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CENTURION (AFP) - Dale Steyn became South Africa’s leading Test wicket-taker as Pakistan struggled on the opening day of the first Test at SuperSport Park on Wednesday.</div>
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Pakistan were 76 for four at lunch after winning the toss and batting on a well-grassed pitch on a hot day.</div>
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Steyn and fellow fast bowlers Kagiso Rabada and Duanne Olivier all took wickets.</div>
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Azhar Ali, one of only three Pakistanis with previous Test experience in South Africa, was unbeaten on 31 at the interval.</div>
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Rabada struck first, trapping Imam-ul-Haq leg before wicket for nought with a full delivery in the second over. The batsman wasted a review of a decision from umpire Bruce Oxenford which never looked in doubt.</div>
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Steyn claimed his 422nd Test wicket, going past previous record-holder Shaun Pollock, when Fakhar Zaman edged him to third slip for 12, sparking exuberant celebrations from his team-mates.</div>
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Rabada lifted his new ball partner onto his shoulders as other players rushed in to congratulate him.</div>
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Shan Masood, playing in place of Haris Sohail, who suffered a knee injury during the pre-match warm-up, looked competent in scoring 19 before being bowled off his thigh pad by Olivier, who followed up by getting Asad Shafiq leg before for seven.</div>
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Shafiq reviewed Oxenford’s decision but replays showed the ball would have hit the bails in the ‘umpire’s call’ zone. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 40px; text-align: start;">لاہور(کامرس رپورٹر)حکومت کے حکم پر پاکستان ٹیلی کمیونی کیشن اتھارٹی نے موبائل فون آپریٹرز کو گو نواز گو پر مشتمل ایس ایم ایس کو بلاک کرنے کی ہدایت کر دی ۔ موبائل فونز آپریٹرز نے اس سلسلے میں تیاریاں شروع کر دیں ہیں ۔ گو نواز گو الفاظ پر ایس ایم ایس کو بلاک کرنے کا سلسلہ آج سے شروع کر دیا جائے گا ۔ ایسے تمام ایس ایم ایس جس میں گو نواز گو کے الفاظ ہوں گے وہ بلاک کر دیئے جائیں گئے ۔ انگریزی اور اردو دونوں زبانوں میں ایس ایم ایس کو بلاک کیا جائے گا ۔</span></div>
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<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles County´s Natural History Museum on Friday unveiled the "Blue Moon Diamond," a 12-carat gem described as one of the rarest stones in the world.</b></div>
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Deep blue and intensely radiant, it was found in South Africa´s Cullinan mine northeast of Pretoria, where the biggest ever rough diamond was unearthed a century ago.</div>
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"Fancy vivid blue diamonds are extremely rare and the Blue Moon is no exception," said Suzette Gomes, chief executive of Cora International, a leading diamond supplier from whom the gem is on loan.</div>
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"It is a historic stone that is one of the rarest gems with this color and in this size to be found in recent history," she added.</div>
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Only a few bigger blue diamonds exist, including the "Heart of Eternity," valued at $16 million, and the 45-carat</div>
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"Hope" worth an estimated $350 million despite having a reputation as being cursed.The value of "Blue Moon," which took six months to be cut from a 30-carat rough diamond, is not yet known but Gomez noted that Cora bought the rough diamond for $26 million.</div>
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The Cullinan mine is where a 3,106-carat diamond was discovered in 1905. It was presented to the British monarch King Edward VII and then cut up, with two of the principal resulting gems forming part of the British crown jewels.</div>
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These are the "First Star of Africa" (530 carats) and the "Second Star of Africa" of 317 carats, now held in the Tower of London.</div>
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The sound track of the film includes the voice of Raha Fateh Ali Khan, Shafqat Amanat Ali, Sarah Raza, Hina Nasarullah and Sahir Ali Bagga.</div>
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The film is helmed by Afia Nathaniel, one of Pakistan’s most exciting filmmakers and founder of Lahore-based Zambeel Films, and produced by Muhammad Khalid Ali, seasoned producer at The Crew Films in Karachi.</div>
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After the success of “Khuda Ke Liye” and “Bol” under the banner of Geo films, “Dukhtar” is being released nationwide on September 18.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123944469086682756.post-74205460412212492562014-09-17T00:12:00.001-07:002014-09-17T00:12:08.659-07:0010th special flight brings back 259 stranded Pakistanis from Libya<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ISLAMABAD: A special flight from Tripoli with 259 Pakistanis on board, The Air Libya flight, chartered by the Government of Pakistan arrived in Lahore on Tuesday evening.</b></div>
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This brings the total number of special flights operated so far to 10 and the total number of Pakistanis airlifted from Libya to 2769.</div>
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Meanwhile, the number of Pakistanis that have been evacuated through land routes from bordering countries has reached 2700.</div>
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This brings the overall figure of stranded Pakistanis who have been successfully evacuated from Libya to 5469.</div>
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Over 500 destitute Pakistanis are still being supported in the relief camps, set up by Pakistan Embassy, waiting to be repatriated in the coming days.</div>
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Additional special flights will be planned accordingly. (PPI)</div>
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<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RAWALPINDI: At least 20 militants were killed in on going military operation in North Waziristan, ISPR said on Tuesday.</b></div>
