \"Revenge of the Jedi\" collection .",
"Taking its name from the original title of \"Return of the Jedi,\" this collection includes special versions of \"Jedi\" characters Boba Fett, Wicket the Ewok, Salacious B. Crumb and an R2-D2 who serves drinks.",
"-- Skystriker with Cobra Commander .",
"This one will basically blow the minds of fans who grew up in the 1980s.",
"Here we have what is a version of the \"Transformers\" character Starscream being piloted by Cobra Commander.",
"\"We're mashing up 'Transformers' and 'G.I.",
"Joe,'\" said Frascotti.",
"\"We're giving the Skystriker plane from 'G.I.",
"Joe' a custom makeover and making it the Decepticon Starscream.",
"Fans of both franchises really like it when we do this type of mashup.\"",
"-- Voltron . This year, Mattel will be introducing its very first Voltron figure at the Con, for those who look back fondly at the anime character from the 1980s (recently brought back on a current NickToons series).",
"\"Obviously, there have been many other Voltron figures in the past.",
"What we're offering is the first ever 6-inch scale Voltron,\" said Neitlich.",
"\"This figure makes Voltron at the same size with other figures that collectors may have.\"",
"Best of all, Voltron comes with his blazing sword.",
"-- \"Dexter\" Dark Defender .",
"Aside from the nostalgia factor, there are some more recent properties that do well on Preview Night.",
"Last year's \"Dexter\" bobblehead was a hot seller for smaller toy company Entertainment Earth.",
"This year, they've created a Dexter action figure complete with its own card packaging showing star Michael C. Hall.",
"\"America's Favorite Serial Killer\" is certainly for the grownup collectors out there.",
"Whether you're there to relive a part of your childhood or celebrate genre entertainment in the present, fans can usually find at least one thing that they're dying to part with their hard-earned money to get, and in the age of fan conventions, companies continue to tailor their special-release toys like these to what the geek crowd wants.",
"So if your colleague comes back to work after his trip to San Diego with a bobblehead TARDIS, now you know it came from Preview Night."
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"Fans look forward to San Diego Comic-Con exclusives every year .",
"The best time to get exclusives are on Wednesday, Preview Night .",
"Hasbro has previously unreleased \"Indiana Jones\" figures this year .",
"Mattel will offer its first \"Voltron\" figure, and Entertainment Earth has \"Dexter\""
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"Washington (CNN) -- Top administration and congressional officials are expected to continue working this week on a measure to raise the federal debt ceiling by up to $2.5 trillion, embracing a version of a fallback plan designed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to avoid a potentially catastrophic default.",
"At the same time, GOP leaders are planning a series of votes on a proposed balanced budget amendment to the Constitution and sharp caps on future spending.",
"The bills have no chance of clearing Congress or winning the approval of President Barack Obama, but would allow Republicans to demonstrate their preference for steps favored by their party's conservative base.",
"The maneuvering will take place against a backdrop of heightened anxiety as fears rise that Washington will not be able to pay its bills starting next month.",
"If Congress fails to raise the current $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by August 2, Americans could be hit with rising interest rates, a plummeting dollar, and increasingly jittery financial markets, among other things.",
"The seriousness of the overall situation was reinforced Thursday when a major credit rating agency, Standard and Poor's, said it was placing the United States' sovereign rating on \"CreditWatch with negative implications.\"",
"Moody's Investors Services -- another major rating agency -- said Wednesday that it would put the sterling bond rating of the United States on review for possible downgrade.",
"Obama warned last week that he could not guarantee older Americans will receive their Social Security checks next month if a deal is not reached in time.",
"Republicans accused the president of resorting to scare tactics.",
"Nevertheless, the two sides continued their talks over the weekend.",
"Obama met at the White House Sunday with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, according to a spokesman for Boehner.",
"\"We're making progress,\" the president said Monday.",
"\"We can't let politics stand in the way of doing the right thing.\"",
"It \"was never going to be easy (and) it certainly doesn't look easy today,\" added White House spokesman Jay Carney.",
"However, Carney added that all the congressional leaders in the talks were committed to reaching a deal, whether a comprehensive deficit reduction agreement sought by Obama, a smaller version or the fallback option that focuses on raising the debt ceiling.",
"\"We have to ensure that there is a fallback provision; that there is a measure through which Congress will act and we can ensure that the United States will not default,\" Carney said.",
"\"And the leaders in that room are unanimously in support of doing that.\"",
"McConnell's plan appears to have gained momentum over the past few days as hopes have faded for a grand bargain including tax hikes on the wealthy and reforms to popular entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.",
"The Republican leader's proposal would give Obama the power to raise the borrowing limit by a total of $2.5 trillion, but also require three congressional votes on the issue before the 2012 general election.",
"Specifically, Obama would be required to submit three requests for debt ceiling hikes -- a $700 billion increase and two $900 billion increases.",
"Along with each request, the president would have to submit a list of recommended spending cuts exceeding the debt ceiling increase.",
"The cuts would not need to be enacted in order for the ceiling to rise.",
"Congress would vote on -- and presumably pass -- \"resolutions of disapproval\" for each request.",
"Obama would likely veto each resolution.",
"Unless Congress manages to override the president's vetoes -- considered highly unlikely -- the debt ceiling would increase.",
"The unusual scheme would allow most Republicans and some more conservative Democrats to vote against any debt ceiling hike while still allowing it to clear.",
"McConnell, R-Kentucky, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, are also working on two critical additions to the plan, according to congressional aides in both parties.",
"One would add up to roughly $1.5 trillion in spending cuts agreed to in earlier talks led by Vice President Joe Biden; the other would create a commission meant to find more major spending cuts, tax increases and entitlement reforms.",
"Changes agreed to by the commission -- composed of an equal number of House and Senate Democrats and Republicans -- would be subject to a strict up-or-down vote by Congress.",
"No amendments would be allowed.",
"Sources say the panel would be modeled after the Base Closing and Realignment Commission, which managed to close hundreds of military bases that Congress could not otherwise bring itself to shut down.",
"As congressional leaders continue laying the groundwork for the plan, Republicans are moving ahead with a more partisan measure to \"cut, cap and balance\" future budgets.",
"The plan includes major spending cuts, caps on future spending as a percentage of economic production, and a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.",
"The White House released a statement Monday promising a veto if the GOP plan reaches Obama's desk.",
"\"Instead of pursuing an empty political statement and unrealistic policy goals, it is necessary to move beyond politics as usual and find bipartisan common ground,\" the statement read.",
"Boehner called it \"disappointing\" that \"the White House would reject this common-sense plan.\"",
"\"If we are going to raise the debt limit and avoid default, the White House must be willing to demonstrate more courage than we have seen to date,\" the speaker said in a written statement.",
"The GOP initiative stands in sharp contrast to Obama's stated preference for a package of roughly $4 trillion in savings over the next decade composed of spending reforms and tax increases on the rich.",
"\"I'm a little frustrated that (administration officials are) never willing to be specific about the reductions in spending that they would be willing to do,\" conservative Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, said Sunday.",
"\"The president always just holds out this idea that, well, if you'll raise taxes, and he is very specific about the taxes he wants to raise, then (he) might be willing to look at cuts elsewhere,\" Kyl said.",
"\"Well, of course, that's just not good enough.",
"So, the point I'm trying to make is when the president says he's willing to compromise, understand why Republican leaders have been pretty reluctant to go along with this deal because we frankly don't know where the spending reductions come, but we do know where the taxes are.\"",
"Republicans have repeatedly insisted that they are the only side offering concrete proposals to address mounting deficits and the federal debt.",
"Democrats in turn have belittled the GOP's push for a balanced budget amendment, a perennial favorite of conservatives.",
"\"This notion that we somehow have to change the Constitution to do what we were elected to do is just plain wrong,\" Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said Sunday on NBC's \"Meet the Press.\"",
"\"Bottom line is, those who want to push a balanced budget amendment are saying, 'I can't promise you that I won't steal again, but I will vote for the Ten Commandments.'",
"\" At the heart of the current debate is Obama's call for more tax revenue by allowing tax cuts from the Bush presidency to expire at the end of 2012 for families making more than $250,000.",
"His plan would keep the lower tax rates for Americans who earn less.",
"Republicans insist they will not agree to any tax increases, arguing that such a move would derail an already weak economic recovery.",
"Obama noted last week he is not looking to raise any taxes until 2013 or later.",
"In exchange, the president said, he wants to ensure that the current progressive nature of the tax code is maintained, with higher-income Americans assessed higher tax rates.",
"But resistance to higher taxes is now a bedrock principle for most Republicans, enforced by conservative crusaders such as political activist Grover Norquist.",
"Norquist's group, Americans for Tax Reform, has sponsored a high-profile pledge to oppose any tax increase.",
"The pledge has been signed by more than 230 House members and 40 senators, almost all of them Republicans.",
"CNN's Ted Barrett, Kate Bolduan, Candy Crowley, Ana Sebescen, Deirdre Walsh and Jessica Yellin contributed to this report."
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"Congress will vote this week on the GOP \"cut, cap and balance\" plan, aides say .",
"Obama will veto the GOP \"cut, cap, and balance\" plan if it reaches his desk .",
"The United States must raise its $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by August 2 or risk a default ."
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"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Two more blasts struck Nigeria on Monday, bringing the total to five since President Goodluck Jonathan was inaugurated Sunday.",
"One blast Monday was directed at a military patrol in Maiduguri, in northern Nigeria, military spokesman Mohammed Yerima said.",
"No casualties were reported.",
"The other was in Zaria, also in northern Nigeria.",
"It was the second blast in Zaria in less than a day.",
"On Sunday, an explosion struck a beer parlor in Zaria, wounding two people, National Emergency Management Agency spokesman Yushau Shauib said.",
"There were no casualties reported in the bombings Monday.",
"The other two blasts Sunday were at a market in Bauchi, east of Zaria, and a beer hall in Zuba, on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital of Abuja.",
"In the Bauchi explosion, at least 13 people were killed and 20 were wounded, Shauib said.",
"In the Zuba blast, two people were killed and 11 others were hospitalized, Shauib said.",
"In recent weeks, the African nation has been rocked by a series of bombings thought to be engineered by Boko Haram, an Islamic group that has challenged Nigeria's government.",
"Explosions in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno killed a few and wounded dozens in late April in the days leading up to the national governorship elections.",
"Police described the attacks as attempts to intimidate voters who had picked Jonathan.",
"Northern Muslims in some areas charged that the presidential election was rigged.",
"Armed protesters in the region took to the streets chanting the name of former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, the main opposition front-runner.",
"This is Jonathan's first full term.",
"As vice president, he took over the presidency in May 2010 upon the death of then-President Umaru Yar'Adua, who had suffered from a heart condition.",
"CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report."
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"The blasts strike a market, a beer parlor, a military patrol and more .",
"An Islamic group is believed to be behind recent attacks ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- The City Council of Fullerton, California, approved Tuesday evening the hiring of an independent consultant to reform the city's police force and review last month's arrest and subsequent death of a homeless schizophrenic man, a spokeswoman said.",
"Before a gallery of residents angry about the death, the council voted 5-0 to award a one-year $50,000 contract to Michael J. Gennaco, a consultant whose rate is $260 an hour, to examine the police department's policies and practices, city spokeswoman Sylvia Palmer Mudrick said.",
"The council then approved 4-1 a second contract, also for up to a year, paying Gennaco $30,000 to prepare a public report looking at the July 5 incident involving police and the death of Kelly Thomas, Mudrick said.",
"Gennaco told the council he will begin investigating the death after the Orange County District Attorney's office completes its own inquiry into the incident, Mudrick said.",
"Gennaco is currently chief attorney for a civilian oversight committee created by the Los Angeles County supervisors to monitor the sheriff's department.",
"Thomas, 37, died five days after what the Orange County district attorney has called \"a violent and desperate struggle\" last month with Fullerton police.",
"Meanwhile, a Los Angeles attorney said he is planning to file a police brutality lawsuit in federal court this week against Fullerton officers in a new unrelated case.",
"But one of the officers in that case was also involved in the Thomas arrest, said the attorney, Garo Mardirossian.",
"Mardirossian is also representing Thomas' father, Ron, who is alleging that his son was a victim of police brutality and has notified Fullerton city officials that he plans to pursue legal action against them.",
"In the second alleged instance of police brutality, Veth Mam, 31, of Orange County, California, had an altercation with Fullerton police officers in October that was recorded on his iPhone and posted on YouTube.",
"Mam wasn't seriously injured, Mardirossian said.",
"Mam, who works in an automation factory, was acquitted of battery against an officer and resisting arrest -- both misdemeanors -- last month, Mardirossian said.",
"On Tuesday, acting Fullerton police chief Kevin Hamilton, named to the post last week, said he was concerned about the Mam case based upon information brought to his attention.",
"He has ordered an internal affairs investigation \"to determine what happened that evening in October 2010 and the court case this year,\" said police spokesman Sgt.",
"Andrew Goodrich .",
"\"There is a strong possibility that we arrested the wrong person that night (Veth Mam),\" Goodrich said in an e-mail to CNN.",
"Mardirossian claims the iPhone video by Mam contradicted the police report and an officer's testimony in the case.",
"How Fullerton police officers write their reports is also a matter of controversy in the Thomas case because officers were allowed to view a videotape of the Thomas arrest before filing their reports, Mardirossian said Tuesday.",
"In the federal lawsuit to be filed later this week, Mam will claim conspiracy to falsify arrest reports, conspiracy to violate the civil rights of a citizen and police brutality, Mardirossian said.",
"Mardirossian said the suit will support his claim that the Fullerton Police Department engages in a \"pattern or practice\" of civil rights violations.",
"Fullerton Deputy City Attorney James Touchstone declined to comment Tuesday on the anticipated legal actions by Thomas' father and by Mam.",
"Touchstone and police spokesman Goodrich also declined to comment on Mardirossian's accusation that one Fullerton police officer was also involved in both cases.",
"Mardirossian identified that officer, but city officials declined to confirm the name Tuesday.",
"The attorney for the six officers didn't return phone calls Tuesday.",
"Meanwhile, Thomas' father and some angry residents have been pressing city officials to release a videotape of the six Fullerton police officers engaged in the arrest and alleged beating.",
"City officials have declined to release the tape.",
"In the July 5 incident, six officers responded to reports that a man was trying to break into cars near a bus depot, according to police.",
"The officers have been placed on involuntary paid administrative leave, and city officials haven't released their names.",
"Police Chief Michael Sellers has also taken a paid medical leave, as two of the city's five council members have called upon him to resign.",
"Gennaco has said he will look at how Fullerton police officers wrote their reports only after watching the videotape.",
"He said police departments have different policies on whether officers can look at their tapes before writing their reports.",
"Gennaco said taxpayers could expect police \"reform\" out of his work.",
"Meanwhile, there are two external investigations into the death, by the FBI and the Orange County district attorney's office.",
"The FBI is looking at civil rights violations.",
"Also, residents notified the city that they are going to start a recall petition drive for the other three members on the city council: Mayor F. Richard Jones, Mayor Pro Tem Don Bankhead and Councilman Pat McKinley.",
"The mayor and mayor pro tem positions are one-year terms rotated among the five council members, officials said.",
"CNN's Irving Last, Stan Wilson and Marie Malzberg contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The Fullerton City Council approves two contracts totaling $80,000 .",
"NEW: The contracts authorize the consultant to investigate police practices and the man's death .",
"NEW: The consultant will charge the city $260 an hour .",
"Kelly Thomas, 37, died five days after an altercation with arresting officers in July ."
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"Dusseldorf, Germany -- While America gets ready for the finale of \"American Idol\" and tunes into hot new shows such as NBC's \"The Voice,\" Europe is busy watching the continent's annual vocal competition that many say gave rise to the entire phenomena of televised singing throw-downs: Eurovision.",
"Since 1956, European nations have sent representative artists and songs to battle for the boasting rights as top songsmiths.",
"On Tuesday evening the first semi-final of 2011 took place in a Dusseldorf, Germany, arena.",
"And just like on U.S. shows such as \"Idol,\" losers went home and winners advanced.",
"The only difference is that in this competition, entire countries are left saddened when songs fail to impress the voting public in Europe -- and members of a jury: The vote is split 50/50 between fans and a panel of experts.",
"Serbia, Greece, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Switzerland, Hungary, Iceland, Russia and Finland all advanced Tuesday evening, while countries such as Turkey, Norway, Armenia, Portugal, Malta, Croatia, Albania and Poland were sent packing.",
"The biggest shockers were arguably Iceland's inclusion and Norway's exclusion from the finals.",
"The winners advance to Saturday's final, where they will join the top contenders from Thursday's semi-final in an anticipated live broadcast of 25 artists from 25 countries singing their country's representative tunes in a winner-takes-all evening that is among Europe's most watched events of the year.",
"Between 100 million and 120 million are expected to tune in this year for all three events.",
"Germany -- last year's winner -- the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain all automatically qualify for Saturday's final as members of the \"Big Five.\"",
"Americans largely ignore Eurovision, as they have little reason to pay attention: U.S. broadcasters do not show the telecast and America has no official entry.",
"But this year, some in the United States are taking more interest than ever, thanks to a fresh crop of singers and increased exposure of the Eurovision brand brought about via Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.",
"To be sure, the European Broadcasting Union has a long way to go to gain fans in North America.",
"For starters, they have no official media partner to show the semi-finals this week or the finals on Saturday.",
"Fewer than 20 U.S. journalists were accredited out of over 2000 total print, television, radio and Web journalists at Eurovision in 2011.",
"France, by comparison, has around 125 journalists, many representing major news outlets.",
"Still, interest in Eurovision is up in the U.S.",
"The number of American media outlets attending Eurovision this year has more than doubled from 2010 and Eurovision officials say website traffic from North America overall is comparable to last year and even up slightly.",
"Many view the competition as a curiosity.",
"This year's crop at Eurovision has already produced two giggle-inducing entrants: Israel's official song in contention this year is simply titled \"Ding Dong\" while Belarus went with the not-exactly-subtly titled \"I Love Belarus.\"",
"But the level of songwriting across the board seems to be on the rise at Eurovision.",
"After all, this is where ABBA first made their mark on the world stage and every year great songs rise above the din at the event, with several this year piquing interest -- many are raving about a song from Azerbaijan.",
"This year's hopefuls might surprise curious American pop fans.",
"Blue's \"I Can,\" from the U.K. and Eric Saade's \"Popular\" from Sweden, rival anything on U.S. Top 40 radio at the moment, with slick production and memorable hooks.",
"It remains to be seen just who will get the final nod Saturday.",
"Odds makers have France and the United Kingdom atop many lists at the moment, but that could change.",
"Whatever transpires at Eurovision this week, one thing is certain: It won't be dull."