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According to a statement, Pakistan warplanes targeted hideouts in different areas, killing 20 militants and destroying arms depots</div>
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North Korea has opened an annual festival featuring tens of thousands of
performers praising the ruling Kim dynasty, amid reports this year's
Arirang event will be the last.</b><br />
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The festival began
Wednesday evening at Pyongyang's May Day Stadium with a display of
"music, dances, gymnastics, acrobatics and ever-changing background",
the official news agency reported Wednesday night.<br />
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The
extravaganza, named after a famous Korean folk song, involves artists
including young children performing synchronised acrobatics, dances and
flip-card displays of politicised messages. <br />
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impoverished communist state has drawn thousands of Chinese and other
foreign tourists to the festival, which began in 2002 and became an
annual event in 2007.<br />
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Performances this year are in honour
of "the leadership of the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong-Un, holding
President Kim Il-Sung and leader Kim Jong-Il in high esteem for all
ages", the news agency said.<br />
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Slogans such as "Long live
heaven-sent illustrious commander General Kim Jong-Un! were displayed
and the stadium became a "huge sea of flowers and dances", it added. <br />
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Jong-Un took over as leader when his father Jong-Il died last December.<br />
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Jong-Il
succeeded his own father and founding president Kim Il-Sung, who helped
establish an all-pervasive personality cult around the family.<br />
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Beijing-based tour firm which for years has organised trips to the
North has said this year's Arirang festival, from August 1 to September
9, will be the last.<br />
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The North plans to present new shows with different themes beginning next year, Koryo Tours said in June. (AFP)<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Cscript%20async%20src=%22//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E%20%3C!--%20Landscapee%20--%3E%20%3Cins%20class=%22adsbygoogle%22%20%20%20%20%20%20style=%22display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px%22%20%20%20%20%20%20data-ad-client=%22ca-pub-1670575567185137%22%20%20%20%20%20%20data-ad-slot=%228405523128%22%3E%3C/ins%3E%20%3Cscript%3E%20(adsbygoogle%20=%20window.adsbygoogle%20%7C%7C%20[]).push(%7B%7D);%20%3C/script%3E"><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- Landscapee --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1670575567185137" data-ad-slot="8405523128"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></a></span>
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robot dancing competition took place in northeast China, attracting 29
teams from China, Russia, Mexico and South Korea.</b><br />
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A pair of giant panda-shaped robots drew attention as they had to move over 20 joints in costumes when they were dancing.<br />
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worked very hard on these giant panda robots. It took a lot of work to
ensure even easy moves. For example, we spent three days to complete the
giant panda costumes," said He Rong, student of Xihua University.<br />
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robot that could write calligraphy stood out at the competition as
well. The robot wrote "Welcome to Fujin" and won applause from
competitors and judges.<br />
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A team from a Mexican University won the first prize for the solo dance category after a day-long competition. (Monitoring Desk)</span>
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central character in Olympic visa scandal, Muhammad Ali Asad in an
interview given to Geo News on Tuesday said he was all set to release
more videos to expose the reality of the passport system that is in
place Pakistan.</b><br />
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"I have only released a trailer, the
whole movie still remains to be released," Asad said during an exclusive
interview with Geo News.<br />
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Asad claimed to have video
footage of many hours in duration and that the moment it is released
would completely unnerve Rehman Malik.<br />
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He said he was
waiting for the day when Prime Minister's Advisor on Interior Rehman
Malik takes action against him. "I am not a villain, I just want
Pakistan's passport system in a better shape," he said and termed the
claim of the country's passport system being error-free as 'ridiculous'.<br />
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He believed that terrorists were gaining undue advantage from the weaknesses of Pakistan's passport apparatus.<br />
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The last time the United States landed a mission on Mars to look for
extraterrestrial life or its building blocks, Gerald Ford was president
and the nation had just finished celebrating its 1976 bicentennial.</b><br />
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Next week, the long-delayed second attempt will try to deposit a rover on the planet’s surface.<br />
<br />
The
descent and landing in the early hours of Aug. 6 will be the most
complex and hair-raising in planetary history. The destination is a deep
crater with a three-mile-tall mountain that NASA could only dream about
using as a landing site until very recently.<br />
<br />
It’s the
most ambitious, the most costly ($2.5 billion) and the most high-stakes
mission ever to another planet. It was also described last week by the
agency’s top scientist, former astronaut John M. Grunsfeld, as “the most
important NASA mission of the decade.”<br />
<br />
“There is no doubt
that this is a risky mission, and that is coming from a
human-spacecraft guy,” Grunsfeld said. “It’s hard to get something this
big and complex to the surface of Mars, and then to get it to start
roving. Thousands of people around the world working on it will be
feeling their lives are riding on the mission landing successfully.