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"European nations compete in friendly music competition at Eurovision .",
"On Tuesday the first semi-final of the 2011 Eurovision took place in a Dusseldorf arena .",
"Between 100 million and 120 million are expected to tune into the competition this year ."
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"(CNN) -- A man was killed by a grizzly bear Wednesday morning at Yellowstone National Park, according to the National Park Service.",
"The visitor was hiking with his wife along the Wapiti Lake trail when he surprised a female bear with her cubs, the park service said.",
"The bear attacked and fatally wounded the man in an attempt to defend her cubs.",
"A group of nearby hikers called police after they heard the victim's wife crying for help.",
"The name of the victim is being withheld pending notification of family members.",
"There have been no reports of bear encounters along or near the Wapiti Lake trail this season, park spokesman Al Nash said in the statement.",
"A bear warning sign was posted at the head of the trail because of known bear activity along access points.",
"All trails and back-country campsites have been closed until further notice.",
"Park rangers are working to clear the area of all back-country users.",
"\"It is extremely unfortunate that this couple's trip into the Yellowstone backcountry has ended in tragedy,\" said Dan Wenk, superintendent of Yellowstone National Park.",
"\"Our heart goes out to the family and friends of the victim as they work to cope with their loss.\"",
"This is the first bear-caused human fatality in Yellowstone since 1986, Nash said.",
"Bear attacks are extremely rare.",
"No visitors were injured by bears in the park in 2010.",
"Park visitors are advised to hike in groups of three or more people and to be alert for bears and make noise in blind spots.",
"It is not known if the victim or his wife was carrying bear pepper spray at the time of the incident.",
"Bear pepper spray has been effective in stopping aggressive bears."
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"A man, traveling with his wife in Yellowstone, was killed by a grizzly .",
"The couple surprised the grizzly with her cubs .",
"The grizzly attacked and fatally wounded the man .",
"This is the first bear-caused human fatality in Yellowstone since 1986 ."
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"(CNN) -- While suspended star striker Wayne Rooney was recovering from a hair transplant, England's hopes of automatic qualification for Euro 2012 suffered a blow on Saturday as Switzerland claimed at 2-2 draw at London's Wembley Stadium.",
"The balding Manchester United player, who was booked in March's win over Wales to trigger the ban, revealed on Twitter before kickoff that he had used his time off to visit a hair specialist.",
"\"Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant.",
"I was going bald at 25, why not.",
"I'm delighted with the result,\" he wrote on the social networking website.",
"\"It's still a bit bruised and swollen when it dies down u will be first to see it.",
"Anyone recommend any good hair gel.",
"Haha.\" France held by Belarus in Euro 2012 qualifier .",
"It was more serious for Fabio Capello's team, who had to come from two goals down after goalkeeper Joe Hart was badly caught out by two free-kicks from Tranquillo Barnetta just after half an hour.",
"Frank Lampard reduced the deficit with a penalty before halftime and his replacement Ashley Young leveled soon after coming on at the interval.",
"The result meant Montenegro joined England on 11 points at the top of Group G after five games after also being held at home, 1-1 by Bulgaria.",
"Bulgaria and the Swiss have little chance of earning second place and a berth in the playoffs, with both nations having five points with three matches left.",
"England next travel to Bulgaria on September 2, when Montenegro visit pointless bottom nation Wales.",
"Hart looked on in bemusement as Barnetta's curling set-piece drifted past his defenders and into the far corner in the 32nd minute, and he was caught out at the near post by the same player from wide out on the left soon after.",
"However, Lampard made it 2-1 in the 36th minute when Jack Wilshere was fouled in the box by his Arsenal teammate Johan Djourou, and Young leveled six minutes after his halftime introduction after being set up by fellow substitute Leighton Baines.",
"Striker Darren Bent blazed over the bar when he should have hit the target for England with 20 minutes left, and both teams went close in the closing stages.",
"England manager Capello said his players were tired after a long season.",
"\"You can see the Switzerland players were fresher.",
"They have had a different season,\" the Italian said.",
"\"We had three clear chances to score goals but at the end of the game, in the last 10 minutes, some players were without energy.\"",
"Slovakia, Russia and the Republic of Ireland are tied on 13 points at the top of Group B after all three won on Saturday.",
"Slovakia edged a 1-0 win at home to bottom nation as striker Robert Vittek scored the only goal in the 63rd minute.",
"Russia triumphed 3-1 at home to Armenia thanks to a hat-trick from striker Roman Pavlyuchenko, while the Irish defeated Macedonia 2-0 away as skipper Robbie Keane netted both goals to pass a half-century in internationals.",
"Greece returned to the top of Group F with a 3-1 victory over Malta, with two goals from young attacking talent Giannis Fetfatzidis and another by teenage debutant Kyriakos Papadopoulos.",
"That moved the Greeks a point above Croatia, who were joined on 12 by Israel following that nation's 2-1 win in Latvia.",
"Midfielder Yossi Benayoun and Tal Ben Haim, with a penalty, scored in the first half to keep Israel's qualification bid alive.",
"Group H also has a three-way tie at the top with Portugal, Denmark and Norway battling for automatic qualification.",
"Portugal beat Norway 1-0 at home as striker Helder Postiga scored the only goal eight minutes after halftime.",
"Denmark joined them on 10 points, winning 2-0 in Iceland thanks to second-half goals from Lasse Schone and Christian Eriksen.",
"In a friendly international, five-time World Cup winners Brazil drew 0-0 with three-time runners-up the Netherlands.",
"The home team had midfielder Ramires sent off in the 79th minute for his second booking.",
"Current world champions Spain crushed the United States 4-0 in Massacheusetts as Santi Cazorla scored twice, with the other goals coming from fellow striker Alvaro Negredo and his halftime replacement Fernando Torres.",
"The U.S. upset Spain in the semifinals 2009 Confederations Cup, but this time conceded three goals in 13 minutes from just before the half-hour mark.",
"Spain visited in a warm-up match for the Americans ahead of the CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament which the U.S. is hosting this month."
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"England held 2-2 at home by Switzerland in absence of suspended Wayne Rooney .",
"Manchester United striker reveals that he used his time off to get a hair transplant .",
"Group G leaders England level on points with Montenegro, held 1-1 by Bulgaria .",
"Groups B and H have three-way ties at the top of the points standings ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- The diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks throw up revealing details about how the world looks at Britain's royal family, as well as highlighting the occasional episode when erstwhile-royal behavior forces its way on to the agenda of international meetings.",
"There is a frank assessment of Prince Charles by the political director of the Commonwealth group of countries.",
"Amitav Banerji tells an officer at the U.S. Embassy in London that the prince does not \"command the same respect\" among Commonwealth members as does Queen Elizabeth, according to a cable sent on June 11, 2009.",
"Banerji says Commonwealth officials were trying to get the prince \"more involved\" in the organization, according to the cable.",
"It goes on to report Banerji saying the issue of whether Prince Charles would succeed his mother as head of the Commonwealth would be dealt with after the queen passes.",
"There is no rule stipulating the British monarch must head the organization, the cable notes; nor is there any procedure for selecting a new head.",
"Approached by CNN for a response, a spokesman for the Commonwealth said it did not comment on privileged communication.",
"Prince Charles also crops up in a cable sent from Amman, Jordan, on February 19, 2004.",
"This time the assessment is less frank and rather more bizarre.",
"The cable details a briefing to the U.S. ambassador by the then-Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher, who is describing what the cable calls the \"stark ignorance\" shown by Syria towards the rest of the world.",
"By way of an example, he cites comments by Syria's Foreign Minister Farouq Sharaa, to Jordanian officials, that Prince Charles was on the point of being implicated in a Scottish judicial investigation into Princess Diana's death; as a result, said the Syrian minister, the prince was about to embark on a trip to Iraq and Iran \"to seek the support of the Muslim world.\"",
"\"They just don't get it,\" Muasher told the U.S. ambassador, referring to the Syrians.",
"And Prince Charles' one-time sister-in-law, Sarah Ferguson, landed Britain's former Foreign Minister David Miliband, in hot water, according to a cable described in the Guardian newspaper but not yet published by WikiLeaks.",
"The newspaper, which has had sight of the cables in advance of their publication, reports that a documentary made by the former Duchess of York about the treatment of disabled children in Turkish care centers \"topped the agenda\" at talks between Miliband and his Turkish counterpart, Ali Babacan, in November 2008.",
"Turkey said the documentary, which saw Sarah Ferguson disguise her identity to gain access to the centers, was aimed at compromising its efforts to join the EU, the paper says.",
"Miliband is reported to have reminded Babacan that as Ferguson was no longer a member of the royal family, \"her activities could no longer be controlled.\""
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"Commonwealth officer says prince doesn't \"command the same respect\" as the queen .",
"Syrian perceptions called into question by minister .",
"Miliband reminds minister that Sarah Ferguson is no longer a royal ."
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"(CNN) -- Thousands of spectators turned out to cheer on competitors in the 2011 Dakar Rally as the historic race got underway in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Saturday.",
"The 15-day race will see 407 vehicles (of 430 original entries) embark on a grueling 13 stages and attempt to cover a distance of 9,500 kilometers (5,900 miles), before crossing the finish line back in the Argentine capital on January 15.",
"A total of 140 cars, 170 motorbikes, 67 lorries and 30 quadbikes started stage one of the race from the Buenos Aires' Avenue of July 9.",
"All competitors are heading northwest to Victoria, in the Argentine province of Entre Rios, 377 kilometer (234 miles) away.",
"The race will begin in earnest on Sunday with the second stage to Cordoba.",
"Racers will cross the border into Chile on Wednesday heading north towards the border with Peru before heading back south through the Andes mountains and on to the Atacama Desert.",
"From there, they will head east and back into Argentina for the closing stages of the race.",
"Fear and loathing in South America .",
"The rally which began in 1978 was traditionally held in Europe and Africa.",
"But after concerns about terrorism forced the cancellation of the 2008, the rally was relocated to Argentina and Chile the following year.",
"Last year's winner in the car race, Spain's Carlos Sainz -- driving for Volkswagen Motorsport -- is back to defend his title, but he'll face a stiff challenge from the likes of Nasser al-Attiyah from Qatar and Mark Miller from the United States.",
"But the Spaniard and former double world rally champion remains undaunted by the competition.",
"\"I'll only be thinking about how I'm going to race and to do my job well.",
"As usual, I'll be racing at my pace and in my own special way,\" Sainz told www.dakar.com on Friday.",
"Meanwhile in the motorcycle race, France's Cyril Despres will be hoping to successfully defend the title he claimed in 2010."
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"Spectators cheer off participants at the start of the 2011 Dakar Rally in Buenos Aires .",
"A total of 407 vehicles start the race which lasts 15 days and covers 9,500 kilometers .",
"Racers will cover 13 stages in both Argentina and Chile ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Usually in Washington it's Republicans and Democrats battling each other but on Thursday night they joined together to battle a common enemy: the Washington Press Corps.",
"In the third annual Congressional Women's Softball game, members from both sides of the aisle came together to play the Capitol Hill Press Corps to raise about $50,000 for the Young Survival Coalition, a group that assists young women facing breast cancer.",
"Rep. Laura Richardson, D-California, started things off with a three-run home run in the first inning but the press women came back to eventually tie things up in the top of the 6th inning, 4-4.",
"The nail biter went down to the bottom of the 7th and last inning.",
"CNN's Erika Dimmler made an incredible outfield somersault catch to make it two outs but then Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida, came to the plate.",
"Wasserman Schultz, whose jersey simply read \"DWS\", made the incredible game winning hit, driving in Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-California, to win the game 5-4.",
"Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a long time New York Yankees, fan threw out the first pitch as the crowd cheered her on.",
"Bipartisanship was in the crowd too as Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, came to cheer on his team as did Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, and a number of others including Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois, Dennis Kuchinich, D-Ohio, Democratic Caucus Leader John Larsen, D-Connecticut, and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland.",
"Players included Congressional team MVP and DNC chair Wasserman Schultz, Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida, Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, Sens.",
"Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, Kelly Ayotte, R-New Hampshire, and Kay Hagan D-North Carolina for the Congressional Women's team.",
"The press team had players from all five television networks and print, including CNN's Brianna Keilar, Abby Livingston, Stephanie Kotuby and Erika Dimmler who won MVP for press team, CBS's Jill Jackson, ABC's Amy Walter and Chicago Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet.",
"CNN's Senior Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash and Wasserman Schultz started the annual game between Members and Press.",
"But this year Bash could only watch on as honorary coach of her \"baby\" as she is expecting her own baby next month.",
"Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, who repeatedly pointed out that the average age of the Members' team is 53 years old, and NBC's Andrea Mitchell called the game.",
"Mitchell's husband former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan watched on.",
"With all these members, bipartisan spirit, and a win in their column perhaps successful discussions on the debt limit are next?"
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"Ras Lanuf, Libya (CNN) -- Libyan opposition fighters marched west Sunday, seizing control of two key cities, CNN observed, and gaining ground as coalition airstrikes continued to pound the North African nation.",
"Rebel forces told CNN that forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi pulled back from Ras Lanuf.",
"A CNN crew in the city witnessed damaged vehicles on the outskirts of the town, though the town appeared to have avoided major destruction.",
"There were some homes that appeared burned, and others had gaping holes.",
"The damage looked to be from fighting when Gadhafi's forces had originally pushed the rebels out.",
"There were no clashes reported Sunday, rebels said.",
"Rebels also appeared to have taken control of the key oil town of Brega, a CNN team on the scene observed.",
"Some opposition fighters focused on securing Brega's entrance while others traveled in trucks heading west, encountering little resistance along the way.",
"The gains signify that the rebel forces have reclaimed all the territory they lost to Gadhafi's forces at the start of the war.",
"The opposition comeback was paved in part by coalition airstrikes designed to stop the killings of civilians, and that have hit Gadhafi's forces.",
"Coalition airstrikes continued Sunday as NATO approved an operations plan that will shift the entire Libyan military mission to alliance command, officials said.",
"The new NATO mandate will begin in two to three days, NATO officials said, allowing the current coalition, led by the United States, the United Kingdom and France, to stand down.",
"Coalition officials say the airstrikes are aimed at enforcing a no-fly zone and protecting civilians in Libya.",
"But Libyan government officials have countered that claim, arguing that coalition forces only target troops loyal to Gadhafi.",
"\"The rebels are making their advance and no one is stopping them.",
"And no one is even talking to them or saying, 'Where are you going?'",
"or 'Why are you taking offensive positions and attacking the Libyan army and Libyan cities?'",
"\" Moussa Ibrahim, a Libyan government spokesman, told reporters in Tripoli.",
"He accused NATO of \"starving the Libyan population to get Libya on its knees to beg for mercy.\"",
"\"They are trying to weaken our spirits.",
"They are not trying to protect civilians,\" he said.",
"Ibrahim added that 29 people were injured Sunday when a \"peace convoy\" came under attack by \"armed militias.\"",
"No one was killed, he said.",
"While the opposition rolled westward, the city of Misrata -- located between the rebels' current position and Tripoli -- remained under siege by government forces for the 11th consecutive day, an eyewitness told CNN.",
"The city remained under shelling and pro-Gadhafi snipers remained on rooftops, he said.",
"Pro-Gadhafi forces appeared to be shelling strategic places like the port and a main industrial area, he said.",
"Busloads of soldiers have arrived in the city dressed as civilians, the witness said.",
"The soldiers ostensibly came to participate in a peace march, but it appeared to be a ploy to set up positions around the city, he said.",
"\"The snipers are firing into the main streets and into the back streets.",
"There are also tanks,\" he said.",
"According to him, 116 civilians have been killed in the last week.",
"A doctor in Misrata working at a hospital said eight civilians were killed and 22 injured in the violence Sunday.",
"CNN could not immediately confirm his report independently.",
"French warplanes on Sunday led airstrikes on armored vehicles and on a large ammunitions depot in the regions of Misrata and Zintan, according to the French Ministry of Defense.",
"After Ras Lanuf, the next major city on the highway toward the capital of Tripoli is Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte.",
"Rebel forces told CNN they expect a long and bloody battle there.",
"In Tripoli on Sunday, CNN's Nic Robertson reported he heard six loud explosions and saw heavy anti-aircraft tracer fire.",
"The CNN team there heard at least four explosions early Monday, followed again by anti-aircraft fire.",
"Meanwhile, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that Gadhafi is placing the bodies of people his regime has killed at the sites of some missile strikes by the U.S.-led coalition, according to intelligence.",
"In an interview broadcast Sunday on the CBS program \"Face the Nation,\" Gates said he was unaware of coalition attacks causing civilian casualties.",
"\"The truthof the matter is we have trouble coming up with proof of any civilian casualties that we have been responsible for,\" Gates said in the interview conducted Saturday.",
"\"But we do have a lot of intelligence reporting about Gadhafi taking the bodies of the people he's killed and putting them at the sites where we've attacked.\"",
"Asked how often it has happened, Gates replied: \"We have a number of reports of that.\"",
"Determined to topple Gadhafi's nearly 42-year reign, rebels have said they will continue the westward march to Tripoli.",
"\"The dictator has chosen to take the bloody road.",
"... We encourage him to leave or we will force his removal,\" opposition spokesman Col. Ahmed Omar Bani told reporters Saturday.",
"State television reported that civilian and military locations in Sabha and Gadhafi's birthplace of Sirte were bombed overnight.",
"Coalition planes flew at least 96 airstrike missions in a 24-hour period that ended Saturday, according to statistics released by the Pentagon, and leaders reported damage to Gadhafi's ground forces.",
"Opposition fighters chanted gratitude for the coalition's support Saturday after they wrested control of Ajdabiya, considered a gateway to Libya's vast oil fields and a stopping point en route to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.",
"The coalition's air campaign continued Saturday, further limiting loyalist movements.",
"French warplanes destroyed at least five Libyan combat planes and two helicopters over a 24-hour period, the Ministry of Defense said.",
"Explosions and airstrikes were also reported in Tripoli, Tarhunah and Misrata.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah, Arwa Damon and Nic Robertson contributed to this report ."