We’ll all know soon if the risk was worth it.”<br />
<br />
What the
Mars Science Laboratory mission and its rover named Curiosity bring to
Mars is a capacity to analyze the planet with much more sophistication
than before, and to do it over a sizable and scientifically rich
expanse.<br />
<br />
The goal is not to find Martian life per se but
rather to ferret out carbon-based organic compounds that are building
blocks of life, and then to determine whether the Gale Crater landing
site was ever suitable for creatures. Both are integral parts of the
science of astrobiology — the search for life beyond Earth.<br />
<br />
At
10 feet long and seven feet high at the top of its camera mast,
Curiosity is the size of an SUV and weighs almost a ton, about three
times more than the Spirit and Opportunity rovers sent to Mars in 2003
on a primarily geological mission. Its robotic arm for digging soil and
drilling rock is seven feet long, almost three times longer than
previous rover arms. This tool will provide more and better samples for
the lab’s instruments, which will do their analysis on Mars and send
back the results to scientists here.<br />
<br />
Curiosity will have
numerous ovens to bake soil and rocks up to 1,800 degrees and analyze
what comes out; it will have a laser zapper to free up potentially
important targets in rocks; it will have cameras with unprecedented
capabilities, including one that will take video of the last several
minutes of the high-drama landing, now dubbed “seven minutes of terror”
by NASA.<br />
<br />
Getting to Mars, and especially landing on it, is
difficult. Forty-four missions — flybys, orbits and landings — have
been sent to the planet by NASA, the former Soviet Union, Russia, the
European Space Agency, Japan and China, and about one-third have made
it. All six successful landings were flown by NASA. (A Soviet capsule
made a soft landing in 1971 but then sent back only 14 seconds of data,
so it is not considered to have succeeded.)</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123944469086682756.post-90300568162686238012012-07-31T19:45:00.008-07:002012-07-31T19:45:52.965-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With bundle of blessings the holy month of Ramazan offers for human
beings, the bad habit of smoking can also be avoided through fasting.</b><br />
<br />
Fasting
is considered as a strong tool to maintain good health and effective
cure for various psychological and medical disorders and health experts
suggest fasting as a best way to quit smoking.<br />
<br />
"The holy
month of Ramadan serves as a best exercise for smokers to maintain good
health and avoid bad habits of nicotine dependency to stay normal," said
Dr Haseeb Sitaar of Holy Family hospital.<br />
<br />
Fasting keeps a
person healthy and clean both physically and spiritually and when it
comes to quit smoking, it can be a best way for those having serious
infections from smoking, he said.<br />
<br />
In normal days, it
becomes hard for smokers to leave smoking completely as hectic routine
and other social pressures compel some to smoke while the period of
fasting keeps them away from smoking.<br />
<br />
Fasting is a religious obligation and the faithful follow this<br />
obligation prior to anything else during Ramadan, which leads them to<br />
avoiding all the bad habits.<br />
<br />
Taking
a month-long break from the practice of smoking sometimes get converted
to a permanent avoidance of health hazardous things.<br />
<br />
"Will
power is needed to quit smoking, which the fasting provides people
during this holy month and the people refrain themselves to smoke to
fulfill their religious obligation," Dr Haseeb said.<br />
<br />
Other
than Ramadan, smokers experience withdrawal symptoms, like
irritability, anger, restlessness, impatience, insomnia and difficulty
concentrating but the fasting helps them to maintain patience.<br />
<br />
"Fasting
is a spiritual help to spend smoke-free days during Ramadan and an
excellent practice for leaving many bad habits," said Hanif Ejaz, a
student suffering from serious infections of smoking. (APP)</span>
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Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian of all time on
Tuesday, winning a record 19th medal in the pool as China's swimming
sensation Ye Shiwen grabbed her second gold of the Games.</b><br />
<br />
Phelps
anchored the US team to a convincing victory in the 4x200m freestyle
relay to secure gold and beat the record of 18 medals amassed by Soviet
gymnast Larisa Latynina between 1956 and 1964.<br />
<br />
The
American had earlier had his bid for a 200m butterfly Olympic treble
thwarted by Chad le Clos of South Africa, but the silver allowed him to
match the record medal haul before the relay sealed his unprecedented
achievement.<br />
<br />
Phelps, 27, won six golds and two bronze
medals at the 2004 Athens Games, then brought home a spectacular eight
golds from Beijing.<br />
<br />
He has suffered a testing Games in
London, slumping out of the medals in the 400m individual medley and