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"Coalition airstrikes continue as NATO agrees to take command of the Libya mission .",
"Rebel fighters appear to have control of Ras Lanuf and Brega .",
"A government spokesman says NATO is \"starving the Libyan population\"\nEight people are killed and 22 injured in Misrata, an eyewitness says ."
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"(CNN) -- Brazil secured their first win of the 2011 Copa America with a 4-2 victory against Ecuador on Wednesday to seal their progression to the quarterfinals of the competition in Argentina.",
"Forwards Alexandre Pato and Neymar both scored twice in response to a brace from Ecuador's Felipe Caicedo to ensure Mario Manezes' Brazil finished top of Group B.",
"The eight-time tournament winners will now play Paraguay, who qualified from the same group as one of the two best-performing third-place teams.",
"The game's opening goal arrived after 27 minutes, when AC Milan's Pato met Andre Santos' cross with a powerful header.",
"Inter Milan goalkeeper Julio Cesar gifted Ecuador an equalizer 10 minutes later, when the 31-year-old allowed Caicedo's drive to slip through his legs into the net.",
"Santos' Neymar put Brazil back in front four minutes into the second half, when he latched onto Ganso's pass to coolly place the ball beyond Marcelo Elizaga in the Ecuador goal.",
"But Ecuador responded once again, Levante's Caicedo finding the bottom corner with a crisp shot from the edge of the penalty area.",
"Pato, 21, restored the five-time world champions' advantage with his second goal of the game, the former Internacional striker reacting quickest after Elizaga spilled Neymar's drive in the 61st minute.",
"It was Neymar who confirmed Brazil's triumph with 19 minutes remaining when he converted from close-range after right-back Maicon's low cross.",
"Brazil face Paraguay in the city of La Plata on Sunday, after Gerardo Martino's side shared an exciting 3-3 draw with Venezuela.",
"Venezuela took the lead with five minutes gone when forward Salomon Rondon found the net with a stinging 20-yard shot.",
"Defender Antolin Alcaraz equalized for Paraguay when he slammed home following a goalmouth scramble, and Borussia Dortmund's Lucas Barrios edged Paraguay ahead with a scrambled effort just past the hour mark.",
"Cristian Riveros looked to have made sure of the win for Paraguay with his 85th minute strike, but two goals in the last couple of minutes from Getafe's Miku and defender Grenddy Perozo earned Venezuela a draw.",
"Cesar Farias' Venezuela will play Chile on Sunday in San Juan for a place in the semifinals.",
"The other quarterfinals see hosts Argentina take on Uruguay and Colombia face Peru."
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"Brazil beat Ecuador 4-2 to reach the quarterfinals of the 2011 Copa America .",
"Two goals from Alexandre Pato and Neymar secure Brazil top spot in Group B .",
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"Zintan, Libya (CNN) -- Forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi have unleashed their biggest attack yet against a rebel stronghold in the mountains of western Libya, one of the Libyan leader's former generals said Friday.",
"The attack began at dawn Thursday, the former commander said.",
"He now commands rebels in Zintan, using the name Hajj Usama.",
"The attack began Thursday when about 150 of Gadhafi's infantry troops began firing on three fronts near Zintan, he said.",
"They were supported by about 40 vehicles, including long-range \"Grad\" rocket launchers and 14.5 mm heavy machine guns with a range of 6 kilometers.",
"Zintan lies about 90 miles southwest of the capital, Tripoli.",
"Zintan, population 40,000, is at the eastern tip of a 170-mile ribbon of rebel-held mountains that stretch westward from the Tunisian border.",
"After decades in the Libyan army, including a tour of duty in neighboring Chad, Hajj Usama said he now despises his former commander in chief, whom he called a terrorist.",
"\"He's never used infantry like this,\" said the trim, gray-bearded rebel commander.",
"In previous battles, Hajj Usama said, Gadhafi's artillery forces had taken over nearby civilian housing in Zuwail al Bagul and shelled from a distance.",
"Gadhafi's forces simultaneously attacked Thursday on three fronts, Hajj Usama said -- to the north of Zintan, firing Grad rockets into the eastern part of the nearby town of Rayayna, and attacking to the southeast and to the east of Zintan.",
"In response, he dispatched hundreds of fighters to cut off Gadhafi's advance, Hajj Usama said.",
"As of Friday night, one rebel was dead and three were wounded, one of them critically, he said.",
"Fresh trenches cut deep in the stark, red sand here underscore the rebels' readiness to continue defending the town.",
"The absence of Gadhafi's forces has buoyed the confidence of the rebel fighters.",
"Some of the fighters who returned late Friday from the front lines -- crammed into the backs of pickup trucks -- appeared to be school-age.",
"They carried only a handful of weapons, a few hunting rifles and old, bolt-action shotguns.",
"Nevertheless, Hajj Osama said, \"they are keen and determined to fight for their freedom.\"",
"The attack that began Thursday, he speculated, was intended to regain control of Rayayna, population 12,000.",
"Residents east of the town had \"declared their support for the rebels a month ago,\" he said, while the rest of the town remains loyal to Gadhafi and his former head of internal security, Nasar al Mabout.",
"Hajj Usama said al Mabout lives there.",
"Since the raids began, Hajj Usama said, he has lost contact with rebels in Rayayna with the exception of one commander who managed to make the dangerous journey to Zintan after his house was destroyed in the shelling.",
"As dusk fell Friday the shelling visible earlier from the roofs of Zintan abated.",
"But shortly before 10 p.m., the attack resumed with sporadic barrages of gunfire.",
"The rebels said the night shelling may have been intended to terrorize Zintan's residents so they would flee.",
"Some have, but most were staying to brave out the battle they fear is far from over, Hajj Usama said.",
"Early Friday, NATO jets pounded Libyan ports, destroying eight of Gadhafi's warships, an alliance spokesman said.",
"NATO targeted the ships in Tripoli, Al-Khums and Sirte after it was apparent that Gadhafi's forces were increasingly using naval vessels to launch attacks on civilians, said Mike Bracken, NATO's military spokesman.",
"Gadhafi was indiscriminately mining waters in Misrata and hampering the flow of humanitarian aid, Bracken said.",
"\"He was using maritime forces to lay mines.",
"These were legal targets,\" Bracken said at a briefing in Brussels, Belgium.",
"He did not say whether crew members were aboard when the ships were hit.",
"The NATO campaign is progressing and Gadhafi's combat power had been severely curtailed, Bracken said.",
"But the Libyan leader's forces continued their heavy shelling of Dehiba, on the Tunisian border, where thousands of refugees have amassed in recent weeks.",
"The border crossing, through which humanitarian aid is often trucked in, was closed Friday.",
"Along the southern borders, rebels had gained control of border crossings between Libya and Sudan and Libya and Chad and had regained control of Kufra in the southeast, according to a report by the International Medical Corps, which has teams in Libya and Tunisia.",
"The global medical organization said rebel control along the Chad border was significant because supplies flow through there to Gadhafi's forces.",
"\"While control of the entire border will be difficult, the rebels are reported to have a large force in the region,\" it said.",
"\"The Niger and Morocco border crossings remain under Gadhafi control.\"",
"Meanwhile, the African Union announced it will hold a two-day meeting of heads of state in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa next week to address the conflict in Libya, as well as other security issues in Africa.",
"In another development, the family of South African freelance photojournalist Anton Hammerl, who has been missing in Libya since April, said late Thursday they believe he was killed by Libyan government forces.",
"The statement was posted on the \"Free photographer Anton Hammerl\" Facebook page and followed interviews given in The New York Times, Global Post and The Atlantic by two journalists who said they were with him when he was shot.",
"\"On 5 April 2011, Anton was shot by Gaddafi's forces in an extremely remote location in the Libyan desert.",
"According to eyewitnesses, his injuries were such that he could not have survived without medical attention,\" according to the Facebook statement.",
"Hammerl was last reportedly seen in a remote region of the Libyan desert.",
"He was reportedly captured by Gadhafi's forces near the town of al-Brega, a key oil town in eastern Libya, that has been the site of intense fighting."