then having to settle for silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay.<br />
<br />
But
Phelps' record 19th medal was never in doubt in Tuesday's relay as he
took over the final leg with a healthy lead and powered home to leave
France trailing in silver and China with bronze.<br />
<br />
Ye, just
16, is likely to fuel more speculation about her remarkable performances
after she added the 200m individual medley title to the 400m individual
medley crown.<br />
<br />
The Chinese girl was lagging behind the
leaders at the turn in the Aquatics Centre, but produced a powerful
final 50m to overhaul Australia's Alicia Coutts in an Olympic record
time of 2min 7.57sec.<br />
<br />
Her swim came just days after her lightning freestyle leg in the longer medley propelled her to a new world record.<br />
<br />
Ye's
emergence has raised unproven suspicions of doping, with John Leonard,
executive director of the World Swimming Coaches' Association,
describing her display in the 400m medley as "impossible."<br />
<br />
But Chinese authorities went on the offensive, saying it was unfair to point the finger at their swimmers.<br />
<br />
"The
Chinese athletes, including the swimmers, have undergone nearly 100
drug tests since they arrived here," Jiang Zhixue, the head of
anti-doping at China's General Administration of Sport, told Xinhua news
agency.<br />
<br />
"Many were also tested by the international
federations and the British anti-doping agency. I can tell you that so
far there was not a single positive case.<br />
<br />
"I think it is not proper to single Chinese swimmers out once they produce good results. Some people are just biased."<br />
<br />
Former
British swimmer Adrian Moorhouse, a gold medallist in the 100m
breaststroke in the 1988 Seoul Games, issued a strong defence of Ye,
saying it was possible China had unearthed their own Phelps.<br />
<br />
"I think it's sour grapes," Moorhouse said. "I think it's quite insulting actually."<br />
<br />
In
the gymnastics arena, the United States won the women's team final to
claim their first gold medal in the event since 1996. Russia had to
settle for silver while Romania pipped 2008 Olympic champions China to
bronze.<br />
<br />
The first of 15 golds up for grabs Tuesday was won
by defending champions Germany in the equestrian three-day eventing,
with Michael Jung then becoming the first rider to hold the European,
world and Olympic individual titles.<br />
<br />
Great Britain finished second in the team event to earn a silver medal for Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Zara Phillips.<br />
<br />
China
won their third diving gold in three events when world champions Chen
Ruolin and Wang Hao clinched the women's 10m synchro platform.<br />
<br />
Chen,
the individual 10m platform champion from the Beijing Games and the
synchronised 10m platform champion, teamed with Wang to tally 368.40
points from their five dives off the tower. (AFP)</span>
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Crude was mixed in Asia Tuesday as wary traders looked to meetings this
week by the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank (ECB) for market
leads, analysts said.</b><br />
<br />
New York's main contract, light
sweet crude for delivery in September added six cents to $89.84 a barrel
and Brent North Sea crude for September delivery shed 29 cents to
$105.91.<br />
<br />
Crude markets were expecting additional stimulus
to be announced during the two-day Federal Reserve meeting which starts
Tuesday as well as at the ECB meet on Thursday, analysts said.<br />
<br />
But
markets were tempering their optimism with "worries that expected
stimulus from the United States and Europe may fail to lift their
economies", Phillip Futures stated in a commentary.<br />
<br />
In
Europe in particular, expectations that the ECB would resume its bond
purchase program was met with a tinge of caution, IG Markets said in a
report.<br />
<br />
"While there was an air of optimism about the
willingness of European policymakers to act to stabilise the bond
markets, on the ground there is still an underlying sense of unease," it
stated.<br />
<br />
Data issued by the ECB on Monday suggested that
the bank had last week opted not to resume its programme of buying up
bonds of eurozone nations, its 20th week in a row of not doing so.<br />
<br />
The
ECB launched its bond-buying blitz under the Securities Market
Programme (SMP) in 2010 to help debt-wracked eurozone countries that
were finding it difficult to drum up financing in capital markets.<br />
<br />
But
the SMP has lain dormant since February following the ECB's moves to
pump more than one trillion euros ($1.23 trillion) into the banking
system via three-year funding operations in December and February.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123944469086682756.post-49405187057138680592012-07-31T19:44:00.005-07:002012-07-31T19:44:38.548-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsDetailMain"><b>LOS
ANGELES: The new Batman flick "The Dark Knight Rises" was number one at