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"African Union leaders to meet May 25-26 on Libyan conflict .",
"Overnight airstrikes target ships in three Libyan ports ."
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"Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) -- Sudan and Southern Sudan have signed an agreement on border security amid tensions over the disputed Abyei border region, the African Union said Tuesday.",
"The deal, negotiated Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is designed to \"ensure that the two parties can maintain stable and secure relations,\" the African Union said in a statement.",
"\"The agreement also establishes a Common Border Zone between North and South Sudan, which is to be demilitarized and jointly monitored and patrolled.\"",
"The deal was brokered by the African Union and signed by top military and political officials.",
"Additional negotiations will be held within a week, the statement said.",
"In the wake of January's lopsided vote for independence by residents of Southern Sudan, the autonomous region has been scheduled to become an independent state in early July.",
"But Ezekiel Gatkuoth, the representative of Southern Sudan to the United States, said war could break out between the two sides if the international community does not demand that Sudan withdraw its forces from Abyei so residents who have fled can return.",
"\"People are dying daily.",
"They have no food. They have no shelter,\" he said.",
"\"We are asking the world to respond to this catastrophe.\"",
"The World Food Programme said rains made roads impassable in areas south of Abyei, where refugees went, temporarily disrupting food distribution, which had resumed Tuesday.",
"Rain and impassable roads were also making it harder to find people as they fled into the bush, which has made it tough to get a reliable estimate of the number of the displaced.",
"The Sudan People's Liberation Army has cited 150,000; the United Nations has cited 30,000 to 40,000.",
"Last week, the president of the Southern Sudanese government demanded an immediate withdrawal of the Sudanese armed forces that occupy Abyei.",
"And on Monday, the government of Sudan requested that the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) leave the country by July 9, the date set for South Sudan's independence.",
"\"The Sudanese foreign minister has sent a letter to Ban Ki-moon that UNMIS' mandate in Sudan comes to an end at the end of the transitional period, on July 9,\" said Khalid Musa, spokesman for the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, referring to the U.N. secretary-general.",
"Asked whether tensions in Abyei could lead to an extension of UNMIS' mandate in Sudan, Musa said: \"The government is open to dialogue as realities unfold on the ground, but UNMIS' mandate ends on July 9.\"",
"UNMIS spokesman Koudeir Zerrouk confirmed the request.",
"\"The government has informed us of its request and a letter was sent to the U.N. secretary-general,\" he told CNN.",
"UNMIS was established following passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1590 to help facilitate peace-building and humanitarian efforts in Sudan shortly after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.",
"Fighting began May 19, when the north accused Southern Sudanese forces of ambushing a U.N. convoy carrying northern troops to Goli, killing at least 22 soldiers.",
"In retaliation, Sudanese troops attacked and took control of Abyei, a move condemned by the United States as a breach of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which ended the county's decadeslong civil war between the predominantly Arab and Muslim north and predominantly black animist and Christian south.",
"The conflict led to the deaths of two million people, many from starvation.",
"The U.N. compound in Abyei was shelled by mortar rounds and two peacekeepers were wounded, according to a statement from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's press office.",
"The Sudanese armed forces said the military in Southern Sudan was behind the May 19 attack, but the Sudan People's Liberation Army denied responsibility.",
"Also Monday, the Sudanese government disputed claims by actor George Clooney's Satellite Sentinel Project that government forces were involved in ethnic cleansing by destroying Banton Bridge -- a key link with Southern Sudan.",
"Pictures posted by the organization show the demolished bridge sitting in a river bed.",
"The government challenged Clooney to prove his allegations.",
"\"I do not think that he has any evidence for ethnic cleansing,\" said Ibrahim Ghandour, minister of information for the ruling National Congress Party.",
"The Satellite Sentinel Project and the Enough Project accuse the government of having greater ambitions.",
"\"Along with the military occupation of Abyei, the Khartoum regime is laying the groundwork for a takeover of oil fields near Sudan's north-south border, its ultimate objective,\" said Enough Project co-founder John Prendergast.",
"\"If there are no consequences for these violations of the north-south peace deal and for the war crimes being committed in Abyei, the likelihood of full-scale war increases daily.\"",
"The Satellite Sentinel Project uses satellite imagery to monitor developments in Sudan.",
"CNN's Jenifer Fenton and journalists Jane Ferguson and Isma'il Kushkush contributed to this report."
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"Southern Sudan official calls for international support .",
"Sudan denies claims of racial cleansing .",
"Southern Sudan is to become an independent state in July ."
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"(CNN) -- Jason Terry can keep the tattoo.",
"One of the many story lines in the NBA Finals won by the Dallas Mavericks Sunday night was Terry's bold tattoo.",
"Terry said he had the Larry O'Brien championship trophy tattooed on his right bicep before the season began because he was confident the Mavs would clinch the title.",
"Losing would've been painful for Terry, literally, as he said he would have the tattoo removed.",
"The Mavs won 105-95, with Terry leading the team with 27 points.",
"It was the Mavs' first NBA championship in franchise history.",
"Dallas clinched the series by a margin of 4-2.",
"Prior to their Game 6 victory, no player on the Mavs had won an NBA title.",
"\"When you did something as crazy as I did, you have to back it up,\" Terry said showing his tattoo to the television cameras.",
"\"This team never gave up when faced with adversity.",
"We never gave up.",
"Tonight we got vindication.\"",
"The Mavs used furious scoring barrages by Terry and weathered an uneven game by star forward Dirk Nowitzki to win.",
"In the end, Miami could not overcome Dallas' zone defense.",
"\"I still really can't believe it.",
"The team worked so long and so hard.",
"The team deserves this.",
"The Mavs nation deserves this,\" Nowitski said.",
"\"I could not get in a rhythm today but the team carried me to this win.\"",
"\"I gotta give it up for the fellas,\" Nowitski said.",
"Despite a poor shooting night, Nowitzki still had 21 points.",
"The Mavs held a slim 53-51 lead at halftime and were able to grow the lead.",
"They led by nine at the end of the third quarter.",
"They pulled away in the fourth quarter, helped by Miami's sloppy play and turnovers.",
"The loss was devastating for Miami, a team that seemed to be put together for a championship.",
"Before the season, the Heat added perennial all-star forward Chris Bosh and superstar forward LeBron James to a team that was headed by talented guard Dwayne Wade.",
"A dejected James shook a few hands before quickly walking off the floor.",
"The rest of the Heat stayed out to shake the hands.",
"\"It hurts, of course.",
"But I am not going to hang my head low,\" James told reporters after the game.",
"The win not only means the first championship for star power forward Nowitzki, it also means his Mavericks avenged their crushing loss against the Heat in the 2006 NBA Finals.",
"That year, Nowitzki and the Mavericks watched a 2-0 series lead in the NBA Finals evaporate at the hands of Wade and the Heat.",
"For 38-year-old Dallas point guard Jason Kidd, Sunday's victory was a long-time coming.",
"\"It's something that you always dream of when you come into the league,\" Kidd said shortly after the victory.",
"\"And it just shows the character of this team...",
"I guess the third time's a charm.\"",
"The post-game celebration resulted in at least 14 arrests in downtown Dallas, according to police, including four for disorderly conduct and six for public intoxication.",
"CNN's Benjamin Gottlieb and Vivian Kuo contributed to this report ."
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"Dallas leads by 9 points at the end of the third quarter .",
"Jason Terry leads Mavs in scoring with 27 points ."
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"(CNN) -- Federal officials are investigating how firecrackers got into a Southwest Airlines plane scheduled to leave Las Vegas on Tuesday.",
"Southwest Airlines Flight 2408 was leaving Las Vegas McCarran International Airport and was headed to Kansas City, Missouri.",
"The flight was delayed for an hour when a flight attendant found a plastic bag with firecrackers underneath a seat, said Ashley Dillon, an airline spokeswoman.",
"Passengers deplaned.",
"After an inspection that included re-screening luggage, the Transportation Security Administration declared the plane safe and allowed passengers to re-board.",
"It landed safely in Kansas City an hour behind schedule, the spokeswoman said.",
"None of the passengers claimed the plastic bag, but the TSA said it is investigating how the prohibited items got onto the aircraft."