North American box office despite last week's mass shooting in Colorado,
final data released Monday showed.</b><br />
<br />
Twelve people were
killed and 58 wounded when a gunman sprayed bullets into a midnight
premiere of the final installment of the Batman trilogy in Aurora,
Colorado on July 20.<br />
<br />
Still the film finished its debut
weekend with the third-largest earnings ever, and this weekend raked in
earnings well above its competitors, bringing in $62.1 million,
according to Exhibitor Relations, which tracks ticket sales.<br />
<br />
Second place, with $13.4 million, went to 3-D computer-animated adventure comedy "Ice Age 4: Continental Drift."<br />
<br />
Coming in just behind was science-fiction comedy "The Watch," which opened with $12.75 million in box office receipts.<br />
<br />
The
film stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade as
four suburban dads who form a neighborhood watch only to end up battling
an alien invasion.<br />
<br />
"Step Up: Revolution," about a crew of
street dancers protesting urban development plans in Miami, opened in
fourth ($11.7 million), followed by cheeky teddy bear comedy "Ted,"
($7.4 million) and "The Amazing Spider-Man" ($6.7 million).<br />
<br />
Pixar
studio's 3-D animated fairytale "Brave" dropped to 7th place ($4.3
million), ahead of Steven Soderbergh's comedy about male strippers,
"Magic Mike," ($2.6 million) and Oliver Stone's thriller "Savages,"
($1.8 million), about California drug traffickers facing off against a
Mexican cartel.<br />
<br />
Rounding out the top 10 was Wes Anderson's dream-like narrative "Moonrise Kingdom," with $1.4 million.</span>
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Indonesian police have intercepted 85 endangered pangolins, most of them
alive despite being stuffed into sacks by suspected smugglers, an
official said Tuesday.</b><br />
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The animals, also known as
scaly anteaters and prized mostly in China and Vietnam as food and
medicine, were packed in 14 sacks when they were seized at a bus station
in the city of Medan in North Sumatra province on Saturday, said Yoris
Marzuki, chief detective of the local police.<br />
<br />
"About 80
percent were still alive. We suspect that they were being smuggled
abroad via Malaysia to Hong Kong or mainland China," he said. <br />
<br />
He said police had acted on a tip-off but that no arrests had been made.<br />
<br />
"We
are still investigating the case," he said, adding that police were
working with the natural resources conservation agency to release the
animals back to the wild.<br />
<br />
The pangolin, which eats
termites and ants, is protected under the UN's Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species, and trading in it and its
products is illegal. (AFP)</span>
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It's a tale of Olympian proportions: A man, a rickshaw, and a slow
journey from a Chinese village to London through 16 countries. Chinese
farmer Chen Guanming claimed on Thursday that his two-year odyssey to
the London games took him from Thailand's floods to Tibet to snowed-in
Turkey to Britain since he started in 2010. </b><br />
<br />
The
57-year-old, who said he had never travelled outside China before this
trip, said he wanted to support the athletes and "spread the Olympic
spirit". He's also seeking a last-minute ticket to attend Friday's
opening ceremony.<br />
<br />
"I came to support and cheer all the
people from all over the world who are participating in the sports,"
said Chen, who sports a silvery white beard and a small ponytail. "I'm
volunteering, I'm not looking for a reward." <br />
<br />
His
three-wheeled rickshaw, loaded with his possessions, is plastered with
pictures of him posing in front of international landmarks such as the
Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. Chen said he became inspired to come to London at the end of
the Beijing Olympics in 2008, when British media invited him to the next
games. He didn't have a ticket, but he promised them he would get
there. <br />
<br />
According to Chen, his journey began in April 2010
in his village in eastern China's Jiangsu province, where he farms rice
and other crops. Over the next two years, he said he covered 16
countries including Vietnam, Thailand, Pakistan, Turkey and Italy. <br />
<br />
His
worst experiences, he said, were travelling during Thailand's floods
and being trapped in freezing temperatures in the snow in Turkey. He
arrived in Britain by ferry from France on July 6, he said. <br />
<br />
Chen
said he started arranging his visas beginning in 2009 and was helped
financially by friends and kind people - especially Chinese communities -
wherever he went. His account cannot be independently verified and it
is not clear how he managed to traverse so many countries' borders. A
BBC interview with him, however, showed tourist visa stamps in his
passport from countries including Pakistan, Thailand and Iran. A YouTube
video posted in May shows him in Rome, surrounded by curious passersby.
<br />
<br />
John Beeston, a British insurance broker who spoke some
Mandarin, said he found Chen looking lost on London's bustling streets
on July 9. "We are trying desperately to get him into the opening
ceremony because his story has to go around the world," he said. But
Chen is proud of his epic journey even if he does not get into Olympic
Stadium. ‘I came. I did it. I'm very happy to have come to beautiful
London," he said. <br />
<br />
His journey doesn't end with the
British capital. In a month or two, he said he plans to take a ship to
the US and Canada, and he also wants to go to Brazil. "I want to go to
the Rio Games too," he said</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123944469086682756.post-8501032430791139332012-07-27T22:41:00.003-07:002012-07-27T22:41:08.085-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ANGELES: Michael Jackson's mother will share custody of his children
with his nephew, lawyers said Friday after a hectic week for the musical
family.</b><br />
<br />
Katherine Jackson, 82, met with her grandson
TJ Jackson, 34, Thursday and agreed that joint custody is in the best
interest of the children, the Jackson family matriarch's lawyer Perry
Sanders said in a statement.<br />
<br />
"Mrs Jackson is extremely
pleased with the prospect of enjoying the pleasure of raising Michael's
children without the day-to-day tedium of items such as managing the
large staff that goes with such a high-profile family and focus her
attention on being a grandmother and raising Michael's children,"
Sanders said.<br />
<br />
The Jackson family will formalize the new
custody arrangement early next week, Sanders said, ending the family's
dispute over the custody of Prince (15), Paris (14) and Blanket (10).<br />
<br />
On
Wednesday, the Superior Court in Los Angeles granted TJ temporary
custody of the children, because of Katherine Jackson's mysterious
disappearance for 10 days. She had previously been the guardian of the
children. <br />
<br />
The fractious Jackson family has been embroiled
in legal and financial disputes since the pop star's sudden death in
June 2009 from an overdose of propofol, a powerful anesthetic.<br />
<br />
Entertainment
media portrayed the 82-year-old Jackson's absence as an abduction by
Michael's siblings, who are allegedly furious they did not inherit any
of the singer's assets.<br />
<br />
Katherine Jackson controls the $70,000 per month that Michael Jackson left his family in his will.<br />
<br />
The document grants TJ custody of the children, if Katherine Jackson dies while they are still minors.<br />
<br />
Together
with his brothers Taj and Taryll, TJ is part of an R&B band they
started in the 1990s, 3T, which performed a tribute to Michael Jackson
in October 2011 in Britain. (AFP)</span>
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London Games open with fun-filled show
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London Olympics burst into life on Friday with a humour-filled opening
ceremony watched by 80,000 spectators and more than one billion TV
viewers.</b><br />
<br />
Queen Elizabeth II and James Bond, alias
actor Daniel Craig, were shown in a spoof film parachuting from a
helicopter into the Olympic Stadium in east London before the real
monarch took her seat to loud applause.<br />
<br />
After seven years
of planning, the Games officially began in the gleaming new stadium in a
once rundown area of the British capital with a colourful show devised
by "Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle.<br />
<br />
The
ceremony kept Boyle's promise to showcase British history with a dash of
quirky humour, tracing time from a bucolic past through the Industrial
Revolution before fast-forwarding to the present day.<br />
<br />
The
show even included a tribute to Britain's state-run National Health
Service while actor Kenneth Branagh, "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling
and "Mr Bean" Rowan Atkinson all had roles.<br />
<br />
More than 80
world leaders and royals attended the ceremony while First Lady Michelle
Obama represented the United States alongside a host of celebrities
including Angelina Jolie.<br />
<br />
Earlier the Olympic flame was
rowed up the River Thames in the royal barge as it approached the end of
a 70-day relay around Britain and Ireland and made its way to the
stadium.<br />
<br />
The queen told dignitaries earlier that people in
Britain had watched the progress of the flame with "growing excitement"
as the Games approached.<br />
<br />
Once the curtain goes up, the
stage is set for superstars Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps and Roger Federer
to dazzle in competition, while an army of unsung competitors are also
aiming for gold.<br />
<br />
A budget of #9.3 billion ($14.5 billion,
12 billion euros) has been spent on bringing the Games to London for an
unprecedented third time, and the first since 1948.<br />
<br />
There
have been last-minute hitches with Britain's biggest peacetime security
operation after 4,700 additional servicemen had to be drafted in when a
private security contractor failed to supply thousands of guards.<br />
<br />
But International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Jacques Rogge declared himself satisfied with the preparations.<br />
<br />
"I
can say with pleasure that London is ready and we are eagerly waiting
for the opening ceremony," Rogge said ahead of the ceremony.<br />
<br />
The London organisers have stressed they are not trying to rival the no-expense-spared extravaganza of Beijing four years ago.<br />
<br />
Instead they have promised a Games for the athletes and ensured many of the venues can be reused or recycled.<br />
<br />
Iconic
locations such as Wimbledon, Lord's cricket ground and Hyde Park will
host events while the Olympic Park complex in Stratford is home to
events including athletics, swimming and track cycling. (AFP)</span>
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US suspect was under psychiatrist's care
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<span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsDetailMain"><b>DENVER: A
former University of Colorado graduate student accused of killing 12
people and wounding 58 others in a shooting rampage at a Denver-area
movie theater last week had been under the care of a psychiatrist who
was part of a campus threat-assessment team.</b><br />
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The
disclosure came in court documents filed on Friday by lawyers for James
Holmes, 24, who is accused of opening fire last Friday on a packed
showing of the latest Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises," in the
Denver suburb of Aurora. <br />
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The defense attorneys, in their
request to an Arapahoe County district judge, are seeking a court order
requiring prosecutors to turn over the contents of a package that Holmes