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"After an inspection that included re-screening luggage, it was declared safe ."
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"(CNN) -- Near Yosemite National Park's beautiful Mist Trail, a young man lost his footing, slipping close to the edge of a waterfall.",
"A female companion frantically grabbed for him, but stumbled.",
"Another hiker followed and the three were swept over the powerful 317-foot Vernal Fall, joining a deadly trend at the park this year.",
"Authorities at Yosemite National Park are still searching for two of the bodies from that deadly July accident.",
"And others are searching for answers to explain the recent rash of deaths at the national park in California.",
"This year, 16 people have died from incidents at Yosemite, rangers say.",
"That is about twice as usual.",
"While five visitors have died this year from natural causes, the others were accidental and often entirely preventable.",
"Rangers say some visitors take part in dangerous practices such as hiking treacherous trails in flip-flops, or climbing over safety rails to get better pictures or swimming in waters that are perilously close to waterfalls.",
"Witnesses said the three hikers who were swept over the waterfall in July had climbed over a safety rail.",
"\"We don't station a ranger in every possible dangerous place that's out there,\" said Kari Cobb, a park ranger.",
"\"People have to come here and realize that Yosemite is nature and it is a very wild place.\"",
"Bill Ott, a hiker, says he has seen people swimming in dangerous waters.",
"\"We saw a number of people wading just steps from going into the faster water.",
"It's crazy. Just crazy,\" he said.",
"Visitor Tim Timmerman says he has a plan to keep his family safe.",
"\"We aren't worried because we think if you stay where you're supposed to stay, you're safe and it's exciting,\" Timmerman said.",
"\"It'll be a little scary for them but it's not dangerous if you do what you're supposed to do,\""
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"This year, 16 people have died at Yosemite National Park .",
"That is about twice as usual, rangers say .",
"Some visitors to the park take part in dangerous practices, rangers say ."
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"Editor's Note: Lydia McAllister is a senior at Joplin High School in Joplin, Missouri.",
"She writes for the school newspaper, The Spyglass, plays soccer and is an officer with the National Honor Society.",
"Next year, she hopes to study journalism at the University of Missouri.",
"Education Overtime is an seven-week series that focuses on the conversations surrounding education issues that affect students, teachers, parents and the community.",
"Joplin, Missouri -- Wednesday will be the first day of my last year of high school.",
"Like any other senior, I'm excited to be close to the end.",
"But unlike students in other places, I'm starting school year in a town that survived a tornado.",
"May 22, 2011, is the day my life changed forever.",
"Thinking back, no one could have known what would happen at 5:41 p.m.",
"It was just another Sunday, just another thunderstorm.",
"I was in the kitchen finishing an art project with the TV on in the background.",
"A lady came on to say it was a \"super cell.\"",
"Back to school in tornado-ravaged Joplin .",
"On the front porch, my dad and little brother were watching the storm develop.",
"The sky looked strange.",
"Big black clouds gave way to smaller clouds that hung lower than they should.",
"Everything was so still.",
"The sky started to have an eerie, greenish tint, and the wind blowing south stopped and blew north.",
"In that moment, I knew it wouldn't be just another thunderstorm.",
"iReport Open Story: Joplin tornado .",
"We went down to the basement.",
"My dad had to carry our dog, Belle, who was too old to take the stairs.",
"Hearing the tornado pass through my house is a memory I keep buried.",
"When most of it was over, we couldn't see much. My dad walked to the bottom of the stairs and looked up into what should have been our home, but it was gone.",
"It was just sky. He cleared a path through the debris so he could stand in what should have been our living room.",
"I'll never forget that image of him, the sky above him illuminated with lighting more raw and powerful than I'd ever seen.",
"The tears that streamed down his face let me know it was so much worse than I had thought.",
"The days that followed were some of the hardest.",
"We made trips back and forth to the house where we stayed.",
"We salvaged what we could and picked apart the rubble that used to be our home.",
"Old toys and school work I hadn't seen in years resurfaced and other things, I'll never see again.",
"The stuff I really wanted, you could never find.",
"The days were a blur -- we took photo albums and furniture from the basement to storage units and helped neighbors and friends anyway and everywhere we could.",
"I was depressed, angry, bitter, frustrated.",
"Why us? Why Joplin? More than anything, I hated that it only took the tornado minutes to tear apart my town, but it would be months before life could be anything close to normal.",
"Impact Your World: How to help tornado victims .",
"All those times I'd heard, \"Life's not fair,\" finally made more sense than it ever had before.",
"Before we found a rental house, we stayed with family friends and then my grandparents.",
"Their homes on the other side of town were fine.",
"The rental is nothing like my old house, but my mom has managed to make it feel home-y.",
"I say \"home-y\" because my home -- the house where I grew up and have memories in every room -- is just an empty lot right now, waiting to be rebuilt.",
"It doesn't look like much now, but I love every inch what used to be there.",
"My dad and I talked about the good and bad things that came from the tornado.",
"The bad were a lot easier to list.",
"In fact, I sat there trying to think of good things for a long time before my dad said, \"For every bad thing the tornado has done, think of a good thing, too.",
"That way you keep a balance.",
"You always have to have a balance.\"",
"It's something I'm working on.",
"We'll have a new house. The whole town will be newer and nicer than before.",
"All our friends and family are OK.",
"It was always the kind of community where people helped each other, but now everyone knows it.",
"I'm more excited than usual to start school again.",
"The normality that comes with the school year will be a welcome change from the wild card summer we've been dealt.",
"Our new school is in a mall, and it's a cool space to have your senior year.",
"It's just juniors and seniors, so I won't be with my brother for his freshman year.",
"But I'll have the same schedule I wanted before the tornado, and all the sports and activities are starting like usual.",
"Joplin marching band tries to bring back the music .",
"The Friday before the tornado hit, my chemistry teacher, Mr. Parker, had written on the board: If the world ends Sunday, there will be no school Monday.",
"It was just a joke about end-of-the-world predictions in the news, but our world would kind of end.",
"It stopped spinning in those second the tornado was over us, and then started spinning faster than it had before.",
"I think about the tornado every day, but it gets easier.",
"The anger and resentment have worn off.",
"The tornado ruined a lot of things, but we're still here.",
"Our town is being rebuilt, and our schools are starting on time.",
"Good things are still keeping the balance."
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"The home of Lydia McAllister, a senior at Joplin High School, was destroyed .",
"Joplin students return to school this week .",
"Lydia: \"I think about the tornado every day, but it gets easier\""
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"(CNN) -- Two videos newly posted on YouTube show what Syrian opposition activists say is the gruesome slaughter of civilians in the besieged city of Daraa who had tried to feed people during a recent uprising.",
"One video shows what appears to be a group of Syrian security forces standing over dead bodies, making jokes and discussing planting weapons on them.",
"The gruesome images include the bloody, mangled bodies of five men in civilian clothes.",
"They lie close together on a rooftop, in pools of blood.",
"A group of men dressed in military uniforms walk around them, talking.",
"\"Show me those weapons,\" one says, \"put them here.\"",
"Someone drops what seems to be weaponry onto the torso of one of the bodies.",
"\"These are the weapons the committee will come film,\" a voice says.",
"Throughout the uprising in Syria, the Syrian government has described protesters as \"armed criminals\" and \"terrorists,\" at times saying photos prove that the \"criminals\" were armed when security forces shot them.",
"In the video, the people speaking know they are are being taped, addressing the camera at times.",
"Some of them are smiling or laughing.",
"One jokes about \"eyeliner\" on one of the dead bodies.",
"Deadly clashes at Syrian border .",
"Another video of what appears to be the same scene at a different point in time shows the dead bodies.",
"A young man in military uniform then turns to the camera himself and says, \"These are his criminals.\"",
"It is not clear who he is referring to.",
"The gory videos -- in which the bodies are bleeding from different areas -- are labeled online as having been shot April 30.",
"CNN cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the videos.",
"Two activists with the Syrian opposition explained the incident.",
"One is Abdullah Abazeed, an activist in Daraa, Syria, where the videos were apparently taken.",
"The other activist, who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity, is in the United States and helps Syrian activists post videos online.",
"Abazeed said members of his group, the Syrian Revolution Coordinators Union, negotiated the purchase of the two videos from a member of the security forces for 200 Syrian pounds ($40 U.S.) and put them on YouTube.",
"The incident took place in Daraa, which was under siege by Syrian security forces.",
"Four of the men were working out of a mosque in Daraa, supplying food rations to people, the activists said.",
"Two were the sons of Daraa-Abu Ibrahim, the man who calls for the prayers at the mosque; another two were his nephews, the activists said.",
"Syrian forces marched into the mosque and took the four men, along with a fifth unidentified man, to the roof of a neighboring building, the activists said.",
"The mosque's minaret is visible in the background of the videos.",
"The forces shot the men at point blank range, the activists said.",
"Members of the security forces took videos themselves, the activists said.",
"On April 30, Ibrahim -- whose sons and nephews were just killed -- was forced into making a statement on Syrian state television, the activists said.",
"Syrian state television aired video of Ibrahim making a statement at the time.",
"\"The army came to me and asked me for help so I can move a group of people on the roof of the mosque,\" he said.",
"He added that he was \"surprised to find my son was inside.",
"I told him, 'My son, surrender and leave.'",
"I tried twice, and three times and then took myself and left.\"",
"He said he told the army lieutenant what had happened, who then told him to go back again.",
"\"There was a gunfight between the army and the group inside which included my children and my nephews,\" Ibrahim said on state TV.",
"\"The thought that they could get martyrdom and their idea was to get freedom.",
"Freedom is not gotten this way, not by means of killing, never ever by killing.\"",
"He added that he \"saw them carrying weapons and killing and shooting at the army.\"",
"The opposition activists told CNN that Ibrahim's statement was coerced by Syrian security forces, who threatened the rest of his family.",
"Throughout the uprising, the Syrian government has generally ignored requests for comment from CNN, which has not been granted access into the country and is unable to independently verify the accounts.",
"A call to the Syrian embassy press office Sunday was not immediately returned.",
"CNN's Josh Levs and Yousuf Basil contributed to this report."
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"\"These are the weapons the committee will come film,\" a voice says on the video .",
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"New Delhi (CNN) -- In an attempt to curb runaway inflation, India's central bank raised its benchmark interest rates for the tenth time in sixteen months on Thursday, despite a slowdown in economic growth.",
"The Reserve Bank of India said in a statement that inflation had reached \"uncomfortable levels\" and increased the repo rate at which it lends to commercial banks by 25 basis points to 7.5 percent.",
"The reverse repo rate at which the central bank pays commercial banks for deposits was raised to 6.5 percent.",
"These measures come as government data this week showed Indian's inflation climbed to a higher-than-expected 9.06 percent in May from a year earlier, driven mainly by an increase in prices of manufactured goods.",
"But the central bank's previous rate hikes have made little difference in the cost of living in India.",
"\"If India is to grow in a fast pace then demand must increase and an approach for controlling demand by hiking interest rates will not exactly increase the growth rate or the development of this economy,\" economic adviser to the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Anjan Roy said.",
"India now has the highest inflation rate of any large Asian economy.",
"Analysts say the government's priority is to tame inflation even if its at the expense of economic growth.",
"Reserve Bank Governor Duvvuri Subbarao said in a statement last month that bringing the current elevated rates down should \"take precedence even at the cost of some growth in the short run.\"",
"The government has delayed a decision to hike diesel fuel prices fearing it would further stoke inflation.",
"\"Inflation is a very important factor in India, in fact the fortunes of governments depend on the course of inflation particularly food items, so it is predictable that the RBI will take this course,\" Roy said \"but to be honest inflation in India has proven to be insensitive to interest rate hikes.",
"Inflation is going up and interest rates are going up.\"",
"Roy said the Indian government must now take a supply side management approach to curb rising prices.",
"Asia's third largest economy grew 7.8 percent from January to March, the slowest pace in five quarters.",
"Analysts say the slower growth is making it harder for the second-fastest-growing major economy in the world to pull hundreds of millions of people out of poverty."
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"Analysts say the government wants to tame inflation even at the expense of growth ."
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"(CNN) -- The wife of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said she is closing down her popular French blog.",
"Anne Sinclair, who has been writing about life in the United States on her blog, \"Two or Three Things Seen in America\" since 2008, wrote Monday: \"You understand the circumstances which force me to temporarily suspend this blog.\"",
"She closed by saying, \"See you soon.\"",
"Strauss-Kahn, who is awaiting a trial on sexual assault charges, was released on bail from the Rikers Island jail Friday.",
"He is accused of trying to rape a maid this month in his suite at the Sofitel hotel in New York.",
"He will stay with his wife. Strauss-Kahn faces two counts of criminal sexual act; two counts of sexual abuse; and one count each of attempt to commit rape, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching.",
"In the charge of criminal sexual act in the first degree, Strauss-Kahn is accused of having \"engaged in oral sexual conduct with an individual ... by forcible compulsion,\" an indictment states.",
"There appears to be growing popular sympathy for Sinclair, a former television broadcaster described by some as the \"Barbara Walters\" of France.",
"\"She is very courageous,\" said Jack Lang, one of the elders of France's Socialist Party, as well as a friend and neighbor of Strauss-Kahn.",
"In her message to her blog readers, Sinclair said, \"You have sent me very many messages.",
"I cannot answer each one but know that they touched and helped me.\"",
"CNN's Marilia Brocchetto contributed to this report."
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"Anne Sinclair is described by some as the \"Barbara Walters\" of France .",
"She has been writing her blog since 2008 .",
"Her husband, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is awaiting a trial on sexual assault charges .",
"He is out on bail ."
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"(CNN) -- A photo that conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart claims shows the naked genitals of Rep. Anthony Weiner made its way to the Internet on Wednesday.",
"Breitbart, appearing on the \"Opie and Anthony\" show on the Sirius XM radio network, showed the picture on his cell phone during the interview, according to Breitbart and the show's hosts.",
"A television camera recorded the image of the cell phone with the picture on its screen, and that image was then sent out on Twitter by the show host known as Opie, whose real name is Gregg Hughes.",
"According to Breitbart, he got the photo from a woman who communicated with Weiner online.",
"The woman told Breitbart that Weiner sent her the photo.",
"Dems privately urge Weiner to resign .",
"On Monday, Breitbart told reporters he had an \"X-rated\" photo that had been sent to a woman by Weiner.",
"Breitbart said then he wasn't going to release it publicly for now.",
"Democrats offer Weiner advice .",
"When asked by a reporter later Monday if he could deny Breitbart's claim that an X-rated photo existed, Weiner said: \"No, I cannot.\"",
"Both Breitbart and the \"Opie and Anthony\" hosts said Wednesday that the public release of the photo occurred without Breitbart's knowledge.",
"In a video posted on YouTube explaining what happened, Hughes said a viewer using screen-capture technology sent co-host Anthony Cumia the televised image of Breitbart's phone showing the photo.",
"What was Weiner thinking?",
"Hughes said he then took a cellphone photo of Cumia's cellphone showing the screen-captured image of Breitbart's cellphone with the photo on its screen.",
"iReport: Should Weiner resign?",
"\"At that point, it was race to see who could tweet the picture the fastest, and that's exactly what we did,\" Hughes said in the YouTube video.",
"\"I'm convinced that Andrew Breitbart did not want this picture to be released at this time,\" Hughes continued.",
"\"Unfortunately it was. What're you going to do? In his own statement, Breitbart said he regretted the photo had entered the public domain."
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"A conservative blogger claims it shows Rep. Weiner's genitals .",
"Weiner has acknowledged an X-rated photo exists ."
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"(CNN) -- Famed evangelist Billy Graham, 92, was being treated Wednesday at an Asheville, North Carolina, hospital for pneumonia following an overnight health episode, according to a spokesman.",
"Graham was in good spirits and humor and signed all admission forms, spokesman A. Larry Ross said.",
"Initial pulmonary testing suggested pneumonia, and further tests showed Graham's heart was normal, Mission Hospital said.",
"The minister, who lives in nearby Montreat, North Carolina, was reported to be in stable condition and fully alert.",
"He was receiving antibiotics.",
"No date was set for Graham's release, but Ross said he hopes it will be soon.",
"Graham had episodes of sweating and coughing overnight, according to Ross.",
"The evangelist had a slight fever and difficulty breathing, but was not believed to be in an acute situation.",
"The founder of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has preached to millions over six decades, and has provided counsel to generations of U.S. presidents, beginning with President Harry S. Truman.",
"Graham's son, Franklin, was on a humanitarian mission in North Korea for Samaritan's Purse, a relief and evangelism organization.",
"Franklin Graham leads the evangelistic association and was not expected to return home because of his father's illness.",
"Daughter Anne Graham Lotz will continue a missionary trip to Israel, Ross said.",
"The pastor expressed appreciation to the medical staff and hospital and had a large lunch because he missed breakfast, Ross said.",
"Billy Graham has been hospitalized or treated for several ailments over the years, including head surgery, a fall, intestinal bleeding, prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease.",
"According to Ross, Graham has remained in good health overall.",
"Age-related conditions -- including macular degeneration and hearing loss -- have kept Graham at home in recent years, but the evangelist is involved in writing projects, including a manuscript for a book about aging, Ross said.",
"Graham's wife, Ruth Bell Graham, died in 2007.",
"CNN's Anna Rhett Miller contributed to this report."
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