sent to Dr. Lynne Fenton and was later seized by investigators. <br />
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"Mr. Holmes was a psychiatric patient of Dr. Fenton, and his communications with her are protected," the filing said. <br />
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Fenton,
medical director for student mental health services at the University
of Colorado-Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, provides medication and
psychotherapy for grad students in addition to her teaching duties,
according to a school website.<br />
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A professional biography of
Fenton posted on the site said she had conducted research on
schizophrenia, including a two-year grant to work in the schizophrenia
research department of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from 2008
to 2010.<br />
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Fenton also is a member of the campus-based
"behavioral assessment and threat assessment team," which helps faculty
and staff deal with "individuals who may be threatening, disruptive or
otherwise problematic," according to that group's website.<br />
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It
could not be ascertained if Fenton was caring for Holmes under the
threat-assessment program or under routine counseling she provided to
students on campus. <br />
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Under Colorado law, mental health
professionals cannot be held liable in civil suits for failing to
predict a patient's violent behavior unless it involves a "serious
threat of imminent physical violence against a specific person or
persons." When such a threat is made, the mental health professional is
required to take action, which may include<br />
notifying those targeted or a law enforcement agency. <br />
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Fenton
could not immediately be reached by Reuters for comment, and a
spokeswoman for the University of Colorado medical school declined to
comment, citing restrictions under a gag order issued by the judge
presiding over the case. <br />
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The university, where Holmes
had been enrolled as a doctoral student of neuroscience, confirmed
earlier this week that a suspicious package was delivered by mail on
Monday and that it was "immediately investigated and handed over to
authorities within hours."<br />
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Fox News has reported, citing
an unnamed law enforcement source close to the investigation, that two
packages were sent by Holmes to a psychiatrist on the faculty of the
University of Colorado, and that one contained a notebook detailing the
shooting scenario. According to Fox News, the notebook contained
hand-drawn illustrations of stick figures shooting at other stick
figures. <br />
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The defense motion accuses the government of
leaking information to the media in defiance of a gag order, thereby
jeopardizing Holmes' rights to due process and fair trial by an
impartial jury. It says his lawyers will request a hearing to determine
"appropriate sanctions for this misconduct." <br />
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Prosecutors,
responding to the discovery motion, disputed various elements of media
accounts as being erroneous, suggesting that anyone who had provided
information to Fox News and other outlets lacked real knowledge of the
case.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123944469086682756.post-74290465031385922462012-07-27T22:40:00.002-07:002012-07-27T22:40:07.799-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Google says didn't delete St View data</h1>
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<span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsDetailMain"><b>LONDON:
Google Inc said on Friday it had not kept its promise to delete all the
personal data, such as emails, its Street View cars collected in Britain
and other countries in 2010.</b><br />
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The U.S. company
admitted in May 2010 that its vehicles, which photograph neighborhoods
to create street level images, had accidentally collected data from
unsecured wireless networks used by residents in more than 30 countries.<br />
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The
failure to comply with a promise to delete all the data was notified to
Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which said the fact
that the data still existed appeared to breach an undertaking signed by
Google in November 2010.<br />
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"The ICO is clear that this
information should never have been collected in the first place and the
company's failure to secure its deletion as promised is a cause for
concern," the ICO said.<br />
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Google said the data came to light when it searched by hand its Street View disk inventory.<br />
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"Google
has recently confirmed that it still has in its possession a small
portion of ... data collected by our Street View vehicles in the UK,"
Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel said in a letter
published by the ICO.<br />
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"Google apologizes for this error."<br />
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Google said it was in the process of notifying relevant authorities in other countries.<br />
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The
ICO told Google it must supply the data immediately so it could be
subjected to forensic analysis before the ICO decided on the necessary
course of action.<br />
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The Web search leader was fined $25,000 in April for impeding a U.S. investigation into Street View data collection. (Reuters)</span>
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<span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsDetailMain"><b>MUMBAI:
Actress Katrina Kaif has a reason to rejoice as she has topped the list
of world's sexiest woman in a poll conducted by a leading men's
lifestyle magazine. </b><br />
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Katrina, who has a string of
films lined up release like 'Ek Tha Tiger', 'Dhoom 3' and Yash Chopra's
untitled film with Shahrukh Khan has for the fourth time topped the list
of world's sexiest woman. <br />
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She has beaten the likes of
her Bollywood contemporaries including Deepika Padukone, Priyanka
Chopra, Anushka Sharma and Hollywood stars like Megan Fox, Angelina
Jolie and Blake Lively. <br />
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"Being sexy is not about clothes.
For me to wear a cotton sari without any make-up and still be desirable
is sexy," Katrina said in a statement here.<br />
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On being
voted sexy, Katrina says, "I am really excited with the news. It feels
nice. It means that people are not voting for me only based on physical
looks, they are also looking at me in entirety."</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123944469086682756.post-33452869404141072332012-07-06T17:59:00.009-07:002012-07-06T17:59:48.130-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsDetailMain"><b>NEW YORK:
World champion hot dog eater Sonya Thomas crushed her previous record
Wednesday in the annual showdown, wolfing down 45 dogs and buns in 10
minutes, to the cheers of an entranced crowd.</b><br />
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The
44-year-old "Black Widow," weighing in at 100 pounds (45 kg), said she
achieved her goal of eating her age in dogs. The Korean-American, one of
14 competitors, beat her record from last year by five.<br />
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Thousands
of spectators braved scorching temperatures to attend Wednesday's
contest, held each year in a carnival atmosphere at Coney Island on the
July 4 US independence day.<br />
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Men's champion Joey Chestnut
earned his sixth consecutive Mustard Belt, putting away 68 hot dogs to
tie his 2009 record and take home the $10,000 prize.<br />
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Chestnut,
known as "Jaws," a 28-year-old, 210-pound (95 kg) Californian, beat his
14 competitors by a wide margin -- the second-place finisher ate a mere
52 hotdogs.<br />
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The separate women's contest was created last
year. "It's good, because we have smaller throats, so we can't swallow
as quickly," Thomas said before the competition.<br />
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When the Coney Island contest was first held 1916, the winner ate 13 hot dogs in 10 minutes. <br />
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Today,
the "sport" of competitive eating has taken off in the US, with
contestants gorging on hot dogs, chicken wings, hamburgers, crayfish,
oysters or fruitcakes at a variety of events all year long. (AFP)</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123944469086682756.post-62434622081096019312012-07-06T17:59:00.005-07:002012-07-06T17:59:30.769-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsDetailMain"><b>SINGAPORE:
Crude prices slipped in Asia Friday as worries over the global economy
were rekindled following interest rate cuts by central banks in Europe
and China, analysts said.</b><br />
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New York's main contract,
light sweet crude for August delivery shed 37 cents to $86.85 a barrel
and Brent North Sea crude for delivery in August slid 69 cents to
$100.01.<br />
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An expected slashing of interest rates by the
European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday coupled with a far more
surprising rate cut by the People's Bank of China raised fresh questions
about the state of the world economy, analysts said.<br />
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"The
latest round of news of central banks in Europe and China cutting rates
actually raised concerns about the European and Chinese economies,"
said Victor Shum, senior principal of Purvin and Gertz energy
consultants in Singapore.<br />
<br />
"Concerns about the economy mean concerns about oil demand," he said.<br />
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China
-- the world's largest energy consumer -- had on Thursday surprised
traders by announcing that its benchmark one-year lending rate was cut
by 0.31 percentage points and the deposit rate by 0.25 percentage
points.<br />
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"The market interpreted that news as trouble ahead in the Chinese economy," Shum said.<br />
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The
ECB's slashing of its key rate to a record low 0.75 percent on Thursday
also sent markets south by way of a weakening euro, he added.<br />
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"The
announcement by the ECB to cut its benchmark interest rate also failed
to inspire investors... (and) caused the euro to weaken and that made
the dollar stronger and caused a selling of crude futures," Shum said.<br />
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The
euro plunged more than one percent against the US dollar in late New
York trade Thursday following the announcement of the ECB's rate cut. It
was trading at $1.2383 against the US dollar in early Asian trade from
$1.2391 in late New York trade Thursday.<br />
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A weaker euro would make dollar-priced crude more expensive for traders using the European currency. (AFP)</span>
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